Sabtu, 31 Desember 2011

Spain's Budget Minister says "Serious Budget Shortfalls in All 17 Autonomous Regions"; Prime Minister Announces $19.3 Billion Package of Tax Hikes; Cockroaches and the Theory of the Unexpected









From Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis 

By Mike Mish Shedlock











Spain's prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, has finally admitted three things I have been saying for a long time

Spain's regions were in deep fiscal trouble if not bankrupt
Spain could not possibly hit its deficit targets for 2012
It is mathematically impossible for Spain to meet deficit goals without raising taxes,

Tyranny Is a Bipartisan Disease



From WashingtonsBlog, December 31, 2011




Extremists on Both the Right and the Left Like Tyranny

Lew Rockwell notes:


The most definitive study on fascism written in [the first half of the 20th century] was As We Go Marching by John T. Flynn. Flynn was a journalist and scholar of a liberal spirit who had written a number of best-selling books in the 1920s. He could probably be put in the

Pepe Escobar: Shifting Ground for Vital Resources




From Consortiumnews, December 27, 2011


As competition for oil, water and other resources intensify, global power relationships are shifting, providing backdrops for a string of conflicts from Iraq to Libya. Brazilian-born journalist Pepe Escobar, one of the most perceptive analysts of these trends, was interviewed by German Lars Schall.

By Lars Schall
Mr. Escobar, given your experience in

Obama Secretly Preparing for Syria Intervention

From Veteranstoday, December 29th, 2011:

Mainstream Media Now Peddles Old Syrian News They Censored for Months…as ‘New’ Developments  

   



…by  Sibel Edmonds





This morning I woke up to the following news headlines. Let me correct myself: This morning I found the US media and their quasi extension reporting on stale, at least 6-month old US operations on Syria. Now, that’s much better.

I

Architects of Euro Fail Lead Way To 2012 Danger Zone

DEEP STATE - MAFIA, MEDIA, MILITARY, MOSLEMS, MASONS, MOSSAD...



From aangirfan, DECEMBER 31, 2011:


A well nourished Sudanese man steals maize from a starving child during a food distribution at a feeding center in Sudan in 1998. Photo by Tom Stoddart.The CIA runs the USA, and other countries, using the 'Deep State'.According to John Glaser (The American Deep State by John Glaser - Antiwar.com):"The US defense budget is the largest piece of the budget..."

Ron Paul's Anti-Progressive Agenda

by Stephen Lendman



Compared to a rogue's gallery of Republican aspirants, supporters claim Paullooks good by comparison. Look again and think carefully about America in his hands.



True enough, he wants the Federal Reserve abolished. He calls it "dishonest, immoral, unconstitutional," and America's "great(est) threat to....security and prosperity."



"Out-of-control (and) secretive, (it)

Jumat, 30 Desember 2011

Syria: Pepe Escobar Breaks Down Arab League Investigation

Free Syria Army includes foreign mercenaries armed & backed by very Arab League supposedly investigating Syrian violence.


 

Kamis, 29 Desember 2011

The Puzzling Case of Stratfor and Anonymous

From The Daily Bell, Wednesday, December 28, 2011 – by Staff Report:







Stratfor was not breached in order to obtain customer credit card numbers, which the hackers in question could not have expected to be as easily obtainable as they were. Rather, the operation was pursued in order to obtain the 2.7 million e-mails that exist on the firm's servers. This wealth of data includes

Rabu, 28 Desember 2011

PROFESSOR LINKS ISRAEL TO NORWAY TERROR ATTACKS

From aangirfan :












Professor Ola Tunander is an expert on security politics, naval strategy, submarine operations, geopolitics, the dual state, psychological operations (PSYOP) and Cold War history.
On 14 Dec 2011, we read that a Swedish professor has written about an Israel link to the 'Breivik attack'

Swedish-born Ola Tunander is a professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo.

Ola

Israeli Group Claims Responsibility for Iraqi Bombings – Sort Of

From VeteransToday, December 27th, 2011


SITE Intelligence, Reputed Mossad Operation Claims to Credit Al Qaeda for Iraq Bombings

    … by  Gordon Duff,  Senior Editor


Mossad Bombings in Iraq Wrongly Credited to Al Qaeda


The recent round of bombings in Iraq, according to an Israeli source credited with endless false reports, phony bin Laden tapes and videos and numerous other obfuscations

The Tide Is Turning Against SOPA … And We Might Actually Succeed In Stopping It

From Washington’s Blog:



While a short week ago the Internet censorship bill - SOPA - looked certain to pass, the tide appears to be quickly turning.

Politico notes today:









The conservative and liberal blogospheres are unifying behind opposition to Congress’s Stop Online Piracy Act, with right-leaning bloggers arguing their very existence could be wiped out if the anti-piracy bill

Art Cashin Exposes The Behind The Scenes Panic In Europe





From ZeroHedge:


Think "all is fine" in Europe after today's largely irrelevant Italian bill auction (the auction was for 6 month debt - even Greece can raise that kind of money)? Think again. Here is the Fermentation Committee Chairman explaining why Europe is so hard pressed to create a fake sense of calm, allowing those who know the real story to take advantage of the situation while they

Martin Armstrong: The Coming Financial Border Controls: Its Berlin All Over Again

From Silverdoctors, Wednesday, December 28, 2011:





As nearly always, Martin Armstrong's latest is a MUST READ!!Armstrong discusses financial border controls, heavy doses of history pertinent to our current crisis, and describes that while the final outcome of our current debt crisis is likely to be hyperinflationary, the deleveraging of the housing market is resulting in deflation currently. 

Things That Make You Go Hmmm..... December 28, 2011

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Selasa, 27 Desember 2011

Devil Deals

From  The Daily Reckoning, December 27, 2011 
By Bill Bonner

Occasionally, when we’ve had too much to drink, we lull ourselves to sleep with the notion that someone like Ron Paul might succeed. Maybe America won’t become a police state after all. Maybe it will abandon its empire and its imperial death-wish before it’s too late. Maybe it will cut its budget and save the dollar.

Maybe the zombies

Big Oil Provokes Iran






From LEFT HOOK

By Dean Henderson





Iran’s PressTV reported that on Saturday Iran’s Navy launched a ten-day exercise dubbed “Velayat 90” covering an area from east of the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Aden. The drill comes on the heels of the downing of several US & Israeli spy drones – the latest provocation by the West against Iran.

The Russian newspaper 

Iranian Vice Pres. Warns Iran Will Block Hormuz Strait If Sanctions Are Applied




Iranian soldiers prepare rockets on a [Hawk AA missile--editor] launcher during a military drill near the Strait of Hormuz. (AFP File Photo/Rouholla Vahdati/ISNA)

TEHRAN – No oil will be permitted to pass through the key oil transit Strait of Hormuz if the West applies sanctions on Iran’s oil exports, Iranian Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi warned on Tuesday.

The threat was reported by

UK to close borders, evacuate expats if euro collapses



From RussiaToday Dec 27, 2011:

 As Eurozone nations sink ever deeper into crisis, the UK Treasury is working on a contingency plan for the single currency’s collapse. It includes capital control measures that, under EU rules, require agreement from most of the Union members. Britain is also prepared to close its borders and evacuate expats and holidaymakers from the effected countries. Robert

Senin, 26 Desember 2011

World War III Has Begun – It`s the First Asymmetric War Long Awaited by Pentagon Think Tanks....



From GeoPlotilicalNWO 













By Wayne MADSEN (USA) | 26.12.2011This war, declared by the United States unconstitutionally, is fought covertly and via proxies....




The Pentagon has already declared World War III and President Barack Obama and the Congress never even carried out their constitutional duties to approve the use of American military power for war.

One might reasonably

HEADLEY'S JEWISH LINKS



From aangirfan: 












David Headley, the American who has admitted planning the Mumbai attacks of 2008."CIA agent" David Headley met a lot of Jewish folks in India.He also took instructions from "CIA operative" Illyas Kashmiri of al Qaeda.Illyas Kashmiri tasked Headley to synchronise attacks: National Investigation Agency (NIA)India's NIA says that Headley was in India in 2009, the year

Syrian NGOs Working Directly With British Government, London-based “Syrian Observatory” Consorting Directly with UK Foreign Minister Hague



By Tony Cartalucci

In May 2011′s article “The Siege of Syria,” it was reported:

“The coverage by the corporate-owned Western media exclusively relies on “activists inside and outside the country,” the London-based “Syrian Human Rights Monitoring Centre” which apparently has no web presence, the Damascus Center for Human Rights which boasts memberships with the National Endowment for Democracy

Minggu, 25 Desember 2011

A Doomsday View of 2012

By James Petras, 12.24.2011 

Introduction: The economic, political and social outlook for 2012 is profoundly negative. The almost universal consensus, even among mainstream orthodox economists is pessimistic regarding the world economy. Though even here their predictions understate the scope and depth of the crises.


There are powerful reasons to believe that beginning in 2012, we are heading

2011 YEAR of the DUPE: One Year into the Engineered "Arab Spring," One Step Closer to Global Hegemony



Timeline and History

By Tony Cartalucci

Global Research, December 24, 2011

landdestroyer.blogspot.com


dupe (dp, dyp)

n.

1. An easily deceived person.

2. A person who functions as the tool of another person or power.

tr.v. duped, dup·ing, dupes To deceive (an unwary person).December 24, 2011 - In January of 2011, we were told that "spontaneous," "indigenous" uprising
had begun

Sabtu, 24 Desember 2011

NATO’s Assault on Syria - Webster G. Tarpley on Guns and Butter

From Guns and Butter - 
December 21, 2011

"NATO's Assault On Syria" with Webster Griffin Tarpley. Foreign journalists trip to Syria; religions and ethnicities; Syrian cities of Damascus, Qara, Homs and its Zahra neighborhood and hospital, Baniyas, Tartus, and Beirut, Lebanon; Russian Naval Base; death squads/snipers/ambushes and kidnapping; Syrian Army; foreign intervention.


Guns and Butter -

Jumat, 23 Desember 2011

Mossad ran 9/11 Arab "hijacker" terrorist operation

From Opinion Maker January 27, 2011By Wayne Madsen



British intelligence reported in February 2002 that the Israeli Mossad ran the Arab hijacker cells that were later blamed by the U.S. government’s 9/11 Commission for carrying out the aerial attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. WMR has received details of the British intelligence report which was suppressed by the government of

Gary North on Interest



From Realcurrencies's Blog 

By Anthony Migchels










So at long last, Gary North has felt the need to say something about interest. Beside, of course, whatever he had to say in his massive 20 volume economic commentary on the Bible.
I’m glad he did.The fact that Austrian Economists felt they could ignore it, was bad news for the cause.Next, we’ll look at what he has to say, but first let’

Jim Willie: Paper and Physical Gold Price Divergence, COMEX On The March To Irrelevance

From MarketOracle, Dec 21, 2011

By: Jim_Willie_CB



Divergence between paper gold and physical gold price is happening, the process begun. Actual physical shortages have kept the price up. The naked shorting of futures has kept the paper price down. The fraud cases and lawsuits, with no hint of prosecution, provide the levered force to create much wider divergence, as traders and entire firms

How Germany Builds Twice as Many Cars as the U.S. While Paying Its Workers Twice as Much


In 2010, Germany produced more than 5.5 million automobiles; the U.S
produced 2.7 million. At the same time, the average auto worker in
Germany made $67.14 per hour in salary in benefits; the average one in
the U.S. made $33.77 per hour. Yet Germany’s big three car
companies—BMW, Daimler (Mercedes-Benz), and Volkswagen—are very
profitable.

How can that be? The question is explored in a new

Kamis, 22 Desember 2011

What The European Long-Term Refinancing Operation Really Is About

From SeekingAlpha, December 22, 2011 by Charles A. Smith 


EuroIntelligence says:




The best comment this morning on the impact of this operation came from Mark Schieritz, [Translated From German] who gives a downbeat/realistic assessment. He says the liquidity shower will have a marginally positive impact on the banking sector, in the sense that it reduces the probability of a liquidity

Democracy NOW! – A Tool of NWO Propaganda

From American Everyman, December 21, 2011

by Scott Creighton

Just a quick note: Democracy NOW! run by Amy Goodman, is a globalist tool used to spread propaganda to the liberal left. The proof of this is undeniable just look back at their articles supporting the false stories about the Libyan government crackdown on “protesters” in the early stages of the Libyan regime change operation and look

Selasa, 20 Desember 2011

Money Power World Rule





by Stephen Lendman, DECEMBER 20, 2011



The late Georgetown University historian Carroll Quigley said in his book titled, "Tragedy and Hope:"



"(T)he powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This

Free Syrian Army commanded by Military Governor of Tripoli




by Thierry Meyssan


In the wake of the "Arab Spring" and NATO interventions, both official and secret, Qatar seeks to impose Islamist leaders wherever possible. This strategy has led it not only to fund the Muslim Brotherhood and to hand Al-Jazeera over to them, but also to support Al Qaeda mercenaries, who will henceforth oversee the Free Syrian Army. However, this new scenario raises

ECB exposure to struggling eurozone economies has surged by 50% in six months

From Openeurope, Tuesday, December 20, 2011



Open Europe yesterday published a briefing note arguing that, although the ECB is unlikely to start acting as the eurozone's lender of last resort, it is already heavily intervening in markets. Open Europeestimates that, through its government bond buying and liquidity provision to banks, the ECB’s exposure to weaker eurozone economies has now

MUST LISTEN: JIM WILLIE '20-Lehmans ‘Flash Event’, the Libyan gold, the Comex shortage, the MF Global farce & Global Quantitative Easing to infinity''

From SGTbull07 DECEMBER 19, 2011

Jim Willie of GoldenJackass.Com is here to talk in his uniquely no-bull style about a 20-Lehmans ‘Flash Event’, the Libyan gold, the Comex shortage, the MF Global farce & Global Quantitative Easing to infinity… Buckle up. Also, read Jim Willie’s latest piece, Pathogenesis Of Central Bank Ruin.







Part 1: '20 Lehmans Flash Event & Libyan Gold' 





Part 2: ‘

Capital Account: Mish on Malfunctioning Bureaucrats, Gold's Recent Decline and Chinese Chicken





From CapitalAccount 19/dec/2011Watch more Capital Account @ http://www.youtube.com/CapitalAccounthttp://twitter.com/laurenlysterhttp://twitter.com/coveringdelta



Thousands of government workers reportedly are striking against austerity
in Italy today...meanwhile, the IMF announces it will release the newest installment of 3.8 billion dollars of portugal's bailout loan based on portugal's

Senin, 19 Desember 2011

Iraq War Ends With A $4 Trillion IOU



WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The nine-year-old Iraq war came to an official end on Thursday, but paying for it will continue for decades until U.S. taxpayers have shelled out an estimated $4 trillion.

Over a 50-year period, that comes to $80 billion annually.

Although that only represents about 1% of nation’s gross domestic product, it’s more than half of the national budget deficit. It’s also

The creeping eurocratic monetary dictatorship for dummies

Open Letter to Noam Chomsky: Why are you "reluctant" to talk about 9/11? (You don't seem to be reluctant to discuss any other topic.)

From Reddit:











Dear Professor Chomsky,
You recently said...

On the conspiracy theories about 9/11, I'll comment, but reluctantly. There are far more important things to be concerned about, and these things can become an awful waste of time.
As for the theories, I don't think they can be taken very seriously. I think they are based on a misunderstanding of the nature of evidence, and

Minggu, 18 Desember 2011

Census shocker: 1 in 2 Americans now live in poverty, or near it, while top CEO pay jumped 36.5%



From News From Underground :












This is why we’re getting martial law.
MCM
I.
Fortune 500 CEOs See Average Pay Rise 36.5% in 2010, While Report Indicates 1 of Every 2 Americans in or Near PovertySubmitted by mark karlin on Sat, 12/17/2011 – 2:03pm.Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthouthttp://blog.buzzflash.com/node/13212
II.
Census data: Half of U.S. poor or low incomehttp://

How George Soros Ended Up With MF Global’s Client Money





















From Profitimes :












A warning to former MF Global segregated account holders: If the news has already been more than you can bear, please do not read this post — it may really push you over the edge
While the congressional hearings have been interesting, at times shocking, at other times even quite entertaining, Congress has yet to connect the dots. So I will do it

Things That Make You Go Hmmm - Such As Europe's "Comprehensive Solution"

From Zero Hedge: 

 Five months ago, Zero Hedge first boiled down the math of the European bailout as follows: "The Fatal Flaw In Europe's Second "Bazooka" Bailout: 82 Million Soon To Be Very Angry Germans, Or How Euro Bailout #2 Could Cost Up To 56% Of German GDP." And while everyone was assuming Germany would be delighted to go down for the proverbial insolvency "ride" one more time, we

Sabtu, 17 Desember 2011

Why would they possibly want a nuclear weapon?



Each star represents a U.S. military base. 










Tehran Times, Tuesday, 12/13:

Iran to hold war game practice to closing Strait of Hormuz.  "If the worlds wants to make the region insecure, we will make the world insecure," says member of parliament.  
_________

Related:






US “Withdrawal” In Iraq Paves Way for US-Israeli Strike on Iran





IRAN-DRONEGATE: Empires Don't Apologize:

More Elitists via Venn Diagrams

From Economic Policy Journal, DECEMBER 17, 2011

I have posted once before the relationship between government and key Goldman Sachs employees, via Venn diagrams. Here is that diagram again, along with diagrams for top GE and Monasnato employees and their cozy relationships with government. (htGaryChartier)






Money supply explosion will lead to accelerating inflation








By Alasdair Macleod 2011-DEC-17
This article has been posted at GoldMoney, here.   





This is the time of year when City pundits produce their forecasts for the forthcoming year. Historically there has been little point to this exercise. Instead, here is the one chart which defines the background to all events in the coming years. It is the Mises Institute's True Money Supply (TMS) for

Unrest in Moscow – Funded by Washington

By Nile Bowienilebowie.blogspot.comDecember 4, 2011




In a sane world, any unnecessary pressure that could contribute to a potentially detrimental conflict between world powers would be avoided at all cost. As a testament to the mental health of the policy makers in Washington, an unprecedented amount of agitation has begun to build between Russia and the United States. Russian officials have

Lew Rockwell on Capital Account: Dollars, Defense and Drones...is time to head for the Farm?





From CapitalAccount  16/dec/2011


Watch more Capital Account @ http://www.youtube.com/CapitalAccounthttp://twitter.com/laurenlysterhttp://twitter.com/coveringdeltaWelcome to the Capital Account with Lauren Lyster. Sanctions on Iran's central bank slide through in a 660 billion dollar defense spending bill headed for the president's desk. The sanctions could cause oil prices to rise --

Jumat, 16 Desember 2011

A satanic gaggle of war pimps, treasonous toads and insane Israel-firsters declares war on Ron Paul in order to start WWIII with Iran



 
From Antiwar, December 15, 2011


by Philip Giraldi 



One might regard the pledges made to Israel and its friends in the United States by aspiring presidential candidates as pro forma and vaguely amusing, but that would be a mistake. Policy commitments, even if they are lightly entered into, are a serious matter with real-world consequences. At the moment, the obligation to Israel goes far

Is Operation GLADIO on the rebound in Europe?

From Infowars

By Patrick Henningsen



Thirty years ago, Europeans were caught in a seemingly endless story of domestic terror which claimed thousands of lives over a generation – a disturbing epoche which was instrumental in bringing forth the modern domestic police state we have today. We now know that the wave of terror which swept across Europe then was run by a state-sponsored terror

Banana obamanation: WE HAVE CROSSED THE RUBICON






[By Eric Peters, from SHTFplan.com]

Do you suppose cows have any idea what’s coming as they’re marched down the chute? Or do they stare with bovine indifference at the tail and hind quarters in front of them, until they’re suddenly – and very briefly – startled by the man with the nail gun?Perhaps Americans will – likewise too late – ask themselves What Happened in the very near future.

The New Left - Neoliberal Climate Alliance





From The Market Oracle, Dec 16, 2011

By: Andrew_McKillop



CHOMSKY WRONG AGAINStrange causes throw together strange bedfellows with even stranger offspring. Naom Chomsky, always sure to place himself with the angriest-seeming part of the New Left crowd, has no problem ranging himself alongside the Climate Crazies despite them receiving yet another big setback, in Durban. Packing their

Late December 2011 Economic Rant




By Roger Mason

December 15, 2011






"None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every day the U.S.
becomes more and more a Third World backwater. Every indicator of third
world status is collapsing. Look at the employment chart direct from the
Bureau of Labor Statistics. In 1999 things really started going to hell

Jim Willie CB: Pathogenesis of Central Bank Ruin

From Goldseek.com DECEMBER 15, 2011
By Jim Willie CB, editor of the “HAT TRICK LETTER”


Central banks are the current sovereign debt market. It is a vacated market. They are the majority bidders via debt monetization. The monetary inflation has become the New Normal and a travesty. In perverse fashion, the financial markets celebrate the monetized purchases, even calling for higher volume. In

Rabu, 14 Desember 2011

No to booze and bikinis: Islamists call for ‘sin free’ tourism in Egypt

From RT:



With two Islamist parties leading in the Egyptian parliamentary elections, some fear that the country’s tourism sector is going to be seriously redefined, and not for the benefit of Western tourists.



Tourism is Egypt’s top foreign currency earner accounting for 10 per cent of national GDP. Millions of Europeans head to Egypt for vacations every year attracted by luxury Red Sea

Western elite wage info-war to justify Syria invasion?

From VOLTAIRE NETWORK | 14 DECEMBER 2011:







by Igor Panarin


Escalating tensions surrounding Syria are preparation for aggression. Writer and political scientist Igor Panarin believes that part of the British-American and Israeli elite is waging an information war to justify a military invasion of Syria.









The mass protests that broke out in a number of Arab countries in 2011 were

Discredited German defence minister appointed special EU advisor



From Case about Bird Flu

By Jane Burgermeister










The comic potential is huge: Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg has been appointed special advisor to the EU Commission on internet freedom.
Die Welt was quick to seize the delightful moment when Guttenberg and the EU Commission finally buried their reputation under 20 metres of concrete.
http://www.welt.de/satire/article13766817/

Investigating the Pentagon’s African Holocaust







By Gearóid Ó Colmáin | Dissident Voice | December 14th, 2011



On November 29th investigative journalist and genocide expert Keith Harmon Snow testified before Spain’s Highest Court (Audencia Nacional) to support the indictments against 40 Rwandan officials for war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity during the western-backed invasions of Rwanda and Congo/Zaire by Rwandan

James Corbett Interviews Michel Chossudovsky

From The Corbett Report:




13
DEC2011



Interview 433 – Michel Chossudovsky

Posted by Corbett






Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Michel Chossudovsky of GlobalResearch.ca joins us to discuss the worrying steps toward a greater middle east conflict that threatens to gulf the entire region. From Syria to Iran to Pakistan to Palestine, each situation represents a potential spark that

City not shielded by Cameron's veto, EU insists

(the euromess is getting weirder and weirder on a daily basis):





European
ministers have warned that the City of London is not shielded by David
Cameron's veto of the Brussels summit proposals and have vowed to impose
tough financial regulations on Britain anyway.


Amid chaotic confusion over the relevance
of the Brussels summit, including Britain's veto, Olli Rehn, the EU's
economic

Yes, the Indefinite Detention Bill DOES Apply to American Citizens

From Washington's Blog, December 13, 2011


Even at this 11th hour – when all of our liberties and freedom are about to go down the drain – many people still don’t understand that the indefinite detention bill passed by Congress allows indefinite detention of Americans on American soil.
The bill is confusing. As Wired noted on December 1st:


It’s confusing, because two different sections of the

Wow! China Gold Imports Spike 4,000% y-o-y

From Profitimes, December 14, 2011


UK-based International Business Times reports China’s gold imports spiking 50 percent in October from September, and soaring 4,000 percent from October of a year ago, to an all-time single-month record high of 85.7 tons.

Though India’s anticipated record gold imports of a 1,000 tons this year could slow due to signs of slowing jewelry demand from a recent

Capital Account: Gerald Celente on his Missing MF Global Money and the COMEX Gold Ponzi

From RT, December 13, 2011:

Today MF Global's former executives, the CFO and the COO, along with Jon Corzine, the former CEO, testified before the senate agriculture committee. They told the committee that they don't know how an estimated 1.2 billion dollars in customer funds went missing. Unfortunately, all three of them could not offer an explanation, with both Henri Steenkamp and Bradley

Selasa, 13 Desember 2011

Internet piracy bill: A free speech 'kill switch'

From The Hill - 12/12/11

By Bill Wilson, Americans for Limited Government


What began as an attempt to restrain foreign piracy on the Internet has morphed into a domestic “kill switch” on First Amendment freedom in the fastest-growing corner of the marketplace of ideas.

Proposed federal legislation purporting to protect online intellectual property would also impose sweeping new government

On the Titanic towards Economic and Democratic Disaster - Nigel Farage




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 Related:
Mega Fail: 17 Signs That The European Financial System Is Heading For An Implosion Of Historic Proportions

Europe’s Top Bank Regulator: “The Crisis Has Reached a Systemic Level”









3 Lessons From the European Mess






Sorting Out the Euro Mess






Europe Lays an Egg












The Great Unraveling


 The end of the EU













DEUTSCHE BANK: Austerity Is

Fearfully, the US Treasury's Secret, 75-Year-Old Fund and Its Dark History Has Been Exposed? ...



From The Daily Bell, December 13, 2011 – by Staff Report



 



After months of work, the video series on the Treasury's Exchange Stabilization Fund is finally finished! Why you should watch these five videos: It is impossible to understand the world today without knowing what the ESF is and what it has been doing. Officially in charge of defending the dollar, the ESF is the government agency

Senin, 12 Desember 2011

US-Funded "Activist" Becomes President of Tunisia

From A-Z, the Arab Spring is Fake. 
by Tony Cartalucci

December 13, 2011 - The BBC hails Tunisia's assembly and their election of a new president in their article, "Tunisian activist, Moncef Marzouki, named president." What the BBC predictably fails to mention is that Marzouki's organization, the Tunisian League for Human Rights, was a US National Endowment for Democracy and George Soros Open

Minggu, 11 Desember 2011

BS labs



From Twelfth Bough:






A13 has covered the Armageddon Virus and the big "debate" over whether or not to publish the research,because some terrorists could get their hands on it, so it is an ethical question. EVEN THOUGH they totally admit that you can't reassort deadly viruses in CAVES.

"These are not easy viruses to reconstruct," Professor Diane Griffin of Johns Hopkins University's

Military Spending In Perspective [Infographic]

From: Military Education (clik on the image to enlarge it):



Kevin Zees: Turn the Occupy Movement into a Neighborhood Handyman Service – Yeah, that’ll show the fat cats






From American Everyman 












by Scott Creighton

Kevin Zeese’s “Ode to Giving Up” is the blueprint for turning the Occupy Movement into a useless, spineless political mechanism like MoveOn dot org or the toothless and hijacked Tea Party. It is an effort by current self-proclaimed leaders of the movement to display their value to the elites by steering the angry and dispossessed back

Russia Protests Western Media Lies- What the media says and what the media doesn't tell you

by Tony Cartalucci Saturday, December 10, 2011 1. What the Media Says: From CNN: "Between 20,000 and 25,000 protesters had gathered in the capital, Moscow, Ria Novosti said Saturday, citing police. There have been no reports of unrest and security has been tight. Vladimir Ryzhkov, co-chairman of the Party of People's Freedom, said 40,000 people had massed and some 10,000 were headed to the main

The eco-fascist NWO conspiracy failed again at Durban. Yet still undead (like a freaking zombie vampire)








_______

 Related:












World Government Climate Deal Fails In Durban











The Climate Change Revolution Will Not Be Funded























Global Warming Hysteria: Pushing Rights of Nature at Durban

The ECB Is Taking On Massive Risks That Would Make Even Ben Bernanke Blush

From The Business Insider:













 
In his latest weekly letter, hedge fund manager John Taylor says that for all the experimentation and aggression that Ben Bernanke has exhibited, the risks to the Fed don't hold a candle to the risks facing the ECB right now.
He writes:

Even the name European Central Bank should catch in our throats as there is no Europe.  There is nocountry, no Treasury

Sabtu, 10 Desember 2011

You Can’t Print More Gold

From GoldSeek.com, Sunday, 11 December 2011

By Frank Holmes

CEO and Chief Investment Officer

U.S. Global Investors



What do you get when you mix negative real interest rates with stimulative money supply efforts by global central banks?

An exceptionally potent formula for higher gold prices that could send gold to the unimaginable level of $10,000 an ounce. Negative real interest rates and

The Core of the Patriot Act Was Drafted in 1995 … By Joe Biden

From Washington's Blog :




Everyone knows that the Patriot Act was drafted before 9/11.
But few know that it was Joe Biden who drafted the core provisions which were included in that bill … in 1995.
CNET reported in 2008:

Months before the Oklahoma City bombing took place, Biden introduced another bill called the Omnibus Counterterrorism Act of 1995. It previewed the 2001 Patriot Act by

Who said Ghadafi had to go

From London Review of Books

By Hugh Roberts



So Gaddafi is dead and Nato has fought a war in North Africa for the first time since the FLN defeated France in 1962. The Arab world’s one and only State of the Masses, the Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriyya, has ended badly. In contrast to the bloodless coup of 1 September 1969 that overthrew King Idris and brought Gaddafi and his

Britain Seethes, Germany Sulks, France Gloats; UK "Big Loser" Falls into "French Trap"?; Who is the "Real Loser"? Bazooka Math



From Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis 

By Mike Mish Shedlock










Yesterday, various news agencies reported that Hungary opted out of the treaty while Sweden and Czech Republic remained "undecided". However, the latest spin is that Hungary did not opt out yet and the gang of 26 will forge ahead without the UK.UK the "Big Loser" Having Fallen into "French Trap"? Last evening in German

Why Germans Love the Euro

From The Big Picture :
Click for larger chartVia NYT
Source:
While Germany Prospers, Unemployment Strangles OthersFLOYD NORRISNYT, December 9, 2011http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/10/business/in-euro-zone-germany-prospers-while-unemployment-strangles-others.html

Europe's blithering idiots and their flim-flam treaty

From The Telegraph, December 9th, 2011
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard




Merkozy has bulldozed Britain out of the EU (Photo: AFP)


What remarkable petulance and stupidity.

The leaders of France and Germany have more or less bulldozed Britain out of the European Union for the sake of a treaty that offers absolutely no solution to the crisis at hand, or indeed any future crisis. It is EU

Doug Casey - Is This the End of Western Civilization

Jumat, 09 Desember 2011

Chomsky joins in the failed global warming apocalyptic NWO cult




From MarketOracle, Dec 09, 2011

By: Andrew_McKillop

In a recent New York Times article titled "Marching Off The Cliff" (6 December), Noam Chomsky brought together a mix and mingle of claimed facts including results from public opinion polls to advance his own climate change conspiracy theory. He wrote: "In 2009 the energy industries, backed by business lobbies, launched major campaigns that

The Euro: That Procrustean Bed...



From RT, 09 December, 2011
By Adrian Salbuchi 


Efforts by European leaders to shoe-horn a range of diverse countries into a rigid financial cage are doomed to fail. But that’s all part of a long-term plan for a global super-currency which can only bring more hardship to ordinary working people.

A question that more and more people are asking nowadays is, “What on Earth were the Europeans

He Chose Well





From Safehaven, Fri, Dec 9, 2011
By: Paul Tustain

David Cameron was today forced in Brussels to choose between the free market and the vanities of overreaching politicians...

Today is a very sad day. We believe that the markets are telling us that there is a horrible abscess in Europe, and that the Euro is the pus. We believe that fuelled by injustice, the infection of nationalism will now

Morgan Monetary Piracy

From Goldseek, 9 December 2011 

By George Smith
When a major fractional-reserve breakdown occurred in 1907, Thomas Woodrow Wilson, then president of Princeton, endeared himself to the banking movement by declaring that "all this trouble could be averted if we appointed a committee of six or seven public-spirited men like J. P. Morgan to handle the affairs of our country." [Griffin, p. 448]

Breaking: Bomb Explodes At Italian Revenue Collection Agency In Rome, One Wounded

(Now it is getting interesting):


From ZeroHedge, 12/09/2011


Who thought violent reprisals by "the people" are only contained to Greece. Following news earlier this week of an attempt to take the life of the Deutsche Bank CEO using an explosive package, Il Sole 24 Ore now reports that a parcel bomb has exploded in front of Equitalia - the country's revenue collection agency - in Rome. Google

Climate FAIL from A to Z presented at Durban

By Marc Morano  –  Climate Depot

Below is the Introduction to the report. Full report is available here. (PDF)

INTRODUCTION:
Many of the proponents of man-made global warming are now claiming that climate change is worse than they predicted. According to an October 18, 2011 Daily Climate article, global warming activists claim that the “evidence builds that scientists underplay climate impacts”

ACARS CONFIRMED - 9/11 AIRCRAFT AIRBORNE LONG AFTER CRASH

From PilotsFor911Truth.org: 


 Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) is a device used to send messages to and from an aircraft. Very similar to text messages and email we use today, Air Traffic Control, the airline itself, and other airplanes can communicate with each other via this "texting" system. ACARS was developed in 1978 and is still used today. Similar to cell

EU COUNCIL STATEMENT TRANSLATION






From THE PRAGMATIC CAPITALIST :











The EU heads of state are out with a joint statement that appears to confirm what was reported late this afternoon – there is no bazooka on deck here.  In fact, it looks like a lot more of the same things we’ve been doing with an emphasis on more austerity – the one thing that is clearly not working.  You can read the full press release here.
The

The Rotten Heart of Europe


From CreditWritedowns, 9 DECEMBER 2011
By Frederick J. Sheehan


Frederick J. Sheehan is the author of Panderer to Power: The Untold Story of How Alan Greenspan Enriched Wall Street and Left a Legacy of Recession  (McGraw-Hill, 2009) and "The Coming Collapse of the Municipal Bond Market" (Aucontrarian.com, 2009)
To Americans, European problems may seem as remote as they did in 1939. There is a

Europe's Disastrous Summit

From SeekingAlpha, December 9, 2011
by Felix Salmon 
I thought disasters were all meant to happen over the weekend? Somehow, in Brussels, EU leaders have contrived to pull defeat out of the jaws of victory on Thursday night, leaving Friday for finger-pointing and recriminations and wondering whether anybody who signed on to this deal has any chance at all of even getting re-elected, let alone

Kamis, 08 Desember 2011

Detainment Camps Going Live: FEMA Seeking Subcontractors to Provide “Temporary Camp Services” In All 50 States

By Mac Slavo
SHTFplan.com December 7th, 2011




For the better part of two decades FEMA detention camps were believed to be a figment of tin foil hat wearing conspiracy theorists. As more information over the years has been made available through alternative news researchers like Alex Jones in his full length documentary Police State 4 and former governor Jesse Venutra’s FEMA camp exposé, it is

Rabu, 07 Desember 2011

Russia Threatens to Kill NATO War in Afghanistan

Clipped from www.thenewamerican.com
Following the Pakistani government’s recent decision to shut down NATO supply lines into Afghanistan indefinitely, Russian officials upped the ante by subtly threatening to close off northern routes for the occupation if the U.S.-led military alliance refuses to back down on a proposed missile defense system in Europe. According to analysts, such a move by

Europe’s Transition From Social Democracy to Oligarchy


From New Economic Perspectives, DECEMBER 07, 2011By Michael HudsonThis article was first published by Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Dec. 3, 2011, as “Der Krieg der Banken gegen das Volk.”


The easiest way to understand Europe’s financial crisis is to look at the solutions being proposed to resolve it. They are a banker’s dream, a grab bag of giveaways that few voters would be likely to

How Iran Acquired A Stealth Drone


By Moon Of Alabama
December 06, 2011 "Moon Of Alabama" -- It seems that Iran has acquired a U.S. stealth drone which was illegally flying within its airspace.
A secret U.S. surveillance drone that went missing last week in western Afghanistan appears to have crashed in Iran, in what may be the first case of such an aircraft ending up in the hands of an adversary.Iran’s news agencies asserted

Richard Daughty - Inflation Is to Be Feared

From GoldSilver.com, DECEMBER 05, 2011:

Selasa, 06 Desember 2011

Inflation Or Deflation, Gold Will Outperform

From SeekingAlpha, December 6, 2011
By Robert Hallberg
History has taught us that certain assets perform better during inflation, while other assets thrive in a deflationary environment. There is a common perception that hard assets and commodities do well during inflation and poorly in deflation, whereas and bonds and cash have contrary performance. However, it is a misperception to lump gold

The Obama Regime Has No Constitutional Scruples


Misreading the fight over military detention

By Paul Craig Roberts December 05, 2011 "Information Clearing House" 
-- During an interview with RT on December 1, I said that the US Constitution had been shredded by the failure of the US Senate to protect American citizens from the detainee amendment sponsored by Republican John McCain and Democrat Carl Levin to the Defense Authorization Bill.

Global Financial Collapse: What makes it tick?


From RT, 06 December, 2011
By Adrian Salbuchi

The mind becomes confused and dismayed when confronted with chaotic situations it can hardly figure out - situations such as today’s Global Financial Woes. Maybe we’re looking too close-up. Let’s take a step back and look again...Complexity is often engineered into what are basically simple problems by people who benefit from manufactured

Montenegro Bought by Rothschild Family







Wednesday, 30 November 2011


Italian media state with certainty that the small coastal nation of Montenegro (pop. 650,000) is completely controlled by companies connected to the Rothschild family, which financed the project for Montenegro's independence, reports local daily "Dan".


It is stated that Nathaniel Rothschild celebrated his 40th birthday in Tivat this summer, and the

Thierry Meyssan Reporting from Syria

From 108morris108 5 Dec 2011 Thierry from Voltaire Net brings us up to date from Syria – I hope he will be making regular contributions. 
 Thierry Meyssan, French intellectual, founder and chairman of Voltaire Network and the Axis for Peace Conference. His columns specializing in international relations feature in daily newspapers and weekly magazines in Arabic, Spanish and Russian. His last two

Senin, 05 Desember 2011

Free book of the day: Rothbard - Power and Market: Government and the Economy

From Mises.org:


 File Format:Size (bytes)Created
Mises Store Link7/20/2005
PDF File1,193,7721/15/2007
ebook (.epub)647,58612/5/2011
Power and MarketWhat can government do to enhance social and economic well being? Nothing, says Murray N. Rothbard. Power and Marketcontains the proof. It will inoculate the reader against the even the slightest temptation to invoke the state as a solution to any

Is the World Spinning Out of Control?

From Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 5 DECEMBER 2011More Europe bailout news. Last week, the world was elated with news that the Federal Reserve and five other central banks got together to prop up Eurozone banks drowning on sour sovereign debt, but the crisis is far from over.  The latest scheme is for countries to trade sovereignty over their budgets in return for more bailout money. The Sunday

Gold and US Official Debt Instruments Held by Central Banks

From Jesse - Le Café Americain, December 05th, 2011If the Eurodollars chart wasn't enough heartburn for the paper-huggers, here is a chart from Ed Yardeni showing the correlation between the price of gold and the amount of US Treasury and Agency Debt held by Central Banks.

Personally I like to track the Eurodollars and the real interest rates, but this works about the same as I had suggested.

Merkel and Sarkozy meet in Paris: 'And now for our next coup...'

From Mail Online - Euroseptic: Mary Ellen Synon in Brussels By Mary Ellen Synon
It is 3 pm here on the Continent and President Nicolas Sarkozy of France and the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, have just come out of their meeting in Paris, the kick-off to the EU summit later this week.
The two – right, call them Merkozy -- have just told the Press they want a wholesale change to the EU treaties

Boiling Frogs: F. William Engdahl, Part 2 of New World Order Series

From Peter B Collins:


This is Part 2 of our interview series on the New World Order, part of the Boiling Frogs interview series, co-hosted with Sibel Edmonds.William Engdahl joins us to discuss the geopolitics behind the phony US war in Afghanistan, how the real purpose of US military presence in that pivotal Central Asian country is obscured, and the crucial importance of restoration and

Pepe Escobar on The shadow war in Syria

From Antiwar Radio:


Globetrotting journalist Pepe Escobar discusses his article “The shadow war in Syria;” how Turkey is helping NATO and GCC foment a Syrian civil war; why the Muslim Brotherhood is best situated to replace the Assad regime, not the Syrian exiles favored by the US and Europe; Jordan’s susceptibility to an Arab spring revolution (not that King Abdullah II would mind much – he’d

Minggu, 04 Desember 2011

Red Ice Radio - Peter Dale Scott - Norway's Massacre, Breivik & Deep Events

From RedIceRadio, 03/dic/2011:


Peter Dale Scott, a former Canadian diplomat and English Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, is a poet, writer, and researcher. He was born in Montreal in 1929. An anti-war speaker during the Vietnam and Gulf Wars, he was a co-founder of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at UC Berkeley, and of the Coalition on Political Assassinations (COPA).

It's Your Choice, Europe: Rebel Against the Banks or Accept Debt-Serfdom

From oftwominds By Charles Hugh Smith
The European debt Bubble has burst, and the repricing of risk and debt cannot be put back in the bottle.



It's really this simple, Europe: either rebel against the banks or accept decades of debt-serfdom. All the millions of words published about the European debt crisis can be distilled down a handful of simple dynamics. Once we understand those, then the

Russian RS-24 intercontinental ballistic missiles now on combat duty

(Just wonder why):


From Rian:


Yars mobile systems carrying RS-24 intercontinental ballistic missiles were recently put on combat duty with the Teikovo Missile Division in central Russia.


Related:
Why Moscow does not Trust Washington on Missile Defense. Towards a Pre-emptive Nuclear War? - By F. William Engdahl


Russia sends Black Sea Fleet ship to Mediterranean
America’s great game could

Black Friday Gun Sales Break Records

From ZeroHedge, by Tyler Durden on 12/03/2011 
Even as Joe Sixpack was maxing out that last credit card on useless gadgets (but not flat screen TVs as Corning was so nice to warn), he was making sure to have enough in store for that one final Plan Z purchase. Guns. As KNDU reports, "Gun dealers flooded the FBI with background check requests from shoppers,  smashing the single day record with a

Paul Craig Roberts: Congress is Repealing the Constitution

From: RTAmerica , December 02, 2011:



There is a bill in the Senate that is attempting to keep torture alive as an interrogation technique. The National Defense Authorization Act is being debated in Congress and if passed, American citizens could be detained without a court hearing anywhere in the world. President Obama stated he will veto the bill if it should pass. Is Senate Bill 1867

Sabtu, 03 Desember 2011

Iran and the Strategic Encirclement of Syria and Lebanon

From Strategic Culture Foundation,  02.12.2011 

By Mahdi Darius NAZEMROAYA (Canada) 

The encirclement of Syria and Lebanon has long been in the works. Since 2001, Washington and NATO have started the process of cordoning off Lebanon and Syria.The permanent NATO presence in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Syrian Accountability Act are part of this initiative. It appears that this roadmap is

Kerry Lutz Interview with Chris Duane 12-1-11

from The Financial Survival Network:


Chris and Kerry continue their conversation on the death of the Fiat Money System. Europe and its large banks have been saved once again, but the end result can never be in doubt. Chris believes that we should all be opting out of the bankrupt system by holding physical silver. There’s going to be a lot of chaos, which is bad in the short term, but in the

The Next Steps in the Eurozone Crisis Will Lead into the ESM Dictatorship

From The Prudent Investor:


A downward spiral of short-lived political announcements that have declined from the superficious to the meaningless may fill the headlines of dutiful 24/7 news outlets.


But while attention is wasted on political gobbledygook, leading Eurocrats manage to steer the train wreck aka Eurozone towards greater centralization in Brussels that will ultimately lead to a

Bailouts, Bondage and Political Bankruptcy

 by Stephen Lendman
Europe and America perhaps face their gravest ever economic crisis. Growing millions are impoverished, unemployed, and out of luck.
Hunger and homelessness are increasing. So is unaddressed anger over handouts to bankers, not people facing crushing hardships.
Economist Michael Hudson calls finance a new mode of warfare. Generalissimo bankers run everything. Co-opted

Jumat, 02 Desember 2011

The European Central Bank Fiddles While Rome Burns

By Ellen Brown opednews.com November 30, 2011
Fiddling While Rome Burns by media.photobucket.com
"To some people, the European Central Bank (E.C.B. ) seems like a fire department that is letting the house burn down to teach the children not to play with matches."  So wrote Jack Ewing in the New York Times last week.  He went on: 
"The E.C.B. has a fire hose -- its ability to print money. But the

Michael Hudson: Debt and Democracy – Has the Link Been Broken?

from naked capitalism: 
By Michael Hudson, a research professor of Economics at University of Missouri, Kansas City and a research associate at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College


A longer version of this article in German was published in the Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung on December 5, 2011 [the FAZ provided this anachronistic note].


Book V of Aristotle’s Politics describes the

Capital Account: Reggie Middleton on MF Global, Goldman Sachs, and the Vampire Squid

From RT's CapitalAccount  01/dic/2011:


Barack Obama may seem calm when he talks about the eurozone crisis, but behind the scenes the financial times reports there is morbid fear about a meltdown in europe, and vice president Biden is heading to greece amidst austerity marches as part of the administration's attempts to quell the panic. But how does what happens in europe affect the Americans at

**RED ALERT**: Ann Barnhardt Says “GET THE HELL OUT. GET OUT OF ALL PAPER.”

From SGTReport:
by SGT:

I just finished listening to the most gripping, honest and frightening interview that I’ve heard in years. With credit to James Puplava at FinancialSense.com, I’ll share some of it with you here.It was with this shockingly candid letter to her clients and colleagues “The Entire System Has Been Utterly Destroyed By The MF Global Collapse” that Ann Barnhardt closed down her

Kamis, 01 Desember 2011

December 2011 Economic Rant


By Roger Masoneconomicrant.com, December 1, 2011

PATRIOTISM IS NOT LOYALY TO THE GOVERNMENT
PATRIOTISM IS LOYALTY TO THE CONSTITUTION

Gun bill S822 passed the House and will soon be passed by the Senate. This is going to list all concealed carry permit holders in a national data base. Then these permits will be severely restricted and subject to federal control. This is just another step

Selasa, 29 November 2011

Senate Passes Bill Allowing Indefinite Detention of Americans ... Considers Bill Authorizing More Torture

From Zerohedge, by George Washington, 11/29/2011:



The Senate passed a bill today allowing indefinite detention of American citizens living within the U.S.While some have claimed that this is incorrect, and that American citizens would be exempted from the indefinite detention within U.S. borders authorized by the Act, the Committee chairman who co-sponsored the bill – Carl Levin – stated today

22 Reasons Why We Could See An Economic Collapse In Europe In 2012


From The economic collapse blog:

Will 2012 be the year that we see an economic collapse in Europe?  Before you dismiss the title of this article as "alarmist", read the facts listed in the rest of this article first.  Over the past several months, there has been an astonishing loss of confidence in the European financial system.  Right now, virtually nobody wants to loan money to financially

Chinese firms are selling tons of fake silver coins. To whom?

I just visited Alibaba.com to see if I could find some good deal buying silver coins, and all I found is lots and lots of producers of fake silver coins (silver plated metal copies of coins) of the kind that you see below.




It seems that each listed firm is producing this sh*t by the hundreds of thousands pieces, and I wonder where all this crap ends. I fear that much of it is sold worldwide

Senin, 28 November 2011

The New Authoritarianism: From Decaying Democracies to Technocratic Dictatorships and Beyond


From Global Research, November 28, 2011by Prof. James Petras
Introduction           We live in a time of dynamic, regressive, regime changes.  A period in which major political transformations and the dramatic roll back of a half century of socio-economic legislation are accelerated by a prolonged and deepening economic crises and a world-wide financier led offensive. 

This essay explores major

Minggu, 27 November 2011

Italy Is Closer To Collapse Than Anyone Realized, And So Is The World


From Clusterstock: 
 Some stories in European press (La Stampa - Zero Hedge link) suggest that Italy is working on a very big loan package from the IMF. I have no doubt that there are ongoing discussions. There has to be.Either someone puts a finger in the dike or Italy goes tapioca.

That thought is difficult for me to fathom.How could we be so close to the brink? At this point there is zero

The Entire Sovereign Debt Crisis Can Be Understood By Looking At Sweden Vs. Finland

From The Business Insider:
 These two charts basically explain everything.
The first chart shows the yield on the Swedish 5-year bond.
As you can see, it's absolutely plummeting right now.
Now here's a look at its neighbor, Finland, and the yields on its 5-year bond.
Basically they look identical all through the year up until November and then BAM. Finnish yields are exploding higher, right as

Sabtu, 26 November 2011

Leading Russian Journalist: "WW3 Almost Inevitable"

From Larouchepac, November 26, 2011:In an article posted by the news service Novy Region on Thursday, prominent Russian journalist Maxim Shevchenko, a First Channel TV personality with extensive experience in Afghanistan and the North Caucasus, who has also been a member of the Public Chamber, voices the unmistakable message that the Russian leadership is fully aware that, while Syria appears to

Reichenbach: you aren't too smart, are you? I like that in a German

From Mail Online - Euroseptic: Mary Ellen Synon in Brussels By Mary Ellen Synon
Here's a follow up to my post of November 17th, in which I wrote about the the crassness of the EU in sending a German to be the head of the occupation force -- or what the European Commission calls its 'task force' -- in Greece.
The German is a eurocrat called Horst Reichenbach, sent to run an EU team that has taken

'NATO strike revenge for Pakistan crackdown on CIA assets'

 From RussiaToday  26/nov/2011:


A NATO air strike on an army checkpoint in northwest Pakistan has killed up to 25 soldiers, according to the country's military officials. Islamabad has now blocked the alliance's vital supply lines into Afghanistan in response. The incident threatens to put more pressure on relations between Pakistan and the military alliance, already strained by continued U.S.

Is the Sovereign Debt Crisis a Replay of the Versailles Treaty?

From The Daily Bell, November 26, 2011 by Anthony Wile
Here at The Daily Bell we track dominant social themes of the Anglosphere power elite (the only elite that matters) and recently we've been pointing out that much of what is going on in the (Western) world is a repeat of the early 20th century In an article entitled "Parallels Between Early 20th Century and Present Are Scary," we pointed

Germany Conquers Europe With Bankers, Not Panzers

From Uncommonwisdomdaily, November 21, 2011 by Sean Brodrick 
Germany is finally accomplishing the conquest of Europe.  The trick is this time, rather than use panzers, they used bankers. Unfortunately, their conquest threatens to leave Europe in ruins. Are the Europeans smart

Bankers have seized Europe: Goldman Sachs Has Taken Over


by Paul Craig RobertsGlobal Research, November 26, 2011
On November 25, two days after a failed German government bond auction in which Germany was unable to sell 35% of its offerings of 10-year bonds, the German finance minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble said that Germany might retreat from its demands that the private banks that hold the troubled sovereign debt from Greece, Italy, and Spain

Senate To Vote On Legislation That Allows U.S. Military to Detain Americans Without Charge or Trial



By Mac Slavo
SHTFplan.com, November 25th, 2011


Remember that debate between Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich, where Mr. Gingrich suggested we should expand and strengthen the Patriot Act in the name of protecting US citizens from terrorists? Mr. Gingrich indicated that there exists a line between criminal law and the war on terror, and that we need not worry the government will overstep its

Jumat, 25 November 2011

Bob Chapman: European Power Play as Panic Sets In

From SGTReport: Part 1:
Chancellor Merkel looks to the people of the euro zone to legislate away sovereignty, changes to be made as the situation deteriorates, Turmoil among the Europeans, power plays as panic sets in, housing sector falling apart.


Part 2:
 Part 3:

Kamis, 24 November 2011

Russia Arms Syria With S-300 Missiles To Defend Against NATO Attack


Warns it will not tolerate western powers crossing a “red line”


Paul Joseph WatsonPrison Planet.com - Thursday, November 24, 2011

We now know what those six Russian warships that reportedly entered Syrian territorial waters last week were carrying. Aside from representing a show of strength to discourage NATO powers from launching a military attack, on board were Russian technical experts

The Game Is About Done


From Market Ticker, 2011-11-23 
by Karl Denninger 
It's pretty-much over at this point....
This morning Germany had a failed Bund auction.  That's not particularly noteworthy; it happens from time to time.
But what's noteworthy is what happened to bond yields everywhere through Europe in response: They blew out.
The Greek and Italian "problem" is no longer about Greece and Italy.  It has been

Climategate II, 5,000 New Emails Released Detailing Climate Change Hoax


From The Lid, November 22, 2011:
No you are not experiencing deja vu. do not adjust your television set, it is neither the Twilight Zone or the Outer Limits, it really is happening again.  Another 5,ooo emails from the University of East  Anglia  have been placed upon an Russian Server to be shared with the public.  And just like the last time, the emails are very damaging.

These emails must

Russia Retaliates Against US: Puts Radar Station On Combat Alert, Prepares To Take Out European Missile Defense Systems

From Zero Hedge, by Tyler Durden 11/23/2011
Earlier today, we presented the latest developments in the escalating possibility of an imminent air (and potentially land) campaign targeting Syria by the "western world", a move that would infuriate not only Iran, but also Russia and China, both of which have made it clear they would not sit idly by and let such an "aggression" stand. Now it is

Rabu, 23 November 2011

Flight to Safety


From Miles Franklin, November 24th 2011:
Mama mia!The political and banking buffoons DESTROYING our world are certainly making me look smart, although I have mixed feelings about writing novel-length RANTS in front of major holidays.  Fortunately for readers, that’s what you’ll get, as aside from the very important message I want to share, I am faced with a RECORD LONG list of “horrible

“Holy Jeepers,” Sprott to Buy $1.5B of Silver Bullion!


From Beaconequity, Nov 22, 2011by Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul
The silver price could explode higher in coming months. As the silver and gold price predictably fade ahead of option expiration, JP Morgan’s bullion manipulation scheme could be headed for unprecedented problems, not from the record purchases of gold and silver from the Chinese, Indians or Russians,

The EU Over All with Dr. Paul Craig Roberts


Uploaded by TheAlexJonesChannel on 23 Nov 2011 economist and the former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration, Dr. Paul Craig Roberts. He is the author of How the Economy Was Lost: The War of the Worlds and The Tyranny of Good Intentions: How Prosecutors and Law Enforcement Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice.
http://

Selasa, 22 November 2011

Showdown in Greece; EU Gives Deadline on Signatures; Samaras Won't Sign, Sends Letter Instead, Seeks Policy Changes


What a tragicomedy:

From Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis By Michael Shedlock
European officials have had enough of the technocrat leadership in Greece. They have given a week for Antonis Samaras, the leader of New Democracy party, and member of the coalition to sign a document saying he will support the European Union debt plan.

He says he will support the plan (with modifications). The

Peter Dale Scotts new GUT [Grand Unification Theory]

From Dallas, through Vietnam, Watergate, Iran-Contra, 9-11 and to today's Financial Bankster Kleptocracy - how they are all connected and inter-connected

Related:The Doomsday Project and Deep Events: JFK, Watergate, Iran-Contra, and 9/11

End game: either they deflate the debt/credit bubble bailing out the people or all hell is going to get loose

 From The Business Insider  by Edward Harrison Get ready because the second dip will occur. It will be nasty: unemployment will be higher and stocks will go lower than in 2009. I am convinced that it is politically unacceptable to have the government propping up the economy as [Richard] Koo suggests it should. The question now is one of timing: when will the government stop propping up the

Free book of the day: The New Germany and The Old Nazis

From Spitfirelist,by Dave Emory ⋅ November 14, 2011

 by T.H. Tetens 1961, Ran­dom House
286 pages.
Down­load Pt. 1 | Down­load Pt. 2
No book doc­u­ments the fail­ure of the Allies’ de-Nazification poli­cies fol­low­ing World War II bet­ter than T. H. Tetens’ The New Ger­many and the Old Nazis. Build­ing effec­tively on their plans to go

Francois Mitterand’s Fascist Past and the Formation of the European Monetary Union

From Spitfirelistby Dave Emory ⋅ November 7, 2011
Mit­terand in French Army: Wolf in sheep’s clothing?
COMMENT: As the global econ­omy reels from the Euro­zone debt cri­sis, it may be use­ful to pon­der a lit­tle known aspect of the back­ground of for­mer French Pres­i­dent Fran­cois Mit­terand, the man who [offi­cially] insisted on the for­ma­tion of the com­mon Euro­pean currency.Mitterand’s

Europe seeks power to place weak states in ‘administration’


The Irish Times
Tuesday, November 22, 2011

THE EUROPEAN Commission wants the Brussels authorities to be given the power to place distressed euro zone countries in a form of EU “administration” as part of a new drive to toughen the fiscal rules behind the single currency.
In a bid to intensify the battle against the worsening sovereign debt crisis, the EU executive will publish plans

Minggu, 20 November 2011

How Would You React To The News Your Local Central Bank Just Went Bust?


From Credit Writedowns 

By Edward HughThis post first appeared on my Roubini Global EconoMonitor Blog “Don’t Shoot The Messenger“.
Well, it’s been more time than I care to remember since I posted anything on this site. In the interim many things have happened, especially on the European sovereign debt front. I think I now have plenty of stuff lined up to waffle about, but maybe one simple way

Why Germany Is Right To Refuse To Bailout Europe

From The Business Insider : Ilargi: Here's why Germany is wise to refuse using the ECB to buy up anything not nailed down in Europe.

All economic forecasts for countries in the periphery -which itself grows as we go along- are based on unrealistically positive numbers. And that means that soon they’ll come calling again for bail-outs.

Austerity measures quite simply mean less consumption, and

The Run On Europe Begins, As Global Investors Head For The Hills...

from Clusterstock:
Until recently, the concern about Europe was mostly theoretical--a potential train-wreck that would occur if/when the world's lenders decided that the continent's problems extended beyond the basket case known as Greece to Europe's "core."
Well, that concern is no longer theoretical.
It's happening.
The world's lenders are increasingly deciding that it's better to be

UK Climate Minister Buys a Castle With 16 Bathrooms… and a Massive Carbon Footprint


Daily Mail
18th November 2011
 ‘He is the climate change minister who pledged to ‘lead by example’ in the fight against global warming.But Charles Hendry is facing accusations of hypocrisy after buying himself a 20-bedroom castle – with a potentially massive carbon footprint – as a second home.Blair Castle in Ayrshire, which went on the market for £2.5million, has three storeys, 16

The Ongoing Imperialist Events - Lizzie Phelan

Face to Face with Lizzie Phelan an Independent Journalist who started covering the Libyan assault eight months ago, Superb Analysis – Beyond Libya.


http://youtu.be/sWDo0eUVf-Y

Proof: Top Eurocrats Are Certified Crooks And Felons

It's official. Look below. The official document testifies that "Super" Mario "Full" Gold-Monti (who has been just nominated Italian PM) was dismissed in advance with other top level eurocrats for an impressive list of malfeasances and abuses:


Santer Commission Report
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Eurozone Doomsayer Got it Right

by Stephen Lendman
Eurozone economies are cratering. Every fix tried so far failed. Combining 17 dissimilar countries under one monetary/fiscal system assured disaster waiting to happen.
British economist Bernard Connolly knew it before the euro's 1998 introduction. His 1995 book titled, "The Rotten Heart of Europe: The Dirty War for Europe's Money" called it a harebrained idea doomed to fail

Jumat, 18 November 2011

GERMAN LAWMAKERS WARN OF WAR IN EUROZONE IF EU POWER GRAB CONTINUES


From Case about Bird Flu By Jane Burgermeister
*CAMERON AND MERKEL AGREE TO EU POWER GRAB OVER NATIONAL BUDGETS AS PART OF “STABILITY UNION”
*NO MORE TAXATION WITH REPRESENTATION PLANNED FOR THE EUROZONE
*BANKER TECHNOCRATS TO REPLACE ELECTED GOVERNMENTS
*GERMAN LAWMAKERS WARN OF WAR IF CENTRALISATION OF POWER IN THE EUROZONE  CONTINUES
*GERMAN FINANCE MINISTER THREATENS UK WITH EURO
A new  

Obomber moves to legalize cluster munitions


World Socialist Website The Obama Administration is pushing to allow the use of a weapon prohibited by an international treaty because of its indiscriminate killing and maiming of civilians, particularly children. The US is seeking clearance for all cluster munitions made after 1980 even though the weapons are currently banned by 111 states that have agreed to the Convention on Cluster Munitions

HOT Germany's Secret Plan for a European Super State

From Economic Policy Journal, NOVEMBER 18, 2011:


It is now clear that Nigel Farage had good reason to be upset with the direction that the eurozone is going in.London's Telegraph is reporting on a secret memo out of Germany. The memo details a plan by Germany to prevent a British referendum on the overhaul of the European Union.In other words, the banksters, via German Chancellor Angela Merkel,

BEYOND INSIDER TRADING: Here's How Members Of Congress Get Rich Off Earmarks

From Business Insider, Nov. 15, 2011
Throw Them All Out, Peter Schweizer's explosive new expose, has pulled back the lid on congressional insider trading, revealing the shocking regularity with which elected officials use their legislative positions to reap financial rewards. This 'honest' graft is by no means limited to using inside knowledge to play the stock market.

Now That Greece Has Defaulted, the Default Dominos Are Coming Fast


From Zero Hedge, by Phoenix Capital Research 11/17/2011
Now that Greece has defaulted (and it was a default) I believe that in the coming weeks we will see other PIIGS countries line up for defaults. Indeed, we are already seeing hints of this:
Portugal, Spain urge G20 members to help ease crisis
Spain and Portugal said on Saturday the euro zone's debt crisis is a global problem, calling

Irish PM Accused Of 'Staggering Breach Of Faith' After Copy Of National Budget Winds Up In The Hands Of Germany

From The Business Insider:
Cue conspiracy theories and bust out your tinfoil hats. According to the Irish Times, a copy of the Irish budget got its way into the hands of the German bundestag, where it was presented and reviewed. Folks who think Ireland is being run by the Germans are going to have a field day. Mr Kenny met chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin yesterday after which reports emerged

Kamis, 17 November 2011

Greece: the EU's Colonial Administrator gives his report

from Mail Online - Euroseptic: Mary Ellen Synon in Brussels by Mary Ellen Synon
This morning the European Commission presented the first report of its Task Force for Greece. (Embarrassing, isn't it, how these over-protected low-testosterone eurocrats like to dress up their committees with military-sounding names?) The 'task force' was set up by commission president Barroso in July. It claims

Funny truths of the day

From The People's Cube:



Let's Start A BusinessI wish to go into partnership with you.

I will provide no capital or funding.

You will put up all of the capital.

You will provide all of the labor.

I will tell you what you can sell, make, how to build, who you can hire and fire and how you conduct business.

Each year you will give me one half of your profit.

You must pay me twelve percent

Top Censored Stories of 2012 (All Links from Project Censored)

1. More US Soldiers Committed Suicide Than Died in Combat
2. US Military Manipulates the Social Media
3. Obama Authorizes International Assassination Campaign
4. Global Food Crisis Expands
5. Private Prison Companies Fund Anti–Immigrant Legislation
6. Google Spying?
7. U.S. Army and Psychology’s Largest Experiment–Ever
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Mark Ames: Austerity & Fascism In Greece – The Real 1% Doctrine

from naked capitalism:By Mark Ames, the author of Going Postal: Rage, Murder and Rebellion from Reagan’s Workplaces to Clinton’s Columbine. Cross posted from The eXiled

See the guy in the photo there, dangling an ax from his left hand? That’s Greece’s new “Minister of Infrastructure, Transport and Networks” Makis Voridis captured back in the 1980s, when he led a fascist student group called “

Technocrats Now, Strong Man Next?


by Adrian Ash - BullionVault November 17th, 2011
The trouble is, this freedom thing has simply gone too far. Apparently...

YOU REMEMBER the Lisbon Treaty, right?

Rejected by voters in three of the five European Union states to be asked, it was signed regardless by the heads of all 27

To Save the Euro we Must Destroy Germany

From Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis  by Michael Shedlock Yesterday German Chancellor Angela Merkel came flat out and said, "To save the Euro we must Destroy Germany".

Well not exactly, but she may as well have because that is the implication. This is what she did say: Germany Is Ready to Cede Some Sovereignty to Save the Euro
Chancellor Angela Merkel said that Germany is ready to cede

Rabu, 16 November 2011

Jim Willie: Gold & Whirlwind Crisis

From Goldseek, Thursday, 17 November 2011 By: Jim Willie CB, GoldenJackass.com

What an incredible whirlwind of crisis from seven foul winds around the globe. Most emanate from Europe, which is far from its climax in crisis. Three steps will lead to full blown eruption, the first Italy with rising bond yields and a bank run, the second Spain with rising bond yields and admission that banks

Banking, Oil, WW3 & John Key Gordon Duff & Evelyn Gilbert Vinny Eastwood Show 15 Nov 2011


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Related:The Edge: John Stokes Interviews Gordon Duff

The Eight Families’ Rigged Oil Game

From LEFT HOOK  by Dean Henderson (Excerpted from Chapter 7: The Four Horsemen: Big Oil & Their Bankers…)
After World War II – during which Royal Dutch Shell Chairman Sir Henry Deterding loudly supported the Nazis, while Exxon and Texaco collaborated with the Nazi I.G. Farben combine – the Four Horsemen turned their full attention to the Middle East. There the cartel operated under names

The European Court of Auditors for the 17th year in a row has not signed the EU accounts

From europeanfoundation.org
While the UK and other Member States are struggling, in their battle with the European Parliament, to restrict increase in EU spending in 2012 to 2.02% on 2011 levels, the European Court of Auditors for the 17th year in a row has not signed the EU accounts.
On 10 November, the European Court of Auditors published its report on the implementation of the 2010 EU

Selasa, 15 November 2011

Soros Funded Democrats Praise Obama’s War Crimes

By Kurt NimmoInfowars.com - November 15, 2011Think Progress, the Soros funded “progressive” media operation, has once again inadvertently made the case that there is very little difference between so-called liberals and conservatives when it comes to killing Muslims and spreading around misery mixed with depleted uranium.Prior to the Republican dog and pony show masquerading as a debate last week

IISS: Syria's Opposition Is Armed

Placard-Waving Protesters are actually Machine Gun-Wielding Terrorists
By Tony CartalucciThe "Free Syria Army" is literally an army of militant extremists, many drawn not from Syria's military ranks, but from the Muslim Brotherhood, carrying heavy weapons back and forth over the Turkish and Lebanese borders; funded, supported, and armed by the United States, Israel, and Turkey.The latest evidence

Infinite stupidity

From The Cobden Centre:
“The unlimited resources” of the European Central Bank (ECB) is quickly becoming the new magic mantra in political commentary and financial market analysis, now that the bigger euro-dominos are beginning to wobble and everybody realizes that nobody has the firepower to bailout Italy, or to ‘recapitalize’ (i.e. bailout again) all the banks that lent to the

Senin, 14 November 2011

Senator Releases Breathtaking Report On How The Government Showers The Rich With Free Money

From The Business Insider : Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), one of Congress' biggest deficit hawks, released a report on Monday showing that the federal government has paid over $9.5 billion in benefits to millionaires since 2003.
The memo is titled "Subsidies of the Rich and Famous" and addressed to taxpayers, and states that millionaires (those with an adjusted gross income greater than $1 million

The World Is Drowning in Debt, And Europe Laces On Concrete Boots

from Zero hedge:by Charles Hugh Smith from Of Two Minds

The World Is Drowning in Debt, and Europe Laces On Concrete Boots
Three metaphors describe Europe: drowning in debt, circular firing squad and trying to fool the money gods with an inept game of 3-card monte.
The world's major economies are drowning in debt--Europe, the U.S., Japan, China. We all know the U.S. has tried to save its

Someone Please Send This Chart To The Germans... (EWI)

From Clusterstock :
If you want the ultimate German take on the euro crisis, you must go read the FT's interview with Bundesbank chief Jens Weidmann.
It basically comes down to this: There is no Euro crisis, there's only a crisis in various European countries, and they're all unique. In Greece, they racked up too much debt. In Italy their politics are crap. The solution: stick to the

Obama Buddy Gets No-Bid $ 1/2 Billion Contract for Untested Smallpox Vaccine

From SilverDoctors: Obama has awarded a $ .5 Billion no-contract bid for a buddy's company to supply untested vaccines for an eradicated disease. Perhaps Obama should just order $50 billion worth and mandate that every American receive a shot in case the Cold War 2 breaks out.

A company controlled by a longtime political donor gets a no-bid contract to supply an experimental remedy for a

The hypocrisy of the Euro cabal is staggering

From Billy blog : As they say in the classics – “some of my best friends are” … and in my case I might have added German. The Euro crisis – that is, the crisis because the creation of the Euro stripped member nations of their capacity to defend their economies against negative private spending episodes – is being extended by the incredible resistance by Germany and the Troika (EU, ECB, IMF)

Profits of Doom: Managed Democracy on the March

By Chris Floyd
November 11, 2011

Thomas Jones, at LRB, says what I wanted to say about the exit of the plutocratic goon Silvio Berlusconi from his post as Italian prime minister:At last Berlusconi has said he’ll step down. It should be a good day for Italian democracy. Except that – assuming he really does go – Italy’s longest serving postwar prime

Minggu, 13 November 2011

Nazi Expert: ‘I Have Proof Hitler Died In 1960s’

From USAHitman:

“The biggest revelation is an authenticated secret German document which lists Hitler as one of the passengers evacuated by plane from Austria to Barcelona on April 26, 1945.”

Although official history contends Hitler committed suicide with his newlywed wife, Eva Braun, on April, 30 1945 and their corpses were burned by others in the Berlin bunker,

The West's tragedy of capital

From MWC News, 11 November 2011by Pepe Escobar

Here's a crash course on global finance 2.0. The debt is in the Atlanticist, wealthy North. The resources are in the global South. And the (reluctant) supreme banker of the last resort is the Middle Kingdom, as personified by the Almighty Hu (Jintao).  The name of the game - Marx revisited by Occupy the World - is class struggle. It's casino

Sabtu, 12 November 2011

European Ponzi Goes Full Retard As EFSF Found To Monetize... Itself


From ZeroHedge, by Tyler Durden 11/12/2011
We have long mocked and ridiculed the Fed for being the ultimate ponzi instrument: after all, why worry, when your central bank will buy up almost three trillion in US paper in about 2 years (a very comforting fact for US politicians who never have to fear that those trillions in new porkbills, pardon fiscal stimulus programs, may end up without

The Great Carbon Credit Deception



From NewDawnMag, 12 November 2011By Richard K. Moore 

In an era of economic growth, the dynamics of competition, innovation, and entrepreneurial investment were important elements of the game. In a non-growth era, the game will be based on entirely different dynamics. The mechanisms of production will become relatively static. Instead of corporations competing to innovate, we’ll have

Towards Economic Collapse: Europe’s Debt Crisis has Spiraled out of Control


 by Bob ChapmanGlobal Research, November 12, 2011
International Forecaster  As Chancellor Merkel and PM Sarkozy search for a solution that doesn’t exist they continue to lose credibility. Nothing of substance has been agreed upon that is legal and can be implemented. At the IMF Christina LeGarde is frantically waving her arms like a cheerleader telling anyone that will listen that if

How Goldman Sacked Greece

by Greg Palast for In These Times: Here’s what we’re told: Greece’s economy blew apart because a bunch of olive-spitting, ouzo-guzzling, lazy-ass Greeks refuse to put in a full day’s work, retire while they’re still teenagers, pocket pensions fit for a pasha; and they’ve gone on a social-services spending spree using borrowed money. Now that the bill has come due and the Greeks have to pay

UN Report Offers Smoking Gun Proof of NATO and US Lies about Libya

By Dennis South at nsnbc


Here is a type of “smoking gun” proof that NATO and the U.S. has been operating through a smokescreen of lies, as well as intimidation. Please read the following January 4, 2011 report of the 16th Session of the United Nations General Assembly Human Rights Council, Universal Periodic Review:
Report of the Working Group on the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya [Document A/

Jumat, 11 November 2011

Libya: a cheap war crime with a return of US $300 billion in business contracts


From RT, 11 November, 2011:
NATO may have ended its operations in Libya, but the Western presence is far from over, with big companies replacing the warplanes. The countries that bombed the oil-rich state are now getting lucrative contracts to rebuild it.First, British bombs tore it apart. Now, British companies will get paid to put it back together. Libya is open for business, and UK firms are

[Public Service Announcement]: Gold Stocks Are Cheap – Dirt Cheap

by Jeff Clark - Casey Research  November 11th, 2011 
Despite the pullback this fall, gold has been performing well this year. The price of the yellow metal is up 28% YTD, driven in large measure by strong demand in Asia and the dim economic outlook in the west. Gold miners are reporting good third-quarter bottom lines. In this ointment, however, there is a fly:

We Must Crush Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Nouriel Roubini, Martin Wolf, the Army of Krugmanites into Submission; Reflections on "Dangerous and Insane"


From Mish, Friday, November 11, 2011:
Two days ago, Financial Times columnist Martin Wolf made an attempt at Thinking through the unthinkable. The "unthinkable" was the breakup of the Eurozone.

Reflections on the Easily Thinkable

For starters, a eurozone breakup is hardly unthinkable given that no currency union in history has ever survived in the absence of a fiscal union, and the

IS TURKEY'S ERDOGAN A CRYPTOJEW?

From Aangirfan, Thursday, November 10, 2011:


Erdogan with his Jewish classmate Rafael Sadi. They studied economics together.

Why has Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, helped the USA and Israel in their attacks on Syria and North Africa?

Why do 'anti-Americans' in Turkey hate Erdogan's AKP political party?

Allegedly, Erdogan and his wife are crypto-Jews, secretly working

Kamis, 10 November 2011

Martin Armstrong: Government is Living in a State of Debt Denial

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Eurocracy: A Financial Coup d'etat


From New Economic Perspectives,  Thursday, November 10, 2011 By Marshall Auerback
It is said that the European Union is a remarkably inefficient organization in terms of organizing economic rescue packages, but when it comes to subverting democracy, they are as ruthless and efficient as a well-oiled crime syndicate.Consider the following:  in the space of less than 2 weeks, the eurocrats have

The Road to Serfdom

From Creditwritedowns, 10 November 2011 20:20 By Marshall Auerback
(With apologies to Friedrich Hayek)The markets are again in free-fall and, once again, a lazy Mediterranean profligate is to blame. This time, it’s an Italian, rather than a Greek. No, not Silvio Berlusconi, but his fellow countryman, Mario Draghi, the new head of the increasingly spineless European Central Bank.At

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The Russian Plan To Monitor The Internet Is Weird, Scary

from The Business Insider : The Russian Federal Service for Telecoms Supervision, Roskomnadzor, recently announced that the country will be launching an Internet Content Monitoring System in December. The systems remit is wide in scope and ability. GlobalVoices writes: The number and the nature of goals that the search robot should achieve are surprising. It goes ways beyond incitement of

Rabu, 09 November 2011

Explosive Comments In The FT: China's Elite Are Privately Talking About A Revolution

From Clusterstock :
Tsinghua University Professor Patrick Chovanec alludes in his latest blog post to three paragraphs in the FT that are "too explosive to reprint in a blog authored in China."
Here's the part he's talking about:
In private conversations, many of the people who supposedly make up the ruling elite of China express serious misgivings about the direction and future stability

Selasa, 08 November 2011

Greek Politics


From Calculated Risk :An apt headline from the Athens News: Sinking with no captain
The European Union’s shattered trust in Greece and interparty wrangling have delayed the announcement of Greece’s new coalition government ...

The humiliating demand by EU Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn that the next tranche of loans will not be disbursed unless New Democracy leader

Barclays Says Italy Is "Mathematically Beyond Point Of No Return"

From ZeroHedge, NOVEMBER 08, 2011:   Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/08/2011 20:13 -0500
Euphoria may have returned briefly courtesy of yet another promise for a resignation that will likely not be effectuated for weeks or months, if at all, and already someone has done the math on what the events in the past several days reveal for Italy. That someone is Barcalys, the math is not pretty,

10 MILLION AMERICAN FAMILIES SLIDING TOWARD FORECLOSURE

From Sovereign Independent:
By Sherwood Ross
Of the 55-million families with mortgages, 10.4-million of them “are sliding toward failure and foreclosure”—a tragedy that will depress the U.S. housing market for years to come, a result of too many houses for sale and too few buyers.That’s the blunt conclusion of distinguished economics journalist William Greider, to be published in an article

Senin, 07 November 2011

Iran and Israel Caught – Partnering in Nuclear Attack Ploy II

From Veteranstoday, Friday, November 4th, 2011:  by Gordon DuffVeterans Today Stands Accused, But Not of Enoughby  Gordon Duff,  Senior Editor
As the news fills with stories about Israel’s plan to attack nuclear weapons facilities in Iran, real or imagined, an October 27 story in Veterans Today, Iran and Israel Caught – Partnering in Nuclear Attack Ploy, laid bare their war plans based on a

Turkey's NGO, IHH and it's role in the destruction Of Libya

From Penny for your thoughts :
What to post today?Not that there is any lack of information that needs to be aired. Just that there is so much, too much ongoing, it is overwhelming really.
For this post we are going to take a look at Libya.Specifically were going to look at Turkey's role in destroying that nation. A role they are reprising in Syria.You weren't aware of Turkey's role in the

Belarus Prepares to Confront NATO Military Aggression

by Gearóid Ó ColmáinGlobal Research, November 6, 2011

On November 4th, President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko told reporters in Grodno, that  the NATO terrorists who murdered Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi were worse than the Nazis. The President of Belarus said:
“There was an act of aggression and the national leaders, including Gaddafi, were killed. He was not killed on a

Minggu, 06 November 2011

Secret Jewish Tax on MOST of the World's Food!!! MUST READ

(My humble suggestion is to boycott the sh*t out of this scam):


From The Coming Depression, Nov 7, 2011

The Kosher Tax is an outrageous example of Jewish control on our everyday lives. Go to your cupboard and examine your food’s packaging; it’s very likely you will find a circled U or K on each package. These symbols are not to be confused with the circled C or R, which are copyright and

Is Iran About to Get Hot?

From GlobalMacroMonitor, November 5, 2011 :
Here is something brewing off radar.  We’re wondering if this is a factor as to why crude is bid and gold is coming back?    Debka wrote last week,
The inference was clear: The Israeli Air Force was strengthening its cooperation with Western allies in preparation for a NATO assault on Iran. The IAF also got a chance to study the

In Act of Desperation, G20 Asks Germany to Pledge its Gold for EFSF Rescue Fund, Bundesbank Refuses; Grateful for the Arrogance

From Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis  By Michael Shedlock
The gall and arrogance of the G20 and Euro-nanny finance minister clowns is staggering.German newspapers report that the G20 discussed asking Germany to pledge its gold to bail out Greece and the Piigs, and to fund the EFSF.The Bundesbank, Germany's central bank said "We know this plan and we reject it."One might think that would

Sabtu, 05 November 2011

The Collapse of Our Corrupt, Predatory, Pathological Financial System Is Necessary and Positive

From OfTwoMinds, (November 5, 2011)
By Charles Hugh Smith

We are being throttled by the Big Lie: we're told that if the predatory financial system implodes, we'll all be ruined. The opposite is true: the only way to save our economy is to let the corrupt, pathological and flawed financial system implode. I was recently challenged by a contributor to write something positive, and so I decided

Jumat, 04 November 2011

Financial Apocalypse And "Extinction Level Event" Expected Between Monday, Nov. 7 - Fri Nov. 11

Global financial trainwreck expected on monday:
Europe. Is. Finished.The EU Debt Crisis has Not Been Solved: If Europe Financially Implodes it could take the Entire Financial World DownCME Goes To Collateral DefCon 1: Makes Maintenance Margin Equal To Initial For... Everything!?Krugman Warns of “Gigantic Bank Run”, “Emergency Bank Closing” and “New Lira”Gerald Celente: Cradle of Democracy Robbed

Kamis, 03 November 2011

iSlave: Apple Is Not Cool For Its Workers

From: American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial OrganizationsBy Adele Stan




 Go to any gathering, and you’ll find nearly every person carrying an iPhone or an iPad, despite the Apple Computer’s dismal record on labor practices. Apple executives must be laughing all the way to the bank — their Swiss bank, that is.In its fourth quarter earnings report released last week, Apple

Assassination Obamanation: US Drones Kill Over 120 People In 2 Days

 From ICH, Thursday, 3 November 2011: US Kills Over 120 People In 2 Days
By Press TV

At least 127 people have been killed in separate US assassination drone strikes in Somalia and Pakistan's northwestern tribal region bordering Afghanistan over the past two days. Continue



US Killed Over 1,500

Western Democracy: A Farce And A Sham

By Paul Craig Roberts
Prison Planet.com - November 3, 2011
Every day that passes adds to the fraudulent image of what is called Western democracy.
Sarkozy and Merkel meet with Greece’s Prime Minister Papandreou at a G20 summit in Cannes.Consider that the entire Western world is outraged that the Greek prime minister announced that he is going to permit the Greek people to decide their own fate

Twilight of the Puppets: Rick Perry's Crazy Speech & The Mental Collapse of U.S. Politicians


From  The Excavator :Separa


Rick Perry's crazy, wacky and absurd speech at an event in New Hampshire is revealing on so many levels. People are saying he was drunk or on drugs. But I think it's deeper than that.


Perry is obviously losing it. He can't contain his fruity nature under the national spotlight. Politics is a big charade that involves repeating a lot of slogans, and it seems

Greece: Christine Lagarde is back working for U.S. defense industry

From Voltairenet, 3 November 2011

Prime Minister of Greece, President of PASOK and President of the Socialist International, Georgios Papandreou informed members of his party on Monday, 31 October 2011, that he would call a referendum on the economic bailout plan.
On Tuesday, 1 November, he convened the Government Council for Foreign Affairs and Defense (KYSEA). Then, he suddenly dismissed the

Banking on War

from Left Hook, By Dean Henderson (Postscript from Big Oil & Their Bankers in the Persian Gulf: Four Horsemen, Eight Families & Their Global Intelligence, Narcotics & Terror Network)

On 3-19 (sum of numbers equals 13), 2003 at 9:31 (sum of numbers equals 13) PM EST in the 3rd week of the 3rd month of the 3rd year of the new millennium, the Illuminati oil mafia attacked Iraq under the banner

Argentina: Depression, Revolt and Recovery Why President Fernandez Wins and Obama Loses

From Global Research
By James Petras


Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez
Introduction

On October 23rd of this year, President Cristina Fernandez won re-election receiving 54% of the vote, 37 percentage points higher than her nearest opponent. The President’s coalition also swept the Congressional, Senatorial, Gubernatorial elections as well as 135 of the 136 municipal councils of

GREEK REFERENDUM GIVES HOPE TO EUROZONE


from Case about Bird Flu
by Jane Burgermeister

The decision by the Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou to call a national referendum on the country’s next EU bail-out package has won praise across the eurozone, fanning the flames for freedom even in the dark depths of oppressed Germany.

German SPD chief Frank-Walter Steinmeier called it a “courageous” action – very courageous and very

Dissing Europe's Failed Bailout Scheme

by Stephen Lendman
Heavily indebted Eurozone countries face insolvency. Adding more can't save them. Nonetheless, policy makers repeat past mistakes, compounding failure with more of it.
Banker occupation corrupts Europe and America. They decide what's best for them. Wrecked economies follow. So do mandated austerity measures, including public sector layoffs, wage and benefit cuts, tax

Bob Chapman: Gold & Silver Prices Will Explode Before The Greeks Vote!

From Socio-ecohistory:
Bob Chapman: The European leaders at the G8 meeting in Cannes France are questioning why Papandreu have decided to have a referendum , it’s pretty obvious why , everybody in the country hates him they probably like Mr Sarkozy better than they like him , incidentally Sarkozy happen to be half Greek , what’s going to happen here is that they are going to have the

The British And U.S. Governments Installed Khomeini Into Power In 1979

From The Excavator: "It is easier to mislead many men than one." - Herodotus. (As quoted in F.E. Adcock's 1963 book, 'Thucydides And His History,' on pg. 51. Cambridge University Press: London).

"Reality is created by language. But, we don't realize how true this is, that reality really is created by language, and that we are all imprisoned in somebody else's language." - Terence

Why Greece should "pull an Iceland"

From Washington's blog, November 2, 2011: Iceland Told the Banks to Pound Sand … And Thereby Saved Its EconomyIceland told the banks to pound sand. And Iceland’s economy is doing much better than virtually all of the countries which have let the banks push them around.Barry Ritholtz noted in May:Rather than bailout the banks — Iceland could not have done so even if they

Rabu, 02 November 2011

Zombie Wars

From The Daily Reckoning,By Bill Bonner 11/02/11 Paris, France – Man may fight for his country or his family or his religion, but for the cause of honest capitalism he will take a dive every time. That is as true of the fighters as it is of everyone else. They may pretend to defend the nation, but in the absence of a real enemy, they’re happy to take the money and fall to the mat. Like

Latests from The Daily Bell

Now Occupy Wall Street Seeks Global Warming/UN Accord! Wednesday, November 02, 2011 – by Staff Report
Of the many questions swirling around #OCCUPY, the most challenging is how to gel into a global movement without sacrificing the decentralized, leaderless model.

Selasa, 01 November 2011

New Libyan "PM" is Big-Oil Goon


Meanwhile, rebels turn guns on each other turning Tripoli into a war zone, again.  From Land Destroyer by Tony Cartalucci
November 2, 2011 - Associated Press recently reported that Libya's rebel militants have named a new "prime minister" this week. AP depicts the latest unelected Western proxy, Abdurrahim el-Keib, as a progressive academic who has spent decades in the United States teaching at

Greeks: the ECB and whose army are going to keep them in the euro?


From Mail Online - Euroseptic: Mary Ellen Synon in Brussels 

by Mary Ellen Synon

 

You've
all seen the headlines on the decision by the Greek prime minister to
call a referendum on the EU/IMF bailout. And I suspect some of you might
have already spotted the threat that will be made by Brussels: that if
the Greeks vote No, take back control of their own budgets and spending
and go for

Senin, 31 Oktober 2011

Classic "shock and awe" strategy: They will let everything goes to hell at once and as people panic the great central banking families step in with a new currency and a new system waiting in the wings


From The Daily Bell, October 31, 2011 – by Staff Report







Merkel & Sarkozy








Will Europe Rescue China? ... All eyes will be on
China at this week's G-20 meeting in Cannes. The expectation—or at least
the hope—is that Beijing will contribute to Europe's bailout fund, the
European Financial Stability Facility. The

Sabtu, 29 Oktober 2011

Things That Make You Go Hmmm.... Such As An Empty Box Filled With Promises Of Money, And Europe's Soup Nazi

From Zero Hedge, 10/29/2011by Tyler Durden
Some amusing weekend observations from TTMYGH's Grant Williams: "The EFSF is basically an empty box filled with promises of money - many of them from the very people who are most likely to need to borrow that same money. Should they need to borrow the money, they won’t be able to make good on their promises so there will be less money for them to

You have not a government anymore. It's an organized crime ring.

From truthjihad.com blog  By Kevin Barrett about the recent murder of the 16-year-old Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, the son of Anwar al-Awlaki.

Hornberger writes:


There are several things that are especially fascinating about the U.S. government’s assassination of this American teenager, who apparently traveled to Yemen looking for his father before his father was assassinated:

First, the U.S.

Eurocracy: Austerity forever (or revolution soon)


From Spectrezine, October 29, 2011:

 The European Union’s new model of economic governance, including the Euro Pact, is a model of prolonged austerity, according to a new publication from Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO). The report, Austerity Forever, argues that the EU’s response to the economic crisis is setting member states on course towards a model of permanent austerity, including

Why sound money is a basic human right: Alasdair Macleod

From Finance and economics, By Alasdair Macleod  Speech given to the Committee for Monetary Research and EducationAt the Fall Meeting, 20th October 2011.
  Before addressing the consequences of today’s macro-economic policies I want to tell you my philosophy. I support sound money for two very good reasons:
1.

Jumat, 28 Oktober 2011

ALERT! To combat “piracy”—a/k/a Occupy Wall Street—House unveils bill allowing US Gov’t to shut down any website, anytime, for any reason.

From News From Underground :
I.New Bill Being Considered In Congress Could Shut Down Social Media Sites Crucial To ‘Occupy’ Protests
October 27, 2011
By Stephen D. Foster Jr.http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/10/27/new-bill-being-considered-in-congress-could-shut-down-social-media-sites-crucial-to-occupy-protests/II.New Bipartisan Bill Will Allow U.S. Gov’t To Shut Off Any Website, Anywhere, For

Pics from Libya before and after the obliteration ...

(My wish and expectation is that anyone who supported or approved this crime will enjoy the same. Karma is a bitch.)



























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Related:
Libyan Islamists urge NTC to stop executions in Iraq 
Remember when Hillary Clinton was very pleased to meet with Qadhafi 's son? 

Europe’s future is coming into focus: hyperinflation

From Paper Money Collapse, OCTOBER 27, 2011
 By Detlev Schlichter 


As you know, my expectations were low to begin with. I did not expect the EU summit on the debt crisis to provide a solution. There is no solution. The situation is beyond repair and the crisis will continue to unravel.What struck me most when reading the first responses to the EU summit was this: most of what you get from the

'RAPIST' OCAMPO LIES ABOUT SAIF AL-ISLAM?

(in case you did not notice what a bad joke the ICC is):


From aangirfan :
Ocampo, who has been accused of rape.


Luis Moreno Ocampo would appear to be spreading disinformation about Saif al-Islam.


Luis Moreno-Ocampo is chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in the Hague.


Ocampo has said that Saif al-Islam, Gaddafi's son, has been holding "informal", indirect conversations

Chris Waltzek’s Interview With The Mogambo Guru - Audio and Transcript

GoldSeek.com Radio: Richard Daughty & President Gary Cope, Robert Ian, The International Forecaster, and your host Chris Waltzek
About Chris

Kamis, 27 Oktober 2011

Exclusive Interview with Martin Armstrong 10-27-11

From Kerrylutz, October 27, 2011 :


In one of the best interviews I’ve ever conducted, we sit down with Martin Armstrong. Martin was sitting on top of the world. His advice was sought out by many high powered financial types. He was helping Japan try to recover from their economic collapse. All of a sudden his career was cut short. He had discovered a nefarious plot by a

Occupy Wall Street and Webster Tarpley ... We're All LaRouch-ites Now!

From The Daily Bell, Thursday, October 27, 2011 – by Staff Report Adbusters Caves to Mass Pressure, Calls for Saturday Day of Action for Wall Street Sales ... Mobilize Now to Demand No Cuts in Social Safety Net ... Student Loan Amnesty ... Foreclosure Freeze ... Nationalization of Fed to Create 30 Million New Productive

Who Was Muammar Qaddafi? Libya’s Wealth Redistribution Project By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya

27 October 2011 — Global Research Fourth of Four Installments on Libya: Who is Stealing the Wealth?
Introduction by Cynthia McKinney
Once again, Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya peels away the veneer of legitimacy and deception enveloping the U.S./NATO genocide currently taking place in Libya. In his first article, Nazemroaya makes it clear that there never was any evidence given to the United

Vampire Squids Attack Humans, Resistance Deemed Racist, Humans Issue Demands


From Video Rebel's blog, October 27, 2011 :

The German Bundestag voted 503 to 89 to destroy their currency and their nation by approving a leveraged Bailout of the banks which in Europe like America are owned by Vampire Squids. This law change will allow the banks to suck the life’s blood from everyone through hyperinflation. America long ago legalized funny money. This has

Farage: EU ‘Deal’ is not a Bailout, It’s a New Form of Imprisonment

Rabu, 26 Oktober 2011

License to Lie: The "Most Transparent Administration Ever" Seeks Law to Respond to Freedom of Information Requests with "Information Does Not Exist"


From Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis :
The Justice Department of the Obama Administration, the self-proclaimed "most transparent administration ever Proposes Letting Government to Respond to Freedom of Information Requests Denying Existence of the Documents.
A longtime internal policy that allowed Justice Department officials to deny the existence of sensitive information could become

You exported WHAT? Secret MI6 documents warn about al-Qaeda-linked Libyan rebels

From IntelNews, October 27, 2011  
by Joseph Fitsanakis 


Abdel Belhaj

By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org |
A secret intelligence report, found in the British ambassador’s abandoned residence in Tripoli, warns that some of Libya’s most active anti-Gaddafi rebels have direct links with al-Qaeda and other Islamist groups. 
The 58-page document, authored by MI6,

Wartime Contracting Commission Classifies Findings for Next 20 Years


From Antiwar,  October 25, 2011 by John Glaser Although the Commission on Wartime Contracting was created to expose waste and abuse, their records are sealed until 2031
The Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan has decided to not reveal its full findings and materials to the public for another two decades, despite its stated purposes of

Gaddafi and the list of things to do

From Flogging Dead Horses:
The man is dead they all say - long live the legend. Our lying eyes have seen the footage and even the online pundits ‘concede’ the point. I briefly watched the first video and closed the browser. Whatever was taped I didn’t want to watch any more for the sake of my own soul.

What spastic, cold-turkey junkie prick took the initial video I’ll never know. The

Pepe Escobar: NATO is the global Robocop

From RTAmerica 26 Oct 2011: According to some reports NATO dropped approximately 40 thousand bombs in the pasted seven months. This played a big part in capture and death of Gaddafi. Many believe showing the lifeless body of Gaddafi was tasteless and the media has ignored the real issues. Who's to gain from the fall of Gaddafi? Pepe Escobar, correspondent for the Asia Times,

For Self Determination, we need Free Currencies!


   From Realcurrencies's Blog  
We can all agree on one thing: our money is at the heart of our problems. It is issued at interest by private banks and inflated and deflated and nowadays stagflated at will. It finances those it owns or wants to own and starves the rest. It has literally financed and bought the world as we know it today.
Everything we want, socially equitable relations,

Selasa, 25 Oktober 2011

Robin Hood Tax: Occupy Movement now marching straight into the globalist trap


 By Patrick Henningsen
Infowars.com - October 25, 2011

It was inevitable that a movement which has struggled to agree on a manifesto, would in the end, do the bidding of the very elite globalist powers that they are demonstrating against to begin with.
The Robin Hood Tax is an identical transaction-tax scam to the one proposed by globalists at the 2009 UN COP15 Climate Summit in
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