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New tipping-point in March 2009: ‘When the world becomes aware that this crisis is worse than the 1930s crisis’

Posted by seumasach on December 20, 2008

 

16th December, 2008
LEAP/E2020 anticipates than the unfolding global systemic crisis will experience in March 2009 a new tipping point of similar magnitude to the September 2008 one. According to our team, at that period of the year, the general public will become aware of three major destabilizing processes at work in the global economy, i.e.:  

• the length of the crisis 
• the explosion of unemployment worldwide 
• the risk of sudden collapse of all capital-based pension systems 

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U.S., Ukraine to expand defense cooperation

Posted by seumasach on December 20, 2008

 

WASHINGTON, December 19 (RIA Novosti) – The United States and Ukraine have agreed on strategic partnership in economic development, energy and defense aiming to strengthen Kiev’s potential as a NATO aspiring state.

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US military ‘to defy’ Iraqi pact

Posted by seumasach on December 19, 2008

 

Gareth Porter

Asia Times

20th December

WASHINGTON – United States military leaders and Pentagon officials have made it clear through public statements and deliberately leaked stories in recent weeks that they plan to violate a central provision of the US-Iraq withdrawal agreement requiring the complete pullout of all US combat troops from Iraqi cities by mid-2009 by reclassifying combat troops as support troops.

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All roads lead out of Afghanistan

Posted by seumasach on December 19, 2008

M K Bhadrakumar

Asia Times

20th December, 2008

The measure of success of president-elect Barack Obama’s new “Afghan strategy” will be directly proportional to his ability to delink the war from its geopolitical agenda inherited from the George W Bush administration. 

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The Fallen Natures of Men Took Control Of The Economy And Destroyed It

Posted by smeddum on December 19, 2008

The Fallen Natures of Men Took Control Of The Economy And Destroyed It

November 12 2008

International Forecaster Weekly

Summary: some still wonder how it could have happened, we have a crony capitalist system, whole world now cutting back on spending, joblessness on the rise, banks now doing very little lending, a new head treasurer to choose, inequality in US cities may boil over, an impossible balancing act in the economy, an increase in the federal debt ceiling is also coming Read the rest of this entry »

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“Deep throat” dies but not the mystery

Posted by smeddum on December 19, 2008

By Paul Anderson
19/12/08

One of the lesser known mysteries of modern times is what really happened at Watergate. The official story is told in “All the President’s Men” but the story goes deeper down the rabbit hole. Read the rest of this entry »

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Why Britain is a raging “sell”

Posted by smeddum on December 19, 2008

Why Britain is a raging ‘sell’

By Associate Editor David Stevenson Dec 19, 2008
moneyweek

Dark times ahead for Britain
Help!

Britain’s running out of money. Yesterday’s government borrowing figures – the worst in at least 15 years – were truly shocking. Already the forecasts that Chancellor Alistair Darling made last month in the pre-Budget report are looking well short. Read the rest of this entry »

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Sterling slide sparks euro debate in Britain – Feature

Posted by alfied on December 18, 2008

The Earth Times

London – As planeloads of tourists armed with empty suitcases roam London’s Oxford Street for cheap Christmas bargains, the Labour government of Gordon Brown is keeping a stiff upper lip on the British pound’s relentless slide towards parity with the euro. Read the rest of this entry »

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Dollar’s Death Decisive Moment

Posted by smeddum on December 18, 2008

Dollar No Longer Haven After Fed Moves Rate Near Zero (Update2) 

I did not expect the dollar rally, and it has proved to be both short term and ultimately absurd, like the final movements
of a newly dead body.

By Kim-Mai Cutler and Bo Nielsen

Dec. 17 (Bloomberg) — The world’s biggest currency-trading firms say the dollar’s appeal as a haven amid the financial crisis all but evaporated. Read the rest of this entry »

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Video: Afshin Rattansi, Max Keiser, Bernard Madoff & U.S.war

Posted by smeddum on December 18, 2008

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Fed looks like Criminal Clearinghouse

Posted by smeddum on December 18, 2008

 

321 Gold  

16/12/10

by Jim Willie

The principal missing piece in the grand American mosaic of banking destruction, corrupt collusion, fraudulent bonds, Wall Street control, suppressed regulators, compromised ratings agencies is JUSTICE. Foreign entities are aghast as the lack of prosecution, remedy, and removal from positions of power, as policy continues to be set by the participants responsible for the structural failure and prevalent fraud. Their actions are reaching climax levels. The climax of the Wall Street strangehold is the confiscation of the TARP funds to date. However, whatever has not been nationalized is subject to lawsuits. The pattern of human behavior indicates that lawsuits can spawn additional lawsuits, and quickly control is lost. It is open season on Citigroup, Bank of America, and perhaps other lesser players. Two major lawsuits have the potential to change the landscape.Curiously, neither receives much publicity. Then again, the press seems somewhere between subservient and compromised anyway. They have failed to shine many lights on much of any developments until after the damage is done. Odd court cases, missing people, factional politics, and border patrols seem more important on their agendas. Much of the US media & press seem a graduation of National Inquirer to television. Read the rest of this entry »

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