Archive for August 17th, 2011

ImagesFood.com 17 Aug 2011 Global food prices held near three-year highs in July and stocks were low, piling on pressure on the world’s poor, the World Bank said on Monday. The World Bank Food Price index increased 33 percent in July from a year-ago and stayed close to 2008 peak levels, with large rises... »

LATimes.com August 16, 2011 A summer marked by social-media-fueled riots in England and flash-mob violence in several American cities, including Philadelphia and Cleveland, has officials debating how much they should — and legally can — crack down. “This one is so big and so fast and has so many branches to it, there are... »

ENENews.com August 17th, 2011 Where’s That Radioactive Sulfur Now? Possibly In Your Pants, Forbes.com by Jeff McMahon, August 16, 2011: When the news broke yesterday that a previously unreported type of fallout from Fukushima—radioactive sulfur—had reached the United States in late March, nearly all mainstream media reports made the claim that it poses no... »

By: Bob Chapman GoldSeek.com Wednesday, 17 August 2011 Since April the market as measured by the Standard & Poor’s stock index is off about 18% and momentum has fallen 40%. The recent catalyst for lower prices has been the drop in the debt rating by S&P of US Treasuries. In addition the economy is... »

EndOfTheAmericanDream.com Flash mobs used to be so much fun. A group of people would arrange to meet in a public place at a particular time and would perform a song or a dance number or some other form of entertainment very suddenly and without warning. Well, the term “flash mob” is rapidly coming to... »

New DHS video ignores previous controversy over deliberate racial overtones Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com August 17, 2011 Despite causing controversy last month with a video that portrayed white middle class Americans as the most likely terrorists, the Department of Homeland Security has released yet another PSA that depicts an attempt to bomb a... »

CNS News August 17, 2011 (CNSNews.com) – President Barack Obama’s politically charged but taxpayer funded bus tour through the Midwest turned into a bust yesterday with his approval rating dropping back to its all-time low of 39 percent in the Gallup poll. Obama’s approval in the Gallup poll had first dropped into the 30s... »

Edward Louis Bernays Quotes: Propaganda DeDroidify.com TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 2008 Edward Louis Bernays (November 22, 1891 – March 9, 1995) is considered one of the fathers of the field of public relations along with Ivy Lee. Combining the ideas of Gustave Le Bon and Wilfred Trotter on crowd psychology with the psychoanalytical ideas of... »

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 08/17/2011 First they cut the rating of the US, then the went and downgraded Google, now S&P is going for the “treason trifecta” by just releasing a report which literally takes the US to the toolshed. Among many other things, the rating agency just cut US growth for the next... »

Previous crises have presented unrivaled opportunities for US Presidents Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Wednesday, August 17, 2011 Barack Obama made headlines yesterday when he spoke about his fear of a “lone wolf attack” in America carried out by an individual with a “hateful ideology”. But far from striking a blow against his administration,... »