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The World Economic forum (WEF): Requiem for an overweight

Posted by seumasach on February 4, 2009

 

Eric Walberg

Global Research

4th February, 2009

“The WEF is not a government of the world,” said organiser Andre Schneider wistfully in the crisp Davos air.

The world’s economic elite gathered in a subdued atmosphere at this year’s World Economic Forum to assess the now global economic crisis. New York University professor Niso Abuaf compared it to a funeral, though not for the sake of the dead “ancien regime”, but “for the ones staying behind.” Attendees at the wake included 40 heads of state, 1400 business leaders and the usual assortment of “social entrepreneurs”.

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Help Make Baltimore City a Foreclosure & Eviction Free Zone

Posted by seumasach on February 4, 2009

MAKE BALTIMORE CITY A FORECLOSURE AND EVICTION FREE ZONE

 Sign the ONLINE PETITION and Call on Baltimore City Council and Sheriff John W. Anderson to Stop Foreclosures!

Help Make Baltimore City a Foreclosure & Eviction Free Zone

Community activists in Baltimore are now at a critical juncture in the struggle to stop foreclosures.  With your help we can win an important victory.  Please help by urging city council to do the right thing.

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Open Letter to Minister of Industry Canada, The Honourable Tony Clement – Radiation from Cellphone Towers and WiFi is ruining our atmosphere

Posted by seumasach on February 4, 2009

 

 Sunday, February 01, 2009 

Dear Minister
 
 I find it hard to believe ,with all of the science pointing toward serious health effects from electromagnetic fields in our atmosphere,that you, The  Minister of Industry for Canada, would even contemplate  WiFi ing the whole of Canada.
 Many of us Canadians are sensitive to radio wave radiation and are finding it difficult NOW, to find a place were we don’t suffer from radiation, so where are we to go for safety if you radiate our entire country??

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California downgraded by ratings company

Posted by seumasach on February 4, 2009

Irish Sun

4th February, 2009

California has had its credit rating reduced by Standard and Poors.

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CSTO – a NATO for the East?

Posted by seumasach on February 4, 2009

Russia Today 

4th February, 2009

The members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization – Russia and six neighbouring states – have agreed to set up a collective rapid reaction force to combat terrorism, military aggression, and drug trafficking.

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George Soros and Hedge Funds are Grabbing Farmland from Starving Farmers

Posted by seumasach on February 4, 2009

February 3, 2009 (LPAC)– Whereas nations lacking sufficient farmland might have a legitimate interest in developing agriculture elsewhere, things stand differently for private players such as George Soros and hedge funds. The latter are getting hold of vast territories of Kazakhstan, Sudan, Uganda, Indonesia, Madagascar, and even of starving Ethiopia, since most of these countries are hopelessly bankrupt and eager to get cash, wrote France’s Nouvel Observateur weekly of Dec. 23, 2008. The “farmland rush” taking place on a world scale was denounced by FAO’s Director General Jacques Diouf as “agrarian neo-colonialism.”

Nouvel Observateur noted that George Soros’s former business partner and co-founder of Soros’s Quantum Fund, Jim Rogers, is encouraging investors to go for this land-grab policy. “George Soros is heavily implicated in bio-fuels and owns land in Argentina. But in the last couple of months, with the financial crash, it’s the rush. Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs have massively invested in Chinese meat farms. Morgan Stanley bought 40,000 hectares in Ukraine, nothing compared to the 300,000 ha bought by Renaissance Capital, a Russian hedge fund.”

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Enough Bad Banks; We Need Good Ones in a New System

Posted by seumasach on February 4, 2009

John Hoefle

EIR

Jan. 30—We have said, repeatedly, that the attempts to bail out the global banking system, including the U.S. banks, are not working, will not work, and can not work. Not only will they not restore the banking system to solvency, but they are actually making the economic crisis worse.

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NATO seeks Iran help over Afghanistan

Posted by seumasach on February 3, 2009

This question is the crux of the matter for the collapsing empire: which of its enemies will allow it to resupply its armies in Afghanistan? They have just decided it is Iran.

PressTV

3rd February, 2009

NATO says member states can use Iran as a safe supply path to forces in Afghanistan, amid increasing attacks on its routes through Pakistan.


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Stiglitz Criticizes Bad Bank Plan as Swapping ‘Cash for Trash’

Posted by seumasach on February 3, 2009

“John Monks, general secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation, told the same audience that governments are getting “close to straining the patience of the public and voters” by repeatedly extending lifelines to banks.”

That rare phenomena, the British dissident, emboldened, no doubt, by his exile in Europe and his remoteness from the heart of darkness.

effedieffe.com

3rd February

Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz said any decision by President Barack Obama to establish a so-called bad bank to rid financial companies of toxic assets risks swelling the national debt.
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Karzai scares Obama with Russia

Posted by seumasach on February 3, 2009

RIA Novosti

2nd February, 2009

MOSCOW. (Pyotr Goncharov0 – Russia may become a major factor in the presidential ambitions of the leading Afghan politicians during the country’s presidential elections next summer.
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SNP demands probe into missing election record

Posted by seumasach on February 3, 2009

Independent

3rd February, 2009

See also:

Election monitors give vote of no confidence to results of 3 May polls

Open Rights Group May 2007 election report

The SNP demanded an inquiry today after it emerged that a record of everyone who voted in last year’s Glenrothes by-election has gone missing.

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