Archive for January 19th, 2012

by WashingtonsBlog January 20, 2012 Anonymous Shuts Down MPAA, RIAA, FBI, DOJ and Copyright Office Anonymous launched one of the largest hacking attacks in history today. Gizmodo reports that – in response to the Feds’ shutting down of the extremely popular file-sharing site MegaUpload – Anonymous has shut down the sites of the main... »

The Intel Hub January 19, 2012 Former Senator Chris Dodd and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America has claimed that yesterday’s massive online protest against the SOPA internet censorship bill was nothing more than a gimmick. Dodd, who himself had a long history of corruption during his time in the Senate, apparently... »

By Tim Alexander EuropeBusiness.com 1-19-2012 Yesterday I carried a story on a crash between a French Air Force Mirage and a Royal Saudi Air Force F-15. The story confirmed that the Saudi pilot and the two French pilots were safe. Little additional information was available. Today, I am able to report that the two-seat... »

Armed, irritated and vocal majority will react to worsening economic decline Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Thursday, January 19, 2012 Money insider Charles Ortel has warned that a worsening economic picture across the globe will see civil unrest hit the streets of America, not on behalf of leftist OWS types, but by an armed,... »

The International Monetary Fund has slashed its global growth forecast for this year and exhorted the European Central Bank to boost liquidity to stave off a deeper eurozone crisis. By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard and Louise Armitstead TelegraphUK 19 Jan 2012 “The global recovery is threatened by the growing tensions in the euro area,” the Fund... »

Portugal’s borrowing costs have jumped to record highs and are tracking the moves seen in the culminating phase of Greece’s debt crisis, dashing hopes that the country will be able to stave off contagion by embracing drastic austerity. By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard TelegraphUK 19 Jan 2012 Yields on Portugal’s 10-year bonds climbed to 14.39pc on... »

Cornucopia.org January 18th, 2012 nstitute for Agriculture and Trade Policy While the 2007-08 food price crisis has been a catalyst for important policy reforms, governments have yet to address its underlying causes, finds a new report from IATP and the Global Development and Environment Institute (GDAE) at Tufts University. In the report, authors Timothy... »

BY JAMES J PUPLAVA CFP FinancialSense.com 01/18/2012 “By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.” ~John Maynard Keynes This year will mark my 32nd year in the business. I began my career in 1980 after spending several years in corporate life,... »

Michael Krieger ZeroHedge.com 01/19/2012 Tension Release The reason I don’t write about markets so much anymore is because I don’t believe there are markets any longer. Sure there are flashing prices on the screens for various assets and those can be addicting to look at on a daily basis, but I think these “markets”... »

Web giant blacklists websites, follows government orders to remove material Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Thursday, January 19, 2012 Despite Google’s much-heralded support for the anti-SOPA movement, the web giant is already enforcing SOPA-like policies of its own, blacklisting legitimate websites from its news aggregator and following government orders to remove material from its... »