Archive for August 17th, 2011

LabVirus.com Tuesday, August 16, 2011 Remember everything this site has been about since day one, when we learned that H1N1 was fresh out of the labs of Ft Detrick, a chimera lab-virus created by Jeffrey Taubenberger, Terence Tumpey and pals. Also remember the latest discoveries and reporting regarding CDC’s warning to prepare for the... »

By SIMON HEFFER DailyMailUK 17th August 2011 Yesterday’s crisis meeting between Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy was arranged before the participants knew of the disastrous growth figures in the Eurozone that emerged in the morning. The background to the meeting was last week’s tumult in the world financial markets. Shares had gone into freefall... »

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 08/17/2011 The first (of many) 21st century expropriations of the only true money begins today, after Hugo Chavez just announced that he will “nationalize the gold industry, including extraction and processing, and use its output to boost the country’s international reserves.” And who can blame him: he is merely doing... »

BY RUSS WINTER FinancialSense.com 08/17/2011 Good quality water sources in the right locations are the key to basic civilization, let alone even minimal economic growth. Like hydrocarbons, water is now the weak link to the maintenance of 7 billion people on the planet. Once abundant aquifers worldwide are being rapidly depleted, and resolving this... »

by Phoenix Capital Research ZeroHedge.com 08/17/2011 The primary reason the markets have held up since QE 2 ended was because the bulls believe QE 3 is coming soon. I myself believe this is true (that QE 3 is coming) but it’s going to take a lot more for it to arrive than most expect.... »

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 08/17/2011 Following the recent riots in the UK, it seemed there was only one safe bastion from the marauding bands of indignants, labor unions, and general hooligans: Germany. That is, alas, no more. During the past two days, German protests against globalization, read Germany’s undertaking to trade export strength for... »

by Phoenix Capital Research ZeroHedge.com 08/17/2011 As much as the mainstream financial media likes to pretend that the financial crisis is over, unfortunately it isn’t. In fact, what’s going to happen next will very likely make 2008 look like a joke. There is one simple reason for this: the “Fed” safety net that pulled... »

By Bob Unruh WorldNetDaily.com The National Rifle Association has launched a lawsuit against Washington’s plans for additional paperwork requirements for gun dealers in four southwestern states, claiming that the Obama administration is trying to “distract” the public from its own mistakes in “Operation Fast and Furious.” But what if, asks a spokesman with the... »

By Heather Buchman AccuWeather.com Aug 17, 2011 “Bigger cities, such as Chicago, Minneapolis and Denver, will also deal with wintry weather as arctic air charges farther south and east at times.” 2011 has been a year of extremes so far, from record-smashing snowstorms that pummeled the Midwest and Northeast in the winter to historic... »

by Marianne English Discovery.com Tue Aug 16, 2011 As England continues to clean up its cities and sort through court cases brought on by this month’s riots, one may wonder what ripens conditions for social unrest in other areas of the world. Though it’s not clear whether this is the case in England, food... »