From Asian Tribune: (Article and picture at link below) Washington, DC. 07 November (Asiantribune.com): It was at the courthouse in Benghazi where the first spark of the Libyan revolution ignited. It’s the symbolic seat of the revolution; post-Gaddafi Libya’s equivalent of Egypt’s Tahrir Square. And it was here, in the tumultuous months of civil war, [...]
I have been and will continue to be critical of the rush to dismiss the OWS protests as entirely silly / unwashed / redistributionist. It is simple to take one sign or one action and use it to dismiss the entire movement as any of the above. Most so-called "conservatives" are rushing to do [...]
Have we heard this before? This time it's Europe. The collapse of Dexia has the EU banksters crapping their pants and whining for endless taxpayer money. Remember, last time we did this the Federal Reserve Bank OF THE UNITED STATES send $Trillions to European banks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UGDTtqklSo&feature=player_embedded Cheerio, pip pip, "what happened to the spirit of [...]
This won't embed. Click on link for 4 minute video. The important point is building a coalition to stop the banks from running the country via the political system. We can fight about the rest of it after we reclaim the government from the banks. Failing to do this, we succumb to the divide-and-conquer strategy [...]
Solyndra execs will decline to testify at hearing In the letters sent to the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, attorneys for Solyndra CEO Brian Harrison and CFO W. G. Stover said they advised their clients not to provide testimony during the hearings. The bankrupt company's $535 million federal loan guarantee [...]
Ten years after multiple terrorist attacks succeeded in taking the lives of thousands of innocent human beings, I’ve found it difficult to watch network coverage or to listen to commentary on the radio leading up to the actual anniversary date. I do know that this happened to us, believe me, and I honestly [...]
Props to WilliamBanzai7.
In case you've been living under a rock, this morning (8/19) gold reached a new all-time peak of $1878.00 per troy ounce. Rumblings of backwardation (a kind of market price inversion where a premium is placed on real gold versus paper gold) have come to the gold market. [...]
By Jamie Jacoby No more beating around the bush. I don't work for you, you work for me. Got it? Do you want my vote in November 2012? Here are my terms: 1. If you nominate retread insider George Allen to be the Virginia senate candidate, I won't be voting R 2. If you raise [...]
When true believers in man-made global warming look into their crystal balls, they tell us that nothing but misfortune awaits. In an op-ed for the May 25 Forbes.com blog, James M. Taylor, senior fellow for environment policy at the Heartland Institute and managing editor of Environment & Climate News, wrote about several gloomy predictions that [...]
Mises died in 1973. Capitalism: [Accustomed] to the conditions of a capitalistic environment, the average American takes it for granted that every year business makes something new and better accessible to him. Looking backward upon the years of his own life, he realizes that many implements that were totally unknown in the days of his [...]
From the UK's online Guardian publication: Security researchers have discovered that Apple's iPhone keeps track of where you go – and saves every detail of it to a secret file on the device which is then copied to the owner's computer when the two are synchronised. The file contains the latitude and longitude of the [...]
