Archive for February 21st, 2012

By: Jason Hamlin Market Oracle Were you cursing at your computer screen when silver nearly tripled during the short 9 months from September 2010 to May 2011? Silver at $20 seemed like an insurmountable threshold for quite some time. This caused many silver investors to give up just prior to the ascent, completely missing... »

Move follows controversy over armed guards placed outside Florida Social Security office Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, February 20, 2012 The Department of Homeland Security has hired hundreds of security guards to protect scores of government buildings across the country as the federal agency prepares for terror threats and potential civil disorder in... »

SOPA author Lamar Smith pushing bill to make web sites track every user’s every move By Kevin Fogarty ITWorld.com February 20, 2012 The SOPA and PIPA bills that went down in flames earlier this year for their unbearable intrusiveness, used content piracy as an excuse to give the government powerful tools with which to... »

Should police and coastguards use laser dazzlers? by Jeff Hecht NewScientist.com Devices that temporarily blind people can now be used by US police, but are they worth the risks? THE US police and coastguard may soon start using laser “dazzlers” like those the American and British militaries have employed for years at checkpoints in... »

Phone and email records to be stored in new spy plan Details of every phone call and text message, email traffic and websites visited online are to be stored in a series of vast databases under new Government anti-terror plans. By David Barrett TelegraphUk Landline and mobile phone companies and broadband providers will be... »

Online surveillance bill opens door for Big Brother Section 34 gives Orwellian powers to government-appointed ‘inspectors’ By Terry Milewski CBC News “There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was... »

TheExtinctionProtocol.com ALASKA – The remote Kanaga stratovolcano in the Aleutian Islands might have begun erupting, the Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) reports. A possible ash cloud about 39 km (24 mi) NE of the volcano, likely from weak explosive activity, was detected on satellite imagery, and volcanic tremor was detected under the volcano from 15:23-15:27... »

by Charles Hugh Smith ZeroHedge.com 02/20/2012 Why can’t the American public nominate their own candidate for president? It turns out we can, and are doing so for the first time in American history. If the last 12 years have revealed anything, they have shown beyond reasonable doubt that both Status Quo political parties in... »

by Tom Burghardt Global Research February 20, 2012 Despite, though likely because, Iran is ready to restart negotiations with the so-called P5+1 group (the five members of the UN Security Council plus Germany) over its civilian nuclear program, belligerent rhetoric and sharply-worded political attacks from Israel and the United States have escalated. Indeed, as... »

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 02/20/2012 ou read headlines that Greece is saved (in a carbon copy release from July 21). Now read the truth behind the lies – presenting the 9 page (so it’s brief enough) Greek sustainability (or lack thereof) analysis. Here is the punchline: The debt trajectory is extremely sensitive to program... »