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 IMF Economist: Global Economy Faces "Headwinds" and a “Bumpy Ride” in 2016 posted by baz, 2016-01-19 07:31:38
You've got to marvel at the use of maritime metaphors used by economists when describing a monumental downturn and grim forecast, "headwinds," indeed; we have a suggestion allow those 'winds' to blow your bullshit out your arse, Mr Maurice Obstfeld! Furthermore, we detect another, railways this time, metaphor, suggesting that illusory global growth could be "derailed" by China's not so accidental downturn in its stock market while ensuring its real economy is sound -- you see, it was the Chinese that wrote the Art of War, a masterful treatise on all manner of warfare. China is actually exploiting the situation to teach the West a lesson, notwithstanding that it didn't engineer the market instability but the Chinese are nothing if not able to take advantage of a situation. Watch western markets and bubble economies face REALITY, courtesy of Sun Tzu. Or to draw from a Western literary genius, "things are not what they appear to be!" (full story)
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  Continuing Obfuscation by Oz Government Relating to its Illegal Syrian Bombing Campaign posted by James ONeill via darcy, 2016-01-19 06:27:15
On 16 November 2015 the present writer published an article in Australia’s New Matilda magazine. The article had two main objectives. The first was a discussion of the legal bases upon which one State could attack another State. The second purpose was to provide an outline of my attempts to obtain a copy of the legal advice that the Australian government said it would seek before announcing a decision on whether or not to join the United States bombing campaign in Syria. (full story)
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 The Citadel is Breached: Congress Taps the Fed for Infrastructure Funding posted by Ellen Brown via dulcie, 2016-01-18 07:50:10
For at least a decade, think tanks, commissions and other stakeholders have fought to get Congress to address the staggering backlog of maintenance, upkeep and improvements required to bring the nation’s infrastructure into the 21st century. Countries with less in the way of assets have overtaken the US in innovation and efficiency, while our dysfunctional Congress has battled endlessly over the fiscal cliff, tax reform, entitlement reform, and deficit reduction. (full story)
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 Short Sweet and to the Point posted by james, 2016-01-18 07:26:28
Sometimes I lament the global state of affairs and the complacency of the majority that would rather, it seems, allow a tiny group of mega-wealthy psychopaths to lead them to hell and ruin than stomp them underfoot like the cockroaches they are. The mega-wealthy today are criminals pure and simple, they have stolen most of their wealth under the noses of the global majority and yet THEIR status quo continues: needless wars for the profit of the few, mass murder on an industrial scale, huge disparities on every front and yet the status quo continues, give sanity and reason a break! Nothing is able to resist the popular will once mobilised, and so if YOU want peace and real freedom then EARN IT, and take back OUR world before the psychopaths make it uninhabitable. (full story)
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The Power of Exaggerated Fear posted by Paul R. Pillar via shirl, 2016-01-18 00:56:40
Journalists have noticed how much current political campaigns are trading on fear. As observed in a recent article in the Washington Post, “Most of the Republican presidential contenders and their allies are now waging campaigns focused on fear — bombarding voters with ominous television spots that warn of national security threats and amping up their alarming rhetoric on the stump. (full story)
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The Bottomless Oil Price in an Unstable Global Economy posted by Michael T. Klare via cyd, 2016-01-17 01:45:45
As 2015 drew to a close, many in the global energy industry were praying that the price of oil would bounce back from the abyss, restoring the petroleum-centric world of the past half-century. All evidence, however, points to a continuing depression in oil prices in 2016 -- one that may, in fact, stretch into the 2020s and beyond. Given the centrality of oil (and oil revenues) in the global power equation, this is bound to translate into a profound shakeup in the political order, with petroleum-producing states from Saudi Arabia to Russia losing both prominence and geopolitical clout. (full story)
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 The Exposed Hoax of the Century posted by Stephen Lendman via stacey, 2016-01-15 19:53:04
US post-9/11 war on terror reflects state-sponsored deception – with the media complicit in conning the public to believe Washington opposes what it actively supports. (full story)
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The ‘Terror’ News Cycle posted by jess, 2016-01-15 00:49:26
Today after 15 years of media saturation by the CFR controlled mass media, ‘terror’ has become naturalised, the tailored daily ‘news’ is saturated with terror attacks and couches every crime against the people as terror attacks, when in fact they are simply crimes committed by gullible, demented murderers with jelly for brains. (full story)
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Obama’s Last State of Union -- Totally divorced from REALITY posted by zayn, 2016-01-13 09:41:09
Obama the president of extra-judicial killing and secret kill lists, a nation that leads the world in killing civilians and millions of innocent children by whatever means, sanctions, embargos on medical and other essential supplies or direct military intervention, feebly attempted to portray the world’s leading criminal State as a democracy, referring to the Constitution opening of, “we the people ..” which reality translates as ‘we the oligarchy and fuck the people except when needed for slave labour and cannon fodder. (full story)
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 Killing the Petrodollar posted by F. William Engdahl via sue, 2016-01-12 09:02:59
It has taken some time for large oil and resource trading nations to wake up to the fact that they are indirectly financing America's perpetual wars, and to finally do something about it. For lay-readers it simply means that the collapse of the petrodollar puts an end to America's ability to wage continuous horrific wars for the sole benefit of large banks and corporations. However, the following article explains in more detail why certain nations have been forced to withdraw from the petrodollar's monopoly over international resource trade and to hopefully reduce it to the un-pegged value of the paper its printed on. (full story)
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Confirmed: Black and Yellow Gold Behind ALL Recent Wars posted by james, 2016-01-11 21:47:23
The link below provides documented proof from the highest sources of what astute analysts have been stating for years, i.e. that ALL so-called wars on terror are primarily concerned with oil resources, gold/money, strategic lands and pipeline corridors. (full story)
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US Government - World's Leading Criminal Organisation posted by Paul Craig Roberts via cyd, 2016-01-10 23:18:59
When history and facts are soberly considered Washington stands condemned as the criminal organisation it is. Dr Roberts has provided only a few recent examples of the outrageous crimes that Washington has committed in recent history, however, further research and recent Russian exposure of Washington's complicity in creating and supporting terrorist groups in the Middle East and elsewhere (Central Asia, Afghanistan, North Africa, Balkans, etc) is undeniable. The Orwellian inversion of reality propagated by the criminally owned American mass media only serves to reinforce the fact that the criminal American ruling elite is entrenched in that hapless nation of cowards. The American people have allowed various criminal regimes to oppress locals and make a mockey of the founding documents of the nation and all civilised law, domestic and international. (full story)
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The Domino Effect of Falling Gulf State Monarchs Heads posted by justin, 2016-01-09 20:19:54
You really have to laugh over the predicament the House of Saud has got itself into due to its gullibility and acquiescence to Washington. The US ordered a deflation of oil prices which was designed to break the Russian economy, however, it has backfired as the impact has devastated the House of Saud, which finances are now flowing more freely into desert sands than the blood of innocent civilians Saudi supported Wahhabi terrorists spill in the region, though it is no historical secret that the House of Saud has been a long time puppet of western imperial power, now centralised in Washington. (full story)
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 Soros: Global Economic Crisis Looms as China Falters posted by Anusha Ondaatjie and Adam Haigh via jill, 2016-01-07 22:49:30
The one obvious fact that emerges is that China is the economic powerhouse of the world NOT paper-shuffling criminal Wall Street. (full story)
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 The Instant War Occurs posted by jess, 2016-01-07 21:05:20
Indeed, as we all should know, war occurs as result of a series of escalations reaching critical mass. WWI and II followed this pattern and so will WWIII, which actually began 15 years ago. (full story)
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