Archive for March 21st, 2011

Joe Weisenthal and Gus Lubin BusinessInsider.com Mar. 21, 2011 7:44 AM March 21 ET: Some possible good news from reactor #4 — home of the potentially dried out spent fuel rods. According to Reuters, the Japanese government says power will be back soon. 6:08 AM March 21 ET: Now there are reports of smoke... »

by The Paper Empire ZeroHedge.com 03/21/2011 Each time we begin to approach the end of an announced QE period, the nervous jitters of financial markets start to set in. Will Bernanke continue with QE(n+1) or won’t he? Now it’s true that professional traders live and die by their ability to front run rumor and... »

TheEconomicCollapseBlog.com What do governments and central banks do when they don’t like what is happening in the financial markets? They directly intervene and they manipulate the financial markets of course. On Friday, the central banks of the G-7 acted in concert to drive down the value of the surging yen. So why did they... »

BY KEITH FITZ-GERALD, Chief Investment Strategist Money Morning The United States and Canada today (Friday) joined other Group of Seven (G-7) nations to intervene as a means of weakening the Japanese yen in an effort to help Japan deal with last week’s catastrophic earthquake and tsunami. This G-7 intervention is a substantial development, although... »

EndOfTheAmericanDream.com An ancient proverb that is oft-repeated even in our time is that you will always end up reaping what you sow. Well, the U.S. government has been sowing seeds of debt for decades and our politicians have endlessly attempted to assure us that everything is going to be just fine. Well, everything is... »

EconomicCollapseBlog.com 2011 has already been the most memorable year in ages and we haven’t even reached April yet. Revolutions have swept the Middle East, an unprecedented earthquake and tsunami have hit Japan, civil war has erupted in Libya, the price of oil has been soaring and the entire globe is teetering on the brink... »

The War Machine on the East River by William Norman Grigg LewRockwell.com “There are things in the Constitution that have been overtaken by events, by time,” insisted the late Rep. Henry Hyde in 2002, as the regime of Bush the Lesser prepared to invade and occupy Iraq. “Declaration of war is one of them.... »

by Scott Lazarowitz LewRockwell.com Political activist Kevin Zeese has this article about the U.S. military’s imprisonment and solitary confinement of Army PFC Bradley Manning, suggesting that when the U.S. government persecutes alleged whistleblowers in such a manner, it is a warning to all of us that we ought not even think about revealing the... »

by Gary D. Barnett LewRockwell.com Do U.S. politicians and their puppets in the mainstream press really want to talk about terrorism and genocide happening in other countries? Do they really think that these accusations will not come back to haunt them? Contradictions and hypocrisy abound in this conversation, and it is about time that... »

By Dennis L. Cuddy, Ph.D. March 21, 2011 NewsWithViews.com In the late 1970s, Dr. Harmon Smith of Duke University said that North Carolina had one of the most thorough involuntary sterilization programs in the nation. This is about the time that the Eugenics Board of North Carolina was disbanded. It was begun in 1933... »