Peter Schiff on ‘Fast Money’ on the dollar and gold
Posted by smeddum on November 24, 2008
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The Truth about the “Terror Plot”…. and the new “pseudo-terrorism”
Posted by seumasach on November 23, 2008
As this analysis shows, it was fairly clear at the time that there was no evidence for the liquid bomb terror plot. A British jury have just reached the same conclusion: the Crown will now have to try again with a more amenable jury.
Nafeez Ahmed
21st August, 2006
I am disappointed to say that so far there has been very little serious critical discussion, grounded in factual analysis, of the alleged “Terror Plot” foiled on the morning of Wednesday, 10th August 2006. Except for a few noteworthy comment pieces, such as Craig Murray’s critical speculations published by the Guardian last Friday, the mainstream media has largely subserviently parroted the official claims of the British and American governments. This is a shame, because inspection of the facts raises serious problems for the 10/8 official narrative.
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The Next Subprime Crisis Looms
Posted by seumasach on November 23, 2008
By Chad Terhune and Robert Berner
20th November, 2008
The same people whose reckless practices triggered the global financial crisis are onto a similar scheme that could cost taxpayers tons more.
As if they haven’t done enough damage. Thousands of subprime mortgage lenders and brokers — many of them the very sorts of firms that helped create the current financial crisis — are going strong. Their new strategy: taking advantage of a long-standing federal program designed to encourage homeownership by insuring mortgages for buyers of modest means.
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Under cover of racist myth, a new land grab in Australia
Posted by seumasach on November 23, 2008
John Pilger
24th October, 2008
In a report for the Guardian, John Pilger describes the deception behind the pretext for a “national emergency” declared by the Australian government in Aboriginal areas. A political cry of “save the children” can also mean the profits of uranium and toxic waste.
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Obama’s “left” cheerleaders and the right-wing transition
Posted by seumasach on November 23, 2008
Bill Van Auken
22nd November, 2008
The increasingly right-wing character of the transition being organized in preparation for President-Elect Barack Obama’s inauguration in January has elicited expressions of concern from the middle-class “left.” This milieu, whose views are reflected in publications like the Nation magazine, played a significant role during the election campaign in promoting Obama’s candidacy and the Democratic Party as vehicles for fundamental political and social change.
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Fate of Lakotahs Highlights America’s Failed Native American Policies
Posted by seumasach on November 22, 2008
Stephen Lendman
21st november, 2008
On November 6, South Dakota’s governor Michael Rounds declared a state of emergency as heavy snow blanketed the state and threatened all parts of it – including Native American reservations.
They, however, were excluded from his declaration. They’ll get no badly needed help, and it’s an all too familiar story for our nation’s original inhabitants. They’ve been abused and slaughtered for over 500 years. At Mabila, Acoma Mesa, Conestoga, the Trail of Tears, Pamunkey, Mystic River, Yellow Creek, Sand Creek, Gnadenhutten, and Wooded Knee. At far too many other places as well at a cost of many millions of lives, now forgotten and erased from memory.
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Citigroup considers fire sale as shares dive
Posted by seumasach on November 22, 2008
22nd November, 2008
Citigroup assembled its board to “think the unthinkable” yesterday, with a fire sale or a break-up of the financial giant on the table.
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Loretta Keller: Political roast reveals ruthless Rahm
Posted by seumasach on November 22, 2008
21st November, 2008
LAST weekend C-span1 re-aired a Nov. 5, 2005 roast by now President-elect Barack Obama and other Washington bigwigs. Far from being some mouthwatering food that comes out of a hot oven, a political roast is usually a fund-raising benefit dinner during which pols mock a hot target. They’re good-natured about it but they show no mercy.
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Mystery of the vanishing sparrow
Posted by seumasach on November 22, 2008
So all we need now is to find out why the insects are disappearing. ITNT is not offering any prizes for peer-reviewed studies on this question since EM radiation is already being used commercially to eliminate insects. Given the growing level of electrosmog it is questionable how long this will continue to be commercially viable. Perhaps that is why they’re moving on to using it against rats, an inspirational business start-up in contemporary Britain. The effect of EM on insects has been confirmed to me by Duncan MacFadyean, chief scientific officer for Oppenheimer’s. What kind of future do we face without insects? A short one.
20th november, 2008
It’s taken eight-and-a-half years – but The Independent’s £5,000 prize for explaining the disappearance of the house sparrow from our towns and cities finally has a serious entry, with a serious theory.
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Latest Anti-Pact Protest Prompts Warnings of New Insurgency
Posted by seumasach on November 22, 2008
21st november, 2008
Thousands of Shi’ites took to the streets of Baghdad today in the latest public expressing of opposition to the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) between the United States and Iraq, presently the subject of contentious (and occasionally violent) debate in Iraq’s parliament.
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The Need for Global Leadership
Posted by seumasach on November 22, 2008
Cailean Bochanan
22nd November, 2008
Born out of our opposition to Washington and London’s drive for global hegemony and the wars which stemmed from it iransolidarity.org, endofempire.org and inthesenewtimes.com have sought to highlight, above all, both the sovereign nation state, as a barrier to empire, and the emerging multipolar world order. There is now no doubt that this multipolar world order is now becoming a reality before our eyes. The latest NIC US intelligence assessement appears to take this fact on board. Or rather, it pays some lip service to it whilst actually gloating over the prospect of a world in which none of America’s competitors can displace it as global leader. One gets the sense that global anarchy is the prefered option now that the dream of global empire has perished in Iraq and Afghanistan. In rather the same way the senatorial elite in the late Roman Empire reconciled themselves to the empire’s demise, even helping to bring it about by the look of it, confident that they could “handle’ the new Germanic kingdom’s and reinventing themselves as a feudal landowning class. Obama’s advent could well herald this new phase of US power: Obama the handler as opposed to Bush the bomber.
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In These New Times 