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Archive for April, 2009

Chomsky: NATO should immediately disband

Posted by seumasach on April 3, 2009

PressTV

3rd April, 2009

 

NATO would be better off if it sought an “immediate disbandment”, renowned American author and political analyst Professor Noam Chomsky says. 

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Sudan/Darfur is Test Case for Obama’s “Humanitarian” Aggression

Posted by seumasach on April 3, 2009

Glen Ford

Atheo News

1st April, 2009

 

Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir had no choice but to expel the western “aid” organizations that had merged with the American propaganda machine aimed at regime change in Khartoum. Obama operatives like UN Ambassador Susan Rice have for years been “eager to blockade Sudan’s ports” and to launch “selective” bombing raids against Sudan. When imperial doctrine claims the right to intervene whenever disasters overtake sovereign countries – and proceeds to create and exacerbate those disasters – then no government is safe against regime change. President Obama “appears to be fine-tuning a ‘humanitarian’ interventionist doctrine that is applicable to any point on the planet.”

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G20 signals end for dollar hegemony

Posted by smeddum on April 3, 2009

 

 

G20: US$ FUNERAL, US FAILED DEBTOR
Jim Willie CB                        April 1, 2009

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MAJOR GLOBAL TURNING POINT
Perhaps it was a grand error of judgment to host the G20 Meeting in London. The epicenter of the financial hegemony, corruption, hidden agency influence, and financial market destruction has clearly been the United States and the United Kingdom working in tandem. So great risk comes with the hosting of this meeting in London. The British Empire, aka Great Britain, is the site of the most devastating economic and banking ruin in a century, on a scale much larger than Iceland, but with a certain hand in the Iceland downfall. Millions of British citizens are angry, worried, and justifiably so. Their economists, bankers, and government leaders have presided over at best a severe national decline that must withstand diverse reform and reconstruction, and over at worst a national failure of state that must endure a collapse before any conceivable reconstruction. The decline if not collapse in the UK seemed for a time to lag that of the US, but lately events have accelerated inside the harrowed United Kingdom. The United States has the advantage of just printing trillion$ and floating about for a bit much like a derelict vessel with feigned movement! Read the rest of this entry »

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Who Controls The Black Bloc Anarchists?

Posted by smeddum on April 2, 2009

Who Controls The Black Bloc Anarchists?
Government Decides Who Protests At G20: Violent anarchists allowed to smash up buildings despite announcing target in advance, yet anti-poverty group barred from protesting

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, April 2, 2009
The British authorities seemed to have little problem with allowing a group of violent black bloc anarchists smash up the RBS building while provoking police yesterday, despite the group announcing their target in advance, yet a legitimate anti-poverty organization has had its “accreditation” to protest at the G20 removed on the orders of Downing Street. Read the rest of this entry »

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Clinton Advisor: Earth’s Population Has Exceeded Limits

Posted by seumasach on April 2, 2009

 

With a sudden flurry, top “experts” are introducing us to the notion of our own demise.

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UK population must fall to 30m, says Porritt

The Malthusian question

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Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Wednesday, April 1, 2009

One of most influential scientists in the US government has said that the Earth’s population has exceeded the planet’s “limits of sustainability”.

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Obama, allies aren’t on same page as G20 opens

Posted by seumasach on April 1, 2009

“In an interview with London’s Financial Times published Friday, German leader Angela Merkel hadn’t backed off from her emphasis on regulation instead of spending.

“The crisis did not take place because we were spending too little but because we were spending too much to create growth that was not sustainable. It isn’t just that the banks took over too many risks. Governments allowed them to do so by neglecting to set the necessary (financial market) rules and, for instance in the U.S., by increasing the money supply too much,” she said.

The United States and England , however, are unlikely to support hasty moves to new regulation.”

“Self-interest wins in the end always, and the United States and the U.K. get more out of financial services than anyone else. We have the two world financial capitals. It’s not in our interest to have other people write the regulations or have regulations that try to average across many nations,” said Vincent Reinhart , a former top economist at the Federal Reserve.

Likewise, he cautioned, big nations such as China and Russia , and the smaller but important European powers, see it in their interest to impose new rules on London and New York .

Yahoo

31st March, 2009

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