http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2012/ ... ed+Risk%29" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
It's Not Just Gasoline Consumption That's Tanking, It's All Energy
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-pos ... all-energy" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Unadjusted January Retail Sales Post Biggest Sequential Plunge In History
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/unadjuste ... ge-history" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
United States of Dollar Stores – dollar stores see a rise in households making $70,000 a year or higher as a customer base. What does the rise of dollar stores say about the middle class?
http://www.mybudget360.com/united-state ... 00-a-year/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Obama proposes $800 million in aid for “Arab Spring” countries
http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2 ... 94462.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
January Gas Prices At All-Time Highs
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/january-g ... time-highs" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://forums.wallstreetexaminer.com/to ... -of-beans/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;US debt going is parabolic, as is record high political polarization. The polarization shown on the chart really amounts to squat in terms of the bottom line. Presidente Zero throws his latest campaign piece of meat (a “budget”) out for the Republican to go into a dizzle fit over. Great theater for mainstream media talking heads, but if you want to know what this will mean in due course, look at Greece, and multiple the effect 30 fold.
...polarization is a tool. Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Obama, etc etc etc (funded by the same people) are all tools to help polarize the people and focus them in on each other rather than the real culprits. Its as evident on this forum as it is everywhere else. There has been pretty much zero difference between the last 9 presidents of the United States in terms of foreign policy and aiding and abetting "the enemy". Prior to the disruption that was terminated before them.....you can go back another 7 with only minor disputations between them under the same progressive trend towards growing central power of government as well as the undermining of that same government (principles & power) while aiding and abetting "the enemy".
Obama spends Valentine’s Day with future Chinese leader
http://endthelie.com/2012/02/14/obama-s ... the+Lie%29" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Police will get much easier access to the web-surfing habits and personal information of all Canadians if a new law - expected to be introduced in the House of Commons next week - passes.
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Bil ... story.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Japan Announces $130 Billion QE Program, One Percent Inflation Target; 4th Quarter GDP Unexpectedly Contracts 2.3%; Lawmakers Threaten to Take Over Monetary Policy
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. ... nalysis%29" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Iran Patrol Boats, Drones Shadow CVN-72 Abraham Lincoln As It Passes Through Straits Of Hormuz
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/iran-patr ... its-hormuz" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
USS Abraham Lincoln in Strait of Hormuz voyage
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17027768" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Turkey and NATO on the brink of rupture as Israeli ship joins Gulf armada
http://endthelie.com/2012/02/13/turkey- ... the+Lie%29" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
U.S. Defense Secretary: Israel has yet to decide on Iran strike
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-d ... bled=false" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Japan Scrambles Fighters to Meet Russian Bombers
http://www.en.rian.ru/world/20120209/171225017.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Russia to Deploy S-400 Air Defense Systems Near Borders
http://en.rian.ru/mlitary_news/20120214/171302617.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
While We Sleep The Chinese Prepare For War
http://www.topsecretwriters.com/2012/02 ... e-for-war/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
US-China Military Contacts, and a Lot More from CRS
http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2012/02/alotta_crs.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Iraq's PM intends to invite China to build strategic projects
http://en.aswataliraq.info/%28S%284gkal ... &id=146846" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://usawatchdog.com/mortgage-settlem ... te-values/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;It is official. State and federal governments have condoned forgery, perjury and fraud in what’s been called the “robo-signing” foreclosure debacle. Last week, the five biggest banks in America signed on to a $26 billion deal that, basically, lets them off with a slap on the wrist for fraudulently foreclosing on homes in the last few years. I am not going to go on and on about how unfair and unjust this deal was or how the rule of law has been thrown down the stairs. I am going to focus on the fallout of this morally corrupt deal.
There is $700 billion in negative home equity with nearly half (11 million) of all houses underwater. Meaning, more is owed on the mortgage than the home is worth. This settlement may help a few folks, but it is a drop in an ocean of debt. Now that the deal is done, look for the pace of foreclosures to pick up speed and home values to take another cliff dive. If you thought the negative equity problem was at the bottom–forget it. The plunge in real estate prices is far from over, and it’s not going to turn positive anytime soon. Consider the latest Case-Shiller report where year-over-year declines in home values averaged 3.7% nationwide. This is despite 30-year mortgage rates at or below 4% and a big slowdown in foreclosures because federal and state governments were negotiating a deal for the past 16 months.
Banks are desperate for cash, and they are going to unlock all they can as fast as they can. After all, people can’t live in a house forever without paying. The banks are not going to enter a new age of morality when they just got a “get out of jail free” card from prosecutors. Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi wrote last week, “The only acceptable foreclosure deal had to bring about a complete end to robosigning and the other similar corrupt practices that grew up around it (like for instance gutter service, the practice of process servers simply signing affidavits saying they delivered summonses, instead of really doing it). But this deal not only doesn’t end robosigning, it officially makes getting caught for it inexpensive.”
Holder Finally Speaks Truth and Tells Congress Obama Goal to Ban Guns
http://godfatherpolitics.com/3597/holde ... z1m6dJkIOh" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Breaking: Monsanto Found Guilty of Chemical Poisoning in France
http://naturalsociety.com/breaking-mons ... in-france/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
How the Medical Profession Covered Up Vaccine Injuries and Called it ‘Child Abuse’
http://vactruth.com/2012/02/14/medical- ... ild-abuse/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://z6mag.com/business/law/steve-job ... 65222.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;A Top Secret Security Clearance was brought up in Steve Job’s FBI report detailing when it was and when it was terminated. The top secret clearance for Mr. Jobs started in 1988 and was canceled in 1990. Steve Jobs was working at Pixar in the same time as the top secret clearance and was listed as his employer. Gawker.com had sources contact them and said, “A source who worked with Jobs emailed to say “several people had security clearances at Pixar since, in the early days, they were selling an image rendering software system that could be used to enhance satellite surveillance photographs and film.”
LOS ANGELES–The impending arrival of debris swept into the Pacific after the tsunami following the Great East Japan Earthquake has many residents of the West Coast of the United States and Hawaii on their toes.
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T120213004672.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Magnitude 6.4 - SOLOMON ISLANDS
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ ... 00803b.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Magnitude 6.0 - NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ ... 00802f.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMa ... rynum=2034" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Tropical Cyclone Giovanna powered ashore along the east coast of Madagascar as a destructive Category 3 storm with 125 - 130 mph winds at 22 UTC last night. Winds at the coastal city of Tamatave, 70 miles north-northeast of where the center came ashore, peaked at 52 mph, gusting to 71 mph. Giovanna is moving west across the island at 17 mph, and passed just south of the capital of Antananarivo as a Category 1 storm at 8 am local time Tuesday morning. The eyewall missed Antananarivo , and the peak winds in the city were 38 mph, gusting to 55 mph. Microwave satellite imagery from the Navy Research Lab in Monterrey showed that Giovanna had rainfall rates of up to one inch per hour at landfall, and it is likely that the storm dumped 5 - 10 inches of rain along much of its path. The heaviest rains fell on deforested mountain slopes that drain into some of the most densely populated regions on the island, so major flood damage is likely. Heavy wind and storm surge damage undoubtedly occurred where the core of the storm hit the island, as well.
Combined estimates from other insurance groups have already put total cost of Thai natural disaster at $15bn to $20bn
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012 ... CMP=twt_gu" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Going Off Grid - Montana Style!
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-pos ... tana-style" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;