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Daily Briefing—15th-16th Sept 2010
Posted: 16 September 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, airstrikes, al-Qaeda, Amnesty International, Andy Worthington, Anwar al-Awlaki, AQAP, Ayman al-Zawahiri, bailout, Blackwater, Boeing, BP, copyright, drones, drug war, extrajudicial assassination, Gareth Porter, GE, general strike, global economic crisis, GOP, Greece, Gulf oil spill, India, intellectual property, Iraq, Iraq War, Israel, JSOC, Kashmir, Kevin Carson, Khmer Rouge, Lehman Brothers, Matthew Cassel, Middle East peace process, military industrial complex, Myanmar, national debt, night raids, Pervez Musharraf, TARP, Warfare and Conflict, Wikileaks, WTO, Xe, Yemen
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Evening Briefing—29th June 2010
Posted: 29 June 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: ACLU, Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, airstrikes, Andrew Clark, Avigdor Liberman, BitTorrent, Chicago Police, Colombia, copyright, David Cameron, David Petraeus, DHS, drones, economy, Ecuador, espionage, extrajudicial assassinations, file sharing, FinReg, free press, Gaza, global economic crisis, Homeland Security, human trafficking, Iran, Iraq, Jack Hunter, Jon Burge, Karl Eikenberry, Kashmir, Lond Police, Mitsubishi, National Pork Board, Noam Chomsky, Obama Administration, Pakistan, police brutality, Royal Dutch Shell, Rules of Engagement, Russia, SCOTUS, soft, Susan Antilla, Thalif Deen, The Southern Avenger, ThinkGeek.com, Toronto G20 Summit, Toronto Police, torture, trademark, UN, US dollar, USD, Washington lobbyists, West Bank
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‘Martial Law Act’ Executed During G-20 Summit (Video)
Posted: 29 June 2010 by Little Alex in International AffairsTags: anarchism, corporatism, fascism, G20, global economic crisis, IMF, Jesse Freeston, libertarian, media, Naomi Klein, Newspeak, Paul Cavalluzzo, Paul Jay, privacy rights, Toronto G20 Summit, TRNN, US, World Bank
The Ontario Public Works Protection Act grants the executive branch “unlimited authority to the cabinet” to appoint any with the authority of a local police officer; deem any place in the province a ‘public work’; threaten whatever force is necessary to make any person—irrelevant of probable cause—identify themselves, grant consent to their person and property to a search, and prevent the person without cause from entering property deemed as a ‘public work’.
Paul Cavalluzzo, a Ontario-based constitutional lawyer discussed the Act with Paul Jay at The Real News Network (16:59):
U.S. in for Almost $65bn of Near-Trillion Dollar Greece Bailout
Posted: 10 May 2010 by Little Alex in International Affairs, National News, Political ScienceTags: Afghanistan, Brazil, British Empire, China, Colombia, ECB, EU, Ezra Klein, Federal Reserve, global economic crisis, globalism, Great Depression, Greece bailout, IMF, imperialism, India, Israel, Jeannine Aversa, Joe Weisenthal, NATO, Neil Barofsky, Newspeak, Pakistan, Robert Samuelson, S. Leslie Ireland, Stephen Walt, TARP, Third World, Thomas Mayer, Treasury Department, US, World Bank, WWI, WWII
The E.C.B.-I.M.F. bailout being compared to TARP and the fall of the Greek’s government’s solvency capacity’s parallels to the domino fall that became the Great Depression.
Gold Hits Record High as India Dumps Dollars
Posted: 3 November 2009 by Little Alex in International Affairs, Political ScienceTags: Afghanistan, anarchism, anti-Statism, bailout, banking, Bloomberg, Brazil, BRIC, China, COMEX, corporatism, deficit spending, Dennis Kucinich, economy, fascism, Federal Reserve, Financial Times, FOREX, global economic crisis, global wages report, gold futures, Gold standard, hyperinflation, ILO, IMF, India, inflation, International Labour Organisation, Iran, Iraq, Japan, libertarian, liberty, market-anarchism, Murray Rithbard, New York Mercantile Exchange, Newspeak, Obama, Pittsburgh G-20 Summit, Russia, SDRs, special drawing rights, US, US dollar, War, War on Terror, warfare-welfare state
India’s run on the U.S. dollar to buy 200 tonnes of gold from the 403.3 set to be sold by the International Monetary Fund set the precious metal to an all-time high value of $1,081+, meaning the inflated dollar has crashed to an all-time low as the U.N. reports a drop in U.S. wages.
‘Document Approved’ to Begin Replacing Dollar in Latin America
Posted: 18 October 2009 by Editors in International Affairs, National News, Political ScienceTags: ALBA, Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia, Cuba, dollar hegemony, Dominica, economy, Ecuador, euro, Evo Morales, fiat money, FTAA, GATA, global economic crisis, globalism, Honduras, Hugo Chavez, LatAm, Latin America, libertarian, market-anarchism, Nicaragua, oil, petrodollar, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Sucre, US, US dollar, Venezuela
Leaders of nine Latin American countries approved the usage of an intra-regional currency called the “Sucre”.
Gold Hits Another Record-High, Dollar Hits New Low
Posted: 13 October 2009 by Little Alex in International Affairs, National News, Political ScienceTags: Anchalee Worrachate, banking, central banking, China, Christoph Kind, corporatism, dollar hegemony, economics, economy, euros, Federal Reserve, fiat money, foreign exchange, FOREX, GCC, Gerard Lyons, global economic crisis, gold, gold futures, Gulf Cooperation Council, Japan, libertarian, liberty, market-anarchism, Moming Zhou, monetary policy, Newspeak, oil, OPEC, Robert Fisk, US, US dollar, Ye Xie, yen, yuan
This morning, gold hit a new high nearing $1,070/oz. showing the U.S. dollar ‘reaching a breaking point’ as it hits another new 14-month low.
U.N. Official Calls for One World Currency
Posted: 6 October 2009 by Editors in Political ScienceTags: banking, China, corporatism, dollar hegemony, euro, fascism, fiat money, global currency, global economic crisis, globalism, IMF, IMF bonds, international banking, pound, SDRs, Sha Zukang, special drawing rights, Turkey, UN, US, US dollar, World Bank, yen
At the heavily protested World Bank-International Monetary Fund (I.M.F.) meetings with global finance oligarchs, a U.N. undersecretary-general suggests special drawing rights (SDRs) from the I.M.F. as a world currency. Such a policy would turn the I.M.F. into the global central bank.
