Archive for February 8th, 2011

By: Adrian Ash GoldSeek.com Tuesday, 8 February 2011 London Gold Market Report THE PRICE OF GOLD jumped to 3-week highs Tuesday morning in London, rising as world stock markets stalled and commodity prices fell following a new interest-rate hike by the People’s Bank of China. Silver prices also recovered from an earlier dip after... »

Mandatory Arabic Classes Coming To Mansfield CBSDFW.com February 7, 2011 Some Students at Mansfield ISD schools could soon be learning Arabic as a required language. The school district wants students at select schools to take Arabic language and culture classes as part of a federally funded grant. The Foreign Language Assistance Program (FLAP) grant... »

By Chris Hedges TruthDig.com Empires communicate in two languages. One language is expressed in imperatives. It is the language of command and force. This militarized language disdains human life and celebrates hypermasculinity. It demands. It makes no attempt to justify the flagrant theft of natural resources and wealth or the use of indiscriminate violence.... »

By Gordon Duff RedactedNews.com Monday, February 7, 2011 “The son would kill more, millions in fact, rig two elections and run up more national debt in a single month than Jimmy Carter did in four years. America would have its own GESTAPO, called “Homeland Security” but managed by his good friends in Israel, cementing... »

Congressman agrees to give speech at “presidential lecture series” that will feature other White House candidates Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Tuesday, February 8, 2011 Political pundits are speculating that Ron Paul could be on the verge of announcing his much awaited 2012 presidential run, after the Texas Congressman agreed to give a speech... »

Kevin Bankston Electronic Freedom Foundation Feb 8, 2011 Tell your Congressperson to vote NO on the USA PATRIOT Act in today’s vote! The PATRIOT reauthorization bill being fast-tracked to the House floor contains NO reforms to the law, and will be voted upon with NO debate and NO opportunity for amendments to add oversight... »

The G8 Map of Washington’s Greater Middle East extends right to the borders of China and Russia and West to Morocco by F. William Engdahl Global Research February 7, 2011 Fast on the heels of the regime change in Tunisia came a popular-based protest movement launched on January 25 against the entrenched order of... »

TheTruthAboutMortgage.com A slowdown in loan modifications means loan servicers will actually have to begin foreclosing on the many borrowers unable to keep up with their mortgage payments, instead of kicking the can down the road, according to a new report released today by Fitch Ratings. Last month, just 36,500 loan modifications were completed, well... »

By Michael A. Fletcher Washington Post Faced with the most severe budget crisis since the Great Depression, governors across the ideological spectrum are embracing the politics of austerity in a desperate effort to balance the books. Democratic and Republican governors alike are sounding similar themes, as they slash once sacrosanct programs such as those... »

Ellen Brown SilverBearCafe.com “What for a poor man is a crust, for a rich man is a securitized asset class.” - Futures trader Ann Berg, quoted in the UK Guardian Underlying the sudden, volatile uprising in Egypt and Tunisia is a growing global crisis sparked by soaring food prices and unemployment. The Associated Press... »