Lining Up for the Wall Street Gravy Train
January 4th, 2010by Mike Whitney
Global ResearchJanuary 4, 2010
British economist John Maynard Keynes, believed in capitalism, but he was also sharply critical of its structural flaws. He summed it up succinctly like this:
Social Unrest and Global States of Combustibility 2010
January 4th, 2010By: Mac Slavo
Market Oracle
The Economist says that 2010 could be a year the sparks unrest in the Global Tinderbox: “IF THE world appears to have escaped relatively unscathed by social unrest in 2009, despite suffering the worst recession since the 1930s, it might just prove the lull before the storm. Despite a tentative global recovery, for many people around the world economic and social conditions will continue to deteriorate in 2010. An estimated 60m people worldwide will lose their jobs. Poverty rates will continue to rise, with 200m people at risk of joining the ranks of those living on less than $2 a day. But poverty alone does not spark unrest—exaggerated income inequalities, poor governance, lack of social provision and ethnic tensions are all elements of the brew that foments unrest.“
United States to Wage War Throughout the World 2010
January 4th, 2010By: Rick Rozoff
Market Oracle
January 1 will usher in the last year of the first decade of a new millennium and ten consecutive years of the United States conducting war in the Greater Middle East.
The war on terror has been about scaring people, not protecting them
January 4th, 2010The ease with which the plane bomber could operate exposes the vacuity and recklessness at the heart of the US response to 9/11
Gary Younge
Guardian.co.uk
Sunday 3 January 2010
Ron Paul’s ideas no longer fringe
January 4th, 2010With the economy still struggling, the lawmaker’s libertarian views are getting serious attention.
By Don Lee
LATimes.com
Reporting from Washington – For three decades, Texas congressman and former presidential candidate Ron Paul’s extreme brand of libertarian economics consigned him to the far fringes even among conservatives. Not a few times, his views put him on the losing end of 434-1 votes on Capitol Hill.
Gold and Guns
January 4th, 2010by Doug French
Mises.org
In his extraordinary book Democracy: The God that Failed, Hans Hermann Hoppe points out that the process of civilization is stopped when government continually violates property rights.
Resist DC: NH Legislators Look to Nullify Federal Gun Laws
January 4th, 2010NH Legislators again raise the bar for the 10th Amendment Movement – felony charges proposed for federal agents violating gun rights in New Hampshire
by Michael Boldin
TenthAmendmentCenter.com
After the Collectivist Winter, Comes the Spring of Freedom
January 4th, 2010A great decade lies ahead. Unfortunately, it’s not the next one
by Vin Suprynowicz
LewRockwell.com
I wish I could offer some cheery prognostications for 2010.
I’d like to predict Barack Obama will awaken some morning soon, rub his eyes, and go, “Holy cow. Do you realize we’re actually letting welfare recipients vote? Talk about a conflict of interest! If we don’t want this republic to descend into a collectivist slave state we’ve got to immediately limit the franchise to only net tax payers. And the Seventeenth Amendment, which encourages senators to collect millions in ‘campaign’ bribes from corporations and labor unions from here to Hong Kong, has to be repealed, restoring the states’ veto power over congressional mischief. Anybody can see that.
ORGANIZED CRIME AND GOVERNMENT
January 4th, 2010By Michael LeMieux
January 4, 2010
NewsWithViews.com
Scenario: You’re working hard at building your business. You come in early each morning, check your stock, arrange the shelves, sweep the floor, and get the till ready for what you hope will be another busy day.
RESTORING AMERICAN GREATNESS
January 4th, 2010By Attorney Jonathan Emord
January 4, 2010
NewsWithViews.com
The incoherence of the Bush Administration has been replaced by the indecisiveness of the Obama Administration when it comes to foreign affairs. Those countries which learn lessons about our nation that last the longest are the countries that experience the effects of American military power. Generations long remember with fondness American forces pounding their way through Europe to destroy the Nazis occupiers and restore freedom. Generations will also long remember the American army now present in Iraq and Afghanistan but with a far more mixed perception. The difference in world view for these two different generations of American military is extraordinary. Europeans of the Greatest Generation still regard the Americans as liberators. The Iraqis and Afghans largely view the Americans as self-interested occupiers. Our primary problem is that we apparently do not yet perceive the profound significance of that difference in perception, but we must if we are to restore America’s image as both a good and great power.
PRESIDENT GIVES FOREIGN COPS POWER OVER AMERICANS
January 4th, 2010By NWV News writer Jim Kouri
January 4, 2010
NewsWithViews.com
An amendment to an executive order secretly signed by President Barack Obama on December 16, 2009 gives police officers from foreign governments police powers in the United States.
Air passengers face two body searches
January 3rd, 2010Jonathan Oliver
TimesOnlineUK
January 3, 2010
Extra body searches, new restrictions on moving around aircraft and greater use of sniffer dogs are among the security measures being planned by Britain following the Christmas Day bomb plot.
Big Brother is coming: NSA’s $1.9 billion cyber spy center a power grab
January 3rd, 2010By Chuck Gates
Deseret News
“By the very nature of the intelligence business, it is difficult to discuss much of the NSA mission.” — National Security Agency Web site
Another liberal state set to crash
January 3rd, 2010Arizona hosts enormous illegal immigrant population
LAIGLESFORUM
January 3rd, 2010
Today’s feature article by Dave Levine relates to Arizona’s imminent crash.
Arizona could be weeks away from going broke
January 3rd, 2010By Barbara Grijalva
KOLD.com
You can bet that getting finances in order is the top resolution for the State of Arizona.
It will get an early test this month.
A massive education payment is expected to drain state resources down to zero.
Email From Afghanistan on “Waste of War”
January 3rd, 2010Mish Shedlock
GlobalEconomicAnalysis
On New Years’ eve I exchanged emails with “BP”, a soldier in Afghanistan regarding Vermont State Employees Union Votes For 3% Pay Cut.
Obama Blames al-Qaeda for Christmas False Flag, Sets Stage for Yemen Attack
January 3rd, 2010Kurt Nimmo
Prison Planet.com
Sunday, January 3, 2010
On Saturday, Obama said the Christmas day non-attack over Detroit was the work of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the latest incarnation of the perennial boogieman used by government to frighten people into accepting foreign invasions and occupations and an ever-growing police state grid at home.
The “Bankster Gangsters” On The Move…
January 3rd, 2010Banks Roll Out New Check, Card Fees
New Charges Seek to Get Ahead of New Federal Rules Limiting Increases in Interest Rates
By ROBIN SIDEL
WallStreetJournal
Ukraine Fatalities Jump to 759 – Two Day Total 32
January 3rd, 2010Recombinomics Commentary
January 3, 2010
3,789,200 Influenza / ARI
217,056 Hospitalized
759 Dead
The above numbers are the latest update from the Ukraine Ministry of Health and show 32 more fatalities in the past 2 days. Reporting is typically lower over the weekend, so a rise of 12 on January 1 and 20 more on Saturday likely represents a rate similar to the one death per hour in the prior four days. Once again the largest jump was in Donetks with a jump of 6 to 97. In the upcoming week Donetks will likely pass Lviv for the oblast with the highest number of deaths which is at 102, but where deaths have only increased slight in the past several weeks.
Uh Oh…On To Yemen?…2
January 3rd, 2010Detroit terror attack: Britain sends counter-terrorist forces to Yemen
Britain has dispatched a special counter-terrorist unit to Yemen as the mountainous Arab state emerges as the new frontline in the war against al-Qaeda, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt.
Uh Oh…On To Yemen?
January 3rd, 2010Threats shut Yemen’s U.S., U.K. embassies
Closures come as Washington, London step up aid to fight al-Qaida affiliate
MSNBC.com
Sun., Jan. 3, 2010
33 Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out To Be True, What Every Person Should Know…
January 3rd, 2010By Jonathan Elinoff
New World Order Report
Most people can’t resist getting the details on the latest conspiracy theories, no matter how far-fetched they may seem. At the same time, many people quickly denounce any conspiracy theory as untrue … and sometimes as unpatriotic or just plain ridiculous. Lets not forget all of the thousands of conspiracies out of Wall Street like Bernie Madoff and many others to commit fraud and extortion, among many crimes of conspiracy. USA Today reports that over 75% of personal ads in the paper and on craigslist are married couples posing as single for a one night affair. When someone knocks on your door to sell you a set of knives or phone cards, anything for that matter, do they have a profit motive? What is conspiracy other than just a scary way of saying “alternative agenda”? When 2 friends go to a bar and begin to plan their wingman approach on 2 girls they see at the bar, how often are they planning on lying to those girls? “I own a small business and am in town for a short while. Oh yeah, you look beautiful.”
China and the other Brics will rebuild a new world economic order
January 3rd, 2010Five emerging nations – and booming countries across Asia – are set to overtake America and Europe
Ashley Seager
GuardianUK
Sunday 3 January 2010
China will soon have the power to switch off the lights in the West
January 3rd, 2010The recent hanging of Briton Akmal Shaikh in China proves that Beijing has no need to worry about what Britain thinks
Con Coughlin
TelegraphUK
03 Jan 2010
Are planned airport scanners just a scam?
January 2nd, 2010New 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.
Marc 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.”
