Posted by seumasach on October 19, 2010
Pepe Escobar
20th October, 2010
Iraqi Premier Nuri al-Maliki hit Tehran this Monday. He was duly received by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and talked extensively to President Mahmud Ahmadinejad, still beaming after his rock-star tour of Lebanon last week.
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Posted by seumasach on October 19, 2010
Michael Hudson
11th October, 2010
What is to stop U.S. banks and their customers from creating $1 trillion, $10 trillion or even $50 trillion on their computer keyboards to buy up all the bonds and stocks in the world, along with all the land and other assets for sale in the hope of making capital gains and pocketing the arbitrage spreads by debt leveraging at less than 1 per cent interest cost? This is the game that is being played today.
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Posted by seumasach on October 19, 2010
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Posted by seumasach on October 19, 2010
10th October, 2010
October 10, 2010. Pick of the Week #14 is based on a thoroughly researched and carefully crafted document (The Challenge of Non-Ionizing Radiation: A Proposal for Legislation) written by Karen A. Massey (Project Attorney for Natural Resources Defense Council) and published in the Duke Law Journal (Volume 1979, No. 1, 86 pp). This paper will be of interest to policy analysts, lawyers, member of Congress, and all the agencies that currently have pieces of the electromagnetic puzzle in the United States and elsewhere.
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Posted by smeddum on October 18, 2010
Monday October 18 2010
‘WE were on the brink of bankruptcy,” said the UK chancellor George Osborne yesterday as he tried to defend his draconian package of spending cuts and tax rises which will be revealed in detail on Wednesday. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on October 18, 2010
18th October, 2010
Meaford’s St. Vincent Euphrasia Elementary School(SVE) elected Parent Council announced in a media release on Friday that its parents have voted to turn off the school’s WiFi transmitters, and connect to the internet with hard-wires.
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Posted by seumasach on October 17, 2010
Good analysis except that where their are debtors there are creditors and so the idea of a conference “to multilaterally default on debt” lacks sense. In fact, the debtor nations have to renegotiate their debt with their creditors: they can’t pay their debt so they have to offer something else, a change in policy which essentially ends America, the empire, and begins America, the sovereign nation state
Bob Chapman
17th October, 2010
Today’s great debate basically between the US and Europe is – should the Fed go full bore by implementing a second quantitative easing? In part it is a moot point, because they have been doing just that in the repo market for four months without letting anyone know what they were up too. Their mandate is to reduce inflation and create full employment. Real inflation is 7% and unemployment is 22-3/4%. The Fed for three years has concentrated on bailing out Wall Street, banking, insurance and transnational conglomerates. Little has been done to fulfill their mandated mission. The main recipients of their largess, of course, are the firms that actually own the privately owned Fed.
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Posted by smeddum on October 17, 2010
Damned if we cut, damned if we don’t. There is no alternative: Britian needs to fundamentally change its relationship with the rest of the world, especially our creditors, if we are to begin to emerge from this crisis.
London : British trade unions are making a last minute appeal against the scale of public spending cuts due to be announced by the government next week by calling on MPs to speak out about the damage they will cause to the country. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on October 17, 2010
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In These New Times 