Archive for June 8th, 2010

Goldman Sachs has been accused of “deliberately and disruptively” refusing to work with the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) after employing delaying tactics and attempting to inundate the panel with millions of pages of documents. By James Quinn TelegraphUK 07 Jun 2010 The investment bank, which has now been subpoenaed to appear before the... »

EndOfTheAmericanDream.com U.S. banks are being shut down by federal regulators at a staggering pace this year, and yet most Americans seem completely oblivious to it. In fact, federal officials have already shut down 81 U.S. banks this year, which is about double the number that were shut down at this time last year. So... »

By Mail Foreign Service DailyMailUK 7th June 2010 America’s $13trillion debt is set to overtake the country’s GDP within the next two years as economists warn of a ‘debt super cycle.’ Forecasters predict the U.S. debt will grow to surpass gross domestic product in 2012, based on data from the International Monetary Fund. According... »

Rothbard’s Legacy by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. LewRockwell.com This talk was given on June 7, 2010, at the Mises Institute’s Rothbard Graduate Seminar. Tributes to Murray N. Rothbard are often taken up with a listing his accomplishments. This is because he was so astonishingly prolific that there seems to be many scholars with that... »

by Ralph Raico LewRockwell.com First published as “The Taboo Against Truth: Holocausts and the Historians,” Liberty, September 1989. “Speaking truth to power” is not easy when you support that power. Perhaps this is the reason why so few Western historians are willing to tell the whole truth about state crimes during this century. Last... »

The Principles of ’98 or the Partisanship of ’10? by Jeff Taylor LewRockwell.com My article on nullification, entitled “States’ Fights,” appears in the July 2010 issue of The American Conservative. It gives an overview of specific efforts – historical and contemporary. It points out that the Tenth Amendment has been a bulwark not only... »

By Chuck Baldwin June 8, 2010 NewsWithViews.com America’s Pastime Has Turned Into America’s Obsession The Roman poet Juvenal (circa 100 A.D.) wrote regarding the way latter-day Roman emperors retained power and control over the masses that were seemingly more than happy to obsess themselves with trivialities and self-indulgences while their once-great-and-powerful empire collapsed before... »

By Sheriff Jim R. Schwiesow, Ret. June 8, 2010 NewsWithViews.com “I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there were none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and will stain all my raiment.... »

By NWV News writer Jim Kouri June 8, 2010 NewsWithViews.com President Barack Obama — who campaigned on a promise to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons — welcomed the leaders of at least 40 nations to Washington for his much touted Nuclear Security Summit last month, but he failed to address nuclear problems in... »

By Robert Barone Minyanville.com The markets are in turmoil because of worry about the so-called PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain) debts. In Fiscal Crises: The Next Shoe, I opined that Greece is just the canary in the coal mine and that when we look homeward, we have our own huge debt issues,... »