Ann Druffel’s classic tome for UFO abductees and their families Disinfonauts may be interested in this TV show which suggests that the UK harbours a large subculture of people who claim direct contact with Extra Terrestrials, not unlike the one in the US. It profiles a group called A.M. (Read more…)M.A.C.H. who run a helpline [...]
Monday, 17 June 2013 16:49
Whatever the deteriorating economy could not achieve (courtesy of Ben Bernanke’s relentless bubble blowing and pumping of the S&P 500-driven “wealth effect” distraction) for the past four years, one NSA whistleblower succeeded in a few short days, when earlier today, CNN – hardly a media known for its criticism of the administration – released a [...]
Monday, 17 June 2013 16:42
We’re in a post-capitalist, post-socialism world. I have just come back from the G8 protests in Belfast and it occurred to me – at this point; we’re post both capitalism and socialism And there’s no going back now. You see, financial futures are trading on prices that are based – not on any underlying economic [...]
Monday, 17 June 2013 16:33
The US government is a criminal syndicate, openly committing atrocities on a global scale. The rule of law is a memory, buried in the rubble left by the false flag terror attack of 9/11, the manufactured “war on terrorism”, and…
Monday, 17 June 2013 16:25
In an apparent effort to “facilitate peace talks,” Al Jazeera reports that the Taliban – the armed Islamic fundamentalist group – will open a political office Doha, Qatar tomorrow. AFGHANISTAN’S TALIBAN TO OPEN OFFICE IN QATAR TOMORROW: JAZEERA JAZEERA CITES UNIDENTIFIED SOURCES ON TALIBAN POLITICAL OFFICE Until earlier this year, Afghan President Karzai was strongly [...]
Monday, 17 June 2013 16:00
The more things change, the more they stay the same, but that doesn’t mean we can’t have any(Steven Ellsberg of the Pentagon Papers leak, left; Edward Snowden of the NSA PRISM leak, right) Of course, you won’t find too much support for that “traitor” and “defector” on the mainstream news networks (even Andrew Napolitano seems to [...]
Monday, 17 June 2013 15:55
In 1990, a pregnant low-income mother with one child would have received an EITC tax credit of $1,250. A mother with two children would have received the same amount, because back then EITC didn’t take into account the number of children you had. That changed in 1993, and the change was fully phased in by [...]
Monday, 17 June 2013 15:53
There is a potentially new macro paradigm evolving which Saxo’s Steen Jakobsen calls: Reality Hits as the Marginal Cost of Capital Normalizes. The Bermuda Triangle of Economics is that the world, so far, has been kept in artificial equilibrium by the way quantitative easing (QE) and fiscal policies bring support and endless liquidity to the [...]
Monday, 17 June 2013 15:20
President Bashar al-Assad gave the following interview to the German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper: Interviewer: Mr President, how do you view the situation in your country? The Syrian Army has lost control over large parts of Syria, in other words…
Monday, 17 June 2013 15:19
Equity markets were very much in a land of their own relative to broad risk asset classes all day until the FT’s Harding “mo’ Taper” memo hit and slammed reality back into the herding masses. Still convinced that the Fed will ‘only’ taper if the data confirms it, we suspect the broad market is missing [...]
Monday, 17 June 2013 15:08
An algorithm makes it possible to measure the dimensions of a room using just a few microphones and a snap of your fingers. There are many promising applications on the horizon.
Monday, 17 June 2013 15:06
In the 21st century the two hundred year-old propaganda that the American people control their government has been completely shattered. Both the Bush and Obama regimes have made it unmistakenly clear that the American people don’t even influence, much less…
Monday, 17 June 2013 15:03
Submitted by Lance Roberts of Street Talk Live blog, The great “bond bull market” is dead. Interest rates are rising on expectations of stronger economic growth ahead. (Read more…) The “great rotation” from bonds to stocks is afoot. These are all statements I have heard being made over the last month as 10-year interest rates [...]
Monday, 17 June 2013 15:00
On this episode of Breaking the Set, Abby Martin takes an in-depth look at the Nestlé corporation; its business practice of bloating the price of water, while pursuing the privatization of this common resource against the public good. The post Nestle: Water’s Corporate Takeover appeared first on disinformation. (Read more…)
Monday, 17 June 2013 14:35
This is what our ‘markets’ have become… (Read more…) Beware the VWAP (1633.50) ramp… and the Harding Tweet to chill out… But people need to chill out. The Fed does not leak anything to any journalist to steer markets – especially during blackout. — Robin Harding (@RobinBHarding) June 17, 2013 Except [...]
Monday, 17 June 2013 14:32
How do I explain Buddhism to my religiously conservative parents? I remember being in a bar one night and a newer meditator asked me about coming out to their parents as a Buddhist. “You make it sound like you’re telling them you’re gay,” I said. “Well, I think they would be more okay with that,” [...]
Monday, 17 June 2013 14:29
Image: Who are the Palestinians’ natural allies? (Ryan Rodrick Beiler) One of the pillars of my trip to Gaza with the Palestine Literature Festival turned out to be an ongoing discussion regarding the essential blackness of the Palestinian struggle and…
Monday, 17 June 2013 14:18
Last week, the House of Representatives passed a bill that would allow US banks to get out of new financial regulations by operating through their overseas arms. Financial reformers say this is dangerous because markets are global, and a bad bet made by a US bank operating in another country could easily affect banks in the [...]
Monday, 17 June 2013 14:12
Stacy Summary: There are so many lies and agendas regarding gold versus national currencies at the moment, it’s best to look at what the market is telling you. Gold Premiums in Vietnam Hit $217 Over Spot In Heavy Demand The Vietnamese Central Bank sold another 25,700 taels (1 tael = 37.5 grams or 1. (Read [...]
Monday, 17 June 2013 14:10
A sense among investors that the global economy is unraveling has injected tremendous volatility into the markets. As Bloomberg’s Rich Yamarone notes, if the global equity market decline is not a “Sell in May” event, but the beginning of a great unwinding, then the economy, skating on thin ice, may be even more susceptible to [...]
Monday, 17 June 2013 14:05
This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. As happens with so much news these days, the Edward Snowden revelations about National Security Agency (NSA) spying and just how far we’ve come in the building of a surveillance state have swept over us 24/7—waves of leaks, videos, charges, claims, counterclaims, skullduggery, and government threats. When [...]
Monday, 17 June 2013 14:00
PIC: Adbusters (C) Sarah Lazare writes at Common Dreams: The Obama Administration is quietly firing Commodity Futures Trading Commission head Gary Gensler, who ran afoul of big banks by pushing for greater government oversight. The ouster comes in the midst of controversy over a proposed CFTF rule, strongly supported by Gensler, that would extend U. [...]
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