thestatedtruth.com | March 15, 2011
03-15-2011 Japan, The Persian Gulf And Energy By George Friedman Over the past week, everything seemed to converge on energy. The unrest in the Persian Gulf raised the specter of the disruption of oil supplies to the rest of the world, and an earthquake in Japan knocked out a string of nuclear reactors with potentially […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 15, 2011
Some more thoughts on Japan….we are told, (hopefully correctly), that this is more of a repeat of a Three Mile Island situation where half the fuel rods melted, than Chernobyl where they all did. And…Small amounts of low radiation cesium and iodine have already been released, which should be measurable on American roof tops in about ten […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 14, 2011
Should any of these plants go into full meltdown (indications are (2) already have) there will be both a human and economic disaster worse than 1945. Japan’s nightmare gets even WORSE: All THREE damaged nuclear reactors now in ‘meltdown’ at tsunami-hit power station.  By Richard Shears Last updated at 5:09 PM on 14th March 2011 The […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 13, 2011
From the IAEA Blog: Based on information provided by Japanese authorities, the IAEA can confirm the following information about the status of Units 1, 2 and 3 at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Unit 1 is being powered by mobile power generators on site, and work continues to restore power to the plant. There is […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 13, 2011
Let’s review the specific power plant in question, the General Electric design BWR Mark 1. “This is a boiling water reactor. It’s one of the first designs ever developed for commercial reactors in this country, and it’s widely used in Japan as well. Compared to other reactors, if you look at NRC studies, according to calculations, […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 12, 2011
A third reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 plant loses its emergency cooling capacity, bringing to six the number of reactors that have failed at the two Fukushima nuclear power plants since the earthquake and tsunami. Â Â Another nuclear reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 facility in Japan has lost its emergency cooling capacity, […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 12, 2011
This will continue until the stimulus stops, at that point everything will change, and not for the better! So, eyes on the road everybody. New guidance should be coming soon from the Federal Reserve.
thestatedtruth.com | March 12, 2011
 Stratfor: Japanese Confirm Meltdown  March 12, 2011 Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) said March 12 that the explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi No. 1 nuclear plant could only have been caused by a meltdown of the reactor core, Japanese daily Nikkei reported. This statement seemed somewhat at odds with Japanese Chief […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 11, 2011
thestatedtruth.com | March 11, 2011
Details are sketchy….but TOKYO, March 12, Kyodo The amount of radiation reached around 1,000 times the normal level Saturday in the control room of the No. 1 reactor of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said. The discovery suggests radioactive steam could spread around the facility operated by […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 10, 2011
Answer: Countries don’t grow without immigration and rising populations….and Germany is going the wrong way. They’re not alone on this. BERLIN  Germany, already grappling with one of Europe’s fastest aging and shrinking populations, faces a growing shortage of skilled labor for another, more immediate reason: stepped-up recruiting from abroad for the country’s top engineering and scientific […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 10, 2011
Interesting….. Bank of America Says Nearly Half Its Mortgages Are ‘Bad’ Washington Business Journal Bank of America Corp. is segregating almost half its 13.9 million mortgages into a “bad†bank comprised of its riskiest and worst-performing “legacy†loans, Bloomberg News reported, citing Terry Laughlin, who is running the new unit. “We are creating a classic […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 10, 2011
Cumberland Advisors Day of Rage March 10, 2011 Modern technology. Read email of Saudi events on WiFi at 38,000 feet. This will be brief. The day of rage came early. All outcomes are speculative. Contagion has reached Saudi Arabia. Recent history shows Al-Qaida actively targeted Saudi Arabia several times. Until now, no success. Events in […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 9, 2011
Somebody should think about these programs before implementing them. Government morons get an F as in failing for setting it up this way! “No Child Left Behind is broken and we need to fix it now,” Education Secretary Duncan said in a statement. “This law has created a thousand ways for schools to fail and very […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 9, 2011
This is moving East to West, California’s day not to far away! TOPEKA, Kan. – A Kansas House committee endorsed a bill Wednesday that would cut future retirement benefits for current teachers and government workers to help solve the long-term funding woes of their pension system. The measure that cleared the Pensions and Benefits Committee […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 8, 2011
Reuters reports that European oil imports are about to get tough, making life for Italy, which is most reliant on Libyan oil, quite complicated: Libyan oil trade has been paralysed as banks decline to clear payments in dollars due to U.S. sanctions, trading sources told Reuters on Tuesday. The move follows a decision by major […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 8, 2011
Rick’s Picks “Phenomenally accurate forecasts†Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell said on Face the Nation yesterday that President Obama wasn’t serious about the budget. Lest anyone mistake this for partisan sniping, here’s an interesting factoid that drives the charge home: the $4 billion in spending cuts that Congress just approved to avoid a government shutdown […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 8, 2011
Yikes! Government payouts—including Social Security, Medicare and unemployment insurance—make up more than a third of total wages and salaries of the U.S. population, a record figure that will only increase if action isn’t taken before the majority of Baby Boomers enter retirement. Even as the economy has recovered, social welfare benefits make up 35 percent […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 8, 2011
This makes it hard to see economic growth….especially in Europe! In Europe, gasoline has just hit an all time record of $8.632 per gallon! As HLN.be reports: Petrol 95 at €1.624 per litre. This breaks the 2008 record of €1.61 per liter.” Translated into American this means that a gallon of gas in Europe is […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 7, 2011
What’s the old saying….records are made to be broken. The bottom line is we have a bunch of government morons here! They still don’t know basic math. March 18’th is the deadline for current stop gap funding. Without a new spending agreement by then, the government will shut down (?). The federal government posted its largest […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 7, 2011
Bill Gross of PIMCO has been saying similar things and thinks once QE2 ends things could get very negative for the free market system, the dollar and interest rates. Charles Biderman: What nobody’s asking is what happens when QE 2 stops: If the only buyer is the Fed, and the Fed stops buying, I don’t know what is going to […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 7, 2011
World changing events are taking place in the oil rich Middle East. Saudi Arabia drafts another 10,000 troops ahead of protests, and drafting up to 10,000 security forces to the north eastern Muslim Shia provinces ahead of mass protests planned next week. Peak oil has passed. The economic dominance of the West is now history. Those […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 6, 2011
thestatedtruth.com | March 5, 2011
Cumberland Advisors David Kotok always does a good job on the important issues…..it’s a good read! $115 Oil, Contagion and Central Banks March 5, 2011 “… there’s so much unrest that one can actually sense or imagine unknown nano-particles of rage colliding in mid-air…â€Â (Source: a private person who screens Middle East media for me […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 5, 2011
New faster data networks are being rolled out by the major U.S. wireless carriers, but does anybody really understand what’s happening to rapidly advancing cell technology? This may help! Sprint Nextel Corp. has “the Now Network.†T-Mobile claims “the nation’s largest.†Verizon Wireless is “Lightning Fast, Lightning Strong.†Everyone is pushing new phones, tablets and other […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 4, 2011
Wisconsin Governor Walker……We’re Broke! So what does that make California and Illinois to name a few others. Yep. they’re even more broke. Wisconsin governor Walker announced he would fire 1500 state workers unless democrats, who have been fled and are hiding in Illinois to avoid a critical vote on collective bargaining, return to the state. […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 4, 2011
The U.S. Labor Department said Friday….Nonfarm payrolls rose by 192,000 last month and unemployment fell below 9% for the first time in nearly two years….8.9% employment;  Gallup had a different take on this, we review it below. Adjustments to population has helped  keep number in order.  Labor force participation rate has not been moved. Job gains […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 3, 2011
Wow, this sure looks spacey…come to think of it, that makes total sense! Unlike NASA’s space shuttles, the X-37B space plane does everything autonomously. It also has a solar array that is deployed from its payload bay to generate power during its months-long stay in orbit. The first X-37B spacecraft launched in April 2010 and […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 3, 2011
We would side with the Gallop Poll over the U.S. government data.   Aside from that, Warren Buffet said Wednesday on CNBC that the U.S. unemployment rate should be in the low seven percent range by late 2012. If that is going to be the case, the job creation environment must change dramatically from what it is […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 3, 2011
The economy may be getting better for the time being, but not for those at the bottom! Food stamp usage just hit 44.1 million people in December and averaged $134 a month per person.
thestatedtruth.com | March 3, 2011
Guess Ben Bernanke has been looking at the wrong picture with his “inflation isn’t a problem” rant! The picture above looks pretty darn clear to us. Global food prices rose to a record in February and grain costs may continue to rise in the next several months, with only rice keeping the world from a repeat […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 2, 2011
Ok class, let’s review the current housing market. So where do we start…how about with inventory! Inventory continues to swell. “There’s just way too many homes out there relative to demand and we’re not going to see that change anytime soon,” says Joshua Shapiro, chief US economist for MFR Inc. Lenders continue to repossess massive numbers of […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 2, 2011
The U.S. economy grew moderately in early 2011 and the weak jobs market improved, while businesses reported rising costs, the Fed said. Here are some key highlights: Non-wage input costs increased for manufacturers and retailers in most Districts. Retailers in some Districts mentioned they had implemented price increases or were anticipating such action in the next […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 1, 2011
 Never Fight A Land War In Asia By George Friedman | March 1, 2011 U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, speaking at West Point, said last week that “Any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should have […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 1, 2011
Well, this is a deep subject, no pun intended, suffice to say 401K’s are not the only way states can help their pension funds. They can manage them more wisely and put less faith into Wall Street. The financial collapse, poor management and the housing bubble are amoung the reasons these plans are in crisis. Here are some definitions: A defined benefit […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 1, 2011
Gallop breaks things down into different categories much better then other polls do! According to the Gallup Poll, “Americans have become much less confident in the U.S. economy over the past two weeks, with Gallup’s Economic Confidence Index falling from -18 to -30 during that span. The -18 Index score from two weeks ago was the […]
thestatedtruth.com | February 28, 2011
Half Past Human in “The Shape Of Things To Come 2011/2012″ predicted earthquakes along with repeated references of floods and serious crop shortages in the U.S. this year……they use an artificial intelligence Asymetric Language Trend Analysis computer program that has been successful about 50% of the time! They see tension building until the equinox on March 21’st, then there is somewhat of a release […]
thestatedtruth.com | February 28, 2011
Yep…we’re not surprised! From The Wall Street Journal: A government study found duplicative programs that cost taxpayers billions of dollars each year, including 15 different agencies overseeing food-safety laws, 20 programs to help the homeless and 80 for economic development.
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