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EUROBLOWN: Why I’m betting that Germany will leave before Greece.

Published on 2012-05-25 05:44:00

From The Slog  By John Ward Yesterday in Brussels, Herman Van Rompuy opened the anarchic proceedings by saying he sensed “a strong will to compromise”. Something of a surreal soundbite and, as usual with the Nipponese Bard, completely wrong. The popular maverick site Zero Hedge referred to this week’s Euro-bunfight as ‘yesterday’s dismally predictable non-event summit’  last night.  > read more

What if Tsipras is Not Bluffing? Who Holds the Upper hand? What is Troika's Biggest Fear? Can Greece Possibly Stay in the Eurozone After Default?

Published on 2012-05-25 03:21:00

From Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis  By Mike Mish Shedlock I have read countless articles over the past few week stating a belief that Syriza party leader Alexis Tsipras is bluffing in his threat to stay in the euro but default in debts.Is it remotely possible to default and stay in the eurozone?Since this is a multi-part question, let's first address the question "is this a > read more

Africa’s Positive Economic Growth Scenario to 2060

Published on 2012-05-25 02:50:00

From Next Big Future, MAY 24, 2012 A recent report by the African Development Bank projected that, by 2030, much of Africa will attain lower-middle- and middle-class majorities, and that consumer spending will explode from $680 billion in 2008 to $2.2 trillion. Bank estimates suggest that Africa’s GDP could increase to over US$15.7 trillion in 2060, from a base of US$1.7 trillion in 2010. > read more

Euro-Zone Crisis Real Deal, Warning What Follows is EXTREMELY BAD

Published on 2012-05-25 02:26:00

From MarketOracle, May 24, 2012 By: Graham_Summers The media is rife with misrepresentations and analysis of the EU. Here’s the real deal. The ECB is tapped out. Having provided over €1 trillion in funding via LTRO 1 and LTRO 2, taking on over €700 billion in PIIGS debt putting its own solvency at risk, it simply cannot launch another LTRO scheme for the following reasons: Those banks > read more

Is talk of a "Grexit" the Smoke Screen for a Global Economic Meltdown?

Published on 2012-05-25 01:39:00

From CapitalAccount, May 24, 2012:  Welcome to Capital Account. Working in broadcast media, it is easy to get sucked into the vortex of the 24-hournews cycle, with all its spin, its nonsense, and its manufactured sense of urgency. The world however, is infinitely more complex than anything we canexpress in 30 minutes on this show, and yet, we do not cease trying. Today, the major financial > read more

The E.U., Neofeudalism and the Neocolonial-Financialization Model

Published on 2012-05-24 08:47:00

From Oftwominds  By Charles Hugh Smith To fully understand the Eurozone's financial-debt crisis, we must dig through the artifice, obfuscation and propaganda to the real dynamics of Europe's "new feudalism," the Neocolonial-Financialization Model.  Forget "austerity"and political theater--the only way to truly comprehend the Eurozone is to understand the Neocolonial-Financialization > read more

EUROBLOWN. Greece: how we all paid €220bn to get deeper in debt

Published on 2012-05-24 07:39:00

From The Slog  By John Ward How to spend €220bn and wind up €20bn worse off Another little dose of Greek reality. In Crete as of yesterday afternoon, prescriptions have been refused at all pharmacies unless customers pay the full price. It’s obvious really: if you raid the hospital bank accounts to pay off the bondholders, the hospitals don’t pay the pharmacies, and > read more

Elites Deterrence is Dead

Published on 2012-05-19 17:20:00

From The Market Oracle, May 19, 2012 By: Ashvin_Pandurangi With Greece potentially on the brink of exit from the Eurozone before year's end, a lot of analysis out there has turned to what the consequences of such an event would be, and, specifically, what punishment Greece would receive from the EU and other international organizations, such as the IMF and perhaps even NATO. The general line of > read more

By abandoning the gold standard we embraced monetary central planning, chaos

Published on 2012-05-19 14:58:00

From The Cobden Centre  By Detlev Schlichter With this essay I will try to reconcile two apparently conflicting perceptions of the key problems with our present monetary system. I will start by characterizing these two positions. As readers of this website and my book know, it is my conviction that the central problem with the present system is the high degree of elasticity of the > read more

The Greek Default Was a Scam All Along?

Published on 2012-05-19 13:52:00

From The Daily Bell, Friday, May 18, 2012 – by Staff Report   Global banks see market rally on Greek exit ... Major global banks are advising clients to prepare for a stock market rally and a resurgence of the euro if Greece is forced out of monetary union, betting that world authorities will flood the international system with liquidity. Bank of America said EU authorities will pull out > read more

Merkel to Approach Greece with 'Growth Proposals' while Asking for Referendum on Euro...

Published on 2012-05-18 15:52:00

From Safehaven, By: Mike Shedlock | Fri, May 18, 2012 ...Elections Provide Yet Another Attempt to Snatch Defeat From Jaws of Victory; New Democracy Leads Latest Poll Greek elections are set for June 17th following the impasse of the last election where no majority government formed. The "Destroy Greece to Save the Euro" clowns led by German Chancellor Angela Merkel are out in force hoping > read more

End Game as Elite Trap Closes: Economic Chaos For An EU Super-State

Published on 2012-05-17 12:37:00

By A.M. Freyed Infowars.com Appetiser cost of Greek exit is €155bn for Germany, France: trillions for meat course … These are upper bounds, but even in the case of a partial default, the losses would be huge … This nonsense can of course be stopped in ten minutes if the EU: 1) announces that it will equip itself with a real central bank (a lender of last resort) that takes all risk of sovereign > read more

The Prison Industrial Complex

Published on 2012-05-17 12:30:00

By Steve Nolantheintelhub.com - May 17, 2012 “Prison Industrial Complex” is a term that refers to private prison companies and businesses that supply goods and services to government prison agencies. What is interesting about this term and the concept of “prison labor” is how it’s rise parallels the rapid expansion of the US inmate population. The Prison Industrial Complex is big growth > read more

US-Backed Syrian Rebels Now Trained by Kosovo’s KLA Terrorists

Published on 2012-05-17 09:55:00

From RT, May 17, 2012 The same horrors that were witnessed during the war in Kosovo are now apparently being prepared for the multi-confessional Syrian population by Islamist Syrian Liberation Army trained in Muslim Kosovo in the middle of Europe. _____ Related: US Officially Arming Extremists in Syria Panetta: Authority of UN Trumps Congress In Getting Approval For War On Syria > read more

We Have Reached Peak Government

Published on 2012-05-17 09:30:00

From OfTwoMinds: By Charles Hugh Smith As the foundations that supported an expansive centralized State crumble, the entire centralized State is revealed as unsustainable: we have reached Peak Government. In previous entries this week, I have detailed the profound unsustainability of government pensions and entitlements such as Medicare. These are symptoms are a larger phenomenon: Peak > read more

Nothing will save the eurocracy

Published on 2012-05-17 08:11:00

From Mish, Wednesday, May 16, 2012: Once again, I sadly report that Ambrose Evans-Pritchard at The Telegraph hits the nail on the head as to what is happening, yet cannot hit the broadside of a barn with a shotgun from 15 feet in regards to the solution. It really pains me to see excellent analysis go straight into the toilet with hopeless proposals to problems at hand. Please consider  > read more

Iceland’s Amazing Peaceful Revolution – Still Not in the News (backstory)

Published on 2012-05-17 07:59:00

From crazyemailsandbackstories: Iceland’s peaceful revolution is a stunning example of how little our media tells us about the rest of the world. Read details about Iceland’s wonderful social evolution at DailyKos, here. Another great article is  on Bloomberg.com. The  following summation has been posted by countless people on Facebook; I’ve reposted it in its entirety: ICELAND (GP) > read more

Free to be wrong: European elections spell economic doom

Published on 2012-05-17 07:52:00

From RT: Greece has failed to forge a coalition out of a motley crew of impractical and irreconcilable parties and now faces a fresh election. As another wave of the continent-wide crisis looms, it’s time to face up to the flaws of Europe’s political systems. On May 6 Greeks turned out en masse to vote for the most unworkable parliament in their history. The two mainstream center-left and > read more

The Problem with the Eurozone’s Throw-Greece-from-the-Train Plan Is that its Timing Can’t Be Controlled

Published on 2012-05-17 06:44:00

From EconoSpeak: There is no democratic deficit in Greece: its people have clearly indicated they want to do two things, clean the slate by defaulting on their debts and staying within the Eurozone.  This is seen as unacceptable in Brussels and Frankfurt, and Greeks are supposed to understand that if they choose the first they will lose the second.Alas, there is no legal procedure by which > read more

Paul Craig Roberts: Elite Digging Their Own Grave

Published on 2012-05-17 06:26:00

Today, Wednesday, May 16, on the Alex Jones Show, Alex welcomes long-time returning guest and contributing writer Dr. Paul Craig Roberts to discuss the impact of the Euro’s instability on world markets amidst looming fears of Greece’s departure. They’ll also touch on why governments feel compelled to blame events like 9/11, the Euro decline, and other manufactured crises on scapegoats. from  > read more

Jim Rickards on Europe's Bank Run and why JP Morgan was late to "Puke the Trade"

Published on 2012-05-17 05:43:00

From CapitalAccount, May 16, 2012:  Welcome to Capital Account. Minutes are out from the Federal Reserve's latest open market committee meeting, which means everyone is looking for what the Fed will do next in order to manipulate rates and thus economic reality. But what are the consequences of this manipulation? Jim Rickards, author of the bestselling book Currency Wars, is here to talk > read more

Martin Armstrong: Manipulating the World Economy - May 16th , 2012

Published on 2012-05-16 15:15:00

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Late May 2012 Economic Rant

Published on 2012-05-16 11:08:00

By Roger Mason May 15, 2012 According to the major polls, at least 2/3 of Americans think, "things will get better". Yes, they are that stupid. Let's look at some plain facts: 48% of Americans are considered either "low income" or living in poverty by the government. 20% of households are on Food Stamps.1 in every 7 adults is on Food Stamps. 1 in 4 children are on Food Stamps. Almost 3 > read more

the derivative situation ‘guarantees quantitative easing to infinity

Published on 2012-05-15 12:49:00

From Jim Sinclair - May 15, 2012 Dear CIGAs, John Embry has paid me a great compliment. Please check out the article below. Jim Click here to read the full article on KingWorldNews.com Embry – This is One of the Greatest Statements of All-Time With global stock markets tumbling, along with gold and silver, today King World News interviewed John Embry, Chief Investment Strategist of the > read more

Another Signpost On The Road To Inflation

Published on 2012-05-15 12:38:00

From DollarCollapse.com:  Europe’s leaders — that is to say German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the bureaucrats running the various eurozone agencies from Brussels — have looked into the abyss and don’t like what they see. Specifically, a default and departure by even a relatively insignificant country like Greece might start a contagion that cripples or destroys the whole eurozone > read more

The Pendulum Shift: Rocks, Hard Places, and Elections

Published on 2012-05-15 11:24:00

By Bob Chapman - theinternationalforecaster.com      "Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose" say the French, and that is what people must be thinking on the streets of Paris as the real significance of this month's French presidential election sinks in. The French have reasons to be skeptical of François Hollande, a President-elect who couldn't even make it past his first week > read more

Greeks Going To New Elections Since They Want Infinite Bailout Cake And Eat It Too

Published on 2012-05-15 10:23:00

What pathetic brainwashed spoiled brats europinkos sheeple are: they just want infinite bailouts so that everybody can suck from the ultra-corrupted state tit, and now they are lost when the bill is due and they cannot even imagine a way out of state's and fiat money's dependence. From now on everything is possible in PIIGS.  From The Business Insider:  The #1 Question That Greeks Will > read more

Gerald Celente on CapitalAccount, May 14, 2012

Published on 2012-05-15 04:50:00

From CapitalAccount, May 14, 2012:      Welcome to Capital Account. What we are seeing across the Western world is exactly what happens when faith in the systems of governance and commerce are shaken to such a degree that the emerging cracks in the foundation appear too large and the holes too gaping to fix by traditional means. Nowhere is this more obvious than in Greece, where a > read more

The dangerous power of political lies

Published on 2012-05-15 04:34:00

From Capitalists@Work:  When I started this blog in 2006, one of the main drivers was to discuss the intersection of business and politics. With hindsight, in the midst of a leveraged fulled boom and several years of stable Labour government in the UK, this was not a topic high on many peoples' agendas.How much has changed since, here we are 6 years later and there is a visceral > read more

Will Merkel Commit Political Suicide or Bail on the Euro?

Published on 2012-05-13 15:51:00

From MarketOracle, May 13, 2012 - 11:36 AM By: Graham_Summers As I’ve noted in previous articles, politics, not economics, rule Europe. What I mean by this is that most major decisions in Europe are determined by political agendas that ignore economic and financial realities. This is at the core of the “welfare state” mentality that permeates Europe as a whole. The EU in general is > read more

Waving the White Flag

Published on 2012-05-12 16:45:00

By John Mauldin, May 12, 2012 A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy For quite some time in this letter I have been making the case that for the eurozone to survive, the European Central Bank would have to print more money than any of us can > read more

Intel Dump, May 9, 2012 (updates)

Published on 2012-05-12 14:42:00

From VeteransToday,  May 9th, 2012 The “Shotgun Approach,” in “00″ Magnum By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor The top stories of the day won’t be the ones you think nor will I have the pleasing and complete answers that the liars are so good at.  I am starting with Indonesia with a strange story, my end is based on conversations with one foreign agency and one domestic source.  A Russian Sukhoi > read more

Now Cometh the Eurozone 'Recession' ...

Published on 2012-05-11 13:25:00

From The Daily Bell, Friday, May 11, 2012 – by Staff Report   EU predicts 0.3 per cent eurozone economic contraction in 2012, says bloc in 'mild recession' ... The European Union estimates that the economy of the 17 countries that use the euro is in recession in the wake of a debt crisis that has prompted savage spending cuts and a jump in unemployment to record highs. The European > read more

It's Simply Too Late For Germany To Save The Euro

Published on 2012-05-11 02:12:00

From The Business Insider:  Despite belated gestures from Berlin, the single currency cannot survive if and when Greece leaves it. Greece’s motorcycling Marxist, Alexis Tsipras, makes an unlikely champion, with his commuter leathers and largely unrealistic Left-wing views, but he seems to be about the best of a bad bunch right now. As far as I can see, he’s the only member of the > read more

Interview with Michael Hudson on learning from the eurocrisis

Published on 2012-05-11 01:06:00

What American can learn from the EurocrisisRead the transcript at Michael HudsonLearning from the Eurocrisis by Michael Hudson > read more

Meet Your Global Tax Collector

Published on 2012-05-10 14:46:00

Global Corporate-Financier Mafia Grows New Tentacle: Global Tax Collectors.by Tony Cartalucci  May 10, 2012 - The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a 50 year old network constituting what is often known as the "West," has been the premier promoter of expanding corporate-financier hegemony across the planet. Done under the guise of "progressive" initiatives, claiming > read more

Europe’s voters say ‘No’ to economic reality

Published on 2012-05-10 05:58:00

From Papermoneycollapse.com  By Detlev Schlichter Image by Salvatore Vuono “Europe fights back against austerity” was how The Daily Telegraph headlined its weekend election coverage. “Anti-austerity movements are gathering pace across Europe following political earthquakes in France and Greece. A total of 12 European governments have now been dismissed in three years.” As the > read more

Nigel Farage on the "EU Titanic" and the "Rebirth of National Socialism in Europe"

Published on 2012-05-10 02:37:00

From CapitalAccount, May 9, 2012:     Welcome to Capital Account. It's Europe Day! And what a day it is, at a time when the political parties seeing gains in multiple countries are those who want less Europe, not more. In fact, some of them, like Golden Dawn want a rejection of all of Europe. We speak with Euroskeptic member of European parliament and leader of the United Kingdom > read more

Brookings Announces Next Move in Syria: War

Published on 2012-05-09 11:33:00

After admitting UN peace plan was a ploy, Brookings predictably scraps it and begins promoting expanded military conflict.by Tony Cartalucci   May 9, 2012 - By the US policy think-tank Brookings Institution's own admission, the Kofi Annan six-point peace plan in Syria was merely a ploy to buy time to reorganize NATO's ineffective terrorist proxies and provide them the pretext necessary for > read more

Anti-Keynesian Supply Side Tax and Spending Cuts in Sweden, and the Finance Minister Behind It

Published on 2012-05-09 09:57:00

From Prof. Mark J. Perry's Blog for Economics and Finance,  TUESDAY, MAY 08, 2012 From the U.K. Spectator's report on the amazing success of supply-side economics in Sweden, and finance minister Anders Borg, the man behind it: "When Europe’s finance ministers meet for a group photo, it’s easy to spot the rebel — Anders Borg (pictured above) has a ponytail and earring. What actually marks > read more

Jim Willie: Gold Cover Clause Guidance

Published on 2012-05-09 03:15:00

By Jim Willie of GoldenJackass.com The propaganda against gold has intensified with Munger and Gates, unqualified to be sure that jewelry demand is down actually confirms the gold bull investment demand is much greater than jewelry demand to claim that gold supply is insufficient to accommodate a gold standard is rubbish the argument actually highlights the gargantuan expansion of the monetary > read more

CIA Catches Themselves in New Underwear Bomb Plot

Published on 2012-05-09 02:55:00

Just one day after reports that the CIA had foiled a plot involving a “sophisticated underwear bomb” targeted against U.S. airliners, the entire story has once again collapsed into a farce. Just as the FBI has been caught directing every major domestic terror plot, it turns out that the supposed “bomber” was actually a CIA informant. “U.S. and Yemeni officials say the supposed would-be bomber > read more

Jim Rogers on the need for orderly defaults in Europe, starting with Greece

Published on 2012-05-09 02:03:00

From CapitalAccount, May 8, 2012:      Let's take stock of the news out in the last 24 hours. Greece's leftist leader says the bailout deal is dead. Greek stocks plummet to 20 year lows. The S&P 500 takes a plunge to a two-month low, rebounds to a one-month low. Fitch says greece leaving euro would be bearable while UBS legend Art Cashin explains how Greece could end up back on the drachma. > read more

The FBI Guide To Bitcoins

Published on 2012-05-08 15:47:00

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The European Union Is Destroying European Unity

Published on 2012-05-08 12:50:00

From Zero Hedge: Submitted by John Aziz of Azizonomics So we know that the pro-bailout parties in Greece have failed to form a coalition, and that this will either mean an anti-bailout anti-austerity government, or new elections, and that this will probably mean that the Greek default is about to become extremely messy (because let’s face it the chances of the Greek people electing a > read more

The Countdown To The Break Up Of The Euro Has Officially Begun

Published on 2012-05-08 03:47:00

From The economic collapse blog: The results of the elections in France and Greece have made it abundantly clear that there is a tremendous backlash against the austerity approach that Germany has been pushing.  All over Europe, prominent politicians and incumbent political parties are being voted out.  In fact, Nicolas Sarkozy has become the 11th leader of a European nation to be defeated in an > read more

There Are 100 Million Working Age Americans That Do Not Have Jobs

Published on 2012-05-06 10:59:00

From The economic collapse blog: The unemployment crisis in America is much worse than you are being told.  Did you know that there are 100 million working age Americans that do not get up in the morning and go to work?  No wonder why it seems like there are so many people that do not have jobs!  According to the federal government, there are 12.6 million working age Americans that are > read more

GREEK ELECTION: Wolfie Strangelove & His Bankers go election manipulating….

Published on 2012-05-06 05:40:00

From The Slog, By John Ward ….with their customary level of subtlety The Institute of International Finance (IIF) managed to get right up Antonis Samaras’s nose this weekend, thanks to a report it issued suggesting that his New Democracy Party and PASOK would have to form a post-election government. As the other Parties were not being bribed by Brussels didn’t like the bailout much > read more

What If A Collapse Happened And Nobody Noticed?

Published on 2012-05-06 05:18:00

From Hipcrime, SUNDAY, APRIL 29, 2012 Every once and awhile I'll be listening to a podcast with one or the other writers specializing on the subject of Peak Oil or collapse and the subject of timetables will come up. When will the collapse finally be here, the callers ask insistently, almost pleadingly, so that they can finally justify their investments in freeze-dried foods, water > read more

Currency Debasement and Social Collapse

Published on 2012-05-05 13:23:00

From Mises Daily,  Friday, May 04, 2012  by Ludwig von Mises [In a recent debate between Ron Paul and Paul Krugman, Dr. Paul said, "Professor Krugman indicates we just want to go back 100 years or so. That's not exactly true. We want to improve on what life was like back then. But he wants to go back 1,000 years or 2,000 years, just as the Romans and the Greeks … debased their currency." In  > read more

Is An Economic Deluge Nigh?

Published on 2012-05-05 10:56:00

From Zero Hedge: Submitted by David Galland of Casey Research Is An Economic Deluge Nigh? If history has taught one certain lesson, it is that the less fettered an economy, the better humankind is able to do what it does best: run from trouble and run toward opportunity. In this way mistakes are quickly resolved and progress assured. Conversely, the deeper the muck of regulation, mandates, > read more

Chart of the day: The illustrated history of you being screwed by people like Ben Bernanke

Published on 2012-05-04 15:41:00

Source: Daily Paul In response to the DailyKOS thread. ___  Related: Is an Ounce of Gold Worth $10,000? China Buys Gold…No Matter Who’s Selling Debt Serfdom In One Chart HOW YOU BECAME A SLAVE TO THE BANKERS Alternative Unemployment Rate is 16.6% and Other Scary Unemployment Statistics EndlessMountain: Euro Money Supply > read more

The Cult of the State: What The Kent State Massacre Anniversary Should Teach Us

Published on 2012-05-04 15:25:00

From Libertarian News:  Today is the anniversary of the Kent State shootings by the Ohio National Guard.  The shootings should serve as a reminder to us of what underlies all political processes: violence.  The political process should more aptly be named the process of violent imposition, because any edict, no matter how small or inconsequential, is ultimately enforced with the threat of > read more

Secret US Army doc: re-education camps and psy-op missions aimed at activists

Published on 2012-05-04 08:26:00

From RT, 03 May, 2012 An American military document just uncovered appears to detail an US Army plan that calls for detaining “political activists” at re-education camps staffed by military-hired “PSYOP officers” in both America and abroad. The website Infowars.com has unearthed the smoking gun, a copy of a United States military manual entitled FM 3-39.40 Internment and Resettlement Operations > read more

Electoral Steam Builds as Europe's Pressure Cooker Readies to Explode

Published on 2012-05-04 06:18:00

From CapitalAccount, May 3, 2012:      Welcome to Capital Account. With the second and final round of French elections scheduled for this weekend, along with ones for the politically unstable Hellenic Republic, all eyes return to the eurozone. Will policy makers and technocrats survive yet another round of elections, or will the people reject the medicine of brussels and go their own way? We > read more

Europe on the Fringe - Politics in the Age of a New Depression

Published on 2012-05-03 01:27:00

From CapitalAccount, May 2, 2012: Welcome to Capital Account. Nicolas Sarkozy and challenger Francois Hollande face off today in a live French election TV debate. This is reportedly being seen as the climax of the campaign. With elections in France and Greece this weekend, the results have the potential to send shockwaves across theEuropean debt-landscape. We speak with former diplomat and > read more

Europe: "You Can't Make Up How Bad It Is"

Published on 2012-05-02 12:06:00

From Zero Hedge, by Tyler Durden 05/02/201: At The Milken Institute conference yesterday, Hugh Hendry delivered his usual eloquent and critical insights on the state of Europe. Beginning with the statement that "All of Europe has defaulted", the canny-wee-fella (translation: shrewd and cautious young chap) explained that "The political economy in Europe is such that the politicians chose to > read more

Mike Shedlock tackles Paul Krugman and the Greenspan Contrarian Indicator (GCI)

Published on 2012-05-02 02:50:00

From  CapitalAccount, May 1, 2012: Welcome to Capital Account. So what is this austerity we keep hearing all about. Well, this isn't word of the day, but let's look at a quick definition:noun, plural aus·ter·i·ties. 1. austere quality; severity of manner, life, etc.; sternness. 2. Usually, austerities. ascetic practices: austerities of monastery life.Hmm...sounds pretty awful. I wouldn't want > read more

Mish Starts Swapping Back Gold for Silver

Published on 2012-05-01 15:15:00

From Mish, Tuesday, May 01, 2012: Roughly one year ago (April 27, 2011 to be precise) I wrote Taking Silver Profits - Swapping Silver for Gold   I have held physical silver and gold investments continuously for 5 years, and on and off before that. Today I cashed out of silver, trading it for an equal dollar value of gold.For the sake of full disclosure, my physical precious metals holdings > read more

Two words: Screw that.

Published on 2012-05-01 12:16:00

From Sovereign Man By Simon Black May 1, 2012 Santiago, Chile Friedrich von Hayek, a major figure in the Austrian school of economics, wrote in his seminal work the Road to Serfdom, “By giving the government unlimited powers, the most arbitrary rule can be made legal; and in this way a democracy may set up the most complete despotism imaginable.” It’s hard to ignore Hayek’s > read more

Bitcoin Explained

Published on 2012-05-01 03:46:00

From Bitcoin Blog | The Bitcoin Trader: These videos were written and produced by Bitcointalk forum member hazek. They're compiled here for easy access. If you find the videos worthwhile, please tip their creator. 1MYx9ovWCYgc1JZCrdTK2forQcsurezC7wSubscribe to the channel here.S > read more

GATA's Bill Murphy exposes how the Gold Cartel is Bombing the Market for Precious Metals

Published on 2012-05-01 01:13:00

From CapitalAccount Apr 30, 2012: ______ Related:  Today’s $1.24 Billion Targeted Gold Slam Down Makes The Mainstream Press FAT FINGER IN SILVER TOO? > read more

Kloony 2012: Target?… Sudan and All that Precious Oil.. uh, I mean, The CHILDREN!!! of Course

Published on 2012-04-30 15:18:00

From American Everyman  by Scott Creighton “Kloony 2012 – the Feel Good Campaign to use African Children as Cover for Barack Obama’s Imperialist Conquest of Sudan” The “official” government of South Sudan (a construct of U.S., British, and Israeli creation)has just lost a major battle in their ongoing war with Sudan. They were recently driven out of a key oil producing region in Sudan, > read more

Libya's Oil Minister Found Dead In The Water In Vienna, Austria

Published on 2012-04-30 09:48:00

(certainly he knew way too many thingies) From PressTV, Mon Apr 30, 2012 3:14AM GMT:  This file picture, taken on March 19, 2011, in Tripoli shows Libyan Oil Minister Shukri Ghanem speaking during a press conference. Libya's Former Prime Minister Shukri Ghanem, who had defected from the regime of slain dictator Muammar Gaddafi, has been found dead in Vienna, Austria. The 69-year-old’s body > read more

Things That Make You Go Hmmm... April 29, 2012

Published on 2012-04-30 06:28:00

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Gold Bull's Long Term Trendline - The Indispensable Chart

Published on 2012-04-30 04:24:00

From Jesse's, 28 APRIL 2012 Although they cannot resist its inevitable climb because of the changes in the global monetary system and the ongoing currency wars, the Western central banks wish the increase in the price of gold to remain 'orderly.'And so it is. Thanks to my friend Nick Laird at Sharelynx.com. Nick has one of the most amazing collections of charts on the web.  Browsing his > read more

European Reality Check

Published on 2012-04-30 02:35:00

From Goldseek, Sunday, 29 April 2012 By: Alf Field “The pain in Spain falls mainly on the sane”. (With apologies to “My Fair Lady”) There has been a lot of pain in Spain recently with probably more to come. Unemployment is at 24% while youth unemployment (under age 24) is about 53% and rising. The economy is in recession. Debt, both government and private, is excessive and there is pressure > read more

It's basically comic-book third-world cronyism at this point...

Published on 2012-04-29 08:29:00

Ratings agency downgrades US credit from AA+ to AA, outlook negative:http://www.cnbc.com/id/46970602/Egan_Jones_Cuts_US_Credit_Rating_to_AA_Citing_DebtSEC begins investigation to revoke their license:http://www.forbes.com/sites/steveschaefer/2012/04/24/sec-charges-rating-agency-with-making-material-misrepresentations/ ____ Related: Ruin, Lies, Death, Tryanny… All a Joke to Obama as he mocks > read more

OUR FUTURE IN CHAINS: THE DEBTORS PRISON SYSTEM RETURNS

Published on 2012-04-27 16:12:00

By Michael Edwards Activist Post, April 23, 2012 The recent story of breast cancer survivor Lisa Lindsay being thrown in prison for a $280 medical billthat was sent in error has thankfully gone viral.  It has brought much-needed attention to the insanity of reinstating the concept of debtors’ prisons.     Debtors’ prisons have a sordid history that was thought to be best left > read more

Economic Nostradamus: We Are Literally Witnessing a Collapse

Published on 2012-04-27 15:35:00

By Mac SlavoSHTFplan.com   April 27th, 2012  With the Presidential election cycle in full swing our incumbent administration, the media, and their financial pundits continue to maintain that the US economy’s green shoots have blossomed into fields of golden sunflowers. Despite what we’re being told, however, the actual data tells a stunningly different story. Richard Yamarone, a > read more

“policy makers” have dug their own grave

Published on 2012-04-26 15:52:00

From The Big Picture, by Frederick Sheehan Frederick Sheehan is the co-author of Greenspan’s Bubbles: The Age of Ignorance at the Federal Reserve. His new book, Panderer for Power: The True Story of How Alan Greenspan Enriched Wall Street and Left a Legacy of Recession, was published by McGraw-Hill in November 2009. He was Director of Asset Allocation Services at John Hancock Financial > read more

The bottom comes with restrictions to Emigration. Then a long neofeudal serfdom will follow

Published on 2012-04-26 14:52:00

Quote from Ty Andros: In a recent Gartman Newsletter (www.thegartmanletter.com), Dennis cites historians, Will and Ariel Durant, on the decline of the Roman Empire.Rome had its socialist interlude under Diocletian. Faced with increasing poverty and restlessness among the masses, and with the imminent danger of barbarian invasion, he issued in A.D. 3 an edictum de pretiis, which denounced > read more

Jim Willie: US Dollar VS Gold: Epic Money Battle

Published on 2012-04-26 10:18:00

By: Jim Willie CB, GoldenJackass.com The so-called Global Financial Crisis is a term so widely used that it has earned its own acronym of GFC. When first seen, it seemed like girl friend club or some such, since many friends use GF loosely to refer to sweethearts. The GFC is falsely named, since it is more accurately described as a global monetary war with the USGovt vigorously defending its > read more

Escobar: Al-Qaeda bogeyman gone, US bent on bugging China

Published on 2012-04-26 06:14:00

RT, April 26, 2012 The U.S. and the Philippines have staged a joint military exercise – storming an island in the South China Sea, near a marine area disputed with Beijng. America has been upping its armed presence in the Asia Pacific region, despite growing protests from China. Asia Times correspondent, Pepe Escobar, says that it’s the latest attempt by Washington to provoke Beijing. > read more

ZeroHedge Blogger Bob English outlines how Bernanke and the Fed could finally go Bankrupt!

Published on 2012-04-26 03:50:00

From CapitalAccount Apr 25, 2012: Welcome to Capital Account. The Federal Reserve came out with its interest rate decision today. They voted to keep rates at essentially zero, and hinted that they expect them to stay there until at least late 2014.Before we get into the what this decision means with our guest English Bob, contributing editor for Zero Hedge, let's start with a little > read more

What Happens When All The Money Vanishes Into Thin Air?

Published on 2012-04-24 14:20:00

From Zero Hedge: Submitted by Charles Hugh Smith from Of Two Minds What Happens When All the Money Vanishes Into Thin Air? Issuing debt and printing money do not create wealth. All they can create is a temporary illusion of wealth. I could have written "if all the money vanishes," but that would be misleading, for all unbacked money will most certainly vanish into thin air. The only > read more

Spain's Banks: Beyond Bad

Published on 2012-04-23 08:28:00

From LPac, April 23, 2012: After lying in public, the world's financial elite gathered in the corridors of the IMF meeting in Washington, DC, privately discussed the urgent need for some sort of "bad bank" to take squillions of dollars of bad debt off the banks' books—and place it on the backs of the governments. This is most urgent for them in imploding Spain. The Bank of Spain's head of > read more

Michael Hudson: Productivity, The Miracle of Compound Interest, and Poverty

Published on 2012-04-22 01:09:00

From  naked capitalism: By Michael Hudson, a research professor of Economics at University of Missouri, Kansas City and a research associate at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College From Hudson’s presentation at the Italian MMT Summit, which was also recorded by Bonnie Faulkner of Pacifica Radio’s Guns and Butter show Suppose you were alive back in 1945 and were told about all the > read more

Dutch Government on Verge of Collapse After Anti-EU Lawmaker Torpedoed Seven Weeks of Austerity Talks; Caretaker Government and New Elections Coming Up

Published on 2012-04-21 16:23:00

From Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis  By Mike Mish Shedlock The Netherlands has been one of the staunchest proponents of forced austerity on Greece. However, now that Brussels has demanded the Netherlands hit its fiscal targets, Dutch politicians can't get the task done and the government is poised to collapse. New elections are coming up.The Washington Post reports Dutch prime > read more

Max Keiser Interviews Gonzalo Lira On the European Crisis

Published on 2012-04-21 15:35:00

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Government Bonds and Bondage

Published on 2012-04-21 13:18:00

From LewRockwell, April 21, 2012 by Gary NorthTea Party Economist Recently by Gary North: Political Climate Change: Ron Paul on the College Campus Circuit The phrase "his word is his bond" is not heard as much these days as it was in my youth, back when Eisenhower was President. The phrase relied on a concept of "bond" that meant reliability. This reliability was based on > read more

How The Goldman Vampire Squid Just Captured Europe - By Ellen Brown

Published on 2012-04-19 06:06:00

From Truthout, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 By Ellen Brown The Goldman Sachs coup that failed in America has nearly succeeded in Europe - a permanent, irrevocable, unchallengeable bailout for the banks underwritten by the taxpayers. In September 2008, Henry Paulson, former CEO of Goldman Sachs, managed to extort a $700 billion bank bailout from Congress. But to pull it off, he had to fall on his > read more

Debt-ridden Countries IMF'd as "Euro Collapse" threat lures Bailout Bucks w/Michael Hudson

Published on 2012-04-19 05:27:00

From CapitalAccount, Apr 18, 2012: Welcome to Capital Account. European banks are under pressure to raise capital and the Euro could collapse triggering panic in financial markets and another great depression. These are all warnings coming out of the international monetary fund. Central banks haven't been waiting -- they appear to be moving away from the euro by buying more gold. We'll talk > read more

Despair and the State

Published on 2012-04-18 02:43:00

From The Daily Reckoning Australia  By Jeffrey Tucker There are certain terrible realities in the world, preventable ones, that we must speak about if we expect to end them. The sad and tragic story of Andrew Wordes — the chicken farmer who was driven to despair by government harassment and killed himself last month — continues to haunt me. And it turns out to be just one of > read more

ALL TRANSACTIONS TO BE CONDUCTED IN THE PRESENCE OF A TAX COLLECTOR

Published on 2012-04-17 11:52:00

From Sovereignman, April 17, 2012 by SIMON BLACK  Vilnius, Lithuania In the terminal collapse of the Roman Empire, there was perhaps no greater burden to the average citizen than the extreme taxes they were forced to pay. The tax ‘reforms’ of Emperor Diocletian in the 3rd century were so rigid and unwavering that many people were driven to starvation and bankruptcy. The state went so far as > read more

Why the Middle Class Is Doomed

Published on 2012-04-17 10:37:00

From Zero Hedge: Submitted by Charles Hugh Smith from Of Two Minds The dwindling middle class, squeezed by higher taxes and costs, is losing its political voice. The middle class is doomed by some very basic dynamics. Economic historian David Hackett Fischer laid out the fundamental dynamic in his book The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History. By assembling price and > read more

Stuff White People Like n.135 - Humanitarian Intervention

Published on 2012-04-16 18:09:00

From Jadaliyya, Apr 11 2012 by Marc Michael [Image taken from Foodista.com.] I usually get along with white people. For starters, I grew up in a white country. Some of my best friends are white. In my long history of befriending them, I have learnt one thing: if you want to retain white friends, you must adhere to a number of sacred rules: the stuff white people like. For those who are > read more

The Case For Cheap Gold

Published on 2012-04-16 13:51:00

From Gold speculator, April 15, 2012: By Robert M. Williams www.unpuncturedcycle.com  All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse. - Benjamin FranklinI want to spend a lot of time talking about gold and looking at it from a > read more

IMF Exploits Euro-Crisis to Create Global Money Power

Published on 2012-04-16 13:29:00

From The Daily Bell, Monday, April 16, 2012 – by Staff Report   Euro Area Seeks Bigger IMF War Chest on Spanish Concerns ... European officials travel to Washington this week seeking a bigger global war chest to combat the debt crisis as Spain's government battles to quell renewed market turmoil over its finances. Three weeks after European leaders unveiled emergency euro- area funding > read more

Washington Leads World Into Lawlessness

Published on 2012-04-16 13:23:00

By: Paul Craig Roberts| April 12, 2012  The US government pretends to live under the rule of law, to respect human rights, and to provide freedom and democracy to citizens. Washington’s pretense and the stark reality are diametrically opposed. US government officials routinely criticize other governments for being undemocratic and for violating human rights. Yet, no other country except > read more

Europe merry-go-round: Spain debt crisis & Portugal bailout-On the Edge with Max Keiser-04-13-2012

Published on 2012-04-16 11:36:00

From PressTVGlobalNews, Apr 14, 2012 In this edition of the show Max interviews Mike “Mish” Shedlock from Sitka Pacific Capital. He talks about the European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affair’s warning about the need for another bailout for Portugal and also the soaring yields on Spanish debt. Mike “Mish” Shedlock is an investment advisor at Sitka Pacific Capital. He writes the > read more

The Banksters Wet Dream: A Cashless Society, Starting With the Military

Published on 2012-04-14 12:42:00

From SGT:  Why is a cashless society the holy grail of total tyrannical control for the Banksters? Because once your entire financial banking life is under their control in the form of a card or an implanted chip, you will never again be free. They are already tracking you, building a database about you and monitoring your every move. But once cash transactions are done away with entirely, > read more

Michael Hudson: Austerity still?

Published on 2012-04-14 07:15:00

From Michael Hudson:  Michael Hudson’s presentation for the session “The Challenge of DeLeveraging and Overhangs of Debt II: The Politics and Economics of Restructuring” at the Institute for New Economic Thinking’s (INET) Paradigm Lost Conference in Berlin. April 13, 2012. > read more

King World News Under Attack

Published on 2012-04-14 06:40:00

from gata.org: Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: The King World News Internet site was attacked this week in ways that seemed aimed particularly at the network’s revelatory interview April 5 with its London metals market trader source. The major Internet hosting company that maintains the King World News site reported to the network: “The servers you are hosted on are what we call ‘under guard’ > read more

Of Prophets, Power, and the Purpose of Intellectuals: Class War and the College Crisis, Part 3

Published on 2012-04-13 15:54:00

From The Intel Hub, April 13, 2012: By Andrew Gavin Marshall Part 1: The “Crisis of Democracy” and the Attack on Education Part 2: The Purpose of Education: Social Uplift or Social Control?  Intellectual history is written by intellectuals and educational history is written by educators; thus, it would be inevitable that the flaws and failures of each are buried beneath, while the advances > read more

We don't need the banks anymore! Greek town develops bartering system without euro

Published on 2012-04-13 14:56:00

Mark Lowen BBC Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:06 CDT  As Greece wonders whether its debt crisis will eventually spell its exit from the euro, one town in the centre of the country, Volos, has formed an alternative local currency. It works through a bartering system or exchange of goods. The BBC's Mark Lowen reports.   > read more

Syria: Another "Humanitarian War" Based on Lies & Deceit

Published on 2012-04-13 14:40:00

Mini-Documentary Exposes Imperial Expansion Through "Humanitarian Interventionism" Tony Cartalucci, Contributing WriterActivist PostThe Paris-based Centre for the Study of Interventionism (CSI) and Julien Teil, director of "Lies behind the "Humanitarian War" in Libya: There is no evidence!" has recently released a short documentary exposing how a cartel of Western nations and their Arab proxies > read more

Please don’t call this capitalism!

Published on 2012-04-13 12:32:00

From Paper Money Collapse: Surprise, surprise, the Euro Zone debt crisis is back. Or was it never gone? As yields on Spanish and Italian government bonds are heading higher once again, I am reminded of the old saying, you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. Not even with a trillion euros. I previously described the relationship between banks and states as that of two drowning > read more

Debt Crisis Plotted to Deliver the Euro to the IMF?

Published on 2012-04-13 12:05:00

From The Daily Bell, Friday, April 13, 2012 – by Staff Report   Spanish bailout 'impossible' for eurozone, says prime minister Mariano Rajoy ... The eurozone is not equipped to bail out Spain, the country's prime minister Mariano Rajoy has admitted, as global traders continued to punish the nation's stocks and bonds. Mr Rajoy said it was "not possible to rescue Spain" but insisted his > read more

Surrender now or we’ll bomb you later

Published on 2012-04-13 08:17:00

By Pepe Escobar Asia Times Online, April 11, 2012 Former United States president George W Bush issued an ultimatum to Saddam Hussein before bombing and invading Iraq. Nine years later, US President Barack Obama has issued an ultimatum to the leadership in Tehran before … setting optimal conditions for an “all options on the table” exercise. Obama has made an offer to Tehran to “negotiate” its > read more

Officials, diplomats want even more EU secrecy

Published on 2012-04-13 08:13:00

From EUobserver,  12.04.12: BY ANDREW RETTMAN BRUSSELS - Most member states and EU institutions are keen to draw a new veil of secrecy over how they appoint top officials and enforce EU law. The rights of journalists, NGOs and average people to get access to internal EU documents is currently governed by a regulation from 2001. It is already hard to gain access because there is no > read more

Building the BRIC wall

Published on 2012-04-13 07:14:00

From The Cobden Centre:  The Delhi Declaration translated Unless coming from North Korea or another dysfunctional dictatorship, diplomatic language is normally notoriously vague and, when on occasion specific, is so watered-down that it can be served up to minors. Not so, however, with last week’s BRIC+SA Delhi Declaration. When it comes to diplo-speak, this is rather blunt stuff indeed > read more

27 Statistics About The European Economic Crisis That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe

Published on 2012-04-13 05:10:00

From The economic collapse: The economic crisis in Europe continues to get worse and eventually it is going to unravel into a complete economic nightmare.  All over Europe, national governments have piled up debts that are completely unsustainable.  But whenever they start significantly cutting government spending it results in an economic slowdown.  So politicians in Europe are really > read more

Jim Willie: Golden Eye of Hurricane

Published on 2012-04-12 14:55:00

From Goldseek, Thursday, 12 April 2012  By: Jim Willie CB,  GoldenJackass.com What an incredibly complex confusing and treacherous month. It can be safely said that 80% of the activity is almost totally kept from the public. The financial system is breaking in an accelerated fashion. Compare to some grisly horror movie where a man is strapped in a chair. The more he moves, the tighter the > read more

Washington’s bizarre Kosovo strategy could destroy NATO

Published on 2012-04-12 07:34:00

by F. William Engdahl Not satisfied with having sponsored the artificial creation of Kosovo, the United States has now decided to ram the mafia state through NATO and the European Union. A new member with those characteristics is the last thing that Europe needs right now. However, it should work wonders for the consolidation of U.S. political and military agenda in the region, not to speak > read more

GREEK SUBMARINE SCANDALS: FORMER TOP MINISTER ARRESTED, CLAIMS HE IS ‘SACRIFICE’

Published on 2012-04-12 07:00:00

From The Slog  By John Ward Tsochatzopoulos flanked by plain-clothes police yesterday Tsochatzopoulos and family also face tax, money-laundering charges Elections put back a week to May 6th Earlier this year with the help of guidance and documents supplied by Athenian contacts, The Slog posted extensively about graft in Greek government circles, and specifically the corrupt > read more

RECOVERED ECONOMIC HISTORY: “EVERYONE BUT AN IDIOT KNOWS THAT THE LOWER CLASSES MUST BE KEPT POOR, OR THEY WILL NEVER BE INDUSTRIOUS”

Published on 2012-04-12 01:50:00

From Exiled Online: By Yasha Levine CLASS WAR FOR IDIOTS / APRIL 5, 2012 “…everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious.” —Arthur Young; 1771 Our popular economic wisdom says that capitalism equals freedom and free societies, right? Well, if you ever suspected that the logic is full of shit, then I’d recommend checking a book > read more

Lew Rockwell: A Look at how Central Banks are Steering our Society off an Economic Cliff

Published on 2012-04-12 01:31:00

 From CapitalAccount Apr 11, 2012:  Welcome to Capital Account. With debt troubles brewing in Spain, a European Central Banker is triggering talk of ECB intervention...again...So now people are speculating about another bond purchase program to lower Spain's borrowing costs. Oh geez -- how much more money will be conjured out of thin air and pumped into Europe's cesspool to make things "look > read more

World Happiness Report 2012: Scandinavian Countries Are Happiest On Earth

Published on 2012-04-11 14:25:00

From Mike Norman Economics:  Denmark has taken the top spot on the United Nation's first ever World Happiness Report, followed by Finland, Norway and the Netherlands.The 158-page report, published by Columbia University's Earth Institute, was commissioned for the United Nations Conference on Happiness on Monday in order to "review the state of happiness in the world today and show how the > read more

The Anatomy Of A USD-Funding Crisis And The Fed's Global Swap-Line Bailout

Published on 2012-04-11 13:34:00

From Philipp Bagus of Mises.com, On Tuesday, March 26, 2012, I was invited by Ron Paul and his staff to assist a meeting of the Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology Subcommittee of the House Committee on Financial Services. The title of the hearing was "Federal Reserve Aid to the Eurozone: Its Impact on the U.S. and the Dollar." Unfortunately, Ben Bernanke had not come to the > read more

Slow Road to Hell: Spain Entertains VAT Hike

Published on 2012-04-11 05:18:00

From Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis  By Mike Mish Shedlock Of all the inept policy moves in the midst of a clear depression, hiking taxes is right at the top of the list. Yet, that is the path Spain is on, because it will not meet its budget projections.Here is a link to an amusing "as is" Google translation of an article on El Econimista whose headline reads "The Government > read more

KEN LIVINGSTONE WORKS FOR THE SPOOKS?

Published on 2012-04-10 15:57:00

From aangirfan:  Ken Livingstone (right), who was London Mayor at the time of the London Tube Bombings."If ever we get tired of the name London it actually would enshrine a lot of what makes London a great city if we renamed it Chanukah." So said London's Mayor Ken Livingstone, in 2007, as he lit London's 32ft. steel menorah. (Website) London is to have Mayoral elections in May 2012. > read more

Iran Escalates Again, Cuts Off Oil Shipments To Spain

Published on 2012-04-10 09:16:00

From Zero Hedge: Those hoping for a quick and painless resolution to the Iranian question may have just seen their hopes dashed, following the breaking news from Iranian Press TV, according to which not only is Iran not seeking to appease its Western counterparts, but is, in fact escalating.  From Press TV: "Tehran has cut oil supply to Spain after stopping crude export to Greece as part of > read more

Flashback: Pathologising dissent? Now that’s Orwellian

Published on 2012-04-09 16:12:00

Ahead of a conference on the psychology of climate change denial, Brendan O’Neill says green authoritarians are treating debate as a disorder. From Spiked By Brendan O’Neill A few months ago, for a joke, I set up a Facebook group called ‘Climate change denial is a mental disorder’. It’s a satirical campaigning hub for people who think that climate change denial should be recognised as a mental > read more

EUROBLOWN: SLOG’S ALLEGATIONS OF SOCIAL SECURITY HOCK FINALLY QUANTIFIED

Published on 2012-04-09 09:51:00

From The Slog  By John Ward In Spain, unpaid bills, public company debt, and Spanish sovereign bonds amount to 870 billion euros. More disturbing still – I’ve posted about this before many times – is the degree to which Spain’s social insurance budget is also deep in hock. The social security reserve fund is where the Spanish are supposed to be accumulating resources to help pay for their > read more

Guess what funny money Afghans are hoarding for SHTF

Published on 2012-04-08 10:36:00

This is interesting on several different planes: ''Afghans store opium as hedge against uncertain future'' From Reuters "Opium is emerging as a new gold standard in Afghanistan, where traders and farmers are hoarding the drug as a source of ready cash t o hedge against the risk of a power vacuum when foreign troops leave, the country's U.N. drugs tsar said.Fear is mounting amongst > read more

Barack Obama Tackles US Torture Head On … He Hunts & Cages Those Who Expose it

Published on 2012-04-08 08:02:00

CIA Whistleblower Kiriakou Indicted for Exposing Waterboarding Practices By Sibel Edmonds, Boiling Frogs No one can accuse Barack Obama of not tackling our government’s still-continuing torture practices. No sir. The man has made it clear – he is going to hunt, prosecute and cage those involved … in exposing them. In fact he has just tucked one under his belt. Former CIA officer John > read more

Keiser Report: Anti-Bank Currency

Published on 2012-04-08 06:52:00

In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss getting Zhou Tonged and Jamie Dimon-ed in financial markets. They also discuss bucket shop derivatives, a debit card repo scam and a compound of morons and regulatory flatulence. In the second half of the show Max talks to Michel Bauwens of the P2P Foundation about bitcoin in the virtual world and about pseudo abundance and > read more

International Forecaster April 2012 (#2)

Published on 2012-04-08 06:27:00

From The International Forecaster, By Bob Chapman We've all heard the old adage about adding insult to injury but the IMF has turned it into an art form. The new IMF Director, Christine Lagarde, came to Washington this week begging for yet more billions so the fund can continue propping up insolvent European banks and wrapping developing countries around the globe in debt chains. Lagarde is > read more

Four Deaths of Obama Opponents a Remarkable Coincidence?

Published on 2012-04-07 15:29:00

From Larouchepac, April 7, 2012: A series of four deaths of opponents of Barack Obama has occurred over the period from Aug. 13 2008 to March 3, 2012, just as those persons were about to takepolitical steps damaging to Obama. The circumstances of these deaths give rise to a number of questions. Are these deaths a remarkable coincidence, or is something else involved? What is the statistical > read more

Phony Kony 2012 Part 2: License for Imperial Conquest

Published on 2012-04-07 12:56:00

Excuses, backpedaling, more lies, and the truth behind Invisible Children’s mission.  by Tony Cartalucci  April 6, 2012 – The sequel to the mega-viral disaster that was Kony 2012 may only be 20 minutes long, but financier-turned-humanitarian Ben Keesey still manages to gravely insult the intelligence of an audience clearly more awake and aware than he and the corporate-financiers behind > read more

DHS Purchases Bullet Resistant Checkpoint Booths

Published on 2012-04-07 12:17:00

From The Intel Hub: The Department of Homeland Security has made news in the past few weeks with the revelations that they have purchased up to 650 million rounds of .40 caliber hollow point ammunition. Now, despite ignoring requests as to why they need that much ammo, they have moved forward and purchased an unknown amount of bullet resistant booths to possibly be stationed at unannounced > read more

It’s Not Over: Government Plans for the Worst: Forced Evacuation of Tokyo

Published on 2012-04-07 08:48:00

From SHTFplan.com - April 3rd, 2012 By Mac Slavo While it has for the most part disappeared from mainstream view, the Fukushima nuclear disaster is anything but over. In fact, the situation in Japan has gone from bad to worse. Bottom line: There is no way to contain the radiation. Even more alarming is that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and other agencies have warned that the > read more

Ellen Brown: The Key to Solving the Debt Problem

Published on 2012-04-07 08:09:00

From The Victory Report: Listen Now: Download MP3 Ellen Brown has been studying the government debt problem for years and believes she has a solution. Rather than governments borrowing money from banks and outsiders, they should be borrowing directly from central banks.. From KerryLutz.com:Thus any interest owed would be paid back to the government, eliminating a large portion of the > read more

Economic Hit Man John Perkins on the New Banana Republic and USA, Inc.

Published on 2012-04-06 03:21:00

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NATO Triggers African Terror-Wave

Published on 2012-04-05 15:32:00

NATO Libyan "liberation" unleashes terror "tidal wave" over North Africa.by Tony CartalucciApril 5, 2012 - Western nations, including the United States, England, and France - the neo-imperial trifecta - have decried a recent military coup in the North African nation of Mali based on the grounds of violating "democratic principles." Each nation has now proceeded to impose crippling sanctions on > read more

Argentina’s Totalitarian Economy

Published on 2012-04-05 14:52:00

From Acting Man  By Pater Tenebrarum  No-One is Safe – A Fascistic 'Zwangswirtschaft' is Implemented The government of Christina Kirchner is well-known for its interventionism, protectionism and disregard of property rights and freedom of expression. Anyone doing business in Argentina today or contemplating an investment in its stock market must realize that their property and assets > read more

Gulag America: Bill Allows IRS to Deny Americans Right to Travel

Published on 2012-04-05 13:58:00

By Kurt NimmoInfowars.com - April 5, 2012 Senator Barbara Boxer’s MAP-21 (Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act) is headed to the House after clearing the Senate last month. Boxer’s bill allows the federal government to revoke the passports of citizens the IRS claims owe taxes. “There is no requirement that the tax payer be guilty of or even charged with tax evasion, fraud, or > read more

Max Keiser – Bitcoin: Currency of the resistance

Published on 2012-04-05 13:36:00

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The Syrian debacle

Published on 2012-04-05 13:03:00

From Voltairenet: by Thierry Meyssan With 83 states and intergovernmental organizations represented, the second "Friends" of Syria conference was a media success. Yet, all the glimmer and gloss cannot hide NATO’s and the GCC’s defeat in Syria, which after a year of low intensity war have failed to bring about regime change and are now compelled to retreat in the face of the > read more

Fascism Comes to the Internet: Introducing CISPA

Published on 2012-04-05 11:29:00

From Activist Post,  Wednesday, April 4, 2012  By Joe Wright After nearly unprecedented pushback against bills SOPA and PIPA, their apparent defeat cannot yet be claimed.  Most skeptics presumed that the defeat of the aforementioned would only serve to offer a compromised "SOPA light" at some point to circumvent criticism over government censorship.  Well, it didn't take long.  In addition to  > read more

EU CRISIS: MARIO MONTI BLAMES GERMANY & FRANCE FOR EUROZONE DISASTER

Published on 2012-04-05 04:50:00

From The Slog  By John Ward Eurozone Chumpions Knockout Cup Italy 1 Frankmany 0 From the safety of Japan, Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti yesterday told the media there that because the eurozone’s two largest players –Germany and France – broke all the fiscal rules from Day One, other countries in the currency area simply took their lead from that behaviour. “The story goes > read more

Gold Bullion: Its Role in the New Financial System

Published on 2012-04-05 04:40:00

From Bullionvault, 5 April 2012: How Gold Bullion could act as an "anchor of value"... WE RECENTLY discussed just how the US Dollar came to be the central part of the world's monetary system and held onto that position when its economy and balance of payments were structurally inadequate to do so, writes Julian Phillips at GoldForecaster. In a follow up article, we described how the > read more

An IMF Absurdity

Published on 2012-04-05 00:34:00

From Zero Hedge: By Wolf Richter   www.testosteronepit.com On April 20, the finance chiefs and central bank governors of the Group of 20 will hold a shindig in Washington DC, at the margin of the biannual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. At issue is money. Bailout money for the Eurozone. The IMF wants to dig deeper into its pocket, but the amounts are > read more

Why the European sovereign debt crisis is coming back and Spain is too big to save explains John Mauldin

Published on 2012-04-04 23:53:00

From Arabianmoney,  05 April 2012 John Mauldin, president of Millennium Wave Investments and author of ‘The Endgame’ talks about the still desperate outlook for the European economies. Mr Mauldin, speaking with Tom Keene on Bloomberg Television’s ‘Surveillance Midday’ also discusses the US economy and fiscal policy. He remains the most articulate commentator on the eurozone debt crisis. At > read more

Straight From Oz: Real Reason Elites Intend to Legalize Some Drugs?

Published on 2012-04-04 15:40:00

From The Daily Bell, Wednesday, April 04, 2012 – by Staff Report Australia foreign minister calls for decriminalisation of low-level drug use ... Bob Carr, Australia's foreign minister, whose brother died after a heroin overdose, has urged the decriminalisation of low-level drug use, after a report concluded the war on the scourge was lost ... "A bit of modest decriminalisation, de facto > read more

Marc Faber, "The Ego of Mr. Bernanke has been Badly Inflated"

Published on 2012-04-04 03:15:00

From CapitalAccount Apr 3, 2012: US President Barack Obama gave a speech accusing Republicans of "social darwinism" with budget cuts they are proposing, calling them antithetical to the country's history as a land of opportunity. But how much opportunity is there left exactly? We speak with Dr. Marc Faber, publisher of the Gloom Boom & Doom report. He says that wealth destruction and social > read more

637.5 MILION OUNCES OF PAPER SILVER DUMPED IN 1 HOUR AFTER FED MINUTES RELEASED

Published on 2012-04-03 16:12:00

From Silverdoctors, Tuesday, April 3, 2012: On the now infamous Ron Paul/ Bernanke silver raid of February 29th, we documented how 225 million ounces of silver were dumped on the market over a span of only 30 minutes, smashing silver $4 from $37.62 to $33.68. In a sign of the diminishing returns of paper market manipulation, on the heels of today's Fed minutes disappointment, beginning at 2pm > read more

Mongolia - The New Wild West Of Investing

Published on 2012-04-03 13:57:00

From SeekingAlpha, April 3, 2012  by Robert Hallberg  The days of the Wild West in the United States are long gone, but Mongolia is as close to the Wild West as an entrepreneur can hope for these days. It is a post-Soviet satellite state in the middle of free-market reform. It has a red hot economy with a GDP that grew 15% last year, and the outlook for 2012 looks just as good. The > read more

Orwellian Kingdom or Big Eurocratic Brother? Brits to pay $3 bln to be spied upon on web, emails, texts

Published on 2012-04-03 08:55:00

From RT,  03 April, 2012: UK taxpayers will have to pay billions of dollars to have their web surfing, email exchange, text messaging, and even Skype calls, monitored. In addition to the hefty price-tag, innocent Brits risk being misidentified as terrorists. The shocking data comes ahead of the plan announcement in the Queen's speech, which is scheduled for May. Meanwhile, the Home Office, > read more

YOU AIN’T SEEN NOTHING YET – PART TWO

Published on 2012-04-03 06:22:00

From The Burning Platform,  2nd April 2012: This is Part Two of a three part series trying to make sense of the Crisis period we entered in 2008. Click here to read: PART ONE Catalyst of Change “As late as December 1773, November 1959, and October 1929, the American people had no idea how close it was. Then sudden sparks (the Boston Tea Party, John Brown’s raid and execution, Black Tuesday) > read more

Corbett Report Radio 102 – Free Money with Stefan Molyneux

Published on 2012-04-03 03:20:00

From Corbett Report: Stefan Molyneux of FreeDomainRadio.com joins us for a wide-ranging philosophical discussion on money, freedom, aggression, property and power. We also take calls on issues from commodity-backed money to ethical systems. Original audio (crr102.mp3) > read more

YOU AIN’T SEEN NOTHING YET – PART ONE

Published on 2012-04-02 15:20:00

From The Burning Platform, 1st April 2012  “Human history seems logical in afterthought but a mystery in forethought. Writers of history have a way of describing interwar societies as coursing from postwar to prewar as though people alive at the time knew when that transition occurred.” – Strauss & Howe - The Fourth Turning   Watching pompous politicians, egotistical economists, arrogant > read more

The World Bank Is Hopeless and Changing Leaders Won't Help

Published on 2012-04-02 15:16:00

From The Daily Bell, Monday, April 02, 2012 – by Staff Report   Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Hats off to Ngozi ... A golden opportunity for the rest of the world to show Barack Obamathe meaning of meritocracy ... When economists from the World Bank visit poor countries to dispense cash and advice, they routinely tell governments to reject cronyism and fill each important job with the best candidate > read more

Oh Canada! Imposing Austerity on the World’s Most Resource-rich Country

Published on 2012-04-02 11:27:00

by Ellen Brown  Global Research, April 1, 2012 Web of Debt Even the world’s most resource-rich country has now been caught in the debt trap.  Its once-proud government programs are being subjected to radical budget cuts—cuts that could have been avoided if the government had not quit borrowing from its own central bank in the 1970s.  On March 29 in Ottawa, the Canadian House of > read more

15 Fundamental Reasons Why Fiat Currencies Are a Scam and a Failure

Published on 2012-04-01 01:50:00

From FinancialSense, 03/26/2012 BY RON HERA Value Subjectivism and Monetary Instability Subjectivism is the philosophy that reality is what we perceive to be real and that no underlying, true reality exists independent of human perception. In other words, the nature of reality for an individual person is dependent on that individual’s own consciousness. It follows that each person > read more

BRICS agree to local currency credits to ease dollar dependency

Published on 2012-04-01 00:06:00

From RT, 29 March, 2012: The BRICS - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - have agreed to provide credit to each other in local currencies. Officials say the deal will facilitate economic growth in times of crisis. The currency swap deal is aimed at promoting trade and investment in local currencies as well as to cut transaction costs.  It’s also seen as a step to replace the dollar > read more

Everyone Is Wondering When Spain Will Become The New Greece

Published on 2012-03-31 06:03:00

From The Business Insider:  This post originally appeared at The Automatic Earth.  Another week, another bout of social unrest in a Euro peripheral nation, if the fourth largest economy in the area (Spain) can even be called that. Yesterday's action saw more than a million people take to the streets in protest, while several million actually participated in the 24-hour > read more

Eurocratic outrages of the day

Published on 2012-03-30 16:47:00

From OtherNews, 3/30/2012: Oliver Grimm – Die Presse The exact amount is 6,157 euros: that is what it costs to hold a meeting of the board of directors of EFSA, the European Food Safety Authority. And yes, this is the figure per head. We do not know how the 15 board members travelled to Parma [the location of EFSA’s headquarters] – they may have arrived there in litters carried by porters. > read more

Are Nutty-yahoo and Mossad planning a hit on Barack Freaking Hussein Obama?

Published on 2012-03-30 16:27:00

From Opinion Maker (my emphasis) By Wayne Madsen In the latest leak from WikiLeaks of hacked e-mails from the private intelligence firm Stratfor, Fred Burton, Stratfor's vice president for intelligence, reveals that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is an intelligence source for Stratfor. However, the e-mails sent by Burton strongly indicate that Stratfor, which was founded by > read more

Germany is Now Openly Engaging In Monetary Policies Against the ECB

Published on 2012-03-30 14:16:00

From ZeroHedge: Submitted by Phoenix Capital Research on 03/30/2012 12:34 -0400 While the mainstream financial media and 99% of investors continue to believe that Germany will align itself with the EU, we’ve been pounding the table Germany will in fact look after its own interests rather than the EU’s and that it might in fact leave the Euro temporarily. We’ll start with German Finance > read more

The Awakening: CNN Loses Half Its Viewers: Corporate Media Downhill Plunge Continues As Alternative Media Explodes

Published on 2012-03-30 08:58:00

From The Intel Hub, March 29, 2012: In the last few years the people of the world have witnessed and been a part of a mass awakening of humanity on a level never seen before. The people are no longer standing idly by as the powers that be further seek to control every aspect of their lives. A major part of this mass awakening has been the revelation that the corporate controlled media has > read more

Martin Armstrong on the Sovereign Debt Crisis

Published on 2012-03-29 12:47:00

From FinancialSense, 03/29/2012 BY RON HERA The Hera Research Newsletter is pleased to present a fascinating interview with Martin A. Armstrong, founder and former Head of Princeton Economics, Ltd. In the 1980s, Princeton Economics became the leading multinational corporate advisor with offices in Paris, London, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Sydney and in 1983 Armstrong was named by the Wall Street > read more

BRIC Nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) signed Local Currency agreement at Summit. They will not trade in U.S. dollars anymore. Agreements around the world between Countries to Drop U.S. dollar for trade (including Australia)

Published on 2012-03-29 08:17:00

From  Sherrie Questioning All, THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 2012: The BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) signed an agreement to not trade in U.S. dollars anymore, but in their own currencies.  They are even working on creating their own bank for trading between each other and to handle the currencies, besides lines of credit in the currencies. BRIC nations account for half of > read more

Reports indicate Toulouse gunman was French intelligence asset

Published on 2012-03-28 13:23:00

From WSWS Wednesday, Mar 28, 2012 By Alex Lantier Editor's Note: With these new revelations it looks like there was much more to these murders of children than a "Lone Wolf Muslim" who hates Jewish people and went off to kill their children. The author places this attack in the context of an alleged killer working for French intelligence and a Zionist president (Sarkozy) running "far behind > read more

Europe’s Bazooka Will Fire Blanks… Good Luck Killing the Crisis With That

Published on 2012-03-28 12:12:00

From Zero hedge By Phoenix Capital Research Europe continues to take a page out of Hank Paulson’s “Crisis Combat” booklet, by unveiling one monetary “bazooka” after another. Obviously, EU leaders didn’t notice that Paulson’s “bazooka” completely failed to stop the 2008 Crash. Even more strangely, they keep pulling out bazooka after bazooka, first unveiling the EFSF which was > read more

Investing in a World Right Side Up and Upside Down with Chris Mayer

Published on 2012-03-28 02:58:00

From CapitalAccount,  Mar 27, 2012: Welcome to Capital Account. Ben Bernanke is on class number three of his PR blitz today, defending the Fed's response to the financial crisis...like the federal takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Meanwhile, Timothy Geithner pushed for more money funneling thorough multilateral institutions that fund bailouts and other national agenda items. But if > read more

Mish vs. Stalwart: Bernanke's Class Lecture on Money Leads to After-School Blog Brawl

Published on 2012-03-27 15:47:00

From CapitalAccount Mar 27, 2012: On this Web Exclusive panel interview, Lauren Lyster moderates a debate between Mike Shedlock and Joe Weisenthal, two bloggers who represent different sides of the ideological spectrum when it comes to gold, currency, and fiat money. Joe has attacked the gold standard in the past, and most recently in his article titled, "Ben Bernanke Murders the Gold > read more

Elites Crush PIGS – Old Game Plan Made Anew?

Published on 2012-03-27 12:06:00

From The Daily Bell, Tuesday, March 27, 2012 – by Staff Report   Spain's economy contracts as recession fears grow ... The Spanish economy has shrunk for the first time in two years, increasing fears the country could be heading for a recession. The country's economy shrank by 0.3% in the three months to December, after stagnating in the previous quarter. Household spending fell by 1.1% > read more

Empires Then and Now

Published on 2012-03-27 07:15:00

By Paul Craig Roberts Prison Planet.com Monday, March 26, 2012 Great empires, such as the Roman and British, were extractive. The empires succeeded, because the value of the resources and wealth extracted from conquered lands exceeded the value of conquest and governance. The reason Rome did not extend its empire east into Germany was not the military prowess of Germanic tribes but Rome’s > read more

911: America Nuked - Jeff Prager

Published on 2012-03-27 05:23:00

From kenny's sideshow, MARCH 25, 2012: Over the last 10 years researchers have developed a decent narrative of the whos and whys of 9/11. Where we continue to spin round and round chasing our tails is with the hows. That's by design. Some of us are just curious in a scientific way so the hows will always be relevant. I'm not in the business of trying to convince anyone of certain viewpoints > read more

Climate Fund Seeks UN-Style Diplomatic Immunity

Published on 2012-03-26 14:22:00

Updated: Thursday, 22 Mar 2012, 4:42 PM MST Published : Thursday, 22 Mar 2012, 4:42 PM MST  (FOX News) - The Green Climate Fund, which is supposed to help mobilize as much as $100 billion a year to lower global greenhouse gases, is seeking a broad blanket of UN-style immunity that would shield its operations from any kind of legal process, including civil and criminal prosecution, in the > read more

Martin Armstrong: Sovereign Debt Crisis to Reach US by 2015

Published on 2012-03-26 13:03:00

From Silverdoctors, Monday, March 26, 2012: Martin Armstrong discusses the implications of thediscovery of tungsten filled gold, gold's recent 17 day decline, and predicts that the sovereign debt crisis will wash up on our shores in the 3rd quarter of 2015 in his latest gold update.  Armstrong's timeline matches up exactly with Jim Sinclair's call for the dollar's collapse in 2015.Armstrong also > read more

Brics move to unseat dollar as trade currency

Published on 2012-03-26 04:09:00

From Citypress Sunday, March 25, 2012 : By Thandeka Gqubule and Andile Ntingi City Press, Johannesburg, South Africa South Africa will this week take some initial steps to unseat the US dollar as the preferred worldwide currency for trade and investment in emerging economies. Thus, the nation is expected to become party to endorsing the Chinese currency, the renminbi, as the currency of > read more

Gold Confiscation, Inflation, And Suddenly Virtuous Central Bankers

Published on 2012-03-26 03:46:00

From zero hedge By Wolf Richter   www.testosteronepit.com When the world's major central bankers get together, as they did at the Fed conference in Washington this weekend, ironies abound. Off to the side was Turkey’s government that had just floated a plan to get its people to turn in their physical gold in exchange for “certificates,” a first if still voluntary step in what may become > read more

The National Guard Will Be the Deciding Factor

Published on 2012-03-24 15:43:00

From The Daily Sheeple March 23rd, 2012 By Tom Chatham Tom Chatham is the author of The American Dream Lost - An Economic survival strategy for a new paradigm. Every day we see new laws and regulations coming out of Washington that can have no other meaning than to strip us of our inherent freedoms. While many Americans still see the government as a noble creature  that  will fulfill their > read more

Another War For Oil Incoming in Central Africa: Useful Idiots and the Brewing War with China

Published on 2012-03-13 18:08:00

Lawmakers Push For US Invasion Of Africa Following Kony 2012 Fraud Resolution introduced to send more U.S. troops to “protect civilians” By Paul Joseph WatsonPrison Planet.com -  Tuesday, March 13, 2012  Two House lawmakers have introduced a resolution that seeks to deepen US Military involvement in Africa on the back of the Kony 2012 hoax, despite the fact that Joseph Kony and his Lord’s > read more

BRICS members mull future of the US dollar

Published on 2012-03-13 13:43:00

From RUVR, Mar 13, 2012  Russian experts have hailed the decision by BRICS countries to replace the US dollar by own currencies in mutual credit lines. An agreement to this effect is expected to be signed during a BRICS summit which is due to be held in New Delhi on March 29. Experts say that this agreement will mark an important stage in the development of the organisation which brings > read more

[Bad Bets] Colonel Gaddafi ‘gave French President Nicolas Sarkozy £42million to fund his 2007 election campaign’

Published on 2012-03-13 07:42:00

Daily Mail - 12 March 2012  Nicolas Sarkozy received up to £42million from Colonel Gaddafi to fund his election as president, it was claimed yesterday. Evidence made public in Paris is said to prove that the two men had an illegal financial arrangement that helped Mr Sarkozy to power in 2007. A governmental briefing note published by Mediapart, an investigative website, points to numerous > read more

The Gaddafi Mercenaries and the Division of Africa

Published on 2012-03-13 07:19:00

from LewRockwell.com Blog  by Daniel McAdams French documentary film maker Julien Teil brought us the ground-breaking video "Humanitarian War: There is No Evidence," which I wrote about not long ago on LRC. In this film, readers will recall, the head of the Swiss-based Libyan League for Human Rights, Soliman Bouchuiguir, whose testimony in the UN about atrocities in Libya set off the > read more

THINK NOT WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR THE EUROPEAN UNION….

Published on 2012-03-12 12:33:00

From The Slog by John Ward …..BUT RATHER THINK ABOUT WHAT IT’S DOING TO YOU Tonight, the Eurozone finance ministers are due to approve the bailout package for Greece. The MSM widely expects them to do so. As the earlier Slogpost today argued clearly, if they do, it will be because they can only keep their third-rate currency zone and anti-democratic Union going by dealing with > read more

The Bloody Road to Damascus The Triple Alliance’s War on a Sovereign State

Published on 2012-03-11 04:56:00

By James Petras March 10, 2012 "Information Clearing House" --- There is clear and overwhelming evidence that the uprising to overthrow President Assad of Syria is a violent, power grab led by foreign-supported fighters who have killed and wounded thousands of Syrian soldiers, police and civilians, partisans of the government and its peaceful opposition. The outrage expressed by politicians in > read more

The Black Swan NO ONE is Talking About: Germany’s “Plan B”

Published on 2012-03-11 01:07:00

From Zero Hedge, by Phoenix Capital Research: While the Second Greek Bailout may or may not be complete (depending on whether we get a credit event as a result of it), Germany can and will walk from the Euro if it needs to. This is the unforeseen black swan everyone is ignoring. Obviously, Germany wouldn’t want to do this as it would result in Germany being blamed for the Euro failing. > read more

REVEALED: Why the Troika’s ‘validation’ of the Greek psi may open up a can of worms

Published on 2012-03-10 15:33:00

From Hat4UK, MARCH 10, 2012: ANAYSIS OF A CREDIT EVENT: DIRTY DEEDS AT THE DEBT-SWAP CORRAL Evidence of public sector bribery raises doubts as Venizelos accused of personal gain Although the ways and means used to get to 85.8% overall Greek swap participation (0.8% over what ISDA wanted) and 95.7% including CAC enactions (0.7% over what Brussels wanted) are roughly 0.0001% relevant to the > read more

As Europe shoots more "easy money," blanks at the Depression, Americans "reach for real bullets"

Published on 2012-03-10 06:16:00

From  CapitalAccount Mar 9, 2012:   Welcome to Capital Account. US unemployment, which remains unchanged at 8.3 percent, is being touted as "sturdy" by the mainstream media. Yet more than half of those jobs are deemed "low paying work" by analysts, and more than half of professional services jobs added are "temporary." Analyst david Ader of CRT quoted by ZeroHedge notes that about 160 > read more

All of Europe's a stage...

Published on 2012-03-10 06:10:00

From Humble Student of the Markets: By Cam Hui Bloomberg had a good summary of Mario Draghi's comments from the ECB press conference on March 8, 2012 in an article entitled Draghi Lays Groundwork for ECB Stimulus Exit as Inflation Takes Spotlight [emphasis added]: Declaring that the environment “has improved enormously” and there are “many signs of returning confidence in the euro,”  > read more

As First Greek CDS "Anstalt" Appears, A Question Emerges: Did Banks Not Square Off Margins?

Published on 2012-03-09 15:54:00

From ZeroHedge,  by Tyler Durden 03/09/2012 15:25 -0500 The irony is not lost on us that Bloomberg is reporting that KA Finanz, an Austrian bad-bank supported by the Austrian government, faces as much as a €1 billion need for funding to cover its exposures to Greek CDS (coughcreditanstaltcough). In a statement this morning, which we noted in a tweet, the bank noted "activation of the CDS > read more

Our “Let’s Pretend” Economy: Let’s Pretend “Job Growth Is Best Since 2006″

Published on 2012-03-09 14:19:00

by Charles Hugh Smith, from Of Two Minds Instead of just swallowing Ministry of Propaganda swill, let’s examine actual data. If we do that, we find job growth is mostly smoke and mirrors. The Ministry of Propaganda and its media minions are announcing that “job growth is on a tear” and the “best growth since 2006.” How about we look under the hood of the employment euphoria? Here is an example > read more

So, What's Next Step Towards The Eurocalypse?

Published on 2012-03-09 13:28:00

From ZeroHedge, by Reggie Middleton: Okay, as I have been warning since the first quarter of 2010, Greece has defaulted. What I mean by default is that Greece did not honor the payment terms of its debtor agreements. I really don't care what this or that association decides to call it, if you bought Greek bonds you ain't getting the money that Greece promised > read more

Miles Franklin Quarterly Report: Escalation of the Precious Metal Wars

Published on 2012-03-09 12:39:00

From Miles Franklin: Four times each year, we publish a hard copy quarterly. I am featuring the second issue in 2012, written by Andy Hoffman, in today's daily. Andy "rants" less in these hard copy newsletters and his information is more "timeless," and big-picture oriented. It's good stuff! Read it._____________________________     Spring 2012 - Escalation of the Precious Metal Wars It's > read more

Jim Willie: Handicapping the Collapse

Published on 2012-03-09 11:10:00

From FinancialSense, 03/09/2012 BY JIM WILLIE Scattered diverse and almost uniformly unfavorable and dangerous events are unfolding, as the global economy and financial structure undergoes the equivalent of endless earthquakes and bombardment of solar emissions. Reporting is difficult, since information is distorted toward the sunny side. Events are moving fast, as quickly as the danger level is > read more

Crony capitalism: Green firms burn through taxpayer dollars, pay huge executive bonuses, then go bankrupt

Published on 2012-03-09 10:52:00

From NaturalNews, Friday, March 09, 2012  by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) The Obama Administration's green energy development program, which has leveraged billions of taxpayer dollars into high-risk green energy startups, is rapidly turning out to be one of the biggest financial scams on the American people in recent history. A new investigative report by ABC News has revealed > read more

KONY 2012: African Invasion Psyop: Infowars Nightly News

Published on 2012-03-09 10:26:00

From TheAlexJonesChannel Mar 9, 2012: Alex Jones talks with Webster Tarpley about the 30-minute documentary that aims to shine a spotlight on central African militia leader Joseph Kony as Obama sends troops to central Africa to hunt down the Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army. http://www.tarpley.net/ http://www.infowars.com/ http://www.prisonplanet.tv/ ____-  Related: ''Kony 2012: Hype > read more

Grecian Summer of 2012 Turns Into A Full Blown Revolution?

Published on 2012-03-09 06:24:00

from Trader Rog's Blog  by Roger Wiegand It is now obvious to Greek citizens they have been sold out by their politicians, central bankers and others. The only thing coming out of the re-funding of Greece was to re-fiance the bad loans that could not be paid and to take the Greek Central Banks’ gold as collateral so they can steal it when the next loans fail. I would not want to be a > read more

Psy-Op Of The Day On Reddit

Published on 2012-03-09 04:57:00

From Reddit: Look who just became moderators for OWS  submitted 10 hours ago by blacksunalchemy Link: http://www.reddit.com/r/occupywallstreet/about/moderators The Pro-Zionist, anti-Liberty, pro-war, stooges known by: TheGhostOfNoLibs JCM 267 TheGhostOfTzvika Facehammer It won't be long now till that subreddit becomes a complete joke. EDIT: I just got banned from /r/ > read more

Gerald Celente on Russia Today - 08 March 2012

Published on 2012-03-09 04:02:00

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US State Department Hands Terror-Cult US Base in Iraq

Published on 2012-03-09 03:58:00

Unimaginable Treason at the Highest Levels of US Governance. by Tony Cartalucci  March 9, 2012 - In an unbelievable act of high treason and overt criminality, the US State Department, headed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, has finalized arrangements to move the US State Department-listed foreign terror organization, Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK), into the former US military base " > read more

SARKOZY AND KARACHIGATE

Published on 2012-03-09 03:33:00

From aangirfan : Sarkozy cosies up.Reportedly, in the 1990s, Nicolas Sarkozy was involved in a deal with Pakistan involving large 'bribes'.When Jacques Chirac came to power, 'he cancelled the Pakistani official's kickbacks'.Certain people in Pakistan were unhappy.In May 2002, a large bomb went off outside the Sheraton hotel in Karachi in Pakistan.11 Frenchmen, and two Pakistanis were > read more

Prepare for Major Haircuts on Portuguese Debt

Published on 2012-03-09 03:13:00

From Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis by Mike Mish Shedlock Ambrose Evans-Pritchard at The Telegraph says Legal skull-duggery in Greece may doom Portugal.I suggest that Portugal is doomed whether or not there is "Legal Skull-Duggery". However, it's perfectly fair to suggest that LSD will indeed make matters worse.From Pritchard ... Last month the European Central Bank > read more

324 Years Of The Gold-To-Silver Ratio And $195 Silver

Published on 2012-03-09 03:03:00

From SeekingAlpha, March 9, 2012: By : Plan B Economics Warning: The following article contains data that some might find shocking. While the figures are grounded, they are not necessarily forecasts. Since 1687, the gold-to-silver ratio has ranged from 14.14 to 99.76 (see chart below). Over this period, the average gold-to-silver ratio was 27.28 and today (March 8, 2012) the gold-to-silver > read more

Super Mario Draghi says "ball is now in the banks' court," as he prints over 1 Trillion Euros

Published on 2012-03-09 02:37:00

From CapitalAccount, Mar 8, 2012:     Welcome to Capital Account. It's another "D-Day" for Greece. Seriously? How can you have so many d-day's when you've supposedly already won the war like 2 years ago? Meanwhile, the president of the ECB "Super" Mario Draghi is defending the ECB's trash to cash program today, otherwise known as 3-year LTRO. Really Draghi? Because your former colleague at > read more

The Eurocracy: "Let Them Eat GMOs"

Published on 2012-03-08 16:40:00

By Rady Ananda Food Freedom  March 8th, 2012   In February, the European Commission (EC) approved four transgenic soybeans intended for food and feed, import and processing, reports Inf’OGM. This follows four approvals in December, on top of three last summer. Three of the recently-approved GM soy varieties are tolerant to herbicides: DuPont-Pioneer’s 356043, Monsanto’s Glyphosate-tolerant > read more

The Truth about the Greek Bond Swap in One Chart

Published on 2012-03-08 07:47:00

From Shenandoah March 8, 2012  by John Galt The myth that the great shell game known as the Greek bond swap where worthless paper is exchanged for lower quality even more worthless paper so Greece can default on those bonds at a later date has been exposed in one chart showing the market’s faith in the viability of the Greek nation: (chart from Bloomberg.com) The yield on the one > read more

[Assassination Nation] Experts Destroy Rationale for Obama’s Assassination Policy … And Slam Democrats for Supporting It

Published on 2012-03-08 06:09:00

From Global Research, March 8, 2012 By Washington's Blog Obama Expanding Program Started by Cheney Attorney General Eric Holder announced at Northwestern University law school that the U.S. can assassinate U.S. citizens without any without disclosure of why they are even alleged to be baddies and without any review of any nature whatsoever by any judge, Congress or the American > read more

Super Tuesday a "Super Letdown" as America realizes that her Presidential Candidates "Just Suck"

Published on 2012-03-08 03:02:00

From CapitalAccount Mar 7, 2012 : Welcome to Capital Account. Super Tuesday came and went, and if anything it seems more like a super letdown. As the economy dominates the agenda this election year, voters have failed to flock to the one candidate who actually has a long-term view and addresses concerns of sound money and monetary policy, and represents a shift from the status quo. Why? Are > read more

Bernanke Broods Over New Ways To Print Money – Waiting For Gold To Explode

Published on 2012-03-08 02:14:00

From Gold and silver blog, March 8, 2012: Perhaps it was the realization that the U.S. Federal Reserve was losing to the ECB in the money printing race.  Perhaps it was the realization that the only way to prevent a debt imperiled economy from imploding was by supplying new doses of the only remedy left in the Fed's medicine bag.  In any event, Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke made it > read more

Is Germany About to Start a Run on Gold Held at the New York Fed?

Published on 2012-03-08 01:22:00

From Economicpolicyjournal, MARCH 7, 2012 German lawmakers are to review Bundesbank controls of and management of Germany’s gold reserves. Parliament’s Budget Committee will assess how the central bank manages its inventory of Germany’s gold bullion bars that are believed to be stored not only in Frankfurt, but at locations outside Germany, according to German newspaper Bild.What's most > read more

Bitcoin: Crypto-Anarchism and the Digital Money Revolution

Published on 2012-03-07 15:45:00

From Policymic, March 7, 2012 By Michael Suede Imagine if we lived in a world where your bank accounts could never be audited, seized or controlled by the state. Imagine if the currency system itself made organized theft impossible. In the future, I predict this is precisely how currency systems will operate. While this may sound like a bold claim, economic analysis demonstrates why my > read more

Free Book Of The Day: U.S. Army JFK Special Warfare Center Leader’s Handbook on Unconventional Warfare

Published on 2012-03-07 11:12:00

From Public Intelligence, March 7, 2012 The following manual was originally published on the Army’s own website approximately two years ago.  It has since been removed.  The handbook provides an excellent overview of the U.S. Government’s history of funding and facilitating violent insurgencies around the world by waging “unconventional warfare.”  The handbook should be read alongside the  > read more

Syria: Game Over for Western Propaganda

Published on 2012-03-07 10:57:00

From Infowars.com, March 7, 2012 By Tony Cartalucci Why should the West intervene in Syria when it turns out “activists” giving daily body counts, the sole source of “evidence” for the UN’s ever climbing grand total, are caught not only lying, but staging entire interviews complete with fake gunfire directed “off stage?” Why should the US, UK, EU, or the West’s stable of Arab proxy-regimes be > read more

The Coming Struggle Over Mediterranean Oil

Published on 2012-03-07 10:11:00

From Financialsense, 03/06/2012 By William Engdahl The discovery in late 2010 of the huge natural gas bonanza off Israel’s Mediterranean shores triggered other neighboring countries to look more closely at their own waters. The results revealed that the entire eastern Mediterranean is swimming in huge untapped oil and gas reserves. That discovery is having enormous political, geopolitical as > read more

EU Austerity Madness

Published on 2012-03-07 09:25:00

by Stephen Lendman, MARCH 07, 2012 European/American austerity assures a 1% wealth grab at the expense of all others. Prioritizing banker payments causes debt bondage, human misery, economic wreckage, and eventual collapse. What can't go on forever, won't. It's not rocket science. It's fact. Economies thrive on productive economic growth. It includes public sector infrastructure > read more

Guess What? Credit Makes it All Worse.

Published on 2012-03-07 08:30:00

Leverage, Business Cycles, and Crises by NBER A stronger increase in … bank credit-to-GDP in the boom tends to lead to a deeper subsequent downturn. In When Credit Bites Back: Leverage, Business Cycles, and Crises (NBER Working Paper No. 17621), authors Òscar Jordà, Moritz Schularick, and Alan Taylor analyze data from 14 advanced economies going back to 1870 that include nearly 200 recession > read more

LEAKED STRATFOR EMAILS: Source Says Several Countries Already Have Forces In Syria

Published on 2012-03-06 13:57:00

From The Business Insider:  Special Operations Forces from numerous countries were on the ground in Syria as of December and the island of Cyprus would be the main base for an air strike against Bashar Assad's Syrian regime, according to internal Stratfor emails leaked by WikiLeaks. An email dated Dec. 7 of last year recaps meetings attended by an analyst that day. The analyst writes that > read more

Explaining The European €2.5 Trillion Liquidity Catch 22 Closed Loop

Published on 2012-03-06 13:41:00

From Zero Hedge, by Tyler Durden If anyone is confused about what the real issue in Europe is, the following two charts should explain it all. Because stripping all the recent rhetoric and bluster about this insolvent nation or that, the real explanation for Europe's troubles, and the real reason why virtually every country except for Germany, is essentially insolvent (something that has > read more

Syria, MISO And Other Distasteful Spin

Published on 2012-03-06 12:33:00

From NSBC, March 6, 2012  By Christof Lehmann – The proverb “the first victim of war is truth” has proven to be one of the most reliable constants of warfare. Deceit is another of the constants, and in the war on Syria both have proven their reliability. The extent, however, to which everything from strongly biased reporting, to plainly manufactured lies have been sold as truth by Western > read more

PEPE ESCOBAR: PUTIN NOT PART OF THE NWO, LABELLED EVIL BY ELITES

Published on 2012-03-05 17:00:00

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Greece looks set to default after all on Thursday

Published on 2012-03-04 09:58:00

From Peter J. Cooper's Weblog: Bankers are looking very unlikely to sign off a $227 million ‘voluntary’ bond swap this week that will leave them nursing more than 70 per cent losses on their Greek debts. That leaves the eurozone facing its first ever sovereign default on the deadline set for Thursday. It matters not a jot that eurozone leaders have just signed off a Greek rescue deal. > read more

Brit Propagandist in Syria: The Good Guys?

Published on 2012-03-04 05:09:00

British "journalist" embraces US-British killing terrorist Belhaj in photo op before PR stunt.  by Tony Cartalucci  March 4, 2012 - Just in time for the "Friends of Syria" conference led by former imperialists Britain and France who appear to be piecemeal reassembling their empires under the cover of US-led NATO-backed "revolutions," the world was treated to a spectacularly timed "casus belli." > read more

Free Book Of The Day: Political Ponerology - The Study of Evil in Politics

Published on 2012-03-04 02:58:00

From The Information Underground: Political Ponerology - The Study of Evil in Politics “In the author’s opinion, Ponerology reveals itself to be a new branch of science born out of historical need and the most recent accomplishments of medicine and psychology. In light of objective naturalistic language, it studies the causal components and processes of the genesis of evil, regardless > read more

Is the ECB choking on its own liquidity as Spain's economy grinds to a halt

Published on 2012-03-03 05:49:00

From  CapitalAccount 02/mar/2012: Fresh off of the ECB's latest liquidity injection, are we still facing a eurozone banking crisis? Well let's follow the money shall we?! Two days after 800 banks borrowed 530 billion euro from the european central bank's 3-year LTRO...deposits at the ECB have shot up to a record 777 billion euro -- more than 1 trillion dollars, as banks choose to make a > read more

Time to Destroy the CFR

Published on 2012-03-03 04:36:00

From Zioyid resistance: By J.B.CAMPBELL  The Council on Foreign Relations runs the United States government and has done so since before it was born, which was, for the record, in 1921. The same people who were its first members were the controllers of Woodrow Wilson from 1913 until his incapacity which began with the flu in 1919, then worsened by a stroke. Wilson’s inability to perform his > read more

Is the Manchurian Alien Son of the CIA a Designed Scapegoat?

Published on 2012-03-02 18:00:00

From The Daily Bell, March 02, 2012 – by Staff Report   An investigative "Cold Case Posse" launched six months ago by "America's toughest sheriff" – Joe Arpaio of Arizona's Maricopa County – has concluded there is probable cause that the document released by the White House last year as President Obama's birth certificate is a computer-generated forgery. The posse says it has identified at > read more

Syria – Next Step of NATO Military Strategy: Bombing & Annexation of a Quarter of Syrian Territory

Published on 2012-03-02 04:49:00

From empirestrikesback: by Martin Iqbal. As the next step of NATO’s military strategy in Syria is revealed, the Orwellian buzzwords evolve a stage further to include ‘collective air shields’ as well as the ‘humanitarian corridor’ – euphemisms for the deadly bombardment, annexation and occupation of Syria’s sovereign territory. As Syrian rebels retreat from the Babr Amr district of Homs,  > read more

Twenty Facts You Should Know

Published on 2012-03-02 03:26:00

From The Economic Collapse: #1 The United States has more government debt per capita than Greece, Portugal, Italy, Ireland or Spain. #2 The European Commission has formally declared that Europe has now entered another recession.  German banks are leveraged 32 to 1 and the European financial system is rapidly approaching a nightmare.  Lehman Brothers was only leveraged 30 to 1 when it finally > read more

Credit System Subverted - Implosion Imminent With Trillion Euro Gamble

Published on 2012-03-02 03:00:00

From GoldSilver.com MARCH 01, 2012  : On Wednesday, the second long-term refinancing operation (LTRO), sponsored by Mario Draghi's European Central Bank, lent out a staggering €529 billion to faltering banks, which could put up almost Any Collateral to get these short term life rafts. Nearly 800 commercial banks took advantage of the ECB's half trillion euro currency blast—taking the grand > read more

‘Global finance: The Shylock model’

Published on 2012-03-01 11:24:00

From RT,  01 March, 2012 By Adrian Salbuchi  A Greek brainstorming session would sound something like this: Default! Downgrade! Bond Swap! ECB Bailout! Austerity Measures! IMF Recipes! Riots! Euro Collapse! Pay up!! Can anybody make any sense out of this?? Let’s try…  Because it’s a question of joining the dots… correctly!    First and foremost, Sovereign Debt “Crises” explode, then > read more

Readying the Greek Corpse for Burial

Published on 2012-03-01 05:38:00

by Stephen Lendman, MARCH 01, 2012 Greece is being systematically raped, pillaged and destroyed. Bankers demand it. What they want, they get, no matter the human toll and economic ruin. Standing armies pale by comparison. Financial oligarchs wage war by other means and take no prisoners. Greece is Exhibit A. More on it below. Last July, Christine Lagarde became IMF managing > read more

Bob Chapman Leap Day Panic Metals Report–The Raid is On…Buy Now–02-29-2012

Published on 2012-02-29 16:08:00

From Kerry Lutz: Bob “The International Forecaster” Chapman is watching the precious metals raid and even he can’t believe the depth and depravity of the efforts the Elite are using to stop gold and silver’s rallies dead in their tracks. According to Bob, and we must agree, the raid will fail. It can’t work in the long term, the underlying fundamentals show that fiat currencies are going the > read more

DIMITRI KHALEZOV, GORDON DUFF AND KEVIN BARRETT-NUCLEAR TERRORISM (video)

Published on 2012-02-29 08:04:00

From VeteransToday,   February 21st, 2011 TRUTH JIHAD RADIO INTERVIEW  “WIKILEAKS ON STEROIDS” Foreword by Gordon Duff Senior Editor Veterans Today Audio editing by Edward Rynearson YouTube - Veterans Today - There are few more controversial figures than Dimitri Khalezov, former officer in the Soviet Union’s nuclear intelligence services.  Khalezov, staff writer for Veterans Today, an > read more

Virginia declares “emperor has no clothes”: NDAA nullified

Published on 2012-02-29 07:19:00

From Activist Post By Carl HermanVirginia's Senate voted today (39-1) to nullify NDAA 2012 provisions to seize American citizens at the dictate of the federal executive branch. They joined the House's 96-4 vote. Do an Internet news search for this story (like this); you won't find any corporate media coverage. This is what Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld meant with Information Operations Road Map > read more

Russia, Peoples Republic of China Confirm Boycott of NATO’s “Enemies of Syria” Conference in Tunisia; Goal is Bombing, Civil War, Failed State, Warlords on Libyan Model

Published on 2012-02-29 05:57:00

From PressTV, Sat Feb 25, 2012 Interview with Dr. Webster Griffin Tarpley, author and historian, New York This (the Syrian unrest) is not an indigenous rebellion. There is no uprising. There is no widespread political opposition willing to go all the way to fighting and killing." Dr. Webster Griffin Tarpley, American author and historian Top US officials have > read more

GOLD SALE ENDS SOON

Published on 2012-02-29 05:07:00

From 24hgold, February 27th, 2012 by Darryl Robert Schoon - Survive the Crisis Inverse Lin-omena, the inverse of the Jeremy Lin phenomena where the unknown and previously discounted suddenly rise to prominence; here, the powerful and previously secure suddenly fall. Today, central bankers, the mandarins of capitalism, are in disarray. Their attempts to contain capitalism’s current crisis > read more

Steve Keen on the transmutation of Zombie Banking into Zombie Government!

Published on 2012-02-29 03:38:00

From CapitalAccount  28/feb/2012: Ireland will reportedly hold a referendum on Europe's new fiscal treaty for stricter budget discipline. The former prime minister is against it, saying a no vote could force ireland out of the euro. We've seen referendums called for before in the Eurozone crisis -- didn't seem to end well last time for democratic self-determination. Will this be yet another > read more

SILVER CRUSHING: UP 30% YTD. Slices Through $36 Like a Hot Knife Through Butter

Published on 2012-02-28 12:01:00

From SGT: THIS is why we suggest dollar cost averaging into silver instead of trying to time the market. As we mentioned last evening, for anyone who takes issue with Andy Hoffman’s recent $1,000+ Silver call, we advise that you add up the total amount of outstanding bonds (debt), credit cards (debt), mortgages (debt) and consumer debt on planet earth. Then factor in the multi-trillion dollar > read more

Is the "Demographic Carry-trade" putting Human Capital at Risk of Flight in Europe?

Published on 2012-02-28 04:30:00

From CapitalAccount  27/feb/2012 German Parliament today voted to back the Greek bailout package...do you have Greek bailout burnout? Well, if you do, you are lucky, because we will be talking about the Emerald Isle today, that's right...Ireland, remember them? Today, the executive board of the IMF discussed whether or not to approve the latest tranche of bailout money for Ireland. Since > read more

Embargo THIS! Iran refuses to deliver 500k-barrel oil shipment to Greece

Published on 2012-02-26 14:31:00

From PressTV, Sun Feb 26, 2012 12:43PM Iran has refused to deliver a 500,000-barrel shipment of oil to Greece in response to EU oil sanctions imposed against the country. According to a report by Fars News Agency on Sunday, oil tankers that had come to transfer 500,000 barrels of Iranian crude oil to Hellenic refining complex in Greece were forced to return empty-handed after the Islamic > read more

Is The Demand For Physical Silver About To Overwhelm Supply?

Published on 2012-02-26 05:55:00

from Gold Harvest Under A Silver Moon: India predicted to import 5000 tonnes silver in 2012, price to exceed $60/oz Demand for the white metal in India is seen surging this year from last year's 4,800 tonnes and prices are expected to shoot up as a result says the Bombay Bullion Association.__________________________This morning, Saturday February 25, 2011, Harvey Organ in a > read more

Things That Make You Go Hmmm... February 26, 2012

Published on 2012-02-26 05:41:00

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Cartel Dumps 102.5 Million Ounces of Paper Silver in 7 Minutes, Yet RAID FAILS!

Published on 2012-02-25 16:01:00

From Silverdoctors, FEBRUARY 24, 2012: Check out the following price and volume chart screen shot SD reader Conax took on this 1-minute silver chart courtesy NetDania. Notice the massive volume that began at approximately 14:47, with 4,000 paper contracts dumped on the market in a single minute, followed by 2,500, 1,800, 3,200, 3,000, 2,900, and 3,100 over the next 6 minutes. Have a look for > read more

Second Greek Deal: an Exercise in ComPact StuPIGidty

Published on 2012-02-25 14:33:00

From Redesigning the foot: Ministry of Truth:  Strength is Ignorance; Slavery is Freedom; Austerity is GrowthThe Second "Greek 130 billion "euro bailout" is not about saving Greece. The numbers and projections were incredible, designed as counters in "let's make a deal" PSI game.Re-capThe Eurzone is an unbalanced monetary union whose economies are in persistent divergence.  The crisis > read more

Gerald Celente, the Kleptocrat's Carry-Trade and the Revolution against Financial Occupation

Published on 2012-02-25 10:05:00

From CapitalAccount 24 Feb 2012: A US lawmaker is reportedly planning to introduce the "Sound Dollar Act" early next month. This is legislation that would move the federal reserve from its dual mandate of maintaining price stability (which is anathema to the dollar debasement that it creates through its massive money printing operations) and keeping unemployment low (which it has failed to do... > read more

Another phase in the Greek tragedy - it could lose all its gold!

Published on 2012-02-23 04:12:00

From Mineweb, Wednesday , 22 Feb 2012  Author: Julian Phillips With the Greek bailout a done deal, gold and the Euro have gained a little, but nervousness over Greece's prospects prevails and the consequences of failure for Greece are dire. BENONI -  New York took the gold price up to $1,759 up $29 from yesterday's London close. This was a bit much for Asia and London who pulled it back > read more

Scandal: Greece To Receive "Negative" Cash From "Second Bailout" As It Funds Insolvent European Banks

Published on 2012-02-22 15:49:00

From Zero Hedge, by Tyler Durden 02/22/2012 Earlier today, we learned the first stunner of the Greek "bailout package", which courtesy of some convoluted transmission mechanisms would result in some, potentially quite many, Greek workers actually paying to retain their jobs: i.e., negative salaries. Now, having looked at the Eurogroup's statement on the Greek bailout, we find another very > read more

Merkel Is Leading Germany Into The Austerity Abyss

Published on 2012-02-22 15:28:00

From The Business Insider:  Despite weakening economic growth and industrial production in recent months, Germany continues to look much better than the rest of Europe on the surface. It boasts a very low unemployment rate (although über-low-wage work has grown tremendously) and relatively small public deficits. However, none of that is stopping Merkel and her administration from betting > read more

Jim Willie: Herding Greek Cats from Bondage

Published on 2012-02-22 14:12:00

From Goldseek, 22 February 2012 By: Jim Willie CB, GoldenJackass.com Listen to the empty words of the last bailout for Greece. Credibility with the Jackass was lost back on the third bailout, well over a year ago, out of the six bailouts in total. Perhaps it is seven comprehensive final bailouts. The pattern is clear. The politicians, without popular support, forge agreements on debt coverage > read more

Globalists Push Internet Control Freak Treaty at the United Nations

Published on 2012-02-22 13:42:00

By Kurt NimmoInfowars.com - February 22, 2012 Popular outrage over SOPA and PIPA has forced the globalists to seek a new line of attack in their effort to control the internet. On February 27, they will engage in a “diplomatic process” that will hand over to the United Nations unprecedented control over a free and open internet. The defeat of SOPA and PIPA marked the first battle in a war to > read more

Israeli Strike Imminent: “We’re At The Very Last Moment”

Published on 2012-02-22 13:35:00

From The Daily Sheeple The former chief of staff to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday an Israeli strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities is “imminent.” Naftali Bennett appeared on Fox News’ “Huckabee” and painted a dire picture of a world with a nuclear Iran, saying Israel will not hesitate to take action if necessary — and that time is of the essence. “We’re at > read more

Richard Daughty & Chris Waltzek on GoldSeek Radio February 21, 2012

Published on 2012-02-22 09:11:00

Chris Waltzek of GoldSeek Radio talks to Richard Daughty. Click Here to Listen to the Interview Original audio (daughty02.21.12.mp3) > read more

Greek Tragedy turns Comedy with Troika document leak, as Obama's Boeing PR Crashes in Wichita

Published on 2012-02-22 03:35:00

From CapitalAccount 21 Feb 2012: Greece has a bailout agreement, but does the country have a chance at growing it's way out of debt as the Troika and Greek politicians continue to claim? A look at a debt sustainability assessment document leaked to the Financial Times from inside these negotiations shows that even the best-case projections used to justify the bailout don't even meet the > read more

Intel Exclusive: Trillion Dollar Terror Exposed

Published on 2012-02-22 03:15:00

From VeteransToday, February 21st, 2012 | by Gordon Duff LORD JAMES OF BLACKHEATH, EXPOSING "TRILLION DOLLAR TERROR" Bush, Fed, Europe Banks in $15 Trillion Fraud, All Documented By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor ———————- Below is one of the strangest stories in financial history, one involving the US government lying about hundreds of thousands of tons of imaginary gold, illegal wire > read more

Elites Blow Up Greece on Purpose?

Published on 2012-02-22 02:59:00

From The Daily Bell,  February 21, 2012 – by Staff Report     Can a return to the drachma save Greece as unemployment soars? ... The latest best-seller is the Greek translation of Heinrich Winkler's "Weimar 1918-1933: History of the First German Democracy", narrating how an indebted Germany pursued the same deflation policies under the Gold Standard as Greece is now pursuing under EMU – with > read more

What the Greek Debt Crisis is Really About

Published on 2012-02-21 05:20:00

From The Daily Reckoning Australia, February 21st, 2012 By Dan Denning  Long into the European night, the talks to save Greece continue. In today's Daily Reckoning, we'll do something we can barely stand to do: we're going to write one more time about Greece. If you can stand to read it, you may come to the same conclusion we reached. That conclusion is simple: what's going on in Europe > read more

Silencing The Critics

Published on 2012-02-21 04:30:00

By Paul Craig RobertsFebruary 20, 2012 "Information Clearing House" --- In 2010 the FBI invaded the homes of peace activists in several states and seized personal possessions in what the FBI--the lead orchestrator of fake “terrorist plots”--called an investigation of “activities concerning the material support of terrorism.” Subpoenas were issued to compel antiwar protestors to testify before > read more

9/11: Planes/No Planes and “Video Fakery”

Published on 2012-02-21 03:46:00

From VeteransToday, February 20th, 2012by Jim Fetzer Perhaps no question within the scope of 9/11 research generates as much heat and as little light as questions that have arisen over the role of the aircraft on 9/11, which has come to be known by the name of “planes/no planes” and of “video fakery”. While I had long since concluded that no plane had crashed inShanksville and that, while a > read more

Global gold demand higher than ever

Published on 2012-02-20 15:11:00

From Non-Stop Gold: Global demand for gold in 2011 rose to 4,067 tonnes worth an estimated $205.5 billion — the first time that global Demand has exceeded $200billion and the highest tonnage level since 1997, according to the World Gold Council’s (WGC) Gold Demand Trends. The main driver for this increase was the investment sector where annual demand was 1,640.7 tonnes up 5 per cent > read more

LET’S COUNT THE BENEFITS OF INVADING IRAN

Published on 2012-02-20 13:44:00

From The Burning Platform, 20th February 2012  Brandon Smith has the fire back in his belly. Here is an excellent assessment of the American people and the implications of invading Iran. Be careful what you wish for while lazing in your recliner, eating cheetos, drinking beer and watching your 72 inch HDTV. Submitted by Brandon Smith from Alt-Market.com Consequences To Expect If The U.S. > read more

The Matrix Of Frauds: Money As Debt

Published on 2012-02-20 05:42:00

From Market Ticker, 2012-02-19 by Karl Denninger  As this is Buffoon's Day Weekend (otherwise known as "President's Day") and tomorrow the markets are closed, it is time for something that will require contemplation. Pull up a chair or turn on the hottub and take this in; it may require more than one sitting. We shall start with what I call the "3% Solution."  This is the premise that Ben > read more

Democracy In-action

Published on 2012-02-20 05:22:00

From The Daily Reckoning Australia  By Bill Bonner Hillary Clinton calls up Egypt, Syria, Libya, and China to "democratize." But democracy, as practiced by the US and other developed countries, is a fraud. It is just a way for the insiders to scam money and power from the outsiders, by pretending that the voters are in charge. Just ask how many taxpayers would vote to spend about > read more

Why Greece Must Exit the Eurozone, How it Will Happen (and Why Portugal and Spain Will Follow); Does the Euro Act Like a Gold Standard?

Published on 2012-02-20 05:05:00

From Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis  By Mike Mish Shedlock Several people have asked me about statements I have made that "Greece is in a hopeless situation until it exits the Eurozone."Actually Greece is in a horrific condition whether or not it exits the Eurozone as the Troika literally destroyed Greece (perhaps purposely to protect French and German banks), by dragging this > read more

All of the bad things coming together - getting ready

Published on 2012-02-20 03:57:00

________ Monumental Change is Coming for Most Americans – Here’s Why Pento - CB’s Global Assault to Destroy All Paper Currencies > read more

Things That Make You Go Hmmm... February 19, 2012

Published on 2012-02-19 06:12:00

Hmmm Feb 19 2012(function() { var scribd = document.createElement("script"); scribd.type = "text/javascript"; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = "http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })(); > read more

European Super State One Step Closer or Approaching Imminent Collapse?

Published on 2012-02-19 04:14:00

From Activist Post, February 18, 2012 By Julian Rose Jean Monet, the founding father of the European Union, had a very particular vision of Europe's future back in 1952, and he expressed it in a letter to a colleague on 30th April that year: “Europe's nations should be guided towards the superstate without their people understanding what is happening. This can be accomplished by successive > read more

Variant Perception – A Primer on the Euro Break-Up

Published on 2012-02-19 00:37:00

From Acting Man, February 17, 2012  By Pater Tenebrarum  How to Break Up a Currency Union Jonathan Tepper of Variant Perception has written an excellent report on the break-up of the euro. The report includes an overview of past break-ups of currency unions (the euro is not the first one that has failed), and a detailed 'how to' manual as to how to handle the likely coming break-up > read more

The Anti-Freedom Movement States Its (Worst) Case? ... Austrians Vs. the Illuminati

Published on 2012-02-18 13:37:00

From The Daily Bell,  February 18, 2012 – by Staff Report   Proof Libertarianism Is an Illuminati Ploy ... So Jewish Supremacism can be retraced directly to the Austrian Economics' main proponent himself (Murray Rothbard) ... Libertarianism and Austrian Economics are not the products of maverick free thinkers. On the contrary, all leading proponents of the movement were highly connected > read more

Washington’s Insouciance Has No Rival

Published on 2012-02-18 10:00:00

From Paul Craig Roberts, February 15, 2012 : Is Obama a hypocrite or merely insouciant? Or is he an idiot? According to news reports Obama’s White House meeting on Valentine’s day with China’s Vice President, Xi Jinping, provided an opportunity for Obama to raise “a sensitive human rights issue with the Chinese leader-in-waiting.” The brave and forthright Obama didn’t let etiquette or decorum > read more

The ‘Accessory’ Allies in the War on Iran: What’s in it for Azerbaijan?

Published on 2012-02-18 08:30:00

From Boiling Frogs By Sibel Edmonds   With every passing day since the beginning of US operations in preparing the ground for invading its ultimate prize, Iran, Azerbaijan’s status as the key accessory has been rising. Of course, the mainstream media has intentionally and very conveniently placed Azerbaijan in the blind spot of its rearview mirror in accordance with their long-established > read more

Discussing Interest and Gold with the Daily Bell

Published on 2012-02-17 14:32:00

From Real Currencies Blog, December 29, 2011: The Daily Bell responded to an article on the Banker’s love for Gold, published on Henry Makow’s site. They make a number of important points, which I will address one by one for clarity’s sake. But first allow me to address a few minor issues:Daily Bell: “From what we can tell, Mr. Migchels is something of what might have once been called a “ > read more

Is Ron Paul a Reptilian? Austrian Economics, Religion and Devils

Published on 2012-02-17 14:21:00

From The Daily Bell,    Ron Paul's Masonic Jewish Economics ... Whether or not a currency is backed by gold makes no difference. As long as we pay interest, it is still Masonic Jewish (i.e. Illuminati) economics. The real alternative is interest-free currency. – HenryMakow.com Dominant Social Theme: Austrians are the devil? Free-Market Analysis: In his latest musings on Austrian > read more

Breaking: $6 Trillion In US Bonds Seized In Zurich, Said To Pose "Severe Threats To International Financial Stability"

Published on 2012-02-17 09:16:00

From zero hedge By  Tyler Durden Back in the summer of 2009, a peculiar story circulated when two Japanese individuals were arrested trying to smuggle $134 billion in US bonds into Switzerland from Italy. The story quickly died down after it was subsequently reported that the bonds were merely fake bearer bonds. Nobody heard much about it since then. Until today, when out of the blue we > read more

Henry Blodget, "the reason we have zero-percent interest rates is to bailout the banks"

Published on 2012-02-17 09:04:00

From CapitalAccount  16 Feb 2012: The rating agency moody's has warned it is considering downgrading the investment banking world's biggest players -- this includes Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley...the list goes on and on. I like the way the Wall Street Journal put it: "Moody's is worried about everything in investment banking." And speaking of worries -- Art Cashin of > read more

Money, Banking and the Federal Reserve

Published on 2012-02-17 04:17:00

From mises.org,  FEBRUARY 16, 2012: Steeped in American history and Austrian economics, this extraordinary film is the clearest, most compelling explanation ever offered of the Fed, and why curbing it must be our first priority. Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson understood "The Monster". But to most Americans today, Federal Reserve is just a name on the dollar bill. They have no idea of > read more

Battlefield USA 2012: Gerald Celente on year's top trends

Published on 2012-02-17 04:15:00

From RT, 16 Feb 2012: Gerald Celente, the founder of the Trends Research Institute gives RT's Marina Portnaya his predictions for the headlines of tomorrow. OWS movement, US presidential elections, economic embargo on Iran are among the issues discussed.  RT on Twitter http://twitter.com/RT_com RT on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/RTnews > read more

On the rhymes of bubble cycles an the "bang point"

Published on 2012-02-17 03:51:00

From globaleconomicanalysis FEBRUARY 16, 2012 By Mike "Mish" Shedlock John Mauldin posted an extraordinary interview by Kate Welling of Dr. Lacy Hunt, the chief economist of Hoisington Investment Management.  Dr. Lacy Hunt correctly identifies fractional reserve lending as the culprit behind the massive rise in debt. Hunt also explains why government spending cannot help, why Europe is in > read more

International Currencies Increasingly Rejected in the Face of Inflation

Published on 2012-02-16 15:16:00

From Activist Post,  February 16, 2012 Currency collapse is hardly something new.  Especially when that currency is backed by nothing.  In G. Edward Griffin's seminal work, The Creature From Jekyll Island, he states that once the "business of banking" by fiat began: This led immediately to what would become an almost unbroken record from then to the present: a record of inflation, booms and > read more

Free "Syrian" Army stronghold equipped with Milan missiles

Published on 2012-02-16 15:04:00

From Voltaire Network, 16 FEBRUARY 2012 The Battle of Homs was particularly deadly for the belligerents on both sides, as well as for civilians. During the first three days, the Syrian Arab Army was warded off by the rebels that blocked all entry points to their neighborhood. They destroyed all approaching armored vehicles using Milan missiles. Ultimately, the Syrian Arab Army had to resort > read more

Gold Standard Good? ... or Another Power Elite Meme?

Published on 2012-02-16 12:16:00

From The Daily Bell, February 16, 2012 – by Staff Report   Let's return to the gold standard ... It might be said that a simpler approach than Mr. Lehrman's might be the most likely way to get back to a gold standard. The Ron Paulstrategy is more direct, but at the same time more subtle. In early 2011, the Texas Congressman introduced H.R. 1098, a refreshingly short (three pages) bill which > read more

Suspending public debt repayments by legal means

Published on 2011-07-06 07:14:00

From CATDM, 6 July 2011 by Cécile Lamarque, Renaud Vivien Like the governments of the South did in the 1980s, the governments of the North are using the debt as an excuse to introduce austerity policies that in many respects are similar to the s > read more

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson Says America is Rotting At The Core

Published on 2011-07-06 06:49:00

from The ExcavatorIn an interview with Paul Jay, founder of The Real News Network, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, said that the American empire is rotting at the core and that the two politica > read more

U.S. DISTRICT COURT subpoenas original 1961 typewritten birth certificate #10641 for Barack Obama

Published on 2011-07-06 05:45:00

U.S. DISTRICT COURT IN HONOLULU SUBPOENAS LORETTA J. FUDDY, HAWAII HEALTH DEPARTMENT DIRECTORby Sharon Rondeau - Thepostmail The United States District Court for the District of Hawaii issued and served a subpoena on July 5, 2011 to the director of t > read more

Libya: Flashpoint for Global Conflict - by Stephen Lendman

Published on 2011-07-06 05:40:00

from SteveLendmanBlog by Steve Lendman On July 3, Peter Dale Scott told Progressive Radio News Hour listeners what he fears most. He repeated it in a July 4 email, citing a Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com article, accessed through the following li > read more

PASOK: Pan Hellenic Socialist Kleptocrats

Published on 2011-07-06 05:28:00

From ICHBy James Petras “George Papandreou is not bought, he is rented. He sells public enterprises to the multinationals. He reduces wages, pensions and employment at the behest of the IMF. He turns over the public treasury to the European banks. > read more

Security Grifters Partner-Up on Sinister Cyber-Surveillance Project

Published on 2011-07-06 03:22:00

From Dissidentvoice,  By Tom Burghardt Last week, the White House released its National Strategy for Counterterrorism, a macabre document that places a premium on “public safety” over civil liberties and constitutional rights. Indeed, “ho > read more

What Should Greece Do?

Published on 2011-07-05 18:51:00

from The Daily Gold: From time to time, one of my friends simply says it better than I could ever imagine saying it myself. I have known Peter Gianulis, manager of Carrelton Asset Management for years. He is one of the deepest thinkers I know of whe > read more

F. William Engdahl: Getting Used To Life Without Food

Published on 2011-07-05 09:21:00

From Global Research, July 3, 2011 By F. William Engdahl My late grandfather, a man of sturdy Norwegian-American farm stock, who later became a newspaper editor and political activist during the First World War, used to say, 'A man can get used to > read more

Young men will never grow up, why should they?

Published on 2011-07-05 07:27:00

from David Rothscum Reports I recently read an article entitled "Will young men ever grow up?".1 It whines about twenty-something year old males who prefer to play videogames over getting a job and marrying. The article mentions that "Usually the y > read more

Alan Sabrosky: We CAN bust Israel for 9/11 - here's how!

Published on 2011-07-04 16:51:00

From Truthjihad.com by Kevin BarrettAlan Sabrosky will discuss his excellent new series of articles on the Kevin Barrett Show this Tuesday, July 5th, 9 - 10 a.m. Pacific (11 a.m.-noon Central) at NoLiesRadio.org (archived here a few hours af > read more

Greeks defy police crackdown, protests against EU and IMF regime enter fifth week

Published on 2011-07-04 11:56:00

from Case about Bird Flu by Jane Burgermeister*Greeks continue to protest banker bailouts as  police order more tear gas following riots leaving 300 injured *Greek MP says he was threatened with death if he did not vote for the EU, IMF and ECB au > read more

From 2007: "Seven Countries In Five Years," An interview with General Wesley Clark

Published on 2011-07-04 06:27:00

from Goon Squad :Looks like the PTB are ahead of schedule, so they decide to snack on Yemen. Seven Countries In Five Years: An interview with General Wesley Clark“This is a memo that describes how we’re going to take out seven countries in fi > read more

Good news: Obama's own economists admit that each job "saved or created" by the Stimulus cost only $278,000

Published on 2011-07-03 17:04:00

from Doug Ross @ Journal (directorblue)It turns out that the Obama administration could have written a $100,000 check to each person whose employment was allegedly saved by the "Stimulus" and saved $427 billion. When the Obama administration rel > read more

Libya: making sense of another war crime

Published on 2011-07-03 16:32:00

From Bfanwo,  JULY 2, 2011: By Mark Yamero“Above all, the European Union must start acting like a responsible force in world affairs, not a many-headed monster.”The Financial Times published that on February 23, right as the civil war in Libya > read more

Top Euro Leader Just Warned That Greek Sovereignty Will Now Be Massively Limited

Published on 2011-07-03 08:09:00

from The Business Insider: Them's the breaks. Take money from abroad, lose your freedom. Eurogroup chief Jean-Claude Juncker just gave an interview to German magazine Focus, in which he said, via Reuters: "The sovereignty of Greece will be massive > read more

It's Official: International Criminal Court has ZERO Mandate

Published on 2011-07-03 06:50:00

Rejection by African Union of ICC's Qaddafi arrest warrant reveals ICC as hoax.  by Tony Cartalucci  Bangkok, Thailand July 2, 2011 - If an entire continent rejects an alleged international institution's actions as illegitimate and self-serving, > read more

Libya's neighborhoods prepare for NATO boots

Published on 2011-07-01 17:49:00

From Voltairenet, 1 JULY 2011: Franklin Lamb in Tripoli © Voltaire NetworkAt ten a.m. Tripoli time on 6/28/11 the Libyan Ministry of Health made available to this observer its compilation entitled Current Statistics Of Civilian Victims Of Nato B > read more

How Bankers Own the Earth And Then Some…

Published on 2011-07-01 17:33:00

From Donttreadonme, By Silver Shield, on July 1st, 2011Rothschild Cartoon from 1898“Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The bankers own the earth. Take it away from them,but leave them the power to create money,and with the flic > read more

Jim Willie: The Great Misdiagnosis

Published on 2011-06-30 15:59:00

By Jim Willie CB, Golden Jackass,  June 30, 2011Subscribe: Hat Trick LetterImagine a doctor who administers an elaborate treatment for a man suffering from multiple broken bones, joint arthritis, and fallen foot arches. The quack doctor orders mas > read more

A NEW DAWN FOR THE IMF: SWITCHING DEBTS TO ASSETS

Published on 2011-06-30 13:57:00

By Andrew McKillop 21st Century Wire June 30, 2011 In the gallic joy and media hoopla of yet another French elite politician with almost no knowledge of economics getting the IMF top job, confirming the real role and mission of this fragile institu > read more

Paper silver market more disconnected than ever from physical market

Published on 2011-06-30 12:58:00

From ZeroHedge by Eric Sprott and Andrew Morris: Caveat Venditor! (pdf) The recent bear raid on silver has left many concerned about the sustainability of its historic run. Silver, being a relatively obscure market for most mainstream commentators, > read more

Sovereign Debt Follies - 'It Has Taught Us Nothing'

Published on 2011-06-30 09:43:00

From 24hgold, June 30th, 2011 by Bob Hoye - Institutional Advisors Another episode of sovereign defaults seems to be well under way, which prompts the question about just how bad can it get? The above quotation is from a 1933 study of that example > read more

What's really at stake in Libya, a huge compound for NATO/Africom....

Published on 2011-06-30 06:15:00

from GeoPlotilicalNWO  What's really at stake in Libya, a huge compound for NATO/Africom....By Pepe Escobar Way beyond the impenetrable fog of war, the ongoing tragedy in Libya is morphing into a war of acronyms that graphically depicts the tortuo > read more

Philip Zelikow Speaks For The Makers of Terror

Published on 2011-06-30 05:50:00

From The Excavator : Philip Zelikow, the executive director of the 9/11 Commission, said in 2007 that people who believe in a different version of how and why the 9/11 attacks happened live in a different universe, implying that they are crazy frea > read more

Susan Lindauer: ‘Libyan Opposition Is Al-Qaeda’

Published on 2011-06-30 05:45:00

From Russia Today June 29th, 2011With bin Laden’s elimination, the US announced a withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. Now President Obama has revealed a new national strategy for counterterrorism.The focus is al-Qaeda and it’s affiliates, as > read more

[Audio] "Report From Tripoli" with Webster Griffin Tarpley

Published on 2011-06-30 05:30:00

Guns and Butter, for June 29, 2011 - 1:00pm Link: Guns and Butter - June 29, 2011 at 1:00pm Click to listen (or download)Guns and Butter "Report From Tripoli" with Webster Griffin Tarpley > read more

Governments are the Primary Creators of Systemic Risk

Published on 2011-06-29 16:24:00

From The Daily Reckoning By Charles Kadlec 06/29/11 The greatest lesson of the still young 21st century is proving to be that governments are the primary source of systemic risk to the economy, our standard of living, and our liberty.The latest ca > read more

Microsoft director admits EU data not exempt from Patriot Act spying

Published on 2011-06-29 15:35:00

Source: Raw Story June 29, 2011In the brave new world of cloud computing, where data is stored off-site in massive server farms instead of on a user's local hard drive, privacy and security are paramount in the consumer's mind.Unfortunately for pri > read more

How ‘al-Qaeda’s spokesman’ advances the Israel lobby’s gun control agenda

Published on 2011-06-29 15:18:00

By Maidhc Ó Cathail | June 29, 2011On June 3, in an al-Qaeda video rather loftily titled “You Are Held Responsible Only for Thyself,” al-Qaeda’s California-born spokesman, Adam Gadahn, urged followers to commit violent acts of jihad by explo > read more

Tripoli bombed but steadfast

Published on 2011-06-29 15:02:00

From Voltairenet: by Thierry MeyssanAn international team of investigators from Voltaire Network is currently in Libya where it visited the bombing sites. With the support of the Libyan authorities, and not withstanding the war conditions, they w > read more

GREEK PARLIAMENT PASSES AUSTERITY MEASURES AS PROTESTS CONTINUE: Next clash with EU and IMF pre-programmed in September

Published on 2011-06-29 14:49:00

From Case about Bird Flu By Jane Burgermeister The banks and the euro have escaped immediate economic disaster after the Greek parliament today voted by a narrow margin in favour of privatisations and austerity measures mandated by the EU, IMF and > read more

License to torture and more

Published on 2011-06-29 14:20:00

Some of the latests from ICH. Very telling: US Torturers Win : Abu Ghraib Inmates Lose U.S. High Court Bid to Sue Contractors:  The U.S. Supreme Court refused to revive a lawsuit that accused two military contractors of abusing inmates at the A > read more

The Astounding Potential of Plasmic Power to Revolutionize Energy

Published on 2011-06-28 17:03:00

(I put this under "suppressed technologies" since if really viable, this  tech will be undoubtedly stopped by an imminent strange death of its developers): The American company PlasmERG has developed a plasmic power technology that utilizes the po > read more

China always been full of jews - often around the top

Published on 2011-06-28 16:40:00

From aangirfan:Israel Epstein, second from right in front, standing in front of Mao. He later became the minister of appropriations, 'an extremely powerful position in a practically cashless era'. To the right of him is another Jew, also under cover > read more

Are they inventing new wars just to keep veterans employed and abroad?

Published on 2011-06-27 20:10:00

Interesting idea, quite plausible too, from kliguy38, Friday, June 24, 2011: Really? Does anyone really think these modern legionairies are coming home. Is there a choice now? 900 military bases now in 125 countries. Rome would be proud. Of course > read more

Microsoft Files Patent For Software That Allows The Government To Spy on All Personal Digital Communications

Published on 2011-06-27 18:16:00

From Alexander Higgins Blog: A patent filed by Microsoft reveals the company has voluntarily created software that provides the Government and other agencies seeking to spy on you the ability to intercept,  re-route and record all forms of personal > read more

$18.7 Billion of $20 Billion Bush Sent to Iraq for Reconstruction is Missing

Published on 2011-06-27 14:46:00

From Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis Over $18 billion in US funds the Bush administration sent to Iraq for reconstruction is unaccounted for. The Pentagon claims it could find it if given enough time. Interestingly, they have been saying this > read more

Are you a Collaborator, a Resistor, an Anarchist? (You might be terminated quickly)

Published on 2011-06-27 13:29:00

From DEEP POLITICS FORUM: I recently had cause to analyze change management theory, which is the "philosophy" (usually sold by consultants to management for hefty fees) of how to drive through change in an organisation. This change will commonly r > read more

GREEK PARLIAMENT MAY REJECT EU/IMF AUSTERITY MEASURES IN HISTORIC VOTE ON WEDNESDAY: FUTURE OF EURO HANGS BY A THREAD

Published on 2011-06-27 09:17:00

From Case about Bird FluBy Jane Burgermeister *Greek Prime Minister’s  majority cut to one ahead of crucial IMF and EU austerity vote in parliament on Wednesday *Rejection of austerity package will lead to a default by Greece and eurozone exi > read more

The Federal Reserve Cartel: Part V: The Solution

Published on 2011-06-26 12:01:00

From LEFT HOOK by Dean Henderson Thomas Jefferson opined of the Rothschild-led Eight Families central banking cartel which came to control the United States, “Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day, but a ser > read more

The EU-funded culture of greed, tax evasion, scandalous waste, and Big Fat Greek Gravy Train....

Published on 2011-06-26 10:34:00

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/26/us-europe-soros-idUSTRE75P0NW20110626Even on a stiflingly hot summer's day, the Athens underground is a pleasure. It is air-conditioned, with plasma screens to entertain passengers relaxing in cool, cavernous > read more

Obama’s Hypocrisy and Other High Crimes

Published on 2011-06-26 10:08:00

From Pen and Sword June 21, 2011 by Jeff Huber “Let me be perfectly clear: I have taught the Constitution, I understand the Constitution, and I will obey the Constitution when I am President of the United States."--Senator Barack Obama, Feb. 26, > read more

Gerald Celente & Max Keiser on The Edge- Press TV 25 June 2011

Published on 2011-06-26 07:35:00

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Eurocratic outrage of the day: EU president unveils new £280m EUterus

Published on 2011-06-26 07:21:00

From The Telegraph, Sunday 26 June 2011 By Bruno Waterfield, Brussels With its "humane gathering place", "diversity carpet" and £280m cost it is perhaps apt that it has been heralded as the building that "houses the heart of Europe". While Herm > read more

Eurozone: Expect chaos. Swiss banks running out of bank deposit box space

Published on 2011-06-25 11:06:00

From Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis :I remain amused by the complete silliness of statements coming from ECB officials. At best ECB proclamations are laughable, at worst they are completely counterproductive. With that introduction, please > read more

Who Wants Keep the War on Drugs Going AND Put You in Debtor’s Prison?

Published on 2011-06-25 02:49:00

From Naked Capitalism, JUNE 24, 2011  By Matt Stoller Matt Stoller is a current fellow at the Roosevelt Institute.  His Twitter feed is @matthewstoller.More than a third of all states allow debtors “who can’t or won’t pay their debts” to b > read more

Jim Willie: Armada of Black Swans Hitting U.S. Economy and Financial Markets, Gold Breakouts on QE TO INFINITY

Published on 2011-06-24 16:19:00

From Market Oracle, Jun 23, 2011 By: Jim_Willie_CBMohammed El-Erian is given credit for the phrase 'The New Normal' to mean an altered state of perceived instability within the normalcy realm, as in crisis being called normal, like endless crisis. > read more

Why the Eurozone and the Euro Are So Freaking Doomed

Published on 2011-06-24 15:37:00

From Zero Hedge,  by Charles Hugh Smith from Of Two Minds Why the Eurozone and the Euro Are Both Doomed   Papering over the structural imbalances in the Eurozone with endless bailouts will not resolve the fundamental asymmetries. Beneath the en > read more

The Ugly Truth: Video Of Libyan Rebel Beheading Gadhaffi Soldier And Other Nato War Crimes

Published on 2011-06-24 05:34:00

From The Intel Hub, June 23rd, 2011 By Susan Lindauer, former CIA Asset covering Libya NATO has been pumping propaganda out of Libya to justify its “humanitarian war” against the government of Moammar Gadhaffi. Until now, NATO has succeeded in > read more

The geopolitical impact of the PIIGS debt bubble

Published on 2011-06-24 05:10:00

From Stratfor:  Russia Attacks Europe’s Soft UnderbellyLike a slobbering carnivore sniffing the air for helpless prey, Russia has smelled the desperation of a bankrupt Greece.  But when the ‘bear’ rips apart the lamb of the Hellenes, it will > read more

The Economics Of Bitcoin – Doug Casey Gets It Wrong

Published on 2011-06-23 12:47:00

from Libertarian News: Doug Casey of Casey Research recently conducted an interview where he spoke about Bitcoins to Louis James, Editor of the International Speculator.  In the interview, Casey makes a few claims that had me yelling at my comp > read more

Chart – World’s FInancial Wealth

Published on 2011-06-23 12:20:00

from The Victory Report:Sound money will return, as it always has. When it does this chart will look very different. Keep stackin. ~MV From Shayne McGuire LBMA: CLICK IMAGE FOR A LARGER VIEW > read more

Greece Is Europe: The Failure Of The Euro

Published on 2011-06-23 06:39:00

From Zero Hedge: It may not matter if Greece is bailed out by the powerful EU economies because they are just one of many problems that the eurozone faces. While George Papandreou's socialist government survived a no confidence vote, they are just p > read more

Doug Casey on Bitcoin and Currencies

Published on 2011-06-22 17:01:00

Doug omits another nice feature of bitcoins: both transactions and storing (deposit) are for free, like cash moved by hand -or better. The standard objection by supporters re: his affirmation that is "backed by nothing", is that its "backing" cons > read more

Drugs horror stories of the day

Published on 2011-06-22 16:09:00

From The Business Insider:Cocaine on the streets now in New York and Los Angeles is cut with a drug that's causing users skin to rot off, doctors say.According to KTLA, physicians at Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute say drug dealers are cu > read more

"This Is Not A Program to Salvage the [Greek] Economy, It's a Program for Pillage Before Bankruptcy"

Published on 2011-06-22 04:16:00

from Washington's Blog: The best quote on the Greek parliament's vote of confidence for Prime Minister George Papandreou - and thus his austerity plan: "This is not a program to salvage the economy, it's a program for pillage before bankruptcy > read more

Open Letter to the Irish Government and Legal Establishment: 14 Simple Questions Which Need to be Addressed!

Published on 2011-06-22 03:40:00

from Sovereign Independent: By James O’Neill – Contributing Writer - This letter is for both government representatives of Ireland and those in the legal system who have been in trusted to uphold the interests and the rights of the Irish peop > read more

The Military Must Stop Complaining

Published on 2011-06-21 16:06:00

By Kevin Boyle  No One To Vote For June 21, 2011We bomb the capital city of a sovereign state, murdering women and children in their own homes. International law clearly forbids such actions. Most people know that we have no right whatsoever to atta > read more

Better than gold?

Published on 2011-06-21 15:54:00

from Libertarian NewsAfter reflecting upon the recent articles I have written where I have defended the new peer-to-peer currency called Bitcoin from attacks by gold standard advocates, I feel it is time stop taking a defensive role and make a few o > read more

The Death of Demand - The Post-Consumer Debt Economy

Published on 2011-06-21 09:54:00

From Zero Hedge, by Charles Hugh Smith from Of Two Minds The Death of Demand: The Post-Consumer Debt Economy Keynesians claim more debt will goose "demand;" they're wrong. Boosting debt has distorted the economy for 40 years, and the end-game is fi > read more

€1,450 of Greek debt per european household by 2014. European Commission to cut the 2012 budget for the European Programme of Food Aid for the Most Deprived Persons by €400m leaving it at €113m – will leave two million Europeans without the n

Published on 2011-06-21 07:48:00

From Openeurope: New Open Europe briefing: Second Greek bail-out will see almost two-thirds of Greek debt taxpayer-owned by 2014Open Europe has this morning published a new briefing looking at the potential impact of a second Greek bail-out. The repo > read more

Guess which bankrupt EU state is the world’s fourth biggest arms importer

Published on 2011-06-21 07:28:00

From Spectrezine, June 20, 2011  By Steve McGiffenIt’s more than two thousand years since Greece was a superpower, yet its leaders prefer bombs to books, says Steve McGiffen. Nothing exposes the hypocrisy of those currently running the EU and a > read more

Indian Gold And Silver Imports Surge By Stunning 500% In May

Published on 2011-06-21 07:08:00

From Zero Hedge: India's heretofore "insatiable" appetite for precious metals will need to find a new adjective to describe it, after itsurged by an absolutely unprecedented 500% in May MoM, and 222% compared to May of 2010, touching on a massive $ > read more

A Planned Depression?

Published on 2011-06-21 06:34:00

From The daily Bell, Tuesday, June 21, 2011 – by Staff Report   IMF Warns of Greater Downside Risks to Global Economy ... The global economic recovery has slowed and downside risks have grown, amid weakness in the U.S. economy and fears about > read more

THE FAKE STORY THAT STARTED THE CIA COUP IN TUNISIA

Published on 2011-06-21 05:13:00

from aangirfan: Bouazizi, whose story turns out to be fake. The 'Syrian Gay Girl blogger' turned out to be an American fake. (Syrian Gay Girl Blog Revealed As Fake Had News Agencies Fooled) On 17 June 2011 the BBC reported on further doubts abou > read more

[BREAKING] Biggest Bitcoin exchange hacked. User database leaked! Bitcoin market flash-crashed

Published on 2011-06-19 15:40:00

This is baaad news. Some hacker even tried to cash out 500k btc, at least 261k of it at $0.01 from a stolen account crashing the bitcoin market from about 17 USD to 0.01c in a few minutes. Now MtGox is locked to everyone until further notice. He > read more

The Federal Reserve Cartel: Part IV: A Financial Parasite

Published on 2011-06-19 13:08:00

From LEFT HOOKby Dean Henderson United World Federalists founder James Warburg’s father was Paul Warburg, who financed Hitler with help from Brown Brothers Harriman partner Prescott Bush. [1] Colonel Ely Garrison was a close friend of both Pres > read more

Moammar Gadhafi Shelling Handicapped Civilians with Live Puppy Bombs and Taking Babies from their Incubators, Throwing them “Woughly” to the Floor, and Raping them Repeatedly

Published on 2011-06-19 10:50:00

From American Everyman : by Scott Creighton (In an effort to find a job at CNN, I am submitting the following sample of my reporting skills which exemplify the current state of the art rigorous journalistic standards typified by that great news or > read more

The Guardian - Britain's Gatekeeper Newspaper - and Qaddafi `War Crimes`

Published on 2011-06-19 10:31:00

From Mathaba: The Guardian newspaper claims to have seen "boxes full of documents" that implicated Muammar Qaddafi, who ceded power in 1977, in "war crimes" against Misurata city Unlike the fake documents that the Guardian has "seen", there are, in > read more

NATOral Born Killers

Published on 2011-06-19 10:23:00

NATO of Terror By Ghali Hassan, Axis of LogicAxis of Logic exclusiveSunday, Jun 19, 2011 The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was created in 1945 by the U.S., not only as a tool to advance U.S. imperialist interests, but also to dominate W > read more

Agenda Behind Fast & Furious Gunrunner Program

Published on 2011-06-19 08:46:00

From NoisyRoom By: AJ While clear-thinking Americans can agree that Obama and Holder’s Justice Department made a fatal error in instituting “Operation Fast and Furious,” whereby thousands of weapons were knowingly placed in the hands of straw > read more

Sun's Output to Fall ... Leading to a Mini Ice Age?

Published on 2011-06-19 08:31:00

From Washington's Blog Preface: Remember that scientists considered pouring soot over the arctic in the 1970s to help melt the ice - in order to prevent another ice age. Obama's top science advisor was one of those warning of a new ice age.The R > read more

Everything Americans Whispered To India about AFPAK and Eurasia Has Been A Lie; CIA instigating mutiny in the Pakistani army...

Published on 2011-06-19 08:21:00

from GeoPlotilicalNWO: India Finally Gets It, Everything Americans Whispered To Them about AFPAK and Eurasia Has Been A Lie; CIA instigating mutiny in the Pakistani army... Knowing that they have been "date-raped" and doing something to prevent it > read more

48 Percent Of Americans Believe Another Great Depression Is Likely In The Next 12 Months - 19 Reasons Why They Are Not Completely Crazy

Published on 2011-06-19 08:11:00

From The economic collapse blog: Do you believe that the U.S. economy is steamrolling toward a depression?  If so, you are not alone.  According to a recent CNN poll, 48 percent of Americans believe that "another Great Depression" is likely withi > read more

The 600+ trillions $ boatload of derivatives crap is going to make 2008 look like a picnic

Published on 2011-06-19 07:03:00

from zero hedge, by Phoenix Capital Research While the mainstream media has numerous stories for why 2008 occurred, the real one is largely ignored because admitting it would mean admitting that the entire financial system is filled with crap an > read more

Gold miners are hugely undervalued

Published on 2011-06-18 15:33:00

"You can see from the chart that today’s level is 46 percent above the historical norm at 7.6 units to one ounce of gold. By this measure, one can purchase shares of gold mining companies at their second-cheapest level in nearly 30 years. The extre > read more

GoldMoney documentary on France's fiat money double debacle

Published on 2011-06-18 15:27:00

Grom GATA, Friday, June 17, 2011 Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:The GoldMoney Foundation has produced a fascinating 18-minute video documentary about France's double debacle with infinite fiat money in the late 1700s. The documentary features GoldMone > read more

[Fortunate coincidences] Everything We're Doing Now Was Planned BEFORE 9/11

Published on 2011-06-18 09:18:00

From Washington's Blog: We've been told that 9/11 changed everything. Is it true? Let's look at the facts: The Afghanistan war was planned before 9/11 (see this and this) The decision to launch the Iraq war was made before 9/11. Indeed, former C > read more

The BCE is a bad bank chocked full of toxic assets and will go belly up when Greece will stop playing ball

Published on 2011-06-18 08:03:00

from Money and Markets:By Bryan RichIf you think the Greek debt crisis is the cause of Europe’s major ills, think again. It’s just a symptom of the far deeper problems I’ve been telling you about all along. As I’ll explain in this issue, th > read more

How the Internet Makes False Flags More Difficult

Published on 2011-06-18 07:24:00

From The Daily Bell, Saturday, June 18, 2011 – by Staff Report The "Internet Reformation" (as we call it) is a natural outgrowth of our perception that the 'Net itself is a kind of modern-day Gutenberg Press. It's a concept we've been writing > read more

Bloodbath ongoing in Bitcoin price

Published on 2011-06-17 16:03:00

After topping at 30 USD a few days ago, completing an epic ride from almost zero one year ago, the Bitcoin price is now dropped to 13,7 USD and all the bets are off about where /why it will bottom. Some plausible interpretation of what is happening > read more

Libya ‘rape’ propaganda plunges to new depths of desperation

Published on 2011-06-17 14:27:00

From empirestrikesblack:  By Martin Iqbal. Hat tip to Scott Creighton – his recent article ‘CNN’s Misogynistic Cell Phone Porn Propaganda‘, brought this to my attention. The anti-Gaddafi propaganda drive has plunged to new depths of cynicis > read more

Global warming charlatans feel the heat

Published on 2011-06-17 14:02:00

From CFact, June 10, 2011 The University of Virginia, after vigorously resisting a Freedom of Information Act request for data related to the emails of Michael Mann, was the subject of a court order to make them available.by ALAN CARUBAThe Univers > read more

Queen Terrorist Acquires $13.5 Million In 2010 While Congress Earns 25% Over Average Investor

Published on 2011-06-17 05:20:00

From Libertarian News: In case you were wondering why Democrats and Republicans love spending your money on other people so much, perhaps it is because they are hoarding investment returns from the spending of all that money themselves. These kind o > read more

TREASON BY ANY OTHER NAME

Published on 2011-06-17 05:07:00

From SNIPPITS and SNAPPITS : The Chinese Trojan horse. To use a particularly unsavory British description, I am gobsmacked.  .THIS is probably the most shocking piece of news I have come across in a very long time, certainly one of the most treas > read more

The Reason for Revolution

Published on 2011-06-17 04:36:00

By Bruce Campbell – Veterans Today June 15, 2011I’ve been a hard-core revolutionary since 1983, since writing a militia-starting book. Not that there was anything revolutionary about the militia, since that body was originally designed to give su > read more

What’s behind the global bankers’ austerity programs?

Published on 2011-06-17 04:18:00

By Wayne Madsen – Intrepid Report June 15, 2011What lies in store for Greece, Portugal, Spain, Ireland, Italy, and, in short order, the United States, is the wholesale sell-off of public property to private corporations at bargain basement prices. > read more

"Orderly Default" - Liars lexicon

Published on 2011-06-17 04:11:00

By David Malone | Golem XIV | June 16, 2011What is meant by this phrase “orderly default” which is all over the news this morning? It sounds so sensible. I think it is another entry in the liars lexicon. When the banks and pundits say orderly, th > read more

Lulzsec smells of false flag psy-op to end Internet freedom

Published on 2011-06-17 02:45:00

What is the point of taking down the CIA website for an hour, apart from instigating a totalitarian assault to control the Internet? From CLG, 16 Jun 2011: Lulzsec takes down the US CIA 16 Jun 2011 Lulzsec took down the CIA web site yesterday, > read more

The IMF Sex Scandal Points to the Bigger Picture

Published on 2011-06-16 15:42:00

From Avaresearch, May 26, 2011, by Stathis To give you an idea of the type of scum aligned with the globalist push to enslave people through further corporatization and policies which empower banks, all while robbing citizens of promised benefi > read more

9/11 As A Mass Ritual Event

Published on 2011-06-15 15:56:00

From The Excavator :Ever since I learned that the 9/11 attacks were a government-run operation I have had a strong desire to understand that pivotal event from as many angles as possible: the political, cultural, and social. We can go down the road > read more

House Votes to Defund Libya War

Published on 2011-06-15 13:13:00

From antiwar.com A surpise late Monday vote saw the House of Representatives pass the Sherman Amendment to the military appropriations bill by a a vote of 248-163. The vote enjoyed strong bipartisan support, with roughly equal majorities on both si > read more

“The most flagrant violation of the law in recent European history”: the economics made simple

Published on 2011-06-15 12:47:00

From Case about Bird Flu By Jane Burgermeister  Greece’s economy is shrinking; its national debt is soaring towards 170% of the GDP ; it now has the worst credit rating in the world.This is the result one year after the EU, IMF and ECB arrang > read more

Like Strauss-Kahn, Christine Lagarde Dragging Baggage Into Likely IMF Directorship

Published on 2011-06-14 08:36:00

From FPIF, June 14, 2011 - By Jeanne Kay (Pictured: "Bilderbergers" building bridges.)In the infamous column in which French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy cried his outrage at the public humiliation inflicted to Dominique Strauss-Kahn in the af > read more

Israeli Jew Daniel LEVIN, the HIJACKER of Flight 11 & Member of Israel's Hijacking Specialists, Sayeret Matkal

Published on 2011-06-14 07:17:00

From Goon Squad:First, a little background on another Israeli FALSE FLAG hijacking back in 1976 in Uganda:Documents claim Israel aided Entebbe hijack The Israeli secret service and radical Palestinians may have engineered the hijacking of an Ai > read more

‘Fake Revolutions’

Published on 2011-06-14 02:30:00

The debate is over; the revolutions are fake, the people behind them illegitimate. CANVAS leader Srdja Popovic stands here before Columbia, a public sponsor of the US State Department’s Movements.org. While he denies he is being funded by the > read more

There's No Such Thing as a Temporary U.S. Default

Published on 2011-06-14 01:23:00

From Blacklistednews, June 13, 2011 Source: The Atlantic What if the debt ceiling debate causes the U.S. to miss just a couple of interest payments, say for the months of August and September? As long as the Treasury resumes payments in October, th > read more

The Guardian Calls For Crackdown On Bitcoins While Mercatus Center Calls For Broader Use

Published on 2011-06-13 14:46:00

From Libertarian News: Guess which news source isn’t run by totalitarian fascists? From the UK Guardian: Previously dismissed as a nerdy curiosity, the untaxable Bitcoin may soon be due for a crackdown.Indeed, Ruth points out the greatest fear of > read more

Syria on the boil, US warship in Black Sea

Published on 2011-06-13 13:16:00

From Asia Times June 13, 2011 (my emphasis) By M K Bhadrakumar -Without doubt, the US is stepping up pressure on Russia’s Black Sea fleet. The US’s provocation is taking place against the backdrop of the turmoil in Syria. Russia is stubbornl > read more

Michael Hudson: The Financial Road to Serfdom – How Bankers are Using the Debt Crisis to Roll Back the Progressive Era

Published on 2011-06-13 09:35:00

By Michael Hudson, a research professor of Economics at University of Missouri, Kansas City and a research associate at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. Cross posted from CounterPunch.Financial strategists do not intend to let today’s > read more

Gold, The Real Reason for the Fall of Dominique Strauss-Kahn

Published on 2011-06-12 14:30:00

From MarketOracle, Jun 12, 2011By: Andrew_McKillopRequesting anonymity in return for speaking, senior French financial officials have disclosed their interpretation of why and how Dominique Strauss-Kahn known as "DSK" in France, fell suddenly from w > read more

[Internet Trolls Wars]: “False Flag Racism”

Published on 2011-06-12 10:27:00

From Veterans Today June 11, 2011By Gordon Duff  An unclassified version of the software used by the FBI has allowed Veterans Today to track the IP addresses of a group of, what appeared to be, hate mongers and racists whose rhetoric borders on te > read more

The Lies behind the West's War on Libya

Published on 2011-06-12 10:18:00

Are Those Who Want to Export Democracy Themselves Democrats? by Jean-Paul PougalaGlobal Research, June 10, 2011 pambazuka.org Africans should think about the real reasons why western countries are waging war on Libya, writes Jean-Paul Pougala, in a > read more

Arab revolutions mask economic status quo

Published on 2011-06-12 09:15:00

From Al Jazeera, 10 Jun 2011 Despite talk of a "new social contract", financial powers seek to maintain their grip on the poor of the Middle East. By Mark LeVine  Business and trade were hard hit by the uprisings across much of the Arab world - > read more

The Abomin Obministration on the Wrong Side of Torture . . . Again

Published on 2011-06-11 16:08:00

From FDL, June 10, 2011 By Laura Raymond The Obama administration has just recommended that the U.S. Supreme Court not hear a case brought by torture victims of Abu Ghraib and other detention centers in Iraq – a recommendation that leaves the I > read more

In a pure coincidence, Gaddafi impeded U.S. oil interests before the war

Published on 2011-06-11 15:50:00

From Salon, June 11, 2011 By Glenn Greenwald When the war in Libya began, the U.S. government convinced a large number of war supporters that we were there to achieve the very limited goal of creating a no-fly zone in Benghazi to protect civilians > read more

US government to set up internet Ministry of Truth as communist-style government-run media

Published on 2011-06-11 13:32:00

From NaturalNews, Friday, June 10, 2011  by: J. D. Heyes  It sounds like such an innocent idea, one rooted in "fairness" and wrapped in good intentions. An internet "ministry of truth," run either by the federal government or the United Nations, > read more

IMF Financial Terrorism

Published on 2011-06-11 13:20:00

by Stephen Lendman In July 1944, the IMF and Bank for Reconstruction and Development (now the World Bank) were established to integrate developing nations into the Global North-dominated world economy in ways other than initially mandated. Under a n > read more

New economic concepts of the day: "biflation" and "screwflation"

Published on 2011-06-11 08:58:00

From The Reformed Broker: Introducing…BiflationHere a new one for us all to wring our hands over...From BalanceJunkie: The term biflation is relatively new, having been introduced by an analyst named F. Osborne Brown in 2003. Like most new concept > read more

Another CIA Blunder – ‘Kidnapped US Lesbian’ In Syria PsyOp Exposed

Published on 2011-06-10 17:15:00

From Pakalert, June 11, 2011  By JOHN STEVENSLondon woman says photo of U.S. lesbian blogger ‘kidnapped in Syria’ is actually her Jelena Lecic said: ‘I don’t know how this happened, I’ve never met her. This has put me in danger’ Blogg > read more

Eurozone financial system heading for collapse due to ECB actions, says German economist

Published on 2011-06-10 15:11:00

From Case about Bird Flu By Jane Burgermeister Economist Hans-Werner Sinn has warned that the euro system of central banks is facing collapse because the ECB, acting as a lender of last resort, has directed such a huge proportion of the total euro > read more

something is missing

Published on 2011-06-10 14:58:00

From Twelfth Bough: In comments at the last post, we have been discussing the possible mechanism for how this e coli illness works. Just theorizing. As we know the e coli strain is resistant to eight classes of antibiotics, which cannot happen in n > read more

A Great Racket (If You're On The Inside)

Published on 2011-06-10 13:58:00

From the Daily Reckoning Australia  10 June 2011 By Dan Denning WHAT IS "The Money Power"? My description below may not sound sinister. And it probably isn't, at least in the sense that the ultimate aim of wealth and power through ill-gotten a > read more

Arguing Against The Violence Of The State Is Futile And Unnecessary

Published on 2011-06-10 09:09:00

From LibertarianNews, June 9, 2011By michaelsuede The more I learn about history, the more I have come to realize that trying to explain why using violence and coercion to redistribute property always leads to worse economic outcomes is a futile ex > read more

The Federal Reserve Cartel: Freemasons and The House of Rothschild

Published on 2011-06-10 08:45:00

From Global Research June 8, 2011 by Dean Henderson  Part two of a four-part seriesIn 1789 Alexander Hamilton became the first Treasury Secretary of the United States.  Hamilton was one of many Founding Fathers who were Freemasons.  He had close r > read more

New NASA research points to possible HAARP connection in Japan earthquake, tsunami

Published on 2011-06-10 08:23:00

From Natural News June 10, 2011By Ethan Huff Recent data released by Dimitar Ouzounov and colleagues from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland highlights some strange atmospheric anomalies over Japan just days before the massive earthqua > read more

US universities join in Africa ‘land grab’

Published on 2011-06-10 05:07:00

Institutions including Harvard and Vanderbilt reportedly use hedge funds to buy land in deals that may force farmers out John Vidal and Claire Provost | The Guardian | June 8, 2011Harvard and other major American universities are working through Br > read more

Silver Shield: The 3 Coming False Flags

Published on 2011-06-10 05:03:00

From Dont-tread-on.me June 9th, 2011 By Silver ShieldI have been tempted to write about False Flags for sometime, because I feel we are on the verge of seeing another one very soon.False flag operations are covert operations designed to deceive the > read more

Breaking: GOING ROGUE: DOCUMENTED NATO War Crimes in Libya

Published on 2011-06-10 04:36:00

From The Intel Hub, June 8th, 2011 By Susan LindauerGlobalist Attack On LibyaIt’s a story CNN won’t report. Late at night there’s a pounding on the door in Misurata. Armed soldiers force young Libyan women out of their beds at gun-point.Hustl > read more

The Elite, the ‘Great Game’, & World War III

Published on 2011-06-10 04:26:00

From New Dawn Magazine— By Prof. Dr. Mujahid Kamran The control of the US, and of global politics, by the wealthiest families of the planet is exercised in a powerful, profound and clandestine manner. This control began in Europe and has a contin > read more

European parliament refuses to release expenses report: They Haven’t Submitted Accounts for 16 Years Either!

Published on 2011-06-10 04:17:00

From The Telegraph By Bruno Waterfield The European Parliament is refusing to release a secret report detailing widespread abuse of MEPs expenses despite an EU court ruling that there is “overriding public interest in disclosure”. The existe > read more

NATO's "Alternate Universe" in Libya

Published on 2011-06-10 04:09:00

From Strategic Culture Foundation,  | 08.06.2011 By Wayne MADSEN    The Pentagon and its NATO partners are engaged in one of the most obvious and intensive propaganda ploys in their military operations against Libya since the days leading up to > read more

Jim Willie: U.S. Hurtles Toward System Failure

Published on 2011-06-09 08:25:00

From Goldseek,  Thursday, 9 June 2011  By: Jim Willie CB, GoldenJackass.com   The combination of $trillion bond fraud, dependence on inflating home equity for economic development, oversized cars, oil dependence, constant market intervention, > read more

When Will Mt. Gox's Owner Be Indicted?

Published on 2011-06-08 17:49:00

From FSK's Guide to Reality: Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Silk Road Was A Partial AgoristBay Implementation":Bitcoins are actually worth $18.75/bitcoin right now on MtGox: https://mtgox.com/trade/historyIt's possible that all tho > read more

Obama will be Impeachment Bait on June 20 for Flagrant Violation of War Powers Act

Published on 2011-06-08 16:38:00

From PressTV, Mon Jun 6, 2011 Webster G. Tarpley,Ph.D. [download video] NATO warplanes have intensified attacks on Libyan capital, Tripoli after British Foreign Secretary William Hauge said there is no deadline for military operations in the countr > read more

What's 'aL CIA Duh's #2 Man Doing Taking Trips to Switzerland?

Published on 2011-06-08 16:28:00

From Goon Squad:Following the 1994 execution of the sons of Ahmad Salama Mabruk and Mohammed Sharaf for betraying Egyptian Islamic Jihad, the militants were ordered to leave the Sudan. At this time he is said to have "become a phantom" but is thoug > read more

Senators seek crackdown on "Bitcoin" currency

Published on 2011-06-08 15:23:00

From ChicagoTribuneBy Brett WolfReuters 10:20 a.m. CDT, June 8, 2011ST. LOUIS (Thomson Reuters Accelus) - Two senators are pressing federal authorities to crack down on an online black market and "untraceable" digital currency known as Bitcoins aft > read more

Send All Debt Defaulters to the Gulags!

Published on 2011-06-08 15:16:00

From SHTFplan.com, June 8th, 2011By Mac Slavo If you haven’t caught this story yet, then you’ll be shocked at how far the Department of Education will go to collect monies owed them (if that is, in fact, what this was about). Our government, > read more

US breathes life into a new cold war, the focal point remains, EURASIA...

Published on 2011-06-06 11:36:00

From GeoPlotilicalNWO: US breathes life into a new cold war, the focal point remains, EURASIA, Energy security, Pipelinestan and the new Great Game...& its obscure objectives! The American strategy remains unchanged--to so destabilize Southeast > read more

‘Lucky’ Larry’s Chicago’s Sears/Willis Tower Tenants are Moving out and it has an Asbestos Problem

Published on 2011-06-06 11:23:00

From The Ugly Truth :On June 10, 2011, Chicago’s Northwest Community Hospital and the U.S. Army Reserve will perform anemergency exercise called “Red Dragon” to prepare for any future event involving mass death.Security at Willis is provide > read more

CONFRONTATION BETWEEN GREEK PEOPLE AND EU AND IMF-LED GOVERNMENT TURNING INTO A REVOLUTIO

Published on 2011-06-06 11:18:00

From Case about Bird Flu By Jane Burgermeister *Greece at historical crossroads; make or break week for country, faces economic and political obliteration *500,000 people attend protests in Athens over new EU, IMF and ECB austerity measures; th > read more

The usual suspects that create ridiculous wars, and fiat currency Ponzi systems are stealing everyone blind.

Published on 2011-06-06 05:36:00

Must read of the day, of the week and of the month, from Geofinancial: The usual suspects create ridiculous wars, and massive fiat currency Ponzi systems are stealing everyone blind....Can we call it a depression yet? Or do we have to keep calling > read more

Michael Hudson: Will Greece let EU Central Bankers Destroy Democracy?

Published on 2011-06-06 05:15:00

From Counterpunch: By Michael Hudson, The Greek bailout provides an opportunity for privatization grabs             When Greece exchanged its drachma for the euro in 2000, most voters were all for joining the Eurozone. The hope was tha > read more

The horrific mess in Lybia: depleted uranium, WMDs on the loose, and the potential for greater false flags

Published on 2011-06-06 02:36:00

From PressTV, Sun Jun 5, 2011 10:11PM  Interview with Randy Short, a human rights activist in Tripoli  There is a “significant difference” between what is being covered on the Libyan intervention by Western media outlets and what is happening > read more

Forensic evidence emerges that European e.coli superbug was bioengineered to produce human fatalities

Published on 2011-06-06 02:13:00

From Naturalnews:By Mike Adams – The Health Ranger  (NaturalNews) Even as the veggie blame game is now under way across the EU, where a super resistant strain of e.coli is sickening patients and filling hospitals in Germany, virtually no one is ta > read more

A scam hidden within a fraud: Obama's Commerce Nominee: Cap and Trade Good for ‘Hiding’ Carbon Taxes

Published on 2011-06-05 16:20:00

From CNSNews, Wednesday, June 01, 2011 By Matt Cover John Bryson, nominated by President Barack Obama on Tuesday to head the Department of Commerce (AP Photo)(CNSNews.com) – John Bryson, President Obama’s nominee to head the Commerce Departmen > read more

Standard Western coup-making in Libya...., a diversionary tactic for other looming threats of war in the Persian Gulf.

Published on 2011-06-05 13:55:00

From GeoPlotilicalNWO  Standard Western coup-making in Libya...., a diversionary tactic for other looming threats of war in the Persian Gulf. June 7, 2011 -- Libyan rebels using Western arms, looting Libyan Central Bank in Benghazi... Shortly after > read more

Syria: Who is Behind The Protest Movement? Fabricating the Pretext for a US-NATO 'Humanitarian Intervention'

Published on 2011-06-05 08:31:00

From Global Research, Tue, 03 May 2011 By Prof. Michel Chossudovsky © Reuters Photo Tens of thousands of Syrians gather for a PRO-government rally at the central bank square in Damascus March 29, 2011.There is evidence of gross media manipulation a > read more

ECB, EU and IMF postpone Greek default at the price of their credibility

Published on 2011-06-05 07:52:00

From Case about Bird Flu By Jane Burgermeister *EU, IMF and ECB disburse bailout funds to Greece, postponing default*New package will drive Greece deeper into debt*Failure to acknowledge Greece is insolvent undermines credibility of EU, IMF and EC > read more

A SHORT HISTORY OF US GOVERNMENT RESPECT FOR HUMAN LIFE

Published on 2011-06-05 07:19:00

From What Really Happened: Does our government respect human life the way it claims to do? Hardly. And being a soldier is no deterrent. Ignore for a moment the lies surrounding 9-11, TWA 800, the USS Iowa, and the Gulf of Tonkin, and step back into > read more

If Yemen Falls, so Does the Dollar Reserve?

Published on 2011-06-04 17:48:00

From The Daily Bell, Saturday, June 04, 2011   by Anthony Wile How is it that the world's fortunes hang on the life or death of a murderous thug that the US has been supporting for 30 years? And why, in fact, if Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Sale > read more

A Whole New Ballgame

Published on 2011-06-04 10:12:00

From SGTReport: by Stefan B. The very nature of currency changed in 1971. Before 1971, currency was backed by gold. Sure, the bankers were liars with a printing press gone mad, but someone, somewhere, could trade those dollars for gold. Those dollar > read more

China has DUMPED 97% of U.S. Debt now! ONLY has 5 Billion of Treasury Now!

Published on 2011-06-04 09:14:00

From Sherriequestioningall, FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 2011: WOW I just got shocked when I read that China DUMPED 97% of their U.S. debt recently!  They had 210 Billion a year ago and now they only have 5 Billion of T-bills! I assume the Fed purchased all > read more

Empires Only Fall When They Have to Pay Their Bill

Published on 2011-06-04 08:27:00

From Revelations.By Rafe MAIR When I read this I thought that surely one couldn’t characterize such cataclysmic events with a simple one liner but on reflection one can usually add that the financial catastrophe is ignored by those in charge prov > read more

Elite European Schools: how the eurocrats' kids get the gravy and you pay for it

Published on 2011-06-04 06:39:00

From Mail Online - Euroseptic: By Mary Ellen Synon in Brussels (my emphasis) Thanks to ‘JDF’ for taking the time to post a comment – and for asking about the elite European Schools for the sons and daughters of eurocrats, which I mentioned in > read more

Another conspiracy, not theory, semi-officially proven

Published on 2011-06-03 16:36:00

The 'tards who use to wait for the semi-official "Weaky"-leaks to reveal what's up, are now entitled to believe another thingie that conspiracy nuts have been screaming from the rooftops from decades: No “Conspiracy Theory”: Wikileaks Cable Con > read more

From Cynthia McKinney in Tripoli

Published on 2011-06-03 15:20:00

From: "MCKINNEY LEADS DELEGATION OF INDEPENDENT JOURNALISTS TO LIBYA." The following comes from: Cynthia McKinney in Tripoli. "Tripoli sustained 22 to 25 bombings last night, rattling and breaking windows and glass and shaking the foundation of m > read more

Libyan rebels stink big time

Published on 2011-06-03 14:41:00

Libyan rebels will recognise Israel, Bernard-Henri Lévy tells Netanyahu RFI June 2, 2011 Libya’s rebel National Transitional Council (NTC) is ready to recognise Israel, according to French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy, who says he has passed > read more

Message To The Peasants From The Eurocracy: "YOU Can Eat Austerity"

Published on 2011-06-03 14:37:00

From The Telegraph: By Heidi Blake The European Commission has spent more than £8 million on private jet travel, luxury holiday resorts and cocktail parties, an investigation has disclosed. Commissioners travelled in limousines, stayed in five s > read more

It's bad enough that the country's going to Hell in a handbasket, but it's even worse that they have to lie to you about it 24-7.

Published on 2011-06-03 14:01:00

From Information Clearing House, June 02, 2011 By Mike Whitney This must be what it was like in Russia before the Soviet Union collapsed. The government's so crooked that nothing works right, the infrastructure's in a shambles, millions of people > read more

Susan Lindauer – Warning: This Message Contains Democracy!

Published on 2011-06-03 13:58:00

From The Intel Hub:By Susan Lindauer June 2nd, 2011No great civilization is ever destroyed from without, or conquered by external forces, until it first destroys itself from within. America’s leaders should have thought long and hard about that be > read more

The Taliban's Surge Is Working: Record NATO deaths in early Afghan fighting season

Published on 2011-06-03 13:46:00

KABUL (AFP) – More foreign troops in Afghanistan were killed in April and May this year, the early stages of the fighting season, than in the same months of any year of the decade-long conflict, figures showed.  The death toll for international f > read more

The secret life of the Wahhabi crazies of Al-Saud's Arabia...

Published on 2011-06-03 13:14:00

From GeoPlotilicalNWO : The secret life of the Wahhabi crazies of Al-Saud's Arabia...By Pepe Escobar As the Arab Spring turns into summer, the counter-revolution is winning. Tyrants - but not systems - are down in Tunisia and Egypt. The Libyan "re > read more

[Here we go]: Protesters take over finance ministry in Athens

Published on 2011-06-03 11:57:00

From  Chinadaily, Updated: 2011-06-03 17:08 A huge banner, unfolded by the Greek trade union PAME, is hung from the Greek Finance Ministry in Athens June 3, 2011. The leftist group on Friday blockaded the Ministry, the scene of negotiations on th > read more

Hmm... E. Coli in European Outbreak Never Seen Before

Published on 2011-06-02 13:50:00

Via: USA Today:The E. coli bacteria responsible for a deadly outbreak that has left 18 dead and sickened hundreds in Europe is a new strain that has never been seen before, the World Health Organization said Thursday. Preliminary genetic sequencing > read more

"Boots on the Ground": Sarkozy and Cameron Prepare to Land in Libya

Published on 2011-06-01 15:03:00

From Voltairenet, 1 JUNE 2011 by Manlio Dinucci * Washington truncated Nicolas Sarkozy’s secret negotiations with Muammar Gaddafi and announced its decision in favor of a ground operation in Libya. Away from the G8 summit limelight, Nicolas Sa > read more

Bob Chapman: "only option is to inflate until they cannot inflate anymore"

Published on 2011-06-01 13:33:00

From The International Forecaster, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 By Bob Chapman The powers behind government obviously believe Americans are very simple people, or just plain dumb. First came the certificate of live birth that a 14 year old could have i > read more

[This is going to end badly]: Greece: Foreign management of the economy for a new bailout

Published on 2011-05-30 05:36:00

I wonder how anyone can expect that Greeks will submit to foreign SS tax collectors. Some revolutions happened for much less: May 30th, 2011 Via: Financial Times:European leaders are negotiating a deal that would lead to unprecedented outside inter > read more

Why I’m Putting All My Savings Into Bitcoin

Published on 2011-05-29 17:20:00

From Falkvinge, May 29, 2011.  by Rick Falkvinge These past days, I have done a lot of thinking about bitcoin that ended up with me investing all of the money I had saved and all that I can borrow into the currency. Here’s why.In two posts > read more

Obama, financial war and the elimination of DSK

Published on 2011-05-29 14:11:00

A must read from Voltairenet, 28 MAY 2011 by Thierry Meyssan* It is impossible to understand the downfall of Dominique Strauss-Khan without linking it to his project for the creation of a new international reserve currency, which was to be launch > read more

Save Us From The Tyranny Of Bankers

Published on 2011-05-29 10:41:00

From The International Forecaster, May 29 2011 By Bob Chapman We hope all of our appearances on Greek TV, radio and in the press have helped the educational process and to allow the Greeks to identify who the real culprits are, and what to do abo > read more

We've Gone from a Nation of Laws to a Nation of Powerful Men Making Laws in Secret

Published on 2011-05-28 09:04:00

From Washington's blog, FRIDAY, MAY 27, 2011: We've Gone from a Nation of Laws to a Nation of Powerful Men Making Laws in Secret Preface: Some defendants are no longer allowed to see the "secret evidence" which the government is using against them. > read more

Beware of Americans bearing gifts: Creditors, Dictators and IMF "Economic Medicine": Obama and the G8’s Fake Pledge to Egypt - A Continuation of Neo-liberal Policies

Published on 2011-05-28 08:56:00

by Frederik Andersson Global Research, May 28, 2011 Obama’s much publicized speech on 19th of May in which $1bn of aid to Egypt was pledged is a deception of the nature and object of the proposed transferal of funds. At G8’s Summit of Deauvill > read more

Fake globalist-funded court using fake evidence from fake globalist-funded NGOs.

Published on 2011-05-28 08:37:00

by Tony CartalucciBangkok, Thailand May 28, 2011 – Russia’s President Medvedev, according to the Australian, has “endorsed calls for Colonel Gaddafi to leave office and offered to help to negotiate his exit. ” It is a move that has “surpr > read more

False flag news of the day: The cluster bombing of Misrata: The case against the USA

Published on 2011-05-28 08:15:00

By Human rights investigationsHRI, May 27, 2011  The ongoing HRI investigation of the cluster bombing of Misrata in April 2011 has found convincing evidence the bombing was committed by US naval forces. The bombing of Misrata On the 15th April > read more

IMF Firefight For Missing Gold

Published on 2011-05-27 18:35:00

From Market Oracle May 27, 2011  By: Andrew_McKillopThe arrest of former IMF head Strauss-Kahn came at a key moment in this secretive entity's  emergency bailout operations for Greece, Ireland and Portugal, and IMF advanced action in several othe > read more

The Door Is About to Shut for Americans

Published on 2011-05-27 16:09:00

From Safehaven, | Fri, May 27, 2011 By: Jeff Berwick  Anyone aware of the US Government's real financial situation knows that time is running out. The Government has $15.5 trillion in admitted debts but those debts, when calculated under Gener > read more

Things Get Curiouser and Curiouser

Published on 2011-05-27 15:40:00

From The Daily Reckoning By Bill Bonner As if it were not strange enough! Microsoft bought a phone company with no phones for $8.5 billion. Then, the public bid up the price of another Internet company, LinkedIn, to the point where buyers were pay > read more

This Spanish Spring is the Real Thing

Published on 2011-05-27 14:25:00

By Giles Dexter 21st Century Wire It was perhaps inevitable given its long associations with, and geographical proximity to the Maghreb, that Spain should be the first European country to be swept up by the wave known as the “Arab Spring”. Prote > read more

Water Emerges as a Hidden Weapon

Published on 2011-05-27 14:01:00

By Simba Russeau ISP CAIRO, May 27, 2011 (IPS) – Libya’s enormous aquatic reserves could potentially become a new weapon of choice if government forces opt to starve coastal cities that heavily rely on free flowing freshwater. With only five perc > read more

MICHAEL HUDSON: Breakup of the Eurozone?

Published on 2011-05-27 13:25:00

Is Iceland’s Rejection of Financial Bullying a Model for Greece and Ireland?  By MICHAEL HUDSON | CounterPunch | May 27, 2011Last month Iceland voted against submitting to British and Dutch demands that it compensate their national bank insuranc > read more

TOP TEN CENSORED STORIES OF 2011

Published on 2011-05-27 13:06:00

1. Global Plans to Replace the Dollar 2. US Department of Defense is the Worst Polluter on the Planet 3. Internet Privacy and Personal Access at Risk 4. ICE Operates Secret Detention and Courts 5. Blackwater (Xe): The Secret US War in Pakistan 6. Hea > read more

House Passes Authority for Worldwide War

Published on 2011-05-27 11:57:00

From ACLU: The House just passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), including a provision to authorize worldwide war, which has no expiration date and will allow this president — and any future president — to go to war anywhere in the > read more

Harvard Prof Warns Pension Funds Will Take Hits on PIIGS Debt

Published on 2011-05-26 10:43:00

From Economic Policy Journal, THURSDAY, MAY 26, 2011 Harvard's Gita Gopinath,  at a Dublin-based forum -- titled Adjusting to New Realities, warned that (mostly European) pensions -- who are large holders of PIIGS debt -- may be forced to tak > read more

And Now: Secret Laws

Published on 2011-05-26 10:23:00

US dictatorship is getting ridiculous. This seems taken straight from a Monty Python's film:   By Tom Burnett Rense, 5-26-11 "You are under arrest."  "For what?"  "It's a secret. You have already been tried and convicted."  "By who?!?!?"  " > read more

Why Aren't EU Protests Aimed at Central Banks?

Published on 2011-05-26 04:17:00

From The Daily Bell, Thursday, May 26, 2011 – by Staff Report  ECB presses battle against Greek restructuring ... The European Central Bank kept up its attacks on the idea of letting Greece restructure its crushing debt load, even as a top ratin > read more

Replacing Strauss-Kahn; "Pro-bank bailout" Lagarde is a shoo in

Published on 2011-05-26 03:54:00

By Mike Whitney May 25, 2011 "Information Clearing House"   French Finance Minster Christine Lagarde has emerged as the front-runner in the race to replace ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn. She is a champion swimmer, an accomplished attorney > read more

Jewistan: Finally Recognizing Israel as the Jewish State

Published on 2011-05-26 03:51:00

By Francis Boyle - Law Professor Illinois University May 25, 2011 "Information Clearing House"   Israel’s Likudnik Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reached into his bag of Zionist tricks and pulled out a brand-new demand that had never sur > read more

We the Peoples of Ireland are being called upon to show our Patriotism and “share the pain” during this time of Recession. Sharing It With Who?

Published on 2011-05-26 03:49:00

From Sovereign Independent: By Paul O’Sullivan. The current situation has been caused, they say, by the “Banking Crisis” But it has to be solved by us the Taxpayer. With our “Contributions” to N.A.M.A. which are so far are totalling € > read more

Jim Willie: Green Shoots, Exit Strategy, No QE3

Published on 2011-05-26 03:46:00

From Goldseek, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 | Share this article  By: Jim Willie CB, GoldenJackass.com It is not clear whether the American financial community has the ability to observe and conclude that the US Federal Reserve is adrift and relies > read more

Welcome To Hyperinflation Hell: Following Currency Devaluation, Belarus Economy Implodes, Sets Blueprint For Developed World Future

Published on 2011-05-26 03:25:00

From Zero Hedge: "A ‘91-style meltdown is almost inevitable." So says Alexei Moiseev, chief economist at VTB Capital, the investment-banking arm of Russia’s second-largest lender, discussing the imminent economic catastrophe that is sure to en > read more

The Miscreants’ Global Bust-Out (Chapter 9): The Collapse of MJK Clearing, a Few Loose Nukes, and a Lot of Self-Destruct CDOs

Published on 2011-05-26 03:18:00

From Deep Capture: This is Chapter 9 of a multi-chapter story… Click to read: Chapter 1: Was the United States Attacked by Financial Terrorists? Chapeter 2: The “Money Weapon” and a Jihad Bigger than Bin Laden Chapter 3: Michael Milken and the > read more

Greek crisis forces thousands of Athenians into rural migration

Published on 2011-05-26 02:47:00

From guardian.co.uk, Friday 13 May 2011, By Helena Smith Debt, unemployment and poverty is causing mass unrest and thousands to seek a cheaper lifestyle outside the capitalHigh in the hills of Arcadia, in a big stone house on the edge of this vil > read more

HAARP Weather Control - United States Patent: 4686605

Published on 2011-05-25 15:44:00

Just for reference: United States Patent4,686,605 EastlundAugust 11, 1987 Method and apparatus for altering a region in the earth's atmosphere, ionosphere, and/or magnetosphere  AbstractA method and apparatus for altering at least one selected > read more

IS IMF CHIEF HELD HOSTAGE BY THE US GOVERNMENT?

Published on 2011-05-25 15:38:00

Very intriguing and quite plausible. Note the coincidence of the date when the debt ceiling has been surpassed: From Presscore, May 18, 2011 By now, everyone knows that Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of the IMF, was hauled off an Air France fli > read more

Politicians Are Abnormally Good Stock Pickers

Published on 2011-05-25 05:35:00

From The Business Insider :  A new study out notes that: Four university researchers examined 16,000 common stock transactions made by approximately 300 House representatives from 1985 to 2001, and found what they call "significant positive abno > read more

The Rich Are About To Get Very, Very Rich: Study Finds Global Millionaire Wealth Set To More Than Double By 2020

Published on 2011-05-25 05:27:00

From Zero Hedge, by Tyler Durden: A new study by Deloitte confirms everyone's worst fear (and every millionaire's wettest dream): the wealth amassed by millionaire households is set to increase by more than 100% over the next 9 years. From a tot > read more

Why the BRIC Revolt At The IMF Is A Huge Deal With Devastating Implications

Published on 2011-05-25 04:59:00

From The Business Insider:  Yesterday, the BRIC countries -- which now includes South Africa -- officially wrote a letter saying they were not inclined to just go along with the anointing of France's Christine Lagarde as the next head of the IMF, > read more

This Non-Fiat Currency Is Up Over 1,000% In The Last Month

Published on 2011-05-25 03:28:00

From The Dollar Vigilante, May 24, 2011   By Jeff Berwick Currencies rarely ever move more than 3 or 4% in any given month but there is one currency that has skyrocketed.  It's a new, digital currency called Bitcoin and it could very well be t > read more

Cynthia McKinney Drops Bombshell in Press TV Interview

Published on 2011-05-24 16:44:00

From Uprootedpalestinians, Monday, May 23, 2011 By Richard Edmondson In an interview which aired on Press TV on Saturday--one day before the AIPAC conference got under way in Washington--former Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney revealed wha > read more

Real Iraq War Deaths Exceed Vietnam War Numbers

Published on 2011-05-24 16:16:00

From ATS:  Department of Veterans Affairs Reports 73 Thousand U.S. Gulf War Deaths.More Gulf War Veterans have died than Vietnam Veterans.  This probably is news to you.  But the truth has been hidden by a technicality.  So here is the truth.The > read more

One bubble is about to pop... and it isn't silver

Published on 2011-05-24 14:41:00

From The Daily Reckoning, By Jeff Berwick We buy gold and silver as a way to protect ourselves from the TEOMSAWKI (The End Of The Monetary System As We Know It) to come. We live in a literal financial house of cards. It is all paper. That house > read more

They Got Dominique Strauss-Kahn For The Wrong Raping

Published on 2011-05-24 04:37:00

From The Dollar Vigilante Blog: As soon as I heard the "news" of the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Managing Director, Dominique Strauss-Khan (DSK), having said to have raped a chambermaid in his $3,000/night New York hotel room my B.S. sensor > read more

EU’s Ashton opens office in Libya to suck Europe deeper into another Vietnam

Published on 2011-05-23 09:49:00

From Case about Bird Flu  by Jane Burgermeister  „Some countries suspect that Lady Ashton remains in the job only because Tories, who tried to block the Lisbon Treaty, are happy to have an “incompetent” as foreign minister,” writes The Te > read more

THE TIME HAS COME TO CALL THE ECB’S BLUFF AND END THIS EURO PONZI SCHEME

Published on 2011-05-23 09:39:00

(I doubt that Jane's solution would work so nicely, but her analysis is brilliant): From Case about Bird Flu By Jane Burgermeister The ECB is threatening to cut liquidity off to banks and wreck financial mayhem in the event that Greece defaults or > read more

[Audio] Between The Lies about Libya (Vijay Prashad and Ellen Brown)

Published on 2011-05-23 07:49:00

From Indymedia,  | 22.05.2011 By Robin Upton No conclusive answers this week, as we consider possible motivations behind the recent attacks on Libya that underlie the rather overused cover story of humanitarian intervention. As an introduction, > read more

How Large Will The U.S. National Debt Be In 2015? - Try $1.2 Million Per Taxpayer

Published on 2011-05-23 07:09:00

From The Daily Bail: ______- Related: US Worse Off Financially Than Euro Nations: Walker Will the U.S. default? Is it really possible? > read more

The pseudo-revolution in Libya and the Degenerate “Left”

Published on 2011-05-23 04:37:00

From The International Journal of INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY, Vol. 7, No. 1 (April 2011)By TAKIS FOTOPOULOSPART II : The role of the degenerate “Left”...also read Part I: The pseudo-revolution in Libya5. The degenerate “Left” The end of the Left > read more

International Forecaster May 2011 (#5) - Gold, Silver, Economy + More

Published on 2011-05-23 02:38:00

From The International Forecaster By Bob Chapman The amount of money and people withdrawing from 401K’s has been staggering and Wall Street and government do not like it one bit. There are those who have been fired, run out of benefits, and half t > read more

Government Orders You Tube To Censor Protest Videos

Published on 2011-05-22 12:50:00

Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com - May 20, 2011 In a frightening example of how the state is tightening its grip around the free Internet, it has emerged that You Tube is complying with thousands of requests from governments to censor and remove v > read more

The fear that Obama has grown a spine is greatly exaggerated

Published on 2011-05-22 11:49:00

By David Samel Mondoweiss , May 21, 2011 Israeli PM Netanyahu has expressed dismay about President Obama’s Middle East speech. Bibi supposedly was outraged that Obama mentioned the pre-1967 borders as a starting point for negotiations.Netanya > read more

Greg Palast: Strauss-Kahn Screws Africa

Published on 2011-05-22 10:17:00

By Greg Palast The Eurasia Review May 20, 2011 Now that I've dispensed with the obvious and obnoxious teaser headline, let's drop the towel and expose Dominique Strauss-Kahn's history of arrogant abuse. The truth is, the grandee of the IMF has > read more

Strauss-Kahn + Connexions + CIA

Published on 2011-05-22 10:06:00

From I Understand and I wish to Continue The Saga of the EX IMF Chief, who has now been granted bail and is now under 24hr surviellance seems to have an interesting twist. We Know, that "Strauss-Kahn is a member of elite groups who meet behind c > read more

[Audio] The Boiling Frogs Presents Pepe Escobar

Published on 2011-05-22 09:42:00

From Boiling Frogs, Saturday, 21. May 2011Pepe Escobar returns to our show to discuss the ever-changing, constantly-shifting, and holes-filled script in the US raid that allegedly killed Osama bin Laden. He reports on the news accounts on the Arab u > read more

Daniel Estulin ARRESTED at Madrid Airport and prevented from travelling to Ireland

Published on 2011-05-22 07:21:00

From Infowars Ireland May 20, 2011 : UPDATE: Interpol False “Tip-off” to Spanish Airport Security Staff Regarding Estulin False Passport Allegation Daniel Estulin Dave Derby – The Sovereign Independent Thursday afternoon, around mid-day, > read more

US, Pakistan Near Open War; Chinese Ultimatum Warns Washington Against Attack

Published on 2011-05-21 16:24:00

By Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net May 20, 2011China has officially put the United States on notice that Washington’s planned attack on Pakistan will be interpreted as an act of aggression against Beijing. This blunt warning represents the fi > read more

All For One Euro And One Euro For All?

Published on 2011-05-21 15:09:00

Must read of the day on the euromess, from Clusterstock: I have been doing a lot of reading this week, and today we look at some of the thoughts that keep coming to my mind. We’ll think about the declining importance of economic theory (which is > read more

Alert: Iran Attack Imminent With Accusation of 9/11 Role

Published on 2011-05-21 14:02:00

From Beforeitsnews, Fri May 20 2011:(This is all according to the PNAC script. Guess they figure the American sheeple are dumbed down enough to where they can get away with any nonsense they want to throw out there. They never even proved Bin Laden > read more

The Extended Confessions Of An Economic Hit Man

Published on 2011-05-21 09:30:00

From The Victory Report: The book “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man” by John Perkins is easily one of the most engrossing pieces of non-fiction one can read to learn about the true drivers behind globalization, espionage, corporate cronyism, t > read more

Zimbabwe Ben's Mentor Gideon Gono Gets His Digs In

Published on 2011-05-18 17:26:00

From Jr Deputy Accountant : h/t WCV Those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones but those who have already devalued their currency to hundred trillion dollar toilet paper are totally qualified to make comments on destructive U.S. monetary polic > read more

Dominique Strauss-Kahn and the Future of the IMF

Published on 2011-05-18 17:20:00

From The Daily Reckoning By Eric Fry“Qu’ils mangent de la brioche!” English readers will recognize this infamous phrase as, “Let them eat cake.” Marie Antoinette supposedly uttered it. Two centuries later, another member of French royalt > read more

New Revelations Keep Popping Up, As Book Claims DSK Assaulted A Mexican Maid

Published on 2011-05-18 16:33:00

From The Business Insider: A woman who claims to be a former colleague of Dominique Strauss-Kahn wrote a book that says the IMF chief is "credited with several alleged sexual assaults, including a Mexican maid." According to a translation of an arti > read more

China is Pakistan’s ‘best friend’. China To Give Pakistan 50 JF-17 Fighters To Meet Emergency Needs

Published on 2011-05-18 13:04:00

From The Ugly Truth: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani has hailed China as his country’s best friend, as relations between Islamabad and Washington remain strained.“We are proud to have China as our best and most trusted friend, and C > read more

Globalists' Pakistan War Plan

Published on 2011-05-18 12:10:00

Destabilization and invasion long planned.  by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand May 11, 2011 - In a 2007 article from the London Guardian titled, "Bush handed blueprint to seize Pakistan's nuclear arsenal," it is stated that fears of destabiliz > read more

The Strauss Kahn Frame-Up: The Amerikan Police State Strides Forward

Published on 2011-05-18 12:07:00

By Paul Craig RobertsInfowars.com May 18, 2011The International Monetary Fund’s director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was arrested last Sunday in New York City on the allegation of an immigrant hotel maid that he attempted to rape her in his hotel roo > read more

Pro-democracy Death Squads – Can’t Stop Hillary’s History, it’s a Fool’s Errand

Published on 2011-05-17 15:59:00

From American Everyman by Scott Creighton“Pro-democracy Death Squads”. Just chew on that one for a second.It appears that the “pro-democracy” rebels in Benghazi are running around killing people who don’t particularly like their new form > read more

An Orwellian - Kafkian bad joke: The “International Criminal Court”

Published on 2011-05-17 15:05:00

by Andy Dilks Global Research, May 17, 2011 orwellwasright The International Criminal Court has requested an arrest warrant for Colonel Gaddafi  and his sons for “crimes against humanity”, accusing them of ordering, planning and participat > read more

US Government Seizes Pension Funds, Invades Pakistan

Published on 2011-05-17 12:18:00

From Zero Hedge by Simon Black of Sovereign Man US Government Seizes Pension Funds, Invades Pakistan There are certain times in life when a man is faced with overwhelming adversity… times when he has no reason to adhere to society’s norms any > read more

TSA backscatter radiation safety tests were rigged

Published on 2011-05-17 11:34:00

Dees Illustration By Mike Adams Natural News It can now be revealed by NaturalNews that the TSA fakedits safety data on its X-ray airport scanners in order to deceive the public about the safety of such devices. As evidenced by recent events in Wa > read more

NATO's Secret Ground War in Libya

Published on 2011-05-16 16:57:00

From Global Research, May 16, 2011by Mahdi Darius NazemroayaThe War on Libya - PART III In Part I of this text, the events which led up and set the backdrop for the present conflict in Libya were discussed.Part II  examined the central role of med > read more

Bitcoin P2P Currency: The Most Dangerous Project We've Ever Seen

Published on 2011-05-16 16:50:00

From Launch.is, Sunday, May 15, 2011 : L019: Bitcoin P2P Currency: The Most Dangerous Project We've Ever Seen by Jason Calacanis and the LAUNCH team A month ago I heard folks talking online about a virtual currency called bitcoin that is untracea > read more

The War on Libya: The media misinformation campaign behind the war

Published on 2011-05-16 16:42:00

From Voltairenet, 16 MAY 2011 by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya* Part 2 The International Criminal Court chief prosecutor has announced that he is seeking the arrest of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi for crimes against humanity, purporting to have evidence of h > read more

[LOL] IMF to sell gold to raise bail for Strauss-Kahn

Published on 2011-05-16 14:24:00

From GATA:By Ben Dover Financial Crimes, London Sunday, May 15, 2011http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/415d008c-7e97-11e0-9e98-00144feabdc0.htmlWASHINGTON — After an emergency meeting of its Board of Governors on Sunday afternoon, the International Mon > read more

'White phosphorous used in Afghan war'

Published on 2011-05-15 03:25:00

PressTV, Sat May 14, 2011 Leaked documents have revealed that US-led forces in Afghanistan have made extensive use of white phosphorus bombs in densely-populated areas. A review of the Afghan military documents revealed more than 1,100 instances o > read more

Dominique Strauss-Kahn accused of sex attack on maid

Published on 2011-05-15 03:07:00

French socialist's career in question following dramatic arrest at JFK airport and furore over lifestyle  Paul Gallagher and Kim Willsher in Paris guardian.co.uk, Sunday 15 May 2011 01.24 BST  Dominique Strauss-Kahn was taken off an Air France f > read more

In the Theater of the Absurd: US-NATO Support "Al Qaeda in Libya"

Published on 2011-05-14 11:47:00

by Gerald A. PerreiraGlobal Research, May 14, 2011 New Dawn Magazine No. 126 (May-June 2011) "We are fighting nothing other than al-Qaeda in what they call the Islamic Maghreb. It’s an armed group that is fighting from Libya to Mauritania and > read more

Pakistan: US has Overstayed Welcome

Published on 2011-05-14 09:32:00

Amidst drone attacks & bombings, Pakistan threatens to strand US forces in Afghanistan by Tony Cartalucci  Bangkok, Thailand May 14, 2011 - After a double bombing in Pakistan's north that resulted in over 80 deaths, the Western media was qui > read more

White House Pedophiles & the Pentagon's Fascination with PORN

Published on 2011-05-14 09:26:00

From Goon Squad by Greg Bacon Former Panama head and Bush family drug running buddy General Noriega got invaded by the USA when he got a bit too greedy and asked for a bigger cut of the Bush family's lucrative illegal drug running racket.Afterwar > read more

Constitution Thrashed: US President Can Now Declare Wars Without Asking Congress

Published on 2011-05-14 04:08:00

From The Prudent Investor : This must be the most overlooked attack on the US Constitution. A Bill from the Republican leadership, passed by Congress on Thursday shifts the power to declare war from Congress to the President. The National Defense A > read more

50 Things Every American Should Know About The Collapse Of The Economy

Published on 2011-05-14 03:46:00

From The Economic Collapse Right now, we are witnessing  a truly historic collapse of the economy, and yet most Americans do not understand what is going on.  One of the biggest reasons why the American people do not understand what is happening > read more

Osama To Al-Qaeda: 'Don't Bother Assassinating Joe Biden'

Published on 2011-05-13 16:20:00

From TheDailyBail: Trivial though it may be, how could we not post this story...US officials have revealed that Osama bin Laden’s diaries contain the rather startling conclusion that he didn’t think Vice President Joe Biden was worth bumping off > read more

Preparing for Economic Collapse

Published on 2011-05-13 14:54:00

From Chris Martenson, Friday, May 13, 2011: Today's contributor is Fernando "FerFAL" Aguirre. Many of our readers have expressed interest in hearing accounts from those who have lived through economic collapse. FerFAL experienced the hyperinflat > read more

EU admits Greece’s debt will soar to 157% this year and 166% in 2012 as country crushed by euro Ponzi scheme. EU bailout is just for German banks

Published on 2011-05-13 13:15:00

from Case about Bird Flu by Jane Burgermeister Euro debts ‘bigger than predicted’Friday May 13 2011, Irish IndependentThe European Union has said the debt loads of Greece, Ireland and Portugal will be much bigger than previously forecast, > read more

British Intel Officer–”Iraq dossier drawn up to make case for war”

Published on 2011-05-13 13:07:00

From The Ugly Truth: Newly released evidence to Chilcot inquiry directly contradicts Blair government’s claims about dossierRichard Norton-TaylorA top military intelligence official has said the discredited dossier on Iraq’s weapons programme wa > read more

It Begins: US Starting the Baluchi Insurrection

Published on 2011-05-13 12:41:00

by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand May 13, 2011 – In the shadow of the “Bin Laden” media circus and increasingly aggressive rhetoric between Washington and Islamabad, the corporate-financier funded NGOs that fomented the “Arab Spring” ar > read more

Qaddafi Launched Program to Privatize Libya's Oil to Every Citizen of Libya

Published on 2011-05-13 12:25:00

May 12, 2011 The Wisdom Fund Qaddafi Launched Program to Privatize Libya's Oil to Every Citizen of Libya Health, education, transport, ministries could be abolished and individual Libyans could use the profits of their own investment > read more

Silver Action a Reminder of the Risks of the Paper Market

Published on 2011-05-13 12:16:00

From The Market Oracle, May 13, 2011 By: Jeff_BerwickGold and silver are strange things. They have been used for centuries as money and only in the last 40 years have they been shoved aside by the financial communists - yet they still exist as a fre > read more

In the land of the free anyone can be executed on the spot for no reason at all

Published on 2011-05-12 13:00:00

From LewRockwell, by William Grigg on May 12, 2011 : The SWAT team that murdered Iraq War veteran Jose Guerena in his home near Tucson kept a medical team waiting for more than an hour as the 26-year-old father bled to death, and then “sen > read more

JPMorgan's Hunt for Afghan Gold

Published on 2011-05-12 10:53:00

From EconomicPolicyJournal, THURSDAY, MAY 12, 2011 Desperate to find justification for its adventure into Afghanistan, the U.S. military is even willing to spin JPMorgan's mineral grab in Afghanistan as a good thing.  In this Fortune piece, wh > read more

Globalists' Pakistan War Plan

Published on 2011-05-12 07:25:00

Destabilization and invasion long planned.  by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand May 11, 2011 - In a 2007 article from the London Guardian titled, "Bush handed blueprint to seize Pakistan's nuclear arsenal," it is stated that fears of destabilizati > read more

Pro-democracy Death Squads – Can’t Stop Hillary’s History, it’s a Fool’s Errand

Published on 2011-05-11 09:11:00

From American Everyman by Scott Creighton“Pro-democracy Death Squads”. Just chew on that one for a second.It appears that the “pro-democracy” rebels in Benghazi are running around killing people who don’t particularly like their new form o > read more

What Else Will The Government’s “Special Chip” In Your Cellphone Do?

Published on 2011-05-11 07:29:00

The Obama administration is engaged in a totalitarian takeover of all communicationsPaul Joseph Watson - Prison Planet.com Wednesday, May 11, 2011The announcement that Americans are set to be bombarded with mandatory government propaganda via their > read more

What you don’t know about the Bilderberg-Group

Published on 2011-05-11 04:02:00

From Voltairenet, 9 May 2011 by Thierry Meyssan* The idea that the Bilderberg Group is behind the creation of a mysterious future World Government has been spreading for years. Having had access to the archives of this very secret club, Thierr > read more

Fascism: check

Published on 2011-05-11 03:39:00

Letter to the Superior Telegram (Wis.), May 4, 2011: Lawrence Britt, a political scientist, studied the fascist regimes of Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Suharto, and Pinochet. He found the regimes had 14 things in common, and he calls these the identi > read more

Is Semen An Antidepressant?

Published on 2011-05-10 16:50:00

Jennifer Abbasi writes in Popular Science: Back in 2002, psychologists at the State University of New York at Albany published a study in the Archives of Sexual Behavior looking at the potential role of semen in alleviating depression in women. The > read more

Facebook: Everything You Say Can Be Used Against You

Published on 2011-05-10 14:28:00

(Syrian gov't just found the best counterinsurgency tool ever made): From The Business Insider:Syria Is Torturing Activists For Access To Their Facebook Pages Syrian security forces are torturing activists to get them to give up access to their Face > read more

Democracy, Haitian Style - by Stephen Lendman

Published on 2011-05-10 08:52:00

From SteveLendmanBlog by Steve LendmanExcept for Aristide's tenure, what passes for Haitian democracy would make a despot blush, thanks to America's imperial grip on the hemisphere's poorest, long-suffering people. As a result, last November's pr > read more

Consumers and Investors Seek Protection With Guns and Gold

Published on 2011-05-10 07:56:00

From The Daily Reckoning, By Eric Fry 05/09/11 Laguna Beach, California – Even after last week’s steep selloff in the commodities markets, the “Flight to Safety” trade is still on…big time. Gold may have retreated from its all-time hi > read more

2 fresh new must read essays on 9/11 by Dean Henderson

Published on 2011-05-09 16:01:00

Bin Laden & The 911 Illusion: Part I: Patsies & BeneficiariesMay 2, 2011 — Dean Henderson The alleged killing of Osama bin Laden next to a Pakistani military training academy could signal the winding down of the biggest psychological warfa > read more

(Down the rabbit hole of the setup for WW3): PAK PM, HEADLEY AND THE CIA

Published on 2011-05-09 15:15:00

From aangirfan: Gilani (left) Yousaf Raza Gilani is prime minister of Pakistan. Reportedly he is related to American 'CIA agent' David Headley, whose father's name was Gilani. Headley Reportedly, Prime Minister Gilani visited David Headley’s hom > read more

Just another matrix of B/S: Head Of Eurogroup Admits To Lying About "Secret Greek Meeting" Out Of Fears For Market Collapse - "When It Becomes Serious, You Have To Lie"

Published on 2011-05-09 13:52:00

Just in from zero hedge by Tyler DurdenOn Friday the misinformation floated about the Greek expulsion event hit a fever pitch: while we correctly speculated that nobody would be expelled from the Eurozone, the amount of conflicting info was at a > read more

NATO in Libya to defend WHAT?

Published on 2011-05-09 08:44:00

From guardian.co.uk, Sunday 8 May 2011 21.30 BST By Jack Shenker in Lampedusa Article history Nato units left 61 African migrants to die of hunger and thirstExclusive: Boat trying to reach Lampedusa was left to drift in Mediterranean for 16 days, > read more

Police pay Muslim with links to 7/7 leader

Published on 2011-05-08 03:22:00

From aangirfan: Tafazal Mohammad Tafazal Mohammad attended a training camp with the London tube bombings' 'ringleader', Mohammed Sidique Khan. The camp was led by Martin McDaid, a former Royal Marine special forces soldier, and 'convert to Islam > read more

THE INTERNATIONAL FORECASTER ON THE ONGOING CLUSTERF*CK, SATURDAY, MAY 07, 2011

Published on 2011-05-07 16:52:00

From THE INTERNATIONAL FORECASTER, SATURDAY, MAY 07, 2011 By Bob Chapman As the economy stumbles the American standard of living recedes. 44 million people are using food stamps and in one year that figure will be 60 million. Washington and Wall St > read more

Conspiracy theorists are far too optimistic

Published on 2011-05-07 16:13:00

From Casey Research, May 7, 2011    By Vedran Vuk With Osama bin Laden's death, the conspiracy theorists are out in force - and with some good reason.  Who doesn't find the killing of Osama with a shot to the head and an immediate burial at sea > read more

Do We Really Need an International Criminal Court?

Published on 2011-05-07 10:45:00

A Pretext for War  By DIANA JOHNSTONE | CounterPunch | May 7, 2011A little over four years ago, CounterPunch ran an article I wrote based on my presentation at an international conference held in Tripoli on the International Criminal Court. At a m > read more

GREECE PLANS TO LEAVE EUROZONE: ECONOMIC ARGUMENTS FOR DRACHMA ARE CLEAR

Published on 2011-05-07 10:13:00

(For the serie "Never believe anything until it is officially denied"): From Case about Bird Flu by Jane Burgermeister Greece is planning to ditch the euro, according to German media reports, in a sign that the eurozone  is becoming increasingly > read more

The Phony Anti-War Movement

Published on 2011-05-07 05:38:00

By Glen FordBAR, May 3, 2011  The U.S. anti-war movement was always a lot less than it appeared to be. At its height, activists claimed that the sheer weight of visible public opinion would shake power relationships to the very foundation. But it > read more

False Flags: An American Tradition - by Stephen Lendman

Published on 2011-05-07 05:27:00

By Steve Lendman, MAY 07, 2011 Wikipedia defines false or black flags as "covert operations designed to deceive the public in such a way that the operations appear as though they are being carried out by other entities." They're "big lies," defin > read more

NATO wants Libya to become another Somalia – analyst

Published on 2011-05-07 03:07:00

From Russia Today 06 May, 2011 NATO forces have carried out over 2,000 air strikes on Libya and keep insisting they are all intended to protect civilians. But in fact they want this conflict to last, and there is no rush to end the war says anal > read more

Peer-to-peer currency takes banks out of the picture

Published on 2011-05-06 14:20:00

From Springwise, 3 May 2011: A few months ago we looked at Irish CurrencyFair, a peer-to-peer site that effectively removes banks and other middlemen from currency exchange. Pushing the peer-to-peer concept even further into the world of finance, > read more

Here we go with flying PIIGS: Greece Considers Exit from Euro Zone

Published on 2011-05-06 13:40:00

By Christian Reiermann Der Spiegel, 06 May 2011The debt crisis in Greece has taken on a dramatic new twist. Sources with information about the government’s actions have informed SPIEGEL ONLINE that Athens is considering withdrawing from the euro z > read more

Michael Ruppert: Ghosts of September 11th

Published on 2011-05-06 10:09:00

From 911truthnews May 6, 2011 Author: Michael RuppertSource: Collapse Network I have personally interrogated underage criminal suspects who could lie better than White House Press Secretary Jay Carney. It has been four days since the P.T. Barnum ( > read more

$2 Trillion Mile Marker on Road to Perditio

Published on 2011-05-06 09:23:00

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 6 MAY 2011This week, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner proposed raising the debt ceiling by $2 trillion.  I thought, this should be big news!  After all, a trillion is a thousand billion.  This adds up to 2 tho > read more

Dancing on mass graves of 9/11

Published on 2011-05-06 08:22:00

The exploitation of the Bin Laden lieBy Larry Chin Intrepid Report,  May 6, 2011 by Larry ChinThe Obama administration and the corporate media are concocting an ever-more elaborate and spectacular theater around the “heroic” murder of the CIA > read more

Important Silver Note From the Economic Rant

Published on 2011-05-06 03:31:00

From Roger Mason, May 5, 2011: On Thursday May 5 silver has corrected a full 66% from the $28 to $49 rise over the last two months. This is not a "collapse" or a "bubble". It is a much needed and much wanted CORRECTION. This is a buying opportuni > read more

A slow-motion collapse called recovery

Published on 2011-05-05 17:06:00

From The Economic Collapse Perhaps you had heard that the unemployment rate in the United States has been going down and you were planning to start sending out resumes again.  Well, unfortunately it is not "morning in America" again.  Some reall > read more

US-Pakistani-Chinese Tensions Growing

Published on 2011-05-05 14:01:00

US stunt to salvage tenuous regional dominion faces Pakistani-Chinese ire. by Tony Cartalucci - MAY 4, 2011 Bangkok, Thailand May 5, 2011 - The immediate reaction by most across the world upon hearing of "Bin Laden's" death was that America now ha > read more

Skyrocketing Crime Rates and Imperial Wars

Published on 2011-05-05 13:00:00

By James Petras | 05.04.2011Imperial interventions in civil wars have a devastating effect on countries that last for decades and affect the entire economy and society. One indicator of the long-term consequences of imperial military intervention is > read more

Portugal and its bailout: it will solve nothing, time to get on with the default

Published on 2011-05-05 08:21:00

From Mail Online - Euroseptic: Mary Ellen Synon in Brussels The euro-quarrel this morning is over the terms of Portugal's £70bn EU-IMF bailout (sorry, that reads as though the bail-out is a balanced deal. In fact it is an EU bail-out the IMF has a > read more

Be ready to pick the silver bottom

Published on 2011-05-05 06:35:00

Latecomers to the gold and silver party are having a (possibly last) chance to load up the truck of physical precious metals on the cheap, courtesy of the paper market manipulators. Just be ready to spot the bottom (which is probably near), and go al > read more

Debt Saturation And Money Illusion

Published on 2011-05-04 16:20:00

From zero hedge - on a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero: From Gordon T. Long of Tipping Points Debt Saturation & Money Illusion Most of the clearly evident financial problems that surround us today stem from o > read more

A Measure of the RISK TRADE

Published on 2011-05-04 14:00:00

By Trader Dan Norcini Published: Today http://www.traderdannorcini.blogspot.com/http://www.fortwealth.com/ Chatter is surfacing that some guys are looking for a sharp reversal in the Dollar and some, in anticipation of that, are lifting risk trades. > read more

Bin Laden's Compound Was In The Shape Of Israel, And There May Have Been Pot Growing There

Published on 2011-05-04 13:20:00

From The Business Insider :Osama Bin Laden's compound was shaped like Israel, and his house was where Jerusalem would have been.This is from Jewish website The Tablet (via @tpcarney)Here's a satellite look for more perspective.Meanwhile, there a > read more

Top Government Insider: Bin Laden Died In 2001, 9/11 A False Flag

Published on 2011-05-04 10:57:00

By Paul Joseph WatsonInfowars.com, May 4, 2011Top US government insider Dr. Steve R. Pieczenik, a man who held numerous different influential positions under three different Presidents and still works with the Defense Department, shockingly told The > read more

How Low Can Silver Go?

Published on 2011-05-04 04:04:00

From GoldStockBull, May 3rd, 2011By Jason HamlinSilver has posted an incredible first four months of the year, appreciating by over 60%! But we all know that adage that nothing goes up forever and silver proved it true by finally hitting a wall and > read more

Bin Laden Hoax to Expand War

Published on 2011-05-03 04:44:00

From Land Destroyerby Tony Cartalucci Globalist think-tanks are already building a case against Pakistan  Bangkok, Thailand May 3, 2011 - Foundation for the Defense of Democracy (FDD) scribe and all around intellectually dishonest propagandist, Bil > read more

67% of Germans have little or no trust in EU and euro, says poll

Published on 2011-05-01 15:12:00

From Case about Bird Flu by Jane Burgermeister  Two thirds of Germans or 67% now have little or no trust in the EU following the eurozone debt crisis in a dramatic collapse in confidence, according to a poll by Allensbach. http://www.mmnews.de/ > read more

Going deep with 9/11: Helen Caldicott, Tom Breidenbach plumb the profundities of the problem

Published on 2011-05-01 14:34:00

From TruthJihad, Saturday, April 30, 2011 By Kevin Barrett The 9/11 truth movement mostly obsesses with facts. The thing is, we have enough facts already to prove the 9/11 inside job seven ways from Sunday. At some point we need to come to grips w > read more

Atheists More Moral Than Highly Religious People

Published on 2011-05-01 12:09:00

From Humint Events Online:No surprise to me, but nice to see support of this fact: Long after blacks and Jews have made great strides, and even as homosexuals gain respect, acceptance and new rights, there is still a group that lots of Americans ju > read more

THE INVASION OF LIBYA: Behind the US-NATO Attack are Strategies of Economic Warfare

Published on 2011-05-01 11:34:00

by Manlio DinucciGlobal Research, May 1, 2011 Il Manifesto (translated from Italian) Global Research extends its thanks and appreciation to John Catalinotto for the translation of this article. Despite what is being reported, the invasion of Libya > read more

Obama birth certificate is just as authentic as the money supply, the food supply and Obamacare

Published on 2011-04-30 11:25:00

From Naturalnews, April 28, 2011 by Mike Adams (NaturalNews) The Birthers just don't know when to quit, do they? Now that the White House has released President Obama's birth certificate, the case is now closed, but they just won't stop ranting ab > read more

Herbal medicines banned as EU directive comes into force

Published on 2011-04-30 10:34:00

From Daily Mail, 30th April 2011: Patients have lost access to hundreds of herbal medicines today, after European regulations came into force. Sales of all herbal remedies, except for a small number of popular products for 'mild' illness such as > read more

U.S. And NATO Allies Initiate Libyan Scenario For Syria

Published on 2011-04-30 08:55:00

From Stop NATO - April 30, 2011By Rick Rozoff On April 29 the White House issued an executive order to enforce new and more stringent sanctions against Syria and appealed to European North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies to follow suit. In a let > read more

Who 'borrowed' the Social Security taxes we paid?

Published on 2011-04-30 07:00:00

From Sentinelsource, April 28, 2011 President George W. Bush made a shocking assertion back in 2005 when he was pushing to privatize Social Security. “A lot of people in America think there is a trust,” he said, “that we take your money in p > read more

The Libyan War, American Power and the Decline of the Petrodollar System

Published on 2011-04-29 04:42:00

by Prof. Peter Dale ScottGlobal Research, April 29, 2011The Asia-Pacific Journal The present NATO campaign against Gaddafi in Libya has given rise to great confusion, both among those waging this ineffective campaign, and among those observing it.  > read more

Your TomTom is ratting you

Published on 2011-04-29 04:32:00

TomTom admits to sending your routes and speed information to the police From CNet, 28 April 2011  by Rory Reid (@rory79) It appears every gadget in your possession is tracking your location. First it was the iPhone, then Android phones an > read more

Plummeting U.S. Dollar, A New Wave of Treasuries and Toxic Waste

Published on 2011-04-28 16:50:00

By Bob Chapman, Theinternationalforecaster.com  Apr 28, 2011  We believe there will be something similar to a QE3 by another name and the Fed will probably have to create some $2.5 trillion to buy Treasuries, Agencies, and toxic waste and perhap > read more

Signs of the times: It's Harder To Get A Job At McDonald's Than It Is To Get Into Harvard

Published on 2011-04-28 15:48:00

From Clusterstock: To much fanfare, McDonald's recently held a gigantic national job fair.They had advertised for 50,000 jobs, and ended up hiring 62K.But what's remarkable is how many people applied: According to CBS2Chicago, there were, wait for > read more

Europe Faces Double Dip?

Published on 2011-04-28 07:32:00

From The Daily Bell, Thursday, April 28, 2011 – by Staff Report Markets shun debt of rescued nations … Europe's bailed-out economies saw their borrowing costs hit fresh records on rising concerns they will not be able to pay their debts. The > read more

NATO’s Kosovo Air War Redux

Published on 2011-04-28 05:03:00

By Stephen GowansNATO’s military intervention in Libya began as an enforcement of a no-fly zone to protect civilians but has quickly morphed into an attack on civilian targets to undermine the morale of Gaddafi loyalists in order to turn them agai > read more

A birth certificate fake as a 3$ bill from the alien manchurian son of the CIA

Published on 2011-04-27 14:27:00

From SherrieQuestioningAll, APRIL 27, 2011 Here is the Problem with Obama's Birth Certificate..... Kenya was not so named until December 1963!!! It was British East Africa Protectorate - Also Hospital name Was not that name until 1978!!!!!!The Obama > read more

The Bernanko has spoketh: full steam ahead to Weimar. Gold at new record high

Published on 2011-04-27 12:06:00

From TheBurningPlatform, 27th April 2011: Seconds after the Fed Announcement that they will keep printing at hyper-speed, gold surged, the dollar fell to 1.47 versus the Euro and the USD fell below 74 versus the DXY basket of currencies. The race > read more

AFRICOM vs. ChinAfrica

Published on 2011-04-27 11:17:00

From AlJazeera, 26 Apr 2011   by Pepe Escobar  From energy wars to water wars, the 21st century will be determined by a fierce battle for the world's remaining natural resources. The chessboard is global. The stakes are tremendous. Most battl > read more

Lisbon Treaty: Governments to Accept EU Commission´s Decisions Per Automaticity, EU Arrest Warrant Violating Human Rights, EU-KGB

Published on 2011-04-27 05:36:00

From EuroMed, Wed 27 Apr 2011 Summary: Europe can say that Europe has delivered its part of the agreement on global governance, says EU President Jose Barroso, who boasts of having achieved all his requirements in the EU’s competitiveness p > read more

Why the West wants the fall of Gaddafi? An analysis in defense of the Libyan rais

Published on 2011-04-27 05:23:00

By Jean-Paul Pougala, Rightsmonitoring,  26.04.2011 It was Gaddafi’s Libya that offered all of Africa its first revolution in modern times – connecting the entire continent by telephone, television, radio broadcasting and several other technol > read more

The Four Horsemen Behind America's Oil Wars

Published on 2011-04-27 05:13:00

by Dean HendersonGlobal Research, April 26, 2011 While Americans are robbed at the gas pump, Exxon Mobil will this week report a 60% increase in its quarterly net profits to a cool $10 billion. Royal Dutch/Shell will report a 30% increase. In 1975 > read more

QE2 and the Fate of the U.S. Economy

Published on 2011-04-27 03:44:00

By David Galland, Casey Research, April 26, 2011 In the last few weeks, I’ve become particularly “attentive” to the intentions of Fed policy makers following the scheduled June end date for QE2. This is no small matter; an actual shift in > read more

[RED ALERT]: US State Dept is closing the barn

Published on 2011-04-26 07:40:00

If you were thinking about expatriating (like you should), you'd better get your passport a.s.a.p.: From 5min forecast: The State Department is proposing a new "Biographical Questionnaire" for certain passport applicants. Exactly who, it's not > read more

Ivory Coast Revolution Runs Into Civil War Realities?

Published on 2011-04-26 07:10:00

From The Daily Bell, Tuesday, April 26, 2011 – by Staff Report The danger is that in much of Africa, former imperialists are suspected of being imperialists still, which could make the development of international law appear to be a mere pow > read more

Silver market ever more weirder: APMEX goes in reverse mode!

Published on 2011-04-26 04:06:00

From ZeroHedge, 04/25/2011 by Tyler Durden   Over the past hour Zero Hedge has been inundated with reader comments notifying us that Ampex has, validating the earlier post speculating about a possible silver shortage at the metals distributor > read more

War Crimes Charges Anyone?: New Exposé of Big Oil’s Role in the Iraq War

Published on 2011-04-25 14:30:00

By James Ridgeway This Can't Be Happening , April 24, 2011 When it was  suggested the war in Iraq was about oil, Tony Blair,then the British prime minister, had this to say on February 6,2003     "Let me just deal with the oil thing becau > read more

Financial Heist of the Century: Confiscating Libya's Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF)

Published on 2011-04-25 05:15:00

(I expect this will backfire in more than one way in the short to medium term): From Global Research, April 24, 2011 Il Manifesto (translated from Italian) - 2011-04-22by Manlio Dinucci The objective of the war against Libya is not just its oil > read more

American Hellholes

Published on 2011-04-25 04:03:00

From Theeconomiccollapseblog: The U.S. economy is dying and we are heading for the next Great Depression.  The talking heads in the mainstream media love to spin the economic numbers around and around and they love to make it sound like the economy > read more

Economic Recovery Evades Fed and Congress Efforts

Published on 2011-04-25 02:59:00

From The International Forecaster, By Bob ChapmanApril 23 2011: Fed has a clouded vision, close to three years into a deep recession now, expansion in monetary and fiscal policy will produce excessive inflation, and inflation is set to grow to 20%, > read more

Cui Bono? Color Revolution's Mystery Gunmen

Published on 2011-04-23 16:17:00

by Tony Cartalucci Imagine you are an embattled regime fighting against a rising tide offoreign-funded protesters. The entire world is watching, one nation isalready under creeping foreign invasion for "waging war against his own people," your nati > read more

The EU's Dirty Secret: Germany Is The Biggest Welfare Recipient There Is

Published on 2011-04-22 13:12:00

From The Business Insider: The standard way of thinking about the eurozone is this: Germany is strong, France is a bit less strong, and everyone else mooches off their strength. Certainly that's how it's appeared lately, post-crisis, but that's thin > read more

China Is Ageing, And The Rich Are Fleeing

Published on 2011-04-22 11:35:00

From Clusterstock China will face an ageing population.  Worse still, the rich are fleeing.Bain & Co and China Merchant’s Bank Private Wealth Report 2011 found that the so-called high net worth individuals rose 19% in 2010 compared to 2009. > read more

U.S. officer: ‘You have to show up at their door … and start killing people’

Published on 2011-04-22 11:19:00

From The Ugly TruthBy Brian Becker, National Coordinator of the ANSWER CoalitionANSWER, April 21, 2011 “You can’t just convince them through projects and goodwill,” another Marine officer said. “You have to show up at their door with two com > read more

US$ SHTF possibly imminent

Published on 2011-04-22 04:40:00

 From Panamalaw.org: Emergency Alert USD – April 2011BRIC Nations Not Using US Dollar for Credit Transactions - BRIC is an acronym referencing the nations of Brazil, Russia, India and China. It is sometimes referred to as BRICS with South Africa > read more

Why Is Gaddafi Being Demonized?

Published on 2011-04-22 04:33:00

By Anonymous African Woman* / Dissident Voice / April 21st, 2011It was [Mouammar] Gaddafi’s Libya that offered all of Africa its first revolution in modern times – connecting the entire continent by telephone, television, radio broadcasting and > read more

Euro-American Land Invasion of Libya Imminent

Published on 2011-04-22 03:37:00

By Glenn Greenwald BAR, April 20, 2011 As if hard-wired for theft of other people's lands, the European Union is preparing to put thousands of its once-and-forever colonial boots on the ground in Libya. "The mass ground onslaught may well commence > read more

China Inflation And Wage Protests Spread, Turn Violent

Published on 2011-04-21 13:33:00

From ZeroHedge, by Tyler Durden 04/21/2011  Yesterday we reported news that has so far received almost no media exposure, namely that thousands of striking truck drivers had poured into Shanghai's Waigaoqiao zone, one of the city's busiest co > read more

Eurozone chief Juncker admits he wants all negotiations held in 'secret dark debates'

Published on 2011-04-21 13:22:00

From Mail Online - Euroseptic: Mary Ellen Synon in BrusselsThe thing about some of these euro-ideologues is that they are arrogant enough to admit out loud exactly what they are doing. And what they are doing is poisonous: manoeuvring the EU towards > read more

BRICS poised to pick up the pieces from the rubble of America’s collapsed empire

Published on 2011-04-21 04:43:00

From Strategic Culture Foundation | April 20, 2011 By Wayne Madsen The American empire is faltering from within and abroad. In an attempt to preserve its empire, the United States has adopted an aggressive military posture, starting a war in Libya > read more

Silver is the new safe haven in China

Published on 2011-04-21 03:53:00

From Gulfnews, April 21 2011  By Suranjana Roy Bhattacharya Beijing: Every market has a silver lining but China has a particularly thick one. Demand for silver has steadily risen in Middle Kingdom, but so far all the action has been out of the spo > read more

Radiation exposure chart admits cancer radiotherapy delivers fatal dose to patients

Published on 2011-04-21 03:45:00

From NaturalNews, Wednesday, April 20, 2011 by Mike Adams  Thanks to the Fukushima catastrophe, we've all been learning a lot about the laws of physics lately -- especially about radiation. To help explain it all, the folks over at InformationIsB > read more

Jim Willie: Gold Launched to New Record Highs by 50 Factors

Published on 2011-04-20 16:44:00

From MarketOracle, Apr 20, 2011 - 01:55 AM By: Jim_Willie_CB Edification is not the word that comes to mind when observing an interview with Larry Fink of Blackstone this morning on network financial news. It was inspirational if not humorous, and > read more

Mass Strike Surges Through Finland; Could Overturn "Euro" Slave Farm

Published on 2011-04-18 23:27:00

From Larouchepac, April 18, 2011 In Finnish national elections held April 17, the True Finns party, which opposes the EU-ECB-steered bailouts of the Inter-Alpha banks, stunned the world, and itself, receiving massive backing from the population, an > read more

GEAB N°54 is available! Global systemic crisis: Autumn 2011 – Budget/T-Bonds/Dollar, the three US crises which will cause the Very Serious Breakdown of the global economic, financial and monetary system

Published on 2011-04-18 13:56:00

- Public announcement GEAB N°54 (April 16, 2011) - The 15 September 2010, GEAB N°47 issue was headed «Spring 2011: Welcome to the United States of Austerity / Towards the very serious breakdown of the world economic and financial system ». Yet a > read more

Ivory Coast Uncovered - The Untold Story

Published on 2011-04-17 15:04:00

by Dr. Kwame OseiGlobal Research, April 17, 2011 Modern Ghana With the ongoing civil war in Ivory Coast seemingly close to an end it is appropriate to tell the REAL untold story of the crisis in Ivory Coast and inform our readers of the REAL iss > read more

Drug-Resistant Staph Bacteria Found in Half of US Meat

Published on 2011-04-16 17:18:00

Study finds Staphylococcus aureus in 47% of beef, pork and poultry samples in U.S. supermarkets US Meat contaminated with Staph/Wiki image CBS News A new study finds that much of meat and poultry sold in supermarkets is contaminated with drug-re > read more

Sinaloa Drug Cartel Controlled and Protected by Both Mexican and U.S. Governments

Published on 2011-04-16 16:05:00

From DeadlineLive.info, April 15, 2011By Mario AndradeRecent testimony by captured drug cartel leader Vicente Zambada in Federal Court points to DEA and FBI protection and collaboration with one of the most dangerous and powerful criminal organizat > read more

The REAL Silver High

Published on 2011-04-16 15:55:00

By Silver Shield, April 15th, 2011There is much ballyhoo about recent rise in silver’s Nominal price, but the REAL high is far, far away.Silver is closing in on the Silver Thursday high of $48.70 set in 1980. The REAL high is still miles away, so d > read more

Hunt Brothers $50 Silver Truth, How They Capped Gold…Yes, GOLD!

Published on 2011-04-16 14:29:00

From Market Oracle, Apr 13, 2011By Mike MaloneyIt began with a shoot-out at the Circle K Ranch. The 12 best marksmen would ride shotgun as the world’s largest, privately owned stockpile of silver was secretly transferred into secure vaults.No, thi > read more

Here's the Setup for the Con of the Decade

Published on 2011-04-15 16:07:00

From OfTwoMinds,  April 15, 2011 By Charles Hugh Smith The Con of the Decade, which I described last July, is being set up nicely. I described The Con of the Decade last July (2010). The Con makes me a heretic in the cult religion of Hyperinfla > read more

TAX PAYERS OF EUROPE SET TO FOOT BILL FOR GREECE’S INEVITABLE DEFAULT

Published on 2011-04-14 14:32:00

From Case about Bird Flu by Jane Burgermeister German government economic advisor Lars Feld has warned that the tax payers of Europe, and not private creditors, will have to foot the bill for the upcoming default of Greece because the European Cen > read more

Governor BOE: The Democratic System is a Fraud Created to Disable Opposition to Bankers’ Rule

Published on 2011-04-14 13:09:00

By Kevin Boyle - No One To Vote For April 13, 2011Quote:  Montagu Norman, Governor of The Bank Of England, addressing the United States Bankers’ Association, New York, 1924. “Capital must protect itself in every possible way, both by combinat > read more

The Many False Hijackings of 9/11

Published on 2011-04-14 11:17:00

From 911blogger:“There were a number of false reports out there. What was valid? What was a guess? We just didn’t know.” - Colonel Robert Marr, battle commander at NORAD’s Northeast Air Defense Sector on 9/11Although it has been widely repo > read more

Libya All About Oil, Or Central Banking?

Published on 2011-04-13 15:23:00

By Ellen Brown April 13, 2011 "Asia Times" - -Several writers have noted the odd fact that the Libyan rebels took time out from their rebellion in March to create their own central bank - this before they even had a government. Robert Wenzel wrote i > read more

IMF Plots Role as World's Central Bank?

Published on 2011-04-11 15:41:00

From The Daily Bell. Monday, April 11, 2011 – by  Staff Report IMF says worth exploring borrowing from markets ... The International Monetary Fund said it was worth exploring ways that the global institution could borrow from financial markets > read more

China Trade-Deficit = Zero Treasuries-Buyers

Published on 2011-04-11 12:43:00

From BullionBullsCanada, Sunday, 10 April 2011by Jeff Nielson It really is time for Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve to abandon the absurd myth that someone other than Ben Bernanke is still buying U.S. Treasuries.In a recent commentary, I po > read more

Silver: 'Toppy' or Just Warming Up?

Published on 2011-04-11 10:55:00

From SeekingAlpha,  April 11, 2011   By Mike Scully “Silver feels a little toppy to me at these levels.” That seems to be the refrain of technical analysts and stock traders who are bearish on silver. Or some might say, “silver has had a > read more

Dangerous Crossroads: Is America Considering the Use of Nuclear Weapons against Libya? PART II

Published on 2011-04-11 10:33:00

By Prof. Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, April 7, 2011  Image: Simulated Drop of B61-11 nuclear bomb from a B-2 Spirit Stealth bomberShortly after the commencement of the Libya bombing campaign on March 19, the Pentagon ordered the testing of > read more

9/11: Israel's Grand Deception

Published on 2011-04-10 06:25:00

by Jonathan Azaziah Mask of Zion When an event occurs that changes the dynamics of the geopolitical spectrum, there is only one question that needs to be asked, no matter what kind of information is being force-fed to the public by the Zionist media > read more

Mad Max Or Financial Meltdown?

Published on 2011-04-10 04:29:00

From TheComingDepression, Saturday, April 09, 2011 : Martin Armstrong's New Essay: Well worth reading and understanding the implications of what he has to say.  PDF FILE HERE.. Mr. Armstrong like many others sees financial meltdown in our > read more

The Gold/Silver Ratio Is Misleading

Published on 2011-04-10 04:24:00

From FinancialSense, 04/09/2011BY RYAN JORDANMany traders, speculators, and investors focus on the gold/silver price ratio in determining which metal is under or overvalued. In recent weeks and months the ratio has collapsed from above 65:1, down t > read more

People Say They Won’t Shock Others for Cash, But Do

Published on 2011-04-09 15:33:00

From Wired,  April 7, 2011By Laura Sanders, Science News   SAN FRANCISCO — When faced with a thorny moral dilemma, what people say they would do and what people actually do are two very different things, a new study finds. In a hypothetical sc > read more

Drifting Too Far From Shore: The Unresisted Rise of the Elite

Published on 2011-04-09 10:26:00

By Chris Floyd Empire burlesque, April 8, 2011 In the LRB, David Runciman provides some telling insights in a review of recent books about the "off-shoring" of the world economy into tax havens, where the hyper-elite hide their money from the ta > read more

A Day In The Life Of A “Homegrown Terrorist”

Published on 2011-04-09 06:14:00

By Giordano Bruno of Neithercorp Press: There was a time when having one’s name listed in the despised ranks of those villains that governments often categorize as “terrorists” involved quite a bit of leg work, as well as an ominous running > read more

Harsh Times – A New Normal

Published on 2011-04-08 18:15:00

From Goldseek,  Friday, 8 April 2011  By Richard (Rick) Mills Ahead of the Herd  As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information The approaching storm I wrote about in last year’s article The Risin > read more

The game is up: the debt bubble cannot be inflated any more

Published on 2011-04-08 12:51:00

From ZeroHedge:  by Charles Hugh Smith from Of Two Minds The Devolution of the Consumer Economy, Part II: Rising Costs, Declining Wages (Part 1 here) The widening gap between declining incomes and higher costs has been filled with borrowed money. > read more

France participates in another African civil war

Published on 2011-04-08 11:35:00

By Ann Talbot WSWS, April 7, 2011 In the last 24 hours, France has directly intervened in the fighting in Ivory Coast as it seeks to reassert its control over its former colony. French helicopters bombarded forces loyal to President Laurent Gbagbo > read more

Excellent News: Cynicism At All-Time High. Elected Politicians Almost Universally Loathed...

Published on 2011-04-07 12:38:00

From NO ONE TO VOTE FOR:. There was an encouraging article in today's Independent from Steve Richards, 'This loathing of politicians must end'. ......and there was me waiting for it to properly begin. A newly elected MP tells him that "the hardes > read more

Breaking: France detects radioactive iodine in rainwater, milk

Published on 2011-04-07 08:27:00

www.euractiv.com After the radioactive cloud eminating from Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant reached Europe last week, French authorities have detected radioactive iodine-131 in rainwater and milk. CRIIRAD, an independent French res > read more

The US Government’s Usage of Atomic Bombs – Domestic – WTC 911

Published on 2011-04-07 06:53:00

From Veterans Today  April 5, 2011 ADVANCED MMR (MINIMUM RESIDUAL RADIATION) NUCLEAR WEAPON USEDDeclassified August 1958: “Mere fact that the U. S. has developed atomic munitions suitable for use in demolition work.”Declassified January 1967 > read more

Gold, silver, and trillions of hot money with nowhere to go

Published on 2011-04-07 05:16:00

From GoldSpeculator, By Mark J Lundeen: I sent this to Bill Murphy for his Midas Comments for 06 April 2011. * * *Hi Bill Here is the chart for the Silver/Gold Ratio (SGR) for your Midas Comments. At the end of trading for 05 April, the ratio cl > read more

The "Deep State" behind U.S. democracy

Published on 2011-04-07 04:19:00

From Voltairenet, 6 APRIL 2011 Peter Dale Scott’s exclusive interview for Voltaire Network In his book The Road to 9/11, now available in French, Professor Peter Dale Scott traces back the history of the "Deep State" in the United States, that > read more

Yemen’s Useful Tyranny: The Forgotten History of Britain’s “Dirty War”

Published on 2011-04-07 03:50:00

by Media Lens – via Dissident Voice April 5th, 2011Using declassified government files, historian Mark Curtis has exposed Britain’s ‘dirty war’ in Yemen in the 1960s, which he describes as one of the ‘least known aspects of recent British h > read more

US had technology in the 1990s to substitute gasoline with water.

Published on 2011-04-06 18:11:00

From PRESS Core - Evidentiary News » World news :US inventor Stanley Meyer developed an electric cell which split ordinary tap water into hydrogen and oxygen with far less energy than that required by a normal electrolytic cell.  Meyer retrofitte > read more

Losing The War Against Drug-Resistant Superbugs

Published on 2011-04-06 16:40:00

From Disinformation:  We’ve all heard warnings that overuse of antibiotics would breed drug-resistant superbugs, but the day of reckoning seems to be approaching faster than anyone anticipated, and science is at a loss for what to do. The pharmac > read more

Bahrain: Claims of Civilian Killings, Disappearances, Torture, Chemical Warfare Agents and Organ Theft From Victims of State Violence

Published on 2011-04-06 16:22:00

From Dandelionsalad, April 6, 2011: Warning This article and suggested links may contain language and images depicting the reality and horror of war/violence and should only be viewed by a mature audience.by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dand > read more

Leuren Moret - Scientists Declare Northern 1/3 of Japan Uninhabitable and Should Be Evacuated (7/4/11)

Published on 2011-04-06 10:57:00

Leuren Moret - Scientists declare northern 1/3 of Japan uninhabitable and should be evacuated from Alfred Webre on Vimeo. from Feature ArticlesLeuren Moret - Coverup - California Northwest USA BC Canada under radiation threat as high as Japan > read more

Obama Major Brain Surgery? An Obot? Massive Head Scars

Published on 2011-04-06 10:09:00

What is up with these scars and why haven't they received any major news attention? Is this why Obama's medical records have been sealed?' See more... > read more

Gaddaffi’s African “Mercenary” Story is a Disinformation Ploy by the CIA

Published on 2011-04-06 10:05:00

Strategic Culture Foundation  ONLINE JOURNAL 04.04.2011  By Wayne MADSEN  Strategic-Culture.org  Experts on Africa who have traveled extensively in Libya contend that the stories emanating from the Western media that portray Libya’s leader, M > read more

GORDON DUFF: NUCLEAR 9/11 UNDENIABLE

Published on 2011-04-06 05:14:00

From VeteransToday, April 4, 2011, by Gordon Duff ·YOU ARE WATCHING THOUSANDS OF TONS OF STEEL VAPORIZE9/11 RADIATION CANCER DEATHS CENSORED IN U.S.By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior EditorWhen we were told that the 3 towers of the World Trade Ce > read more

EXIT SILVER? Not Quite Yet: James Turk, Gene Arensberg and Antal Fekete’s take on exiting silver.

Published on 2011-04-05 15:47:00

From Goldwars, Monday, April 4, 2011 Because silver is a much smaller and more volatile market than gold, we’ve watched it roar back from $8.70 in October 2008 to today's approximate $38.00 per oz. It continues its seemingly unstoppable bull run > read more

[Bottom of the Barrel]: Saudis Switch to Solar, Nuclear at Home, Saving Oil for Export

Published on 2011-04-05 14:18:00

Via: Forbes: Sunny Saudi Arabia plans to shift most of its domestic energy use to solar and nuclear power, diverting more oil to exports, a Saudi official said yesterday at the Third Saudi Solar Energy Forum in Riyadh. “The use of alternative sus > read more

How much did YOU pay for war this year?

Published on 2011-04-05 14:12:00

From Activist Post: Youtube - BraveNewFoundation Ever wonder how much you paid to fund the war? Use the Afghanistan War Tax Calculator to find out. We'll give you an I.O.U. for what you paid that you can forward to your Member of Congress. Ask for y > read more

World War III Scenario? The War on Libya, the US- NATO Agenda and the Next Great War

Published on 2011-04-05 14:02:00

by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts Global Research, April 4, 2011 trendsresearch.com In the 1930s the US, Great Britain, and the Netherlands set a course for World War II in the Pacific by conspiring against Japan. The three governments seized Japan’s ban > read more

Another UN-sanctioned massacre ongoing in Ivory Coast

Published on 2011-04-05 12:41:00

By Ann Talbot WSWS, 4 April 2011 Up to 1,000 civilians have reportedly been massacred in the town of Duékoué in the West African country of Ivory Coast. This is the biggest loss of life in the former French colony since the disputed presidential > read more

EU secretly raises food safety radiation level 20-fold

Published on 2011-04-04 12:42:00

Alexander Higgins Kopp Online, Xander News and other non-English news agencies are reporting that the EU implemented a secret “emergency” order without informing the public which increases the amount of radiation in food by up to 20 times previo > read more

Why Silver’s Run May be Far From Done

Published on 2011-04-03 13:46:00

From Minefund, 31 MAR 2011ST. LOUIS (MineFund.com) -- Many professional investors spend a lot of time and treasure tracking reversions to the mean. In its most simple formulation, it means that if, say, the gold price, is at an extreme distance f > read more

Libya: Facts & Analysis - By Helen Shelestiuk (4/4/11)

Published on 2011-04-03 09:32:00

From Futurefastforward: By Helen Shelestiuk Sunday, 03 April 2011  For several weeks now the entire world community, with bated breath, has been watching the developments in Libya. What do we know for certain about Libya? In fact, nothing, at leas > read more

Libya and Obama’s Defense of the ‘Rebel Uprising’

Published on 2011-04-03 08:30:00

James Petras | The People’s Voice | April 2nd, 2011 Over the past two weeks Libya has been subjected to the most brutal imperial air, sea and land assault in its modern history. Thousands of bombs and missiles, launched from American and European > read more

Ellen Brown: Japan - Financing Reconstruction. The Monetary Implications of the Nuclear Catastrophe

Published on 2011-04-03 07:56:00

By Ellen BrownGlobal Research, March 31, 2011Webofdebt.com WHY THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT CAN AFFORD TO REBUILD: IT OWNS THE LARGEST DEPOSITORY BANK IN THE WORLD The Japanese government can afford its enormous debt because it owns the bank that is > read more

Eternal Punishment: Obama Leads Third Century of Imperial Revenge on Haiti

Published on 2011-04-03 06:06:00

By Chris Floyd Empire burlesque, April 2, 2011 The blood and thunder (or is it thud and blunder?) of the American-led intervention in Libya has obscured one of the more revealing episodes of our times -- especially for those many millions who sti > read more

I-nformer, or I-snitch?

Published on 2011-04-02 17:24:00

Reporting Suspicious Activity? There’s a Homeland Security app for thatNicole Martinelli Cult of Mac April 1, 2011 Concerned citizens in Kentucky can report “suspicious activity” to their state branch of Homeland Security through an iPhone ap > read more

Exposed: The US-Saudi Libya deal

Published on 2011-04-02 14:55:00

Pepe Escobar Asia TimesYou invade Bahrain. We take out Muammar Gaddafi in Libya. This, in short, is the essence of a deal struck between the Barack Obama administration and the House of Saud. Two diplomatic sources at the United Nations independently > read more

A 100-year battle awaits Fukushima while suicide workers are needed to keep up the rescue efforts

Published on 2011-04-01 13:20:00

By Mike Adams – Natural News April 1, 2011The unfolding of the Fukushima catastrophe continues to worsen. Here are today’s most important developments: • A nuclear expert is now warning that it will take 50 to 100 years before the spent nucle > read more

New Report Projects Bullish Silver Industrial Demand Outlook Through 2015

Published on 2011-04-01 12:32:00

SilverInstitute.org | Mar. 28, 2011 (Washington, D.C. – March 28, 2011) A report released today by the Silver Institute forecasts a healthy outlook for global silver industrial demand, the largest component of annual silver fabrication demand. The > read more

SUPER-SIZED! - Faces of Evil that Rule the World

Published on 2011-04-01 12:03:00

From Beforeitsnews, Fri Dec 10 2010by Zen Gardner (4/01/11) I've tripled the number of new Evil Faces and images since the first Gallery was published in December of '10.  Couldn't help it. Enjoy the updates. I intersperse the new ones and added mor > read more

America's true reason for attacking Libya becomes clear with new central bank

Published on 2011-04-01 11:07:00

By Kenneth Schortgen Jr. | Examiner | Mar. 30, 2011 America's true reason for intervention, and missile attacks against Libya has become very clear today with a sudden creation by the rebels of a new central bank on March 29th.The rebels in Libya a > read more

On the gargantuan lie of climate change science

Published on 2011-04-01 10:55:00

From ActivistTeacher, MARCH 21, 2011 By Denis G. Rancourt In all of human history, what was believed and promoted by the majority of service intellectuals (high priests) in each civilization was only created and maintained to support the hierarchy > read more

Why the Next Move in Gold Could Be Big

Published on 2011-04-01 04:58:00

From The Daily Gold, by Jordan Roy-Byrne, CMT: In recent weeks Gold has made new highs but they have been marginal. That is not what we call a sustained breakout or impulsive advance. In an impulsive advance the market continues higher in an unimpede > read more

Argentina on the Cusp of Hyperinflation

Published on 2011-04-01 04:36:00

From ActingMan, April 1st, 2011  By Pater TenebrarumAn Inflationary Crack-Up BoomWe want to comment on recent events in Argentina, which have not gotten much play in the news media given the flood of newsworthy events in recent weeks. Argentina rep > read more

The Stoner Arms Dealers: How Two American Kids Became Big-Time Weapons Traders (Rolling Stone Exclusive)

Published on 2011-03-31 07:12:00

A must read from Rolling Stone: The e-mail confirmed it: everything was finally back on schedule after weeks of maddening, inexplicable delay. A 747 cargo plane had just lifted off from an airport in Hungary and was banking over the Black Sea towa > read more

So far the US has thrown 3 tons of silver at Libya just with the Tomahawk missiles.

Published on 2011-03-31 06:30:00

How and Why The Elite Destroyed 3 Tons of Silver Last WeekBy Silver Shield, March 30th, 2011I wrote a month ago in an article called Silver Bullet and the Silver Shield, that silver is a vital commodity to our way of life. I stated that silver is a > read more

Preemptive War: Real Terror - Libya's 'Revolutionary' Armed Rulers; Fake Terror Tales Sell Terror Wars

Published on 2011-03-31 05:32:00

From The Burbank Digest, March 31st, 2011  by Liz Burbank Obama on Libya and preemptive war Gene Healy, http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/03/george-... Monday night, the president explained...Some nations may be able to > read more

International law is clear: it is illegal to arm the "rebels".. Obama will be arrested if crosses US borders

Published on 2011-03-31 04:41:00

From Pravda.Ru, 30.03.2011 By Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey  The law is the law, and it is crystal clear. Under the UN Charter and Resolutions 1970 and 1973 it would be illegal for any entity to arm the "rebels" in Libya and in so doing, this would c > read more

Prediction: 20 Years of War in Libya

Published on 2011-03-30 10:23:00

From The Smirking Chimp, March 30, 2011by David Swanson   Johan Galtung, sometimes called the father of peace studies, predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union and the refusal of Egyptian soldiers to attack civilians. His prediction of the coll > read more

Regime Change Libya: Privatization of their Central Bank and the Theft of their Nationalized Oil Profits

Published on 2011-03-30 09:41:00

by Scott Creighton Williloman, March 29, 2011 There is no question anymore as to why the Obama administration is attempting to impose a change of the regime of Libya. On March 17th I wrote about the invasion of Libya being about two main object > read more

Amazing Car Runs On Just Water Alone

Published on 2011-03-30 09:25:00

(It is a miracle that nobody killed this technology and its developers yet): Japanese company Genepax presents its eco-friendly car that runs on nothing but water. The car has an energy generator that extracts hydrogen from water that is poured int > read more

In 2009 Gaddafi Proposed Nationalizing Libya’s Oil

Published on 2011-03-29 14:11:00

By Kurt NimmoInfowars.com - March 29, 2011The Coalition of Globalists are not interested in sheltering the Libyan people from Muammar al- Gaddafi. The no-fly zone and attacks on the Libyan military by NATO and U.S. have nothing to do with democracy > read more

Obama Raises American Hypocrisy to Higher Level

Published on 2011-03-29 12:45:00

From Counterpunch, March 29, 2011By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTSWhat Does the World Think Now?What does the world think?  Obama has been using air strikes and drones against civilians in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and probably Somalia.  In his March 28 s > read more

LIBYA’S BLOOD FOR OIL: THE VAMPIRE WAR

Published on 2011-03-28 06:38:00

From SNIPPITS and SNAPPITS:March 27, 2011By Susan Lindauer Former U.S. Asset who covered Libya at the United Nations from 1995 to 2003Who are we kidding?  The United States, Britain and NATO don’t care about bombing civilians to contain rebellion > read more

12 Warning Signs of U.S. Hyperinflation

Published on 2011-03-28 03:43:00

Just in from NIA: One of the most frequently asked questions we receive at the National Inflation Association (NIA) is what warning signs will there be when hyperinflation is imminent. In our opinion, the majority of the warning signs that hyperinfla > read more

Fukushima Nuclear Reactor Breached

Published on 2011-03-28 03:27:00

Here we have three raging meltdowns in progress, one spent fuel pond open to the air, hydrogen gas explosions, any one of which already exceeds Three Mile Island. – Dr. Michio KakuMichio Kaku, PhD – Three Raging Nuclear Meltdowns In Progress!Fuku > read more

Ellen Brown: Solution to the Budget Crisis: Keeping the State's Money in the State

Published on 2011-03-26 15:54:00

by Ellen Brown Global Research, March 26, 2011 webofdebt.com Cut spending, raise taxes, sell off public assets – these are the unsatisfactory solutions being debated across the nation; but the budget crises now being suffered by nearly all the > read more

Depleted Uranium: A Strange Way To Protect Libyan Civilians

Published on 2011-03-26 11:15:00

From SOTT: By David WilsonStop the War Coalition "[Depleted uranium tipped missiles] fit the description of a dirty bomb in every way... I would say that it is the perfect weapon for killing > read more

Exporting war crimes, Gengis Kahn's style

Published on 2011-03-24 05:35:00

Afghan strongman ‘raped, killed and tortured’Belfast Telegraph, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 The head of Afghanistan's Independent Human Rights Commission has urged Hamid Karzai's government and Nato to investigate allegations that an Afghan strongm > read more

Strategy Of Tension 21

Published on 2011-03-24 04:24:00

From C.O.T.O..: THE WAR OF AGGRESSION BEING WAGED AGAINST LIBYA IS ILLEGAL BOTH DOMESTICALLY AND BY INTERNATIONAL LAW The Constitution for the United States of America [Relevant excerpts of]: Article I Section. 8. The Congress shall have Power To d > read more

Now you can panic: NOW FOR THE REALLY BAD NEWS FROM JAPAN...

Published on 2011-03-23 09:35:00

"You Get 3,500,000 the Normal Dose. You Call That Safe? And What Media Have Reported This? None!"What They're Covering Up at FukushimaHirose TakashiCounterPunch Introduced by Douglas Lummis Hirose Takashi has written a whole shelf full of books, m > read more

“OPERATION ODYSSEY DAWN” BREAKING FOR WASHINGTON

Published on 2011-03-23 06:10:00

by: Thierry Meyssan -  Voltairnet.orgIt was France, the United Kingdom and the United States who submitted to the UN Security Council the text which was adopted as resolution 1793, establishing a no-fly zone over Libya.This initiative must be un > read more

New Videos From The International Center for 9/11 Studies

Published on 2011-03-22 06:41:00

From 911Blogger.com:The International Center for 9/11 Studies has posted four new videos on its YouTube page. All of the videos were discovered in the materials received by the Center in response to its Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against th > read more

A Wafer-Thin No-Fly Zone

Published on 2011-03-22 06:37:00

From Pen and Swordby Jeff Huber “The Congress shall have power…to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions.”--United States Constitution, Article I, Section 8 No doubt o > read more

La Belle disco bombing was really done by Israel, not Libya

Published on 2011-03-22 06:15:00

From SomeUnknownUSHistory, copyrighted Mar. 21, 2011: The 1986 Libyan bombing was really done by Israel -  Mossad linked to the bombing of the disco La Belle   A history of Israeli terrorismAugust 25, 1998:      On April 5, 1986, a bomb > read more

Gates planned invasion and dissection of Libya in 1985

Published on 2011-03-21 16:54:00

“In 1985, sounding very much like one of today’s neoconservative hawks, the then head of intelligence analysis at the CIA [Robert Gates] drafted a plan for a joint U.S.-Egyptian military operation to invade Libya, overthrow Col. Muamar Ghaddafi > read more

Obama's Serbia-Solution for Libya; "Split the country and steal the oil"

Published on 2011-03-21 14:12:00

By Mike Whitney March 20, 2011 "Information Clearing House"  -- The Obama administration never would have launched a war on Libya if they didn't have a puppet-in-waiting ready to take power as soon as the fighting ended. That puppet appears to be > read more

UN Powers Violate Their Own Resolution By Targeting Gaddafi

Published on 2011-03-21 13:52:00

Sarkozy and Cameron exchange a Masonic (thumb on knuckle) handshake. By Paul Joseph WatsonInfowars.com - March 21, 2011As the contrived moral high ground behind the absurdly hypocritical “humanitarian” pretext of the attack on Libya collapses in > read more

US ARMY 'KILL TEAM' IN AFGHANISTAN POSED FOR PHOTOS OF MURDERED CIVILIANS

Published on 2011-03-21 13:45:00

By John BooneThe Guardian, March 21, 2011 Commanders brace for backlash of anti-US sentiment that could be more damaging than after the Abu Ghraib scandal.   The Afghanistan 'kill team' photos of murdered civilians could be more damaging than thos > read more

Libya, Oil, Uranium and War

Published on 2011-03-20 14:46:00

From Winterpatriot, Sun, 03/20/2011 - 14:03 Keith Harmon Snow has written and important and far ranging article on the current situation in Libya and how it has come about entitled GENOCIDE IN LIBYA? NATO INVASION UNDER WAY. ITS THE OIL, STUPID..It > read more

The Libyan Revolution is Dead: Notes for an Autopsy

Published on 2011-03-20 07:01:00

From Mathaba,  2011/03/20 : The "Arab Spring" was a short one; what follows, another NATO Summer, will last much longer. Posted on 18 March 2011 by Maximilian Forte If you do not think about it, there is a lot to cheer about the passage of  > read more

RAYMOND DAVIS RELEASE – IMRAN KHAN & IJAZUL HAQ INTERVIEWS – THE INSIDE STORY

Published on 2011-03-20 06:28:00

From VeteransToday, March 16, 2011, by Gordon Duff :“FAMILY KIDNAPPED, FORCED TO SIGN ‘PARDON LETTER’” – PAKISTAN IN SHOCK“PAKISTAN’S GOVERNMENT HAS SOLD OUT THE PRIDE OF THE NATION”  Imran Khan“ABUSE OF ISLAMIC (SHARIA) LAW BY > read more

Libya: Popular Uprising, Civilian War, or Military Attack?

Published on 2011-03-20 06:05:00

From Dissident Voice:  [This interview took place before the imperialist invasion of Libya, but it provides a requisite background to understanding why this invasion is taking place. -- Eds] Over the last three weeks there have been confrontations > read more

IMF Propose New ‘Federal Reserve’ type World Bank to Issue Global Currency Called the BANCOR

Published on 2011-03-20 04:38:00

From The Sovereign Independent -  20 March 2011 By Dave Derby Conspiracy theory eh?   Well the IMF recently proposed the introduction of a new Global currency – issued by a world bank – called the BANCOR which would replace the Dollar > read more

[WE ARE FREAKING DOOMED]: There is almost 24 times more nuclear fuel at Fukushima than Chernobyl.

Published on 2011-03-19 12:48:00

Friday, March 18, 2011The Amount of Radioactive Fuel at Fukushima DWARFS ChernobylScience Insider noted yesterday:The Daiichi complex in Fukushima, Japan … had a total of 1760 metric tons of fresh and used nuclear fuel on site last year, accord > read more

The Great Anglo-American Gaddafi Deception

Published on 2011-03-19 11:37:00

From LewRockwell, by Ron Holland One has needed a score card to keep up with the twists and turns of the situation in Libya and what will follow over the weekend is still unclear. My point is while we wish the people of Libya and their color rev > read more

A Loose Word From The Spooks

Published on 2011-03-19 11:00:00

From Flogging Dead Horses:I’ve been hand-cuffed to the corporate rat race for the last few weeks and frankly could not raise the energy to write anything meaningful. My multi-part piece on the ‘Big Picture’ is still in the pipeline. Unfortunat > read more

Ellen Brown: Secretive Plan For a Global Currency

Published on 2011-03-19 06:35:00

Excerpt from "The Global Economic Crisis: The Great Depression of the XXI Century"By Ellen BrownGlobal Research, March 17, 2011 The following is an excerpt of a chapter by Ellen Brown from the new book by Global Research Publishers, "The Global E > read more

Possibly the Last Time to Get Out of the Dollar

Published on 2011-03-15 13:39:00

From Sovereign Man: Finance, lifestyle design, Offshore Business and Expat news by Simon BlackMarch 15, 2011 Dallas, Texas, USA It’s no secret that the United States government owes a pretty penny to foreigners. Certainly, what America owes to > read more

Jobs: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Published on 2011-03-15 11:03:00

Worldwide, people with "good jobs," those who are employed full time for an employer, tend to have the highest wellbeing. The self-employed tend to have the lowest wellbeing.  Read more at GALLUP.com. Related: The sad but true story of wages in > read more

Tokyo Electric to Build US Nuclear Plants: The No BS Info on Japan's Disastrous Nuclear Operators

Published on 2011-03-15 06:00:00

by Greg PalastGlobal Research, March 14, 2011 Truthout I need to speak to you, not as a reporter, but in my former capacity as lead investigator in several government nuclear plant fraud and racketeering investigations.I don't know the law in Japan, > read more

Europe's Coming Meltdown

Published on 2011-03-15 05:42:00

From The Daily Bell, Tuesday, March 15, 2011 – by  Staff Report: Total German triumph as EU minnows subjugated ... The Iron Chancellor of Germany could not have been clearer. "Whoever wants credit must fulfill our conditions". Chancellor Angela > read more

Pics from 1972 Rothschild Party (the elite were doing it before Gaga)

Published on 2011-03-14 17:21:00

From The Vigilant Citizen :Before It’s News found an interesting article on a Rothschild Party written by attendee Baron Alexis de Redé. These elite figures truly enjoy walking around with serious faces wearing creepy costumes. You think Gaga > read more

‘Libya’ Does Not Exist

Published on 2011-03-14 17:03:00

By Justin RaimondoAntiwar 03/14/11The idea that there is a nation called “Libya” is the central problem with our understanding of what is going on in that fake “country,” the flaw in our projections of what will or ought to happen.The count > read more

The Rule of Gold After The Financial Collapse

Published on 2011-03-14 15:49:00

From Activist PostBy SARTRE, Contributing Writer In a secular world, the operative "Golden Rule" is "He Who Has the Gold Makes the Rules". The condition of the global financial banking system is untenable. The aggregate amount of debt worldwide is > read more

Triumph of a monster in Libya

Published on 2011-03-13 05:04:00

From Painfultruths, Saturday, 12 March 2011 : In a recent article published on the BBC News website ("Libya crisis: no 'happy ending' for Colonel Gaddafi"), Shashank Joshi, an Associate Fellow at a British defence think-tank, the Royal United Servi > read more

'Mission No. 77': U.S. – Funded False Flag Terrorism in Egypt

Published on 2011-03-12 06:29:00

From LewRockwell: by William Norman GriggRecently by William Norman Grigg: Radicalizing the 'Homeland' Shortly after midnight on the morning of New Year's Day, a green Skoda automobile pulled up outside the Saints Coptic Orthodox Church in Alexa > read more

Breaking news on the state of apocalypse in Japan

Published on 2011-03-12 04:54:00

Just in from CLG, 12 Mar 2011 -Early Edition: Breaking: Quake-hit nuclear plant 'may be in meltdown': Japan media 11 Mar 2011 Japan's nuclear authorities warned Saturday that quake-hit atomic plant Fukushima No. 1, about 250 kilometres (160 miles) > read more

Former Goldman Sachs Analyst Charles Nenner Joins Marc Faber and Gerald Celente in Predicting Major War

Published on 2011-03-11 04:39:00

From Washington’s Blog :I noted in 2009:The claim that America would launch more wars to the help the economy is outrageous, right?Certainly.But leading economist Marc Faber has repeatedly said that the American government will start new wars > read more

Here it comes the big dump: WORLD’S LARGEST BOND FUND DUMPS ALL U.S. GOVERNMENT DEBT

Published on 2011-03-10 17:19:00

Reuters:The world’s largest bond fund has gone ultra bearish on the United States, dumping all of its U.S. government-related debt holdings.The move by Bill Gross’s $236.9 billion PIMCO Total Return fund completed last month comes in the wake of > read more

Stealing from Social Security to Pay for Wars and Bailouts

Published on 2011-03-10 16:42:00

By Paul Craig RobertsInfowars.com, March 10, 2011The American Empire is failing. A number of its puppet rulers are being overthrown by popular protests, and the almighty dollar will not even buy one Swiss franc, one Canadian dollar, or one Australia > read more

Egyptian Revolution? Globalists Own Both Horses In Two Horse Race

Published on 2011-03-10 16:37:00

By Paul Joseph Watson  Infowars.com - March 10, 2011 So soon we’ll find out who is the real revolutionaries;And I don’t want my people to be tricked by mercenaries.Bob Marley.Globalist stooge Mohamed ElBaradei is being groomed by the elite to su > read more

Forward We Stumble

Published on 2011-03-10 16:19:00

From Kennysideshow : Family Life by Tanya Miller As we stumble along our paths there are no doubts that we are encountering degenerative elements who with every move are attempting to see to it that we are the ones th > read more

Foundations of Evil

Published on 2011-03-09 09:54:00

By Cassandra Anderson Morphcity, March 8, 2011Foundations, Depopulation & the TaxpayerMany "philanthropic" foundations have been used in America as a tax dodge to protect family fortunes, to polish tarnished images of robber barons and worst of a > read more

Sheeple: Government Handouts = 35 Percent Of U.S. Wages But For Michael Moore That Is Not Nearly Enough

Published on 2011-03-09 08:56:00

From The Economic Collapse Blog: The ratio of government handouts to wages and salaries in the United States is now at an all-time high.  According to TrimTabs Investment Research, government handouts have reached a level that is equivalent to 35 > read more

Governments are about to lose control of the markets

Published on 2011-03-09 08:05:00

From Financeandeconomics, 7 March 2011: By  Alasdair Macleod The low interest rate honeymoon is coming to an end, and we can now expect rates to rise and continue to rise for the foreseeable future. For Western economies and their banking systems > read more

Obama orders resumption of military trials at Guantanamo

Published on 2011-03-09 05:01:00

By Barry Grey WSWS, March 8 2011 President Barack Obama on Monday announced the lifting of a 25-month stay on new military trials at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba prison camp, effectively repudiating his post-inauguration pledge to close the infamous f > read more

The Old Gang's All Here - Libya and the Return of Humanitarian Imperialism

Published on 2011-03-09 04:55:00

By JEAN BRICMONT Counterpunch, March 8, 2011 The whole gang is back: The parties of the European Left (grouping the "moderate" European communist parties), the "Green" José Bové, now allied with Daniel Cohn-Bendit, who has never seen a US-NATO war > read more

Pepe Escobar: Gaddafi Doubles Down, More Dangerous Than Ever

Published on 2011-03-08 13:19:00

From Alternet, March 6, 2011  By Pepe Escobar You're Muammar Gaddafi, and you're sitting in your Bab al-Azizia bunker sipping green tea and surveying the odds of staying in power. Let's see. You control some neighborhoods in Tripoli; some cities > read more

Silver Big News of the day

Published on 2011-03-08 12:35:00

From Sherriequestioningall, TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 2011 U.S. Mint - NO 2011 Silver Eagles Until FALL! They have not sold ONE Silver Eagle in March - No Silver for them too?You make up your own mind what is going on.  Also see how they now have on their s > read more

Roger Hayes – Rise like lions – Council Tax Lawful Rebellion – Judge arrested

Published on 2011-03-08 07:25:00

From lawfulrebellion.org The main audio reporting for the duration of todays’ events pushed the technological limit. Live bursts from the scene and commentary: Universally Aware Blog Talk Radio showContext>> Roger Hayes of The British Const > read more

Investment bankers salivate over North Africa

Published on 2011-03-08 01:53:00

Chaos and strife create the revolutionary atmosphere in which opportunity abounds Written by Atheo | Aletho News | March 8, 2011Investment banking is often thought of as a field that values stability. Yet the greatest rewards are often attained thr > read more

Is It Time For Pitchforks In Ireland?

Published on 2011-03-07 03:01:00

From The Market Ticker Posted 2011-03-06 by Karl Denninger  You have to wonder.... The Fine Gael/Labour coalition Government is to implement in detail the outgoing Government's four-year austerity plan as approved by the EU-IMF, the Sunday In > read more

what you can do is subvert

Published on 2011-03-07 02:28:00

Must read of the day from Center for a Stateless Society :One of the things that makes political polemics diabolically difficult and often deviously diversionary, is that the propaganda engines of statist society evacuate context and eviscerate con > read more

CIA terrorism under US diplomatic cover: ‘Davis’ is not an isolated incident

Published on 2011-03-07 01:21:00

From Justanotherinsidejob, 6 march 2011By Pakistan PatriotCIA agents, mercenaries, Xe operatives, JSOC operatives, and Hyperion types have had several run ins with the Pakistani authorities. This has been repeatedly reported in many Pakistani med > read more

‘Catastrophic Zionism’: How Turmoil Benefits Israel

Published on 2011-03-06 16:50:00

by Michael Collins Piper - Revoltoftheplebes If there is anything that can be said about the crisis in Egypt—which is reverberating throughout the Middle East—it is that it is ultimately open to multiple interpretations.  Any “expert” who > read more

International Forecaster March 2011 (#2) - Gold, Silver, Economy + More

Published on 2011-03-06 15:22:00

From The International Forecaster, 6 March 2011 By Bob Chapman  The Federal Reserve tells us we need inflation to overcome the overhang created by debt and its inflationary aspects. The inflation does not create jobs – it just distorts prices u > read more

Civil war in Libya, intervention by the West already a reality

Published on 2011-03-06 13:13:00

by William Bowles Global Research, March 6, 2011 williambowles.info "Defence secretary Liam Fox today confirmed that a British diplomatic team is in Libya talking to rebel forces." -- 'SAS unit 'held by Libyan rebels'', The Independent, 6 March 2 > read more

The New Abnormal.

Published on 2011-03-05 08:39:00

From 24hgold,  March 05th, 2011 by Roger Wiegand - Webeatthestreet Analysts and traders have been watching precious metals closely in recent years wondering when and if the metals would separate from the trading influence of the broader stock ma > read more

Western military intervention would be "a knife at the heart of the revolutionary process now sweeping the Arab world." But of course, that's exactly what Peace prizeniks and Etonian schoolboys now leading the "Free World" would l

Published on 2011-03-05 06:40:00

By Chris Floyd, March 04, 2011     The howling hypocrisy of the American response to the uprising in Libya has been so jaw-dropping and nauseating that I've hardly been able to address it. Fortunately, Seamus Milne is on the case, and voices > read more

People Of Earth: You Are So Freaking Doomed

Published on 2011-03-05 06:24:00

From The Economic Collapse Blog, March 4th, 2011It is not just the United States that is headed for an economic collapse. The truth is that the entire world is heading for a massive economic meltdown and the people of earth need to be warned about > read more

YES, YOU CAN SURVIVE THE COMING ECONOMIC NIGHTMARE

Published on 2011-03-05 06:03:00

From The American Dream, March 5, 2011 (hat tip to Snippits and snappits) If you work hard and get prepared, you can survive the economic nightmare that is coming.  All over the United States and around the world there are millions of people that > read more

Egypt: A Virtual Smoking Gun?

Published on 2011-03-04 17:02:00

From Thepassionateattachment.com:On January 12, 2009, US Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs James K. Glassman joined a group of Egyptian political bloggers from the Virtual Newsroom of the American University in Cairo.Less than > read more

Lockerbie Diary: Gadhaffi, Fall Guy For CIA Drug Running

Published on 2011-03-04 16:57:00

From The Intel Hub, March 4th, 2011 By Susan Lindauer, Former U.S. Asset covering Iraq and Libya – Contributing Writer For years I was told the terrorist who placed the bomb on board Pan Am 103, known as the Lockerbie bombing, lives about 8 mil > read more

Pepe Escobar: War porn is back in Libya

Published on 2011-03-04 15:59:00

From ATimes, Mar 3, 2011 - THE ROVING EYE By Pepe Escobar  Forget "democracy"; Libya, unlike Egypt and Tunisia, is an oil power. Many a plush office of United States and European elites will be salivating at the prospect of taking advantage of > read more

Here's How You Know Qaddafi Had A Great Week Fighting The Rebels

Published on 2011-03-04 15:28:00

From Clusterstock:Qaddafi spent this week making it clear (to the best of his ability) that he's not going anywhere. And he's succeeding. On InTrade, the odds of his departure by the end of the year have fallen from 90+ to about 78 this week. Join > read more

Sell every single asset you own right now and buy physical silver

Published on 2011-03-04 14:32:00

From Donttreadonme, By Silver Shield, February 25th, 2011The Ultimate FREE Silver Investors Guide.Two of the most common questions I get inside of the Sons of Liberty Academy focus on two things:  how to turn back the tide of this increasingly co > read more

The Arab Awakening: The Name Changes, But Will the Song Remain the Same?

Published on 2011-03-03 14:55:00

From FPIF, , March 3, 2011 By Rob PrinceIf you can't beat 'em, try smothering 'em with a bear hug. While no doubt the United States is quite nervous about where all the Middle East protests are headed – the unknown factor rattles the stock marke > read more

NM Rothschild & Sons Are Moving In For The Kill

Published on 2011-03-03 14:27:00

by Raymond L’Heureux  The World Bank/IMF is owned and controlled by NM Rothschild & Sons plus 30 to 40 of the wealthiest people in the world. For over 150 years they have planned to take over the planet through money. The former chief economi > read more

James Petras: Roots of the Arab Revolts and Premature Celebrations

Published on 2011-03-03 12:53:00

From Lahaine.org, 03.03.2011: Most accounts of the Arab revolts from Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Morocco, Yemen, Jordan, Bahrain, Iraq and elsewhere have focused on the most immediate causes: political dictatorships, unemployment, repression and the woun > read more

Hitlery Clinton declares international information war

Published on 2011-03-03 12:16:00

From RT,  03 March, 2011: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testifies before a Senate Appropriations Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, March 2, 2011 (AFP Photo / Rod Lamkey Jr) The US is losing the global information war, Secretary o > read more

China "Attacks The Dollar" - Moves To Further Cement Renminbi Reserve Currency Status

Published on 2011-03-03 06:17:00

From ZeroHedge,  by Tyler Durden 03/02/2011 In a surprising turn of events, today's biggest piece of news received a mere two paragraph blurb on Reuters, and was thoroughly ignored by the broader media. An announcement appeared shortly after m > read more

CIA Agent Davis Accused of Orchestrating Terrorism

Published on 2011-03-03 06:04:00

From truth-out.org, March 2, 2011By David Lindorff  The ongoing case of Raymond Davis, the CIA contractor facing murder charges in Lahore for the execution-style slaying of two apparent agents of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) a > read more

Too late to jail bank CEOs; only revolution will succeed

Published on 2011-03-02 19:10:00

From The Burning Platform:I wonder when they will find Paul Farrell’s body floating in a lake. He is relentless and he is 100% right.Four time bombs that will blow up Wall Street Commentary: Too late to jail bank CEOs; only revolution will succeedB > read more

Qaddafi the Jew, the Rothschilds & the Mossad

Published on 2011-03-02 18:16:00

From Bollyn.com, March 2, 2011 By Christopher Bollyn During a discussion on Israel Radio they just dropped this little tidbit. There is a Jew left in Libya. His name is Muammar Gadhafi. - "You won't believe this...Gadhafi's mother was Jewish", 2 > read more

Charlie Sheen, Mind Control, 9/11 and The Sixth Extinction

Published on 2011-03-02 17:24:00

From Sott, Wed, 02 Mar 2011  By Joe Quinn Why has Charlie Sheen 'gone off' in such spectacular fashion? Admittedly, it's not exactly unusual for a Hollywood star to go on a drink and drug-fuelled 'bender' and end up in rehab, but for most of the > read more

From JFK's Murder, to "Operations Northwoods," to 9/11, or Welcome to Fascist America

Published on 2011-03-02 13:11:00

From Goon Squad, by Greg BaconThe Perfidy of Government: Evidence v. Denial  Kennedy had not gone along with the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, calling off the U.S. air support. He had nixed the Operation Northwoods project conceived by the Join > read more

The War Party’s Atrocity Porn

Published on 2011-03-02 12:49:00

From LewRockwell,  | March 1, 2011 By William Norman Grigg “This is a massacre,” the frantic Libyan woman, speaking by telephone while cowering in her apartment in Tripoli, told CNN’s Anderson Cooper. “I hope you know that people around t > read more

Latests from Uruknet

Published on 2011-03-02 12:13:00

U.S. Stays Mum as Iraqi Security Forces Kill, Detain and Abuse Protesters by Marian Wang March 1, 2011 - As the Mideast protests and government crackdowns continue, one country to watch closely is Iraq, with whom the U.S. has a long-term partnership > read more

The Well-Traveled Funds of Fed Money Creation

Published on 2011-02-28 04:19:00

From The Daily Reckoning,By The Mogambo Guru02/25/11 Tampa, Florida – Someone named Denis wrote to Mish Shedlock of globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com and asked, “I read many times on your blog how bubbles created by the Fed led to the overpri > read more

A summary of CIA support to death squads worldwide, 1953 to 1994

Published on 2011-02-28 02:01:00

From SomeUnknownUSHistory : Ralph Walter McGehee CIA from 1952 to 1977   Ralph McGehee was a CIA officer from 1952 and 1977 and he says of  his experience,  "... the CIA is the covert action arm of the Presidency. Most of its money, manpow > read more

JAMES PETRAS : Greek P.M. – Zionism and the IMF’s Last Best Friend

Published on 2011-02-27 16:16:00

“Like Mubarak, George Papandreou combines servility to his imperial mentors with arrogance and brutality to his Greek subjects. As the Egyptians demonstrated it will take the Greek people more than marches and occasional strikes to bring down an en > read more

World cheers as the CIA plunges Libya into chaos

Published on 2011-02-27 15:54:00

By David Rothscum with Axis of Logic Editorial StatementDavid Rothscum Reports. Axis of LogicSunday, Feb 27, 2011 Editorial Statement Libyan leader and chairman of the African Union, Muammar Gaddafi, says that a one state solution is the key to > read more

Is Libya The New Iraq? U.S. Prepares Libyan Invasion

Published on 2011-02-27 15:40:00

NoWorldSystem.com February 26, 2011 Many signs are pointing to the potential U.S. military invasion of Libya, much like how the U.S. invaded Iraq for oil, to topple Saddam and replace him with a brand new puppet dictator. Obama announced that he wi > read more

Max Keiser: On the Edge with Gerald Celente

Published on 2011-02-27 14:38:00

From PressTVGlobalNews, Feb 26, 2011Gerald Celente, the man behind the famous Trends Journal, is Max Keiser’s guest for this edition of Press TV’s On the Edge. The main focus of today’s show is on the relationship between Middle East uprising > read more

The Flight into Gold and Silver

Published on 2011-02-27 14:11:00

by Bob Chapman Global Research, February 27, 2011  The world is awash in dollars and that is being reflected in the USDX, which are six major currencies versus the dollar. The loss of value is being loudly trumpeted as the IMF says a replacement m > read more

7/7 Inquest: Was someone afraid to reveal the causes of deaths?

Published on 2011-02-27 13:39:00

From Terror on theTube: It is quite startling to realise that a special room had been set up to receive the dead of the July 7th bombings in a temporary morgue built on army land, the contract for which (see 1 below) arrived on the contractor’s > read more

The Real Revolution

Published on 2011-02-26 14:07:00

From Land Destroyer: editorial by Tony Cartalucci Believe it or not, growing your own food or visiting your local farmers market is more revolutionary and constructive than burning down your own city and killing security forces.  As Washington plu > read more

Good news of the day: no need to quit smoking when apocalypse will hit

Published on 2011-02-25 10:54:00

Now in Brooklyn, Homegrown Tobacco: Local, Rebellious and Tax FreeThe cigarettes Audrey Silk used to smoke - Parliament Lights - are made at a factory in Richmond, Va. The cigarettes she smokes these days are made and grown in Brooklyn, at her house. > read more

Debauched news of the day: Breast Milk Ice Cream Can Be Yours for $23 a Cone

Published on 2011-02-25 10:40:00

From Gawker: A London ice cream parlor called "Icecreamists" has introduced a "pure, organic, free-range and totally natural" new flavor: Breast milk. Well, actually, the flavor is a kind of lemon-vanilla, but the cream is made from breast milk.  > read more

Bollyn: Is Qaddafi Working With Mossad?

Published on 2011-02-25 09:35:00

by Christopher Bollyn The evidence indicates that Muammar Qaddafi, who controls the largest oil reserves in Africa, is secretly working with the Rothschild family and the Mossad. 'Fighter aircraft were bombing civilians on the streets of Tripo > read more

Internet Trolls Wars: Latest Propaganda Gadget From US Army

Published on 2011-02-25 09:19:00

Darlene Storm PC WorldIt’s recently been revealed that the U.S. government contracted HBGary Federal for the development of software which could create multiple fake social media profiles to manipulate and sway public opinion on controversial issue > read more

War, Martial Law, and the Economic Crisis - Excerpt from "The Global Economic Crisis: The Great Depression of the XXI Century"

Published on 2011-02-25 08:48:00

From Global Research, February 23, 2011by Peter Dale Scott The following is an excerpt of a chapter by Peter Dale Scott from the new book by Global Research Publishers, `The Global Economic Crisis: The Great Depression of the XXI Century.`  The > read more

Pakistani and Indian Newspaper Say US CIA Contractor Raymond Davis is a Terrorist

Published on 2011-02-25 04:55:00

By Dave Lindorff – This Can’t Be Happening – 02/24/2011Pakistani and Indian newspapers are reporting that Raymond Davis, the CIA contractor in jail in Lahore facing murder charges for the execution-slayings of two young men believed to by Pak > read more

Another Runaway General: Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators

Published on 2011-02-25 04:37:00

The U.S. Army illegally ordered a team of soldiers specializing in "psychological operations" to manipulate visiting American senators into providing more troops and funding for the war, Rolling Stone has learned – and when an officer tried to stop > read more

The Egypt leak, and Libya updates

Published on 2011-02-25 04:21:00

From CANNONFIRE : Okay, I know. Egypt is like, so five minutes ago. Right now, everyone is doing Wisconsin and Libya and Charlie Sheen and the Oscars. But let's head back to the land of the pharaohs to revisit a question that we've looked at before > read more

Bernanke, You Stupid Bastard

Published on 2011-02-25 04:14:00

By Karl Denninger Market Ticker, Feb 22, 2011 Yes, you. And Trichet, and the rest of the Central Bank fools. But especially you, Bernanke. There's dumb and then there's really dumb. Let's take a short walk back down history lane. You were sure t > read more

The Goldsmiths, Part CLXXXII

Published on 2011-02-25 04:08:00

By R. D. Bradshaw -  www.analysis-news.com, -- Friday, 25 February 2011  Something big is going on in international finance as this Goldsmiths will explain.  In the way of a backdrop, it must be said that several non-Rothschild controlled nati > read more

[WTF] USA officially sold to China

Published on 2011-02-23 15:51:00

From The International Forecaster, February 23 2011: ...Sources at the United States Embassy in Beijing China have just CONFIRMED to me that the United States of America has tendered to China a written agreement which grants to the People's Repu > read more

Meanwhile, in Greece...

Published on 2011-02-23 15:23:00

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Exclusive: Tobruk celebrates, Libya's east abandons Gaddafi

Published on 2011-02-23 14:27:00

Reuters, February 22, 2011 TOBRUK, Libya (Reuters) - Bursts of celebratory machinegun fire echoed through the streets of Tobruk on Tuesday as anti-government protesters trashed a monument to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's most treasured work > read more

A Visual Reminder Of US Social Stratification

Published on 2011-02-23 04:40:00

From Zero Hedge, Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/22/2011 : While many watch the revolutions starting virtually on a daily basis in the "developing world", few are concerned that these have any chance of occurring in the United States: "our soc > read more

Just color revolutions? When conspiracy theories become too much conspiratorial

Published on 2011-02-22 13:20:00

Tony Cartalucci has been doing an admirable work of enquiry on US sponsoring of opposition movements in North Africa and elsewhere lately. Unfortunately, while I have no doubt about his findings and their importance, I differ on their interpretation. > read more

CIA Agent, Davis, Accused of Delivering “Dirty Bomb” To Taliban

Published on 2011-02-22 12:38:00

By ANI | ANI – Sun, Feb 20, 2011 12:18 PM IST - (Hat tip to VeteransToday)London, Feb 20(ANI): Double murder-accused US official Raymond Davis has been found in possession of top-secret CIA documents, which point to him or the feared American Tas > read more

6 Charts Which Prove That Central Banks All Over The Globe Are Recklessly Printing Money

Published on 2011-02-21 15:17:00

From The Economic Collapse Blog:If the U.S. dollar is being devalued so rapidly, then why does it sometimes increase in value against other global currencies?  Well, it is because everybody is recklessly printing money now.  The 6 charts which yo > read more

The Numbers Behind the Middle Eastern and North African Revolts

Published on 2011-02-21 13:32:00

by Washington's BlogGlobal Research, February 21, 2011 Washington's Blog - 2011-02-20 What determines which Middle Eastern or North African (MENA) countries will face revolt? On February 3rd, the Economist came up with a list of "vulnerable" > read more

LOL - Not satire: A geek fooled the CIA into handing over £13m for a computer program to 'stop Al Qaeda attacks'

Published on 2011-02-21 02:39:00

This is so telling about who is in charge of US national "security": From Mail Online, 20th February 2011By DAILY MAIL REPORTER A computer expert was paid more than £13million after fooling the CIA that he had developed software to stop Al Qaeda a > read more

The EU – brainchild of top Nazi economists and industrialists, as a means of acquiring dictatorial power over Europe and now the U.S.

Published on 2011-02-20 13:21:00

From Press Core: A writer who was collecting material for a fictional book based around the premise that top Nazis, seeking to preserve their power at the end of the second world war, conspired to create a Fourth Reich under the auspices of the Eu > read more

Analysis of the Global Insurrection Against Neo-Liberal Economic Domination and the Coming American Rebellion – We Are Egypt [Revolution Roundup #3]

Published on 2011-02-20 12:47:00

From Ampedstatus, February 20th, 2011 By David DeGraw Editor’s Note: The following report includes adapted excerpts from David DeGraw’s book, “The Road Through 2012: Revolution or World War III.”The Road to RevolutionPart One :: Neo-Liberal > read more

Who and Why did 9/11: The final word

Published on 2011-02-20 06:09:00

This is the most detailed and plausible reconstruction I have seen up to now. It must be from an insider. A good sunday reading: Collateral Damage U.S. Covert Operations and the Terrorist Attacks on September 11 2001 Collateral Da > read more

Euro downgrades and looting

Published on 2011-02-18 11:34:00

From Golem XIV - Thoughts -  02-18-2011: Remember when I wrote that I thought the EU was repositioning for the next big event? Here's a small time line of scattered events. Over the last few months, it turns out, ECB bail outs and loans just > read more

The Junk Bond “Teflon Guy” Behind Egypt’s Nonviolent Revolution

Published on 2011-02-18 10:42:00

From Dissident Voice by Maidhc Ó Cathail On February 9, Al Jazeera aired an episode in its People and Power series entitled “Egypt: Seeds of Change.” The programme offers a revealing behind the scenes look at a core group of activists from > read more

Raymond Davis Affair: Deeper than you think - and profound repercussions

Published on 2011-02-18 10:23:00

 From The Islamabad Globe – 14 February 2011Undoubtedly this is the biggest scandal in US Foreign relations since the US was shot down by the Soviets in the sixties. Then, as now, both sides played out the drama in an iterative manner–neithe > read more

Proof! Your TV & Computer Can Manipulate Your Brain

Published on 2011-02-18 07:19:00

(This explains many things):By Barbara H. PetersonFarm WarsThe TV and your computer monitor can be used to manipulate your nervous system. Here is the proof. Read it and weep:  Nervous system manipulation by electromagnetic fields from monitors > read more

Social Security is not an “entitlement” program

Published on 2011-02-18 07:00:00

From Activist Post By Marti Oakley, Contributing Writer A long coveted cut to Social Security and Medicare is going to happen.  This will occur for reasons none of the politicians in the District of Criminals will ever speak about publicly.  The > read more

Witnesses Saw People "Vaporized" on 9/11

Published on 2011-02-18 05:26:00

From Before its news, Fri Feb 18 2011:Intro by Nila Sagadevan (compiled by Zen Gardner) As I revisited this whole nuke thing after all these years and was mulling over the photos of all those singed and bent vehicles, my friend Connie Smith -- a long > read more

Apple’s iPhone 5 RFID Chip Rotten to the Core

Published on 2011-02-18 05:18:00

By Neil Foster – The Sovereign Independent - Reading the article below, it may seem fairly innocent and inoccuous of Apple to suggest that their new iPhone will have a ‘new twist’ but then again, it may not. When passing through a UK airport > read more

Egypt revolution: The people have awaken

Published on 2011-02-17 15:54:00

From Eurasia Review by Mike Whitney “The revolution in Egypt is an expression of the will of the people, the determination of the people, the commitment of the people….Muslims and Christians have worked together in this revolution, as have the > read more

Gold Demand: India & China Jump to New Records

Published on 2011-02-17 14:33:00

From Gold News, 17 February 2011 By Adrian Ash Forget central banks and Western "haven" demand. Indian and Chinese households drove 2010's surge in gold demand...PENSION SAVERS and investors hoping to defend their standard of living as global inc > read more

GEAB N°52: Global systemic crisis / World geopolitical breakup – End of 2011: Fall of the “Petro-dollar wall” and a major monetary-oil shock for the United States

Published on 2011-02-17 06:56:00

- Public announcement GEAB N°52 (February 16, 2011) - With this issue our team is celebrating two important anniversaries in anticipation terms. Exactly five years ago, in February 2006, the GEAB N°2 suddenly encountered worldwide success by anno > read more

War By Way Of Deception

Published on 2011-02-17 05:51:00

From Winterpatriot, Tue, 02/15/2011: My apologies for the delay in publishing the next installment in the series of "How Israel Plans to Rule the World". However, I have come across an excellent article written by Jonathan Azaziah entitled, "Isra > read more

Climate change scientists call for food rationing to reduce carbon emissions

Published on 2011-02-17 04:46:00

From NaturalNews, February 17, 2011 by: David Gutierrez, staff writer: (NaturalNews) Leading scientists have called for World War II-style rationing in First World countries to avert catastrophic global warming, in a series of papers published by > read more

Dear Poor People, Thank You for Going Without Heat So We Can Buy Another Week of War

Published on 2011-02-16 16:28:00

From Firedoglake: Dear low-income American, I know times are tough. I know many of you saw your savings and home values hurt by Wall Street recklessness. I also know that, with official unemployment above 9 percent, it is tough to find a job, and m > read more

Is USA Planning a Mumbai type Attack Against Argentina?

Published on 2011-02-16 16:21:00

From Goon Squad by Greg Bacon: US continues on with its illegal dirty wars as per usualArgentina’s foreign ministry has issued a press release stating that it will be making a formal protest overundeclared weapons and drugs brought into the nat > read more

Gerald Celente on Obama’s Budget – RT 15 Feb 2011

Published on 2011-02-16 15:58:00

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Miserable B/S of the year: Meet the scapegoat for the Iraq genocide

Published on 2011-02-16 12:27:00

This ridicolous B/S is intended to absolve the western war criminals who committed a genocide in cold blood in Iraq lasted more than a decade. The abysmal idiocy of the following betrays the view that they have of their subjects (which may be right > read more

GORDON DUFF: AMERICA’S MURDERER-DIPLOMAT IN PAKISTAN, A STRANGE TALE

Published on 2011-02-15 14:39:00

From VeteransToday, February 14, 2011, by Gordon Duff ·  DAVIS FOR AAFIA SWAP DEMANDED“Enclaves of Americans, CIA, Blackwater, “diplomats,” are said to be all over Pakistan.  Webster Tarpley (video below) claims they are recruiting and t > read more

A Warning for Egyptian Revolutionaries: Courtesy of People-Power in the Philippines

Published on 2011-02-15 14:23:00

By Michael Barker | February 15, 2011Much like Mubarak, the former democratic reformer turned long serving US dictator for the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos, demonstrates what can happen to even stalwart defenders of capitalism when they are opposed > read more

TSA Workers Admit To Stealing Huge Amounts Of Cash From Passengers

Published on 2011-02-15 13:35:00

(Check your wallet every time you meet TSA goons)Steve Watson & Paul Joseph Watson Prisonplanet.com - Feb 15, 2011The revelation that TSA workers have admitted to stealing huge amounts of cash from passengers they singled out for enhanced secur > read more

False flag terrorism news of the day

Published on 2011-02-14 13:07:00

1. Mubarak Regime Orchestrated the Church Blast to Please USA &Israel ...New insights into the latest bombing attacks on the Alexandria church which took place on the New Year Eve and killed 23 and wounded more than 90 innocent people are su > read more

We've met the enemy and is the FED!

Published on 2011-02-14 12:41:00

The Wallace Street JournalStiff the Fed February 11, 2011 By David Bond, Editor Silverminers.comWallace, Idaho - Ron Paul has written a book, End the Fed, well known in these circles. We have a better idea: Stiff the Fed.In case you missed it, the fi > read more

2/13 Egypt Rising? Transparent Trappings of U.S. Creative Destruction for a ’Greater Middle East' and Beyond, part 4

Published on 2011-02-14 07:13:00

From The Burbank Digest, February 14th, 2011 by Liz Burbank PROMOTING THIS AS 'REVOLUTION' IS TO SUPPORT U.S. STRATEGY AIMING TO AVERT GENUINE REVOLUTION BY RESTRUCTURING/RE-FORMING ITS REGIONAL DOMINATION IN FAVOR OF ITS DOOMED GLOBAL DOMINATION S > read more

Greece, Ireland and the EU bailouts: the end of democracy in Europe

Published on 2011-02-14 06:33:00

From Mail Online - Euroseptic: Mary Ellen Synon in BrusselsHere is an edited version of my column in today's Irish Daily Mail: What a delight the Greeks are. All that noise, all that passion. All that debt, all that ignorance: I mean they still don > read more

Anglosphere Plots Color Revolutions Around the World?

Published on 2011-02-13 16:27:00

From The Daily Bell, February 12, 2011 by  Anthony Wile Hosni Mubarak has resigned. The Egyptian "color" revolution (ie: a peaceable one), carried out by heroic people risking life and limb, has been apparently been a success. I only wish it we > read more

Currency Manipulators Created $7 Trillion, Causing the Global Economic Bubble

Published on 2011-02-13 15:40:00

From The Daily Reckoning By Richard Duncan 02/13/11 Singapore, Singapore – The single most important development affecting the global economy over the past decade has been the creation of $7 trillion worth of paper money by central banks in d > read more

Bolivian President Evo Morales flees town ahead of speech after angry miners throw dynamite in protest at food shortages

Published on 2011-02-13 14:01:00

LOL. The following proves that people does not give a sh*t any more about labels like "left" or "right", but just to hard cold facts like food price (which is already moving up fast worldwide, and going much higher according most of analysts): Fro > read more

Dimitri Khalezov: 11th of September - the third truth

Published on 2011-02-12 17:46:00

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Forces Behind the Egyptian Revolution

Published on 2011-02-12 15:12:00

From The economic populistby Michael Collins , 02/11/2011 - 04:57  (Washington, DC) Two critical forces behind the Egyptian Revolution are missing from the front pages, or any pages, of the corporate media.. They are the critical role of Egypt's > read more

Fiat World: Uprising and Downfalling

Published on 2011-02-11 14:42:00

By James WestMidasLetter.com February 11, 2011 Certain characteristics of crumbling empires are historically recurring, and pattern recognition practitioners are thus informed and so forewarned. Their discourse is labeled contrarian, hysterical, str > read more

Web 2.0 FBI backdoors are bad for you and for national security too

Published on 2011-02-11 05:39:00

From Slight Paranoia, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 09, 2011 by Christopher Soghoian, security and privacy researcher.  Charlie Savage broke the news yesterday that the House will be holding a hearing in two weeks on the subject of CALEA – the 1994 l > read more

More austerity for poor people, fat biz for JPMorgan

Published on 2011-02-10 15:59:00

Just in from Ampedstatus: New Obama strategy: Beat up poor people Obama will propose big cuts to a program that provides energy assistance to poor people when it unveils its suggested 2012 budget. The Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, or L > read more

BLOCKBUSTER EXCLUSIVE: NUCLEAR TERROR-”THE KHALEZOV EFFECT” (VIDEO)

Published on 2011-02-10 04:06:00

From VeteransToday, February 10, 2011, by Gordon Duff NUCLEAR TERRORISM IS HERE, AMERICANS HAVE DIED AND OUR GOVERNMENT HAS LIEDDimitri Khalezov talks about nuclear terrorism, 9/11 and who is responsible for terror attacks that have killed thousan > read more

Two Pillars Of Cynicism

Published on 2011-02-09 12:36:00

From Eurasia review, February 09, 2011 by: Vijay Prashad Ululations of joy broke out in Tel Aviv when it became clear that neither the United States nor the Egyptian ruling elite wanted to succumb to the pressures from below. It was all very well t > read more

International Forecaster February 2011 (#3) - Gold, Silver, Economy + More

Published on 2011-02-09 10:18:00

By Bob Chapman, THE INTERNATIONAL FORECASTER, 9 February 2011 The administration and those who control it, the House and Senate, want us to believe that debt can be paid out of revenues now and forever. As inflation and perhaps hyperinflation set i > read more

The HARD and FAST Facts of Events on 9/11

Published on 2011-02-09 08:41:00

From SomeUnknownUSHistory : 1.  The Project for a New American stated they needed another Pearl Harbor.  I guess in order to get Americans behind their plan to invade Iraq for control over the oil and Afghanistan for who knows what?2.  World Tr > read more

China, Inflation and Gold

Published on 2011-02-09 07:04:00

From 24hgold,  February 09th, 2011 by Darryl Robert Schoon - Survive the Crisis China created paper money and paper money then created inflation Ralph T. Foster in his invaluable book, Fiat Paper Money, The History and Evolution of Our Curren > read more

GORDON DUFF: HOW WE GOT WHERE WE ARE

Published on 2011-02-08 06:17:00

From VeteransToday, February 7, 2011 by Gordon Duff THERE’S A NEW WORLD COMMIN’…EVEN WORSE THAN THIS ONE“The son would kill more, millions in fact, rig two elections and run up more national debt in a single month than Jimmy Carter did in > read more

Washington Faces the Arab Revolts: Sacrificing Dictators to Save the State

Published on 2011-02-08 05:48:00

By James Petras | 02.07.2011Introduction To understand the Obama regime’s policy toward Egypt, the Mubarak dictatorship and the popular uprising it is essential to locate it in an historical context. The essential point is that Washington, after se > read more

Global Gulag: Hosni Mubarak and American Foreign Policy

Published on 2011-02-07 15:21:00

By SARTRE, Contributing WriterActivist Post  The sands of time sweep once again over the Egyptian kingdom. Hosni Mubarak is just one more in a long line of autocrats. A Pharaoh he is not. A tin horn dictator, beholding to the regal Yankee, is a mor > read more

Rioting and protesting are a waste of time

Published on 2011-02-07 12:37:00

From FSK's Guide to Reality: This story is interesting. Allegedly, a lot of the rioters/looters in Egypt are provocateurs employed by the State. The mainstream media reported "Concerned citizens organized, to prevent looting at Egypt's museum." The > read more

DHS Seizes Websites for Merely LINKING to Copyrighted Material

Published on 2011-02-07 12:19:00

By Eric Blair Activist Post Apparently the Department of Homeland Security is now authorized to rewrite and enforce copyright infringement laws.  In a stunning precedent, the recent round of domain seizures to shut down websites that allowed ille > read more

A Call to Jihad

Published on 2011-02-07 12:11:00

From truthjihad.com blog by Kevin Barrett* * * Who is so blind? (from Dick Eastman) Who is so blind not to notice that Muslim/populist/Egyptians are all for peace and it is the pro-Zionist Israel-US controlled Mubarak -- taker of US Jew awarded US > read more

CIA Psyop Wikileaks™ Used to Promote More GWOT Bullshit While the Propagandists Can Barely Keep from Laughing

Published on 2011-02-06 14:56:00

From American Everyman by Scott Creighton Talk about primo double-speak. This guy goes on and on using the latest cables from the CIA psyop Wikileaks™ to promote every current Global War on Terror myth which ultimately pays his mortgage, and the > read more

Waiting for the new boss in Egypt

Published on 2011-02-04 12:29:00

After Mubarak: What's Next? - by Stephen Lendman The line from Gilbert & Sullivan's HMS Pinafore relates well to what's going on in Egypt, perhaps elsewhere in the region as well, saying: "Things are seldom as they seem. Skim milk masquerades as > read more

THE EGYPTIAN TINDERBOX: HOW BANKS AND INVESTORS ARE STARVING THE THIRD WORLD

Published on 2011-02-04 12:12:00

By Ellen Brown Web of Debt, February 2nd, 2011 “What for a poor man is a crust, for a rich man is a securitized asset class.” --Futures trader Ann Berg, quoted in the UK GuardianUnderlying the sudden, volatile uprising in Egypt and Tunisia is a > read more

Automatic Autopilot Override of Pilot Control of Boeing Aircraft Available Circa 2001

Published on 2011-02-03 17:08:00

Another 9/11 smoking gun from 911Blogger.com - Paying Attention to 9/11 Related Alternative News:  The capability of an aircraft Flight Management Computer (FMC) to take control of an aircraft away from a pilot and turn over control to its autopilo > read more

Counter Revolutions

Published on 2011-02-03 15:03:00

Must read of the day, from The Burning Platform, 3rd February 2011, by Reverse Engineer: Now that the initial Euphoria which overtook Egypt to bring down Da Puppet Goobermint of Hoser Mubarak has succeeded in bringing the country into a state of > read more

why the oligarchical classes favor austerity over reform

Published on 2011-02-03 13:55:00

From Jesse's Cafe Americain 02 February 2011:SP 500 and NDX March Futures Daily Charts – Non Farm Payrolls on Friday“It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be ev > read more

Recovery or Great Depression II? 43.6 Millions on Foodstamps

Published on 2011-02-03 04:57:00

Bernanke’s Poverty Effect: Foodstamp Recipients Jump by 400K In November, Hit New Record Of 43.6 MillionMuch has been said about Bernanke’s wealth effect and how it impacts a whopping 1% of the US population (traditionally, those very same bail o > read more

[Beyond Bizarre]: Proofs of the Kenyan Scam Found

Published on 2011-02-02 18:16:00

USAians are going to face the evidence that they have an unconstitutional alien POTUS (among many other unconstitutional schemes and scams): From Rense, 1-31-11: Note - This story has been shredded by Snopes. However, in the interest of reporting > read more

EGYPT ON THE BRINK OF A BLOODBATH

Published on 2011-02-02 17:03:00

From VeteransToday, February 2, For the journalists, the villains are those governments that challenge – or pretend to challenge – Western policies. But for the people, the tyrants are those who exploit and humiliate them.by Thierry Meyssan > read more

JB Campbell: By Way of Deception

Published on 2011-02-02 15:24:00

From VeteransToday, January 31, 2011 posted by J. Bruce Campbell ·The J-factorBy J  Bruce Campbell STAFF WRITERThe uprisings in Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen are the inevitable results of the J-factor, which destroys everything. As I was told by a Saudi > read more

Wayne Madsen Report: Situation in Egypt

Published on 2011-02-02 11:02:00

From Facts not Fairies:Investigative journalist Wayne Madsen discusses the rapidly evolving situation in Egypt. Madsen is a Washington, D.C.-based investigative journalist, author and columnist specializing in intelligence and international affairs. > read more

REVOLT ON THE NILE: Gordon Duff discusses Egypt, Palestine, and Israel

Published on 2011-02-02 10:40:00

From VeteransToday, February 1, 2011:  Senior Editor Gordon Duff interviews Veterans Today Staff Writer Ken O’Keefe on the ground in Gaza and Staff Writer Raja Mujtaba curently in Pakistan on the crisis in Egypt, Gaza, Israel, and Pakistan > read more

Meet Uncle Sam's envoy in Cairo

Published on 2011-02-02 09:34:00

From Voltairenet, 2 FEBRUARY 2011: As the Egyptian revolt swells, the U.S. National Security Council considered that the handling of the situation by Margaret Scobey, their Ambassador in Cairo, was not good enough.Ms Scobey is a career diplomat with > read more

The Meddling of Global “Thinkers”

Published on 2011-02-01 13:15:00

From The Daily Reckoning, By Bill Bonner01/31/11 Baltimore, Maryland – Now here’s something interesting. Every year, Foreign Policy magazine produces a list of the Top 100 Global Thinkers in the World. We picked up the list…looking for ou > read more

Inequality In America Is Worse Than In Egypt, Tunisia Or Yemen

Published on 2011-01-29 05:59:00

From Washington's Blog : Egyptian, Tunisian and Yemeni protesters all say that inequality is one of the main reasons they're protesting.However, the U.S. actually has much greater inequality than in any of those countries.Specifically, the "Gin > read more

Engdahl: US Interference In Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, Algeria, etc

Published on 2011-01-28 15:49:00

Protests inspired by the revolt in Tunisia have dominoed along Egypt, Yemen and Algeria. Some have drawn comparisons to the colour revolutions seen in post-Soviet countries. To discuss this RT talks to William Engdahl – author of the book ‘Full S > read more

GORDON DUFF: AMERICA’S DIRTY SECRET

Published on 2011-01-28 14:03:00

From VeteransToday, January 26, 2011, by Gordon Duff  HOW A PSYCHO-SEXUAL CULT HOLDS AMERICA PRISONERBy Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor GROUND ZERO, THE AIR FORCE ACADEMY IN COLORADO SPRINGS On 9/11, the United States Ai > read more

Brzezinski's Feared "Global Awakening" Has Arrived

Published on 2011-01-28 12:39:00

Monumental worldwide rallying cry for freedom threatens to derail new world order agenda By Paul Joseph Watson - Prison Planet.com Friday, January 28, 2011 Zbigniew Brzezinski’s much feared “global political awakening” is in full swing. R > read more

Could U.S. Monetary Policy Ignite World War III?

Published on 2011-01-28 11:48:00

From Taipan Daily, Fri., Jan. 28, 2011 by Justice Litle, Editorial Director, Taipan Publishing Group We know the Bernanke Fed is doing odd and dangerous things these days. But could U.S. monetary policy actually touch off a third World War? It s > read more

State of Denial

Published on 2011-01-28 11:31:00

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, 28 JANUARY 2011 :Barack Obama addressed the country for the third State of the Union address of his Presidency this week.  In broad terms, he talked mostly about innovation, education and jobs.  To be fair, he > read more

Haiti aftermath: Self-government still a great fear. Haiti is being Harmed by the "International Community"

Published on 2011-01-27 14:45:00

By Mark WeisbrotSun Sentinel Thursday, Jan 27, 2011 The controversy over the return of the infamous dictator, Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, to Haiti, is in many ways a distraction. Certainly, it is important he stand trial for crimes against hu > read more

Are We Witnessing the Start of a Global Revolution?

Published on 2011-01-27 13:46:00

North Africa and the Global Political Awakening, Part 1 by Andrew Gavin MarshallGlobal Research, January 27, 2011  For the first time in human history almost all of humanity is politically activated, politically conscious and politically interac > read more

Is Obama Double-Dealing on Egypt?

Published on 2011-01-27 13:25:00

Public Calls for Reforms, But Private Support for Mubarak Regimeby Jason Ditz, Antiwar January 26, 2011Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar ForumAs the Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia inspires others across the region to attempt to oust > read more

[LOL] Drug catapult discovered on border

Published on 2011-01-27 12:01:00

Philip Caulfield NY Daily News January 27, 2011Mexican soldiers on Wednesday seized a large drug catapult that smugglers were using to launch packages of pot into a remote area of ArizonaU.S National Guard troops at the Naco Border Patrol station a > read more

Jim Willie: China Plays Europe Card

Published on 2011-01-27 06:07:00

by Jim Willie CB - Hat Trick Letter - January 26th, 2011  Whether Americans and Westerners in general like it or not, the Chinese have become and will remain the key drivers to many economic and financial market developments, progress, and aver > read more

David Kelly post mortem to be kept secret for 70 years as doctors accuse Lord Hutton of concealing vital information

Published on 2011-01-27 05:36:00

From Mail Online, 25th January 2010 By MILES GOSLETT Vital evidence which could solve the mystery of the death of Government weapons inspector Dr David Kelly will be kept under wraps for up to 70 years. In a draconian – and highly unusual – o > read more

The World's Ominous Reckoning

Published on 2011-01-26 12:16:00

Must read of the day:by Thomas H Greco Realitysandwich.com (January 25 2011) In a recent Washington Post article titled Europe's Ominous Reckoning, economist Robert Samuelson correctly argued that "Ireland's economic crisis is ... not about Ireland" > read more

America's Middle Eastern Puppet Regimes Are Falling Like Dominoes

Published on 2011-01-26 11:37:00

From George Washington blog, Tuesday, January 25, 2011: The images from the protests in Cairo, Egypt today are stunning. See this, this and this. President Mubarak's family has already fled the country. As Raw Story notes: Demonstrators calling > read more

The real deal between China and USA

Published on 2011-01-26 03:56:00

From Marketoracle, Jan 25, 2011By: Jeb_HandwergerI coined a term called the "Chinamese Twins" for my readers. I advised my readers that two separate dinners were to be held at the White House, the feast receiving the most publicity was held as the > read more

WUT?! Hundreds of Chinese communist sovereign towns to be built in the USA!

Published on 2011-01-25 14:06:00

Once more, paranoid tinfoil hat conspiracy theorists were right all along: From VeteransToday, January 25, 2011 posted by J. Bruce Campbell FOREIGN TRADE ZONESWhat could they be?Where could they be?  Overseas?Nope.  They’re here.  They’re e > read more

Washington facing the ire of the Tunisian people

Published on 2011-01-25 12:31:00

From Voltairenet, 25 JANUARY 2011 by Thierry Meyssan* General William Ward - formerly in charge of keeping the Palestinian territories in line and current Africom commander - during a ceremony in May 2010. The Tunisian army has been reduced to a sk > read more

Warmists Touts Green Credentials Of Genghis Khan For Slaughtering 40 Million People

Published on 2011-01-25 12:26:00

Paul Joseph Watson - Prison Planet.com Tuesday, January 25, 2011 Environmentalists are promoting a new historical hero in the fight against global warming, none other than Mongol warlord Genghis Khan, with the Carnegie Institution touting the e > read more

Goonstruck: The Mysterious Mind of Modern Progressives

Published on 2011-01-25 06:18:00

From Empire Burlesque, January 24, 2011 By Chris Floyd I must have born too long ago, in a world that's dead and gone. Maybe that's why I can't understand the "progressive" politics of our day. All across the blogosphere -- and in those few nich > read more

Was the Moscow airport bombing a Mossad/CIA false flag? Motives and opportunity

Published on 2011-01-25 03:45:00

From Goon Squad, by Greg Bacon: Israeli 'Security' Firm ICTS Helped Provide 'Security' at Russia's Domodedovo Airport:The details about this 2009 article are here, but it's PDF and I don't know how to copy and paste the story. The story goes > read more

THE CIA WAS INVOLVED IN THE TUNISIA REVOLT - THIERRY MEYSSAN OF VOLTAIRENET

Published on 2011-01-25 01:30:00

From Aangirfan, JANUARY 24, 2011: On 23 January 2011, at Voltairenet, Thierry Meyssan has an article on Tunisia entitled: Washington face à la colère du peuple tunisien ] - [ Translate this page ] Meyssan believes that the start of the Jasmi > read more

The Nightmare of 1923 and Its Cause

Published on 2011-01-24 14:18:00

From Mises Daily: Monday, January 24, 2011 by Patrick Barron[When Money Dies: Lessons from the Great German Hyperinflation of 1923 • By Adam Fergusson • London: William Kimber & Company, 1975 • 256 pages]Feel the need for a good, old-fa > read more

Free Trade Created the Chinese Model

Published on 2011-01-24 13:29:00

From Activist Post: He who restrains his appetite avoids debt - Chinese proverb  SARTRE, Contributing WriterActivist Post  East will never meet the West of Adam Smith. China never had a culture or tradition of respecting individual human rights. > read more

Ivory Coast: Testing Ground For U.S.-Backed African Standby Force

Published on 2011-01-24 03:37:00

By Rick Rozoff, JANUARY 24, 2011 The announcements of presidential election results last month in West Africa and Eastern Europe have served as the pretext for the United States and its allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Europ > read more

World War 111 - underway

Published on 2011-01-23 08:46:00

From Winter Patriot Aangirfan has recently published a whole series of articles about Tunisia including articles that presaged the coup there. This coup can be seen as another chapter in the undeclared war on Russia and China by the NATO Powers for > read more

Tunisia and the IMF's Diktats: How Macro-Economic Policy Triggers Worldwide Poverty and Unemployment

Published on 2011-01-23 08:41:00

by Michel ChossudovskyGlobal Research, January 20, 2011 General Zine el Abidine Ben Ali , the defunct and deposed president of Tunisia is heralded by the Western media, in chorus, as a dictator.The Tunisian protest movement is casually described as t > read more

Egypt Proactively Preparing For Tunisian-Style Rioting: Airport Intercepts 59 Outbound Gold Shipments Worth Tens Of Millions

Published on 2011-01-23 06:24:00

From ZeroHedge, Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/22/2011 After a week ago we learned that the central bank of Tunisia had parted with 23% of its gold stash courtesy of now deposed president who fled the country with a 1.5 ton shipment of gold, i > read more

Climate fraud: the greatest scam of modern times

Published on 2011-01-22 13:46:00

From Sott, Sat, 22 Jan 2011 : Junk Science: Democrats in Virginia are trying to stop their attorney general from probing climate fraud carried out by university researchers at taxpayer expense. Are they afraid of finding the inconvenient truth?  > read more

None Dare Call It Conspiracy: The Book Now Online

Published on 2011-01-22 12:37:00

From Infowars.com January 22, 2011Gary Allen’s book, first published by Concord Press in 1971, is a must-read if you want to put into perspective what the banksters are doing today. [conspiracy] Gary Allen - None Dare Call it Conspiracy english r > read more

Bizarre Developments in Haiti

Published on 2011-01-22 12:28:00

From SteveLendmanBlog by Steve Lendman Bizarre Developments in Haiti - by Stephen Lendman Three previous articles relate to this one, accessed through the following links: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2011/01/baby-doc-in-haiti.html http://sjle > read more

Wikileaks Is The "Cognitive Infiltration" Operation Demanded by Cass Sunstein

Published on 2011-01-22 11:32:00

(I am not sure about the origin of the "revolution" in Tunisia, but for the rest I agree with Tarpley):By Webster G. Tarpley TARPLEY.net - January 20, 2011Obama White House NSC Russia Director Michael McFaul Deploying IMF Shock Therapist Boris Nemt > read more

Food Riots and the Mass Liquidation of Foreign Exchange Reserves

Published on 2011-01-22 11:20:00

From Market Skeptics, FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 2011 by Eric deCarbonnel As I wrote yesterday, riots are spreading as the global food shortage worsens. It is the reaction of central banks to these intensifying food riots which will bring down the dolla > read more

Social Security Cashflow

Published on 2011-01-22 11:14:00

From FSK's Guide to Reality : State comedians talk about the "Social Security Trust Fund" as if it were something tangible. There's nothing there. It's just a stack of paper IOUs. There are no real assets. Social Security is a huge cash cow for the > read more

Hackers Sell Access To Government, Military And University Websites

Published on 2011-01-22 09:23:00

From The Business Insider:Looks like the US is ready for cyberwar. A hacker put up a storefront to sell access to sites, which is not very unusual (sadly) these days, but also to military, government and university (.mil, .gov and .edu) sites, which > read more

New NIST FOIA Release #31 Rare 9/11 Photos

Published on 2011-01-22 06:04:00

__________ Related: Flight Data Expert Confirmation: No Evidence Linking FDR Data to American 77 Poll in Germany: 89.5 doubt official version of 9/11 > read more

J.P. Morgan's Food Stamp Monopoly: The More Americans That Fall Into Poverty The More Money Jamie Dimon Makes - This is BEYOND Outrage

Published on 2011-01-20 14:01:00

From WRH: Bank Makes Huge Profits On Food StampsJ.P. Morgan is getting rich off of poverty...Guest post from the Economic Collapse BlogJP Morgan is the largest processor of food stamp benefits in the United States.  JP Morgan has contracted to pro > read more

[Just when you thought it couldn't get anymore bizarre]: GOV OF HAWAII NOW CLAIMING HE WAS PRESENT DURING OBAMA'S BIRTH

Published on 2011-01-20 09:22:00

The governor of Hawaii, that went on record saying that Obama's long form birth certificate could not be located a few days ago, is now saying that he was very good friend of Obama's parents and he was personally there when Obama was born. [link to > read more

Talking 'bout human rights

Published on 2011-01-20 00:41:00

ACLU | January 18, 2011WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court today ruled that the government can continue suppressing transcripts in which former CIA prisoners now held at Guantánamo Bay describe abuse and torture they suffered in CIA custody. The > read more

Hating the Root: Attacks on Vodou in Haiti

Published on 2011-01-19 13:33:00

From Black Agenda Report, Tue, 01/18/2011: by Akinyele UmojaHaitian practitioners of Vodou, an integral part of the nation's culture, have been set upon and lynched by evangelical protestants linked to the U.S. Right. “The promotion of a religious > read more

The Cheapest Way to Buy Silver

Published on 2011-01-19 12:07:00

From DailyWealth, Thursday, January 13, 2011 By Matt Badiali "What's the best way to buy silver?"At lunch on Saturday, I asked the guy who would know... my longtime friend Michael Checkan of Asset Strategies InternationalI've personally relied on > read more

Dangerous Anti-government Revolutionaries!!!

Published on 2011-01-19 02:25:00

By Milo Nickels, from the Activist Post : Anti-government sentiment is not cause for fear, a sign of insanity, or a precursor of tragedy.  Quite the contrary.  Anti-government sentiment signifies attentiveness, understanding, and a love of liber > read more

Insider Selling To Buying Ratio: DIV/0

Published on 2011-01-18 13:58:00

From The Burning Platform: How loud does the bell need to be ringing? There was not one insider purchase of stock last week, with $163 million of insider sales. If ever there was a clearer signal to get out of the market, here it is. Insider Sell > read more

[LOL] Paul Joseph Watson: Successfully trolled

Published on 2011-01-18 12:39:00

From David Rothscum Reports :This is a temporary interruption of my "This is the death of humanity" series. There will be more articles in that series (probably, I would never dare say certainly), but for now enjoy a good laugh. Someone (a very sh > read more

End of Euro? ... Ireland Prints Own Notes

Published on 2011-01-18 03:23:00

From The Daily Bell, Tuesday, January 18, 2011 – by  Staff Report Emergency lending from the ECB to banks in Ireland fell in December, the first decline since January 2010, but only because the Irish Central Bank stepped up its help to banks. > read more

GEAB N°51: Systemic global crisis - 2011: The ruthless year, at the crossroads of three roads of global chaos

Published on 2011-01-17 23:55:00

- Public announcement GEAB N°51 (January 16, 2011) - This GEAB issue marks the fifth anniversary of the publication of the Global Europe Anticipation Bulletin. In January 2006, on the occasion of the first issue, the LEAP/E2020 team indicated that > read more

U.S. controlled IMF installs one of its own as leader of Ivory Coast

Published on 2011-01-16 04:24:00

From PRESS Core, by PC:Tensions in the African country Ivory Coast are escalating and many countries are advising their people to leave the country. The U.S. and Canadian media are blaming the tensions on the refusal of its leader, Laurent Gbagbo, > read more

HOW MANY SENATORS DOES IT TAKE TO SCREW A TAXPAYER?

Published on 2011-01-16 04:06:00

From The Burning Platform, 15th January 2011   “Today, the government decides and they misdirect the investment to their friends in the corn industry or the food industry. Think how many taxpayer dollars have been spent on corn [for ethanol], a > read more

The US/Israeli Coup in Beirut

Published on 2011-01-16 00:05:00

By Mike Whitney January 15, 2010 "Information Clearing House"  -- The United States and Israel have executed a stealth coup that has precipitated the collapse of Lebanon's unity government. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton preemptively torpe > read more

YOU ARE ALL SLAVES - Taking Back Your Power

Published on 2011-01-15 23:16:00

From Gnosticliberationfront: By Allen Aslan HeartFrom the author's website: www.real-debt-elimination.com  Gosh, and you call me paranoid... The citizenry here is totally asleep, and when the crap comes will find out that they are owned; yes OWNED > read more

TUNISIA, MASKED SPECIAL FORCES & THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD

Published on 2011-01-15 22:43:00

From Aangirfan, JANUARY 15, 2011: Gen. William E. Ward, commander of U.S. Africa Command, is greeted by Tunisian military leaders at Tunis-Carthage International Airport. Think of Blackwater/Xe, Triple Canopy, Dyncorps, Aegis... Think of moving Tun > read more

Five Sinister Reasons for the Tucson "Massacre"

Published on 2011-01-15 16:54:00

From Beforeitsnews, Thu Jan 13 2011: by Zen GardnerIt's been disgusting watching the fallout of another disturbing public execution. The hate and accusations are stinking up the mediasphere to where I can barely look at the news about this. The even > read more

The 25 most censored stories of 2010 according to Project Censored

Published on 2011-01-14 10:11:00

The 25 most censored stories of 2010 according to Project Censored1. Global Plans to Replace the Dollar 2. US Department of Defense is the Worst Polluter on the Planet 3. Internet Privacy and Personal Access at Risk 4. ICE Operates Secret Detention > read more

Mercenaries Are Bankrupting The US Empire

Published on 2011-01-14 09:56:00

Must read of the day, from Culture of Life News: I have been disputing tactics with Justin Raimondo for a while at Antiwar.com.  He began working nonstop to support the GOP and Tea Party since before the last election and now is crowing that ‘co > read more

Recovery? 14 Devastating Statistics

Published on 2011-01-14 08:39:00

From Sound of Cannons (hat-tip to  Monty Pelerin):Most Americans have become so accustomed to the “new normal” of continual economic decline that they don’t even remember how good things were just a few short years ago. Back in 2007, unempl > read more

10 Things That Would Be Different If The Federal Reserve Had Never Been Created

Published on 2011-01-14 08:33:00

From The economic collapse blog, January 11th, 2011: The vast majority of Americans, including many of those who believe that they are "educated" about the Federal Reserve, do not really understand how the Federal Reserve really makes money for > read more

Food Prices Rise Higher Than Ever & Food Riots Begin In Middle East and South Asia

Published on 2011-01-14 03:59:00

From The Intel Hub, January 11, 2011 by Alex :  We have worked extensively to document rising food prices and possible coming food shortages. Now the Food and Agriculture Organization of 55 food commodities has recorded that global food price > read more

New Global Effort To Patch European Insolvency Holes Buys One More Day

Published on 2011-01-11 14:30:00

From Zerohedge, 01/11/2011  by Tyler Durden  Europe is now literally living day to day. After last night it was announced that Japan is joining China in purchasing a substantial portion of European debt, using its FX reserves to buy up to 20% > read more

EURO CRISIS ESCALATES: GERMANY PREPARES TO HAND PORTUGAL OVER TO THE BANKS TO BE SCALPED

Published on 2011-01-10 14:28:00

From Case about Bird Flu by Jane Burgermeister- Germany‘s Chancellor Angela Merkel manoeuvres Portugal into loss of souvereignty and economic meltdown - Merkel’s remarks have helped push Portugal’s debt to unaffordable levels, indicates Ge > read more

Oh, It Was The John P. Wheeler III Who Was Involved In The Barksdale-Minot Incident Who Was Found In A Landfill!

Published on 2011-01-10 04:27:00

From Femalefaust: So Wayne Madsen  hips me to this tip on John Wheeler III, whose name I didn't recognize: John Wheeler III, special assistant to Air Force Secretary during the 2007 B-52 nuke incident at Minot, found dead in Delaware landfill. H > read more

Method, Means, Motive, and Opportunity – The Mechanism of Chinese Silver Accumulation

Published on 2011-01-09 23:38:00

By Golden Economizer January 7, 2011 - I was gratified to see how well my recent article (Is China Behind The Big Silver Short Dec 25th, 2010) was received, when over 50 websites worldwide picked it up in the first 24 hours. But I am afraid that a > read more

International Forecaster January 2011 (#3) - Gold, Silver, Economy + More

Published on 2011-01-09 22:56:00

By Bob Chapman, The International Forecaster, Sunday, 9 January 2011 US MARKETSIf you look back into the mid-1960s you will see the beginnings of today’s financial and economic problems. Inflation was beginning to raise its ugly head as clad co > read more

"Toning Down The Rhetoric" Means Obeying Big Government

Published on 2011-01-09 14:08:00

Establishment exploits actions of deranged lunatic to stifle freedom of speechPaul Joseph Watson - Prison Planet.com - Sunday, January 9, 2011Despite the fact that Jared Lee Loughner was a psychotic loner with “left-wing” beliefs according > read more

IPCC Professor Calls For "Elite Warrior Leadership" To Rule Over Eco-Dictatorship

Published on 2011-01-07 13:11:00

Prominent United Nations scientists says new green religion should replace traditional faiths as part of shift towards authoritarian tyrannyPaul Joseph Watson - Prison Planet.com - Friday, January 7, 2011An influential professor who worked as > read more

“Banana Republic Bankster Puppet” Obama has bowed to his masters yet again

Published on 2011-01-07 12:50:00

Must read of the day, from Ampedstatus, January 7th, 2011 By David DeGraw Sticking with my New Year’s resolution to not participate in journalism of appeasement, this article and headline will definitely not be picked up by the appeasers. The u > read more

Eurointelligence Daily Briefing - 7 January 2011: "Euro crisis back in full force"

Published on 2011-01-07 11:57:00

And now the euro slumps - crisis back in full force Euro down to under $1.30 overnight; bond yields rise in France, Italy and Belgium; Belgian CDS now up to 240bp; KBC has to make large provisions for its Irish exposures; western European gove > read more

Irish Leaders Castigated As Greatest Traitors Of All Time

Published on 2011-01-06 10:20:00

By Gabriel Donohoe  - Fools Crow’s Blog - January 6, 2011The Irish Government has recently passed the harshest budget in the history of the State with further austerity promised for the next three years and perhaps for decades. Prime Minister > read more

Playing Chicken with Debt Limits: Obama as a Senator vs. Obama the Hypocrite President Today

Published on 2011-01-05 20:26:00

From Safehaven, Jan 5, 2011 By Mike ShedlockPresident Obama is very concerned that Republicans might "Play Chicken" with the debt ceiling. The president is so concerned his aids are sending out dire warnings about dollar defaults and "catastrophic > read more

CLINTON'S KILLER

Published on 2011-01-05 15:11:00

From aangirfan:This man was trained by the US military, at Fort Leavenworth. His forces pursued gold, diamonds and coltan. "The UN named the international corporations it believed were involved: Anglo-America, Standard Chartered Bank, De Beers and m > read more

Electromagnetic Frequency Mind Control Weapons

Published on 2011-01-05 14:30:00

By Stephen Lendman, JANUARY 04, 2011 Directed energy weapons include lasers, high power microwave, and millimeter wave ones among others. A relevant December 2007 Department of Defense (DOD) report called them a “transformational game changer in > read more

Organ trafficking, eugenics and corruption: meet our new EU 'partners'

Published on 2011-01-05 13:42:00

From Mail Online - Euroseptic: Mary Ellen Synon in Brussels: So far, the European Commission is trying really hard to pretend that the report accusing Hashim Thaci, the prime minister of Kosovo, of a revolting list of violent crimes doesn't actuall > read more

World food prices enter 'danger territory' to reach record high

Published on 2011-01-05 13:27:00

UN food price index rises for sixth month in a row to highest since records began in 1990 Jill Treanor Guardian Soaring prices of sugar, grain and oilseed drove worldfood prices to a record in December, surpassing the levels of 2008 when the cost > read more

EU INTRODUCES EUROBONDS THROUGH THE BACK DOOR

Published on 2011-01-05 13:15:00

From Case about Bird Flu by Jane Burgermeister - EU issues €5 billion of bonds through the European Financial Stabilisation Fund in spite of rejection by European leaders at key Brussels summit in December- Ireland’s borrowing costs lower but > read more

Censored Jesse Ventura Show On FEMA Camps Survives On You Tube

Published on 2011-01-05 12:54:00

From Infowars, January 5, 2011We urge you to watch the videos below because they might not be around for much longer. Jesse Ventura’s Conspiracy Theory show about the police state and FEMA camps, which TruTV never aired because of constant governm > read more

Goldman Sachs and Facebook

Published on 2011-01-05 12:51:00

From FSK's Guide to RealityThis story is interesting. Goldman Sachs made an investment in Facebook, giving it a valuation of approximately $50B. They are going to package them up and sell them in a special hedge fund Those two zero hedge articles > read more

The Real Crime of M. Khodorkovsky

Published on 2011-01-05 12:09:00

From Voltairenet, 5 JANUARY 2011 by F. William Engdahl* The Obama administration, in an unusual public rebuke, condemned a Moscow court for finding oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his former partner guilty of embezzling, saying it appears to be > read more

Why Rising Rates Are Bullish for Gold and Silver

Published on 2011-01-04 14:23:00

From SeekingAlpha, January 04, 2011 By Jordan Roy-ByrneHeading into 2011, the consensus outlook on precious metals is slightly positive but the consensus believes that higher interest rates will ultimately support the US currency and in turn engend > read more

Haiti: Obama does not like Black People

Published on 2011-01-01 15:59:00

by Jafrikayiti Global Research, January 1, 2011 "We now live in a world where powerful countries - all of them so-called democracies - manipulate multilateral bodies to the great disadvantage and suffering of the poorer developing nations". Rolihla > read more

The Mossad way to nuclear non-proliferation

Published on 2010-12-31 05:48:00

From Connecting the Dots in the New World Order: Fouz, a genius university student, had discovered a new formula for producing peaceful nuclear energy and had been awarded by several international scientific festivals. He had released his new urani > read more