Libraries Closing Despite Rise in Attendance
My Fox NY New Jersey’s most impoverished city will close all three branches of its public library at year’s end unless a rescue can be…
Economy
US Postal Service loses $3.5 bln in third quarter
Reuters * Postal Service concerned with future liquidity * Says regulatory changes necessary for fiscal stability * Customer group disputes prediction for cash shortfall (Adds…
Tony Blair Must Be Arrested
John Pilger New Statesman Having helped destroy other nations far away, our former prime minister — “peace envoy” to the Middle East — is now…
An Avoidable Depression
Mike Whitney Counterpunch The economy has gone from bad to worse. On Friday the Commerce Department reported that GDP had slipped from 3.7% to 2.4%…
The IMF Push for a New Global Currency
Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. Lew Rockwell You surely didn’t think that the governing elites would let this economic crisis pass without pushing some cockamamie scheme…
Food Prices Warning as World Wheat Costs Rise
Adrian Lowery This Is Money Shoppers were warned today that food prices are set to soar further, after food inflation already jumped in July. Hovis…
Food stamp use hit record 40.8m in May
Boston Globe (Bloomberg News) The number of Americans who are receiving food stamps rose to a record 40.8 million in May as the jobless rate hovered…
Dare to Prepare: Collapse of Civilization Now Guaranteed
Eric Blair Activist Post “It has been written” as the saying goes. For many generations there have been small groups of people who have researched…
New IMF Strategy Document Charts Launch Of “Bancor” Global Currency
Highlights “potential resistance” on road from “voluntary multilateral framework” to full blown global currency Steve Watson Prison Planet A newly published IMF strategy document calls…
Reduce Federal Spending: End the Drug War
Jacob Hornberger Campaign for Liberty I have a proposal for reducing federal spending: End the drug war by legalizing drugs. Let’s face reality: Unless something…
Rockefeller Foundation: Scenarios for the Future Not Pretty
Cryptogon Via: Rockefeller Foundation: LOCK STEP – A world of tighter top-down government control and more authoritarian leadership, with limited innovation and growing citizen pushback….
Defining Prosperity Down
Paul Krugman New York Times I’m starting to have a sick feeling about prospects for American workers — but not, or not entirely, for the…
Leaderless Resistance
Louis Beam Nationalist Coalition The concept of Leaderless Resistance was proposed by Col. Ulius Louis Amoss, who was the founder of International Service of Information…
Rolling Firehouse Closures Begin In Philly
CBS3 The city has started temporarily closing fire stations in order to balance its budget.The rolling “brownouts” began with the closing of three fire companies…