May 2010
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Euro Zone prey to Wolfpack Behavior →
“We now see … wolfpack behaviours, and if we will not stop these packs, even if it is self-inflicted weakness, they will tear the weaker countries apart”
Read article at Reuters
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The Global Weimar Phase →
Stern warnings from English political scientist and activist Nafeez Ahmed:
We’re not back in the 1930s, but structurally - systemically - we’re in a far worse condition. The problem is that the three main parties on offer today lack a fully-formed understanding of the real structural issues behind the concurrent crisis of world capitalism. They fail to realise that they’re in...
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the trillion-dollar fraud →
Via: Salon.Com
BY JOHN R. TALBOTT
SATURDAY, MAY 1, 2010 Why is the Fed so opposed to being audited, and what does it have to hide?
….I believe the reason Paulson didn’t pursue his original toxic-asset purchasing plan is because such a purchase would have created a market price for these assets, and then all of the banks would have had to mark their poor-quality assets to this low market...
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Were US Special Forces Involved in the Arrest of... →
The team that was responsible for tracking down the Times Square Bomber was a group of secret Army intelligence planes. It was referenced in the press then removed from the story by CBS. Read about it in The Nation.
Via: The Nation
by Jeremy Scahill
May 4, 2010
A US Special Operations Force source told me that the planes were likely RC-12s equipped with a Guardrail Signals Intelligence...
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Read: Times Square, Bombs and Big Crowds →
Via: The NY Times Opinion Page
Focus on the Threat
Bruce Schneier is a security technologist and author of several books on computer security, including “Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World.”
Clear thinking from one of the foremost security experts.
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Who Got Our $1,000,000,000,000? →
Asks Congressman Alan Grayson in the Huffington Post. Time to Audit the Fed
“Following Foucault, we can thus trace three stages in the development of...”
– From:
The ‘Bitter Necessity’ of Debt: Neoliberal Finance and the Society of Control Steven Shaviro
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Drug money saved banks in global crisis, claims UN... →
This story resurfaced in my RSS feeds today, I remember it passing like indigestion through the media in December, it was soon forgotten, momentary discomfort followed by lots of meaning less diarrhea. This seem like the perfect time to resurrect the story and maybe even prosecute some criminals. The politicos and the press are looking for economic scandal, but maybe this one is just too hot to...