Archive for February 21st, 2013

by Tariq Malik SPACE.com 20 February 2013 A colossal sunspot on the surface of the sun is large enough to swallow six Earths whole, and could trigger solar flares this week, NASA scientists say. The giant sunspot was captured on camera by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory as it swelled to enormous proportions over the... »

By Tom Carter and Barry Grey Global Research February 19, 2013 In written responses to questions submitted by the Senate Intelligence Committee, John Brennan, the Obama administration’s nominee for director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), refused to rule out drone assassinations of American citizens on US soil. The committee on Friday released a... »

by William F. Jasper TheNewAmerican.com Wednesday, 20 February 2013 While headline stories about averting the dangers of an international “currency war” dominated news coverage of the recently concluded G20 meeting in Moscow, the real unreported story is that the global gathering of central bankers and finance ministers is pushing forward with their plan for... »

by John Galt JohnGaltfl.com February 21, 2013 The most dangerous gun in the world was not created by the Chinese Communist Party. It is not the Barrett .50 caliber sniper rifle. Governments do not fear the AK-47 or the now much ballyhooed AR-15 as many might think. The most dangerous gun which can bring... »

SilverDoctors.com FEBRUARY 21, 2013 The Doc sat down with gold and silver expert and billionaire fund manager Eric Sprott Wednesday for the first of a series of interviews regarding the markets. Eric warned The Doc prior to the interview that the KWN and USAWatchdog sites were maliciously attacked the day they published interviews with... »

Mamta Badkar BusinessInsider.com 2-21-2013 Stocks tumbled yesterday after the FOMC minutes showed that many Fed officials wanted to reduce or end QE sooner than expected. The Dow tumbled 108 points, and today stocks and commodities are down again. In his latest “Gartman Letter,” Dennis Gartman writes that he has made “material changes to ... »

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 02/21/2013 Moment ago Wal-Mart reported a top-line miss, a bottom line beat, a dividend hike and a rather subdued full year forecast ($5.20-$5.40 on Exp. of $5.39), and nobody cared. The only thing that algos and carbon-based lifeforms alike honed in on, was the recap of the most recent 13... »

Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com February 20, 2013 Attaching a computer to your head is not going to bring you happiness, it’s only going to make your life more synthetic, more artificial, less real, less genuine, less spontaneous. There comes a point where technology ceases to help us and just ends up making us... »

Investmentwatchblog.com February 20th, 2013 STOCKS FALL, OIL TANKS, GOLD GETS CRUSHED: Here’s What You Need To Know Things got ugly. First the scoreboard: Dow: 13,927, -108.1 pts, -0.7 percent S&P 500: 1,511, -18.9 pts, -1.2 percent NASDAQ: 3,164. -49.1 pts, -1.5 percent And now the top stories: There was a hodge-podge of news today,... »

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 02/20/2013 One can spend all day watching financial media channels stuffed full of self-promoting index-hugging asset-managers and be left with the belief that all is well and that the market does indeed represent our reality… Or, as UBS’ Art Cashin notes today (confirming what we first published a month ago... »