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Citi Says QE2 Would Be End-Game For The USD
These are not the hyperbolic ramblings of various fringe blogs who have been claiming this for over a year, these are the non-hyperbolic ruminations of Steven Englander, until recently head FX strategist at Barclays, and recently at Citi:"A second round of QE will likely put sharp downward pressure on the USD, to some degree versus the euro and other G10 currencies, with potential for a broader USD sell-off. Foreign investors are likely to view (…)

Wikileaks Latest: The USA As An Exporter Of Terrorism?
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/25/2010
The latest release by Wikileaks, this time focusing on tha CIA, asks what happens if its understood that the US is an exporter of terrorism: "This CIA "Red Cell" report from February 2, 2010, looks at what will happen if it is internationally understood that the United States is an exporter of terrorism; ’Contrary to common belief, the American export of terrorism or terrorists is not a recent (…)

The KGB (Komitet Gosudárstvennoy Bezopasnosti;) was the name of the Intelligence Agency (CIA equivalent) as well as the principal agency of the secret policy of the USSR (equivalent to the FBI) from 1954-1991, popularly known as "The Center "and even Khrushchev was responsible for obtaining and analyzing all intelligence of the nation for the Kremlin (the sword and shield of the USSR). One of the features was" the extraordinary dependence of the oligarchs of the PCU and the strength and (…)

By David Glenn Cox
Without Internet access writing becomes harder and harder to do. It’s about a four-mile hike to the library up hill both ways because of the mid-nineties heat. Sometimes I feel as if I’m losing it and then sometimes I feel like I’m only beginning to get it. I made the hike the other day to check my E-mail and to reconnect with the world.
I arrived about nine in the morning and was greeted by a sign, which said, “New Wednesday hours One to Eight P.M.” My first thought (…)

Where to Is the Financial Crisis Drifting?
by Professor Dr Eberhard Hamer
According to the presentation in the media, the focus of the financial crisis seems to have shifted from the U.S .to Europe. Everyone is talking about the Greek and the Euro crisis. The input is getting to be ever more hectic and ever more short-sighted. Science seems clueless, in any case it does not give any convincing orientation. Financial policy decision-makers and the agents of the financial markets react (…)

HOMEOWNERS’ REBELLION: COULD 62 MILLION HOMES BE FORECLOSURE-PROOF?
Ellen Brown, August 18th, 2010 http://www.webofdebt.com/articles/homeowners.php
Over 62 million mortgages are now held in the name of MERS, an electronic recording system devised by and for the convenience of the mortgage industry. A California bankruptcy court, following landmark cases in other jurisdictions, recently held that this electronic shortcut makes it impossible for banks to establish their ownership of (…)

For the past several years, two U.S. Army posts in Virginia, Fort Eustis and Fort Lee, have been putting on a series of what are called Commanding General’s Spiritual Fitness Concerts. As I’ve written in a number of other posts, "spiritual fitness" is just the military’s new term for promoting religion, particularly evangelical Christianity. And this concert series is no different. Thu Aug 19, 2010 at 11:32:23 AM EST
"Those of us that chose not to attend (about 80, or a little less that (…)

Jessamy vs. Bernstein, Debate, Re: Office of State’s Attorney for Baltimore City from William Hughes on Vimeo.
On Thursday evening, August 19, 2010, a debate was held between the incumbent Baltimore City State’s Attorney, Patricia Jessamy, and her opponent, Gregg Bernstein. The event was sponsored by the Vanguard Justice Society. It was held at the Mt. Washington Conference Center, in Baltimore, MD. Mr. Tyrone Powers served as the moderator for the event. Please note the closing (…)

TWO boys stood in a gymnasium in an eastern Paris suburb yesterday and pondered their future. "I want to be a mechanic and a footballer," said Benjamin, 14.
"First, I’d like to go to school," he added.
His companion, who has also never been to school, wanted to be a journalist.
The boys’ immediate future is fairly certain. The French police will pack them off to Eastern Europe, along with other foreign Roma whom President Sarkozy plans to expel in a clampdown on illegal immigration and (…)

This is a little video (8 mn) of the mounted to the "pic d’Anie" (Pyrénées, France), for the five Cubans Gerardo, Fernando, René, Antonio, y Ramon, in prisons in USA.