YES WE KONY. It's March, and the Internet delivers 2012's first globe-consuming meme: the unstoppable, Stop-Kony 2012 video, which has highlighted the plight of African child soldiering like never before. But is it really good? Is it really bad? Or is the world really more complex than 'good guys' and 'bad guys'?
12 Mar 2012
'Several drunk troops behind bloodbath, laughed on shooting-spree, burned corpses'
Gruesome new details are surfacing after 16 Afghan villagers including nine children were shot in their houses by US servicemen. Witnesses to the atrocity now say that several drunken American soldiers were involved.
Yet Another US Debt Infographic
Probably the most amusing thing about this latest US debt infographic courtesy of FX Fatcat, which by now everyone has seen in some capacity, is how out of date it is, as the latest debt is $15.518 trillion, or $100 billion more than shown here in "March 2012." Click graphic to enlarge
US assassination drone strikes kill 64 in Yemen in 3 days
"Agenda Setting Biased Reporting" on Syria and Libya Fake Coverage - Outraged Al Jazeera journalists quit channel
The Fukushima Story You Never Knew About: Greg Palast Reports
Ron Paul's First Caucus Victory Covered Up by Establishment Media!
How the Government Makes You Fat - The Great Sugar Shakedown
by James Bovard, April 1998
The U.S. government has devotedly jacked up American sugar prices far above world market prices since the close of the War of 1812. The sugar industry is one of America's oldest infant industries — yet it dodders with the same uncompetitiveness that it showed during the second term of James Madison. Few cases better illustrate how trade policy can be completely immune to economic sense.
BREAKING NEWS!!! Obama impeachment bill now in Congress…
Declares president’s use of military without approval ‘high crime, misdemeanor’ Let the president be duly warned.
Rep. Walter B. Jones Jr., R-N.C., has introduced a resolution declaring that should the president use offensive military force without authorization of an act of Congress, “it is the sense of Congress” that such an act would be “an impeachable high crime and misdemeanour.”
Specifically, Article I, Section 8, of the
Constitution reserves for Congress alone the power to declare war, a
restriction that has been sorely tested in recent years, including Obama’s
authorization of military force in Libya.
PirateBox Takes File-Sharing Off The Radar and Offline, For Next To Nothing
When confronted with a doomsday scenario where mainstream online file-sharing becomes a thing of the past, it’s not uncommon for people to refer to days gone by, when files were swapped freely offline using discs and other mediums. Now, an interesting and compact system can deliver the [g]olden days of data swapping with a modern twist, by turning any open space into a wireless and anonymous file-sharing system at a rock-bottom price.
With the advent of the personal computer and with it the ability to endlessly copy data, the human desire to share has skyrocketed. Shifting data from A to B, wherever those points may be on a global scale, is now something easily achieved by billions across the world.
While the immense capabilities of the Internet has made sending and receiving data child’s play, there are others who find the transfer of bits and bytes across much shorter distances just as fascinating.
EVANGELO VENIZELOS, AN OVERFLOWING BANK ACCOUNT & GERMAN ARMS BRIBERY
The good life and bad deeds of the Greek elite, featuring Margarita Mathiopoulus
Large numbers of poverty-stricken Greeks are wondering this weekend why their Finance Minister’s current account with an Athenian bank has in excess of three million euros in it. He is clearly a man with little need to worry about sweating his assets, and with every day the evidence as to why that might be keeps on piling up – thanks to the generosity of Greek contacts fed up of seeing their country rogered by fatties. It seems that no matter where you start in the Greek elite, all roads lead to Evangelo Venizelos. Today we start with Greco-German trougher, Margarita Mathiopoulus.
Large numbers of poverty-stricken Greeks are wondering this weekend why their Finance Minister’s current account with an Athenian bank has in excess of three million euros in it. He is clearly a man with little need to worry about sweating his assets, and with every day the evidence as to why that might be keeps on piling up – thanks to the generosity of Greek contacts fed up of seeing their country rogered by fatties. It seems that no matter where you start in the Greek elite, all roads lead to Evangelo Venizelos. Today we start with Greco-German trougher, Margarita Mathiopoulus.Silver Will Be in a Severe Supply Shortage by August 2012
Placing my a**
hat on the table in front of me, I predict that silver will go into a
severe supply shortage by August 2012 or sooner.
Greek sort of
got bailed out, leaving the price of silver to float upwards as opposed to
downward should central banks and private owners need to dump PMs to get
liquidity.
Why?
Greek sort of
got bailed out, leaving the price of silver to float upwards as opposed to
downward should central banks and private owners need to dump PMs to get
liquidity.
Absorption of
silver continues apace with speculative and aggressive longs outnumbering
shorts two to one.
The discount to
real silver value will not go unnoticed for long. Sovereign wealth funds in
China and Middle East have over $2 trillion in funds ready to deploy. War
brings out the best in wealthy buyers. They buy for safety when the chips are
down and financial insecurity abounds.
The physical
silver is being held for personal investment and industrial and commercial
purposes. Miners are holding supply hostage to buyer requests to avoid the
taxes on the profits of their silver sales.
The numb-nuts
at EPA are stopping mine production due to environmental issues.
Miners are
starting continent-wide strikes in Africa for gold, silver, platinum and
palladium.
Nearly 100
million ounces were kept from the market in those recent strikes.
Nationalization
of silver mines continues apace in south and central America.