Britain is ruled by 26 illegal Brussels sprouts
The EU’s Commissioners are still occupying their posts illegallyFood costs to soar as big freeze deepens
• Farmers struggle to harvest supplies
• Brown chairs urgent talks on crisis
Guardian.co.uk
Britons have been warned to brace themselves for an increase in food prices as plunging temperatures leave farmers unable to harvest vegetables and hauliers struggle to distribute fresh produce.
Is this the end of food as we know it?
new film paints an apocalyptic picture of a world reduced to tinned goods. But could it ever happen here
TelegraphUK
Walk Away From Your Mortgage!
John Courson, president and C.E.O. of the Mortgage Bankers Association, recently told The Wall Street Journal that homeowners who default on their mortgages should think about the “message” they will send to “their family and their kids and their friends.” Courson was implying that homeowners — record numbers of whom continue to default — have a responsibility to make good. He wasn’t referring to the people who have no choice, who can’t afford their payments. He was speaking about the rising number of folks who are voluntarily choosing not to pay.
The mini ice age starts here
DailyMailUK
The bitter winter afflicting much of the Northern Hemisphere is only the start of a global trend towards cooler weather that is likely to last for 20 or 30 years, say some of the world’s most eminent climate scientists.
Their predictions – based on an analysis of natural cycles in water temperatures in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans – challenge some of the global warming orthodoxy’s most deeply cherished beliefs, such as the claim that the North Pole will be free of ice in
summer by 2013.
Climategate investigated by – WTF? – the ‘National Domestic Extremism’ team
Finally the Norfolk rozzers are on the case of Climategate. Are they investigating fraudulent misuse of grant funds? Misleading manipulation of data by a taxpayer-funded research institute? Conspiracy to encourage the squandering of trillions of dollars on a non-existent problem?
Obama Asks Congress to Bypass Conference Committee to Finalize Health Bill
If Democratic leaders agree, the House would work on and amend the Senate version of the legislation before sending it back to the Senate for a final vote. Renouncing to a conference committee would help speed up action on the health bill and allow a passage before the State of the Union address in early February.
Obama takes new tack in disregarding parts of laws
WASHINGTON – The Obama administration is lowering the volume in a long-running argument between Congress and the executive branch over when, if ever, a president has the power to bypass federal statutes he has signed into law.
“Small Government Conservatives” Who Worship the State
CenterForAStatelessSociety.org
Some time back, someone commented on an earlier column by saying “small government” conservatives only hated the government when it offered people a crutch, not when it clubbed them. There’s a lot of truth in that.
No Acquiesce to Depredation
“A little government and a little luck are necessary in life; but only a fool trusts either of them.”
“When politics are used to allocate resources, the resources all end up being allocated to politics.”
Resistance Is NOT Futile: Forgotten Lessons from the Nullification Crisis
Even as calls for nullification of proposed federal health care mandates have intensified on the state level, an almost hysterical effort has arisen to discredit such measures, and paint them as part of an obsolete theory with no bearing on modern politics.
A TERMINUS AD QUEM
By Sheriff Jim R. Schwiesow, Ret.
NewsWithViews.com
This nation is riding an ominously prophetic swell that foretells the end of a decade-long precipitous slide to a jumping off point into a crescendo of ever-ascending calamitous events preceding a final plunge into devastation and oblivion. I continue to receive mail from those who advocate for the salvation of this country via a political route. Will we ever understand that the afflictions that are upon the nation have their roots in a deep and abiding spiritual sickness? The futility of looking to corrupt politicians and fallible men for answers ought to be evident. Everything the politicians and their bureaucratic minions turn their hands to moves the nation deeper into a morass of fiscal insolvency, non-winnable wars, societal conundrums and moral abasement. It is truly the devil’s course that these arrogant cretins follow, and his seeds that they sow.
The Surge in U.S. Personal Bankruptcies, Foreclosures and Job Losses
by Bob Chapman
Global Research
The number of Americans filing for personal bankruptcy rose by nearly a third in 2009, a surge largely driven by foreclosures and job losses.
Geithner’s Fed told AIG to hide “backdoor bailout”
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, during its $180 billion bailout of American International Group, Inc., instructed AIG to omit details of its purchase of certain toxic assets from a December 24, 2008, Securities and Exchange Commission filing, according to e-mails between the company and the Fed released Thursday.
Just Biding Our Time Before The Crash In 2011
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest
– The Boxer, by Paul Simon
“They Are Rocking Even Me”
This will be my tenth annual forecast issue. Time has flown by, and I enter a new decade of writing Thoughts from the Frontline. And even as I write about the high level of uncertainty of the current times, I am optimistic that at the opening of the next decade we will look back and realize that there has been an enormous amount of progress made. None of us will want to revisit the pleasures of the past ten years in some nostalgic dream. I am so ready for a new decade. And speaking of Paul Simon (above), reading the lyrics of The Boxer, one of my favorite songs from my youth, another few words seemed to hit home:
The Military-Industrial Compex is Ruining the Economy
Everyone knows that the too big to fails and their dishonest and footsy-playing regulators and politicians are largely responsible for trashing the economy.
Trilateral Geithner: Corrupted Regulator?
Timothy Geithner is a rising star within the membership of the Trilateral Commission: He is highly educated, has extensive regulatory experience, and is wiling to bend, break or obscure the rules to favor his global elite bosses.
Domestic Espionage Alert: Spy Drone Discovered
KPRC news in Houston recently filmed a secret experiment by law enforcement agencies including the Dept. of Homeland Security of a drone intended to spy on Americans.
Chavez orders currency devaluation by 50% in Venezuela…
Venezuelans rushed to the shops on Saturday, fearful of price rises after a currency devaluation that will let President Hugo Chavez boost government spending ahead of an election but feeds opposition charges of economic mismanagement.
Japan Airlines ‘about to collapse’
JAPAN AIRLINES, Asia’s biggest carrier, could fall into bankruptcy within days in the latest sign the bad times are far from over for the aviation industry.
Blackwater Fever: High Crimes and Hired Guns
Scott Horton of Harper’s gives us chapter and verse of the Justice Department’s very deliberate — and insultingly brazen — sabotaging of its own case against the Blackwater mercenaries who murdered 17 Iraqis in Nisoor Square back in September 2007. As any sentient observer could have told you then, these hired killers — gorging on taxpayer dollars as they assisted the mass-murdering invasion and occupation of Iraq — were never going to do time. Why should they? They were just doing what they were paid, by us, to do: kill ragheads.
