Archive for March 1st, 2011

by: Jonathan Benson NaturalNews.com Tuesday, March 01, 2011 When the upswing in commodity prices eventually makes its way throughout the food system in mid-to-late 2011, food prices are sure to spike with levels potentially reaching those of 2008, announced U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) economist Ephraim Leibtag at the agency’s annual Outlook Forum. And... »

by Cognitive Dissonance ZeroHedge.com 03/01/2011 This is the first in an occasional series examining the end of the American Empire and the global shock waves it will produce. Contrary to popular belief I suspect the unraveling will take place over many years, decades even, with sudden plunges and slow partial recoveries aka dead cat... »

Washington’s Blog March 1, 2011 In his acceptance speech for winner for best documentary at the Oscars, director Charles Ferguson said: Three years after our horrific financial crisis caused by financial fraud, not a single financial executive has gone to jail, and that’s wrong. But none of the mainstream, corporate networks covered it. Not... »

Comment: Islamic militants, China, Russia, Iran, Hugo Chavez, Santa Claus, The tooth fairy, Barney the purple dinosaur – anyone and everyone is to blame, according to the Pentagon, except for the real financial terrorists still running the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury. Bill Gertz The Washington Times March 1, 2011 Evidence outlined in... »

by Paul Craig Roberts Global Research March 1, 2011 This essay is about three recent books that explain how we lost our economy, the Constitution and our civil liberties, and how peace lost out to war. Matt Taibbi is the best–certainly the most entertaining–financial/political reporter in the country. There is no better book than... »

By Charles Hugh Smith ZeroHedge.com 03/01/2011 The U.S. has a deeply counterfeit economy. Counterfeit money exploits trust by presenting a facsimile of authenticity. A high-quality counterfeit bill (for example, the $100 bills exported by North Korea) are facsimiles of authentic paper notes which then gain the trust of users. A counterfeit gold bar is... »

TheEndOf The AmericanDream.com For a moment, imagine a future where you are not able to drive a car, get on a plane, get on a train, vote, enter a federal building, open a bank account or get a job without a national ID card. You don’t think that could ever happen in America? Well,... »

EconomiCollapseBlog.com The end of QE2 is still several months away and yet quite a few top Federal Reserve officials are already hinting that more quantitative easing may be necessary. Apparently the U.S. economy is not moving forward as rapidly as they would like. So it looks like “QE3″ could be on the way. But... »

by William Norman Grigg LewRockwell.com “This is a massacre,” the frantic Libyan woman, speaking by telephone while cowering in her apartment in Tripoli, told CNN’s Anderson Cooper. “I hope you know that people around the world are watching and praying and wanting to do something,” Anderson told her, as if he were a stage... »

by Simon Black SovereignMan.com There’s major shift occurring right now in financial markets. Sure, the food and freedom riots that are spreading across the globe are a major indicator that civil unrest follows very closely behind resource shortages and economic turmoil… but there’s something else that I’ve noticed recently– it’s a sea change in... »