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.
Posts Tagged ‘special drawing rights’
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.
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Ron Paul on ‘The Riz Khan Show’ (Video)
Posted: 1 October 2009 by Editors in International Affairs, National News, Political ScienceTags: 2008 elections, Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, air strikes, American Empire, bailout, banking, blowback, Campaign for Liberty, capitalism, CIA, Constitution, corporatism, Democrats, diplomacy, drug war, economic crisis, economy, End the Fed, euro, facsism, fascism, Federal Reserve, fiat currency, free trade, globalism, Gold standard, human rights, IMF, inflation, International Affairs, international law, Iran, Iraq, Iraq War, ISAF, isolationism, libertarian, liberty, Malaysia, Middle East, Milton Friedman, Mizan Zainal Abidin, monetary system, national debt, NATO, Newspeak, noninterventionism, NPT, nuclear proliferation, nuclear weapons, Obama, Pakistan, prohibition, Qom, Qum, Republicans, Riz Khan, Ron Paul, Russia, special drawing rights, TARP, terrorism, UN, US, US dollar, War, War on Terror, World Bank, yuan
Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) takes questions on the Federal [sic] Reserve, fiat money and U.S. imperialism in the wake of his most recent book, End the Fed, on al Jazeera’s (AJE) “The Riz Khan Show” (22:25):
Part One (10:55):
Part Two (11:30):