New Photos From The Ground Of The Fukushima Nuclear Plant

Below are images showing Fukushima I from the perspective of the incoming water shipment. Most of the images that have been released so far have been aerial photos, but these images are from ground level and show more detail of the devastation.

UN Tells Mexico To Withdraw Army From War Against Drug Cartels

A United Nations report has called on the Mexican government to consider withdrawing the army from the war against the drug cartels.

The report slams the army out for its role in the escalating drug violence, noting that the growing number of "disappearances" in Mexico can't just be attributed to organized crime gangs.

Administration Approves Bailout Pay Packages

WASHINGTON (AP) — The four companies still receiving government bailout aid won't be able to raise the amount of cash they pay out to their top executives this year, the administration's pay czar has ruled.

The decisions, released late Friday, cover 2011 compensation for the top 25 executives at General Motors Co., Chrysler, American International Group Inc. and Ally Financial Inc., the former financing arm of GM.

New Photos Of Fukushima Reactors

article by: Chris Martenson


Exclusive: new photos of Fukushima reactors

Noting that the press has largely turned its resources off of the Fukushima complex, and needing up-to-date information on the status of the damage control efforts there, we secured the most up-to-date satellite photo from DigitalGlobe (dated March 31st), which we analyze below. This is the first photo of the damaged reactor site at Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear facility made available to the public in over a week. That means you, our readers, are the first public eyes anywhere to see this photo.

The Secret Is Out! Foreign Banks Received The Most TAARP (taxpayer) Money From The Fed

article from: Bloomberg

U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke’s two-year fight to shield crisis-squeezed banks from the stigma of revealing their public loans protected a lender to local governments in Belgium, a Japanese fishing-cooperative financier and a company part-owned by the Central Bank of Libya.

Obama Promises El Salvador New Amnesty for Illegal Aliens

article by: Jerry McConnell

Well, he’s still at it; giving our country away just as if he were born to it and all of its wealth and assets are his to give away at his pleasure.  I once likened him in a column to a drunken sailor, for which I was seriously chastized by a former drunken (?) sailor who was offended to have me compare him to the usurper charlatan in our White House.

JIM CRAMER: BUY PHYSICAL SILVER

Silver has had an amazing run, and the most widely-followed market pundit is on board.

In this video, he urges people to buy physical, and expects that as long as retail folks like silver, the price will go up.

One great point that he makes is that if you try to buy some physical silver at any coin or bullion dealer, you'll see that the spot "market" price is a joke, and that people are willing to pay a lot more.

Gasoline Up 100% Under Obama

article by: James S. Robbins

Feeling pain at the pump? Gas prices have doubled since Mr. Obama took office. According to the GasBuddy gasoline price tracking web site, the price of a gallon of regular gas was around $1.79 when Mr. Obama took office. Today the national average is $3.58. The lowest average price in the continental United States is $3.31 in Tulsa Oklahoma, the highest is $4.14 in Santa Barbara, CA. Four-dollar-a-gallon gas has arrived on average throughout California, and a number of other states are headed in that direction.

19 Reasons Why The Federal Reserve Is At The Heart Of Our Economic Problems

Most Americans do not understand what the Federal Reserve is or why it is at the heart of our economic problems.  When Americans get into discussions about the economy, most of them still blame either the Democrats or the Republicans for inflation, for the housing crash, for our rampant unemployment and for the national debt.  But the truth is that the institution with the most power over our economic system is the Federal Reserve.  So exactly what is the Federal Reserve?  Most people would say that it is an agency of the federal government.  But that is absolutely not true.  In fact, the Federal Reserve itself has argued in court that it is not an agency of the federal government.  Rather, the Federal Reserve is a privately-owned banking cartel that has been given a perpetual monopoly over our monetary system by the U.S. Congress.

The Fed Is In Panic Mode

article by: Graham Summers

This is the most important chart related to the financial system today, it is a chart of the US monetary base. In simple terms, it charts how much money the Fed has pumped into the system (at least that it admits). So it’s a kind of visual of the Fed hitting the PANIC button: when the monetary base explodes higher, the Fed is FREAKING out.

Wal-Mart CEO Warns Of Serious Inflation In The Coming Monthes

U.S. consumers face "serious" inflation in the months ahead for clothing, food and other products, the head of Wal-Mart's U.S. operations warned Wednesday.

The world's largest retailer is working with suppliers to minimize the effect of cost increases and believes its low-cost business model will position it better than its competitors.

Still, inflation is "going to be serious," Wal-Mart U.S. CEO Bill Simon said during a meeting with USA TODAY's editorial board. "We're seeing cost increases starting to come through at a pretty rapid rate."

Bill Gross: Without A Gigantic Reform Of Entitlements, America Will Default

 

PIMCO boss Bill Gross has been warning against Treasuries for awhile, and recently he abandoned them completely.

In his latest investment outlook, he warns that America will default, thanks to trillions in entitlement obligations:

Colorado Springs Man Claims To Have Obamas Social Security Records

A Colorado Springs “birther,” retired Air Force Col. Gregory Hollister, has Internet blogs abuzz with what may be an illegal foray into an online Social Security data base and how he obtained a copy of President Barack Obama’s draft registration from 1980.

“Col. Greg Hollister, USAF (Ret.) contacted the Selective Service, falsely impersonated President Obama, improperly registered his own address as President Obama’s address, and by this false impersonation and identity theft he managed to obtain a duplicate registration acknowledgement card with President Obama’s Selective Service information on it,” a blogger posted on gratewire.com last week.  

The Blatant Deception of the Libyan War

article by: Sean Osborne


Prior to United Nations sanctioned military action by the West (EU, US, CAN) the Western media was prompt to report to our population the urgent calls from the fighters and civilians on the ground opposing Qaddafi and the Arab League for our intervention; to save the Libyan people from Qaddafi’s genocide.

Who started this war in Libya, and under what ideological banner?

Proof Of Trump U.S. Birth Uncovered

article from thesmokinggun.com

MARCH 29--Though Donald Trump has yet to release his actual birth certificate, a tantalizing clue emerged today that may indicate the multimillionaire developer was, in fact, born in the United States, The Smoking Gun has learned.

Trump, who has challenged President Barack Obama to prove he is an American citizen, yesterday released what he claimed to be his own birth certificate (“It took me one hour to get,” he crowed).

Except the document Trump proffered was not an official New York City birth certificate, but rather a document purportedly produced by Jamaica Hospital, where Trump was reportedly born in June 1946.
In an attempt to track down proof of the 64-year-old Trump’s citizenship, TSG today traveled to the main branch of the New York Public Library, which houses a collection of microfiche indices to New York City births. The microfiche cards contain the official Department of Health ledgers of births, broken down by year and borough.

NIA Responds to Harvard Economics Professor About Inflation

Harvard economics professor Gregory Mankiw wrote an article that was published in the NY Times yesterday entitled, "It’s 2026, and the Debt Is Due". In this article, Mankiw gave a hypothetical Presidential address the President of the U.S. might make in the year 2026 after a failed bond auction. Mankiw's hypothetical Presidential address takes place in a scenario where in the year 2026, the U.S. Treasury "tried to auction its most recent issue of government bonds" but "almost no one was buying." According to Mankiw's hypothetical speech, during this 2026 crisis the President will admit, "The private market will lend us no more."

Ratigan: "We Spent Four Times More On Clinton's Blowjob Than We Did Investigating The Financial Crisis"

Dylan Ratigan with Michael Lewis comparing the cost of the largest federal investigations versus that of the FCIC.

This video runs just 30 seconds but it speaks volumes!

What Happened to the American Declaration of War?

article by George Friedman


In my book “The Next Decade,” I spend a good deal of time considering the relation of the American Empire to the American Republic and the threat the empire poses to the republic. If there is a single point where these matters converge, it is in the constitutional requirement that Congress approve wars through a declaration of war and in the abandonment of this requirement since World War II. This is the point where the burdens and interests of the United States as a global empire collide with the principles and rights of the United States as a republic.

Obama's War

article by: Pat Buchanan
 
 
In ordering air and naval strikes on a country that neither threatened nor attacked the United States, did President Obama commit an impeachable act?
 
So it would seem. For the framers of the Constitution were precise. The power to declare war is entrusted solely to Congress.
 
From King William's War to Queen Anne's War to King George's War to the Seven Years' War, the colonists had had their fill of royal wars. To no principle were they more committed than that the power to declare war must be separate from the power to wage it.
 
And Obama usurped that power.

The Gasoline-Driver Inflation Hike

article by: Larry Kudlow

Last week, the Commerce Department revised real GDP up to 3.1 percent for the fourth quarter of last year. That was some cause for joy in the stock market. But today we saw a poor consumer-spending report for the month of February, which is picking up the rise in gasoline prices and the decline in consumer sentiment.

Peter Schiff Video Update: Spending Up/Savings Down, Printing Money and Corporate Taxes

Here is Peter Schiff's weekly update to his video blog. I think that Peter is always spot on in his analysis of our economy and really delivers insightful commentary.

Donald Trump Shows His Birth Certificate: Now He Wants To See Obamas

 

Donald Trump seems to be leading the charge now for the "birthers" as he is mounting a full assault on Barack Obama to come forward with his birth certificate. Trump has joined the millions of other Americans who find it very suspicious that Obama has failed to produce the actual document in question.

9 Ways to Prepare for Food Inflation

article from frugaldad.com

If you’ve been to the grocery store lately, you’ve no doubt discovered that the price of most foods has increased significantly. There’s plenty of blame to go around: increased commodity prices due to increased demand, increased oil prices, devaluation of our dollar, and on and on.

Whatever the reason, increased food prices are putting a major dent in our household budget. Since we can’t do much about the prices, we have to look for other ways to reduce (or at least keep even) our overall food expense.

Utah House Stamps Gold, Silver As Legal Tender

By Lee Davidson

The Salt Lake Tribune

It may not fold as conveniently as dollar bills, but the Utah House took a first step Friday to recognize gold and silver as legal tender.

It voted 47-26 to pass HB317 by Rep. Brad Galvez, R-West Haven, and sent it to the Senate. The measure would recognize as legal tender gold and silver coins issued by the federal government — not just their face value, but also their value in gold and silver or to a collector.

Medicare Rise Cancels Increase in SS Benefits

article from Newsmax.com

WASHINGTON— Millions of retired and disabled people in the United States had better brace for another year with no increase in Social Security payments.

The government is projecting a slight cost-of-living adjustment for Social Security benefits next year, the first increase since 2009. But for most beneficiaries, rising Medicare premiums threaten to wipe out any increase in payments, leaving them without a raise for a third straight year.

Obama’s War On Libya: A Constitutional View

by Michael Boldin

With military action taking place in Libya right now, the essential question must be asked: Is it even Constitutional? For those of you who don’t want to read more than a sentence or two, here’s the short answer. Absolutely not.

Obama's Fiscal Policies Doom Retirement for Millions

article by: Chris Gonsalves - NewsMax.com

President Barack Obama's misguided federal policies have stunted economic growth and endangered the American dream of a comfortable retirement, financial commentator and best-selling author Robert Wiedemer tells Newsmax.

"The government absolutely shares culpability in this," Wiedemer says. "Government policies are responsible for a great many of our financial problems -- the state of Americans' retirements included."

New Shocking Video Of The Japanese Tsunami

As time goes on more and more video surfaces of the dreaded Japanese tsunami. Every video I view seems to be more shocking than the last.This one is truly unbelievable!

Wholesale Prices Up 1.6 pct. On Steep Rise In Food

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Wholesale prices jumped last month by the most in nearly two years due to higher energy costs and the steepest rise in food prices in 36 years. Excluding those volatile categories, inflation was tame.

The Labor Department said Wednesday that the Producer Price Index rose a seasonally adjusted 1.6 percent in February -- double the 0.8 percent rise in the previous month. Outside of food and energy costs, the core index ticked up 0.2 percent, less than January's 0.5 percent rise.