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Rep. Darrell Issa of California, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, has found another target in the Obama administration’s policy agenda: energy. Late Monday, Issa released a scathing report accusing the White House of being complicit in driving up oil prices to push a move to alternative energy sources. Among other things, the report — “Rising Energy Costs: An Intentional Result of Government Action” — accused the administration of restricting access to domestic energy sources, hindering “fracking” technology and hampering the economic recovery by proposing new taxes on the energy industry. The report also says the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)...

Remember the trailer for Sacred Science Gore’s “documentary” An Inconvenient Truth? Many were swept up. Emotional sentences and trigger words flashed before our eyes: AT SUNDANCE IT RECEIVED THREE STANDING OVATIONS. (Translation: If left-liberals clap hysterically in groupthink settings then it must be compellingly complex.) IT WILL SHAKE YOU TO YOUR CORE. (Translation: You, the viewer need to be shaken from your intellectual slumber.) IF YOU LOVE YOUR PLANET… IF YOU LOVE YOUR CHILDREN… YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS FILM. (Translation: Abandon critical-thinking skills. The leftwing Democrat has decided that we need to show love to our planet. Also your...

LAS VEGAS (MarketWatch) -- Silver has been manipulated down in recent weeks, Eric Sprott, head of Sprott Asset Management, said Thursday. Silver slumped by $6 in 13 minutes late on a recent Sunday, when the market was thinnest, Sprott noted during the SkyBridge Alternatives Conference in Las Vegas. That was followed by four margin increases, Sprott added. Sprott recently launched a silver fund and has been a gold bull for at least a decade. Despite the recent drop in precious metals, Sprott reckons they are a good way to protect against trouble in the banking system and a potential devaluation...

It happens almost every day around here, a name will come up, the polls show this or that, and right away people jump in and say," I don't like him but I'll vote for him if he is nominated, he isn't Obama".The next step is to jump on anyone who says they'll hold out for a real deal.Somewhere someone is reading all this, and they're figuring the odds of ignoring our real wishes and cramming another RINO down our throats.How can we expect to be heard as long as some of us are so willing to go along to get...

Before the last presidential election I ran into many people I had considered reasonably well-informed and educated, only to be surprised by the extent to which they had been utterly taken in by the obviously ghostwritten Obama hagiography and the media airbrushing of his background. It was scary.A first hand view of how easily manipulated public opinion is. I was astonished that few of these people knew anything about Obama's failures in his one prior job --getting the asbestos out of Altgeld Gardens -- and his singular executive endeavor, managing (at terrorist Bill Ayers' recommendation) millions of dollars from the...

The koran tells its subjects 'War is deciet' Look around he world tonight, Arab nations across the Middle East are in open revolt against every flavor of dictatorship. Strongmen, pseudo-royalty and thugs from across the region are all failing. Whats really going on here? We are being told they want freedom. We are being told they want to grow up and emerge from the darkness of dictatorship. Nothing could be further from the real truth. Remember, 'war is deciet' Don't listen to what they say, watch what they do! Foolish and cowardly AA gunners waste their ammo racing around in...

Leftist mastermind puts up big bucks to erase border. Philanthropist billionaire George Soros is a primary funder and key proponent of the global organization that promotes the military doctrine used by the Obama administration to justify the recent airstrikes targeting the regime of Moammar Gadhafi in Libya. The activist who founded and coined the name of the doctrine, "Responsibility to Protect," sits on several key organizations alongside Soros. Also, the Soros-funded global group that promotes Responsibility to Protect is closely tied to Samantha Power, the National Security Council special adviser to Obama on human rights. Power has been a champion...

JERUSALEM – In partnership with a government fund initiated by Barack Obama, philanthropist and billionaire activist George Soros is investing in a private equity company that just launched in the Palestinian territories. The company, Siraj Fund Management Company, says it was created "for the sole purpose of managing investment funds in Palestine." The new company's website repeatedly refers to what it calls the "country" of "Palestine." There is, however, no such country as Palestine. Siraj is apparently referring to territories controlled by the Palestinian Authority....This week, Siraj Fund Management Company, the first private equity fund in the Palestinian territories, officially...

The “Together We Thrive” T-shirts that starred at Wednesday’s Arizona `Memorial’ originated from Organizing for America (here), a sad fact unearthed by The Drumbeat of Liberty and the Preservation of Freedom editor and Canada Free Press (CFP) columnist Robert Rohlfing. In the controversy of the pep rally/rock concert style Memorial for those who lost their lives in Saturday’s Arizona tragedy, the mainstream media reported that the “Together We Thrive: Tucson & America” T-shirt given to mourners as they entered McKate Center was the idea of University of Arizona brass, not the Obama administration.

It has been a prime tactic of Marxists to redefine arguments, and the language used to frame the arguments our country engages in, to suit their own agenda. Huge amounts of discussion pertaining to the Federal government surrounds the idea of government "programs." I don't believe the Constitution ever uses such a word, nor does it imply that setting up such entities is a role of the Federal government. When did the Marxists first begin to snooker the people into buying the notion that such "programs" were within the Federal purview? It is certainly an idea that needs to be...

It is not difficult to deprive the vast majority of independent thought.[i] Does anyone remember what happened on Christmas Eve last year? In one of the most expensive Christmas presents ever, the government removed the $400 billion limit on their Fannie and Freddie guaranty. This act increased taxpayer liabilities by six trillion dollars; however, the news was lost in the holiday cheer. This is one instance in a broader campaign to manipulate the public perception, gradually depriving us of independent thought. Consider another example: what news story broke on April 16, 2010? Most of us would say the SEC's lawsuit...

But right now, at this very moment, there’s a group of people spurring a movement to buy silver in order to bankrupt JP Morgan (JPM). One especially vocal provocateur is financial analyst Max Keiser. He’s been credited with starting this movement. And to be honest, I think Max is spot on when it comes to his analysis. I just don’t know if his plan will work. To give you the brief back story: for years – maybe even decades – a group of banks have allegedly been manipulating the silver market for their own gain. I don’t doubt the claim.

Two separate lawsuits filed in federal court in Manhattan Wednesday allege that banks J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. /quotes/comstock/13*!jpm/quotes/nls/jpm (JPM 37.60, +0.06, +0.16%) and HSBC Holdings Inc. /quotes/comstock/13*!hbc/quotes/nls/hbc (HBC 52.36, +0.37, +0.71%) manipulate the price of silver futures by "amassing enormous short positions." The suits allege that by managing giant positions in silver futures and options, the banks have influenced the prices of silver on the New York Stock Exchanges' Comex Exchange since early 2008. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has been in the midst of a high-profile, two-year-old investigation of the silver market. J.P. Morgan declined to comment on...

NEW YORK, Oct 27 (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) and HSBC Holdings Plc (HSBA.L) were hit with two lawsuits on Wednesday by investors who accused them of conspiring to drive down silver prices, and reaping an estimated hundreds of millions of dollars of illegal profits. The banks, among the world's largest, were accused of manipulating the market for COMEX silver futures and options contracts from the first half of 2008 by amassing huge "short" positions in silver futures contracts that are designed to profit when prices fall. "Defendants reaped hundreds of millions of dollars, if not billions of...

If this is not some nasty and quite early April Fool's joke, this is very, very bad news for JPMorgan: BN CFTC CHILTON MAKES STATEMENT ON SILVER MARKET BN * SILVER PRICES SUBJECT TO "FRAUDULENT" INFLUENCES, CHILTON SAY BN *"REPEATED ATTEMPTS" MADE TO INFLUENCE SILVER MARKET, CHILTON BN *SILVER MANIPULATION SHOULD BE PROSECUTED, CHILTON SAYS Now... where are all of those tin foil hats... The below has just appeared on Reuters. It seems the CFTC has its cross sights on quote stuffers. It is about damn time. The U.S. futures regulator laid out plans on Tuesday for how it could...

“I don’t get it,” my friend said, shaking his head. “Obama is supposed to be so smart and such a brilliant politician … ” “Right,” I said. “So?” “So everything he has done or wants to do is a disaster! It’s all opposed by the majority of the American people. Even Democrats are running away from him as fast as they can. If he’s such a great politician, why does he keep doing things most people hate? And that’s not the worst part. When people complain, he calls them too dumb to appreciate what he’s doing for them!” Why indeed....

Caterpillar is one excellent company. It is building new factories now in Texas, Arkansas, and North Carolina, from which it will export products made by American workers all around the world. Its excellent worldwide parts distribution network gives its used equipment a very high resale value. But on September 29 Caterpillar announced it is building its twelfth factory in China -- this one to produce mini-excavators. Why can’t Caterpillar make a profit exporting mini-excavators to China? The answer is simple: China has a 30% tariff on all excavators. In fact it has a similar high tariff on just about every...

Trading in the financial markets is an enormous source of profits for the world’s largest investment banks and the traders get big chunks of each firm's controversial bonuses each year. The fortunes of Australia are closely linked to this trading activity as the Australian dollar exchange rate and metals such as gold and silver are among the most traded areas – and the traders have a big role in establishing the prices. Over the past few decades, there have been allegations of market rigging in these areas and from time to time incidents are proved. But clear cases of market...

Metal$ are in the pits Posted: 2:10 AM, April 11, 2010 There is no silver lining to the activities of JPMorgan Chase and HSBC in the precious-metals market here and in London, says a 40-year veteran of the metal pits. The banks, which do the Federal Reserve's bidding in the metals markets, have long been the government's lead actors in keeping down the prices of gold and silver, according to a former Goldman Sachs trader working at the London Bullion Market Association. Maguire was scheduled to testify last week before the Commodities Futures Trade Commission, which is looking into the...

<p>Federal agents have launched parallel criminal and civil probes of JPMorgan Chase and its trading activity in the precious metals market, The Post has learned.</p> <p>The probes are centering on whether or not JPMorgan, a top derivatives holder in precious metals, acted improperly to depress the price of silver, sources said.</p>