Archive for December 14th, 2010

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 12/14/2010 Score one more for freedom of speech (and leaking of documents so secret only 3 million people have access to them). We are trying to discover just why the Air Force has resorted to this drastic move (and having hosted a few WikiLeaks docs ourselves, curious to see if... »

By: Andrew Butter Market Oracle Dec 14, 2010 The good news is that the Saudis are saying $70 to $80 is “Fair”. The bad news is they may change their minds and with oil knocking at the door of $90 and some OPEC malcontents muttering $100, they are starting to look a bit wobbly.... »

By: J M Finegold Catalan Market Oracle Dec 14, 2010 History tells a cyclical story of man versus state: man persistently creating new ideas and the state tirelessly laboring to destroy them. Bureaucracy has never been a friend to the ideas that undermine its artificial legitimacy. All too often, history provides us with examples... »

by Gonzalo Lira FinancialSense.com Tue, 14 Dec 2010 Recently, I read up on how Iceland is doing—surprisingly well, actually. Unemployment is down, the Krona is going back up. Good balance of trade, good fiscal balance sheet. Quite the turnaround, after its troubles over the last couple of years— —so then if Iceland is doing... »

by James Quinn FinancialSense.com Tue, 14 Dec 2010 Some people have contested my statement that there are thousands more retail stores in the US today than there were in 2007. Yes, many mom and pop stores have gone out of business, but the big boys continued to expand in the face of reality. The... »

Bruce Levine: The Rebel Yell Pacifying the population by listing anti-authoritarianism as a mental illness Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.tv Tuesday, December 14, 2010 Clinical psychologist Bruce Levine is the author of Common Sense Rebellion and Surviving America’s Depression Epidemic. He regularly deals with “anti-authoritarian” clients who would be diagnosed by the health care... »

WashingtonsBlog.com Bill Gross, Nouriel Roubini, Laurence Kotlikoff, Steve Keen, Michel Chossudovsky and the Wall Street Journal all say that the U.S. economy is a giant Ponzi scheme. Virtually all independent economists and financial experts say that rampant fraud was largely responsible for the financial crisis. See this and this. But many on Wall Street... »

IrishTimes.com Protesters set fire to cars, threw paint and smoke bombs at the Italian parliament and clashed with riot police today in Rome’s worst violence for years after prime minister Silvio Berlusconi survived a confidence vote. Via del Corso, the main street stretching through the historic centre, near Mr Berlusconi’s office and home to... »

Kamelia Angelova BusinessInsider.com Dec. 14, 2010 Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Rome after Premier Silvio Berlusconi won back-to-back votes of confidence in the Italian parliament today. The demonstrators clashed with police in a violent riot setting vehicles ablaze and trashing storefronts. The Rest…HERE Share on Facebook »

Jason Douglass Infowars.com December 13, 2010 new iPhone App with the misleading name ‘PatriotApp’ attempts to draw on the power of the patriot movement, turning smartphone users into a gigantic snitch network. You might think an app with such a patriotic name might have useful functions like a pocket constitution or quotes from our... »