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If Violence Escalates in Mexico, Texas Officials Plan to Be Ready
• Fox NewsAs drug cartels continue to terrorize Mexico, Texas officials are planning for the worst-case scenario: how to respond if the violence spills over the border, and what to do if thousands of Mexicans seek refuge in the United States.
Mexican Leader Vows to Press Fight Against Cartels
• Washington PostMexican President Felipe Calderón on Thursday defended the deployment of the military in his fight against drug cartels, vowing that the army would continue to patrol cities until the country's weakened and often-corrupt police forces were retrai
Asia, Europe Find Their Supply Chains Yanked. Beware the Backlash.
• Washington PostFor the past two years, Asians and Europeans have tended to view their own financial and economic problems as largely imported from the United States. The impacts on their own economies, they reasoned smugly, would be modest and short-lived. Turns
A Tenth Amendment Commission is not the Answer
• The Price of LibertyThe Founders believed the system of limited government, coupled with the additional restraint enumerated in the Tenth Amendment would form an impregnable shield to protect the States and their people from any abuse of power by the federal government.
Rep. Clyburn: Opposition to stimulus is slap in face
• APThe highest-ranking black congressman said Thursday that opposition to the federal stimulus package by southern GOP governors is "a slap in the face of African-Americans."
Jobless hit with bank fees on benefits
• APSanta-Maria called Bank of America to ask how to check the balance of his new unemployment benefits debit card. The bank charged him 50 cents. He chose not to complain. That would have cost another 50 cents. So he took out some of the money and then
Discrimination is Not A Bad Word
• Christine Smith's blogTrue advances or “progress” as Holder states he wants to see in this area of relating to one another will not be forced upon us as he seems to advocate, but will come from the free will of a people as they grow in understanding personally.
OKC officer pulls man over for anti-Obama sign on vehicle
• http://freedomfighterradio.netAn Oklahoma City police officer wrongly pulled over a man last week and confiscated an anti-President Barack Obama sign the man had on his vehicle.
Manufacturing Guilt?
• Reason / Radley BalkoExperts say this exclusive video shows a dental examiner creating the bite marks that put a man on death row.
Gold Amid Inflation and Deflation
• SaveHaven.comGold doesn't always perform in high inflationary periods. Or high deflationary periods. So when does it perform well?
Meredith Whitney: Admin. Underestimated the Intelligence of Americans
• CNBC.com"What I thought was a mistake of this proposal was it underestimated the intelligence of the American people because it was built up to be this great 'saving grace' but somebody set those expectations and there was nothing behind it.
Dow Ends At Lowest Close In More Than 6 Years
• Yahoo! News and Yahoo! FinanceThe blue chips broke through a psychological barrier established in November to close at their lowest level since Oct. 9, 2002, the last bear market low.
Foreclosure Plan: Obama’s Accounting Gimmick to Protect Lenders
• optionarmageddon.ml-implode.com/By subsidizing monthly payments, and not forcing banks to write down principal by more than a token amount of $1000 per year for 5 years, the plan will keep homedebtors tethered to vastly overpriced mortgages. Who does this really benefit?
New Navy-funded Report Warns of War Robots Going “Terminator”
• Daily TechRobots must learn to obey a warrior code, but increasing intelligence may make keeping the robots from turning on their masters increasingly difficult
Roubini Says a ‘Sovereign Bank May Crack’ as Crisis Worsens
• Bloomberg.com“The process of socializing the private losses from this crisis has already moved many of the liabilities of the private sector onto the books of the sovereign,” said Roubini. “At some point a sovereign bank may crack.”
National Grand Jury Declaration
• constitutionallyspeaking.wordpress.com via WTPMove over Bob Schulz - there's more than one way to 'skin a cat'.... LETS TRY THEM ALL!
Evolution of Intelligent Design
• arcleinThis short item is extremely important because it identifies a mechanism by which a single cell organism can rewire its own DNA and thereby the information that it passes on to its offspring. I had come to this conclusion in my manuscript and had sai
China's Response to Global Crisis
• arcleinThe Chinese are doing everything and then some that I had hoped that they would do. This is more than I can say for the USA. They are taking this global economic interlude to shift purchasing power internally to maximize internal economic growth at a
BofA, AmEx May Suffer Catastrophic Credit Card Defaults in 2009
• Bloomberg.com“There’s never been a lender of that scale in this predicament,” Robertson said in an interview. “Portfolios that have been required to sell themselves to a lender because they’ve gone underwater have been far smaller.”
National Intelligence Director: Economic Crisis Increases Regime Instability
• NPR.orgUnemployment could get so bad in some countries that there will be civil unrest. Blair cited that scenario in his threat assessment last week, saying, "Economic crises increase the risk of regime-threatening instability if they are prolonged for
Could Obama's Foreclosure Plan Lead to Housing Double Dip Crash?
• boston.com/Shiller and others have warned that investors who scoop up distressed properties now will hold onto them until the market shows signs of life. Then, of course, another flood of homes and condos will hit the market, giving us a double-dip housing down
Switzerland threatened with bankruptcy
• creditwritedowns.com/Switzerland, like Iceland, is threatened with a potential national bankruptcy. One consequence would be that the Swiss currency could fall massively in value — possibly even crash.
Unusual Green Comet Set to Pass Earth
• news.aol.com/It came from the outskirts of the solar system, 18 trillion miles away. Once it's made the journey around the sun, Lulin will gain enough speed to escape the solar system, Edberg said.
Michael Shedlock: Fiat World Mathematical Model
• Michael Shedlock / MishThe credit bubble that just popped exceeded that preceding the great depression, not just in the US but worldwide. Thus, it is unrealistic to expect the deflationary bust to be anything other than the biggest bust in history
Foreclosure Prevention? BS! More Fraud Coverup!
• Market-Ticker.Denninger.netThis entire "crisis" is not an accident - in any way, shape or form. We will not get out of this mess until we recognize that we are here as a consequence of a massive, financial-system-wide campaign of fraud and theft...
Unemployment Claims: Continued Claims Almost 5 Million
• Calculatedriskblog.comIn the week ending Feb. 14, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 627,000, unchanged from the previous week's revised figure of 627,000.
Netanyahu wins backing in Israeli PM contest
• ReutersBenjamin Netanyahu's chances of becoming Israel's prime minister were boosted by the conditional backing of an ultranationalist politician who emerged as a kingmaker in a photo-finish election. Avigdor Lieberman, leader of the Yisrael Beitein
'Sexretaries' in demand for play more than work
• Kyiv Post(Ukraine)Job offers seeking secretaries for work and intimacy can now be found on almost any Ukrainian recruitment website. Perhaps they should be called "sexretaries". Some savvy, not to mention salacious, entrepreneurs have decided that more tha
The Orgy Begins
• Mark YannoneThe whorehouse was framed and shingled in 1913. Lace curtains and mood lighting soon followed, along with soft music and wafting perfumes redolent of raw power and insatiable hunger. Now it's Open House, Open Bar, and All You Can Eat. The fren
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