Jenna Orkin - Morning Edition
Headlines
The War Against European Fracking Gets Dirty
"Double-teamed by the nuclear lobby and the Russians."
Scylla or Charybdis. - JO
Forget Bernanke: A Paper At Jackson Hole May Have Changed The Future Of Economics
The paper's bottom lie recommendation:
"It's not that the Fed will keep rates low until the economy improves, or unemployment falls below 6%, or until inflation really starts picking up, it's only that the Fed won't ease up on the gas pedal until the economy is fully at its full output potential. The idea is that the Fed is sending a huge signal to businesses: We're going to keep money cheap for a long time, even once the economy is gaining steam, so that if you're in the game then, you're going to make huge profits. All uncertainty about when rates are raised is taken off the table, and the Fed maintains all the credibility in the world, so long as it just sticks to that goal." - JO
STARTING TONIGHT: An Epic Week For The Global Economy
PMI, the Convention and a few other bombshell announcements coming up. - JO
Economy
More Fed Won't Help 'Real Economy'
NS (No shit. ) - JO
Spain’s Jobless Turn to Barter System
The Consequences Of Easy Monetary Policy
Your Financial Planner Will Probably Handicap Every Investment You Make
Struggling Spanish Consumers Now Face A Crippling Tax Hike
Everyone Is Ignoring A Sign Of US Economic Decline We Haven't Seen In 60 Years
Are Slave Heirs in the Way of Brazil’s Economic Growth?
If so, they'd better watch out. - JO
Harrisburg to Run Out of Money in October; Inside America's Most Indebted City; Labyrinth of Fraud
Spain's Budget Deficit Already Exceeds Maximum for Entire Year; Path of Convergence
Spain has a history of spending too much money. They squandered a 200 year head start in the America's building cathedrals and buying trinkets from the far East. They thought the party was never going to end and squandered it all instead of industrializing as the British, French, and Germans. Bad habits are hard to break... Spain has never recovered, returning to their bad habit, and the proof is in the pudding. -- Collapse Network Staff
China, Germany to Settle More Trade in Yuan, Euros; What's That Mean for Gold, the Dollar?
16 Reasons This September Should Scare You
Energy/Resources
Russians Dumped Old Nuclear Reactors and Radioactive Waste Into Sea
Venezuela Ramps up China Oil Exports
Iran’s first nuclear power plant operating at full capacity
Are the Israeli's going to strike now? And thus effectively and purposefully creating a Fukushima/Chernobyl inside of Iran. The world does not have has the stomach for that and such a hostile action would definitely warrant a retaliatory strike. Iran would strike first and Russia would ensure a sterile holy land if Israel took things fully nuclear. Where the tit for tat would end is anyone's guess but let us all hope that cooler heads prevail in the middle east.
If Israel doesn't strike, it is then a quiet capitulation (of Israel and the United States) recognizing the Islamic republic's growing clout and relevance in geopolitics. This is something to keep an eye on, especially because Iran want's to open a second reactor in the future. It makes sense for Iran to use as little oil and gas as possible to generate electricity using other means. The price of increasingly scarce petroleum products will continue to climb and they can use more of it domestically to improve their own standard of living. Peak oil politics in action. -- Collapse Network Staff
Dairy cows at the CNE in Toronto are locked in place
"For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction" Isacc Newton, Third Law of Motion. Newton's laws of nature were written to describe energy, mass, force, and motion. However, this law can be applied to other phenomena across the universe.
Industrialized farming accounts for large portions of our food consumption. Over the past few years there has been a plethora of documentaries released highlighting the evils and dangers of such practices.
A recent expo in Toronto has provided a fresh example and opportunity to remember that how we treat our fellow organisms on Earth will have a equally horrendous effect on us (humans) in the long run.
"The dairy cows are confined to their tiny cube for most of the day. When asked how often the animals are allowed to move around the staff smiled saying that they are given break once a day where they are walked outside behind the building."
We must consume animals to survive, but to turn them into our slaves and treat them like robots is over the line. We consume: stressed, abused, neglected, homone injected, antibiotic full, poorly fed, unfit, sickly, and ruthlessly killed animals. What do we think we will get out of this?
Newton's third law is striking as we see that our food stocks are collapsing worldwide. Newton scientifically described what many have studied millennia: Karma. And we as a species have some bad Karma right now; at least a few of us are trying to turn it around before it is too late. -- Collapse Network Staff
Colombia Land Grab by Billionaires Risks Pledge to Displaced
Oops. - JO
Here's The Latest On The Flesh-Eating Seagulls Attacking Whales Near Argentina
Military/Intelligence
Syrian rebels 'seize air defence base'
U.S. Weighs Branding Notorious Group As 'Terrorists'
Software Meant to Fight Crime Is Used to Spy on Dissidents
That didn't take long. - JO
Harvard: Researchers Grow Cyborg Tissues with Embedded Nanoelectronics
‘Americans Shot in Mexico Were CIA Operatives Aiding in Drug War’
On whose side? See: High Level Member of Sinaloa Cartel Claims Multi-Ton Cocaine Trafficking Activities Were Sanctioned by DOJ, DEA and DHS/ICEand CIA Jet Used for “Rendering” Suspects Crashes with Four Tons of Cocaine on Board - JO
The road to Hell... - JO
New AIDS-Like Disease Found in U.S., Asia
Walmart Is Testing A Scan-And-Go iPhone App That Could One Day Replace Cashiers
11-year-old boy handcuffed and escorted to school by cop
Brain-Controlled Quadcopter Drone Takes Flight in China
Civil Unrest/Politics
South Africa: Police Kill 34 Protestors, Survivors Face Murder Charges
It Is Time For The Ron Paul Revolution To Move Beyond Politics
Anti-Immigrant Sentiment In Greece Is Growing Steadily Worse
Divide and conquer - works every time. - JO
Bahrain demonstrators call for democracy and release of activist
