Archive for September 5th, 2011

by Mike Whitney Global Research September 5, 2011 The Bundestag will have one chance to stop Angela Merkel’s plan to provide hundreds of billions of dollars to underwater EU banks that made bad bets on sovereign bonds. If the German parliament fails to block Merkel on September 23, then–under the “expanded powers” of the... »

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 09/05/2011 Just when we thought the world was running out of headlines, here come something that will send futures scurrying for even more safety. According to Belgian Nieuwsblad, the CEO of Belgium’s biggest bank has just resigned. As a reminder, Dexia is the one European bank that in the 2008-2009... »

Ratical.org War Is A Racket WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket... »

By Peter Hart ForeignPolicyInFocus.com September 5, 2011 The 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks is sure to bring televised images of somber reflection. Looking back is, in some ways, easier for commentators and pundits than wrestling with the current state of Washington’s so-called “war on terror.” The United States is mired in two major... »

by Bob Livingston PersonalLiberty.com September 5, 2011 Sunday will mark the 10-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. And although the official version of what happened that day has more holes than a Revolutionary soldier’s sock in Valley Forge, it is now accepted as fact and without question. The reason for this goes back to... »

by Mike Adams NaturalNews.com Sunday, September 04, 2011 High winds whipped up devastating fires across Texas Sunday and sent them coursing through the tinderbox landscape at record speed. Across central Texas, spanning Austin, Waco and even approaching Shreveport, wildfires leapt across the drought-stricken state with astounding speed. Many thousands of acres burned across the... »

Mac Slavo September 5th, 2011 SHTFplan.com If you don’t have full time employment, then you’re facing some tough competition. The roughly 14 million unemployed Americans that make up the 9.1% official U-3 unemployment figure aren’t competing just with themselves – they’re also facing competition from the nearly 9 million “underemployed” Americans who have part... »

EndOfTheAmericanDream.com What is the true legacy of 9/11? Unfortunately, it may be how the American people have responded to that event. 10 years after 9/11, is America a better place? Sadly, the answer clearly is no. In the ten years that have passed, a fundamental shift in our culture has occurred. The American people... »

BY KELLY HOLT TheNewAmerican.com MONDAY, 05 SEPTEMBER 2011 As media attention intensifies about Texas Governor Rick Perry’s run for the presidential nomination, an activist in Tyler, Texas, was prompted to say “More checking under the hood needed before we buy the car,” according to the Dallas Morning News (DMN). The article focused on Perry’s... »

By: Bob Pisani CNBC.com On the future of the euro, and when the serious rioting might start. I read dozens of articles and analyst reports each week; the most interesting piece I saw this week was an interview in the German newsmagazine Spiegel with economic historian Hans-Joachim Voth. Voth has examined the history of... »