Archive for September 12th, 2012

* Extension of law is “top priority” for intelligence agencies Reuters.com Tue Sep 11, 2012 * Senate critics threaten delays over civil liberties concerns * Secret program sorts through masses of phone calls and emails By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON, Sept 11 (Reuters) – U.S. intelligence officials made a public plea on Tuesday, the 11th... »

Wolf Richter ZeroHedge.com 09/11/2012 It’s been an unrelenting process. Survey after survey—most recently “The Lost Decade of the Middle Class“—has shown that wages haven’t kept up with inflation since the wage peak in 2000. Periods when real wages rose, for example during the deflationary stretch between March and October 2009, a godsend for struggling... »

We give our power away to the tyrants by our willingness to believe what they say instead of what we observe. “Once the truth about the magician’s trick is revealed, the show is over.” by Robert Cinque HenryMakow.com September 10, 2012 The Oppressor uses our humanity as a weapon against us. Our ability to... »

by John W. Whitehead LewRockwell.com What happened to 26-year-old decorated Marine Brandon Raub – who was targeted because of his Facebook posts, interrogated by government agents about his views on government corruption, arrested with no warning, labeled mentally ill for subscribing to so-called “conspiratorial” views about the government, detained against his will in a... »

America’s hold on a AAA rating will collapse next year unless Washington takes measures to rein in the government’s debt, Moody’s has warned. By Richard Blackden TelegraphUK 11 Sep 2012 The credit rating agency delivered a stark warning that it will follow its rival, Standard & Poor’s, and strip the US of its top... »

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 09/11/2012 Yesterday, in a rather paradoxical development, the Japanese Cabinet formally announced that the government will purchase several disputed islands that China also claims — a move that Beijing said would bring “serious consequences.” The issue at hand is that China and Taiwan also claim the islands, which are part... »

TheExtinctionProtocol.com September 12, 2012 COSTA RICA – After a series of analyses conducted in the northwestern province of Guanacaste, experts from the Volcanological and Seismological Observatory of Costa Rica (Ovsicori) reported Tuesday that another quake of equal or greater magnitude could occur in Nicoya Peninsula, but predicting when it would happen is “impossible.” Marino... »

TheEconomicCollapseBlog.com The mainstream media in the United States is almost totally ignoring one of the most important trends in global economics. This trend is going to cause the value of the U.S. dollar to fall dramatically and it is going to cause the cost of living in the United States to go way up.... »