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Daily Briefing—27th May 2010
Posted: 27 May 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Af-Pak War, airstrikes, Amnesty International, black jails, Britain, Canada, Catholicism, Charles Davis, China, CIA, Colombia, DoD, drones, Dyncorp, Freedom Flotilla, Futenma, Gaza, Gaza blockade, Gitmo, Guantanamo, habeas corpus, Hezbollah, IDF, IMF, India, Iran, Israel, Japan, Jeremy Scahill, Jonathan Cook, Kashmir, Kurt Nimmo, Middle East, military industrial complex, Nathan Hodge, NPT, nuclear weapons, Obama Administration, Okinawa, Pakistan, Paul Joseph Watson, Pentagon, Philip Giraldi, POWs, PSYOPS, SDRs, Somalia, Syria, Thomas Friedman, torture, TTP, UK, USAF, USD, Vietnam War, William Pfaff
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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.
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.
