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The Verboten Story of Argentina’s Post-Default Economic Success
Post Date: 2011-11-02 10:32:18 by lucysmom
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Ever notice nothing is ever said in the mainstream media about Argentina’s economy, save that it had a big default? You’d never know the following about Argentina: From 2002 onward, Argentina has grown nearly twice as fast as Brazil, and has sported one of the highest growth rates in the world. Its success is not dependent on a commodities boom. It has increased social spending from 10.3% of GDP to 14.2% of GDP. Inequality has fallen. Poverty and extreme poverty have fallen by roughly 2/3. What is particularly striking is how quickly Argentina’s economy rebounded after its default. From a paper by Mark Weisbrot, Rebecca Ray, Juan A. Montecino, and Sara Kozameh (hat tip ...
Greece: The Debtor that Roared
Post Date: 2011-11-02 09:46:53 by lucysmom
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Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou has managed to put the European crisis game of financial fakery into turmoil. Pretty much no informed commentator expected the latest gimmick-larded rescue package to work; there were simply too many points of failure. And even if this program had miraculously come to fruition, a later train wreck was still inevitable, since Germany was persisting in wanting two contradictory outcomes: running trade surpluses in Europe, and not lending more to its trade parters. But no one anticipated that a long suffering debtor would revolt, which is what Papandreou’s announcement of a referendum on the punitive bailout amounts to. He’s publicly coded it ...
UN Report Offers Smoking Gun Proof of NATO and US Lies about Libya
Post Date: 2011-11-01 19:43:21 by A K A Stone
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Here is a type of “smoking gun” proof that NATO and the U.S. has been operating through a smokescreen of lies, as well as intimidation. Please read the following January 4, 2011 report of the 16th Session of the United Nations General Assembly Human Rights Council, Universal Periodic Review: Report of the Working Group on the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya [Document A/HRC/WG.6/9/L.13] Before NATO and the U.S. started bombing Libya, the United Nations was preparing to bestow an award on Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, and the Libyan Jamahiriya, for its achievements in the area of human rights. That’s right–the same man, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, that NATO and the United States have ...
Government in Greece Nears Collapse Over Referendum
Post Date: 2011-11-01 11:18:59 by Brian S
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ATHENS — The Greek government was plunged into chaos on Tuesday and faced an imminent collapse, as lawmakers rebelled against Prime Minister George Papandreou’s surprise call for a popular referendum on a new debt deal with Greece’s foreign lenders. Such a collapse would not only render the referendum plan moot, it would likely scuttle — or at least delay — the debt deal that was agreed on in Brussels last week, putting Greece on a fast track to default and possible exit from the monetary union of countries sharing the euro currency. Analysts said that Mr. Papandreou’s call for a referendum was a last resort, meant to gain broader political support for the ...
The Hilly and Milly Show (part 2): Now it's a VERY special relationship
Post Date: 2011-11-01 10:52:07 by Happy Quanzaa
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If they were in a classroom, the teacher would have separated them quick smart. Because Hillary Clinton and David Miliband were doing much more flirting than working. The U.S. Secretary of State, who has already admitted having a crush on her young British counterpart, was giggling like a schoolgirl at him. You're such a silly billy, Milly: A grinning Hillary Clinton prepares to squeeze David Miliband's arm at the Nato summit You scratch my back...: The duo give one another a friendly squeeze at the meeting in Brussels What IS he saying?: Hillary Clinton can't hold back the giggles as she listens to David Miliband at the Nato meeting in Brussels And Mr Miliband was equally ...
Russian spy got close to Obama Cabinet member Mrs. Clinton
Post Date: 2011-11-01 07:48:53 by Happy Quanzaa
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FBI says Russian spies got close to CabinetBreaking codes led to roundup The FBI rounded up a network of deep-cover Russian spies last year after the group came close to placing an agent near a Cabinet official in the Obama administration, a senior FBI counterspy said Monday as the bureau released once-secret documents on the case. Frank Figliuzzi, assistant FBI director for counterintelligence, did not identify the Cabinet official, but other U.S. officials said it was Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Mr. Figliuzzi said in an interview that the FBI decided to end its more than 10-year-long counterspy investigation of the network because of concerns that the spies were ...
Germany Threatens To Halt Submarine Sale to Israel [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-10-31 19:13:16 by Brian S
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Germany is threatening to stop the delivery of a "Dolphin" submarine to Israel in protest over the country's settlement policies. Government sources confirmed the development when asked by SPIEGEL following speculation last week in the Israeli media that Germany might halt the sale. The move is in response to the recent decision by the Israeli government to approve the construction of 1,100 homes in Gilo, an Arab part of Jerusalem captured from Jordan in the 1967 Six Day War. The Israeli government considers the area to be a Jewish suburb, but the international community contests that description. The threat by German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been the subject of ...
UNESCO Gives Palestinians Full Membership
Post Date: 2011-10-31 12:38:53 by Brian S
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Unesco is the first UN agency the Palestinians have sought to join as a full member since President Mahmoud Abbas applied for full membership of the United Nations on Sept. 23. The United States, Canada and Germany voted against Palestinian membership. Brazil, Russia, China, India, South Africa and France voted in favour. Britain abstained. Huge cheers went up in Unesco after delegates voted to approve the membership Monday. One shouted "Long Live Palestine!" in French. Israel said that the vote will harm prospects for the resumption of Middle East peace talks. "This is a unilateral Palestinian manoeuver which will bring no change on the ground but further removes the ...
Graeme View the Iranian authorities against Ahwazi
Post Date: 2011-10-30 23:32:34 by A K A Stone
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Muslimland: Guilty Wolf panished by a courageous dog.
Post Date: 2011-10-30 23:30:11 by A K A Stone
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Saudi Royal Offers $900,000 Reward For Capture Of Israeli Soldiers
Post Date: 2011-10-30 12:06:05 by Brian S
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Khaled's offer comes days after the prominent Saudi cleric, Awad al-Qarni, put $100,000 on the head of every Israeli soldier. By DPA RIYADH - A Saudi royal offered a $900,000 reward to anyone who captures an Israeli soldier, on Saturday. Prince Khaled bin Talal, the brother of business tycoon and Fox News co-owner Walid bin Talal, told the Saudi-based broadcaster Al Daleel that the captive would then be released in exchange for Arabs held in Israeli prisons. Khaled's offer comes days after the prominent Saudi cleric, Awad al-Qarni, put $100,000 on the head of every Israeli soldier. Al-Qarni's statement - posted on Facebook - was severely criticized, and messages posted ...
U.S. To Boost Gulf Presence After Iraq Pullout: Report
Post Date: 2011-10-30 11:59:35 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is planning to bolster its military presence in the Gulf after it pulls out its remaining troops from Iraq, the New York Times reported in its online edition on Sunday. President Barack Obama said on October 21 that he had decided to withdraw all U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of the year and the paper said that U.S. military officers and diplomats worried that the withdrawal could bring instability to the region. It said Washington was negotiating to maintain a combat presence on the ground in Kuwait and was considering deploying more warships in the area. No one at the Pentagon was immediately available to comment. The United States also ...
Gaddafi's military forces are forced to eat dog meat
Post Date: 2011-10-29 23:45:59 by A K A Stone
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The consequences of adultery and sodomy psychotropic
Post Date: 2011-10-29 23:28:11 by A K A Stone
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Palestinian traitor's execution and the reaction of his mother's grave after his execution
Post Date: 2011-10-29 23:26:07 by A K A Stone
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see for yourself what the Khawarij dogs do in Benghazi. under Gadhafi this had never happened!!!
Post Date: 2011-10-29 23:15:27 by A K A Stone
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Egypt Brotherhood Makes First Visit To Hamas-Led Gaza
Post Date: 2011-10-29 18:45:20 by Brian S
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GAZA Oct 29 (Reuters) - Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood visited the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip for the first time on Saturday, signalling a shift in Cairo's posture toward the Palestinian Islamists since the fall of President Hosni Mubarak. A delegation led by deputy Brotherhood chief Goma Amin met Ismail Haniyeh, head of the Gaza administration, in celebration of a major prisoner swap between Hamas and Israel brokered by Egypt last week. "We came to participate in the joy at the release of brothers. We are proud of them," Amin told reporters. "Resistance proved itself." The Brotherhood, a political party which, like Hamas, regards relations with the Jewish state as ...
Why the latest eurozone bail-out is destined to fail within weeks
Post Date: 2011-10-29 18:32:05 by Happy Quanzaa
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I want last week's European bail-out to work. My sincere hope is that collective and decisive action by the eurozone's large member states will stabilize global markets, at least for a while, so allowing the global economy to catch its breath. Last week's eurozone "agreement", for all the related fanfare, was a case in point. Far frommaking the situation clearer, allowing investors to make considered assessments, this latestannouncement made Western Europe's grotesque debt crisis even more acute, sowingfurther infectious spores of confusion. Photo: AFP As someone who works in financial services, I follow the markets – in the West, across Asia and the ...
Israeli Fingerprints All Over Iranian “Murder” Plot
Post Date: 2011-10-29 14:05:24 by Brian S
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The Obama administration continues to stick by their absurd claim that 56-year-old Manssor Arbabsiar—a used-car salesman from Round Rock, Texas—was entrusted by the Iranian government to carry out a mafia-style hit on the Saudi ambassador in Washington, D.C. Even FBI Director Robert Mueller admits that the alleged plot reads like the pages of a Hollywood script, and most former intelligence officers who have weighed in on the matter agree. In fact, former CIA case officer Robert Baer went so far as to say, “The Iranian plot is a bad Hollywood script.” In a Time magazine article that used that quote as it’s title, Baer wrote: “None of it measures up to ...
Goldman Sachs Rips Off Libya, Donald Trump Admits Screwing Gaddafi
Post Date: 2011-10-29 06:58:24 by A K A Stone
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Saudi Crown Prince of Darkness
Post Date: 2011-10-28 18:55:10 by Brian S
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The interior minister’s office was imposing: dark-wood paneling, gold-plated sprinklers on the ceiling, and square-shaped chairs, in a Riyadh government building that instilled fear in people who lived in the city. On that day several years ago, the interior minister, Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz, a stocky man with a neatly trimmed mustache, greeted a group of American scholars. “He’s the kindest, warmest man I’ve ever known,” recalls one of the visitors, Jon Alterman, a senior fellow with the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies. “That’s a line from The Manchurian Candidate, right?” Alterman is joking, sort of. Nobody ...
Egyptians March In Solidarity With ‘Occupy Oakland’
Post Date: 2011-10-28 18:53:57 by Brian S
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Topics: agenda today ♦ barack obama ♦ tahrir square Demonstrators marched on Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Friday, in a protest against the continuing military rule of their country and the perpetual state of emergency their government has maintained since 1958. But there was another item on their agenda today: the recent violence in Oakland, California. In the photos below, taken by Egyptian journalist Mohammed Maree and published on Twitter, demonstrators hold up signs showing solidarity with “Occupy Oakland,” urging President Barack Obama to intervene on behalf of the people, and echoing the generation-old meme, “Fuck the police.” ...
Furious Greeks lampoon German 'overlords' as Nazis with picture of Merkel dressed as an SS guard
Post Date: 2011-10-28 16:47:14 by Capitalist Eric
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Street poster depicts German Chancellor wearing a swastika armband bearing the EU stars logo on the outside Greeks angry at the fate of the euro are comparing the German government with the Nazis who occupied the country in the Second World War. Newspaper cartoons have presented modern-day German officials dressed in Nazi uniform, and a street poster depicts Chancellor Angela Merkel dressed as an officer in Hitler’s regime accompanied with the words: ‘Public nuisance.’ She wears a swastika armband bearing the EU stars logo on the outside. Attack: A street poster in Greece has depicted Angela Merkel in a Nazi uniform with a swastika surrounded by the EU stars. The ...
And who will run this “New World Order”???
Post Date: 2011-10-27 19:56:31 by A K A Stone
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(pope benedict… aka ratzinger)
From article…
“My friend the late Pope John Paul II said it best. He said, ‘We need a new world order, one that is more stable, more humane, and more just.’”
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Mikhail Gorbachev Says Uprisings Signal an Emerging New World Order
From article…
“Others, including myself, have spoken about a new world order, but we are still facing the problem of building such a world order…problems of the environment, of backwardness and poverty, food shortages…all because we do not have a system of global governance.”
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Mikhail Gorbachev Says Occupy Wall Street Signals an Emerging New World Order
Post Date: 2011-10-27 19:40:43 by A K A Stone
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Mikhail Gorbachev Says Occupy Wall Street Signals an Emerging New World Order By VC
As the Occupy Wall Street movement continues, some unlikely faces appear supporting the movement and some even more unlikely scenarios are presented as “solutions”. While most protesters call for the return of grass-roots democracy and the stop of the unlawful rule of international banks, you have figures working for the exact opposite – a big, fat, socialist world government – supporting the movement. George Soros and Mikhail Gorbachev, two of the world’s most vocal elite globalists, have indeed been working for years for a New World Order and everything it implies.
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