Economy and Society

University of Ottawa, January 27, 2010 – Published on Global Research.ca, January 27, 2010.

• Causes and consequences of the economic crisis
• Financial fraud and the “bank bailouts”
• The economic crisis and its relationship to the Middle East Central Asian war
• The implications of the military “surge” on the US economy
• An oversized US war economy triggers imbalances in the US monetary system

Date: Wednesday, January 27th 2010, Time: 12:00pm – 2pm;
Address: 147-B Fauteux Hall (Law School), 57 Louis Pasteur, University of Ottawa Campus, OTTAWA, K1N6N5,
… (full text).

Turkmenistan commits its gas exports to China, Russia & Iran – Published on Global Research.ca, by Amb. M K Bhadrakumar, January 12, 2010.

The inauguration of the Dauletabad-Sarakhs-Khangiran pipeline in early January connecting Iran’s northern Caspian region with Turkmenistan’s vast gas field may go unnoticed amid the Western media cacophony that it is “apocalypse now” for the Islamic regime in Tehran.

The event sends strong messages for regional security. Within the space of three weeks, Turkmenistan has committed its entire gas exports to China, Russia and Iran. It has no urgent need of the pipelines that the United States and the European Union have been advancing. Are we hearing the faint notes of a Russia-China-Iran symphony?   Continue Reading…

Published on iAfrica.com, AFP, 11 Jan.

Voters in French Guiana rejected an offer from France for more autonomy for the territory bordering Brazil and Suriname in South America …

… Sixty years after being granted the status of department — which makes them legally as French as Normandy or Provence — the tropical territories face recurrent social problems including high unemployment and low wages despite massive financial support from the state.

The mayor of Guiana’s capital Cayenne, Rodolphe Alexandre, said the question of financing drove the campaign and the result of the referendum.  Continue Reading…

Linked with Jerry Mazza – USA. – Published on Online Journal, by Jerry Mazza, January 7, 2010.

Returning to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s attempt to blow up a Northwest airliner on Christmas day, let’s scan the body of evidence for government lies, the real explosive elements. Let’s give Umar a good dose of radiation with the knowledge that first reveals the 80 grams of PETN explosive he carried in his crotch lacked a blasting cap to blow him and the plane away. Instead, lighting with an injection of liquid did nothing but set him on fire. As if no one in the military or intelligence knew that.  Continue Reading…

Published on Voltairenet.org, by F. William Engdahl, 6 January 2010. – Linked with Frederick William Engdahl – Germany and USA.

… What about al-Qaeda?

The picture that emerges is one of a desperate US-backed dictator, Yemen’s President Saleh, increasingly losing control after two decades as despotic ruler of the unified Yemen. Economic conditions in the country took a drastic downward slide in 2008 when world oil prices collapsed. Some 70% of the state revenues derive from Yemen’s oil sales. The central government of Saleh sits in former North Yemen in Sana’a, while the oil is in former South Yemen. Yet Saleh controls the oil revenue flows. Lack of oil revenue has made Saleh’s usual option of buying off opposition groups all but impossible.  Continue Reading…

Published on WSWS, by Bill Van Auken, 6 January 2010.

In a brief public statement delivered after a White House meeting Tuesday with US intelligence chiefs, President Barack Obama acknowledged that the CIA and other agencies had all the information needed to detect the Christmas Day airline bombing plot, but failed to stop it.

“This was not a failure to collect intelligence, it was a failure to integrate and understand the intelligence that we already had,” Obama said after meeting for two hours with some 20 top intelligence and security aides and advisors …  Continue Reading…

Linked on our blogs with Worker’s Action. – Published on Global Research.ca, by Shamus Cooke, December 28, 2009.

On Sunday in Iran, mass protests were drowned in blood by government authorities; at least ten reportedly have been killed with hundreds injured.  The events have been given ample coverage in the U.S. media, with the intention of further demonizing Iran’s repressive government. Absent in the American media are the deeper implications of the protests, which, to anyone paying close attention, constitute a powerful revolutionary movement.  Continue Reading…

A Mediterranean maelstrom – Published on The Economist, Decmber 10, 2009.

Turkey’s fading hopes of joining the European Union would be hugely boosted by a Cyprus settlement, for which the next few weeks will be critical.

IT IS no secret that negotiations on Turkish membership of the European Union are going slowly. Only one of the 35 “chapters”, on research, has been completed. Five are blocked by a French veto on anything implying Turkey’s eventual accession. Eight have been frozen since December 2006 to punish the Turks for not opening their ports and airports to Cyprus (ie, the Greek-Cypriot republic). On December 8th the EU agreed to open just one new chapter, on the environment.  Continue Reading…

What did Medvedev have up his sleeve when he welcomed Obama’s new surge in Afghanistan

Linked on our blogs with Eric Walberg – Canada. – Published on Global Research.ca, by Eric Walberg, December 18, 2009.

US President Barack Obama’s now expanding war against the Taliban is garnering support from liberals and neocons alike, from leaders around the world, even from Russia. “We are ready to support these efforts, guarantee the transit of troops, take part in economic projects and train police and the military,” Russian President Dmitri Medvedev declared in a recent press conference with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Moscow and Washington reached an agreement in July allowing the US to launch up to 4,500 US flights a year over Russia, opening a major supply route for American operations in Afghanistan. Previously Russia had only allowed the US to ship non-lethal military supplies across its territory by train … //   Continue Reading…

Published on Dissident Voice, by E.R. Bills, December 7th, 2009.

A couple of weeks back, I saw that the United States was now sending remote-controlled MQ-9 Reaper planes to patrol the Indian Ocean in search of Somali pirates. Apparently the destitute Somalis have “Kick Me” signs attached to their backs and the United States is down their to tee them up.

We weren’t sending Reapers to patrol the area when the Italians, Germans or Swiss were dumping toxic waste off the coast of Somalia. We had no intentions of getting involved when the dumping we ignored was stirred up by the tsunami of 2004 and toxic waste tanks began washing up on Somali beaches and fouling the coastal ecosystem. And we weren’t bothered when Somalis in the area began suffering from radiation sickness, cancer outbreaks and harrowing birth defects. It wasn’t our problem, and it wasn’t any of our business.  Continue Reading…

… thanks to hackers – part 2

Linked on our blogs with There Is No Consensus On Global Warming, with Call For Independent Inquiry Into Climategate as Global Warming Fraud Implodes, with Global Warming: Fixing the Climate Data around the Policy.

Watch this video, 5.37 min, published on Now Public, by Edmund Jenks, November 26, 2009.

Links:

Hacked e-mails + trashed raw data = climate change under attack, by Colleen Lindsay, December 6th, 2009;

… and over 1000 articles on this issue actually on GoogleNews.

(Environmental Modification Techniques) – the manipulation of climate for military use

Published on Global Research.ca, by Michel Chossudovsky, December 5, 2009.

… The HAARP Program:

The High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) based in Gokona, Alaska, has been in existence since 1992. It is part of a new generation of sophisticated weaponry under the US Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). Operated by the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space Vehicles Directorate, HAARP constitutes a system of powerful antennas capable of creating “controlled local modifications of the ionosphere” [upper layer of the atmosphere]:   Continue Reading…

Previously Secret Documents from Soviet and U.S. Files on the 1989 Meeting, 20 Years Later

Published on the National Security Archive NSA, by Svetlana Savranskaya and Thomas Blanton, December 3, 2009 (the National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 298).

… The documents include the most complete transcript of the Malta summit ever published – excerpted from the forthcoming book, “Masterpieces of History”: The Peaceful End of the Cold War in Europe, 1989 (edited by Svetlana Savranskaya, Thomas Blanton, and Vladislav Zubok for the Central European University Press). The transcript is a translation of the Soviet record from the Gorbachev Foundation, since the U.S. memcons remain, astonishingly, still classified at the George H.W. Bush Library in Texas.  Continue Reading…

A clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition

Linked on our blogs with Call For Independent Inquiry Into Climategate as Global Warming Fraud Implodes, with Michel Chossudovsky – Canada, with Global Warming: Fixing the Climate Data around the Policy, with Climategate: The Silence is Deafening from the Corporate Media, with Manipulation of Data and Concepts, with Climate Change: this is the worst scientific scandal of our generation, and with Who’s to blame for Climategate?

Published on Global Research.ca, by Prof Richard S. Lindzen, December 04, 2009.

… So, presumably, those scientists do not belong to the “consensus.” Yet their research is forced, whether the evidence supports it or not, into Mr. Gore’s preferred global-warming template — namely, shrill alarmism. To believe it requires that one ignore the truly inconvenient facts. To take the issue of rising sea levels, these include: that the Arctic was as warm or warmer in 1940; that icebergs have been known since time immemorial; that the evidence so far suggests that the Greenland ice sheet is actually growing on average. A likely result of all this is increased pressure pushing ice off the coastal perimeter of that country, which is depicted so ominously in Mr. Gore’s movie. In the absence of factual context, these images are perhaps dire or alarming.   Continue Reading…

On our blog Kashmir and IDPs you can find this article, updated today:

Hurriyat stumbles on fourth stakeholder, by K.N. Pandit.

Linked on our blogs with Michel Chossudovsky – Canada, with Klimaforum 09 (alternative) – peoples climate summit, with Manipulation of Data and Concepts, with Climategate: The Silence is Deafening from the Corporate Media, with Climate Change: this is the worst scientific scandal of our generation, and with Who’s to blame for Climategate?

Published on Global Research.ca, by Michel Chossudovsky, November 30 2009.

4 excerpts: … It is worth noting that key decisions and orientations on COP15 had already been wrapped up at the World Business Summit on Climate Change (WBSCC) held in May in Copenhagen, six months ahead of COP15.

The WBSCC brought together some of the World’s most prominent business executives and World leaders including Al Gore and UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon. (The World Business Summit on Climate Change, includes webcast).  Continue Reading…

Published on Global Research.ca, by Prof. Christopher Booker, November 28, 2009.

… The senders and recipients of the leaked CRU emails constitute a cast list of the IPCC’s scientific elite, including not just the “Hockey Team”, such as Dr Mann himself, Dr Jones and his CRU colleague Keith Briffa, but Ben Santer, responsible for a highly controversial rewriting of key passages in the IPCC’s 1995 report; Kevin Trenberth, who similarly controversially pushed the IPCC into scaremongering over hurricane activity; and Gavin Schmidt, right-hand man to Al Gore’s ally Dr James Hansen, whose own GISS record of surface temperature data is second in importance only to that of the CRU itself.   Continue Reading…

The publication of damning emails about climate change could literally change the world, Gordon Rayner reports.

Published on Telegraph.co.uk, by Gordon Rayner, 27 Nov 2009.

… A little over a week ago, hundreds of internal emails written by scientists working at the CRU were obtained by a hacker and posted on the internet, some of which appeared to show that researchers had deliberately faked evidence of global warming by manipulating statistics.

At first, the fallout was restricted to a row between climate change experts, played out in scientific journals and specialist internet blogs, but in the past few days, as the ripples have spread around the globe, “Climategate” has become a white hot political issue which has been seized upon by global warming sceptics and now threatens to overshadow next month’s crucial climate change conference in Copenhagen.  Continue Reading…

les Honduriens veulent une nouvelle république – La population se radicalise dans l’opposition au coup d’État pro-US
(same text in english: The Honduran People Want More Than a Democracy: They Demand a New Republic,
et en espanol: Más que una democracia, los Hondureños quieren une nueva República).

Publié sur Voltairenet.org, par Arnold August, 17 novembre 2009.

Plus de trois mois après le coup d’État militaire, le président du Honduras, manuel Zelaya, n’a toujours pas été rétabli dans ses fonctions. Ayant organisé le putsch en sous-main, l’administration Obama poursuit en façade un discours lénifiant. Surtout, elle s’applique à ne pas qualifier le coup de « militaire » pour ne pas avoir à rompre avec le régime ainsi que l’exigerait alors la loi états-unienne. Washington tente d’organiser de nouvelles élections pour donner une apparence démocratique au nouveau régime, mais la population et les principaux leaders politiques rejettent un scrutin factice encadré par les putschistes.   Continue Reading…

Linked on this blog with today’s Red Alert: The Second Wave of The Financial Tsunami (to compare and think about mutual influence).  – Published on Global Research.ca, by Rick Rozoff, Nov 23, 2009.

An Europe united under the EU and especially NATO is to be strong enough to contain, isolate and increasingly confront Russia as the central component of U.S. plans for control of Eurasia and the world, but cannot be allowed to conduct an independent foreign policy, particularly in regard to Russia and the Middle East. European NATO allies are to assist Washington in preventing the emergence of “the most dangerous scenario…a grand coalition of China, Russia, and perhaps Iran” such as has been adumbrated since in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

Four years after the publication of The Grand Chessboard, Brzezinski’s recommended chess move was made: The U.S. and NATO invaded Afghanistan and expanded into Central Asia where Russian, Chinese and Iranian interests converge and where the basis for their regional cooperation existed, and Western military bases were established in the former Soviet republics of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, where they remain for the indefinite future.  Continue Reading…

Published on BBC, 20 November 2009.

… The Dutch frigate Evertsen is a reassuring sight for the civilian ships dotted around the horizon as she ploughs steadily through the calm, glittering waters of the Gulf of Aden.

But all the bristling firepower of the EU’s anti-piracy task force has not been enough to remove the threat of piracy from the seas around Somalia.

Why has it been so difficult for the world’s most advanced navies to defeat pirates who are armed with just Kalashnikovs and rocket- propelled grenades? …   Continue Reading…

Published on The National Security Archive, by Svetlana Savranskaya, Thomas Blanton, November 18, 2009.

Washington, D.C., November 18, 2009 – Secret messages from senior Soviet officials to West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl after the fall of the Berlin Wall led directly to Kohl’s famous “10 Points” speech on German unification, but the speech produced shock in both Moscow and Washington, according to documents from Soviet, German and American files posted today on the Web by the National Security Archive.

Published for the first time in English in the Archive’s forthcoming book, “Masterpieces of History,” the documents include highest-level conversations between President George H.W. Bush and Kohl; the text of the letter Kohl had delivered to Bush just as he announced the “10 Points” to the Bundestag on November 28, 1989; excerpts on Germany from the transcript of the Malta summit between Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev; Gorbachev’s own incendiary meeting with the German foreign minister after Kohl’s speech; and more.  Continue Reading…

Watch this video, published on Global Research.ca, by Michel Chossudovsky, November 17, 2009: The Long War, from the Truman Doctrine to the Neo-Conservatives, the Implications of the US Military Agenda, 36.32 min.(Michel Chossudovsky’s Address at the Opening Session, Perdana Global Peace Forum to Criminalize War, Kuala Lumpur, 5-7 February 2007).

From the Past to the Future

Published on Global Research.ca, by Dmitriy Baklin, Nov. 9, 2009.

… US president J. Kennedy said about the Wall quite philosophically that the solution, however disturbing, was still better than a war, and at that time almost anybody could subscribe to the point of view. Having divided the world, the two socioeconomic systems with their blocs and the Wall between them had to find a way to coexist … //

… In June, 1990 Gorbachev told G. Bush openly that he would agree to recognize the NATO membership of the unified Germany in case “such would be the will of the German people”. Feeling more than just surprised G. Bush even asked Gorbachev to repeat what he had just said.  Continue Reading…

(Bilderberg Group on wikipedia) – Published on Online Journal, by James P. Tucker, Jr., Sept 30, 2009.

Bilderberg has had front men call anew for creating a global currency and establishing major European Union-style regions for the administrative convenience of a planned world government. Both steps were taken in September, one by the new Bilderberg-crowned prime minister of Japan and one separately by the UN.

The Geneva-based UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) called for a global currency in a report made public on September 7. UN countries should agree on a global reserve bank to issue the currency and to monitor the national exchange rates of its members, UNCTAD said. The dollar’s role in international trade should be reduced to protect emerging markets from the “confidence game” of financial speculation, it said.   Continue Reading…

… and America’s collusion with Britain

Published on Online Journal, by Wayne Madsen, Oct. 02, 2009.  -  (Link: the Wayne Madson Report).

… The document’s contents reveal that Washington and London have conspired for several decades to undermine Iranian governments not held in favor by either country. The comments suggesting the “surprise” of President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, and British Foreign Secretary David Miliband over Iran’s communiqué to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that it was building a second uranium enrichment facility indicate that Washington and London continue to conspire against Tehran.   Continue Reading…

CSTO Collective Security Treaty Organisation

Linked with Eric Walberg – Canada. – Published on Dissident Voice, by Eric Walberg, October 28, 2009.

NATO’s reputation as the guardian of peace on Earth is in tatters these days. Once avowedly an alliance of North America and Western Europe to fight the communist hordes of Eurasia, it morphed into something quite difference with the collapse of the socialist bloc two decades ago. It now pretends to unite all of Europe to fight the Muslim hordes wherever they be found and, of course the Russians, just for good measure …

… The EU took the credit for bringing the two sides together and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton came to the signing ceremony, but it is far from clear which “side” will benefit most. Will NATO-member Turkey help usher CSTO-member Armenia into the Western fold? Or will Russia-friendly Armenia draw Turkey the other way? Will the EU’s spurning of Muslim Turkey and its desire to snag tiny Christian Armenia widen the growing rift between an increasingly independent and pro-Muslim Turkey and the West? Will Azerbaijan join NATO in a huff? Will Turkey dust off its Ottoman past and reinvent itself as a major regional power? The situation is far too complex to make any firm predictions.  Continue Reading…

Published on Global Research.ca, by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, Oct. 23, 2009.

The support and positions of various foreign governments in regards to the diabolic fighting between the Tamil Tigers and the Sri Lankan military, which cost the lives of thousands of innocent civilians, says a great deal about the geo-strategic interests of these foreign governments. The position of the governments of India and a group of states that can collectively be called the Periphery, such as the U.S. and Australia, were in support of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam (LTTE) or Tamil Tigers, either overtly or covertly. Many of these governments also provided this support tacitly, so as not to close any future opportunity of co-opting Sri Lanka after the fighting was over … //

… Enter the Chinese Dragon: The start of Sri Lankan Estrangement from the U.S. and India:   Continue Reading…

Published on Global Research.ca, by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, Oct. 17, 2009.

Since 1947, India has not fully pledged itself to any camp or global pole during the Cold War and as a result was a founding member of the Non-Aligned Movement (N.A.M.). Since the post-Cold War era that position has eroded. New Delhi has been gradually moving away from its traditional position, relationships, and policies in the international arena for over a decade.

India has been vied for as an ally in the “Great Game” that is underway, once again. This round of the “Great Game” is, however, being played under a far broader spectrum than the one played between Britain and Czarist Russia. In question is the Indian power relationship with two geo-political entities: the first is the “Periphery” and the second is “Eurasia.”

The Periphery and Eurasia: Vying for India on a Geo-Strategic Chessboard: …  // Continue Reading…

Published on Atlas Shrugs, by Pamela Geller, October 17, 2009.

COCHABAMBA, Bolivia — Leftist Latin American leaders have agreed on the creation of a regional currency to scale back on the use of the US dollar as well as economic sanctions against Honduran coup leaders.

Nine countries of ALBA, a leftist bloc conceived by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, met Friday in Bolivia where they vowed to press ahead with a new currency for intra-regional trade to replace the US dollar.

”The document is approved,” said Bolivia’s President Evo Morales, who is hosting the summit.  Continue Reading…

Published  on The Hindu, by Vladimir Radyuhin, Oct. 20, 2009.

… … In a joint declaration adopted at the summit, Russia and Turkey expressed support for Turkey’s CSCP initiative, noted the “identity of view” on security and stability in the Black Sea region and reaffirmed their commitment to the Montreux Convention.

There is no denying that Russia and Turkey are historical rivals in the Caucasus, having fought 11 wars lasting 44 years in the past. They are still competing for influence in the region, but shared interests make them allies too. Russia meets 80 per cent of Turkey’s natural gas needs through the Blue Stream pipe laid on the seabed across the Black Sea. Turkey has backed the Russian proposal to build a Blue Stream-2 pipeline, which, together with the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, would make Turkey a major energy transit hub for Europe and Israel.   Continue Reading…

Published on Global Research.ca, by Ellen Brown, October 15, 2009.

… Maximizing the Potential of a Publicly-owned Bank:

Economist Farid Khavari is a Democratic candidate for governor of Florida in 2010. He proposes a Bank of the State of Florida (BSF) that would take full advantage of the potential of a bank charter. It would not only act as a depository for the state’s funds but would actually make loans to Floridians, at much lower interest rates than they are getting now. Among other benefits, the BSF could open up frozen credit markets, save homeowners many thousands of dollars in payments, produce major revenues for the state, and allow the state’s own debts to be refinanced at much lower rates. All those benefits are possible, says Khavari, because of the “fractional reserve” banking system used by all banks when they make loans. As he explained in a July 29 article in Reuters:

• “Using the fractional reserve regulations that govern all banks, we can earn billions per year for Florida’s treasury, while saving thousands of dollars per year for Florida homeowners. . . . For $100 in deposits, a bank can create $900 in new money by making loans. So, the BSF can pay 6% for CDs, and make mortgage loans at 2%. For $6 per year in interest paid out, the BSF can earn $18 by lending $900 at 2% for mortgages.
• “The BSF can be started at no cost to taxpayers, and will be a permanent engine driving Florida’s economy. We can refinance state and local projects at 3%, saving taxpayers billions and balancing state and local budgets without higher taxes.”    Continue Reading…

Published on Global Research.ca, by Andrew Gavin Marshall, October 16, 2009.

Introduction:

In the face of total global economic collapse, the prospects of a massive international war are increasing. Historically, periods of imperial decline and economic crisis are marked by increased international violence and war. The decline of the great European empires was marked by World War I and World War II, with the Great Depression taking place in the intermediary period.

Currently, the world is witnessing the decline of the American empire, itself a product born out of World War II. As the post-war imperial hegemon, America ran the international monetary system and reigned as champion and arbitrator of the global political economy.   Continue Reading…

Published on Open Anthropology, by Maximilian Forte, October 7, 2009.

While no doubt some Afghans will be celebrating the continued, lucrative, presence of another empire in their midst, and the momentary protection offered by armies from 42 nations, others will be celebrating the fact that under their sustained and expanding fire another empire grinds noisily into its eighth year of failure. At the moment, the ever more obstreperous General Stanley McChrystal is making statements such as the one in the image above, suggesting that more occupation troops are needed so that they can look like less of an occupation force. Astounding. Instead of occupiers, they will merely appear in Afghan eyes as tourists with guns, presumably. This is the logic that is being sold by “top brass.” This logic comes from a general whose specializations in Iraq were targeted assassinations, not counterinsurgency; his units engaged in repeated abuse of detainees, not “winning hearts and minds” (source: Gen. McChrystal and Afghanistan). As for the Obama administration, pledging itself to think about a strategy for Afghanistan does not mean quite the same as pledging itself to think: “I don’t think we have the option to leave,” said White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, “That’s quite clear” (source: Gates blames past lack of troops for Taliban edge). Any regime that does not know what it is still doing in another nation cannot afford to slice off parts of its brain and render certain ideas “unthinkable” …  Continue Reading…

Published on London Evening Standard, by Nicholas Cecil, Sept. 22, 2009.

Liberal Democrats today ratcheted up the pressure for Britain to end its military campaign in Afghanistan. Delegates at the party’s annual rally in Bournemouth tabled an emergency motion calling for the Government to “focus on concluding the Afghanistan mission”.

They also demanded that ministers report to Parliament “in detail on progress towards a withdrawal” …

… “We should not be running around in circles for another six months,” said defence spokesman Nick Harvey.

Britain has 9,000 troops in Afghanistan and military chiefs were today said to be planning to deploy 1,000 more as part of US General Stanley McChrystal’s “surge” strategy. The UK death toll since the start of the war in 2001 is 217. (full text).

Reframing the History of World War II

Linked with Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya – Canada.

Published on Global Research.ca, by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, October 2, 2009.

… Why did the Soviets and Chinese Bear the Brunt of the Burden in the Second World War?

The U.S.S.R. and China suffered the greatest material, demographic and overall losses in the Second World War. A quantitative comparative overview and cross-examination of the casualty figures of Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union and China will show the staggering differences between the so-called “Western Allies” and the so-called “Eastern Allies.”   Continue Reading…

Published on Venezuela Analysis, by Tamara Pearson, September 27th 2009.  

Mérida, September 27th, 2009 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – Creating a new Radio of the South, formalising the Bank of the South, criticising the make-up of the UN Security Council, and supporting Honduran President Manuel Zelaya were among the outcomes at the second Africa-South American Summit (ASA) that was held this weekend on Margarita Island, Venezuela.

Heads of state from 61 countries, 49 from Africa and 12 from South America, participated in the summit, with the theme of “Closing gaps, opening up opportunitie” …   Continue Reading…

Linked with Court Fool.Info, with G20 the Pittsburgh Summit 2009 , with G20 goes global. And also linked with Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, with The Money Masters, a long video, with Video-debates about Economy and Society, with DIRTY SECRETS OF THE TEMPLE, and with … and specially this publication (G. Edward Griffin’s The Creature of Jekyll Island).

Published on Court Fool.Info, by Rudo de Ruijter, not dated.

… Money does not belong to the state:

Most people believe, that money is created by the state. However, most governments have little or no say over their country’s money supply. Bankers have taken over this power. They have turned this medium of exchange into a lucrative way of taxing the population by collecting interest. Bankers permanently collect interest on nearly all the money in the world.

Money is created by commercial banks:    Continue Reading…

Lié avec G20 goes global. – Publié sur SKYROCK, le blog de Gilles Bonafi, par Gilles Bonafi, le 22 sept. 2009.

La récession est terminée, c’est vrai. La dépression commence juste et le chômage de masse en est le révélateur. Nous ne sommes pas en 1929, c’est bien plus grave. Je ne reviendrai pas sur mes différentes analyses car bientôt les évènements vont s’enchaîner (voir sur mon blog: guerres, faillites, krach boursier, etc).

Pour comprendre pourquoi la bourse fonctionne encore il suffit de lire ce que Pierre Jovanovic écrit sur son blog. Il explique ainsi que « 40% du volume du NYSE est généré par 5 titres » ce qui a été confirmé par l’analyste financier Olivier Crottaz qui a même publié le graphique idoine (Source)  ….

… Aujourd’hui, 500 entreprises transnationales contrôlent 52 % du PIB mondial ce qui fait dire à Jean Ziegler (membre du Comité consultatif du Conseil des droits de l’homme des Nations Unies) que nous allons vers « une reféodalisation du monde. »    Continue Reading…

Published on The CEO Game, 24 Sept. 2009.

… More importantly, what should we expect from the Pittsburgh Summit? Since many prime economies are slowly recovering from the recession, there is no need (nor could it be fulfilled) for another round of big spending pledges, instead the summit will concentrate on the ones its members already committed to. The center stage will focus on regulation and reform, with the topic of the day being dealing with banker’s bonuses; there is a good chance to see an agreement on that.  Another hot item, is making sure that all countries are on the same page and don’t mess around with staggering companies. Will India and China be presented better in the International Monetary Fund? The IMF, The UN’s agency that facilitates international commerce and aids developing countries, will also be under discussion. Obama also claimed that we must stay clear of the asset bubbles by setting up a path for “sustainable growth while steering clear of the imbalances of the past”. Hence that’s going to be a key part of the agenda as well. Although the recovery is in progress, the fact that many people are still unemployed, should and probably will be a noticeable subject.   Continue Reading…