Geopolitical – Week of 9.13.09
AP NewsBreak: Nuke Agency Says Iran Can Make Bomb
Breitbart (17 Sept 09)
Japan Urges Talks on US Military Base
Financial Times (17 Sept 09)
‘Merkel Factor’ Could Decide German Vote
BBC News (17 Sep…
AP NewsBreak: Nuke Agency Says Iran Can Make Bomb
Breitbart (17 Sept 09)
Japan Urges Talks on US Military Base
Financial Times (17 Sept 09)
‘Merkel Factor’ Could Decide German Vote
BBC News (17 Sep…
‘Safe’ Lead Levels Harm Children
BBC News (16 Sept 09)
Why Millions of Americans Don’t Need a Swine Flu Vaccine
Natural News.com (16 Sept 09)
Chickens Not Fooled by GM Crops
Mercola.com (05 Sept 0…
By Avi Feller and Chad Stone
Two-thirds of the nation’s total income gains from 2002 to 2007 flowed to the top 1 percent of U.S. households, and that top 1 percent held a larger share of income i…
By Jonathan Tirone
The dollar’s role in international trade should be reduced by establishing a new currency to protect emerging markets from the “confidence game” of financial speculation, t…
Business Lobby Urges Pension Freeze
Reuters.uk (11 Sept 09)
European Commission Sees Galloping UK Debt Crisis
Telegraph.co.uk(10 Sept 09)
As the Markets Climb on Top of One Big, Incestuous Pool of …
Gold Rally Signals Move Away From Currencies, Greenspan Says
Bloomberg.com (10 Sept 09)
CIC Looks to Pile Cash Into U.S. Real Estate
The Wall Street Journal (09 Sept 09)
Loan Losses Spark Concern Over FHA
The Wall Street Journal (04 Sept 09)
Obama’s Big Political Gamble
The Wall Street Journal (10 Sept 09)
Curry Power Wins The Day
Straits Times (09 Sept 09)
Bigger and Badder Than Blackwater
Border Lines (25 Aug 09)
Putin Denies Secret…
Report: Microsoft Rivals Near Linux Patent Deal
Business Journal (08 Sept 09)
Hartford Courant Competitors Seethe Over Web Site
ABC News (04 sept 09)
Children Face Cycling Bans Over Schools’ Safety Concerns
Guardian.co.uk (08 Sept 09)
Beer Better Option Than Pesticide to Kill Rats
Top News.in (03 June 09)
Fall Colors Fade in U.S. West as Aspen T…
US Families Turn to Food Stamps as Wages Drop
Financial Times (10 Sept 09) [Must subscribe to read full article.]
Global Starvation Imminent as US Faces Crop Failure
Sott.net (09 Sept 09)
Comparativ…
Here is an update on last week’s blog post:
Oldest Swiss Bank Advises Clients to Pull Out of US Securities
Here is the full investment commentary from the bank:
Wegelin & Co. Investment Comme…
The report that the State Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) would allow Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to default on derivative deals was misinterpreted, Reuters repor…
Lehman Downfall Triggered by Mix-up Between London And Washington
Guardian.co.uk (03 Sept 09)
Bailout Propaganda Begins
True/Slant (01 Sept 09)
Washington vs. Silicon Valley
The Wall Street Journa…
China Pushes Silver And Gold Investment to The Masses
Mineweb (03 Sept 09)
Massive Institutional Gold Market Change
Run To Gold.com (Sept 09)
China Said to be Buying U.S. Mortgages
CNN Money.com (17 aug 09)
Why Not Crippling Sanctions for Israel and the US?
Infowars.com (01 Sept 09)
Congressman Pete Stark Explains Leverage, Tells Reporter To “Get The F### Out”
Zero Hedge (03 Sept 09)
Broun Warns of D…
Grand Rapids Business Journal: HTI Builds Biomass Energy Plant
WZZM13.com (24 Aug 09)
Arson Caused California Blaze, Officials Say
CNN.com (04 Sept 09)
Surfing for Change
Good Times (02 Sept 09)
Why They Stay(ed)
National Catholic Reporter (17 Aug 09)
A National Movement of Foodies, Farmers, Parents and Educators is Pushing for Better School Food
MercuryNews.com (04 Sept 09)
Approaching Epidemic: Brain Damage from Mobile Phone Radiation
Mercola.c…
Fed Urges Secrecy on Banks in Bailout Programs
Reuters (27 Aug 09)
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Capital Flight: A Plunge in Foreign Capital Inflows Preceded…
Monday’s Million Ounce Silver Withdrawal
Seeking Alpha (27 Aug 09)
Shell Game Revealed?
Financial Sense Observations (24 Aug 09)
GATA Presses Fed to Give up Its Golden Secrets
GATA (22 Aug 09)
Bernanke to Be Nominated for Second Fed Term by Obama (Update4)
Bloomberg.com (25 Aug 09)
Israel Targets Sweden Over Newspaper Claim
The Independent (24 Aug 09)
‘Inhumane’ CIA Terror Tactics Spur …
Cave Complex Allegedly Found Under Giza Pyramids
DiscoveryNews (13 Aug 09)
The Electric Acid Test
Technology Review (Sept-Oct 09)
Windows7sins: FSF Launches Campaign Against Window 7 and Propreitary…
Power Is Shut Off As Bills Pile Up
USA Today (27 Aug 09)
Life Expectancy Calculator
Sonny Radio.com
Flying Frog Among 353 New Himalayan Species: WWF
Yahoo News (10 Aug 09)
Humpback Whales Off Sant…
A Tool to Help You Persuade Loved Ones Not to Eat Cheap Meats
Natural News.com
I’ll Give Up My Chicken When They Pry It From My Cold Dead Hands
Dollar Collapse.com (26 Aug 09)
Argentine Farmers Be…
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FDIC Transfers Guaranty to BBVA Compass
FDIC (21 Aug 09)
China Now Japan’s Top Partner
Zero Hedge.com (20 Aug 09)
Regulators Shut Guaranty Financial
ABC News (21 Aug 09)
Pension Watch
Pension T…
GFMS Cooks Books to Make Gold Look Bad
Gold Seek.com (20 Aug 09)
BofA’s Countrywide Loses Court Ruling on Mortgages
Yahoo Finance (20 Aug 09)
Update 1-US Commercial Property Values Off 17 pct in H1-IPD
Reuters (14 Aug 09)
“The Voluntary Slaves of a ‘Compassionate’ Government”
Art Diamond blog.com (21 Aug 09)
Germany: Terror Plot Emerges as Secret Service Game
IPS News (20 Aug 09)
Court Rejects Governor’s Appointmen…
New York Sues Schwab Over Auction-rate Securities
Biz Journal | 17 August 2016
But did not underwrite…
More and More Teens on Cell Phones
Pew Research.org (19 Aug 09)
NASA Falling Short of Asteroid-detection Goals
CNN.com (13 Aug 09)
Cut the Carp: Repelling Invasive Species With Noisy Bubbles
Wired….
Newsweek Says “We Are All Hindus Now”
Scoop World (19 Aug 09)
Medieval Storms Portend Worse Hurricanes
Science Now (12 Aug 09)
Typhoon And Earthquakes Devastate Asia
World Focus (10 Aug 09)
Hilarity Breaks out in UK Over Government Plans for Mass Burial for Swine Flu Victims
Age of Autism (19 Aug 09)
Study Reveals Mercury Contamination in Fish Nationwide
KATC.com (19 Aug 09)
Brain Is…
Starwood Raises $810 Million, May be Year’s Top IPO
Reuters (12 Aug 09)
Deutsche Bank Tactics Push Bohndorf Into Spotlight (Update2)
Bloomberg.com (12 Aug 09)
China Makes Unexpected Grab For Canadi…
Payroll Conspiracy Case: Jury Gets Income Tax Case
ReviewJournal.com (13 Aug 09)
Pressure (Countdown) Toward Breakdown
Goldseek.com (13 Aug 09)
Europe Central Banks Agree to Third Cap on Gold Sales…
Fed Focusing on Real-Estate Recession as Bernanke Convenes FOMC
Bloomberg.com (10 Aug 09)
Fannie Mae Seeks $10.7B in US Aid After 2Q Loss
Yahoo News (06 Aug 09)
Two Convicted For Refusal to Decrypt Data
The Register (11 Aug 09)
Geithner Asks Congress For Higher U.S. Debt Limit
Reuters (08 Aug 09)
How Is America Going To End?
Slate (07 Aug 09)
FL: St. Pet…
Microsoft Barred From Selling Word in U.S.
CBC News.ca (12 Aug 09)
Delving Into Mysterious Irregularity Of Earth’s Magnetic Field: Observatory Being Built In Middle Of Atlantic Ocean
ScienceDaily.com…
What Do Retirees Do All Day?
Yahoo Finance (11 Aug 09)
Gut Instinct
Center Spirit News (10 Aug 09)
Hurricane Season Gets Underway in The Atlantic
Jesses Crossroads Cafe (04 Aug 09)
Is It Now a …
Swine Flu is Not the Problem — It is the Vaccine that May Harm or Kill You
Mercola.com (11 Aug 09)
Deadly Doctors
New York Post (11 Aug 09)
London U: Sambucol 99% Effective Against Avian Flu
Globe…
Animal Rights Extremists Target Novartis CEO
Swissinfo.ch (04 Aug 09)
AIG Breakup Is Fee Bonanza
The Wall Street Journal (07 Aug 09)
Judge Won’t Approve Bank of America: Sec Settlement
Reuters (06 …
US Mint Must Seek Court Ok to Keep Rare 1933 Coins
Associated Press (31 July 09)
U.S. Considers Remaking Mortgage Giants
The Washington Post (06 Aug 09)
Fla. Highrise Has 32 Stories, But Just 1 Tenant
Yahoo News (01 Aug 09)
GOP Senator: White House Encroaching on First Amendment
ABC News (05 Aug 09)
Democrats’ Break Looking Like a Bad Trip
Politico.com (04 Aug 09)
William Blum: Anti-Empire Report, Number 72
Killinghope…
Gary North’s Specific Answers
Graynorth.com
About DoomDaily
Doomdaily.com (03 Aug 09)
The Solutions Generation
IslandPress (17 July 09)
Ex-IBM Employee Reveals TV Abandoned Analog Band to Make Room…
Hilarious Proof of How Bad U.S. Educational System Really Is
Mercola.com (04 Aug 09)
64% of Israelis Want Temple Rebuilt
World Net Daily (01 Aug 09)
News For The Soul
News For The Soul.com
Homele…
The End Of The End Of The Recession
Zero Hedge (26 July 09)
Bernanke: This May be Worse Than Great Depression
Market Watch (26 July 09)
51% Lack Confidence In U.S. Banking System
Rasmussen Reports …
Gold Tunes Out Weak ETF Buying as Speculation Soars
Reuters (29 July 09)
IMF to Sell Gold Within Central Bank Pact-official
Forbes.com (29 July 09)
Man Withdraws $190,000 in $20 Bills After Being Denied A Mortgage
Consumerist.com (23 July 09)
The Day the President Turned Black
(But Has he Turned Back?)
Greg Palast.com (29 July 09)
Judge: Swine Flu is Reason to Suspend Constitutional Rights
ocregister (28 July 09)
Argentine Farmers on Th…
Microsoft and Yahoo Strike Web Search Partnership
Reuters (29 July 09)
A Day Without Space: Economic Security Ramifications
Marshall Center | 28 July 2009
Space’s Impact on Daily Living…
The Rea…
New York City Buys One-way Plane Tickets for Homeless Families to Leave City
Syracuse.com (29 July 09)
Worst Families in Britain Will be Put in ‘Sin Bins’
Telegraph.co.uk (22 July 09)
China Moves A…
The Cleansing
Olive Farmer (29 July 09)
12,000 U.S. Children To Be Swine Flu Vaccine Guinea Pigs
PrisonPlanet.com (24 July 09)
Small Farms Worried About New Food Safety Bill
Supermarket News (27 J…
We Now Have A Total Gangster Government
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FDIC’s Bair Seeks Fund to Wind Down Finance Firms (Update2)
Bloomberg.com (23 July 09)
CIT Hit With Interest Rate More Than 25 Times Libor (Update3)…
Gold Looks Especially Good Right Now
Scoop Business (20 July 09)
Precious Metal Storage……Industry Leader is Leaving The Individual Storage Business
Seeking Alpha.com (16 July 09)
Honduran Coup Reveals Crisis of Democracy In The United States as Well
Truthout (21 July 09)
When America Said No!
Counterpunch (20 July 09)
Ecotowns Given The Go-ahead
Guardian.co.uk (16 July 09)
…
Credit-Card Disputes Tossed Into Disarray
The Wall Street Journal (22 July 09)
Need Medical Marijuana? Yep, iPhone’s Got an App For That
PC World (20 July 09)
Discovery Channel to Run Viral Pandemic…
Your Moonshot Memories
Cosmic Log (20 July 09)
Silicon Valley Residents Try Their Hand at Raising Backyard Chickens
Mercury News.com (20 July 09)
The Transition Initiative
Orion Magazine (July/Augus…
This Domain May be For Sale
Farm Food.org (July 2009)
Urban Farming Takes Root in Surprising Ways
Culture Change (17 July 09)
Agencies to Set up Mass Swine Flu Vaccinations
SFGate (21 July 09)
La…
Testimony of CIA Assassin
Bibliotecalleyades | 16 July 2017
Cheney: Squad using U.S. military personnel predated 2001 and even targeted U.S. …
American Express Halts UK Pension Payments
TimesonLine (16 July 09)
Calif. Tax Officials: Legal Pot Would Bring $1.4B
Yahoo News (15 July 09)
World Bank Warns of Deflation Spiral
Telegraph.co.uk (15…
US Mint Again Suspends Gold Coin Sales – Is USA Really Out of Gold?
The Prudent Investor (13 July 09)
Spain Seeks Sunken Treasure
Mirror.co.uk (13 July 09)
Commodity Exchanges Can Dump Gold Debts o…
Why Banks Prefer Foreclosures over Mortgage Modifications
Seeking Alpha.com (08 July 09)
Drug War in Mexico
Global Post (16 July 09)
Strangeness in The Skies
BrassCheck (July 09)
The Man Who Knew Cheney’s Secret
Truthout (14 July 09)
Ex-FBI Agent: Why I Support a New 9/11 Investigation…
New Tires Made of Oil from Orange Peels
Earth911.com (09 July 09)
The Next Hacking Frontier: Your Brain?
Wired.com (09 July 09)
Fire at Authorize.net Grinds E-Commerce to a Halt
The Inquisitr (03 J…
7.8 Quake Strikes Off NZ; Small Tsunami Generated
Yahoo News (15 July 09)
Worl Exclusive: NASA Finds Missing Moon Landing Tapes
Daily Express ((15 July 09)
Iraq Suffers as the Euphrates River Dwind…
Will Chain Stores Kill or Stimulate The Buy-local Movement?
Alibi.com (15 July 09)
Swearing Can Make You Feel Better, Lessen Pain
Reuters (13 July 09)
How on Earth Can we Live Together?
Tallberg
Ar…
World leaders Meet For G-8 Summit
Leaders of rich and developing nations want to finally seal a long-delayed world trade deal next year and head off trade wars that could hit world economies as the…
Important Dates in the Monetary History of the United States, Part IV, 1792 – Coinage Act of 1792
By David Liechty
The Coinage Act of 1792 (Act of 2 April 1792, , ch. 16, 1 Stat. 246 , ) furth…
Picture by David Williams
Only a year ago, Harvard had a $36.9 billion endowment, the largest in academia. Now that endowment has imploded, and the university faces the worst financial crisis in its…
G8 and G5 Consensus to Close The Doha Round Trade Talks Next Year
MercoPress (10 July 09)
Influence is All in The Bag For “Government Sachs”
New York Post (10 July 09)
Uruguayan Farmland Selling Pr…
‘Shadow’ Inventory May Slow Housing Recovery
NPR (08 July 09)
Lenders Avoid Redoing Loans, Fed Concludes
Boston.com (07 July 09)
U.S. Mortgage Fraud ‘Rampant’ And Growing-FBI
Reuters (07 July 09)
Federal Web Sites Knocked Out by Cyber Attack
Yahoo News (08 July 09)
Obama Faces Discord in Debut as Climate-Change Leader (Update2)
Bloomberg.com (08 July 09)
Rove Deposed in US Attorney Probe
Tr…
Why Apple Could Kill Your Camera
Forbes.com (06 July 09)
Free Wi-Fi For the Residents of Venice, Italy
Slashdot (03 July 09)
Library and Archives Freezes Purchases ‘It’s Like Cutting The Oxygen Off,’ Ex-curator Says
Ottawa Citizen (04 July 09)
Scientists Make Sperm From Stem Cells, See No ‘Human in a Dish’
Bloomberg.com (08 July 09)
Travel More Than Doubles Risk of Blood Clots
Reuters (06 July 09)
A Coffee a Day Ensures The Memory W…
Thanks to Matt Taibbi’s wonderful article “The Great American Bubble Machine,” I was inspired to do some more bailout math.
It looks to me like Goldman Sachs won big on the bailout. They got a $13 bi…
China Moves to Cut Reliance on Dollar
Financial Times (03 July 09)
[Must subscribe to read full article.]
Keep an Eye on Russia’s Imploding Banks
Telegraph.co.uk (02 July 09)
Sweden Cuts Rates to R…
India Gold Dealers Tap Domestic Stocks
Financial Times (29 June 09) [Must subscribe to read full article.]
Mint’s $15.3 M Golden Dilemma: Was There a Heist?
Ottawa Citizen (29 June 09)
Mr. Sunshine? Ron Paul Wins Support to Audit Fed Reserve
Fox News (30 June 09)
Eva Golinger on Honduras Coup
Chavez Code ((01 July 09)
Obama Creates a Deadly Power Vacuum
Asia Times (30 June 09)
De…
‘Coal-eating’ Bugs May Solve Energy Crisis
Time Online (28 June 09)
The Cost Conundrum
The New Yorker (01 June 09)
Swine Flu Multiple-Shot Vaccine May Overwhelm States (Update3)
Bloomberg.com (2…
By McLaren and Torchinsky
The Sam’s Club in Salisbury, Maryland, is promoting its pharmacy by handing out pill bottles filled with candy to kids. I guess that’s better than filling Dots boxes with …
By Chris Giles
Strains in pensions systems, in both private and public provision, threaten to turn the financial crisis of the past two years into a social crisis lasting for decades, the Organisat…
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Can you imagine Harvard resisting the temptation to profit from creating distressed communities and assets and then trading them? That would call fo…
Goldman Sachs: Great American Bubble Machine
Zero Hedge (24 June 09)
House Committee Approves Bill Restricting 401(k) Advice to Indie Advisers
Investment News (26 June 09)
The Bloodless Coup of the…
Gold Prepares For The Big One
KITCO (25 June 09)
Silver/Gold Ratio Reversion 2
Zealllc.com (19 June 09)
S&P Downgrades Prime Jumbo Mortgage Securities
Market Watch (23 June 09)
The Age-Based Discrimination Continues
Bank Free Investing (23 June 09)
Congress Considers Referendum on Puerto Rico’s Political Status
Truthout (23 June 09)
9/11 FEMA Videographer at Ground Zero Goes Public
Voltairenet.org (22 June 09)
Thailand’s Train Services Cease …
Google Slammed as China And U.S. Quarrel Over Internet
Reuters.uk (26 June 09)
GPS Satellite Glitches Fuel Concern on Next Generation
The Wall Street Journal (17 June 09)
9 Dead, More Remain In Hospital After Metro Trains Collide
WUSA 9.com (23 June 09)
‘Wealth Creation’ And The New Salish
Half Past Human (June 2009)
How the Food Makers Captured Our Brains
The New York Times (22 June 09)
Dairy-Cow Kill to Double Milk Price After Slump (Update1)
Bloomberg.com (22 June 09)
Map 2-1 United States Annual Average W…
Mafia Blamed For $134bn Fake Treasury Bills
Financial Times (18 June 09)
The Retreat of the Shadow Lenders, Why Deflation and not Inflation is the Order of the Day
Global Research.ca (18 June 09)
Ch…
Obama Administration Pushes IMF Gold Sales Through House by Tieing it to Security Bill
MineWeb (19 June 09)
Germans Flock to Gold Bars Vending Machine at Frankfurt Airport
Times on Line (17 June 09)
…
U.S. Foreclosure Filings Top 300,000 as Bank Seizures Loom
Bloomberg.com (14 June 09)
Judge Upholds Three-word Foreclosure Strategy
ABC.7 (29 May 09)
Glenn Beck: The Letter
Glenn Beck.com (19 June 09)
De-Dollarization: Dismantling America’s Financial-Military Empire
Global Research.ca (13 June 09)
Secret Papers ‘Show How Shell Targeted Nigeria …
Flotsam & Jetsam: End of an Affair
Undernews (17 June 09)
Sky ‘Rains Tadpoles’ Over Japan
Telegraph.co.uk (10 June 09)
Brazil Invests 7.6 billion USD in Family Farming
MercoPress (18 June 09)
Submit Comments to USDA Against GE Trees
Global Justice Ecology.org (June 2009)
Catastrophic Fall in 2009 Global Food Product…