Archive for August 19th, 2011

From GoldCore ZeroHedge.com 08/19/2011 Perfect Storm Sees Gold & Silver Surge – Chavez Gold Action Leads to Backwardation, Short Squeeze and ‘Havoc’ Concerns All major currencies have fallen sharply against gold and silver again today with gold reaching new record nominal highs in Canadian and New Zealand dollars, in sterling, in euros and of... »

EconomiCollapseBlog.com The bad news about the economy just keeps rolling in. If this is an economic recovery, what in the world is the next “recession” going to look like? Today there was another huge truckload of bad economic news. The stock market had another 400 point “correction”, applications for unemployment benefits are up again,... »

EndOfTheAmericanDream.com Are you ready for another war? Now that Barack Obama and most of the other major leaders of the western world are publicly calling for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down, we are getting dangerously close to war with Syria. It is not going to happen next week, and it is almost... »

By Henry Blodget BusinessInsider.com One of the most outrageous “open secrets” of U.S. government policy these days is that the Federal Reserve is still paying big banks not to lend money. And it’s doing that while screwing average Americans who have been responsible and lived within their means. Huh? Seriously: The Federal Reserve is... »

What’s ailing us? It’s not just unemployment. It’s not just Europe’s debt woes. And, no, it’s not Wall Street this time. It’s the takeover of the economic debate by fanatics who are up to no good. Fix that — and maybe you fix the economy. By Allan Sloan Fortune.CNN.com What the hell is going... »

Frenzied selling wipes £62bn off value of FTSE and Dow Jones plummets in another tumultuous day for world economy By Heather Stewart Guardian.co.uk Financial markets on both sides of the Atlantic were convulsed by a fresh wave of selling amid fears that the world economy is sliding back towards recession. The FTSE 100 closed... »

Interviewed by Louis James LewRockwell.com L: So, Doug London has suffered more damage from recent rioting than from anything else since the Blitzkrieg; the stock market had its most volatile week in years; gold shot well north of $1,800; and the U.S. government almost crashed into its debt ceiling. Smells like blood in the... »

by Jeffrey A. Tucker LewRockwell.com The remake of The Planet of the Apes – the apes look real this time – purports to give the backstory of how it is that the world came to be governed by primates while the handful of humans are caged and abused. The story line is so conventional... »

by Mark Nestmann LewRockwell.com “Don’t change a winning strategy.” Nowhere is this truism more slavishly followed than in the global campaign to eliminate financial and electronic privacy. The strategy is simple. First, the governments that find privacy inconvenient create a purportedly independent commission, funded by a non-governmental entity, such as the Organization for Economic... »

By Timothy N. Baldwin, JD. July 19, 2011 NewsWithViews.com For years, the United Kingdom has suffered from rampant criminal activities by gangs and criminal networks purportedly comprised of young teens and adults alike. These organized and asserted efforts have been described in various UK news reports as the fruits of the demoralization of society... »