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The Great Land Giveaway: Neo-Colonialism by Invitation Colonial style empire-building is making a huge comeback
by James Petras
Global Research, December 1, 2008
"The deal South Korea’s Daewoo Logistics is negotiating with the Madagascar Government looks rapacious…The Madagascan case looks neo-colonial…The Madagascan people stand to lose half of their arable land." Financial Times Editorial, November 20, 2008
"Cambodia is in talks with several Asian and Middle Eastern governments to (…)

Barroso: Britain closer to joining euro than ever before
Senior Labour politicians believe that Britain would now be financially better off had the country joined the euro, according to the president of the European Commission. By Matthew Moore Last Updated: 1:03AM GMT 01 Dec 2008
EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso says Britain is closer to joining the euro than ever before. Photo: AP
José Manuel Barroso said that the UK is "closer than ever before" to entering the single (…)

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 (…)

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 (…)

Evidence Mumbai Attackers were Anglo-American Intel Operatives
Kurt Nimmo Infowars November 27, 2008
As a BBC report notes, at least some of the Mumbai attackers were not Indian and certainly not Muslim. Pappu Mishra, a cafe proprietor at the gothic Victorian Chattrapati Shivaji Terminus railway station, described “two sprightly young men dressed in black” with AK47s who were “foreign looking, fair skinned.”
Gaffar Abdul Amir, an Iraqi tourist from Baghdad, saw at least two men who (…)

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 (…)

’Israel’s hilltop settlement in our nation’s capital (must be) dismantled.’
"With [traditional Israeli defense strategists] it’s all about tanks and land and controlling territories... and this hilltop and that hilltop. All these things are worthless." - Incumbent Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Soon after the sand settled following the Six Day War in 1967, Jewish settlements began dotting the hills in the occupied territories. These settlements are typically located on the high (…)

The Oil Connection: Afghanistan and Caspian Sea oil pipeline routes
Don’t think there is a connection between Afghanistan and the oil monopolies? Think again. The information contained in these partial Department of Energy reports are current as of September 2001. You can read the complete texts at http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/caspian.html and http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/afghan.html (For more links, also see http://www.mujahideen.fsnet.co.uk/afghanistan-oil.htm ) This story could (…)

Britain a Big Version of Iceland? Bankrupt Britain Trending Towards Hyper-Inflation?
by Nadeem Walayat
Global Research, November 30, 2008 Market Oracle - 2008-11-28
The mainstream media is increasingly full of stories of either Britain going bankrupt or the coming deflation associated with the recession. Whilst both are now obvious given the economic data and government actions however what is missing from the headlines is that under the weight of the exploding public sector debt (…)

By David Glenn Cox
The scientists toil in their laboratories and build billion-dollar super colliders under the Earth’s crust looking for the secrets of the universe. The heirs of Einstein tell us with confidence that other universes exist, other dimensions where our rules and means of existence simply do not apply. It’s fun to think about such things as a mental exercise, as cranial gymnastics, but if you had to do that type of work all day every day most of us would be dead within a (…)