Archive for July 6th, 2011

Emirates247.com Iran is ready if threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz to ships linking the Gulf to international markets, Revolutionary Guards commander General Mohammad Ali Jafari told Mehr news agency on Monday. “In light of the strategic position of the Strait of Hormuz, this issue has never been taken off the agenda,” Jafari... »

POTTERWILLIAMSREPORT.com Obama’s June 29 press conference proved once and for all there’s nothing noble, manly, mature or the least bit endearing about the current president. Obama spouted lies in a Lenin-esque Q&A that should rouse every last citizen to action. The struggles of middle-class families were a big problem long before the recession hit... »

by EconMatters ZeroHedge.com 07/06/2011 Worries of a Lehman-like financial crisis spreading through Europe and the world has made Greece talk of the market lately. Not to let Greece dominate the spotlight, the U.S. debt ceiling debate is also getting to be as traumatic since a failure to raise the debt ceiling could mean imminent... »

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 07/06/2011 Don’t sell those corn futures just yet. Despite last week’s surprising announcement by the USDA that there has been much more expansive planting of corn, and other crops, than expected, which in turn set the price of corn tumbling by the most in years, one thing the USDA did... »

ENENews.com July 6th, 2011 Spike in B.C. sudden infant deaths concerns coroner, The Canadian Press, July 5, 2011: B.C.’s chief coroner is urging parents to use safe sleep practices in light of a spike in the number of sudden infant deaths across the province this year. There have been 21 sudden infant deaths in... »

By Gordon Duff VeterensToday.com For me, the “last straw” was John McCain’s paranoid blithering about Afghanistan. He wants us to stay there forever. Good, the “Hanoi Songbird,” the real “Jane Fonda” has spoken, based on his heroic record. For those of you who don’t know, the only thing that kept McCain out of prison... »

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 6 JULY 2011 Thank goodness the Casey Anthony case is over! The jury thinks she is not guilty of murder. I don’t know if they got right or wrong, but I do know many dollars and much air time was devoted to a story that will have zero effect on... »

Coincidentally, new full strength body scanners are ready to be rolled out Steve Watson Prisonplanet.com July 6, 2011 In response to a Department of Homeland Security warning to airlines that it believes terrorists want to bypass full body scanners and blow up commercial airliners by planting bombs inside humans, the TSA has indicated it... »

Law professors warn that new legislation allows state to seize websites merely for linking to other websites that host copyrighted material Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Wednesday, July 6, 2011 New legislation that would give the US government the power to seize website domains on a whim with no oversight merely for linking to... »

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 07/06/2011 Last year’s Eyjafjoell and the recent Grimsvotn eruptions will have been a walk in the pyroclastic park if, as AFP reports, the most feared of all Iceland volcanoes, Hekla, is indeed about to blow. “Experts say one of Iceland’s most feared volcanoes looks ready to erupt, with measurements indicating... »