rss

Featured Articles

  • 0
    Posted on May 13th, 2013

    Preppers: Being ready, just in case

    Preppers

    Are you Prepared?

    Recent events have people from all walks of life prepping for worst-case scenarios.

    In 2003, the Department of Homeland Security and Federal Emergency Management Agency launched the Ready campaign to encourage Americans to prepare for emergencies. The campaign echoes much of survivalist rhetoric, including having enough food, water, medication and other supplies to last for at least 72 hours.

    “People are concerned,” said Hobel. “They just want to know what to do in case something happens. That conversation has started to become more and more socially acceptable.”

  • 0
    Posted on January 31st, 2013

    France ‘totally bankrupt’, says labour minister Michel Sapin

    Euro Crisis

    Euro Crisis

    France’s labour minister sent the country into a state of shock on Monday after he described the nation as “totally bankrupt”.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9832845/France-totally-bankrupt-says-labour-minister-Michel-Sapin.html

  • 0
    Posted on January 29th, 2013

    Homeland Security Chief Warns of Cyber 9/11

    In a recent speech at the Wilson Center, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano warned that a “cyber 9/11″ could happen “imminently” and that critical infrasructure is extremely vulnerable to cyber attacks.

    Read More

  • 0
    Posted on July 16th, 2012

    Florida cops kill innocent man at his own home

    Hearing a knock on his door at 1:30 am, a perplexed Florida man answered the door to see what kind of unannounced visitors were outside. Holding a gun for security, 26-year old Andrew Scott was instantly shot dead by police after he opened the door.

    It took the Lake County Police Department an hour and a half to realize they had killed an innocent man.

     

    Read More…

Emergency Preparedness
0
Posted on March 8th, 2012

Urban Danger Film

Urban Danger Trailer

See all 3 Episodes!

Civil Unrest • Depression • SHTF Anarchy
Full Story
0
Posted on July 15th, 2012

War in August? US sends fourth aircraft carrier and dozens of underwater drones towards Iran

Global War

Global War

The US Navy has unexpectedly dispatched a fourth aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf, along with a fleet of underwater drones in what is being considered just the latest move in a series of escalations leading towards a potential war with Iran.
The deployment of dozens of small, unmanned submarine-like watercraft was confirmed by the Los Angeles Times this week, which cites military officials speaking on condition of anonymity.

Featured • Global War • Iran • US Military
Full Story
0
Posted on July 13th, 2012

The Euro Crisis Will End With Something ‘Impossible’ Happening

other possibility … Basically, eventually the ECB stops propping up all the banks (as they are now), and you get bank runs, bank holidays, and currency redenominations. That would mean the end of the euro system, which would then bring “cataclysmic” effects, both economic and legal.

 

Euro Crisis • Featured
Full Story
0
Posted on July 11th, 2012

Spain bows to EU ultimatum with drastic cuts

Euro Crisis

Euro Crisis

Spanish premier Mariano Rajoy has raised VAT sharply in a humiliating volte-face and pushed through €65bn (£51bn) of drastic austerity measures to comply with a European Union ultimatum, risking a downward spiral into full depression.

Hours before, daily newspaper El Pais had stunned the nation by publishing the leaked “Memorandum” imposed by the eurozone’s creditor bloc as the condition for Spain’s €100bn bank rescue.

The draconian terms include an EU takeover of the Spanish financial system, with calls for haircuts on €67bn of junior and hybrid bank debt, a bad bank to wind down crippled lenders, “on-site” raids by inspectors, and intrusive demands across the gamut of fiscal policy.

The 20-page list of diktats – ending with an ice-cold ultimatum – has shattered the illusion that Spain would escape lightly, avoiding the sort of EU-IMF Troika regime inflicted on Greece. “The EU is trying to do a ‘Greece’ without putting up the money that Greece got, because there isn’t any,” said Luis Arroyo, a former Bank of Spain economist.

Read More…

 

 

Euro Crisis • Featured • Spain
Full Story
0
Posted on July 11th, 2012

Politicians Unlikely to Save Euro Now

Euro Crisis

Euro Crisis

The euro is living on borrowed time. And, with European politicians as well as the European Central Bank, illustrating little ability to save it, that time is running out fast.

What initially looked like a template for a solution has proved to be more of a minefield of fresh problems. The bailout for Spanish banks, for example, has thrown up myriad questions over how funds should be distributed and who will have eventual control, especially given some of the irregular investment practices of some Spanish banks that leave small savers at risk.

In the meantime, even the structure of the body charged with providing the funds, the European Stability Mechanism, is now creating problems; with the German constitutional courts refusing to rubber-stamp approval of its creation but embarking on what could be a complicated three-months of negotiations to provide legality.

 

Read More…

 

Euro Crisis • Featured • Spain
Full Story
0
Posted on July 11th, 2012

Obama grants DHS power to takeover commercial, private communications in emergency

Department of Homeland Security

Department of Homeland Security

Should disaster strike the U.S., the secretary of Homeland Security will be in charge of re-establishing and prioritizing communications to ensure the continuation of the federal government, according to a new executive order from PresidentBarack Obama.

The executive order, signed on Friday, once again expands the powers of the Department of Homeland Security — this time to include the handling of communications during a national security event or natural disaster. The order also allows for DHS to re-establish communications “through the use of commercial, government, and privately owned communications resources, when appropriate.”

Read More…

 

Big Brother • Civil Rights • Decline of the US • Department of Homeland Security • Featured
Full Story
0
Posted on July 11th, 2012

Germany urges swift court verdict over bailout fund

Euro Crisis

Euro Crisis

Germany’s top court agreed on Tuesday to examine complaints lodged against the EU’s bailout fund and new budget rules but gave no date for its verdict, keeping investors on tenterhooks over the prospects for overcoming the euro zone crisis.

“We are in a very serious situation. Nobody can predict what will happen,” he told the eight red-robed judges at the end of a day-long hearing at the court in Karlsruhe, southern Germany.

Schaeuble, a keen proponent of greater European integration, said he did not want to put undue pressure on the court but added: “The alternative to stabilizing the common currency is a breakup with consequences that are difficult to predict.”

Without German backing, the ESM, which was originally meant to start on July 1, then on July 9, cannot come into effect, a state of affairs that could quickly see several heavily indebted euro zone states pushed into bankruptcy.

Euro Crisis • Featured • Germany
Full Story
0
Posted on July 11th, 2012

Kaspersky asks int’l community for rules on ‘cyber warfare’

Kaspersky internet security firm owner Eugene Kaspersky has urged the international community to set rules on “cyber warfare” as he warns of “a new period of global conflict” with the release of malwares Flame, Stuxnet and Duqu.

“There aren’t many people who currently understand the danger of cyber weapons. It’s hard to believe that some virus, a few kilo/megabytes of code can suddenly cause, say, an accident at a nuclear station, a fire on an oil pipeline or a plane crash, isn’t it? But mankind has for some time now become increasingly and imperceptibly dependent on information technologies,” Kaspersky said.

 

Read More…

 

Cyber-Terrorism • Featured • Terrorism
Full Story
0
Posted on July 10th, 2012

China’s Economy: Apocalypse Soon?

Analysts and government planners are now resigned to the fact that the growth rate in 2012 will slip under the once-magic (and numerologically auspicious) figure of 8 percent. Instead, keeping growth above 7 percent has become the immediate task at hand, especially with the important 18th Party Congress coming this autumn.

Nomura, the Japanese financial services firm, has launched the China Stress Index, and the Nomura analyst Rob Subbaraman affirmed Monday that the company sees “a one-in-three probability” that China will experience “a hard economic landing commencing before the end of 2014.”

In a recent Barron’s piece called “Falling Star,” Jonathan Laing took the temperature of Jim Chanos, “the most outspoken Sino-Skeptic” on Wall Street.

Never one to mince words, Chanos contends that China is headed for a hard landing of epic proportions because of its shaky financial system and an imminent collapse in its property market, which undergirds the entire economy. “I’m being conservative when I say that the coming bust in China’s real-estate market will be a thousand times that of Dubai,” he told Barron’s.

Read MORE

China • Featured
Full Story
0
Posted on July 9th, 2012

Police requesting Americans’ cellphone data at staggering rate

Police are monitoring Americans’ cellphone use at a staggering rate, according to new information released in a congressional inquiry.
In letters released by Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), cellphone companies described seeing a huge uptick in requests from law enforcement agencies, with 1.3 million federal, state and local requests for phone records in 2011 alone.

“We cannot allow privacy protections to be swept aside with the sweeping nature of these information requests, especially for innocent consumers,” Markey said in a statement Monday. “Law enforcement agencies are looking for a needle, but what are they doing with the haystack? We need to know how law enforcement differentiates between records of innocent people, and those that are subjects of investigation, as well as how it handles, administers, and disposes of this information.”
<a href=”http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-police-requesting-phone-data-20120709,0,5808347.story”>More Info</a>

Big Brother • Decline of the US • Featured
Full Story
Older Entries
Next Page »