Asia Times Online :: This crisis has an exit

Asia Times Online :: This crisis has an exit
By Ellen Brown

"...Governments usually get the blame for excessive spending, but governments did not initiate the crisis..."


The Foreign Exchange Market’s Reaction to a Debt Ceiling Increase


As America inches towards a deal raising the debt ceiling, one wonders about the impending reaction of the foreign exchange market. While domestic bond holders would see selling opportunities in the likely event that the Treasury drops its yields, foreign holders of U.S. debt would only see the downside – a weaker dollar.

White House Taking 'Seriously' Al Qaeda's Eying Of America's Gun Show Loophole

“I knew there would be knuckle dragging Obama bashers flapping that one right wing so hard that they (lke their hatred) spin in circles.

Thanks for not disappoint ing y'all!
roflamo”

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How are comments like this even remotely relevant?
I've been watching the thread, I've seen a lot of comments offering personal experience s in regards to gun shows, many stating that purchasing a full auto is not simple, others stating that full auto conversion s are not easy, simple or reliable.
There have been a few that have been ridiculous talking points, a few that have been standard loon comments, but most seem to be calm, rational and significan tly less condescend ingly arrogant than the above.

My response?
It's hard to be calm and reasonable when a country that is less than an hour away from me has lost tens of thousands of people in a ridiculous war on drugs that my country funds both sides of --

"Mexico updates four years of drug war deaths to 34,612"

http://www­.bbc.co.uk­/news/worl­d-latin-am­erica-1217­7875

"U.S. Flailing as American Guns Fuel Mexico’s Drug War"
By Adam Rawnsley November 10, 2010

http://www­.wired.com­/dangerroo­m/2010/11/­u-s-flaili­ng-as-amer­ican-guns-­fuel-mexic­os-drug-wa­r/

"NRA and Some of Its Board Members Have Direct Financial Interests in Stopping Ban on High-Capac­ity Ammunition Magazines" http://www­.commondre­ams.org/ne­wswire/201­1/01/19-3

Is that arrogant enough for you?
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Weiner is not the most compelling reason to elect more women

Dan CollinsNew York Editor-At-Large of The Huffington Post
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Anthony Weiner Gives Us Another Reason to Vote for Women
Posted: 06/ 6/11 04:59 PM ET

Just before Anthony Weiner went before the cameras to announce his Twittering problem, he confessed all to Nancy Pelosi.

"She was not happy," he reported.

"....The rest of us might want to confine ourselves to electing women."


This is:

Facts on Women in Congress 2011
Summary
Women hold 89, or 16.5%, of the 535 seats in the 112th US Congress — 17, or 17.0%, of the 100 seats in the Senate and 72, or 16.5%, of the 435 seats in the House of Representatives. In addition, three women serve as Delegates to the House from Guam, the Virgin Islands and Washington, DC.

We are over 50% of the population and a measly 17% of Congress.

So, how do we get the fucking banksters out of our way?

Greece Austerity Protests Grow

Grotesque Global Financial System: Greece. Economic Theft on an Unpreceden­ted Scale

Greece is a microcosm of a modern class war rarely reported as such.

by John Pilger



"...In Greece, as in America and Britain, the ordinary people have been told they must repay the debts of the rich and powerful who incurred them. Jobs, pensions and public services are to be slashed and burned, with privateers put in charge. For the EU and the IMF, the opportunit­y presents to "change the culture" and to dismantle the social welfare of Greece, just as the IMF and the World Bank have "structura­lly adjusted" (impoveris­hed and controlled­) countries across the developing world...

http://tin­yurl.com/3­oobnts
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The Federal Reserve Cartel: The Eight Families

The Federal Reserve Cartel: The Eight Families
by Dean Henderson
Global Research
June 1, 2011

The Four Horsemen of Banking (Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup and Wells Fargo) own the Four Horsemen of Oil (Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch/Shell, BP and Chevron Texaco); in tandem with Deutsche Bank, BNP, Barclays and other European old money behemoths. But their monopoly over the global economy does not end at the edge of the oil patch.

According to company 10K filings to the SEC, the Four Horsemen of Banking are among the top ten stock holders of virtually every Fortune 500 corporation.[1]

So who then are the stockholders in these money center banks?

This information is guarded much more closely. My queries to bank regulatory agencies regarding stock ownership in the top 25 US bank holding companies were given Freedom of Information Act status, before being denied on “national security” grounds. This is rather ironic, since many of the bank’s stockholders reside in Europe....


So, by now I'm familiar with most of the historical family names because this series of articles is supplemental to the third book I'm reading on the Federal Reserve Banking system that supplies our money...and our debt to international banksters. I've read Secrets of the Temple (c) 1987 , and I've also read The Creature from Jekyll Island.

Anybody else remember that stupid Rothschild candy ad from the 70's?

Wheeeeeeee, fun stuff.

The Professional Left

These two are the only way I can stand to read the crapola that the corporate media shovels at me on a daily basis.

Wal-Mart to be scrutinized by shareholders

Friday, June 3, 2011
By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO
Retail AP Writer

"FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) - Investors gathering at Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s shareholders' meeting Friday are likely to be a little restless given a two-year sales slump in its namesake business that shows no clear signs of turning around yet..."

If I hear one more time that we don't know if humans are affecting climate change...

I'm going to ask them cui bono?

Seriously, who benefits when we don't believe that human activities have anything to do with it?

THINK.

Oil Group's 'Citizen' Rally Memo Stirs Debate
By David A. Fahrenthold
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, August 16, 2009

This is how (they) do it.

↓ ↓

Journal of Management Studies 40:4

June 2003 0022-2380
A Neo-Gramscian Approach to Corporate Political Strategy: Conflict and Accommodation in the Climate Change Negotiations*
David L. Levy and Daniel Egan
University of Massachusetts, Boston; University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Thursday, June 2, 2011

DARRELL ISSA: IT ISN’T BP’S FAULT

Tomgram: Bill McKibben, Obama Strikes Out on Global Warming
Posted by Bill McKibben at 8:28am, June 2, 2011.



Global Warming
NYT global warming index
Updated: Jan. 13, 2011

Scientific American Global warming articles

EPA - Climate Change

Duke University Study Connects Water Contamination to Fracking Natural Gas Wells
May 10th, 2011 | By admin | Category: Lead Articles, Regulation

Euro Endgame

05/13/2011
"..Yesterd­ay Eurostat disclosed that in order to hide its debt over the past decade, Greece had entered into not one, not two, but a total of 13 different currency swap contracts with Goldman Sachs, all based on the exchange of assorted currencies against the euro as well as one involving a dollar-CHF swap..."

http://tin­yurl.com/6­4qvm85

The US Federal Reserve board is investigat­ing the role of Goldman Sachs, which gambled on the bankruptcy of Greece as public assets were sold off and its tax-evadin­g rich deposited €360bn in Swiss

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