Archive for August 19th, 2012

Federal agency tracked Infowars stories, user comments Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Sunday, August 19, 2012 Hundreds of pages of documents released under the Freedom of Information Act reveal that the Department of Homeland Security monitored political opposition to the See Something, Say Something campaign, as well as tracking Infowars stories and user comments... »

TheExtinctionProtocol.com August 19, 2012 ECUADOR – At 19h36 (local time) on 18 August, a possible lava flow from the summit crater and incandescent lava blocks continuously tumbling down were observed using thermal imagery. The lava flow which some observers also reported seeing by naked eye is emerges from a breach in the sidewall of... »

TheExtinctionProtocol.com August 19, 2012 WASHINGTON – A magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck off the coast of the West Coast state of Washington on Sunday, the United States Geological Survey said. The earthquake was followed by a 4.5 magnitude aftershock. The depth was reported at 6.3 miles and the quake was located 190 miles west of... »

Matthew Boesler BusinessInsider.com Aug. 19, 2012 It may be time for a reality check for investors who are shrugging off the fiscal cliff. That’s according to Goldman Sachs chief U.S. equity strategist David Kostin, who writes in his latest note to clients that “portfolio managers have been swayed by hope over experience” when it... »

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 08/19/2012 First Tunisia, then Greece, now Italy (the same Italy where the economy is “picking up” where yields are “stable”, and where much “progress” is being made). From Reuters: “A 54-year-old man died on Sunday after setting himself on fire outside the Italian parliament last week to highlight his struggle... »

‘The Threat of Authority’ by William Norman Grigg LewRockwell.com Skepticism, Santayana observed, is “the chastity of the intellect.” In similar fashion, resistance – not compliance – is the default response of a free person to a directive issued by someone acting in the name of “authority.” Louise Ogborn, a teenage employee at a McDonald’s... »

Means-Testing Your Social Security Payments by Gary North LewRockwell.com I posted an article on my Tea Party Economist site on the increase in the real debt of the U.S. government over the last year. The increase was $11 trillion. Read it here. Impossible? Not at all. The annual increase – the deficit – will... »

SPRAY OF HOPE By Katie Drummond Friday TheDaily.com August 17, 2012 As the suicide rate among soldiers climbs to the highest levels in history, the Army is hoping Americans might one day treat their mental health woes with a single sniff. The Army has just handed a $3 million grant to researchers at the... »

If you think that 24/7 tracking of citizens by biometric recognition systems is paranoid fantasy, just read the industry newsletters Naomi Wolf GuardianUK Wednesday 15 August 2012 A software engineer in my Facebook community wrote recently about his outrage that when he visited Disneyland, and went on a ride, the theme park offered him... »

An attack on Iran before a U.S. election with the goal of dooming the incumbent president? by Robert Parry Global Research August 18, 2012 A pressing foreign policy question of the U.S. presidential race is whether Israel might exploit this politically delicate time to bomb Iran’s nuclear sites and force President Obama to join... »