Keiser Report №29: Cap and Trade Scheme + Greek Debt Crisis

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RussiaToday
March 31, 2010

This week Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert look at the scandals of Brown’s Bottom, the worst economic judgment of all time and Bono’s private equity, “the worst investor in America.” Max chats to Brits in Trafalgar Square and also talks to Mark Schapiro, author of the Harper’s article, “Conning the Climate: Inside the Carbon Trading Shell Game”.

Globalization Marches On By Noam Chomsky

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By Noam Chomsky
In These Times
March 26, 2010

Growing popular outrage has not challenged corporate power.

Shifts in global power, ongoing or potential, are a lively topic among policy makers and observers. One question is whether (or when) China will displace the United States as the dominant global player, perhaps along with India.

Such a shift would return the global system to something like it was before the European conquests. Economic growth in China and India has been rapid, and because they rejected the West’s policies of financial deregulation, they survived the recession better than most. Nonetheless, questions arise.

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via Globalization Marches On — In These Times

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Max Keiser Report №25: Kate Pickett + Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger

Is It Time for Law Abiding American Citizens to Stop Paying Their Taxes and Start a New Government? By David DeGraw

War, Racism and the Empire of Poverty – When Empire Hits Home, Part 1 by Andrew Gavin Marshall

Empire, Oligarchy and Democracy by Ralph Nader

The Zero Point of Systemic Collapse by Chris Hedges

Chomsky On Adam Smith (1995)

The Economy Sucks and or Collapse 2

Is It Time for Law Abiding American Citizens to Stop Paying Their Taxes and Start a New Government? By David DeGraw

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By David DeGraw
AmpedStatus Report
March 31, 2010

The evidence is now overwhelming. The United States government has facilitated the theft of trillions of dollars of national wealth and 99% of the US population no longer has political representation.

——-I: The Ongoing Theft of Trillions

Student Loans: The Government Is Now Officially In The Banking Business by Dr. Ellen Brown

by Dr. Ellen Brown
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
webofdebt.com
March 31, 2010

“We say in our platform that we believe that the right to coin money and issue money is a function of government. . . . Those who are opposed to this proposition tell us that the issue of paper money is a function of the bank and that the government ought to go out of the banking business. I stand with Jefferson . . . and tell them, as he did, that the issue of money is a function of the government and that the banks should go out of the governing business.”

— William Jennings Bryan, Democratic Convention, 1896

William Jennings Bryan would have been pleased. The government is now officially in the banking business. On March 30, 2010, President Obama signed the reconciliation “fix” to the health care reform bill passed by Congress last week. Slipped into it was student loan legislation the President calls “one of the most significant investments in higher education since the G.I. Bill.” Under the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act (SAFRA), the federal government will lend directly to students, ending billions of dollars in wasteful subsidies to firms providing student loans. The bill will save an estimated $68 billion over 11 years.

Mongolia: Pentagon Trojan Horse Wedged Between China And Russia by Rick Rozoff

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March 31, 2010

Because of its history, its location and the nations which surround it, Mongolia would seem the last country in the world to host annual Pentagon-led military exercises and to be the third Asian nation to offer NATO troops for the war in Afghanistan.

From the early 1920s until the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 Mongolia was the latter nation’s longest-standing and in many ways closest political and military ally, its armed forces fighting alongside those of the USSR against the Japanese in World War II. It was not a member of the Warsaw Pact as that alliance was formed in Europe six years after and in response to the creation of NATO in 1949, but Mongolia was a military buffer between the Soviet Union and the Japanese army in China in the Second World War and between it and China during the decades of the Sino-Soviet conflict.

The Ten Commandments (1956) + Moses (1995)

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Note: replaced video Mar. 25, 2013

Updated: added Moses

Happy Pesach!  Happy Passover!

Dagestan Explosion: New blasts rock Russia two days after Moscow metro bombing – 12 policemen dead

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RussiaToday
March 31, 2010

12 policemen are dead and more than twenty people injured after twin explosions a city in Russia’s southern republic of Dagestan. The republic’s in the North Caucasus, from where militants are thought to have orchestrated Monday’s suicide bombings in Moscow.

Michel Chossudovsky: The battle for Arctic supremacy + Frosty relations at Arctic meet

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The battle for Arctic supremacy

TheAlyonaShow
March 30, 2010

The Arctic territories represent vast amounts of untapped natural resources and a supply route for shipping that has never before been accessible. Thanks to melting glaciers, the possibility to explore for oil and move ships through the arctic is not too far away. Canada, Russia, Norway, Denmark and the United States recently held meetings at the G-8 summit to discuss the issue that has all 5 nations up against the other. Unfortunately for Sweden, Finland and Iceland, these three countries which lay claim to the Arctic as well, were left out of the meeting. Why did the Canadians snub them? Michel Chossudovsky, Director at the Center for Research on Globalization joins Alyona with the answers.

Is a US attack on Iran imminent? by Alex Lantier + CIA: Iran Now Capable Of Producing Nukes

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by Alex Lantier
http://www.wsws.org
30 March 2010

In recent weeks there has been a series of press reports as well as statements by military experts that strongly indicate that either the Obama administration or the Israeli government, or both, may be moving toward an attack on Iran.

Gerald Dumenil: The crisis of neoliberalism

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The crisis of neoliberalism Part 1

Dumenil: Neoliberalism imposed a new discipline on worker, cutting the progress of purchasing power.

Dr. Duménil is one of the world’s foremost theorists of neoliberalism and economic crisis and is the author of numerous influential books, many of which have been translated into several languages. These include Capital Resurgent: Roots of the Neoliberal Revolution (2004) and his forthcoming The Crisis of Neoliberalism: from the subprime to the great contraction.

Stop Feeding the Vultures by Greg Palast

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www.gregpalast.com
30 March, 2010

For In These Times

I get the idea that Eric Hermann doesn’t want to talk to me. When I came to his office suite, his hedge fund’s name plaque had been unbolted from the building’s wall, the suite number removed and all the employees locked in.

I’m not surprised. Hermann is a vulture, not the carrion-eating type, but the kind that prey on the financially wounded. “Vulture” is a hedge fund industry term for the financiers who buy up the right to collect old loans of the world’s poorest nations, and then use every trick in the book — from lawsuits to bribery to hiring Henry Kissinger’s lobby firm — to muscle destitute countries into turning over their meager foreign aid funds.

Naomi Wolf Thinks the Tea Parties Help Fight Fascism — Is She Onto Something or in Fantasy Land?

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By Justine Sharrock
AlterNet
March 30, 2010

Naomi Wolf, author of ‘End of America,’ talks about why she has become an improbable Tea Party darling, and if progressives can learn from the conservative activists

In her bestselling End of America, Naomi Wolf outlines the 10 warning signs that America is headed toward a fascist takeover. Using historical precedents, she explains how our government is mimicking those of Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin through practices like surveillance of ordinary citizens, restricting the press, developing paramilitary forces and arbitrarily detaining people.

The book was lauded by liberals under Bush: the Independent Publishers gave it the Freedom Fighter Award; John Nichols at the Nation named it the most valuable political book of 2007. Now, under President Obama, Wolf’s book is providing ammunition for the Tea Partiers, Patriots, Ron Paul supporters and Oath Keepers, who also warn of impending tyrannical government. Even when the book first came out pre-Obama, Alex Jones, Michael Savage and Fox News invited her on their shows, and agreed with her.

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via Naomi Wolf Thinks the Tea Parties Help Fight Fascism — Is She Onto Something or in Fantasy Land? AlterNet

h/t: Sparrows

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Financing Fascism, Part II by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH

Is America ‘Yearning For Fascism?’ by Chris Hedges

The Iron Heel (1908) by Jack London

“The 15% Solution,” Serialization, 3rd Installment: Chapter Two

Talk by Naomi Wolf – The End of America (video) (must-see)

The End of America (full video; Naomi Wolf)

Fascist America, in 10 easy steps by Naomi Wolf

Tea-Parties and Progressives, Maybe We Should Listen to Each Other By Timothy V. Gatto

Tea Party on Dandelion Salad

Financing Fascism, Part II by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH

by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
crossposted on Buzzflash.com
Mar. 30, 2010

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As I noted at the beginning of my Commentary No. 135 that appeared on BuzzFlash last week,fascism may be briefly defined as: “A politico-economic system in which there is: total executive branch control of both the legislative and administrative powers of government; no independent judiciary; no Constitution that embodies the Rule of Law standing above the people who run the government; no inherent personal rights or liberties; a single national ideology that first demonizes and then criminalizes all political, religious, and ideological opposition to it; the massive and regular use of hate, fear, racial and religious prejudice, the Big Lie technique, mob psychology, mob actions and ultimately individual and collective violence to achieve political and economic ends; and corporate domination of economic, fiscal, and regulatory policy.”

The Eikenberry Cables

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Truthdig
Jan 28, 2010

The now-famous Eikenberry Cables of November 2009 outline the opposition of Karl Eikenberry, U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, to sending more troops to that country. They were recently leaked to the New York Times, and you can read them in full below.

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Once again, a CSIS report designates Turkey as the optimum route for a possible Israeli attack on Iran

Propaganda Alert

compiled by Cem Ertür
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
30 March 2010