Archive for August 21st, 2012

by Mark McHugh ZeroHedge.com 08/20/2012 In just four short years, our “enlightened” policy-makers have slowed money velocity to depths never seen in the Great Depression. Hard to believe, but the guy who made a career out of Monday-morning quarterbacking the Great Depression has already proven himself a bigger idiot than all of his predecessors... »

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 08/20/2012 Just under two years ago, Meredith Whitney made a much maligned, if very vocal call, that hundreds of US municipalities will file for bankruptcy. She also put a timestamp on the call, which in retrospect was her downfall, because while she will ultimately proven 100% correct about the actual... »

TheEconomicCollapseBlog.com Are you willing to bet against three of the wealthiest men in the entire world? Jacob Rothschild recently bet approximately 200 million dollars that the euro will go down. Billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson made somewhere around 20 billion dollars betting against the U.S. housing market during the last financial crisis, and... »

Mac Slavo August 20th, 2012 SHTFplan.com Since the government sector has done such a great job at managing social security, the postal service, and the extension of mortgage credit why not also mandate that every health care worker in the country become a federal, state or local employee? According to a new book by... »

by Michael C. Ruppert Global Research August 21, 2012 THE LIE WON’T STAND Bush Administration Explanations for Pre-9-11 Warnings Fail the Smell Test by Michael C. Ruppert Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG), globalresearch.ca , May 16, 2002 Warnings Received From Heads of State, Allied Intelligence Services Specifically Warned of Suicide Attacks by Hijackers... »

by Seth Rosenfeld Global Research August 20, 2012 The man who gave the Black Panther Party some of its first firearms and weapons training – which preceded fatal shootouts with Oakland police in the turbulent 1960s – was an undercover FBI informer, according to a former bureau agent and an FBI report. One of... »

Recombinomics.com August 20, 2012 Minnesota has recorded its first confirmed case and a second probable case of a new influenza strain that people acquire through contact with pigs. The two cases were reported in a pre-school-age child and an older sibling from a family living in the Twin Cities metro area. Both children developed... »

Recombinomics.com August 20, 2012 Ashland (1), Athens (6), Butler (17), Champaign (15), Clark (3), Fairfield (1), Franklin (4), Gallia (11), Greene (6), Hamilton (3), Henry (4), Jackson (1), Licking (1), Medina (1), Monroe (2), Montgomery (2), Morrow (1), Preble (1), Ross (5), Union (1), Warren (1). The above list represents the August 20 tally... »

by rcwhalen ZeroHedge.com 08/20/2012 Well I won’t back down, no I won’t back down You could stand me up at the gates of hell But I won’t back down Gonna stand my ground, won’t be turned around And I’ll keep this world from draggin’ me down Gonna stand my ground and I won’t back... »