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Factories Begin To Shift Back To US
Post Date: 2012-05-21 12:39:57 by Brian S
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By Hal Weitzman in Chicago Two-thirds of big US manufacturers have moved factories in the past two years, with the most popular destination being the US, according to a survey being released on Monday by Accenture, the consultants. The report provides some of the first industry-wide empirical evidence of “reshoring,” the trend of jobs once outsourced to low-cost emerging economies being brought back to the US. Although the subject has received much attention, with General Electric the most high-profile example, most of the evidence so far has been isolated and anecdotal. President Barack Obama has proposed tax incentives for companies that move their overseas operations back ...
Bayer CropScience and Bee Deaths
Post Date: 2012-05-21 06:52:55 by A K A Stone
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The Big Picture For several years now there has been a dramatic loss of bees in Europe and North America. As many as 50% to 90% of the bee populations have simply vanished. This is a big deal. Bees are a keystone species – they are vital to the food chain on our planet. An international study of 115 food crops grown in over 200 countries showed that 75% of crops are pollinated by animals, especially by bees. At first it was believed that only honeybees were affected, but then bumblebee populations began to decline. The crisis was eventually given a name: Colony Collapse Disorder or CCD. CCD is Not a Disease There were initially several theories about the cause of CCDE, including ...
Mitt Romney: The Foreign Policy of Know-Nothingism
Post Date: 2012-05-20 15:48:00 by We The People
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photo: Dave Lawrence (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has become the inevitable Republican Party presidential nominee. Despite the weak economy, he faces an uphill race. It’s never easy to defeat an incumbent president. Moreover, Romney can’t rely on the GOP’s traditional foreign-policy advantage. Throughout the Cold War Republicans posed as the party of national defense. That stance served the GOP well until the wreck of George W. Bush’s presidency. The public rallied around President Bush when he ordered the invasion of Iraq but soured when it became clear that the war was an unnecessary disaster begun on a lie. Republican ...
How The U.S. Dollar Will Be Replaced
Post Date: 2012-05-20 13:25:28 by We The People
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After being immersed in the world of alternative economic analysis for several years, it sometimes becomes easy to forget that most people do not track forex markets, or debt to GDP ratio, or true unemployment, or hunch over IMF white-papers highlighting subsections which expose the trappings of the globalist ideology. Sometimes, you just assume the average person knows what the heck you are talking about. This is, of course, a mistake. However, it is a mistake that is borne from the inadequacy of our age and our culture, and is not necessarily a product of weak character, either of the analyst, or the casual reader. The great frustration of being actively involved in the Liberty Movement ...
Tsipras on CNN: 'We are going directly to hell"
Post Date: 2012-05-20 11:37:51 by We The People
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Tsipras on CNN: 'We are going directly to hell" Alexis Tsipras, head of SYRIZA, said on Wednesday that the radical left coalition wanted to put an end to austerity, keep Greece in the eurozone and strike new alliances to overcome the crisis.“We will do whatever we could do in this direction, to keep Greece inside the eurozone and inside Europe,” said Tsipras, speaking to CNN’s chief international correspondent Christian Amanpour.Tsipras stated that the left coalition wished to “cancel the memorandum, then renegotiate on a European level,” in search of a common solution to exit the crisis which he said was not solely a Greek problem, but a European issue.To ...
Congress opens door for US war with Iran
Post Date: 2012-05-18 16:02:03 by We The People
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The US House of Representatives has passed a resolution on Iran that moves the United States much closer to a war footing against Iran as many experts and diplomats warn America is ready for attack. The vote undermines the 5+1 Iranian nuclear talks scheduled for next week, in which the US will participate and which many in the pro-war camp want to sabotage. Ahead of the vote Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), a tough critic of the resolution and one of the few who voted against it, warned that the US is “getting ready for war against Iran” with Thursday’s vote. The non-binding resolution H.Res.568 that overwhelmingly passed 401-11, effectively calls for a military attack ...
Obama requesting help to pay for Afghan army
Post Date: 2012-05-17 22:16:49 by We The People
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May 17, 2012 2:31 PM PrintText Obama requesting help to pay for Afghan armyAn Afghan National Army soldier carries his rockets while on patrol in Logar province, east Afghanistan, Thursday, May 17, 2012. NATO sits down May 20, 2012 in Chicago to prepare for the eventual withdrawal of international forces and the hand over of Afghanistan's security to the Afghan National Army. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus) (Anja Niedringhaus) WASHINGTON — Mapping the way out of an unpopular war, the United States and NATO are trying to build an Afghan army that can defend the country after 130,000 international troops pull out. The alliance's plans for arm's-length support for ...
Spain Into Recession Amid Fears Of Eurozone Bank Run
Post Date: 2012-05-17 12:06:11 by Brian S
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Spain tumbled into recession and European stock markets and the euro fell Thursday as Greece installed a crisis government to tackle its crippling debt, EU leaders prepared for talks and analysts raised the spectre of a run on eurozone banks. "Markets are worried about eurozone bank deposit runs and an escalating banking crisis," London-based VTB Capital economist Neil MacKinnon told AFP. Heavy withdrawals of deposits have been reported in Greece and Spain, and top European Union leaders were to hold a videoconference later in the day. They were initially to discuss an upcoming G8 meeting of industrialised countries but were now faced with a serious deterioration of the ...
Debt crisis: Greek euro exit looms closer as banks crumble
Post Date: 2012-05-16 20:06:15 by Capitalist Eric
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A tsunami of capital flight from Greece threatens to overwhelm the authorities, forcing the country out of the euro before fresh elections in June. A pedestrian passes a kiosk selling newspapers. The growing alarm comes as judge Panagiotis Pikrammenos was picked as Greece’s caretaker leader until the next vote on June 17. Polls show the Left-wing Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras emerging as clear victor. Photo: Bloomberg Economists warned that the Greek financial system could crumble within weeks or days unless the European Central Bank steps up support. President Karolos Papoulias told party leaders that banks had lost €700m in withdrawals on Monday alone as citizens rush to ...
Get Ready: We’re About To Have Another 2008-Style Crisis
Post Date: 2012-05-16 19:49:12 by Capitalist Eric
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Well, my hat is off to the global central planners for averting the next stage of the unfolding financial crisis for as long as they have. I guess there’s some solace in having had a nice break between the events of 2008/09 and today, which afforded us all the opportunity to attend to our various preparations and enjoy our lives. Alas, all good things come to an end, and a crisis rooted in ‘too much debt’ with a nice undercurrent of ‘persistently high and rising energy costs’ was never going to be solved by providing cheap liquidity to the largest and most reckless financial institutions. And it has not. Forestalled is Not Foregone The same sorts of signals that we ...
New Socialist Cabinet Takes Power In France
Post Date: 2012-05-16 19:13:30 by Brian S
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By FRANCE 24 (text) France unveiled President Francois Hollande's new government on Wednesday, with exactly half of the posts going to women – a promise the new head of state had made during his campaign. Not counting the prime minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault, who was appointed on Tuesday, the cabinet consists of 34 members, two more than the outgoing cabinet that served under conservative Nicolas Sarkozy. There was some concern over the news that Martine Aubry, Hollande’s former party rival and one of the Socialist Party’s most experienced women, would not join the cabinet after she was declined the prime ministerial position. There was also some criticism over the ...
Greeks Rush the Banks; Lines Form at ATMs; Nearly $1 Billion Withdrawn in Past Week
Post Date: 2012-05-16 18:19:39 by Capitalist Eric
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Without a government for the last eleven days, and amid mainstream discussion of a Euro Zone exit, the Greek people are realizing that the economic and political system as they know it is rapidly descending into chaos. With massive jobless rates that have forced many into bartering to survive, and facing credit destruction across the entirety of the country that has led to shortages of critical supplies like life saving medicines, those with any money left at national banks are taking the desperate step of withdrawing as much of their savings as they can from a banking system on its last leg. This is what it looks like when a populace plagued with uncertainty finally loses trust in the ...
Greeks Withdraw $894 Million In A Day: Is This Beginning Of A Run On Banks?
Post Date: 2012-05-16 10:53:02 by Brian S
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Updated at 10:20 a.m. ET: Political leaders in Athens were due to discuss an emergency government Wednesday to deal with a possible run on banks as it emerged Greeks withdrew almost $900 million in a single day, fearing their country could crash out of the euro currency by the end of the week.An interim government would take the country through to new elections on June 17, triggered by the collapse on Tuesday of talks to form a coalition between winners of the inconclusive May 6 election. Greeks are withdrawing euros from banks, apparently afraid of the prospect of rapid devaluation if the country leaves the European single currency and returns to the drachma.President Karolos Papoulias ...
European leaders and financial markets braced for Greece exit from euro [Will Greece Finally Take the EU Down?]
Post Date: 2012-05-14 19:26:03 by Capitalist Eric
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The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, said that Greece would 'always' be in the EU, a statement interpreted as meaning it might not always be in the euro. Photograph: John Macdougall/AFP/Getty Images Financial markets are hastily making preparations for a Greek exit from the euro after a day of political and economic turmoil ended with Europe's policy elite admitting for the first time that it may prove impossible to keep the single currency intact. With attempts in Athens to form a government after last week's election looking increasingly doomed, European leaders abandoned their taboo on talking about the possibility that Greece might have to leave the euro. Shares, ...
Bush/Cheney et.al. Convicted of War Crimes in Absentia
Post Date: 2012-05-14 14:05:00 by Brian S
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Kuala Lumpur — It’s official; George W Bush is a war criminal.In what is the first ever conviction of its kind anywhere in the world, the former US President and seven key members of his administration were yesterday (Fri) found guilty of war crimes.Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and their legal advisers Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, William Haynes, Jay Bybee and John Yoo were tried in absentia in Malaysia.The trial held in Kuala Lumpur heard harrowing witness accounts from victims of torture who suffered at the hands of US soldiers and contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan.They included testimony from British man Moazzam Begg, an ex-Guantanamo detainee and Iraqi woman ...
Egyptian Presidential Frontrunner Calls Israel A ‘Racist State’
Post Date: 2012-05-13 19:57:16 by Brian S
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A leading Islamist candidate in Egypt’s presidential election has branded Israel a “racist state” and said a shared 1979 peace treaty was “a national security threat” that should be revised. Abdel Moneim Abul Fotouh also denounced Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden’s assassination by US special forces as an act of “state terrorism,” in a late Saturday Egyptian television interview. Abul Fotouh, a front runner in the May 23-24 election according to polls, had earlier described Israel as an “enemy” in a televised debate with his main contender, former foreign minister and Arab League chief Amr Mussa. In Saturday’s interview with the ...
Merkel's Party Routed In Big German State
Post Date: 2012-05-13 19:31:51 by Brian S
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By Stephen Brown DUESSELDORF, Germany | Sun May 13, 2012 12:49pm EDT (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives suffered a crushing defeat on Sunday in an election in Germany's most populous state, a result which could embolden the left opposition to step up its criticism of her European austerity policies. The election in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), a western German state with a bigger population than the Netherlands and an economy the size of Turkey, was held 18 months before a national election in which Merkel is expected to fight for a third term. She remains popular in Germany for her steady handling of the euro zone debt crisis, but the sheer scale of her ...
Words used by Homosexuals and what they really mean
Post Date: 2012-05-13 17:22:03 by CZ82
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Words used by Homosexuals and what they really mean Published on Monday, April 7, 2008 on Googles’ blogspot, the contents of this post attracted 66 comments. I rightly realised then that it was critically important for Kenyans to understand the language homosexual advocates frequently employ to further and even obfuscate their nefarious and nauseous lifestyle. Without further ado, here’s the post in its entirety. The homosexual movement has over the years perfected the use of words that are frequently employed with devastating effect to silence people who do not agree with their lifestyle. The propaganda value of these catch phrases has helped spread the homosexual ideology ...
Thousands of British police join anti-austerity protest
Post Date: 2012-05-11 10:41:06 by lucysmom
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LONDON (Reuters) - Thousands of off-duty police officers took to the streets in London on Thursday in a rare display of anger against government austerity, joining a protest by public sector workers including immigration officials, healthcare workers and prison officers. snip Budget cuts and a government-commissioned report that recommended allowing officers to be sacked, introducing pay reductions and raising the pension age, have all caused disquiet. "I feel like the government has misled the public. It's nothing to do with making a leaner, more efficient police service," said Anthony Coultate, 32, a sergeant from Leeds in northern England. The officers, whose caps bore ...
U.S. Concerned Netanyahu, Mofaz May Attack Iran
Post Date: 2012-05-10 23:32:17 by A K A Stone
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The United States is worried that Shaul Mofaz and his Kadima party’s joining a unity government with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu could result in an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities at any given moment, according to a report on Channel 10 News on Thursday. U.S. government officials told Channel 10 News that they believe a Likud-Kadima joing government could make a decision about an Israeli attack on Iran at any moment and perhaps even before the U.S. presidential elections in November. The report said that when the Americans believed early elections would be held in Israel on September, they thought it meant the attack in Iran would be postponed at least until after the ...
How unpopular can Obama get? Texas INMATE gets 40 per cent of votes against President in West Virginia primary
Post Date: 2012-05-09 11:47:54 by A K A Stone
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Just how unpopular is President Obama in some parts of the country? Enough that a man in a Texas prison received four out of 10 votes in West Virginia's Democratic presidential primary. Inmate Keith Judd, 53, is serving 17 years for extortion at the Beaumont Federal Correctional Institution. He was sentenced in 1999 for making threats against the University of New Mexico and is due to be released on June 24 next year. With 93 per cent of precincts reporting, Obama was receiving just under 60 per cent of the vote to Judd's 40 per cent For some West Virginia Democrats, simply running against Obama is enough to get Judd - or Inmate Number 11593-051 - votes. 'I voted against ...
U.S. Millionaires Told Go Away as Tax Evasion Rule Looms
Post Date: 2012-05-09 11:22:55 by Brian S
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Go away, American millionaires. That’s what some of the world’s largest wealth-management firms are saying ahead of Washington’s implementation of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, known as Fatca, which seeks to prevent tax evasion by Americans with offshore accounts. HSBC Holdings Plc (HSBA), Deutsche Bank AG, Bank of Singapore Ltd. and DBS Group Holdings Ltd. (DBS) all say they have turned away business. “I don’t open U.S. accounts, period,” said Su Shan Tan, head of private banking at Singapore-based DBS, Southeast Asia’s largest lender, who described regulatory attitudes toward U.S. clients as “Draconian.” The 2010 law, to be phased ...
Michele Bachmann Claims Swiss Citizenship Making Her Eligible To Run For Office
Post Date: 2012-05-08 23:46:51 by Brian S
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Rep. Michele Bachmann is now officially a Swiss miss. Bachmann (R-Minn.) recently became a citizen of Switzerland, making her eligible to run for office in the tiny European nation, according to a Swiss TV report Arthur Honegger, a reporter for public broadcaster Schweizer Fernsehen, told POLITICO the Swiss consulate in Chicago has confirmed that the former Republican presidential candidate became a citizen March 19. The Swiss consulate in Chicago covers the state of Minnesota, which Bachmann represents. Marcus Bachmann, the congresswoman’s husband since 1978, reportedly was eligible for Swiss citizenship due to his parents’ nationality — but only registered it with the ...
Greek election: Syriza 'to tear up EU austerity deal'
Post Date: 2012-05-08 20:51:21 by We The People
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The leader of Greece's left-wing Syriza bloc has said he will try to form a coalition based on tearing up the terms of the EU/IMF bailout deal. Alexis Tsipras, whose bloc came second in Sunday's vote, said Greek voters had "clearly nullified the loan agreement". He has three days to reach a coalition deal and has told the two major parties to end their support for the austerity terms if they want to take part. The European Commission and Germany say countries must stick to budget cuts. European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said on Tuesday: "What member states have to do is be consistent, implementing the policies that they have agreed." But, ...
U.S. thinks underwear bomb was built by Al Qaeda in Yemen
Post Date: 2012-05-07 19:24:51 by We The People
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WASHINGTON -- The FBI is analyzing a sophisticated underwear bomb that U.S. officials believe was built by Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen in an effort to target Western aviation. U.S. officials said Monday that there was no imminent threat to U.S. jetliners. But the explosive device, which the CIA obtained from another government, demonstrates Al Qaeda’s continued interest in building a bomb that can pass through airport security and bring down a passenger jet, the officials said. The FBI said in a statement that “the device is very similar to IEDs that have been used previously by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in attempted terrorist attacks, including against ...
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