Obama: election promises fulfilled?
Posted by smeddum on June 22, 2009
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Death by a thousand cuts – China Commodities Undercut USDollar
Posted by smeddum on June 22, 2009
Death by a thousand cuts
China Commodities Undercut USDollar
Jim Willie CB
Jim Willie CB is the editor of the “Hat Trick Letter”
Jun 19, 2009
Use this link to subscribe to the paid research reports, which include coverage of several smallcap companies positioned to rise during the ongoing panicky attempt to sustain an unsustainable system burdened by numerous imbalances aggravated by global village forces. An historically unprecedented mess has been created by compromised central bankers and inept economic advisors, whose interference has irreversibly altered and damaged the world financial system, urgently pushed after the removed anchor of money to gold. Analysis features Gold, Crude Oil, USDollar, Treasury bonds, and inter-market dynamics with the US Economy and US Federal Reserve monetary policy.
China is directing their mountain of reserves away from acquired mining firms and toward managed hedge funds. This is a new direction for Beijing, clearly in response to the refusal by Rio Tinto to permit a $19 billion stake from the Chinese aluminum giant Chinalco. They were frustrated and angered by the other refusal with the failed Unocal deal in 2005. Clearly, whether stated openly or not, the Chinese are thwarted by USGovt and UKGovt hidden leaders from investing in strategic firms. From their point of view, tarnished by ill feelings, their money is good for credit supply but not good for commodity supply lines. So China will continue its pursuit of significant interests in commodity firms, both metals and energy related, and will amplify the pressures by taking scattered interests in hedge funds. Read the rest of this entry »
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A Tale of Two Diverging Economic Worlds
Posted by seumasach on June 21, 2009
F. William Engdahl
10th June, 2009
Increasingly a deep divide within the world of globalization is emerging which will have the most profound significance for the future of G7 nations’ economic and political stability. The divide is between those nations which are still embedded within the dollar system, including countries in the Eurozone, versus those emerging economies—especially the BRIC—Brazil, Russia, India, China—where new economic markets and regions are rapidly replacing their over-dependence on the United States as prime export market and prime source for investment finance. The long-term consequences will be an aggravation of the trend of the United States as a political and economic superpower in terminal decline, while dynamic new economic zones, initially mainly of regional importance, will arise.
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Are the Iranian Election Protests Another US Orchestrated ‘Color Revolution’?
Posted by seumasach on June 20, 2009
Paul Craig Roberts
20th June, 2009
A number of commentators have expressed their idealistic belief in the purity of Mousavi, Montazeri, and the westernized youth of Terhan. The CIA destabilization plan, announced two years ago (see below) has somehow not contaminated unfolding events.
The claim is made that Ahmadinejad stole the election, because the outcome was declared too soon after the polls closed for all the votes to have been counted. However, Mousavi declared his victory several hours before the polls closed. This is classic CIA destabilization designed to discredit a contrary outcome. It forces an early declaration of the vote. The longer the time interval between the preemptive declaration of victory and the release of the vote tally, the longer Mousavi has to create the impression that the authorities are using the time to fix the vote. It is amazing that people don’t see through this trick.
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The West is asleep
Posted by smeddum on June 20, 2009
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Beijing cautions US over Iran
Posted by seumasach on June 20, 2009
By M K Bhadrakumar
20th June, 2009
China has broken silence on the developing situation in Iran. This comes against the backdrop of a discernible shift in Washington’s posturing toward political developments in Iran.
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Iranian Elections: The ‘Stolen Elections’ Hoax
Posted by seumasach on June 19, 2009
James Petras
18th June, 2009
There is hardly any election, in which the White House has a significant stake, where the electoral defeat of the pro-US candidate is not denounced as illegitimate by the entire political and mass media elite. In the most recent period, the White House and its camp followers cried foul following the free (and monitored) elections in Venezuela and Gaza, while joyously fabricating an ‘electoral success’ in Lebanon despite the fact that the Hezbollah-led coalition received over 53% of the vote.
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From Mossadegh to Ahmadinejad:the CIA and the Iranian laboratory
Posted by seumasach on June 18, 2009
Thierry Meyssan
17th June, 2009
Summary translation at foot of each paragraph
La nouvelle d’une possible fraude électorale s’est répandue à Téhéran comme une traînée de poudre et a poussé dans la rue les partisans de l’ayatollah Rafsanjani contre ceux de l’ayatollah Khamenei. Ce chaos est provoqué en sous-main par la CIA qui sème la confusion en inondant les Iraniens de messages SMS contradictoires. Thierry Meyssan relate cette expérience de guerre psychologique.
[News of electoral fraud has spread throughout Tehran and brought to the streets the partisans of Rafsanjani against those of Khamenei. This chaos is the work of the CIA who are sewing confusion by flooding Iran with contradictory mobile phone communications. Thierry Meyssan tells us about this experiment in psychological warfare]
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The World is Now Changed
Posted by seumasach on June 18, 2009
W Joseph Stroupe
18th June, 2009
Decoupling on the part of the under-developed economies is defined as accelerating along the path of eliminating inordinate reliance upon the US and other developed economies as export markets. Decoupling would also tend to undermine reliance upon the dollar and boost the role of regional currencies in trade, finance and in forex reserves composition.
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Darling and King clash over banking rules
Posted by seumasach on June 18, 2009
The dangerous consequences of New Labour’s massive bailout of the banks is causing some disquiet. As we have already noted King appears intent on protecting the pound, for whose value the Government seems to have a cavalier disregard. As UK PLC goes down we can expect more sparks to fly as the elite agenda starts to fragment.
18th June, 2009
Government policy on City regulation was last night thrown into deeper confusion by sharply contrasting speeches by Mervyn King and Alistair Darling.
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Ahmadinejad won. Get over it
Posted by seumasach on June 18, 2009
Politico
Flynt Leverett and Hilary Mann Leverett
15th June, 2009
Without any evidence, many U.S.politiciansand “Iran experts” have dismissed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s reelection Friday, with 62.6 percent of the vote, as fraud.
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