(It would be cheaper to sink her, than try to “decomission” her< and bring on WW3!) PressTV.com Sun Jan 22, 2012 US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has vowed to maintain a fleet of eleven warships despite budget pressures, mostly to project sea power against Iran. On board of the oldest US aircraft carrier, the... »
Archive for January 23rd, 2012
Nuclear Iran is past its point-of-no-return, yet oil sanctions remain on paper
DEBKAfile Binyamin Netanyahu advised visiting Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey Friday, Jan.20 that the time for action against Iran was now, for two reasons: First, the conviction that Iran has passed the point of no return for developing a nuclear weapon; and second, the diminishing prospects for a... »
Homeland Security Is Reading and Recording Every Keystroke
BY JOE WOLVERTON, II TheNewAmerican.com With so many of our most essential liberties under attack from the oligarchy on the Potomac, it is little wonder that the freedom of the press and speech are next on the government guillotine. The Department of Homeland Security’s National Operations Center (NOC) released its Publicly Available Social Media... »
Police State USA and the NDAA: Creating American Terrorists
Philip Giraldi Council of the National Interest Monday, January 23, 2012 Defenders of the recently passed National Defense Authorization Act, which declares the entire world to be a “battlefield” against terrorism and authorizes the U.S. military to detain indefinitely anyone suspected of being a terrorism supporter, have claimed that the White House will only... »
The End of The Mainstream Media And The Rebirth of Fact-Based Journalism
Saman Mohammadi The Excavator Monday, January 23, 2012 “The West is headed to dictatorship. It’s already happening. The merger of state and corporate power is by definition called fascism. I just mentioned the Defense Authorization Act. Before you had that you had the abrogation of the Constitution under Bush, with the Patriot Act, which... »
Debt End Game, Europe Staring into the Abyss, and Very Negative Unintended Consequences
By: John Mauldin Market Oracle Jan 23, 2012 Europe’s leaders are committed to keeping both the euro and the eurozone as it is. But for it to do so, everything must change, as the wonderful quote from the 1958 Italian novel suggests. This is no easy task, as no one wants a change that... »
One Day Ahead Of State Of The Union Address, American Dissatisfaction With Economic, Political Issues At Record
by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 01/23/2012 As Obama takes the stage for tomorrow’s State of the Union address, in which, among other things, he probably will not announce that the US debt limit is effectively $16.4 trillion, or 107% of GDP and rising, he faces a very unhappy audience: one which according to Gallup has... »
BREAKING: Rand Paul Has Been Detained By The TSA At Nashville Airport
Michael Brendan Dougherty BusinessInsider.com Jan. 23, 2012 On the list of stupid things the Transportation Security Administration could do for their public image: detaining Senator Rand Paul, the politician most anxious to abolish them is probably right near the top. But that’s exactly what just happened, his spokeswoman, Moira Bagley has confirmed it in... »
Gold may remain bullish, but don’t rule out silver in 2012
Commodity Online Gold may remain bullish in 2012, but don’t rule out Silver and keep an eye on stocks for good value investments, says David Skarica, editor of The Gold Stock Adviser. According to David Skarica, the United States will likely roll out more extraordinarily loose monetary policies such as quantitative easing, not solely... »
Gold: higher prices are coming
CommodityOnline.com 22 January 2012 While it is early to determine if the ongoing breakout is finally in anticipation of upcoming episodes of direct and indirect monetization by the Fed, ECB, or any of the many other pathological currency diluters in circulation, it is obvious that precious metals have found a new bid in recent... »