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Kleptocracy
One more call for replacement of the dollar with SDRs, which will be under central management at the BIS (Bank of International Settlements). My notes in brackets.
Reuters, Tuesday, 29 Jun 2010
“A new United Nations report released on Tuesday calls for abandoning the U.S. dollar as the main global reserve currency, saying it has been [...]
I couldn’t find any other convenient run-down of the evidence pointing to sabotage or extreme negligence in the BP oil spill, so I’ve linked PrisonPlanet.com’s report. I’ve checked the material and it’s well-sourced and confirms my own research, so I’m comfortable posting it.
I’m still not sure about the reports of [...]
For people who think passing a law or imposing a fine on some behavior invariably gets you less of the behavior or an improvement of it, try this heart-rending Natural News report:
“By now, almost everyone is aware of the out-of-control oil spill down in the Gulf of Mexico that seems to be getting exponentially [...]
Reporter David Weigel’s feverish imaginings about the group he pretends to cover objectively have surfaced in emails sent to the liberal listserv, Journolist, according to Fishbowl DC (hat-tip to LRC blog).
Why am I not surprised?
Global-warming “scientists” turn out to be political hacks grinding over-sized axes; “educators” preaching “tolerance” and “love” turn out to be sexual [...]
Will this be the future of the US? David Guyatt at Deep Black Lies on Russia immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union:
GANGSTERS PARADISE
Organised crime in Russia is out of control. Criminal “brigades” own everything of value and can “acquire” any commodity in any quantity if the price is right. Ferocious criminal [...]
From Jerome Corsi, World Net Daily, June 18, 2010:
“Former Clinton and Obama budget adviser Franklin Raines owns a key carbon-emissions patent he developed as CEO of the government-sponsored mortgage giant Fannie Mae, positioning him and his partners to make millions of dollars if it is used in any carbon-capping scheme implemented by the Obama administration.
Raines [...]
From Bill Barrow at The Times-Picayune, June 18, 2010:
Gov. Bobby Jindal could face tough decision on opening his oil spill records
The House of Representatives voted 77-12 today to ratify Senate changes on a public records bill that would require the governor to grant public access to all state records related to the Gulf oil [...]
From The Economic Collapse Blog, 16 burning questions about the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico:
#1) Barack Obama has authorized the deployment of more than 17,000 National Guard members along the Gulf coast to be used “as needed” by state governors. So what are all of these National Guard troops [...]
Rob Viglione at Seeking Alpha:
We can explain the rapid declines in homeowner wealth with the real estate bubble bursting in 2007, but how can we explain the general shifting in real estate capital structures going from 84% equity in 1945 to a mere 38% in 2010? The answer is that the federal [...]
Mark Mitchell at Deep Capture on well-known hedge-fund “activist,” David Einhorn:
“In addition, Allied was not, as Einhorn claimed, a massive Ponzi scheme. Einhorn had made the smarmy suggestion that Allied was a Ponzi because it supposedly raised money from the markets to pay its dividends. An SEC official told the inspector general [...]