Posted by smeddum on January 3, 2009
False Deflation Diagnosis and Gold Bullish Crossover Signal
Jan 02, 2009 – 05:25 AM
By: Jim_Willie_CB Market Oracle
One of the most bothersome questions from 2005 to 2007 used to be whether the Untied States would ultimately submit to inflation or deflation. This is actually the wrong question. Many analysts in my view are incorrect in their conclusion that the US suffers from a powerful deflation episode, since they endorse the wrong definition, confuse effect with cause (as usual), do not properly monitor the money flow, and then draw improper conclusions from prices. They suffer from a type of Keynesian Tunnel Vision. They are confused, and fail to adapt certain key measures after the financial sector highjacked the entire national system in the last two decades. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on January 1, 2009
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Cynicism as a substitute for scholarship
by Stephen Gowans
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Global Research, December 31, 2008
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Mahmood Mamdani’s largely sympathetic analysis of the Mugabe government, “Lessons of Zimbabwe,” published in the December 4, 2008 London Review of Books, has been met with a spate of replies from progressive scholars who are incensed at the Ugandan academic throwing out the rule book to present an argument based on rigor and analysis, rather than on the accustomed elaboration of comfortable slogans and prejudices that has marked much progressive scholarship on Zimbabwe. Their criticism of Mamdani has been characterized by ad hominem assaults, arguments that either lack substance or sense, and the substitution of cynicism for scholarship. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on December 31, 2008
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Posted by smeddum on December 31, 2008
GCC wraps up summit with approval of monetary union
www.chinaview.cn
by Li Weijie, Ma Wenbo
MUSCAT, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) — The 29th annual summit of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) wrapped up in the Omani capital of Muscat late Tuesday, with six Gulf leaders approving the monetary union accord. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged: Arab league, Arab monetary union, Gaza massacre, join the euro! | Leave a Comment »
Posted by smeddum on December 29, 2008
28/12/08
By Stephen Gowans
In political contests the objective of each side is to discredit the opposition, and when that can’t be done, to silence it. This is done to prevent the opposition from persuading others to take its point of view. If one side can persuade others to its position, it can count on their support and possibly gain an advantage over the other side. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on December 29, 2008
War on Gaza may cripple Israel economy
Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:41:09 GMT
PressTV |
An Israeli soldier adjusts the barrel of a tank near Kibbutz Sufa, just outside Gaza. Israel is no preparing its forces for a ground incursion into the strip.
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Economists have warned that the Israeli economy would be threatened if the invasion of the Gaza Strip is prolonged or the scope widened.
Israeli began the launch of massive air strikes on Gaza on Saturday. Over 310 Gazans have so far been killed and nearly 1550 people have been wounded.
The estimated daily cost of the military operations is expected to stand at tens of millions of shekels (dollars). Read the rest of this entry » |
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Posted by smeddum on December 26, 2008
Mobile phones and the birds and the bees
By Ken Banks , IDG News Service , 12/19/2008
“An article recently published in the popular press has suggested that there may be a link between the increase in numbers of mobile phone masts and the reduction in local sparrow populations. The number of sparrows in Britain has effectively halved from 24 million approximately thirty years ago to a present day figure of 14 million, a decrease of almost 50%.”
(Ken Banks, report to the Vodafone Group Foundation, December 2002) Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Colony Collapse Disorder, Ecological and Public Health Crisis | Tagged: birds and bees, ccd | Leave a Comment »
Posted by smeddum on December 24, 2008
Market oracle
Dec 20, 2008 –
By: Professor_Emeritus
In an earlier article Backward Thinking on Backwardation I explained that backwardation in gold is the flipside of the phenomenon of a drastic contraction of world trade and employment. This brings out the danger in denying the fact of gold backwardation or to belittle its significance, as most observers seem to be doing. I am reminded of the saying of the Swiss educator F.W. Foerster: “if you don’t use your eyes for seeing, later you will use them for weeping.” In this article I want to enumerate the reasons why I believe that permanent backwardation in gold would bring about the descent of our civilization into lawlessness similar to that following the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on December 24, 2008
Attack of the Bush Shoe-Toss Games Continues
By Lewis Wallace December 19, 2008 |
The surge of games, videos and creative websites that pay tribute to an Iraqi journalist’s presidential shoe-toss continues to grow. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on December 23, 2008
This interview is dated 21st October on youTube. Subsequent events appear to have confirmed much of Tarpley’s analysis: we have already had the Georgia War, the Mumbai bombings aimed, it would appear,
to bring India into the US/UK orbit, a
renewed campaign against Zimbabwe and , now,
warnings against Russia for selling missiles to Iran as well as renewed efforts to establish
US military bases in Central Asia. I had tended towards scepticism with regard to Tarpley’s analysis on the basis that this agenda is completely mad. I now bow to Tarpley’s superior insight: this agenda exists in spite of , or, even, because of, the fact that it is mad.
Webster G. Tarpley
21st December, 2008
Click on above link to view interview
In this interview, conducted by Deep Journal before the 4 November elections, Webster Tarpley expounds on the topic of his recently published book “Obama, The Postmodern Coup,The Making of a Manchurian Candidate”. Does Obama represent a real change or is it the same old imperialism with cosmetic surgery?
Posted in Afghanistan, New Cold War, Zimbabwe | Tagged: leftist imperialism, Obama agenda | 1 Comment »
In These New Times 