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Émission de L'Autre Monde du 6 mars 2008: Économie, Pétrole, Santé, Réserves de grains
Émission de L'Autre Monde du 6 mars 2008: Économie, Pétrole, Santé, Réserves de grains
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- Dans notre tour de monde avec Les Nouvelles Internationales, nous abordons les sujets suivants: l'économie mondiale, le pétrole, la réserve de semences de Svalbard, et le Moyen-Orient.
- On se penche aussi sur l'épineux dossier de la santé et de la pratique médicale.
Hyperliens vers les sources des informations discutées sur l'émission d'aujourd'hui:
CANADIAN ACTION PARTY (CAP) / (PAC) PARTI ACTION CANADIENNE
P.O. Box 385-916 West Broadway Vancouver, BC V5Z1K7
Phone: 604-708-3372 Fax: 604-872-1504
! INTERNATIONAL CALL TO ACTION !
The 2008 Security and Prosperity Partnership (S.P.P.) meeting will take
place in
ranging agreement meant to harmonize trade regulations, standards ,and laws
across
immigration measures designed to make
security zone wherein labour and goods flow freely between transnational
corporations without the hassle of borders or democratically imposed trade
barriers. It also enables military and para-military forces of ANY of the
three countries to operate freely ANYWHERE within the North American
continent. This is the pivotal step towards a North American
is being implemented by banking, corporate, and governmental powers, working in concert without public consent or serious media scrutiny.
ON APRIL 19th, across the continent, people from all walks of life will come
together and demand that their voices be heard. International demonstrations
against the S.P.P. and North American
towns across
the halls of government that our heritage and our future are not for sale.
We will act to ensure that ourselves and our children live in a country
where our identities and our rights and freedoms are respected and
preserved. Canadians, Americans, and Mexicans will mobilize to inform their
fellow citizens and to call out their respective governments, demanding to
know exactly what the Security and Prosperity Partnership really means to
them. Once the full intent of the S.P.P. has been disclosed, the citizens
of
and impeachment of our elected representatives for going behind our backs
and selling us out to unaccountable special interests.
your very freedom.
JOIN US on April 19th and make a international impact on the Security and
Prosperity Partnership!
Yours truly,
Citizens United Against The North American
For more information contact: Daniel Merchant tre_merchant@hotmail.com
For more information visit:
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Canadians United in Protest Against the SPP/NAU/NWO
Canadian Action Party
More Americans turning to Web for news
Nearly half of the 1,979 people who responded to the survey said their primary source of news and information is the Internet, up from 40 percent just a year ago. Less than one third use television to get their news, while 11 percent turn to radio and 10 percent to newspapers.
Le vendredi 29 février 2008
L'armée canadienne reprend le transfert de détenus afghans
Afghanistan mission close to failing - US
After six years of US-led military support and billions of pounds in aid, security in
Hamid Karzai was part of the Unocal working group that went before the
Israël, Palestine et la bande de Gaza
"We should prepare to go over to the offensive. Our aim is to smash
IS THE MIDDLE EAST ABOUT TO BLOW?
The situation in the Middle East has become extremely volatile over the last few days what with the Israelis killing Palestinians by the score in the
Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and
US sending warships to eastern Med
Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters the deployment should not be viewed as threatening or in response to events in any single country in that volatile region.
Expect some fur to fly shortly.
Between
Egypt leaks information about an American military action against Syria
Jordanian newspaper Al-Arab Al-Youm reported today, through sources that an American message leaked by Egypt to Syria shows that the United States is ready to launch a broad military operation against Syria if it insists on its position on the Lebanese crisis and this is the real reason behind the deployment of “USS Cole” in front of the Syrian - Lebanese waters
Israeli troops train for next battle in South Lebanon
Amid renewed tensions and a political crisis in
That line about the
The timing of Israeli war games is rather interesting.
This, coupled with the the Saudis, Bahrainis, and the Kuwaitis urging their citizens to get out of Lebanon within the next 36 hours, indicates that something profoundly ugly is about to happen here.
ZIONISTS IN A FRENZY DENYING THE HOLOCAUST
My last post was about Israeli leaders calling for a holocaust against the Palestinians….
This was reported throughout the world…. upsetting the zionists. Rather then get
Embarrassed by the legitimization of holocaust against the Palestinians,
Israel likes to name it’s wars, it makes them more personal I guess… The holocaust that is occurring in
GAZA IS GOING DEAF FROM THE SILENCE
The population of
Israeli jet bombs Palestine labor union HQ in Gaza
Gaza Strip Is Suffering - Need Actions - Not Talks
All this misery and threat of war exists because Israel is never content with what it has, but always must have more, taking at away from its neighbors.
Look at the maps. It is
Four months have passed since the peace meeting in
It is really simple folks; 60 years ago
The core problem is that
Israel screams about Qassam rockets, but if a new nation was declared in the middle of the North American continent without your permission, a nation that refused to actual declare its borders, a nation that continued to take more and more land from you until you and your family were barely clinging to survival as the lights went dark and the sewage piled up, would you not fight back?
What
Amnesty rips IDF for 'reckless disregard of life' in Gaza
"Israeli military attacks over the past few days have killed more than 75 Palestinians in Gaza, including at least 10 children, and other unarmed civilian bystanders not involved in the confrontations" Malcolm Smart, director of Amnesty's Middle East and North Africa program, said Sunday. "
AN ISRAELI AND A PALESTINIAN SPEAK OF THE HORRORS
Over 112 Palestinians Killed in Five-Day Israeli Attack, Mohammed Omer Reports from
ISRAELIS START TO TALK OF MOVING GAZAN CITIZENS.
The first tentative talk of moving Gazan citizens has begun in Israeli government circles. Israeli Minister for Terrorism against the Palestinian People, Ehud Barak, has suggested that Gazans be cleared out of areas where Palestinian fighters are launching rockets and mortars. In order to ensure that they then stay out of the area one of two things need to happen; one, the Gazans that are removed will need to moved out of the Gaza altogether, perhaps to the West Bank, or as many Zionists would prefer, to Jordan or the Sinai in Egypt, or two, the Israeli IDF occupies the area evacuated. The third option, of course, is that they do both.
I'll bet
israeli Defense Minister vows to unleash "Shoah" on Gaza
PICTURES
Speaking on
Israel threatens to unleash 'holocaust' in Gaza
An Israeli minister gave warning today that the army may unleash a “holocaust” on the Gaza Strip if Islamists there do not end their daily barrages of home-made Qassam rockets and their increasing use of Iranian-built Grad missiles.
Note the attempt to link
Olmert: Don't preach morals to Israel
In cabinet meeting, prime minister slams international criticism leveled at
This is about territory, and de-legitimizing (read: "neutralizing") the political party which actually won the last Palestinian elections which were characterized as primarily free and fair.
Look for a truly major incursion into
ISRAELI MINISTERS ARGUE OVER BEST WAY OF KILLING PALESTINIANS.
Two Israeli ministers are openly debating the best way to kill Palestinian people. It seems that the Israeli Minister for Terrorism Against Palestinians, Ehud Barak, favours an invasion of the Gaza Strip to kill as many Palestinian fighters that they can lay their hands on, while the Israeli Minister for the Interior, Meir Sheetrit, would prefer a massive targeted killing spree. Either way, it is likely that many innocent civilians will die as well as many Palestinian fighters.
Olmert threatens to assassinate Hamas political leaders
Israeli premier Ehud Olmert has threatened to assassinate the Hamas Movement's political leaders, adding that "no one was immune".
Olmert: Any minister who votes against gov't to be dismissed
The report — posted on the UN Human Rights Council's Web site — says that while Palestinian terrorist acts are deplorable, "they must be understood as being a painful but inevitable consequence of colonialism, apartheid or occupation."
This assessment speaks for itself.
Liban
Israeli warplanes breach Lebanese airspace
Al Jazeera English - News - Saudis Urged To Leave Lebanon
The manure is about to hit the ventilation system.
Lebanon Orders Army to 'Achieve High Combat Readiness'
There are more signs of a wider regional war as Tears for Lebanon (TFL) and Lebanon's National News Agency (NNA) are reporting Army Commander General Michel Suleiman has ordered his officers to "achieve high combat readiness of their units to confront all expected possibilities, especially defending the southern land, maintain domestic security and stability." General Suleiman was issuing the directives to his senior commanders of
Now we understand why various Middle Eastern countries were imploring their foreign nationals still in
Iran
Iran shifts oil sales away from dollar
Analysts are of the view that
US pushes EU to shut down Iranian banks
The
This has nothing to do with nuclear weapons (which
Of course,
Iran no threat to region, says UAE premier
Israel and the US, on the other hand ...
ElBaradei 'to declare Iran clean'
The IAEA Chief's report on Iran's nuclear program would be positive and it would rule out the possibility that Iran may running a clandestine nuclear arms program, informed sources familiar with the UN nuclear watchdog's issues said on Wednesday.
Now then, about that reactor complex at Dimona ...
Iran calls for UN sanctions against U.S.
Supreme National Security Council Secretary Saeed Jalili has urged the UN Security Council to impose sanctions on the
“The Security Council must issue sanctions resolution against the
That is true. In the whole wide world there is only one nation that has ever actually used nuclear weapons of mass destruction on the civilians of another country. That nation is the
UN Approves New Sanctions Against Iran
I understand why
As for
So, the UN vote is essentially a vote not for concern about nuclear weapons, but pure self interest. The other member nations of the security council have been taking US dollars and sticking them in warehouses to keep the value of the dollar high and now they are stuck. They HAVE to do whatever it takes to prop those dollars up.
Russia, China Block UN Iran Resolution
Famine, Semences et Changements climatiques
***** Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling
Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling
Michael Asher- February 26, 2008
World Temperatures according to the
Twelve-month long drop in world temperatures wipes out a century of warming
Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded.
No more than anecdotal evidence, to be sure. But now, that evidence has been supplanted by hard scientific fact. All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA's GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped precipitously.
A compiled list of all the sources can be seen here. The total amount of cooling ranges from
Scientists quoted in a past DailyTech article link the cooling to reduced solar activity which they claim is a much larger driver of climate change than man-made greenhouse gases. The dramatic cooling seen in just 12 months time seems to bear that out. While the data doesn't itself disprove that carbon dioxide is acting to warm the planet, it does demonstrate clearly that more powerful factors are now cooling it.
Forget global warming: Welcome to the new Ice Age
Snow cover over North America and much of Siberia,
The
B.C. budget hikes fuel costs with new carbon tax
I keep telling you; this whole "Humans cause global warming" thing is a SCAM to justify taking more money from you.
Look at all the record-setting cold we have this winter. If global warming were the issue, the proponents would slow down and re-evaluate the model in light of this new and unexpected data. But the agenda is really about grabbing money, so the global warming cult doesn't even break stride, imposing their carbon tax on you even as the snow and ice rise to record levels.
Cold Water on "Global Warming"
A whole cottage industry has sprung up among people who get grants, government agencies who get appropriations, politicians who get publicity, and the perpetually indignant who get something new to be indignant about. It gives teachers something to talk about in school instead of teaching.
Those who bother to check the facts often find that not all those who are called scientists are really scientists and not all of those who are scientists are specialists in climate. But who bothers to check facts these days?
Wheat prices doubled almost overnight
And the blame falls on the global warming cultists who insisted farmers grow fuel instead of food.
Don't say I didn't warn you, because ... I did! - M. R.
VIDEO:
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4320837
World Grain Demand Straining U.S. Supply
Okay, so the global warming "cult" promised us all that if we turned food production farmland into ethanol production, that we would have a zero carbon footprint source of energy.
Of course, it didn't work out that way because the process used to turn corn into ethanol actually produces more greenhouse gas than just burning an equivalent amount of gasoline. And since ethanol actually contains less chemical energy than the equivalent amount of gasoline, you have to buy MORE of this already-expensive concoction to drive the same number of miles.
Meanwhile, because less land is growing food, now we have food shortages, and because the US dollar is in decline, American agricultural corporations are selling the food grown in the United States to foreign markets ... leaving US store shelves empty.
Good thinking, guys. Real Einstein-class brains you got there! - M. R.
Food shortages loom as wheat crop shrinks and prices rise
The world is only ten weeks away from running out of wheat supplies after stocks fell to their lowest levels for 50 years.
The crisis has pushed prices to an all-time high and could lead to further hikes in the price of bread, beer, biscuits and other basic foods.
Famines May Occur Without Record Crops This Year, Potash Says
People and livestock are consuming more grain than ever, draining world inventories and increasing the likelihood of shortages, Doyle said yesterday in an interview on Bloomberg Television.
Here in
In a few places the price increases have led to violence. In Yemen, prices for bread and other foods have nearly doubled in the past four months, setting off a string of demonstrations and riots in which at least a dozen people were killed. In
In Bahrain and the
In the oil-producing gulf countries, governments that are flush with oil money can soften the blow by spending more. The
Mr. Abdul Raheem, the clothing store employee in Amman, potatoes have jumped to about 76 cents a pound from 32 cents. A carton of 30 eggs went to nearly $4.25 from just above $2; cucumbers rose to 58 cents a pound from about 22. All this in a matter of weeks.
Middle Class May Be Subject To Food Rations, Warns UN
"The WFP crisis talks come as the body sees the emergence of a “new area of hunger” in developing countries where even middle-class, urban people are being “priced out of the food market” because of rising food prices," reports the Financial Times.
I think I have the curse of Cassandra on me.
Back when the global warming cultists were touting ethanol as an alternative to gas because it would have zero carbon footprint (it doesn't after you add in the emissions from the conversion process), I warned that once huge tracts of farmland were diverted from food production to ethanol production that we would see food shortages and skyrocketing prices as a result.
And here we are.
Privatisation de la Biodiversité: La Société Radio Canada impliquée dans le mensonge médiatique
Privatisation de
par Michel Chossudovsky
Mondialisation.ca, Le 26 fevrier 2008
Un reportage de Radio Canada (Le Point, 25 février) passe en revue un projet de Banque de la biodiversité situé dans l'Artique. Il s'agit d'un projet est une de "chambre forte" des semences mondiales situé à Svalbard, sur l'île norvégienne de Spitsbergen. .
(25 février 2008) - Une installation très particulière sera inaugurée cette semaine dans l'archipel du Svalbard, au large de
Ce projet international ambitieux, appelé Voûte internationale des semences, vise à préserver une biodiversité de plus en plus
Le projet est une "chambre forte" des semences mondiales situé à Svalbard, sur l'île norvégienne de Spitsbergen. .
Jean-François Bélanger l'a visitée. http://www.radio-canada.ca/actualite/v2/tj22h/index.shtml#
Video du programme (real)
Ce reportage présente le projet de Svalbard comme étant une initiative à caractère humanitaire visant la protection de la biodiversité mondiale, afin de protéger l'agriculture biologique. Toutes les semences de la planète seraient déposées dans cette chambre forte de Svalbard, à l'abris des catastrophes.
Ce reportage est mensonger à plusieurs égards.
Il s'agit d'une initiative de
Également associé au projet est le géant étasunien de l'agro-alimentaire DuPont/Pioneer Hi-Bred, impliqué dans le brevetage d'organismes génétiquement modifiés (OGM) et de semences,
Il ne s'agit nullement d'un projet humanitaire. Bien au contraire.
Ce projet permet à une poignée d'entreprises de la biotechnologie de prendre le contrôle des semences biologiques de la planète. Ce projet vise la privatisation de la biodiversité mondiale au détriment des peuples.
Il est averé que les principaux partenaires (
Le Centre de recherche sur la mondialisation (CRM) basé à Montréal vient de publier une étude détaillée de William F, Engdahl (Associé de recherche du CRM) au sujet du projet de Svaarlberg.
En voici quelques extraits
Bill Gates investit des millions dans une chambre forte pour semences sur
Sur cette île perdue, Bill Gates investit des dizaines de millions avec
L'AGRA, comme elle s'est elle-même appelée, est une alliance avec cette même Fondation Rockefeller qui a créé la « Révolution Génétique » .
Bien qu'à ce jour ils gardent profil bas, Monsanto et les principaux géants de l'agro-alimentaire OGM sont soupçonnés d'être au cœur du problème en se servant de Kofi Annan de l'AGRA pour disséminer leurs semences OGM brevetées dans toute l'Afrique sous l'étiquette trompeuse de « biotechnologie, » le nouvel euphémisme pour semences génétiquement modifiées brevetées. À ce jour, l'Afrique du Sud est le seul pays africain qui autorise légalement la plantation de cultures OGM. En 2003 le Burkina Faso a autorisé des essais d'OGM. En 2005, le Ghana de Kofi Annan a rédigé des lois sur la sécurité biologique et les principaux responsables ont exprimé leur intention de poursuivre la recherche sur les cultures OGM.
Texte an anglais de William Engdahl
"Doomsday Seed Vault" in the Arctic - by F. William Engdahl -
Texte en français (traduction)
L'« arche de Noé végétale » en Arctique - par F. William Engdahl -
Arctic ‘Doomsday Vault’ Filled With World’s Seeds Comes to Life
It has the capacity to hold up to 4.5 million batches of seeds from all known varieties of the planet’s main food crops, making it possible to re-establish plants if they disappear from their natural environment or are obliterated by major disasters.
It sounds good on paper, but if something comes along that drives natural food plants to extinction (such as a runaway "intellectual property" gene), the instant seeds from the vault are brought out, they will suffer the same fate.
Faults in the Arctic Seed Vault: not everyone is celebrating Svalbard
Global Research, February 27, 2008
Grain
Weather Warfare: Beware the
‘Climatic warfare’ has been excluded from the agenda on climate change.
www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7561
by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, December 7, 2007
The Ecologist, December 2007
"HAARP is a weapon of mass destruction, capable of destabilising agricultural and ecological systems globally."
"‘Climatic warfare’ potentially threatens the future of humanity, but has casually been excluded from the reports for which the IPCC received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize."
Pdf version of article on Weather Warfare by Michel Chossudovsky, The Ecologist, December 2007 (pdf)
Santé:
US Life Expectancy Drops To 29th Worldwide: 69.3 Years
So, as medical costs increase in the
Surprise! You are ten times more likely to die from prescription drugs than from recreational drugs!
Recreational drugs, including cocaine and heroin, are responsible for an estimated 10,000-20,000 American deaths per year, ... an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reported that an estimated 106,000 hospitalized patients die each year from drugs which, by medical standards, are properly prescribed and properly administered.
Government Concedes Vaccine-Autism Case in Federal Court - Now What?
After years of insisting there is no evidence to link vaccines with the onset of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), the
The child's claim against the government -- that mercury-containing vaccines were the cause of her autism -- was supposed to be one of three "test cases" for the thimerosal-autism theory currently under consideration by a three-member panel of Special Masters, the presiding justices in Federal
Please make sure that you pass this forward to every parent or family member dealing with the heartbreak of an autistic child.
Please also make sure that you show this to every expectant mom you know.
22,000 died amid delayed Bayer drug recall: doctor
The lives of 22,000 patients could have been saved if
For those who do not believe that profit runs the alleged "health care" system in the
FDA ties pneumonia deaths to infant vaccine
GlaxoSmithKline Plc's rotavirus vaccine is associated with increased pneumonia-related deaths and other adverse reactions,
Researchers Find a Bias Toward Upbeat Findings on Antidepressants
New York Times January 17, 2008
The makers of antidepressants like Prozac and Paxil never published the results of about a third of the drug trials that they conducted to win government approval, misleading doctors and consumers about the drugs’ true effectiveness, a new analysis has found.
How Teenage Rebellion Has Become a Mental Illness
Not complying with authority is now, in many cases, labeled a disease.
In Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World", the population was kept permanently drugged to control them.
Looks like we are headed that way, where the government will force pills on those people suffering the "sickness" of independence.
Illinois Shooter was Treated with Psych Meds Prior to Shooting Rampage
Psychiatric medications, of course, are well known to cause extremely violent thoughts and behavior in young males. This is actually acknowledged by the FDA and is found in the black-box warnings printed on the packaging for such drugs. In
par Word Press Mondialisation.ca
Autisme, schizophrénie et hyperactivité- Phosphates dans l’alimentation : les enfants poussés au bord de la folie
Scientific Study Finds Fluoride Horror Stories Factual
The establishment media will have to find a new tactic with which to ridicule those who oppose the fluoridation of water after a major new Scientific American report concluded that "Scientific attitudes toward fluoridation may be starting to shift" as new evidence emerges of the poison's link to disorders affecting teeth, bones, the brain and the thyroid gland, as well as lowering IQ.
- In
- In November of 2006, the American Dental Association (
In 2005, a study conducted at the
An August 2006 Chinese study found that fluoride in drinking water damages children's liver and kidney functions.
The report also notes that "a series of epidemiological studies in
Water Fluoridation has hit the main stream media after decades being brushed aside. Scientific American had an article about the dangers of fluoride if its overused, revealing that its almost impossible not to overuse it. Many people don't think twice about the toxic waste that we are drowning in. Fluoride is not what you think, and the deceit is painfully obvious, you just have to look.
Bay Area has first major U.S. study of Morgellons disease
Bay Area researchers are beginning the first major U.S. study into a mystery disease known for its frightening symptoms - among them, open sores and unidentifiable objects poking out of the skin - that doctors have long suspected is all in patients' heads.
The extreme resistance of the medical establishment to looking into this condition suggests that they already know what causes it, and the cause is something that exposes some industry to a huge liability problem.
Prozac Mania - The Dark Side of Antidepressants
In October 1999, Pfizer, makers of Zoloft, settled for an undisclosed sum with the estate of Brynn Hartman, who had shot her husband comedian Phil Hartman dead, and then killed herself. Ms Hartman had been taking Zoloft at the time of the murder/suicide. According to the lawsuit, Ms Hartman had complained to friends that she felt as if she were going to "jump out of her skin."
Then there are the well-publicized school shootings: One of the killers in the Columbine tragedy had been prescribed Luvox. Listed in the manufacturer's warning as "frequent" adverse reactions to Luvox are "manic reaction" and "psychotic reaction." Meanwhile, Kip Kinkel, who killed four people in
FDA Protects SSRI Makers With Misleading Suicide Warning
"Not only is it continuing to minimize the adverse reactions of the antidepressants on the entire population," she notes, "it has now become a cheerleader for the psychiatric community." "When will the well-being of the American People," Ms O'Meara asks, "get the protection it needs and deserves from the nation's leading drug watchdog and when will this nation's lawmakers stand up and be counted on this issue?"
Toxic Chemotherepy may not be as effective against cancer as claimed
Depression drugs don’t work, finds data review
Millions of people taking commonly prescribed antidepressants such as Prozac and Seroxat might as well be taking a placebo, according to the first study to include unpublished evidence.
How depressing! - M. R.
Mercury is good for you! - US Mainstream Media Report
Mainstream media report claiming that mercury is actually good for you! I wonder who lobbied for this one?
Alert over the march of the 'grey goo' in nanotechnology Frankenfoods
Professor Vicki Stone, Professor of Toxicology at
"We know very little about the ability of nanoparticles to move around the body, to accumulate or to be excreted, or their potential to cause toxic effects in organs," she said.
Prozac 'found in drinking water'
New Bacterial Infection Linked to Military
Doctors have linked the bacterium acinetobacter baumannii to at least seven deaths, as well as to loss of limbs and other severe ailments, according to the report, which found the bacterium has spread quickly since the war in Afghanistan began in the fall of 2001
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Natural medicines – the safest way to avoid death
A report just released by the Acting Chair of the Coroner’s Council has shown natural medicines have the lowest fatality rate of all medical treatments in this country.
Research backs theory that vitamin C shrinks tumours
Let us hope that the research moving forward on this at
Homosexual activity cause of earthquake, Shas MK says
The recent earthquake that was felt across
Is it anti-Semitic to mention plate tectonics?
Économie et pétrole:
US subprime crisis costs global 7.7 trillion dollars
The meltdown in the
The crisis, which has spread beyond US shores to banks and other sectors worldwide, is "one of the most vicious in financial history," according to Bank of
Quinlan said in the report that the losses are worse than any in the past few decades, including Wall Street's Black Monday of 1987, the 1999 Brazilian real currency crisis and the collapse of hedge fund Long Term Capital Management (LTCM) in 1998.
The losses were also greater than those suffered after the September 11, 2001, terro attacks, the Asian financial crisis starting in 1997, Argentina's default on its debt in 2001 and the 1994 Mexican peso crisis.
A report last week by Standard & Poors ratings agency showed global stock markets were walloped with a collective loss of 5.2 trillion dollars in the month of January alone.
Find the UNited States on this balance sheet.
Keep looking ...
Keep looking ...
Keep looking ...
There now.
Surprise!
See The United States Is In Deep Doodoo!
#1 China $ 363,300,000,000 2007 est.
#14 Canada $ 28,460,000,000 2007 est.
# 163 Dernier de liste: United States $ -747,100,000,000 2007 est.
Bank of America circulating confidential proposal to Congress seeking $739 billion bailout
Here is the short version.
Bank of
But Bank of
And remember, the terrorists only hate us because we are free.
Oil, gold prices strike historic highs
The price of oil touched an all-time peak of 101.32 dollars a barrel on Thursday, lifted by fears of supply disruptions according to traders.
Oil's surge meanwhile helped gold to a record high of 948.59 dollars an ounce, they added.
Foreclosures: Worst hit zip codes
Foreclosures of all types rose 75 percent in 2007 according to RealtyTrac.
Remember this statistic the next time Fearless Leader (or one of his minions) chants the mantra: "the fundamentals of our economy are strong".
Mass. foreclosures rise 128% in January
There were 799 foreclosure deeds in January, up 128.3 percent from the 350 deeds in January 2007, the firm said, and January 2008 also marks the highest number of deeds during any month since August 2007, when there were 1,018.
Can't Pay Your Mortgage? Trash Your House And Leave
On the lookout for disturbing trends? Here's one for your pile: According to a recent article in Fortune, there has been a noticeable increase in not just fraud but arson that has kept pace with the housing depression. Professionals in the insurance and lending industry are bracing themselves for all manner of similar situations, as homeowners either trash, or simply leave their trash lying around their houses, often taking off without even claiming their furniture. This is already a dirty problem in the housing business, with owners, lenders and banks having to figure out a way to stick each other with the check when tenants destroy their property on their way out the door. Woe is the person left behind to clean up the chaos.
Notice the use of the word "tenants" in this article.
It is the banks and lending institutions which own your home until the loan is actually paid off.
Insurers of Foreclosed Homes Brace For Arson Epidemic
Insurance fraud investigators are bracing for an epidemic of arsons as desperate borrowers torch their homes for insurance money.
Bangladesh bank offers loans to US poor
moneycentral.msn.com
Did terrorists cause the housing mess?
The Bovine Excrement Meter just exploded.
Iran opened its oil bourse today.
The first phase of
Iran Oil Bourse may use Russian ruble
"We are seeking to launch an oil exchange in
"Russia and Iran, two major producers of the world's energy, should encourage oil and gas transactions in various non-dollar currencies, releasing the world from being a slave of dollar," he added.
"Bomb 'em! Bomb 'em! Bomb 'em NOW! NOW, NOW, NOW!!!" -- Official White Horse Souse
Iran's envoy: Iran and Russia can rid world of dollar's slavery
Iran's Ambassador to Moscow said here Friday Iran and Russia, as major energy suppliers, can rid the world of US dollar's slavery by promoting oil and gas deals using different currencies.
OPEC may switch to euro, will "take time" -sec-gen :: www.uruknet.info
"Maybe we can price the oil in the euro," the London-based Middle East Economic Digest quoted Badri as saying in an interview. "It can be done, but it will take time."
If you think the dollar is in deep distress now, things are definitely likely to get much more dicey, if and when such a move happens.
OPEC considers dumping US dollar
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries plans to discuss a proposal by
This, coupled with the opening of the Iranian bourse on the 27th of this month, could be devastating to the standing of the dollar in the international currency markets.
Chavez to cut off oil supplies to Exxon
Hugo Chavez, known for his frequent run-ins with the US, is at it again. However, this time he has put his money where his mouth is. Hugo Chavez has ordered oil supplies to be cut-off to the American oil giant -- Exxon Mobil.
"Invade, INVADE!!!" Official White Horse Souse.
Titan’s surface organics surpass oil reserves on Earth
Saturn’s orange moon Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, according to new Cassini data. The hydrocarbons rain from the sky, collecting in vast deposits that form lakes and dunes.
There are two thoughts that come to mind with this story.
First, we could probably take the money we are spending on (unsuccessfully) conquering the Mideast oil fields and build a system of space "tankers" to haul all those hydrocarbons from Titan to Earth (probably cheaper). Of course, we could also develop fusion power with some of that money, but both of these solutions require foresight and imagination; two qualities in short supply in our government.
Second, I am pretty certain that Titan never had any dinosaurs, which raises the possibility that if Titan's hydrocarbons are not created by life forms, then neither are Earth's.
BREMERTON, Wash. -- Bremerton police said four banks were vandalized early Thursday, with each incident involving windows broken with pieces of concrete that had notes taped to them, reported KIRO 7 Eyewitness News.
According to police, the vandals did not go in any of the banks.
“No entry was gained and nothing was taken, so it appears this was the delivery of some kind of message by the perpetrators,” Andy Oakley with
Police said the content of the notes were all the same and read as follows:
“Directions: Attach to brick and throw through window”
“Here is your brick back."
"Recognize it? You should.”
“It is part of the wall that you, as one of the elite upper class, have helped to build between the minority ruling class, and the majority working class throughout history. By flaunting your decadence, you have made yourself a target.”
“Get used to it!”
“Social youth chaos-f___ s___ up!”
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