Archive for June 18th, 2010

Job killing, economy wrecking, middle class destroying consumption tax to be added in lame duck session after November elections Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Friday, June 18, 2010 President Obama is planning to sneak through his job-killing, economy wrecking carbon tax by stealth according to the Washington Post, by passing a weakened bill and... »

By Lyubov Pronina and Lucian Kim Bloomberg.com Jun 18, 2010 Russia will help lead efforts to recast the global economic hierarchy as the world emerges from the financial crisis, President Dmitry Medvedev said. “We really live at a unique time, and we should use it to build a modern, prosperous and strong Russia, a... »

by John Kozy Global Research June 18, 2010 The Age of Enlightenment was born sometime around the beginning of the eighteenth century. A mere three-quarters of a century later, industrialization ushered in the Age of Endarkenment, and human life has grown more and more perilous ever since. The Golden Age of capitalism cannot be... »

By AMANDA LEE MYERS AzDailySun.com Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer said Thursday she’s angry over comments by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton that the Obama administration will sue the state over its new immigration law. In a June 8 media interview in Ecuador that began circulating Thursday in the U.S., Clinton said President Barack... »

By: JeeYeon Park CNBC.com Stocks fell on Tuesday after reports that jobless claims jumped last week and the Philly Fed gauge of manufacturing activity tumbled. Christian Thwaites, president and chief executive of Sentinel Asset Management, and Paul Schatz, president of Heritage Capital, shared their views. “Since we had the big May correction, the market... »

by Peter Brimelow FinanceYahoo.com If you think things are bad now… An investment letter that called the Crash of 2008 said that this would be a bad year — and it now says it will get worse. A whole generation of investors think that Robert Prechter and his Elliott Wave Theory letters, Elliott Wave... »

NakedCapitalism.com Ooh, this might get ugly. The ECB rather firmly resisted the idea of releasing its recent stress test results on individual European banks. And with good reason: many observers suspect that some of the big German and French banks look less than robust. (And this is before we get to the obvious elephant... »

by Jacob G. Hornberger MWCnews.com Yesterday, I appeared on the Glenn Beck show, which was being guest-hosted by Judge Andrew Napolitano, to discuss the possible use of drones here in the United States. The idea is being proposed as just another way to keep Americans safe. Is safety so important that people must accept... »

By: Antonia Oprita CNBC.com Governments have intervened too much in free markets since the crisis started, to the point that they are affecting the health of the world economy, Marc Faber, the author of “The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report” told CNBC Thursday. Later on Thursday, leaders of the 27 European Union member states... »

by Vijay Boyapati LewRockwell.com I returned home from a shopping excursion a few weeks ago to find a “notice of visit” from the US Census Bureau affixed to my front door. I had been expecting such a notice for some time because, unlike my friends, I had not received a census form in the... »