Josh Kilbourn: US Disability & Food Stamp Welfare Skyrocketing

Two Charts Exposing America’s Record Shadow Welfare State Here was a little mentioned tangent to last Friday’s very disappointing NFP print of +115,000 (driven by a surge in temp jobs offsetting a collapse in full time positions): as David Rosenberg notes, the jobs number was about half of another far more important number – that …

Berto Jongman: Interesting National Security Links

Business Cover for US Military Spies? Communicating in a Crisis Cute Cats Theories of Political Activism Eight Most Influential Technologies Fallujah Health Effects Fed Transcripts Is Al Qaeda Really Dead Part I Islamophobia Conference US Military and Intelligence Clash Over Spy Satellites** US Spending Tax Money on Useless Weapons Systems VIDEO:  Secrets in Plain Sight …

Yoda: In with Flynn, Out with What? Can He Effect Change Clapper Could Not?

Military Intelligence Gadfly Will Lead All Military Intelligence Spencer Ackerman WIRED, April 17, 2012 One of the most disruptive men in the sprawling U.S. spy community, someone who turned the military’s elite killers into top spies, will likely soon be in charge of all military intelligence. The Pentagon on Tuesday nominated Army Lt. Gen. Michael …

Gary North: Do NOT Under-Estimate Bernanke’s Ignorance

Ben Bernanke’s Judy Garland Impersonation by Gary North “Somewhere, over the rainbow, way up high.” Federal Reserve Board chairman Ben Bernanke delivered a speech on April 13 on “Rethinking Finance.” It certainly needs to be rethought at the highest levels. Unfortunately, Dr. Bernanke has not yet begun the process. Thinking, yes. Not rethinking. He ended …