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GMT It’s
Getting Ugly: Economist Says Hoard Gold & Scotch
Respected economist John Williams, editor of ShadowStats.com, a popular
website that tracks real inflation figures, is advising that people
hoard physical gold as well as food items in bulk so that they have
some means with which to barter as the economic crisis turns ugly.
New
Navy-funded Report Warns of War Robots Going “Terminator”
A new Navy-funded report warns against a hasty deployment of war robots,
and urges programmers to include ethics subroutines — a warrior
code of sorts. The alternative they say, is the possibility of a robotic
atrocity, akin to the Terminator or other sci-fi movies.
Ont.
cop predicts people will ’snap’ for being stopped under
new smoking law
It’s only a matter of time before someone “snaps”
after being pulled over under Ontario’s new law forbidding smoking
in a vehicle carrying a minor, a police officer said Monday in response
to a quirk in the legislation that was made evident during a weekend
incident.
Coast
to Coast am - Alex Jones
From CoastToCoastAM.com: Alternative media activist Alex Jones and author
Jerome Corsi will discuss steps some states are taking to preserve sovereignty
and personal freedoms which include gun ownership, gold & silver
ownership, & home schooling.
EU
foiled in bid to force France, Greece to allow GM crop
The European Commission was foiled Monday in its bid to force France
and Greece to allow genetically modified maize from US biotech giant
Monsanto to be grown in their fields.
Errors
in publicly presented data - Worth blogging about?
In the prior thread I raised a question of why there was a large downward
jump in sea ice extent on the graph presented by NSIDC’s Artic
Sea Ice News page. The image below was the reason, dozens of people
called my attention to it in emails and comments overnight because in
the space of a weekend, a million-plus square kilometers of Arctic sea
ice went missing. Note the blue line.
Jim
Rogers: Abolish The IMF & World Bank
In an interview with Sir David Frost on Al Jazeera television, veteran
investor Jim Rogers pinned the blame for the economic crisis squarely
at the feet of the Federal Reserve, and said that the World Bank and
the IMF should be abolished, not given more power, if a recovery is
to be made.
Ron
Paul: Government Spending Driving Us Into Depression
Texas Congressman Ron Paul has slammed the stimulus bill, passed
by the House and Senate last week, as a blatant continuation of
the destructive economic policy that caused the financial crisis
in the first instance.
Dollar
and Gold Move Sharply Higher on Panic
The next resistance for gold to overcome is $988 and then $1032.
Shorter term traders, think about protecting profits. Longer term
gold bugs, it might be better to look away for awhile, or just squint
and pray that the thing clears $1032 and bases up there.
The
Global Ditch: Is Eastern Europe Primed to Explode?
Eastern Europe is about to blow. If it does, it could take much
of the EU with it. It’s an emergency situation but there are
no easy solutions. The IMF doesn’t have the resources for
a bailout of this size and the recession is spreading faster than
relief efforts can be organized.
UN:
Afghan civilian deaths a record high in 2008
The number of Afghan civilians killed in armed conflict surged to
a record 2,118 people last year as the Afghan war turned increasingly
bloody, the U.N. said in a new report Tuesday.
Air
Force Begins Voluntary Retired Rated Recall Program
The rapid expansion of unmanned aircraft systems and other emerging
missions and rated officer requirements has created an Air Force
demand for experienced, rated officers. To meet these critical shortages,
the secretary of the Air Force has initiated a Voluntary Retired
Rated Recall Program.
Iraq
Reconstruction: the Greatest Fraud in US History?
In what could turn out to be the greatest fraud in US history, American
authorities have started to investigate the alleged role of senior
military officers in the misuse of $125bn (£88bn) in a US
-directed effort to reconstruct Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein.
Did
Israel test new weapons in Gaza?
The Palestinian Authority is calling for an international investigation
of the weapons used by Israel during its three-week assault on Gaza.
There are claims so-called DIME bombs were dropped from drone aircraft.
This kind of bomb is designed to produce an intense explosion in
a small space.
The
Left in Power
The theme of my book The Left, The Right, and The State is that
both sides of the political aisle represent a grave threat to liberty,
though each of a different sort. It is like two people tugging at
a turkey’s wishbone. The turkey is liberty and you are the
bone.
Ex
spy chief says UK risks “police state”
The former head of MI5 has accused the government in an interview
of eroding civil liberties by exploiting fears over terrorism.
