Archive for June, 2011

Five Biggest Threats To The US Economy

| June 28, 2011 | 0 Comments

(Richard Blackden)  Inflation  The petrol station is as reliable a place as any to take America’s economic pulse. The sharp rise in gasoline prices in the first few months of the year knocked the confidence of consumers, who still account for about 70pc of the country’s gross domestic product. That squeeze has been all the [...]

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Nuke Lab Fire Danger

| June 28, 2011 | 0 Comments

(Reuters) – New Mexico fire managers scrambled on Tuesday to reinforce crews battling a third day against an out-of-control blaze at the edge of one of the nation’s top nuclear weapons production centers. The fire’s leading edge burned to within a few miles (kilometres) of a dump site where some 20,000 barrels of plutonium-contaminated waste is stored [...]

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Martial Law Provision Secretly Passed In Congress

| June 28, 2011 | 0 Comments

(examiner)  A noted human rights group spokesperson has stated that the mandatory military detention provision that the Senate Armed Services Committee secretly discussed and passed this week, is what martial-law states, not democracies do. The Senate Armed Services Committee’s vote this week redefined rules for detaining terrorism suspects, including giving power to military judges to [...]

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Italian Bank Stocks Plunge, Trading Suspended

| June 24, 2011 | 1 Comment

(Mishs)  Italy, the big elephant in the room that the EU does not even see yet, may be waking up. Please consider, Italian Banks Plunge on Debt Concern Italian banks slumped in Milan trading amid concern the European debt crisis may spread just as lenders face scrutiny from regulators over capital levels. UniCredit SpA (UCG), Italy’s [...]

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US Venture Capitalists Oppose Rogue Website Bill

| June 24, 2011 | 0 Comments

(AFP) – A group of top US venture capitalists has written a letter to the US Congress opposing a bill aimed at cracking down on websites selling pirated and counterfeit goods. Some of the top names in Silicon Valley were among the signatories to the letter expressing concern about the Theft of Intellectual Property Act, [...]

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Al Gore, Agenda 21 And Population Control

| June 24, 2011 | 0 Comments

(American Dream)  Imagine going to sleep one night and waking up many years later in a totally different world.  In this futuristic world, literally everything you do is tightly monitored and controlled by control freak bureaucrats in the name of “sustainable development” and with the goal of promoting “the green agenda”.  An international ruling body [...]

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The Plan to Destabilize Syria

| June 24, 2011 | 1 Comment

( Thierry Meyssan)  The efforts to overthrow the Syrian government have a lot in common with what has been undertaken in Libya. However, the results are substantially different owing to each country’s social and political background. The project to break up these two States simultaneously was initially brought up by John Bolton on 6 May 2002 [...]

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5 Places Not To Be When Dollar Collapses

5 Places Not To Be When Dollar Collapses

| June 24, 2011 | 0 Comments

(Silver Shield)  The dollar collapse will be the single largest event in human history. This will be the first event that will touch every single living person in the world. All human activity is controlled by money. Our wealth,our work,our food,our government,even our relationships are affected by money. No money in human history has had as [...]

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Government Surplus Stores Now Selling Personal Items TSA Steals From Passengers

| June 21, 2011 | 0 Comments

(NaturalNews) If you have ever wondered what happens to the countless barrels of personal items that the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) confiscates (steals) from air travelers every single day, you might be surprised to know that state governments are now reselling these supposedly “dangerous” items in government surplus stores for extra revenue. According to [...]

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12 Things That The Mainstream Media Is Being Strangely Quiet About Right Now

| June 21, 2011 | 0 Comments

(American Dream)  As the mainstream media continues to be obsessed with Anthony Weiner and his bizarre adventures on Twitter, much more serious events are happening around the world that are getting very little attention.  In America today, if the mainstream media does not cover something it is almost as if it never happened. Right now, [...]

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NBC Dumps Under God From Pledge At U.S. Open

| June 20, 2011 | 1 Comment

(WND)  The program commenced with children standing in a classroom setting, as they recited the “abbreviated” version of the Pledge, saying: “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, with liberty and justice for all.” The real version of the pledge [...]

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Coins With QR Codes Will Start Circulating In The Netherlands Next Week

| June 20, 2011 | 0 Comments

(Rebecca Boyle)(Determined to keep physical currency relevant in an age of bitcoins and NFC-equipped phones, the Dutch are turning their coins into little high-tech toys. These are purportedly the world’s first coins with QR codes, which currently link to the national mint, but after June 22 will link to a “surprise.” The coins will be available starting [...]

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Military Developing Spy Drones Size Of Insects And Birds

| June 20, 2011 | 0 Comments

(New York Times)  Two miles from the cow pasture where the Wright Brothers learned to fly the first airplanes, military researchers are at work on another revolution in the air: shrinking unmanned drones, the kind that fire missiles into Pakistan and spy on insurgents in Afghanistan, to the size of insects and birds. The base’s indoor [...]

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Trading Of Over The Counter Gold And Silver To Be Illegal Beginning July 15

| June 19, 2011 | 2 Comments

  (Tyler Durden)  One small step toward Executive Order 6102 part 2, and one giant leap for corruptcongressmankind.  From: FOREX.com <[email protected]>Date: Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 6:11 PMSubject: Important Account Notice Re: Metals TradingTo: xxx Important Account Notice Re: Metals Trading     We wanted to make you aware of some upcoming changes to FOREX.com’s product [...]

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Misery Index Highest In 28 Years

| June 17, 2011 | 0 Comments

(Jeff  Cox)  When it comes to measuring the combination of unemployment and inflation, it doesn’t get much more miserable than this. In fact, misery, as measured in the unofficial Misery Index that simply totals the unemployment and inflation rates, is at a 28-year high, reflective of how weak the economic recovery has been and how [...]

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Washington Post Covers Bohemian Grove

| June 16, 2011 | 2 Comments

(Elizabeth Flock)  Every July, some of the richest and most powerful men in the world gather at a 2,700 acre campground in Monte Rio, Calif., for two weeks of heavy drinking, super-secret talks, druid worship (the group insists they are simply “revering the Redwoods”), and other rituals. Their purpose: to escape the “frontier culture” of [...]

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Kids Lemonade Stand Fined $500 And Shut Down

| June 16, 2011 | 1 Comment

(Bruce Leshan)  You can make a fortuneselling parking spots outside the US Open, but don’t even dream of setting up a lemonade stand. A county inspector ordered the Marriott and Augustine kids to shut down the stand they set up on Persimmon Tree Rd, right next to Congressional. And after they allegedly ignored a couple of warnings, the inspector fined their parents $500. [...]

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Major Internet Service Providers Cooperating With NSA On Monitoring Traffic

| June 16, 2011 | 0 Comments

( Ellen Nakashima)   Three of the nation’s largest Internet service providers are cooperating with a new National Security Agency program to sift through the traffic of major defense contractors with the goal of blocking cyberattacks by foreign adversaries, senior defense and industry officials say. The novel program, which began last month on a voluntary, trial [...]

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Obama,What War In Libya?

| June 16, 2011 | 0 Comments

(Charlie Savage)  The White House, pushing hard against criticism in Congress over the deepening air war in Libya, asserted Wednesday that President Obama had the authority to continue the military campaign without Congressional approval because American involvement fell short of full-blown hostilities. In a 38-page report sent to lawmakers describing and defending the NATO-led operation, the White House [...]

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Gold To Reach $5,000 Due To Supply Shortage

Gold To Reach $5,000 Due To Supply Shortage

| June 14, 2011 | 2 Comments

(John Melloy)  An exhaustive report by Standard Chartered predicts that gold [GCCV1  1526.20   1.80  (+0.12%)   ] will more than triple to $5,000 an ounce because of a lack of supply, not just because of a surge in demand that most bullion bugs cite in their bullish calls. “There are very few large gold mines set to commence operation in the next [...]

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CNN Reports Ron Paul At 0% While CNN Online Poll Shows Him At 75%

| June 14, 2011 | 2 Comments

( Trevor Lyman)  While the online poll conducted by CNN shows Ron Paul as the clear winner with 75% of the votes, CNN reporters pull a fast one by citing a lesser known poll hosted at National Journal claiming Ron Paul came in at 0%. CNN discards their own poll in favor of another poll that shows results [...]

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U.S. Taxpayers Risk $9.7 Trillion on Bailout Programs

| June 14, 2011 | 1 Comment

(Bloomberg)    The stimulus package the U.S. Congress is completing would raise the government’s commitment to solving the financial crisis to $9.7 trillion, enough to pay off more than 90 percent of the nation’s home mortgages. The Federal Reserve, Treasury Department and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation have lent or spent almost $3 trillion over the [...]

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Controlled Power Cuts Likely As Sun Storm Threatens National Grid

| June 14, 2011 | 0 Comments

(Steve Connor)Officials in Britain and the United States are preparing to make controlled power cuts to their national electricity supplies in response to a warning of a possible powerful solar storm hitting the Earth. In an interview with The Independent, Thomas Bogdan, director of the US Space Weather Prediction Centre, said that controlled power “outages” [...]

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18 Signs The Collapse Of Society Is Accelerating

| June 14, 2011 | 2 Comments

(Economic Collapse)  As the U.S. economy collapses, the thin veneer of civilization that we all take for granted is going to begin to disappear. In fact, there are already an increasing number of signs that the collapse of society is accelerating. In cities such as Chicago, roving packs of young people are “mob robbing” local [...]

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Spoiled Brat, LeBron Tells Haters To Get A Life

| June 13, 2011 | 1 Comment

( Michael McCarthy)  After his Miami Heat lost the NBA Finals to the Dallas Mavericks Sunday,LeBron James was asked about the fans who’ve rooted against him since he publicly dumped his former team, the Cleveland Cavaliers, on ESPN’s The Decision. In response, James told the haters to get a life,according to the Associated Press. “All the people that were [...]

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Police Arrest 5 More Activists For Feeding Homeless

| June 13, 2011 | 0 Comments

( Mark Schlueb)  Orlando police arrested five more activists from behind a makeshift buffet table at Lake Eola Park on Wednesday evening, bringing to a dozen the number charged in the past week with violating city restrictions on feeding the homeless. The members of the group Food Not Bombs were ladling out corn on the cob, rice, beans [...]

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10 Most Influential People In The Alternative Media (2011)

10 Most Influential People In The Alternative Media (2011)

| June 13, 2011 | 0 Comments

(Activist Post)  Many readers will expect to see Matt Drudge or Arianna Huffington on this list.  Although they both indeed have leading Internet news websites that cover some fringe stories and report on systematic injustices more so than the mainstream media, they primarily aggregate mainline news.  Therefore, they are excluded from our “alternative media” label. [...]

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