Archive for April 13th, 2011

Emerging economies face watershed moment at summit BRICS summit offers watershed moment for large emerging economies Christopher Bodeen FinanceYahoo.com Wednesday April 13, 2011 SANYA, China (AP) — The leaders of the world’s largest emerging economies gather this week in southern China for what could be a watershed moment in their quest for a bigger... »

ENENews.com April 13th, 2011 ‘Worst-case scenario: Fukushima fuel pool with plutonium catches fire’, Russia Today, April 13, 2011: Transcript summary of interview with Arnold Gundersen, nuclear engineer Worst case is unit 4 fuel pool Enormous amount of plutonium and depleted uranium If that catches fire it could devastate a large area Still a danger,... »

by Richard Wilcox Global Research April 13, 2011 Earthquake and Nuke Fatigue: “Time For The Rich To Leave Tokyo” It appears there is a cover-up as to the severity of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster. We in Japan are being told by the government that there is a plan to monitor food safety... »

by Bob Chapman Global Research April 13, 2011 Neither government nor anyone is smarter than the markets. As they say the trend is your friend. All you have to do is get on for the ride. It’s really as simple as that. The trick is picking the trend. We were fortunate enough to pick... »

Kurt Nimmo Prisonplanet.com April 13, 2011 Democrat Nancy Pelosi, the former Speaker of the House, has spoken her mind on the nature of government and the farce we call elections. She says the latter don’t matter. Madame Pelosi made her comment during a speech at Tufts University in Massachusetts. She addressed establishment Republicans directly... »

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 04/13/2011 David Stockman concludes his two part series on Crony Capitalism (part one here) with this scathing take down of the Federal Reserve. Hopefully this is nothing new to anyone at this point… First posted in Marketwatch. The destructive result of the Federal Reserve’s earlier housing and consumer credit bubble... »

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 04/13/2011 As we noted earlier, JPM recorded $650 million in costs to “foreclosure-related matters” read legal costs associated with Robosigning (and if JPM is over half a billion, BofA legal invoices are certainly in 9 digit territory by now). Obviously, this is a situation that has to be resolved as... »

EconomicCollapseBlog.com Guess what? The Democrats and the Republicans are both lying to us again. So what else is new? The truth is that the great “budget crisis” which supposedly took us to the verge of a government shutdown was just a whole bunch of political theater. Even the Associated Press is declaring that our... »

Stormtroopers and Child-Snatchers by William Norman Grigg LewRockwell.com Ariana Goldboldo, a mentally handicapped 13-year-old, was abducted from her home at gunpoint on March 24. Her captors have systematically poisoned her through injections of a dangerous psychoactive drug. There is also reason to believe that Ariana, who has reportedly tested positive for an STD, has... »

Was Obama Stampeded Into War? by Patrick J. Buchanan LewRockwell.com “NATO is moving very slowly, allowing Gadhafi forces to advance,” said rebel leader Abdul Fattah Younis, as the Libyan army moved back to the outskirts of Ajdabiya, gateway city to Benghazi. “NATO has become our problem.” Younis is implying that if NATO does not... »