Archive for October 24th, 2011

Federal agency tasked with airport security now routinely interrogates Americans about their financial affairs Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones Infowars.com Monday, October 24, 2011 A traveler flying into Las Vegas was questioned by the TSA about his small collection of silver coins, another example of how the federal agency is acting more like... »

Mac Slavo October 24th, 2011 SHTFplan.com In a blast from the past, the Catholic Church, which at one time held unilateral influence over the day-to-day affairs of the nobles and commoners of many nations across the regions of Europe, is weighing in on the global financial, economic and political crisis with a not so... »

by Gary D. Barnett LewRockwell.com It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume…that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with a relentless and furious diligence, is to convert the assumption into a fact. They hunt endlessly for proofs, and, when proofs are lacking, for... »

Debris travelling faster than expected across Pacific Russian ship’s crew spotted debris past Midway Islands May strike Hawaii in two years and West Coast in three By Mark Duell DailyMailUK 24th October 2011 Televisions, fridges and furniture pieces are heading for Hawaii, as a huge amount of debris from Japan’s earthquake sails across the... »

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 10/24/2011 From IceCap Asset Management’s most recent monthly letter: October 2011 – The Tip Of The Iceberg It’s certainly not lost on us that IceCap’s corporate logo is an iceberg. Besides being a cool logo we do feel the iceberg is a perfect mirror of global investment markets. On the... »

SAMAN MOHAMMADI THE EXCAVATOR.com These are dangerous times. The state terrorist regimes in Israel, Saudi Arabia and Washington are madly pushing for world war three in the Middle East. If fought to the very end, this war will bring down many nations. Israel, America, and Iran will all be destroyed. America will fall for... »

Yves Smith EconoMonitor.com In the runup to the crisis, it was striking to read the undertone of worry in quite a few of the articles in the Financial Times, and I don’t mean only Gillian Tett’s fixation on collateralized debt obligations. It was palpable that a lot of writers were uncomfortable with how frothy... »

Joe Weisenthal Business Insider In an analyst note, Bofa/ML’s Ethan S. Harris drops a bit of a bombshell prediction: We expect a moderate slowdown in the beginning of next year, as two small policy shocks—another debt downgrade and fiscal tightening—hit the economy. The “not-so-super” Deficit Commission is very unlikely to come up with a... »

Finance.Yahoo.com 10/24/2011 After yet another summit this weekend, European leaders still have not finalized a solution to save Greece from default and recapitalize Eurozone banks. “Work is going well on the banks,” French President Nicolas Sarkozy told reporters at the Brussels summit yesterday. “On the question of Greece, things are moving along. We’re not... »

From Naomi Wolf’s arrest in New York to shootings in Tucson and Florida, forces face allegations of abuse of power Paul Harris GuardianUK Officer Michael Daragjati had no idea that the FBI was listening to his phone calls. Otherwise he would probably not have described his arrest and detention of an innocent black New... »