Archive for June 24th, 2011

Pro8News.com convoy of three military trucks loaded with Mexican soldiers crosses the border at Bridge Number Two clearly violating international law. It happens as Customs and Border Protection inspectors try to figure out what to do. A CBP spokesperson says they got on the phone with Mexican authorities after being alerted that the military... »

Most damning evidence indicates Operation Fast and Furious was a deliberate assault on gun rights Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Friday, June 24, 2011 Despite the Obama administration’s best efforts to characterize Operation Fast and Furious, a recently revealed ATF program that sought to put U.S.-based firearms into the hands of Mexican drug smugglers,... »

China Formally Working With IMF To Avoid Eurozone Restructuring by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 06/23/2011 Step aside IMF, China is now in the driver’s seat. Officially. From Market News: China doesn’t want to see a eurozone debt restructuring and is making efforts with the International Monetary Fund and countries related to the sovereign crisis on... »

Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com June 24, 2011 Obama begins his speech by claiming Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda attacked the United States on September 11, 2001. Like his predecessor, the government, and the corporate media, he does not offer any evidence but simply states it as fact. The events of September 11, 2011, were not... »

By Lori Montgomery WashingtonPost.com The national debt will exceed the size of the entire U.S. economy by 2021 — and balloon to nearly 200 percent of GDP within 25 years — without dramatic cuts to federal health and retirement programs or steep tax increases, congressional budget analysts said Wednesday. The dire outlook from the... »

BY DAVID ZEILER Money Morning .S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke did what most everyone expected yesterday (Wednesday) at the culmination of the Federal Open Market Committee’s (FOMC) two-day meeting – he left average Americans vulnerable to the pangs of higher prices and soaring inflation. Indeed, as yet another FOMC meeting drew to a... »

EndOfTheAmericanDream.com Imagine going to sleep one night and waking up many years later in a totally different world. In this futuristic world, literally everything you do is tightly monitored and controlled by control freak bureaucrats in the name of “sustainable development” and with the goal of promoting “the green agenda”. An international ruling body... »

EconomicCollapseBlog.com If you do much grocery shopping, you have probably noticed that the cost of food has been rising at a very brisk pace over the past year. So why are food prices rising so fast? According to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, inflation is still very low and the economy is improving. So... »

by Mike Whitney Global Research June 24, 2011 No one expects the Fed to announce a rate-hike at the end of the today’s FOMC meeting, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be a few surprises. The problem is that the recovery has stalled and the Fed can’t decide whether we’ve just hit a “soft... »

by Thomas Sowell LewRockwell.com One of my earliest memories of revulsion against war came from seeing a photograph from the First World War when I was a teenager. It was nothing gory. Just a picture of a military officer, in an impressive uniform, talking to a puzzled and forlorn-looking old peasant woman with a... »