The Real World News and Commentary – September 17, 2012

Connecting the Dots in the Real World

Created by Roy Perlmutter   September 17 2012

 

Cowardice Is Destroying America

http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2012-09-15/cowardice-destroying-america

 

“Today the entire “mainstream media” is closed to truth-tellers. The US media is Washington’s propaganda ministry. The US media has only one function–to lie for Washington.”

Paul Craig Roberts is chairman of The Institute for Political Economy and a prolific editorialist.  Dr. Roberts was awarded the Treasury Department’s Meritorious Service Award for “his outstanding contributions to the formulation of United States economic policy,” having been appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy in 1981 by President Reagan and confirmed by the Senate.

 

http://www.thedailybell.com/4248/Paul-Craig-Roberts-The-Republicans-Cross-the-Rubicon

 

Marc Faber: If I Were Bernanke, I Would Resign

http://www.cnbc.com/id/49029923/

 

Marc Faber: “Fed Will Destroy The World”

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/marc-faber-fed-will-destroy-world

 

Financially troubled parts of Europe consider taxing church properties

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/financially-troubled-cities-in-spain-consider-taxing-church-properties/2012/09/13/3b62c736-f842-11e1-8398-0327ab83ab91_story.html

 

UK-based banks accused of massive mis-selling in Italy

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19545849

 

Blowback

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowback_%28intelligence%29

 

Mr Blowback rising in Benghazi

According to Jellyfish Operations – a private intelligence and analysis boutique that has spent much time dissecting the intervention in Libya and the conflict in Syria—the anti-Islamic movie is a red herring in all of this.


In September 2012, for the first time in three months, al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, aka The Surgeon, released a 42-minute video special to “celebrate” the 11th anniversary of 9/11, finally admitting the snuffing out of his number two.

His number two was none other than Abu Yahya al-Libi – targeted by one of US President Barack Obama’s cherished drones in Waziristan on June 4.


An immediate effect of al-Zawahiri’s video was that an angry armed mob, led by Islamist outfit Ansar al Sharia, set fire to the US consulate in Benghazi. The US ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, was killed.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/NI14Dj01.html

 

Blowback

http://www.amazon.com/Blowback-Second-Edition-Consequences-American/dp/0805075593

 

“The key to all of this is al-Qaeda’s second in command, Abu Yahya al-Libi, who was killed by a US drone attack in Waziristan on 4 June,” Bagley said. “The real catalyst for the attack in Libya and the unrest that has spread to Yemen, was a lengthy video released by al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, marking the anniversary of 9/11 and admitting to the death of al-Libi, who is Libyan.”


“This was a very powerful call to avenge al-Libi’s death,” Bagley said, “and it came only 24 hours before the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi.”

http://oilprice.com/Geopolitics/Africa/Libya-Doomed-from-Day-One.html

 

Ron Paul on Blowback

http://mises.org/daily/2588

 

Ron Paul: A New Hope

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG2PUZoukfA

 

Miles Franklin Report Fall 2012

http://www.milesfranklin.com/uploads/Miles%20Franklin%20Quarterly%20Fall%202012.pdf

 

Felix Zulauf always believed that the world economy and the financial markets move in cycles. That has helped him avoiding all the major casualties in the financial markets since the 1973/74 bear market in equities. He is a member of Barron’s Roundtable for over 20 years.

http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/Broadcast/Entries/2012/9/15_Felix_Zulauf.html

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KWN Weekly Metals Wrap     Saturday, September 15, 2012

http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/Broadcast/Entries/2012/9/15_KWN_Weekly_Metals_Wrap_files/KWN%20Weekly%20Metals%20Wrap%209%3A15%3A2012.mp3

 

VOY 3×13 ‘Fair Trade’ Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmZimF4BtJk