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  • US diplomacy tainted by ’militarization’
    22 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    "Since the fall of the Berlin Wall [in 1989], the diplomatic capacity of the United States has been hollowed out," according to the 26-page report, "A Foreign Affairs Budget for the Future", which said a continuation of the status quo cannot continue without serious damage to the US’s "vital interests".
    Oct 17, 2008 By Jim Lobe
    WASHINGTON - While the Pentagon’s budget has risen to heights not seen since World War II, United States diplomatic and foreign aid assets have largely wasted (…)

  • FRENCH ELITE ON TRIAL: The Sordid Tale of ’Angolagate’
    19 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Stefan Simons in Paris
    Corruption, arms sales and a civil war in Africa: France’s biggest ever bribery scandal sees 42 leading figures of the French business and political world on trial. They are accused of being involved in a murky network said to have facilitated the illegal transport of arms to Angola in the 1990s.
    The story, the actors and the exclusive scenery are the stuff of movies. The cast includes former cabinet ministers, billionaires, financial experts and glamorous (…)

  • Wanted: a new financial order
    18 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Brown, Merkel, and Sarkozy propose a Bretton Woods II to be held in New York sometime after November 4.
    DOUG SAUNDERS
    From Saturday’s Globe and Mail October 18, 2008 at 12:05 AM EDT
    BRUSSELS — A week ago, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel found themselves strolling together through the cobble-stoned streets of Colombey-les-Deux-Églises, a tiny village in the northeast of France, where they were attending a war-memorial ceremony.
    The town is known (…)

  • Assassinations, Wars and Meltdowns: Who Benefits?
    14 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    “In politics, nothing happens ‘by accident.’ If it happened, you can bet it was ‘planned’ that way.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt
    Since the murders of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, MLK, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy, little has gone right in this country. It’s like we’re headed for hell in a vehicle which doesn’t have any brakes, driven by a raving maniac. Remember, too, the Vietnam War (1963-75)—that heated up almost immediately after JFK was eliminated. (1) That conflict ripped the nation apart (…)

  • Its time for the bankrupt G7-cabal to ask for a pimped up G10 Meeting including the rich BRIC countries
    11 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    How can the cause of the global financial crash, the bankrupt G7-US-vassal-states, want to credibly assure the global financial problem to be solved?
    The global investor confidence can only be reclaimed if solvent countries such as Russia (repaid its total foreign debt recently) and heavy weights such as China, India and Brazil, in the negotiations carried out.
    A global problem can only be solved globally. The sooner this, the arrogant Western high finance recognizes, the better for all (…)

  • Has America Started to Fall Apart?
    11 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    If we look at the health of the country from an economic perspective, we can plainly see that America is almost as strong as it ever was. Even though the is currently experiencing a recession, nevertheless the unemployment rate is relatively low, inflation has been kept in check, and the strength of the dollar, though weakened due to the current economic downturn, has held the top spot in the world for over a half-century. Indeed, economically speaking, the US can still be considered the (…)

  • These Are the Times That Try Men’s Souls
    11 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    " –That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,… organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." The Declaration of Independence
    How many more lies must we listen to? How many more (…)

  • PANIC DECLARED Empty store shelves, gas pumps, ATMs ahead.
    9 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Who am I to declare a panic? Don’t worry about that yet; just stock up on a little cash and canned goods. When everything the feds do JUST MAKES THINGS WORSE — we are in a panic. Not just grandpa’s Depression, but a good old-fashioned running-scared panic when the shelves go bare (you can see it sporadically in some Targets now) because the stores or their venders run short on ready cash. A panic is a time when people hoard things and wait to be rewarded with lower prices, which of (…)

  • The Shot Heard Round the World
    9 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By David Glenn Cox
    When 90-year-old Addie Polk put the gun to her chest and pulled the trigger she was seeking an escape from foreclosure. The first shot failed to do the job so the elderly widow pulled the trigger a second time as Sheriff’s deputies waited on the porch to serve her with an eviction notice. She was rescued by her neighbor, Robert Dillion, who grabbed a ladder and climbed in a back window. Sheriff’s deputies were kind enough to radio for paramedics.
    Mrs. Addie Polk and (…)

  • “Invasion Of The Sea-Smurfs”
    9 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Amy Goodman
    Democracy Now!
    A little-noticed story surfaced a couple of weeks ago in the Army Times newspaper about the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team. “Beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months,” reported Army Times staff writer Gina Cavallaro, “the 1st BCT will be under the day-to-day control of U.S. Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command, as an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks.” (…)