Archive for January 28th, 2011

Joe Weisenthal Business Insider Jan 28, 2011 A day after S&P downgraded Japan’s debt, the attention turns to the US. Bloomberg cites a new Moody’s note: “Although no rating action is contemplated at this time, the time frame for possible future actions appears to be shortening, and the probability of assigning a negative outlook... »

EconomicCollapseBlog.com Do you see all of the warning signs that are flashing all around you? These days it seems like there is more bad economic news in a single week than there used to be in an entire month. 2011 is already shaping up to be a very dark year for the world economy.... »

Glenn Gordon InfoWars.com January 27, 2011 Here we go again. Looking at the latest scenes of civil unrest in Egypt, we need hardly be surprised, since the corporate, CFR run media, had already prepped us, following the events in Tunisia. If anyone had read my last post, you’ll already know that this was coming.... »

by Mariano Aguirre OilPrice.com Thursday, 27 January 2011 Three issues will dominate international relations in 2011: the United States’s relations with Europe, the emerging powers, and various countries of the global south; the ongoing international financial crisis (particularly acute in the north Atlantic area); and violence both along acute fracture-lines (such as the Pakistan-Afghanistan... »

Could it drag the larger economy into a double-dip recession? By Joshua Holland AlterNet There was no mention whatsoever of the housing crisis in Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address on Tuesday, or in the responses offered up by Republican Reps Paul Ryan, Wisconsin, and Michele Bachmann, Minnesota. It’s a stunning omission. According... »

By Bob Chapman TheInternationalForecaster.com January 26 2011 The corporation is not a person, a government that spends most of what it has, DHS snoops in your safety deposit box, a decade of jobs wiped out, Fed may feel losses, inflation makes itself known again. There is nothing dumb about the financial media. They know... »

By LEIGH PHILLIPS EUOBSERVER 27.01.2011 BRUSSELS – French President Nicolas Sarkozy has come out swinging in defence of Europe’s single currency, saying France and Germany “will never let the euro fail.” In a keynote speech to some of the most powerful businessmen and politicians on the planet at the World Economic Forum in Davos,... »

by John W. Whitehead LewRockwell.com “Of course, there is no doubt that if we lived in a police state, it would be easier to catch terrorists. If we lived in a country that allowed the police to search your home at any time for any reason; if we lived in a country that allowed... »

by Scott Lazarowitz Lewrockwell.com The Economic Collapse Blog has this list of examples of how European-style “austerity” is already hitting the U.S., including cities closing schools and fire stations, and states eliminating whole state agencies and raising taxes. That includes the state of Illinois whose legislature has passed a “temporary” 66% personal income tax... »

About That ‘War on Cops’ … by William Norman Grigg LeweRockwell.com Every week – actually, every day – innocent people across the country are harassed, abused, brutalized, tortured, and murdered by armed strangers in government-issued costumes. Most of the assailants are never held accountable. Often, they are placed on paid vacation (commonly called “administrative... »