Archive for May 31st, 2013

Bill Sardi Alt-Market.com Friday, 31 May 2013 Economist John Williams says the Federal bank account at the US Treasury Department is down to just one-day’s estimated outlay, a dire situation that can only be papered over for a short time. Williams cites the May 28 Daily Treasury Statement showing the US Treasury has an... »

Charles Hugh Smith OfTwoMinds.com May 31, 2013 The existing social and financial order is crumbling because it is unsustainable on multiple levels. The central state is not the Millennials’ friend, it is their oppressor. No generation of young people is ever politicized by hunger in distant lands or issues of the elderly. It’s no... »

By Bill Briggs NBCNews.com May 31 2013 Marines at Camp Leatherneck in Afghanistan will lose a key daily meal starting Saturday, causing some to forgo a hot breakfast and others to work six-plus hours without refueling on cooked food, according to Marines at the base and Marine Corps officials. The midnight ration service —... »

SilverDoctors.com MAY 31, 2013 When does the current unsustainable and lopsided business model of the precious metals market blow-up in a default? To address this question, Catherine Austin Fitts, a former Wall Street insider and Assistant Secretary in the Bush I administration, takes us on a tour of the present ‘slow burn’ of Central... »

A federal judge tells the company to comply with the FBI’s warrantless National Security Letter requests for user details, despite ongoing concerns about their constitutionality. by Declan McCullagh CNET.com May 31, 2013 A federal judge has ruled that Google must comply with the FBI’s warrantless requests for confidential user data, despite the search company’s... »

Then suspended for rest of the year Steve Watson Prisonplanet.com May 31, 2013 Yet another child barely out of nappies has been persecuted by school officials for playing with a toy gun on the school bus. The Washington Post reports that the five-year-old from Dowell Elementary School in Lusby, Maryland was questioned by school... »

Gold Core GoldSeek.com Friday, 31 May 2013 The precious metals have been weak again in May with gold falling 4.4% despite this weeks’ recovery. Silver is down 7% and platinum by 2.6%. Palladium has recovered from recent weakness and those who accumulated on weakness are set for the best month since November after it... »

Avik Roy Forbes.com 5/30/2013 Angela Braly, then-CEO of WellPoint, testified before Congress about allegations that its California unit, Anthem Blue Cross, was raising premiums on some customers by more than 30 percent. Last week, California announced that the Affordable Care Act would increase non-group insurance premiums by as much as 146 percent. (Image courtesy... »

TheExtinctionProtocol.com May 31, 2013 EUROPE – Unemployment has reached a new high in the euro zone and inflation remains well below the European Central Bank’s target, stepping up pressure on EU leaders and the ECB for action to revive the bloc’s sickly economy. Joblessness in the 17-nation currency area rose to 12.2 percent in... »

by Mike Adams NaturalNews.com Friday, May 31, 2013 It has already begun: Japan has just cancelled a large contract to purchase U.S. wheat. “We will refrain from buying western white and feed wheat effective today,” Toru Hisadome, a Japanese farm ministry official in charge of wheat trading, told Reuters. As many readers well know,... »