Friday 16 July 2010


Rockefeller Study Outlines "Doom Decade": Life For All But Super Wealthy Will Be Hell On Earth
In our leading article today we provide an overview of the nightmare future envisaged by a recent Rockefeller Foundation study which describes a global dictatorship tightly controlled by the world's elite and super rich.


Attack on Iran: Back on the Table
In late 2006, George W. Bush met with the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon and asked if military action against Iran’s nuclear program was feasible. The unanimous answer was no. Air strikes could take out some of Iran’s nuclear facilities, but there was no way to eliminate all of them.


Biggest expansion of government power over banking, markets since Depression
Congress approved a rewrite of rules touching every corner of finance, from ATM cards to Wall Street traders, in the biggest expansion of government power over banking and markets since the Depression.

24 Types of Authoritarians
Brilliant post at the rather good Libertarian website Liberal Vision.

Real Jobs, Fake Jobs
In many ways, the unemployment numbers are much worse than they appear. One factor has been the timing of the US census.

Charles Nenner: “Long-Term Investors Should Wait Until Dow Hits 5,000?
22 Statistics That Prove The Middle Class Is Being Systematically Wiped Out Of Existence In America

EU to subject Britons to chilling new ‘Big Brother’ surveillance and investigation powers
British citizens face being subjected to chilling new EU ‘Big Brother’ surveillance and investigation powers.

Will Thousands Of Police Layoffs Unleash Chaos And Anarchy Across America?
Thousands of police officers have been laid off all across America since the current economic crisis began. Thousands more are getting ready to be laid off.