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Daily Archive: January 17, 2012
Jan 17
The Frayed Angels
Jan 17
Follow the Yellow Brick Road! Follow the Yellow Brick Road!
by Slartibartfast Comment on my last post got me thinking. What will the “great reset”, look like? Well, that’s the real question of the day. First, I think you have to gauge the magnitude of the problem to estimate the effort it will take to solve it. Not our problem. The common folk just want …
Jan 17
Pepe Escobar, Sinking the Petrodollar in the Persian Gulf
These days, with a crisis atmosphere growing in the Persian Gulf, a little history lesson about the U.S. and Iran might be just what the doctor ordered. Here, then, are a few high- (or low-) lights from their relationship over the last half-century-plus: Summer 1953: The CIA and British intelligence hatch a plot for a …
Jan 17
A call to action for webmasters around the world
Uploaded by GardenslayerComm TO ADMINISTRATORS OF WEBSITES OVER THE WORLD On January 24, 2012, the Senate will be voting about the PROTECT IP Act, also known as PIPA. This legislation can be used to effectively censor any website on the internet that accepts user content, regardless of whether they are actually infringing on copyrights in …
Jan 17
Just Open Your eyes
Jan 17
Why I’m Suing Barack Obama
By Chris Hedges January 16, 2012 “Truthdig” – Attorneys Carl J. Mayer and Bruce I. Afran filed a complaint Friday in the Southern U.S. District Court in New York City on my behalf as a plaintiff against Barack Obama and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to challenge the legality of the Authorization for Use of …
Jan 17
#J18! Online SOPA Strike to Continue as White House Backs Down
Kim M. / FreeSLO.com Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. probably never would have imagined a day when civil rights demonstrations would take place on the Internet, but such a day has arrived. In the never-ending quest to protect free speech and freedom of the Internet, the international hacktivist collective known as “Anonymous” and others have …
Jan 17
Credo Mutwa
Jan 17
Occupy Belfast seizes bank building
The UK’s Occupy protesters have occupied the vacant building of Bank of Ireland in Belfast city centre, Northern Ireland, media reports said. Police said that a number of youths broke into the disused former headquarters of the Bank of Ireland on the city’s main thoroughfare, Royal Avenue, the daily The Guardian reported. They said that …
Jan 17
Clearing houses: the next casualty of the crisis?
By Luke Jeffs (Reuters) – Clearing houses — the plumbers of high finance — could become the next casualties of the crisis as regulators insist that banks run their riskiest and private trades through them. At the moment banks conduct over-the-counter trades between themselves: one to one dealings often involving multimillion-euro bets on differences in …
Jan 17
Greece Pressed on Time as Debt Talks Stumble
Greece is running out of time to avoid becoming the first euro nation to default after talks with lenders stalled ahead of a March 20 bond payment that will cost 14.5 billion euros ($18 billion) the country doesn’t have. Prime Minister Lucas Papademos is due to meet tomorrow with a group representing private Greek bondholders after a five-day …
Jan 17
Hollie Greig: Trial Day 1 – Angiolini still on the hook
At Stonehaven Sheriff Court, Aberdeenshire, Day 1 of the resumption of Robert’s Trial on Breach-of-the-Peace charges, joining the previous line-up of Sheriff Principle Bowen, Procurator Fiscal for Edinburgh and Prosecutor for the Crown, Stephen McGowan aided by Anne Currie, Procurator Fiscal for Aberdeen, was a new Counsel for the Defence, Andy Lamb assisted by Lili Prais, …
Jan 17
Doctor Doom Warns: “World War III Will Occur In the Next Five Years”
By Mac Slavo / SHTFplan.com Well known economist, trend forecaster and Gloom, Boom and Doom Report publisher Dr. Marc Faber joined some of the world’s leading investment minds at the Barron’s 2012 Roundtable to discuss what’s in store for 2012 and beyond with respect to the economy, inflation, political stability and a host of other …
Jan 17
Iran makes arrests in scientist assassination
Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a deputy director of Iran’s largest uranium enrichment plant, died in a car bomb explosion in Tehran last week. Iran has arrested several people in the killing of a nuclear scientist last week that Tehran blames on Israel and the United States, parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani told state Al-Alam TV, Tehran Times …
Jan 17
The Crash and Burn Future of Robot Warfare: What Seventy Downed Drones Tell Us About the New American Way of War
by: Nick Turse Photo: A member of the 214th Reconnaissance Group flies a Predator aircraft drone in support of ground troops in Iraq and Afghanistan at Davis-Monthan Air Base in Tucson, March 10, 2009. (Photo: Jim Wilson / The New York Times) American fighter jets screamed over the Iraqi countryside heading for the MQ-1 Predator …
Jan 17
‘Of course the cruise ship was off course’ says absolutely everyone
The cruise ship Costs Concordia that ran aground on an island off the Italian coast was probably off-course, according to an initial report by lazy investigators. At least 6 people died when the Costa Concordia attempted to navigate an island made of rocks, and most people believe the accident could have been avoided by sticking …
Jan 17
Confiscation and Inflation
Jan 17
Israel is under Cyber Attack
By Gilad Atzmon The ‘Arab hackers’ attack on Israel escalated today. The Israeli Stock Exchange’s and El Al’s sites collapsed on Monday. The hackers say that it is within their capability to crash every Israeli server. “If Israel apologises to the people of the Gaza genocide, we may reduce the attacks,” said Saudi Hacker OxOmar …
Jan 17
Morality Free Zone: Enda Morality Taxes Us All
By Peter Orr – Sovereign Independent Contributor (Ireland) “It is Morally Wrong, Unjust and Unfair to Tax a Person’s Home” The statement above was made by none other than Enda Kenny in 1994. So what’s changed Enda? I guess you would say we live in difficult times and that we must all tighten our belts …
Jan 17
Fluoride Linked to #1 Cause of Death in New Research
By Anthony Gucciardi Groundbreaking new research has linked sodium fluoride to cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death worldwide. Researchers found that fluoride consumption directly stimulates the hardening of your arteries, a condition known as atherosclerosis that is highly correlated with the #1 killer. Sodium fluoride is currently added to the water supply of many cities …
Jan 17
What are they? Mysterious unexplained noises now being reported across the globe
A series of unexplained noises are being reported across the globe and the frequency of these events appear to be increasing. The sounds range in description from “bizarre and creepy” to “industrial and mechanical.” The sounds appear to be omni-directional and seem to have no single traced source of origin or horizontal source of degree …
Jan 17
Eugenics In Action: 3 Year Old Girl Denied Kidney Transplant Because She Is “Mentally Retarded”
You are about to read about a 3 year old girl named Amelia that was denied a kidney transplant because she is considered to be “mentally retarded”. The doctor that made this decision felt as though Amelia would not have a good enough “quality of life” to justify the procedure. Unfortunately, this is yet another …
Jan 17
Protesters ready igloos to Occupy Davos
By Emma Thomasson A member of the Occupy WEF movement uses a shovel to extend the entrance of the first igloo at their camp site in the Swiss mountain resort of Davos January 16, 2012. The Occupy WEF members will stay in a camp of several igloos to protest during the World Economic Forum (WEF) …
Jan 17
‘Occupy Congress’ attempts to get lawmakers’ attention
Tuesday marks the debut of Occupy 2.0 gathering on the steps of the nation’s Capitol building in Washington. With some 30 activist groups, supporters from local movements around the country as well as some 10,000 Facebook supporters stating their intention to show up, organizers hope this will be the largest Occupy gathering yet. The significance …
Jan 17
Homeowner Takes on Bank of America for Foreclosure and Mortgage-Backed Security Fraud
Activist Post Can Bank of America foreclose on a homeowner without showing any evidence that their client actually owns the promissory note? Can a Mortgage-Backed Security sue for damages after they have already been made whole through credit default swaps and a negotiated settlement with the originator of the security? One Georgia couple is about …
Jan 17
Occupy protesters kicked off bus on way to Washington
By Muriel Kane A group of Occupy protesters from California, who were heading to Washington, DC to participate in the Occupy Congress protest on January 17, were kicked off their Greyhound bus on Saturday night and left stranded in Amarillo, Texas. The driver, Donald Ainsworth, allegedly called the Occupiers “you people” and told them they …






