Archive for March, 2012

By: Richard Mills Market Oracle Mar 30, 2012 No term generates more confusion or misunderstanding than fascism, too many people believe that fascism exists solely in images on the History Channel – storm troopers pounding thundering jackboots down cobblestone streets of occupied countries while throwing up the Roman salute. But fascism is not defined... »

By ENENews March 30th, 2012 Title: Canopy-Forming Kelps as California’s Coastal Dosimeter: 131I from Damaged Japanese Reactor Measured in Macrocystis pyrifera (ACS Publications) Source: Environmental Science & Technology Author: Steven L. Manley and Christopher G. Lowe, Department of Biological Sciences, California State University Publication Date (Web): March 6, 2012 Macrocystis is the keystone... »

By ENENews March 31st, 2012 Title: Radioactive Iodine from Fukushima Found in California Kelp Source: Scientific American Author: Marla Cone Date: March 30, 2012 Scientists from California State University, Long Beach tested giant kelp collected in the ocean off Orange County and other locations after the March, 2011 accident, and detected radioactive iodine,... »

BY CRIS SHERIDAN FinancialSense.com 03/30/2012 There are two major trends taking place that are shaping up as a recipe for disaster. On the one hand, we have massively indebted governments around the world desperate for tax revenues and, on the other, steadily growing multi-trillion underground economies whose main goal is to avoid paying them.... »

Joe Weisenthal BusinessInsider.com 3-31-2012 Nobody wants much to think about it yet, but it’s well understood by everyone in Washington and on Wall Street, that a potentially massive fiscal problem is looming for the economy next year. The issue is divided into three parts: Sometime in late 2012 or early 2013, Congress will have... »

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 03/31/2012 Spain’s honeymoon with its new government is over. Following months of hope that Spain will somehow tiptoe around the sensitive topic of austerity, despite promises of such and slow leaking of bond yields wider, yesterday the government promised to generate savings of €27 billion of about $36 billion (Spanish... »

Coming to a Neighborhood Near You by Charles V. Peña AntiWar.com March 31, 2012 I assume most, if not all, readers of Antiwar.com are familiar with drones, aka unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs. I’ve written previously about drones in two Antiwar.com columns: “Memo to Rep. Ron Paul” and “Commuting to War.” Armed drones have... »

By Muriel Kane RawStory.com Friday, March 30, 2012 The Arizona state legislature apparently finds it difficult to tell the difference between a telephone and the Internet and has passed a bill that would extend the definition of harassment originally devised for phone conversations to anything communicated or published online. As summarized by the Comic... »

by Chris Martenson ZeroHedge.com 03/31/2012 “Even Wile E. Coyote had to come back down to earth sooner or later”, says Charles Biderman, founder of TrimTabs Investment Research. In his opinion, the prices of stocks and bonds – enabled by excessive financialization of our economy and central bank money printing – have been defying gravity... »

Saman Mohammadi Prisonplanet.com March 31, 2012 You Can Laugh At 9/11 Truth-Tellers Till Kingdom Come. But You Can’t Destroy The Truth About 9/11. “Consciousness has been left at the door.” – Michael Tsarion. “The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his... »