Archive for October, 2011

by Tyler Durden Zerohedge.com 10/29/2011 It has been just over 48 hours since our call that PIIGS the world over will scramble to demand the same concessions that were just granted to Greece courtesy of its economy being in the toilet and getting worse (thanks to lies to misrepresent the Greek economy as being... »

Budget Deadlock in Washington by Gary North LewRockwell.com The debt ceiling battle led to a compromise. Congress and the President promised to submit to mandatory budget cuts. A bipartisan super committee was set up to put together a package of debt reduction cuts totaling several trillion dollars over supposedly a decade. If the committee... »

by Becky Akers LewRockwell.com Hard to keep track of what’s illegal these days. The most innocuous deeds can land a serf behind bars even as crimes worthy of a sociopath earn rulers the Nobel Prize. And so the Feds order some drones to kill American citizens and others to sexually assault them. You might... »

Jeff McMahon Forbes.com 10/29/2011 About 19 percent of airborne fallout from the Fukushima nuclear disaster was deposited in Japan, and only about 2 percent made it to other land areas in Asia and North America, according to a study published this week by the European Geosciences Union. The bulk was absorbed by the Pacific... »

John Boering PPJ.com October 29, 2011 My take on the communications shutdown: In what is obviously a muscle flexing exercise meant to show the public just how much power and control the federal government really has, allcommunications will be cut off for an estimated three minutes on November 9th, 2011. Claiming this is a... »

Saman Mohammadi The Excavator October 29, 2011 It is hard to pierce the psychology of psychopathic rulers and politicians without having some understanding of their philosophy towards life. Our civilization would be better served if the belief system of politicians was discussed on the campaign trail and on television. We would all be in... »

EndOfTheAmericanDream.com Right now, about the only things that the American people can agree on is that they are angry and that they do not like the direction that this country is headed. Of course a lot of this is being caused by the economy. Unemployment is rampant, millions of families have been kicked out... »

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 10/29/2011 Two days ago we noted that foreigners are selling US paper at a record pace, whether to raise capital in a locked out liquidity environment like French banks, or to make a politicial statement, like China. Today we get the first confirmation to this from Norway’s Sovereign Wealth fund,... »

by Adam Taggart ZeroHedge.com 10/28/2011 What do you get when the producer of the world’s reserve currency takes on too much debt? Nothing less than the end of the US Treasury-based monetary system. So says Eric Jansen, economic and financial market analyst and proprietor of iTulip.com. In chronicling the decline of the global economy... »

EconomicCollapseBlog.com Once the euphoria of the initial announcement faded and as people have begun to closely examine the details of the European debt deal, they have started to realize that this “debt deal” is really just a “managed” Greek debt default. Let’s be honest – this deal is not going to solve anything. All... »