Archive for December 12th, 2013

PrivateSky developers speak out after being issued national security warrant Steve Watson Prisonplanet.com December 12, 2013 GCHQ, the British counterpart and facilitator to the NSA, has forced a privacy focused email service to shut down because it could not effectively spy on the encrypted emails people were sending. As the blog IT Security Guru... »

David Levenstein GoldSilverWorlds.com December 11, 2013 In spite of a string of strong economic data from the US, the dollar failed to stage a solid rally against other major currencies last week, and the price of gold found support above $1200 an ounce. The global gold market was relatively choppy during the week as... »

By Global Europe Anticipation Bulletin (GEAB) Global Research December 12, 2013 “It was night, and the rain fell; and, falling, it was rain, but, having fallen, it was blood.” These words of Edgar Allan Poe (1) apply perfectly to the slow process of global dislocation now in progress, where seemingly innocuous events – like... »

by GoldCore ZeroHedge.com 12/12/2013 Staggering numbers which suggest alas that the U.S. politicians are rearranging chairs on the titanic. These numbers alone should make people wary of buying into the notion that gold will fall in 2014 as the dollar strengthens due to the “normalisation of the economy.” The economy is not normalising and... »

Reuters.com Wednesday, 11 Dec 2013 A federal judge said General Motors is not required to pay $450 million to cover medical benefits for retirees, in a defeat for the United Auto Workers union. In a 36-page decision, U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn in Detroit said on Tuesday that the post-bankruptcy GM did not assume... »

By: Mark Koba CNBC.com Wednesday, 11 Dec 2013 Alicia Nesbitt has just two more unemployment checks—for a total amount of $348—coming to her before the end of the year. The 56-year-old college financial aid administrator, who lives in Connecticut, has been out of work since being laid off last New Year’s Eve. She has... »

By Michael Snyder TheEconomicCollapseBlog.com December 11th, 2013 Do you know what is in your chicken nuggets? Thanks to Barack Obama, that is going to be a more important question than ever. At the end of August, the Obama administration quietly decided to start allowing Chinese poultry processors to ship processed chicken into the United... »

by Andrew Gavin Marshall Occupy.com Wed, 12/11/2013 The Group of Thirty, a preeminent think tank that brings together dozens of the world’s most influential policy makers, central bankers, financiers and academics, has been the focus of two recent reports for Occupy.com’s Global Power Project. In studying this group, I compiled CVs of the G30’s... »

Chris Carrington Activist Post.com Thursday, December 12, 2013 It’s common knowledge that influenza viruses mutate. They change and adapt quickly. One of these mutations, the one that enables them to become drug resistant, comes at a high price to the virus. It weakens it. Almost universally, flu viruses become less virulent when they become... »

War of words over missile defense shield hots up Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com December 12, 2013 The war of words between the United States and Russia over plans for a NATO missile defense system in Europe continued today, with Russian President Vladimir Putin vowing to never allow power to gain military superiority over... »