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On Saturday morning, Aug. 14, 2010, at Baltimore, MD’s Inner Harbor, I interviewed two Human Rights activists, Brigitte Gynther and Oscar Otzoy. They are members of the “Coalition of Immokalee Workers,” (CIW). It is sponsoring a mobile “Florida Modern-Day Slavery Museum,” which has recently been touring the northeast part of the country. See for details: http://www.ciw-online.org/ Their group has assisted federal officials “in prosecuting six cases of modern-day slavery in Florida.” As (…)

Is a Crash Coming? Ten Reasons to Be Cautious
By BRETT ARENDS
Could Wall Street be about to crash again?
This week’s bone-rattlers may be making you wonder.
I don’t make predictions. That’s a sucker’s game. And I’m certainly not doing so now.
But way too many people are way too complacent this summer. Here are 10 reasons to watch out.
1. The market is already expensive. Stocks are about 20 times cyclically-adjusted earnings, according to data compiled by Yale University economics (…)

VIDEO: THE BIG INTERVIEW WITH DAVID ROSENBERG
13 AUGUST 2010 BY TPC
This week’s Big Interview from the WSJ was with David Rosenberg. Mr. Rosenberg is very bearish still and believes the recession never really ended. He says the economy could begin officially contracting as soon as Q4. His forecast is not very rosy so if you’re looking for a good weekend you might want to move along:
http://pragcap.com/the-big-interview-with-david-rosenberg

"We Are Now Paying For The Funeral Of Keynesian Theory"
Fooled by Stimulus, by Eric Sprott and David Franklin
Despite our firm’s history of investing primarily in equities, we’ve spent much of this past year writing about the government debt market. We’ve chosen to focus on government debt because we fear its impact on the equity markets as a whole. Government debt is an intrinsically important part of the financial landscape. It is the bellwether by which we measure risk, and we believe (…)

Florida – Much Worse Problems Than the Oil Spill
by Doug Hornig of The Casey Report
Media coverage of the oil spill’s effect on the Gulf focusing on tourist income lost by the waterfront towns – with footage of empty beaches, restaurants and T-shirt shops – dominates the news. Interviews with devastated business owners are heart rending. But they always end with references to somehow hanging on until “things get back to normal.”
Trouble is, things are not going to “normalize.” Not for (…)

By Anna Theofilopoulou, Jacob Mundy, 12/08/2010
In what is possibly a first for the mainstream U.S. media, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof recently noted some of the parallels between Israel’s occupation of Palestinian lands and Morocco’s attempted annexation of Western Sahara:
"It’s fair to acknowledge that there are double standards in the Middle East, with particular scrutiny on Israeli abuses. After all, the biggest theft of Arab land in the Middle East has nothing to do (…)

You Can’t Fool Physics …
August 12, 2010 Why Global Warming Is Real and What We Can Do About It.
BY MORTON S. SKORODIN, M.D.
“You can’t fool physics!” So said my physics teacher many years ago. Let’s use this principle to test global warming ideas.
Before we get started, thank you for returning for another episode of the science and politics of global warming.
Last time [http://tinyurl.com/26cn4gj or, for more details, http://tinyurl.com/yfoyoa9], we learned that global warming is (…)

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA, Central Intelligence Agency) was created in 1947 by Henry Truman, replacing the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) to search without warrant, administrative records and initial fiscales.La philosophy of the organization was give the President a second view made by civilians against the military provided by the National Security Agency (NSA) and was code-named "Campus"., by carrying most of the initial pictures of Uiversidad Yale, (including data storage (…)

Second half of 2010: Sudden intensification of the global systemic crisis – Strengthening of five fundamental negative trends Public announcement GEAB N°42 (February 16, 2010) -
LEAP/E2020 is of the view that the effect of States’ spending trillions to « counteract the crisis » will have fizzled out. These vast sums had the effect of slowing down the development of the systemic global crisis for several months but, as anticipated in previous GEAB reports, this strategy will only have (…)

America Goes Dark
By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: August 8, 2010
The lights are going out all over America — literally. Colorado Springs has made headlines with its desperate attempt to save money by turning off a third of its streetlights, but similar things are either happening or being contemplated across the nation, from Philadelphia to Fresno.
Meanwhile, a country that once amazed the world with its visionary investments in transportation, from the Erie Canal to the Interstate Highway (…)