Mike Krieger: This Is The Last Dance

See also:- Mike Krieger: Goodbye Disneyland! - The Neo-Feudalistic, Gulag Casino Economy Has Already BegunPresenting the latest terrific analysis by Michael Krieger, formerly a macro analyst at Bernstein, and currently running his own fund, KAM LP, who joins Willem Buiter and everyone else left with a gram of prudence, in realizing that this is [...] continue reading the breaking news

TARP Watchdog Barofsky Says Criminal Charges Possible For New York Fed Over AIG Coverup

Neil Barofsky, special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), testifies at a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on preventing home foreclosures in Washington, D.C. (Bloomberg)- Barofsky Says Criminal Charges Possible in Alleged AIG Coverup (Boomberg):Janet Tavakoli, founder of Chicago-based Tavakoli Structured Finance Inc., says Barofsky hasn’t been aggressive enough. She [...] continue reading the breaking news

India: Intelligence Agencies Bugged Senior Politicians

- India denies phone-tapping (News24)India’s opposition has warned that democracy is in danger following allegations that senior politicians’ telephones had been tapped by the government’s intelligence agencies. India’s opposition Bharatiya Janata Party senior leader L.K. Advani Photo: AP The agents secretly listened in to mobile telephone [...] continue reading the breaking news

Chicago Lawmakers: Call In the National Guard to quell violence

Two lawmakers who believe violence has become so rampant in Chicago that the Illinois National Guard must be called in to help made a public plea to Gov. Pat Quinn to deploy troops.April 14: Chicago Police and investigators are seen following a shooting that left four people dead, including two children.CHICAGO (AP) — Two lawmakers [...] continue reading the breaking news

The Sun Censored Poll Showing Liberal Democrats Could Win The Election With 49 Percent Of The Votes

YouGov also found that if people thought Mr Clegg’s party had a significant chance of winning the election, it would win 49 per cent of the votes, with the Tories winning 25 per cent and Labour just 19 per cent.The Sun newspaper failed to publish a YouGov poll showing that voters fear a Liberal Democrat [...] continue reading the breaking news

Prof. William Black’s Testimony on Lehman Bankruptcy: ‘Lehman Was The Leading Purveyor of Liars’ Loans in The World’ (Transcript & Video)

Prof. William Black scorched everyone with his testimony on the failure of Lehman Brothers before the House Financial Services Committee today.  His prepared remarks can be found here (PDF).CHAIRMAN KANJORSKI: And now we’ll hear from Mr. William K. Black, Associate Professor of Economics and Law, the University of Missouri, Kansas City School of Law. Mr. [...] continue reading the breaking news

Exclusive: WellPoint routinely targets breast cancer patients, cancelling their health insurance

Reuters has removed the article. See Google cache.Just don’t get sick and PAY! In case you get sick you will lose your mandatory health insurance.It’s called ObamaCare.(Reuters) - Shortly after they were diagnosed with breast cancer, each of the women learned that her health insurance had been canceled. There was Yenny Hsu, who lived and [...] continue reading the breaking news

China: Forced sterilisations of 10,000 parents who have violated one-child rule, government detains relatives of those who resist

Doctors in southern China are working around the clock to fulfil a government goal to sterilise - by force if necessary - almost 10,000 men and women who have violated birth control policies. Family planning authorities are so determined to stop couples from producing more children than the regulations allow that [...] continue reading the breaking news

President Obama Repaying His Masters At Goldman Sachs

President Obama is sponsoring a bill by the Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd(D-CT) that would reward the Financial Firm Goldman Sachs with up to Billions of Dollars. The bill implements a $50 billion resolution fund to the firms creditors through fees that would come from banks and other businesses, which the bill calls a [...] continue reading the breaking news

Marriage Penalties Increase Dramatically Under ObamaCare

Diana Furchtgott-Roth (Hudson Institute) has published Marriage Penalties Under the New Healthcare Law, 127 Tax Notes 349 (Apr. 19, 2010). Here is the abstract:This article describes the marriage penalties in the new healthcare laws. …  Single earners below 400% of the poverty line who receive premium credits to help them afford health insurance will see [...] continue reading the breaking news

Report: Israel threatens to ‘return Syria back to the Stone Age’

According to report in Sunday Times, Israeli minister said if Hezbollah dares to attack with ballistic missiles, responsibility will fall on Syria’s shoulders, Israel will mercilessly attack strategic targets. ‘Assad playing with fire,’ says minister, according to British paperAfter Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman threatened that Syrian President Bashar Assad will lose his power should he [...] continue reading the breaking news

Digital Economy Act: This Means War!

Baking surveillance, control and censorship into the very fabric of our networks, devices and laws is the absolute road to dictatorial hellThe Digital Economy Act declares war on people who illegaly downloiad TV shows such as second world war drama The Pacific. Photograph: HBO/Rex FeaturesWith the rushed passage into law of the Digital Economy Act [...] continue reading the breaking news

DARPA Spills Details on its Plans for the ‘Transformer TX’ Flying Car

The Pentagon agency hopes to have a $43 million VTOL SUV in the air by 2015 Transformer Car Oh hi DARPA, you called? DARPA didn’t reveal much at first about its “Transformer TX” program aimed at developing a flying car for the military. But now the full proposal has been published, and shows that the [...] continue reading the breaking news

Rasmussen Reports Poll: Ron Paul a Threat to Obama in 2012

Rasmussen Reports Poll has Obama at 42% and Ron Paul at 41%!var VideoID = "11348"; var Width = 485; var Height = 307;Date: 14th Apr 10 continue reading the breaking news

Rep. Ron Paul Grills Bernanke On The Massive Expansion To The IMF’s New Arrangement To Borrow

Added: 14. April 2010As we reported a few days ago, the IMF massively expanded its last resort bailout facility (NAB) by half a trillion dollars, in which the US was given the lead role in bailing out every country that has recourse to IMF funding. Yesterday, Ron Paul grilled Bernanke precisely on the nature of [...] continue reading the breaking news

Russia Sells Its S-300 Missile System to Iran

And there is nothing wrong about that.Fury as Russia sells its S-300 missile system to Iran - ExclusiveIran is buying an ultra-sophisticated missile system from Russia to protect its nuclear sites.The S-300’s surface-to-air rockets can hit many targets at once, including in-coming cruise missiles, making any Western or Israeli strike on Iran much more difficult.News [...] continue reading the breaking news

Japan Mulls Monetisation of Public Debt And Yen Devaluation By 30 Percent

Wake up Japan!Japan’s ruling party has called for drastic monetary easing to devalue the yen by 30pc and halt the slide into deflation, putting it on a collision course with the Bank of Japan. Lawmakers from the Democratic Party of Japan called for the exchange rate to be steered [...] continue reading the breaking news

Rioters vent fury at US after Nato troops kill Afghan civilians on bus

Protesters take to streets in Kandahar after attack kills four and leaves 18 woundedAfghan protesters burn tyres during an anti-American protest in Kandahar after troops fired on a bus, killing four passengers and injuring 18Nato’s hopes for winning over the Afghan population in the south of the country ahead of a massive new military campaign [...] continue reading the breaking news

The No.1 Trend Forecaster Gerald Celente on ObamaCare, Dollar Devaluation And Gold

Just in case you think what Gerald Celente says here is far-fetched:- ‘All bets are off’ if US under WMD attack: Clinton (AFP):Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Sunday the United States could not rule out using nuclear weapons if it came under biological attack, saying in that case “all bets are off.”“If we can [...] continue reading the breaking news

Rep. Ron Paul: President Obama Is ‘Not A Socialist.’ ‘He Is A Corporatist.’

Obama is just another elite puppet president.Rep. Ron Paul at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference(April 10, 2010)NEW ORLEANS–Republicans and tea party activists are fond of accusing President Barack Obama of being a socialist, but today party gadfly Ron Paul said they had it wrong.“In the technical sense, in the economic definition, he is not a [...] continue reading the breaking news

Greece Bailout: EU Governments Offer 45 Billion Euro Rescue Package

Not one day to early:- GAME OVER - Greek Curve Goes Apeshit: Bloomberg Reports 3 Month Bid At 21.3%- Greece: They’re DoneThe next candidates are Portugal, Spain, Ireland and Italy.And then the euro and the entire EU will fail.April 11 (Bloomberg) — European governments offered debt-burdened Greece a rescue package worth as much as 45 [...] continue reading the breaking news

Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld ‘Knew Guantánamo Prisoners Were Innocent’

Two detainees are escorted to interrogation by US military guards at Guantánamo Bay (Andres Leighton/AP)George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld covered up that hundreds of innocent men were sent to the Guantánamo Bay prison camp because they feared that [...] continue reading the breaking news

Germany’s Bundesbank: Greek Rescue as a Threat to Economic Stability and Probably Illegal; Calls IMF ‘Inflation Maximising Fund’

See also:- Greek Debt Crisis Deepens; Investors Rush to Sell Greek Bonds- The Solution For Greece (Max Keiser, Matt Taibbi and Catherine Austin Fitts)Germany’s Bundesbank has fired a warning shot at Chancellor Angela Merkel, attacking the joint EU-IMF rescue plan for Greece as a threat to economic stability and [...] continue reading the breaking news

Thailand: Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva Declares Martial Law to Control Protests

April 7 (Bloomberg) — Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva declared martial law in the capital after protesters stormed parliament, testing the army’s willingness to break up four weeks of mostly peaceful demonstrations.About 3,000 people entered the gates of Parliament for about two hours and thousands more occupied Bangkok’s commercial district for a fifth day. The [...] continue reading the breaking news

Thailand: Government Shuts Down Protesters’ TV Network

See also:- Thailand: Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva Declares Martial Law to Control Protests (Bloomberg)Anti-government “red shirt” protesters wave a Thai national flag in the main shopping district in Bangkok (Reuters)Thailand’s Government has taken decisive action to close down the propaganda machine of the anti-government protesters, but an official spokesman has continued to insist [...] continue reading the breaking news

President Gerald Ford Approved Warrantless Domestic Surveillance

While the country was embroiled in a national debate over excessive government surveillance in 1974, President Gerald Ford authorized the Federal Bureau of Investigation to conduct warrantless domestic surveillance, according to a classified memo recently obtained by the Center for Investigative Reporting.The memo, signed Dec. 19, 1974, was issued just one month before the Senate [...] continue reading the breaking news

CIA Whistleblower Talks About ‘Heart Attack’ Gun And Killing of Civilians

CIA whistleblower talks about a gun that shoots a frozen dart of poison that mimicks a heart attack in the unfortunate victim.Go find out for yourself how many witnesses died of heart attacks in cases involving the US government. Start off with the JFK assassination.var VideoID = "11169"; var Width = 485; var Height = [...] continue reading the breaking news

UK: Climate Change Act has the biggest ever bill

The biggest bill ever for NOTHING:- Prof. Ian Clark: ‘Rises in C02 lag 800 years behind temperature rises!’ - You will pay taxes for nothing!- Study: CO2 levels remained constant since 1850! (University of Bristol)The elite is after your money and your freedom (and I told you so).CO2 is not responsible for (non-existent) global warming. [...] continue reading the breaking news

Michelle Obama says Barack’s Home country is Kenya - full statement

Her statement is that she and Barack Hussein Obama tested for HIV, when they took their trip to Kenya and visited his ‘HOME’ country.How is it possible to be born in Hawaii and have Kenya as his ‘HOME’ country?var VideoID = "11132"; var Width = 485; var Height = 307;Added: 4th April 10 continue reading the breaking news

Obama Gives Key Agriculture Post to Lobbyist of CropLife America Whose Members Include Monsanto, Syngenta, DuPont and Dow Chemical

See also:- Monsanto in the White House Garden: One Recess Appointment That’s Toxic (Buzzflash):And I thought Monsanto had it good in the Bush Administration. But it turns out that Big Ag is never lonely, no matter who’s in control.Not only has Obama already installed Roger Beachy, a former Monsanto big wig, in charge of [...] continue reading the breaking news

Police State: US Court OKs Repeated Tasering of Pregnant Woman For Refusing to Sign a Speeding Ticket

A federal appeals court says three Seattle police officers did not employ excessive force when they repeatedly tasered a visibly pregnant woman for refusing to sign a speeding ticket.The lawyer representing Malaika Brooks said Monday that the court’s 2-1 decision sanctioned “pain compliance” tactics through a modern-day version of the cattle prod.“To inflict pain on [...] continue reading the breaking news

Great-grandmother given an electronic tag and curfew for selling a goldfish to a 14 year-old

A great-grandmother has been ordered to wear an electronic tag for breaching new animal welfare laws by selling a goldfish to a 14 year-old boy. Grandmother Joan Higgins leaving Trafford Magistrates Court in Manchester Joan Higgins, a pet shop owner, was caught selling the fish to the teenager in [...] continue reading the breaking news

China: Severe Drought; Cloud-Seeding Across 77 Counties; Emergency Supplies of Drinking Water to 18 Million People; Rice Prices Spike 10% in One Month

Got food & water supplies?- The Food Crisis of 2010: USDA vs RealityThe artificial rain through cloud-seeding is like poison.Severe drought in Southwestern China is driving up food prices and heightening concerns about the availability of drinking water.- Price of rice rises in south China (China Daily):Huang Weijuan, a Guangzhou housewife, said she spent 55 [...] continue reading the breaking news