Archive for April 20th, 2012

A collection of sayings from politicians and pundits on the role of corporations in government. It is well enough that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. –Henry Ford The real truth of the... »

Linette Lopez BusinessInsider.com Apr. 20, 2012 We haven’t been hearing a lot from Matt Taibbi lately because he’s on deadline. But he took a break from his furious writing to comment on this week’s bank earnings and the impending Moody’s downgrade of a few of the major Street players — BofA, Morgan Stanley, Goldman... »

The Daily Bell Friday, April 20, 2012 Spain Bans Cash Transactions Over 2,500 Euros … Spain has outlawed the use of cash in business transactions in excess 2,500 euros in order to crack down on the black market and tax evaders. The motivations behind the push for digital currencies is exposed as Spain heads... »

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 04/20/2012 The USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service released a new report on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, commonly known as Food Stamps) earlier this week with some fresh data on the program. Given our earlier note on Mr.EBT, we thought the following brief clip from Bloomberg TV on the $82bn-per-year... »

Pentagon Smears USA Today Reporters Investigating … Wait for It … Illegal Pentagon Propaganda by Washington’s Blog Global Research April 20, 2012 (If the draconian Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) bill passes, the spying on journalists will only increase.) They are also actively manipulating social media for propaganda purposes, to crush dissent... »

By Jamie Lampros Standard-Examiner Fri, 04/20/201 OGDEN — Anthony Thompson was in shock, disoriented and combative. As an emergency medical responder restrained him in the middle of a parking lot, Thompson screamed out in pain. Thompson said he had been in the lobby of an old building on 20th Street. Glass was embedded in... »

By Ken Hildebrand EndTheLie.com Host of the Information Nation on Orion Talk Radio and contributing writer for End the Lie As I sat at my computer the other day, preparing for Sunday’s radio show, a thought crossed my mind. It troubled me that the people of this country were so shallow. I found it... »

Eric Peters April 19th, 2012 Eric Peters Autos After a certain point, it’s not paranoia. The latest brick in the wall is the predictably named “Moving Ahead For Progress in the 21st Century Act,” also known as Senate Bill 1813. (See here for the full text of the bill itself; the relevant section is... »

StatRisks.com April 20, 2012 It is the most powerful federal agency you’ve never heard of — and lawmakers from both parties on Thursday vowed to keep abreast of its astonishing growth and rein it in, if necessary. The Office of Financial Research, or OFR, was created by the Dodd-Frank financial services overhaul that President... »

By Mike Whitney Information Clearing House April 19, 2012 Mounting troubles at Japan’s hobbled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant now pose a real threat to human survival. If the area in which Unit 4 is struck by another 7.0 magnitude earthquake, there’s a 70 percent chance that “the entire fuel pool structure will collapse”... »