Archive for June 21st, 2012

By Tim Stanley TelegraphUK June 21st, 2012 Fast and furious hasn’t been discussed a lot in the mainstream media, which is why the facts can seem so preposterous when you read them for the first time. But the story is slowly unraveling and the public is catching up with the madness. On Wednesday, the... »

Fromthetrenchesworldreport.com June 20, 2012 RT News A small insect or a mosquito over your ear may now be much more than simply annoying. Those could easily be micro drones which now come in a swarm of bug-sized flying spies. In an effort to create a hard-to-detect surveillance drone that will operate with little or... »

Nobody ever got rich shorting Japanese government bonds, it is often said. Are those now aggressively shorting German bunds about to fall into the same trap? By Jeremy Warner TelegraphUK 20 Jun 2012 To investors who think the ever more mountainous size of Japan’s national debt is eventually bound to end in fiscal disaster,... »

Acxiom Corp: The ‘faceless organization that knows everything about you’ An Arkansas company you’ve probably never heard of knows more about you than some of your friends, Google, and even the FBI — and it’s selling your data TheWeek.com JUNE 20, 2012 When you think of the surveillance state, you usually think of snoopy... »

By Bart Jansen USA TODAY.com June 20, 2012 DALLAS – At a terminal being renovated here at Love Field, contractors are installing 500 high-definition security cameras sharp enough to read an auto license plate or a logo on a shirt. The cameras, capable of tracking passengers from the parking garage to gates to the... »

CONOR FRIEDERSDORF TheAtlantic.com JUN 20 2012 Though he has endorsed the presumptive GOP nominee, the senator took to National Review Online to assert Congress’s role in declaring war. After Senator Rand Paul endorsed Mitt Romney, he got grief from a lot of his libertarian supporters, especially after the GOP nominee stated that the president... »

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins LewRockwell.com PROLOGUE Quito, Ecuador’s capital, stretches across a volcanic valley high in the Andes, at an altitude of nine thousand feet. Residents of this city, which was founded long before Columbus arrived in the Americas, are accustomed to seeing snow on the surrounding peaks, despite... »

EndOfAmericanDream.com Our world is becoming increasingly unstable, and millions of Americans are feverishly preparing for what they consider to be “the end of the world as we know it”. In fact, it is estimated that there are now approximately 3 million “preppers” in the United States. But for people that have never done much... »

TheEconomicCollapseBlog.com It has been said that there are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One way is by using the sword, and the other is by using debt. Fortunately, America is not in danger of being conquered by the sword right now, but America is being conquered by debt. The borrower is... »

KingWorldNews.com June 21, 2012 With the Fed increasing Operation Twist by $267 billion, and European leaders meeting today, King World News interviewed highly acclaimed trader Dan Norcini. Norcini told KWN that “After traders realized QE3 was not off the table, up gold and silver went and they closed well off their lows for the... »