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  • UN team warns of hard landing for dollar
    2 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    UN team warns of hard landing for dollar
    By Harvey Morris in New York Published: December 1 2008 08:48
    The current strength of the dollar is temporary and the US currency risks a hard landing in 2009, according to a team of United Nations economists who foresaw a year ago that a US downturn would bring the global economy to a near standstill.
    In their annual report on the world economy published on Monday, the economists said the dollar’s sharp rebound this autumn had been driven (…)

  • Call for a new 9/11 commission headed by David Ray Griffin
    2 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The interregnum should be used to put pressure on Obama to do what we want him to: investigate 9/11 properly. If we fail to do this it will be the final proof that the leading figures in our "truth movement" are not on our side at all, but only shills.
    Therefore I propose something that no one can disagree with: a new 9/11 Truth Commission headed by David Ray Griffin.
    Nothing more or else, because anything more or less would give too many people too many things to argue about and (…)

  • Obama to be next neocon US president?
    1 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Obama to be next neocon US president?
    Global Research, December 1, 2008 Press TV
    The next US government might not be able to keep its promise on ’Change’ and might turn into a war-oriented administration, a prominent historian says.
    President-elect Barack Obama, who inspired Americans during his presidential campaign, defeated his Republican rival John McCain thanks to the new slogans in a historic election last month.
    During his transition time, Obama has been trying to name his (…)

  • Making Smarter Cars Instead of Stupid Decisions
    1 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    When the Big Three CEOs recently descended on Washington in their fancy corporate jets with inflated egos and high hopes for a juicy piece of the government’s $8.6 trillion corporate welfare pie, they were sent home hungry to do their homework and to write an essay about how they plan to spend bailout funds.
    Undoubtedly, the executives will travel business class when they come back this week; they will each have a business plan in hand, and Congress will give them $25 billion of taxpayer (…)

  • CEOs “cashed out” prior to economic crisis
    1 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    CEOs “cashed out” prior to economic crisis
    by Tom Eley
    Global Research, December 1, 2008 World Socialist Web Site - 2008-11-28
    Balzac’s maxim that “behind every great fortune lies a great crime” may yet prove a fitting epitaph for American capitalism. A recent survey by the Wall Street Journal reveals that CEOs at major US financial and real estate firms converted tens of millions of dollars of overvalued stock into cash prior to the eruption of the current financial crisis, even as (…)

  • Shopping malls are running on empty
    1 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Shopping malls are running on empty
    By Roger Vincent and David Pierson November 24, 2008
    Life Plaza Center in San Gabriel used to teem with diners heading to Green Village, a Chinese restaurant in the middle of the horseshoe-shaped mall on Valley Boulevard.
    But after the eatery closed five months ago, the 7,500- square-foot space remained vacant. With no tenants stepping forward and fewer customers clogging the parking lot, the plaza is quiet, with a curiously dark core.
    It’s a (…)

  • Part II: University of Oklahoma (David Boren’s Campus) Attempts to Obstruct a Federal Investigation
    30 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Michael P. Wright — Norman, Oklahoma, USA — mpwright8@aol.com
    [On November 22, 2008, I posted the original report about this event at BellaCiao.]
    A peculiar email from Paul Bell, a dean at the University of Oklahoma, was sent on Friday, November 21, 2008. Since that time I have obtained verification of it from the OU Open Records Office. It is now scanned and online at this public Facebook album:
    The recipients were department chairmen and directors on the Norman campus. I first (…)

  • The Obama "Dream Team": Rubin-clones and political fakery
    30 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Obama "Dream Team": Rubin-clones and political fakery
    by Mike Whitney
    Global Research, November 30, 2008
    Things are getting crazier by the day. On Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson announced that the Fed would commit another $800 billion to fight the financial crisis which has spread to the broader economy and is causing sharp declines in consumer spending. The Fed plans to buy $600 billion of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and another (…)

  • The System Implodes: The 10 Worst Corporations of 2008
    29 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The System Implodes: The 10 Worst Corporations of 2008
    by Robert Weissman
    AIG Cargill Chevron CNPC Constellation Energy Dole General Electric Imperial Sugar Philip Morris Int’l. Roche
    2008 marks the 20th anniversary of Multinational Monitor’s annual list of the 10 Worst Corporations of the year.
    In the 20 years that we’ve published our annual list, we’ve covered corporate villains, scoundrels, criminals and miscreants. We’ve reported on some really bad stuff — from Exxon’s Valdez (…)

  • AWOL American soldier applies for German asylum. Statement of André Shepherd at press-conference
    29 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    AWOL American soldier applies for German asylum Statement of André Shepherd at press-conference in Frankfurt/M. (Germany)
    Hello, my name is Andre Shepherd, and I was a member of the U.S. Army before finding that my conscience would no longer allow for me to continue in such a capacity. I am currently Absent Without Leave and am requesting asylum in Germany. I am asking for your support in this difficult matter. I enlisted in the military in January of 2004 and worked my way up in rank from (…)