May 19 (Bloomberg) — What the U.S. economy may need is a dose of good old-fashioned inflation.
So say economists including Gregory Mankiw, former White House adviser, and Kenneth Rogoff, who was chief economist at the International Monetary Fund. They argue that a looser rein on inflation would make it easier for debt-strapped consumers and governments to meet their obligations. It might also help the economy by encouraging Americans to spend now rather than later when prices go up. Read the rest of this entry »
Chris Driver-Williams, a former senior IED analyst for the Defence Intelligence Staff said his claim provoked laughter at a meeting of intelligence agencies on the morning of the bombings.
Le président Obama, qui avait soulevé bien des espoirs en Amérique latine, n’a pas tardé à décevoir. Après avoir annoncé de manière spectaculaire une révision de la politique de Washington à l’égard de Cuba, il s’est dédit. Sur ce point, comme sur bien d’autres, Barack Obama a annulé les excès trop voyants de George W. Bush pour mieux renouer avec la politique impériale classique de ses prédécesseurs.
A fundamental difference between the standard cosmological and Electric Universe models lies in their views about how the Universe was assembled over time.
According to the standard model, some time after the Big Bang gas and dust clouds organized into stars, stellar clusters, then black holes which merged into super-massive black holes. The super-massive black holes were seeds that gravitationally assembled surrounding gas, dust, and stars into in all the various galactic shapes and sizes. Dark matter halos are also thought to have played a role in gravitationally organizing galaxies.
— Posted Thursday, 14 May 2009 | Source: GoldSeek.com
The so-called ‘Green Shoots’ have been trampled by people walking to their Unemployment Insurance Offices to collect jobless claims in order to pay their bills. The so-called ‘Green Shoots’ have been trampled been people walking (or running) away from their homes as they are being foreclosed. The so-called ‘Green Shoots’ will continue to suffer from most water and nutrients heading to the Elite Gardens, diverted from those on Main Street. The so-called ‘Green Shoots’ have been killed off by a stubborn frost from the USEconomy. A prevailing sentiment and motivation has sadly and perversely entered into the public and financial sectors, with clear deceptive intention. The stretch of the data, the desperate misinterpretation the data, the false facade painted atop a USEconomy, such deceptions cannot stand even the most gentle taste tests and sanity checks. Then again, Wall Street and the USGovt (victim of the financial Coup d’Etat) must promote a positive sentiment in order to reinvigorate confidence. After all, the USDollar-based system depends upon trust and confidence, since no gold backs the financial foundation and debt permeates every crevice. Heck, not even much industry backs the USEconomy, the famed financially engineered miracle gone awry. The principal characteristic of a body that is bankrupt, deeply mired in debt, and must sustain itself by selling debt securities to foreigners is deception. One must struggle mightily to find much of any honesty in USGovt finance or US bank system accounting, economic statistics, or establishment of future prospects. Read the rest of this entry »
That the Brit’s defence of the “sovereignty”of the Falklands Islands was more than just symbolic is now patently clear. Our response must be equally forthright:
A vast tract of the South Atlantic seabed – rich in oil and minerals – was formally claimed by the United Kingdom today in defiance of Argentinian opposition.
US congressional leaders and the most powerful pro-Israel lobby group in the US are attempting to forestall a significant shift in the White House’s Middle East policy.
Intellectual Dishonesty In The Age Of Universal Deceit: a message to the corporate media and our elected officials.
By Daniel Sunjata – May 4, 2009 – www.911blogger.com
“The inert masses are mentally and spiritually ill equipped to deal with reality, so they block it out of their minds – aided of course, by the corporate media and the propaganda apparatus of the government itself. This is why fantasy is frequently substituted for reality, plutocracy is mistaken for democracy, and the majority of the people do not know the difference. Millions of good people thus refuse to allow into their psyche the suffering and misery that U.S. policies have produced and exported to the world, even as that reality is closing in upon them.” –Charles Sullivan
“They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality…and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening.” – George Orwell, 1984
“Article XXXIV OBSTRUCTION OF INVESTIGATION INTO THE ATTACKS OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001” – From the 35 articles of impeachment introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on 06/09/08 in H.Res. 1258 by Congressman Dennis Kucinich
The list is not a short one. It includes professors, architects, aerospace and aviation professionals, structural/mechanical/& aeronautical engineers, demolition experts, firefighters and other first responders, scientists, theologians, senior members of both the military and intelligence communities, Republican administration appointees, state department veterans, and other government officials from the United States and abroad; credible experts of impeccable pedigree with impressive track records from relevant fields of expertise, whose coolly rational intellects are not easily given to an unfounded belief in outlandish, unsubstantiated, or unverifiable claims. Individuals such as these are numbered among the ranks of skeptics and critics of the official theory of conspiracy regarding the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Some pose questions, others draw conclusions, still others (like Congressman Kucinich) go so far as to level accusations and to substantiate them with evidence. Read the rest of this entry »
La Era esta Pariendo un Corazon- (Silvio Rodriguez)
The Era is Giving Birth to a Heart
Le he preguntado a mi sombra
a ver como ando para reírme,
mientras el llanto, con voz de templo,
rompe en la sala
regando el tiempo.
[I asked my shadow
what I must do to laugh again,
while my tears, with the voice of a temple,
burst into the room
watering times as it passes.]
Mi sombra dice que reírse
es ver los llantos como mi llanto,
y me he callado, desesperado
y escucho entonces:
la tierra llora.
[My shadow says that to smile
is to see all tears as my tears,
and silently, in despair,
I hear the earth weep.]
La era está pariendo un corazón,
no puede más, se muere de dolor
y hay que acudir corriendo
pues se cae el porvenir.
En cualquier selva del mundo,
en cualquier calle.
[The era is giving birth to a heart,
it can’t go on, it is dying of pain,
we must run to help,
our future is collapsing.
In whichever jungle
or street, in the world, you are in]
Debo dejar la casa y el sillón,
la madre vive hasta que muere el sol,
y hay que quemar el cielo si es preciso
por vivir.
Por cualquier hombre del mundo,
por cualquier casa.
[I must leave home and my armchair,
where my mother will live until the sun is extinguished,
Billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch gave a strange response when asked about plans for mainstream news websites to charge for content, declaring, “The current days of the internet will soon be over.”
In These New Times 