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The Economic Elite Have Engineered an Extraordinary Coup, Threatening the Very Existence of the Middle Class

Posted by seumasach on February 18, 2010

David DeGraw

Silver Bear Cafe

18th February, 2010

The economic elite have robbed us all. The amount of suffering in the United States of America is literally a crime against humanity.

“The American oligarchy spares no pains in promoting the belief that it does not exist, but the success of its disappearing act depends on equally strenuous efforts on the part of an American public anxious to believe in egalitarian fictions and unwilling to see what is hidden in plain sight.” – Michael Lind, To Have and to Have Not

We all have very strong differences of opinion on many issues. However, like our founding fathers before us, we must put aside our differences and unite to fight a common enemy.

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UN must investigate warming ‘bias’, says former climate chief

Posted by seumasach on February 18, 2010

Times

15th February, 2010

The UN body that advises world leaders on climate change must investigate an apparent bias in its report that resulted in several exaggerations of the impact of global warming, according to its former chairman.

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New Cold War Confrontation? Kremlin Establishes Military Cooperation Agreements in Latin America

Posted by seumasach on February 17, 2010

Robert Bridge

Global Research

17th February, 2010

As Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov wraps up his tour of Latin America, Moscow is weighing its options in a turbulent region long dominated by American influence.

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Goldman Goes Rogue – Special European Audit To Follow

Posted by seumasach on February 17, 2010

Where was the European Central Bank while all of this was happening? Has the ECB become dangerously enraptured with the new Wall Street and its “techniques”?

Simon Johnson

Baseline Scenario

14th Febraury, 2010

At 9:30pm on Sunday, September 21, 2008, Goldman Sachs was saved from imminent collapse by the announcement that the Federal Reserve would allow it to become a bank holding company – implying unfettered access to borrowing from the Fed and other forms of implicit government support, all of which subsequently proved most beneficial. Officials allowed Goldman to make such an unprecedented conversion in the name of global financial stability. (The blow-by-blow account is in Andrew Ross Sorkin’s Too Big To Fail; this is confirmed in all substantial detail by Hank Paulson’s memoir.)
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UK holdings of US government debt increase substantially

Posted by seumasach on February 17, 2010

While everyone else is getting out of US debt, the Brits are obligingly stepping in. We now have over 300 billion in potentially worthless paper at a time when there are growing problems in getting people to buy up our own worthless paper. Hereis another own goal to rank along with selling our gold reserves for a song.

RIA Novosti

17th February, 2010

China has ceded its position as the largest foreign holder of U.S. Treasuries to Japan after occupying top spot for 15 months, the Chinese official news agency Xinhua said, citing the U.S. Treasury Department.

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Europe’s Five “Undeclared Nuclear Weapons States” Are Turkey, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands and Italy Nuclear Powers?

Posted by seumasach on February 17, 2010

Michel Chossudovsky

Global Research

17th February, 2010

According to a recent report, former NATO Secretary-General George Robertson confirmed that Turkey possesses 40-90 “Made in America” nuclear weapons at the Incirlik military base.(en.trend.az/)

Does this mean that Turkey is a nuclear power?

“Far from making Europe safer, and far from producing a less nuclear dependent Europe, [the policy] may well end up bringing more nuclear weapons into the European continent, and frustrating some of the attempts that are being made to get multilateral nuclear disarmament,” (Former NATO Secretary-General George Robertson quoted in Global Security, February 10, 2010)

“‘Is Italy capable of delivering a thermonuclear strike?…

Could the Belgians and the Dutch drop hydrogen bombs on enemy targets?…

Germany’s air force couldn’t possibly be training to deliver bombs 13 times more powerful than the one that destroyed Hiroshima, could it?…

Nuclear bombs are stored on air-force bases in Italy, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands — and planes from each of those countries are capable of delivering them.” (“What to Do About Europe’s Secret Nukes.” Time Magazine, December 2, 2009)

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NATO Changes Story: House Full of Afghan Civilians Deliberately Hit Three More Civilians Killed in Offensive Today

Posted by seumasach on February 17, 2010

Jason Ditz

antiwar.com

16th February, 2010

Usually when militaries change their official story about killing civilians it is designed to explain away innocent deaths as an accident. Today, however, NATO took the exact opposite approach with Sunday’s Marjah killings, revising their story to insist the killings were not an equipment error, but were part of a deliberate US targeting of a house full of civilians.
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William Engdahl: Wall Street in death agony as World’s financial fulcrum

Posted by seumasach on February 16, 2010

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Second half of 2010: Sudden intensification of the global systemic crisis – Strengthening of five fundamental negative trends

Posted by seumasach on February 16, 2010

16th February, 2010
LEAP/E2020 is of the view that the effect of States’ spending trillions to « counteract the crisis » will have fizzled out. These vast sums had the effect of slowing down the development of the systemic global crisis for several months but, as anticipated in previous GEAB reports, this strategy will only have ultimately served to clearly drag States into the crisis caused by the financial institutions.

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NATO Expansion, Missile Deployments And Russia’s New Military Doctrine

Posted by seumasach on February 16, 2010

Rick Rozoff

Voltairenet

15th February, 2010

In less than a week, NATO has unveiled its ambitions. The Alliance has been enlisting one by one, and more or less coercibly, all countries in Europe, in the Middle East and Oceania in the open-ended war in Afghanistan. Concurrently, on the pretext of responding to an ostensible threat from Iran, NATO is deploying an interceptor nuclear missile system on Russia’s borders which overturns the strategic balance with Moscow and calls into question the principle of progressive nuclear disarmament. Russia, on its part, feels directly targeted and is taking urgent measures to revamp its alliances and put its armament programmes back on track.

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Russia ‘on board’, but not in line

Posted by seumasach on February 16, 2010

With China sure to veto sanctions against Iran, Russia can afford to play both sides : Russia has abslutely no interestin confronting Iran but does have one in not appearing to be the party-pooper.

M K Bhadrakumar

Asia Times

17th February, 2010

United States National Security Advisor James Jones, who is usually taciturn, needed 20 words to sum up Russia’s current foreign policy. “Russia is supportive and is on board, and has been a steady friend and ally on this with President Barack Obama.” he told Fox News on Sunday.
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