Posted by seumasach on November 2, 2010
Philip Giraldi
Antiwar.com
28th October, 2010
Some have expressed hopes that the tea partiers, many of whom grew out of the Ron Paul movement, will bring about a shift away from American imperialism through their demands for smaller, cheaper, less intrusive, and more accountable government. But it ain’t necessarily so. The tea partiers generally fail to understand that the indispensable element in the explosive growth of big government over the past ten years has been Washington’s failure to craft a foreign and security policy that is commensurate with the nation’s resources and proportional to the actual level of threat that exists in the world. This results in the tea partiers overwhelmingly supporting an aggressive security policy even though they must know that leaving the Pentagon budget untouched and untouchable guarantees deficit spending and continued growth of the parts of government that are allegedly committed to “keeping us free.”
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Posted by seumasach on November 2, 2010
“It is becoming harder to mop up the liquidity flowing into these countries,” said Neil Mellor, of the Bank of New York Mellon. “We fully expect more central banks to impose capital controls over the next couple of months. That is the world we live in,” he said. Globalisation is unravelling before our eyes.
Globalisation Anglo-Saxon style, that is: a benign counter-globalisation, multipolar, is coming more and more to the fore. That said, this is an excellent article by Evans-Pritchard: it seems that, in Britain, some on the right are much closer to reality than those on the left, who are simply nowhere.
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Telegraph
2nd November
The Fed’s “QE2” risks accelerating the demise of the dollar-based currency system, perhaps leading to an unstable tripod with the euro and yuan, or a hybrid gold standard, or a multi-metal “bancor” along lines proposed by John Maynard Keynes in the 1940s.
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Posted by seumasach on November 2, 2010
Edited by I. R. Petrov, Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR
Leningrad, 1970
Magda Havas
Click on above link to view conclusion of study
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Posted by smeddum on November 1, 2010
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Posted by seumasach on November 1, 2010
Saliem Fakir
25th October 2010
South African Civil Society Information Service
We sit amongst the vulnerable beneath the trampling of elephants as they fight it out. South Africa may be a big player in Africa, but is no match for the economic giants in the global arena. South Africa simply does not have the foreign currency reserves or trade power to fight a currency war.
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Posted by smeddum on November 1, 2010
Linda Bilmes
31st October, 2010
ICH
Nobel Prize recipient Joseph Stiglitz and Harvard budget guru Linda J. Bilmes are revising their original $3 trillion war cost estimate. As Bilmes reports, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are at least 25 percent costlier than previous projections.
As Election Day draws near, it’s pretty clear: Voters are worried about jobs, the budget deficit and the rising national debt. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on October 31, 2010
Multipolarity, endorsed by none less than Noam Chomsky, is the buzzword of the moment: it is becoming an exciting and inescapable reality. However, we and our American cousins have chosen to stand aloof, putting our faith in printing paper money and in phoney bomb plots, the so-called “war on terror”.
October 28 2010
On a recent 11-day tour covering eight European, Asian and African nations, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his entourage went non-stop from factory to farm, energy facilities to governmental chambers. He signed 69 agreements covering energy, agriculture, education, technological interchange, trade, and housing. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on October 31, 2010
Posted: October 30th 2010
Of all the “threats” to world order, the most consistent is democracy, unless it is under imperial control, and more generally, the assertion of independence. These fears have guided imperial power throughout history. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on October 31, 2010
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Posted by seumasach on October 30, 2010
The final theory is that the rise in atmospheric electromagnetic radiation levels, a byproduct of the increasing usage of cell phones and wireless communication towers, is a major factor. Cell phone radiation interferes with bees’ ability to navigate through the air.
See also:
ITNT Archive: Disappearing Bees
Today’s Zaman
30th October, 2010
The harvest of natural Kaçkar honey, which is produced in Rize’s Kaçkar Mountains, has plunged by nearly 50 percent this year, despite an increase of 40 percent in the number of beehives, General Manager of Topuy Kaçkar Remzi Özbay has said.
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Posted by seumasach on October 30, 2010
The Peninsular
30th October, 2010
Hanoi: Smaller Asian countries, faced with rocketing exchange rates that risk destabilising economies, should work together so that they have a bigger voice, Philippines Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima said yesterday.
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In These New Times 