BROTHERHOOD BATTLE: Embattled Morsi calls out his backers

from independent.co.uk:

The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt has called for a mass demonstration in Cairo this week to show support for the embattled President, Mohamed Morsi, who is facing widespread protests over his controversial decree granting him extensive new powers.

In a statement published on its website, the Brotherhood also called for demonstrations in public squares across the country after early evening prayers today.

The latest blow to Mr Morsi came yesterday when the [...]

FT: Gulf states crack down on TWITTER users

From FT:

 

Gulf states are cracking down on alleged politically and religiously offensive messages on Twitter, in a move that is alarming rights campaigners and highlights the surging regional popularity of the site.

Human Rights Watch has condemned the detention of activists in Bahrain and Kuwait, as social media offer a new outlet for criticism in conservative societies where rulers have traditionally enjoyed near-absolute power in exchange for delivering high living standards.

The [...]

Power really does corrupt as scientists claim it’s as addictive as cocaine; Scientists claim power is biologically addicting.

Daily Mail
April 29, 2012

More than a hundred years after noted historian Baron John Acton coined the phrase ‘power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely’ scientists claim the saying is biologically true.

The feeling of power has been found to have a similar effect on the brain to cocaine by increasing the levels of testosterone and its by-product 3-androstanediol in both men and women.

This in turn leads to raised levels [...]

Paul Farrell: Reagan began class war in 1981, Buffett declared in 2006: Rich Class fighting 99%, winning big-time. They have no conscience about the collateral damage done to the rest of Americans…

By Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch) — Yes, “there is class warfare, all right,” declared Warren Buffett. “But it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”

Yes, the Rich Class is at war with you, with the 99%, a war against America. This class war actually started a generation ago, in 1981 when Ronald Reagan became president. Since then, the Rich Class has been [...]

PAUL FARRELL: Reagan began class war in 1981, Buffett declared in 2006; The rich class will fight this war to the death, yours, theirs, even the death of America. Bet on it: Because more is never enough for America’s morally bankrupt Rich Class

By Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — Yes, “there is class warfare, all right,” declared Warren Buffett. “But it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”

Yes, the Rich Class is at war with you, with the 99%, a war against America. This class war actually started a generation ago, in 1981 when Ronald Reagan became president. Since then, the Rich Class has been winners. [...]

Polls show that a majority of Americans say that both the Republicans and Democrats are doing such a poor job representing the people that a new, third party is needed.

I’ve repeatedly warned that there is a scripted, psuedo-war between Dems and Repubs, liberals and conservatives which is in reality a false divide-and-conquer dog-and-pony show created by the powers that be to keep the American people divided and distracted. See this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this and this.

In fact, the Founding Fathers warned us [...]

What has QE2 done?

It is merely a transfer of wealth from the retired, the working poor, the middle class and the thrifty to the wealthy, stock owning minority. Bernanke’s money printing blows another stockmarket bubble and if you own stock or work on Wall Street or are one of Bernanke’s hedge fund buddies, you have made billions. If you work hard for a living, have a [...]

There were 22 warnings from major market figures starting in 2000 till the 2008 meltdown…the cover-up cost Americans trillions!

By Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch) —

We have hard evidence Washington and Wall Street knew the 2008 crash was coming years in advance. Yes, they could have prevented it. But didn’t. And, yes, the cover-up cost Americans trillions.

Was their Reaganomics ideology so rigid, so blinding, they couldn’t (and still cannot) admit they were wrong? Forcing them to lie to America? Cover up the [...]

Thanks Ben…You Have Destroyed the Social Fabric of the World

by Mike Krieger of KAM LP

Commodity Inflation: You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet

Gold is the money of kings, silver is the money of gentlemen, barter is the money of peasants – but debt is the money of slaves.

- Norm Franz, Money and Wealth in the New Millennium
As soon as your born they make you feel small,
By giving you no time instead of it all,
Till the pain is so big you feel [...]

Morning briefing – Oct. 06, 2010

by fishhook

Good morning gang…………………….better late than never?

Stocks broke out of the corral by smashing down the north boundary. The close above 1150 was a key area to even amateur chartists, and this likely will result in additional buying as we did not see much positive tick for the first 3 days of the month. This should mean that there is money available from the institutions that they did not spend [...]