Archive for January 25th, 2011

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 01/25/2011 When we reported three days ago that 59 outbound shipments of gold were intercepted at the Egypt airport, we predicted that the country’s oligarchs were proactively preparing precisely for what they knew is coming imminently. It has arrived. From Al-Jazeera: “Hundreds of protesters have begun to take to the... »

Signs affidavit declaring long-form, hospital-generated document absent By Jerome R. Corsi WorldNetDaily.com January 24, 2011 Former Hawaii elections clerk Tim Adams has now signed an affidavit swearing he was told by his supervisors in Hawaii that no long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate existed for Barack Obama Jr. in Hawaii and that neither Queens Medical Center... »

Patrick J. Buchanan WorldNetDaily.com January 25, 2011 With his approval rating moving up to 50 percent and higher in some polls, the pundits are all agreed. President Obama has turned the corner. He is now the winter-book favorite in 2012. How, two months after his “shellacking,” did he do it? First, by taking the... »

Wealth Cycles Jan 25, 2011 Crushed with debt, labor contracts, and a floundering business model, General Motors underwent one of the largest bankruptcies in U.S. history—reorganizing $27 billion in debt and shaking up its stock—replacing original investors with the U.S. Treasury and the old bondholders, who were forced to trade bad debt, with equity... »

Aaron Dykes Infowars.com January 25, 2011 Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura is suing the TSA and Homeland Security for humiliating and ‘offensive’ pat-down procedures he’s been subjected to during airport security checks that included ‘warrantless, non-suspicion-based offensive touching, gripping and rubbing of the genital and other sensitive areas of his body.’ Ventura, who had... »

Gregory White BusinessInsider.com Jan. 25, 2011 Spain’s government has planned for a weaker bailout of the country’s local banks than first thought, only offering up €20 billion, much of it from the private market, according to The Telegraph. The move also includes new rules on capital ratios for the country’s banks, which will now... »

Zarathustra W. BusinessInsider.com Jan. 25, 2011 The UK economy seems to be quietly slipping back into recession. UK economy contracted 0.5% in the fourth quarter compared to the consensus of 0.5% growth. The previous quarter growth has also been revised down from 0.8% to 0.7%. On an year-on-year basis, GDP grew 1.7%. Looking at... »

by Michel Chossudovsky Global Research January 25, 2011 The Outbreak of Famine The sugar-coated bullets of the “free market” are killing our children. The act to kill is instrumented in a detached fashion through computer program trading on the New York and Chicago mercantile exchanges, where the global prices of rice, wheat and corn... »

by Ellen Brown Global Research January 25, 2011 Bills were introduced on January 18 in both the House and Senate of the Washington State Legislature that add Washington to the growing number of states now actively moving to create public banking facilities. The bills, House Bill 1320 and Senate Bill 5238, propose creation of... »

By Cliff Kincaid January 25, 2011 NewsWithViews.com The Washington Post on Thursday carried a front page story featuring predictable criticism of Catholic hospitals for prohibiting abortion—or “reproductive care,” as the Orwellian liberal paper called it. Inside the paper, on page 3, was a short story from Associated Press with a curious headline: “Murder charges... »