How unusual.
New year, same old games.
And Washington announced, in time before the markets close, that they reached a deal, kind of.
No grand bargain, but a deferral.
1 Jan 2013
Gold This Time Last Year - A Faux Deal and Ongoing Currency Wars
How unusual.
New year, same old games.
And Washington announced, in time before the markets close, that they reached a deal, kind of.
No grand bargain, but a deferral.
Max Keiser: 'Fiscal cliff' theater distracting from real problems
Max Keiser gives his forecast on how the financial winds will blow in 2013.
Tehran slams US law on Iran sway in LatAm as 'meddlesome'
“The Americans are still living in the Cold War era and imagine that Latin America is [still] their backyard, and intend to impose and dictate their own policies on independent countries,” Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said on Tuesday.
He noted that the US officials’ blatant interference in such affairs indicates their lack of knowledge of the new world order.
On December 28, 2012, the US President Barack Obama signed off on the “Countering Iran in the Western Hemisphere Act” which US lawmakers had adopted earlier in the year.
2013 - Market Outlook & Economic Forecast
By Lance Roberts: We
can’t predict the future – if it was actually possible fortune tellers
would all win the lottery. They don’t, we can’t and we aren’t going to
try to. However, we can analyze what has happened in the past, weed
through the noise of the present and try to discern the possible
outcomes of the future.
So, it is now time for our annual
prognostications, forecasts, guesses and expectations for 2013. The
good news is that we survived the end of the Mayan calendar and
therefore, regardless of your expectations over the past year, 2012
counts as a win. 2013, however, is poised to be a year of opposing
forces. For every almost every positive tailwind there is an opposing
headwind, and in the coming year, the political and economic decisions
domestically, and globally, will define the coming landscape.
Year of Banking Death Penalty - Max Keiser with Stacy Herbert, Rob Kirby, Mitch Feierstein, Ned Naylor-Leyland and Andy Bichlbaum + Charlie Brooker borrows “Keiser Report”
Human stampede: 60 people killed, 200 others wounded in Ivory Coast stadium
Europe Banned Press TV: At least 60 people
have been crushed to death and some 200 others wounded in Ivory Coast’s
city of Abidjan in an stampede which followed a New Year's Eve fireworks
display.
The incident took place in early Tuesday near the city’s main stadium where people had gathered to watch the fireworks.
The head of military rescue workers, Lieutenant Colonel Issa Sako said 60 people lost their lives and 200 were wounded based on a preliminary toll as crowds stampeded.“In the crush, people were walked over and suffocated by the crowd,"
The Zionist War on Islam
US To Officially Go Over The Fiscal Cliff
Submitted by Tyler Durden: As we forecast back in November, it is now official that the House will not vote on any deal out of the Senate, assuming there is one which there won't be of course, later today, which means America will officially slide off the Fiscal Cliff. And now cue everyone being very hopeful and optimistic a deal will get done momentarily, if not sooner, in 2013. Of course, we all know just how far optimism takes America's dysfunctional Congress. The biggest irony in all of this is that the only winners today were the much hated "1%"-ers, whose taxes may or may not go up, who just got to book major year end profits on this last minute ramp. The remainder of America's population can quietly look forward to 2013 with "hope" and "optimism" that in 2013 Congress will finally stop being dysfunctional. Good luck. Oh, and before we forget, America just breached its debt ceiling: now the pillaging of various government retirement funds begins.
Fascist USA: Obama authorizes five more years of warrantless wiretapping
President Barack Obama inked his name over the weekend to an
extension of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, a George W. Bush-era
legislation that has allowed the government expansive spy powers that
has been considered by some to be dragnet surveillance. FISA, or the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, was first signed into law in the 1970s in order to put into place rules regarding domestic spying within the United States. Upon the passing of the FAA in 2008, however, the online and over-the-phone activities of Americans became subject to sweeping, warrantless wiretapping in instances where investigators reasonably suspect US citizens to be engaged in conversation with persons located outside of the country.
Congress had only up until the end of 2012 to either reauthorize FISA and the FAA, or let the bill expire. Despite a large grassroots campaign from privacy advocates and civil liberties organization to ensure the acts would fade from history, though, the Senate approved a five-year extension of the legislation on Friday. Just two days later, Pres. Obama signed his name to the act, opening up the inboxes and phone records of US citizens to the federal government until at least 2018.
Misandry is no myth.
pvblivs: I originally posted the following as a comment on someone else’s blog. But it stand alone quite nicely.
In today’s society (here in the west) women are not held
down. In fact, they are given special advantage. Most violence is
against men.. But officials are contemplating a “violence against women
act” because the only violence they care about is that against women. A woman can be attacking a man with a knife or a gun. And that’s considered okay. But if he dares to defend himself,
he goes straight to jail. Most college graduates are women. Many times,
less is expected of them to get their grades and their degrees. But
somehow it’s “not enough.” Is the mere fact that some males are still
allowed to attend college “oppressing women”?
Our society has always placed women’s needs drives, interests, and safety above those of men. Look at the discussion on “reproductive rights.” People insist that a woman needs “choices” if she decides she doesn’t want to handle the financial burden of being a mother. As for the man (you did know that there were two people involved, right?) it “too bad; he made his choice when he decided to have sex.” Workplace deaths are over 90 percent male and the only concern is how to protect women from the problem.
Misandry is hard for people to see because it is so prevalent. You don’t notice anything unusual. It’s just the way it is. It’s the water the fish swim in.