Posted by smeddum on March 18, 2009
Jim Willie on AIG (radio broadcast)
By MICHAEL HUDSON
It may seem odd, but the public outrage against $135 million in AIG bonuses is a godsend to Wall Street, AIG scoundrels included. How can the media be so preoccupied with the discovery that there is self-serving greed to be found in the financial sector? Every TV channel and every newspaper in the country, from right to left, have made these bonuses the lead story over the past two days. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on March 18, 2009
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The Size of the Derivatives Bubble = $190K Per Person on Planet
The Invisible One Quadrillion Dollar Equation
by DK Matai
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Global Research, March 16, 2009
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According to various distinguished sources including the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Basel, Switzerland — the central bankers’ bank — the amount of outstanding derivatives worldwide as of December 2007 crossed USD 1.144 Quadrillion, ie, USD 1,144 Trillion. The main categories of the USD 1.144 Quadrillion derivatives market were the following:
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Posted by seumasach on March 18, 2009
According to LEAP/E2020, there are only two options left for the G20 leaders who gather next April 2nd in London: either they rebuild a new international monetary system, creating the conditions for a new global system that involves all the main global players, and reducing the crisis to a maximum of 3 to 5 years; or they strive to prolong the current system, thrusting the world into a decade long tragic crisis starting at the end of 2009.
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Posted by seumasach on March 18, 2009
Leonid Ivashov
17th March, 2009
Translation at foot of each paragraph
Politologue russe influent, issu des milieux nationalistes, le général Léonid Ivashov était chef d’état-major des armées le 11 septembre 2001. Ce jour-là, il avait placé ses satellites en alerte pour observer les manœuvres militaires aériennes annoncées aux USA, mais c’est un tout autre spectacle auquel il fut confronté. Au vu des analyses de cet événements par ses experts, il a écarté l’hypothèse Al-Qaïda et conclu à une provocation de l’élite financière anglo-saxonne.
[Influential Russian political scientist, of the nationalist school, Leonid Ivashov was Chief-of-Staff of the Russian armed forces on September 11th. On that day, he placed his satellites on alert to observe the announced US air force military manoeuvres, only to be confronted with something quite different. After an analysis conducted by his experts, he discarded the Al-Queda hypothesis and concluded that it had been an Anglo-saxon provocation.]
Sur cette base, il développé la vision stratégique russe du monde post-11-Septembre. Nous reproduisons ici un de ses articles, représentatif de sa pensée et de celle des officiers supérieurs russes. Le lecteur sera surpris de constater que ce qui est considéré comme un délire dans les pays de l’OTAN est une vérité d’évidence en Russie, comme d’ailleurs dans de nombreux autres régions du monde. Au-delà de la question d’établir la vérité, l’honnêteté intellectuelle exige de comprendre et d’accepter la relativité des points de vue. Cet article sera particulièrement précieux pour les militaires français au moment où le ministre de la Défense a engagé une chasse aux sorcières contre les enseignants de l’École de guerre qui ont osé rendre compte de la diversité des interprétations du 11-Septembre.
[On this basis, he developed a Russian strategic vision for the post-9/11. We reproduce here one of his articles, representative of his thinking and that of his superior officers. The reader may note that that which is taken for a delirium in the NATO countries is regarded as self-evident truth in Russia, as in other areas of the world. Beyond the question of establishing the truth, intellectual honesty demands the understanding and accepting of other points of view. This article will be particularly valuable for the French military at a moment when the Defense department is conducting a witch hunt against teachers at the War College who dare to present alternative interpretations of 9/11.]
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Posted by smeddum on March 18, 2009
By Stephen Gowans
March 17, 2009
A member of the executive committee of the scholars’ organization that has accused Mahmoud Mamdani of falling for the anti-imperialist rhetoric of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, has volunteered and worked for pro-imperialist organizations and has given briefings to the US State Department and Intelligence Council. (1) Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on March 18, 2009
March 12, 2009 – Orebro University Hospital; Umea, Sweden; Columbia University, New York: University of Albany, New York; Karolinska Institute, Sweden
International Scientists Find Harmful Effects from Wireless Technologies and Urge New Safety Rules for Cell Phones (This link opens a WORD document containing the press release below. The link to the Pathophysiology Web site is at the end of this document.)
Public health concerns and scientific evidence for risks from cell phones and other wireless devices is published today in the journal Pathophysiology. International researchers have urged quick precautionary action (see Section 17 of the BioInitiative Report) to address a possible epidemic of brain tumors and many other health risks. Over four billion people around the world now use cell phones. They are rapidly eliminating the use of traditional land-line phones throughout the world. Health researchers from six countries give findings in fifteen (15) chapters covering health risks to humans and wildlife from electromagnetic fields and radiofrequency radiation.
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Posted by smeddum on March 18, 2009
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Posted by smeddum on March 18, 2009
Just as a certain percentage of republicans refused to admit that rotten things were happening under the Bush administration, many democrats have fought to defend the Obama administration against charges of mishandling the response to the economic crisis. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on March 18, 2009
One of the greatest poems in the English language, written during World War One, on the last day of which Owen was killed. Ostensibly a war poem, it nonetheless has remarkable resonance with those of us who have never known war directly, suggesting that we are more marked than we know by the bloody turmoil of an epoch from which, hopefully, we are now , at last, emerging.
Wilfred Owen
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Posted by seumasach on March 18, 2009
Les images du jour / Pictures of the day
Irradiation et Irresponsabilité caractérisée!
Massive radiation – and a typical lack of responsibility!
Monte Artxanda de Bilbao – Espagne
Irresponsabilité ! – Irresponsibility !
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* Mesures HF artificielles micro-ondes MHz et GHz réalisées au centre du parc d’enfants.
* Level of artificial hyperfrequency microwave radiation in MHz and GHz measured in the middle of the play park.
Femme enceinte : La poche des eaux appelée amnios est une poche remplie du liquide amniotique dans laquelle s’effectue
le développement embryonnaire. C’est évidemment un milieu très absorbant pour les irradiations artificielles micro-ondes !!!!
En plus, dès la naissance, les petites filles portent déjà dans leurs corps environ 400 000 ovules (ovocytes).
Ils sont stockés dans les ovaires, dans de minuscules poches remplies de liquide appelées follicules.
La formation des ovocytes se fait pendant la croissance du fœtus . . . Maintenant ils sont irradiés
artificiellement par la pire fréquence dite “poubelle” du spectre des hyperfréquences micro-ondes !!!!!
Irradier artificiellement les enfants doit être considéré comme un acte criminel.
Ceux qui sont responsables de ces actes criminels doivent être jugés et pas seulement REPACHOLI.
Ceux qui ont une charge et qui n’informent pas la population sont co-responsables.
During pregnancy the amniotic sac in which the embryo develops is filled with amniotic fluid,
a medium that very easily absorbs artificial microwave radiation!
What’s more, at birth little girls already carry in their bodies about 400,000 ovules (ovocytes),
stored in the ovaries in tiny pockets called follicles, filled with liquid.
These ovocytes develop in fact as the foetus grows . . . Now they are being irradiated artificially
by the worst “garbage” of the spectrum of microwave hyperfrequencies!
This causes irreversible damage to the ovocyte DNA, damage that then becomes hereditary.
Submitting children and infants to artificial irradiation should be considered a criminal act.
Those responsible for doing so (and not only Repacholi) should be brought to justice.
Those who are in positions of responsibility and do not inform the public of these dangers
are equally guilty.
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In These New Times 