Archive for September 4th, 2013

Commentary: What were advisers saying five years ago? By Mark Hulbert MarketWatch.com Sept. 4, 2013 CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (MarketWatch) — You’re a sucker to believe Wall Street’s current mantra that another Lehman Brothers-like collapse is not in the cards. I say that not because I think such a collapse is imminent, though I am... »

by Michael Krieger ZeroHedge.com 09/04/2013 Over the past several decades, a tumorous growth has emerged from and taken over the Republican Party. This cancer is called a neoconservative, or colloquially just simply neocon. These folks are extremely insecure and hotheaded. It is best to avoid them in the wild whenever possible. Some signs that... »

Wolf Richter Testosteronepit.com WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2013 President Obama, in trying to do the right thing and get a national discussion started, decided to have Congress vote on waging war against Syria to punish it, or more specifically to punish Syrian strongman Bashar Assad, for the gruesome gas attacks that killed more than 1,400... »

By Jake Rudnitsky & Henry Meyer Bloomberg.com Sep 4, 2013 Russia is sending three more ships to the eastern Mediterranean to bolster its fleet there as a U.S. Senate panel will consider President Barack Obama’s request for authority to conduct a military strike on Syria. Russia is sending two destroyers, including the Nastoichivy, the... »

PressTV.ir Wed Sep 4, 2013 A top Russian defense official has warned the Israeli regime against “playing with arms and missiles” in a volatile region after it admitted to firing ballistic projectiles in the Mediterranean Sea without a prior warning. Underscoring the current volatility of the Mediterranean and the massive arms build-up in the... »

PressTV.ir Wed Sep 4, 2013 Syrian deputy foreign minister has said that Damascus will not give in to threats of a US-led military strike against his country, even if World War III breaks out. Faisal al-Miqdad said in an exclusive interview with AFP on Wednesday that the Syrian government has taken “every measure” to... »

John Glaser AntiWar.com September 04, 2013 Over the past couple of weeks I’ve written multiple times about the illegality of the Obama administration’s plan to bomb Syria. But the lack of legal legitimacy in what Obama is preparing to do should be reiterated. Even if Congress grants Obama authorization to strike Syria, actually carrying... »

Charlotte Meredith HuffingtonPost.com 04/09/2013 Conflicting reports have left many baffled, and now nuclear experts have highlighted that no one really knows the true severity of the radioactive water leaks at Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan. The crippled plant’s operator, the Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), has been desperately pumping water into the wrecked reactors... »

By Jonathan Strong NationalReview.com September 4, 2013 Arizona congressman Matt Salmon’s constituents have called his office 500 times about Syria, he tells National Review Online in an interview, but only two callers have expressed support for intervening there. “This is not hyperbole!” he says emphatically. And Salmon himself is firmly against authorizing a strike.... »

Recombinomics.com September 3, 2013 The CDC has released a full set of H3N2v sequences from the Michigan case (6M) who exhibited swine at the Berrien County Fair in southwestern Michigan (see map). The case was diagnosed in Indiana and named A/Indiana/21/2013. As expected, the sequence was closely related to the three most recent sequences... »