No air of verisimilitude to this otherwise unconvincing narrative

RECORD DEFICIT

Check Out Photos Of The Insane Student Riots Happening In London

Car Carrying Prince Charles And Wife Attacked In London Protest

PHOTO: Prince Charles And Camilla Attacked By Protestors In London

David Rosenberg Rebuts Richard Bernstein’s 11 Bullish Predictions

Chaos Rules In DC And London, But Markets Don’t Care: Here’s What You Need To Know

ALERT: Operation Payback Is About To Attack Amazon.com

Euro Tanks As Irish Bailout Vote Is Suddenly In Doubt

Baseless Political Opinion On The Tax Cuts Is Masquerading As Economic “Analysis”

House Democrats Just Voted To Reject The Tax Deal

London Protests Turn Violent With Parliament Under Siege

OUTRAGE IN IRELAND As Bailed Out AIB Hands Out $50+ Million In Bonuses

Gulf Economists Are Giving Up On The Dollar, Encouraging Move To Gold

Fed Flow Of Funds Data Shows Massive $684 Billion Fall In Value Of Real Estate

Alex Jones: The Globalists Have Reached Too Far (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

It’s Business as Usual, Says Tea Party’s Meckler

CyberJustice Versus Monopoly Justice

It’s Time To Boycott Wal-Mart And Wipe That Grin Off The Smiley Face (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

S 510 Food Safety bill is still alive and may unleash a new army of FDA agents (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Jim Rickards: At Least One Swiss Bank Has Started Refusing To Hand Over Physical Gold To Clients (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Tax-cut plan moving ahead in Senate

South Korea free-trade deal opposed by AFL-CIO, Steelworkers, other unions

Without earmarks, Congress can use phone-marks to feed pet projects

More ‘Change’: Companies Cling to Cash

WikiLeaks: Hillary Clinton’s question: how can we stand up to Beijing? (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

BIG STORY, HUGE CONSEQUENCES, LITTLE COVERAGE (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Julian Assange calls for anarchy, complete removal of US ‘chain of command’ including Obama (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Senate Adds to Tax-Cut Plan, Schedules Vote for Monday

Paul Says He’ll Emphasize Oversight of Fed, Pursue Audit

A&P Said to Consider Filing for Bankruptcy Protection

Volcker Says Fed Will Need to Head Off Inflation

Senate Adds Rum Sweeteners to Tax Bill

Conservatives Upset Over ‘Prince of Pork’ Pick

Cuba Going Broke Fast Says WikiLeaks Cable

Officials Defend Security of Royal Family – U.K. Protesters Yell ‘Off With Their Heads!’

ANARCHY IN THE UK: PROTESTERS ATTACK ROYALS!

GEITHNER TO HOSPITAL WITH KIDNEY STONES

Firefighters In NYC Set To Institute ‘Crash Tax’

Cancun temps plunge to 100-year record low — during ‘global warming’ summit!

Bolivian President calls for ‘global climate court’

Boehner will cut Hill budgets by 5%

House Dems push through massive budget bill

Pump prices close in on average $3 a gallon

John Williams Talks To BNN About The “Great Hyperinflationary Collapse” (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

AP Enterprise: FAA loses track of 119,000 aircraft (Hat Tip: Nancy Jacques)

Pimco Total Return Among Biggest Losers as Bond Rally Fizzles

Morning Bell: There is No Tax Deal

Mayor Bloomberg Imposes a Victim Tax on New Yorkers

The Obama Stimulus Super Train to Nowhere

Dem’s “Tax Cut” Bill Includes Gifts to Rum Producers and Hollywood

DEM REP BLAMES SPEAKER PELOSI For Holding Tax Cuts Hostage (Video)

Christmas Comes Early… Sarah Palin Discusses Death Panels In WSJ Editorial

The tax deal cometh

Will Ron Paul Be Able To End The Fed?

Obama Adviser to Maddow: They‘re ’Obama Tax Cuts’ Not Bush Tax Cuts

Reports: Rioter Jabbed Charles’s Wife With Stick During Attack

Picture Montage of British Tuition Riots

Pink Floyd Star’s Son Sorry for Climbing War Memorial During London Protest

Famous Christian Landmark Tree Chopped Down in UK

Wind at their backs: Powerful Democrats help Chinese energy firm chase stimulus money (Hat Tip: Nancy Jacques)

Attack on Charles Raises Questions About UK Security

AFL-CIO Leader Accepts Communist Party Award: ‘I Stand With Them’

UN Climate Change Delegates Support Prank Petition to Ban Water & Derail U.S. Economy

SurvivalBlog:

The Wall Street Pentagon Papers: Biggest Scam In World History Exposed – Are The Federal Reserve’s Crimes Too Big To Comprehend?

At Least One Swiss Bank Has Started Refusing to Hand Over Physical Gold to Clients.

CBS Allows Fed to Spread Disinformation Unchallenged.

Doug Casey on Bernanke: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid (Part 1)

US Treasuries hit by biggest sell-off in two years

From Bad To Worse: The Economy Today, And Tomorrow

Big Squeeze is On in Gold and Silver

Spain on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

American Retirement Funds at Serious Risk of Being Seized

US Military Prepares for Economic Crisis

US Fiscal Health Worse Than Europe Says China Adviser

No End In Sight To U.S. Economic Crisis As “Scariest Jobs Charts Ever” Shows Post-Recession Unemployment At Its Worse Since WWII

Inflation Bell Tolling for China?

SurvivalBlog reader Jon in New York noted: “Since May of this year, when I got my first batch of piglets to raise, the price for pig feed from my local supplier has gone up from $13 to $14 and is now $15 per 100 pound bag.”

Tighter food supplies, high prices to persist.

Ivory Coast deadlock: Food shortages and price rises