Archive for November 24th, 2010

U.S. banks’ declining profits and tighter profit margins will push them to close 5,000 branches nationwide within the next 18 months, bank analyst Meredith Whitney said in a research note on Monday. By Reuters FinanceTech.com CHARLOTTE, N.C. – U.S. banks’ declining profits and tighter profit margins will push them to close 5,000 branches nationwide... »

In college, Matthew Bergh was ahead of the curve, working part-time at a local Starbucks and setting aside a few thousand dollars a year to do what his parents taught him to do — invest . By Reuters FinanceTech.com NEW YORK – In college, Matthew Bergh was ahead of the curve, working part-time at... »

TheEconomicCollapseBlog.com Black Friday – the day after Thanksgiving when millions of Americans line up before the crack of dawn at retail stores across the nation hoping to find great deals on cheap plastic stuff made outside the United States. The Friday after Thanksgiving has become an “unofficial holiday” in recent years, and in fact... »

LewRockwell.com TSA is a microcosm of what government is. It strips, it fondles, it leers, it violates, it assaults, and does it all with camp-guard assurance and money looted from the productive. Its assaults and abuses cannot be tweaked or reformed; it must be abolished. No more must the Michael Chertoffs of the world... »

by Karen De Coster LewRockwell.com The latest backlash against the TSA’s new groping procedures is finally reaching a level of furor that is in proportion to the atrocious crimes we have been subjected to since the government’s favorite excuse for totalitarianism: 9/11. I haven’t flown much at all in the last few years because... »

Media Progressives, State Power, and the TSA by William L. Anderson LewRockwell.com As one who grew up reading the Chattanooga Times most of my life, I have come to understand the so-called Progressivist mindset which takes an out-and-out religious view of state power (or state power in the hands of the “right” people). While... »

By Sarah Foster November 24, 2010 NewsWithViews.com 40 Votes Needed – “FDA Food-Control” Bill NOT a Done Deal. Melt those phone lines folks! You’ve probably heard that a vote’s coming up Monday in the Senate on S. 510: the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act and that the fix is in for passage. As it... »

By Betty Freauf November 24, 2010 NewsWithViews.com On March 16, 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson sent a special message to Congress asking for a Declaration of War on Poverty – His Great Society. As generally happens when government gets involved, the results are malfeasance, allegations of corruption and coddling delinquents in the Job Corps... »

By Thomas R. Horn November 24, 2010 NewsWithViews.com STEP 1: UNLOCKING FORBIDDEN GATES The steady migration toward the fulfillment of biologically and cybernetically modified humans combined with corporate and national investments will predictably fuse this century, ultimately leading to strong cultural forces compelling all individuals to get “plugged in” to the grid. Whoever resists... »

US launches giant eavesdropping satellite RawStory.com Monday, November 22nd, 2010 The United States has placed in orbit a vast reconnaissance satellite reputed to be the largest eavesdropping device ever launched into space. The largest unmanned American launch vehicle, the Delta-4 Heavy rocket, roared into the the night sky in Cape Canaveral, Florida on Sunday... »