Nicolas Sarkozy spends £157m on keeping up with the presidential jet set
Adam Sage in Paris
The ignominy is evidently too much to bear. When he flies to international summits President Sarkozy is confronted by a number of private jets that dwarf his French Airbus A319.
Even the Spanish and German leaders arrive in bigger aircraft, let alone Barack Obama’s mighty Air Force One.
Next month work will begin on a project to give Mr Sarkozy wings in keeping with his ambitions when French (...)
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Nicolas Sarkozy spends £157m on keeping up with the presidential jet set
23 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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Yuan trade move ’far reaching’
23 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
Yuan trade move ’far reaching’ By Olivia Chung
HONG KONG - The Chinese government’s decision this month to let exporters in a small number of cities settle their overseas trade in yuan rather than in US dollars has far-reaching implications, according to economists, even though the immediate impact is minimal.
The trading hubs of Shanghai at the mouth of the Yangtze River and Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai and Dongguan in the Pearl River Delta further south can use the yuan in overseas (...) -
A Meditation on Our Monetary System: State of Permanent Siege
23 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
A Meditation on Our Monetary System: State of Permanent Siege
by Richard Cook
Global Research, April 22, 2009 showcase.bestcyrano.org/
THE LEVEL OF PUBLIC IGNORANCE on the topic of the U.S. and world monetary system is astonishing. This is part of the plan, of course, because the monetary elite control not only the financial system but also the news media, the publishing industry, and the educational system. The blueprint for control was put together over a century ago by Cecil (...) -
Taxpayers, Where Is Your Money Going? Tax dollars are allocated to financing the war and "bank bailout"
22 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
By Michel Chossudovsky
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LEAKED! U.S. Bank Stress Test Results!
21 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
LEAKED! U.S. Bank Stress Test Results!
Sunday, April 19, 2009
The Turner Radio Network has obtained "stress test" results for the top 19 Banks in the USA.
The stress tests were conducted to determine how well, if at all, the top 19 banks in the USA could withstand further or future economic hardship.
When the tests were completed, regulators within the Treasury and inside the Federal Reserve began bickering with each other as to whether or not the test results should be made (...) -
Rebranding A Failed Product
20 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
Rebranding A Failed Product
by Frank Scott
(Thursday, April 16, 2009)
"While Obama’s rhetoric is often of peace and nuclear disarmament, his military budget has increased by 20 billion dollars."
Creating a new label in order to sell an old product has long been a successful marketing technique, and our new president has developed rebranding methods with more finesse and as little substance as past administrators. While he plans to send thousands more troops to Afghanistan and spend (...) -
Fed Shrouding $2 Trillion in Bank Loans in ‘Secrecy,’ Suit Says
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Fed Shrouding $2 Trillion in Bank Loans in ‘Secrecy,’ Suit Says
By Mark Pittman
April 16 (Bloomberg) — U.S. taxpayers need to know the risks behind the Federal Reserve’s $2 trillion in lending to financial institutions because the public is now an “involuntary investor” in the nation’s banks, according to a court filing by Bloomberg LP.
The Fed refuses to name the borrowers, the amounts of loans or assets banks put up as collateral under 11 programs, arguing that doing so might set (...) -
Silver Stock Report: "The scope of fraud in the silver market alone is staggering"
19 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
Silver Stock Report: "The scope of fraud in the silver market alone is staggering"
by Jason Hommel
Global Research, April 18, 2009 news.silverseek.com/ Let’s review the fundamentals of gold and silver.
The world gold mines produces 2500 tonnes per year, which is about 80 million ounces. With gold at $867, that’s $69 billion worth of gold mined each year. That’s a tiny market in the scale of world finance, where the USA has $14,000 billion in the US banking system at risk, and (...) -
America : a superpower no more
19 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
Decline is occurring more rapidly than we think. It’s time to embrace a new agenda.
By Walter Rodgers from the April 8, 2009 edition
OAKTON, VA. - Two American icons, General Electric and Berkshire Hathaway, lost their triple-A credit ratings. Then China, America’s largest creditor, called for a new global currency to replace the dollar just weeks after it demanded Washington guarantee the safety of Beijing’s nearly $1 trillion debt holdings. And that was just in March.
These events (...) -
The Tower of Basel: Secretive Plans for the Issuing of a Global Currency
18 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
The Tower of Basel: Secretive Plans for the Issuing of a Global Currency Do we really want the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) issuing our global currency
by Ellen Brown
Global Research, April 18, 2009
In an April 7 article in The London Telegraph titled “The G20 Moves the World a Step Closer to a Global Currency,” Ambrose Evans-Pritchard wrote:
“A single clause in Point 19 of the communiqué issued by the G20 leaders amounts to revolution in the global financial order. (...)