{"id":45358,"date":"2019-04-14T08:41:51","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T13:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45358"},"modified":"2019-04-14T08:41:56","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T13:41:56","slug":"liberty-under-attack-gold-and-silver-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45358","title":{"rendered":"Liberty Under Attack: Gold and Silver Fall?!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sprottmoney.com\/Blog\/liberty-under-attack-gold-and-silver-fall-nathan-mcdonald.html\">Liberty Under Attack: Gold and Silver Fall?!<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sprottmoney.com\/media\/magpleasure\/mpblog\/post_thumbnail_file\/b\/d\/cache\/1\/ece9a24a761836a70934a998c163f8c8\/bded07d9c89ab36895e5390b69756db4.jpg\" alt=\"Liberty Under Attack: Gold and Silver Fall?! - Nathan McDonald (11\/04\/2019)\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Image Source, via Ruptly&nbsp;<\/em><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On a day like today, the irony of gold and silver losing key psychological support levels&nbsp;is beyond ironic, it is ludicrous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unless you are living under a rock, then you will have heard that after seven years of hiding out in the Ecuadorian Embassy, Julian Assange, the founder and head of Wikileaks, was forced out of asylum and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/world\/assange-arrested-london-1.5093405\">arrested<\/a>&nbsp;by the UK government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This move, highly anticipated for days, caused a sudden flood of emotions, with some supporting the arrest and others screaming out in rage and shock as they watched a disheveled Assange being dragged out of the Embassy and thrown into an awaiting police vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His appearance once again raised concerns about his well-being and health, as many of his supporters have worried about the damage the last seven years of confinement have done to his mental health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These concerns appeared to be valid, as Julian Assange without a doubt looked absolutely horrible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whether or not you support Julian Assange and Wikileaks likely depends on the way the political winds are currently blowing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I remember well the entirety of the Assange saga and the work that Wikileaks has done throughout the years, exposing such things as the &#8221;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2010\/oct\/22\/iraq-war-logs-military-leaks\">Iraq War Logs<\/a>&#8221; and the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/northamerica\/usa\/8144739\/Wikileaks-what-the-leaked-State-Department-cables-say.html\">leaked State Department cables<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These two very prominent leaks exposed a deep level of corruption within the U.S. government, and thus Assange became an enemy of the United States bureaucrats and the deep state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first major leak made Assange a hero to the left, as it greatly damaged President Bush and the Republican party of the time by exposing the violent acts of torture the military was committing overseas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second major leak saw the political winds change, blowing them in another direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Turning the left, who once idolized Assange, against him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty Under Attack: Gold and Silver Fall?! Image Source, via Ruptly&nbsp; On a day like today, the irony of gold and silver losing key psychological support levels&nbsp;is beyond ironic, it is ludicrous. Unless you are living under a rock, then you will have heard that after seven years of hiding out in the Ecuadorian Embassy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[1769,8739,2001,16481,647,6355],"class_list":["post-45358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-liberty","tag-corruption","tag-ecuador","tag-julian-assange","tag-nathan-mcdonald","tag-precious-metals","tag-sprott-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45359,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45358\/revisions\/45359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}