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 Bernanke applies liquid palliative while Real Economy continues to flounder posted by Mike Whitney via fleet, 2009-12-12 17:31:44
The Fed's monetary intervention has created a bifurcated market. Stocks rise on an ocean of central bank liquidity while the real economy continues to languish in a small "d" depression. The disparity between financial markets and the underlying "productive" economy has never been greater. Nor has the "wealth gap", the gross inequality exacerbated by decades of "monetarist" supply side policies. Bernanke simply has no other choice but to try to inflate another gigantic bubble that will lift the economy from the doldrums on a speculative wave of zero-rate liquidity. The problem is, according to Bernanke himself, the strategy is not working. (full story)
miscellaneous / international
  Prevailing against hate and fear posted by fray, 2009-12-11 22:36:38
Decades of hate, fear and division cured ... (full story)
prose/poetry / international
 USA Refuses to Allow UN Inspectors to Investigate its WMDs! posted by AFP via rann, 2009-12-11 18:01:31
PROOF incontrovertible! It's all out in the open NOW!
The world's leading civilian killing (therefore TERRORIST) nation persistently refuses to comply with International Law and Convention -- Balkans and South Asia -- is anyone really surprised that America now clarifies its ROGUE STATUS by denying UN weapons inspectors access to its WMD sites? (full story)
peace/war / international
 FUCK Yoo! posted by Bob Egelko via stan, 2009-12-08 19:33:51
The ‘HOPE and CHANGE’ (ROFL) administration of Corporatist PUPPET Barack Obaa’ma has intervened in the case against former Bush legal advisor, John Yoo, the man who LEGITIMISED TORTURE (for God’s sake) and left an indelible stain on a once proud and MORAL nation! The US had an opportunity to demonstrate to the world that it was serious about criminal reform in high office but lost out to the rancorous, corrupt ruling elite that control Washington. (full story)
human rights / international
Copenhagen: the 'FIX' is in -- Corporatist sham EXPOSED! posted by John Vidal via fish, 2009-12-08 18:48:45
The UN Copenhagen climate talks are in disarray today after developing countries reacted furiously to leaked documents that show world leaders will next week be asked to sign an agreement that hands more power to rich countries and sidelines the UN's role in all future climate change negotiations. (full story and 1 comments)
environment / international
 Remembering Patrice Lumumba posted by Danny Schechter via reed, 2009-12-08 08:26:51
I came to the Congo in search of its future and instead found myself marching down memory lane. On Thursday we went to the Museum of Beaux Arts, really a school for teaching sculpture, a subject close to me because my late dad sculpted in stone and wood as a hobby. (full story and 1 comments)
social/political / international
Trickle-up Economics posted by Paul Craig Roberts via fleet, 2009-12-05 22:38:40
Goldman Sachs senior executives are arming themselves with New York gun permits, according to Alice Schroeder on Bloomberg.com. The banksters “are now equipped to defend themselves if there is a populist uprising against the bank.” (full story)
social/political / international
  The Audacity of Ethnic Cleansing posted by Mike Whitney via reed, 2009-12-05 20:46:07
"Today, we Afghans remain trapped between two enemies: the Taliban on one side and US/NATO forces and their warlord hirelings on the other." -- Malalai Joya (full story and 2 comments)
imperialism / international
 Dream walls, Illusory fears posted by wisp, 2009-12-04 20:25:15
Paper Tigers and Straw Dragons (full story and 2 comments)
prose/poetry / international
 Currency Warfare -- Review of Financial Markets posted by Bob Chapman via stan, 2009-12-03 08:49:39
This past week was one of utmost turmoil in world markets. In the midst of an American holiday, Dubai faced bankruptcy for approx. $100 billion. Another unsuspected untoward event. The exposure of the Dubai event coming as it did could have been discovered at any given time, thus, we question the timing. We can understand why the London market was off some 300 Dow points, but exposure to Dubai was very limited in Europe, the US and in Asia. Could it have been an excuse to take down the US and European markets and gold and silver? We do not know, but we have come to question everything that happens. (full story)
imperialism / international
 ETS PM, Kevin Rudd, exposed as Corporate Lackey and LIAR posted by AAP wire via fleet, 2009-12-03 00:34:56
It is no secret today that Capitalism’s last, desperate pitch to survive depends on (grossly unfair) Carbon Trading/Emission Schemes. Not surprisingly the Corporate world has dispatched their LACKEY politicians to implement Carbon Trading schemes in the respective nations in which they hold sway. However, schemes that disadvantage the average person with CRUSHING additional TAXES while COMPENSATING Industry/Big Business for polluting, may prove a very hard sell to say the least – one national leader EXPOSED, who’s next? (full story)
environment / international
 Washington dictates policy to PISSWEAK Oz PM, ‘Krudd’ posted by snowy, 2009-11-30 18:18:27
The Australian PM’s subservience to Washington is sickening; Oz has had enough of spineless, servile ‘leaders’ kow-towing to Washington’s every whim! Kevin Rudd has not the skill to recover from the deep disaffection almost all Australians feel over ‘his’ latest decision to increase numbers of Aussie personnel – following increased troop numbers -- to Afghanistan. The guts of the nation turned today in total DISGUST and dismay; Australia and the ENTIRE WORLD HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF MASS MURDERING AMERICA and its FLAGRANTLY CRIMINAL WARS! (full story)
social/political / international
Dawn posted by fray, 2009-11-27 18:22:48
Where would a soul seek refuge? (full story)
prose/poetry / international
 ‘George W Obama’ ready to Escalate illegal Afghan War posted by sparrow, 2009-11-24 18:40:28
‘Chaw’ on that you gullible, mindless, ‘sepo,’ MORONS! Picture it – Jethro, Earl, Virgil and Joe the plumbing fuckwit, all out on the front porch whittlin’ away, chawin' baccie and getting a good dose of ‘HOPE and CHANGE’ right up the arse – you screaming idiots! (full story and 1 comments)
peace/war / international
You can’t have your slave and whip him too! posted by birdie, 2009-11-23 19:01:00
All attempts by puppet governments to implement carbon trading (ETS) are doomed to failure for a very simple reason; their ‘solution' is the problem! Allow me to clarify – every man and his dog is aware that Criminal Corporatists are responsible for the collapse of the global economy and that laissez-faire Capitalism is the ideological cause of all our current woes. YET the imbeciles and CRIMINALS that perpetrated this global economic horror desire to ‘trade’ -- MAKE MONEY -- from pollution via Carbon Trading! The solution is the problem, do you get it now? (full story and 1 comments)
environment / international
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