Archive for February 16th, 2011

In Aftermath of Protests, State Makes More Arrests, as White House Sharpens Support of the Opposition By FARNAZ FASSIHI WSJ.com The Iranian government threatened opposition leaders with execution and made a fresh wave of arrests, a day after the largest protests in a year prompted clashes in which at least two people were killed... »

By the CNN Wire Staff Cnn.com February 15, 2011 Tehran, Iran (CNN) — Iranian lawmakers denounced Monday’s protests in Tehran and called for the execution of two opposition leaders for inciting the demonstrations, Iran’s state-run Press TV reported Tuesday. Members of the Iranian parliament issued fiery chants against opposition leaders and former presidential candidates... »

By Richard Reeves Truthdig.com BOSTON – As I remember my American history, our revolution began on April 19, 1775, when 700 British regulars, the Redcoats, left here to march west to the small villages of Lexington and Concord to destroy weapons caches they knew were hidden there by American rebels. The British column encountered... »

By Charles Kadlec TheDailyReckoning.com 02/15/11 “Cairo, US Blindsided by Revolt” was The Wall Street Journal’s headline on its analysis of what led up to the Egyptian crisis. “We were caught by surprise.” Israeli Finance Minister Yval Steinitz told the same newspaper in a separate interview. As I reflected on the demonstrations in Egypt and... »

Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com February 15, 2011 Union and a group of workers staged a sit-in at the canal’s authority headquarter in Ismailia on Tuesday, Xinhua reports. The state-run MENA agency reported that the protesting workers will continue a sit-in demonstration until the Suez Canal Authority chairman responds to their demands. The workers are demanding... »

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge/com 02/16/2011 Surging inflation? Check. Negative GDP growth? Check. Increasing unemployment? Check. Dropping wages? Check. Looks like we have a stagflation bingo. Per Bloomberg: “U.K. unemployment claims unexpectedly rose in January, underlining the fragility of the labor market a year after the economy emerged from recession and as public spending cuts... »

EndOfTheAmericanDream.com Is the world approaching a devastating global economic meltdown? Right now there are a large number of factors that are creating economic stress points all over the globe. All of the crazy money printing that the Federal Reserve and other central banks have been doing is putting inflationary pressure on agricultural commodities, oil... »

by Giordano Bruno ZeroHedge.com 02/16/2011 This may be a highly distasteful proposition, but just for a moment, I want you to sit back, and imagine that you are a member of the corporate banking elite. You are a walking talking disease ridden power mad pustule who naively believes himself intellectually superior to the vast... »

EconomicCollapseBlog.com The 10 economic charts that you are about to see are completely and totally shocking. If you know anyone that still does not believe that the United States is in the midst of a long-term economic decline, just show them these charts. Sometimes you can quote economic statistics to people until you are... »

by William Norman Grigg LewRockwell.com A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, who stripped him of his clothes and wounded him…. Now by chance three men – a priest, a Levite, and a Samaritan – came down that same road, and, seeing the man being beaten, joined in... »