Archive for February 23rd, 2012

by Dan Dorfman ZeroHedge.com 02/23/2012 Americans participating in a recent Gallup poll showed the highest level of confidence in an economic recovery in a year. Sounds great, but you can’t ignore the nearly 13 million unemployed, the 46 million people on food stamps and the roughly 29% of the country’s homeowners whose mortgages are... »

by Washington’s Blog Global Research February 23, 2012 Censorship By Top Social Media Websites Facebook pays low-wage foreign workers to delete certain content based upon a censorship list. For example, Facebook deletes accounts created by Palestinian resistance groups. Digg was caught censoring stories which were controversial or too critical of the government. See this... »

THE BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF AMARICA By Coach Dave Daubenmire February 23, 2012 NewsWithViews.com Martin Niemoller: “Our concern here, Herr Hitler, is not for the church. Jesus Christ will take care of the church. Our concern is for the soul of the nation.” Adolph Hitler: “You can leave the soul of Germany to... »

TheEconomicCollapseBlog.com How is the U.S. economy doing in 2012? Unfortunately, it is not doing nearly as well as the mainstream media would have you believe. Yes, things have stabilized for the moment but this bubble of false hope will not last for long. The long-term trends that are ripping our economy and our financial... »

EndOfTheAmericanDream.com In American politics, it takes an enormous amount of money to win campaigns, and the rise of the “Super PACs” is allowing the wealthy to exert even more influence over the political process than they did before. When you examine the results of federal elections over the past several decades, you quickly discover... »

by Lance Roberts ZeroHedge.com 02/22/2012 Back in December I penned an article about the potential for gasoline prices to rise quickly to catch up with surging oil prices. We said then “If we look at just the nominal price data going back to 1990 we can see that there is indeed a very high... »

BY D SHERMAN OKST Psychopathiceconomics.com The timing could be worse. Our collective economic immune system is shot, thanks to our insane 130 plus trillion dollars worth of debt, and the ever diminishing purchasing power of “our” dollar. None of our audacious geniuses, the ones who still consider themselves to be economists—even after missing both... »