by Michael Krieger
Liberty Blitzkrieg
Yesterday, I published a post warning about an amendment to be put up for a vote in the U.S. Senate that would severely harm the civil liberties of American citizens. I was very disappointed to see an unusually low amount of reads on that particular post, which came in well below average despite being such an important issue.
Well it turns out John McCain’s amendment 4787 came up for a vote earlier today, and it was stopped by one vote. Yes, by one vote.
So what’s at stake? Let’s review an excerpt from yesterday’s post, Republican Senators Use Orlando Shooting to Push for Increased Government Spying Powers:
With the Brexit vote coming up tomorrow, today we should take a moment to consider what should happen with gold following the outcome.
Investment bank’s cynical analysis explains how things work.
Those were the good old days, the halcyon days, the days of one week ago when we could discuss the Brexit campaign as if it were a straightforward choice between the tyranny of the EU and…well, the tyranny of the UK, but tyranny on a smaller scale. And as we discussed last week, the momentum seemed to be firmly on the Brexit side.
Today a legendary trader and investor gave King World News an interview that was quite shocking about what surprise action to expect in gold and global stock markets the aftermath of the Brexit vote. Victor Sperandeo has been in the business 45 years, and has worked with famous individuals such as Leon Cooperman and George Soros. Below are the warnings and predictions issued by Sperandeo.
Markets were edgy ahead of the Brexit vote tomorrow.
Well, now it’s official : the french government has 
There is something odd going on in the forecasting process around Brexit.
This one is for the record books.
I stumbled upon an article by Day of the Jackal author Frederick Forsyth, published last week in the Daily Express, that I think every Briton and European and everyone else should read. Forsyth doesn’t delve into the American pressure to form a European Union as a counterweight to the Soviet Union, he sticks with ‘founding father’ Jean Monnet and his reasoning behind the particular shape the Union took. And that is bad enough.
[…] The June gold contract is an active contract. Last night we had a good sized 175 notices filed last night, for 17,500 oz to be served upon today. The total number of notices filed in the first 15 days is enormous at 15,395 for 1,539,500 oz. (47.884 tonnes)
The always colorful and insightful 
Noted ENT 
Talk about bad timing. Tomorrow, while the Brexit vote takes place in the U.K. and is guaranteed to whipsaw markets through the Friday morning open when the results of the vote are expected, the Federal Reserve plans to add to market jitters on Thursday by announcing the results of its stress tests on the biggest banks — while withholding the final leg of the results until the following Wednesday.
Whatever the result of Britain’s referendum on the EU we can be sure of one thing: there will not be a global financial crisis the next day.
Nothing quite shocks the senses like the colors, smells, spices, and prices of Asian street food.
An institution that claims the right to initiate force and has the means to do so is an institution to be feared. History confirms the fear: government has been responsible for more deaths and destruction than any other human instrumentality. That the hallmark of government—legally sanctioned violence—produces carnage should come as no surprise. Remarkably, over the last century fear of government has been transmuted to fear of its absence, even as governments have racked up new records for carnage. The shift has been marked by a widespread psychological and moral deterioration that evades the reality of state destructiveness and insists on more of it.
U.S. stocks surrendered early gains Wednesday afternoon as the latest polls showed the outcome of a U.K. vote on whether to leave the European Union remained too close to call on the eve of the referendum.