Archive for January 28th, 2012

The Automatic Earth BusinessInsider.com Jan 28 2012 No, I’m not talking about the fact that Germany and Holland want to take over as the de facto government in Greece, as Noah Barkin writes for Reuters (that they want to do it through Brussels is a mere technicality). Germany wants Greece to give up budget... »

TheExtinctionProtocol.com January 28, 2012 MISSOURI – Washington’s emergency management director is encouraging individuals, businesses, schools and service groups to participate in a regional earthquake preparedness drill. The Great Central U.S. ShakeOut will take place Tuesday, Feb. 7, at 10:15 a.m. As of Friday, more than 1.6 million participants from the region have agreed to... »

The Intel Hub | 29 dead in the latest swine flu outbreak in Mexico as it ramps up. The Intel Hub January 28, 2012 MEXICO CITY (BNO NEWS) — An ongoing swine flu outbreak in Mexico has left at least 29 people dead and nearly 1,500 others infected, health officials confirmed on Saturday. Thousands... »

Saman Mohammadi The Excavator January 28, 2012 The government in Washington is a failed terrorist state. It can no longer manage American public opinion, its violations of international law are resented by many nations, and it has failed to psychologically dominate the world by unleashing terror at home and abroad. To put it simply,... »

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 01/28/2012 In this week’s chartology from Goldman’s David Kostin there is the usual plethora of useful data, but two slides deserve a very special mention because with 39% of the S&P already reporting Q4 data, the implication is quite dire. If Kostin is correct, then the corporate margin juggernaut, which... »

EndOfTheAmericanDream.com Global Internet censorship is here. SOPA and PIPA have been stopped (at least for now) in the United States, but a treaty known as ACTA (the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) is far worse than either of them. ACTA was quietly signed by Barack Obama back on October 1st, 2011 and most Americans have never... »

BusinessInsider.com Jan 28 2012 NEW YORK (AP) — Remember Greece? It’s been two years since a financial crisis erupted in the birthplace of drama, and the final act is still unfinished. A second week of talks in Athens ended Friday with no deal between the country, the European Union and private holders of Greek... »

Peter Schiff, Euro Pacific Capital BusinessInsider.com With its announcement this week that it will keep interest rates near zero until at least late 2014, the Federal Reserve has put another large crack into the foundations underlying the US dollar. In a misguided attempt to provide clarity and transparency, Ben Bernanke has instead laid out... »

by Doug Hornig LewRockwell.com Lovers of liberty have seemingly had a good bit to celebrate over the past two weeks. First, there was an unprecedented outpouring of negative public sentiment about the Congressional bills SOPA (House) and PIPA (Senate); they are legislation that would have thrown a large governmental monkey wrench into the relatively... »

DailyMailUK 27th January 2012 The FBI is to use automated scanners to monitor people’s posts on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, it has emerged this week – and privacy campaigners have described it as an attack on free speech. The agency is looking for companies to build it software that will scan... »