BY JAMES QUINN FinancialSense.com 02/15/2012 “We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.” – Henry Miller With each passing week it seems this country spirals further into... »
Archive for February 15th, 2012
Presenting PreCheck: Fascist and Furious
by Becky Akers LewRockwell.com Seldom have so many bragged so much about so little. The TSA and its flaks in the corporate media are currently shilling for the agency’s “Pre√ (yes, Jargon plumbs new depths here: that cuneiform translates as ‘PreCheck’) Program.” The outrage with the Orwellian name isn’t anything new: it’s haunted nationalized... »
Insanity! Is Barack Obama Going To Unilaterally Slash The Size Of The U.S. Nuclear Arsenal By Another 80 Percent?
EndOfTheAmericanDream.com Barack Obama wants to disarm America. There simply is no other way to explain his reckless behavior. On Tuesday it came out that the Obama administration is considering plans to unilaterally slash the size of the U.S. nuclear arsenal by up to 80 percent. From a military standpoint, this is utter insanity. Early... »
Farage On Greek Chaos: “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet”
by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 02/15/2012 Outspoken and oracular MEP Nigel Farage bombards his fellow unelected officials with ‘you can’t handle the truth’ comments as he points out the total contradiction that is the European Parliament’s (and ‘Puppet Papademos’) view of how things are going in their democracy relative to the reality of a TROIKA-ordered... »
Athens Is Burning and Angela Merkel Holds the Spent Match
Prof. Peter Morici GlobalPolitician.com 2/14/2012 Athens is besieged by riots, because ordinary Greeks understand what their leaders won’t admit. The reforms imposed by Angela Merkel and Greek creditors will delay but not avoid a sovereign default. Those won’t solve the nation’s chronic economic problems, and ultimately will cause the ruin of Europe’s most ancient... »
Iran cuts off oil exports to 6 EU nations
By Parisa Hafezi NationalPost.com Feb 15, 2012 TEHRAN — Iran’s Oil Ministry denied state media reports on the Islamic state stopping its crude exports to six European countries on Wednesday. “We deny this report … If such a decision is made, it will be announced by Iran’s Supreme National Security Council,” a spokesman for... »
Pretext For War: String of Global Bombings Blamed on Iran
Bangkok joins the list of cities playing host to “Iranian” bombings Tony Cartalucci Prison Planet.com Tuesday, February 14, 2012 Not even 24 hours have passed and “Thai officials” have already determined not only that Bangkok’s bomb blasts were the work of Iranians, but that they intended to target Israelis, this according to the Jerusalem... »
SOCIAL MEDIA “TACTICAL INTELLIGENCE COLLECTION”: Spying and Propaganda using Facebook, Twitter
by Julie Lévesque Global Research February 15, 2012 A new study by the Mediterranean Council for Intelligence Studies’ (MCIS) 2012 Intelligence Studies Yearbook points to the use of social media as “the new cutting edge in open-source tactical intelligence collection”. IntelNews.org’s Joseph Fitsanakis, who co-authored the study, reports: We explain that Facebook, Twitter, YouTube,... »