No Real Hope In Sight’ As Case-Shiller Shows Housing Recession Still Here

Continuing its descent to the lower depths of a double-dip trough, the U.S. housing market fell even further in January

China Nudges World Closer To New Gold Standard

Financial calamities are becoming increasingly likely in this overly indebted world of ours and the death of paper currencies is becoming increasingly certain. The best time to prepare is ahead of time.

"Skunked": Bill Gross On How "The U.S. Will Likely Default On Its Debt

"Unless entitlements are substantially reformed, I am confident that this country will default on its debt; not in conventional ways, but by picking the pocket of savers via a combination of less observable, yet historically verifiable policies – inflation, currency devaluation and low to negative real interest rates."

Got Milk

Radiation Traces Found in U.S. Milk

Eat Your Wranglers. Extra gravy please!

Amber Waves to Ivory Bolls

Be Afraid.......Be Very Afraid! Oh, and stay that way so you are easier to herd!

CBS Chicago: Threats Claim Nuclear Bombs Hidden All Over U.S.

A Call To Courage To Save America

Does he encourage men to be men or is the “Men’s ministry” nothing more than get-in-touch-with-your-feelings-self-help-effeminate Christianity?

U.S. Soldiers Played Poker With Dead Childs Fingers

U.S. brigade murdered and mutilated innocent Afghan civilians - and kept their body parts as trophies.

Report: 230,000 displaced by Mexico's drug war

MEXICO CITY (AP) — About 230,000 people have been displaced in Mexico because of drug violence, and about half of them may have taken refuge in the United States, according to a new study.

Fears rise that Japan could sell off U.S. debt

Some lawmakers and market analysts are expressing rising concerns that a demand for capital by earthquake-ravaged Japan could lead it to sell off some of its huge holdings of U.S.-issued debt, leaving the federal government in an even tighter financial pinch.

No UN mandate to attack Gaddafi forces: Russia

Russian leaders have expressed concern that the resolution gave coalition forces too much leeway and the intervention was causing civilian deaths. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin compared the resolution to "medieval calls for crusades".

Radiation Levels 100,000 Times Normal

Tepco apologized Sunday night when it realized the mistake; it had initially reported radiation levels in the leaked water from the unit 2 reactor as being 10 million times the norm, which prompted an evacuation of the building.

Gold Replacing Dollar as World’s Reserve Currency?

$105 per barrel oil. Cotton prices at record levels. Food prices at 2008 highs. Typically, such commodity price increases would send central banks running to the U.S. Dollar to secure the value of their savings. After all, the dollar has been the reserve currency since World War I. But not this time.

Legislator says the state needs its own currency

RALEIGH -- Cautioning that the federal dollars in your wallet could soon be little more than green paper backed by broken promises, state Rep. Glen Bradley wants North Carolina to issue its own legal tender backed by silver and gold.

Two Ways for the US to Go Broke

We can do it the old-fashioned way, that is, by being unable to pay our bills when they come due.

Or we can do it the inflationary way – by paying our bills in a currency that is not worth as much as the stuff we borrowed.

American Fear

Whether Americans want to admit it or not, it’s the single greatest fear in their lives: fear of the government.

Surviving a Societal Breakdown

Having an inventory of basic foodstuffs and water is essential. It will keep you calm. You won’t be in desperate straits. It will give you time to carefully assess the situation and choose your best option.

CDC: “Superbug” Spreads To 35 States; Kills 40% Of The People Who Come In Contact

There’s A “Superbug” Spreading Around America Killing 40% Of The People Who Come In Contact

Radiation monitoring sites

Radiation And Jet Stream Forecast Monitoring Sites

Japan nuclear: Workers evacuated as radiation soars

Radioactivity in water at reactor 2 at the quake-damaged Fukushima nuclear plant has reached 10 million times the usual level, company officials say.

Federal Reserve Tells: Something Big Is Going Down And It's Not Good

So if you think that all is well "behind the scenes" you're in for a rude surprise. Something BIG is going down and it's NOT good. And rest assured, by the time the mainstream media announces what it is, it will already be in full swing. Prepare now!

Greatest New Home Sales Depression: Sales Fell 82 Percent From 2005 to 2011

You aint seen nothing yet!

The Fiscal Crisis Of The Welfare State

The People.  The People, of course don’t do the dirty deeds themselves; they hire third-party made men—politicians and bureaucrats who call themselves “public servants”—who eventually ensconce themselves in their jobs through perks and government-employee unions and thus become the greatest organized gang in the game.

The Food Crisis Of 2011

Within this tale lie several lessons you can put to work to make money. And it’s best to get started soon, because if you think your grocery bill is already high, you ain’t seen nothing yet. In fact, we could be just one supply shock away from a full-blown food crisis that would make the price spikes of 2008 look like a happy memory.

Precious Metals Portend Dollar Panic Ahead

“At some point, there is going to be a panic as the flight from the dollar moves from the relatively orderly retreat we are currently witnessing to a stampede. The charts are telling me that panic is about to begin.”

Prepare thyself accordingly.

It’s Tracking Your Every Move and You May Not Even Know

“We are all walking around with little tags, and our tag has a phone number associated with it, who we called and what we do with the phone,” said Sarah E. Williams, an expert on graphic information at Columbia University’s architecture school. “We don’t even know we are giving up that data.”

Google: A New Tool For U.S. Intelligence?

It turns out that when people started to feel feverish and nauseous, they would go to Google to check out their symptoms. While it wasn't a perfect indicator, Google Flu Trends often beat government predictions about flu outbreaks by a week or more. Imagine using the Internet to do the same thing in predicting political unrest.

China’s Central Bank Recommends Gold For “Value Preservation”

Believe it or not Ripley! The People’s Bank of China(PBOC) recommended yesterday that 1  billion Chinese consider buying gold as a  hedge against inflation and to preserve values in a world where currencies can fall.

Gold, Silver Prices Break Out As Political Unrest Spreads

The FT reported a few days ago, via  cables  released by  Wikileaks,  that  more central banks are plowing into gold, playing catch up with China, Russia  and India.

Silver Could Spike to $50 Based on Short Positions That Need To Be Bought Back

“Some traders I have spoken with are targeting the 40-50 level within 4 months.”

J.P. Morgan Chase, HSBC May Have Gained Billions from Influencing Silver Prices

But in the case of silver, it’s black and white: when you own the market, you control the market.

Police struggle to control hard-core anarchist rioters after 500,000-strong London march against government cuts ends in violence

'Officers have come under sustained attack as they deal with the disorder and attempted criminal damage.'

The Dollar Will Collapse Within 3-4 Months

The US Dollar's inflationary death spiral continues. We've now taken out the 2010 low leaving only two more lines of support before we're in completely uncharted territory.

GoogleEarth Based 3D Map Of Real-Time Radioactivity Distribution In Japan; Projected Global Radioactivity Dispersion

Confirming that in a time of instantaneous crowdsourced information distribution and analysis, any attempt by a government to institute an information blackout of any nature is doomed to failure, is the following amazing Google Earth-based 3D interactive map of Geiger readings from Japan.

Safe-Haven Status Withers: Dollar Falls Versus Swiss Franc

The Swiss Franc, also a traditional safe-haven currency, has quietly made its way towards successive new records against the US Dollar.

Dangerous breach feared at Japan nuke site

'We are not in a position where we can be optimistic,' prime minister says; workers hurt after wading into water 10,000 times more radioactive than normal

Japan Raises Possibility of Breach in Reactor Vessel

TOKYO — New signs emerged on Friday that parts of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant are so damaged and contaminated that it will be harder to bring the plant under control soon.

Obama says he didn’t inform Mexico of U.S. gun smuggling operation because he didn’t know about it

Obama responded that it is “a pretty big government” with “a lot of moving parts.”

Melt Down Wind

The situation is simple and time may be running out: the government has the KI pills and the people don’t. Give the people KI pills. Now.

Euro's Collapse Is Not 'Unthinkable': Warren Buffett

"You can't have three or four or five countries that are in effect free-riding on the other countries. That won't work over time—they have to get their fiscal houses in reasonable harmony," he said.

US Finances Rank Near Worst in the World

The US ranks near the bottom of developed global economies in terms of financial stability and will stay there unless it addresses its burgeoning debt problems.

New home sales fall to a 50 year low

At just 250,000, this was the lowest annualized new home sales number ever.

Investment Legends - “Dollar Collapse Inevitable”

Don't be suckered into the idea that recovery is just around the corner.

The Silver Bullet And The Silver Shield

“The BEST article written on silver in Ten Years!”- Jason Hommel

“Article of the Week” at Silver Bear Cafe

The Ultimate FREE Silver Investors Guide.

The Silver Door Is Closing

A time will come when the value of silver is so strong and the value of the dollar so weak, that only a fool would ever trade silver for the dollar.

Hope you didn't fall for the scam

GARY SHILLING: And Now House Prices Will Drop Another 20%

UK -The Day We Fight Back! - REVOLUTION

REVOLUTION has always been clear that the way to destroy this government is through a general strike -- where every trade unionist in Britain stops work at the same time, supported by millions on the streets.

The 1st Great War of 21st Century Has Begun! Gerald Celente

What will the War mean to you personally? What can YOU do to prepare yourself for what's to come? What can be done to individually and collectively halt the march to war ­ or at least divert and mitigate the damage.

The World’s Best Gold Experts: “Buy and Hold!”

The U.S. government will buy another $600 billion of its bonds in 2011 concurrent with running the largest deficit in its history. With this in mind, it is no surprise that the gold price rallied.

45 million Americans on food assistance programs.

Americans shopping at discount dollar stores confronting the realities of a shrinking dollar and disappearing middle class.

New Oil Spill in Gulf ... 100-Mile Slick

A new 100-mile slick has been spotted in the Gulf, only 30 miles from the site of the Deepwater Horizon. See this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this and this and this:

Thermal Images From Fukushima Indicate Blistering 128 Degrees Celsius Zone In Reactor #3

Next, a picture from Die Welt, emphasizing Reactor 3 and confirming that previous lies that all temperatures at Reactors 1 through 4, were under 100 degrees Celsius, were nothing but. Note the area indicating 128 ^oC Celsius. We would assume that is the reactor core area (which refutes the lie). If, instead, that is the spent fuel rod area, then we have some very big problems, even if TEPCO is telling the truth for once.

10 Things To Know Before Jumping Into Gold And Silver

As the U.S. dollar has declined, gold, silver and other precious metals have been going up, up, up over the past decade.  Investors all over the globe have been flocking to the safety and stability that they provide.

What Can the Japanese Tsunami Teach Us About Prepping for Disasters and Emergencies?

Many of those that laugh at preppers are the same people that have health insurance, car insurance, home insurance, boat insurance, motorcycle insurance, disability insurance, travel insurance and business insurance.
But they won't lift a finger to get some "food insurance" for themselves and their families because that is what "preppers" and "conspiracy theorists" do.
Well, a whole lot of people in Japan wish that they had been "preppers" just about now.

Gold’s Record Surge—A Rejection of Capitalism?

It keeps going up because more and more people don’t want to play in a capitalist system where banks are still too big too fail, the Federal Reserve buys Treasuries in the open market and countries openly, and in a coordinated fashion, try to devalue paper assets right before our eyes.

Unexpectedly........ What dumb bastard didn't?

Existing-Home Sales Plunge, Setback for Housing Recovery

Liar in Chief?

Obama: ‘President Does Not Have Power Under Constitution to Unilaterally Authorize a Military Attack’