Archive for January 2nd, 2012

By Paul McGuire January 2, 2012 NewsWithViews.com “You who read this represent the greatest danger to America. No matter what the outcome of the war in Europe may be, Totalitarianism has already won a complete victory in many American minds and conquered all of our intellectual life. You have helped it to win. Perhaps... »

by David Collum LewRockwell.com Background “Governments gambled on a return to growth solving all the problems. That bet has failed.” ~ Satyajit Das Every December I write a Year in Review. Last year’s was posted at several sites including Chris Martenson’s . What started as summaries posted for a couple dozen people accrued over... »

The Real Problem with the National Defense Authorization Act by Laurence M. Vance LewRockwell.com For each of the past forty-eight years, Congress has passed the misnamed National Defense Authorization Act to set forth the budget of the Defense Department. President Obama just signed into law the latest version of the NDAA, but not without... »

ExtinctionProtocol.com January 2, 2012 GERMANY – A sleeping super-volcano in Germany is showing worrying signs of waking up. It’s lurking just 390 miles away underneath the tranquil Laacher See Lake near Bonn and is capable of ejecting billions of tons of magma. This monster erupts every 10 to 12,000 years and last went off... »

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 01/02/2012 Following today’s release of European manufacturing PMI data we are sadly no closer to getting any resolution on which way the great US-European divergence will compress. Because all we learned is that, very much as expected, Europe managed to contract for a fifth month in a row, with the... »

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 01/02/2012 As expected yesterday, when the US went out full bore with a Japan approach of McCollum-like strategy of leaving Iran no option but to keep escalating until finally the US has enough public support grounds for a response, in under 24 hours Iran has launched a second missile, this... »

Angela Merkel says new year will ‘undoubtedly’ be harder than the last as eurozone crisis hangover prompts more austerity By Lizzy Davies Guardian.co.uk The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, has warned that the year ahead will “undoubtedly” be harder than 2011 in the starkest of a series of downbeat messages from European leaders dominated by... »

by Patrick J. Buchanan LewRockwell.com “Events are in the saddle and ride mankind.” In describing 2011, few cliches seem more appropriate. For in this past year, we Americans seemed to lose control of our destiny, as events seemed to be in the saddle. While President Barack Obama maneuvered skillfully to retain a fighting chance... »

Anthony Gucciardi Activist Post.com Monday, January 2, 2012 A Chinese man infected with the H5N1 bird flu virus died on Saturday, marking China’s first case of the disease in humans in 18 months. The news comes just days after the United States government frantically acted to block the full publishing of research that successfully... »

EndOfTheAmericanDream.com Once upon a time, the people of the United States constructed beautiful, shiny cities from coast to coast that were the envy of the entire globe. We had the largest and most vibrant middle class that the world has ever seen and life was quite good in America. But now all of our... »