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On the Edge with Michael Hudson

2012-01-29T13:36:00.000+01:00

The Article Jeff Rense Doesn't Want You to Read

2012-01-29T11:21:00.001+01:00

From HenryMakov.com, January 27, 2012 The Argument that Fukushima Was Sabotaged(Jeff Rense refused to link to this article. He thinks it is a psy-op to absolve the nuclear industry of blame for Fukushima. Fine. But when I posted it anyway so people could decide for themselves, he announced he would no longer link to my site. You will no longer be able to find my work on Rense's site. Sad that a

Secret Document: Germany Wants To Put Greece Under EU Curatorship

2012-01-28T19:12:00.000+01:00

From The Prudent Investor: In what will probably become a blueprint for the road to EU serfdom, Germany's government has written a so far unpublished document that requires Greece to put interest and debt payments ahead of all other needs and demands that Greece put itself under 'temporary' EU curatorship.This event comes 2 days ahead of the official signing of the authoritative European

TedBits: The Economic and Financial NO SPIN Zone

2012-01-27T23:46:00.004+01:00

From GoldSeek.com, 27 January 2012 Global Macroeconomic Analysis Through the Austrian Lens By Theodore (Ty) Andros The saga continues as we head into 2012. That saga is the demise of Ponzi finance and an ASSET-backed economic model in the developed world. We do not know whether the currency and financial system extinction event will occur this year or ten years from now. The questions

Central-Bank Gold: Joining the Dots

2012-01-27T23:05:00.000+01:00

From BullionVault, Friday, 27 January 2012 by Adrian Ash Yes, central banks are holding more gold. But they’re holding very much more wood-pulp on top… THE GOLD PRICE on Wednesday broke up through the downtrend starting at last summer’s record high. Or so a technical analyst studying the price chart would tell you. But just as in late 2007 – from where gold began a 55% run inside 6

Beyond revolting: ACTA

2012-01-27T21:01:00.002+01:00

European Parliament Official In Charge Of ACTA Quits, And Denounces The 'Masquerade' Behind ACTA Kader Arif, the EU "rapporteur" for ACTA (a copyright treaty negotiated in secret, which contains all the worst elements of SOPA, and which is coming to a vote in the EU) has turned in his report and resigned from his job, delivering a scathing rebuke to the EU negotiators and parliamentarians, and

Who Embargoes Whom??? Iran Turns Embargo Tables: To Pass Law Halting All Crude Exports To Europe

2012-01-27T18:37:00.001+01:00

From Zero hedge By Tyler Durden In what is likely a long overdue move, Iran has finally decided to give Europe a harsh lesson in game theory. Instead of letting Euro-area politicians score brownie points at its expense by threatening to halt imports and cut off the Iranian economy, the Iranian government will instead propose a bill calling for an immediate halt to oil deliveries to

The Trouble with Marxism (Part One)

2012-01-27T18:30:00.001+01:00

From The People: Well, I have just about had enough of my conversation with The Andrew Kliman, so I thought I would try to assess what it accomplished, instead. My ‘tin-ear’ with Andrew began after a conversation with @skepoet on twitter about the odd divergence between gold and dollar measures of economic activity since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The dollar measure of US GDP

Syria: Watch the weather forecast

2012-01-27T17:22:00.000+01:00

From RT: Ankhar Kochneva, writer and sole foreign journalist permanently living in Syria, tells RT what is really up in the country, who funds the opposition, how international media fake images of unrest and why it is so important to watch weather forecasts. RT: You have lived in Syria since October 2012. Media reports tell us about unrest in the country. How does the situation look from

You Exported WHAT?!? Torture and Abuse in Libya

2012-01-27T17:12:00.000+01:00

by Stephen Lendman - JANUARY 27, 2012 NATO's alleged "responsibility to protect" was subterfuge. Months of terror bombings left Libya a charnel house. Africa's most developed country was ravaged. Tens of thousands were killed, multiples more injured, and millions left on their own sink or swim. When is war not war? It's when mass killing and destruction are called the right thing.

Nigeria Chaos, Geopolitical Stakes and the Curious Role of the IMF

2012-01-27T16:36:00.005+01:00

From The Market Oracle, Jan 27, 2012 By: F. William Engdahl Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation and its largest oil producer, is from all evidence being systematically thrown into chaos and a state of civil war. The recent surprise decision by the government of Goodluck Jonathan to abruptly lift subsidies on imported gasoline and other fuel has a far more sinister background than mere

Michael Hudson: Banks Weren’t Meant to Be Like This

2012-01-27T14:10:00.001+01:00

From naked capitalism: By Michael Hudson, a research professor of Economics at University of Missouri, Kansas City and a research associate at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College A shorter version of this article in German will run in the Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung on January 28. 2012 The inherently symbiotic relationship between banks and governments recently has been

Jim Willie CB: Tail Events, Isolation, New Normal

2012-01-27T11:31:00.001+01:00

From GoldSeek.com, Thursday, 26 January 2012 By: Jim Willie CB, GoldenJackass.Com The year 2012 has started out in strange ways. While celestial forces augur for rare tail events, the assurance of man-made events that stretch far into the extreme tail of probability are not only very likely but will be of a type to reflect the change in the global balance of financial power. The Paradigm

Lew Rockwell: World Social Forum and World Economic Forum are interchangeable

2012-01-27T10:53:00.001+01:00

From RTAmerica, Jan 26, 2012: The annual World Economic Forum is not the only global forum going on. In Porto Alegre, Brazil the World Social Forum is trying to completely change capitalism. Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has decided to attend the forum in Brazil that has brought together a medley of social movement groups. Can the World Social Forum radically change the system? Lew

EU signs ACTA, global internet censorship treaty

2012-01-27T10:27:00.001+01:00

From Activist Post, January 26, 2012 By Rady AnandaToday, the European Union and 22 member states signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced. They have now joined the US and seven other nations that signed the treaty last October.This signing ceremony merely formalized the EU’s adoption of ACTA last month, during a completely unrelated

The Buck Stops with the US President, but it starts with the Federal Reserve

2012-01-26T12:47:00.002+01:00

From CapitalAccount 25 Jan 2012: Angela Merkel kicked off Davos today by taking on the bond market and promising more Europe as the solution to Europe's problems. And while we've heard public concerns over the ills of crony capitalism, don't you worry, Davos has found just the man to defend it, and Lauren Lyster, live from Davos, is just the woman to do it! And back in washington, America just

Merkel Casts Doubt on Saving Greece, Insists ECJ be Empowered to Police Nannyzone; ECB insists on Profits on Greek Bonds; IMF Takes Tougher Stance; Greek Socialists Reject EU Mandates

2012-01-26T09:55:00.001+01:00

From Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis By Mike "Mish" Shedlock Amazingly, smack in the midst of deal to save Greece from bankruptcy, the ECB not only insists on taking no losses on Greek bonds its holds, it wants a profit on them because it bought them at what seemed at the time to be a substantial discount. The discount was imaginary. The bonds were trading at 7% at the time.

Breaking Up the Western World

2012-01-25T22:50:00.000+01:00

From The Daily Bell, Wednesday, January 25, 2012 – by Staff Report Isn't it just as likely that Britain will hit the rocks and break up? ... In the period immediately after the Costa Concordia hit a rock off the coast of Tuscany, the behaviour of the passengers and crew has given us all sorts of insights into the eternal glories and failings of human nature. Perhaps the most symbolically

The Truth Behind the Coming "Regime Change" in Syria

2012-01-25T21:32:00.003+01:00

by Shamus Cooke Global Research, January 24, 2012 After meeting again to decide Syria's fate, the Arab League again decided to extend its "monitoring mission" in Syria. However, some Arab League nations under U.S. diplomatic control are clamoring for blood. These countries — virtual sock puppets of U.S. foreign policy — want to declare the Arab League monitoring mission "a failure,”

India, Iran, Oil, and Gold

2012-01-25T20:30:00.001+01:00

From The Mess That Greenspan Made: The Iran oil embargo and freeze of its central bank assets approved by Europe the other day has had an interesting unintended consequence – and not just another threat by Iran to block the Strait of Hormuz. According to this Debka report, India has agreed to pay for Iranian oil with gold instead of U.S. dollars and China is expected to follow suit.

A Swiss Signal to Buy Gold

2012-01-25T19:46:00.001+01:00

From Gold News, 25 January 2012: Shenanigans in Switzerland give clues as to who will win – and lose – from currency devaluation... INVESTORS WERE GIVEN a major signal to Buy Gold on December 21 2011,writes Porter Stansberry for the Daily Wealth. It was on that day that the European Central Bank (ECB) "loaned" roughly €500 billion to Europe's major banks at 1% interest. This capital will

Detlev S. Schlichter: Paper Money Collapse

2012-01-25T15:35:00.002+01:00

The Folly of Elastic Money and the Coming Monetary Breakdown from FinancialSense.com: All paper money systems in history have ended in failure. Either they collapsed in chaos, or society returned to commodity money before that could happen. Drawing upon novel new research, Paper Money Collapse conclusively illustrates why paper money systems—those based on an elastic and constantly

Money and Freedom

2012-01-25T14:58:00.003+01:00

From Mises Daily, Wednesday, January 25, 2012 by Joseph T. Salerno [This talk was delivered at the Mises Institute conference The History of Liberty, January 29, 2000.] The historical embodiment of monetary freedom is the gold standard. The era of its greatest flourishing was not coincidentally the 19th century, the century in which classical liberal ideology reigned, a century of

The American Debt Imperium and the Mother of all Bubbles

2012-01-25T09:45:00.000+01:00

From Capital Account, 24 Jan 2012 Heads of state, central bankers, CEOs of multinational corporations and international financiers make up more than 1600 of the business leaders now pouring in from all over the globe to this tiny ski resort town of Davos for the world economic forum. It's invite only. High on the agenda is capitalism itself -- it's problems and it's future -- so what does this

FALSE FLAG ALERT

2012-01-24T11:44:00.003+01:00

From The Burning Platform: These words are from Michael Rivero of WhatReallyHappened.com: With the collapse of the oil embargo to force Iran into a confrontation over the Straight of Hormuz, the US and Israel are looking for another way to get the long-sought war with Iran started, and more to the point, need to make it look like Iran is starting hostilities in order to make it politically