Monday, January 28, 2008

The Disappeared: SOTT.net and Google's conspicuous omissions

The Disappeared: SOTT.net and Google's conspicuous omissions
Signs of the Times
Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:47 EST

Google omitting SOTT.net from search results?

A few days ago one of our readers brought this curious detail to our attention. While searching for an article on Google, they discovered a problem with results from SOTT.net being consistently omitted from Google listings.

Our correspondent writes:
"I find just now that if you search any of the text in "quotes" from Henry See's 'Provoking Stupidity and Violence' piece on Hal Turner, Google brings back zero results from SOTT. The same text will be brought up from other sites carrying the story though.
So, say you grab the first few words from it: "Dave Neiwert at Orincus" and search it, according to Google it doesn't exist on SOTT!

But if you do the same with the title: "Provoking Stupidity and Violence", the article is there!
Other search engines do bring back the SOTT page though. Now how might that happen!?"
How indeed!

Well, our curiosity piqued, we thought it best to go have a look. Was it possible that original articles written by the SOTT team were being 'disappeared' by Google, the thread back to the author snipped? Well, lets see...

Read more HERE

Saturday, January 26, 2008

Signs Economic Commentary for 21 January 2008

Signs Economic Commentary for 21 January 2008

Donald Hunt
SOTT.net
Mon, 21 Jan 2008 06:01 EST

Summary: The continued fall in the stock market has frightened the general public and the insiders, it seems. Hardly anyone now says there won't be a recession. Predicting recession seems to be a bullish position now, with the bears predicting a depression or even a collapse.

Last week we looked at how capitalism works and how, by doing what it does, it ruins everything. What can we do about it? Marxism has been an indispensable tool for understanding capitalism, but historically has not been able to offer any solutions. Why is that so? If the diagnosis was so good why wasn't the cure of revolutionary socialism effective?

Gold closed at 885.20 dollars an ounce Friday, down 1.4% from $897.40 for the week. The dollar closed at 0.6843 euros Friday, up 1.1% from 0.6768 at the close of the previous week. That put the euro at 1.4613 dollars compared to 1.4776 the Friday before. Gold in euros would be 605.76 euros an ounce, down 0.3% from 607.34 at the close of the previous Friday. Oil closed at 90.62 dollars a barrel Friday, down 2.3% from $92.73 for the week. Oil in euros would be 62.01 euros a barrel, down 1.2% from 62.75 at the close of the Friday before. The gold/oil ratio closed at 9.77 Friday, up 0.9% from 9.68 at the close of the previous week. In U.S. stocks the Dow closed at 12,099.30 Friday, down 4.2% from 12,606.30 at the end of the week before. The NASDAQ closed at 2,340.02 Friday, down 4.3% from 2,439.94 for the week. In U.S. interest rates, the yield on the ten-year U.S. Treasury note closed at 3.63%, down 15 basis points from 3.78 for the week.

The continued fall in the stock market has frightened the general public and the insiders, it seems. Hardly anyone now says there won't be a recession. Predicting recession seems to be a bullish position now, with the bears predicting a depression or even a collapse.

For more go HERE