Archive for April 19th, 2011

ENENews.com April 19th, 2011 Tepco starts to pump out turbine unit, Japan Times, April 19, 2011: … Monday night, Tepco said it detected high radioactivity coming from the spent fuel pool of the No. 2 unit, indicating that either the fuel rods in the pool were damaged or steam containing radioactive materials that rose... »

by Chris Martenson ZeroHedge.com 04/19/2011 Things are certainly speeding up, and it is my conclusion that we are not more than a year away from the next major financial and economic disruption. Alas, predictions are tricky, especially about the future (credit: Yogi Berra), but here’s why I am convinced that the next big break... »

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 04/19/2011 Feeling like the daily dose of objective “truth” from Tim Geithner’s latest media circuit has got you down? Fear not: here is MarketWatch’s Paul Farrell summarizing the 10 ways in which the very system is destroying America, to lift your spirits up. To wit: “Doomsday Capitalism? Capitalism is killing... »

Danny Schechter Global Research April 19, 2011 The global economy and its recovery, and the living standards of millions of plain folks, are now at risk from the sudden rise in oil and commodity prices. Gas at the pump is up, and going higher. Food prices are following. The consequences are catastrophic for the... »

UN to rubber stamp occupying force in bid to goad Gaddafi into attacking western troops Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, April 18, 2011 The United Nations is set to rubber stamp an EU invasion force of ground troops that would be sent into Libya under the cooked up pretense of “humanitarian aid” and... »

The trend is your friend, two sides to every market, and lack of knowledge makes for unfortunate decisions, the shortage in silver, new high ground for gold and silver, a secret flight from currency spurs the rise in metals values. By Bob Chapman TheInternationalForecaster.com Neither government nor anyone is smarter than the markets. As... »

Addison Wiggin SilverBearCafe.com It was a good effort…but “federal debt held by the public would double under the President’s budget,” says the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). While we were exploring gold storage, junior miners and asset protection in Zurich, the CBO did some heavy lifting on the budget proposal advanced by Mr. Obama on... »

Jesse’s Café Américain SilverBearCafe.com Well, the good news for everyone is that nothing seems inevitable here, that there is almost always a choice, but it is often wrapped up in a nice looking rationale, with all the compulsion of a necessity, for the good of the people. Us versus them in a battle for... »

By Chris Hedges TruthDig.com These are remarks Chris Hedges made in Union Square in New York City last Friday during a protest outside a branch office of the Bank of America. We stand today before the gates of one of our temples of finance. It is a temple where greed and profit are the... »

by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. LewRockwell.com Political upheaval has hit Finland, and it’s merely a foreshadowing of bigger changes ahead. The core issue is whether Finland ought to be paying for bailouts for other EU states. In reaction to establishment support for the bailout, voters ousted the pro-bailout ruling party and gave an upset... »