Archive for January 5th, 2012

From GoldCore ZeroHedge.com Gold’s fifth day of price rises is the longest rally we’ve seen in two months. Concerns about the solvency of European banks and sovereigns is overcoming the ‘risk on’ appetite of late 2011 and early 2012. The euro has fallen to 1.2840 USD and to €1,256/oz. Growing tensions with Iran including... »

Michel Chossudovsky Global Research January 5, 2011 The Islamic Republic of Iran has been threatened with military action by the US and its allies for the last eight years. Iran has been involved in war games in the Persian Gulf. The US Navy is deployed. Iran’s naval exercises which commenced on December 24th were... »

DEBKAfile January 5, 2011 The armies of Saudi Arabia and fellow Gulf Cooperation Council states stood ready Thursday Jan. 5, for Washington to stand up to Iranian threats and send an aircraft carrier or several warships through the Strait of Hormuz into the Persian Gulf. Riyadh has been leaning hard on the Obama administration... »

EconomicCollapseBlog.com We have all been lied to. For decades, the leaders of both major political parties have promised us that they can fix our current system and that they can get our national debt under control. As the 2012 election approaches, they are making all kinds of wild promises once again. Well you know... »

Doug Casey Addresses Getting Out of Dodge Interviewed by Louis James LewRockwell.com L: Doug, a lot of readers have been asking for guidance on how to know when it’s time to exit center stage and hunker down in some safe place. Few people want to hide from the world in a cabin in the... »

by Becky Akers LewRockwell.com As I walk the streets of Manhattan, I study the other pedestrians and wonder if they sense our danger. A mother pushing her son’s stroller laughs into her cell phone; two elderly gentlemen greet each other effusively; a jogger shuffles past; shoppers lug their treasures home. No one looks especially... »

2011: A Civil Liberties Year in Review by John W. Whitehead LewRockwell.com It’s been a year of populist uprisings, economic downturns, political assassinations, and one scandal after another. Gold prices soared, while the dollar plummeted. The Arab Spring triggered worldwide protests, including the Occupy Wall Street protests here in America. Nature unleashed her forces... »

By Chuck Baldwin January 5, 2012 NewsWithViews.com While most Americans were celebrating the holidays, President Barack Obama quietly signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), otherwise known as the “Indefinite Detention Act,” into law. Obama had initially said he would veto the bill which contains the draconian language authorizing the US military to seize... »

By Coach Dave Daubenmire January 5, 2012 NewsWithViews.com It is amazing to me that people cannot see that politics is a rigged game. All you have to do is watch the media-circus in Iowa with its constantly changing “front-runners” to understand the degree to which the media controls our elections. Polls are not news,... »