Florida – Much Worse Problems Than the Oil Spill
by Doug Hornig of The Casey Report
Media coverage of the oil spill’s effect on the Gulf focusing on tourist income lost by the waterfront towns – with footage of empty beaches, restaurants and T-shirt shops – dominates the news. Interviews with devastated business owners are heart rending. But they always end with references to somehow hanging on until “things get back to normal.”
Trouble is, things are not going to “normalize.” Not for (…)
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Florida – Much Worse Problems Than the Oil Spill
14 August 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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Second half of 2010: Sudden intensification of the global systemic crisis
12 August 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
Second half of 2010: Sudden intensification of the global systemic crisis – Strengthening of five fundamental negative trends Public announcement GEAB N°42 (February 16, 2010) -
LEAP/E2020 is of the view that the effect of States’ spending trillions to « counteract the crisis » will have fizzled out. These vast sums had the effect of slowing down the development of the systemic global crisis for several months but, as anticipated in previous GEAB reports, this strategy will only have (…) -
U.S. Is Bankrupt and We Don’t Even Know It
11 August 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
U.S. Is Bankrupt and We Don’t Even Know It: Laurence Kotlikoff
By Laurence Kotlikoff - Aug 11, 2010
Aug. 11 (Bloomberg) — Laurence Kotlikoff, an economics professor at Boston University, talks about the state of the U.S. economy. Kotlikoff speaks with Erik Schatzker on Bloomberg Television’s InsideTrack." (Source: Bloomberg)
Let’s get real. The U.S. is bankrupt. Neither spending more nor taxing less will help the country pay its bills.
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NZ Aid cuts sending wrong message to Pacific - Amnesty International
10 August 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
Posted at 03:54 on 09 August, 2010 UTC
Amnesty International says New Zealand’s new aid policy is sending the wrong message to the Pacific.
The group’s Pacific researcher Apolosi Bose says the Vanuatu Women’s Centre is one NGO facing difficulties under New Zealand’s change of direction.
The centre says without the 100 thousand US dollars in annual assistance, the organisation will have to shut its doors in Luganville.
“Wrong messages are being sent to the Pacific internationally, (…) -
Three Days to Revolution
9 August 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsBy David Glenn Cox
Rage is born of desperation; it is incubated and nurtured by ignorance and neglect. It’s fathered by the unfeeling and uncaring, the safe and secure. Its mother is the destitute and hungry, the needy, those too easily cast off from society as mere statistics. It is a genie that once released from its bottle will summon up all the forces of hell to seek vengeance upon guilty and innocent alike.
"If a modern state is to rest upon a firm foundation its citizens must not (…) -
DO THEY REALLY THINK WE’RE THAT STUPID?
8 August 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
DO THEY REALLY THINK WE’RE THAT STUPID?
Submitted by Mike Endres on Fri, 6 Aug 2010
More Money to the Masses The Congress of the United States has now passed a new give-away program that puts money into the States pockets so they may extend unemployment benefits beyond 99 weeks.
The new $37 billion give away will go to States to enable them to extend unemployment by another 26 weeks.
Let’s see, that means you can suck off the borrowed Federal teat for a total of 125 weeks which is (…) -
Where is the financial crisis heading?
8 August 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
Where is the financial crisis heading?
by Professor Dr Eberhard Hamer, Mittelstandsinstitut (SME Institute), Hanover, Germany
The onset of the financial crisis surprised most people. And until today most people have not yet realized the importance of it.
About 50 experts in my institute published a book as early as 2002 studying the question “What to do if the crash happens”? (“Was tun, wenn der Crash kommt?”), a book, which the dominant circles among bankers, politicians, journalists (…) -
The Devaluation of the US Dollar
6 August 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
The Devaluation of the US Dollar
by Jim Willie
The need is urgent. The recognition is broad. Supply & Demand of American debt paper demand price adjustment. The USGovt avoids the topic like the plague. The billboard fact of the matter, as USCongressional politicians like to say, is that the USDollar must be take a downward revaluation of significant magnitude in order to even begin to offer a semblance of equilibrium and balance. Natural forces are aligned against those in power who (…) -
The Year America Dissolved
5 August 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
The Year America Dissolved
Paul Craig Roberts Prison Planet
It was 2017. Clans were governing America.
The first clans organized around local police forces. The conservatives’ war on crime during the late 20th century and the Bush/Obama war on terror during the first decade of the 21st century had resulted in the police becoming militarized and unaccountable.
As society broke down, the police became warlords. The state police broke apart, and the officers were subsumed into the local (…) -
Timeline of Financial Collapse on Wall Street On The Third Anniversary Of The Crash Of The US Economy
3 August 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
Timeline of Financial Collapse on Wall Street On The Third Anniversary Of The Crash Of The US Economy
by Danny Schechter
Global Research, August 3, 2010
We live in the United States of Amnesia and selective memory. As we debate the breaking news, we easily forget the sequence of events that broke the bank and left us broke. Three years ago, when the idea of an Obama presidency was still a fantasy in polite company, a non-seismic financial earthquake began to rumble in ways we then (…)