New technology that Gordon Brown relies on for his response to the Christmas Day bomb attack has been tested – and found wanting
By Jane Merrick
IndependentUK
Sunday, 3 January 2010
Developing nations emerge from shadows as sun sets on the West
January 2nd, 2010How bad was the last decade? Across the Western world, there’s near universal agreement that 2000-2009 has been awful.
Liam Halligan
TelegraphUK
02 Jan 2010
The Coming Eurozone Turmoil?
January 2nd, 2010Five countries that crashed and burned in the credit crunch face a hard road to recovery
At best, the legacy of the economic crisis means tough times. At worst, it could spark political turmoil
Heather Stewart, Ashley Seager, David Teather, Richard Wachman and Zoe Wood
GuardianUK
Sunday 3 January 2010
It’s not just Marc Faber.
January 2nd, 2010Marc Faber, Economic Armageddon In The U.S.
It’s not just Marc Faber.
In case you missed it, here’s a blockbuster interview with
ShadowStats.com’s John Williams, from December 3rd,
where he says the last two years of this economic crisis
have merely been a precursor to the coming “complete
economic collapse of the United States.”
H1N1 D225G and D225N in Russian Cases Near Ukraine
January 2nd, 2010Recombinomics Commentary
January 2, 2010
The Ivanosky Virology Institute has released sequences at Genbank from trachea (A/Orenburg/IIV2974/2009 ) and lung (A/Bryansk/IIV2971/2009) samples suggesting these are from fatal cases. The trachea sample yielded an HA sequence with D225N, while the lung had D225G. The sequences followed three sequences released yesterday, which were also from Russia lung samples and all three had D225G. It is unclear if these recent release represent an increased detection of these changes, but they are the first receptor binding domain chnages from Russia and now there are five such sequences. Some match the clade in Ukraine, which also had samples with D225G and D225N.
Spreading H1N1 Ukraine Sequences in Russia Raise Concerns
January 2nd, 2010Recombinomics Commentary
January 2, 2010
The close relationship between sequences in Ukraine and those recently released from Russia raise pandemic concerns. In addition to the five sequences with D225G and D225N, a larger series was released by the Bioinformatics Group at the Institute for Physical-Chemical Medicine in Moscow from samples collected in Moscow and Novouralsk.
H1N1-Swine Flu: The Perfect Panacea for Political Dissent
January 2nd, 2010The heady mixture of pestilence, war and internal instability
by Michael Werbowski
Global Research
January 2, 2010
2009 has been a year of endless wars and man made pestilence. And 2010, looks like more of the same.
An Introspective Look at the Future of America
January 2nd, 2010Systemic Fraud, Corruption and Financial Instability
by Craig Harris
Global Research
January 2, 2010
As we close out 2009 and look forward into 2010 and beyond, this has been a year of near financial catastrophe and monumental change, none of which benefited America or ordinary Americans. Late in 2008 and throughout 2009, events have happened in the US which would have been labeled unfathomable just a few short years ago, and yet already these monumental changes are expected to be filed into the memory hole and Americans are expected to believe nothing has changed.
Is the Fed Juicing the Stock Market?
January 2nd, 2010by Mike Whitney
Global Research
January 2, 2010
Is the Fed manipulating the stock market? TrimTabs CEO Charles Biderman seems to think so, and he makes a strong case for his theory in an article at zerohedge.com.
‘Withdrawal Tax’: How to Stick It to the Big Banks That Got Bailed Out, and Make Money While You’re at It. Pass It On!
January 2nd, 2010by Gary North
LewRockwell.com
The Huffington Post has come up with a nice little protest movement. Let’s pull our money out of the bailed-out banks and put it in local banks that lend to locals. Who are the locals? People just like us.
Secession, the Second Amendment and Sun Tzu
January 2nd, 2010by Russell D. Longcore
LewRockwell.com
In the 6th Century BC, Chinese warrior Sun Tzu wrote The Art of War. It has been the definitive treatise on waging war for 26 centuries now. Only thirteen chapters, it was translated first in 1782 when a French Jesuit priest living in China, Joseph Amiot, acquired a copy of it, and translated it into French. Subsequent translations have honed the text into English.
Is The Government Misrepresenting Unemployment By 32%?
by Tyler Durden
01/01/2010
ZeroHedge.com
There is an old saying, “when in doubt follow the money.” These days investors have lots of doubt about pretty much everything (if not so much money). And with data from the government increasingly bearing the Quality Control stamp of approval of the Beijing Communist Party, there is much doubt in store courtesy of an administration which will stop at nothing in its competition with China as to who can blow the biggest asset bubble the fastest, data integrity be damned. Undoubtedly, of all government released data, the most important is, and continues to be, anything relating to unemployment. This is precisely where the government’s propaganda armada is focused. Yet in matters of (un)employment, the ultimate authority is, luckily, the Treasury, and not the Fed. “Luckily,” because when it comes to making money “difficult to follow” Tim Geithner’s office still has much to learn. Which is why when we looked at the Daily Treasury Statement data we were very surprised: because it indicates that the government could be underrepresenting employment data by up to 32%!
