Archive for April 23rd, 2012

by Charles Hugh Smith ZeroHedge.com 04/23/2012 There are no apolitical “personal choice” acts; there are only profoundly political acts of resistance or complicity. I don’t how the future will unfold, not just because I’m an idiot but because it’s unknowable. Though we cannot know the future, we do know two very important things: 1)... »

BY ALEX NEWMAN TheNewAmerican.com SUNDAY, 22 APRIL 2012 The United Nations plans to use its upcoming UN Conference on “Sustainable Development” (UN CSD or Rio+20) in Rio de Janeiro to amass a vast array of unprecedented new powers and literally re-shape civilization, the global economy, and even peoples’ thoughts, according to official documents. All... »

Shift on Executive Power Lets Obama Bypass Rivals By CHARLIE SAVAGE NYTimes.com April 22, 2012 WASHINGTON — One Saturday last fall, President Obama interrupted a White House strategy meeting to raise an issue not on the agenda. He declared, aides recalled, that the administration needed to more aggressively use executive power to govern in... »

By ENENews April 23rd, 2012 Title: Naoto Kan: The man who says he saved the world Source: The Independent Author: David McNeill Date: Monday 23 April 2012 It reads like a dispatch from the pages of Godzilla, who was a fictional metaphor for nuclear weapons, wreaking destruction with a blast of radiation from his... »

TheExtinctionProtocol.com April 23, 2012 SEOUL – North Korea’s military Monday threatened “special actions” soon to turn parts of the South Korean capital to ashes, accusing Seoul’s conservative government of defaming its leadership. The North has for months been criticizing the South’s President Lee Myung-Bak in extreme terms and threatening “sacred war” over perceived insults.... »

by Jim Quinn ZeroHedge.com 04/23/2012 “Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.” – Edmund Burke No wonder one third of Americans are obese. The crap we are shoveling into our bodies is on par with the misinformation, propaganda and lies that are being programmed into our minds by government bureaucrats,... »

CarbonSat: Enforcing green fascism’s CO2 tax from space Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, April 23, 2012 The European Space Agency is set to green light a new surveillance satellite that will measure man-made carbon emissions from space in order to “hunt down” violators of international climate agreements, allowing Big Brother to enforce a... »

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 04/23/2012 As reported first thing this morning when we discussed the perfect storm in Europe, the Dutch government was expected to resign en masse in the aftermath of this weekend’s auterity fiasco. Sure enough, that resignation is now fact. From the WSJ: Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and his cabinet... »

F. Michael Maloof, G2 Bulletin BusinessInsider.com Apr. 23, 2012 WASHINGTON – As scientists warn of an impending solar storm between now and 2014 that could collapse the national power grid, thrusting millions into darkness instantly, a debate has flared up between utilities and the federal government on the severity of such an event. NASA... »

by Mark Grant ZeroHedge.com 04/23/2012 State Guarantees “Countries were additionally asked about the amount of state guarantees. These do not form part of government debt, but are a contingent liability.” -Eurostat On No Account I am asked so often about this that I wanted to print out the exact wording from the European Statistics... »