Americans are fighting back by shopping smarter, a new study shows. NACSOnline.com Apr 4, 2011 MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Soaring food costs are giving Americans sticker shock at the grocery store, and consumers are responding by getting crafty with their saving strategies. Approximately 99 percent of U.S. adults are aware of rising food prices,... »
Archive for April 4th, 2011
Fukushima ‘much bigger than Chernobyl’: expert
TerraDaily.com nuclear disaster is “much bigger than Chernobyl” and could rewrite the international scale used to measure the severity of atomic accidents, a Russian expert said here Friday. “Chernobyl was a dirty bomb explosion. The next dirty bomb is Fukushima and it will cost much more” in economic and human terms, said Natalia Mironova,... »
Take this Job and Shove it: James Quinn
By James Quinn FinanialSense.com 04/04/2011 Barack Obama and his minions were out in force on Friday declaring that the 216,000 jobs added in February are proof of a recovering economy. The unemployment rate fell to 8.8%, down from 9.8% in April 2010. All it took was 2.8 million Americans to leave the labor force... »
The Grand Failure of Conventional Economics
By Charles Hugh Smith FinancialSense.com 04/04/2011 The “fixes” of conventional economics such as Keynesian stimulus will all fail catastrophically within the next 10 years. The next decade will see the complete failure of conventional economics. Why is this so? If we take the very long view, we find that all of conventional economics developed... »
UNBELIEVABLE: Fukushima Workers Trying To Plug Radiation Leaks With Bits Of Newspaper, Garbage Bags, Diaper Like Material
Mayor, Governor slam government as tons of radioactive water is poured into Pacific Steve Watson Prisonplanet.com April 4, 2011 The impact of the radioactive material on sea life could be catastrophic as over 11, 500 tons of contaminated water is now being intentionally released into the Pacific ocean by workers at the crippled Fukushima... »
CBO on Medicare – “We need a Death Panel”
by Bruce Krasting ZeroHedge.com 04/04/2011 Doug Elmendorf over at the CBO gave a speech this morning on Medicare. I think he gave us a window into what is coming. He outlined a number of measures that would help to put Medicare on firmer footing. The federal government will spent north of $1 trillion in... »
No Fly Zone Succeeds: Libyan Rebels To Sell First Oil Cargo
by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 04/04/2011 And so the real goal of the Libyan “No Fly Zone” succeeds: Reuters reports that the Libyan rebel alliance, which already has its own central bank and supposedly fiat printing machines, is about to sell its first oil cargo in the coming week.”The agency said Liberian-registered tanker Equator was... »
Lindsey Graham Advocates Killing First Amendment
Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com April 4, 2011 In response to the idiotic and pointless burning of the Koran by a Florida pastor and the deadly riots that followed, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina has proposed limiting the First Amendment. “I wish we could find a way to hold people accountable. Free speech is a... »
Japanese Government Covered Up Surging Radioactive Fallout Data
by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 04/04/2011 Back On March 14th, Zero Hedge first disclosed data originating from the SPEEDI (System for Prediction of Environment Emergency Dose Information) database, which showed that while radiation in the Ibaraki prefecture were about 30 times above normal, the core affected regions were “Under Survey.” In subsequent posts we compared... »
This Is What Happens When Establishment Control Of The Media Cracks For A Moment
EndOfTheAmericanDream.com Every once in a while, establishment control of the mainstream media cracks for a moment. In an effort to achieve higher ratings, mainstream news programs will invite guests on that promise to be “interesting”, but then they will say something that is not part of the script and the entire system will go... »