Year: 2013

Economic Collapse – by Michael Snyder

When it comes to reckless money creation, it turns out that China is the king.  Over the past five years, Chinese bank assets have grown from about 9 trillion dollars to more than 24 trillion dollars.  This has been fueled by the greatest private debt binge that the world has ever seen.  According to a recent World Bank report, the level of private domestic debt in China has grown from about 9 trillion dollars in 2008 to more than 23 trillion dollars today.    Continue reading “China Is On A Debt Binge And A Buying Spree Unlike Anything The World Has Ever Seen Before”

MassPrivateI

Your phone knows everything about you — how much you walk, talk and what level of Candy Crush you’re stuck on — but soon it could be spilling secrets to your doctor. 

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: United States tax payer money continues to be funneled into Syria by your government to support foreign terrorists fighting against the sovereign government of Bashar Assad. These foreign terrorists funded by the United States are not just attacking Assad’s forces, but also the Christians who have peacefully lived in Syria for thousands of years.

(Christian Post) – The worst Christian massacre-complete with mass graves, tortured-to-death women and children, and destroyed churches-recently took place in Syria, at the hands of the U.S.-supported jihadi “rebels”; and the U.S. government and its “mainstream media” mouthpiece are, as usual, silent (that is, when not actively trying to minimize matters).    Continue reading “Largest Massacre of Christians in Syria Ignored”

WND – by AARON KLEIN

TEL AVIV – Under the interim deal between Iran and Western powers, Tehran’s economy could be flooded with untold billions in sanctions relief and other gains, far more than the widely reported amount of $6 to $7 billion.

In fact, the final text of the deal does not specify any dollar amount for sanctions relief. It leaves the U.S. and Europe open to unfreezing more funds and facilitating an unspecified amount in other transactions and sales.   Continue reading “Deal opens Iran economy to untold billions”

The Columbus Dispatch – by Patrick Temple-West and Andy Sullivan

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration proposed new rules yesterday to rein in tax-exempt groups that have transformed the political landscape by harnessing hundreds of millions of dollars in anonymous donations to influence elections.

The proposal would alter definitions in the tax code that allow limited campaign and fundraising activities by the tax-exempt groups, some of which have been at the center of allegations that the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative tea party groups for extra scrutiny.   Continue reading “New rules proposed for some tax-exempt groups”

NBC 11 Alive News – by Rebecca Lindstrom

DECATUR, Ga. — A new online juror questionnaire offered by the DeKalb County Court listed “slave” as an occupational option.

Court Administrator Cathy McCumber told 11Alive, the questionnaire went online a month ago, but is based off an internal list that’s been used for 13 years.

She says the list is 62 pages long, so she’s not sure if the word slave has always been on it, or if it was added before the questionnaire went online.     Continue reading “DeKalb County, GA juror form lists “slave” as occupation”

MassPrivateI

Texas – The Fort Worth Police Dept. found itself on the receiving end of lots of criticism for its participation in a “voluntary” collection of blood and saliva samples for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) survey.

For one thing, having a squad of police officers flag you down and route you into a nearby parking space never feels “voluntary,” no matter how easy it is to opt out once you’re pulled over. For another, the paperwork signed by “volunteers” contained fine print that indicated consent had been assumed for the PD to “collect” information on the driver’s state of intoxication with passive alcohol sensors.    Continue reading “Police offer B/S apology for their assistance in DNA roadblock ‘survey’”

RT News

Tehran has strongly rejected Washington’s interpretation of the long-awaited interim nuclear agreement reached by the P5+1 nations in Geneva, as Iran’s Foreign Ministry labeled the factsheet released by the US a “one-sided interpretation.”

The agreement, reached over the weekend in Geneva, outlines a framework for continued negotiations with Tehran, including a deal which is yet to be finalized. However, Iran now claims that the American factsheet, posted a few hours after the deal was announced on the website of the White House, has omitted some key points and is misleading the public by adjusting the language of the original agreement.   Continue reading “Iran: White House gave false details of nuclear agreement”

The New American – by Bob Adelmann

When Jeff Klee was asked by a client if his travel agency,CheapAir.com, would accept Bitcoins, he admitted he didn’t even know what they were. He didn’t know that thousands of merchants were already accepting them in payment for services and products, such as WordPress, OKCupid, and even Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic on which Klee no doubt had already booked some of his clients.

Once he learned what they were, and found a digital “wallet” — Coinbase — to help him manage the transactions, he saw the marketing advantage: “We expect people to come to us especially because they can use Bitcoin.” Klee isn’t taking much of a risk as more than 14,000 merchants already use Coinbase, which has opened up nearly half a million Bitcoin wallets for its customers. Said Klee: “If you have a lot of people accepting it, it becomes a useful and legitimate form of payment.”   Continue reading “The Bitcoin Continues to Gain Credibility From Merchants and the Fed”

NBC Montana

HELENA, Mont. – A Montana judge is hitting an elusive political group with a $260,000 fine for failing to disclose campaign spending.
The civil penalty levied against American Tradition Partnership demonstrates that new campaign freedoms extended to corporations don’t make them immune to state disclosure laws.   Continue reading “Judge hits ‘dark money’ group with big penalty”

Lew Rockwell – by Hunter Lewis, Mises.org

This is an adaptation of chapter 10 from Hunter Lewis’s book Crony Capitalism in America: 2008-2012.

During the presidential campaign of 2012, an online commentator observed that President Obama had not met with his Jobs Council for six months. How could this be, the commentator asked, when jobs were foremost on the president’s agenda? The answer was not hard to discover.    Continue reading “General Electric’s Crony Capitalism”

ABC News – by PABLO GORONDI Associated Press

The price of oil dropped to near $93 a barrel on Monday as a deal between Iran and six world powers on the country’s nuclear program made it more likely that sanctions choking Iranian oil exports will be lifted.

By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark U.S. crude for January delivery was down $1.44 at $93.40 on the New York Mercantile Exchange. On Friday, the contract fell 60 cents to close at $94.84.   Continue reading “Oil Prices Drop Sharply After Iran Nuclear Deal”

CNN – by Catherine E. Shoichet and Rafael Romo

Mexican authorities set free a former teen cartel hit man on Tuesday and sent him back to the United States.

The release of Edgar Jimenez Lugo, a U.S. citizen known as “El Ponchis” or “The Cloak,” comes less than three years after a Mexican court found him guilty of torturing and beheading at least four people and kidnapping three others as an operative for the South Pacific Cartel.   Continue reading “Mexico: Teen hit man freed, sent to U.S.”

The Courant – by Jenny Wilson

CNN – by Catherine E. Shoichet

Gail Sandidge rushed to help when screams rang out during a stabbing at a Texas medical center on Tuesday.

Horrified patients and family members watched as a man stabbed the nurse in the chest.

“She was just saying…’I’m hurt. He got me,'” witness Jana Jackson told CNN affiliate KLTV. “And that’s when we realized there was blood all on the front of her scrubs.”   Continue reading “Nurse dies protecting patients in Texas surgical center stabbing”

Dallas News – by Robert Wilonsky

One week after workers removed the X that marked the spot on Elm Street where President John Kennedy was gunned down on November 22, 1963, it has returned.

And, says 1500 Marilla spokesman Frank Librio, the city has no intention of removing this X or any other — at least, for the time being.   Continue reading “In Dealey Plaza, the X that marked the spot on Elm Street where Kennedy was killed has returned”