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

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

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

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

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:

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

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://

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

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

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

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
8. The Fairytale of Clean and Safe Nuclear Power
9. Government Sponsored

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

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

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

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

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

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/

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

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

Speak See Hear Nothing 11-09-2011
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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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