Archive for August 25th, 2012

by Stephen Lendman Global Research August 25, 2012 A new Tax Justice Network (TJN) USA report reveals an estimated $21 – $32 trillion of hidden and stolen wealth stashed largely tax-free secretly. Titled “The Price of Offshore Revisited,” it explains what financial insiders know but won’t discuss. Many of them have their own hidden... »

Matthew Boesler BusinessInsider.com Aug. 25, 2012 Yesterday, BofA’s top North America economist Ethan Harris penned a bearish note on the the U.S. economy, writing that it “is in the eye of the storm” and that a number of troubling headwinds loom on the horizon. BofA strategists Arjun Mehra and Cheryl Rowan have a warning... »

by George Washington ZeroHedge.com 08/25/2012 Nobel prize winning economist Joe Stiglitz notes: What Iceland did was right. It would have been wrong to burden future generations with the mistakes of the financial system. Nobel prize winning economist Paul Krugman writes: What demonstrated was the … case for letting creditors of private banks... »

Chris InformationLiberation Aug 25 2012 The Guardian reports: Johnson did not fire at police, according to law enforcement, but he did raise his gun. Nine civilians – four women and five men – were shot or grazed by the two officers who shot Johnson dead. Initial reports suggested the shooter shot the bystanders, additionally... »

If George Orwell was guilty of anything, it was not of being too leftwing but too intellectually honest Geoffrey Wheatcroft Guardian.co.uk Friday 24 August 2012 Why Orwell Matters is the title of a book published some years ago by my much-lamented if misguided friend Christopher Hitchens. Whether Orwell matters, he clearly still fascinates, stimulates... »

Crisis-hit Italy has seen the number of cash-for-gold shops quadruple in the last two years, according to an Italian think tank, with some cash-strapped citizens forced to sell their gold teeth to make ends meet. TelegraphUK 20 Aug 2012 City centres are being transformed as traditional shops go out of business, their signs replaced... »

Mac Slavo August 24th, 2012 SHTFplan.com With the Congressional Budget Office reporting that the United States will soon fall off the fiscal cliff unless the government takes immediate action, the Federal Reserve weighing another round of heavy-hitting monetary expansion, and the Republican Party now apparently jumping on board the gold standard train, the stars... »

Recombinomics.com August 25, 2012 The CDC has released 8 more sets of H3N2v sequences (at GISAID). Six of the sequences are from Indiana samples collected in late July (A/Indiana/14/2012 and A/Indiana/16/2012) or early August (A/Indiana/43/23012, A/Indiana/46/23012, A/Indiana/49/23012, A/Indiana/52/23012). One sample is from Wisconsin (A/Wisconsin/22/2012 collected August 13) and one from Pennsylvania (A/Pennsylvania/13/2012 collected August... »

Recombinomics.com August 24, 2012 The three instances of likely person-to-person spread of H3N2v were recently identified during investigations of cases and their household contacts and are not epidemiologically linked to one another. In all three cases, transmission is thought to have occurred from one person to another person without further spread to additional people.... »

Now, if the gold standard does arrive can we also think of a silver standard? You can get fifty times of silver for the same price of gold! And governments that have lost most of their value—in whatever sense—would rather buy or may even mine gold and silver; by paying mostly from the bullion... »