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a conversation with a show panel about the country's debt and credit
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by Prof. JamesPetras
Global Research , October 2, 2011 Introduction: Images of the Past
The image of Latin America portrayed by the mass
media and held by the educated public is a region of frequent coups,
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By Lori Montgomery and Paul Kane , Published: June 1
With an August deadline looming, the House overwhelmingly refused
Tuesday to raise the legal limit on government borrowing, setting the
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A former official of one of the country's most-powerful unions, SEIU, has a secret plan to "destabilize" the country.
The plan is designed to destroy JP Morgan, nuke the stock market, and
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hare this with everyone you know. Want to DO Something? Tweet @BarackObama with shortened url & hashtag #ImMadAsHellBecause In
a conversation with a show panel about the country's debt and credit
downgrade, MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan passionately calls both the Democratic
and Republican economic plans, "reckless, irresponsible and stupid." From Tuesday August 9th, 2011
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by Prof. JamesPetras
Global Research , October 2, 2011 Introduction: Images of the Past
The image of Latin America portrayed by the mass
media and held by the educated public is a region of frequent coups,
periodical revolutions, perpetual military dictatorships, alternating
boom and bust economies and an ever-present International Monetary Fund
(IMF) dictating economic policy.
In contrast the same opinion makers plus their
academic counterparts project images of the United States and the
European Union as stable societies, with steady economic growth,
incremental expansion of social welfare programs, resolving issues via
consensual compromises and practicing sound fiscal policies.
In recent times, the better part of the current
decade, these images have taken on the character of ideological dogmas –
they no longer correspond to reality. In fact a good argument can be
made that the roles have been reversed: the US and EU are in perpetual
crises and Latin America, at least most of the major countries, have
experienced stability and growth which is the envy (or should be) of
Washington pundits and financial commentators. This ‘role reversal’ has
been recognized by many US, EU and Asian investors and multinationals,
even as respectable journalistic hacks for the Financial Times, NY Times
and Wall Street Journal still write about vulnerabilities, imbalances
and other weaknesses while grudgingly acknowledging the dynamic growth
of the region.
Progressive opinion is equally at fault, focusing on
the ‘advances’ of the left regimes but overlooking the underlying
dynamics affecting most of the region and thus losing sight of the new
points of conflict and contention.
We will proceed to outline the contrasting realities
between the crises ridden “North” (US/EU) and the sustained growth of
the “South” ( South America ). The analysis will raise questions of
whether the South American experience is transferable to the No
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By Lori Montgomery and Paul Kane , Published: June 1
With an August deadline looming, the House overwhelmingly refused
Tuesday to raise the legal limit on government borrowing, setting the
stage for a long, sweaty summer of haggling over the shape of the
largest debt-reduction package in at least two decades.
Not a single GOP lawmaker voted for the measure to raise the limit on the national debt
from $14.3 trillion to $16.7 trillion — a sum sufficient to cover the
government’s bills through the end of next year. Republican leaders said
their troops would reject any increase without a plan to sharply
curtail spending and, thus, future borrowing. “Tonight’s vote
illustrates that there is no support in the People’s House for a debt
limit increase without real spending cuts and binding budget process
reforms,” House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said in a statement,
adding: “The families and business owners throughout the country want
Washington to begin to live within its means and stop maxing out the
credit card.” Polls show that a higher debt limit is extremely unpopular with
a large majority of voters, which has left Democrats leery of calling
for an increase. On Tuesday, as the House voted 318 to 97 against
raising the limit, nearly half of the chamber’s Democrats sided with the
Republicans. In doing so, they ignored a long-standing request from the
Obama administration to boost the limit before plunging into a complex
and politically difficult battle over the size of the federal budget. “I
don’t intend to advise our members to subject themselves to a 30-second
political ad and attack,” House Minority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.)
said hours before the vote, noting that GOP leaders offered the bill
with the intention of letting their party’s members vote against it.
Seven Democrats voted “present” to protest the manner in which the
Republican majority called up the bill.Hoyer and other Democrats
accused House Speak
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A former official of one of the country's most-powerful unions, SEIU, has a secret plan to "destabilize" the country.
The plan is designed to destroy JP Morgan, nuke the stock market, and
weaken Wall Street's grip on power, thus creating the conditions
necessary for a redistribution of wealth and a change in government.
The former SEIU official, Stephen Lerner, spoke in a closed session at a Pace University forum last weekend.
The Blaze procured what appears to be a tape of Lerner's remarks.
Many Americans will undoubtely sympathize with and support them. Still,
the "destabilization" plan is startling in its specificity, especially
coming so close on the heels of the financial crisis.
Lerner said that unions and community organizations are, for all
intents and purposes, dead. The only way to achieve their goals,
therefore--the redistribution of wealth and the return of "$17 trillion"
stolen from the middle class by Wall Street--is to "destabilize the
country."
Lerner's plan is to organize a mass, coordinated "strike" on
mortgage, student loan, and local government debt payments--thus
bringing the banks to the edge of insolvency and forcing them to
renegotiate the terms of the loans. This destabilization and turmoil,
Lerner hopes, will also crash the stock market, isolating the banking
class and allowing for a transfer of power.
Lerner's plan starts by attacking JP Morgan Chase in early May, with
demonstrations on Wall Street, protests at the annual shareholder
meeting, and then calls for a coordinated mortgage strike.
Lerner also says explicitly that, although the attack will benefit
labor unions, it cannot be seen as being organized by them. It must
therefore be run by community organizations.
Lerner was ousted from SEIU last November,
reportedly for spending millions of the union's dollars trying to
pursue a plan like the one he details here. It is not clear what, if
any, power and influence he currently wields. His main
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Trump is right, Barry Soetoro, AKA Obama is hiding what appears to be a criminal past.
by Atom Ant on Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 5:01am
Trump is correct, Barry Soetoro, AKA Obama is hiding something in his
past that is very bad... and it may not be his citizenship. (Trump would
not say this if he did not know something and he has the money to get
the dirt...)
As an IRS tax examiner,one of many former federal jobs, I have seen what
it appears Barry Soetoro has done, mostly by illegal aliens attempting
to acquire a new identity in the U.S and/or criminals looking to acquire
a new ID.
Barry, AKA Obama, was lawfully adopted by a foreign national, Lolo
Soetoro, and Barry's name was legally changed to "Barry Soetoro".
(Barry’s own admission) Barry Soetoro was also made an official legal
Indonesian citizen. (again Barry’s own admission)The adoption would be
noted in Barry's vital statistics record in Hawaii on his original
birth certificate...
OR Lolo Soetoro may have always been Barry's legal birth farther. The
public does not know for sure at this point who Barry's father really
was and Barry himself may not know.
Barry was raised as a Muslim in Indonesia and attended a Catholic funded school that permitted all faiths to attend.
Barry's mother dropped him as a dependent for some reason, maybe even
when Barry was adopted by Lolo Soetoro.His mother's passport records
dropped Barry as a dependent indicating Barry was no longer a legal
dependent of his mothers. (The passport records of his mother have been
produced showing Barry was no longer a dependent when Barry was
permanently residing in Indonesia.) Barry went to Hawaii to live with
his alleged grand parents after Lolo Soetoro and Barry's mother
divorced.
A "certificate of live birth" can have names changed on it including a
child's birth name, and birth parent’s names. Even a modified date of
birth can be on a "certificate of live birth".
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John Harris gives us his perspective on what's going on. He describes
how we are economic slaves to a debt dependant system, notably achieved
through the deception of the birth certificate and the creation of a
legal fiction known as your 'PERSON'. It is this PERSON that the
government then wields it's control upon. Although John points out that
this arrangement only works when we consent. Unfortunately
inaction is taken as consent, hence we have unwittingly surrendered our
inalienable rights through identifying with the PERSON. Remember you are
a human being with god given rights, all you have to do is claim them. Also the difference between a policeman and a police officer is described. Filmed at the The British Constitution Group Lawful Rebellion Conference in Stoke-on-Trent on the 24th January 2009. Catch the full presentation here: http://bbc5.tv/eyeplayer/articles/john-harris-its- illusion
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If you can't win fair and square, you can always cheat.
At least, thatappears to be Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's philosophy.
Against allexpectations, Right to Work supporters were able to defeat
Big Labor's powergrabs like the Card Check Bill and the Police and
Firefighter MonopolyBargaining Bill last year.
Grassroots hostility to both bills was sostrong that Reid could not
strongarm 60 votes to shut off our filibuster andforce either bill
through the Senate.
Now Reid is threatening to cutthe heart out of the filibuster and
other Senate rules that have helped usdefeat so many union powergrabs
over the decades
Changing the rulesrequires 67 votes, which Reid can't even come close to.
So instead, Reidconcocted a scheme that violates over two centuries of
precedent and crushes therights of the minority party by changing the
basic rules of the Senate with only51 votes -- ignoring all existing
rules and precedents, and brazenly pushingahead with his radical
agenda as if he had done nothing wrong.
You and Iwould have no recourse.
If Reid gets away with it, it will be aPERMANENT blow to our ability to block forced unionismlegislation
Reid's scheme can only be stopped by 51 Senators willingto vote against it. Your Senators need to be among those 51.
That's whyit's critical that your Senators hear from you today.
Please send your Senators a free action faxIMMEDIATELY by clicking here
Tell them both youinsist they vote NO on Senate Resolution 10, and any
other attempts to weakenthe filibuster and the other rules protecting
the rights of the minorityparty.
And tell them to reject ANY attempt to violate two centuries ofprecedent by changing the rules with less than 67 votes.
Had Harry Reid'srules been in place in the past...
... LBJ would have repealed section14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act in
1966 – and with it every state Right to WorkLaw in the land.
... Jimmy Carter would have rammed George Meany's Labor L
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The AMERICAN DREAM is a 30 minute animated filmthat shows you how
you've been scammed by the most basic elements of ourgovernment
system. All of us Americans strive for the American Dream,and this
film shows you why your dream is getting farther and fartheraway. Do
you know how your money is created? Or how banking works? Whydid
housing prices skyrocket and then plunge? Do you really know whatthe Federal Reserve System is and how it affects you every
single day?THE AMERICAN DREAM takes an entertaining but hard hitting
look at howthe problems we have today are nothing new, and why leaders
throughoutour history have warned us and fought against the current
type offinancial system we have in America today. You will be
challenged toinvestigate some very entrenched and powerful
institutions in thisnation, and hopefully encouraged to help get our
nation back on track.
Buy the high quality video from the website,
http://theamericandreamfilm.com/
Thevideo creators understand that how the monetary system works can
be very confusing to some and have done a brilliant job in explaining
howthe whole system is set up to keep you forever in debt. This is not
whatthe original founding fathers of america had in mind.
Also, this is not just an American problem. It's the same scam in nearly all countries around the world
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By Jim Kirwan
12-8-10
'Journalists' have
an obligation to approach all events by using the following approach in
order to allow their readers to firmly come to grips not just with events
as they unfold, but with the Who, When, How, Where and Why inherent in
every story. The title of this article refers to the self-created license
of victimhood which the Zionistas created prior to World War II to
insure that their actions after that war would result in what Israel has
become. This act was primary in assisting Israel to obtain their "Greater
State of Israel" that is an obscenity to all the citizens in any world
where International Laws are both observed and practiced. (1)
"WHAT" has been gained? Since the dawn of the
New Millennium the global-cabal has been racing ahead to massively destroy
the world wherever it can. In its wake the corporations have always promised
food, water and shelter, along with the rebuilding of hospitals, roads,
schools and infrastructure: None of this has ever happened from Iraq
&Afghanistan to the ravages from Hurricane Katrina, the Earthquake
in Haiti, the Firestorms in southern California, or to any of the continuing
slaughters in Palestine, Yemen,Lebanon. The related but much less covered
slaughter of Muslims in Indonesia, Africa, and virtually everywhere else
that Muslims live in large numbers indicates the cabal's desire to genocide
the full-third of the planet's population that is Muslim.
It should be noted that any societal plan that focuses
only on destruction, mass-murder and fascist police-state controls cannot
possibly succeed because their goal is to utterly decimate the entire host
body-politic upon which they continually prey. They see 'war' as the only
way to absolute power-but they have overlooked the fact that this policy
cannot survive because in the process everything of any real value is also
destroyed; thereby bringing an automatic and premature end to
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By ERIC LIPTON
Published: December 4, 2010 WASHINGTON — In a classic case of shutting the barn door after the horse
has left, the Obama administration and the Department of Defense have
ordered the hundreds of thousands of federal employees and contractors
not to view the secret cables and other classified documents published
by Wikileaks and news organizations around the world unless the workers have the required security clearance or authorization.
“Classified information, whether or not already posted on public
websites or disclosed to the media, remains classified, and must be
treated as such by federal employees and contractors, until it is
declassified by an appropriate U.S. Government authority,” said the notice sent on Friday afternoon by the Office of Management and Budget , which is part of the White House, to agency and department heads, urging them to distribute it to their staff.
The directive applies to both government computers and private devices
that employees or contractors might have, as long as they are accessing
the documents on nonclassified government networks. It does not advise
agencies to block WikiLeaks or other websites on government computer
systems, a White House official said Saturday. And it does not prohibit
federal employees from reading news stories about the topic. But if they
have “accidentially” already downloaded any of these documents, they
are being told to notify their “information security offices.”
The Department of Defense, in its own directive to military personnel
and contractors, says that simply viewing these documents, without
proper authorization, will violate long-standing rules even though they
are accessible to the public at large on Internet sites.
"Viewing or downloading still classified documents from unclassified
government computers creates a security violation," a spokeswoman said
in a statement on Saturday.
The effort, while und
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Executive summary - EU-Russia 2015 seminar (Nice, September 23-24, 2010)
02/12/2010
During two days, French
and Russian academics and experts met in the framework of the EU-Russia
2015 seminar on the topic « What can be the contribution of
Franco-Russian relations to EU-Russia strategic partnership and the
holding of a BRIC-EU meeting by 2015? » jointly organised by the
Laboratoire Européen d’Anticipation Politique (LEAP), the Institute of
European Studies of Moscow’s State Institute of International Relations
(MGIMO) and the University of Nice/Sophia-Antipolis, in partnership with
the Europe 2020 network, the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia
and the network of Jean Monnet Chairs Programme and participants
The seminar focused primarily on three key strategic fields:
1. How to contribute to build a new and sustainable economic and financial global order?
2. How to initiate 21st-century Europe security architecture and launch common leads in the field of global security?
3. How to invent a global governance matching 21st-century needs: what could be the agenda of an EU-BRIC summit?
The following aspects of the international situation justified the meeting:
The world is still going through a
historic crisis putting an end to the specific systems and power
relations which prevailed worldwide since the end of the second world
war. The dynamics at play in the processes of accelerated globalization
and unbridled market expansion in the past twenty years have just
collapsed. In every field (finance, economy, currency, strategy,
diplomacy…), international relations are subject to unprecedented
rebalancing. This being said, as in any crisis, the current global
systemic crisis also represents a positive change for some global
players such as China, Russia, Brazil or India, for instance.
The new global context places the
EU-Russia partnership in an entirely new perspective. Whether for a
peaceful manag
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Posted on December 2nd, 2010 by Derek Bambauer
The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement , part of the Department of Homeland Security, has seized 82 domain names that it contends are responsible for facilitating IP infringement
(and perhaps infringing themselves). The seizures have prompted some
outrage, and some head-scratching. The head-scratching has been by
lawyers (and normal people) trying to figure out the legal basis for the
seizure. If I’m reading the U.S. Code right, seizures are authorized
under 18 U.S.C. 2323(a) , and 18 U.S.C. 981(a)(1)(A) and (C) , which authorizes civil seizures of property that is used in a violation, or attempted violation, of 18 U.S.C. 1956(c)(7) . If you’re bored enough to trace to 1956(c)(7)(D), you’ll see that it does in fact mention criminal copyright infringement: 18 U.S.C. 2319 .
Now, we’ve got civil seizure of items used in crime, so that’s weird
enough. What is even more strange is that the government doesn’t have to
provide notice to the domain name owners if it files a civil complaint
against the property – that is, against the domain names (an in rem proceeding for you Civ Pro nerds). (This assumes I’m reading 18 U.S.C. 983 (a)(1)(A)(ii)
properly – no sure thing.) While the government still bears the burden
of showing that the seizure is proper – 983(c)(1) – it also gets to lock
up the domain name until the matter is resolved.
OK. That was some painful statutory lifting. The larger – and to
me more interesting – question is about censorship. The U.S. government
is grabbing domain names to prevent users from reaching content it views
as illegal. Not content that has been adjudicated illegal, as far as we
know – content that is alleged to be illegal. To content owners, and
probably to ICE, it looks only natural that we’d prevent people from
reaching information they view as stolen, or counterfeit . But it’s natural to China to censor human rights sites. Or Wikileaks, for that matter. Legiti
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Note from Benjamin Fulford:
This statement corresponds with a statement I haveon tape made by a
representative of former Japanese Finance Minister HeizoTakenaka and
other sources.
STATEMENT OF SENIOR EUROPEAN AGENT
My name is xxxx and I am a retired intelligence officer from the Country
of xxxxx.The following took place during a short period of time
during the year 2010 and it is to the best of my recollection that I
state the following:
In February 2010 I met Daniele Dal Bosco in the Hilton Airport Hotel in
Zurich, Switzerland.Mr. Dal Bosco was with Neil Keenan.Mr. Keenan
was with many others who he was working with or trying to assist in
their transactions.
Apparently Mr. Dal Bosco had been told I had been with Intelligence and
he told me that he would like to speak with me privately.Believing he
was a close friend to Mr. Keenan I met with him.When speaking with Dal
Bosco I realized there was a plot in place to steal Mr. Keenan’s bonds.
In late May, 2010, I met with Dal Bosco in Geneva who introduced me to
an individual named Giancarlo Bruno from the World Economic Forum.I
extended my business card to Mr.Bruno but Dal Bosco said it was not
necessary and that no one should know the other so well, so cards were
not necessary.While sitting in the Intercontinental Hotel with Mr.
Bruno many things were discussed with the highly intelligent.Bruno with
Dal Bosco deferring to him for all questions to be answered.It was
clear Bruno was running the show.
Bruno explained how the Davos Program in Davos, Swtizerland was a total
success and that what he was going to speak to me about involved the
future and success of Davos which would extend their hand to me. He
went through a litany of names that he had done business with including
Ex President of the U.S. William Clinton, and ex U.S. Secretary of State
of the U.S., Henry Kissinger and Alan Greenspan. When he was through
puffing so much smok
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Monday, November 29, 2010
The Most Evil Man In The World (And it's not George H.W. Bush, he directsBush)
This needs to be read by everyone in this country, especially members ofCongress
The Most Evil Man In The World:
CBS writer, Steve Kroft:
Some time ago I wrote an
article questioning who might be the power behindBarack Hussein Obama.
It has to be someone because of his meteoric rise topower, with
experience at virtually nothing, with questionable wisdom, and witha
mysterious past that has been carefully erased and hidden where no one
cancheck it. The puppet master apparently paid for Obama's education
and histravels to Pakistan for some mysterious purpose, and promoted
him into Illinois, then national politics.
I once suggested it might be
billionaire George Soros. I now believe that tobe the case more than
ever. George Soros might be the most evil man in theworld, with intent
to destroy America and every value we have held dear. Obamaseems to
be in lockstep with Soros' philosophies and simply a tool in Soros'
world-changing strategies.
The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the "United States" ~~George Soros
What we have in Soros, is a
multi-billionaire atheist, with skewed moralvalues, and a sociopath's
lack of conscience. He considers himself to be anelitist world class
philosopher, despises the American Way and just loves to dosocial
engineering (change cultures).
Gyargy Schwartz, better known
to the world as George Soros, was born August 12, 1930 in Hungary.
Soros' father, Tivadar, was a fervent practitioner of Esperanto a
language invented in 1887, and designed to be the first global
language, free of any national identity. The Schwartz's, who were
non-practicing Jews, changed the family name to Soros, in order to
facilitate assimilation into the gentile population, as the Nazis
spread into Hungary during the 1930s. When Hitler's henchman Adolf
Eichmann arrived in Hung
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Famous euroskeptic Nigel Farage (as seen previously here ),
in just under 4 brief minutes tells more truth about the entire
European experiment than all European bankers, commissioners, and
politicians have done in the past decade. As we have already said pretty
much all of this before, we present it without commentary: "Good
morning Mr. van Rompuy, you've been in office for one year, and in that
time the whole edifice is beginning to crumble, there's chaos, the
money's running out, I should thank you - you should perhaps be the
pinup boy of the euroskeptic movement. But just look around this chamber
this morning, look at these faces, look at the fear, look at the anger.
Poor Barroso here looks like he's seen a ghost. They're beginning to understand that the game is up. And yet in their desperation to preserve their dream, they want to remove any remaining traces of democracy from the system. And it's pretty clear that none of you have learned anything. When
you yourself Mr. van Rompuy say that the euro has brought us stability,
I supposed I could applaud you for having a sense of humor, but isn't
this really just the bunker [ or banker?] mentality. Your
fanaticism is out in the open. You talk about the fact that it was a lie
to believe that the nation state could exist in the 21st century
globalized world. Well, that may be true in the case of Belgium who
haven't had a government for 6 months, but for the rest of us, right
across every member state in this union, increasingly people are saying,
"We don't want that flag, we don't want the anthem, we don't want this
political class, we want the whole thing consigned to the dustbin of
history." We had the Greek tragedy earlier on this year, and now we have
the situation in Ireland. I know that the stupidity and greed of Irish
politicians has a lot to do with this: they should never, ever have
joined the euro. They suffered with low interest rates, a false boom and
a massive bust. B
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Special report: In the last of his
series from Afghanistan, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad asks Taliban leaders past and
present what kind of regime they would run – and whether there is a
chance of negotiated peace
Part two: Five days inside a Taliban jail
Part one: The London cab driver who fights for the Taliban
By Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
November 26,2010 " The Guardian " - In the
south-eastern city of Khost, the everyday business of the Taliban
administration carries on across the street from the fortified,
government-run city court and police station.
The head of the
Haqqani network's civilian administration and his assistant hold their
council in the grand mosque, which is also known as the Haqqani mosque
because it was built with Taliban and Arab money.
When I met them,
the two men – a frail-looking 60-year-old and his younger sidekick –
gave the impression of being haggard peasants seeking work in the city
rather than members of one of the organisations most feared by Britain
and America.
Worshippers at the
mosque greeted the Haqqani representatives with a mix of reverence and
anxiety, some walking in a long circle to avoid them while others came
forward and shook hands, pledging contributions for the movement. The
mosque leader begged them to be his guests for the night.
"The resistance is stronger and bolder today," the old man said. "A few years ago the Taliban could move only at night.
"Now that our land
has been liberated – thanks be to God – we walk around in the middle of
the day and we fight in front of the people. We control our lands and
our villages while [the Americans] can only come in by air."
The administrator
was laden with messages to deliver. Among his many roles as a senior
member of the civilian admi
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Nov 22, 2010 - 02:04 PM
By: Mac_Slavo The majority of Americans believe that recent government intervention
intofinancial markets, the economy and corporate insolvency has
reversed theeconomic downturn which was described by former Treasury
Secretary Hank Paulson as being“on the brink” in 2008. The stimulus,
bailouts and unrelenting quantitativeeasing by the Federal Reserve
have thus far been perceived as having averted thefurther erosion of
the U.S. real estate and equities markets. And though theFederal
Reserve and economic analysts have recently readjusted their economic
growth forecasts downward for the next six months, Americans no longer
have toworry about, as Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) said on the house
floor in October of2008, the sky falling, multi-thousand point drops
in stock markets andmartial law in America. The recovery - if our government, the Federal Reserve and mainstream
mediaare to be believed - is on the road to recovery - albeit slowly
and with somemore pain ahead.
If we’ve “prevented economic collapse” and “avoided the depression manyfeared,” according to President Obama ,
inquiring minds are asking whythe Pentagon and US Military are
actively and aggressively engaged in planningresponsive action to
large scale economic breakdown and civil unrestscenarios:
Ever since the crash of 2008 the defense intelligence
establishment hasreally been paying a lot of attention to global
markets and how they can serveas a threat to U.S. national security
interests. At one upcoming seminar nextmonth they’re taking a look at
a lot of the issues.
source: see CNBC video report below
According to the report, the Army has spent time on financial market
tradingfloors with JP Morgan and others, in the hopes that they can
learn more abouthow a financial and economic attack may occur, and
what the ramifications ofsuch attacks on US stocks and bonds may be.
The Army, in a year-long war games series called Unified Quest
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Published by Ulsterman on October 3, 2010 in World Politics
In an attempt to deal with increasing concerns over a possible
Hillary Clinton run for President in 2012, the Obama White House has
quietly made overtures to Clinton to replace Joe Biden as Obama’s Vice
President.
Author’s Note: The information coming from within the Washington
D.C. power structure has increased in scope considerably since the most
recent staff departures from the Obama White House. Our own D.C.
Insider is now ready to reveal, among other things, ongoing negotiations
between Obama operatives and the Clintons. Read on for further
details:
http://www.facebook.com/Ulsterman1
____ So
let’s get right to it then – you are now indicating to us that the
Obama White House would like Hillary Clinton to replace Joe Biden as
Vice President. Is that correct? Absolutely correct. There has
been speculation of just such a deal for some time now. The speculation
has proved to be accurate. The Obama White House is very concerned
with the possibility of Hillary Clinton seeking the nomination in 2012.
Very-very concerned, and for good reason. Democratic Party supporters –
I’m talking some very deep pockets and very considerable influence,
have been engaging in some speculative chatter of that nature for a
while. When that happens, its a warning shot at the White House that
says to them you better get things back on track or we are going to try
and replace you. And Hillary Clinton has done nothing to diminish that
chatter. The opposite in fact. She is considering the possibility
herself. You mean the possibility of running against Obama in 2012? Yes.
She is now more open to that possibility than ever, and is making
little attempt to hide that fact from the Obama folks. It’s D.C. politics being played at the very highest levels.
Ok, so the Obama White House doesn’t want that to happen. They don’t
want a Hillary run in 2012 to tear the party ap
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INCIDENT: The traditional Swiss finishing school taught young
women etiquette and social graces, but international bank regulators are
talking about something much tougher when they refer to a "Swiss
finish" for global banks.
Just how tough became clear last week, 4 October, when a Swiss
commission proposed that its two giant banks, UBS and Credit Suisse, be
subjected to capital requirements of up to 19%, nearly three times as
tough as the 7% capital-to-assets ratio recently suggested by the Basel
Banking Committee as a minimum global standard.
SIGNIFICANCE: The ambitious Swiss plan, designed to solve the "too big
to fail" problem, will set the standard for megabank regulation as Group
of 20 heads prepare for their summit in November. It almost certainly
means that other big global banks such as JP Morgan Chase and Deutsche
Bank will face capital surcharges from their national regulators.
Swiss National Bank President Philipp Hildebrand left no doubt in an
op-ed last week that the Financial Stability Board, mandated by the G-20
to ready proposals on financial regulation, would push for the higher
standards for big banks.
"Two years after the demise of Lehman Brothers, the 'too big to fail'
problem remains unresolved," Hildebrand wrote in the Financial Times.
"The Financial Stability Board (FSB) and its members are committed to
proposing measures to the Group of 20 leaders to address the problem."
ANALYSIS: The FSB, as well as the Basel Committee itself, are
international groupings loosely affiliated with the Bank for
International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland. The FSB gained new
legitimacy when the first G-20 summit in 2008 expanded its
representation and called on it to make regulatory proposals for the
G-20 leaders.
Resistance a Foregone Conclusion: The push for higher capital
requirements will meet considerable resistance, especially from German
banks, which have traditionally been underc
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by Ron Holland
Mandatory IRAs just proposed by ObamaAdministration on 1/25/10 is
the 1st step in stealth nationalization& forced investment of our
retirement benefits to support thetreasury debt market! Read the
veiled report in Business Week.
APersonal Note from the Author
Dear Concerned American:
Ibegin with a quote from a politician who believed in an
all-powerfulcentral government and in using that power to achieve his
vision for anation. “He who has his thumb on the purse has the power.”
~ Otto vonBismarck, a statesman who created the modern Germany and
known as theiron chancellor
But however well-intentioned he might have been,he built the
regulatory groundwork and government institutions for acentralized
federal state that was later taken over by an evil politicalleader who
created a tyranny seldom seen in the world before, or after.The
tyranny started in 1933, 35 years after Bismarck’s death, wasNational
Socialism and the leader was Adolf Hitler. All of this cameafter
Germany’s military defeat in World War One and a national debtcrisis,
followed by hyperinflation and currency collapse
I fearthat today the control, nationalization and ultimate
confiscation oftrillions in private US retirement plan assets is on
the horizon. RickSantelli alluded to the possible nationalization and
forced investmentinto treasuries on CNBC as recently as January 8,
2010. There was alsosimilar coverage on Bloomberg and Business Week.
Reports out of Washington indicate that new retirement annuities may
be promoted by Obama aides. This is just the beginning! The question
every successful American with substantial retirement assets must ask
is “what will you do if our retirement funds are forced to become the
buyer of last resort for US treasury obligations?” Unless you believe
Congress and Washington bureaucrats will do a fair job of allocating
and distributing your personal retirement assets between yourself and
others,
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