Archive for June 3rd, 2011

EconomyWatch.com 02 June 2011 Just when you thought the US housing market was recovering, S&P/Case-Shiller house price index fell by 4.2 percent in the first quarter of 2011, the lowest its been in 8 years. Capital Economics says the latest double-dip in housing should come as no surprise. It’s very much following a pattern... »

by Washington’s Blog Global Research June 3, 2011 Unemployment During the Great Depression Has Been Overstated and Current Unemployment Understated (We’ve Now Got Depression-Level Unemployment) The commonly-accepted unemployment figures for the Great Depression are overstated. Specifically, government workers were counted as unemployed by Stanley Lebergott (the BLS economist who put together the most widely... »

By Ron Paul LewRockwell.com Before the U.S House of Representatives, Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy & Technology Hearing on Federal Reserve Lending Disclosure: FOIA, Dodd-Frank, and the Data Dump, June 1, 2011 Today’s hearing deals with one of the most pressing issues this subcommittee will face during this Congress, the... »

He Didn’t Say ‘Infidels’: Homeland Security Theater, Continued by William Norman Grigg LewRockwell.com The word has a very distinct connotation. There’s nothing else that quite captures it…. Give me one word that captures the same image. One word. You name it, and I will use it. ~ Defense attorney Robin Weathers arguing for the... »

Doug Casey on DSK, the IMF, and the World Bank Interviewed by Louis James LewRockwell.com L: Howdy Doug; had a good week? We can talk, but I should warn you that my Internet connection has been very flaky today. Doug: Are you still in Bamako? L: No, I’m back from Mali. It’s my good... »

PART 1 of 2 By Kelleigh Nelson June 3, 2011 NewsWithViews.com Newt Gingrich A couple years ago one of my neighbors asked me to accompany her to a tea party meeting at the Maryville, TN library which is about 25 minutes from Knoxville. I said, “Sure, I’d love to go see what they’re doing.”... »

By Debra Rae June 3, 2011 NewsWithViews.com Acts 17 Apologetics has posted a provocative U-Tube video in which David Wood welcomes listeners to what he dubs “SHARIAmerica.” In it, Wood offers compelling reason why our government’s official position regarding the “Holy” Qur’an exemplifies religious duplicity. The postmodern term for “double standard” is “political correctness.”... »

EconomicCollapseBlog.com So many economists and financial pundits seem absolutely shocked that the U.S. economy is slowing down again. It is as if this latest wave of bad economic data has caught them completely by surprise. Now, in the mainstream media we are seeing all kinds of headlines declaring that the U.S. economy is headed... »

by Ann Gibbons ScienceMag.org 2 March 2011 Earth’s creatures are on the brink of a sixth mass extinction, comparable to the one that wiped out the dinosaurs. That’s the conclusion of a new study, which calculates that three-quarters of today’s animal species could vanish within 300 years. “This is really gloom-and-doom stuff,” says the... »

Asahi.com- Able to identify one particular person from a million in less than two seconds – Kawasaki, Japan, June 1, 2011 — Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. today announced the development of the world’s first biometric authentication technology that combines data on palm vein patterns with fingerprint data from three fingers. By employing both palm vein... »