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Parts of California Have Sunk Over a Foot in Eight Months Due to Drought
Parts of California Have Sunk Over a Foot in Eight Months Due to Drought California Dreamin’ this is not. Sounds pretty freakin’ terrifying actually. From Bloomberg: Land in California’s central valley agricultural region sank more than a foot in just eight months in some places as residents and farmers pump more and more groundwater amid a […]
Pentagon Plans to Boost Drone Flights 50% as Bernanke Warns Cutting Defense Spending Could Hurt Economy
Pentagon Plans to Boost Drone Flights 50% as Bernanke Warns Cutting Defense Spending Could Hurt Economy In the event you were becoming concerned that the U.S. government might be backing away from its longstanding policy of endless violence, militarism and bloodshed, fear not. If we know one thing for sure, it’s that defense contractors and […]
Greeks Flock to Grassroots Alternative Currencies in Affront to Euro Debt Slavery
Greeks Flock to Grassroots Alternative Currencies in Affront to Euro Debt Slavery Necessity is the mother of invention. When Christos Papaioannou noticed his car needed new tires, the Greek computer engineer bought them with euros—but used an alternative currency, called TEM, to pay his mechanic for the labor. His country has avoided a catastrophic exit from the common […]
Washington Post Reporter Charged with “Trespassing” in Ferguson, Missouri as the “War on Journalism” Continues
Washington Post Reporter Charged with “Trespassing” in Ferguson, Missouri as the “War on Journalism” Continues A year ago, Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery, was arrested in a McDonald’s in Ferguson Missouri. The fast-food establishment had been used as a staging area for several reporters, including theHuffington Post’s Ryan Rilley, who was also arrested. Here’s last year’s video clip of Mr. […]
The New York Times Warns About the Pentagon Labeling Journalists “Unprivileged Belligerents”
The New York Times Warns About the Pentagon Labeling Journalists “Unprivileged Belligerents” This post is a follow up to a piece I published in June titled: New Thousand Page Pentagon War Manual Potentially Lumps Journalists in with “Unprivileged Belligerents.” Here’s an excerpt: A 1,176 page Pentagon war manual was recently released that hasn’t received the attention it deserves. The book […]
TBTF Mega Banks Lowering Downpayments and Credit Standards to Keep High End Housing Market Going
TBTF Mega Banks Lowering Downpayments and Credit Standards to Keep High End Housing Market Going What do you do when even wealthy people begin to face an increasingly hard time purchasing a home in a vertical market completely disconnected from income trends? You reduce downpayments and lower credit standards, of course. Where have we seen this […]
Pennsylvania to Become First State to Use “Precrime” Statistics in Criminal Sentencing
Pennsylvania to Become First State to Use “Precrime” Statistics in Criminal Sentencing Criminal sentencing has long been based on the present crime and, sometimes, the defendant’s past criminal record. In Pennsylvania, judges could soon consider a new dimension: the future. Pennsylvania is on the verge of becoming one of the first states in the country […]
4 Mainstream Media Articles Mocking Gold That Should Make You Think
4 Mainstream Media Articles Mocking Gold That Should Make You Think For those of you who have been reading my stuff since all the way back to my Wall Street years at Sanford Bernstein, thanks for staying along for the ride. I appreciate your support immensely considering that I essentially no longer write about financial markets […]
New York Times Reports – “Fannie and Freddie are Back, Bigger and Badder Than Ever”
New York Times Reports – “Fannie and Freddie are Back, Bigger and Badder Than Ever” Just in case you still harbored any doubt that absolutely zero lessons were learned from the cataclysmic financial collapse of 2008/09. We learn from the New York Times that: AFTER the financial crisis of 2008, there was one thing that almost everyone agreed […]
Former High Ranking U.S. Senator Wants to “Hang Edward Snowden on the Courthouse Square”
Former High Ranking U.S. Senator Wants to “Hang Edward Snowden on the Courthouse Square” Michael Krieger | Posted Monday Jul 20, 2015 at 2:04 pm We need to hang him on the courthouse square as soon as we get a hold of him. – Former vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Saxby Chambliss, on Edward Snowden […]
Video of the Day – General Wesley Clark Suggests Putting “Disloyal Americans” in Internment Camps
Video of the Day – General Wesley Clark Suggests Putting “Disloyal Americans” in Internment Camps If these people are radicalized and don’t support the United States, and they’re disloyal to the United States, as a matter of principal that’s fine, that’s their right. It’s our right and our obligation to segregate them from the normal […]
Santa Cruz County Votes to Cease Doing Business with Five TBTF Mega Banks
Santa Cruz County Votes to Cease Doing Business with Five TBTF Mega Banks This is impressive. Very, very impressive. It appears that Ryan Coonerty, the Supervisor of the Third District of Santa Cruz County, wrote a letter back in June to the rest of the Board of Supervisors, in which he bravely pleaded the county cease business […]
Everything You Need to Know About the Greek Crisis and ECB Fascism in Two Paragraphs
Everything You Need to Know About the Greek Crisis and ECB Fascism in Two Paragraphs Yanis Varoufakis just sat down for his first interview since resigning as Finance Minister of Greece. He talked frankly with Harry Lambert of the New Statesman. Here are the two most important paragraphs from the transcript. There is no democracy in Europe. […]
Conspiracy Fact – How the Government Conducted 239 Secret Bioweapon Experiments on the American People
Conspiracy Fact – How the Government Conducted 239 Secret Bioweapon Experiments on the American People It all began in late September of 1950, when over a few days, a Navy vessel used giant hoses to spray a fog of two kinds of bacteria, Serratia marcescens and Bacillus globigii — both believed at the time to be harmless — out into […]
Study Shows U.S. Police Far More Concerned About “Anti-Government” Domestic Extremists than Al-Qaeda
Study Shows U.S. Police Far More Concerned About “Anti-Government” Domestic Extremists than Al-Qaeda U.S. law enforcement agencies rank the threat of violence from anti-government extremists higher than the threat from radicalized Muslims, according to a report released Thursday by the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security (TCTHS). The report, “Law Enforcement Assessment of the Violent Extremism […]
