What Our Declaration Really Said
Monday July 4, 2011 By E.J. Dionne, Jr.Our nation confronts a challenge this Fourth of July that we face but rarely: We are at odds over the meaning of our history and why, to quote our Declaration of Independence, “governments are instituted.” Only divisions this deep can explain why we are taking risks with our country’s future we’re usually wise enough to avoid. Arguments over how much government should tax and spend are the very stuff of democracy’s give-and-take. Now, the (...)
read more, comments... July 4, 2011: The Cycle of Dependency and the Atrophy of Self-Reliance
By : Charles Hugh Smith - Monday July 4, 2011 July 4, 2011: The Cycle of Dependency and the Atrophy of Self-Reliance Charles Hugh Smith, July 2, 2011 The 4th of July marks the birth of the nation, and as such is a good time to distinguish between the nation and its Central government, the Savior State. The 4th of July is a fitting day to ponder the reality that we are at Peak Government, and the Savior State is unsustainable. This is a matter of accounting: no nation can spend more than it generates in surplus real output forever. (...)
read more, comments... ’War on terror’ set to surpass cost of Second World War
By : Rupert Cornwell - Monday July 4, 2011 ’War on terror’ set to surpass cost of Second World War By Rupert Cornwell in Washington Thursday, 30 June 2011 The total cost to America of its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, plus the related military operations in Pakistan, is set to exceed $4 trillion – more than three times the sum so far authorised by Congress in the decade since the 9/11 attacks. Click HERE to view graphic (101 kb) This staggering sum emerges from a new study by academics at the Ivy-league Brown (...)
read more, comments... Stop US and Zionist war, occupation, holocaust and genocide: make 4 July Independence From America Day.
By : Dr Gideon Polya - Monday July 4, 2011 The World must stop Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI) occupation and genocide variously in Occupied Palestine, Occupied Syria, Occupied Haiti, Occupied Somalia, Occupied Iraq and Occupied Afghanistan. The World should make 4 July Independence From America Day. We all know the great words of the 4 July 1776 American Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain (...)
read more, comments... T-Minus Two Months Until The $500 Billion Rolling Debt Ticking Timebomb Goes Off
By : Tyler Durden - Saturday July 2, 2011 T-Minus Two Months Until The $500 Billion Rolling Debt Ticking Timebomb Goes Off Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/01/2011 14:07 -0400 Debt Ceiling Fitch New Debt Issuance ratings Ratings Agencies Reality Ever since the famous Stanley Druckenmiller Op Ed published in early May, which called for an outright default of the US, saying it would not be the end of the world, and in fact the US would emerge stronger as a result of finally taking the first steps to getting its fiscal house in (...)
read more, comments... letter of july to Obama
By : kakine - Friday July 1, 2011 Mr President Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W. Washington DC 20500 Mr President, The five Cubans Gerardo Hernández Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González, Ramón Labañino, and René González, are imprisoned in your country for almost thirteen years now. They came to Miami to infiltrate the terrorist underworld in order to avoid the terrorist attacks that were increasing against tourist facilities in Havana during the eighties. The documents that the Cuban government (...)
read more, comments... Voters Evolt!
By : William John Cox - Tuesday June 28, 2011 Voters Evolt! promotes a Peaceful Political Evolution consisting of a national voting holiday and uniform paper ballot which asks questions on a National Policy Referendum and provides for a Write-in Vote for President. Interviews regarding the Evolt were conducted at the Netroots Nation Conference held in June 2011 in Minneapolis. Among other political leaders, comments were obtained from five Congressmen, one U.S. Senator and three state representatives. Here’s what they had to (...)
read more, comments... When the Public Rises, We’ll Want an Ally in Congress
By : David Swanson - Monday June 27, 2011 For the majority of people in the United States — a majority does not vote, a majority believes the government is broken, a majority thinks our public policy is headed in the wrong direction — the fact that we call this place a democracy is apparently outweighed by the fact that our national government almost never does what a majority of us want done. Some of the things we don’t want done include the destruction of the planet’s environment, the mass slaughter of (...)
read more, comments... The Federal Reserve Is Selling Paper Gold and Buying Physical Gold
By : ROB KIRBY - Monday June 27, 2011 The Federal Reserve Is Selling Paper Gold and Buying Physical Gold The good ole "American way"—through proxies BY ROB KIRBY 10/04/2010 A couple of weeks ago, I pitched an idea to some associates of mine who are involved in SERIOUS [tonnage] PRECIOUS METALS procurement—physical metal only—let’s just say HUGE money. I asked them if they would be interested in purchasing an “option”—cash up front—for the exclusive rights [first right of (...)
read more, comments... Those Who Know Will Understand
By : JR NYQUIST - Monday June 27, 2011 Those Who Know Will Understand BY JR NYQUIST09/17/2010 According to some experts the U.S. economy is one “event” away from a catastrophic sequence. My own variation on this sequence goes something like this: first, the dollar collapses; second, the government’s response prevents any chance for recovery; third, political unrest and destabilization begins; last, the defensive function of the state fails as external and internal enemies take advantage of the country’s (...)
read more, comments... VIDEO: U.S. Vice President Joe Biden "I am a Zionist !"
Monday June 27, 2011
read more, comments... Hillary Clinton admits the U.S government created and funded Al-Qaeda (video)
Monday June 27, 2011
read more, comments... CAMERON AND OBAMA: THE WAR WILL GO ON FOR YEARS
By : Stop the War Coalition - Sunday June 26, 2011 Growing public opposition to war here and in the US is starting to have an impact on the politicians. But whatever the spin this week by Obama and Cameron, the reality is the war in Afghanistan will continue for at least another four years, with ever escalating loss of Afghan civilian and military lives. Thousands are going to die in a war that has no credible purpose or viable "exit strategy", outside of an increasingly desperate search for a way to get out without the US and its allies (...)
read more, comments... The U.S. Monetary System and Descent into Fascism An Interview with Dr. Edwin Vieira
By : David Galland - Friday June 24, 2011 The U.S. Monetary System and Descent into Fascism An Interview with Dr. Edwin Vieira David Galland, Managing Director, June 23, 2011 3:53pm GMT The following interview with Dr. Vieira was conducted in early June of 2011 for the subscribers of The Casey Report – but after careful consideration, we decided that the content is so important; it needs to be shared with a wider audience. Feel free to pass it along. Edwin Vieira, Jr., holds four degrees from Harvard: A.B. (Harvard (...)
read more, comments... USA’s entry into the austerity phase: The sequence of US social and political crises for next ten years
By : LEAP GEAB N°47 - Friday June 24, 2011 USA’s entry into the austerity phase: The sequence of US social and political crises for the next ten years Excerpt GEAB N°47 (September 16, 2010) - As previously mentioned, entry of the United States into the austerity phase is caused by two sets of factors: some internal, specific to the United States, others linked to rapidly changing international conditions. Regarding internal factors, it is clear that the deficit issue becomes one of the central themes of US political debate (...)
read more, comments... U.S. Investors Overexposed to U.S. Dollar Risk?
By : Merkfunds - Friday June 24, 2011 U.S. Investors Overexposed to U.S. Dollar Risk? Merkfunds, 21/06/2011 This white paper analyzes the extent to which U.S. investors, on aggregate, are inherently exposed to the currency risk of the U.S. dollar via their financial asset holdings. We first outline recent trends in the value of the U.S. dollar, showing that the currency has experienced significant deterioration in value, and highlight developments that may continue to underpin ongoing weakness in the currency. Next, we (...)
read more, comments... China Calls Our Bluff: The U.S. is Insolvent and Faces Bankruptcy as a Pure Debtor Nation
Monday June 20, 2011 China Calls Our Bluff: The U.S. is Insolvent and Faces Bankruptcy as a Pure Debtor Nation by Washington’s Blog America’s biggest creditor - China - has called our bluff. As the Financial Times notes, the head of China’s biggest credit rating agency has said America is insolvent and that U.S. credit ratings are a joke: The head of China’s largest credit rating agency has slammed his western counterparts for causing the global financial crisis and said that as (...)
read more, comments... America’s Nightmare: The Obama Dystopia Manipulation, propaganda, imagery & PR wizardry
By : Andrew Hughes - Monday June 20, 2011 America’s Nightmare: The Obama Dystopia Manipulation, propaganda, imagery & PR wizardry by Andrew Hughes Global Research, May 23, 2009 After 8 years of the Bush-Cheney nightmare during which we saw the wanton destruction of Afghanistan and Iraq, the cynical negation of centuries of Law designed to protect the most basic human rights and a foreign policy worthy of Genghis Khan, there came along the "Great Black Hope" in the persona of Barack Obama. The collective world (...)
read more, comments... The Psychopathic Criminal Enterprise Called America
By : Prof. John Kozy - Monday June 20, 2011 The Psychopathic Criminal Enterprise Called America The Government uses the Law to Harm People and Shield the Establishment by Prof. John Kozy Global Research, June 4, 2010 Most Americans know that politicians make promises they never fulfill; few know that politicians make promises they lack the means to fulfill, as President Obama’s political posturing on the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico makes perfectly clear. Obama has made the following statements: He told (...)
read more, comments... The Super Rich Sabotage the Arab Revolutions
By : Shamus Cooke - Monday June 20, 2011 The Super Rich Sabotage the Arab Revolutions by Shamus Cooke Global Research, June 20, 2011 With revolutions sweeping the Arab world and bubbling-up across Europe, aging tyrants or discredited governments are doing their best to cling to power. It’s hard to over-exaggerate the importance of these events: the global political and economic status-quo is in deep crisis. If pro-democracy or anti-austerity movements emerge victorious, they’ll have an immediate problem to solve (...)
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