Why Banks Aren’t Lending: The Silent Liquidity Sqeeze
Why aren’t banks lending to local businesses? The Fed’s decision to pay interest on $1.6 trillion in “excess” reserves is a chief suspect. Ellen H….
Politics
Should We Bother to Vote When Revolution Is Inevitable?
“Even supposing the chief good to be eventually the aim for the individual as for the state, that of the state is evidently of greater…
Charges NOT Dropped For Growing Garden
Heather Callaghan Activist Post While it only appears that the City of Oak Park, MI dropped charges toward Julie Bass for planting a vegetable garden…
The Modern Version of “First They Came”
Isaac Davis Vicki Robison The Intel Hub First they came for the tax resistors, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a tax resistor…
U.S. Considers Asset Sale To Pay Bills If Debt Limit Is Not Raised
Dees Illustration Zeke Miller Business Insider Federal officials have reached out to banks and investors to discuss the government’s plans for its paying obligations after…
Police State: 2011 (Video)
YouTube — da8ahazard What happens when there is nobody to police the police? I was handing out fliers the other night at Summerfest, and I…
Federal Court Rules TSA Violated Law By Introducing Body Scanners
Agency ordered to take public comment on continued rollout of technology Dees Illustration Steve Watson Infowars The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that…
Front Yard Gardener Faces New Charges
Paul Joseph Watson Infowars Despite the fact that city authorities have temporarily dropped a case against Oak Park resident Julie Bass for growing a vegetable…
Alan Watt Poem of the Day: Book’s a Bore When You’ve Read it Before
Alan Watt Cutting Through The Matrix Oh Dear, Bad News Incessant, Day-to-Day, But Bear in Mind Events Planned that Way, We’re Living in a Script…
Another Photographer Detained in Southern California
Flickr/ photographer padawan *(xava du) Carlos Miller Pixiq For the second time in a month, police in Long Beach, California detained a photographer for taking…
What Happened to the $2.6 Trillion Social Security Trust Fund?
Dees Illustration Merrill Matthews Forbes Here’s how President Barack Obama answered CBS’s Scott Pelley’s question about whether he could guarantee that Social Security checks would…
California schools to include gay historical figures
In 2009 California established Harvey Milk Day to recognize the efforts of the slain gay rights activist. © AFP/Getty Images/File Justin Sullivan AFP LOS ANGELES…
Fed says US must heed warnings from debt raters
Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke warned lawmakers against a protracted battle over raising the debt ceiling © AFP/Getty Images Mark Wilson AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) –…
Mullen says N. Korea poses ”very real” threat
Admiral Mike Mullen (R), chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, and South Korean Defense Minister Kim Kwan-Jin © AFP Jung Yeon-Je AFP SEOUL…