Archive for February 22nd, 2012

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 02/22/2012 When it comes to labor-wage parity, nowhere has this topic been more debated than in the context of China and the US. Specifically, with US wages declining consistently for the past 3 years despite commodity price inflation spiking with a 2-3 month lag following every coordinated central bank printing... »

TheExtinctionProtocol.com February 22, 2012 SPACE – Planet lovers take note: Venus is spinning even slower than astronomers thought, according to new data from a European space probe. In the early 1990s scientists with NASA’s Magellan mission calculated that a single rotation of Venus takes 243.015 Earth days, based on the speed of surface features... »

Recombinomics.com Bruce Alberts says that the research shows that it is very easy for lethal bird flu to develop and it should act as a “real wake up call to the world”. He added: “This is likely to happen at some point in the wild because these viruses are mutating very actively in the... »

An electromagnetic pulse attack could cripple Britain’s infrastructure, MPs have warned. Here are examples of how the phenomenon has disrupted life. By Matthew Holehouse TelegraphUK 22 Feb 2012 The first recorded damage from an electromagnetic pulse came with the solar storm of August 1859, or the Carrington Event. It was the largest solar storm... »

An electromagnetic pulse attack could cripple Britain’s infrastructure, MPs have warned. This is how they occur. TelegraphUK 22 Feb 2012 Defence experts believe detonating a nuclear device above the earth could cripple electronic systems, knock out water and electricity supplies and bring civilisation to a halt. The abrupt pulse of electromagnetic radiation from a... »

Steve Watson Prisonplanet.com February 22, 2012 Instances of TSA agents demanding to know why travelers are “opting out” of walking through x-ray firing body scanners, and treating the action as suspicious, continue to be reported. Traveler Ryan Alford told Lew Rockwell.com “I travel weekly for work and always choose to opt out of the... »

By Madison Ruppert End the Lie Wednesday, February 22, 2012 During the Senate’s major hearing on cybersecurity last week, Senator John McCain, a Republican from Arizona, announced that the Republicans in the Senate would introduce a bill to compete with S. 2105, also known as the Cybersecurity Act of 2012. McCain seeks to give... »

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 02/22/2012 Day after day, the long overdue correction of gold to fair value which as we have discussed previously, is now at about $2000 based on the recent multi-trillion Central Bank balance sheet expansion, keeps getting delayed, providing cheap entry points to all real money adherents. And then we get... »

by Emma Dunkley CityWireUK Feb 21, 2012 The price of Brent Crude oil could surpass $200 (£126) a barrel on the back of rising tensions between Israel and Iran, which would have negative effects on developed economies, according to RMG Wealth Management. Oil hit a nine-month high yesterday, peaking at around $124, spurred by... »

YouTube.com Feb 22, 2012 The streets of Spanish cities become a battlefield as tens of thousands of schoolchildren and students have been protesting against education cuts. The demonstrations turned violent earlier this week in the city of Valencia where 17 people were injured in what’s been called a ‘heavy-handed repression’ of the rally. Five... »