Archive for August 16th, 2012

Greyerz – Expect Massive Short Covering In Gold Within Weeks KingWorldNews.com August 16, 2012 Today Egon von Greyerz told King World News, “… the paper shorts in gold and silver are going to have real problems.” Greyerz, who is founder and managing partner at Matterhorn Asset Management out of Switzerland, also said, “The short... »

DARPA enlists makers of “BigDog” to construct machines that can think for themselves Steve Watson Prisonplanet.com Aug 16, 2012 The Department of Defense has awarded a lucrative contract to an engineering and robotics design company to develop and build humanoid robots that can act intelligently without supervision. Boston Dynamics Inc. has been contracted by... »

LonestarWatchdog.com August 16, 2012 ALIPAC is launching an effort today to warn all federal employees that Obama’s directives to institute a mass Amnesty for millions of illegal aliens willing to claim they are under 30 and were brought here as children contradicts existing federal law, the rulings of Congress, and the US Constitution. ALIPAC... »

Matthew Boesler BusinessInsider.com Aug. 16, 2012 The World Gold Council released its latest quarterly Gold Demand Trends report today. Demand for gold as an investment got crushed in the second quarter this year, declining 25.9 percent from last quarter – the worst quarter-over-quarter drop seen since the third quarter of 2010. The drop in... »

Simon Black Sovereignman.com AUGUST 16, 2012 Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has made an admirable habit of enraging western governments over the last few years, particularly the United States. Most notably, his release of classified diplomatic documents in 2010 proved ruthlessly embarrassing, shining a spotlight on the absurd, petty little world of international relations. Ever... »

by Joe Wolverton, II TheNewAmerican.com Wednesday, 15 August 2012 On a near daily basis, The New American chronicles the approach of the day when squadrons of drones will fill the skies of the United States. Scores of these unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) will be deployed by state and local law enforcement, adding to the... »

Pjmedia.com Meet Suzanne Barr, Chief of Staff at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. She’s on leave right now. Meet Dora Schriro. She used to work at the Department of Homeland Security under Janet Napolitano. She currently oversees prisons in Michael Bloomberg’s New York. Both Barr and Schriro are named offenders in the growing... »

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 08/16/2012 When observing the trends in the housing market, one has two choices: i) listen to the bulls who keep repeating that “housing has bottomed”, a common refrain which has been repeated every single year for the past four, or ii) look at the facts. We touched briefly on the... »

Joe Weisenthal BusinessInsider.com Aug. 16, 2012 Morgan Stanley’s Joachim Fels and the rest of the The Global Macro Analyst team have cut their global growth forecast in a note dramatically titled Into The Twilight Zone. The gist is that everyone in the world is struggling right now. Emerging markets, which used to keep growing... »

Mac Slavo August 16th, 2012 SHTFplan.com If you aren’t happy with how things are going in Congress you’re not alone. The most recent Gallup Survey, which asked respondents whether they “approve or disapprove with how Congress is handling its job,” shows that nine out of ten Americans are not happy. It’s the lowest approval... »