Is a Run on the Dollar Starting Soon? by Richard C. Cook

by Richard C. Cook
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richardccook.com
January 19, 2010

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In response to a question from a reader I sent this out today:

Yes, I think a run on the dollar is coming. A lot of people are saying this, including a man named Dmitri Orlov who recently came out with a book entitled “Reinventing Collapse” that compares the crash of the Soviet Union in the 1990s with what he believes is coming here within a short period of time. I heard that at the last meeting of the G20 the U.S. asked Russia and China if they would agree to an orderly devaluation of the dollar, and the answer was “Nyet.” So something big is likely to happen. I don’t know what it will be.

And on the Eighth Day… By William Bowles

By William Bowles
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Creative-i
19 January, 2010

The Americans have landed, or as they used to say of the GIs in the UK during WWII, ‘they’re overfed, over sexed and over here’. So now, in spite of protestations that air-dropping supplies would cause a riot, on the eighth day of this catastrophe (one that the BBC still continues to call a “humanitarian catastrophe”) the US has decided to act.

Four days ago I came across this email reproduced in the excellent Military Resistance:

Turning ‘Combat Casualties’ into ‘Victims’ & Vice Versa by Sibel Edmonds

by Sibel Edmonds
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originally published by Boiling Frogs Post
19 January 2010

Curious Terminology Game in the US Media

Last Friday as I was searching the headlines for noteworthy and interesting news articles I came across a fairly lengthy and detailed story on Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi. Considering the saturated state of this recent CIA slaying story and the reporting source, I almost skipped the article, but then, something caught my eye; something easy to miss with the naked eye, at least those of gullible US Media readers-believers. It wasn’t the story itself, nor was it the flowery details in an attempt to make it a possible future ‘Hollywood Action Drama’ worthy of a six figure movie rights offer. It also wasn’t due to the authors, since neither one of them was familiar to me. No, it was none of that. What caught my attention and held it there for the next few hours was the very calculative and selective usage of a word in the title; Victim:

Amy Goodman: Haiti is Shaken to the Core

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Jan. 19, 2010

Haiti: MSF taking care of patients in Pacot Hospital

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January 19, 2010

On January 12th a major earthquake, measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale, struck Haiti. Despite two MSF hospitals collapsed and many local staff missing, MSF teams are already working in Port au Prince, providing immediate medical assistance to the injured. Thousands are pouring into MSF facilities and MSF teams are working around the clock.

Danny Schechter: Plunder, a Wall Street story

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Danny Schechter: Financial meltdown is a crime story

Danny Schechter, “The News Dissector,” is a former network TV producer, radio newscaster, and edits MediaChannel.org. He has written nine books on media themes. His latest, ‘Plunder’, was inspired by his latest film, In Debt We Trust: America Before The Bubble Bursts

see

Wall Street’s Power Grab by Michael Hudson

Kucinich Subcommittee Findings Triggered Expanded Enforcement

Financial crisis inquiry begins + Causes of the 2008 Financial Collapse

from the archives:

In Debt We Trust (Full video; must-see)

Imperial Senate Foils Constitution More Than Climate Change, Terrorism, or Rogue Sarahs By Robert S. Becker

By Robert S. Becker
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rbecker@cal.net
January 19, 2010

To judge anything made, advised C. S. Lewis, identify the designers’ full intentions, whether about a cathedral or corkscrew.   Reality, that which outlasts all denials and impediments, depends not on what inventors or partisans claim, but what something actually does, over time, fulfilling or defeating intent.

How many literate, brilliant Founders wouldn’t wince at today’s dysfunctional, theatrically partisan Senate, packed with marvels like senators Inhofe, DeMint, Bunning, Coburn, Burris, Ensign, Vitter, Lieberman or Specter?  It’s a specter all right, leaving rational folks to gawk – and these guys presumably defeated someone less deserving? No wonder our government is going from paralyzed to kaput.