• The Chopping Block?

• Attention Governor Perry: Evolution is a fact

• Capital Flight Proves Confidence in European Interbank System has Collapsed

• Federal Reserve Policy + Extreme Weather = Revolution + World War III

• Families in modern Ireland skip food to pay the mortgage

• The Tipping Point: When Do Americans Hit the Streets?

• Britain enacts blanket ban on protests

The Home Office announced the blanket ban on all marches in five London boroughs for 30 days starting from September 2, the Independent reported.

Will this ban cut into the Sept. 17th global “March on Wall St.” protest? Is London supposed to be in on this global protest? Maybe I need to do a StandUp Rage show in London on the 17th. Any ideas for venues?

• It May Be 2008 All Over Again, But There Is One Key Difference

A Race In Opposite Directions: How scary is it? The best illustration comes from the $US Gold price. The “price” of longer-term US Treasury debt has risen by 14.75 percent since the beginning of July. Over the same period, the $US price of Gold has risen from $US 1482 to its August 19 spot future close of $US 1852. That’s a rise of $US 370 or 25 percent. Yet US Treasury debt and Gold are polar opposites in any sane evaluation of the financial system. Treasury debt is the foundation of the global monetary system. Gold is the pariah of the global monetary system and has been locked out of it in any official form for four decades. With all the comparisons to the events of 2008 which have been appearing in the mainstream financial media, this comparison has been all but totally overlooked. Cast your mind back to the carnage of late 2008. During that period, almost everything was sold off. While it is true that Gold did not fall nearly as far as did most of its fellow “commodities”, it is nonetheless a fact that in the two months between mid September and mid November 2008, Gold fell from about $US 920 to $US 700. That’s about 24 percent. There were two financial assets which boomed in late 2008. One was Treasury debt, the other was the US Dollar. While Gold and everything else was falling out of bed, the trade-weighted US Dollar index – the USDX – soared 21 percent from 73 to 88.2 between early August and late November 2008. Compare that to what is happening now. Treasuries are soaring but the US Dollar is, at best, flat. And Gold in terms of EVERY major paper currency has gone ballistic. This time, things do look different.

• Merkel: Markets Won’t ‘Blackmail’ Euro Leaders

• “I Am Jim Rogers And I Support Ron Paul”