Archive for September, 2011

Greg Otto, wtop.com Sept 29, 2011 WASHINGTON – Hurricane Zoe, a Category 2 storm, damaged a large number of District homes, caused major roads to flood and left more than 87,000 D.C. residents without power. That fabricated scenario was the setting for a full-scale exercise performed by D.C.’s Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency... »

EndOfTheAmericanDream.com According to CNBC, the Federal Reserve “is planning on monitoring what you say about it on social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook”. Apparently we are not supposed to be alarmed though, because as the CNBC headline states, the Federal Reserve just “wants to be your Facebook friend”. In fact, the CNBC article... »

EconomicCollapseBlog.com Are you unemployed and out of options? Well, if you live in most areas of the country there is not much hope for you. But there is one state where hiring is really hot right now. If you are desperate for a job, you just might want to check out North Dakota. Way... »

By Ben Shapiro PatriotPost.us “The story is one of not covert activity alone,” intoned Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, “but of covert foreign policy …. It is a tale of working outside the system and of utilizing irregular channels and private parties accountable to no one, on matters of national security, while ignoring the Congress... »

By Philip van Doorn TheStreet.com JUPITER, Fla. (TheStreet) — The pace of Florida bank failures has picked up during the third quarter, as weaker players are shaken out, and eight of the ten largest banks and thrifts in the state were profitable during the second quarter. While several of the large Florida banks have... »

Europe’s banking woes have begun to set off a funding crunch in the emerging markets of Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe, leaving them nakedly exposed as the rich world slides into a double-dip downturn. By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Telegraph.co.uk 28 Sep 2011 Corporate bond issuance has collapsed by three-quarters over the past three months... »

A German ‘yes’ vote may still not avert the worst By Steve Goldstein MarketWatch.com Sept. 28, 2011, WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Germans know a thing or too about kicking, whether it’s the seven times they’ve been to the World Cup soccer finals or the umpteen times they’ve kicked the can down the road on resolving... »

CommodityOnline.com 28 September 2011 If you missed the opportunity to profit from the Silver run last time, be sure not to miss it this time. Here’s why we think, it is right time to buy silver despite the crash the metal prices have registered since the past week. -Silver fundamentals remain positive despite the... »

By Robert Lenzner Forbes.com Get ready for the Pan Asian Gold Exchange, scheduled to open in June, 2012 in Kunming City, Yunman Province– the gateway to all of Southeast Asia. This is serious, as the Pan Asian Gold Exchange is a part of China’s five year plan– which means it is part of China’s... »

The Day Science Died by Jeff Berwick and Derek Donohue LewRockwell.com Last week (in the blog post, Einstein, the Electric Universe and Expatriation) I made mention that after a day of Googling and YouTubing I had come across the concept of the Electric Universe. In that post, I mentioned that I failed Physics in... »