by: Ethan A. Huff NaturalNews.com Wednesday, May 23, 2012 It has been more than a year now since the massive 9.0-plus magnitude earthquake and corresponding tsunami devastated the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on the eastern coast of Japan, sending untold amounts of nuclear radiation into the environment. And to this day, the threat... »
Archive for May 23rd, 2012
US Treasury Dept running secret debt sales to China, bypassing Wall Street entirely
by: J. D. Heyes NaturalNews.com Wednesday, May 23, 2012 In another sign of America’s increasing debtor status to China, the Obama administration is allowing Beijing to bypass Wall Street entirely when it comes to buy U.S. Treasury bonds, the first time a foreign country has ever been afforded such special treatment. In a recent... »
WAR & POLICE STATE GOOD FOR BUSINESS: Defense Contractors Look for Return on Investment With National Defense Authorization Act
by MapLight Global Research May 23, 2012 May 22, 2012 — On Friday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2013 for military activities of the Department of Defense that, among other things, would prescribe the number of military personnel in Afghanistan through 2014. The bill,... »
UK Officials Would Protect ‘Interests’ In Iran/Israel Conflict
Keelan Balderson, Contributor Activist Post.com Wednesday, May 23, 2012 The message from the Anglo-American-Israeli pact has never been more clear, as today Iranian officials have been forced to meet with world powers in Baghdad, Iraq; the city devastated by the US led occupation, which was sold to the public on the back of lies... »
Counter-balancing the threat from China: U.S. deepens military cooperation with India
TheExtinctionProtocol.com May 23, 2012 NEW DELHI – India and the U.S. on Monday discussed ways to further strengthen their already expansive bilateral defense, in the backdrop of their Malabar naval combat exercise being successfully held in the Bay of Bengal earlier this month. Visiting U.S. chief of naval operations Admiral Jonathan Greenert held talks... »
North Korea to boost nuclear deterrent after U.S. pressure
TheExtinctionProtocol.com May 23, 2012 NORTH KOREA – North Korea intensified its war of words against the United States on Tuesday, vowing to strengthen its nuclear deterrent after Washington warned Pyongyang of further sanctions if it did not abandon its atomic program. Last week, world leaders meeting in the United States said North Korea needed... »
Britain ‘examining military options against Iran’…(World Broke?…On To War!!)
Iran and world powers meet hoping to silence ‘drums of war’ with nuclear talks Iran and six world powers are meeting in Baghdad hoping to silence what President Barack Obama called the “drums of war”, as Britain said that it was examining its options should war break out between Tehran and Israel. TelegraphUK 23... »
Congressman Mica Calls For “Most” Airports To Ditch TSA
Orlando International Airport considering replacing federal screeners with private security Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Wednesday, May 23, 2012 Congressman John Mica has called for “most” of the nation’s busiest airports to evict TSA screeners and replace them with private security, as Orlando International Airport considers doing precisely that in the aftermath of a... »
Facebook’s Flop Is Death Knell for Bull Market
By: Rick Ackerman GoldSeek.com Wednesday, 23 May 2012 Observing Facebook’s price action on its IPO day earlier this week, one might have thought that fear, greed and stupidity had taken the day off. How could the over-hyped, socko-boffo stock of the year – of the decade – have failed to double within minutes of... »
100 Million Americans Without Jobs
Eddy Elfenbein BusinessInsider.com May 23, 2012 The national unemployment rates gets lots of attention, and lately more attention has been paid to the workforce participation rate since more Americans have given up looking for a job, but we can also see that an astounding 100 million Americans don’t have jobs. Specifically, these are people... »