Archive for October 3rd, 2010

by Tom Burghardt Global Research October 4, 2010 In a reprise of the crypto wars of the 1990s, the U.S. secret state is mounting an offensive that would force telecommunication companies to redesign their systems and information networks to more easily facilitate internet spying. Touted as a simple technical “fix” that would “modernize” existing... »

Joe Weisenthal BusinessInsider.com Oct. 3, 2010 Fiscal reformer Chris Christie is about to get another notch in his belt, taking on one sacred spending cow after another. First he went after teachers. Now he’s making his mark on infrastructure, a spending category which more mainstream politicians go gaga over. Starting Monday, says Tom Moran... »

If you strip away the political correctness, Chapter Three of the IMF’s World Economic Outlook more or less condemns Southern Europe to death by slow suffocation and leaves little doubt that fiscal tightening will trap North Europe, Britain and America in slump for a long time. By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard TelegraphUK 03 Oct 2010 The... »

By Nile Gardiner TelegraphUK October 3rd, 2010 In early September I wrote a piece discussing how The Washington Post, widely viewed as a flagship of the liberal establishment, was now acknowledging the scale of the collapse facing the Left in this November’s mid-terms. As The Post put it, “Democrats in Congress are no longer... »

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report October 3, 2010 debkafile’s intelligence sources report from Iran that dozens of Russian nuclear engineers, technicians and contractors are hurriedly departing Iran for home since local intelligence authorities began rounding up their compatriots as suspects of planting the Stuxnet malworm into their nuclear program. Among them are the Russian personnel who... »

by John F. McManus TheNewAmerican.com Friday, 01 October 2010 A more elegant wielder of the pen than Joe Sobran was always hard to find. After devouring something he had written, most of his readers would summarize, “How nicely that was phrased,” or “I wish I could write like that.” M. Joseph Sobran, Jr. passed... »

Dian L. Chu, Economic Forecasts & Opinions BusinessInsider.com Oct. 3, 2010 Last week the shorts were all lined up for another bearish inventory report for Petroleum products from the EIA, but lo and behold, miracles do actually occur. We had an extremely bullish report (Fig. 1) which caught a lot of traders poorly positioned,... »

“Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful. This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead... »

David Fessler Market Oracle Oct 03, 2010 : Earlier this week, the rain hammered down for two days straight here in Pennsylvania. But remarkably, rivers, streams and lakes haven’t risen one iota. And my son, Noah, hasn’t had to mow the lawn in over a month (something he’s not entirely unhappy about.) Why? We’ve... »

by Bob Chapman Global Research October 2, 2010 There is no question that those who control our government from behind the scenes are bound and determined to take over the $6 trillion in private pension plans. Whether they’ll be successful remains to be seen. The Department of Labor wants to force all IRA’s and... »