By Jonathan Ellis USA TODAY Legislatures in a dozen states are considering laws that would eliminate requirements that residents obtain permits to carry concealed weapons. Gun-control advocates view the efforts as part of a long-range strategy to eventually weaken gun laws across the country. But supporters say armed, law-abiding citizens prevent crime. Andrew Arulanandam,... »
Archive for March 8th, 2012
NBC’s Richard Engel on Fukushima: “Only time I’d seen a place on Earth that had been rendered uninhabitable for a long period” — “It has been excised from the planet” — How do you remove billions of invisible radioactive particles that are everywhere? (VIDEO)
By ENENews March 8th, 2012 Title: Richard Engel Talks About Nuclear Disaster Source: KULR Date: Mar 7, 2012 at 7:06 PM MST Richard Engel is covering the story for NBC News and spoke to KULR-8 Wednesday afternoon. “It’s really about the dust. I thought I was going into an area, it’d be... »
Greyerz: Greek Deal to Collapse Causing Trillions to be Printed
KingWorldNews.com March 8, 2012 Today Egon von Greyerz told King World News even if a Greek deal is announced, at some point it will collapse. Von Greyerz also said the consequences of the collapse will be massive. Egon von Greyerz is founder and managing partner at Matterhorn Asset Management out of Switzerland. Here is... »
Illinois state ‘on brink of collapse’
StratRisks.com Illinois’ financial problems are forcing it to choose between its pensions and its teeth. Governor Pat Quinn says the state needs to face its “rendezvous with reality” and tackle its dysfunctional budget habits. Top of the list, Mr Quinn says, is to slash spending on Medicaid, a federal programme that provides healthcare to... »
Obama Uses Staged Cyber Attack To Sell Draconian Cybersecurity Bill
Wants federal control over companies’ cyber security systems Steve Watson Prisonplanet.com March 8, 2012 The Obama administration conducted a mock cyber attack on New York City yesterday in an effort to gain support in the Senate for a cybersecurity bill that internet providers argue will prevent them from making real security improvements. “Senators from... »
Greece could default within hours
Louise Armitstead The Daily Telegraph March 8, 2012 So this is it. After three years of high drama, the European Union is staring at its first ever sovereign default and, ironically, unlike every other deadline so far, this one looks set to be adhered to. At 8pm GMT tonight (7am, AEDT, Friday morning), the... »
Our “Let’s Pretend” Economy: Let’s Pretend Financialization Hasn’t Killed the Economy
by Charles Hugh Smith ZeroHedge.com 03/08/2012 Like the bubonic plague, financialization has a lifecycle that cannot be reversed by Federal Reserve or European Central Bank intervention. Let’s pretend the Federal Reserve can force the financialization lifecycle back into expansion. Why do we need to pretend this can happen? Because the entire U.S. economy and... »
Kamchatka’s Bezymianny volcano put on highest alert- eruption can happen anytime
TheExtinctionProtocol.com March 8, 2012 KAMCHATKA – Bezymianny, one of the most active volcanoes in the world has been put on aviation color code red, the highest alert given by the Kamchatka Volcanic Eruption Response Team. KVERT assigned the code on Tuesday and warns of an imminent eruption. “Activity of the volcano continuously increases,” says... »
Pentagon Launches Desperate Damage Control Over Shocking Panetta Testimony
The United States has ceded control of its affairs to international bureaucrats Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Thursday, March 8, 2012 Alex Jones: “This represents absolute 100 per cent proof that the military industrial complex which runs the United States is under the control of foreign central banks who are imposing a military dictatorship.”... »
Breitbart’s Obama Videos are an October Distraction
Eric Blair ActivistPost.com Thursday, March 8, 2012 Much of the alternative news and the establishment political right has speculated that Andrew Breitbart’s untimely death may have something to do with his opposition to Obama. Some have even suggested that he was murdered to keep compromising tapes of Obama from surfacing. But, at worst, these... »