Archive for December, 2010

by Bruce Krasting ZeroHedge.com 12/31/2010 There are a lot of angry people out there. I see it every day in my writing. All you have to do is look at the comments at a site like Zero Hedge to realize that fact. To some extent you saw this in the last election. Those who... »

Derek Kravitz Washington Post Friday, December 31, 2010 Some of the nation’s biggest airports are responding to recent public outrage over security screening by weighing whether they should hire private firms such as Covenant to replace the Transportation Security Administration. Sixteen airports, including San Francisco and Kansas City International Airport, have made the switch... »

by Terrence Aym Helium.com With an Ice Age comes abrupt change, and with change comes death—sometimes death on a massive scale. More of the world’s top scientists in the disciplines of geology, ecology, meteorology, astrophysics, and heliology are predicting that the two major cooling cycles are converging—the short term and long... »

The humiliations of the patdown policy, which Janet Napolitano wants to expand, are an Orwellian assault on American freedom Jennifer Abel Guardian.co.uk The holiday brought bittersweet news: unless the Transportation Security Authority disbands, I’ll never see a certain friend of mine again. His long-term unemployment finally ended, and next month, he starts a great... »

EconomicCollapseBlog.com What we have done to future generations over the past 30 years is absolutely criminal. 30 years ago the U.S. national debt was a bit under one trillion dollars, and at that time it was considered a huge national crisis. Today, the national debt is 14 times larger and the years ahead look... »

EconomicCollapseBlog.com You and I live in a totally different world than the ultra-rich and the international banking elite do. Many of them live in a world where they simply do not pay income taxes. Today, it is estimated that a third of all the wealth in the world is held in offshore banks. So... »

by JR Nyquist FinancialSense.com Thu, 30 Dec 2010 Now that the U.S. Senate has ratified the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), it is worthwhile to consider the kind of people they have decided to trust. During a recent conversation, former KGB Lt. Col. Victor Kalashnikov made the following remark: “It seems to be there... »

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 12/30/2010 Today’s must see TV comes from the following interview of Pimm Fox on the consumer and the economy with retail expert Howard Davidowitz, who in 10 minutes provides more quality content and logical thought than we have seen from CNBC guests in probably all of 2010 (except of course... »

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 12/30/2010 Marc Faber, who just like Nassim Taleb has never hidden his disdain for investments in US-backed paper, is back to bashing Treasurys, although with logic diametrically opposite to that espoused by those such as Morgan Stanley who see rising rates as a sign of economic growth. “This is a... »

New Obama end-of-life regs ‘more egregious’ than ones Congress rejected By Brian Fitzpatrick WorldNetDaily.com December 29, 2010 Angry pro-life leaders are calling on the incoming 112th Congress to revoke a new Obama administration regulation resuscitating “death panels,” which were rejected by the last congress after a public uproar threatened the passage of the president’s... »