Archive for November 20th, 2012

By Alton Parrish BeforeItsNews.com Monday, November 19, 2012 Although the US can improve prevention, protection, and recovery in the face of an EMP attack to levels below those that would have catastrophic consequences for the Nation, an EMP attack would still cause substantial disruption, even under the best of circumstances. Many citizens would be... »

By KEITH O’BRIEN NYTimes.com November 16, 2012 On a clear morning in May, Ron Douglas left his home in exurban Denver, eased into his Toyota pickup truck and drove to a business meeting at a Starbucks. Douglas, a bearded bear of a man, ordered a venti double-chocolate-chip Frappuccino — “the girliest drink ever,” he... »

Mac Slavo November 19th, 2012 SHTFplan.com Cities from coast-to-coast are facing unprecedented budget deficits that have left government officials with no choice but to strip police forces to a bare minimum. We now regularly hear about new ‘records’ being broken in the resulting crime waves that follow. Law enforcement officials in Chicago, for example,... »

By Chris Hedges Global Research November 19, 2012 Gaza is a window on our coming dystopia. The growing divide between the world’s elite and its miserable masses of humanity is maintained through spiraling violence. Many impoverished regions of the world, which have fallen off the economic cliff, are beginning to resemble Gaza, where 1.6... »

Giles Tremlett The Guardian Monday 19 November 2012 The red and yellow striped flags of Catalonia bobbed about giddily as Lluis Recoder delivered his message: despite the crisis gripping Spain, Catalans could be as rich as Scandinavians. “If we were a European state we would be seventh in Europe in per capita income, after... »

BY RON PAUL FinancialSense.com 11/19/2012 Is all the recent talk of secession mere sour grapes over the election, or perhaps something deeper? Currently there are active petitions in support of secession for all 50 states, with Texas taking the lead in number of signatures. Texas has well over the number of signatures needed to... »

School makes good on threat of ‘consequences’ for refusing to submit to ‘Mark of the Beast’ ID scheme Aaron Dykes Infowars.com November 19, 2012 After months of protesting a policy requiring high school students to wear an RFID-enabled ID badge around their necks at all times, Andrea Hernandez is being involuntarily withdrawn from John... »

Sunday’s regional elections could trigger a battle for independence from Spain ALASDAIR FOTHERINGHAM IndependentUK MONDAY 19 NOVEMBER 2012 Two years ago in Girona, a well-to-do town in Spain’s autonomous region of Catalonia, Mercé Escara hung a pro-independence flag from her balcony window. The administrator for her apartment building promptly asked her to remove it.... »

France has suffered a serious blow to its economic credentials after being stripped of its prized AAA credit rating by Moody’s. By Jonathan Russell TelegraphUK 19 Nov 2012 The rating agency said France’s long-term economic growth had been hit by its inflexible labour market and low levels of innovation eroding its competitiveness and industrial... »

By Nile Gardiner TelegraphUK November 19th, 2012 It is only two weeks since his re-election, and his second term remains two months away, but Barack Obama is already blundering again on the world stage, with the kind of gaffes that would have been plastered on the front page of The New York Times if... »