James Petras

The US government (White House and Congress) spends $10 billion dollars a month, or $120 billion a year, to fight an estimated “50 -75 ‘Al Qaeda types’ in Afghanistan”, according to the CIA and quoted in the Financial Times of London (6/25 -26/11, p. 5). During the past 30 months of the Obama presidency, Washington has spent $300 billion dollars in Afghanistan, which adds up to $4 billion dollars for each alleged ‘Al Queda type’. If we multiply this by the two dozen or so sites and countries where the White House claims ‘Al Qaeda’ terrorists have been spotted, we begin to understand why the US budget deficit has grown astronomically to over $1.6 trillion for the current fiscal year.
By Silver Shield
I wrote a month ago in an article called Silver Bullet and the Silver Shield, that silver is a vital commodity to our way of life. I stated that silver is a precious metal that is being trashed as an industrial metal. As a result, it is within years of becoming the first metal to become extinct according to the USGS. At some point the shortage is going to become so obvious, that people are going to rush to turn in their depreciating dollars for real silver money. That is just the monetary demand of silver, the industrial and strategic demand is another huge factor we should consider.
Corporations are going to secure stockpiles of this precious commodity so as not to cause any supply disruptions in their billion dollar a year operation. Take for example the $300+ billion Apple Computer. Apple Computer’s market cap rests upon the increased sales and production of computers. If every one of their $1,500 computers has a 1/10th of an ounce of silver in it, they will spare no expense to secure silver when it becomes hard to get.
By Rady Ananda

For two days this month, Wordpress.com, which hosts a tenth of the world's websites drawing nearly 300 million unique visitors a month, suffered the largest distributed denial-of-service attack in its six-year history. Six separate attacks on March 3 and 4, mostly originating from China, targeted a single Chinese-language site hosted by WP.
On March 3rd, WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg told TechCrunch (also hosted by WP), “There’s an ongoing DDoS attack that was large enough to impact all three of our datacenters in Chicago, San Antonio, and Dallas."

The year is 2010 and to anyone not in denial, the industrialized nations have entered the greatest calamity the world has ever known:
There are now well over 150 million Americans who feel stress over these things on a consistent basis. Although over 60 percent of Americans now live paycheck to paycheck, they still support the state of the art Atom smashing Rube Large Hadron Goldberg Collider (RLHGC), developed by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) at a cost of only $8 Billion (that's around 3.03 billion Euros). [2]
It doesn’t matter that America and most of the industrialized world is suffering a technospheric breakdown:
Every bridge, road, reservoir, is gradually degrading along with every office building, factory, school and home, as well as the infrastructure for every sewer, municipal water system, electrical grid, airport and railway station. ALL of them are in a slow but sure process of deterioration and degeneration. [3]
Humanity will be OK if we can re-create creation by simulating conditions a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang, that will either demonstrate or rule out the existence of the elusive Higgs boson a.k.a. the God Particle.
We need to find the God Particle and put it back in the Black Hole.