From shimogamo at ashisuto.co.jp  Thu Oct  1 05:07:46 2009
From: shimogamo at ashisuto.co.jp (Bill Totten)
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 20:07:46 +0900
Subject: [A-List] Our Oil Addiction Is About to Make Life a Lot Nastier
Message-ID: <20091001200746.2ddb987e.shimogamo@ashisuto.co.jp>


by Michael T Klare, Tomdispatch.com

AlterNet (September 24 2009)


The debate rages over whether we have already reached the point of peak
world oil output or will not do so until at least the next decade. There
can, however, be little doubt of one thing: we are moving from an era in
which oil was the world's principal energy source to one in which
petroleum alternatives - especially renewable supplies derived from the
sun, wind, and waves - will provide an ever larger share of our total
supply. But buckle your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy ride under
extreme conditions.

It would, of course, be ideal if the shift from dwindling oil to its
climate-friendly successors were to happen smoothly via a mammoth,
well-coordinated, interlaced system of wind, solar, tidal, geothermal, and
other renewable energy installations. Unfortunately, this is unlikely to
occur. Instead, we will surely first pass through an era characterized by
excessive reliance on oil's final, least attractive reserves along with
coal, heavily polluting "unconventional" hydrocarbons like Canadian oil
sands, and other unappealing fuel choices.

There can be no question that Barack Obama and many members of Congress
would like to accelerate a shift from oil dependency to non-polluting
alternatives. As the president said in January, "We will commit ourselves
to steady, focused, pragmatic pursuit of an America that is free from our
[oil] dependence and empowered by a new energy economy that puts millions
of our citizens to work". Indeed, the $787 billion economic stimulus
package he signed in February provided $11 billion to modernize the
nation's electrical grid, $14 billion in tax incentives to businesses to
invest in renewable energy, $6 billion to states for energy efficiency
initiatives, and billions more directed to research on renewable sources
of energy. More of the same can be expected if a sweeping climate bill is
passed by Congress. The version of the bill recently passed by the House
of Representatives, for example, mandates that twenty percent of US
electrical production be supplied by renewable energy by 2020.

But here's the bad news: even if all these initiatives were to pass, and
more like them many times over, it would still take decades for this
country to substantially reduce its dependence on oil and other
non-renewable, polluting fuels. So great is our demand for energy, and so
well-entrenched the existing systems for delivering the fuels we consume,
that (barring a staggering surprise) we will remain for years to come in a
no-man's-land between the Petroleum Age and an age that will see the great
flowering of renewable energy. Think of this interim period as - to give
it a label - the Era of Extreme Energy, and in just about every sense
imaginable from pricing to climate change, it is bound to be an ugly time.


An Oil Field as Deep as Mount Everest Is High

Don't be fooled by the fact that this grim new era will surely witness the
arrival of many more wind turbines, solar arrays, and hybrid vehicles.
Most new buildings will perhaps come equipped with solar panels, and more
light-rail systems will be built. Despite all this, however, our
civilization is likely to remain remarkably dependent on oil-fueled cars,
trucks, ships, and planes for most transportation purposes, as well as on
coal for electricity generation. Much of the existing infrastructure for
producing and distributing our energy supply will also remain intact, even
as many existing sources of oil, coal, and natural gas become exhausted,
forcing us to rely on previously untouched, far more undesirable (and
often far less accessible) sources of these fuels.

Some indication of the likely fuel mix in this new era can be seen in the
most recent projections of the Department of Energy (DoE) on future US
energy consumption. According to the department's Annual Energy Outlook
for 2009, the United States will consume an estimated 114 quadrillion
British thermal units (BTUs) of energy in 2030, of which 37% will be
supplied by oil and other petroleum liquids, 23% by coal, 22% by natural
gas, eight percent by nuclear power, three percent by hydropower, and only
seven percent by wind, solar, biomass, and other renewable sources.

Clearly, this does not yet suggest a dramatic shift away from oil and
other fossil fuels. On the basis of current trends, the DoE also predicts
that even two decades from now, in 2030, oil, natural gas, and coal will
still make up 82% of America's primary energy supply, only two percentage
points less than in 2009. (It is of course conceivable that a dramatic
shift in national and international priorities will lead to a greater
increase in renewable energy in the next two decades, but at this point
that remains a dim hope rather than a sure thing.)

While fossil fuels will remain dominant in 2030, the nature of these
fuels, and the ways in which we acquire them, will undergo profound
change. Today, most of our oil and natural gas come from "conventional"
sources of supply: large underground reservoirs found mainly in relatively
accessible sites on land or in shallow coastal areas. These are the
reserves that can be easily exploited using familiar technology, most
notably modern versions of the towering oil rigs made famous most recently
in the 2007 film There Will Be Blood.

Ever more of these fields will, however, be depleted as global consumption
soars, forcing the energy industry to increasingly rely on deep offshore
oil and gas, Canadian oil sands, oil and gas from a climate-altered but
still hard to reach and exploit Arctic, and gas extracted from shale rock
using costly, environmentally threatening techniques. In 2030, says the
DoE, such unconventional liquids will provide thirteen percent of world
oil supply (up from a mere four percent in 2007). A similar pattern holds
for natural gas, especially in the United States where the share of energy
supplied by unconventional but nonrenewable sources is expected to rise
from 47% to 56% in the same two decades.

Just how important these supplies have become is evident to anyone who
follows the oil industry's trade journals or simply regularly checks out
the business pages of the Wall Street Journal. Absent from them have been
announcements of major discoveries of giant new oil and gas reserves in
any parts of the world accessible to familiar drilling techniques and
connected to key markets by existing pipelines or trade routes (or located
outside active war zones such as Iraq and the Niger Delta region of
Nigeria). The announcements are there, but virtually all of them have been
of reserves in the Arctic, Siberia, or the very deep waters of the
Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.

Recently the press has been abuzz with major discoveries in the Gulf of
Mexico and far off Brazil's coast that might give the impression of adding
time to the Age of Petroleum. On September 2nd, for example, BP (formerly
British Petroleum) announced that it had found a giant oil field in the
Gulf of Mexico about 250 miles southeast of Houston. Dubbed Tiber, it is
expected to produce hundreds of thousands of barrels per day when
production begins some years from now, giving a boost to BP's status as a
major offshore producer. "This is big", commented Chris Ruppel, a senior
energy analyst at Execution LLC, a London investment bank. "It says we're
seeing that improved technology is unlocking resources that were before
either undiscovered or too costly to exploit because of economics".

As it happens, though, anyone who jumped to the conclusion that this field
could quickly or easily add to the nation's oil supply would be woefully
mistaken. As a start, it's located at a depth of 35,000 feet - greater
than the height of Mount Everest, as a reporter from the New York Times
noted - and well below the Gulf's floor. To get to the oil, BP's engineers
will have to drill through miles of rock, salt, and compressed sand using
costly and sophisticated equipment. To make matters worse, Tiber is
located smack in the middle of the area in the Gulf regularly hit by
massive storms in hurricane season, so any drills operating there must be
designed to withstand hurricane-strength waves and winds, as well as sit
idle for weeks at a time when operating personnel are forced to evacuate.

A similar picture prevails in the case of Brazil's Tupi field, the other
giant discovery of recent years. Located about 200 miles east of Rio de
Janeiro in the deep waters of the Atlantic Ocean, Tupi has regularly been
described as the biggest field to be found in forty years. Thought to
contain some five to eight billion barrels of recoverable oil, it will
surely push Brazil into the front ranks of major oil producers once the
Brazilians have overcome their own series of staggering hurdles: the Tupi
field is located below one-and-a-half miles of ocean water and another
two-and-a-half miles of rock, sand, and salt and so accessible only to
cutting edge, super-sophisticated drilling technologies. It will cost an
estimated $70 to $120 billion to develop the field and require many years
of dedicated effort.


Extreme Acts of Energy Recovery

Given the potentially soaring costs involved in recovering these last
tough-oil reserves, it's no wonder that Canadian oil sands, also called
tar sands, are the other big "play" in the oil business these days. Not
oil as conventionally understood, the oil sands are a mixture of rock,
sand, and bitumen (a very heavy, dense form of petroleum) that must be
extracted from the ground using mining, rather than oil-drilling,
techniques. They must also be extensively processed before being converted
into a usable liquid fuel. Only because the big energy firms have
themselves become convinced that we are running out of conventional oil of
an easily accessible sort have they been tripping over each other in the
race to buy up leases to mine bitumen in the Athabasca region of northern
Alberta.

The mining of oil sands and their conversion into useful liquids is a
costly and difficult process, and so the urge to do so tells us a great
deal about our particular state of energy dependency. Deposits near the
surface can be strip-mined, but those deeper underground can only be
exploited by pumping in steam to separate the bitumen from the sand and
then pumping the bitumen to the surface - a process that consumes vast
amounts of water and energy in the form of natural gas (to heat that water
into steam). Much of the water used to produce steam is collected at the
site and used over again, but some is returned to the local water supply
in northern Alberta, causing environmentalists to worry about the risk of
large-scale contamination.

The clearing of enormous tracts of virgin forest to allow strip-mining and
the consumption of valuable natural gas to extract the bitumen are other
sources of concern. Nevertheless, such is the need of our civilization for
petroleum products that Canadian oil sands are expected to generate 4.2
million barrels of fuel per day in 2030 - three times the amount being
produced today - even as they devastate huge parts of Alberta, consume
staggering amounts of natural gas, cause potentially extensive pollution,
and sabotage Canada's efforts to curb its greenhouse-gas emissions.

North of Alberta lies another source of extreme energy: Arctic oil and
gas. Once largely neglected because of the difficulty of simply surviving,
no less producing energy, in the region, the Arctic is now the site of a
major "oil rush" as global warming makes it easier for energy firms to
operate in northern latitudes. Norway's state-owned energy company,
StatoilHydro, is now running the world's first natural gas facility above
the Arctic Circle, and companies from around the world are making plans to
develop oil and gas fields in the Artic territories of Canada, Greenland
(administered by Denmark), Russia, and the United States, where offshore
drilling in northern Alaskan waters may soon be the order of the day.

It will not, however, be easy to obtain oil and natural gas from the
Arctic. Even if global warming raises average temperatures and reduces the
extent of the polar ice cap, winter conditions will still make oil
production extremely difficult and hazardous. Fierce storms and plunging
temperatures will remain common, posing great risk to any humans not
hunkered down in secure facilities and making the transport of energy a
major undertaking.

Given fears of dwindling oil supplies, none of this has been enough to
deter energy-craving companies from plunging into the icy waters. "Despite
grueling conditions, interest in oil and gas reserves in the far north is
heating up", Brian Baskin reported in the Wall Street Journal. "Virtually
every major producer is looking to the Arctic sea floor as the next - some
say last - great resource play".

What is true of oil generally is also true of natural gas and coal: most
easy-to-reach conventional deposits are quickly being depleted. What
remains are largely the "unconventional" supplies.

US producers of natural gas, for example, are reporting a significant
increase in domestic output, producing a dramatic reduction in prices.
According to the DoE, US gas production is projected to increase from
about twenty trillion cubic feet in 2009 to 24 trillion in 2030, a real
boon for US consumers, who rely to a significant degree on natural gas for
home heating and electricity generation. As noted by the Energy Department
however, "Unconventional natural gas is the largest contributor to the
growth in US natural gas production, as rising prices and improvements in
drilling technology provide the economic incentives necessary for
exploitation of more costly resources".

Most of the unconventional gas in the United States is currently obtained
from tight-sand formations (or sandstone), but a growing percentage is
acquired from shale rock through a process known as hydraulic fracturing.
In this method, water is forced into the underground shale formations to
crack the rock open and release the gas. Huge amounts of water are
employed in the process, and environmentalists fear that some of this
water, laced with pollutants, will find its ways into the nation's
drinking supply. In many areas, moreover, water itself is a scarce
resource, and the diversion of crucial supplies to gas extraction may
diminish the amounts available for farming, habitat preservation, and
human consumption. Nonetheless, production of shale gas is projected to
jump from two trillion cubic feet per year in 2009 to four trillion in
2030.

Coal presents a somewhat similar picture. Although many environmentalists
object to the burning of coal because it releases far more
climate-altering greenhouse gases than other fossil fuels for each BTU
produced, the nation's electric-power industry continues to rely on coal
because it remains relatively cheap and plentiful. Yet many of the
country's most productive sources of anthracite and bituminous coal - the
types with the greatest energy potential - have been depleted, leaving (as
with oil) less productive sources of these types, along with large
deposits of less desirable, more heavily polluting sub-bituminous coal,
much of it located in Wyoming.

To get at what remains of the more valuable bituminous coal in Appalachia,
mining companies increasingly rely on a technique known as mountaintop
removal, described by John M Broder of the New York Times as "blasting off
the tops of mountains and dumping the rubble into valleys and streams".
Long opposed by environmentalists and residents of rural Kentucky and West
Virginia, whose water supplies are endangered by the dumping of excess
rock, dirt, and a variety of contaminants, mountaintop removal received a
strong endorsement from the Bush administration, which in December 2008
approved a regulation allowing for a vast expansion of the practice.
President Obama has vowed to reverse this regulation, but he favors the
use of "clean coal" as part of a transitional energy strategy. It remains
to be seen how far he will go in reining in the coal industry.


Extreme Conflict

So let's be blunt: we are not (yet) entering the much-heralded Age of
Renewables. That bright day will undoubtedly arrive eventually, but not
until we have moved much closer to the middle of this century and
potentially staggering amounts of damage has been done to this planet in a
fevered search for older forms of energy.

In the meantime, the Era of Extreme Energy will be characterized by an
ever deepening reliance on the least accessible, least desirable sources
of oil, coal, and natural gas. This period will surely involve an intense
struggle over the environmental consequences of reliance on such
unappealing sources of energy. In this way, Big Oil and Big Coal - the
major energy firms - may grow even larger, while the relatively moderate
fuel and energy prices of the present moment will be on the rise,
especially given the high cost of extracting oil, gas, and coal from less
accessible and more challenging locations.

One other thing is, unfortunately, guaranteed: the Era of Extreme Energy
will also involve intense geopolitical struggle as major energy consumers
and producers like the United States, China, the European Union, Russia,
India, and Japan vie with one another for control of the remaining
supplies. Russia and Norway, for example, are already sparring over their
maritime boundary in the Barents Sea, a promising source of natural gas in
the far north, while China and Japan have tussled over a similar boundary
dispute in the East China Sea, the site of another large gas field. All of
the Arctic nations - Canada, Denmark, Norway, Russia, and the United
States - have laid claim to large, sometimes overlapping, slices of the
Arctic Ocean, generating fresh boundary disputes in these energy-rich
areas.

None of these disputes has yet resulted in violent conflict, but warships
and planes have been deployed on some occasions and the potential exists
for future escalation as tensions rise and the perceived value of these
assets grows. And while we're at it, don't forget today's energy hotspots
like Nigeria, the Middle East, and the Caspian Basin. In the Extreme era
to come, they are no less likely to generate conflicts of every sort over
the ever more precious supplies of more easily accessible energy.

For most of us, life in the Era of Extreme Energy will not be easy. Energy
prices will rise, environmental perils will multiply, ever more carbon
dioxide will pour into the atmosphere, and the risk of conflict will grow.
We possess just two options for shortening this difficult era and
mitigating its impact. They are both perfectly obvious - which,
unfortunately, makes them no easier to bring about: drastically speed up
the development of renewable sources of energy and greatly reduce our
reliance on fossil fuels by reorganizing our lives and our civilization so
that we might consume less of them in everything we do.

That may sound easy enough, but tell that to governments around the world.
Tell that to Big Energy. Hope for it, work for it, but in the meantime,
keep your seatbelts buckled. This roller-coaster ride is about to begin.

_____

Michael T Klare is a professor of peace and world security studies at
Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, and the author of Blood and
Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Petroleum
Dependency (2004).

(c) 2009 Tomdispatch.com All rights reserved.

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From cb31450 at gmail.com  Thu Oct  1 06:22:52 2009
From: cb31450 at gmail.com (c b)
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 08:22:52 -0400
Subject: [A-List] Capital offenses
Message-ID: <5c2e4d230910010522g31f5106bjd061ee7c9b22ff21@mail.gmail.com>

Cover Story

Capital offenses
Michael Moore talks up his new film, Reagan's destruction, Jimmy
Carter and getting booted out of GM

 http://metrotimes.com/screens/story.asp?id=14402

By Corey Hall

Once again Michael Moore is on the outside looking in. Flint's
prodigal son, and the world's most famous and controversial
documentarian, is preparing to host an afternoon of private screenings
and Q&A sessions for his latest film Capitalism: A Love Story, at the
Riverfront 4 Theaters in the Renaisssance Center, owned by General
Motors, the very company that he made his career criticizing.

Predictably, the suits are not eager to give one of their fiercest
critics a golden photo op, and while the screenings continue, they
refuse to allow interviews inside the building. So Moore and the press
are unceremoniously hustled across the street to another hotel, tucked
away in a nondescript ballroom complete with tepid, piped-in dance
muzak.

Of course these corporate shenanigans only partially explain why the
filmmaker is running more than an hour late, since the iconoclastic
Moore runs on his own schedule and sets his own agenda. Yet General
Motors isn't the only target this time, and Moore argues that
America's economic gap is a chasm, and that the foundations of a
corrupt political and corporate system are about to crumble. With a
wink and nudge, Michael Moore wants you to help him push it over the
edge, and then pick up the pieces.


Corey Hall: With health care in shambles and the auto industry in
ruins do you ever feel like Chicken Little? That no one listens to
you?

Michael Moore: Well the difference between me and Chicken Little is
that he said the sky was falling, but for us the sky really has
fallen. The economy collapsed right on our heads. For 20 years, I've
been saying that GM was going to fall, that this wasn't going to work.
I don't know, what's that ... what is that called? When you are
actually right?

MT: So you're a prophet?

Moore: [laughs] Oh, no, that's a little scary.

MT: Do you feel like you're yelling into a tornado?

Moore: Basically, right. Which is frustrating, and after a while you
wonder, "Well, why am I doing this?"

MT: At the end on the film you actually call for backup.

Moore: Yeah. I'm not going to do this alone anymore. The next time you
Google George W. Bush or John McCain or whatever, and the word
"nemesis," I don't want my picture coming up, I want your picture
coming up, I want 5,000 pictures coming up.

MT: Times have changed a bit from when you first started. Years ago
you told me that you felt The Daily Show was ripping you off.

Moore: I said that?

MT: This was early on, when TV Nation was still fresh.

Moore: Oh, I remember now, back in the Craig Kilborn days, somebody
slipped me their proposal and the first line said: "This show will be
like TV Nation but without the politics." They copied the style but it
didn't have any real substance, it didn't have any punch.

MT: Now it certainly does have punch. Do you feel that being ripped
off was maybe a good thing?

Moore: Yes, yes. Whenever this happens to me now ... I take imitation,
as they say, as a form of flattery. Plus I'm all for people taking any
ideas or anything, such as the film itself, and getting it out to as
many people as possible.

MT: You're planting seeds.

Moore: I hope so. I think the people I've worked with have gone on to
work on various shows. They've gone on to do things that I'm very
proud of. Two of my longtime producers ? who I gave their first
network TV jobs to back in 1994 ? made a documentary of their own
[Trouble the Water] that was nominated for an Oscar this year.

MT: You were pretty much alone in 1988, documentaries were still very
dry, PBS-y sort of affairs.

Moore: Being 20 years ahead of the curve or two years ahead of the
curve doesn't really do any good. I think this film is hitting right
on time.

MT: The curve is catching up?

Moore: I'm feeling the curve. We are there just a couple of feet
ahead, and that's good. We feel the wind at our back.

MT: You heavily attack Ronald Reagan in Capitalism: A Love Story.
Aren't you just going to enrage the right-wing media, going after
their golden calf?

Moore: I think it will be surprising to a lot of people. History has
been revised. They want to put him on Mount Rushmore, they want to
take Franklin Roosevelt off the dime and put him on it. Before we get
too far down the road, I want the truth told about what Reagan did to
destroy this country.

MT: Conversely, you defend Jimmy Carter as a sort of visionary, though
conservatives have really dragged his name through the mud.

Moore: I love that Jimmy Carter is so honest. He is a national
treasure. The true boiling point for the right wing was at the 2004
Democratic Convention when Carter asked me to sit with him in his
presidential box. I sat there with him and the image of that to
Republicans was just too much, you know, the frothing at the mouth
there was incredible.

MT: When you literally put yourself in a box with Jimmy Carter, it
only made the right-left divide larger because it's so polarized now.
What leverage are you trying to gain? Who is the audience that you are
still trying to reach?

Moore: I'm trying to reach the 56 percent who were in favor of Barack
Obama and the 60 percent who wanted more Democrats in the Senate.

MT: So this is a movie to rally the base?

Moore: No. I thought you were asking about Carter. Actually, I think
that when you've got 1 in 8 mortgages in delinquency or foreclosure,
or one foreclosure filing every 7-1/2 seconds, that's cutting across
all kinds of party lines, class lines, race lines ? and I'm hoping,
with this film, that people will see that. I'm reaching my hand out to
anyone, regardless of what their politics are, to say, "Hey, we're all
in the same boat here; we're going to sink or swim together."

MT: Do you find it increasingly difficult with a media that loves to
pick fights and then calls everyone negative? How do you cut through
the noise?

Moore: I don't find it that difficult. First of all, I don't
participate in the noise. I don't know if you've noticed, but I'm
rarely on any of those shouting-head shows. I'm not a regular guest.

MT: You were on Jay Leno; that was kind of a shock.

Moore: Well, yeah, I was asked to be the guest on the second night of
his new show.

MT: Does he want to go in a more political direction?

Moore: No. I think that Jay Leno was really moved when he watched this
movie. He came here to Detroit; he has a real affinity for what people
are going through in this recession. And to him it's not a Democrat or
Republican issue ? it's a human issue.

MT: Jay keeps his politics close to the vest.

Moore: That's not where he's coming from having me on. He called me
up, it was Jay on the phone, and he said, "This is your best movie,"
and he wanted me to come on for his second night. I said, "I don't
know if that's a good idea, is it? I mean first night Seinfeld, second
night Tom Hanks, third night Robin Williams, isn't that the order
here? You can have me on in 14 or 15 weeks, maybe."

MT: Is that American middle ground the audience you're after?

Moore: That's why I'm on that show, that's why I'm on The View next
week, that's why I'm going to be on Oprah. I'm speaking to Middle
America as I always have, as my films always have. I'm one of the few
people on the left who has been able to have a wide, mass mainstream
audience. Very few on the left get to enjoy that. I've been very
privileged to have that mass audience, so I'm trying to speak to them.

MT: So, ultimately, do you feel government is more accountable than
corporations? You can't walk across the street and talk to Fritz
Henderson, but you can talk to your congressman. ...

Moore: First of all, I think it's pretty crazy on GM's part to move us
over here. I should be over there [at the RenCen] talking to people
going in and out of my movie, but here we are, shuffled into some
mini-ballroom across the street because I'm not allowed on the
premises for my own premiere to talk to press. I can go over there and
watch the film if I want, but I can't talk to you. What country are we
living in here? Don't you and I own General Motors?

MT: You were very vocal about [former GM chairman] Rick Wagoner getting fired.

Moore: Oh yeah! One of the happiest days of my life was seeing Obama
fire the chairman of General Motors.

MT: The first complaint of one of my conservative colleagues at the
screening was, "He has money. He has a huge house. He's a hypocrite!"

Moore: This from people who like money.

MT: It's like Traverse City [where Moore now lives] is the south of France.

Moore: [laughs] I could see, too, around 1776: "Thomas Jefferson,
George Washington, John Adams are wealthy landowners, they've done
well under the king! They went to the king's college! The king has
done well. What do they have to complain about?"

MT: Your entire career should have been nonprofit.

Moore: Actually, I have a whole nonprofit model created at the State
Theatre up in Traverse City, for small towns in Michigan. But that's
another story. ...

MT: But that's a fairly consistent attack on you; that you can't
condemn the rich and be rich yourself.

Moore: It's because it really drives them crazy. They know somebody
like me who gets some money, that's dangerous. Because I don't want to
buy a big boat, what am I going to do with that money? I'm going to
cause a ruckus with it. I'm going to be able to make my next film and
the film after that and the film after that and no one can buy me. So
you know what you're getting from my film. Nothing has been taken out
to please a corporate boss at the studio, because if I don't do that
[mock terror], "They won't let me make my next film. Oh, you won't let
me make my next film? Oh, well, fine, I'll do it myself."

They understand that and that's why conservatives don't like it,
because they know that it's fuck-you money, they know that it gives me
the freedom to do and say what I want.

Corey Hall writes about film for Metro Times. Send comments to
letters at metrotimes.com.


From critical.montages at gmail.com  Thu Oct  1 06:27:27 2009
From: critical.montages at gmail.com (Yoshie Furuhashi)
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 08:27:27 -0400
Subject: [A-List] Honduras in State of Siege
Message-ID: <cd351fdc0910010527o20863490p1cd9fd803ee39a06@mail.gmail.com>

Late September and early October turn out to be the time when a lot of
things come to a head at the same time.  The ruling classes of the
West (buoyed by jobless recovery) see an opportunity to strengthen the
sanctions against Iran (they hope to exploit the political division in
Iran and see a chance of winning over Russia).  The coup leaders of
Honduras have plunged the nation in a state of siege.  In both cases
Lula has been very good, helping Zelaya return to Honduras and
rejecting the coup regime's ultimatum, talking to Ahmadinejad at the
UN and rejecting pressures to isolate Iran.  As long as China and
Russia continue to stand by Iran, the Iranians can probably defend
themselves.*  The Hondurans can use stepped-up international pressures
on the US to stop supporting the coup regime.

*  <http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/iran240909.html>
Can Iran beat gasoline sanctions?  The answer seems to be yes.

On the front page of the Financial Times on 23 September 2009 (Javier
Blas and Carola Hoyos, "Chinese Begin Petrol Supplies to Iran"):

    Chinese state companies this month began supplying petrol to Iran
and now provide up to one-third of its imports in a development that
threatens to undermine US-led efforts to shut off the supply of fuel
on which its economy depends.

Moreover, Iran apparently has been making progress in becoming less
dependent on gasoline import, according to Gal Luft, executive
director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security and
publisher of the Journal of Energy Security ("The New Iran Sanctions:
Worse Than the Old Ones," Foreign Policy, 11 August 2009):

    The little-known reason is that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has
imposed dramatic measures to eliminate this strategic vulnerability.
He has massively expanded the country's refinery infrastructure.
Seven of Iran's nine existing refineries are undergoing expansion
projects; seven new refineries are on the drawing board or already
under construction.  In three to five years, these projects will
double Iran's refining capacity, putting it on par with Saudi Arabia.

    These efforts, in addition to an effective petrol rationing
scheme, have slashed Iran's need to import petroleum products.  As of
this fall, Iran's daily gasoline dependence will stand below 25
percent.  This figure is expected to decline even further to roughly
15 percent over the next year as new refining capacity comes online.
By 2012 Iran is projected to be gasoline self-sufficient; shortly
after that, the Islamic Republic is likely to become a net gasoline
exporter.

    In expanding its refining capacity, Iran worked with French,
British, German, Swiss, Korean, Romanian, Italian, Danish, Japanese,
Chinese, and even American firms (working through shell companies set
up overseas).  Vigorous enforcement of the Iran Refined Petroleum
Sanctions Act might cause some of these companies to reconsider their
relations with Iran.  But the idea that the new U.S. sanctions on
gasoline imports -- widely thought in Washington to be a "drastic"
measure -- would derail Iran's progress toward energy independence or
inflict more than a pin prick on the mullahs' regime is overly
optimistic.

    First, the foreign companies that have been involved in Iran's
refinery expansion projects have done so in the early phases of
licensing, consulting, financing, design and engineering.  For the
most part these services have already been performed; the Iranians do
the construction themselves.  Even if the foreign partners responded
to the sanctions, it would have little impact on the projects.

    Second, Iran is becoming increasingly reliant on China for its
refinery expansion program -- and Beijing has shown little interest in
abiding by any sanctions regime initiated by the United States.  In
recent months, Chinese companies have greatly expanded their presence
in Iran's oil sector.  In the coming months, Sinopec, the state-owned
Chinese oil company, is scheduled to complete the expansion of the
Tabriz and Shazand refineries -- adding 3.3 million gallons of
gasoline per day.  Iran has also secured agreements to take part in
three overseas refining joint ventures, in Malaysia, Indonesia, and
Syria.  The chances those governments would annul these projects are
nil.

    Simultaneously, Iran is ambitiously pushing alternative fuels to
reduce its gasoline consumption.  Three years ago, Ahmadinejad
initiated a program to convert Iran's vehicles to run on natural gas
rather than gasoline.  Iran has the world's third-largest natural gas
reserves (around 16 percent of the world's total).  Now, the
government is subsidizing retrofitting cars for natural gas; an
Iranian version of "cash for clunkers" is phasing out old gas
guzzlers; and domestic automakers now must enable all new cars to run
on natural gas, which hundreds of refueling stations are being
renovated to serve.  The government also provides financial incentives
for drivers to prefer natural gas over gasoline.  A gallon of gasoline
costs 53 cents while the natural gas equivalent only costs 15 cents.
Since the initiation of the program, gas has replaced 10 percent of
Iran's total gasoline consumption for transport fuel.

    Furthermore, Iran is one of the world's largest producers of
methanol -- a cousin to ethanol that can be made from not just
agricultural products, but also coal and natural gas.  The country has
four major methanol plants and is building two massive new ones, among
the largest in the world, which will increase Iran's production
capacity by more than 60 percent.  These factories, built with the aid
of a Danish company, will enable Iran to blend alcohol into its fuel,
just as the United States does with gas and ethanol, and lower its
gasoline consumption by at least 5 percent without any need for
vehicle retrofitting.  Finally, the Iranian government is encouraging
its citizens to use public buses by subsidizing diesel.

    All of these measures show that the chance a U.S. sanctions policy
will inflict economic pain and trigger a change in the regime's
behavior is slim.

Will the Obama administration and Congress reconsider their idea of
gasoline sanctions, in light of the above?

Yoshie


From critical.montages at gmail.com  Thu Oct  1 06:29:45 2009
From: critical.montages at gmail.com (Yoshie Furuhashi)
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 08:29:45 -0400
Subject: [A-List] General Strike of Arab Citizens of Israel
In-Reply-To: <cd351fdc0910010427x45d43f07m840229f8d8fe0d0d@mail.gmail.com>
References: <cd351fdc0910010427x45d43f07m840229f8d8fe0d0d@mail.gmail.com>
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Today there is supposed to be a general strike of Arab citizens of Israel.

<http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/israel290909.html>
Join Our General Strike on October 1, 2009
by the High Follow-up Committee for the Arab Citizens of Israel

We would like to bring to your attention the decision of the High
Follow-up Committee for the Arab Citizens of Israel, the National
Committee of Local Authorities, all parties, movements and
institutions of civil society of the Palestinian minority in Israel,
to declare a general strike on October 1, 2009 to mark the 9th
anniversary of the Jerusalem and AlAqsa Day (October 2000) when 13 of
Palestinian Arab citizens were killed, and their case is still waiting
for justice.

This year we decided to commemorate the memory with a strike. ?The
strike is part of the struggle of the Palestinian minority inside
Israel for equal rights as we continue to face home demolitions in the
Triangle and the Naqab (Negev); changing of the demography through
Judaization of the Galilee and the Triangle; an increase in racial
incitement; discrimination against our local authorities; new racist
laws, such as the new Nakba law; hebraicizing the Arabic names of our
towns and villages, with ultimate disregard of the common and
historical Arabic names of these places; selling of Palestinian
refugees' properties; and an intensification of the intimidation
campaigns and distortion of our national consciousness.

As representatives of the Palestinian Arab minority in Israel, we want
to stress our opposition to racism, incitement and discrimination . .
. and we want to affirm our desire to live in our homeland in dignity.

With our declaration for a general strike, we want to emphasize our
stand against the escalating racism and fascist incitement against our
Arab population; we want to defend our existence, our rights and our
dignity in our homeland which we have no other. ?We want to make a
stand against the denial of our national and historical rights, while
calling for the realization of our national and civil rights, our
right to remain steadfast and rooted in the land of our forefathers.
We call for an end to the policy of expropriation, privatization of
land and demolition of our homes.

We assert our need for fundamental equality for the Palestinian Arab
minority and equal allocation for the Arab local authorities. ?We
remain resolute against the arrests and investigation campaign of our
young people and the systematic attempts to intimidate them and
distort their national identity.

The declaration of the general strike also comes to affirm our
position regarding the continuing occupation of the Palestinian people
in the Palestinian Territory; in support of the Palestinian national
cause, an end to occupation including the siege on the Gaza Strip and
the right to self-determination of the Palestinian people.

The one day general strike will be highlighted with a main public
national march in Arabbeh, which will commence from the Mahmoud
Darwish roundabout in Arabbeh (the western roundabout -- in the
direction of Sakhnin) at two in the afternoon (14:00) towards the
municipal market square (Wadi Salameh Road).

We want to take this opportunity to invite you to join us or send a
representative and participate in the march. ?Your presence is of
utmost importance; with the current atmosphere of increased racism and
the various statements made by government officials, there is a great
fear of a repetition of the scenario of October 2000. ?We want to
avoid this situation, but at the same time, it is time to raise our
united voice against racism and discrimination. ?We ask you to join us
in making our just cause known, in order to achieve equality, civil
and human rights. ?Our men were killed and we will not relent and will
not rest until justice is served and the truth is revealed and those
responsible are punished.

With our sincere hope that you will join us in this important event,

Yours respectfully,

Muhammad Zidan
Chairperson
High Follow-up Committee for the Arab Citizens of Israel
Contact: Email: <nalcci at gmail.com>; Tel: 04 601 3323; Fax: 04 601 3322


From james.irldaly at ntlworld.com  Thu Oct  1 09:59:51 2009
From: james.irldaly at ntlworld.com (james daly)
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 16:59:51 +0100
Subject: [A-List] Why does Obama REFUSE to fire these people?
Message-ID: <39B9908A528C43B1BE7B533A89535D83@home9sg93n9r5y>


----- Original Message ----- 
From: mdubuque
To: CubaNews at yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 6:47 PM
Subject: [CubaNews] Jean-Guy Allard: The Sordid History of Lewis Amselem


  Machetera posted this today. I'm almost positive the DEPUTY US permanent 
representative to the OAS is a post that does NOT require Senate 
Confirmation.

Obama has an absolute right to fire this guy whom Machetera describes below 
as being the source of vicious rumours seeking to discredit a US nun who was 
raped in Guatemala in 1989.

http://machetera.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/the-sordid-history-of-lewis-amselem-deputy-u-s-permanent-representative-to-the-oas/

Why does Obama REFUSE to fire these people?

Matt Dubuque
=======================================================

The sordid history of Lewis Amselem,
Deputy U.S. Permanent Representative to the OAS
September 29, 2009

In 1989, the Current U.S. Representative to the OAS Covered Up a Case of 
Torture in Guatemala

By Jean-Guy Allard

Translation: Machetera

Lewis Amselem, the head of the U.S. delegation to the Organization of 
American States (OAS), who called President Manuel Zelaya's return to his 
country "irresponsible" and "foolish" was denounced years ago for having 
concealed the identities of individuals, one of whom was a U.S. national, 
who tortured and raped a U.S. nun in Guatemala.

On November 2, 1989, Dianna Ortiz was kidnapped, raped and tortured by 
members of Guatemalan security forces, supervised by a North American 
citizen.

Since then, Ortiz has tried, tirelessly, to get the U.S. government to 
reopen the files of all those who were victims of brutality in Guatemala 
during the period of the pro-USA dictatorships.

"Zelaya's return to Honduras is irresponsible and foolish and it doesn't 
serve the interests of the people nor those seeking a peaceful 
reestablishment of democratic order in Honduras," said Lewis Amselem, with 
an arrogance correspondent to his role as Deputy U.S. Permanent 
Representative to the OAS.

Amselem was Human Rights Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala during the 
government of Vinicio Cerezo, a civil administration under which the army 
continued to savagely attack guerrillas. Cerezo was criticized for his 
inertia in confronting cases of human rights violations.

Coincidentally, 1989 was the year when the CIA agent and terrorist of Cuban 
origin, Luis Posada Carriles, passed through Guatemala, where he fabricated 
a cover for himself as head of security for the state telephone company, 
Guatel. President Vinicio Cerezo granted him special powers that turned him 
into a virtual gangster. He is credited with a series of executions, 
kidnappings, swindles and frauds during that period.

A Pit Full of Corpses

Dianna Ortiz was an Ursuline nun when she decided to dedicate herself to 
society's most humble, and went to Central America with other nuns, to work 
as a nurse in small indigenous communities. Very soon she received anonymous 
death threats accusing her of complicity with guerrillas and ordering her to 
leave the country.

According to her account of a day in November, 1989, two men captured her in 
a garden of a community center, and took her in an unmarked police car to 
the former Polytechnic School, a military academy in Guatemala City.

A horrible interrogation began during which Ortiz was burned more than 100 
times with cigarettes and raped repeatedly by her torturers, who ordered her 
to identify "subversives." The treatment was so rough that she fainted.

According to a report published in 1996 by the Inter-American Human Rights 
Commission, Ortiz, "at one point regained conciousness and found that her 
wrists had been tied over her head with a bra. It seemed that she was in a 
patio. Then she felt various people move a heavy slab on the floor. They 
lowered her into a pit full of corpses. She fainted again. When she awoke, 
she was on the floor and the men had started again to abuse her sexually."

The interminable torture session was interrupted by the arrival of a person 
who was called Alejandro, who explained that she'd been confused for a 
guerrilla leader named Ver?nica Ortiz Hern?ndez.

While "Alejandro" was taking her in his Jeep to the "house of a friend of 
the Embassy," Dianna escaped, by taking advantage of a stop at a traffic 
light.

A Bush Holdover

What followed in the subsequent years was a true ordeal for a woman already 
destroyed by this hellish experience.

The Guatemalan Defense Minister, Hector Gramajo, said publicly that Dianna 
Ortiz had made up her story, adding insults and slanderous insinuations of a 
sexual nature.

Researching the subject, reporters from ABC News identified the source of 
these degrading rumors. They came from the Office of Human Rights' Lewis 
Amselem, who upon being asked about them, vehemently denied any involvement.

The Reverend Joseph Nangle of the Assisi Community, said later that Amselem 
had spoken on the subject in his presence, with an outrageous vulgarity.

Other people confirmed Nangle's comment and added that Amselem multiplied 
his insulting references to the presence of religious volunteers in 
Guatemala's indigenous communities.

On October 16, 1996, the Inter-American Human Rights Commission recognized 
the veracity of Ortiz's declarations, based on the information presented and 
its investigation and analysis of the case, and condemned the Guatemalan 
government.

However, the U.S. Ambassador, Thomas F. Stroock and his employee, Amselem, 
who constantly hindered the investigation, are not mentioned in the 
document.

In 1995, a U.S. court sentenced Hector Gramajo to pay $47 million to Ortiz 
and his other victims.

Amselem was a diplomat from the Bush Administration, who remained in place, 
just like many other ultra right-wingers in the current Obama 
administration.

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From james.irldaly at ntlworld.com  Thu Oct  1 10:06:46 2009
From: james.irldaly at ntlworld.com (james daly)
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 17:06:46 +0100
Subject: [A-List] Another War in the Works
Message-ID: <789E404E40C34FB293D8BC25728A9169@home9sg93n9r5y>

   Another War in the Works

America Is Led And Informed By Liars

By Paul Craig Roberts

September 29, 2009 "Information Clearing House" --- Does anyone remember all 
the lies that they were told by President Bush and the ?mainstream media? 
about the grave threat to America from weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? 
These lies were repeated endlessly in the print and TV media despite the 
reports from the weapons inspectors, who had been sent to Iraq, that no such 
weapons existed.

The weapons inspectors did an honest job in Iraq and told the truth, but the 
mainstream media did not emphasize their findings. Instead, the media served 
as a Ministry of Propaganda, beating the war drums for the US government.

Now the whole process is repeating itself. This time the target is Iran.

As there is no real case against Iran, Obama took a script from Bush?s 
playbook and fabricated one.

First the facts: As a signatory to the non-proliferation treaty, Iran?s 
nuclear facilities are open to inspection by the International Atomic Energy 
Agency, which carefully monitors Iran?s nuclear energy program to make 
certain that no material is diverted to nuclear weapons.

The IAEA has monitored Iran?s nuclear energy program and has announced 
repeatedly that it has found no diversion of nuclear material to a weapons 
program. All 16 US intelligence agencies have affirmed and reaffirmed that 
Iran abandoned interest in nuclear weapons years ago.

In keeping with the safeguard agreement that the IAEA be informed before an 
enrichment facility comes online, Iran informed the IAEA on September 21 
that it had a new nuclear facility under construction. By informing the 
IAEA, Iran fulfilled its obligations under the safeguards agreement. The 
IAEA will inspect the facility and monitor the nuclear material produced to 
make sure it is not diverted to a weapons program.

Despite these unequivocal facts, Obama announced on September 25 that Iran 
has been caught with a ?secret nuclear facility? with which to produce a 
bomb that would threaten the world.

The Obama regime?s claim that Iran is not in compliance with the safeguards 
agreement is disinformation. Between the end of 2004 and early 2007, Iran 
voluntarily complied with an additional protocol (Code 3.1) that was never 
ratified and never became a legal part of the safeguards agreement. The 
additional protocol would have required Iran to notify the IAEA prior to 
beginning construction of a new facility, whereas the safeguards agreement 
in force requires notification prior to completion of a new facility.Iran 
ceased its voluntary compliance with the unratified additional protocol in 
March 2007, most likely because of the American and Israeli 
misrepresentations of Iran?s existing facilities and military threats 
against them.
By accusing Iran of having a secret ?nuclear weapons program? and demanding 
that Iran ?come clean? about the nonexistent program, adding that he does 
not rule out a military attack on Iran, Obama mimics the discredited Bush 
regime?s use of nonexistent Iraqi ?weapons of mass destruction? to set up 
Iraq for invasion.

The US media, even the ?liberal? National Public Radio, quickly fell in with 
the Obama lie machine. Steven Thomma of the McClatchy Newspapers declared 
the non-operational facility under construction, which Iran reported to the 
IAEA, to be ?a secret nuclear facility.?

Thomma, reported incorrectly that the world didn?t learn of Iran?s ?secret? 
facility, the one that Iran reported to the IAEA the previous Monday, until 
Obama announced it in a joint appearance in Pittsburgh the following Friday 
with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas 
Sarkoszy.

Obviously, Thomma has no command over the facts, a routine inadequacy of 
?mainstream media? reporters. The new facility was revealed when Iran 
voluntarily reported the facility to the IAEA on September 21.

Ali Akbar Dareini, an Associated Press writer, reported, incorrectly, over 
AP: ?The presence of a second uranium-enrichment site that could potentially 
produce material for a nuclear weapon has provided one of the strongest 
indications yet that Iran has something to hide.?

Dareini goes on to write that ?the existence of the secret site was first 
revealed by Western intelligence officials and diplomats on Friday.? Dareini 
is mistaken. We learned of the facility when the IAEA announced that Iran 
had reported the facility the previous Monday in keeping with the safeguards 
agreement.

Dareini?s untruthful report of ?a secret underground uranium enrichment 
facility whose existence has been hidden from international inspectors for 
years? helped to heighten the orchestrated alarm.

There you have it. The president of the United States and his European 
puppets are doing what they do best--lying through their teeth. The US 
?mainstream media? repeats the lies as if they were facts. The US ?media? is 
again making itself an accomplice to wars based on fabrications. Apparently, 
the media?s main interest is to please the US government and hopefully 
obtain a taxpayer bailout of its failing print operations.

Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei, Director General of the International Atomic Energy 
Agency, a rare man of principle who has not sold his integrity to the US and 
Israeli governments, refuted in his report (September 7, 2009) the baseless 
?accusations that information has been withheld from the Board of Governors 
about Iran?s nuclear programme. I am dismayed by the allegations of some 
Member states, which have been fed to the media, that information has been 
withheld from the Board. These allegations are politically motivated and 
totally baseless. Such attempts to influence the work of the Secretariat and 
undermine its independence and objectivity are in violation of Article 
VII.F. of the IAEA Statute and should cease forthwith.?

As there is no legal basis for action against Iran, the Obama regime is 
creating another hoax, like the non-existent ?Iraqi weapons of mass 
destruction.? The hoax is that a facility, reported to the IAEA by Iran, is 
a secret facility for making nuclear weapons.

Just as the factual reports from the weapons inspectors in Iraq were ignored 
by the Bush Regime, the factual reports from the IAEA are ignored by the 
Obama Regime.

Like the Bush Regime, the Middle East policy of the Obama Regime is based in 
lies and deception.

Who is the worst enemy of the American people, Iran or the government in 
Washington and the media whores who serve it?







From james.irldaly at ntlworld.com  Thu Oct  1 10:47:58 2009
From: james.irldaly at ntlworld.com (james daly)
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 17:47:58 +0100
Subject: [A-List] in the midst of the Honduras crisis,
	the Obama administration has not been able to confirm key players
Message-ID: <1826710A0D1E4E70B3AD25F3E169C7A8@home9sg93n9r5y>




http://en.mercopress.com/2009/09/29/the-honduras-crisis-and-a-republican-senator-from-south-carolina

Who?s in command? is the question political analyst Andres Oppenheimer has 
asked in his weekly column on Latinamerican affairs, precisely because in 
the midst of the Honduras crisis, the Obama administration has not been able 
to confirm key players, Under Secretary for Hemispheric Affairs and the US 
ambassador in Brazil.

Under Secretary designate Arturo Valenzuela and ambassador designate Thomas 
Shannon, have proven academic credentials and experience in the jobs but 
remain blocked in the US Senate by South Carolina?s Jim DeMint.

Oppenheimer quotes Jeffrey Davidow, who currently heads the Institute for 
the Americas and has a long career in hemispheric affairs as a former State 
Department official: ?its? a problem; we don?t have an under secretary for 
the region to implement the new administration?s policies and no ambassador 
in the most important country of the region?.

?DeMint?s attitude is entirely counterproductive in the middle of the 
Honduras crisis: Washington needs a strong voice in the region for the 
ongoing negotiations in Honduras and an ambassador in Brazil, from the 
moment Zelaya took refuge in the Brazilian embassy?.

DeMint argues that he won?t unblock the designations until ?there?s an 
agreement on the Honduras November election and US aid to the country is 
restored?. He added that the Obama administration describes what happened in 
Honduras as a military coup ?when documents clearly indicate that the 
Honduran government acted following the constitutional process?

?Democrats are showing little respect for the US constitution and for the 
Honduras constitution; the Obama administration is becoming in this case an 
ally of Raul Castro, Daniel Ortega and Hugo Chavez?, insists DeMint.

Obama administration officials deny that nobody is in charge of US policy in 
the region. Shannon from the Bush administration is still running the show 
but, undoubtedly he is not the man designated for that job.

Why Senator DeMint is blocking when in the past he has not shown much 
interest in hemispheric affairs remains to be discovered, but Washington is 
limited in the full exercise of its political weight, concludes Oppenheimer.

DeMint was ranked by the US National Journal as the most conservative United 
States Senator in their March, 2007 conservative/liberal rankings, and again 
in 2008. His main work has been opposing the increase of the federal 
government spending, both under the Bush and Obama Administrations. He was 
opposed to federal bailouts for banks and other corporations and is contrary 
to Obama?s health coverage program.

He has been a consistent supporter of school sponsored prayer and has 
introduced legislation that would allow schools to display banners reading 
God Bless America DeMint favors banning all forms of abortion.


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From cb31450 at gmail.com  Thu Oct  1 11:20:29 2009
From: cb31450 at gmail.com (c b)
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 13:20:29 -0400
Subject: [A-List] Peak oil
Message-ID: <5c2e4d230910011020ld50d7f6s984c4d971c6356be@mail.gmail.com>

I don't think importing threads from other lists here would be
appropriate.  If you want to have the voices of Gar or Eugene here,
invite them to join this list.
Yoshie

^^^
CB: I've never agreed with the anti-crossposting "netiquette" rule.
These lists are open to the internet, so people post knowing that
their words can be read beyond the list they post to.


From james.irldaly at ntlworld.com  Thu Oct  1 11:42:43 2009
From: james.irldaly at ntlworld.com (james daly)
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 18:42:43 +0100
Subject: [A-List] The Lying Game   By John Pilger
Message-ID: <03165DAFEEA043669779DB312FB98A14@home9sg93n9r5y>



  The Lying Game

By John Pilger

September 30, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- In 2001, the Observer in 
London published a series of reports that claimed an ?Iraqi connection? to 
al-Qaeda, even describing the base in Iraq where the training of terrorists 
took place and a facility where anthrax was being manufactured as a weapon 
of mass destruction. It was all false. Supplied by US intelligence and Iraqi 
exiles, planted stories in the British and US media helped George Bush and 
Tony Blair to launch an illegal invasion which caused, according to the most 
recent study, 1.3 million deaths.

Something similar is happening over Iran: the same syncopation of government 
and media ?revelations?, the same manufacture of a sense of crisis. 
?Showdown looms with Iran over secret nuclear plant?, declared the Guardian 
on 26 September. ?Showdown? is the theme. High noon. The clock ticking. Good 
versus evil. Add a smooth new US president who has ?put paid to the Bush 
years?. An immediate echo is the notorious Guardian front page of 22 May 
2007: ?Iran?s secret plan for summer offensive to force US out of Iraq?. 
Based on unsubstantiated claims by the Pentagon, the writer Simon Tisdall 
presented as fact an Iranian ?plan? to wage war on, and defeat, US forces in 
Iraq by September of that year ? a demonstrable falsehood for which there 
has been no retraction.

The official jargon for this kind of propaganda is ?psy-ops?, the military 
term for psychological operations. In the Pentagon and Whitehall, it has 
become a critical component of a diplomatic and military campaign to 
blockade, isolate and weaken Iran by hyping its ?nuclear threat?: a phrase 
now used incessantly by Barack Obama and Gordon Brown, and parroted by the 
BBC and other broadcasters as objective news. And it is fake.
On 16 September, Newsweek disclosed that the major US intelligence agencies 
had reported to the White House that Iran?s ?nuclear status? had not changed 
since the National Intelligence Estimate of November 2007, which stated with 
?high confidence? that Iran had halted in 2003 the programme it was alleged 
to have developed. The International Atomic Energy Agency has backed this, 
time and again.

The current propaganda-as-news derives from Obama?s announcement that the US 
is scrapping missiles stationed on Russia?s border. This serves to cover the 
fact that the number of US missile sites is actually expanding in Europe and 
the ?redundant? missiles are being redeployed on ships. The game is to 
mollify Russia into joining, or not obstructing, the US campaign against 
Iran. ?President Bush was right,? said Obama, ?that Iran?s ballistic missile 
programme poses a significant threat [to Europe and the US].? That Iran 
would contemplate a suicidal attack on the US is preposterous. The threat, 
as ever, is one-way, with the world?s superpower virtually ensconced on Iran?s 
borders.

Iran?s crime is its independence. Having thrown out America?s favourite 
tyrant, Shah Reza Pahlavi, Iran remains the only resource-rich Muslim state 
beyond US control. As only Israel has a ?right to exist?in the Middle East, 
the US goal is to cripple the Islamic Republic. This will allow Israel to 
divide and dominate the region on Washington?s behalf, undeterred by a 
confident neighbour. If any country in the world has been handed urgent 
cause to develop a nuclear ?deterrence?, it is Iran.

As one of the original signatories of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, 
Iran has been a consistent advocate of a nuclear-free zone in the Middle 
East. In contrast, Israel has never agreed to an IAEA inspection, and its 
nuclear weapons plant at Dimona remains an open secret. Armed with as many 
as 200 active nuclear warheads, Israel ?deplores? UN resolutions calling on 
it to sign the NPT, just as it deplored the recent UN report charging it 
with crimes against humanity in Gaza, just as it maintains a world record 
for violations of international law. It gets away with this because great 
power grants it immunity.

Obama?s ?showdown? with Iran has another agenda. On both sides of the 
Atlantic the media have been tasked with preparing the public for endless 
war. The US/Nato commander General Stanley McChrystal says 500,000 troops 
will be required in Afghanistan over five years, according to America?s NBC. 
The goal is control of the ?strategic prize? of the gas and oilfields of the 
Caspian Sea, central Asia, the Gulf and Iran ? in other words, Eurasia. But 
the war is opposed by 69 per cent of the British public, 57 per cent of the 
US public and almost every other human being. Convincing ?us? that Iran is 
the new demon will not be easy. McChrystal?s spurious claim that Iran ?is 
reportedly training fighters for certain Taliban groups? is as desperate as 
Brown?s pathetic echo of ?a line in the sand?.

During the Bush years, according to the great whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, 
a military coup took place in the US, and the Pentagon is now ascendant in 
every area of American foreign policy. A measure of its control is the 
number of wars of aggression being waged simultaneously and the adoption of 
a ?first-strike? doctrine that has lowered the threshold on nuclear weapons, 
together with the blurring of the distinction between nuclear and 
conventional weapons.

All this mocks Obama?s media rhetoric about ?a world without nuclear 
 weapons?. In fact, he is the Pentagon?s most important acquisition. His 
acquiescence with its demand that he keep on Bush?s secretary of ?defence? 
and arch war-maker, Robert Gates, is unique in US history. He has proved his 
worth with escalated wars from south Asia to the Horn of Africa. Like Bush's 
America, Obama's America is run by some very dangerous people. We have a 
right to be warned. When will those paid to keep the record straight do 
their job?

www.johnpilger.com





From the.buffalo.in.the.midst at gmail.com  Thu Oct  1 12:22:13 2009
From: the.buffalo.in.the.midst at gmail.com (Leighm)
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:22:13 -0700
Subject: [A-List] Peak oil
In-Reply-To: <5c2e4d230910011020ld50d7f6s984c4d971c6356be@mail.gmail.com>
References: <5c2e4d230910011020ld50d7f6s984c4d971c6356be@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4AC4F355.9040107@gmail.com>

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c b wrote:
> I don't think importing threads from other lists here would be
> appropriate.  If you want to have the voices of Gar or Eugene here,
> invite them to join this list.
> Yoshie
> 
> ^^^
> CB: I've never agreed with the anti-crossposting "netiquette" rule.
> These lists are open to the internet, so people post knowing that
> their words can be read beyond the list they post to.
> 
> 



Who cares whether you agree or not. If I want to read what Gar and
Eugene have to say I'll either subscribe to Pen-l or use Gmane.

Oh, and it's 'netiquette', not a rule.

Rules are made to be broken.

(N)etiquette shows that the poster has manners and consideration for others.






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From critical.montages at gmail.com  Thu Oct  1 12:28:38 2009
From: critical.montages at gmail.com (Yoshie Furuhashi)
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 14:28:38 -0400
Subject: [A-List] Peak oil
In-Reply-To: <5c2e4d230910011020ld50d7f6s984c4d971c6356be@mail.gmail.com>
References: <5c2e4d230910011020ld50d7f6s984c4d971c6356be@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <cd351fdc0910011128ibfe4605g3422aafc2b79b457@mail.gmail.com>

Postings to mailing lists are usually not like self-standing books and
articles, though.  Individual postings are like odd fragments of
conversations, so just listening to fragments doesn't convey the
meaning of the conversations of which they are part.  Taken out of
contexts, individual postings may not make much sense.  So, if your
point is to call attention to interesting conversations happening on
those mailing lists that are really open, ie the ones that have
archives open to non-subscribers, I suggest you post links that direct
subscribers here to the archived threads that contain the
conversations in question.
Yoshie

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 1:20 PM, c b <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't think importing threads from other lists here would be
> appropriate. ?If you want to have the voices of Gar or Eugene here,
> invite them to join this list.
> Yoshie
>
> ^^^
> CB: I've never agreed with the anti-crossposting "netiquette" rule.
> These lists are open to the internet, so people post knowing that
> their words can be read beyond the list they post to.


From cb31450 at gmail.com  Thu Oct  1 14:08:59 2009
From: cb31450 at gmail.com (c b)
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 16:08:59 -0400
Subject: [A-List] Liu wins NYC comptroller race
Message-ID: <5c2e4d230910011308k423c5fbbu5334a6fc970a651f@mail.gmail.com>

Liu wins NYC comptroller race


Author: Dan Margolis
People's Weekly World Newspaper, 09/30/09 14:02


NEW YORK?History was made here yesterday as Queens city councilman
John Liu won the Democratic primary runoff election for city
Comptroller, putting him in line to become the first ever Asian
elected to citywide position. Liu rode to victory on a tide of support
from labor, the African American, Asian and Latino communities,
religious organizations and community groups.

The comptroller?s race was essentially a contest between the corporate
interests, especially Wall Street and big developers, and the
Democratic Party machine; and a broad, insurgent coalition of labor,
racially and nationally oppressed communities and the immigrant
community?the city?s progressive forces.

Much of Liu?s campaign focused on issues of importance to working New
Yorkers: problems of spiraling costs and declining service on the MTA,
developers run wild, the rising cost of living.

Liu received 38 percent of the vote on September 15, in a four-way
race. Under city law, if no one secures 40 percent of the vote in a
citywide election, a runoff is set. Yesterday?s runoff pitted Liu
against Brooklyn city council member David Yassky, considered to be a
favorite of developers and big business. Liu beat Yassky 56 to 44
percent.

As candidate for comptroller on both the Democratic and Working Family
Party lines, Liu is virtually assured a victory in the November
general election.

?We won this campaign in the streets!? Liu told a cheering crowd at
his campaign?s victory party, held at the offices of the United
Federation of Teachers.

Indeed, Liu was able to win, even though a campaign was waged against
him by the daily newspapers and the party machine. His victory was due
to the high degree of organization of labor and its allies, which put
boots on the ground and mailers in the mail. Alongside all this was an
army of volunteers.

Yassky?s endorsements included, among others, Sen. Charles Schumer, D,
all of the city?s daily newspapers, Ed Koch, the Manhattan Democratic
county committee, the (allegedly) notoriously corrupt Brooklyn
Democratic county committee and its boss, Vito Lopez.

But ?John Liu rode a rainbow coalition to win the runoff,? Working
Families Party Executive Director Dan Cantor wrote.

In stark contrast, Liu?s endorsements included all of the city?s most
powerful labor unions?UFT, Transport Workers Union Local 100,
1199SEIU, Local 32 BJ, AFSCME District Council 37?and just about all
of the smaller ones. (Yassky?s labor endorsements, in entirety, were
the musician?s union, three police unions, and the Freelancer?s Union,
which, despite its name is not in fact a union at all.)

In addition to labor, Liu received the endorsements of the Queens,
Bronx and Staten Island Democratic county committees, dozens of
regular, independent and reform Democratic clubs?including a large
number in Brooklyn and Manhattan?virtually all of the city?s African
American, Latino and Asian elected officials, activists for the rights
of tenants and the homeless, a wide swath of the GLBT community and
the immigrant community, including its press.

So enthusiastic was The Irish Echo newspaper that it called John Liu
?the most Irish element? in the race. Surprisingly, Liu also received
the endorsement of the usually conservative Novoe Russkoe Slovo (New
Russian Word), the largest Russian-language newspaper in the city.

At the end or his acceptance speech, Liu added, ?I want to give a
shout out to a community that is fast rising, the Russian community.
Cpecibo! [?Thank you? in Russian]?

For many in the immigrant community, Liu embodies the American dream:
he was born in China?s Taiwan province and came here as a child, years
during which he did sweatshop-like work to help his mother. He went on
to become highly successful, and, just over eight years ago, was the
first ever Asian-American to win elected office in the city.

A section of liberal white elected officials including current Public
Advocate Betsy Gotbaum and Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer
also backed Liu.

According to many analysts, Liu?s campaign represents a continuation
and strengthening of the labor-led coalition that first showed itself
in a highly organized way during the Obama campaign. Further, some
say, the election will help to strengthen this coalition and may well
help its candidate for mayor, current comptroller Bill Thompson, to
achieve a victory over Mayor Michael Bloomberg in the November general
elections.


From cb31450 at gmail.com  Thu Oct  1 14:15:27 2009
From: cb31450 at gmail.com (c b)
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 16:15:27 -0400
Subject: [A-List] Oldest human skeleton offers new clues to evolution
Message-ID: <5c2e4d230910011315m6fb7061cw832a090cd3072a3f@mail.gmail.com>

Oldest human skeleton offers new clues to evolution
Story Highlights
Researchers have unveiled a 4.4 million-year-old skeleton of a hominid female

The fossil, nicknamed Ardi, may be the oldest hominid skeleton ever found

It replaces Lucy, a much-publicized skeleton that dates back about 3
million years

Scientists: Ardi suggests humans and chimps evolved from a common ancestor

By Azadeh Ansari
CNN
(CNN) -- The oldest-known hominid skeleton was a 4-foot-tall female
who walked upright more than 4 million years ago and offers new clues
to how humans may have evolved, scientists say.

Scientists believe that the fossilized remains, which were discovered
in 1994 in Ethiopia and studied for years by an international team of
researchers, support beliefs that humans and chimpanzees evolved
separately from a common ancestor.

"This is not an ordinary fossil. It's not a chimp. It's not a human.
It shows us what we used to be," said project co-director Tim White, a
paleontologist at the University of California, Berkeley.

Ardipithecus ramidus, nicknamed "Ardi," is a hominid species that
lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Aramis, Ethiopia. That
makes Ardi more than a million years older than the celebrated Lucy,
the partial ape-human skeleton found in Africa in 1974.

Ardi's 125-piece skeleton includes the skull, teeth, pelvis, hands and
feet bones. Scientists say the data collected from Ardi's bone
fragments over the past 17 years push back the story of human
evolution further than previously believed.

"In fact, what Ardipithecus tells us is that we as humans have been
evolving to what we are today for at least 6 million years," C. Owen
Lovejoy, an evolutionary biologist at Kent State University and
project anatomist, said Thursday.

Analysis of Ardi's skeleton reveals that she weighed about 110 pounds,
had very long arms and fingers, and possessed an opposable big toe
that would have helped her grasp branches while moving through trees.

Ardi's brain was believed to be the size of a chimp's, but she also
had many human-like features, such as the ability to walk upright on
two legs. Her "all-purpose type" teeth indicate that she probably ate
a combination of plants, fruits and small mammals, scientists say.

"The anatomy behind this behavioral combination is very unexpected and
is certain to cause considerable rethinking of not only our
evolutionary past, but also that of our living relatives: the great
apes," said Alan Walker, professor of biological anthropology at
Pennsylvania State University.

Many scientists hypothesize that humans took a different evolutionary
trajectory from those of chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas. Ardi's
findings help challenge earlier beliefs that humans evolved from
chimpanzees, their closest genetic relatives, scientists say.

Researchers are still trying to pinpoint when the two lineages --
chimps and humans -- split from their common ancestor.

Digging up the past has not been easy.

Scientists stumbled upon the Ardipithecus fossil in 1994 when a
graduate student found a single upper molar tooth. The rest of Ardi's
fossilized bones, sandwiched between layers of volcanic rock, took
three years to be recovered and many more to be analyzed.

"In many ways, the discovery of Ardipithecus has been like a
marathon," White said.

"Ardipithecus ramidus and its prevailing anatomy revolutionize the way
most of us understood the earlier part of our evolutionary history,"
said team member Yohannes Haile-Selassie, paleontologist at the
Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

The Ardi findings are the work of 47 paleontologists and geologists
representing 10 countries. The results will be published Friday in 11
articles in a special edition of the journal Science.

Until now, Australopithecus, nicknamed "Lucy," was the oldest fossil
studied by scientists seeking to explain human evolution. Lucy is
believed to have lived about 3.2 million years ago in what is now
Ethiopia.

Many scientists credit Ethiopia with taking the lead in helping the
world better understand the origins of humans.

"This finding points to a deeper sense of our [humans']
interconnectedness," Samuel Assefa, Ethiopian ambassador to the United
States, said Thursday. "We are all Ethiopians at heart."

Ardi's skeleton resides in the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa.


From cb31450 at gmail.com  Thu Oct  1 14:38:18 2009
From: cb31450 at gmail.com (c b)
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 16:38:18 -0400
Subject: [A-List] Free Screenings Tonight of "Capitalism"
Message-ID: <5c2e4d230910011338j1f387ab2k892a1953cde13868@mail.gmail.com>

Free Screenings Tonight of "Capitalism" for the Jobless and Homeless in
America's Hardest Hit Cities (plus local benefit premieres all across the
country)



Thursday, October 1st, 2009

Friends,

We're just one day away from the widest opening I've ever had for any of my
movies. Tomorrow, Friday, October 2nd, "Capitalism: A Love Story" opens on
over a thousand screens across the United States, a record for an
independent documentary.

This follows last weekend's limited opening in New York and L.A. where
"Capitalism" set the box office record for the highest per screen average of
ANY movie released so far this year. Not just any documentary -- any MOVIE!
It was, as the studio said, a good indicator of just how well the movie may
do when it goes wide this weekend. I sincerely hope they're right because I
believe deeply in this film.

To kick off the national release of "Capitalism: A Love Story," I've asked
the studio to offer a number of screenings in the nation's hardest hit
cities -- the ones with the highest unemployment rates and highest
foreclosure rates -- where those who've lost their jobs or who are in
foreclosure (or have already been evicted) may attend my film free of
charge. They've agreed, and so tonight (Thursday), the night before our
opening day, ten cities will grant you free admission if you have fallen on
hard times. The list of theaters and cities is below. You don't need to
bring any "proof" of your situation -- just show up -- it's the honor
system, no questions asked.

Of course, a free movie ain't much when what you really need is a job or a
place to live. And that's not going to change until the party that controls
both the Congress and the White House wakes up and realizes the American
people put them in charge to fix the mess created by the previous
administration. For that to happen requires the active involvement of each
of us. And, as I show in this movie, it's going to also require us to
challenge some fundamental assumptions about an economic system that
currently allows the wealthiest ONE PERCENT in this country to have more
financial wealth than the bottom 95% combined. That concentration of money
and power in the hands of so few people is, I believe, at the core of so
many of our problems.

So, if you're going through tough times and you live in one of the areas
below, please be my guest tonight, on the eve of my new film's opening.
Seating will be on a first come, first served basis.

Also, in another five cities tonight, I have made the film available to
local groups to hold benefit screenings to raise money for their local
organizations -- organizations which are working toward a day when a
filmmaker doesn't have to offer free screenings to people who've been put
through the wringer. If you live in any of these areas (see below for the
list of benefit premieres tonight), please come out and support the good
work of these grassroots groups.

So, until tomorrow, thanks for your support, and I'll see ya at the movies!

Yours,
Michael Moore
MMFlint at aol.com
MichaelMoore.com <http://www.michaelmoore.com/>
Twitter.com/MMFlint
Facebook.com/MMFlint <http://www.facebook.com/mmflint>
MySpace.com/MMFlint <http://www.myspace.com/MMFlint>

"CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY" FREE SCREENINGS:

Las Vegas, Nevada
Thursday, Oct. 1st, 7:00 p.m.
Cinemark Orleans
4600 W Tropicana Blvd.
Las Vegas, NV 89103

Phoenix, Arizona
Thursday, Oct.1st, 7:00 p.m.
Harkins Christown
1620 W Monte Bello
Phoenix, AZ 85015

Fresno, California
Thursday, Oct. 1st, 7:30 p.m.
Edwards Stadium
250 Paseo Del Centro
Fresno, CA 93720

Saginaw, Michigan
Thursday, Oct. 1st, 7:00 p.m.
Goodrich Saginaw 8 Theater
3250 Kabobel Dr.
Saginaw, MI 48604

Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina
Thursday, Oct. 1st, 7:30 p.m.
Regal North Hills Stadium 14
4150 Main at North Hills St.
Raleigh, NC 27609

Tampa / St. Petersburg, Florida
Thursday, Oct. 1st, 7:30 p.m.
Muvico Starlight
1800 Highwood Preserve Parkway
Tampa, FL 33647

Elkhart, Indiana
Thursday, Oct. 1st, 7:00 p.m.
Carmike Encore Park 14
2701 Cassopolis Street
Elkhart, IN 46514

Baltimore, Maryland
Thursday, October 1st, 7:30 p.m.
The Charles Theatre
1711 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21201

Cleveland, Ohio Thursday, Oct. 1st, 7:30 p.m.
AMC Westwood Town Center
21653 Center Ridge Road
Rocky River, OH 44116

Peoria, Illinois
Thursday, Oct. 1st, 7:00PM
Willow Knolls 14 Theatre
4100 W Willow Knolls Drive
Peoria, IL 61615

"CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY" BENEFIT SCREENINGS:

Miami, Florida
Thursday, Oct. 1st, 7:30 p.m.
Sunrise Intracoastal
3701 NE 163rd Street
North Miami Beach, FL 33160
Benefiting: Take Back the <http://takebacktheland.org/>  Land

Madison, Wisconsin
Thursday, October 1st, 7:00 p.m.
Sundance Cinemas 608
430 N. Midvale Blvd.
Madison, WI 53705
Benefiting: Madison Association of Worker Cooperatives / Union Cab
<http://www.unioncab.com/>  / Isthmus Engineering
<http://www.isthmuseng.com/>

San Francisco, California
Thursday, Oct. 1st, 7:30 p.m.
Embarcadero Center Cinema
One Embarcadero Center, Promenade
San Francisco, CA 94111
Benefiting: US Federation <http://www.usworker.coop/>  of Worker
Cooperatives

Chicago, Illinois
Thursday, Oct. 1st, 8:00 p.m.
Kerasotes City North
2600 N. Western Ave.
Chicago, IL 60647
Benefiting: United <http://www.ueunion.org/>  Electrical, Radio and Machine
Workers of America

Grass Valley, California
Thursday, Oct. 1st, 7:30 p.m.
Del Oro Theatre
165 Mill Street
Grass Valley, CA 95945
Benefiting: KVMR-FM <http://www.kvmr.org/>

Boulder, Colo. (past screening)
Tuesday, Sept. 29th, 8:00 p.m.
Boulder Theater
2032 14th Street.
Boulder, CO 80302
Benefiting: Present <http://www.presenttensefilms.com/>  Tense Films


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From the.buffalo.in.the.midst at gmail.com  Thu Oct  1 16:24:49 2009
From: the.buffalo.in.the.midst at gmail.com (Leighm)
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:24:49 -0700
Subject: [A-List] Detroit: Too broke to bury their dead
Message-ID: <4AC52C31.2050602@gmail.com>

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A CNN rehash of a similar TIME story a month or so ago that focused on
the national trend to leave our family's deceased to 'potters field'.

http://money.cnn.com/2009/10/01/news/economy/_morgue/index.htm

- From my archive:

TIME
Friday, Aug. 07, 2009
Death in the Recession: More Bodies Left Unburied
By Alison Stateman / Los Angeles
Find this article at:
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1914780,00.html
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From tal1 at cogeco.ca  Thu Oct  1 19:42:40 2009
From: tal1 at cogeco.ca (Tony B.)
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 21:42:40 -0400
Subject: [A-List] Colombian Death Squads Murdered Over 25, 000 People: Report
Message-ID: <D64540E148354A31A5D7C626A82AE37C@TonyPC>


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Rick Rozoff
To: stopnato at yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 2:19 PM
Subject: [stopnato] Colombian Death Squads Murdered Over 25,000 People: 
Report


  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=107533&sectionid=351020703

Press TV
October 1, 2009

Colombian paramilitaries killed 25,000 people: report

Members of former far-right paramilitary groups in Colombia are responsible 
for about 25,000 murders in recent decades, a report says.

Around 3,700 militants took part in the violence over a period of 20 years. 
The perpetrators were offered an amnesty program between 2003 and 2006 that 
guaranteed them milder sentences of up to eight years if they confessed to 
their crimes, a report by the Attorney General's Office in Bogota said on 
Wednesday.

Members of the disbanded United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) also 
admitted responsibility for the disappearance of 2,251 others and the 
kidnapping of 831 people. In total, authorities were able to find 2,100 
graves with the remains of 2,562 people, the report added.

Former AUC members also told judiciary officials of numerous acts of 
collaboration with politicians, police and the military.

Efforts by Colombian President Alvaro Uribe led to the disarmament of some 
31,000 paramilitaries between 2003 and 2006.

Some 247,000 citizens have filed claims as victims of the paramilitaries.
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From tal1 at cogeco.ca  Thu Oct  1 20:03:41 2009
From: tal1 at cogeco.ca (Tony B.)
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 22:03:41 -0400
Subject: [A-List] Another War in the Works
Message-ID: <2190C8D1F36B47B28BADACA3EC1DD609@TonyPC>


----- 
Another War in the Works

America Is Led And Informed By Liars

By Paul Craig Roberts

September 29, 2009 "Information Clearing House" --- Does anyone remember all 
the lies that they were told by President Bush and the "mainstream media" 
about the grave threat to America from weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? 
These lies were repeated endlessly in the print and TV media despite the 
reports from the weapons inspectors, who had been sent to Iraq, that no such 
weapons existed.

The weapons inspectors did an honest job in Iraq and told the truth, but the 
mainstream media did not emphasize their findings. Instead, the media served 
as a Ministry of Propaganda, beating the war drums for the US government.

Now the whole process is repeating itself. This time the target is Iran.

As there is no real case against Iran, Obama took a script from Bush's 
playbook and fabricated one.

First the facts: As a signatory to the non-proliferation treaty, Iran's 
nuclear facilities are open to inspection by the International Atomic Energy 
Agency, which carefully monitors Iran's nuclear energy program to make 
certain that no material is diverted to nuclear weapons.

The IAEA has monitored Iran's nuclear energy program and has announced 
repeatedly that it has found no diversion of nuclear material to a weapons 
program. All 16 US intelligence agencies have affirmed and reaffirmed that 
Iran abandoned interest in nuclear weapons years ago.

In keeping with the safeguard agreement that the IAEA be informed before an 
enrichment facility comes online, Iran informed the IAEA on September 21 
that it had a new nuclear facility under construction. By informing the 
IAEA, Iran fulfilled its obligations under the safeguards agreement. The 
IAEA will inspect the facility and monitor the nuclear material produced to 
make sure it is not diverted to a weapons program.

Despite these unequivocal facts, Obama announced on September 25 that Iran 
has been caught with a "secret nuclear facility" with which to produce a 
bomb that would threaten the world.

The Obama regime's claim that Iran is not in compliance with the safeguards 
agreement is disinformation. Between the end of 2004 and early 2007, Iran 
voluntarily complied with an additional protocol (Code 3.1) that was never 
ratified and never became a legal part of the safeguards agreement. The 
additional protocol would have required Iran to notify the IAEA prior to 
beginning construction of a new facility, whereas the safeguards agreement 
in force requires notification prior to completion of a new facility.Iran 
ceased its voluntary compliance with the unratified additional protocol in 
March 2007, most likely because of the American and Israeli 
misrepresentations of Iran's existing facilities and military threats 
against them.
By accusing Iran of having a secret "nuclear weapons program" and demanding 
that Iran "come clean" about the nonexistent program, adding that he does 
not rule out a military attack on Iran, Obama mimics the discredited Bush 
regime's use of nonexistent Iraqi "weapons of mass destruction" to set up 
Iraq for invasion.

The US media, even the "liberal" National Public Radio, quickly fell in with 
the Obama lie machine. Steven Thomma of the McClatchy Newspapers declared 
the non-operational facility under construction, which Iran reported to the 
IAEA, to be "a secret nuclear facility."

Thomma, reported incorrectly that the world didn't learn of Iran's "secret" 
facility, the one that Iran reported to the IAEA the previous Monday, until 
Obama announced it in a joint appearance in Pittsburgh the following Friday 
with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas 
Sarkoszy.

Obviously, Thomma has no command over the facts, a routine inadequacy of 
"mainstream media" reporters. The new facility was revealed when Iran 
voluntarily reported the facility to the IAEA on September 21.

Ali Akbar Dareini, an Associated Press writer, reported, incorrectly, over 
AP: "The presence of a second uranium-enrichment site that could potentially 
produce material for a nuclear weapon has provided one of the strongest 
indications yet that Iran has something to hide."

Dareini goes on to write that "the existence of the secret site was first 
revealed by Western intelligence officials and diplomats on Friday." Dareini 
is mistaken. We learned of the facility when the IAEA announced that Iran 
had reported the facility the previous Monday in keeping with the safeguards 
agreement.

Dareini's untruthful report of "a secret underground uranium enrichment 
facility whose existence has been hidden from international inspectors for 
years" helped to heighten the orchestrated alarm.

There you have it. The president of the United States and his European 
puppets are doing what they do best--lying through their teeth. The US 
"mainstream media" repeats the lies as if they were facts. The US "media" is 
again making itself an accomplice to wars based on fabrications. Apparently, 
the media's main interest is to please the US government and hopefully 
obtain a taxpayer bailout of its failing print operations.

Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei, Director General of the International Atomic Energy 
Agency, a rare man of principle who has not sold his integrity to the US and 
Israeli governments, refuted in his report (September 7, 2009) the baseless 
"accusations that information has been withheld from the Board of Governors 
about Iran's nuclear programme. I am dismayed by the allegations of some 
Member states, which have been fed to the media, that information has been 
withheld from the Board. These allegations are politically motivated and 
totally baseless. Such attempts to influence the work of the Secretariat and 
undermine its independence and objectivity are in violation of Article 
VII.F. of the IAEA Statute and should cease forthwith."

As there is no legal basis for action against Iran, the Obama regime is 
creating another hoax, like the non-existent "Iraqi weapons of mass 
destruction." The hoax is that a facility, reported to the IAEA by Iran, is 
a secret facility for making nuclear weapons.

Just as the factual reports from the weapons inspectors in Iraq were ignored 
by the Bush Regime, the factual reports from the IAEA are ignored by the 
Obama Regime.
Like the Bush Regime, the Middle East policy of the Obama Regime is based in 
lies and deception.

Who is the worst enemy of the American people, Iran or the government in 
Washington and the media whores who serve it? 




From tal1 at cogeco.ca  Thu Oct  1 20:23:30 2009
From: tal1 at cogeco.ca (Tony B.)
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 22:23:30 -0400
Subject: [A-List] The Pathology of ....Netanyahu's speech
Message-ID: <9F7BE6EE83904379A7CB201516DF95E8@TonyPC>



Netanyahu's UN Speech

The Pathology of Evil

By Gilad Atzmon

September 29, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- Israeli PM Netanyahu's 
speech at the UN is a major insight into the Israeli's mentality,  psyche 
and logic. In his speech Netanyahu, a prolific and charismatic speaker, 
gives air to his genocidal inclinations, he brings to light the Israeli 
supremacy but he also allows us to detect some shaky and vulnerable spots at 
the heart of the Jewish national narrative. Reading Netanyahu's speech makes 
it very clear that both the Zionist Shoa and the 'promised land' narratives 
are on the verge of collapse. It seems as if the 'discredited' Iranian 
president Ahmadinejad has managed to succeed after all.

Don't You Mess With Our Shoa
Israelis love their Shoa, for the Shoa is no doubt their best selling 
Hasbara (propaganda) product. It somehow allows them to kill en masse and to 
do it indistinguishably while insisting that it is they who happen to be the 
victims.

"I went to a villa in a suburb of Berlin called Wannsee." Said Netanyahu. 
"There, on January 20,1942, after a hearty meal, senior Nazi officials met 
and decided how to exterminate the Jewish people."

PM Netanyahu, if you are genuinely interested in 'extermination plans' you 
do not have to travel to Wannsee, Berlin. All you have to do is visit your 
IDF's headquarters in Tel Aviv. Your chief commanders will guide you through 
their IDF 'solutions' for the Palestinians. At the end of the day, it is 
your army that surrounds Palestinians with barbed-wire, it is you who keep 
civilian populations in a siege with inadequate food supplies and medicine. 
It is your army that poured WMD over the most densely populated 
neighbourhoods on this planet. While the real meaning of the 'Nazi Final 
Solution' (Die Endl?sung) is still discussed by historians who fail to agree 
between themselves what it really meant, the true reality of the Israeli 
murderous solution has been seen by us all.

However, it is almost amusing to see PM Netanyahu rushing to defend the 
Zionist holocaust narrative. Looking at Netanyahu presenting the protocol of 
the Wannsee conference to the UN assembly gives a clear impression that the 
Israeli PM believes that the Shoa needs an urgent pump of credibility. For 
the first time, the Shoa is on the defence.

"Here is a copy of the plans for Auschwitz-Birkenau, where one million Jews 
were murdered. Is this too a lie?" asks the Israeli PM.

PM Netanyahu, may I suggest to you that not a single humanist cares about 
the exact numbers: whether it was one or four millions Jews who died in 
Auschwitz, no one doubts that the camp was a horrible place. Yet, two 
questions must be answered once and for all:  how is it that the Jews, who 
suffered so much during that war, managed to get themselves involved in a 
colossal racist crime against the Palestinians (1948 Nakba) just three years 
after the liberation of Auschwitz? How is it that the Israeli leadership, 
that happens to be so sensitive to Jewish suffering, manages to neglect the 
pain they inflict on millions of Palestinians?

Supremacy and Beyond

As a National movement, Zionism fails to respect other national and popular 
movements.  Seemingly Netanyahu fails to respect the Iranian people and 
their regime. "Wherever they can, they impose a backward regimented society 
where women, minorities, gays or anyone not deemed to be a true believer is 
brutally subjugated." Netanyahu, must know that the Judaic law is not very 
different from Islam on these matters. He must also remember that it is in 
his country that gays were murdered in the street just a month ago. It is 
almost amusing that Netanyahu chooses to equate Iran with Barbarism and the 
Middle Ages for its treatment of minorities. As far as minorities are 
concerned, the Jewish state is actually the darkest place on this planet. In 
Netanyahu's promised land half of the population cannot participate in the 
democratic game just for failing to be Jewish.

Israel according to Netanyahu is the embodiment of Western modernity.
"We (the Westerners) will crack the genetic code. We will cure the 
incurable. We will lengthen our lives. We will find a cheap alternative to 
fossil fuels and
clean up the planet. I am proud that my country Israel is at the forefront 
of these advances." I must admit that I am not at all overwhelmed by Israeli 
scientific or technological achievements. Nor have I ever seen any evidence 
of Israeli attempts to save humanity or even the planet. In fact all I see 
is quite the opposite. However, if Netanyahu welcomes scientific progress, 
he should be the first to rally for the Iranian nuclear project. As we all 
know, this doesn't seem to be the case. He, for some reason, thinks that, at 
least regionally, nuclear energy and weapons must remain Jew only property.

Netanyahu argues that "if the most primitive fanaticism can acquire the most 
deadly weapons, the march of history could be reversed for a time." 
Netanyahu may well be correct but one should point out to him that the above 
applies to Israel more than any other country, state or society. For the 
time being it is the Jewish State that has been caught pouring WMD on its 
imprisoned civilian population. It is the Jewish State that is dragging us 
all into an 'eye for an eye' primitive Biblical fanaticism. As if this is 
not enough, it is also America and Britain that launched illegal wars 
orchestrated by Zionist led Neocons and fundraisers. This war has cost more 
than one million lives so far.

However, for once I agree with Netanyhau:

"The greatest threat facing the world today", he says, "is the marriage 
between religious fanaticism and the weapons of mass destruction."

In fact, no one could describe the danger posed by the Jewish state and 
Zionism any better. Israel is indeed a deadly marriage between Old Testament 
gross genocidal barbarism, Zionist fanaticism and a huge arsenal of WMD, 
chemical, biological and nuclear that has already been partially put into 
action.

Sabbath Goyim

Like other Zionist operations around the world, Netanyahu is convinced that 
the Goyim should fight the Jewish wars. "Above all, will the international 
community stop the terrorist regime of Iran from developing atomic weapons, 
thereby endangering the peace of the entire world?" I actually would like to 
stress that PM Netanyahu is all wrong here.  If the United Nation is 
interested in bringing peace to this region and the world, it is of the 
essence to help Iran to develop its nuclear project and even its military 
nuclear capacity. This seems to be the only thing that may curb the English 
Speaking Empire's lethal expansionist enthusiasm as performed recently in 
Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan. It will surely stop the Zionists from 
celebrating their symptoms at the expense of their neighbours.

Following the successful transformation of the American and British armies 
into an Israeli subservient mission force, Netanyahu seems to expect the UN 
to follow and to fulfil the very same role. "Hamas", he says, "fired from 
Gaza thousands of missiles, mortars and rockets on nearby Israeli cities. 
Year after year, as these missiles were deliberately hurled at our 
civilians, not a single UN resolution was passed condemning those criminal 
attacks." I guess that someone should remind the Israeli PM that the dispute 
between Hamas and Israel is not exactly an international quarrel, for 
Palestine is not a sovereign state and Gaza is nothing less than an 
Israeli-run concentration camp. In other words, the practicality of the 
matter is simple. The UN should only deal with war crimes and crimes against 
humanity committed by Israel, its leadership and its army. It is not down to 
the UN to pass any kind of judgment on the oppressed.

Mass Murder Fantasies

It doesn't take long before Netanyahu lists his ideological mentors and the 
core of his lethal inspiration "When the Nazis rocketed British cities 
during World War II." Actually the allies levelled German cities, causing 
hundreds of thousands of victims. By these twisted standards, the UN Human 
Rights Council would have dragged Roosevelt and Churchill to the dock as war 
criminals. What a perversion of truth. What a perversion of justice. 
Delegates of the United Nations, will you accept this farce?"

Netanyahu is almost correct. In his recounting of the 2nd WW he surely 
admits here that Israel follows Roosevelt's and Churchill's mass murder 
tactics. But he surely fails to realise that if it was indeed down to ethics 
and Justice (rather than the usual dirty politics) Roosevelt and Churchill 
would have been charged with war crimes on a most severe scale. Shockingly 
enough, Netanyahu falls into the most obvious legal trap equating Israeli 
activity with acts of carpet bombardment on a huge scale. For those who fail 
to see it all, this is a rapidly blinking red light hazard. In Netanyahu's 
perception of reality nuking countries and flattening towns is a justifiable 
act. Roosevelt and Churchill seem to be his moral entitlement. In fact these 
statements are enough to make it clear to every reasonable human being that 
Israel is a genocidal entity that is capable of bringing our civilisation to 
a devastating end.

This is a wake up call: it is not just the Palestinians or the Iranians. It 
is actually all of us.

Bibi* the Peace Maker

By now, the Israeli PM is ready to state his Judeo centric peace mantra. 
"Ladies and Gentlemen, all of Israel wants peace". Yet as far as statistics 
are concerned, we have recently learned that 94% of the Israeli Jews also 
approved the carpet bombardment of their next door neighbours. It is 
impossible not to see a clear discrepancy between the 'peace loving' 
verbalism and the murderous reality.

"We ask the Palestinians to finally do what they have refused to do for 62 
years: Say yes
to a Jewish state." Once again, I happen to agree with PM Netanyahu. The 
Palestinian may as well say YES to a Jewish state, but not in Palestine or 
in the Middle East. If Obama, Brown, Merkel or any other deluded world 
leader  who is still insisting to approve the validity or necessity of a 
racially orientated 'Jewish national homeland', he or she is more than 
welcome to allocate land to such a project within his or her own territory. 
Palestinians should say NO to a Jewish state in the Holy Land or in the 
region. Palestinians should never agree to the existence of a Jewish state 
on their land. In fact the UN must follow this line and do whatever it can 
to dismantle this evil apartheid regime.

Khazarian United

To a certain extent, Netanyahu's UN speech expresses some deep concerns Jews 
tend to keep to themselves. At the end of the day, the Israelis and 
Ashkenazi Israelis in particular know pretty well that Palestine is not 
exactly the land of their ancestors. If the Israeli Ashkenazi Jews, 
including Netanyahu, do want to find their roots, Khazaria is the place to 
start. However, Netanyahu tries to defuse these historical facts. "The 
Jewish people are not foreign conquerors in the Land of Israel. This is the 
land of our forefathers. We are not strangers to this land. It is our 
homeland" says Netanyahu with total conviction.

PM Netanyahu, I will make it plain and clear. Not only are you foreign to 
the land, you are also foreign to almost every possible understanding of the 
notion of humanity.  In fact, the Separation Wall that is going to be left 
after the inevitable disappearance of  your 'Jew only democracy' will serve 
generations to come with  an astonishing  historical monument of  Jewish 
national identity estranged from ethics, universalism and human 
brotherhood. The crime against humanity committed by the Jewish state in the 
name of the Jewish people is not something that will be wiped out from the 
history text books in a short time. Quite the opposite; it will stand as 
another mythological chapter in this never-ending saga of supremacist 
compulsive pathological self-loving.

"We must have security" says Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu as he ends his 
speech. And I am here to disappoint him. Israel will never be secured. It 
was born in a sin, and its existence surpasses any notion of ethics or human 
existence. The Jewish state has passed the 'no return zone'. It is doomed to 
vanish. We can only hope that once this happens the process of Jewish 
assimilation and integration into humanity will re-embark. At the end of the 
day Jewish Nationalism both left, right and centre was there to keep Jews 
apart. The history of the 20th century teaches us that this tendency to 
segregate oneself is bad for humanity and it is also devastating for the 
Jews.

* Netanyahu's nickname is Bibi
Gilad Atzmon was born in Israel and served in the Israeli military. He is 
the author of two novels: A Guide to the Perplexed and the recently released 
My One and Only Love. Atzmon is also one of the most accomplished jazz 
saxophonists in Europe. His recent CD, Exile, was named the year's best jazz 
CD by the BBC. He now lives in London and can be reached at: 
atz at onetel.net.uk 




From sabri.oncu at gmail.com  Thu Oct  1 23:14:30 2009
From: sabri.oncu at gmail.com (Sabri Oncu)
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 01:14:30 -0400
Subject: [A-List] MARXIST THEORY COLLOQUIUM AT NYU - FOR OCTOBER
Message-ID: <fbe766850910012214u30856d85w6c1ad73594b822a0@mail.gmail.com>

MARXIST THEORY COLLOQUIUM AT NYU  -   FOR  OCTOBER

            TALK  BY  PROFESSOR  SHLOMO  SANDS,
                     DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY,  UNIVERSITY  OF  TEL  AVIV,
                              ON  HIS  NEWLY  TRANSLATED  BOOK,
                                      THE  INVENTION  OF  THE  JEWISH  PEOPLE

(This may be the most important and most surprising book on Zionism,
Israel and Judaism          written in the last fifty years. Nothing
in the Middle East looks the same after reading it. To whet your
desire to attend the talk, I've appended a brief sketch of some of the
major themes in the book at the end of this announcement. I've also
booked a large hall for Sand's talk (SEE BELOW), so please pass this
announcement on to friends, students and colleagues who are (or should
be) interested in these subjects??? Bertell Ollman)

DATE / TIME -
           FRIDAY, OCTOBER  16   -   4:15 ? 6:15 PM
                                (Please note new date and later starting time)
PLACE  -  MEYER HALL,  N.Y.U., 4 WASHINGTON PLACE (between West 4th
Street and Waverly Place, just west of Broadway), Room 121.
                (Please note new place)
SPEAKER  -
                PROFESSOR SHLOMO SANDS
Sands is a much published professor in the Dept. of History at Tel
Aviv University specializing in the history of ideas. His most recent
book is THE INVENTION OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE.  It is an extremely
scholarly, very original, and often shocking work, the title is meant
literally ? with profound implications for Zionism and thhe ongoing
conflict between Israel and its neighbors. I can't recall when last I
? Bertell ? learned so much about both nationalism and Zionism from
any bookk. It caused a huge scandal when it appeared a couple of years
ago in Israel and also in France when the French edition appeared last
year. Sands will be in the U.S. for a week promoting the English
edition of the book. For more, see reviews and interviews in English
at <http//inventionofthejewishpeople.com/>.

TOPIC ?     "THE INVENTION OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE"

DON'T MISS THIS ONE!

*********MEDIA   -      Professor Sands has a few time slots available
for interviews with the media  during his stay in New York (Oct. 15 ?
18). Those of you inn the media (or who have contacts in the media)
who are interested in interviewing him, should write to Julie
McCarroll, his editor at Verso Books at juliem at versobooks.com.

******************* NYU  REQUIRES  A PHOTO  I.D.  TO GET INTO  ALL OF
ITS BUILDINGS



BRIEF SKETCH OF SANDS' BOOK

THE INVENTION OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE  is divided into two parts. The
first is a long section on the theory of nationalism, whose main
characteristic, according to Sands, is the tendency to invent a past
that suits the current needs and goals of the people in question. This
is not a new idea (Benedict Anderson and Ernest Gellner have presented
versions of it), but this is the best account of it that I have read.
Second, there follows a much longer section on Zionism, Judaism and
Israel in light of the earlier discussion of nationalism. Most of this
long book is devoted to showing with a great deal of evidence and
arguments from several different disciplines that most of Jewish
history has been invented.

     The turning point is the supposed expulsion of the Jews from
Palestine by the Romans after the destruction of the Second Temple in
70 A.D. (apparently, there is no evidence for this; the Roman's never
engaged in such mass expulsions; and most of the Jews in Palestine at
the time were peasants living in the countryside, who would not be
directly affected by the destruction of Jerusalem).

     This raises two key questions: 1) Where did the large Jewish
populations that turn up later throughout the rest of the Middle East
and Europe come from, if they were not descended from people who were
expelled from Palestine by the Romans? Sand's answer is that most of
them came from mass conversions of peoples to Judaism that occurred in
at least three different places and times between the destruction of
the second temple and the early modern period. (He also shows that
some mass conversions of people to Judaism took place in Palestine
even before the destruction of the Second Temple. So the practice of
converting people, even large groups of people, to Judaism is not as
unknown to the history of Judaism as is commonly believed.)

      Probably the biggest mass conversion took place in Khazaria, a
Turkamen empire between the Caspian and the Black Sea between the 8th
and 11th century A.D., which was destroyed in the 11th century by
attacks from Russians, with most of its Jewish population migrating
west into eastern Europe. Together with a somewhat later, smaller,
more prosperous and more cultured Jewish migration from Western Europe
through Germany, they became the future Jews of Poland, Russia,
Hungary, etc.

       A second mass conversion in the period after the destruction of
the Second Temple took place among several Berber tribes in North
Africa in the 6th century A.D., though many conversions to Judaism
occurred in and around what had been Carthage and other coastal towns
in North Africa before that. When the Arabs brought Islam to these
lands a century later, they showed their typical respect for the
"people of the book" by not forcing them to adopt their religion.
Thus, when North African Muslims (not Arabs from Arabia) invaded Spain
in 711 A.D., Jewish Berbers made up a good part of their army, and
included at least one general. Many of them settled in Spain, and
became the core of what we call the Spanish Jews. The third big
conversion(s) occurred in Yemen, on the southern tip of the Arabian
peninsula, which had an enormous number of Jews from very early on,
including at least one Jewish king in the 6th century A.D., who tried
to convert  his subjects to Judaism.

     Granted that some Jews already lived throughout the Middle East
and Southern Europe before the destruction of the Second Temple - but
if we add up all the mass conversions to Judaism that occurred after
this event, it appears that the bulk of world Jewry from the early
middle ages on were descended from people who never set foot in
Palestine. Which raises, of course, the next key question - what
happened to the Jews who were still in Palestine after the destruction
of the Second Temple? Where did they go? Sand's answer is that they
didn't go anywhere. They are today's Palestinians, most of whom
converted to Islam in the early years of Islam's expansion into the
rest of the Middle-East. These are not unsupported conjectures, for
the great strength of Sand's book lies in the enormous wealth of
evidence and careful, scholarly argumentation he offers for each of
his claims.

      Where does all this leave the central idea that underlies the
whole Zionist project - that Jews everywhere have not only a duty but
a right to return to "their original homeland", Palestine? I can't
think of a more fundamental  critique of Zionism and therefore of
Israel too than the one found in Sand's book. No serious reader who is
interested in Zionism or Israel ? whatever their personal views>  ?
can avoid being shaken up "big-time" by Sands' impressive redrawing of
the major religious and "racial" boundaries that are usually taken for
granted in most discussion of these subjects.


From shimogamo at ashisuto.co.jp  Fri Oct  2 03:00:07 2009
From: shimogamo at ashisuto.co.jp (Bill Totten)
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 18:00:07 +0900
Subject: [A-List] The Anti-Empire Report
Message-ID: <20091002180007.c5b9208c.shimogamo@ashisuto.co.jp>


by William Blum

www.killinghope.org (September 29 2009)


Ridding the world of the sickness of pacifism

Picture the scene: Afghanistan, two hijacked tankers filled with highly
inflammable fuel, surrounded by a crowd of Afghans eager to syphon off
some for free ... What's the last thing you want to do? Right - drop
bombs on the tankers. That's what a German military commander signaled
an American drone airplane to do September 4. Kaboom!! At least 100
human beings incinerated. This incident has led to a lot of controversy
in Germany, for Article 26 of Germany's post-war Grundgesetz (Basic
Law/Constitution) states: "Acts tending to and undertaken with intent
to disturb the peaceful relations between nations, especially to
prepare for a war of aggression, shall be unconstitutional. They shall
be made a criminal offense."

But NATO (aka the United States) can take satisfaction in the fact that
the Germans have put their silly pacifism aside and acted like real
men, trained military killers; although prior to this incident the
Germans had engaged in some aerial and ground combat, there hadn't been
such a dramatic and publicized taking of civilian lives. Deutschland
now has more than 4,000 soldiers in Afghanistan, the third largest
contingent in the country after the US and Britain, and at home they've
just finished building a monument to fallen members of the Bundeswehr
(Federal Armed Forces), founded in 1955; 38 members (so far) have
surrendered their young lives in Afghanistan.

In January 2007 I wrote in this report about how the US was pushing
Germany in this direction; that circumstances at that time indicated
that Washington might be losing patience with the pace of Germany's
submission to the empire's needs. Germany declined to send troops to
Iraq and sent only non-combat forces to Afghanistan, not quite good
enough for the Pentagon warriors and their NATO allies. Germany's
leading news magazine, Der Spiegel, reported the following:

At a meeting in Washington, Bush administration officials, speaking in
the context of Afghanistan, berated Karsten Voigt, German government
representative for German-American relations: "You concentrate on
rebuilding and peacekeeping, but the unpleasant things you leave to
us" ... "The Germans have to learn to kill".

A German officer at NATO headquarters was told by a British officer:
"Every weekend we send home two metal coffins, while you Germans
distribute crayons and woollen blankets". Bruce George, the head of the
British Defence Committee, said "some drink tea and beer and others
risk their lives".

A NATO colleague from Canada remarked that it was about time that "the
Germans left their sleeping quarters and learned how to kill the
Taliban".

And in Quebec, a Canadian official told a German official: "We have the
dead, you drink beer" {1}

Ironically, in many other contexts since the end of World War Two the
Germans have been unable to disassociate themselves from the image of
Nazi murderers and monsters.

Will there come the day when the Taliban and Iraqi insurgents will be
mocked by "the Free World" for living in peace?

The United States has also engaged in a decades-long effort to wean
Japan away from its post World War Two pacifist constitution and
foreign policy and set it back on the righteous path of again being a
military power, only this time acting in coordination with US foreign
policy needs.

"Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and
order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of
the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling
international disputes.

"In order to accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land, sea,
and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be
maintained. The right of belligerency of the state will not be
recognized."

-- Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution, 1947, words long cherished
by a large majority of the Japanese people.


In the triumphalism of the end of the Second World War, the American
occupation of Japan, in the person of General Douglas MacArthur, played
a major role in the creation of this constitution. But after the
communists came to power in China in 1949, the United States opted for
a strong Japan safely ensconced in the anti-communist camp. It's been
all downhill since then. Step by step ... MacArthur himself ordered the
creation of a "national police reserve", which became the embryo of the
future Japanese military ... Visiting Tokyo in 1956, US Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles told Japanese officials: "In the past, Japan
had demonstrated her superiority over the Russians and over China. It
was time for Japan to think again of being and acting like a Great
Power." {2} ... various US-Japanese security and defense cooperation
treaties, which, for example, called on Japan to integrate its military
technology with that of the US and NATO ... the US supplying new
sophisticated military aircraft and destroyers ... all manner of
Japanese logistical assistance to the US in its frequent military
operations in Asia ... repeated US pressure on Japan to increase its
military budget and the size of its armed forces ... more than a
hundred US military bases in Japan, protected by Japanese armed
forces ... US-Japanese joint military exercises and joint research on a
missile defense system ... the US Ambassador to Japan, 2001: "I think
the reality of circumstances in the world is going to suggest to the
Japanese that they reinterpret or redefine Article 9" {3} ... under
pressure from Washington, Japan sent several naval vessels to the
Indian Ocean to refuel US and British warships as part of the
Afghanistan campaign in 2002, then sent non-combat forces to Iraq to
assist the American war as well as to East Timor, another
made-in-America war scenario ... Secretary of State Colin Powell, 2004:
"If Japan is going to play a full role on the world stage and become a
full active participating member of the Security Council, and have the
kind of obligations that it would pick up as a member of the Security
Council, Article Nine would have to be examined in that light" {4} ...

One outcome or symptom of all this can perhaps be seen in the 2005 case
of Kimiko Nezu, a 54-year-old Japanese teacher, who was punished by
being transferred from school to school, by suspensions, salary cuts,
and threats of dismissal because of her refusal to stand during the
playing of the national anthem, a World War Two song chosen as the
anthem in 1999. She opposed the song because it was the same one sung
as the Imperial Army set forth from Japan calling for an "eternal
reign" of the emperor. At graduation ceremonies in 2004, 198 teachers
refused to stand for the song. After a series of fines and disciplinary
actions, Nezu and nine other teachers were the only protesters the
following year. Nezu was then allowed to teach only when another
teacher was present. {5}

Which brings us to Italy, the remaining member of the World War Two
Tripartite, or Axis. Article 11 of the 1948 Italian Constitution says
in part: "Italy rejects war as a means for settling international
controversies and as an instrument of aggression against the freedoms
of others peoples" {6}

But Washington laid claim early to Italy's post-war soul. In 1948 the
United States all but took over the Italian election campaign to insure
the Christian Democrats (CD) defeat of the Communist-Socialist
candidate. (And the US remained an electoral force in Italy for the
next three decades maintaining the CD in power. The Christian
Democrats, in turn, were loyal Cold-War partners.) {7} In 1949, the US
saw to it that Italy became a founding member of NATO. This was not
seen as a threat to Article 11 because NATO has always painted itself
as a "defensive" organization, even in 1999 when it carried out a
78-day bombing of Yugoslavia as both Italy and Germany supplied
military aircraft and a NATO air base at Aviano, Italy served as the
main hub for the daily bombing runs. For decades, Italy has been the
home of US military bases and airfields used by Washington in one
military adventure after another from Europe to Asia.

There are now some 3,000 Italian soldiers in Afghanistan performing a
variety of services which enables the United States and NATO to engage
in their bloody warfare. And fifteen Italian soldiers have also lost
their lives in that woeful land. The pressure on Italy, as on Germany,
to become full-fledged combatants in Afghanistan and elsewhere is
unrelenting from their NATO comrades. {8}

The Berlin Wall - Another Cold War Myth

Within a few weeks many of the Western media can be expected to turn on
their propaganda machines to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the
tearing down of the Berlin Wall, November 9 1989. All the Cold War
cliches about The Free World vs Communist Tyranny will be trotted out
and the simple tale of how the wall came to be will be repeated: In
1961, the East Berlin communists built a wall to keep their oppressed
citizens from escaping to West Berlin and freedom. Why? Because commies
don't like people to be free, to learn the "truth". What other reason
could there have been?

First of all, before the wall went up thousands of East Germans had
been commuting to the West for jobs each day and then returned to the
East in the evening. So they were clearly not being held in the East
against their will. The wall was built primarily for two reasons:

1. The West was bedeviling the East with a vigorous campaign of
recruiting East German professionals and skilled workers, who had been
educated at the expense of the Communist government. This eventually
led to a serious labor and production crisis in the East. As one
indication of this, the New York Times reported in 1963: "West Berlin
suffered economically from the wall by the loss of about 60,000 skilled
workmen who had commuted daily from their homes in East Berlin to their
places of work in West Berlin". {9}

2. During the 1950s, American coldwarriors in West Germany instituted a
crude campaign of sabotage and subversion against East Germany designed
to throw that country's economic and administrative machinery out of
gear. The CIA and other US intelligence and military services
recruited, equipped, trained and financed German activist groups and
individuals, of West and East, to carry out actions which ran the
spectrum from terrorism to juvenile delinquency; anything to make life
difficult for the East German people and weaken their support of the
government; anything to make the commies look bad.

It was a remarkable undertaking. The United States and its agents used
explosives, arson, short circuiting, and other methods to damage power
stations, shipyards, canals, docks, public buildings, gas stations,
public transportation, bridges, et cetera; they derailed freight
trains, seriously injuring workers; burned twelve cars of a freight
train and destroyed air pressure hoses of others; used acids to damage
vital factory machinery; put sand in the turbine of a factory, bringing
it to a standstill; set fire to a tile-producing factory; promoted work
slow-downs in factories; killed 7,000 cows of a co-operative dairy
through poisoning; added soap to powdered milk destined for East German
schools; were in possession, when arrested, of a large quantity of the
poison cantharidin with which it was planned to produce poisoned
cigarettes to kill leading East Germans; set off stink bombs to disrupt
political meetings; attempted to disrupt the World Youth Festival in
East Berlin by sending out forged invitations, false promises of free
bed and board, false notices of cancellations, et cetera; carried out
attacks on participants with explosives, firebombs, and tire-puncturing
equipment; forged and distributed large quantities of food ration cards
to cause confusion, shortages and resentment; sent out forged tax
notices and other government directives and documents to foster
disorganization and inefficiency within industry and unions ... all
this and much more. {10}

Throughout the 1950s, the East Germans and the Soviet Union repeatedly
lodged complaints with the Soviets' erstwhile allies in the West and
with the United Nations about specific sabotage and espionage
activities and called for the closure of the offices in West Germany
they claimed were responsible, and for which they provided names and
addresses. Their complaints fell on deaf ears. Inevitably, the East
Germans began to tighten up entry into the country from the West.

Let's not forget that Eastern Europe became communist because Hitler,
with the approval of the West, used it as a highway to reach the Soviet
Union and wipe out Bolshevism forever. After the war, the Soviets were
determined to close down the highway.

In 1999, USA Today reported: "When the Berlin Wall crumbled, East
Germans imagined a life of freedom where consumer goods were abundant
and hardships would fade. Ten years later, a remarkable 51% say they
were happier with communism." {11}

About the same time a new Russian proverb was born: "Everything the
Communists said about Communism was a lie, but everything they said
about capitalism turned out to be the truth".

Health care: ignoring the huge red elephant in the room

In the frenzied search of recent months for a better way of delivering
health care to the American people, the American media has often
discussed health-care systems in other countries, particularly Europe.
Usually, little, if anything, is mentioned about Cuba's system, where
everyone is covered, for everything, where pre-existing conditions do
not matter, and no patient pays for anything; that is, nothing at all.
The reason the Cuban system is seldom mentioned in the mass media is
probably that it's kind of embarrassing that this otherwise poor
country, laboring under the awful yoke of (choke, gasp) socialism, can
deliver health care that most Americans can only dream of.

Now we have a new book by T R Reid, former correspondent for the
Washington Post and commentator for National Public Radio. It's called
The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer
Health Care (2009). Reid does not avoid giving some credit to the Cuban
system, but he makes sure that the reader knows that he's not taken in
by any commie propaganda. He refers to the Cuban government as "a
totalitarian Communist fiefdom", and adds: "In every country (except,
perhaps, a police state like Cuba) there is one group of citizens who
are not bound by the unified health care system: the rich" {12}. Thus,
the fact that Cuba has an egalitarian health care system is made to
seem like something negative, something one could expect to find only
in a police state.

In discussing the World Health Organization's giving Cuba high marks
for fairness in its system, Reid points out: "Of course, fairness and
equal treatment extend only so far; when Fidel Castro himself fell ill
in 2007, medical experts were flown in from Europe to treat him." {13}
Aha! I knew it! Americans, and not just the right-wing crazies, would
never accept a medical system where everyone got completely free care
for all ailments if the president ever got any kind of special
treatment. Would they? We could at least ask them.

Speaking of the right-wing crazies, there was a report in the New York
Times which said: "Tomorrow night, getting right into the thick of the
battle," the president will "carry his message to the people in a
nationwide television and radio speech" fighting for enactment of his
health reform bill, which opponents tagged as "socialized medicine" and
"an entering wedge for the takeover of private medicine by the federal
government". The president was John F Kennedy, the program was
Medicare, the Times story was published on May 20 1962. Despite the
speech, the effort failed until passage in 1964. {14}

And speaking of the totalitarian communist socialist fascist Cuban
police-state dictatorship, Mr Reid and others might be interested in an
article {15} I wrote which demonstrates that during the period of its
revolution, Cuba has enjoyed one of the very best human-rights records
in all of Latin America.

But how to get past a lifetime of conditioning and reach the American
mind with that message? At the recent convention of the AFL-CIO, the
country's leading labor organization, there was a very progressive
resolution put forth calling for the right of all Americans to travel
to Cuba and for an end to the US embargo against the island nation. But
at the end of the resolution the authors reminded us that they're
Americans, calling upon Cuba "to release all political prisoners". {16}

To appreciate what's wrong with that resolution one must understand the
following: The United States is to the Cuban government like al Qaeda
is to Washington, only much more powerful and much closer. Since the
Cuban revolution, the United States and anti-Castro Cuban exiles in the
US have inflicted upon Cuba greater damage and greater loss of life
than what happened in New York and Washington on September 11 2001.
Cuban dissidents typically have had very close, indeed intimate,
political and financial connections to American government officials,
particularly in Havana through the United States Interests Section.
Would the US government ignore a group of Americans receiving funds
from al Qaeda and/or engaging in repeated meetings with known leaders
of that organization? In the past few years, the American government
has arrested a great many people in the US and abroad solely on the
basis of alleged ties to al Qaeda, with a lot less evidence to go by
than Cuba has had with its dissidents' ties to the United States,
evidence gathered by Cuban double agents. Virtually all of Cuba's
"political prisoners" are such dissidents.

Notes

1. Der Spiegel (Germany), November 20 2006, page 24

2. Los Angeles Times, September 23 1994

3. Washington Post, July 18 2001

4. BBC, August 14 2004

5. Washington Post, August 30 2005

6. Wikipedia: "Article 11 of Italian Constitution"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_of_Italy#Article_11_of_Italian_Constitution

7. William Blum, Killing Hope (1995), chapters 2 and 18

8. For further discussion of US opposition to Post-World War Two Axis
pacifism, see "Former Axis Nations Abandon Post-World War II Military
Restrictions"
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/former-axis-nations-abandon-post-world-war-ii-military-restrictions/

9. New York Times, June 27 1963, page 12

10. See Killing Hope (1995), page 400, note 8, for a list of sources
for the details of the sabotage and subversion

11. USA Today, October 11 1999, page 1

12. page 234 of Reid's book

13. Ibid, pages 150-151

14. Washington Post, September 09 2009

15. http://killinghope.org/bblum6/democ.htm

16.
http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/thisistheaflcio/convention/2009/upload/res_43.pdf

William Blum is the author of:-

Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War Two
(Common Courage Press, 1995)

Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower (Zed Books, 2002)

West-Bloc Dissident: A Cold War Memoir (Soft Skull Press, 2002)

Freeing the World to Death: Essays on the American Empire (Common
Courage Press, 2004)

Portions of the books can be read, and copies purchased, at
http://www.killinghope.org and previous Anti-Empire Reports can be read
at this website.

To add yourself to this mailing list simply send an email to
bblum6 at aol.com with "add" in the subject line. I'd like your name and
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Any part of this report may be disseminated without permission. I'd
appreciate it if the website were mentioned.

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From noreply at coha.org  Thu Oct  1 12:47:43 2009
From: noreply at coha.org (Council on Hemispheric Affairs)
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 14:47:43 -0400
Subject: [A-List] The Wrangle Over a Credible Honduran Policy & COHA In the
	News
Message-ID: <20091001184731.D318A3E4E4C@mx-out2.daemonmail.net>

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From nscchicago at igc.org  Thu Oct  1 23:28:13 2009
From: nscchicago at igc.org (NSC WORKERS COOP)
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 00:28:13 -0500
Subject: [A-List] HONDURAS - DAY 87
Message-ID: <AD33E8251A6A41B68AF08FBB487463A2@NSCCHICAGO>



Tom Baker here forwarding to you 
mensajes en espanol. 
Let me tell you, bo, that's the way 
it's going, more en espanol.  

- Patricia Rodas, Honduran Secretary 
of State from Managua, identifies and 
blasts the oligarchy. After all, who do 
they think they are? 
     "Owners" of democracy carry off 
a coup. Promoters of justice kick down 
doors. 

- Meanwhile at the Brazilian Embassy 
in Tegucigalpa) there is a birthday 
and a birth, Life Goes On. 

- INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PROTEST 
CONTRA LA BULLSHIT. People are 
gathering, standing in  solidarity with 
the people of Honduras. And, of course, 
there are other ways people can help, 
a list to choose from    


 

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From cb31450 at gmail.com  Fri Oct  2 08:28:36 2009
From: cb31450 at gmail.com (c b)
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 10:28:36 -0400
Subject: [A-List] Peak oil
Message-ID: <5c2e4d230910020728m42995002s7cb0651308334d25@mail.gmail.com>

L:
Who cares whether you agree or not. If I want to read what Gar and
Eugene have to say I'll either subscribe to Pen-l or use Gmane.

Oh, and it's 'netiquette', not a rule.

Rules are made to be broken.

(N)etiquette shows that the poster has manners and consideration for others.


^^^^^
CB:  If your attitude toward me is "who cares" , then I don't see you
having good manners or consideration for me. My rule is that I don't
give much consideration to them that don't give consideration to me.


From suzannedk at gmail.com  Fri Oct  2 03:55:27 2009
From: suzannedk at gmail.com (Suzanne de Kuyper)
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 11:55:27 +0200
Subject: [A-List] [R-G] Honduras in State of Siege
In-Reply-To: <cd351fdc0910010527o20863490p1cd9fd803ee39a06@mail.gmail.com>
References: <cd351fdc0910010527o20863490p1cd9fd803ee39a06@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <dce6f8b40910020255u3f7ded84s52051c944feb893e@mail.gmail.com>

The Iranian people are so experienced in serial demonizations from the
U.S./Israel led Western World enacted into layers of International
sanctions, hopefully their leader will not allownewly  increased and
differing demonizations to frighten them or change their trajectory of
national sovereignty.  The U.S. forms of intimidation are limitless.  As is
the budget for their completely lawless intelligence agencies    Suzanne

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi <
critical.montages at gmail.com> wrote:

> Late September and early October turn out to be the time when a lot of
> things come to a head at the same time.  The ruling classes of the
> West (buoyed by jobless recovery) see an opportunity to strengthen the
> sanctions against Iran (they hope to exploit the political division in
> Iran and see a chance of winning over Russia).  The coup leaders of
> Honduras have plunged the nation in a state of siege.  In both cases
> Lula has been very good, helping Zelaya return to Honduras and
> rejecting the coup regime's ultimatum, talking to Ahmadinejad at the
> UN and rejecting pressures to isolate Iran.  As long as China and
> Russia continue to stand by Iran, the Iranians can probably defend
> themselves.*  The Hondurans can use stepped-up international pressures
> on the US to stop supporting the coup regime.
>
> *  <http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/iran240909.html>
> Can Iran beat gasoline sanctions?  The answer seems to be yes.
>
> On the front page of the Financial Times on 23 September 2009 (Javier
> Blas and Carola Hoyos, "Chinese Begin Petrol Supplies to Iran"):
>
>    Chinese state companies this month began supplying petrol to Iran
> and now provide up to one-third of its imports in a development that
> threatens to undermine US-led efforts to shut off the supply of fuel
> on which its economy depends.
>
> Moreover, Iran apparently has been making progress in becoming less
> dependent on gasoline import, according to Gal Luft, executive
> director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security and
> publisher of the Journal of Energy Security ("The New Iran Sanctions:
> Worse Than the Old Ones," Foreign Policy, 11 August 2009):
>
>    The little-known reason is that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has
> imposed dramatic measures to eliminate this strategic vulnerability.
> He has massively expanded the country's refinery infrastructure.
> Seven of Iran's nine existing refineries are undergoing expansion
> projects; seven new refineries are on the drawing board or already
> under construction.  In three to five years, these projects will
> double Iran's refining capacity, putting it on par with Saudi Arabia.
>
>    These efforts, in addition to an effective petrol rationing
> scheme, have slashed Iran's need to import petroleum products.  As of
> this fall, Iran's daily gasoline dependence will stand below 25
> percent.  This figure is expected to decline even further to roughly
> 15 percent over the next year as new refining capacity comes online.
> By 2012 Iran is projected to be gasoline self-sufficient; shortly
> after that, the Islamic Republic is likely to become a net gasoline
> exporter.
>
>    In expanding its refining capacity, Iran worked with French,
> British, German, Swiss, Korean, Romanian, Italian, Danish, Japanese,
> Chinese, and even American firms (working through shell companies set
> up overseas).  Vigorous enforcement of the Iran Refined Petroleum
> Sanctions Act might cause some of these companies to reconsider their
> relations with Iran.  But the idea that the new U.S. sanctions on
> gasoline imports -- widely thought in Washington to be a "drastic"
> measure -- would derail Iran's progress toward energy independence or
> inflict more than a pin prick on the mullahs' regime is overly
> optimistic.
>
>    First, the foreign companies that have been involved in Iran's
> refinery expansion projects have done so in the early phases of
> licensing, consulting, financing, design and engineering.  For the
> most part these services have already been performed; the Iranians do
> the construction themselves.  Even if the foreign partners responded
> to the sanctions, it would have little impact on the projects.
>
>    Second, Iran is becoming increasingly reliant on China for its
> refinery expansion program -- and Beijing has shown little interest in
> abiding by any sanctions regime initiated by the United States.  In
> recent months, Chinese companies have greatly expanded their presence
> in Iran's oil sector.  In the coming months, Sinopec, the state-owned
> Chinese oil company, is scheduled to complete the expansion of the
> Tabriz and Shazand refineries -- adding 3.3 million gallons of
> gasoline per day.  Iran has also secured agreements to take part in
> three overseas refining joint ventures, in Malaysia, Indonesia, and
> Syria.  The chances those governments would annul these projects are
> nil.
>
>    Simultaneously, Iran is ambitiously pushing alternative fuels to
> reduce its gasoline consumption.  Three years ago, Ahmadinejad
> initiated a program to convert Iran's vehicles to run on natural gas
> rather than gasoline.  Iran has the world's third-largest natural gas
> reserves (around 16 percent of the world's total).  Now, the
> government is subsidizing retrofitting cars for natural gas; an
> Iranian version of "cash for clunkers" is phasing out old gas
> guzzlers; and domestic automakers now must enable all new cars to run
> on natural gas, which hundreds of refueling stations are being
> renovated to serve.  The government also provides financial incentives
> for drivers to prefer natural gas over gasoline.  A gallon of gasoline
> costs 53 cents while the natural gas equivalent only costs 15 cents.
> Since the initiation of the program, gas has replaced 10 percent of
> Iran's total gasoline consumption for transport fuel.
>
>    Furthermore, Iran is one of the world's largest producers of
> methanol -- a cousin to ethanol that can be made from not just
> agricultural products, but also coal and natural gas.  The country has
> four major methanol plants and is building two massive new ones, among
> the largest in the world, which will increase Iran's production
> capacity by more than 60 percent.  These factories, built with the aid
> of a Danish company, will enable Iran to blend alcohol into its fuel,
> just as the United States does with gas and ethanol, and lower its
> gasoline consumption by at least 5 percent without any need for
> vehicle retrofitting.  Finally, the Iranian government is encouraging
> its citizens to use public buses by subsidizing diesel.
>
>    All of these measures show that the chance a U.S. sanctions policy
> will inflict economic pain and trigger a change in the regime's
> behavior is slim.
>
> Will the Obama administration and Congress reconsider their idea of
> gasoline sanctions, in light of the above?
>
> Yoshie
>
> _______________________________________________
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From cb31450 at gmail.com  Fri Oct  2 09:26:39 2009
From: cb31450 at gmail.com (c b)
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 11:26:39 -0400
Subject: [A-List] Peak oil (Yoshie Furuhashi)
Message-ID: <5c2e4d230910020826n1c7f206eh7151fd006eeb4740@mail.gmail.com>

Postings to mailing lists are usually not like self-standing books and
articles, though.  Individual postings are like odd fragments of
conversations, so just listening to fragments doesn't convey the
meaning of the conversations of which they are part.  Taken out of
contexts, individual postings may not make much sense.  So, if your
point is to call attention to interesting conversations happening on
those mailing lists that are really open, ie the ones that have
archives open to non-subscribers, I suggest you post links that direct
subscribers here to the archived threads that contain the
conversations in question.
Yoshie

^^^^^^^

CB:  Yeah, a link would be ok, though the lists I send posts from
should be pretty well known to members of this list as sister lists:
PEN-L, Marxism-Thaxis, LBO-talk, and Marxmail.


From cb31450 at gmail.com  Fri Oct  2 09:29:54 2009
From: cb31450 at gmail.com (c b)
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 11:29:54 -0400
Subject: [A-List] Jobless rate reaches 9.8 percent in September
Message-ID: <5c2e4d230910020829x2f2647d4gbfeb472ef5148660@mail.gmail.com>

Jobless rate reaches 9.8 percent in September

By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER, AP Economics Writer Christopher S. Rugaber,
Ap Economics Writer 20 mins ago
WASHINGTON ? The unemployment rate rose to 9.8 percent in September,
the highest since June 1983, as employers cut far more jobs than
expected.

The report is evidence that the worst recession since the 1930s is
still inflicting widespread pain and underscores one of the biggest
threats to the nascent economic recovery: that consumers, worried
about job losses and stagnant wages, will restrain spending. Consumer
spending accounts for about 70 percent of the nation's economy.

The Labor Department said Friday that the economy lost a net total of
263,000 jobs last month, from a downwardly revised 201,000 in August.
That's worse than Wall Street economists' expectations of 180,000 job
losses, according to a survey by Thomson Reuters.

The unemployment rate rose from 9.7 percent in August, matching expectations.

"The labor market is still going backwards," economist Joel Naroff,
president of Naroff Economic Advisors, wrote in a note to clients.

The report also points to an uneven economic rebound, analysts said.

"We remain convinced that we are in the early stages of an economic
recovery," said Michelle Meyer, an economist at Barclays Capital. But
today's report "suggests the recovery will be bumpy in the beginning."

If laid-off workers who have settled for part-time work or have given
up looking for new jobs are included, the unemployment rate rose to 17
percent, the highest on records dating from 1994.

According to a separate report Friday, U.S. factory orders fell in
August by the largest amount in five months.

The Commerce Department said demand for manufactured goods dropped 0.8
percent, much worse than the 0.7 percent gain that economists had
expected. The August decline reflected plunging demand for commercial
aircraft, a category that surged in July.

The weak reports sent the stock market down in morning trading. The
Dow Jones Industrial average fell 49 points, while broader indexes
also declined.

More than a half-million unemployed people gave up looking for work
last month. Had they continued searching, the official jobless rate
would have been higher.

The number of people out of work for six months or longer jumped to a
record 5.4 million, and they now make up almost 36 percent of the
unemployed ? also a record.

All told, 15.1 million Americans are now out of work, the department
said. And more than 7.2 million jobs have been eliminated since the
recession began in December 2007.

Many analysts expect the economy grew at a healthy clip in the
July-September quarter, technically ending the recession, but few
think the recovery will be strong enough to lower the jobless rate.
Most economists expect the rate to top 10 percent and keep climbing.

The economy has received a boost from the Cash for Clunkers auto
rebate program and other government stimulus efforts, but many
economists believe that growth will slow in the current quarter and
early next year as the impact of those programs fade.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Thursday that even if the
economy were to grow at a 3 percent pace in the coming quarters, it
would not be enough to quickly drive down the unemployment rate.
Bernanke said the rate is likely to remain above 9 percent through the
end of 2010.

Besides the sagging jobs market, other potential obstacles to a smooth
recovery include wary consumers, the troubled commercial real estate
market, and a tight lending environment for individuals and
businesses, said Eric Rosengren, president of the Federal Reserve Bank
of Boston.

"These challenges will likely make the recovery rather restrained by
historical standards, with subdued levels of spending and lending
continuing to hold back a more rapid recovery," Rosengren said in a
speech in Boston on Friday.

Against that backdrop, key monetary and fiscal policy supports will
need to be keep in place to help foster a recovery, Rosengren said.

Hourly earnings rose by a penny last month, while weekly wages fell
$1.54 to $616.11, according to the government data.

The average hourly work week fell back to a record low of 33 in
September. That figure is important because economists are looking for
companies to add more hours for current workers before they hire new
ones.

The uncertainty that surrounds the recovery has made employers
reluctant to hire. The Business Roundtable, a group of CEOs from large
corporations, said earlier this week that only 13 percent of its
members expect to increase hiring over the next six months.

While job losses have slowed since the first quarter of this year when
they averaged 691,000 a month, the cuts actually worsened last month
in many sectors compared with August.

Construction jobs fell by 64,000, more than the 60,000 eliminated in
August. And service sector companies cut 147,000 jobs, more than
double the 69,000 in the previous month. Retailers lost 38,500 jobs,
compared to less than 9,000 in August.

Government jobs fell 53,000, the report said, with local governments
cutting the most.

Temporary help agencies eliminated 1,700 jobs, down from the previous
month, but still a sign of labor market weakness. Economists see
temporary jobs as a leading indicator, as employers are likely to hire
temp workers before permanent ones.

President Barack Obama said in a speech earlier this week that his
$787 billion stimulus package and other efforts have "broken our
economic freefall," though he acknowledged the labor market hasn't
improved.

Republicans charge that continued job losses are evidence that the
stimulus was an expensive failure.

____

AP Economics Writer Jeannine Aversa contributed to this report.


From cb31450 at gmail.com  Fri Oct  2 09:35:13 2009
From: cb31450 at gmail.com (c b)
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 11:35:13 -0400
Subject: [A-List] What is an orgasm , anyway ?
Message-ID: <5c2e4d230910020835m42ef81d7n249864c30b1b4f60@mail.gmail.com>

http://www.alternet.org/story/143013/what_is_an_orgasm%2C_anyway


From cb31450 at gmail.com  Fri Oct  2 09:39:58 2009
From: cb31450 at gmail.com (c b)
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 11:39:58 -0400
Subject: [A-List] Tea Party Movement Returns Christian Right to Its Racist
	Past
Message-ID: <5c2e4d230910020839o58bfea9era2aa46a436a3f1cd@mail.gmail.com>

Tea Party Movement Returns Christian Right to Its Racist Past
By Michelle Goldberg, The American Prospect
Posted on October 2, 2009, Printed on October 2, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/story/142988/

Now that popular conservatism has given itself over so avidly to
racial resentment, it's curious to remember how hard the right once
tried to scrub itself of the lingering taint of prejudice. Indeed, for
a decade and a half the Christian right -- until recently the most
powerful and visible grassroots conservative movement -- struggled
mightily to escape its own bigoted history. In his 1996 book Active
Faith, Ralph Reed acknowledged that Christian conservatives had been
on the wrong side of the civil rights movement. "The white evangelical
church carries a shameful legacy of racism and the historical baggage
of indifference to the most central struggle for social justice in
this century, a legacy that is only now being wiped clean by the
sanctifying work of repentance and racial reconciliation," wrote Reed.

"Racial reconciliation" became a kind of buzz phrase. The idea
animated Promise Keepers meetings. "Racism is an insidious monster,"
Bill McCartney, the group's founder, said at a 39,000-man Atlanta
rally. "You can't say you love God and not love your brother." The
Traditional Values Coalition distributed a video called "Gay Rights,
Special Rights" to black churches; it criticized the gay rights
movement for co-opting the noble legacy of the civil rights struggle.

Throughout the Bush years, homophobia and professions of anti-racism
were twinned in a weird way, as if the latter proved that the right
wasn't simply still skulking around history's dark side. At a deeply
surreal 2006 event at the Greater Exodus Baptist Church, an African
American church in downtown Philadelphia, leaders of the religious
right invoked Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks on behalf of gay
marriage bans and Bush's judicial nominees. At the end of the evening,
several dozen clergymen, black and white, joined hands in prayer at
the front of the room. "Black Americans, white Americans," said a
beaming Tony Perkins, leader of the Family Research Council.
"Christians, standing together." The whole premise of compassionate
conservatism -- which shoveled taxpayer money towards
administration-friendly churches like Greater Exodus Baptist -- was
that the right cared as deeply as the left about issues like inner
city poverty.

What a difference an election makes. Even if you believed that
compassionate conservatism was always a bit of a con, it's amazing to
see how quickly it has vanished, and how fast an older style of
reaction, one more explicitly rooted in racial grievance, has
reasserted itself.

Today's grassroots right is by all appearances as socially
conservative as ever, but its tone and its rhetoric are profoundly
different than they were even a year ago. For the last 15 years, the
right-wing populism has been substantially electrified by sexual
anxiety. Now it's charged with racial anxiety. By all accounts, there
were more confederate flags than crosses at last weekend's anti-Obama
rally in Washington, DC. Glenn Beck has become a far more influential
figure on the right than, say, James Dobson, and he's much more
interested in race than in sexual deviancy. For the first time in at
least a decade, middle class whites have been galvanized by the fear
that their taxes are benefiting lazy, shiftless others. The messianic,
imperialistic, hubristic side of the right has gone into retreat, and
a cramped, mean and paranoid style has come to the fore.

To some extent, a newfound suspicion of government was probably
inevitable as soon as Democrats took power. At the same time, with the
implosion of the Christian right's leadership and the last year's
cornucopia of GOP sex scandals, the party needed to take a break from
incessant moralizing, and required a new ideology to take the place of
family values cant. The belief system analysts sometimes call
"producerism" served nicely. Producerism sees society as divided
between productive workers -- laborers, small businessmen and the like
-- and the parasites who live off them. Those parasites exist at both
the top and the bottom of the social hierarchy -- they are both
financiers and welfare bums -- and their larceny is enabled by the
government they control.

Producerism has often been a trope of right-wing movements, especially
during times of economic distress, when many people sense they're
getting screwed. Its racist (and often anti-Semitic) potential is
obvious, so it gels well with the climate of Dixiecrat racial angst
occasioned by the election of our first black president. The result is
the return of the repressed.

It's not, after all, as if the Christian right was something
completely removed from the old racist right -- rather, as Reed
acknowledged all those years ago, they were initially deeply
intertwined. The Columbia historian Randall Balmer has shown that
Christian conservatives were not, contrary to their own mythology,
initially mobilized by their outrage at Roe vs. Wade. Rather, what
spurred them into action was the IRS's attempt to revoke the
tax-exempt status of whites only Christian schools, schools that had
been created specifically to evade desegregation.

The Christian right was always rooted in an older style of reactionary
politics. Before he became a political organizer himself, Falwell --
who ran one of those Christian segregation academies -- attacked
Martin Luther King Jr. for his political activism. ("Preachers are not
called to be politicians, but to be soul winners," he said.) Before
Tony Perkins was basking in homophobic interracial amity, he paid Ku
Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke $82,500 for his mailing list. In
2004, David Barton, then the vice president of the Texas GOP, spoke at
an event featuring white preachers and ministry workers dropping to
their knees before their black brethren to plead for forgiveness.
Thirteen years earlier, Barton had twice been a featured speaker at
meetings of the Christian Identity movement, which preaches that
blacks are sub-human "mud people." One could go on and on.

As racism grew politically unacceptable, the Christian right was able
to channel resentment over the decline of white male privilege into a
Kulterkampf directed at more acceptable enemies, like gays and
lesbians. The movement borrowed heavily from Catholic theology and
convinced itself that it was in a righteous struggle against a culture
of death, not a culture of diversity. Now the mask is off. One wonders
if fifteen years from now, they'll bother apologizing all over again.


Michelle Goldberg is a senior correspondent at The American Prospect.
She is also the author of Kingdom Coming and The Means of
Reproduction.

? 2009 The American Prospect All rights reserved.
View this story online at: http://www.alternet.org/story/142988/


From the.buffalo.in.the.midst at gmail.com  Fri Oct  2 11:12:24 2009
From: the.buffalo.in.the.midst at gmail.com (Leighm)
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:12:24 -0700
Subject: [A-List] Peak oil (Yoshie Furuhashi)
In-Reply-To: <5c2e4d230910020826n1c7f206eh7151fd006eeb4740@mail.gmail.com>
References: <5c2e4d230910020826n1c7f206eh7151fd006eeb4740@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4AC63478.4090309@gmail.com>

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There are reasons I subscribe or don't subscribe to any given list and
it's rude of you to essentially make that decision for me.

'Chatting' is a much more efficient, and MUCH less bandwidth intensive
way of having cross-group discussions.

I have a number of people on my chat toy from various lists. The
advantage is people who aren't interested, and their email services,
local servers, relay servers, don't have to 'deal' with the extraneous
information.

Some relay servers mark people as spammers if they Cc: to more than a
certain number of addresses, and I believe Gmail simply doesn't allow
more than a certain number of addresses in their address line or it will
simply refuse to send the message, and there's LOTS of reasons why that
over-rides anyone's personal desire to do so.

Just in case you think it's a joke, it takes the electricity for 10,000
average US homes to run the air conditioning alone for the typical
server farm. That factoid from the editor of SF Weekly about 5 or 6
years ago.

It's unlikely that A/C OR the servers have become appreciably more
efficient since then.

One way of looking at it: 'email=server-farm=electricity=oil=DEAD IRAQIS




c b wrote:
> Postings to mailing lists are usually not like self-standing books and
> articles, though.  Individual postings are like odd fragments of
> conversations, so just listening to fragments doesn't convey the
> meaning of the conversations of which they are part.  Taken out of
> contexts, individual postings may not make much sense.  So, if your
> point is to call attention to interesting conversations happening on
> those mailing lists that are really open, ie the ones that have
> archives open to non-subscribers, I suggest you post links that direct
> subscribers here to the archived threads that contain the
> conversations in question.
> Yoshie
> 
> ^^^^^^^
> 
> CB:  Yeah, a link would be ok, though the lists I send posts from
> should be pretty well known to members of this list as sister lists:
> PEN-L, Marxism-Thaxis, LBO-talk, and Marxmail.
> 
> 

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From the.buffalo.in.the.midst at gmail.com  Fri Oct  2 14:30:11 2009
From: the.buffalo.in.the.midst at gmail.com (Leighm)
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:30:11 -0700
Subject: [A-List] PBS Frontline Preview - "Obama's War"
Message-ID: <4AC662D3.4060608@gmail.com>

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My writeup @ Facebook:

Richard Nixon was elected with a promise to end the war in Vietnam as
part of his campaign.

He didn't tell us he was going to attempt "Carpet-Bombing" the
Vietnamese into submission to achieve that goal.

Barack Obama told us he was going to get us out of Iraq.

He didn't inform us that we would be re-deploying most of those troops
to Afghanistan.

Now we are in another potentially endless quagmire called "Obama's War".

Will America repeat the mistake of electing our leaders and then
looking the other way while the generals run the show?

A 30 second preview via YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWgG0SJPFO8

Go to PBS' site for a longer, 24 minute preview:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/obamaswar/

Full Airing (and online) October 13 2009.
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From noreply at coha.org  Fri Oct  2 09:53:40 2009
From: noreply at coha.org (Council on Hemispheric Affairs)
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 11:53:40 -0400
Subject: El doble estándar de Washington hacia Cuba: La Habana como falso “patrocinador estatal del terrorismo.”
Message-ID: <20091002155322.746213E44D8@mx-out.daemonmail.net>

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From the.buffalo.in.the.midst at gmail.com  Fri Oct  2 14:49:30 2009
From: the.buffalo.in.the.midst at gmail.com (Leighm)
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:49:30 -0700
Subject: [A-List] What is an organism , anyway ?
In-Reply-To: <5c2e4d230910020835m42ef81d7n249864c30b1b4f60@mail.gmail.com>
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c b wrote:
> http://www.alternet.org/story/143013/what_is_an_orgasm%2C_anyway
> 
> 


?The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical"
- --Wilhelm Reich


He also said:

"The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a
proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an
extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded
it as vitally necessary."

http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/118694.Wilhelm_Reich

Essentially a re-stating of Marcuse's quip about the overthrowing of
business, *POLITICS*, poverty, and oppression.

None of which are social necessities, but ARE social realities.

Funny, they were both Psychoanalysts...

There's a LARGE chunk of Wilhelm Reich's "Listen, Little Man!" online.
It was prefaced by someone who read it in High School and thought it
profound. http://www.listenlittleman.com/

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From critical.montages at gmail.com  Fri Oct  2 18:05:30 2009
From: critical.montages at gmail.com (Yoshie Furuhashi)
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 20:05:30 -0400
Subject: [A-List] Geneva: Victory for Everyone?
Message-ID: <cd351fdc0910021705v15398343oda7e0f2435a629aa@mail.gmail.com>

The Geneva meeting turned out to be, for once, a happy surprise: it's
an agreement that all sides can hail as a victory for them: Iran
claims that it has valiantly defended its right to enrichment (the
hard-line Kayhan says "Geneva was not just a win for Iran ; it was a
victory for all countries with aspirations to utilize peaceful nuclear
energy in order to secure their future renewable energy requirements"
<http://www.kayhanintl.com/>); the West claims that Iran has made a
concession of shipping the already enriched uranium for further
enrichment by Russia, thus allaying the fear of weaponization; and
China and Russia can pat themselves on the back, thinking that they
have moderated both sides!  Even reformists and their supporters got
something: "Members of the Iranian-American community are particularly
pleased that the issue of human rights in Iran was also raised during
the talks" (at <http://www.niacouncil.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1511&Itemid=2>).
 (The only unhappy camp appears to be the regime-change-obsessed US
neo-con types: e.g., "Blinking on Iran,"
<http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=Y2I5Y2EzNTRkNzJmZDBkYjE3NjYwZGFhZmRlZDhkYTM=>.)
 This happy surprise may be only temporary -- the West can block the
path to detente by continuing to push for a "freeze for freeze"
instead of offering a concession of its own in return for Iran's
concession or, worse, return to W's path of using the conflict over
enrichment as a pretext for "regime change" -- but it buys time for
all sides to think through the costs and benefits of confrontation and
detente.

The General Strike of Palestinian citizens of Israel, held on the same
day, apparently went well, too:
<http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/israel011009.html>. A rare good day
for the prospects of Middle East peace!

Yoshie


From the.buffalo.in.the.midst at gmail.com  Fri Oct  2 18:48:25 2009
From: the.buffalo.in.the.midst at gmail.com (Leighm)
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:48:25 -0700
Subject: [A-List] All in 4:28 minutes - Everything you ever wanted to know
 about Globalization, Media Concentration and Corporate Personhood
Message-ID: <4AC69F59.9080800@gmail.com>

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From toddfboyle at gmail.com  Fri Oct  2 21:57:09 2009
From: toddfboyle at gmail.com (Todd Boyle)
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:57:09 -0700
Subject: [A-List] Peak oil
In-Reply-To: <4AC3C5C1.5020800@gmail.com>
References: <5c2e4d230909301327h37233b28nb5f137e0d099d122@mail.gmail.com>
	<4AC3C5C1.5020800@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <mailman.97.1254553816.10217.a-list@lists.econ.utah.edu>

See http://www.c-spanarchives.org/program/289248-1

Rex Tillerson, CEO of Exxon Mobil says that there is a large
inventory of oil and gasoline, record amounts of oil are in hulls on
the water unsold and large amounts of capacity are held off market.

todd  
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From james.irldaly at ntlworld.com  Sat Oct  3 02:40:44 2009
From: james.irldaly at ntlworld.com (james daly)
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 09:40:44 +0100
Subject: [A-List] The Anglo-US Drive into Eurasia and the Demonization of
	Russia -- Reframing the History of World War II
Message-ID: <DA3AD0520DCD4503B73004A2FF9B47BC@home9sg93n9r5y>



The Anglo-US Drive into Eurasia and the Demonization of Russia
Reframing the History of World War II

By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya

URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15342

Global Research, October 2, 2009

As tensions mount between the U.S. and the North Atlantic Treaty 
Organization (NATO) on one side and Moscow and its allies on another, the 
history of the Second World War is being re-framed to demonize Russia, the 
legal successor state and largest former constituent republic (pars pro 
toto) of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.). In 2009, the 
U.S.S.R. and the Nazi government of Germany started being portrayed as the 
two forces that ignited the Second World War.

The historicity behind such a narrative is incorrect and nothing can be 
further from the truth in regards to Moscow. The security of the European 
core of the Soviet Union was the main objective of the Kremlin as well as 
the recovery of lost territory. The Soviet government was also aware of war 
plans against the Soviet Union. Adolph Hitler thought Britain would join 
Germany in war against the Soviets, even until the latter part of the Second 
World War.

This discourse in itself is part of a broader roadmap to control Eurasia 
through the encirclement of any rival powers, such as Russia and China. To 
understand the geo-politics and strategic nature of the encirclement of 
Russia and China by the U.S. and NATO, as well as the Eurasian alliance 
being formed by Moscow and Beijing as a counter-measure, one must look at 
the historic Anglo-American drive to cripple and contain any power in 
Eurasia.

Geography is the basis of the social evolution of traditional power, whether 
in feudal societies or in industrial societies. For example the property 
ownership of the landed class, which originally was the nobility, gave rise 
to the factory system. The rise of financial power is somewhat different, 
but yet it is also tied to geography.

The United States, India and Brazil are all "natural great powers" - a term 
coined herein. Natural great powers are states that are bound, with time, to 
develop or evolve into major hubs of human production because of their 
geographic configuration or nature's blessings. In the Eurasian landmass, 
above all others, there are three states that we can call natural great 
powers; these states are Russia, China, and India. They have large 
territories and vast resources and, due to the two former factors, possess 
great human capacity that can lead to major productivity.

Without human capacity, however, geography and resources are meaningless, 
and therefore any impairment of population growth or social development 
through war, civil strife, famine, political instability and/or economic 
instability can obstruct the emergence of a natural great power. This is 
exactly what has been happening in the Russian Federation and its earlier 
predecessors, the U.S.S.R. and the Russian Empire, for the last two hundred 
years - from the numerous episodes of civil war, the First World War, and 
the Second World War, to the Yeltsin era and the problems in Caucasia. This 
is also why the declining population of Russia is a major worry for the 
Kremlin. If left undisturbed, such nation-states like China and Russia, 
would dominate the global economy and, by extension, international politics.

This is exactly what Anglo-American foreign policy has been trying to 
prevent for almost three centuries, first strictly under British clout and 
then later through combined British and American cooperation. In Europe, the 
containment policy was first applied to France for centuries and later, 
after German unification under Prince Otto von Bismarck, to Germany. Later 
the policy was expanded in scope to all Eurasia (the proper geographic 
extension of Europe or the "Continent", as the British called it).

Part of this policy included the prevention of Russian access to the shores 
of the Mediterranean Sea or the Persian Gulf, which would threaten British 
trade and eventually maritime supremacy. This is one of the main reasons 
that the British and French played Czarist Russia and Ottoman Turkey against 
one another and militarily supported the Ottoman Empire in the Crimean War, 
when the possibility of Russia, under Catherine II, gaining Ottoman 
territory on the Mediterranean Sea seemed real.

Why did the Soviets and Chinese Bear the Brunt of the Burden in the Second 
World War?

The U.S.S.R. and China suffered the greatest material, demographic and 
overall losses in the Second World War. A quantitative comparative overview 
and cross-examination of the casualty figures of Britain, the United States, 
the Soviet Union and China will show the staggering differences between the 
so-called "Western Allies" and the so-called "Eastern Allies."

Britain suffered 400,000 casualties and the U.S. suffered just over 260,000 
casualties. U.S. civilian casualties were virtually non-existent and no U.S. 
factories were even touched. On the other hand, the U.S.S.R. had about 10 
million military casualties and 12 to 14 million civilian casualties, while 
China had about 4 to 5 million military casualties and civilian casualties 
that have been estimated in the range of 8 to 20 million deaths.

Suffering can not be qualified or quantified, but much is overlooked in 
regards to the Soviet Union and China. Without question the Soviet Union and 
China lost the greatest ratio of their populations amongst the major Allies. 
In many cases the casualties of the series of civil wars in the Soviet Union 
(which saw foreign involvement and even intervention) and the casualties of 
the Japanese invasion of China (30 million people, starting before 1939) are 
not counted as Second World War casualties by many historians in Western 
Europe and the Anglosphere.

Most the fighting in the Second World War also took place in the territories 
of China and Russia. Both Eurasian giants also faced the greatest 
destruction of infrastructure and material loss, which set their development 
back by decades. The agricultural and industrial capacity of China alone was 
cut in half. The Axis, specifically Germany and Japan (two economic rivals 
of the U.S. and Britain), also were crippled. In contrast, the U.S. was 
virtually untouched, while Britain as a state was totally depended on U.S. 
patronage. [1]

U.S. Economic Expansion: Global Wars and the Growth of U.S. Industrial and 
Economic Might

Both the First World War and the Second World War managed to eliminate any 
economic rivalry or challenge to U.S. corporations. While Europe and Asia 
were ravaged by war, the U.S. inversely grew economically. U.S. industrial 
might grew by leaps and bounds, while the industrial capacities of Europe 
and Asia were destroyed by both Allied and Axis sides in the Second World 
War and by the Allies and the Central Powers in the First World War.

By the end of the the Second World War, the U.S. literally owned half the 
global economy through loans, American foreign investment and war debts. 
U.S. economic expansion and the American export boom were unprecedented in 
the scale that took place during the period from 1910-1950, all of which was 
tied to the Eurasian warscape. Also, it was also only the U.S. that had the 
economic resources to rebuild the economies and industrial capacities of 
Europe and Asia, which it did with strings attached. These strings involved 
favourable treatment of U.S. corporations, preferential trade with the U.S., 
and the setting up of U.S. branch plants.

1945 was the beginning of Pax Americana. Even much of the foreign aid 
provided by the U.S. government (with the approval of Congress), to 
facilitate the reconstruction of European states, flowed back into the 
private bank accounts of the owners of U.S. corporations, because American 
firms were awarded many reconstruction-related contracts. War had directly 
fuelled the industrial might of the United States, while eliminating other 
rivals such as the Japanese who were a major economic threat to U.S. markets 
in Asia and the Pacific.

Just to show the extent of the American objectives to handicap their 
economic rivals one should look at the handling of Japan from 1945 till 
about October 1, 1949. After the surrender of Tokyo to the U.S. on the 
U.S.S. Missouri and the start of the American occupation and administration 
of Japan, the Japanese economy began to rapidly decline because of the 
calculated neglect of the U.S. through the office of the Supreme Commander 
of the Allied Powers (SCAP). In economic terms, the Japanese case was 
initially very similar to that of Anglo-American occupied Iraq.

In late-1949 all this began to change. Almost overnight, there was literally 
a complete change, or a flip-flop, in U.S. policy on Japan. It was only 
after October 1, 1949 when the People's Republic of China was declared by 
Mao Zedong and the Communist Party of China that the U.S. began to allow 
Japan to recover economically, so as to use it as a counter-weight to China. 
As a side note, in a case of irony, the quick change in American policy 
regarding Japan allowed the U.S. to overlook the Japanese policy of not 
allowing foreign investment, which is one of the reasons for the economic 
success of Japan and one of the reasons why the financial elites of Japan 
form part of the trilateral pillar of the global economy along with the 
elites of the U.S. and Western Europe.

The "Open Doors" Policy of the Anglo-American Establishment

Anglo-American elites also made it clear that they wanted a global policy of 
"open doors" through the 1941 Atlantic Charter, which was a joint British 
and American declaration about what post-war international relations would 
be like. It is very important to note that the Atlantic Charter was made 
before the U.S. even entered the Second World War. The events and 
description above was the second clear phase behind the start of modern 
neo-liberal globalization; the first phase was the start of the First World 
War. In both wars the financial and corporate elite of the U.S., before the 
entry of the U.S. as a combatant, had funded both sides through loans and 
American investment, while they destroyed one another. This included the use 
of middlemen and companies in other countries, such as Canada.

The creation of the U.S. Federal Reserve in 1913, before the First World War 
and the U.S. domestic (not foreign, because of the regulations of other 
states) de-coupling of the gold standard from the U.S. dollar in 1933, 
before the Second World War, were required beforehand for the U.S. 
domination of other economies. Both were steps that removed the limits and 
restrains on the number of U.S. dollars being printed, which allowed the 
U.S. to invest and loan money to the warring states of Europe and Asia.

Norman Dodd, a former Wall Street banker and investigator for the U.S. 
Congress, who examined  U.S. tax-exempt foundations, revealed in a 1982 
interview that the First World War was anticipated by U.S. elites in order 
to further manage the global economy. [2] War or any form of large-scale 
traumatic occurences are the perfect events to use for restructuring 
societies, all in the name of the war effort and the common good. Civil 
liberties and labour laws can be suspended, while the press is fully 
censored and opposition figures arrested or demonized, while corporations 
and governments merge in close coordination and under the justification of 
the war effort. This was true of virtually all sides in the First World War 
and the Second World War, from Canada to Germany under Adolph Hitler.

In contrast to the views of its own citizens, the American government was 
never really neutral during both the First World War and the Second World 
War. The U.S. was funding and arming the British at the start of the Second 
World War. Also before the American entry in the Second World War, the U.S., 
Canada, and Britain started the process of joint war planning and military 
integration. Before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour on December 7, 1941 
the U.S. and Canada, which was fighting Germany, on  August 17, 1940 signed 
the Ogdensburg Agreement, which was an agreement that spelled out joint 
defence through the Permanent Joint Board of Defence and joint war planning 
against Germany and the Axis. In 1941, the Hyde Park Agreement formally 
united the Canadian and American war economies and informally united the 
U.S., Canadian, and British economies. The U.S. and British military command 
would also be integrated. In part, the monetary arrangement that was made 
through these war transactions between the U.S., Canada, and Britain would 
become the basis for the Bretton Woods formula.

Also, the empires of Britain, France, and other Western European states were 
not dismantled just due to the fact that they were all degraded because of 
the Second World War, but because of Anglo-American economic interests. The 
imperialist policies of these European states made it mandatory for their 
colonies to have preferential trade with them, which went against the "open 
doors" policy that would allow U.S. corporations to penetrate into other 
national economies, especially ones that were ravaged by war and thus 
perfect for U.S. corporate entrance.

The Reasons for the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact

Britain and the U.S. also deliberately delayed their invasion of Western 
Europe, calculating that it would weaken the Soviets who did most the 
fighting in Europe's Eastern Front. This is why the U.S. and Britain 
originally invaded North Africa instead of Europe. They wanted the Third 
Reich and the Soviet Union to neutralize one another.

The German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact or the Ribeentrop-Molotov Pact caused 
shock waves in Europe and North America when it was signed. The German and 
Soviet governments were at odds with one another. This was more than just 
because of ideology; Germany and the Soviet Union were being played against 
one another in the events leading up to the Second World War, just as how 
previously Germany, the Russian Empire, and the Ottoman Empire were played 
against one another in Eastern Europe [3]

This is why Britain and France only declared war on Berlin, in 1939, when 
both the U.S.S.R. and Germany had invaded Poland. If the intentions were to 
protect Poland, then why only declare war against Germany when in reality 
both the Germans and the Soviets had invaded? There is something much deeper 
to be said about all this.

If Moscow and Berlin had not signed a non-aggression agreement there would 
have been no declaration of war against Germany. In fact Appeasement was a 
deliberate policy crafted in the hope of allowing Germany to militarize and 
then allowing the Nazi government the means, through military might, to 
create a common German-Soviet border, which would be the prerequisite to an 
anticipated German-Soviet war that would neutralize the two strongest land 
powers in Europe and Eurasia. [4]

British policy and the rationale for the non-aggression pact between the 
Soviets and Germans is described best by Carroll Quigley. Quigley, a top 
ranking U.S. professor of history, on the basis of the diplomatic agreements 
in Europe and insider information as an professor of the elites explains the 
strategic aims of British policy from 1920 to 1938 as:

    [T]o maintain the balance of power in Europe by building up Germany 
against France and [the Soviet Union]; to increase Britain's weight in that 
balance by aligning with her the Dominions [e.g., Australia and Canada] and 
the United States; to refuse any commitments (especially any commitments 
through the League of Nations, and above all any commitments to aid France) 
beyond those existing in 1919; to keep British freedom of action; to drive 
Germany eastward against [the Soviet Union] if either or both of these two 
powers became a threat to the peace [probably meaning economic strength] of 
Western Europe [and most probably implying British interests]. [5]

    In order to carry out this plan of allowing Germany to drive eastward 
against [the Soviet Union], it was necessary to do three things: (1) to 
liquidate all the countries standing between Germany and [the Soviet Union]; 
(2) to prevent France from [honouring] her alliances with these countries 
[i.e., Czechoslovakia and Poland]; and (3) to hoodwink the [British] people 
into accepting this as a necessary, indeed, the only solution to the 
international problem. The Chamberlain group were so successful in all three 
of these things that they came within an ace of succeeding, and failed only 
because of the obstinacy of the Poles, the unseemly haste of Hitler, and the 
fact that at the eleventh hour the Milner Group realized the [geo-strategic] 
implications of their policy [which to their fear united the Soviets and 
Germans] and tried to reverse it. [6]

It is because of this aim of nurturing Germany into a position of attacking 
the Soviets that British, Canadian, and American leaders had good rapports 
(which seem unexplained in standard history textbooks) with Adolph Hitler 
and the Nazis until the eve of the Second World War.

In regards to appeasement under Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and its 
beginning under the re-militarization of the industrial lands of the 
Rhineland, Quigley explains:

    This event of March 1936, by which Hitler remilitarized the Rhineland, 
was the most crucial event in the whole history of appeasement. So long as 
the territory west of the Rhine and a strip fifty kilometers wide on the 
east bank of the river were demilitarized, as provided in the Treaty of 
Versailles and the Locarno Pacts, Hitler would never have dared to move 
against Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. He would not have dared 
because, with western Germany unfortified and denuded of German soldiers, 
France could have easily driven into the Ruhr industrial area and crippled 
Germany so that it would be impossible to go eastward. And by this date 
[1936], certain members of the Milner Group and of the British Conservative 
government had reached the fantastic idea that they could kill two birds 
with one stone by setting Germany and [the Soviet Union] against one another 
in Eastern Europe. In this way they felt that two enemies would stalemate 
one another, or that Germany would become satisfied with the oil of Rumania 
and the wheat of the Ukraine. It never occurred to anyone in a responsible 
position that Germany and [the Soviet Union] might make common cause, even 
temporarily, against the West. Even less did it occur to them that [the 
Soviet Union] might beat Germany and thus open all Central Europe to 
Bolshevism. [7]

    The liquidation of the countries between Germany and [the Soviet Union] 
could proceed as soon as the Rhineland was fortified, without fear on 
Germany's part that France would be able to attack her in the west while she 
was occupied in the east. [8]

In regards to eventually creating a common German-Soviet, the French-led 
military alliance had to first be neutralized. The Locarno Pacts were 
fashioned by British foreign policy mandarins to prevent France from being 
able to militarily support Czechoslovakia and Poland in Eastern Europe and 
thus to intimidate Germany from halting any attempts at annexing both 
Eastern European states. Quigley writes:

    [T]he Locarno agreements guaranteed the frontier of Germany with France 
and Belgium with the powers of these three states plus Britain and Italy. In 
reality the agreements gave France nothing, while they gave Britain a veto 
over French fulfillment of her alliances with Poland and the Little Entente. 
The French accepted these deceptive documents for reason of internal 
politics (...) This trap [as Quigley calls the Locarno agreements] consisted 
of several interlocking factors. In the first place, the agreements did not 
guarantee the German frontier and the demilitarized condition of the 
Rhineland against German actions, but against the actions of either Germany 
or France. This, at one stroke, gave Britain the right to oppose any French 
action against Germany in support of her allies to the east of Germany. This 
meant that if Germany moved east against Czechoslovakia, Poland, and 
eventually [the Soviet Union], and if France attacked Germany's western 
frontier in support of Czechoslovakia or Poland, as her alliances bound her 
to do, Great Britain, Belgium, and Italy might be bound by the Locarno Pacts 
to come to the aid of Germany. [9]

The Anglo-German Naval Agreement of 1935 was also deliberately signed by 
Britain to prevent the Soviets from joining the neutralized military 
alliance between France, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. Quigley writes:

    Four days later, Hitler announced Germany's rearmament, and ten days 
after that, Britain condoned the act by sending Sir John Simon on a state 
visit to Berlin. When France tried to counterbalance Germany's rearmament by 
bringing the Soviet Union into her eastern alliance system in May 1935, the 
British counteracted this by making the Anglo-German Naval Agreement of 18 
June 1935. This agreement, concluded by Simon, allowed Germany to build up 
to 35 percent of the size of the British Navy (and up to 100 percent in 
submarines). This was a deadly stab in the back of France, for it gave 
Germany a navy considerably larger than the French in the important 
categories of ships (capital ships and aircraft carriers), because France 
was bound by treaty to only 33 percent of Britain's; and France in addition, 
had a worldwide empire to protect and the unfriendly Italian Navy off her 
Mediterranean coast. This agreement put the French Atlantic coast so 
completely at the mercy of the German Navy that France became completely 
dependent on the British fleet for protection in this area. [10]

The Hoare-Laval Plan was also used to stir Germany eastward instead of 
southward towards the Eastern Mediterranean, which the British saw as the 
critical linchpin holding their empire together and connecting them through 
the Egyptian Suez Canal to India. Quigley explains:

    The countries marked for liquidation included Austria, Czechoslovakia, 
and Poland, but did not include Greece and Turkey, since the [Milner] Group 
had no intention of allowing Germany to get down onto the Mediterranean 
'lifeline.' Indeed, the purpose of the Hoare-Laval Plan of 1935, which 
wrecked the collective-security system by seeking to give most Ethiopia to 
Italy, was intended to bring an appeased Italy in position alongside 
[Britain], in order to block any movement of Germany southward rather than 
eastward [towards the Soviet Union]. [11]

Both the Soviet Union, under Joseph Stalin, and Germany, under Adolph 
Hitler, ultimately became aware of the designs for the planning of a 
German-Soviet war and because of this both Moscow and Berlin signed a 
non-aggression pact prior to the Second World War. The German-Soviet 
arrangement was largely a response to the Anglo-American stance. In the end 
it was because of Soviet and German distrust for one another that the 
Soviet-German alliance collapsed and the anticipated German-Soviet war came 
to fruition as the largest and deadliest war theatre in the Second World 
War, the Eastern Front.

The Origins of the Russian Urge to Protect Eurasia

With this understanding of the Anglo-American strategic mentality of 
weakening Eurasia the ground can be paved for understanding the Russian 
mentality and mind frame for protecting themselves through protecting their 
European core and uniting  Eurasia through such organizations as the Warsaw 
Pact, the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), and the Shanghai 
Cooperation Organization (SCO), and such Russian policies as the Primakov 
Doctrine and allying Moscow with Iran and Syria.

As spheres of influence were carved in Europe, it was understood that Greece 
would fall into the Anglo-American orbit, while Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, 
Albania, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia would fall within the Soviet orbit. 
Due to this understanding the Red Army of the Soviet Union watched as the 
Greek Communists were butchered and the British militarily intervened in the 
Greek Civil War. The reason for these agreements involving spheres of 
influence in Europe was that the Soviets wanted a buffer zone to protect 
themselves from any further invasions from Western Europe, which had been 
plaguing the U.S.S.R. and Czarist Russia.

In reality, the Cold War did not start because of Soviet aggression, but 
because of a long-standing historic impulse by Anglo-American elites to 
encircle and control Eurasia. The Soviet Union honoured its agreement with 
Britain and the U.S. not to intervene in Greece, which even came at the 
expense of Yugoslav-Soviet relations as Marshal Tito broke with Stalin over 
the issue. This, however, did not stop the U.S. and Britain from falsely 
accusing the Soviets of supporting the Greek Communists and declaring war on 
the Soviets through the Truman Doctrine. This move was a part of the 
Anglo-American  bid to encircle the Soviet Union and to control Eurasia. 
Today this policy, which existed before the First World War and helped spark 
the Second World War, has not changed and Anglo-American elites, such as 
Zbigniew Brzezinski, still talk about partitioning Russia, the successor 
state of the Soviet Union.

Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya is a Research Associate for the Centre for Research 
on Globalization (CRG) specilizing in geo-politics and strategic issues.

NOTES

[1] British elites, however, had managed to incorporate themselves into the 
economic livelihood of the U.S., forming an Anglo-American elite and 
effectively separating themselves from the interests of the majority of 
British citizens.

[2] Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, Plans for Redrawing the Middle East: The 
Project for a "New Middle East", Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG), 
November 18, 2006.

[3] Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, The "Great Game": Eurasia and the History of 
War, Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG), December 3, 2007.

[4] China at this time was already being limited by Japan and before that by 
combined Japanese, Russian, and Western European policies. This would leave 
Germany and the U.S.S.R. as the two main threats to Anglo-American 
interests.

[5] Carroll Quigley, The Anglo-American Establishment: From Rhodes to 
Cliveden (San Pedro, California: GSG & Associates Publishers, 1981), p.240.

[6] Ibid., p.266.

[7] Ibid., p.265.

[8] Ibid., p.272.

[9] Ibid., p.264.

[10] Ibid., pp.269-270.

[11] Ibid., p.273.



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From critical.montages at gmail.com  Sat Oct  3 03:28:00 2009
From: critical.montages at gmail.com (Yoshie Furuhashi)
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 05:28:00 -0400
Subject: [A-List] Beijing, Sochi, and Rio
Message-ID: <cd351fdc0910030228s423fc2c7p5b4c64525566d166@mail.gmail.com>

Beijing (Summer 2008), Sochi (Winter 2014), Rio (Summer 2016
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysA5fdUhs1w>).  More and more Olympics
seem to be going to emerging powers.  Brazil planned the capital
spending of $11.1 billion on facilities, in contrast to Madrid's 3.4
billion, Tokyo's $3.1 billion, and Chicago's $1 billion:
<http://www.ft.com/cms/6d681816-aeb3-11de-96d7-00144feabdc0.jpg>.

Where's India?  I suppose it's too busy making war on Maoists
(deploying over 100,000 troops!
<http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/india011009.html>) to bid for one.

Yoshie


From the.buffalo.in.the.midst at gmail.com  Sat Oct  3 08:54:44 2009
From: the.buffalo.in.the.midst at gmail.com (Leighm)
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2009 07:54:44 -0700
Subject: [A-List] Peak oil
In-Reply-To: <86b3ml$137abn@ipo3smtp.cc.utah.edu>
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Todd Boyle wrote:
> See http://www.c-spanarchives.org/program/289248-1
>
> Rex Tillerson, CEO of Exxon Mobil says that there is a large
> inventory of oil and gasoline, record amounts of oil are in hulls on
> the water unsold and large amounts of capacity are held off market.
>
> todd


Irrelevant to 'Peak oil'... The Saudis have huge reserves too.

According to Paul Roberts, author of And Of Oil, that reserve has the
potential to turn the peak and the slope downward, whatever it's rate of
decline, to a precipice, because we'll just blythly go on as always
thingking things just like:



> ...record amounts of oil are in hulls on
> the water unsold and large amounts of capacity are held off market.


The supply to REPLACE the reserves is the relevant issue.

Some say the oil companies are just slacking.. But it's obvious to even
the most casual observer that the oil companies have been forced to look
towards hostile countries, which we lay waste to, and cost a fortune in
provate military costs (Australian mercs are prominent anywhere in
Africa there's an oilco) to operate in (I wonder what it cost Shell to
replace that 435 miles of pipeline (longer than the distance from SF >
LA) that MEND 'disappeared'?
<http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2007/05/journal_shell_d.html>)
and hostile environments, where computerized operations (that in one
case was 'hacked'
<http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/08/25/the_new_threat_to_oil_supplies_hackers>)
are necessary just to keep the costs under control.

...and they STILL are depleting their capacity at record rates.


These companies WOULD NOT expend those added costs if oil were available
easily.

Period.




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From critical.montages at gmail.com  Sat Oct  3 11:47:51 2009
From: critical.montages at gmail.com (Yoshie Furuhashi)
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 13:47:51 -0400
Subject: [A-List] The Privatization Panacea in Iranian Politics
Message-ID: <cd351fdc0910031047s7940d66lb0cd25591369e074@mail.gmail.com>

<http://www.kevanharris.com/post/137187155/the-privatization-panacea-in-iranian-politics>
The Privatization Panacea in Iranian Politics

Some foreign analyses of the post-election events made the argument
that the factions and politicians associated with the Mousavi
campaign, especially Hashemi Rafsanjani, were planning to rush through
a privatization of Iran?s state-owned companies and assets if they had
won.  The usual epithet of the left ? neoliberal ? was hurled at
Mousavi and his circle.

A quick aside: two words are used quite often in left leaning writing
these days: neoliberalism and imperialism.  The former often stands in
for plain old capitalism, the latter for almost everything else the
left does not like ? a far distance from Hobson and Lenin [LINK:
<http://books.google.com/books?id=Nw-GAAAAMAAJ>].  I rarely read
anyone claiming himself or herself as a neoliberal or an imperialist.
They are ad hominem terms, which make them excellent for politics, but
not very helpful for social science.

Back to Iran.  Only a few years ago I recall a particular book [LINK:
<http://us.macmillan.com/iranonthebrink>] on Iran that argued the
Ahmadinejad administration was the true neoliberal b?te noire.  Again,
the privatization of state assets and their ?tunneling? to shadowy
figures was the accusation.  As usual, the reality is not so simple.

Assuredly, many Iranian economists would love a huge private sector in
Iran, since the public sector ranges between 60 and 70% of Iran?s GDP.
 The quasi-governmental sector, where the state still provides funds,
staff, and has either majority or minority control, ranges around
10-20% of GDP.

The word privatization has been uttered in Iranian politics since the
late 1980s, when Iran emerged from the war and entered its
?reconstruction? phase.  The zeitgeist of the time was ?shock
therapy.?  The idea was to rapidly sell off state assets to private
hands without much planning, and it was implemented with gusto in many
Latin American countries and, most infamously, in Russia.  The market
would sort it out, and even if the market failed it could not be any
worse than state failures in provisions of goods and services.

In Iran, there was a brief but rapid liberalization of the economy
under Rafsanjani in 1992-3.  Here, just like in Russia, Bolivia,
Argentina, and other cases of induced ?transition,? there were
austerity protests due to the rapid rise in costs of living.  Unlike
Russia, Bolivia, Argentina, and many other cases, however, Iran backed
off of its liberalization plan (to the dismay of many Western-trained
economists inside Iran).  If Iran was supposed to be run by
neoliberals who did not care for the economic consequences of their
policies on the population, then they must be still in hiding after
Rafsanjani performed a volte-face.

Since then, Iran?s economy has performed in the middle range of
developing countries in the world economy (the subject of an upcoming
post, I promise).  Also, since then, whenever anyone is asked how the
sclerotic economy can be made better, all Iranian politicians throw
forward the word privatization.

Just recently, Etemaad-e Melli interviewed Hamid Fooladghar [LINK:
<http://www.etemaad.ir/Released/88-04-13/133.htm#150954>], the head of
the Parliament?s Special Commission on the implementation of Article
44 of the Iranian Constitution.  Article 44 lays out which sectors of
Iran?s economy are to remain in public hands and which should either
be in the private or cooperative economic sectors, and it is a
buzzword for privatization.  He said that the privatization efforts
have not been very successful, and that government capital which is
theoretically supposed to be moving into the private sector is instead
?circulating? within the government itself.  There are many reasons
why privatization moves so slowly in Iran, which I might discuss in
the future, but for now I just want to point to the original text of
Article 44.

Here is what is says [LINK: <http://www.servat.unibe.ch/law/icl/ir00000_.html>]:

The state sector is to include all large-scale and mother industries,
foreign trade, major minerals, banking, insurance, power generation,
dams and large-scale irrigation networks, radio and television, post,
telegraph and telephone services, aviation, shipping, roads, railroads
and the like; all these will be publicly owned and administered by the
State.
The cooperative sector is to include co-operative companies and
ententes concerned with production and distribution, in urban and
rural areas, in accordance with Islamic criteria.
The private sector consists of those activities concerned with
agriculture, animal husbandry, industry, trade, and services that
supplement the economic activities of the state and cooperative
sectors.

In 2004, while Khatami was still president, Iran amended article 44,
part of a long-term project to join the World Trade Organization (the
US has continually blocked Iran?s application).  As with China?s entry
to the WTO in the late 1990s, the regulatory environment of Iran needs
to legally conform to the standards set by the WTO to gain entry. Some
of the main points of Khamenei?s exective order on the subject are
[LINK: <http://www.en.ipo.ir/index.aspx?siteid=83&pageid=313>]:

The government shall not be allowed to engage in economic activities
that fall outside those envisioned in Article 44. Moreover, it is
obliged to relinquish any activity, including continuation and
operation of previous activities that are covered under Article 44,
and cede them (at least 20 percent annually) to the private and
cooperative sectors by the end of the Fourth Five-Year Development
Plan.

Also, some other goals:

?Increasing the share of the cooperative sector in the national
economy to 25 percent by the end of the Fifth Five-Year Development
Plan. ?Support by the government of the cooperatives, proportionate to
the number of members?.Establishment of nationwide cooperatives to
cover the three lowest deciles of the population with a view to
poverty alleviation?.Change in the role of government from direct
ownership and management of enterprises to policy-making, guidance and
overseeing?.Economic empowerment of the private and cooperative
sectors, and enabling them to enhance competitiveness of their
products in international markets?.Preparing Iranian enterprises to
apply global trading rules intelligently and in a gradual and
target-oriented manner.

And, finally, the privatization amendment to article 44:

Eighty percent of the shares of State-owned enterprises, covered under
Article 44, shall be ceded to the private sector, joint stock
cooperative companies and non-state publicly-held companies as
follows:

1. State-owned enterprises engaged in large mining activity,
large-scale and mother industries (including large downstream oil and
gas industries), except the National Iranian Oil Company and companies
involved in extraction and production of oil and gas.

2. State-owned banks, except the Central Bank of Iran, Bank Melli of
Iran, Bank Sepah, Bank of Industry and Mines, Bank of Agriculture,
Housing Bank (Bank Maskan), and Export Development Bank.

3. State-owned insurance companies, except Bimeh Marakazi and Iran Insurance.

4. Airline and shipping companies, except the Civil Aviation
Organization and Ports and Shipping Organization.

5. Power supply companies, except the main electricity transmission grid.

6. Postal and telecommunication companies, except the main
telecommunication networks, frequency assignment services and the main
and basic postal services.

7. Industries affiliated to the armed forces, except defense and
security products and services that are deemed essential by the
Commander-in-Chief.

This is supposed to be done by pricing the assets through the stock
market, and then holding companies will sell off the shares.
Ahmadinejad?s administration got involved when it began to distribute
shares of privatized companies to low income families and named them
?justice shares? [LINK:
<http://www.en.ipo.ir/index.aspx?siteid=83&pageid=305>] (seham-e
edalat).  Last year each justice share supposedly paid out around $70
as a dividend (probably not from the actual ?profits? of these
companies).  Note that the amendment says nothing about discriminating
for or against foreign capital.

Is this neoliberalism?  Certainly not right now.  The main problem
Fooladghar describes is that the shares of public companies are simply
being bought up by other public or semi-public agencies - the Social
Security Administration, the various Religious Foundations, the Army,
the Revolutionary Guards.  This may not be as nefarious as some
commentators claim, though.  All of these organizations possess
built-up pension programs, which contain huge pools of capital that
cannot be invested outside the country very easily.  This actually
resembles the same form of pension financialization that occurred in
Brazil, Argentina, and of course, the US (the California Nurses and
Health Workers Union, for example).  Given that the entire state
apparatus is ?all on board? for this process, and the result is
currently very little 100% privatization of anything, it is doubtful
that this is shock therapy round two.

In reality, no faction wants full and rapid privatization of the state
sector, nor would that be a very good idea given the failures of rapid
privatization in other countries.  They all say (Ahmadinejad waffles
on it, but Khamene?i brings it up at every opportunity) that
privatization will be the key to economic success, but they are not
very specific about the process.  Fooladghar said that these
quasi-public pools of capital easy outcompete private sector capital
when obtaining state assets.  If anything, Iran?s private sector still
needs a ?leg-up? from the government.

Instead, Iran?s state-business relations look much more like China?s
in the early 1990s rather than Russia?s ? a slow and gradual
subjection of some state enterprises to market pressures coupled with
the use of the national market to lure in foreign investment
(including diaspora capital).  I am not sure if the government meant
to enact such a gradualist industrial policy, but that is what has
happened.  Given the track record of the Chinese vs. Russian economies
over the last 20 years (and the absolute declines in Russian welfare
indicators due to its economic collapse), it was probably a preferable
path.

In a way, platitudes on privatization are probably leftover from the
1990s and the ?magic of the market.?  Given the political turn in the
global political economy, though, the talk seems rather hollow.  That
is not to say that privatization of certain state assets could be a
positive development in Iran, only that the salvation that economic
privatization represents is likely a dying discourse that will
hopefully be replaced with sound and historically proven [LINK:
<http://www.paecon.net/PAEtexts/Chang1.htm>] economic and industrial
policy.


From critical.montages at gmail.com  Sat Oct  3 11:51:52 2009
From: critical.montages at gmail.com (Yoshie Furuhashi)
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 13:51:52 -0400
Subject: [A-List] The Privatization Panacea in Iranian Politics
Message-ID: <cd351fdc0910031051l6a0802a9o13360e82ad9c6630@mail.gmail.com>

Aside from geopolitical reasons, the West doesn't like Iran's
political economy.  The West would be eager help rather than hinder
Iran's nuclear and other energy development if Iran had pursued "full
and rapid privatization of the state sector." -- Yoshie

<http://www.kevanharris.com/post/137187155/the-privatization-panacea-in-iranian-politics>
The Privatization Panacea in Iranian Politics

Some foreign analyses of the post-election events made the argument
that the factions and politicians associated with the Mousavi
campaign, especially Hashemi Rafsanjani, were planning to rush through
a privatization of Iran?s state-owned companies and assets if they had
won.  The usual epithet of the left ? neoliberal ? was hurled at
Mousavi and his circle.

A quick aside: two words are used quite often in left leaning writing
these days: neoliberalism and imperialism.  The former often stands in
for plain old capitalism, the latter for almost everything else the
left does not like ? a far distance from Hobson and Lenin [LINK:
<http://books.google.com/books?id=Nw-GAAAAMAAJ>].  I rarely read
anyone claiming himself or herself as a neoliberal or an imperialist.
They are ad hominem terms, which make them excellent for politics, but
not very helpful for social science.

Back to Iran.  Only a few years ago I recall a particular book [LINK:
<http://us.macmillan.com/iranonthebrink>] on Iran that argued the
Ahmadinejad administration was the true neoliberal b?te noire.  Again,
the privatization of state assets and their ?tunneling? to shadowy
figures was the accusation.  As usual, the reality is not so simple.

Assuredly, many Iranian economists would love a huge private sector in
Iran, since the public sector ranges between 60 and 70% of Iran?s GDP.
 The quasi-governmental sector, where the state still provides funds,
staff, and has either majority or minority control, ranges around
10-20% of GDP.

The word privatization has been uttered in Iranian politics since the
late 1980s, when Iran emerged from the war and entered its
?reconstruction? phase.  The zeitgeist of the time was ?shock
therapy.?  The idea was to rapidly sell off state assets to private
hands without much planning, and it was implemented with gusto in many
Latin American countries and, most infamously, in Russia.  The market
would sort it out, and even if the market failed it could not be any
worse than state failures in provisions of goods and services.

In Iran, there was a brief but rapid liberalization of the economy
under Rafsanjani in 1992-3.  Here, just like in Russia, Bolivia,
Argentina, and other cases of induced ?transition,? there were
austerity protests due to the rapid rise in costs of living.  Unlike
Russia, Bolivia, Argentina, and many other cases, however, Iran backed
off of its liberalization plan (to the dismay of many Western-trained
economists inside Iran).  If Iran was supposed to be run by
neoliberals who did not care for the economic consequences of their
policies on the population, then they must be still in hiding after
Rafsanjani performed a volte-face.

Since then, Iran?s economy has performed in the middle range of
developing countries in the world economy (the subject of an upcoming
post, I promise).  Also, since then, whenever anyone is asked how the
sclerotic economy can be made better, all Iranian politicians throw
forward the word privatization.

Just recently, Etemaad-e Melli interviewed Hamid Fooladghar [LINK:
<http://www.etemaad.ir/Released/88-04-13/133.htm#150954>], the head of
the Parliament?s Special Commission on the implementation of Article
44 of the Iranian Constitution.  Article 44 lays out which sectors of
Iran?s economy are to remain in public hands and which should either
be in the private or cooperative economic sectors, and it is a
buzzword for privatization.  He said that the privatization efforts
have not been very successful, and that government capital which is
theoretically supposed to be moving into the private sector is instead
?circulating? within the government itself.  There are many reasons
why privatization moves so slowly in Iran, which I might discuss in
the future, but for now I just want to point to the original text of
Article 44.

Here is what is says [LINK: <http://www.servat.unibe.ch/law/icl/ir00000_.html>]:

The state sector is to include all large-scale and mother industries,
foreign trade, major minerals, banking, insurance, power generation,
dams and large-scale irrigation networks, radio and television, post,
telegraph and telephone services, aviation, shipping, roads, railroads
and the like; all these will be publicly owned and administered by the
State.
The cooperative sector is to include co-operative companies and
ententes concerned with production and distribution, in urban and
rural areas, in accordance with Islamic criteria.
The private sector consists of those activities concerned with
agriculture, animal husbandry, industry, trade, and services that
supplement the economic activities of the state and cooperative
sectors.

In 2004, while Khatami was still president, Iran amended article 44,
part of a long-term project to join the World Trade Organization (the
US has continually blocked Iran?s application).  As with China?s entry
to the WTO in the late 1990s, the regulatory environment of Iran needs
to legally conform to the standards set by the WTO to gain entry. Some
of the main points of Khamenei?s exective order on the subject are
[LINK: <http://www.en.ipo.ir/index.aspx?siteid=83&pageid=313>]:

The government shall not be allowed to engage in economic activities
that fall outside those envisioned in Article 44. Moreover, it is
obliged to relinquish any activity, including continuation and
operation of previous activities that are covered under Article 44,
and cede them (at least 20 percent annually) to the private and
cooperative sectors by the end of the Fourth Five-Year Development
Plan.

Also, some other goals:

?Increasing the share of the cooperative sector in the national
economy to 25 percent by the end of the Fifth Five-Year Development
Plan. ?Support by the government of the cooperatives, proportionate to
the number of members?.Establishment of nationwide cooperatives to
cover the three lowest deciles of the population with a view to
poverty alleviation?.Change in the role of government from direct
ownership and management of enterprises to policy-making, guidance and
overseeing?.Economic empowerment of the private and cooperative
sectors, and enabling them to enhance competitiveness of their
products in international markets?.Preparing Iranian enterprises to
apply global trading rules intelligently and in a gradual and
target-oriented manner.

And, finally, the privatization amendment to article 44:

Eighty percent of the shares of State-owned enterprises, covered under
Article 44, shall be ceded to the private sector, joint stock
cooperative companies and non-state publicly-held companies as
follows:

1. State-owned enterprises engaged in large mining activity,
large-scale and mother industries (including large downstream oil and
gas industries), except the National Iranian Oil Company and companies
involved in extraction and production of oil and gas.

2. State-owned banks, except the Central Bank of Iran, Bank Melli of
Iran, Bank Sepah, Bank of Industry and Mines, Bank of Agriculture,
Housing Bank (Bank Maskan), and Export Development Bank.

3. State-owned insurance companies, except Bimeh Marakazi and Iran Insurance.

4. Airline and shipping companies, except the Civil Aviation
Organization and Ports and Shipping Organization.

5. Power supply companies, except the main electricity transmission grid.

6. Postal and telecommunication companies, except the main
telecommunication networks, frequency assignment services and the main
and basic postal services.

7. Industries affiliated to the armed forces, except defense and
security products and services that are deemed essential by the
Commander-in-Chief.

This is supposed to be done by pricing the assets through the stock
market, and then holding companies will sell off the shares.
Ahmadinejad?s administration got involved when it began to distribute
shares of privatized companies to low income families and named them
?justice shares? [LINK:
<http://www.en.ipo.ir/index.aspx?siteid=83&pageid=305>] (seham-e
edalat).  Last year each justice share supposedly paid out around $70
as a dividend (probably not from the actual ?profits? of these
companies).  Note that the amendment says nothing about discriminating
for or against foreign capital.

Is this neoliberalism?  Certainly not right now.  The main problem
Fooladghar describes is that the shares of public companies are simply
being bought up by other public or semi-public agencies - the Social
Security Administration, the various Religious Foundations, the Army,
the Revolutionary Guards.  This may not be as nefarious as some
commentators claim, though.  All of these organizations possess
built-up pension programs, which contain huge pools of capital that
cannot be invested outside the country very easily.  This actually
resembles the same form of pension financialization that occurred in
Brazil, Argentina, and of course, the US (the California Nurses and
Health Workers Union, for example).  Given that the entire state
apparatus is ?all on board? for this process, and the result is
currently very little 100% privatization of anything, it is doubtful
that this is shock therapy round two.

In reality, no faction wants full and rapid privatization of the state
sector, nor would that be a very good idea given the failures of rapid
privatization in other countries.  They all say (Ahmadinejad waffles
on it, but Khamene?i brings it up at every opportunity) that
privatization will be the key to economic success, but they are not
very specific about the process.  Fooladghar said that these
quasi-public pools of capital easy outcompete private sector capital
when obtaining state assets.  If anything, Iran?s private sector still
needs a ?leg-up? from the government.

Instead, Iran?s state-business relations look much more like China?s
in the early 1990s rather than Russia?s ? a slow and gradual
subjection of some state enterprises to market pressures coupled with
the use of the national market to lure in foreign investment
(including diaspora capital).  I am not sure if the government meant
to enact such a gradualist industrial policy, but that is what has
happened.  Given the track record of the Chinese vs. Russian economies
over the last 20 years (and the absolute declines in Russian welfare
indicators due to its economic collapse), it was probably a preferable
path.

In a way, platitudes on privatization are probably leftover from the
1990s and the ?magic of the market.?  Given the political turn in the
global political economy, though, the talk seems rather hollow.  That
is not to say that privatization of certain state assets could be a
positive development in Iran, only that the salvation that economic
privatization represents is likely a dying discourse that will
hopefully be replaced with sound and historically proven [LINK:
<http://www.paecon.net/PAEtexts/Chang1.htm>] economic and industrial
policy.


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Washington Plays Both Sides on Honduran Coup
Oct 1, 2009

The good news is that Washington has finally begun to take stronger actions 
on Honduras.

The bad news is that the actions completely contradict each other, resulting 
in ambiguity, paralysis and infighting as the Honduran crisis explodes.

For many months, the news out of the U.S. capital focused on contradictions 
between multilateral resolutions to condemn the coup, the scarce but firm 
remarks from President Obama and fudging from the State Department. At the 
same time, the Pentagon kept true to its image of the 
strong-but-silent-type, not responding to confirm or deny accusations that 
its base at Palmerola played a role in the abduction of President Zelaya, 
that it invited the Armed Forces of the coup regime to participate in 
PANAMAX exercises last month, or that its military presence in Honduras was 
tacitly supporting the coup.

All these contradictions still exist. But now members of the U.S. Congress 
and private sector have made coherent policy even more unlikely by openly 
working to oppose the U.S. official position.


Congress Faces Off

A small minority group in the U.S. House and Senate is determined to support 
the Honduran coup regime despite official government policy to oppose it. In 
a showdown that reveals the depths of the division in Congress, conservative 
Senator Jim DeMint announced a plan to travel to Honduras with three fellow 
Republicans (U.S. Representatives Aaron Schock R-Illinois, Peter Roskam 
R-Illinois and Doug Lamborn R-Colorado). DeMint has been outspoken in saying 
that the military coup in Honduras is legal and constitutional, outright 
rejecting the UN and Organization of American States resolutions that the 
Obama administration voted to approve.

Head of the Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. John Kerry, refused to approve 
Committee financing for the trip. DeMint credits Senate minority leader, 
Mitch McConnell for getting around Kerry's refusal to fund his coup-tour by 
obtaining a plane from the Defense Department. He does not define this as a 
"fact-finding trip" as much of the press has falsely re-dubbed it. Instead, 
he explicitly announces the political bias of his publicly funded Honduran 
jaunt, writing on Twitter, "Leading delegation to Honduras tomorrow to 
support Nov. 29 elections. Hondurans should be able to choose their own 
future.?

The U.S. government, along with other governments in the hemisphere, has 
announced that it will not recognize the Nov. 29 Honduran elections if they 
are held under the military coup.

DeMint lashed out at Kerry's move, calling it "bullying." Kerry shot back 
that DeMint was blocking development of government Latin America policy.

But Kerry's office wasn't referring to DeMint's anti-democratic stance on 
Honduras. He was referring to the DeMint-led veto on key Obama diplomatic 
appointments to Latin America. Under Senate law, if a single senator objects 
to a nomination, the Senate must muster 60 votes to overcome the objection. 
The Democrats currently have only 59, counting independents. This means that 
DeMint can apparaently indefinitely block Obama's appointments to major 
posts in Latin American diplomacy. The region is the only one that still 
does not have a new under-secretary of state to coordinate policy, since the 
nominee, Arturo Valenzuela, has not been approved.

The second Congressional practitioner of renegade diplomacy is Ileana 
Ros-Lehtinen. The Florida Congresswoman is planning to visit Honduras in the 
coming weeks. It's pretty clear why Ros-Lehtinen goes out on a limb to 
defend the Honduran coup. Of Cuban descent, she's virulently anti-Castro and 
jumps on any opportunity to attack center-left governments in Latin America, 
particularly ones with ties to Venezuela.

Ros-Lehtinen describes her presumably public-funded trip with a bias that's 
inexplicit about its opposition to the official policy of the country she 
ostensibly represents: "I am traveling to Honduras to conduct my own 
assessment of the situation on the ground and the state of U.S. interests in 
light of the U.S.'s misguided Zelaya-focused approach," she stated.

The Congresswoman plans to meet with Micheletti, business leaders, the US 
Embassy and other members of the coup. She had a meeting scheduled with 
Honduran businessman Alfredo Facusse in Miami last week but Facusse, a 
supporter of the coup, had his visa revoked under the U.S. State Department 
measure to sanction the coup.

This would be but a last gasp of the fading ultra-conservative Florida Cuban 
group were it not for the fact that Ros-Lehtinen has power in Congress. Due 
to her seniority?she has been a member since 1989?she is currently a ranking 
member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Fervent clashes in the Capitol are common on both domestic and foreign 
policy, but it is rare that Senators and Congressmen approach foreign 
governments (or coups) directly to negotiate positions contrary to their 
governments. A TPM blog notes that this is the new GOP strategy, not only in 
Honduras but in at least three other situations as well.



Alarmed at the counter-diplomacy efforts undertaken by the rightwing fringe, 
other members of Congress rallied today to express support for the 
administration's call for a return to constitutional order in the Central 
American nation. An Oct. 2 letter to the Honduran Congress by Congressional 
representatives Bill Delahunt, Jim McGovern, Janice Schakowsy, Sam Farr, 
Gregory Weeks and Xavier Becerra begins:

"We understand that you have received visitors from our Congress who 
represent the minority party, the Republican Party, who have expressed views 
that differ markedly from those of President Obama's administration and the 
Democratic majority party in the US Congress..."

It goes on to spell out the democratic position:

"We believe that the coup against President Zelaya was unconstitutional; the 
absence of a legitimate president, the violations of human rights and the 
curtailment of civil liberties are unacceptable; and these conditions make 
the holding of free and fair elections next November in Honduras 
impossible."


The letter follows similar letters from the office of Rep. Raul Grijalva.


It doesn't matter much whether Ros-Lehtinen and DeMint go to Honduras for 
the photo op with Micheletti or not. It has happened before (rightwing 
Congressman Connie Mack was there with a delegation on July 25 ) and had 
very little impact, except to delight the coup-controlled media for a day or 
so.


But it really does matter who pays. The U.S. taxpayer?whether through the 
Defense or State Departments or through Congressional funds?should not have 
to pay for congressional junkets that aim to undermine official government 
policies. The U.S. government has signed both the OAS and UN resolutions 
deeming the coup a coup and calling for non-recognition of the Micheletti 
regime.




From james.irldaly at ntlworld.com  Sun Oct  4 03:19:57 2009
From: james.irldaly at ntlworld.com (james daly)
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 10:19:57 +0100
Subject: [A-List] PR Firms Reap Mega-Contracts to Undermine U.S. Government
	Policy
Message-ID: <4EB7FE5765F244BAB45162F3B84122F3@home9sg93n9r5y>



PR Firms Reap Mega-Contracts to Undermine U.S. Government Policy

Last Monday, we reported that the Honduran coup had contracted with the 
Washington PR firm Chlopak, Leonard, Schechter & Associates worth over 
$290,000. The contract was filed with the Justice Department on Sept. 18 and 
is available on-line. As noted in the Sept. 28 blog, this is the first time 
that the de facto regime has contracted directly, in this case signed by 
Rafael Pineda Ponce, head of Institutional Strengthening for the coup 
regime. It includes monitoring the press and coordinating responses to 
negative publicity.

The contract reads, "The registrant will engage in the following activities 
on behalf of the foreign principal: providing advice and planning on 
strategic public relations activities, designing and managing said 
activities through the use of media outreach, policymaker and third party 
contact and events and public dissemination of information to government 
officials, the staff of government officials, news media and non-government 
groups. The purpose of these activities is to advance the level of 
communication, awareness and media policymaker attention about the political 
situation in Honduras."



Honduran organizations have asked the State Department to investigate the 
legality of the contract. For one thing, the coup regime is spending 
Honduran public funds to sustain itself as an anti-constitutional 
government.

The Justice Department should also be concerned about violations of foreign 
lobbying regulations. It's one thing to lobby U.S. policymakers for a 
foreign government but quite another to lobby for a foreign military coup. 
By all logic, this should be prohibited under the lobbying rules.

This is another example of how the State Department's refusal to do its job 
by designating the Honduran coup a coup gives Micheletti wiggle room he 
never should have been given.

The ambivalence and contradictions coming out of Washington these days only 
serve to prolong and deepen the conflict in Honduras. It will never be 
possible to convince certain rightwing actors to accept a return to 
democracy in the country, not to talk slick PR firms into acting along any 
criteria but money coming in. The only solution is to diligently apply the 
law?something Hondurans no longer have the option of doing?to resolve this 
crisis. The coup must be isolated and sanctioned until its leaders realize 
that hijacking democracy is not acceptable practice.



Posted by Laura Carlsen 



From james.irldaly at ntlworld.com  Sun Oct  4 03:49:53 2009
From: james.irldaly at ntlworld.com (james daly)
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 10:49:53 +0100
Subject: [A-List] =?windows-1252?q?=93Real_Time=94_lawmaker_Ros-Lehtinen_t?=
	=?windows-1252?q?aking_Honduran_coup_show_on_the_road?=
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Lawmaker Ros-Lehtinen taking Honduran coup show on the road
Posted  to CN by: "Walter Lippmann" walterlx at earthlink.net   walterlx
Sat Oct 3, 2009 10:32 am (PDT)


?Real Time? lawmaker Ros-Lehtinen taking Honduran coup show on the road

Posted by Bill Conroy - October 3, 2009 at 1:08 am Republican U.S. 
Representative's former press secretary helping to write the script

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/bill-conroy/2009/10/
?real-time?-lawmaker-ros-lehtinen-taking-honduran-coup-show-road

GOP lawmakers Jim DeMint, Aaron Schock, Peter Roskam and Doug Lamborn aren?t 
the only extremist grandstanders openly flaunting their disrespect for the 
Logan Act and contempt for President Obama by trekking to Honduras to play 
dice with a dictator.

This coming Monday, U.S. Rep Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the ranking Republican on 
the House Foreign Affairs Committee, also is slated to make a trip to 
Honduras to play footsy with the Despot and Chief of Honduras, Roberto 
Micheletti, and his putsch pals.

Ros-Lehtinen also has another ally in that endeavor ? a former member of her 
staff who now works for a firm that is actually under contract to Micheletti?s 
gang of thugs (to the tune of more than a quarter million dollars).

Like South Carolina U.S. Sen. DeMint and company, Ros-Lehtinen will try to 
pass off her upcoming trip to Honduras as a mere fact-finding mission. After 
all, the GOP golpista-backers (GOPistas) are not the first lawmakers to 
visit a ?shunned country,? and the right and wrong of what happened in 
Honduras is all relative, at least in the "objective" world of mainstream 
media reporting, as AP reports.

The brief, amicable visit [by DeMint and his fellow GOPistas] with the 
leaders of the coup highlighted a divide in Washington, where the Obama 
administration considers the interim government illegitimate and is working 
to reinstate [democratically elected Honduran President Manuel] Zelaya. Many 
conservatives, however, side with the government installed after soldiers 
arrested the president in his pajamas and flew him into exile.

DeMint said before the trip that even calling Zelaya's overthrow a coup is 
"ill-informed and baseless."

But in a "justice" sense, asserting that the Republican lawmakers? Honduran 
trips are mere fact-finding missions, or are of no consequence to President 
Obama?s policy in the region, seems to be, in DeMint?s own words, an 
?ill-informed and baseless? claim. DeMint, through arcane Senate rules, is 
now blocking Obama nominees to Latin American diplomatic posts because he 
opposes Zelaya and the White House?s public stance supporting his return to 
the Honduran presidency. DeMint's glad-handing with the dictator Micheletti 
also only serves to confer credibility on a repressive regime that is 
already responsible for multiple human rights violations.

In the case of Ros-Lehtinen, the Florida lawmaker?s animosity toward the 
democratically elected, and deposed, President of Honduras, Zelaya, has 
already been made clear publicly. So her pending visit to Honduras, 
likewise, can only be viewed as an effort to undermine the Obama 
administration?s foreign policy goals in the region.

In late September, Ros-Lehtinen introduced a House Resolution calling on the 
Obama administration to recognize the ?legitimacy? of the upcoming November 
presidential elections in Honduras, which, as matters stand now, will take 
place under the repressive rule of the coup government already deemed to be 
"not legal" by President Obama.

And in July, shortly after the coup, Ros-Lehtinen sent a letter to President 
Obama chastising him for not muzzling Zelaya ? a foreign leader who is now 
holed up in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

Per a recent ABC report:

"This marked a serious failure in U.S. diplomacy and democracy advocacy," 
she [Ros-Lehtinen] wrote. "As such, many would argue that the U.S. is 
complicit in the escalation of the constitutional crisis in Honduras."

And if that isn?t enough evidence to raise doubts about Ros-Lehtinen?s 
supposed ?fact-finding? or otherwise supposed non-obstructionist intentions 
in Honduras, then there?s this little inconvenient truth about her ?ally?: 
Juan Corti?as-Garcia, senior vice president of the high-powered Washington, 
D.C., PR firm Chlopak, Leonard, Schechter & Associates (CLSA).

Corti?as-Garcia has some history with Ros-Lehtinen. He served previously 
(for some six years) as Ros-Lehtinen?s press secretary and legislative 
assistant.

"During that time, he worked on domestic and international affairs issues 
particularly dealing with U.S. policy toward Latin America," 
Corti?as-Garcia's CLSA bio states.

And why is that of significance?

Well, Micheletti and his fellow golpistas recently shelled out some $292,000 
to retain Corti?as-Garcia?s PR firm. Part of CLSA?s mission under that 
contract is to ?build a campaign of persuasion? supporting the interests of 
the coup regime by engaging in ?policy maker contacts and events, and public 
dissemination of information to government staff of government officials. ??

It seems Corti?as-Garcia?s former boss, U.S. Rep. Ros-Lehtinen, fits that 
bill quite well. Might this be a case of a little coup blood money for a 
little quid pro quo access?

So, let?s get this straight. Ros-Lehtinen is headed to Honduras next week to 
help preen the feathers of the leaders of the Honduran coup while at the 
same time her former press secretary is working under contract with an 
inside-the-Beltway PR firm to advance the despotic interests of those same 
coup leaders ? all in open defiance of the Obama Administration?s stated 
policy on Honduras.

Maybe after she returns, Ros-Lehtinen can get HBO to once again pay her way 
to Los Angeles to appear on the ?Real Time with Bill Maher? show ? a gig she?s 
done at least four times since 2005, with the last such trip racking up 
nearly $2,300 in travel and lodging expenses (including a $750 town car 
ride), according to Congressional travel records.

And once on the show, maybe Ros-Lehtinen can give CSLA an assist with their 
coup contract by putting a positive spin (cloaked in humor, of course) on 
all the golpista-sanctioned democracy she discovered while fact-finding in 
Honduras.

Oh, and its worth pointing out that Ros-Lehtinen?s former press secretary 
also has done some work for an HBO affiliate in the past, as his bio on CLSA?s 
Web site reflects:

Mr. Corti?as-Garcia has led crisis communications efforts involving legal 
disputes and complex Latin American transactions for leading corporations 
such as HBO Latin America?.

So maybe Corti?as-Garcia could even write the script for Ros-Lehtinen?s next 
HBO appearance, no?



From james.irldaly at ntlworld.com  Sun Oct  4 04:07:14 2009
From: james.irldaly at ntlworld.com (james daly)
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 11:07:14 +0100
Subject: [A-List] Pittsburgh Police Challenged over Use of Sound Cannons
Message-ID: <8F7C8785E8DC44C29182878DDE742197@home9sg93n9r5y>



Democracy NOW! Pittsburgh Police Challenged over Use of Sound Cannon
Posted to CN  by: "Walter Lippmann" walterlx at earthlink.net   walterlx
Sat Oct 3, 2009 10:52 am (PDT)


(These are the kinds of devices which are targeting
the Brazilian embassy in Tegucialpa, Honduras and
this report contains a movie of this device mounted
on a truck and aimed at protesters in Pittsburgh.)
=================================================

DEMOCRACY NOW
October 02, 2009

Pittsburgh Police Challenged over Use of Sound Cannons
During G-20 and for Wrongfully Arresting Dozens of
University of Pittsburgh Students

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/10/2/pittsburgh_police_challenged_over_use_of

Dozens of University of Pittsburgh students who say they were wrongfully 
arrested and subject to heavy-handed police tactics during the G-20 meeting 
last week are calling for an investigation into the police actions. Nearly 
200 people were arrested during the protests last weekend. The vast majority 
of the arrests occurred last Friday night in the Oakland section of 
Pittsburgh, where the University of Pittsburgh is located. [includes rush 
transcript]

Guests:

Bill Quigley, legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights

Genevieve Redd, president of the University of Pittsburgh student chapter of 
the American Civil Liberties Union

RUSH TRANSCRIPT

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JUAN GONZALEZ: We turn now to Pittsburgh, where dozens of University of 
Pittsburgh students who say they were wrongfully arrested and subjected to 
heavy-handed police tactics during the G-20 meeting last week are calling 
for an investigation into the police actions. Nearly 200 people were 
arrested during the protests. The vast majority of the arrests occurred last 
Friday night in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh, where the University of 
Pittsburgh is located. Heavily armed riot police used tear gas, pepper 
spray, rubber bullets and, for the first time inside the United States, 
sound cannons.

AMY GOODMAN: We?re joined now by two guests who were in Pittsburgh during 
the G-20. Bill Quigley joins us in our firehouse studio, legal director of 
the Center for Constitutional Rights. Genevieve Redd is the president of the 
University of Pittsburgh student chapter of the ACLU, joining us from 
Pittsburgh.

Welcome to Democracy Now! Genevieve, let?s begin with you. Describe what 
happened on the streets. What are you most concerned about?

GENEVIEVE REDD: Right now the University of Pittsburgh student ACLU chapter 
is most concerned about the proper handling of the cases of students who 
were arrested, yet were innocent.

AMY GOODMAN: Explain exactly, though, what happened. Describe the police 
actions.

GENEVIEVE REDD: On Thursday and Friday night of last week, the police were 
called into Oakland, I believe, because of some potentially violent 
protests. They ordered the crowd to disperse immediately by use of a 
helicopter. They did this announcement in front of the residence dorms that 
hold over 2,000 students. The students heard the announcement from the 
helicopter but couldn?t understand what was being said inside of the 
residence halls. The news, the local news channels, were broadcasting live 
from outside of our front doors with?showing riot troops. We really didn?t 
know what to expect. We thought there was an emergency. We didn?t know if we 
had to evacuate. And the students ran outside to find out if there was an 
emergency and they had to leave Oakland. Essentially, we walked into a crowd 
of rioters and were then tear-gassed, because the rioters were camouflaged 
inside the student groups.

JUAN GONZALEZ: And Bill Quigley, you were there in Pittsburgh. What did you 
see?

BILL QUIGLEY: Well, we saw a heavily militarized town. The University of 
Pittsburgh was really one of the only places that, you know, there were 
people in the town. And unfortunately, I think the police?you know, there 
were forty different law enforcement agencies there. The police really were 
supposed to be there for terrorists, and when no terrorists showed up, they 
turned their power and their toys, including this, first time in the United 
States, sound cannon, on protesters, and unfortunately, in the evenings, on 
the students.

Students were in a public park in a place that they?certainly, legally 
allowed to be. They arrested journalists. You know, they just told 
everybody, ?Get down on the ground,? started arresting everybody. It was a 
complete overreaction. The people of Pittsburgh worked really hard to put on 
a good peace protest, to talk?challenge globalization, to talk about 
immigration, Iraq, Afghanistan and all these things. And the security forces 
were just totally out of hand.

JUAN GONZALEZ: And what about this sound cannon? The company that 
manufactures it, American Technology Corporation of San Diego, calls it the 
Long Range Acoustic Device, or LRAD. How exactly does it operate? And what 
is the sound that it makes?

BILL QUIGLEY: Well, we were?I was in a group of people that were coming down 
a hill, and all of a sudden the police backed up this huge black truck. And 
on the back of the truck was a great big black device. We didn?t know what 
it was. And they said, ?You either leave, or we?re not responsible for any 
injuries that occur to you at this point.? And that truck then started a 
very high?for lack of a better term, it was like a chirping noise, but it 
was at an extreme volume and in a piercing sound that really made you try to 
hide.

And they used it repeatedly against people there and only?I?ve been at 
protests all over the country and in other countries, as well, never seen 
it. And come to find out that the only time we?the military has used it in 
Iraq a couple of times against crowds there. So this is really the first 
time that this has been used on civilians in the United States. So we got a 
little taste of what our military is doing to everybody else around the 
world, and it wasn?t a very satisfying taste, I?ll tell you that.

AMY GOODMAN: I want to just talk about the LRAD for a minute. I mean, you 
have the American Tinnitus Association saying protesters at G-20 were 
?acoustically assaulted? with a sound of over 140 decibels, which it 
described like ?the kind of sound pressure members of the armed services 
might face from an Improvised Explosive Device.? You also have Pittsburgh 
officials saying, yes, they believe it?s the first time that this LRAD sonic 
cannon was used against civilians in US history. And interestingly, the 
Washington Times says, ?With the help of Homeland Security grants, police 
departments nationwide looking to subdue unruly crowds and political 
protesters are purchasing a high-tech device originally used by the military 
to repel battlefield insurgents and Somali pirates with piercing noise??

BILL QUIGLEY: Right.

AMY GOODMAN: ??capable of damaging hearing.?

BILL QUIGLEY: Yeah. It was horrifying to think?you know, we had already been 
tear-gassed. They used the rubber bullets, all this other stuff, which 
was?it was totally unacceptable. But to have this truck come out, which was 
an assault on people?and it was not a riotous crowd or anything like that. 
It was an unpermitted march down deserted streets of old people, young 
people, everybody. And it was just an outrageous militarization that?s 
trumping our constitutional rights.

AMY GOODMAN: Genevieve Redd, you?re at the Pitt, you?re at the University of 
Pittsburgh, president of the local chapter of the student ACLU. What are 
students doing right now? How are you organizing?

GENEVIEVE REDD: Students right now are coming together through organic 
methods. There are a lot of individuals who have come to the ACLU chapter at 
the University of Pittsburgh, asking for some sort of action. Thus, last 
night we had a speak-out session called Oakland Unites for First Amendment 
Rights, where we had students sign petitions asking for an investigation 
into the unconstitutional orders that police executed and also requesting an 
apology from the city of Pittsburgh.

Actually, right after this meeting, I?ll be meeting with the dean of 
students, Dr. Kathy Humphrey, to discuss what options students will have 
when it comes to the judicial process in the university, as well as dealing 
with the charges that have been brought against them by the city.

JUAN GONZALEZ: And what was the initial response of university officials and 
faculty to this kind of police activity?

GENEVIEVE REDD: You know, it was really amazing that on Thursday they didn?t 
close the university, but then after all of the police action on the streets 
of our neighborhood on Thursday night, the university remained open on 
Friday. There was no reaction that we saw, except for the use of the 
emergency notification system, which sent students a text message that said, 
?Conditions in Oakland may have deteriorated. We advise students to stay in 
their residences,? when, outside of our dorms, students were being tackled 
and beaten by the police.

AMY GOODMAN: Genevieve Redd, thank you very much for being with us, 
president of the University of Pittsburgh?s student chapter of the ACLU. 
Bill Quigley, legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, I 
thank you so much, both, for being with us.

BILL QUIGLEY: Thank you.



From james.irldaly at ntlworld.com  Sun Oct  4 04:19:27 2009
From: james.irldaly at ntlworld.com (james daly)
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 11:19:27 +0100
Subject: [A-List] PL: Culture of Resistance in Honduras
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PL: Culture of Resistance in Honduras

Posted to CN by: "Walter Lippmann" walterlx at earthlink.net   walterlx Sat Oct 
3, 2009 12:06 pm (PDT)


Culture of Resistance in Honduras

Tegucigalpa, Oct 3 (Prensa Latina) Artists of the National Front against the 
Coup are expected to intensify on Saturday the campaign of popular 
resistance with cultural activities in the capital and other cities.

The events are also aimed at marking the birthday of Central American hero 
Francisco Morazan, a date that the armed forces are planning to declare as 
Day of the Honduran Soldier, which has been decried by the Front.

The gathering scheduled for 10:00 local time at the soccer field of 
Pedregal, in Tegucigalpa, includes live music, poetry and an open tribune, 
among other activities announced by organizers.

Radio Globo, a station currently transmitting only on-line after its closure 
by the de facto regime, invited resistance members to wear green clothes as 
a symbol of the people's hope for victory.

These demonstrations come amid a vast military, police deployment in the 
capital, reinforced since the imposition of the siege by the de facto 
government last Sunday.

In spite of this, the Front managed to stage sit-ins and two marches in the 
capital.

Also on Saturday, one of the two resistance members killed by unidentified 
people yesterday, Profesor Mario Contreras, 30, who was a school deputy 
principal in Tegucigalpa, will be buried.

The other fatality was rural resistance leader Mateo Antonio Leiva, who was 
killed in western Santa Barbara department.

Erasmo Contreras, the brother of late professor Mario, said at his funeral 
yesterday night that the people must go on resisting. "It is now or never," 
he stressed.

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From james.irldaly at ntlworld.com  Sun Oct  4 04:38:23 2009
From: james.irldaly at ntlworld.com (james daly)
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 11:38:23 +0100
Subject: [A-List] Fwd: An Appeal to the International Community to Break the
	Silence--
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Fwd: An Appeal to the International Community to Break the Silence-- 

Posted to CN by: "Norman Girvan" norman.girvan at gmail.com
normangirvan Sat Oct 3, 2009 12:30 pm (PDT)


All,

I have heard from Juan and he is OK. The message below indicates that his 
phone services have been cut by the people carrying out the coup.

Thanks to all who responded.

Norman

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: juan almendares 
<juan.almendares at gmail.com> Date: 2009/10/ Subject: Re: An Appeal to the 
International Community to Break the Silence--Juan Almendares To: Norman 
Girvan <norman.girvan at gmail.com>

Dear Norman> Gracais por la traduccion Favor hacerla circular con los amigos 
y amigas yo tambien lo hare. Disculpas tiene que indicarme de que numero me 
llama porque tengo dos meses de tener cortado mi telefono por los golpistas 
y el celular me lo deprograman. Gracias por toda su soldaridad 
Fraternalmente Juan Almendares

2009/10/2 Norman Girvan <norman.girvan at gmail.com>


An appeal to the national and international community to break the silence


The largest silence in the world

Juan Almendares

*[Note from Norman:* *The following message was received from Dr Juan 
Almendares, President of the Honduras Peace Committee and a leading 
supporter of the National Resistance Front against the Coup in Honduras, on 
Monday 27 October. Since then no further messages have been received from Dr 
Almendares and calls to his telephone numbers have been unanswered. This is 
an unofficial translation. ]*


Silence is betraying the principle of defense of life and of human and 
universal love. Silence is complicity in crimes against humanity, torture 
and the violation of human rights.

The de fact government has declared a state of siege lasting for 45 days, 
with the suspension of virtually all constitutional guarantees. A ten-day 
ultimatum has been issued to the Brazilian government for President Zelaya 
to leave the Brazilian Embassy, failing which the diplomatic premises will 
be invaded by the military. Under these circumstances there will be 
virtually no elections in November 2009 and the de facto government has 
absolute power to violate all human rights in the name of peace, dialogue 
without the people having the right of expression, democracy and "God bless 
Honduras" . *Click here to 
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From james.irldaly at ntlworld.com  Sun Oct  4 04:45:21 2009
From: james.irldaly at ntlworld.com (james daly)
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 11:45:21 +0100
Subject: [A-List] NYT: A Promise to Restore Civil Liberties Is Slow to
	Become Reality
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NYT: A Promise to Restore Civil Liberties Is Slow to Become Reality

Posted to CN by: "Jane Franklin" janefranklin at hotmail.com Sat Oct 3, 2009 
12:30 pm (PDT)


(Surprise: Micheletti not keeping his promise.)
================================================

NEW YORK TIMES October 3, 2009

A Promise to Restore Civil Liberties Is Slow to Become Reality in Honduras
 By ELISABETH MALKIN

MEXICO CITY ? The de facto president of Honduras, Roberto Micheletti, 
appeared to have bowed to pressure at home and from abroad on Monday, saying 
that he would lift his order suspending civil liberties.

Since then, he has been in no hurry to keep his promise.

Mr. Micheletti spent the week consulting with the Supreme Court and other 
parts of the government about the decree, which his government announced on 
Sunday night. But while he has been discussing lifting the order, his 
security forces have been busy enforcing it.

Early Monday morning, they shut down two broadcasters sympathetic to the 
ousted president, Manuel Zelaya.

On Wednesday, they dislodged 55 farmers who had been occupying the National 
Agrarian Institute since Mr. Zelaya was deposed in a coup on June 28. A 
judge ordered 38 of the protesters held on charges of sedition.

Under the decree, which restricts freedom of speech and bans unauthorized 
demonstrations, the protest marches by supporters of Mr. Zelaya have all but 
stopped. About 200 Zelaya supporters demonstrated in front of the United 
States Embassy in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on Friday, watched by 300 police 
officers and soldiers, the newspaper El Heraldo reported.

On Friday, an advance team from the Organization of American States arrived 
in Tegucigalpa to prepare for a visit next Thursday by Latin American 
foreign ministers, the latest effort to resume negotiations under 
international mediation. Mr. Micheletti?s government initially turned away 
all but one member of the team when it first tried to arrive last Sunday.

Meanwhile, the auxiliary bishop of Tegucigalpa, Juan Jos? Pineda, has been 
shuttling back and forth between Mr. Micheletti and Mr. Zelaya, who has 
taken refuge in the Brazilian Embassy, in a separate effort to establish 
conditions for talks.

Mr. Zelaya?s allies accused Mr. Micheletti of stalling on lifting the decree 
as he tries to dismantle the network of Zelaya supporters.

?He has in his hands a repressive weapon to try to demobilize the 
resistance,? Rafael Alegr?a, the leader of the farmworkers? union, said of 
Mr. Micheletti in an interview with Radio Globo on Friday. Radio Globo, 
which was closed and taken off the air on Monday, is broadcasting over the 
Internet.

?How are we going to develop a transparent and frank dialogue in the middle 
of open repression?? he asked.

Mr. Micheletti has not explained why it has taken so long to restore civil 
liberties, as he had promised to do. When he met with the Supreme Court on 
Thursday, he said again that the decree would be lifted ?as soon as 
possible.?

Under his order, the decree would be in effect for 45 days, ending just two 
weeks before the presidential election, which is scheduled for Nov. 29. The 
United States has said that it is unlikely to recognize the outcome of the 
election under those conditions.

That is a concern for the candidates, who fear that the international aid 
that was cut off after the coup will not resume once a new president takes 
office in January. Mr. Micheletti is not running in the election.

The negative response to the decree provided the first sign that some 
members of the political, military and business alliance that backed the 
coup are beginning to become uncomfortable with Mr. Micheletti?s actions. 
Legislators from all the political parties in Congress told him that they 
would not approve the decree, as required under the law.

?We want the government to be moderate,? Adolfo J. Facuss?, a prominent 
business leader, said in an interview this week. ?That?s why we didn?t like 
the decree.?

A delegation of Republican members of the United States Congress visited 
Tegucigalpa on Friday to offer support to Mr. Micheletti. The Obama 
administration has called for the restoration of Mr. Zelaya and it has 
suspended all military and some economic aid to the de facto government. 
Senator Jim DeMint, a Republican from South Carolina, said that calling Mr. 
Zelaya?s ouster a coup was ?ill informed and baseless.?

Mr. DeMint and three other legislators traveling with him planned to meet 
with members of the Supreme Court, which backed Mr. Zelaya?s ouster, as well 
as with the presidential candidates.

They also met with Mr. Micheletti, who told them that he would lift the 
decree and restore civil liberties by Monday at the latest, Wesley Denton, 
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From shimogamo at ashisuto.co.jp  Sun Oct  4 04:52:51 2009
From: shimogamo at ashisuto.co.jp (Bill Totten)
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 19:52:51 +0900
Subject: [A-List] The Strange Rebirth of a Forgotten Idea
Message-ID: <20091004195251.6cfd2cb1.shimogamo@ashisuto.co.jp>


Why is the country so short of money that we can't even rebuild the London
Tube? Because we allow the banks a monopoly to create it, and they charge
the earth.

by David Boyle

New Statesman (April 07 2003)


As Gordon Brown struggles, on the eve of his Budget, to balance the
unbalanceable - a job that was difficult enough even before we went to war
with Iraq - a glimmer of an idea is emerging about how to pay for
railways, postal services and all the other public service demands that
crowd in upon him. It sounds like the search for Atlantis or for
zero-point energy - and conventional economists say it's even more
mythical than that - but there is a flurry of interest among backbenchers
about a proposal for a new source of public finance.

The proposal is very simple - and heretical. It is that the government -
or rather the Bank of England - creates the money to pay for hospitals or
the London Tube but charges no interest for it. The only requirement is
that it be paid back. Having done its work, the money is withdrawn from
circulation.

There is then no need either for the private finance initiative - the
controversial PFI, with its vast payments to financial intermediaries - or
for government borrowing, with its debt burdens to future generations.

An outlandish idea? "If the government can create a dollar bond, it can
create a dollar bill", said Henry Ford in 1921, proposing a scheme of this
sort to finance dams in the Tennessee Valley. In 1914, David Lloyd George,
then chancellor, issued Treasury notes to stave off a banking collapse. In
1933, the Yale University economist Irving Fisher - who invented inflation
indices - proposed that money should no longer be based on debt.

The Labour MP David Chaytor - who has put down an early day motion on the
subject - points out that as recently as 1964, twenty per cent of the
money in circulation was interest-free, government-issued notes and coins.
The equivalent figure today is three per cent.

Interest payments account for a third of the cost of some major projects,
and they are the biggest single item of national spending after pensions.
To create interest-free cash, therefore - today in electronic form, rather
than as old-fashioned notes and coins - is a chancellor's equivalent of
alchemy. The traditional economist's objection is that when governments
create money in this way, inflation inevitably ensues.

But is this true? The answer goes to the heart of an issue that -
strangely, given the vast sums we spend on economic research - almost
nobody talks about. Where does money come from in the first place?

This hangs on obscure definitions - most of us dimly remember them from
the early Thatcher era - that have become the 20th-century equivalent of
angels on a pinhead.

Some money is created in the form of notes and coins (known as M0) issued
without interest by the government via the Bank of England. This is
dwindling fast because it is so inconvenient. One UK bank recently found
itself saddled with six million fifty-pence pieces it didn't need, and
seriously debated putting them in landfill. The rest depends on what you
include; but most is created by banks in the form of mortgages and loans -
including loans to the government - which eventually have to be paid back
plus interest.

Banks can lend many times over the money that is deposited with them - as
long as they observe the rules set by the Bank for International
Settlements in Basle about how much they need to keep on deposit.

In other words, banks create money all the time. And the process by which
they do so, as John Kenneth Galbraith observed in 1975, "is so simple that
the mind is repelled". Galbraith added: "Where something so important is
involved, a deeper mystery seems only decent".

But there is no deeper mystery. The banks just do it and make a handsome
profit out of it - about GBP 21 billion a year, according to the former
Inter-bank Research director James Robertson.

Issuing interest-free cash would only be inflationary if money were a
finite resource. As it is not, replacing interest-bearing loans with free
money might even cut inflation. "The share of interest-free money - cash
and coin or M0 - has fallen dramatically compared with the total amount of
money in circulation as a proportion of GDP", says Austin Mitchell, the
Grimsby MP who also tabled a Commons motion on the subject. "The power to
issue credit", he adds, "has effectively been privatised to the advantage
of the banks, but to the detriment of the economy".

These ideas come not just from rebel Labour backbenchers but also from
campaign groups, websites and books on both sides of the Atlantic.

They are all driven partly by an awareness of the debt crisis but also by
frustration with both private and public borrowing as a source of funds
for public projects. More than twenty MPs - Labour, Liberal Democrat and
Plaid Cymru - signed the Mitchell motion. In the US, Congress has before
it a draft bill proposing that the Federal Reserve creates $72 billion a
year as interest-free loans for local infrastructure projects. The draft
was tabled by a Republican congressman from Illinois, Ray LaHood, and was
backed by more than 3,300 local authorities and four states, mostly from
the Midwest - the region traditionally associated with money reform
agitation a century ago.

The Forum for Stable Currencies has been meeting monthly in the House of
Lords for two years now, attracting leading figures from the world of
small business and across the political spectrum - and presided over by
the pipe-smoking Lord Sudeley, chairman of the Monday Club.

Other reformers meet at an annual jamboree in the Midlands known as the
Bromsgrove Group. The Green Party's economic policy is based on similar
ideas.

We have been here before. The issue of who creates money lay behind the
rise of social credit, following the book Economic Democracy by Major C H
Douglas, published in 1920. Despite the opposition of the Fabians at the
New Statesman, Douglas by the 1930s was able to command stadiums full of
supporters in Australia and Canada, as well as in the UK. An estimated
ninety million tuned in to his radio broadcasts in the US, and two
Canadian states elected social credit administrations. One stayed in power
in Alberta until 1971, prevented only by the courts from pushing through
its promise to give a monthly dividend of $25 to every citizen.

In the UK, a breakaway wing of the Boy Scouts formed itself in the 1930s
into the Social Credit Party - much to Douglas's horror - and marched, in
those Blackshirt days, as the Greenshirts. The man behind the party, John
Hargrave, became notorious just before the war when a green arrow was
fired into the door of No 10 Downing Street. When he lost his deposit in
Stoke Newington in the 1950 general election, he did a David Owen and
wound the party up. Social credit petered out in anti-Semitism and
paranoia: for some reason, those who believe there is a conspiracy of
bankers seem to be only a hair's breadth away from believing that it's a
Jewish one.

The conspiracies are still there on the internet: both Abraham Lincoln and
John F Kennedy are supposed to have died because they were poised to take
on the banks. But the Social Credit Secretariat, which still exists, based
in West Yorkshire, has rejected anti-Semitism and is now undergoing a
revival. Social credit proposes the complete centralisation of the money
supply. It is hard to see how this would ever be enacted, even if it was
desirable, but what's the problem with putting more interest-free
government money into circulation?

The conventional answer is that the requirement to borrow and to pay
interest provides a discipline on governments and big public sector
projects. Without this discipline, governments simply delude themselves
about how much money it is wise to create.

But it's an expensive discipline: investors in the London Underground
expect to make about GBP 2.7 billion over the life of the public-private
partnership, in return for investments of just GBP 530 million - and a
third of that will go to financial intermediaries.

Nobody could possibly argue that that is financially efficient. It is
quite easy to imagine something like the Bank of England's independent
monetary policy committee - which at present decides on interest rates -
applying some kind of discipline on the government's creation of money, at
far lower cost.

"New money" may be an idea whose time has come. It could provide a
rallying point for radicals desperate to come up with anything to prop up
their struggling ideals of public infrastructure. At the very least, it is
healthy that the fundamentals of the money system should be open to debate
again.

"The world is full, on the one hand, of monetary cranks each with a patent
panacea for setting all our ills to rights", wrote the influential New
Statesman economist G D H Cole. "And, on the other, of orthodox
economists, so alarmed at the cranks' proposals as to be wholly unwilling
to make any new discoveries at all, for fear of appearing to sanction some
of their notions".

After half a century of silence, new discoveries are now rather badly
needed.

_____

David Boyle, editor of The Money Changers (Earthscan 2003), is a senior
associate at the New Economics Foundation

http://www.newstatesman.com/200304070021


http://www.billtotten.blogspot.com
http://www.ashisuto.co.jp


From james.irldaly at ntlworld.com  Sun Oct  4 04:55:57 2009
From: james.irldaly at ntlworld.com (james daly)
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 11:55:57 +0100
Subject: [A-List] The Economic Recovery is an Illusion - The Bank for
	International Settlements (BIS) Warns of Future Crises
Message-ID: <7E3CB18274404B95994694256A813F23@home9sg93n9r5y>



The Economic Recovery is an Illusion

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Warns of Future Crises

By Andrew Gavin Marshall

URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15501

Global Research, October 3, 2009

War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength, and Debt is 
Recovery



In light of the ever-present and unyieldingly persistent exclamations of 'an 
end' to the recession, a 'solution' to the crisis, and a 'recovery' of the 
economy; we must remember that we are being told this by the very same 
people and institutions which told us, in years past, that there was 
'nothing to worry about,' that 'the fundamentals are fine,' and that there 
was 'no danger' of an economic crisis.



Why do we continue to believe the same people that have, in both statements 
and choices, been nothing but wrong? Who should we believe and turn to for 
more accurate information and analysis? Perhaps a useful source would be 
those at the epicenter of the crisis, in the heart of the shadowy world of 
central banking, at the global banking regulator, and the "most prestigious 
financial institution in the world," which accurately predicted the crisis 
thus far: The Bank for International Settlements (BIS). This would be a good 
place to start.



The economic crisis is anything but over, the "solutions" have been akin to 
putting a band-aid on an amputated arm. The Bank for International 
Settlements (BIS), the central bank to the world's central banks, has warned 
and continues to warn against such misplaced hopes.



What is the Bank for International Settlements (BIS)?



The BIS emerged from the Young Committee set up in 1929, which was created 
to handle the settlements of German reparations payments outlined in the 
Versailles Treaty of 1919. The Committee was headed by Owen D. Young, 
President and CEO of General Electric, co-author of the 1924 Dawes Plan, 
member of the Board of Trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation and was Deputy 
Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. As the main American 
delegate to the conference on German reparations, he was also accompanied by 
J.P. Morgan, Jr.[1] What emerged was the Young Plan for German reparations 
payments.



The Plan went into effect in 1930, following the stock market crash. Part of 
the Plan entailed the creation of an international settlement organization, 
which was formed in 1930, and known as the Bank for International 
Settlements (BIS). It was purportedly designed to facilitate and coordinate 
the reparations payments of Weimar Germany to the Allied powers. However, 
its secondary function, which is much more secretive, and much more 
important, was to act as "a coordinator of the operations of central banks 
around the world." Described as "a bank for central banks," the BIS "is a 
private institution with shareholders but it does operations for public 
agencies. Such operations are kept strictly confidential so that the public 
is usually unaware of most of the BIS operations."[2]



The BIS was founded by "the central banks of Belgium, France, Germany, 
Italy, the Netherlands, Japan, and the United Kingdom along with three 
leading commercial banks from the United States, including J.P. Morgan & 
Company, First National Bank of New York, and First National Bank of 
Chicago. Each central bank subscribed to 16,000 shares and the three U.S. 
banks also subscribed to this same number of shares." However, "Only central 
banks have voting power."[3]



Central bank members have bi-monthly meetings at the BIS where they discuss 
a variety of issues. It should be noted that most "of the transactions 
carried out by the BIS on behalf of central banks require the utmost 
secrecy,"[4] which is likely why most people have not even heard of it. The 
BIS can offer central banks "confidentiality and secrecy which is higher 
than a triple-A rated bank."[5]



The BIS was established "to remedy the decline of London as the world's 
financial center by providing a mechanism by which a world with three chief 
financial centers in London, New York, and Paris could still operate as 
one."[6] As Carroll Quigley explained:



[T]he powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing 
less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands 
able  to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of 
the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist 
fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret 
agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex 
of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basle, 
Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world's central 
banks which were themselves private corporations.[7]



The BIS, is, without a doubt, the most important, powerful, and secretive 
financial institution in the world. It's warnings should not be taken 
lightly, as it would be the one institution in the world that would be privy 
to such information more than any other.



Derivatives Crisis Ahead



In September of 2009, the BIS reported that, "The global market for 
derivatives rebounded to $426 trillion in the second quarter as risk 
appetite returned, but the system remains unstable and prone to crises." The 
BIS quarterly report said that derivatives rose 16% "mostly due to a surge 
in futures and options contracts on three-month interest rates." The Chief 
Economist of the BIS warned that the derivatives market poses "major 
systemic risks" in the international financial sector, and that, "The danger 
is that regulators will again fail to see that big institutions have taken 
far more exposure than they can handle in shock conditions." The economist 
added that, "The use of derivatives by hedge funds and the like can create 
large, hidden exposures."[8]



The day after the report by the BIS was published, the former Chief 
Economist of the BIS, William White, warned that, "The world has not tackled 
the problems at the heart of the economic downturn and is likely to slip 
back into recession," and he further "warned that government actions to help 
the economy in the short run may be sowing the seeds for future crises." He 
was quoted as warning of entering a double-dip recession, "Are we going into 
a W[-shaped recession]? Almost certainly. Are we going into an L? I would 
not be in the slightest bit surprised." He added, "The only thing that would 
really surprise me is a rapid and sustainable recovery from the position 
we're in."



An article in the Financial Times explained that White's comments are not to 
be taken lightly, as apart from heading the economic department at the BIS 
from 1995 to 2008, he had, "repeatedly warned of dangerous imbalances in the 
global financial system as far back as 2003 and - breaking a great taboo in 
central banking circles at the time - he dared to challenge Alan Greenspan, 
then chairman of the Federal Reserve, over his policy of persistent cheap 
money."



The Financial Times continued:



Worldwide, central banks have pumped thousands of billions of dollars of new 
money into the financial system over the past two years in an effort to 
prevent a depression. Meanwhile, governments have gone to similar extremes, 
taking on vast sums of debt to prop up industries from banking to car 
making.



White warned that, "These measures may already be inflating a bubble in 
asset prices, from equities to commodities," and that, "there was a small 
risk that inflation would get out of control over the medium term." In a 
speech given in Hong Kong, White explained that, "the underlying problems in 
the global economy, such as unsustainable trade imbalances between the US, 
Europe and Asia, had not been resolved."[9]



On September 20, 2009, the Financial Times reported that the BIS, "the head 
of the body that oversees global banking regulation," while at the G20 
meeting, "issued a stern warning that the world cannot afford to slip into a 
'complacent' assumption that the financial sector has rebounded for good," 
and that, "Jaime Caruana, general manager of the Bank for International 
Settlements and a former governor of Spain's central bank, said the market 
rebound should not be misinterpreted."[10]



This follows warnings from the BIS over the summer of 2009, regarding 
misplaced hope over the stimulus packages organized by various governments 
around the world. In late June, the BIS warned that, "fiscal stimulus 
packages may provide no more than a temporary boost to growth, and be 
followed by an extended period of economic stagnation."



An article in the Australian reported that, "The only international body to 
correctly predict the financial crisis ... has warned the biggest risk is 
that governments might be forced by world bond investors to abandon their 
stimulus packages, and instead slash spending while lifting taxes and 
interest rates," as the annual report of the BIS "has for the past three 
years been warning of the dangers of a repeat of the depression." Further, 
"Its latest annual report warned that countries such as Australia faced the 
possibility of a run on the currency, which would force interest rates to 
rise." The BIS warned that, "a temporary respite may make it more difficult 
for authorities to take the actions that are necessary, if unpopular, to 
restore the health of the financial system, and may thus ultimately prolong 
the period of slow growth."



Further, "At the same time, government guarantees and asset insurance have 
exposed taxpayers to potentially large losses," and explaining how fiscal 
packages posed significant risks, it said that, "There is a danger that 
fiscal policy-makers will exhaust their debt capacity before finishing the 
costly job of repairing the financial system," and that, "There is the 
definite possibility that stimulus programs will drive up real interest 
rates and inflation expectations." Inflation "would intensify as the 
downturn abated," and the BIS "expressed doubt about the bank rescue package 
adopted in the US."[11]



The BIS further warned of inflation, saying that, "The big and justifiable 
worry is that, before it can be reversed, the dramatic easing in monetary 
policy will translate into growth in the broader monetary and credit 
aggregates." That will "lead to inflation that feeds inflation expectations 
or it may fuel yet another asset-price bubble, sowing the seeds of the next 
financial boom-bust cycle."[12] With the latest report on the derivatives 
bubble being created, it has become painfully clear that this is exactly 
what has happened: the creation of another asset-price bubble. The problem 
with bubbles is that they burst.



The Financial Times reported that William White, former Chief Economist at 
the BIS, also "argued that after two years of government support for the 
financial system, we now have a set of banks that are even bigger - and more 
dangerous - than ever before," which also, "has been argued by Simon 
Johnson, former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund," who 
"says that the finance industry has in effect captured the US government," 
and pointedly stated: "recovery will fail unless we break the financial 
oligarchy that is blocking essential reform."[13] [Emphasis added].



At the beginning of September 2009, central bankers met at the BIS, and it 
was reported that, "they had agreed on a package of measures to strengthen 
the regulation and supervision of the banking industry in the wake of the 
financial crisis," and the chief of the European Central Bank was quoted as 
saying, "The agreements reached today among 27 major countries of the world 
are essential as they set the new standards for banking regulation and 
supervision at the global level."[14]



Among the agreed measures, "lenders should raise the quality of their 
capital by including more stock," and "Banks will also have to raise the 
amount and quality of the assets they keep in reserve and curb leverage." 
One of the key decisions made at the Basel conference, which is named after 
the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, set up under the BIS, was that, 
"banks will need to raise the quality of their so-called Tier 1 capital 
base, which measures a bank's ability to absorb sudden losses," meaning 
that, "The majority of such reserves should be common shares and retained 
earnings and the holdings will be fully disclosed."[15]



In mid-September, the BIS said that, "Central banks must coordinate global 
supervision of derivatives clearinghouses and consider offering them access 
to emergency funds to limit systemic risk." In other words, "Regulators are 
pushing for much of the $592 trillion market in over-the-counter derivatives 
trades to be moved to clearinghouses which act as the buyer to every seller 
and seller to every buyer, reducing the risk to the financial system from 
defaults." The report released by the BIS asked if clearing houses "should 
have access to central bank credit facilities and, if so, when?"[16]



A Coming Crisis



The derivatives market represents a massive threat to the stability of the 
global economy. However, it is one among many threats, all of which are 
related and intertwined; one will set off another. The big elephant in the 
room is the major financial bubble created from the bailouts and "stimulus" 
packages worldwide. This money has been used by major banks to consolidate 
the economy; buying up smaller banks and absorbing the real economy; 
productive industry. The money has also gone into speculation, feeding the 
derivatives bubble and leading to a rise in stock markets, a completely 
illusory and manufactured occurrence. The bailouts have, in effect, fed the 
derivatives bubble to dangerous new levels as well as inflating the stock 
market to an unsustainable position.



However, a massive threat looms in the cost of the bailouts and so-called 
"stimulus" packages. The economic crisis was created as a result of low 
interest rates and easy money: high-risk loans were being made, money was 
invested in anything and everything, the housing market inflated, the 
commercial real estate market inflated, derivatives trade soared to the 
hundreds of trillions per year, speculation ran rampant and dominated the 
global financial system. Hedge funds were the willing facilitators of the 
derivatives trade, and the large banks were the major participants and 
holders.



At the same time, governments spent money loosely, specifically the United 
States, paying for multi-trillion dollar wars and defense budgets, printing 
money out of thin air, courtesy of the global central banking system. All 
the money that was produced, in turn, produced debt. By 2007, the total 
debt - domestic, commercial and consumer debt - of the United States stood 
at a shocking $51 trillion.[17]



As if this debt burden was not enough, considering it would be impossible to 
ever pay back, the past two years has seen the most expansive and rapid debt 
expansion ever seen in world history - in the form of stimulus and bailout 
packages around the world. In July of 2009, it was reported that, "U.S. 
taxpayers may be on the hook for as much as $23.7 trillion to bolster the 
economy and bail out financial companies, said Neil Barofsky, special 
inspector general for the Treasury's Troubled Asset Relief Program."[18]



Bilderberg Plan in Action?



In May of 2009, I wrote an article covering the Bilderberg meeting of 2009, 
a highly secretive meeting of major elites from Europe and North America, 
who meet once a year behind closed doors. Bilderberg acts as an informal 
international think tank, and they do not release any information, so 
reports from the meetings are leaked and the sources cannot be verified. 
However, the information provided by Bilderberg trackers and journalists 
Daniel Estulin and Jim Tucker have proven surprisingly accurate in the past.



In May, the information that leaked from the meetings regarded the main 
topic of conversation being, unsurprisingly, the economic crisis. The big 
question was to undertake "Either a prolonged, agonizing depression that 
dooms the world to decades of stagnation, decline and poverty ... or an 
intense-but-shorter depression that paves the way for a new sustainable 
economic world order, with less sovereignty but more efficiency."



Important to note, was that one major point on the agenda was to "continue 
to deceive millions of savers and investors who believe the hype about the 
supposed up-turn in the economy. They are about to be set up for massive 
losses and searing financial pain in the months ahead."



Estulin reported on a leaked report he claimed to have received following 
the meeting, which reported that there were large disagreements among the 
participants, as "The hardliners are for dramatic decline and a severe, 
short-term depression, but there are those who think that things have gone 
too far and that the fallout from the global economic cataclysm cannot be 
accurately calculated." However, the consensus view was that the recession 
would get worse, and that recovery would be "relatively slow and 
protracted," and to look for these terms in the press over the next weeks 
and months. Sure enough, these terms have appeared ad infinitum in the 
global media.



Estulin further reported, "that some leading European bankers faced with the 
specter of their own financial mortality are extremely concerned, calling 
this high wire act 'unsustainable,' and saying that US budget and trade 
deficits could result in the demise of the dollar." One Bilderberger said 
that, "the banks themselves don't know the answer to when (the bottom will 
be hit)." Everyone appeared to agree, "that the level of capital needed for 
the American banks may be considerably higher than the US government 
suggested through their recent stress tests." Further, "someone from the IMF 
pointed out that its own study on historical recessions suggests that the US 
is only a third of the way through this current one; therefore economies 
expecting to recover with resurgence in demand from the US will have a long 
wait." One attendee stated that, "Equity losses in 2008 were worse than 
those of 1929," and that, "The next phase of the economic decline will also 
be worse than the '30s, mostly because the US economy carries about $20 
trillion of excess debt. Until that debt is eliminated, the idea of a 
healthy boom is a mirage."[19]



Could the general perception of an economy in recovery be the manifestation 
of the Bilderberg plan in action? Well, to provide insight into attempting 
to answer that question, we must review who some of the key participants at 
the conference were.



Central Bankers



Many central bankers were present, as per usual. Among them, were the 
Governor of the National Bank of Greece, Governor of the Bank of Italy, 
President of the European Investment Bank; James Wolfensohn, former 
President of the World Bank; Nout Wellink, President of the Central Bank of 
the Netherlands and is on the board of the Bank for International 
Settlements (BIS); Jean-Claude Trichet, the President of the European 
Central Bank was also present; the Vice Governor of the National Bank of 
Belgium; and a member of the Board of the Executive Directors of the Central 
Bank of Austria.



Finance Ministers and Media



Finance Ministers and officials also attended from many different countries. 
Among the countries with representatives present from the financial 
department were Finland, France, Great Britain, Italy, Greece, Portugal, and 
Spain. There were also many representatives present from major media 
enterprises around the world. These include the publisher and editor of Der 
Standard in Austria; the Chairman and CEO of the Washington Post Company; 
the Editor-in-Chief of the Economist; the Deputy Editor of Die Zeit in 
Germany; the CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Le Nouvel Observateur in France; the 
Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator of the Financial Times; as 
well as the Business Correspondent and the Business Editor of the Economist. 
So, these are some of the major financial publications in the world present 
at this meeting. Naturally, they have a large influence on public 
perceptions of the economy.



Bankers



Also of importance to note is the attendance of private bankers at the 
meeting, for it is the major international banks that own the shares of the 
world's central banks, which in turn, control the shares of the Bank for 
International Settlements (BIS). Among the banks and financial companies 
represented at the meeting were Deutsche Bank AG, ING, Lazard Freres & Co., 
Morgan Stanley International, Goldman Sachs, Royal Bank of Scotland, and of 
importance to note is David Rockefeller,[20] former Chairman and CEO of 
Chase Manhattan (now J.P. Morgan Chase), who can arguably be referred to as 
the current reigning 'King of Capitalism.'



The Obama Administration



Heavy representation at the Bilderberg meeting also came from members of the 
Obama administration who are tasked with resolving the economic crisis. 
Among them were Timothy Geithner, the US Treasury Secretary and former 
President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Lawrence Summers, 
Director of the White House's National Economic Council, former Treasury 
Secretary in the Clinton administration, former President of Harvard 
University, and former Chief Economist of the World Bank; Paul Volcker, 
former Governor of the Federal Reserve System and Chair of Obama's Economic 
Recovery Advisory Board; Robert Zoellick, former Chairman of Goldman Sachs 
and current President of the World Bank.[21]



Unconfirmed were reports of the Fed Chairman, Ben Bernanke being present. 
However, if the history and precedent of Bilderberg meetings is anything to 
go by, both the Chairman of the Federal Reserve and the President of the 
Federal Reserve Bank of New York are always present, so it would indeed be 
surprising if they were not present at the 2009 meeting. I contacted the New 
York Fed to ask if the President attended any organization or group meetings 
in Greece over the scheduled dates that Bilderberg met, and the response 
told me to ask the particular organization for a list of attendees. While 
not confirming his presence, they also did not deny it. However, it is still 
unverified.



Naturally, all of these key players to wield enough influence to alter 
public opinion and perception of the economic crisis. They also have the 
most to gain from it. However, whatever image they construct, it remains 
just that; an image. The illusion will tear apart soon enough, and the world 
will come to realize that the crisis we have gone through thus far is merely 
the introductory chapter to the economic crisis as it will be written in 
history books.



Conclusion



The warnings from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and its 
former Chief Economist, William White, must not be taken lightly. Both the 
warnings of the BIS and William White in the past have gone unheralded and 
have been proven accurate with time. Do not allow the media-driven hope of 
'economic recovery' sideline the 'economic reality.' Though it can be 
depressing to acknowledge; it is a far greater thing to be aware of the 
ground on which you tread, even if it is strewn with dangers; than to be 
ignorant and run recklessly through a minefield. Ignorance is not bliss; 
ignorance is delayed catastrophe.



A doctor must first properly identify and diagnose the problem before he can 
offer any sort of prescription as a solution. If the diagnosis is 
inaccurate, the prescription won't work, and could in fact, make things 
worse. The global economy has a large cancer in it: it has been properly 
diagnosed by some, yet the prescription it was given was to cure a cough. 
The economic tumor has been identified; the question is: do we accept this 
and try to address it, or do we pretend that the cough prescription will 
cure it? What do you think gives a stronger chance of survival? Now try 
accepting the idea that 'ignorance is bliss.'



As Gandhi said, "There is no god higher than truth."



For an overview of the coming financial crises, see: "Entering the Greatest 
Depression in History: More Bubbles Waiting to Burst," Global Research, 
August 7, 2009.


Endnotes



[1]        Time, HEROES: Man-of-the-Year. Time Magazine: Jan 6, 1930: 
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,738364-1,00.html



[2]        James Calvin Baker, The Bank for International Settlements: 
evolution and evaluation. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002: page 2



[3]        James Calvin Baker, The Bank for International Settlements: 
evolution and evaluation. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002: page 6



[4]        James Calvin Baker, The Bank for International Settlements: 
evolution and evaluation. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002: page 148



[5]        James Calvin Baker, The Bank for International Settlements: 
evolution and evaluation. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002: page 149



[6]        Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our 
Time (New York: Macmillan Company, 1966), 324-325



[7]        Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our 
Time (New York: Macmillan Company, 1966), 324



[8]        Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Derivatives still pose huge risk, says 
BIS. The Telegraph: September 13, 2009: 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/6184496/Derivatives-still-pose-huge-risk-says-BIS.html



[9]        Robert Cookson and Sundeep Tucker, Economist warns of double-dip 
recession. The Financial Times: September 14, 2009: 
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e6dd31f0-a133-11de-a88d-00144feabdc0.html



[10]      Patrick Jenkins, BIS head worried by complacency. The Financial 
Times: September 20, 2009: 
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a7a04972-a60c-11de-8c92-00144feabdc0.html



[11]      David Uren. Bank for International Settlements warning over 
stimulus benefits. The Australian: June 30, 2009:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,25710566-601,00.html



[12]      Simone Meier, BIS Sees Risk Central Banks Will Raise Interest 
Rates Too Late. Bloomberg: June 29, 2009:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601068&sid=aOnSy9jXFKaY



[13]      Robert Cookson and Victor Mallet, Societal soul-searching casts 
shadow over big banks. The Financial Times: September 18, 2009: 
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7721033c-a3ea-11de-9fed-00144feabdc0.html



[14]      AFP, Top central banks agree to tougher bank regulation: BIS. AFP: 
September 6, 2009: 
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h8G0ShkY-AdH3TNzKJEetGuScPiQ



[15]      Simon Kennedy, Basel Group Agrees on Bank Standards to Avoid 
Repeat of Crisis. Bloomberg: September 7, 2009: 
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aETt8NZiLP38



[16]      Abigail Moses, Central Banks Must Agree Global Clearing 
Supervision, BIS Says. Bloomberg: September 14, 2009: 
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a5C6ARW_tSW0



[17]      FIABIC, US home prices the most vital indicator for turnaround. 
FIABIC Asia Pacific: January 19, 2009: 
http://www.fiabci-asiapacific.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=133&Itemid=41



Alexander Green, The National Debt: The Biggest Threat to Your Financial 
Future. Investment U: August 25, 2008: 
http://www.investmentu.com/IUEL/2008/August/the-national-debt.html



John Bellamy Foster and Fred Magdoff, Financial Implosion and Stagnation. 
Global Research: May 20, 2009: 
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13692



[18]      Dawn Kopecki and Catherine Dodge, U.S. Rescue May Reach $23.7 
Trillion, Barofsky Says (Update3). Bloomberg: July 20, 2009: 
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aY0tX8UysIaM



[19]      Andrew Gavin Marshall, The Bilderberg Plan for 2009: Remaking the 
Global Political Economy. Global Research: May 26, 2009: 
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?aid=13738&context=va



[20]      Maja Banck-Polderman, Official List of Participants for the 2009 
Bilderberg Meeting. Public Intelligence: July 26, 2009: 
http://www.publicintelligence.net/official-list-of-participants-for-the-2009-bilderberg-meeting/



[21]      Andrew Gavin Marshall, The Bilderberg Plan for 2009: Remaking the 
Global Political Economy. Global Research: May 26, 2009: 
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?aid=13738&context=va





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From the.buffalo.in.the.midst at gmail.com  Sun Oct  4 08:43:58 2009
From: the.buffalo.in.the.midst at gmail.com (Leighm)
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 07:43:58 -0700
Subject: [A-List] PR Firms Reap Mega-Contracts to Undermine U.S.
 Government Policy
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On a similar note, Senator DeMint, claiming a 'fact-finding' mission
(and a stated LUV for the coup-makers) apparently violated the Foreign
Agents Registration Act the other day, and despite Senator Kerry's
denial of expenses,  "Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). The Republican
leader appealed to the Defense Department to provide an aircraft for
DeMint's trip and the Pentagon agreed to do so,"!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/01/AR2009100105015.html

That more than states the direction of US foreign policy towards
Honduras, or DeMint and McConnell are in a lot of trouble, along with
the Pentagon liaison who authorized the use of the airplane.






james daly wrote:
> 
> PR Firms Reap Mega-Contracts to Undermine U.S. Government Policy
> 
> Last Monday, we reported that the Honduran coup had contracted with the 
> Washington PR firm Chlopak, Leonard, Schechter & Associates worth over 
> $290,000. The contract was filed with the Justice Department on Sept. 18 and 
> is available on-line. As noted in the Sept. 28 blog, this is the first time 
> that the de facto regime has contracted directly, in this case signed by 
> Rafael Pineda Ponce, head of Institutional Strengthening for the coup 
> regime. It includes monitoring the press and coordinating responses to 
> negative publicity.
> 
> The contract reads, "The registrant will engage in the following activities 
> on behalf of the foreign principal: providing advice and planning on 
> strategic public relations activities, designing and managing said 
> activities through the use of media outreach, policymaker and third party 
> contact and events and public dissemination of information to government 
> officials, the staff of government officials, news media and non-government 
> groups. The purpose of these activities is to advance the level of 
> communication, awareness and media policymaker attention about the political 
> situation in Honduras."
> 
> 
> 
> Honduran organizations have asked the State Department to investigate the 
> legality of the contract. For one thing, the coup regime is spending 
> Honduran public funds to sustain itself as an anti-constitutional 
> government.
> 
> The Justice Department should also be concerned about violations of foreign 
> lobbying regulations. It's one thing to lobby U.S. policymakers for a 
> foreign government but quite another to lobby for a foreign military coup. 
> By all logic, this should be prohibited under the lobbying rules.
> 
> This is another example of how the State Department's refusal to do its job 
> by designating the Honduran coup a coup gives Micheletti wiggle room he 
> never should have been given.
> 
> The ambivalence and contradictions coming out of Washington these days only 
> serve to prolong and deepen the conflict in Honduras. It will never be 
> possible to convince certain rightwing actors to accept a return to 
> democracy in the country, not to talk slick PR firms into acting along any 
> criteria but money coming in. The only solution is to diligently apply the 
> law?something Hondurans no longer have the option of doing?to resolve this 
> crisis. The coup must be isolated and sanctioned until its leaders realize 
> that hijacking democracy is not acceptable practice.
> 
> 
> 
> Posted by Laura Carlsen 
> 
> 
> 

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From ioriwase at mail.mohawknationnews.com  Sun Oct  4 12:49:59 2009
From: ioriwase at mail.mohawknationnews.com (Mohawk Nation News)
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 14:49:59 -0400
Subject: [A-List] MNN Mission impossible?  Assassination attempt of MNN
Message-ID: <0209f02b$40090$0ceb6180409838@xnote>

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE?  ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT OF MNN 

MNN Oct. 2, 2009.  This is a 3 part story about the attempted murder at the border in 2008.    

PART I:  I have to admit that I am vulnerable and trusting.  Probably because I?m a woman.  That?s why the men have the responsibility to protect us from what could be construed as a weakness.  It also goes back to the way I was raised in Kahnawake.  

One fall day in 1999 there was a knock at my front door.  I opened it.  Unannounced, a plain looking, late fiftyish non-native woman, with salt and pepper hair and buck teeth was standing there.  I?ll call her ?Notre Dam?.  She said she was sent over by the Kahnawake Cultural Center.  Looking back I should have checked her story.

She said she was a University of Quebec student and wanted to interview me for a paper on Iroquois history.  She admitted she knew nothing about the indigenous or Iroquois.  She was researching the paradigm theory.  Her main interest seemed to be how the minds of the Mohawks function.  She wheedled her way into my life and spent a lot of time trying to decipher us by talking to me for long periods of time.  

For 10 years Notre Dam visited me or would call me at 4:00 a.m. to discuss my views on her findings.  My thoughts are based on the philosophy of the Great Law.  I gave some knowledge because I thought it would help us.    

Notre Dam lived alone in Montreal. She had a big unkempt 4 bedroom brick house in a section that was being gentrified.  Nothing was on the walls.  Everything looked temporary like she was ready to leave at a moment?s notice.  The furniture looked like somebody else?s discards.   The plants were all dead.  The kitchen and bathrooms were filthy.  The dirt floor basement was stacked with plastic bags full of junk. 

Nothing anywhere identified her.  The rooms were covered in old dust and smelled like they had never been cleaned.  Black curtains covered the large high windows.    

Throughout the time I knew her, she never had a job, though she had a steady income and always drove a new car.  She always said she was broke or hard up for money.  I bought her a computer because she was so down and out.  She had very few friends or activities in Montreal that I noticed.  It looked like she was devoting a lot of time to us.  Why?  She was friendly and tried to ingratiate herself into our family activities.  She had a habit of asking me first what I thought and then would agree with me.  It was strange for someone who was supposed to be so educated.

One day she showed up at my house with an 8 year old Cree boy she had gotten from a family in western Canada.  I still don?t know the real story behind that.  She said she was asked to raise him.  Ben was a typical native boy, skinny, black hair and dark skin.  She never had children and was getting old.  She wanted me to help her raise him by becoming his surrogate grandmother.  The boy looked needy.  So my family and I agreed because we are a giving and caring community.      

Finally in 2008 Notre Dam got her Phd.  She didn?t mention all the work I had done with her, like she did it all by herself.  We never signed an agreement to use my information from our hundreds of formal and informal interviews.  I later learned that what she did might be illegal.

In 2004, while working with Notre Dam, I got a call from a member of the sister Mohawk community of Akwesasne, up the St. Lawrence River near Cornwall Ontario.  

?Can you help us with a big claim that New York State is making to our lands here.  The local federal Indian tribe is ready to sign away our land in northern New York State in exchange for a casino?, the caller told me.  The case was in the courts and settlements were being worked out without the people?s consent.  I said I wanted the local longhouse to pass their request for my help through their clans.  The next day the longhouse passed the decision and wanted me to start working with them right away.  

For the next year I worked closely with one of the women whom I will call ?Sherry?.  She was a slim attractive well dressed 42 year old grandmother of two.   We had relatives in common.  

For the legal case we travelled to Albany, Washington, even Ottawa and other places to push our constitutional question on the five fraudulent land claims that were in the New York State court system.  

I never questioned Sherry.  She told me she had gone to Ontario provincial police school in London Ontario.  When she finished she did not work as a cop.  She told me, ?It conflicts with my traditional upbringing.?   She mentioned some bogus charges on her that she ran the border and made me believe she was on the run from the cops.   She was a heavy smoker and suffered some related ailments from it.  She never had a cell phone and could only be reached at her mother?s home in Akwesasne. 

To fight the five land claims we entered a constitutional question in each case.  We asked for proof of when we gave up our territory and jurisdiction.  In the end, not a shred of legal evidence could be produced to support their case.  As a result they were all dropped.   

After that we sat around in my living room and wondered what to do with the victory.  We decided to start filing objections to all kinds of developments and projects in New York State, Ontario, Quebec and northeastern Great Turtle Island.  We even put one in for the Arctic.  We the women are the custodians of the land for the future generations.  No one can legally put up our land or resources as collateral to raise money from the public on the stock exchanges of the world.  

Sherry came to my home in Kahnawake many times between 2005 to 2009, staying for weeks.  She often stayed up all night in front of the computer.  Since she professed to have no income, I gave her money from my pension.  I also bought her a computer and cell phone.  She drove my car around.   Sometimes she?d be gone for the whole day!!?  It turned out she had no drivers license or any other kind of ID. 

Throughout, Sherry never had a job.  She was better dressed than me most of the time.  I treated her like a daughter.  

PART II:  Around 2007 in Old Montreal an exhibition purported that the Iroquois of the St. Lawrence Valley had disappeared, even though we live across the river from there.    We Mohawks are part of the Iroquois confederacy.  This was supposed to have happened after Cartier arrived here in the 1500s.  

This man we will call, ?Suzie-the-Guy?, around 45 years old, asked us to oppose the exhibit.  He told us he was a Mohawk from Kanehsatake.  He was slight, well-dressed, always wearing black like a priest, with close cropped hair and a tiny thin itty bitty braid that hung from his crown to the middle of his back.  Long hair would have completely changed his look.  He was secretive, pale, nervous and smoked like a chimney.  He said his mother was Mohawk and never mentioned his father.  He did carry an Indian Affairs Canadian government identity card.  

Four of us went to the museum in Old Montreal, another man and a woman from Kanehsatake.  The museum staff got upset over our appearance and questions.  Their aspersion was that Mohawks had mysteriously disappeared.  Our assertion was that we had gone to pick blueberries.  In the end they refunded our money.

Suzie-the-Guy said he had worked for the Roman Catholic church and had been laid off.  He was challenging this.   A hearing at the Holiday Inn in Montreal?s China Town was coming up.   He invited Notre Dam to his hearing.  He invited me to a follow up hearing.  I still can?t figure out why he was laid off.  Eventually, he apparently lost the case. 

During this time he was showing up at my house from 9 to 5 on week days and making himself useful.  He didn?t have a job.  He had a steady income.  He never had a cell phone, never mentioned his family or anything about himself.  He liked to take off his shirt and walk around in the sun tanning himself.  ?Was he trying to enhance his Indianness?? I thought.  

He would sit at my table, casually ask questions, drive me around or cut the grass to make himself useful to me.      

Eventually Notre Dam, Sherry, Suzie-the-Guy and myself started working together on MNN stories.  I would write the stories, Notre Dam would look them over, Sherry would post them and Suzie-the-Guy would watch.       

Then in the summer of 2007 another woman came on the scene.  We?ll call her ?Radiant?.  She lived in Sharbot Lake, a half hour drive north of Kingston.  A protest was going on there against uranium mining.  She wanted MNN to do a story on it.  She found a lot of good information.  I wrote up a few and posted them.  

Radiant came to visit me in 2008.   She was a 56-year old, tall, scrawny, toothless woman.  She did not wear her teeth which gave her a funny squished-in look.  When she wore them, she was unrecognizable.  She was high strung and told us she suffered from environmentally induced reactions, whatever that was?  There were lots of places she couldn?t go and foods she couldn?t eat.  Surprisingly, she knew lots about the Haudenosaunee.  Eventually she became part of our enclave.

So gradually four strangers had come around me.  On June 9th 2009, Sherry, my daughter and I went to North Bay to attend the doctoral honoring of one of my friends.  We were closely followed for about half the way by an Ontario Provincial Police cruiser.  Sherry was driving and seemed surprisingly unworried.  We got there without incident, attended the event and then drove back.   We dropped Sherry off at her mother?s home in Akwesasne.

A few days later on June 14th Suzie-the-Guy came over, which was unusual because it was Saturday.  I was getting calls from someone in Sharbot Lake we?ll call ?Space Cadet?.   Radiant knew her.   Space Cadet wanted to talk about the Haudenosaunee land claim there.  Another guy in Toronto was urging us to go there. We decided to go.  

Suzie-the-Guy agreed to come with me to pick up Sherry in Akwesasne.  We got there.  The three of us drove through the US customs and over the bridge to the Canadian port on Kawenoke, Cornwall Island.

At the checkpoint I got pulled over by the Canada Border Customs Agents.  We waited in the car for an hour without getting any explanation.  Then a squad of about a dozen armed, flak jacketed and gloved border guards arrived.  They surrounded my car.  Suzie-the-Guy got out of the car, sat on the bench in front of the car and silently watched.  Nothing happened to him.  

The goons pulled Sherry out of the back seat, threw her to the ground, gave her a going over and took her away.  She suffered scrapes and bruises, but not serious enough to get medical attention that I know of.  

Then they told me to get out of my car.  I asked for an explanation.  They yelled, ?We don?t have to tell you anything.  So get out.?  

A freckled fat-faced commander standing near Suzie-the-Guy coordinated the whole operation, getting instructions on a cell phone.  Suddenly he gave the order, ?Take her out!?  They roughed me and applied a stress hold that induced a heart attack.     

My brother was in the line up close to the checkpoint.  He rushed in.  The goons quickly took off the cuffs and sat me down so my brother wouldn?t see what they were up to.  He yelled, ?She?s having a heart attack.  Call an ambulance?.  His quick action saved my life.  

The attempt to murder me was unsuccessful.  I landed in the Cornwall Ontario hospital.  Policemen were everywhere wanting to grab me.  My family placed guards around me.   Eventually I returned to Kahnawake.  It took about 8 months to recover, but I have never been the same.   My question to Canada is:  was the attack as good as the kill that failed?    

PART III.  At the end of the summer Suzie-the-Guy suddenly disappeared without a word.    

Sherry didn?t visit much.  She brought cds and some amateurishly typed books on some bizarre cult she had joined that denounced the Great Law.  She told me over the years that Mr. Green, a seer, had told her she would receive billions of dollars.  She urged me to write on the Camel Toe Treaty cult.  I refused.  Her last visit to Kahnawake was around January 2009.

Another strange turn of events in early 2009 concerned Notre Dam.  She started to distance herself.  By February she dropped in once in a while unannounced.  She was also feigning a rare sickness and pretended to be in dire health.  

One day in March 2009 she arrived in a haughty mood.  We sat in my front room.  She kept on her hat and coat.  Then she made comments that seemed like she was trying to provoke me.  

My daughter showed up and told her, ?Don?t talk disrespectfully to my mother?.    

Notre Dam jumped up, angry and out of control.  She started grunting at my daughter.  The pupils of her eyes were fully dilated and she screeched like a banshee baring her buck teeth.  Eventually we went outside.  She stood on the other side of her car.  In front of a lot of witnesses, Notre Dam came running around the car and punched me.  

My daughter stopped her.    

After that I never saw her again.  Her house went on sale.  She left town.  We found out she has five aliases.  She never had a legitimate job.  She has a steady income and properties in British Columbia, Montreal, France and maybe Spain.  She had an office across from the Vancouver court house.  Her relationship with the Cree boy remained strange.  

At about the same time Sherry stopped contacting me.  For almost a year she refused to return my website.  I called her and she hung up on me.  I eventually got my website back.

Then Radiant got into the act.  She sent a message that she had taken me off her email list and stopped all contact with me for good.          

Suzie-the-Guy is now hanging out at one of the longhouses in Kahnawake.  I went to Montreal to see a National Film Board film on protests.  There was a scene of the World Trade Organization WTO protest in Quebec City a few years ago, where the Quebec police were throwing tear gas and knocking people around.  Suddenly I saw this Quebec cop in a gas mask walking across the screen.  It looked just like Suzie-the-Guy dressed up like an SQ.!

There is no end to the treason.  In June 2009, a huge controversy loomed in Akwesasne over the border issue.  The Camel Toe Treaty cult followers tried to take over the agenda, to confuse the people and the issue.  They started posting weird videos of their leaders spouting Egyptian new age garbage and started to attack their critics.  It is rumored that Sherry helps run the cult website.  They started issuing passports with a camel on it!!  To get one, recipients have to denounce the Great Law and our inherent power on Great Turtle Island.     

One of our men questioned the camels on his blog, letstalknativepride.com, and their efforts to undermine the Great Law.  Sherry exposed her true leanings.  She quickly sent him a nasty email accusing him of ranting like myself, K. Horn.  This is a common ploy of trained agents to try to put a wedge between targets by criticizing or shaming one against another.   

Recently we learned that she worked for a time as a uniformed cop in Akwesasne.   Those bogus charges of running the border seem to have disappeared.   

Did Notre Dam learn how we think?  As I explained to my friend, ?It?s like explaining color to a blind person.  They hear it but they?ll never know what color is.?  She spent hours talking to me.  It almost seemed like she was gathering intelligence to fight a war.  They need to understand their enemies.  

Agents will always be agents.  They will show up somewhere else.  The most useful are those who live in the community and gather the intel that filters in.  

At this point, we know what they know.  We know how they got the information.  We know how they imbedded their agents among us.  We know what intel we fed them.  

In the end, was the border incident an execution that went wrong?

Kahentinetha MNN Mohawk Nation News, www.mohawknationnews.com  kahentinetha2 at yahoo.com  Note:  Your financial help is needed and appreciated.  Please send your donations by check or money order to ?MNN Mohawk Nation News?, Box 991, Kahnawake [Quebec, Canada] J0L 1B0.  Or go to PayPal on MNN website.  Nia:wen thank you very much.  Go to MNN AKWESASNE category for more stories; New MNN Books Available now! 
  
    

 
    
       



From suzannedk at gmail.com  Sun Oct  4 00:18:50 2009
From: suzannedk at gmail.com (Suzanne de Kuyper)
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 08:18:50 +0200
Subject: [A-List] Fwd: All US Patient Histories to be put Online by 2014
In-Reply-To: <dce6f8b40910021000j4eaf8164y3014d2edc5cbc7d1@mail.gmail.com>
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Message-ID: <dce6f8b40910032318q4da6d6b4w7c187432220b5d16@mail.gmail.com>

This is a protest of the loss of whole, inclusive, news from almost anywhere
it is expected, like papers.  The Googlization of the world's books will be
another example of how to burn down the Library in Alexandria but with no
flames.  Just hire the unemployed literate to change each book, each
research paper, updating reality to a more entertaining level, as in CNN.
 Suzanne

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Suzanne de Kuyper <suzannedk at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 7:00 PM
Subject: All US Patient Histories to be put Online by 2014
To: iht at letters.com


I respectfully suggest that the mistakes and corruption  of online
information endemic to Homeland Security trolling for any and all terrorist
information as well as the easy manipulation of online information by the US
intelligence services for hire ($70 billion in budget, no legal checks and
balances, no oversight but sucess) makes this legislation a disaster for
millions if not future billions of U.S. citizens.  U.S. military conrol
extends to every corner of the globe.  The chance of legitimising
manipulated (fraudulent) medical information is a sure probability.   I
suggest that this is the other side of your small article about the online
plans, on the surface intended to enable better health care.  We depend on
the papers to give us both sides.  Thankyou,

S. M. De Kuyper
don Boscostraat 21-2
1068 HB Amsterdam

suzannedk at gmail.com
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From suzannedk at gmail.com  Sun Oct  4 00:48:37 2009
From: suzannedk at gmail.com (Suzanne de Kuyper)
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Add to this that the U.S. introduced financial crisis or Great Depression
11, could have been a set-up shell game from the start, not greed for
wealth, but a sure grab for world power, and the 'incompetance' of the major
follow-the-leader bankers begins to look like that set-up car racetrack win
not long ago.  There must be an excellent reason the wonderfully bearded
Bernake with his melifluous eyes covertly always smiling, never brought up
facts he is expert in about the Roosevelt management of the first Grat
Depression.  Suzanne

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The Economic Recovery is an Illusion
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Warns of Future Crises

By Andrew Gavin Marshall

URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15501

Global Research, October 3, 2009

War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength, and Debt is
Recovery



In light of the ever-present and unyieldingly persistent exclamations of ?an
end' to the recession, a ?solution' to the crisis, and a ?recovery' of the
economy; we must remember that we are being told this by the very same
people and institutions which told us, in years past, that there was
?nothing to worry about,' that ?the fundamentals are fine,' and that there
was ?no danger' of an economic crisis.



Why do we continue to believe the same people that have, in both statements
and choices, been nothing but wrong? Who should we believe and turn to for
more accurate information and analysis? Perhaps a useful source would be
those at the epicenter of the crisis, in the heart of the shadowy world of
central banking, at the global banking regulator, and the ?most prestigious
financial institution in the world,? which accurately predicted the crisis
thus far: The Bank for International Settlements (BIS). This would be a good
place to start.



The economic crisis is anything but over, the ?solutions? have been akin to
putting a band-aid on an amputated arm. The Bank for International
Settlements (BIS), the central bank to the world's central banks, has warned
and continues to warn against such misplaced hopes.



What is the Bank for International Settlements (BIS)?



The BIS emerged from the Young Committee set up in 1929, which was created
to handle the settlements of German reparations payments outlined in the
Versailles Treaty of 1919. The Committee was headed by Owen D. Young,
President and CEO of General Electric, co-author of the 1924 Dawes Plan,
member of the Board of Trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation and was Deputy
Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. As the main American
delegate to the conference on German reparations, he was also accompanied by
J.P. Morgan, Jr.[1] What emerged was the Young Plan for German reparations
payments.



The Plan went into effect in 1930, following the stock market crash. Part of
the Plan entailed the creation of an international settlement organization,
which was formed in 1930, and known as the Bank for International
Settlements (BIS). It was purportedly designed to facilitate and coordinate
the reparations payments of Weimar Germany to the Allied powers. However,
its secondary function, which is much more secretive, and much more
important, was to act as ?a coordinator of the operations of central banks
around the world.? Described as ?a bank for central banks,? the BIS ?is a
private institution with shareholders but it does operations for public
agencies. Such operations are kept strictly confidential so that the public
is usually unaware of most of the BIS operations.?[2]



The BIS was founded by ?the central banks of Belgium, France, Germany,
Italy, the Netherlands, Japan, and the United Kingdom along with three
leading commercial banks from the United States, including J.P. Morgan &
Company, First National Bank of New York, and First National Bank of
Chicago. Each central bank subscribed to 16,000 shares and the three U.S.
banks also subscribed to this same number of shares.? However, ?Only central
banks have voting power.?[3]



Central bank members have bi-monthly meetings at the BIS where they discuss
a variety of issues. It should be noted that most ?of the transactions
carried out by the BIS on behalf of central banks require the utmost
secrecy,?[4] which is likely why most people have not even heard of it. The
BIS can offer central banks ?confidentiality and secrecy which is higher
than a triple-A rated bank.?[5]



The BIS was established ?to remedy the decline of London as the world's
financial center by providing a mechanism by which a world with three chief
financial centers in London, New York, and Paris could still operate as
one.?[6] As Carroll Quigley explained:



[T]he powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing
less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands
able  to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of
the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist
fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret
agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex
of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basle,
Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world's central
banks which were themselves private corporations.[7]



The BIS, is, without a doubt, the most important, powerful, and secretive
financial institution in the world. It's warnings should not be taken
lightly, as it would be the one institution in the world that would be privy
to such information more than any other.



Derivatives Crisis Ahead



In September of 2009, the BIS reported that, ?The global market for
derivatives rebounded to $426 trillion in the second quarter as risk
appetite returned, but the system remains unstable and prone to crises.? The
BIS quarterly report said that derivatives rose 16% ?mostly due to a surge
in futures and options contracts on three-month interest rates.? The Chief
Economist of the BIS warned that the derivatives market poses ?major
systemic risks? in the international financial sector, and that, ?The danger
is that regulators will again fail to see that big institutions have taken
far more exposure than they can handle in shock conditions.? The economist
added that, ?The use of derivatives by hedge funds and the like can create
large, hidden exposures.?[8]



The day after the report by the BIS was published, the former Chief
Economist of the BIS, William White, warned that, ?The world has not tackled
the problems at the heart of the economic downturn and is likely to slip
back into recession,? and he further ?warned that government actions to help
the economy in the short run may be sowing the seeds for future crises.? He
was quoted as warning of entering a double-dip recession, ?Are we going into
a W[-shaped recession]? Almost certainly. Are we going into an L? I would
not be in the slightest bit surprised.? He added, ?The only thing that would
really surprise me is a rapid and sustainable recovery from the position
we're in.?



An article in the Financial Times explained that White's comments are not to
be taken lightly, as apart from heading the economic department at the BIS
from 1995 to 2008, he had, ?repeatedly warned of dangerous imbalances in the
global financial system as far back as 2003 and ? breaking a great taboo in
central banking circles at the time ? he dared to challenge Alan Greenspan,
then chairman of the Federal Reserve, over his policy of persistent cheap
money.?



The Financial Times continued:



Worldwide, central banks have pumped thousands of billions of dollars of new
money into the financial system over the past two years in an effort to
prevent a depression. Meanwhile, governments have gone to similar extremes,
taking on vast sums of debt to prop up industries from banking to car
making.



White warned that, ?These measures may already be inflating a bubble in
asset prices, from equities to commodities,? and that, ?there was a small
risk that inflation would get out of control over the medium term.? In a
speech given in Hong Kong, White explained that, ?the underlying problems in
the global economy, such as unsustainable trade imbalances between the US,
Europe and Asia, had not been resolved.?[9]



On September 20, 2009, the Financial Times reported that the BIS, ?the head
of the body that oversees global banking regulation,? while at the G20
meeting, ?issued a stern warning that the world cannot afford to slip into a
?complacent' assumption that the financial sector has rebounded for good,?
and that, ?Jaime Caruana, general manager of the Bank for International
Settlements and a former governor of Spain's central bank, said the market
rebound should not be misinterpreted.?[10]



This follows warnings from the BIS over the summer of 2009, regarding
misplaced hope over the stimulus packages organized by various governments
around the world. In late June, the BIS warned that, ?fiscal stimulus
packages may provide no more than a temporary boost to growth, and be
followed by an extended period of economic stagnation.?



An article in the Australian reported that, ?The only international body to
correctly predict the financial crisis ... has warned the biggest risk is
that governments might be forced by world bond investors to abandon their
stimulus packages, and instead slash spending while lifting taxes and
interest rates,? as the annual report of the BIS ?has for the past three
years been warning of the dangers of a repeat of the depression.? Further,
?Its latest annual report warned that countries such as Australia faced the
possibility of a run on the currency, which would force interest rates to
rise.? The BIS warned that, ?a temporary respite may make it more difficult
for authorities to take the actions that are necessary, if unpopular, to
restore the health of the financial system, and may thus ultimately prolong
the period of slow growth.?



Further, ?At the same time, government guarantees and asset insurance have
exposed taxpayers to potentially large losses,? and explaining how fiscal
packages posed significant risks, it said that, ?There is a danger that
fiscal policy-makers will exhaust their debt capacity before finishing the
costly job of repairing the financial system,? and that, ?There is the
definite possibility that stimulus programs will drive up real interest
rates and inflation expectations.? Inflation ?would intensify as the
downturn abated,? and the BIS ?expressed doubt about the bank rescue package
adopted in the US.?[11]



The BIS further warned of inflation, saying that, ?The big and justifiable
worry is that, before it can be reversed, the dramatic easing in monetary
policy will translate into growth in the broader monetary and credit
aggregates.? That will ?lead to inflation that feeds inflation expectations
or it may fuel yet another asset-price bubble, sowing the seeds of the next
financial boom-bust cycle.?[12] With the latest report on the derivatives
bubble being created, it has become painfully clear that this is exactly
what has happened: the creation of another asset-price bubble. The problem
with bubbles is that they burst.



The Financial Times reported that William White, former Chief Economist at
the BIS, also ?argued that after two years of government support for the
financial system, we now have a set of banks that are even bigger - and more
dangerous - than ever before,? which also, ?has been argued by Simon
Johnson, former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund,? who
?says that the finance industry has in effect captured the US government,?
and pointedly stated: ?recovery will fail unless we break the financial
oligarchy that is blocking essential reform.?[13] [Emphasis added].



At the beginning of September 2009, central bankers met at the BIS, and it
was reported that, ?they had agreed on a package of measures to strengthen
the regulation and supervision of the banking industry in the wake of the
financial crisis,? and the chief of the European Central Bank was quoted as
saying, ?The agreements reached today among 27 major countries of the world
are essential as they set the new standards for banking regulation and
supervision at the global level.?[14]



Among the agreed measures, ?lenders should raise the quality of their
capital by including more stock,? and ?Banks will also have to raise the
amount and quality of the assets they keep in reserve and curb leverage.?
One of the key decisions made at the Basel conference, which is named after
the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, set up under the BIS, was that,
?banks will need to raise the quality of their so-called Tier 1 capital
base, which measures a bank's ability to absorb sudden losses,? meaning
that, ?The majority of such reserves should be common shares and retained
earnings and the holdings will be fully disclosed.?[15]



In mid-September, the BIS said that, ?Central banks must coordinate global
supervision of derivatives clearinghouses and consider offering them access
to emergency funds to limit systemic risk.? In other words, ?Regulators are
pushing for much of the $592 trillion market in over-the-counter derivatives
trades to be moved to clearinghouses which act as the buyer to every seller
and seller to every buyer, reducing the risk to the financial system from
defaults.? The report released by the BIS asked if clearing houses ?should
have access to central bank credit facilities and, if so, when??[16]



A Coming Crisis



The derivatives market represents a massive threat to the stability of the
global economy. However, it is one among many threats, all of which are
related and intertwined; one will set off another. The big elephant in the
room is the major financial bubble created from the bailouts and ?stimulus?
packages worldwide. This money has been used by major banks to consolidate
the economy; buying up smaller banks and absorbing the real economy;
productive industry. The money has also gone into speculation, feeding the
derivatives bubble and leading to a rise in stock markets, a completely
illusory and manufactured occurrence. The bailouts have, in effect, fed the
derivatives bubble to dangerous new levels as well as inflating the stock
market to an unsustainable position.



However, a massive threat looms in the cost of the bailouts and so-called
?stimulus? packages. The economic crisis was created as a result of low
interest rates and easy money: high-risk loans were being made, money was
invested in anything and everything, the housing market inflated, the
commercial real estate market inflated, derivatives trade soared to the
hundreds of trillions per year, speculation ran rampant and dominated the
global financial system. Hedge funds were the willing facilitators of the
derivatives trade, and the large banks were the major participants and
holders.



At the same time, governments spent money loosely, specifically the United
States, paying for multi-trillion dollar wars and defense budgets, printing
money out of thin air, courtesy of the global central banking system. All
the money that was produced, in turn, produced debt. By 2007, the total debt
? domestic, commercial and consumer debt ? of the United States stood at a
shocking $51 trillion.[17]



As if this debt burden was not enough, considering it would be impossible to
ever pay back, the past two years has seen the most expansive and rapid debt
expansion ever seen in world history ? in the form of stimulus and bailout
packages around the world. In July of 2009, it was reported that, ?U.S.
taxpayers may be on the hook for as much as $23.7 trillion to bolster the
economy and bail out financial companies, said Neil Barofsky, special
inspector general for the Treasury's Troubled Asset Relief Program.?[18]



Bilderberg Plan in Action?



In May of 2009, I wrote an article covering the Bilderberg meeting of 2009,
a highly secretive meeting of major elites from Europe and North America,
who meet once a year behind closed doors. Bilderberg acts as an informal
international think tank, and they do not release any information, so
reports from the meetings are leaked and the sources cannot be verified.
However, the information provided by Bilderberg trackers and journalists
Daniel Estulin and Jim Tucker have proven surprisingly accurate in the past.



In May, the information that leaked from the meetings regarded the main
topic of conversation being, unsurprisingly, the economic crisis. The big
question was to undertake ?Either a prolonged, agonizing depression that
dooms the world to decades of stagnation, decline and poverty ... or an
intense-but-shorter depression that paves the way for a new sustainable
economic world order, with less sovereignty but more efficiency.?



Important to note, was that one major point on the agenda was to ?continue
to deceive millions of savers and investors who believe the hype about the
supposed up-turn in the economy. They are about to be set up for massive
losses and searing financial pain in the months ahead.?



Estulin reported on a leaked report he claimed to have received following
the meeting, which reported that there were large disagreements among the
participants, as ?The hardliners are for dramatic decline and a severe,
short-term depression, but there are those who think that things have gone
too far and that the fallout from the global economic cataclysm cannot be
accurately calculated.? However, the consensus view was that the recession
would get worse, and that recovery would be ?relatively slow and
protracted,? and to look for these terms in the press over the next weeks
and months. Sure enough, these terms have appeared ad infinitum in the
global media.



Estulin further reported, ?that some leading European bankers faced with the
specter of their own financial mortality are extremely concerned, calling
this high wire act ?unsustainable,' and saying that US budget and trade
deficits could result in the demise of the dollar.? One Bilderberger said
that, ?the banks themselves don't know the answer to when (the bottom will
be hit).? Everyone appeared to agree, ?that the level of capital needed for
the American banks may be considerably higher than the US government
suggested through their recent stress tests.? Further, ?someone from the IMF
pointed out that its own study on historical recessions suggests that the US
is only a third of the way through this current one; therefore economies
expecting to recover with resurgence in demand from the US will have a long
wait.? One attendee stated that, ?Equity losses in 2008 were worse than
those of 1929,? and that, ?The next phase of the economic decline will also
be worse than the '30s, mostly because the US economy carries about $20
trillion of excess debt. Until that debt is eliminated, the idea of a
healthy boom is a mirage.?[19]



Could the general perception of an economy in recovery be the manifestation
of the Bilderberg plan in action? Well, to provide insight into attempting
to answer that question, we must review who some of the key participants at
the conference were.



Central Bankers



Many central bankers were present, as per usual. Among them, were the
Governor of the National Bank of Greece, Governor of the Bank of Italy,
President of the European Investment Bank; James Wolfensohn, former
President of the World Bank; Nout Wellink, President of the Central Bank of
the Netherlands and is on the board of the Bank for International
Settlements (BIS); Jean-Claude Trichet, the President of the European
Central Bank was also present; the Vice Governor of the National Bank of
Belgium; and a member of the Board of the Executive Directors of the Central
Bank of Austria.



Finance Ministers and Media



Finance Ministers and officials also attended from many different countries.
Among the countries with representatives present from the financial
department were Finland, France, Great Britain, Italy, Greece, Portugal, and
Spain. There were also many representatives present from major media
enterprises around the world. These include the publisher and editor of Der
Standard in Austria; the Chairman and CEO of the Washington Post Company;
the Editor-in-Chief of the Economist; the Deputy Editor of Die Zeit in
Germany; the CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Le Nouvel Observateur in France; the
Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator of the Financial Times; as
well as the Business Correspondent and the Business Editor of the Economist.
So, these are some of the major financial publications in the world present
at this meeting. Naturally, they have a large influence on public
perceptions of the economy.



Bankers



Also of importance to note is the attendance of private bankers at the
meeting, for it is the major international banks that own the shares of the
world's central banks, which in turn, control the shares of the Bank for
International Settlements (BIS). Among the banks and financial companies
represented at the meeting were Deutsche Bank AG, ING, Lazard Freres & Co.,
Morgan Stanley International, Goldman Sachs, Royal Bank of Scotland, and of
importance to note is David Rockefeller,[20] former Chairman and CEO of
Chase Manhattan (now J.P. Morgan Chase), who can arguably be referred to as
the current reigning ?King of Capitalism.'



The Obama Administration



Heavy representation at the Bilderberg meeting also came from members of the
Obama administration who are tasked with resolving the economic crisis.
Among them were Timothy Geithner, the US Treasury Secretary and former
President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Lawrence Summers,
Director of the White House's National Economic Council, former Treasury
Secretary in the Clinton administration, former President of Harvard
University, and former Chief Economist of the World Bank; Paul Volcker,
former Governor of the Federal Reserve System and Chair of Obama's Economic
Recovery Advisory Board; Robert Zoellick, former Chairman of Goldman Sachs
and current President of the World Bank.[21]



Unconfirmed were reports of the Fed Chairman, Ben Bernanke being present.
However, if the history and precedent of Bilderberg meetings is anything to
go by, both the Chairman of the Federal Reserve and the President of the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York are always present, so it would indeed be
surprising if they were not present at the 2009 meeting. I contacted the New
York Fed to ask if the President attended any organization or group meetings
in Greece over the scheduled dates that Bilderberg met, and the response
told me to ask the particular organization for a list of attendees. While
not confirming his presence, they also did not deny it. However, it is still
unverified.



Naturally, all of these key players to wield enough influence to alter
public opinion and perception of the economic crisis. They also have the
most to gain from it. However, whatever image they construct, it remains
just that; an image. The illusion will tear apart soon enough, and the world
will come to realize that the crisis we have gone through thus far is merely
the introductory chapter to the economic crisis as it will be written in
history books.



Conclusion



The warnings from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and its
former Chief Economist, William White, must not be taken lightly. Both the
warnings of the BIS and William White in the past have gone unheralded and
have been proven accurate with time. Do not allow the media-driven hope of
?economic recovery' sideline the ?economic reality.' Though it can be
depressing to acknowledge; it is a far greater thing to be aware of the
ground on which you tread, even if it is strewn with dangers; than to be
ignorant and run recklessly through a minefield. Ignorance is not bliss;
ignorance is delayed catastrophe.



A doctor must first properly identify and diagnose the problem before he can
offer any sort of prescription as a solution. If the diagnosis is
inaccurate, the prescription won't work, and could in fact, make things
worse. The global economy has a large cancer in it: it has been properly
diagnosed by some, yet the prescription it was given was to cure a cough.
The economic tumor has been identified; the question is: do we accept this
and try to address it, or do we pretend that the cough prescription will
cure it? What do you think gives a stronger chance of survival? Now try
accepting the idea that ?ignorance is bliss.'



As Gandhi said, ?There is no god higher than truth.?



For an overview of the coming financial crises, see: "Entering the Greatest
Depression in History: More Bubbles Waiting to Burst," Global Research,
August 7, 2009.


Endnotes



[1]        Time, HEROES: Man-of-the-Year. Time Magazine: Jan 6, 1930:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,738364-1,00.html



[2]        James Calvin Baker, The Bank for International Settlements:
evolution and evaluation. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002: page 2



[3]        James Calvin Baker, The Bank for International Settlements:
evolution and evaluation. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002: page 6



[4]        James Calvin Baker, The Bank for International Settlements:
evolution and evaluation. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002: page 148



[5]        James Calvin Baker, The Bank for International Settlements:
evolution and evaluation. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002: page 149



[6]        Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our
Time (New York: Macmillan Company, 1966), 324-325



[7]        Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our
Time (New York: Macmillan Company, 1966), 324



[8]        Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Derivatives still pose huge risk, says
BIS. The Telegraph: September 13, 2009:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/6184496/Derivatives-still-pose-huge-risk-says-BIS.html



[9]        Robert Cookson and Sundeep Tucker, Economist warns of double-dip
recession. The Financial Times: September 14, 2009:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e6dd31f0-a133-11de-a88d-00144feabdc0.html



[10]      Patrick Jenkins, BIS head worried by complacency. The Financial
Times: September 20, 2009:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a7a04972-a60c-11de-8c92-00144feabdc0.html



[11]      David Uren. Bank for International Settlements warning over
stimulus benefits. The Australian: June 30, 2009:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,25710566-601,00.html



[12]      Simone Meier, BIS Sees Risk Central Banks Will Raise Interest
Rates Too Late. Bloomberg: June 29, 2009:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601068&sid=aOnSy9jXFKaY



[13]      Robert Cookson and Victor Mallet, Societal soul-searching casts
shadow over big banks. The Financial Times: September 18, 2009:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7721033c-a3ea-11de-9fed-00144feabdc0.html



[14]      AFP, Top central banks agree to tougher bank regulation: BIS. AFP:
September 6, 2009:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h8G0ShkY-AdH3TNzKJEetGuScPiQ



[15]      Simon Kennedy, Basel Group Agrees on Bank Standards to Avoid
Repeat of Crisis. Bloomberg: September 7, 2009:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aETt8NZiLP38



[16]      Abigail Moses, Central Banks Must Agree Global Clearing
Supervision, BIS Says. Bloomberg: September 14, 2009:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a5C6ARW_tSW0



[17]      FIABIC, US home prices the most vital indicator for turnaround.
FIABIC Asia Pacific: January 19, 2009:
http://www.fiabci-asiapacific.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=133&Itemid=41



Alexander Green, The National Debt: The Biggest Threat to Your Financial
Future. Investment U: August 25, 2008:
http://www.investmentu.com/IUEL/2008/August/the-national-debt.html



John Bellamy Foster and Fred Magdoff, Financial Implosion and Stagnation.
Global Research: May 20, 2009:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13692



[18]      Dawn Kopecki and Catherine Dodge, U.S. Rescue May Reach $23.7
Trillion, Barofsky Says (Update3). Bloomberg: July 20, 2009:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aY0tX8UysIaM



[19]      Andrew Gavin Marshall, The Bilderberg Plan for 2009: Remaking the
Global Political Economy. Global Research: May 26, 2009:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?aid=13738&context=va



[20]      Maja Banck-Polderman, Official List of Participants for the 2009
Bilderberg Meeting. Public Intelligence: July 26, 2009:
http://www.publicintelligence.net/official-list-of-participants-for-the-2009-bilderberg-meeting/



[21]      Andrew Gavin Marshall, The Bilderberg Plan for 2009: Remaking the
Global Political Economy. Global Research: May 26, 2009:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?aid=13738&context=va





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History at Simon Fraser University.


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From toddfboyle at gmail.com  Sun Oct  4 12:13:15 2009
From: toddfboyle at gmail.com (Todd Boyle)
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 11:13:15 -0700
Subject: [A-List] The Strange Rebirth of a Forgotten Idea
In-Reply-To: <20091004195251.6cfd2cb1.shimogamo@ashisuto.co.jp>
References: <20091004195251.6cfd2cb1.shimogamo@ashisuto.co.jp>
Message-ID: <mailman.98.1254693159.10217.a-list@lists.econ.utah.edu>

I am so tired of these proposals to shift the names or addresses of 
the institution having the privilege of managing the money 
supply.   I don't think they wouldn't change anything in the long 
run--the same moral hazard would exist, the same types of financial 
people would morph to new behaviors with new stories, to exploit 
us.   I posted a response to David Boyle's article on the New 
Statesman.   We need to get away from money as medium of exchange, 
and go to direct multiparty contracts.  -Todd

Back in 2003, David Boyle wrote:
>Why is the country so short of money that we can't even rebuild the London
>Tube? Because we allow the banks a monopoly to create it, and they charge
>the earth.
>http://www.newstatesman.com/200304070021

David - You need to improve your statement of the problem.  The 
"country so short of money" is not a statement of any problem in the 
real sense.  Money is many things but ultimately it is a system of 
notation, a symbol. The map is not the territory.  The correct 
statement of the problem is that we humans, apparently unable to 
completely invent our interactions without systems, have systems of 
law, money, etc. and these systems do not nearly succeed in 
orchestrating the activities of humanity to maximize the satisfaction 
of Maslow's hierarchy of needs for humanity.   I think the most 
promising solutions include ending the use of money, going instead 
into multiparty barter contracts, entirely for specifically defined 
outputs. There are many technologies available to move in this 
direction, EDIFACT being one component. I've written numerous 
outlines, http://rosehill.net/ledgerism/nonquantified.htm   In real 
terms, your economic savings arise by elimination of financial 
parasites, gatekeepers, rentiers, etc. but more importantly save a 
lot of misdirected activity now commanded by financial actors that 
generate no satisfaction of anybody's needs.   I envision a society 
wherein, people participate in cycles of proposals by bidding and 
rebidding on what they are capable of, and willing to contribute 
towards group endeavors, in exchange for portions of outputs.
In other words ALL economic activity would be built to order, and 
those who failed to perform their parts of the contracts would lose 
reputation in future activities, and be quickly replaced at the time 
of their defaults, by systems of alternate workers built into the contracts.  
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From the.buffalo.in.the.midst at gmail.com  Sun Oct  4 18:54:27 2009
From: the.buffalo.in.the.midst at gmail.com (Leighm)
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:54:27 -0700
Subject: [A-List] Some Intel People Skeptical On Afghanistan
Message-ID: <4AC943C3.5080906@gmail.com>

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Extrapolated from AFCEA's Nightwatch intelligence summary:

Afghanistan:  In London, the top US commander told the International
Institute for Strategic Studies that Afghanistan is still ?winnable. ?
But apparently will not be winnable indefinitely.

Military men are trained to think that way and use those words, but
the military sense of winning implies defeat of an enemy. The enemy is
evidently the Pashtuns people who live on and own the land they are
fighting on and for.

The language of winning is not consistent with the commander?s initial
assessment, leaked last week. Winning does not mean nation-building or
restoring stability or power sharing, or protecting people. It means
defeating an enemy.

It would be nice to learn what the heck these people really think in
simple declarative sentences in active voice and with clarity and
intelligence in the use of words.

What, pray, is the meaning of ?winning,? when up to half the
population hate you or simply wish you would leave?

http://nightwatch.afcea.org/NightWatch_20091001.htm

"NightWatch is an executive level intelligence recap drawn from
domestic and international reporting and is provided as a service by
AFCEA Intelligence.

Mr. John McCreary is the NightWatch editor.  John spent 38 years
serving the Department of Defense Intelligence as a strategic analyst,
most of that time in the Directorate of Intelligence (J2) office of
the Joint Staff serving the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) and
the Secretary of Defense. "


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From toddfboyle at gmail.com  Sun Oct  4 19:14:33 2009
From: toddfboyle at gmail.com (Todd Boyle)
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:14:33 -0700
Subject: [A-List] Finance minister dies mysteriously
Message-ID: <mailman.99.1254705246.10217.a-list@lists.econ.utah.edu>

There are three finance ministers in the world who, 
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=japan+finance+minister more than 
any other single individuals, have been the final signatories and 
authorizers of their bureaucracies' scooping up and storage of U.S. dollars.

Let me step back a bit.  The architecture of global finance post 1971 
has featured creation of dollars in the U.S., dollars swirling around 
a few times then accumulating in the central banks of foreign 
goverments-- obvoiusly as a part of their oligarchies' selling 
exports to the U.S.--- exports based on their exploitation of 
domestic populations' labor, and theft of domestic oil and other 
resources.   The operation is crystal clear, it could not be more 
obvious-- these oligarchs screw their own population, steal their 
labor and resources and sell it on "globalized" markets, keeping 
generous percentages for themselves.

So, when one of these dollar extinguishers, dollar accumulators, dies 
suddenly it's always interseting
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=japan+finance+minister

TOdd



From tal1 at cogeco.ca  Sun Oct  4 21:38:14 2009
From: tal1 at cogeco.ca (Tony B.)
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 23:38:14 -0400
Subject: [A-List] The Population Myth
Message-ID: <7C37A8D6CC6A478EA02C5185E4C309E4@TonyPC>



The Population Myth

People who claim that population growth is the big environmental issue are 
shifting the blame from the rich to the poor

By George Monbiot.

October 03, 2009 The Guardian" -- 29th September 2009 -- It's no coincidence 
that most of those who are obsessed with population growth are 
post-reproductive wealthy white men: it's about the only environmental issue 
for which they can't be blamed. The brilliant earth systems scientist James 
Lovelock, for example, claimed last month that "those who fail to see that 
population growth and climate change are two sides of the same coin are 
either ignorant or hiding from the truth. These two huge environmental 
problems are inseparable and to discuss one while ignoring the other is 
irrational."(1) But it's Lovelock who is being ignorant and irrational.

A paper published yesterday in the journal Environment and Urbanization 
shows that the places where population has been growing fastest are those in 
which carbon dioxide has been growing most slowly, and vice versa. Between 
1980 and 2005, for example, Sub-Saharan Africa produced 18.5% of the world's 
population growth and just 2.4% of the growth in CO2. North America turned 
out 4% of the extra people, but 14% of the extra emissions. Sixty-three per 
cent of the world's population growth happened in places with very low 
emissions(2).

Even this does not capture it. The paper points out that around one sixth of 
the world's population is so poor that it produces no significant emissions 
at all. This is also the group whose growth rate is likely to be highest. 
Households in India earning less than 3,000 rupees a month use a fifth of 
the electricity per head and one seventh of the transport fuel of households 
earning Rs30,000 or more. Street sleepers use almost nothing. Those who live 
by processing waste (a large part of the urban underclass) often save more 
greenhouse gases than they produce.

Many of the emissions for which poorer countries are blamed should in 
fairness belong to us. Gas flaring by companies exporting oil from Nigeria, 
for example, has produced more greenhouse gases than all other sources in 
sub-Saharan Africa put together(3). Even deforestation in poor countries is 
driven mostly by commercial operations delivering timber, meat and animal 
feed to rich consumers. The rural poor do far less harm(4).

The paper's author, David Satterthwaite of the International Institute for 
Environment and Development, points out that the old formula taught to all 
students of development - that total impact equals population times 
affluence times technology (I=PAT) - is wrong. Total impact should be 
measured as I=CAT: consumers times affluence times technology. Many of the 
world's people use so little that they wouldn't figure in this equation. 
They are the ones who have most children.

While there's a weak correlation between global warming and population 
growth, there's a strong correlation between global warming and wealth. I've 
been taking a look at a few superyachts, as I'll need somewhere to entertain 
Labour ministers in the style to which they're accustomed. First I went 
through the plans for Royal Falcon Fleet's RFF135, but when I discovered 
that it burns only 750 litres of fuel per hour(5) I realised that it wasn't 
going to impress Lord Mandelson. I might raise half an eyebrow in Brighton 
with the Overmarine Mangusta 105, which sucks up 850 l/hr(6). But the raft 
that's really caught my eye is made by Wally Yachts in Monaco. The 
WallyPower 118 (which gives total wallies a sensation of power) consumes 
3400 l/hr when travelling at 60 knots(7). That's nearly one litre per 
second. Another way of putting it is 31 litres per kilometre(8).

Of course to make a real splash I'll have to shell out on teak and mahogany 
fittings, carry a few jet skis and a mini-submarine, ferry my guests to the 
marina by private plane and helicopter, offer them bluefin tuna sushi and 
beluga caviar and drive the beast so fast that I mash up half the marine 
life of the Mediterranean. As the owner of one of these yachts I'll do more 
damage to the biosphere in ten minutes than most Africans inflict in a 
lifetime. Now we're burning, baby.

Someone I know who hangs out with the very rich tells me that in the banker 
belt of the lower Thames valley there are people who heat their outdoor 
swimming pools to bath temperature, all round the year. They like to lie in 
the pool on winter nights, looking up at the stars. The fuel costs them 
?3000 a month. One hundred thousand people living like these bankers would 
knacker our life support systems faster than 10 billion people living like 
the African peasantry. But at least the super wealthy have the good manners 
not to breed very much, so the rich old men who bang on about human 
reproduction leave them alone.

In May the Sunday Times carried an article headlined "Billionaire club in 
bid to curb overpopulation". It revealed that "some of America's leading 
billionaires have met secretly" to decide which good cause they should 
support. "A consensus emerged that they would back a strategy in which 
population growth would be tackled as a potentially disastrous 
environmental, social and industrial threat."(9) The ultra-rich, in other 
words, have decided that it's the very poor who are trashing the planet. You 
grope for a metaphor, but it's impossible to satirise.

James Lovelock, like Sir David Attenborough and Jonathan Porritt, is a 
patron of the Optimum Population Trust (OPT). It is one of dozens of 
campaigns and charities whose sole purpose is to discourage people from 
breeding in the name of saving the biosphere. But I haven't been able to 
find any campaign whose sole purpose is to address the impacts of the very 
rich.

The obsessives could argue that the people breeding rapidly today might one 
day become richer. But as the super wealthy grab an ever greater share and 
resources begin to run dry, this, for most of the very poor, is a 
diminishing prospect. There are strong social reasons for helping people to 
manage their reproduction, but weak environmental reasons, except among 
wealthier populations.

The Optimum Population Trust glosses over the fact that the world is going 
through demographic transition: population growth rates are slowing down 
almost everywhere and the number of people is likely, according to a paper 
in Nature, to peak this century(10), probably at around 10 billion(11). Most 
of the growth will take place among those who consume almost nothing.

But no one anticipates a consumption transition. People breed less as they 
become richer, but they don't consume less; they consume more. As the habits 
of the super-rich show, there are no limits to human extravagance. 
Consumption can be expected to rise with economic growth until the biosphere 
hits the buffers. Anyone who understands this and still considers that 
population, not consumption, is the big issue is, in Lovelock's words, 
"hiding from the truth". It is the worst kind of paternalism, blaming the 
poor for the excesses of the rich.

So where are the movements protesting about the stinking rich destroying our 
living systems? Where is the direct action against superyachts and private 
jets? Where's Class War when you need it?

It's time we had the guts to name the problem. It's not sex; it's money. It's 
not the poor; it's the rich.

www.monbiot.com 




From suzannedk at gmail.com  Mon Oct  5 00:50:42 2009
From: suzannedk at gmail.com (Suzanne de Kuyper)
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 08:50:42 +0200
Subject: [A-List] Fwd: Reservations on the Yes Vote from Ireland
In-Reply-To: <529568.83513.qm@web30908.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References: <529568.83513.qm@web30908.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <dce6f8b40910042350m610828d3n2f34ede8c9712e53@mail.gmail.com>

Please scub all but the initial posting message.  Do not know how to do so
myself.  Thank you. S.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Suzanne de Kuyper <suzannedk at yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 11:29 AM
Subject: Fwd: Reservations on the Yes Vote from Ireland
To: suzannedk at gmail.com




--- On Sat, 10/3/09, Suzanne de Kuyper <suzannedk at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Suzanne de Kuyper <suzannedk at gmail.com>
> Subject: Fwd: Reservations on the Yes Vote from Ireland
> To: suzannedk at yahoo.com
> Date: Saturday, October 3, 2009, 5:24 AM
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message
> ----------
> From: Suzanne de Kuyper
> <suzannedk at gmail.com>
>
> Date: Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 11:23 AM
> Subject: Fwd: Reservations on the Yes Vote from Ireland
> To: Suzanne de Kuyper <suzannedk at gmail.com>
>
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Suzanne de Kuyper
> <suzannedk at gmail.com>
>
>
> Date: Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 11:22 AM
> Subject: Reservations on the Yes Vote from Ireland
> To: suzanedk at gmail.com
>
>
>
> If the vote is yes and the EU Treaty is fully enabled,
> there is a true downside.    The bundling of the EU
> countries glides over the increased abitlity of the United
> States to control the group, an easier task than it woud be
> if the countries were separate entities.
>
>
>
> First, through the "File-Sharing
> Agreement" of 2008 between the E.U. and the U.S., the
> U.S. Patroit Acts One and Two, the U.S. Military Commisions
> Act of 2006, all the Presidential Signings by President G.
> Bush not retracted, all abilities to apprehend terrorism
> suspects on just some-one's word and suspend their lives
> with no review, no charges of any kind is among numerous
> other examples of complete loss of Habeous Corpus Rights
> under U.S. Military Industrial Complex Laws.  Under the
> several agreements signed, the European Uniion has agreed
> that in certain circumstances, at US word, U.S. Miltary Laws
> supercede European Union International and National
> Laws.
>
>
>
> Secondly, through the expanding pressure of the
> U.S. owned NATO enlargement, operating entirely under U.S.
> Military laws, the encirclement of the European countries
> subjecting them to military law instead of E.U. law is the
> second leg of the control of the European landmass by the U.
> S. ..Thus the E. U. set in a more permanet form with the
> completion of the Lisbon treaty, when it is literally a side
> chamber of the U.S. World War Empire, is not a healthy
> condition for the Union.
>
>
>
> There is a third downside, economicly vital.
>  War is economically, humanly, culturally destructive to
> the point of annihalation.  NATO ia constantly promoting
> organizational preparations to 'protect' from wars,
> whereas the non-verbal message is one of over-readiness for
> war.  Using the eager, movie trained young from poor
> Eastern European countries who either do not remember WW11
> or thirst for the importance and promised economic power
> alignment with the once mighty U.S. used to ensure white
> Europe, NATO's presnt army is perhaps the world's
> largest.  Only Africa's armies use younger
> soldiers.
>
>
>
> Suzanne                        suzannedk at gmail.com
>
>
>
>
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From suzannedk at gmail.com  Mon Oct  5 00:53:15 2009
From: suzannedk at gmail.com (Suzanne de Kuyper)
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 08:53:15 +0200
Subject: [A-List] Fwd: Reservations on the Yes Vote from Ireland
In-Reply-To: <dce6f8b40910030222o5a7be063y1527abc803d27179@mail.gmail.com>
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Please scrub the accompanting but for this posting .  Thank you. S.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Suzanne de Kuyper <suzannedk at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 11:22 AM
Subject: Reservations on the Yes Vote from Ireland
To: suzanedk at gmail.com


If the vote is yes and the EU Treaty is fully enabled, there is a true
downside.    The bundling of the EU countries glides over the increased
abitlity of the United States to control the group, an easier task than it
woud be if the countries were separate entities.
First, through the "File-Sharing Agreement" of 2008 between the E.U. and the
U.S., the U.S. Patroit Acts One and Two, the U.S. Military Commisions Act of
2006, all the Presidential Signings by President G. Bush not retracted, all
abilities to apprehend terrorism suspects on just some-one's word and
suspend their lives with no review, no charges of any kind is among numerous
other examples of complete loss of Habeous Corpus Rights under U.S. Military
Industrial Complex Laws.  Under the several agreements signed, the European
Uniion has agreed that in certain circumstances, at US word, U.S. Miltary
Laws supercede European Union International and National Laws.

Secondly, through the expanding pressure of the U.S. owned NATO enlargement,
operating entirely under U.S. Military laws, the encirclement of the
European countries subjecting them to military law instead of E.U. law is
the second leg of the control of the European landmass by the U. S. ..Thus
the E. U. set in a more permanet form with the completion of the Lisbon
treaty, when it is literally a side chamber of the U.S. World War Empire, is
not a healthy condition for the Union.

There is a third downside, economicly vital.  War is economically, humanly,
culturally destructive to the point of annihalation.  NATO ia constantly
promoting organizational preparations to 'protect' from wars, whereas the
non-verbal message is one of over-readiness for war.  Using the eager, movie
trained young from poor Eastern European countries who either do not
remember WW11 or thirst for the importance and promised economic power
alignment with the once mighty U.S. used to ensure white Europe, NATO's
presnt army is perhaps the world's largest.  Only Africa's armies use
younger soldiers.

Suzanne                        suzannedk at gmail.com
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From shimogamo at ashisuto.co.jp  Mon Oct  5 02:53:33 2009
From: shimogamo at ashisuto.co.jp (Bill Totten)
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 17:53:33 +0900
Subject: [A-List] Monetary Reform - Making It Happen
Message-ID: <20091005175333.6caf124a.shimogamo@ashisuto.co.jp>

extracted from Chapters One and Two of James Robertson & John
Bunzl's Monetary Reform - Making It Happen (2003). 

by Bill Totten 


Joseph Huber and James Robertson put forth a proposal for
mainstream monetary reform put forward by in Creating New Money
(2000). {1} Briefly, that proposal is that new official-currency
money (pounds, euros, dollars, yen, et cetera) should no longer be
created by commercial banks as profit-making loans to their
customers. It should be created by central monetary authorities
(today's central banks) which should give it as debt-free public
revenue to their governments to spend into circulation for public
purposes. 

{1} Joseph Huber and James Robertson, Creating New Money: A
Monetary Reform for the Information Age, New Economics Foundation,
London, 2000 - summarised in World Review, Vol4, No 2, New European
Publications, London, 2000. See
http://www.jamesrobertson.com/books.htm 

Their definition of money includes not just coins and banknotes,
but also the electronic bank-created money in our current bank
accounts. Although some people with pretensions to knowledge of
these things say that that is something distinct from money, called
credit, it is now clearly recognised to be money, directly and
immediately available for spending. {6} That commercial banks still
create this official-currency money for private-sector profit has
become a glaring anachronism. 

{6} Today's official monetary statistics accept this, but raise a
different problem. They contain alternative definitions of the
money stock, based on confusing aggregates called M0, M1, M2, M3,
M3 extended, M4, and so on. These are part of the veil of mystery
which shrouds the workings of the money system even in "democratic"
countries. The reform Huber and Robertson propose will replace them
with one clear definition of money, M. 

Our money system needs to be brought up to date. For over two
centuries political democracy has been spreading through the world,
but our capacity to control the power of money and harness it to
the public good has lagged far behind. So much so that failure to
bring the workings of money and finance into line with economic
justice and the realities of the Information Age is already
damaging confidence in political democracy itself. 

For those of us in Britain the euro highlights the link between
democracy and the money system. In spite of efforts to persuade us
that scrapping the pound and replacing it with the euro would be a
progressive step, people are increasingly doubtful. Why can't we
use the euro as a parallel currency, alongside the pound, rather
than a single currency managed by a remote, centralised monetary
authority imposing one-size-fits-all interest rates and money
supply on millions of diverse people and places? Surely
21st-century pressures to become more globalised and more localised
call for a more pluralistic monetary system, allowing different
currencies and means of payment to evolve at local to global
levels, enabling people and organisations to choose to use
whichever currency they find most convenient and useful for
different purposes. 

So - as well as national currencies, continental currencies and a
global currency - we should be encouraging currencies issued by
local government authorities for local circulation, and
non-official payment systems set up by local community groups (like
LETSystems), local social service groups (like Time Banks), and
local business groups (like the WIR co-operative in Switzerland).
In technical terms, whereas paper money could have been accepted as
the new basis for the monetary system at one time, electronic money
can now make it convenient for us to use different currencies for
different purposes. 

That technical factor also points the way to monetary reform at the
national level. Dematerialised non-cash money (that is, electronic
bank-created money held in bank accounts and transmitted between
them by modern information and telecommunication technology) is now
overwhelmingly important. About 97% of this country's (Britain's)
money supply is created in that form by commercial banks, and only
three percent as banknotes and coins issued by the Bank of England
and the Royal Mint. 

The commercial banks create the non-cash money out of thin air,
calling it credit and writing it into their customers' current
accounts as profit-making loans. That gives them over GBP 20
billion a year in interest, while the taxpayer gets less than GBP 3
billion a year from the issue of banknotes and coins. Stopping
commercial banks creating non-cash money, and transferring to the
central bank responsibility for creating it and issuing it
debt-free to the government to spend into circulation, will result
in extra public revenue of about GBP 45 billion a year. This is the
reform with which this book is specifically concerned. {See 1} 

It will mean that:- 

1) Taxation and government debt can be reduced, or public spending
can be increased, by up to GBP 45 billion a year. 

2) The value of a common resource - the national money supply -
will become a source of public revenue rather than private profit.
That will remove an economic injustice. 

3) Withdrawing the present hidden subsidy to the banks will result
in a freer market for money and finance, and a more competitive
banking industry. 

4) A debt-free money supply will help to reduce present levels of
public and private debt, which are partly caused by the fact that
nearly all the money we use has been created as debt. 

5) The economy will become more stable. Banks inevitably want to
lend and their customers want to borrow more at the peaks of the
business cycle and less in the troughs. So, when the amount of
money in circulation depends on how much the banks are lending, the
peaks and troughs - the booms and busts - are automatically
amplified. 

6) The central bank will be better able to control inflation if it
itself decides and directly creates the quantity of new money the
economy needs. It now tries to control inflation indirectly, by
raising interest rates (that is, the price at which people borrow
from banks). But raising costs in that way actually helps to cause
inflation. That partly explains why inflation has to be allowed to
rise steadily every year - by 2.5% in the UK - in order to avoid
deflating the economy. 

7) Environmental stress will be reduced. When, as now, almost all
the money we use is debt, people have to produce and sell more
things in order to service and repay debt than they would if money
were put into circulation debt-free. 

In our proposals for this reform, Joseph Huber and I called it
"seigniorage reform". Seigniorage was the profit made by monarchs
and local rulers from minting and issuing coins. In democratic
societies in the Information Age, the proposed reform will restore
the prerogative of the state - now on behalf of the people - to
capture as public revenue the value of putting the money supply
into circulation. 

Many people now understand that money is power, and that the
institutions of money today negate democracy by using their power
to exploit people and keep them dependent. Many people also
understand that money is a scoring system - for the game of
economic life - and that the way this scoring system works today is
systematically perverse: it rewards undesirable activities,
penalises desirable ones, and frustrates desirable change in almost
every sphere. 

The Proposed Reform 

The particular reform we are discussing concerns public currencies.
These include the pound, the dollar and the yen that belong to
nations, and the euro that belongs to a group of nations. In future
they will include a genuine world currency that does not yet exist. 

National governments are responsible for seeing that national
currencies maintain their value and provide an essential public
service to the population as a whole. In that respect these
currencies differ from the more private kinds of currencies and
quasi-currencies used by community groups (like LETS) or groups of
businesses (like the Swiss club WIR) for transactions between their
members, and loyalty points, Air Miles, et cetera issued by
companies to customers or suppliers, who may then use them as a
means of exchange. 

In the more pluralistic multi-level-currency era foreseen (see
above), the principles of the proposed national currency reform
will apply to other official currencies. These will include local
currencies to meet the need of local communities within their
particular localities, and a global currency to meet the need of
the world community for a means of transnational exchange. One of
the principles is that the profit (or 'seigniorage') arising from
creating money of this kind should be public revenue, not private
profit. Another is that these public currencies should be created
debt-free, not as interest-bearing repayable debt. We will return
shortly to the implications of this for international monetary
reform. 

Meanwhile, to recapitulate from above, the proposed national
monetary reform is as follows: 

1) As national monetary authorities, central banks should create
non-cash money (that is, bank-account money) as well as cash (that
is, banknotes and coins). They should create out of thin air at
regular intervals the amounts they decide are needed to increase
the money supply. They should give these amounts to their
governments as debt-free public revenue. Governments should then
put the money into circulation by spending it. 

2) It should become illegal for anyone else to create bank-account
money denominated in the national currency, just as it is already
illegal to forge coins or counterfeit banknotes. 

This will involve the following changes: 

1) The central bank will no longer regulate increases in the money
supply by manipulating the interest rates at which commercial banks
lend into circulation money they create for that purpose. The
central bank will be directly responsible for deciding how much is
needed and for creating it and issuing it itself. 

2) Commercial banks will be prohibited from creating money. They
will have to borrow already existing money in order to lend it, as
other financial intermediaries do. 

This will parallel what happened with banknotes in 19th-century
England. Electronic bank-deposit money has now become real money
and it is time to stop pretending it is just credit. As the issue
of banknotes became subject to seigniorage then, so the creation of
bank-account money should become subject to it now. In other words,
the profit from creating it should no longer accrue to commercial
banks but be collected as public revenue. The best available
estimate is that in Britain this would contribute about GBP 45
billion a year to public revenue, and deprive commercial banks of
the 'subsidy' - estimated at over GBP 20 billion a year - which
they now get from interest on the new money they are allowed to
create. 

The beneficial economic and social effects of this reform have been
summarised above. They are very great. 

Moreover, the reform would be evolutionary, not revolutionary.
Since the Second World War the Bank of England has continued to
evolve from being a commercial bank with a special relationship to
the government, towards becoming a straightforward agency of the
state as its central monetary authority. At the same time, the
commercial banks have continued to evolve towards being free-market
businesses, with fewer public service obligations backed by
government subsidies and controls. For both the Bank of England and
the commercial banks, the proposed reform is the next step in that
process of evolution. 

Seigniorage and the Global Economy 

Whoever creates new money can either give it away or benefit from
putting it into circulation by spending it or lending it at
interest. Just as, under the proposed national reform, the benefit
from creating national-currency money would go to the national
community as a whole, a comparable change at the international
level would benefit the world community as a whole. It would
replace the present use of the US dollar and other national
currencies like the yen, the euro and the pound as 'reserve
currencies', by a world currency issued by a world monetary
authority, and channel the profit from issuing it into public
revenue to be spent on behalf of the world community. This global
reform would clearly need simultaneous support from many national
governments. That does not necessarily mean that one country could
not undertake national monetary reform on its own. But it would
clearly be easier for single nations to do it, if the global
version of the same reform was on the global agenda. 

In 1995 the independent international Commission on Global
Governance {12} identified the United States' "unique luxury of
being able to borrow in its own currency abroad and then devalue
its repayment obligations" as one of the weaknesses of the current
international monetary system. It pointed out that "a growing world
economy requires constant enlargement of international liquidity",
and suggested that issue of the IMF's reserve currency - Special
Drawing Rights (SDRs) - should be increased. 

In Creating New Money (2000), Huber and Robertson suggested that
SDRs might develop into a global currency which would eventually
replace the US dollar and other national currencies in that role.
Following the model they had proposed for national seigniorage
reform, they suggested this global money might be issued - perhaps
by a new international agency combining some of the functions of
the IMF and the Bank for International Settlements - into an
operational account which it would hold for the United Nations. The
UN would spend this money into circulation, partly as a
contribution to financing its own operations, and perhaps partly by
distributing it to national governments according to the size of
their populations. 

This new international agency, which would in due course come to be
seen as an embryonic world central bank, would have to combine
accountability with a high degree of independence in its decisions
about how much new international money to create. It might report
and be accountable for its performance to a UN body , such as a
committee of the General Assembly. 

In the few years the significance of the 'dollar hegemony' of the
United States, and the urgent need for international monetary
reform, have become more widely understood. 

For example, one report calculates that every American citizen owes
the rest of the world $7,333, while every citizen of the developing
countries owes it only $500. But, while developing country
economies must pay debt service repayments totalling more than $300
billion a year, the US must only pay $20 billion a year to service
an almost equivalent amount of debt. Americans have been engaged in
a consumer binge, which has led to the largest current account
deficit in history, a staggering $445 billion or four percent of US
GDP. This deficit has been increasing by fifty percent a year in
recent years, and economists predict it will rise to $730 billion
by 2006. Given this daily deficit of up to GBP 2 billion, plus
capital outflow of $2 billion, the US in effect has to borrow $4
billion from the pool of world savings every day. More
disturbingly, it is being financed by the poor through capital
flight from poor countries and the forced holdings of high levels
of dollar reserves. To build up reserves, poor countries have to
borrow hard currency from the US at interest rates as high as
eighteen percent; and lend it back to the US in the form of
Treasury Bonds at three percent interest. {14} 

{14} Romilly Greenhill and Ann Pettifor, The United States as a
HIPC (heavily indebted prosperous country) - how the poor are
financing the rich, New Economics Foundation, London, 2002;
www.neweconomics.org 

Another report finds that "ever since 1971, when US president
Richard Nixon took the dollar off the gold standard, the dollar has
been a global monetary instrument that the United States, and only
the United States, can produce by fiat ... World trade is now a
game in which the US produces dollars and the rest of the world
produces things that dollars can buy. The world's interlinked
economies compete in exports to capture needed dollars to service
dollar-denominated foreign debts and to accumulate dollar
reserves". {15} 

{15} Henry C K Liu, US Dollar Hegemony Has Got To Go, Asia Times
Online Co Ltd, 2002. 

A third example: "At the root of this new form of imperialism is
the exploitation of governments by a single government, that of the
United States via the central banks and multilateral control
institutions of inter-governmental capital ... What has turned the
older form of imperialism into a super imperialism is that, whereas
prior to the 1960s the US government dominated international
organisation by virtue of its preeminent creditor status, since
that time it has done so by virtue of its debtor position." {16} 

{16} Michael Hudson, Super Imperialism: The Origin and Fundamentals
of World Domination, Pluto Press, 2003, pages 23-24. 

Finally, the researches of Richard Douthwaite and the Irish NGO
Feasta {17} confirm that the total annual subsidy (or 'tribute')
received by the US from the rest of the world as a result of dollar
seigniorage is at least $400 billion a year. This is roughly
comparable to the annual US balance of payments deficit. It also
explains how the US has been able to maintain its extraordinary
scale of annual military expenditure compared with all other
countries. The huge dollar seigniorage subsidy has even been
justified by some US commentators as a payment by the rest of the
world to the US as the 'policeman' on whom the world relies to keep
order! However, as Douthwaite notes, "given the policeman's record
of destabilising or overthrowing governments with which he has had
ideological differences and the fact that he would continue to put
his 'particularistic national interests' ahead of those of the rest
of the world, I doubt if many countries would be entirely happy
with the arrangement". 

{17} Richard Douthwaite, Defense and the Dollar, 2002 and Feasta,
Climate and Currency: Proposals for Global Monetary Reform, 2002,
prepared for the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable
Development. Details of both from The Foundation for the Economics
of Sustainability, 9 Lower Rathmines Road, Dublin 6, Republic of
Ireland; e-mail: feasta at anu.ie; web: www.feasta.org 


These analyses show up not only the injustice of the present way of
creating money for international and global purposes, but also
suggest how distorting and damaging it is to global economic
efficiency and financial stability. They clearly point to the need
for international monetary reform on a similar basis to the
proposed national reform - involving the creation of international
debt-free money by an agency which serves the interests of the
world community as a whole and provides seigniorage revenue to be
spent on global public purposes. As international campaigning grows
stronger for international reform on those lines it will reinforce
the pressure for comparable national reforms. 

Dealing with Obstacles and Objections 

The following are among the obstacles to national monetary reform
and the objections put forward against it: 

1) powerful opposition from banking and financial interests (and
from associated constituencies of professionals, academics and
politicians), and threats that even the prospect of monetary reform
would destabilise the economy; 

2) public ignorance and confusion about the present arrangements; 

3) an elitist belief that ignorance about them is positively
desirable; 

4) ignorance and obfuscation about what the monetary reform
proposals actually are; 

5) the claim that they would involve a further centralisation of
state power; 

6) the assumption that the reform would be inflationary; 

7) the assumption that it would 'crowd out' investment in the
private sector; 

8) the argument that depriving banks of the present seigniorage
subsidy would increase the costs of borrowing, would raise the
costs of payment services, and would force banks to cut costs,
close branches and reduce jobs; 

9) the argument that it would damage the international
competitiveness of British banks and therefore of the British
economy as a whole; 

10) the argument that no other country has undertaken, or is
seriously considering, this reform. 

So how are these obstacles and objections to be dealt with? And how
far will they have to be dealt with internationally? 

Obstacle/Objection 1. Opposition from powerful banking and
financial interests and the threat of economic destabilisation. 

This obstacle will be overcome only when the arguments for monetary
reform are more widely understood, when opposition to it is more
widely recognised as mere defence of private privilege, and when
its opponents accept that they risk losing more by continuing to
oppose it than by losing the present subsidy. National and
international advocacy and campaigning will be needed to bring that
situation about. 

Obstacle/Objection 2. Ignorance and confusion about how new money
is now created. 

Many people, even in government and parliament, don't know how new
money is now created, and what the consequences are. Most people
find it hard to believe, if they think about it at all, that almost
all the money in circulation has been created by commercial banks
at profit to themselves. In reply to questions, a government
spokesman may say that the funds which banks lend to customers
"must either be obtained from depositors or the money market, both
of which usually require the payment of interest" - thus appearing
to deny that banks are allowed to create new money and to profit
from doing so. Or that "banks don't print money but create credit".
More often, however, the government accepts that banks create money
and defends this by saying that "if banks were obliged to bid for
funds from lenders in order to make loans to their customers, the
costs to banks of extending credit would rise significantly". 

People who are in any doubt about how money is created might glance
at Chapters 22 and 23 of a current 'students' bible' on economics.
{22} It explains "how banks create money" and that "bank-created
deposit money is much the largest part of the money supply in
modern economies". 

{22} David Begg, Stanley Fischer and Rudiger Dornbusch, Economics,
McGraw-Hill, 7th edition, 2003, pages 316 and 318. 

The action needed is to press Finance/Treasury Ministers and
Central Bankers to clarify and publicise 

* how almost all new money is now created, 

* who benefits and who suffers thereby, and 

* whether or not the estimates of an annual hidden subsidy of more
than GBP 20 billion to the banks, and a failure to collect more
than GBP 40 billion potential public revenue, are broadly correct. 

This action need not be international to make some impact. But, if
individuals and NGOs in other countries were to press the same
demand on their finance ministries and central banks, the impact
would be greater. 

Obstacle/Objection 3. The view that ignorance and confusion are
positively desirable. 

It has been suggested that the deflationary crisis in Japan may
have reached a depth which requires the government explicitly to
create new money. But when a member of the British economic elite
wrote publicly on those lines last year, he felt it necessary to
accompany it with a warning that that policy should be avoided in
Europe if possible, because "ideally we should avoid unconventional
approaches. For the conventions of central bank independence, and
of non-transparent money creation, are based on well founded fears
that governments will abuse direct control of money printing
presses." 

The specific argument that monetary reform would open the way to
uncontrollable inflation is dealt with later. Here we have to
overcome the more general argument that the present
"non-transparent" system of money creation should be maintained; in
other words, that citizens and politicians of democratic countries
should be kept in the dark about how money is now created and how
the present system might be reformed. 

Again, this points to the need to press the authorities to explain
how almost all new money is now created, what are the arguments for
and against creating it that way, and how much the present system
benefits the commercial banks and reduces potential public revenue.
The pressure need not be international in order to make an impact
on national thinking, but the impact would be greater if it were. 

Obstacle/Objection 4. Ignorance and confusion about the actual
reform proposal. 

The proposed reform would not entail that the central bank should
be given responsibility and power to decide how new money shall be
used, so making it responsible for fiscal policy as well as
monetary policy and depriving the elected government of power to
manage the economy! The central bank will merely decide what
increases are needed in the money supply, create them, and give
them to the government as public revenue, leaving the elected
government to decide - as with taxes and other public revenue - how
the money is to be used. At present, of course, it is the
commercial banks who decide both how much new money to create and
who shall borrow it for what purposes. 

Those who propagate this error must be publicly corrected.
International support, though helpful, will not be strictly
necessary for that. 

Obstacle/Objection 5. Opposition to supposed increased
centralisation of state power. 

Linked with the misunderstanding at 4 above is the claim that the
reform will increase the centralised power of the state. Opposition
to reform on this ground comes from two rather different quarters. 

On the one hand there are members of the mainstream economic and
political elite who are happy with the present situation in
Britain, with the Big Four multinational banks sharing a virtual
monopoly of money creation under the Bank of England's central
control of interest rates. 

On the other hand, there are decentralist monetary reformers who
champion the emergence and spread of alternative currency schemes
to serve localities, communities, and groups of businesses, and
what is sometimes called 'free banking'. Some decentralists doubt
"whether it is possible or desirable in the modern day to give the
state a monopoly of official currency". 

If it is unacceptably centralising to treat new national money as a
public resource, to collect its value as public revenue, and to
distribute it via public spending programmes, the same principle
should presumably apply to the state's monopoly of national
taxation and public spending. Imagine for a moment that the history
of taxation and public spending had led to them being managed now
on a profit-making basis by the Big Four banks. Would decentralists
be responding to proposals for reform with the objection that it
isn't "possible or desirable to give the state a monopoly of
national taxation and public spending"? 

Actually there is no contradiction between mainstream monetary
reform and decentralised monetary innovation. Both embody the
principle that money should serve the needs of people (not vice
versa). If you accept that plural currencies are likely to serve
people's needs better than a single one-size-fits-all currency for
all purposes, both are desirable. There is no reason why support
for alternative currencies should mean continuing to accept the
present mainstream arrangements, except a wholly unrealistic hope
that the new alternative, community, and other private currencies
will grow rapidly enough to replace the mainstream system within
the foreseeable future. 

The practical fact is that in a democratic society, unlike other
forms of society, additions to the money supply put into
circulation as public revenue will tend to be distributed just as
wisely and fairly, if not more so, via increases in public spending
and reductions in taxes and public debt than the new money now
created by the commercial banks as loans to their customers. 

To sum up, there should be no sense of conflict between
decentralist and mainstream monetary reformers. Both should work
together nationally and internationally to spread wider
understanding that radical monetary change is urgent and that their
approaches are both necessary. 

Obstacle/Objection 6. Monetary reform will be inflationary. 

People have learned from history that allowing governments to
create new money is a recipe for inflation. So a conventional
knee-jerk response to the proposed monetary reform is that it will
be inflationary. 

It is true that money creation by feudal and monarchical
governments in the past and by elected governments more recently
has led to inflation. But that does not mean inflation will result
from giving an operationally independent central bank
responsibility for creating new money directly, instead of
indirectly influencing by interest-rate changes how much the
commercial banks create. Many people don't yet realise that in 1997
the conduct of monetary policy in Britain was changed. The Bank of
England was restructured as an operationally independent central
monetary authority. It is accountable to the Chancellor of the
Exchequer and Parliament for achieving the published monetary
policy objectives which they have framed and approved. But it now
carries out this task free from interference by elected ministers
and politicians and their staffs. Monetary reform in those new
circumstances will enable the Bank to control inflation more
effectively, not less effectively, than at present. 

The action required to get this more widely understood does not
have to be international. But, if it is, the impact may well be
greater. 

Obstacle/Objection 7. The proposed reform would 'crowd out'
investment in the private sector. 

This is another spurious conventional reaction. It argues that
creating new money as government revenue will 'crowd out'
investment in the wealth-creating private sector and switch it to
the wealth-consuming public sector. 

But of course the proposed reform need not result in allocating
resources only to the public sector. Governments could equally well
use the new source of revenue to cut taxes and the national debt
and so stimulate private investment and consumer spending. Even if
new money does circulate via public spending, it will soon reach
businesses and citizens who can use it for private sector
investment or consumption as they themselves decide. 

Although action to demolish this particular knee-jerk objection to
monetary reform need not be international, an effective
international reform campaign could be helpful in this context, as
in others. 

Obstacle/Objection 8. Depriving banks of the present seigniorage
subsidy would increase the costs of borrowing, raise the costs of
payments services, and force banks to cut costs, close branches and
reduce jobs. 

In fact, this will not necessarily be true. Nor will it be the
whole story. 

The banking industry will become more competitive when it is no
longer subsidised, and the oligopoly of lending to small businesses
now enjoyed by the largest banks will be more easily challenged by
other banks. That will tend to reduce the costs of borrowing.
Furthermore, when money is put into circulation debt-free, the
costs of servicing and repaying debt that the use of debt-created
money now imposes on every economic transaction will be eliminated,
with the result that less borrowing will be needed than now because
that element in the present cost of all economic activity will no
longer have to be met. 

As regards the costs and efficiency of payments services, it is
true that if banks are no longer subsidised by the profit they now
get from creating money but have to borrow money at interest to
lend to their customers, they will no longer be able to
cross-subsidise their payments services as much as at present.
Initially, costs to bank customers may rise as they have to meet
the full costs of the payments services they use. 

But, although withdrawing subsidies from any industry initially
makes the cost of its products higher, it is generally recognised
that this kind of cross-subsidisation between different services is
an impediment to competitiveness and economic efficiency. 

It is also true that withdrawing the present subsidy will encourage
banks to cut costs, perhaps involving further closure of branches
and loss of banking jobs. Withdrawing subsidies from any subsidised
industry, including coal, steel, ship-building and many others, has
had effects of that kind. But subsidies have been withdrawn in the
knowledge that subsidies to an industry reduce its competitiveness,
by making it more difficult for smaller firms to compete with
bigger ones and more difficult for new innovative entrants into the
industry to establish themselves. So far as the economy as a whole
is concerned, subsidies to particular industries tend to hold back
innovation and reduce the growth of efficiency and productivity by
distorting the allocation of resources. 

Are there any special reasons why the banking and financial
services industry should be sheltered from these facts of economic
life, except the mystique and power it now exercises over political
decision makers? 

Campaigning in one country could effectively question whether
banking should be treated as a special case in this respect. But
international campaigning might have greater impact. 

Obstacle/Objection 9. Depriving banks of the hidden subsidy will
weaken their ability to compete internationally with other
countries' banks. 

This view is a favourite with opponents of reform. For example, one
politician said he "would not support proposals that gave the State
the monopoly on non-cash money. Legislating against the credit
multiplier would lead to the migration from the City of London of
the largest collection of banks in the world. It would be a
disaster for the British economy." 

Each part of this statement is questionable. "Giving the state a
monopoly of non-cash money" is an exaggerated way of saying that an
agency of the state would decide and create the amount of new
national money required to meet the objectives of monetary policy,
and give it to the government to spend it into circulation, instead
of allowing a small group of big commercial banks to create it and
put it into circulation as profit-making loans to selected bank
customers. See Obstacle/Objections 4 and 5 above for comment on
that point. The term "credit multiplier" aims to conceal the fact
that new national money is being created for private profit.
Whether depriving commercial banks of that privilege would lead to
the migration from the City of London of the largest collection of
banks in the world, and whether - even if that happened - it would
be a disaster for the British economy and society as a whole, are
moot points. They need more serious research and analysis, not just
knee-jerk assumptions. In fact, it is likely that, after a short
period of adaptation by the banking and financial sector, the
outcome would prove beneficial to British society as a whole,
including the economy's international competitiveness. 

Much the same point was made by (British) Treasury Minister Ruth
Kelly. She said, "It is evident that this proposal would cause a
dramatic loss in profits to the banks - all else equal they would
still face the costs of running the payments system but would not
be able to make profitable loans using the deposits held in current
accounts. In this case it is highly likely that banks will attempt
to maintain their profitability by re-locating to avoid the
restriction on their operations that the proposed reform involves.
Given the desirability of an internationally competitive market in
financial (and other) services, it would not be in the UK's
interests to insulate itself from such a market." 

But why should monetary reform mean the UK insulating itself from
an internationally competitive market for banking and financial
services? As has already been suggested, far from being a disaster,
withdrawing the banks' present subsidy might prove beneficial to
their competitiveness and certainly to the competitiveness of the
economy as a whole. 

The subject needs much more serious analysis and research than it
has yet had. That does not need to be carried out in more than one
country to be valid. But we must remember, as Machiavelli pointed
out in 1532 in The Prince, that "he who introduces a new order of
things has all those who profit from the old order as his enemies,
and he has only lukewarm allies in all those who might profit from
the new". However valid the arguments and the research supporting
it may turn out to be, it may be difficult to persuade politicians
and the public that, in the context of international competition,
the risks attaching to monetary reform by one country alone are
worth taking. At all events, an international programme of
analysis, research and campaigning will be very desirable. 


Obstacle/Objection 10. No other country is seriously considering
monetary reform. 

In November 2001 Treasury Minister Ruth Kelly wrote, "To the best
of my knowledge, no support amongst developed countries or
international economic institutions exists" for monetary reform.
This brings to mind the joke about the economist who tells his
grandson not to bother picking up a GBP 5 note from the pavement,
because if it were real somebody else would have picked it up
already! 

There will probably be no harm, and much gain, in being first to
introduce monetary reform, if it will make the economy as a whole
more efficient and productive, and society more just and inclusive.
However, the special interests of the banking industry are likely
to find support from politicians and individuals who feel that the
risks of being a pioneer outweigh the possible rewards. 

So once again, international efforts to promote monetary reform
will clearly be important. 


Summing up therefore, it seems clear that, although there is still
a great deal of progress to be made within one country such as
Britain to mobilise an effective campaign for monetary reform,
international research, analysis, advocacy and campaigning will
also play a key part. 

http://www.jamesrobertson.com/book/monetaryreform.pdf


http://www.billtotten.blogspot.com
http://www.ashisuto.co.jp


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From: james.irldaly at ntlworld.com (james daly)
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 15:57:44 +0100
Subject: [A-List] Jean-Guy Allard: Help us to spread the news... Honduras
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Jean-Guy Allard: Help us to spread the news...

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From: Jean-Guy Allard <jean.guy.allard at gmail.com>
To: Jean-Guy Allard <jean.guy.allard at gmail.com>
Subject: POR FAVOR: Ay?denos a difundir la noticia
Date: Oct 2, 2009 11:53 AM

Google translation. Slightly revised by Walter Lippmann

Companeros: urge you to spread this news, the names those who send it are 
removed for security since they are in the eye of the storm and we must 
ensure their safety.

Our unwavering solidarity to the heroic people of Honduras
Ingrid Storgen

Xxxx

Friends, friends:

I am in a building near the Embassy of Brazil with 30 comrades, most members 
of Artists Against the National Front by coup.

Have sought to this place to rest, keeping the awareness that at any moment 
the army and police would enter the perimeter where about 5,000 people we 
were to give protection to the President Manuel Zelaya.

5:45 am attacked with gunfire and tear gas. They killed an unspecified 
number of companieros in the first barricade at the end of the bridge 
Guanacaste. They surrounded and attacked the barricade of the bridge of La 
Reforma.

Making estimates, the operation had about 1,000 police and military.

Cornered and beaten. 18 injured in hospital from serious. Continue to pursue 
in the Barrio Barrio Moraz?n and Guadalupe to the brave students who 
organized the poor barricades last night.

The time now is 8:00 am. Outside the Embassy of Brazil have placed a 
loudspeaker with the national anthem at full volume while catean the houses 
adjacent to the Embassy. They threw tear gas bombs into the embassy. The 
president continues on the inside threat from coup plotters and argued that 
through the media its views "legal" to proceed with the raids.

Thousands of people heading to Tegucigalpa have been detained around the 
city. The town is completely empty, ghostly. The curfew was extended to all 
day.

The repression was brutal unarmed demonstrators. On several occasions, Radio 
Globo and Channel 36 have been taken off the air.

Hundreds of prisoners.

We are isolated.

Here are the core of the organizers of the major cultural events in 
resistance: poets, songwriters, musicians, photographers, filmmakers, 
painters and painting ... humans.

XXX

We KIDNAPPED ... AGAIN repressed

We have 17-hour curfew. And we continue until 6 pm on Tuesday.

(No doubt it ... just step in extending the department of El Para?so two 
months ago)

The military and police have invaded the privacy of the neighbors to the 
pair of the Brazilian Embassy.

The police and the military ... have broken the windows of cars and 
motorcycles of persons in the resistance, they are burning their cars (they 
had left there, like seals)

There is talk of three people, injured (the injured were taken to hospitals 
... the military is getting out of hospitals)

For those caught are taken to the stadium Chochi Sosa. (so did Pinochet)

PLEASE: Help us spread the news




From james.irldaly at ntlworld.com  Mon Oct  5 09:07:20 2009
From: james.irldaly at ntlworld.com (james daly)
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 16:07:20 +0100
Subject: [A-List] HONDURAS: ARIAS AND INSULZA SEND IN "THE CLEANER"
Message-ID: <7A781A86FD7540F89AB7CF8E596F839E@home9sg93n9r5y>



HONDURAS OYE:  Arias and Insulza send in "The Cleaner"

Posted to CN by: "Magbana" magbana at aol.com   magbana2004
Sat Oct 3, 2009 2:17 pm (PDT)



From james.irldaly at ntlworld.com  Mon Oct  5 09:41:29 2009
From: james.irldaly at ntlworld.com (james daly)
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 16:41:29 +0100
Subject: [A-List] fact-finding U.S. Delegation to Honduras
Message-ID: <C9E8AEDF906641A387CE6CFEAC1C6D23@home9sg93n9r5y>


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

**Media Advisory** Contact: Teresa Gutierrez 917.328.6470



Press Conference to announce

fact-finding U.S. Delegation to Honduras

MONDAY, OCTOBER 5

1PM

AT THE OFFICES OF CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS



Invited Speakers Include:

?         Hon. Jorge Arturo Reina, Ambassador of Honduras to the United 
Nations

?         Hon. Jose Rivera, New York State Assembly Member

?         Ramsey Clark, Former U.S. Attorney General

?         Roger Wareham, National Lawyers Guild



Delegates to Honduras Call on their Elected Officials to Intervene on their 
Behalf

If delegation prohibited from entering the country by the fraud illegal 
Michelet Regime

President of American Association of Jurists states importance of U.S. 
observers



WHAT: A press conference featuring representatives of the U.S. Delegation to 
Honduras, who will announce their intention to travel to Honduras fro m Oct. 
7-11 on a fact-finding mission. The delegation calls on elected officials, 
the Obama administration and the State Department to assure our safety.



The delegation planned to attend the ?First International Conference Against 
the Coup D?Etat and for the Constituent National Assembly in Honduras,? 
scheduled to take place Oct. 8-10. However given the political and social 
crisis in the country the conference has been postponed.



The U.S. Delegation is nevertheless continuing its trip to Honduras and will 
conduct a fact-finding investigation of the situation. It will meet with 
students, labor, women, youth, representatives of the resistance to the coup 
and others to find the truth about the situation in Honduras.



WHO: The U.S. Delegation to Honduras, which was initiated by the 
International Action Center, will include the following participants:

?         Berta Joubert-Ceci?Co-Director, IAC, Philadelphia chapter; Women?s 
Fightback Network

?         Heather Cottin?Freeport Workplace Project; Professor, LaGuardia 
Community College

?         LeiLani Dowell?National Co-Coordinator, FIST youth group; Managing 
Editor, Workers World Newspaper

?       ;   Wellington Echegaray?Cuba Solidarity New York

?         Michael Gimbel?Central Labor Council Delegate; AFSCME local 275

?         Teresa Gutierrez?Director of Latin America and Immigration 
Projects, International Action Center; International Migrant Alliance Depty. 
Secty. General

?         Manolo de los Santos- San Romero de Las Am?ricas 
Church-UCC/Pastors for Peace

?  ;        Michael Kramer?Veterans for Peace

?         Danilo Lachapel?Director of Community Relations, Evangelical 
Church of the Bronx

?         Lucy Pagoada?Honduran Resistance U.S.A.

?         Jennifer Waller?International Action Center, FIST youth group

?         Dave Welsh?Delegate, San Francisco Labor Council



WHERE:         Center for Constitutional Rights

                                    666 Broadway, 7th Floor
                                    Between Bond & Bleeker, Take Trains F, 
V, or D to Broadway Lafayette, two block walk



WHEN: Monday, October 5, 2009 at 1pm



WHY: The repression against the Honduran people?s resistance movement has 
intensified since President Manuel Zelaya=E 2s return to his country, where 
he has found refuge in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa. Violating 
international law, the Micheletti coup government has consistently attacked 
the Brazilian embassy, dropping chemical gas, shutting off the water and 
electricity, and using Long-Range Acoustic Devices that20can result in 
permanent hearing loss.



Throughout the capital city, the coup regime?s repression against Zelaya?s 
supporters and all Honduran people has reached a new peak. Individual 
liberties and Constitutional rights have been suspended; journalists and 
radio broadcasters are being severely punished for doing their jobs; and 
people everywhere are being detained, abused, and tortured by soldiers and 
police. Wounded demonstrators are being picked up from hospitals and then 
detained without medical treatment; people are undernourished as a result of 
the coup regime?s curfews.



Nevertheless, three months of constant resistance, and determination to 
restore their democratically elected President has earned the Honduran 
people the title Los Incansables (the tireless ones). The U.S. delegation to 
Honduras will not only gather facts from the resistance, but also express 
its so lidarity with the people and resistance of Honduras.



Vanessa Ramos, President of the American Association of Jurists and member 
of Nat ional Lawyers Guild (NLG) helped organize a delegation to Honduras in 
late August. Ramos told organizers that U.S. presence is critical at this 
time and supports the efforts of the fact-finding delegation.



The report of the NLG trip which was written by members of the AAJ, the NLG 
and the International Association of Democratic Lawyers as well as the 
International Association Against Torture confirm that the June 28 events in 
Honduras constitute a genuine military coup. The report further states that 
the military overthrow ?was a clear violation of Honduras? 1982 Political 
constitution.?



The delegation is calling on their elected officials, Members of Congress 
and representatives of the press to assure the success and safety of the 
U.S. delegation by aggressively declaring the illegitimacy of the Michelleti 
government, by condemning the repression on the Honduran people and by 
demanding the immediat e restoration of Honduras? democratically elected 
President, Manuel Zelaya.

-- 
Teresa Gutierrez
IAC National Co-Director
National IAC Coordinator Immigrant and Latin American Projects
Build May Day 2010
Bail out the People, not the Banks
Si Se Puede!
917.328.6470

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From james.irldaly at ntlworld.com  Mon Oct  5 09:42:23 2009
From: james.irldaly at ntlworld.com (james daly)
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 16:42:23 +0100
Subject: [A-List] Zelaya's immediate return, the only guarantee for elections
Message-ID: <AF90567C316840C2961B1CFC26A08251@home9sg93n9r5y>



From: laborexchange-n-bounces at organizerweb.com 
[mailto:laborexchange-n-bounces at organizerweb.com] On Behalf Of 
laborexchange at aol.com
Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2009 9:24 PM
To: laborexchange-n at organizerweb.com
Subject: Zelaya's immediate return, the only guarantee for elections



GRANMA
Zelaya's immediate return, the only guarantee for elections

Google translation. Edited by Walter Lippmann.

TEGUCIGALPA, October 3 (PL) .- The immediate return of ousted President 
Manuel Zelaya is the indispensible prerequisite for the validity of 
elections in Honduras, said a leader of the resistance.

Carlos Eduardo Reina, president of the Liberal Coordinator against the coup, 
warned that the deadline for holding the elections next November 29 are 
being depleted due to the short time remaining.

In a speech last night at the Resistance Program, National Front against the 
Coup, Reina said that two weeks is a long time for reinstalling Zelaya to 
ensure orderly and transparent elections.

It must immediately be stressed in the program, Radio Globo, which 
broadcasts on the Internet after being closed and their equipment seized by 
the police last Monday, within the state of siege in force.

More than a hundred candidates for elective office of the Liberal Party 
announced yesterday that they will not participate in elections if they are 
not returned to constitutional order and Zelaya at the earliest.

Reina said that participation in the vote under the current conditions under 
the military coup of June 28, is to be complicit in a deception of the 
people.

Elections under these circumstances are also rejected by the National Front, 
independent candidates and the Democratic Unification Party, among other 
forces opposed to breaking the rule of law.

Reina, who accompanies Zelaya in the Brazilian embassy, where he was 
received after his unexpected return to Honduras on 21 September, confirmed 
the willingness of partgies to establish a dialogue for a peaceful solution 
to the crisis.

He stressed that the negotiating process can not occur in the middle of the 
state of siege decreed a week ago, which "claimed" is the green light to 
kill the insurgents, suppress popular protest and press closed.

He added that immediately repeal the suspension of constitutional guarantees 
is an indispensable condition for the development of serious conversation.

The young leader confirmed that Zelaya maintains his commitment to the 
people to hold a constituent assembly to transform the conditions of 
injustice and inequity imposed on Honduras by 10 families that control the 
nation.

Restituci?n inmediata de Zelaya, ?nica garant?a
para elecciones

http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/2009/10/04/interna/artic13.html

TEGUCIGALPA, 3 de octubre (PL).? La restituci?n inmediata del derrocado 
presidente Manuel Zelaya es requisito indispensable para la validez de las 
elecciones en Honduras, afirm? uno de los l?deres de la resistencia.

Carlos Eduardo Reina, presidente de la Coordinadora Liberal contra el golpe 
de Estado, alert? que los plazos para la celebraci?n de los comicios del 29 
de noviembre pr?ximo se est?n agotando debido al poco tiempo que res ta.

En una intervenci?n anoche en el programa Resistencia, del Frente Nacional 
contra el golpe de Estado, Reina asegur? que dos semanas es mucho tiempo 
para la reinstalaci?n de Zelaya para garantizar elecciones ordenadas y 
transparentes.

Tiene que ser de inmediato, subray? en el programa, en la emisora Radio 
Globo, que transmite por Internet despu?s de ser clausurada y sus equipos 
ocupados por la polic?a el lunes ?ltimo, dentro del estado de sitio vigente.

M?s de un centenar de candidatos a cargos de elecci?n del Partido Liberal 
anunciaron ayer que no participar?n en los comicios si no son restituidos el 
orden constitucional y Zelaya a la mayor brevedad.

Reina apunt? que participar en la votaci?n en las condiciones actuales, bajo 
el golpe militar del 28 de junio pasado, es ser c?mplices de un enga?o m?s 
al pueblo.

Las elecciones bajo esas circunstancias son rechazadas tambi?n por el Frente 
Nacional, los candidatos independientes y del Partido Unificaci?n 
Democr?tica, entre otras fuerzas opuestas a la ruptura del estado de 
derecho.

Reina, quien acompa?a a Zelaya en la embajada de Brasil, donde fue recibido 
tras su inesperado regreso a Honduras el pasado 21 de septiembre, ratific? 
la voluntad del estadista de establecer un di?logo para una soluci?n 
pac?fica a la crisis.

Subray? que este proceso negociador no puede darse en medio del estado de 
sitio decretado hace ocho d?as,20el cual -denunci?- es la luz verde para los 
golpistas asesinar, reprimir la protesta popular y cerrar medios de prensa.

A?adi? que derogar de inmediato la suspensi?n de las garant?as 
constitucionales es una condici?n inexcusable para el desarrollo de pl?ticas 
ser?as.

El joven dirigente ratific? que Zelaya mantiene su compromiso con el pueblo 
de celebrar una asamblea constituyente para transformar las condiciones de 
injusticia e inequidad impuestas en Honduras por las 10 familias que 
controlan la naci?n.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 



From ioriwase at mail.mohawknationnews.com  Mon Oct  5 20:22:23 2009
From: ioriwase at mail.mohawknationnews.com (Mohawk Nation News)
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 22:22:23 -0400
Subject: [A-List] MNN Intruder or True Friend?  Hindsight
Message-ID: <0207d70b$40091$0ccb9321947685@xnote>

PERFECT INTRUDER OR TRUE FRIEND?  HINDSIGHT  

MNN.  Oct. 6, 2009.  This is about spies and agents in our midst.  We Indigenous look at our experiences and try to put them into context.  Some of us have been misled by colonial agents posing as scholars, friends, supporters or helpers.  Because we don?t have all the information at the time, we don?t jump to conclusions.  Afterwards we put the picture together and make guidelines to protect ourselves.  There are always exceptions.  

The perfect intruder will abandon you when they are finished their assignment, especially when they put your life or liberty on the line.  My intruders took off when I almost died from the beating at the border.  The end game was to kill me.   I survived.  They were nervous about how long they could keep up their cover.  We wondered about this too.    

PROLOGUE.  Any social order based on inequality of wealth and power depends on political repression.  The establishment and colonial social order call us domestic dissidents.  We could disrupt their image and their economy which is based on the theft of our lands, resources and space.
  
Infiltration is a sophisticated vigilante operation to stop free speech and to neutralize us.  How?  By creating factionalism, bringing us into disrepute and causing confusion and dissatisfaction.  

BACKGROUND.  Progressive activists are their main targets.  Infiltration is low intensity warfare, which is molding public opinion, working outside the law and using fraud and force to sabotage legitimate political activity.  Surveillance is used to gather intel, to expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit or neutralize individuals or groups.  

The federal government has become the main domestic covert repressor using hired thugs, right wing vigilantes, private military organizations and police.  Local police are the foot soldiers for arrests, raids, beatings and infiltrations.

False stories are planted.  Bogus organizations like the camel toe treaty cult in Akwesasne are set up.  Parents, employers, landlords or school officials are strong armed to cause trouble for activists. 

The legal system and courts criminalize activists through perjured evidence, false arrests and imprisonment.  Threats, assaults, beatings and political assassinations are carried out.  [Malcolm X].

It is well known that provocateurs like the KKK, Minutemen, Nazis, racist vigilantes and right-wing thugs are subsidized, armed, directed and protected by the government.    

PROVOCATEURS seize every opportunity to disrupt, create disagreements, make divisions, sabotage, squander resources, steal funds, seduce leaders, promote rivalries, provoke jealousy and public embarrassment, lead activists into danger, and push paranoia to undermine trust.  

Indigenous pursuing a traditional lifestyle are now the new domestic dissidents.  

INFILTRATORS come unannounced and hang around target for years studying and gathering intel.  Some offer a service, like a pro bono lawyer, or romances a community member, even has a family with them.

Agents have a vague cover story that can?t be checked.  They confuse everybody about their intentions.  Nothing is kept around to identify them.  Some have many aliases. They don?t have cell phones and are hard to reach.  Some pretend to be Indigenous.  They are loners, unless they show up as a pair.  They have no friends or social life that can be questioned.  

Usually agents have no job but have a steady income.  They live like they could leave at a moment?s notice.

Their training includes acting needy, meek and non-threatening.  They are whiney and cry ?poor me?.  The target is made to feel like they have to help them.  They feign a rare sickness or obscure medical condition with vague chronic symptoms.  This lets them distance themselves when necessary.  They remain distant but act like a best friend. They downplay themselves.  They are always observing.  They don?t say much as they are there to get others talking to get intel.  

These tactics are meant to maintain control of their surroundings.  

The infiltrator enters the community, gets involved with one faction and quietly confuses the people and the issues.  At the same time, another agent infiltrates another faction. They drive wedges between people with false stories or lure them into compromising situations.  

The infiltrator can clandestinely create fear around the target, like having them followed, strangers taking pictures, and so on.  They can arrange an attack if necessary with police protection.

Infiltrators organize drug, booze and sex parties to recruit youth.

The intruder?s value is not the intel they gather.  It is that they are there, a concealed hostile within the community or movement to instill suspicion and fear.  Some agents are valuable because they are community members who know the people?s ideals.  Others have to work hard to fit in.  They will bad jacket an activist as being a government agent.  

Agents dress and groom so they can change and re-do their image to work somewhere else, such as hair style, weight, clothes or car they drive or don?t have.  They disappear or cut off their association with the target suddenly.

Outside support groups are set up invite the targets to take part in their protests or meetings.  The government and the police want us on the defensive by associating us with other groups we don?t know.  

PRECAUTIONS:  Check authenticity of visitors, rumors or calls.  Keep notes of harassment, etc.  Be honest.  Keep friends close and watch enemies more closely.  Stay on the goals of the movement.  

Watch for non-verbal cues.  If the eyes say something different from the body, they are not genuine.      

The Great Law provides that ?As a weapon against a crawling creature, I lay a stick with you so that you may thrust it away from the Council Fire?.  A crawling creature may be a disrespectful person seeking to disrupt the people and must be removed.  [Wampum 4].

Kahentinetha MNN Mohawk Nation News, www.mohawknationnews.com  kahentinetha2 at yahoo.com  Note:  Your financial help is needed and appreciated.  Please send your donations by check or money order to ?MNN Mohawk Nation News?, Box 991, Kahnawake [Quebec, Canada] J0L 1B0.  Or go to PayPal on MNN website.  Nia:wen thank you very much.  Go to MNN AKWESASNE category for more stories; New MNN Books Available now! 

Brian Glick.  War At Home - Covert Action Against US Activists & What We Can Do About It.  South End Press.  Boston



From james.irldaly at ntlworld.com  Tue Oct  6 01:44:08 2009
From: james.irldaly at ntlworld.com (james daly)
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 08:44:08 +0100
Subject: [A-List] The IMF to Play Role of Global Central Bank? -- The Dollar
	Needs to be Devalued by Half?
Message-ID: <43F1776478E4449D858008E3C9638497@home9sg93n9r5y>



The IMF to Play Role of Global Central Bank?

The Dollar Needs to be Devalued by Half?

By Ellen Brown

URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15531

Global Research, October 5, 2009
The Web of Debt

"A year ago," said law professor Ross Buckley on Australia's ABC News on 
September 22, "nobody wanted to know the International Monetary Fund. Now 
it's the organiser for the international stimulus package which has been 
sold as a stimulus package for poor countries."



The IMF may have catapulted to a more exalted status than that. According to 
Jim Rickards, director of market intelligence for scientific consulting firm 
Omnis, the unannounced purpose of the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh on September 
24 was that "the IMF is being anointed as the global central bank." Rickards 
said in a CNBC interview on September 25 that the plan is for the IMF to 
issue a global reserve currency that can replace the dollar.



"They've issued debt for the first time in history," said Rickards. "They're 
issuing SDRs. The last SDRs came out around 1980 or '81, $30 billion. Now 
they're issuing $300 billion. When I say issuing, it's printing money; 
there's nothing behind these SDRs."



SDRs, or Special Drawing Rights, are a synthetic currency originally created 
by the IMF to replace gold and silver in large international transactions. 
But they have been little used until now. Why does the world suddenly need a 
new global fiat currency and global central bank? Rickards says it because 
of "Triffin's Dilemma," a problem first noted by economist Robert Triffin in 
the 1960s. When the world went off the gold standard, a reserve currency had 
to be provided by some large-currency country to service global trade. But 
leaving its currency out there for international purposes meant that the 
country would have to continually buy more than it sold, running large 
deficits until it eventually went broke. The U.S. has fueled the world 
economy for the last 50 years, but now it is going broke. The U.S. can 
settle its debts and get its own house in order, but that would cause world 
trade to contract. A substitute global reserve currency is needed to fuel 
the global economy while the U.S. solves its debt problems, and that new 
currency is to be the IMF's SDRs.



That's the solution to Triffin's dilemma, says Rickards, but it leaves the 
U.S. in a vulnerable position. If we face a war or other global catastrophe, 
we no longer have the privilege of printing money. We will have to borrow 
the global reserve currency like everyone else, putting us at the mercy of 
global lenders.



To avoid that, the Federal Reserve has hinted that it is prepared to raise 
interest rates, even though that would further squeeze the real economy. 
Rickards pointed to an oped piece by Fed governor Kevin Warsh, published in 
The Wall Street Journal on the same day the G20 met. Warsh said the Fed 
would need to raise interest rates if asset prices rose - which Rickards 
interpreted to mean gold, the traditional go-to investment of investors 
fleeing the dollar. "Central banks hate gold because it limits their ability 
to print money," said Rickards. If gold were to suddenly go to $1,500 an 
ounce, it would mean the dollar was collapsing. Warsh was giving the market 
a heads up that the Fed wasn't going to let that happen. The Fed would raise 
interest rates to attract dollars back into the country. As Rickards put it, 
"Warsh is saying, 'We sort of have to trash the dollar, but we're going to 
do it gradually.' . . . Warsh is trying to preempt an unstable decline in 
the dollar. What they want, of course, is a stable, steady decline."



What about the Fed's traditional role of maintaining price stability? It's 
nonsense, said Rickards. "What they do is inflate the dollar to prop up the 
banks." The dollar has to be inflated because there is more debt outstanding 
than money to pay it with. The government currently has contingent 
liabilities of $60 trillion. "There's no feasible combination of growth and 
taxes that can fund that liability," Rickards said. The government could 
fund about half that in the next 14 years, which means the dollar needs to 
be devalued by half.



The Dollar Needs to be Devalued by Half?



Reducing the value of the dollar means that our hard-earned dollars are 
going to go only half as far, which is not a good thing for Main Street. In 
fact, the move is designed not to serve us but the banks. The dollar needs 
to be devalued to compensate for a dilemma in the current monetary scheme 
that is even more intractable than Triffin's, one that might be called a 
fraud. There is never enough money to cover the outstanding debt, because 
all money today except coins is created by banks in the form of loans, and 
more money is always owed back to the banks than they advance when they 
create their loans. Banks create the principal but not the interest 
necessary to pay their loans back.



The Fed, which is owned by a consortium of banks and was set up to serve 
their interests, is tasked with seeing that the banks are paid back; and the 
only way to do that is to inflate the money supply, in order to create the 
dollars to cover the missing interest. But that means diluting the value of 
the dollar, which imposes a stealth tax on the citizenry; and the money 
supply is inflated by making more loans, which adds to the debt and interest 
burden the inflated money supply was supposed to relieve. The banking system 
is basically a pyramid scheme, which can be kept going only by continually 
creating more debt.



The IMF's $500 Billion Stimulus Package: Designed to Help Developing 
Countries or the Banks?



And that brings us back to the IMF's stimulus package discussed by Professor 
Buckley. It was billed as helping emerging nations hard hit by the global 
credit crisis, but Buckley doubts that is what is really going on. Rather, 
he says, the $500 billion pledged by the G20 nations is "a stimulus package 
for the rich countries' banks." He notes that stimulus packages are usually 
grants. The money coming from the IMF will be extended in the form of loans.

    "These are loans that are made by the G20 countries through the IMF to 
poor countries. They have to be repaid and what they're going to be used for 
is to repay the international banks now. .  . . [T]he money won't really 
touch down in the poor countries. It will go straight through them to repay 
their creditors. . . . But the poor countries will spend the next 30 years 
repaying the IMF."

Basically, said Professor Buckley, the loans extended by the IMF represent 
an increase in seniority of the debt. That means developing nations will be 
even more firmly locked in debt than they are now.

    "At the moment the debt is owed by poor countries to banks, and if the 
poor countries had to, they could default on that. The bank debt is going to 
be replaced by debt that's owed to the IMF, which for very good strategic 
reasons the poor countries will always service. . . . The rich countries 
have made this $500 billion available to stimulate their own banks, and the 
IMF is a wonderful party to put in between the countries and the debtors and 
the banks."

Not long ago, the IMF was being called obsolete. Now it is back in business 
with a vengeance; but it's the old unseemly business of serving as the 
collection agency for the international banking industry. As long as third 
world debtors can service their loans by paying the interest on them, the 
banks can count the loans as "assets" on their books, allowing them to keep 
their pyramid scheme going by inflating the global money supply with yet 
more loans. It is all for the greater good of the banks and their affiliated 
multinational corporations; but the $500 billion in funding is coming from 
the taxpayers of the G20 nations, and the foreseeable outcome will be that 
the United States will join the ranks of debtor nations subservient to a 
global empire of central bankers.





Ellen Brown developed her research skills as an attorney practicing civil 
litigation in Los Angeles. In Web of Debt, her latest book, she turns those 
skills to an analysis of the Federal Reserve and "the money trust." She 
shows how this private cartel has usurped the power to create money from the 
people themselves, and how we the people can get it back. Her earlier books 
focused on the pharmaceutical cartel that gets its power from "the money 
trust." Her eleven books include Forbidden Medicine, Nature's Pharmacy 
(co-authored with Dr. Lynne Walker), and The Key to Ultimate Health 
(co-authored with Dr. Richard Hansen). Her websites are www.webofdebt.com 
and www.ellenbrown.com.


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From james.irldaly at ntlworld.com  Tue Oct  6 01:49:09 2009
From: james.irldaly at ntlworld.com (james daly)
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 08:49:09 +0100
Subject: [A-List] Honduras- 100 days of Repression and Resistance
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Honduras- 100 days of Repression and Resistance

October 5, 2009

Today marks 100 days since a military coup was carried out against President 
Zelaya in Honduras.  It also marks 100 days of massive, sustained, 
nonviolent resistance on the part of the Honduran people who are saying no 
to this brazen attempt to return to the days of dictators.

In the face of uncontainable resistance, the coup regime has employed 
increasingly draconian measures.  Most disturbing includes a resurgence of 
death squad activity, wholesale suspension of constitutional rights and the 
criminalization of social protest.   Currently, over 80 people are detained 
and face charges of sedition.  Conservative estimates document 14 murders in 
last 14 weeks; two of those occurred during the last week.

Two weeks ago, on September 21, President Zelaya suddenly surfaced inside 
the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa.  Tens of thousands of supporters 
immediately flocked to the Embassy from all over the country to celebrate 
his return.  The coup-president Micheletti responded by imposing a 5pm 
curfew, which thousands of people ignored, holding an all night vigil in 
front of the Embassy.   At 5:30 the next morning, police and military 
attacked the crowd with batons, tear gas and other weapons.  Two people were 
killed and many were injured including broken arms and legs.  Those arrested 
were taken to a sports stadium, where they were held for extended periods 
without food or water.

Twenty-four hour curfews were enforced for several days, making it illegal 
for anyone but authorized individuals to leave their homes.    People 
responded to the curfew by staging neighborhood based protests.  These too 
were repressed, as police and army went into neighborhoods, firing teargas 
and chasing people down inside the homes where they fled.

Infuriated by Zelaya?s return, Micheletti mounted a heavy military cordon 
around the Brazilian Embassy, cut of lights and water and subjected those 
inside the Embassy and surrounding areas to ?sound terrorism.?  The 
Government of Brazil protested the use of the long range acoustic device 
used to send deafening sound waves and provoke hysteria, and demanded the 
restoration of electricity and water.

Micheletti then gave the Brazilian government a 10 day ultimatum, after 
which he promised to invade and capture Zelaya.  Brazilian President Lula de 
Silva responded by reminding Micheletti that such an act on the part of the 
coup government would be considered an act of war.  The President of Brazil 
also callled for an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council to 
discuss the crisis in Honduras. Micheletti later recanted on his threats to 
invade the Embassy and in an apparent attempt at damage control said that he 
would like to give President Lula  ?a big hug?.

However, in what now appears to have been a targeted attack on individuals 
inside the Embassy, on Friday, September 25th several people reported 
similar symptoms;  nasal bleeding, blood in stools, coughing up blood and 
severe throat irritations.  It was first suspected that this may have been 
the result of a chemical weapon however symptoms did not affect everyone 
inside the Embassy.  Further investigation suggests that these symptoms may 
have been caused by a sophisticated experimental weapon, called a Maser. 
Apparently this weapon sends a microwave beam, similar to a laser beam that 
impacts the cell functioning of those exposed to its effects.

On Sunday, September 27th,   four of the five OAS officials who had come as 
an advance team to begin a dialogue process were expelled.  Later that day, 
faced with increasing inability to contain mounting protests or to control 
the country, coup president Micheletti issued an Executive Decree suspending 
all fundamental Constitutional Guarantees for 45 days.  Rights suspended 
include the right to assemble, freedom of expression and freedom of 
movement.  The coup regime also granted itself the right to arrest anyone at 
any moment without reason or an arrest warrant.

At 5:30am the next morning, in what the resistance movement now calls 
?Operation Silence,? troops surrounded and entered Radio Globo and Channel 
36, the radio and TV stations with national coverage, and confiscated their 
equipment.  The following day, the coup regime announced the suspension of 
Radio Globos? operating license, severely limiting national news about what 
is really happening in the country.

The same day that Honduran media outlets were being raided, an emergency 
meeting of the OAS on Honduras scheduled to last one hour, ended ten hours 
later without reaching consensus, largely due to the intransigent position 
of the United States.  The stalemate resulted from the U.S. insistence that 
elections be held in November while most countries in the hemisphere believe 
that conditions do not exist for free and fair elections in Honduras. 
Interim representative to the OAS, Lewis Amselem stated that Zelaya?s return 
was ?irresponsible? and had ?not served? the diplomatic efforts to resolve 
the crisis resulting from the June 28th coup.   Amselem repeated these 
statements to the press subsequent to the meeting, making it clear that his 
statements were not just made ?in the heat of the moment?, but apparently 
reflect the view of the Obama Administration.

Amselem?s statements lend support to many who suspect that the State 
Department continues to be unduly influenced by ultra-conservative forces 
(inside the Department), who, from the beginning have supported the coup in 
Honduras.  The failure to actually declare it a coup and lack of serious 
measures against the putsch government certainly indicate at best an 
ambiguous position, and more probably active support for the coup from 
within the U.S. State Department.

In this context, pro-coup sectors are calling for dialogue in the interest 
of reaching resolution in order to move forward with the elections scheduled 
for November 29th.    On Friday, October 2nd, the advance team from the OAS 
was finally allowed into the country.  Plans are in place for a high level 
OAS delegation, including Secretary General Insulza and as many as 10 
foreign ministers to arrive next Wednesday.  It was reported in some media 
outlets that Ambassador Llorens conducted a meeting last week at the 
Pomerola Air Base, outside of Tegucigalpa with ?significant actors? 
including Secretary General Insulza of the OAS.

A number of informal proposals have already been put forward including 
scenarios where neither Micheletti nor Zelaya are leading the country, a 
permanent seat in Congress for Micheletti, a blanket amnesty for all crimes 
committed by the coup government and a laundry list of things which are 
largely unacceptable to the tens of thousands of people who have put their 
lives on the line to insure that Constitutional order be restored in their 
country.  Despite an intense media campaign giving the impression that 
negotiations are underway, according to informed sources inside the 
Brazilian Embassy, Zelaya has not been a party to any formal negotiations.

Leaders of the majority of countries in the Hemisphere have stated that 
conditions do not exist for elections to happen in Honduras in less than two 
months.  The independent party candidate, Carlos H. Reyes, who was attacked 
by police and had his arm broken, had surgery just this past week, and is 
far from being able to campaign even if the current state of siege ended 
tomorrow.

The only viable option to increase the possibility of resolving the crisis 
in Honduras is a negotiated solution that is acceptable to all parties, 
followed by a period where some level of normalcy is achieved.  Only after 
this kind of cooling off period is it conceivable to think of holding 
elections.   Elections under current conditions would insure that the 
regression to military rule which happened in Honduras on June 28th becomes 
semi-permanent, and that the resistance and subsequent repression would 
continue.


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From toddfboyle at gmail.com  Mon Oct  5 23:19:17 2009
From: toddfboyle at gmail.com (Todd Boyle)
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:19:17 -0700
Subject: [A-List] Robert Fisk: Oil producers moving off the dollar
Message-ID: <mailman.1.1254815619.31205.a-list@lists.econ.utah.edu>

In my opinion this will be a huge relief for the beleaguered
American worker.  If it's true.
Todd.
////////////////

By Robert Fisk
The Independent, London
Tuesday, October 6, 2009

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/the-demise-of-the-dollar...

In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, 
Gulf Arabs are planning -- along with China, Russia, Japan, and 
France -- to end dollar dealings for oil, moving instead to a basket 
of currencies including the Japanese yen and Chinese yuan, the euro, 
gold, and a new, unified currency planned for nations in the Gulf 
Co-Operation Council, including Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, and Qatar.

Secret meetings have already been held by finance ministers and 
central bank governors in Russia, China, Japan, and Brazil to work on 
the scheme, which will mean that oil will no longer be priced in dollars.

The plans, confirmed to The Independent by both Gulf Arab and Chinese 
banking sources in Hong Kong, may help to explain the sudden rise in 
gold prices, but it also augurs an extraordinary transition from 
dollar markets within nine years.

The Americans, who are aware the meetings have taken place -- 
although they have not discovered the details -- are sure to fight 
this international cabal, which will include hitherto loyal allies 
Japan and the Gulf Arabs. Against the background to these currency 
meetings, Sun Bigan, China's former special envoy to the Middle East, 
has warned there is a risk of deepening divisions between China and 
the U.S. over influence and oil in the Middle East. "Bilateral 
quarrels and clashes are unavoidable," he told the Asia and Africa 
Review. "We cannot lower vigilance against hostility in the Middle 
East over energy interests and security."

This sounds like a dangerous prediction of a future economic war 
between the U.S. and China over Middle East oil -- yet again turning 
the region's conflicts into a battle for great power supremacy. China 
uses more oil incrementally than the U.S. because its growth is less 
energy-efficient.

The transitional currency in the move away from dollars, according to 
Chinese banking sources, may well be gold. An indication of the huge 
amounts involved can be gained from the wealth of Abu Dhabi, Saudi 
Arabia, Kuwait, and Qatar, which together hold an estimated $2.1 
trillion in dollar reserves.

The decline of American economic power linked to the current global 
recession was implicitly acknowledged by the World Bank president 
Robert Zoellick. "One of the legacies of this crisis may be a 
recognition of changed economic power relations," he said in Istanbul 
ahead of meetings this week of the International Monetary Fund and 
World Bank. But it is China's extraordinary new financial power -- 
along with past anger among oil-producing and oil-consuming nations 
at America's power to interfere in the international financial system 
-- which has prompted the latest discussions involving the Gulf states.

Brazil has shown interest in collaborating in non-dollar oil 
payments, along with India. Indeed, China appears to be the most 
enthusiastic of all the financial powers involved, not least because 
of its enormous trade with the Middle East.

China imports 60 per cent of its oil, much of it from the Middle East 
and Russia. The Chinese have oil production concessions in Iraq -- 
blocked by the US until this year -- and since 2008 have held an $8 
billion agreement with Iran to develop refining capacity and gas 
resources. China has oil deals in Sudan (where it has substituted for 
U.S. interests) and has been negotiating for oil concessions with 
Libya, where all such contracts are joint ventures.

Furthermore, Chinese exports to the region now account for no fewer 
than 10 per cent of the imports of every country in the Middle East, 
including a huge range of products from cars to weapon systems, food, 
clothes, and even dolls. In a clear sign of China's growing financial 
muscle, the president of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude 
Trichet, yesterday pleaded with Beijing to let the yuan appreciate 
against a sliding dollar and, by extension, loosen China's reliance 
on U.S. monetary policy, to help rebalance the world economy and ease 
upward pressure on the euro.

Ever since the Bretton Woods agreements -- the accords after the 
Second World War which bequeathed the architecture for the modern 
international financial system -- America's trading partners have 
been left to cope with the impact of Washington's control and, in 
more recent years, the hegemony of the dollar as the dominant global 
reserve currency.

The Chinese believe, for example, that the Americans persuaded 
Britain to stay out of the euro in order to prevent an earlier move 
away from the dollar. But Chinese banking sources say their 
discussions have gone too far to be blocked now. "The Russians will 
eventually bring in the rouble to the basket of currencies," a 
prominent Hong Kong broker told The Independent. "The Brits are stuck 
in the middle and will come into the euro. They have no choice 
because they won't be able to use the U.S. dollar."

Chinese financial sources believe President Barack Obama is too busy 
fixing the U.S. economy to concentrate on the extraordinary 
implications of the transition from the dollar in nine years' time. 
The current deadline for the currency transition is 2018.

The U.S. discussed the trend briefly at the G20 summit in Pittsburgh; 
the Chinese Central Bank governor and other officials have been 
worrying aloud about the dollar for years. Their problem is that much 
of their national wealth is tied up in dollar assets.

"These plans will change the face of international financial 
transactions," one Chinese banker said. "America and Britain must be 
very worried. You will know how worried by the thunder of denials 
this news will generate."

Iran announced late last month that its foreign currency reserves 
would henceforth be held in euros rather than dollars. Bankers 
remember, of course, what happened to the last Middle East oil 
producer to sell its oil in euros rather than dollars. A few months 
after Saddam Hussein trumpeted his decision, the Americans and 
British invaded Iraq.

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From suzannedk at gmail.com  Tue Oct  6 00:07:10 2009
From: suzannedk at gmail.com (Suzanne de Kuyper)
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 08:07:10 +0200
Subject: [A-List] A-List Digest, Vol 73, Issue 9
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re:Monetary Reform
Numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 are fully operational right now.  The U.S. is
exploiting all those belief systems
that stop any real world monetary change.  The shell game they set up years
ago only needed a spark to light the match.  Which the well supplied powder
keg that the World trade Center was built to be,
supplied.  As to the obstructive moves they are prepared to make independant
of psychological warfare, such as paranoia about terrorists in every closet,
they are making those and have been since 9/11.  The Hustlers are hustling.
 Elmer Gantry is alive and in a lather of sucess.  His name is changed to
NATO.

Suzanne                suzannedk at gmail

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>   4. The Population Myth (Tony B.)
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> Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 11:13:15 -0700
> From: Todd Boyle <toddfboyle at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [A-List] The Strange Rebirth of a Forgotten Idea
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> I am so tired of these proposals to shift the names or addresses of
> the institution having the privilege of managing the money
> supply.   I don't think they wouldn't change anything in the long
> run--the same moral hazard would exist, the same types of financial
> people would morph to new behaviors with new stories, to exploit
> us.   I posted a response to David Boyle's article on the New
> Statesman.   We need to get away from money as medium of exchange,
> and go to direct multiparty contracts.  -Todd
>
> Back in 2003, David Boyle wrote:
> >Why is the country so short of money that we can't even rebuild the London
> >Tube? Because we allow the banks a monopoly to create it, and they charge
> >the earth.
> >http://www.newstatesman.com/200304070021
>
> David - You need to improve your statement of the problem.  The
> "country so short of money" is not a statement of any problem in the
> real sense.  Money is many things but ultimately it is a system of
> notation, a symbol. The map is not the territory.  The correct
> statement of the problem is that we humans, apparently unable to
> completely invent our interactions without systems, have systems of
> law, money, etc. and these systems do not nearly succeed in
> orchestrating the activities of humanity to maximize the satisfaction
> of Maslow's hierarchy of needs for humanity.   I think the most
> promising solutions include ending the use of money, going instead
> into multiparty barter contracts, entirely for specifically defined
> outputs. There are many technologies available to move in this
> direction, EDIFACT being one component. I've written numerous
> outlines, http://rosehill.net/ledgerism/nonquantified.htm   In real
> terms, your economic savings arise by elimination of financial
> parasites, gatekeepers, rentiers, etc. but more importantly save a
> lot of misdirected activity now commanded by financial actors that
> generate no satisfaction of anybody's needs.   I envision a society
> wherein, people participate in cycles of proposals by bidding and
> rebidding on what they are capable of, and willing to contribute
> towards group endeavors, in exchange for portions of outputs.
> In other words ALL economic activity would be built to order, and
> those who failed to perform their parts of the contracts would lose
> reputation in future activities, and be quickly replaced at the time
> of their defaults, by systems of alternate workers built into the
> contracts.
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> From: Leighm <the.buffalo.in.the.midst at gmail.com>
> Subject: [A-List] Some Intel People Skeptical On Afghanistan
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> Extrapolated from AFCEA's Nightwatch intelligence summary:
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> Afghanistan:  In London, the top US commander told the International
> Institute for Strategic Studies that Afghanistan is still ?winnable. ?
> But apparently will not be winnable indefinitely.
>
> Military men are trained to think that way and use those words, but
> the military sense of winning implies defeat of an enemy. The enemy is
> evidently the Pashtuns people who live on and own the land they are
> fighting on and for.
>
> The language of winning is not consistent with the commander?s initial
> assessment, leaked last week. Winning does not mean nation-building or
> restoring stability or power sharing, or protecting people. It means
> defeating an enemy.
>
> It would be nice to learn what the heck these people really think in
> simple declarative sentences in active voice and with clarity and
> intelligence in the use of words.
>
> What, pray, is the meaning of ?winning,? when up to half the
> population hate you or simply wish you would leave?
>
> http://nightwatch.afcea.org/NightWatch_20091001.htm
>
> "NightWatch is an executive level intelligence recap drawn from
> domestic and international reporting and is provided as a service by
> AFCEA Intelligence.
>
> Mr. John McCreary is the NightWatch editor.  John spent 38 years
> serving the Department of Defense Intelligence as a strategic analyst,
> most of that time in the Directorate of Intelligence (J2) office of
> the Joint Staff serving the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) and
> the Secretary of Defense. "
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> Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:14:33 -0700
> From: Todd Boyle <toddfboyle at gmail.com>
> Subject: [A-List] Finance minister dies mysteriously
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> There are three finance ministers in the world who,
> http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=japan+finance+minister more than
> any other single individuals, have been the final signatories and
> authorizers of their bureaucracies' scooping up and storage of U.S.
> dollars.
>
> Let me step back a bit.  The architecture of global finance post 1971
> has featured creation of dollars in the U.S., dollars swirling around
> a few times then accumulating in the central banks of foreign
> goverments-- obvoiusly as a part of their oligarchies' selling
> exports to the U.S.--- exports based on their exploitation of
> domestic populations' labor, and theft of domestic oil and other
> resources.   The operation is crystal clear, it could not be more
> obvious-- these oligarchs screw their own population, steal their
> labor and resources and sell it on "globalized" markets, keeping
> generous percentages for themselves.
>
> So, when one of these dollar extinguishers, dollar accumulators, dies
> suddenly it's always interseting
> http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=japan+finance+minister
>
> TOdd
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 23:38:14 -0400
> From: "Tony B." <tal1 at cogeco.ca>
> Subject: [A-List] The Population Myth
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>
> The Population Myth
>
> People who claim that population growth is the big environmental issue are
> shifting the blame from the rich to the poor
>
> By George Monbiot.
>
> October 03, 2009 The Guardian" -- 29th September 2009 -- It's no
> coincidence
> that most of those who are obsessed with population growth are
> post-reproductive wealthy white men: it's about the only environmental
> issue
> for which they can't be blamed. The brilliant earth systems scientist James
> Lovelock, for example, claimed last month that "those who fail to see that
> population growth and climate change are two sides of the same coin are
> either ignorant or hiding from the truth. These two huge environmental
> problems are inseparable and to discuss one while ignoring the other is
> irrational."(1) But it's Lovelock who is being ignorant and irrational.
>
> A paper published yesterday in the journal Environment and Urbanization
> shows that the places where population has been growing fastest are those
> in
> which carbon dioxide has been growing most slowly, and vice versa. Between
> 1980 and 2005, for example, Sub-Saharan Africa produced 18.5% of the
> world's
> population growth and just 2.4% of the growth in CO2. North America turned
> out 4% of the extra people, but 14% of the extra emissions. Sixty-three per
> cent of the world's population growth happened in places with very low
> emissions(2).
>
> Even this does not capture it. The paper points out that around one sixth
> of
> the world's population is so poor that it produces no significant emissions
> at all. This is also the group whose growth rate is likely to be highest.
> Households in India earning less than 3,000 rupees a month use a fifth of
> the electricity per head and one seventh of the transport fuel of
> households
> earning Rs30,000 or more. Street sleepers use almost nothing. Those who
> live
> by processing waste (a large part of the urban underclass) often save more
> greenhouse gases than they produce.
>
> Many of the emissions for which poorer countries are blamed should in
> fairness belong to us. Gas flaring by companies exporting oil from Nigeria,
> for example, has produced more greenhouse gases than all other sources in
> sub-Saharan Africa put together(3). Even deforestation in poor countries is
> driven mostly by commercial operations delivering timber, meat and animal
> feed to rich consumers. The rural poor do far less harm(4).
>
> The paper's author, David Satterthwaite of the International Institute for
> Environment and Development, points out that the old formula taught to all
> students of development - that total impact equals population times
> affluence times technology (I=PAT) - is wrong. Total impact should be
> measured as I=CAT: consumers times affluence times technology. Many of the
> world's people use so little that they wouldn't figure in this equation.
> They are the ones who have most children.
>
> While there's a weak correlation between global warming and population
> growth, there's a strong correlation between global warming and wealth.
> I've
> been taking a look at a few superyachts, as I'll need somewhere to
> entertain
> Labour ministers in the style to which they're accustomed. First I went
> through the plans for Royal Falcon Fleet's RFF135, but when I discovered
> that it burns only 750 litres of fuel per hour(5) I realised that it wasn't
> going to impress Lord Mandelson. I might raise half an eyebrow in Brighton
> with the Overmarine Mangusta 105, which sucks up 850 l/hr(6). But the raft
> that's really caught my eye is made by Wally Yachts in Monaco. The
> WallyPower 118 (which gives total wallies a sensation of power) consumes
> 3400 l/hr when travelling at 60 knots(7). That's nearly one litre per
> second. Another way of putting it is 31 litres per kilometre(8).
>
> Of course to make a real splash I'll have to shell out on teak and mahogany
> fittings, carry a few jet skis and a mini-submarine, ferry my guests to the
> marina by private plane and helicopter, offer them bluefin tuna sushi and
> beluga caviar and drive the beast so fast that I mash up half the marine
> life of the Mediterranean. As the owner of one of these yachts I'll do more
> damage to the biosphere in ten minutes than most Africans inflict in a
> lifetime. Now we're burning, baby.
>
> Someone I know who hangs out with the very rich tells me that in the banker
> belt of the lower Thames valley there are people who heat their outdoor
> swimming pools to bath temperature, all round the year. They like to lie in
> the pool on winter nights, looking up at the stars. The fuel costs them
> ?3000 a month. One hundred thousand people living like these bankers would
> knacker our life support systems faster than 10 billion people living like
> the African peasantry. But at least the super wealthy have the good manners
> not to breed very much, so the rich old men who bang on about human
> reproduction leave them alone.
>
> In May the Sunday Times carried an article headlined "Billionaire club in
> bid to curb overpopulation". It revealed that "some of America's leading
> billionaires have met secretly" to decide which good cause they should
> support. "A consensus emerged that they would back a strategy in which
> population growth would be tackled as a potentially disastrous
> environmental, social and industrial threat."(9) The ultra-rich, in other
> words, have decided that it's the very poor who are trashing the planet.
> You
> grope for a metaphor, but it's impossible to satirise.
>
> James Lovelock, like Sir David Attenborough and Jonathan Porritt, is a
> patron of the Optimum Population Trust (OPT). It is one of dozens of
> campaigns and charities whose sole purpose is to discourage people from
> breeding in the name of saving the biosphere. But I haven't been able to
> find any campaign whose sole purpose is to address the impacts of the very
> rich.
>
> The obsessives could argue that the people breeding rapidly today might one
> day become richer. But as the super wealthy grab an ever greater share and
> resources begin to run dry, this, for most of the very poor, is a
> diminishing prospect. There are strong social reasons for helping people to
> manage their reproduction, but weak environmental reasons, except among
> wealthier populations.
>
> The Optimum Population Trust glosses over the fact that the world is going
> through demographic transition: population growth rates are slowing down
> almost everywhere and the number of people is likely, according to a paper
> in Nature, to peak this century(10), probably at around 10 billion(11).
> Most
> of the growth will take place among those who consume almost nothing.
>
> But no one anticipates a consumption transition. People breed less as they
> become richer, but they don't consume less; they consume more. As the
> habits
> of the super-rich show, there are no limits to human extravagance.
> Consumption can be expected to rise with economic growth until the
> biosphere
> hits the buffers. Anyone who understands this and still considers that
> population, not consumption, is the big issue is, in Lovelock's words,
> "hiding from the truth". It is the worst kind of paternalism, blaming the
> poor for the excesses of the rich.
>
> So where are the movements protesting about the stinking rich destroying
> our
> living systems? Where is the direct action against superyachts and private
> jets? Where's Class War when you need it?
>
> It's time we had the guts to name the problem. It's not sex; it's money.
> It's
> not the poor; it's the rich.
>
> www.monbiot.com
>
>
>
>
>
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> Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 08:50:42 +0200
> From: Suzanne de Kuyper <suzannedk at gmail.com>
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> > Date: Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 11:23 AM
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> >
> > Date: Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 11:22 AM
> > Subject: Reservations on the Yes Vote from Ireland
> > To: suzanedk at gmail.com
> >
> >
> >
> > If the vote is yes and the EU Treaty is fully enabled,
> > there is a true downside.    The bundling of the EU
> > countries glides over the increased abitlity of the United
> > States to control the group, an easier task than it woud be
> > if the countries were separate entities.
> >
> >
> >
> > First, through the "File-Sharing
> > Agreement" of 2008 between the E.U. and the U.S., the
> > U.S. Patroit Acts One and Two, the U.S. Military Commisions
> > Act of 2006, all the Presidential Signings by President G.
> > Bush not retracted, all abilities to apprehend terrorism
> > suspects on just some-one's word and suspend their lives
> > with no review, no charges of any kind is among numerous
> > other examples of complete loss of Habeous Corpus Rights
> > under U.S. Military Industrial Complex Laws.  Under the
> > several agreements signed, the European Uniion has agreed
> > that in certain circumstances, at US word, U.S. Miltary Laws
> > supercede European Union International and National
> > Laws.
> >
> >
> >
> > Secondly, through the expanding pressure of the
> > U.S. owned NATO enlargement, operating entirely under U.S.
> > Military laws, the encirclement of the European countries
> > subjecting them to military law instead of E.U. law is the
> > second leg of the control of the European landmass by the U.
> > S. ..Thus the E. U. set in a more permanet form with the
> > completion of the Lisbon treaty, when it is literally a side
> > chamber of the U.S. World War Empire, is not a healthy
> > condition for the Union.
> >
> >
> >
> > There is a third downside, economicly vital.
> >  War is economically, humanly, culturally destructive to
> > the point of annihalation.  NATO ia constantly promoting
> > organizational preparations to 'protect' from wars,
> > whereas the non-verbal message is one of over-readiness for
> > war.  Using the eager, movie trained young from poor
> > Eastern European countries who either do not remember WW11
> > or thirst for the importance and promised economic power
> > alignment with the once mighty U.S. used to ensure white
> > Europe, NATO's presnt army is perhaps the world's
> > largest.  Only Africa's armies use younger
> > soldiers.
> >
> >
> >
> > Suzanne                        suzannedk at gmail.com
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> >
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>
>
> If the vote is yes and the EU Treaty is fully enabled, there is a true
> downside.    The bundling of the EU countries glides over the increased
> abitlity of the United States to control the group, an easier task than it
> woud be if the countries were separate entities.
> First, through the "File-Sharing Agreement" of 2008 between the E.U. and
> the
> U.S., the U.S. Patroit Acts One and Two, the U.S. Military Commisions Act
> of
> 2006, all the Presidential Signings by President G. Bush not retracted, all
> abilities to apprehend terrorism suspects on just some-one's word and
> suspend their lives with no review, no charges of any kind is among
> numerous
> other examples of complete loss of Habeous Corpus Rights under U.S.
> Military
> Industrial Complex Laws.  Under the several agreements signed, the European
> Uniion has agreed that in certain circumstances, at US word, U.S. Miltary
> Laws supercede European Union International and National Laws.
>
> Secondly, through the expanding pressure of the U.S. owned NATO
> enlargement,
> operating entirely under U.S. Military laws, the encirclement of the
> European countries subjecting them to military law instead of E.U. law is
> the second leg of the control of the European landmass by the U. S. ..Thus
> the E. U. set in a more permanet form with the completion of the Lisbon
> treaty, when it is literally a side chamber of the U.S. World War Empire,
> is
> not a healthy condition for the Union.
>
> There is a third downside, economicly vital.  War is economically, humanly,
> culturally destructive to the point of annihalation.  NATO ia constantly
> promoting organizational preparations to 'protect' from wars, whereas the
> non-verbal message is one of over-readiness for war.  Using the eager,
> movie
> trained young from poor Eastern European countries who either do not
> remember WW11 or thirst for the importance and promised economic power
> alignment with the once mighty U.S. used to ensure white Europe, NATO's
> presnt army is perhaps the world's largest.  Only Africa's armies use
> younger soldiers.
>
> Suzanne                        suzannedk at gmail.com
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> Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 17:53:33 +0900
> From: Bill Totten <shimogamo at ashisuto.co.jp>
> Subject: [A-List] Monetary Reform - Making It Happen
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> extracted from Chapters One and Two of James Robertson & John
> Bunzl's Monetary Reform - Making It Happen (2003).
>
> by Bill Totten
>
>
> Joseph Huber and James Robertson put forth a proposal for
> mainstream monetary reform put forward by in Creating New Money
> (2000). {1} Briefly, that proposal is that new official-currency
> money (pounds, euros, dollars, yen, et cetera) should no longer be
> created by commercial banks as profit-making loans to their
> customers. It should be created by central monetary authorities
> (today's central banks) which should give it as debt-free public
> revenue to their governments to spend into circulation for public
> purposes.
>
> {1} Joseph Huber and James Robertson, Creating New Money: A
> Monetary Reform for the Information Age, New Economics Foundation,
> London, 2000 - summarised in World Review, Vol4, No 2, New European
> Publications, London, 2000. See
> http://www.jamesrobertson.com/books.htm
>
> Their definition of money includes not just coins and banknotes,
> but also the electronic bank-created money in our current bank
> accounts. Although some people with pretensions to knowledge of
> these things say that that is something distinct from money, called
> credit, it is now clearly recognised to be money, directly and
> immediately available for spending. {6} That commercial banks still
> create this official-currency money for private-sector profit has
> become a glaring anachronism.
>
> {6} Today's official monetary statistics accept this, but raise a
> different problem. They contain alternative definitions of the
> money stock, based on confusing aggregates called M0, M1, M2, M3,
> M3 extended, M4, and so on. These are part of the veil of mystery
> which shrouds the workings of the money system even in "democratic"
> countries. The reform Huber and Robertson propose will replace them
> with one clear definition of money, M.
>
> Our money system needs to be brought up to date. For over two
> centuries political democracy has been spreading through the world,
> but our capacity to control the power of money and harness it to
> the public good has lagged far behind. So much so that failure to
> bring the workings of money and finance into line with economic
> justice and the realities of the Information Age is already
> damaging confidence in political democracy itself.
>
> For those of us in Britain the euro highlights the link between
> democracy and the money system. In spite of efforts to persuade us
> that scrapping the pound and replacing it with the euro would be a
> progressive step, people are increasingly doubtful. Why can't we
> use the euro as a parallel currency, alongside the pound, rather
> than a single currency managed by a remote, centralised monetary
> authority imposing one-size-fits-all interest rates and money
> supply on millions of diverse people and places? Surely
> 21st-century pressures to become more globalised and more localised
> call for a more pluralistic monetary system, allowing different
> currencies and means of payment to evolve at local to global
> levels, enabling people and organisations to choose to use
> whichever currency they find most convenient and useful for
> different purposes.
>
> So - as well as national currencies, continental currencies and a
> global currency - we should be encouraging currencies issued by
> local government authorities for local circulation, and
> non-official payment systems set up by local community groups (like
> LETSystems), local social service groups (like Time Banks), and
> local business groups (like the WIR co-operative in Switzerland).
> In technical terms, whereas paper money could have been accepted as
> the new basis for the monetary system at one time, electronic money
> can now make it convenient for us to use different currencies for
> different purposes.
>
> That technical factor also points the way to monetary reform at the
> national level. Dematerialised non-cash money (that is, electronic
> bank-created money held in bank accounts and transmitted between
> them by modern information and telecommunication technology) is now
> overwhelmingly important. About 97% of this country's (Britain's)
> money supply is created in that form by commercial banks, and only
> three percent as banknotes and coins issued by the Bank of England
> and the Royal Mint.
>
> The commercial banks create the non-cash money out of thin air,
> calling it credit and writing it into their customers' current
> accounts as profit-making loans. That gives them over GBP 20
> billion a year in interest, while the taxpayer gets less than GBP 3
> billion a year from the issue of banknotes and coins. Stopping
> commercial banks creating non-cash money, and transferring to the
> central bank responsibility for creating it and issuing it
> debt-free to the government to spend into circulation, will result
> in extra public revenue of about GBP 45 billion a year. This is the
> reform with which this book is specifically concerned. {See 1}
>
> It will mean that:-
>
> 1) Taxation and government debt can be reduced, or public spending
> can be increased, by up to GBP 45 billion a year.
>
> 2) The value of a common resource - the national money supply -
> will become a source of public revenue rather than private profit.
> That will remove an economic injustice.
>
> 3) Withdrawing the present hidden subsidy to the banks will result
> in a freer market for money and finance, and a more competitive
> banking industry.
>
> 4) A debt-free money supply will help to reduce present levels of
> public and private debt, which are partly caused by the fact that
> nearly all the money we use has been created as debt.
>
> 5) The economy will become more stable. Banks inevitably want to
> lend and their customers want to borrow more at the peaks of the
> business cycle and less in the troughs. So, when the amount of
> money in circulation depends on how much the banks are lending, the
> peaks and troughs - the booms and busts - are automatically
> amplified.
>
> 6) The central bank will be better able to control inflation if it
> itself decides and directly creates the quantity of new money the
> economy needs. It now tries to control inflation indirectly, by
> raising interest rates (that is, the price at which people borrow
> from banks). But raising costs in that way actually helps to cause
> inflation. That partly explains why inflation has to be allowed to
> rise steadily every year - by 2.5% in the UK - in order to avoid
> deflating the economy.
>
> 7) Environmental stress will be reduced. When, as now, almost all
> the money we use is debt, people have to produce and sell more
> things in order to service and repay debt than they would if money
> were put into circulation debt-free.
>
> In our proposals for this reform, Joseph Huber and I called it
> "seigniorage reform". Seigniorage was the profit made by monarchs
> and local rulers from minting and issuing coins. In democratic
> societies in the Information Age, the proposed reform will restore
> the prerogative of the state - now on behalf of the people - to
> capture as public revenue the value of putting the money supply
> into circulation.
>
> Many people now understand that money is power, and that the
> institutions of money today negate democracy by using their power
> to exploit people and keep them dependent. Many people also
> understand that money is a scoring system - for the game of
> economic life - and that the way this scoring system works today is
> systematically perverse: it rewards undesirable activities,
> penalises desirable ones, and frustrates desirable change in almost
> every sphere.
>
> The Proposed Reform
>
> The particular reform we are discussing concerns public currencies.
> These include the pound, the dollar and the yen that belong to
> nations, and the euro that belongs to a group of nations. In future
> they will include a genuine world currency that does not yet exist.
>
> National governments are responsible for seeing that national
> currencies maintain their value and provide an essential public
> service to the population as a whole. In that respect these
> currencies differ from the more private kinds of currencies and
> quasi-currencies used by community groups (like LETS) or groups of
> businesses (like the Swiss club WIR) for transactions between their
> members, and loyalty points, Air Miles, et cetera issued by
> companies to customers or suppliers, who may then use them as a
> means of exchange.
>
> In the more pluralistic multi-level-currency era foreseen (see
> above), the principles of the proposed national currency reform
> will apply to other official currencies. These will include local
> currencies to meet the need of local communities within their
> particular localities, and a global currency to meet the need of
> the world community for a means of transnational exchange. One of
> the principles is that the profit (or 'seigniorage') arising from
> creating money of this kind should be public revenue, not private
> profit. Another is that these public currencies should be created
> debt-free, not as interest-bearing repayable debt. We will return
> shortly to the implications of this for international monetary
> reform.
>
> Meanwhile, to recapitulate from above, the proposed national
> monetary reform is as follows:
>
> 1) As national monetary authorities, central banks should create
> non-cash money (that is, bank-account money) as well as cash (that
> is, banknotes and coins). They should create out of thin air at
> regular intervals the amounts they decide are needed to increase
> the money supply. They should give these amounts to their
> governments as debt-free public revenue. Governments should then
> put the money into circulation by spending it.
>
> 2) It should become illegal for anyone else to create bank-account
> money denominated in the national currency, just as it is already
> illegal to forge coins or counterfeit banknotes.
>
> This will involve the following changes:
>
> 1) The central bank will no longer regulate increases in the money
> supply by manipulating the interest rates at which commercial banks
> lend into circulation money they create for that purpose. The
> central bank will be directly responsible for deciding how much is
> needed and for creating it and issuing it itself.
>
> 2) Commercial banks will be prohibited from creating money. They
> will have to borrow already existing money in order to lend it, as
> other financial intermediaries do.
>
> This will parallel what happened with banknotes in 19th-century
> England. Electronic bank-deposit money has now become real money
> and it is time to stop pretending it is just credit. As the issue
> of banknotes became subject to seigniorage then, so the creation of
> bank-account money should become subject to it now. In other words,
> the profit from creating it should no longer accrue to commercial
> banks but be collected as public revenue. The best available
> estimate is that in Britain this would contribute about GBP 45
> billion a year to public revenue, and deprive commercial banks of
> the 'subsidy' - estimated at over GBP 20 billion a year - which
> they now get from interest on the new money they are allowed to
> create.
>
> The beneficial economic and social effects of this reform have been
> summarised above. They are very great.
>
> Moreover, the reform would be evolutionary, not revolutionary.
> Since the Second World War the Bank of England has continued to
> evolve from being a commercial bank with a special relationship to
> the government, towards becoming a straightforward agency of the
> state as its central monetary authority. At the same time, the
> commercial banks have continued to evolve towards being free-market
> businesses, with fewer public service obligations backed by
> government subsidies and controls. For both the Bank of England and
> the commercial banks, the proposed reform is the next step in that
> process of evolution.
>
> Seigniorage and the Global Economy
>
> Whoever creates new money can either give it away or benefit from
> putting it into circulation by spending it or lending it at
> interest. Just as, under the proposed national reform, the benefit
> from creating national-currency money would go to the national
> community as a whole, a comparable change at the international
> level would benefit the world community as a whole. It would
> replace the present use of the US dollar and other national
> currencies like the yen, the euro and the pound as 'reserve
> currencies', by a world currency issued by a world monetary
> authority, and channel the profit from issuing it into public
> revenue to be spent on behalf of the world community. This global
> reform would clearly need simultaneous support from many national
> governments. That does not necessarily mean that one country could
> not undertake national monetary reform on its own. But it would
> clearly be easier for single nations to do it, if the global
> version of the same reform was on the global agenda.
>
> In 1995 the independent international Commission on Global
> Governance {12} identified the United States' "unique luxury of
> being able to borrow in its own currency abroad and then devalue
> its repayment obligations" as one of the weaknesses of the current
> international monetary system. It pointed out that "a growing world
> economy requires constant enlargement of international liquidity",
> and suggested that issue of the IMF's reserve currency - Special
> Drawing Rights (SDRs) - should be increased.
>
> In Creating New Money (2000), Huber and Robertson suggested that
> SDRs might develop into a global currency which would eventually
> replace the US dollar and other national currencies in that role.
> Following the model they had proposed for national seigniorage
> reform, they suggested this global money might be issued - perhaps
> by a new international agency combining some of the functions of
> the IMF and the Bank for International Settlements - into an
> operational account which it would hold for the United Nations. The
> UN would spend this money into circulation, partly as a
> contribution to financing its own operations, and perhaps partly by
> distributing it to national governments according to the size of
> their populations.
>
> This new international agency, which would in due course come to be
> seen as an embryonic world central bank, would have to combine
> accountability with a high degree of independence in its decisions
> about how much new international money to create. It might report
> and be accountable for its performance to a UN body , such as a
> committee of the General Assembly.
>
> In the few years the significance of the 'dollar hegemony' of the
> United States, and the urgent need for international monetary
> reform, have become more widely understood.
>
> For example, one report calculates that every American citizen owes
> the rest of the world $7,333, while every citizen of the developing
> countries owes it only $500. But, while developing country
> economies must pay debt service repayments totalling more than $300
> billion a year, the US must only pay $20 billion a year to service
> an almost equivalent amount of debt. Americans have been engaged in
> a consumer binge, which has led to the largest current account
> deficit in history, a staggering $445 billion or four percent of US
> GDP. This deficit has been increasing by fifty percent a year in
> recent years, and economists predict it will rise to $730 billion
> by 2006. Given this daily deficit of up to GBP 2 billion, plus
> capital outflow of $2 billion, the US in effect has to borrow $4
> billion from the pool of world savings every day. More
> disturbingly, it is being financed by the poor through capital
> flight from poor countries and the forced holdings of high levels
> of dollar reserves. To build up reserves, poor countries have to
> borrow hard currency from the US at interest rates as high as
> eighteen percent; and lend it back to the US in the form of
> Treasury Bonds at three percent interest. {14}
>
> {14} Romilly Greenhill and Ann Pettifor, The United States as a
> HIPC (heavily indebted prosperous country) - how the poor are
> financing the rich, New Economics Foundation, London, 2002;
> www.neweconomics.org
>
> Another report finds that "ever since 1971, when US president
> Richard Nixon took the dollar off the gold standard, the dollar has
> been a global monetary instrument that the United States, and only
> the United States, can produce by fiat ... World trade is now a
> game in which the US produces dollars and the rest of the world
> produces things that dollars can buy. The world's interlinked
> economies compete in exports to capture needed dollars to service
> dollar-denominated foreign debts and to accumulate dollar
> reserves". {15}
>
> {15} Henry C K Liu, US Dollar Hegemony Has Got To Go, Asia Times
> Online Co Ltd, 2002.
>
> A third example: "At the root of this new form of imperialism is
> the exploitation of governments by a single government, that of the
> United States via the central banks and multilateral control
> institutions of inter-governmental capital ... What has turned the
> older form of imperialism into a super imperialism is that, whereas
> prior to the 1960s the US government dominated international
> organisation by virtue of its preeminent creditor status, since
> that time it has done so by virtue of its debtor position." {16}
>
> {16} Michael Hudson, Super Imperialism: The Origin and Fundamentals
> of World Domination, Pluto Press, 2003, pages 23-24.
>
> Finally, the researches of Richard Douthwaite and the Irish NGO
> Feasta {17} confirm that the total annual subsidy (or 'tribute')
> received by the US from the rest of the world as a result of dollar
> seigniorage is at least $400 billion a year. This is roughly
> comparable to the annual US balance of payments deficit. It also
> explains how the US has been able to maintain its extraordinary
> scale of annual military expenditure compared with all other
> countries. The huge dollar seigniorage subsidy has even been
> justified by some US commentators as a payment by the rest of the
> world to the US as the 'policeman' on whom the world relies to keep
> order! However, as Douthwaite notes, "given the policeman's record
> of destabilising or overthrowing governments with which he has had
> ideological differences and the fact that he would continue to put
> his 'particularistic national interests' ahead of those of the rest
> of the world, I doubt if many countries would be entirely happy
> with the arrangement".
>
> {17} Richard Douthwaite, Defense and the Dollar, 2002 and Feasta,
> Climate and Currency: Proposals for Global Monetary Reform, 2002,
> prepared for the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable
> Development. Details of both from The Foundation for the Economics
> of Sustainability, 9 Lower Rathmines Road, Dublin 6, Republic of
> Ireland; e-mail: feasta at anu.ie; web: www.feasta.org
>
>
> These analyses show up not only the injustice of the present way of
> creating money for international and global purposes, but also
> suggest how distorting and damaging it is to global economic
> efficiency and financial stability. They clearly point to the need
> for international monetary reform on a similar basis to the
> proposed national reform - involving the creation of international
> debt-free money by an agency which serves the interests of the
> world community as a whole and provides seigniorage revenue to be
> spent on global public purposes. As international campaigning grows
> stronger for international reform on those lines it will reinforce
> the pressure for comparable national reforms.
>
> Dealing with Obstacles and Objections
>
> The following are among the obstacles to national monetary reform
> and the objections put forward against it:
>
> 1) powerful opposition from banking and financial interests (and
> from associated constituencies of professionals, academics and
> politicians), and threats that even the prospect of monetary reform
> would destabilise the economy;
>
> 2) public ignorance and confusion about the present arrangements;
>
> 3) an elitist belief that ignorance about them is positively
> desirable;
>
> 4) ignorance and obfuscation about what the monetary reform
> proposals actually are;
>
> 5) the claim that they would involve a further centralisation of
> state power;
>
> 6) the assumption that the reform would be inflationary;
>
> 7) the assumption that it would 'crowd out' investment in the
> private sector;
>
> 8) the argument that depriving banks of the present seigniorage
> subsidy would increase the costs of borrowing, would raise the
> costs of payment services, and would force banks to cut costs,
> close branches and reduce jobs;
>
> 9) the argument that it would damage the international
> competitiveness of British banks and therefore of the British
> economy as a whole;
>
> 10) the argument that no other country has undertaken, or is
> seriously considering, this reform.
>
> So how are these obstacles and objections to be dealt with? And how
> far will they have to be dealt with internationally?
>
> Obstacle/Objection 1. Opposition from powerful banking and
> financial interests and the threat of economic destabilisation.
>
> This obstacle will be overcome only when the arguments for monetary
> reform are more widely understood, when opposition to it is more
> widely recognised as mere defence of private privilege, and when
> its opponents accept that they risk losing more by continuing to
> oppose it than by losing the present subsidy. National and
> international advocacy and campaigning will be needed to bring that
> situation about.
>
> Obstacle/Objection 2. Ignorance and confusion about how new money
> is now created.
>
> Many people, even in government and parliament, don't know how new
> money is now created, and what the consequences are. Most people
> find it hard to believe, if they think about it at all, that almost
> all the money in circulation has been created by commercial banks
> at profit to themselves. In reply to questions, a government
> spokesman may say that the funds which banks lend to customers
> "must either be obtained from depositors or the money market, both
> of which usually require the payment of interest" - thus appearing
> to deny that banks are allowed to create new money and to profit
> from doing so. Or that "banks don't print money but create credit".
> More often, however, the government accepts that banks create money
> and defends this by saying that "if banks were obliged to bid for
> funds from lenders in order to make loans to their customers, the
> costs to banks of extending credit would rise significantly".
>
> People who are in any doubt about how money is created might glance
> at Chapters 22 and 23 of a current 'students' bible' on economics.
> {22} It explains "how banks create money" and that "bank-created
> deposit money is much the largest part of the money supply in
> modern economies".
>
> {22} David Begg, Stanley Fischer and Rudiger Dornbusch, Economics,
> McGraw-Hill, 7th edition, 2003, pages 316 and 318.
>
> The action needed is to press Finance/Treasury Ministers and
> Central Bankers to clarify and publicise
>
> * how almost all new money is now created,
>
> * who benefits and who suffers thereby, and
>
> * whether or not the estimates of an annual hidden subsidy of more
> than GBP 20 billion to the banks, and a failure to collect more
> than GBP 40 billion potential public revenue, are broadly correct.
>
> This action need not be international to make some impact. But, if
> individuals and NGOs in other countries were to press the same
> demand on their finance ministries and central banks, the impact
> would be greater.
>
> Obstacle/Objection 3. The view that ignorance and confusion are
> positively desirable.
>
> It has been suggested that the deflationary crisis in Japan may
> have reached a depth which requires the government explicitly to
> create new money. But when a member of the British economic elite
> wrote publicly on those lines last year, he felt it necessary to
> accompany it with a warning that that policy should be avoided in
> Europe if possible, because "ideally we should avoid unconventional
> approaches. For the conventions of central bank independence, and
> of non-transparent money creation, are based on well founded fears
> that governments will abuse direct control of money printing
> presses."
>
> The specific argument that monetary reform would open the way to
> uncontrollable inflation is dealt with later. Here we have to
> overcome the more general argument that the present
> "non-transparent" system of money creation should be maintained; in
> other words, that citizens and politicians of democratic countries
> should be kept in the dark about how money is now created and how
> the present system might be reformed.
>
> Again, this points to the need to press the authorities to explain
> how almost all new money is now created, what are the arguments for
> and against creating it that way, and how much the present system
> benefits the commercial banks and reduces potential public revenue.
> The pressure need not be international in order to make an impact
> on national thinking, but the impact would be greater if it were.
>
> Obstacle/Objection 4. Ignorance and confusion about the actual
> reform proposal.
>
> The proposed reform would not entail that the central bank should
> be given responsibility and power to decide how new money shall be
> used, so making it responsible for fiscal policy as well as
> monetary policy and depriving the elected government of power to
> manage the economy! The central bank will merely decide what
> increases are needed in the money supply, create them, and give
> them to the government as public revenue, leaving the elected
> government to decide - as with taxes and other public revenue - how
> the money is to be used. At present, of course, it is the
> commercial banks who decide both how much new money to create and
> who shall borrow it for what purposes.
>
> Those who propagate this error must be publicly corrected.
> International support, though helpful, will not be strictly
> necessary for that.
>
> Obstacle/Objection 5. Opposition to supposed increased
> centralisation of state power.
>
> Linked with the misunderstanding at 4 above is the claim that the
> reform will increase the centralised power of the state. Opposition
> to reform on this ground comes from two rather different quarters.
>
> On the one hand there are members of the mainstream economic and
> political elite who are happy with the present situation in
> Britain, with the Big Four multinational banks sharing a virtual
> monopoly of money creation under the Bank of England's central
> control of interest rates.
>
> On the other hand, there are decentralist monetary reformers who
> champion the emergence and spread of alternative currency schemes
> to serve localities, communities, and groups of businesses, and
> what is sometimes called 'free banking'. Some decentralists doubt
> "whether it is possible or desirable in the modern day to give the
> state a monopoly of official currency".
>
> If it is unacceptably centralising to treat new national money as a
> public resource, to collect its value as public revenue, and to
> distribute it via public spending programmes, the same principle
> should presumably apply to the state's monopoly of national
> taxation and public spending. Imagine for a moment that the history
> of taxation and public spending had led to them being managed now
> on a profit-making basis by the Big Four banks. Would decentralists
> be responding to proposals for reform with the objection that it
> isn't "possible or desirable to give the state a monopoly of
> national taxation and public spending"?
>
> Actually there is no contradiction between mainstream monetary
> reform and decentralised monetary innovation. Both embody the
> principle that money should serve the needs of people (not vice
> versa). If you accept that plural currencies are likely to serve
> people's needs better than a single one-size-fits-all currency for
> all purposes, both are desirable. There is no reason why support
> for alternative currencies should mean continuing to accept the
> present mainstream arrangements, except a wholly unrealistic hope
> that the new alternative, community, and other private currencies
> will grow rapidly enough to replace the mainstream system within
> the foreseeable future.
>
> The practical fact is that in a democratic society, unlike other
> forms of society, additions to the money supply put into
> circulation as public revenue will tend to be distributed just as
> wisely and fairly, if not more so, via increases in public spending
> and reductions in taxes and public debt than the new money now
> created by the commercial banks as loans to their customers.
>
> To sum up, there should be no sense of conflict between
> decentralist and mainstream monetary reformers. Both should work
> together nationally and internationally to spread wider
> understanding that radical monetary change is urgent and that their
> approaches are both necessary.
>
> Obstacle/Objection 6. Monetary reform will be inflationary.
>
> People have learned from history that allowing governments to
> create new money is a recipe for inflation. So a conventional
> knee-jerk response to the proposed monetary reform is that it will
> be inflationary.
>
> It is true that money creation by feudal and monarchical
> governments in the past and by elected governments more recently
> has led to inflation. But that does not mean inflation will result
> from giving an operationally independent central bank
> responsibility for creating new money directly, instead of
> indirectly influencing by interest-rate changes how much the
> commercial banks create. Many people don't yet realise that in 1997
> the conduct of monetary policy in Britain was changed. The Bank of
> England was restructured as an operationally independent central
> monetary authority. It is accountable to the Chancellor of the
> Exchequer and Parliament for achieving the published monetary
> policy objectives which they have framed and approved. But it now
> carries out this task free from interference by elected ministers
> and politicians and their staffs. Monetary reform in those new
> circumstances will enable the Bank to control inflation more
> effectively, not less effectively, than at present.
>
> The action required to get this more widely understood does not
> have to be international. But, if it is, the impact may well be
> greater.
>
> Obstacle/Objection 7. The proposed reform would 'crowd out'
> investment in the private sector.
>
> This is another spurious conventional reaction. It argues that
> creating new money as government revenue will 'crowd out'
> investment in the wealth-creating private sector and switch it to
> the wealth-consuming public sector.
>
> But of course the proposed reform need not result in allocating
> resources only to the public sector. Governments could equally well
> use the new source of revenue to cut taxes and the national debt
> and so stimulate private investment and consumer spending. Even if
> new money does circulate via public spending, it will soon reach
> businesses and citizens who can use it for private sector
> investment or consumption as they themselves decide.
>
> Although action to demolish this particular knee-jerk objection to
> monetary reform need not be international, an effective
> international reform campaign could be helpful in this context, as
> in others.
>
> Obstacle/Objection 8. Depriving banks of the present seigniorage
> subsidy would increase the costs of borrowing, raise the costs of
> payments services, and force banks to cut costs, close branches and
> reduce jobs.
>
> In fact, this will not necessarily be true. Nor will it be the
> whole story.
>
> The banking industry will become more competitive when it is no
> longer subsidised, and the oligopoly of lending to small businesses
> now enjoyed by the largest banks will be more easily challenged by
> other banks. That will tend to reduce the costs of borrowing.
> Furthermore, when money is put into circulation debt-free, the
> costs of servicing and repaying debt that the use of debt-created
> money now imposes on every economic transaction will be eliminated,
> with the result that less borrowing will be needed than now because
> that element in the present cost of all economic activity will no
> longer have to be met.
>
> As regards the costs and efficiency of payments services, it is
> true that if banks are no longer subsidised by the profit they now
> get from creating money but have to borrow money at interest to
> lend to their customers, they will no longer be able to
> cross-subsidise their payments services as much as at present.
> Initially, costs to bank customers may rise as they have to meet
> the full costs of the payments services they use.
>
> But, although withdrawing subsidies from any industry initially
> makes the cost of its products higher, it is generally recognised
> that this kind of cross-subsidisation between different services is
> an impediment to competitiveness and economic efficiency.
>
> It is also true that withdrawing the present subsidy will encourage
> banks to cut costs, perhaps involving further closure of branches
> and loss of banking jobs. Withdrawing subsidies from any subsidised
> industry, including coal, steel, ship-building and many others, has
> had effects of that kind. But subsidies have been withdrawn in the
> knowledge that subsidies to an industry reduce its competitiveness,
> by making it more difficult for smaller firms to compete with
> bigger ones and more difficult for new innovative entrants into the
> industry to establish themselves. So far as the economy as a whole
> is concerned, subsidies to particular industries tend to hold back
> innovation and reduce the growth of efficiency and productivity by
> distorting the allocation of resources.
>
> Are there any special reasons why the banking and financial
> services industry should be sheltered from these facts of economic
> life, except the mystique and power it now exercises over political
> decision makers?
>
> Campaigning in one country could effectively question whether
> banking should be treated as a special case in this respect. But
> international campaigning might have greater impact.
>
> Obstacle/Objection 9. Depriving banks of the hidden subsidy will
> weaken their ability to compete internationally with other
> countries' banks.
>
> This view is a favourite with opponents of reform. For example, one
> politician said he "would not support proposals that gave the State
> the monopoly on non-cash money. Legislating against the credit
> multiplier would lead to the migration from the City of London of
> the largest collection of banks in the world. It would be a
> disaster for the British economy."
>
> Each part of this statement is questionable. "Giving the state a
> monopoly of non-cash money" is an exaggerated way of saying that an
> agency of the state would decide and create the amount of new
> national money required to meet the objectives of monetary policy,
> and give it to the government to spend it into circulation, instead
> of allowing a small group of big commercial banks to create it and
> put it into circulation as profit-making loans to selected bank
> customers. See Obstacle/Objections 4 and 5 above for comment on
> that point. The term "credit multiplier" aims to conceal the fact
> that new national money is being created for private profit.
> Whether depriving commercial banks of that privilege would lead to
> the migration from the City of London of the largest collection of
> banks in the world, and whether - even if that happened - it would
> be a disaster for the British economy and society as a whole, are
> moot points. They need more serious research and analysis, not just
> knee-jerk assumptions. In fact, it is likely that, after a short
> period of adaptation by the banking and financial sector, the
> outcome would prove beneficial to British society as a whole,
> including the economy's international competitiveness.
>
> Much the same point was made by (British) Treasury Minister Ruth
> Kelly. She said, "It is evident that this proposal would cause a
> dramatic loss in profits to the banks - all else equal they would
> still face the costs of running the payments system but would not
> be able to make profitable loans using the deposits held in current
> accounts. In this case it is highly likely that banks will attempt
> to maintain their profitability by re-locating to avoid the
> restriction on their operations that the proposed reform involves.
> Given the desirability of an internationally competitive market in
> financial (and other) services, it would not be in the UK's
> interests to insulate itself from such a market."
>
> But why should monetary reform mean the UK insulating itself from
> an internationally competitive market for banking and financial
> services? As has already been suggested, far from being a disaster,
> withdrawing the banks' present subsidy might prove beneficial to
> their competitiveness and certainly to the competitiveness of the
> economy as a whole.
>
> The subject needs much more serious analysis and research than it
> has yet had. That does not need to be carried out in more than one
> country to be valid. But we must remember, as Machiavelli pointed
> out in 1532 in The Prince, that "he who introduces a new order of
> things has all those who profit from the old order as his enemies,
> and he has only lukewarm allies in all those who might profit from
> the new". However valid the arguments and the research supporting
> it may turn out to be, it may be difficult to persuade politicians
> and the public that, in the context of international competition,
> the risks attaching to monetary reform by one country alone are
> worth taking. At all events, an international programme of
> analysis, research and campaigning will be very desirable.
>
>
> Obstacle/Objection 10. No other country is seriously considering
> monetary reform.
>
> In November 2001 Treasury Minister Ruth Kelly wrote, "To the best
> of my knowledge, no support amongst developed countries or
> international economic institutions exists" for monetary reform.
> This brings to mind the joke about the economist who tells his
> grandson not to bother picking up a GBP 5 note from the pavement,
> because if it were real somebody else would have picked it up
> already!
>
> There will probably be no harm, and much gain, in being first to
> introduce monetary reform, if it will make the economy as a whole
> more efficient and productive, and society more just and inclusive.
> However, the special interests of the banking industry are likely
> to find support from politicians and individuals who feel that the
> risks of being a pioneer outweigh the possible rewards.
>
> So once again, international efforts to promote monetary reform
> will clearly be important.
>
>
> Summing up therefore, it seems clear that, although there is still
> a great deal of progress to be made within one country such as
> Britain to mobilise an effective campaign for monetary reform,
> international research, analysis, advocacy and campaigning will
> also play a key part.
>
> http://www.jamesrobertson.com/book/monetaryreform.pdf
>
>
> http://www.billtotten.blogspot.com
> http://www.ashisuto.co.jp
>
>
>
> End of A-List Digest, Vol 73, Issue 9
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From shimogamo at ashisuto.co.jp  Tue Oct  6 04:29:56 2009
From: shimogamo at ashisuto.co.jp (Bill Totten)
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 19:29:56 +0900
Subject: [A-List] The Crisis
Message-ID: <20091006192956.679caa3f.shimogamo@ashisuto.co.jp>

Groundbreaking economist, Herman Daly {1}, zeroes in on the root
cause of our financial meltdown.

by Tom Green {2}

Adbusters (November 19 2008)


The turmoil affecting the world economy unleashed by the US
sub-prime debt crisis isn't really a crisis of "liquidity" as it is
often called. A liquidity crisis would imply that the economy was
in trouble because businesses could no longer obtain credit and
loans to finance their investments. In fact, the crisis is the
result of the overgrowth of financial assets relative to growth of
real wealth -  basically the opposite of too little liquidity. We
need to take a step back and explore some of the fundamentals that
growth-obsessed economists and commentators tend to neglect.

After winning the Nobel Prize for chemistry, Frederick Soddy
decided he could do greater good for humanity by turning his
talents to economics, a field he felt lacked a connection to
biophysical reality. In his 1926 book Wealth, Virtual Wealth and
Debt: The Solution of the Economic Paradox, (a book that presaged
the market crash of 1929), Soddy pointed out the fundamental
difference between real wealth - buildings, machinery, oil, pigs -
and virtual wealth, in the form of money and debt.

Soddy wrote that real wealth was subject to the inescapable entropy
law of thermodynamics and would rot, rust, or wear out with age,
while money and debt - as accounting devices invented by humans -
were subject only to the laws of mathematics.

Rather than decaying, virtual wealth, in the form of debt,
compounding at the rate of interest, actually grows without bounds.

Soddy used concrete examples to demonstrate the flaw in economic
thinking. A farmer who raises pigs faces biophysical limits on how
many pigs he can take to market. But if that pig farmer took on
debt - a promise to repay at a future date - he would in effect be
issuing a claim or lien on his future production of pigs. If he
borrowed the equivalent value of 100 pigs, he could represent the
loan on his balance sheet as "-100 pigs".

While debt as the farmer's accounting entry is negative, negative
pigs do not really exist. If the farmer should suffer a series of
lean years and be unable to pay the interest, he might soon owe
more pigs than could be raised on his farm. After a year, with
interest looming, he'd show "-110 pigs"; in five years, "-161"; in
forty (assuming a patient bank), "-4526". When the bank finally
came to call on the pig farmer to collect repayment of its loan, it
could well find that most of the virtual wealth that had grown so
appealingly on its books had to be written off as a loss.

Soddy's insights show us that the institutions of a growth economy
lead to the type of crisis that hit the US economy in 2008. Real
wealth is concrete. Financial assets are abstractions. Existing
real wealth serves as a lien on future debt. For example, the 100
dollars of virtual wealth that I carry in my wallet are a lien on
real wealth in that those dollars enable me to buy pork at the
store.

The problem that we're seeing in the US has arisen because the
amount of real wealth is not a sufficient lien to guarantee the
staggering outstanding debt which has exploded as a result of
banks' ability to create money, loans given out on shaky assets and
the US government's deficit, which has been stoked by financing the
war and recent tax cuts. All of these factors are exacerbated by
the compounding mechanism on debt. The debt is growing, and
consequently, it is being devalued in terms of real wealth.

The conventional wisdom is that when faced with the threat of
recession and business failure, the solution is to grow the economy
so we can grow our way out of the crisis. But because the wrong
diagnosis is made, namely that businesses are in trouble because
access to credit has tightened, the wrong solution is proposed.
Even if we could grow our way out of the crisis and delay the
inevitable and painful reconciliation of virtual and real wealth,
there is the question of whether this would be a wise thing to do.
Marginal costs of additional growth in rich countries, such as
global warming, biodiversity loss and roadways choked with cars,
now likely exceed marginal benefits of a little extra consumption.
The end result is that promoting further economic growth makes us
poorer, not richer. The cost of feeding and caring for the extra
pigs is greater than the benefit of eating extra pork.

To keep up the illusion that growth is making us richer, we
deferred costs by issuing financial assets almost without limit,
conveniently forgetting that these so-called assets are, for
society as a whole, debts to be paid back out of future growth of
real wealth. That future growth is very doubtful, given the
deferred real costs, while the debt continues to compound to absurd
levels.

What allowed symbolic financial assets to become so disconnected
from underlying real assets?

First, our economy is based on fiat money (paper money issued by
governments) that has value by convention but isn't backed by any
physical wealth. Second, our fractional reserve banking system
allows pyramiding of bank money (demand deposits) on top of the
fiat government-issued currency. Third, buying stocks and
"derivatives" on margin allows a further pyramiding of financial
assets on top of the already multiplied money supply. In addition,
the financial sector was very inventive in coming up with new
financial instruments that were designed to circumvent government
regulation of commercial banks to protect the public interest.

The agglomerating of mortgages of differing quality into opaque and
shuffled bundles that led to the sub-prime mortgage crisis should be
outlawed. The US balance of trade deficit has allowed us to consume
as if our economy was growing real wealth instead of accumulating
debt. So far, US trading partners have been willing to lend the
dollars they earned from running a trade surplus back to us by
buying treasury bills but these treasury bills are liens on
yet-to-exist wealth. Of course, they also buy real assets and their
future earning capacity. Our brilliant economic gurus meanwhile
continue to preach deregulation of both the financial sector and of
international commerce (that is "free trade").

How then do we clean up this mess?

A massive bailout - and having the US taxpayer take on billions in
bad debt - is merely a way to keep the growth economy from failing
a little longer while allowing it to continue degrading the planet.
Propping up such a destructive system makes no sense. Instead, we
need to redesign our laws and institutions to foster an economy
that remains within biophysical limits.

I would not advocate a return to commodity money (such as gold),
but would certainly advocate gradually increasing reserve
requirements for banks. Commercial banks should act as financial
intermediaries that lend other peoples' money, not as engines for
creating money out of nothing and lending it at interest. If every
dollar invested represented a dollar previously saved, we could
restore the classical economists' balance between investment and
abstinence. Far fewer stupid or crooked investments would be
tolerated if abstinence had to precede investment.

Of course the growth economists will howl that such measures would
slow the growth of GDP. I say so be it - growth has become
uneconomic, and we have limited time to bring the economy into line
with the biosphere's carrying capacity.

Were Soddy still around, I doubt he would be surprised by the havoc
wreaked by all these two-legged Wall Street pigs, given that they
were left free to raid whatever troughs they could poke their
snouts into while drawing on conventional economic thinking to
disguise their mess as innovations in finance. But I also think he
would be disappointed that eighty years after the publication of
his book, we still haven't figured out a way tether the economy to
reality - to ensure that the number of negative pigs can't grow
without limit.

Links:

{1} https://www.adbusters.org/authors/herman_daly

{2} https://www.adbusters.org/authors/tom_green


https://www.adbusters.org/magazine/81/the_crisis.html


http://www.billtotten.blogspot.com
http://www.ashisuto.co.jp


From kaliyuga at wildblue.net  Tue Oct  6 05:48:10 2009
From: kaliyuga at wildblue.net (MARGARET WYLES)
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 04:48:10 -0700
Subject: [A-List] Robert Fisk: Oil producers moving off the dollar
In-Reply-To: <86b655$65v0g2@ipo4smtp.cc.utah.edu>
References: <86b655$65v0g2@ipo4smtp.cc.utah.edu>
Message-ID: <82b839ea0910060448l691b3e59y15262768c5cbbf0a@mail.gmail.com>

On 10/5/09, Todd Boyle <toddfboyle at gmail.com> wrote:
> In my opinion this will be a huge relief for the beleaguered
> American worker.  If it's true.
> Todd.

>

I'm not sure how this will be a relief for the American worker when
they'd have to pay even more at the pump and when everything will cost
just that much more to cover energy costs no longer subsidized by the
inflated value of the dollar?


From cb31450 at gmail.com  Tue Oct  6 13:56:15 2009
From: cb31450 at gmail.com (c b)
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 15:56:15 -0400
Subject: [A-List] The demise of the dollar
Message-ID: <5c2e4d230910061256q39374216g4dc582df4e7ad826@mail.gmail.com>

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/the-demise-of-the-dollar-1798175.html
The demise of the dollar

In a graphic illustration of the new world order, Arab states have
launched secret moves with China, Russia and France to stop using the US
currency for oil trading

By Robert Fisk

Tuesday, 6 October 2009
In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history,
Gulf Arabs are planning ? along with China, Russia, Japan and France ?
to end dollar dealings for oil, moving instead to a basket of currencies
including the Japanese yen and Chinese yuan, the euro, gold and a new,
unified currency planned for nations in the Gulf Co-operation Council,
including Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Qatar.

Secret meetings have already been held by finance ministers and central
bank governors in Russia, China, Japan and Brazil to work on the scheme,
which will mean that oil will no longer be priced in dollars.

The plans, confirmed to The Independent by both Gulf Arab and Chinese
banking sources in Hong Kong, may help to explain the sudden rise in
gold prices, but it also augurs an extraordinary transition from dollar
markets within nine years.

The Americans, who are aware the meetings have taken place ? although
they have not discovered the details ? are sure to fight this
international cabal which will include hitherto loyal allies Japan and
the Gulf Arabs. Against the background to these currency meetings, Sun
Bigan, China's former special envoy to the Middle East, has warned there
is a risk of deepening divisions between China and the US over influence
and oil in the Middle East. "Bilateral quarrels and clashes are
unavoidable," he told the Asia and Africa Review. "We cannot lower
vigilance against hostility in the Middle East over energy interests and
security."

This sounds like a dangerous prediction of a future economic war between
the US and China over Middle East oil ? yet again turning the region's
conflicts into a battle for great power supremacy. China uses more oil
incrementally than the US because its growth is less energy efficient.
The transitional currency in the move away from dollars, according to
Chinese banking sources, may well be gold. An indication of the huge
amounts involved can be gained from the wealth of Abu Dhabi, Saudi
Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar who together hold an estimated $2.1 trillion in
dollar reserves.

The decline of American economic power linked to the current global
recession was implicitly acknowledged by the World Bank president Robert
Zoellick. "One of the legacies of this crisis may be a recognition of
changed economic power relations," he said in Istanbul ahead of meetings
this week of the IMF and World Bank. But it is China's extraordinary new
financial power ? along with past anger among oil-producing and
oil-consuming nations at America's power to interfere in the
international financial system ? which has prompted the latest
discussions involving the Gulf states.

Brazil has shown interest in collaborating in non-dollar oil payments,
along with India. Indeed, China appears to be the most enthusiastic of
all the financial powers involved, not least because of its enormous
trade with the Middle East.

China imports 60 per cent of its oil, much of it from the Middle East
and Russia. The Chinese have oil production concessions in Iraq ?
blocked by the US until this year ? and since 2008 have held an $8bn
agreement with Iran to develop refining capacity and gas resources.
China has oil deals in Sudan (where it has substituted for US interests)
and has been negotiating for oil concessions with Libya, where all such
contracts are joint ventures.

Furthermore, Chinese exports to the region now account for no fewer than
10 per cent of the imports of every country in the Middle East,
including a huge range of products from cars to weapon systems, food,
clothes, even dolls. In a clear sign of China's growing financial
muscle, the president of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet,
yesterday pleaded with Beijing to let the yuan appreciate against a
sliding dollar and, by extension, loosen China's reliance on US monetary
policy, to help rebalance the world economy and ease upward pressure on
the euro.

Ever since the Bretton Woods agreements ? the accords after the Second
World War which bequeathed the architecture for the modern international
financial system ? America's trading partners have been left to cope
with the impact of Washington's control and, in more recent years, the
hegemony of the dollar as the dominant global reserve currency.

The Chinese believe, for example, that the Americans persuaded Britain
to stay out of the euro in order to prevent an earlier move away from
the dollar. But Chinese banking sources say their discussions have gone
too far to be blocked now. "The Russians will eventually bring in the
rouble to the basket of currencies," a prominent Hong Kong broker told
The Independent. "The Brits are stuck in the middle and will come into
the euro. They have no choice because they won't be able to use the US
dollar."

Chinese financial sources believe President Barack Obama is too busy
fixing the US economy to concentrate on the extraordinary implications
of the transition from the dollar in nine years' time. The current
deadline for the currency transition is 2018.

The US discussed the trend briefly at the G20 summit in Pittsburgh; the
Chinese Central Bank governor and other officials have been worrying
aloud about the dollar for years. Their problem is that much of their
national wealth is tied up in dollar assets.

"These plans will change the face of international financial
transactions," one Chinese banker said. "America and Britain must be
very worried. You will know how worried by the thunder of denials this
news will generate."

Iran announced late last month that its foreign currency reserves would
henceforth be held in euros rather than dollars. Bankers remember, of
course, what happened to the last Middle East oil producer to sell its
oil in euros rather than dollars. A few months after Saddam Hussein
trumpeted his decision, the Americans and British invaded Iraq.


From cb31450 at gmail.com  Tue Oct  6 14:32:23 2009
From: cb31450 at gmail.com (c b)
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 16:32:23 -0400
Subject: [A-List] Dollar Hysteria
Message-ID: <5c2e4d230910061332l6e9cf919j47e35785034d59bf@mail.gmail.com>

Counterpunch, October 6, 2009
Is the Sky Really Falling?
Dollar Hysteria

By MIKE WHITNEY

Robert Fisk lit the fuse with his hyperventilating narrative which
appears in Tuesday's UK Independent which went  viral overnight
spreading to every musty corner of the Internet and sending gold
skyrocketing to $1,026 per oz.  Now every doomsday website in
cyber-world has headlined Fisk's "shocker" and the blogs are clogged
with the frenzied commentary of bunker-dwelling survivalists and
goldbugs who're certain that the world as we know it is about to end.

 From Fisk's article:

    "In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East
history, Gulf Arabs are planning ? along with China, Russia, Japan and
France ? to end dollar dealings for oil, moving instead to a basket of
currencies including the Japanese yen and Chinese yuan, the euro, gold
and a new, unified currency planned for nations in the Gulf Co-operation
Council, including Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Qatar.

    ?Secret meetings have already been held by finance ministers and
central bank governors in Russia, China, Japan and Brazil to work on the
scheme, which will mean that oil will no longer be priced in dollars.

    ?The Americans, who are aware the meetings have taken place ?
although they have not discovered the details ? are sure to fight this
international cabal which will include hitherto loyal allies Japan and
the Gulf Arabs. Against the background to these currency meetings, Sun
Bigan, China's former special envoy to the Middle East, has warned there
is a risk of deepening divisions between China and the US over influence
and oil in the Middle East. ?Bilateral quarrels and clashes are
unavoidable,? he told the Asia and Africa Review. ?We cannot lower
vigilance against hostility in the Middle East over energy interests and
security.??

"International cabal"? C'mon, Fisk, you're better than that.

Reports of the dollar's demise are greatly exaggerated. The dollar may
fall, but it won't crash. And, in the short-term, it's bound to
strengthen as the equities market reenters the earth's gravitational
field after a 6 month-long ride through outer-space. The relationship
between falling stocks and a stronger buck is well established and, when
the market corrects, the dollar will bounce back once again. Bet on it.
So why all this bilge about Middle Eastern men huddled in "secret
meetings" stroking their beards while plotting against the empire?

Isn't that the gist of Fisk's article?

Yes, the dollar will fall, (eventually) but not for the reasons that
most people think. It's true that the surge in deficit spending has
foreign dollar-holders worried. But they're more concerned about the
Fed's quantitative easing (QE) program which adds to the money supply by
purchasing mortgage-backed securities and US Treasuries. Bernanke is
simply printing money and pouring it into the financial system to keep
rigor mortis from setting in. Naturally, the Fed has had to quantify
exactly how much money it intends to "create from thin air" to placate
its creditors. And, it has. (The program is scheduled to end by the
beginning of 2010) That said, China and Japan are still buying US
Treasuries, which indicates they have not yet "jumped ship".

The real reason the dollar will lose its role as the world's reserve
currency is because US markets, which until recently provided up to 25
percent of global demand, are in sharp decline. Export-dependent
nations--like Japan, China, Germany, South Korea--already see the
handwriting on the wall.  US consumers are buried under a mountain of
debt, which means that their spending-spree won't resume anytime soon.
On top of that, unemployment is soaring, personal wealth is falling,
savings are rising, and Washington's anti-labor bias assures that wages
will continue to stagnate for the foreseeable future. Thus, the American
middle class will no longer be the driving force behind global
consumption/demand that it was before the crisis.  Once consumers are
less able to buy new Toyota Prius's or load up on the latest China-made
widgets at Walmart, there will be less incentive for foreign governments
and central banks to stockpile greenbacks or trade exclusively in dollars.

Here's a clip from the Globe and Mail cited on Washington's Blog:

    "A UBS Investment Research report says that while it would be wrong
to write off the U.S. dollar as the global reserve currency, its roughly
90-year iron grip on that position is loosening. ?The use of the U.S.
dollar as an international reserve currency is in decline,? said UBS
economist Paul Donovan.

    ??The market share of the dollar in international transactions is
likely to decline over the coming months and years, but only persistent
policy error ? or considerable fiscal strain ? is likely to cause the
dollar to lose reserve currency status entirely.?

    "The UBS report maintains that the gradual slide of the U.S. dollar
is being driven not by the world?s central banks, but by the private
sector, as individual companies increasingly abandon the greenback as
their international currency of choice.

    ??The private sector?s use of reserves is more important than
official, central bank reserves ? anything up to 20 times the
significance, depending on interpretation,?? Mr. Donovan said. ?There is
evidence that the move away from the dollar as a private-sector reserve
currency has been accelerating since 2000.??

As private industry veers away from the dollar, governments, investors
and central banks will follow. The soft tyranny of dollar dominance will
erode and parity between currencies and governments will grow. This will
be create better opportunities for consensus on issues of mutual
interest. One nation will no longer be able to dictate international policy.

So-called "dollar hegemony" has added greatly to the gross imbalance of
power in the world today. It has put global decision-making in the hands
of a handful of Washington warlords whose narrow vision never extends
beyond the material interests of themselves and their constituents. As
the dollar weakens and consumer demand declines, the United States will
be forced to curtail its wars and adjust its behavior to conform to
international standards. Either that, or be banished into the political
wilderness.

So, what exactly is the downside?

Superpower status rests on the flimsy foundation of the dollar, and the
dollar is beginning to crack. Fisk is right to this extent; big changes
are on the way. Only not just yet.

Mike Whitney lives in Washington state. He can be reached at
fergiewghitney at msn.com


From the.buffalo.in.the.midst at gmail.com  Tue Oct  6 14:45:52 2009
From: the.buffalo.in.the.midst at gmail.com (Leighm)
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:45:52 -0700
Subject: [A-List] Dollar Hysteria
In-Reply-To: <5c2e4d230910061332l6e9cf919j47e35785034d59bf@mail.gmail.com>
References: <5c2e4d230910061332l6e9cf919j47e35785034d59bf@mail.gmail.com>
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c b quoted:
> 
> The dollar may fall, but it won't crash.




No, it 'won't'... It DID.

Here's the net effect:

Obama has to get together with the Pentagon's financial planners and
congress to see if he can AFFORD TO send 40,000 more troops to
Afghanistan at a net cost of $2-3 billion dollars a year.

The way I worded it in this morning's news posting:

The president and Secretary of 'Defense' Gates are going to visit the
war's 'financial planners' and a bi-partisan group of lawmakers from
congress today. President Obama has been told it will cost TWO - THREE
BILLION DOLLARS MORE EVERY YEAR to send 40,0000 extra troops to
Afghanistan for whatever the duration might be. The president will also
visit the National Intelligence Center where he may make a speech
explaining why we're there at all. Expect lots of presidential smiles,
'hope for something-or-other', and not much in the way of truth.

(An 'aside' from Da' Buffalo... Why isn't president Obama giving this
speech to draft age college students? IS he attempting to carry on
BushBoy'z tradition of only speaking at friendly, safe audiences about
controversial, and potentially nation destroying (our nation) issues?)

In OTHER News:

?Sometimes I look at what I think Senator McCain would be doing, and
what Obama?s doing and I can?t discern any difference." --Cindy Sheehan.
The anti-war movement which hasn't 'moved' much since the bulk of US
troops in Iraq began 'moving' to the 'Stans is on the move again. Cindy
Sheehan and some friends ("61 people in total were arrested at the
protest,") chained themselves to the White House fence yesterday. She
recently said "It's been change in the wrong direction", and HER
direction is a new domicile... She's moving to Washington , D.C.

Meanwhile, "Liberal" San Francisco says "YES!" to war:
As the world awaits Barack Obama's decision on Afghanistan Commander
General Stanley McChrystal's request for another 40,000 pair of "boots
on the ground" in the Afghanistan War, and Barack Obama appeals to NATO
to view the Afghanistan War as their own, the City of San Francisco
prepares to host its annual all forces military recruitment drive and
military festival, also known as Fleet Week and the Blue Angels Air
Show, from October 8th to 13th.

In 2007, I studied the official procedures for scheduling a Blue Angels
Air Show on the FAQs page of the Official Website of the Blue Angels Air
Show and learned that, in order to have a Blue Angels Air Show, a city
must submit a request to the Secretary of the U.S. Navy by the end of
September, a year in advance, so I called California Senators Dianne
Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, and Representative Nancy Pelosi to ask who
had requested the 2007 Blue Angels Air Show. Barbara Boxer's office
called me back the next day to say that "it was a local request," and
gave me San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's telephone number: (415)
554-6141. [In Full]

Folks, your children are going to ask you some day in the
not-too-distant future: "What did you do in the 'anti-war' daddy
(mommy)?". "How come I have to use 10 year old school books and the
teachers keep quitting because they have to sleep at homeless shelters
and keep getting sick but they don't have health insurance?"

Get on it, or your children may not HAVE much of a future. See the next
piece. (at the top of this email)

My Site:
http://razedbywolves.blogspot.com/2009/10/october-06-2009-travus-t-hipp-morning.html
Archive.org: http://www.archive.org/details/tth2_091006



> Counterpunch, October 6, 2009
> Is the Sky Really Falling?
> Dollar Hysteria
> 
> By MIKE WHITNEY
> 
> Robert Fisk lit the fuse with his hyperventilating narrative which
> appears in Tuesday's UK Independent which went  viral overnight
> spreading to every musty corner of the Internet and sending gold
> skyrocketing to $1,026 per oz.  Now every doomsday website in
> cyber-world has headlined Fisk's "shocker" and the blogs are clogged
> with the frenzied commentary of bunker-dwelling survivalists and
> goldbugs who're certain that the world as we know it is about to end.
> 
>  From Fisk's article:
> 
>     "In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East
> history, Gulf Arabs are planning ? along with China, Russia, Japan and
> France ? to end dollar dealings for oil, moving instead to a basket of
> currencies including the Japanese yen and Chinese yuan, the euro, gold
> and a new, unified currency planned for nations in the Gulf Co-operation
> Council, including Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Qatar.
> 
>     ?Secret meetings have already been held by finance ministers and
> central bank governors in Russia, China, Japan and Brazil to work on the
> scheme, which will mean that oil will no longer be priced in dollars.
> 
>     ?The Americans, who are aware the meetings have taken place ?
> although they have not discovered the details ? are sure to fight this
> international cabal which will include hitherto loyal allies Japan and
> the Gulf Arabs. Against the background to these currency meetings, Sun
> Bigan, China's former special envoy to the Middle East, has warned there
> is a risk of deepening divisions between China and the US over influence
> and oil in the Middle East. ?Bilateral quarrels and clashes are
> unavoidable,? he told the Asia and Africa Review. ?We cannot lower
> vigilance against hostility in the Middle East over energy interests and
> security.??
> 
> "International cabal"? C'mon, Fisk, you're better than that.
> 
> Reports of the dollar's demise are greatly exaggerated. The dollar may
> fall, but it won't crash. And, in the short-term, it's bound to
> strengthen as the equities market reenters the earth's gravitational
> field after a 6 month-long ride through outer-space. The relationship
> between falling stocks and a stronger buck is well established and, when
> the market corrects, the dollar will bounce back once again. Bet on it.
> So why all this bilge about Middle Eastern men huddled in "secret
> meetings" stroking their beards while plotting against the empire?
> 
> Isn't that the gist of Fisk's article?
> 
> Yes, the dollar will fall, (eventually) but not for the reasons that
> most people think. It's true that the surge in deficit spending has
> foreign dollar-holders worried. But they're more concerned about the
> Fed's quantitative easing (QE) program which adds to the money supply by
> purchasing mortgage-backed securities and US Treasuries. Bernanke is
> simply printing money and pouring it into the financial system to keep
> rigor mortis from setting in. Naturally, the Fed has had to quantify
> exactly how much money it intends to "create from thin air" to placate
> its creditors. And, it has. (The program is scheduled to end by the
> beginning of 2010) That said, China and Japan are still buying US
> Treasuries, which indicates they have not yet "jumped ship".
> 
> The real reason the dollar will lose its role as the world's reserve
> currency is because US markets, which until recently provided up to 25
> percent of global demand, are in sharp decline. Export-dependent
> nations--like Japan, China, Germany, South Korea--already see the
> handwriting on the wall.  US consumers are buried under a mountain of
> debt, which means that their spending-spree won't resume anytime soon.
> On top of that, unemployment is soaring, personal wealth is falling,
> savings are rising, and Washington's anti-labor bias assures that wages
> will continue to stagnate for the foreseeable future. Thus, the American
> middle class will no longer be the driving force behind global
> consumption/demand that it was before the crisis.  Once consumers are
> less able to buy new Toyota Prius's or load up on the latest China-made
> widgets at Walmart, there will be less incentive for foreign governments
> and central banks to stockpile greenbacks or trade exclusively in dollars.
> 
> Here's a clip from the Globe and Mail cited on Washington's Blog:
> 
>     "A UBS Investment Research report says that while it would be wrong
> to write off the U.S. dollar as the global reserve currency, its roughly
> 90-year iron grip on that position is loosening. ?The use of the U.S.
> dollar as an international reserve currency is in decline,? said UBS
> economist Paul Donovan.
> 
>     ??The market share of the dollar in international transactions is
> likely to decline over the coming months and years, but only persistent
> policy error ? or considerable fiscal strain ? is likely to cause the
> dollar to lose reserve currency status entirely.?
> 
>     "The UBS report maintains that the gradual slide of the U.S. dollar
> is being driven not by the world?s central banks, but by the private
> sector, as individual companies increasingly abandon the greenback as
> their international currency of choice.
> 
>     ??The private sector?s use of reserves is more important than
> official, central bank reserves ? anything up to 20 times the
> significance, depending on interpretation,?? Mr. Donovan said. ?There is
> evidence that the move away from the dollar as a private-sector reserve
> currency has been accelerating since 2000.??
> 
> As private industry veers away from the dollar, governments, investors
> and central banks will follow. The soft tyranny of dollar dominance will
> erode and parity between currencies and governments will grow. This will
> be create better opportunities for consensus on issues of mutual
> interest. One nation will no longer be able to dictate international policy.
> 
> So-called "dollar hegemony" has added greatly to the gross imbalance of
> power in the world today. It has put global decision-making in the hands
> of a handful of Washington warlords whose narrow vision never extends
> beyond the material interests of themselves and their constituents. As
> the dollar weakens and consumer demand declines, the United States will
> be forced to curtail its wars and adjust its behavior to conform to
> international standards. Either that, or be banished into the political
> wilderness.
> 
> So, what exactly is the downside?
> 
> Superpower status rests on the flimsy foundation of the dollar, and the
> dollar is beginning to crack. Fisk is right to this extent; big changes
> are on the way. Only not just yet.
> 
> Mike Whitney lives in Washington state. He can be reached at
> fergiewghitney at msn.com
> 
> 

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From shimogamo at ashisuto.co.jp  Wed Oct  7 03:31:43 2009
From: shimogamo at ashisuto.co.jp (Bill Totten)
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 18:31:43 +0900
Subject: [A-List] The Metaphysics of Money
Message-ID: <20091007183143.0acc0782.shimogamo@ashisuto.co.jp>


by John Michael Greer

The Archdruid Report (September 30 2009)

Druid perspectives on nature, culture, and the future of industrial
society


To mention money and metaphysics in the same sentence, as I did at the
close of last week's post, is to invite any number of
misunderstandings. The hoary habit of thinking that walls off
philosophical questions in a ghetto of abstractions apart from the
world of ordinary life gets in the way of clarity here as so often, but
there's an even more basic problem: most people these days have no
clear notion of what the word "metaphysics" means in the first place.

The tangled history of the word probably makes that inevitable. A
nameless librarian in ancient Alexandria first coined it out of sheer
desperation while cataloging the works of Aristotle; most of the
treatises got names based on their subject matter - Physics,
Meteorology, Poetics, and so on - but one difficult treatise was
labeled simply meta phusikoi, "the stuff that comes after the Physics".
Then, as the fourth-grade history paper put it, some other stuff
happened - the library of Alexandria burned, Rome fell, what was left
of the classical world got tipped into history's dumpster by a band of
helpful Visigoths, and so on. When the dust finally cleared, Aristotle
was very nearly the only systematic ancient thinker whose works were
still around, and so he became, in Dante's words, "the master of those
who know".

That meant, among other things, that the labels assigned to his
treatises by that anonymous Alexandrian savant became the basic
categories of scholarship in the Middle Ages. (Most of them remain
basic categories today, which is why your local university has
departments of physics, meteorology, and so on.) Metaphysics was no
exception, and the philosophical issues Aristotle tackled in that
treatise have carried that label ever since.

Those issues are what Aristotle himself called "first philosophy": an
analysis of the basic terms that have to be sorted out before any kind
of philosophy can be sure of its foundations. The medieval scholars who
blew the dust off Aristotle's treatise, however, interpreted his work
in their own way, which meant that the basic issues of philosophy were
redefined in terms of Christian, Muslim, or Jewish theology. By the
time the 18th century rolled around, metaphysics as a discipline was
almost entirely identified with the theological basis given it by the
scholars of the Middle Ages, and so it got dropped like a hot potato as
secularism swept the academic world.

By the end of the 19th century even theologians had stopped doing
metaphysics in the old style, and most of the people practicing what
used to be called metaphysics weren't using the word. At that point, in
a fine display of history's twisted sense of humor, the word got picked
up by the American folk religious movement ancestral to today's New Age
scene, and turned into a label for their own beliefs. The town in
southern Oregon where I used to live has a Metaphysical Library, which
even had a few books on metaphysics in the philosophical sense of the
world, though how they got there I have no idea. The vast majority of
the books were on past lives, channeled entities, flying saucers, evil
conspiracies, and the rest of the mental furniture of contemporary
alternative culture.

Thus it's probably necessary to point out that when I mention the
metaphysics of money, I'm not referring to claims that money was
invented by a conspiracy of evil space lizards, or that you can get as
much money as you want by convincing yourself that money really, really
wants to bed down in your wallet. You can find books making both these
claims at the library just mentioned, as it happens, but both beliefs -
and a good many statements less obviously absurd - are in large part
produced by a failure to engage in the other kind of metaphysics, the
thoughtful consideration of the basic categories of thought itself.

That sort of analysis seems very abstruse and impractical, until you
notice the consequences of ignoring it. Sweeping claims are being made
these days about whether certain things exist or do not exist, for
example, by people who never seem to have examined their own
presuppositions about what it means to exist and how a thing can be
known to exist. That's the problem with the ghettoizing of philosophy
mentioned earlier; the philosophical issues you ignore can still sneak
up on you while you're not looking, and turn your best attempts at
thinking into gibberish.

This, finally, is where metaphysics and money come together. Last
week's post discussed some of the reasons why you can get better
economic advice from a randomly chosen fortune cookie at your local
Asian buffet than from the most prestigious contemporary economists.
Part of it, as I pointed out, was the way that the boom-bust cycle
makes giving bad advice the most lucrative career strategy for
economists; another part is due to the attempts of economists to make
their field a theoretical science without going to the trouble of
grounding their theories in an adequate foundation of historical fact.

Still, there's a third factor at work, and it's even more pervasive
than the two just named. It's far from unique to economics - in one way
or another, it underlies a great many of the mistakes that are tipping
our own civilization into the same dumpster that received the ruins of
Rome - but it stands out in the field of economics with particular
clarity. Its roots are in a metaphysical error which might as well be
called, after one of its most influential practitioners, Descartes'
fallacy.

Rene Descartes is famous nowadays for saying "I think, therefore I am".
Few people these days take the time to find out what he meant by that
statement, and fewer still catch onto the radical project that underlay
it. Without too much inaccuracy, Descartes can be called the first
modern thinker. Certainly he was the first to embrace what has become
an automatic presupposition of modern thought, the notion of the
individual self as an isolated, independent witness whose thoughts and
experiences are entirely its own. What existed, to Descartes, was
limited to what he could know, and know precisely, with the same
exactness as a geometrical proof.

Descartes was arguing, in effect, that "to be" means the same thing as
"to be known", and "to be known" in turn equals "to be precisely
defined". It's clear that he recognized, and intended, the sweeping
implications of this metaphysical stance. It's equally clear that a
great many of the people who unknowingly follow his lead nowadays
either accept those implications uncritically or have never noticed
their existence. In the hands of much of modern science, in particular,
Descartes' equation has been blended with a passion for quantitative
measurement to produce an even more extreme form of the same logic. To
a great many scientists today, what exists is limited to what can be
known; what can be known is limited to what can be measured; and what
can be measured is treated as though it was identical to its
measurements.

You can get away with this in physics, and still do excellent science.
The objects studied by physics follow patterns that can be modeled
effectively by mathematics, and most of them are so remote from
ordinary human experience that anything about them that doesn't measure
easily can be ignored without too much trouble. Try doing this in
sciences closer to the realm of everyday human life, on the other hand,
and you can count on running into trouble, because in that realm
Descartes' approach is usually a bad idea, and the modern scientific
expansion of it an even worse one. What can be measured is only a
subset of what can be known, and what can be known, at least in any
given situation, is only a subset of what exists; nor does the fact
that some properties of a thing can be measured according to some
numerical scale prevent it from having other properties at least as
important that are not subject to that kind of measurement.

The sort of bad logic that treats quantitative measurements as the only
things that really exist is pervasive in the sciences, but its grip is
even tighter on those fields of study that want to claim the prestige
of science but can't quite pass muster. Economics could be the poster
child for this noxious effect. Down through the generations, against
the sound advice of its best practitioners, economists have
consistently treated the one thing in their field that can easily and
consistently be measured with numbers - money - as though it was the
one thing that matters. It's easy to see how seductive this habit can
be, since it seems to allow everything to be measured on a common
scale; the problem, of course, is that everything that can't be
flattened out into that common scale gets mislaid, and as often as not
these mislaid factors prove to be decisive.

In The Wealth of Nations (1776), Adam Smith criticizes the notion - as
common in his time as in ours - that money is the same thing as wealth.
The wealth of a country, he points out, consists of the product of its
natural resources and collective labor: in modern terms, it's the sum
total of the goods and services produced by a nation's ecosystems and
economy. In another place, though, he defines wealth as anything that
can be valued in money. These definitions do not conflict with one
another; rather, they make the crucial point that money is not wealth
but the yardstick by which modern cultures measure wealth. This ought
to be the first thing we teach children about money, though of course
it isn't.

It probably ought to be the first thing we teach economists about
money, too, but the power of Descartes' fallacy stands in the way.
Money is a unit of measurement, so it's inherently easy to define,
understand, and quantify. Wealth is much less easy to force into the
Procrustean bed of numbers; that's why we use money as a rough and
ready way of sorting out the relative value of different kinds of
wealth so they can be exchanged without too much trouble. Money is so
convenient as a way of measuring wealth that very often it ends up
eclipsing wealth, and this is why most economists nowadays, even when
they think they're talking about wealth, are actually talking about
money. This becomes especially problematic when, as so often happens,
they start attributing to wealth characteristics that are only true of
money.

This habit of thought pervades contemporary economics. For a relevant
example, watch the way most economists these days brush aside the
immense challenges of peak oil with the assurance that if oil ever does
get scarce, the market will come up with alternatives. Implicit in this
claim is the assumption that any energy source is as good as any other,
and that the total amount in the system is effectively unlimited. This
is true of money - one dollar bill is worth exactly the same amount as
any other, and the total number of dollars in circulation is as close
to limitless, these days, as the printing presses of the US Treasury
can make it - but it is emphatically not true of energy resources, or
of any other form of wealth.

Compare any two energy resources in practical terms and it's clear that
in most cases they're not even apples and oranges; they're apples and
orangutans. Take petroleum and solar energy as good examples. A highly
concentrated form of chemical energy and a rather diffuse form of
electromagnetic energy have very little in common, and even when they
can do the same things - you can heat a house with passive solar
design, for example, or you can heat it with an oil-fired burner - the
technologies are totally different. Easy talk about swapping one for
the other thus evades the immense challenge and nearly unimaginable
cost of scrapping multiple continent-wide infrastructures geared to oil
and building new ones suited to solar energy. (There are plenty of
other questions that it ducks, too, but this one will do for starters.)

Presumably an economist would notice something odd if he sat down at a
lunch counter, ordered the daily special, and was handed instead a box
of socket wrenches, even if the price of the wrenches was exactly the
same as the daily special. If the economist was starving on a desert
island and a crate that washed ashore proved to contain socket wrenches
rather than food, the difference would be a matter of life or death.
This latter is uncomfortably close to our position just now, as the
world's energy companies race each other and the clock to extract
fossil fuels in nearly unimaginable volumes from the Earth's dwindling
supplies. If we allow ourselves to wait until those supplies start to
run short, it will be much too late to start retooling our civilization
for some other energy resource, even if one happens to turn up.

Because a subculture of erudite scholars in the economics departments
of universities have made a metaphysical error, in other words, our
civilization may have missed its chance to dodge disaster. It's hard to
think of a better argument for the importance of metaphysics than that.
Still, the problem sketched in this post extends much further than I've
had space to outline here, and the way in which money has metastatized
in our society to become the measure of all things has become a massive
though unrecognized barrier in the way of any attempt to improve a
rapidly worsening situation. We'll explore that in next week's post.

_____

John Michael Greer, The Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids
in America (AODA), has been active in the alternative spirituality
movement for more than 25 years, and is the author of more than twenty
books, including The Druidry Handbook (Weiser, 2006) and The Long
Descent: A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age (New Society,
2008). He lives in Cumberland, Maryland. ?
http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2009/09/metaphysics-of-money.html


http://www.billtotten.blogspot.com
http://www.ashisuto.co.jp


From toddfboyle at gmail.com  Tue Oct  6 12:06:20 2009
From: toddfboyle at gmail.com (Todd Boyle)
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:06:20 -0700
Subject: [A-List] Robert Fisk: Oil producers moving off the dollar
In-Reply-To: <82b839ea0910060448l691b3e59y15262768c5cbbf0a@mail.gmail.co
 m>
References: <86b655$65v0g2@ipo4smtp.cc.utah.edu>
	<82b839ea0910060448l691b3e59y15262768c5cbbf0a@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <mailman.5.1254917982.31205.a-list@lists.econ.utah.edu>

At 04:48 AM 10/6/2009, MARGARET WYLES wrote:
>On 10/5/09, Todd Boyle <toddfboyle at gmail.com> wrote:
> > In my opinion this will be a huge relief for the beleaguered
> > American worker.  If it's true.
> > Todd.
>
> >
>
>I'm not sure how this will be a relief for the American worker when
>they'd have to pay even more at the pump and when everything will cost
>just that much more to cover energy costs no longer subsidized by the
>inflated value of the dollar?

No, the way it will work is that the conveyer belt of stolen goods 
from China, japan, Korea, oil countries, etc. would be slowwwed or 
stopped.   Of course the dollar will depreciate rapidly compared with 
other currencies, gold or land.  But that's a game we are familiar 
with.  Wall Street can't really win that game, versus a sophisticated 
population, yes Virginia, monetary inflation is actually good for the 
little guy, imo, if we play our cards right and work a little 
bit.   Dollar deflation is murder, in comparison.  Other than the 
fact it forces people entirely out of the corporate system which can 
be good, if it continues a long time... As we've seen many times 
including Argentina, the banksters pretty quitkly realize they're 
losing the grip on the whole country if the country abandons its 
currency and banking system, so, they always want to relent and 
liberalize it.  They even have to force their noncooperating other 
banks into coordinated action, to save their industry.

The reason it's great news if the total dollar hegemony since 1945 
*ends*, is that's one of the crucial elements the global plutocracy 
have to control us here in the U.S.   The architecture of global 
finance post 1971 has featured creation of $trillions of dollars in 
the U.S., handing them out to cronies of U.S. administrations, and 
those dollars swirling around a few times in the U.S. then 
accumulating in the central banks of foreign governments-- obviously 
as a part of their oligarchies' selling exports to the U.S.--- 
exports based on their exploitation of the domestic populations' 
labor, and theft of domestic oil and other resources in China, Saudi 
Arabia and Japan and they are not happy campers.

The operation is crystal clear, it could not be more obvious-- these 
oligarchs screw their own population, steal their labor and resources 
and sell it on "globalized" markets, keeping generous percentages for 
themselves.   American workers are unemployed and unions 
crushed.  The whole country is controlled by the allocation of new 
bales of $100 bills from the creation process, since, without access 
to the new money (within very few cycles of changing hands after 
creation, e.g. suppliers to Boeing funded by military spending, or 
homebuilders selling into the bubble funded by new money), no company 
can have reliable, abovenormal profits.    Do you see how the 
*structure* of the economy being dependent on $trilion of new money 
creation and its storage in destination centreal banks, enslaves all 
of us to cronies and donors to congress and the pres?   THEY have the 
power to allocate money and we are all enslaved by that, to some degree.

So, when one of these dollar extinguishers, dollar accumulators, 
stops storing dolalrs and sells them, it actually frees us.  Just as 
it frees us when the Vietnamese or the Taliban kicks our armies' 
asses, I wish it wasn't this way but that's the way it is.

Todd 
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From glparramatta at greenleft.org.au  Wed Oct  7 02:46:32 2009
From: glparramatta at greenleft.org.au (glparramatta)
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:46:32 +1100
Subject: [A-List] [UCE] What's new at Links: Honduras, S. Africa,
 Fidel Castro, Venezuela, Mexico's La Jornada, Guatemala, India, Portugal,
 East Timor, Thailand
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Mexico's La Jornada, Guatemala and Canada, India - Lalgarh, Portugal, 
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    On the spot in Honduras: The people are still on the streets!
    <http://links.org.au/node/1282>

By Pedro Fuentes, international secretary of the Party Socialism and 
Liberty (PSOL, Brazil)
September 29, 2009 -- Honduras -- "Blood of martyrs, seeds of freedom" 
was the slogan at the burial of Wendy, who died as a result of tear gas 
this weekend. All "awakening has its price" and "Honduras has awoken", 
an activist from a Communist Party background involved in the resistance 
told me at the ceremony for the comrade, held September 28 at the 
national cemetery. Using Marxist terms, the comrade said that in 
Honduras this awakening has meant that the movement has taken "a 
qualitative leap forward".

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1282>


    South Africa: `The ANC has invaded Kennedy Road' shack settlement
    <http://links.org.au/node/1281>

Statement by Abahlali baseMjondolo president S'bu Zikode. S'bu and his 
family have been living as refugees since the September 26-27 violence 
by the African National Congress targeting Abahlali leaders at Kennedy 
Road shack settlement in Durban, South Africa. He appeals for continued 
support for the Shack Dwellers Movement in these dire times of 
government repression and lies. It can be said without exaggeration that 
the so-called democratic government of South Africa is attempting to 
silence and disband the country's largest social movement of the poor.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1281>


    (Updated October 2) Honduras: Dictatorship steps up reign of terror,
    resistance pushes on <http://links.org.au/node/1277>

By Fred Fuentes, Caracas
October 1, 2009 - The dictatorship in Honduras, which overthrew the 
elected government of Manuel Zelaya in a military coup on June 28, has 
stepped up its reign of terror. A state of siege remains in place. 
However, the ongoing resistance has caused further cracks to open within 
the pro-coup forces as support for the resistance spreads.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1277>


    Venezuela plans deeper popular democracy to address economic crisis
    <http://links.org.au/node/1283>

By Federico Fuentes, Caracas
September 24, 2009 -- Faced with the growing impact of the global 
economic crisis, Washington's intentions to establish seven military 
bases in Colombia and growing challenges in solving structural problems, 
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez reaffirmed the need to build a new state.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1283>


    Mexico's leftist 'La Jornada': 25 years of rabble rousing
    <http://links.org.au/node/1280>

By John Ross, Mexico City
September 27, 2009 -- Seven mornings a week, Vicente Ramirez's battered 
aluminium kiosk on Cinco de Mayo Street in this city's old quarter is 
plastered with the front pages of 22 daily newspapers. All day handfuls 
of pedestrians pause to gawk at the incendiary headlines slapped to the 
siding, often engaging in animated debate about the nature of the news.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1280>


    Photo essay: Guatemalan Indigenous communities resist violent
    eviction by Canadian mining company <http://links.org.au/node/1279>

Story and photo essay by James Rodr?guez, Barrio La Union, El Estor, 
Izabal, Guatemala
September 28, 2009 -- As a result of a frustrated eviction attempt in 
the community of Las Nubes in El Estor, Izabal, Adolfo Ich Xaman (middle 
in photograph above) was brutally shot and killed by private security 
guards subcontracted by the Guatemalan Nickel Company (CGN), local 
subsidiary of HudBay Minerals Inc., a Canadian mining company.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1279>


    India: Lalgarh's battle for dignity and justice
    <http://links.org.au/node/1276>

By the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation
September 27, 2009 -- The following appeared as the editorial in the 
July 2009 issue of Liberation, the central organ of Communist Party of 
India (Marxist-Leninist) - CPI (ML). Since then, while the paramilitary 
campaign in Lalgarh has ended, repression against the adivasi (tribal) 
people of Lalgarh continues, with incidents of rape and violence reported.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1276>


    Portugal: Boost for left as Left Bloc doubles its representation
    <http://links.org.au/node/1275>

Left Bloc, Portugal
Portugal's parliamentary elections, held on September 27, 2009, have 
changed the political landscape. The Socialist Party (SP), which had an 
absolute majority in 2005 with 45% of vote, lost more than half a 
million votes and fell to 36.56%. Even as the winner, it is in a 
minority in parliament, the only political force which lost seats in 
relation to 2005 (96 down from 121).

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1275>


    East Timor: The struggle for full independence -- 10 years on
    <http://links.org.au/node/1274>

By Mericio Akara, translated by Vannessa Hearman
September 30, 2009 -- Dili -- What is commemorated as Timor Leste's 
(East Timor) "liberation" is the United Nations-facilitated referendum 
on August 30, 1999. East Timor, which had been a Portugese colony, was 
already an independent country, as a result of the pro-independence 
political party Fretilin declaring East Timor independent on November 
28, 1975. But barely days after the independence proclamation, on 
December 7, 1975, the Suharto dictatorship in Indonesia used all its 
military firepower to invade Timor Leste.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1274>


    Philippines: Flood relief appeal from Partido Lakas ng Masa
    <http://links.org.au/node/1273>

By Reihana Mohideen, international desk, Partido Lakas ng Masa (Party of 
the Labouring Masses)
September, 28, 2009 -- Typhoon Ondoy swept through the Philippines on 
September 26, displacing some 250,000 people and, according to the most 
recent reports, has left some 86 people dead. Urban centres, such as 
Metro Manila, were also badly affected with more than 80% of the city 
under water. In some areas the water was around 4'-5' deep. Apparently 
one month's rainfall poured down in a matter of a few hours. We are 
conducting relief operations through our own networks and we are 
appealing for funds to support our relief work.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1273>


    Thailand: When King Pumipon dies ... <http://links.org.au/node/1272>

By Giles Ji Ungpakorn
September 25, 2009 -- Many Thais, whether they are royalist ``Yellow 
Shirts'' or pro-democracy ``Red Shirts'', are waiting for King Pumipon 
Adunyadet [often spelled Bhumipol Adulyadej in the Western press] to 
die. It may take years. Their feelings will be different, either 
positive or negative. This is because Pumipon has influenced Thai 
society for years. But the issue to discuss is whether this influence is 
created by others or based on the king's own power?

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/1272>


    Fidel Castro on Honduras: A revolution in the making
    <http://links.org.au/node/1271>

By Fidel Castro
September 24, 2009 -- Last July 16, I said that the coup d'?tat in 
Honduras "was conceived and organised by unscrupulous characters on the 
far-right - officials who had been in the confidence of George W. Bush 
and were promoted by him"... I then indicated that the Yankee base at 
Soto Cano [Honduras] had provided the main backup to the coup and that 
"the idea of a peace initiative from Costa Rica was transmitted to the 
president of that country [Oscar Arias] from the State Department when 
Obama was in Moscow and was declaring at a Russian university that the 
only president of Honduras was Manuel Zelaya."

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From james.irldaly at ntlworld.com  Wed Oct  7 07:39:52 2009
From: james.irldaly at ntlworld.com (james daly)
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 14:39:52 +0100
Subject: [A-List] STATE DEPT DAILY BRIEFING - Honduras - October 5, 2009
Message-ID: <5737ED57225D4818B9C2D8EAAD72E34A@home9sg93n9r5y>



STATE DEPT DAILY BRIEFING - Honduras - October 5, 2009
Posted to CN
by: "Walter Lippmann" walterlx at earthlink.net   walterlx
Mon Oct 5, 2009 2:29 pm (PDT)


Daily Press Briefings : Daily Press Briefing - October 5
Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:49:34 -0500

Ian Kelly
Department Spokesman
Daily Press Briefing
Washington, DC
October 5, 2009


QUESTION: Ian?

MR. KELLY: Dave??????s got one question.

QUESTION: Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen, ranking Republican on the Foreign 
Affairs Committee of the House, is going to meet Micheletti, the de facto 
president of Honduras. Can we assume that that comes against the wishes of 
the Administration?

MR. KELLY: Well, I mean, it??????s not for us to tell members of Congress 
what to do. I mean, you probably saw over the weekend that Senator DeMint 
went to Tegucigalpa on ?????? I guess it was on Friday, and along with 
Representative Roskam ?????? Representatives Roskam, Lamborn, and Shock. 
They met with members of de facto regime, the Supreme Court, the Supreme 
Election Tribunal, and also with some members of civil society. Those 
meetings were arranged directly with the de facto regime. The U.S. Embassy 
did not set them up.

And I would imagine it would be the same thing for Congresswoman 
Ros-Lehtinen too. We do provide logistical support, as we always do, for 
visiting members of Congress in terms of transportation and security 
protection and things like that. But we didn??????t have involvement in 
setting up these meetings.

QUESTION: In general, do you take the dim view of actions that would seem to 
convey recognition on Micheletti?

MR. KELLY: Well, you know what our policy is. And the policy of the 
Executive Branch is that we don??????t recognize the de facto regime down 
there. But our focus is on coming to a resolution of this conflict between 
the duly elected President Zelaya and this de facto regime. So that??????s 
where our focus is. There??????s a OAS mission that??????s scheduled to 
arrive there on the 7th. And this is all part of, as I say, where our focus 
is ?????? trying to find a negotiated solution.

QUESTION: So the Embassy did provide these visiting lawmakers with transport 
?????? they picked them up at the airport and --

MR. KELLY: That??????s my understanding.

QUESTION: -- ferried them around town?

MR. KELLY: Yeah. Mm-hmm.

QUESTION: So they drove them to these meetings?

MR. KELLY: (Laughter.) Where are you going with this, Matt?

QUESTION: I??????m just curious.

MR. KELLY: I believe so. That??????s my understanding.

QUESTION: But on the idea that you??????re continuing to call for a 
negotiated solution, we really don??????t hear that much about the call for 
President Zelaya to return to finish out his term. I mean, is that still 
your position?

MR. KELLY: Absolutely.

QUESTION: For the remainder of his term? Or isn??????t it true that 
you??????re trying to find a way where he can come in for like, five minutes 
and then get --

MR. KELLY: Well, I don??????t know. The leading role is the OAS here. And 
our position has been unwavering that we support the return of the 
democratically elected president.

QUESTION: For the remainder of his full term?

MR. KELLY: You know ??????

QUESTION: That was your position about a month ago.

MR. KELLY: Well, I don??????t know if it was our position. But we support 
the OAS effort in this regard. And the O ?????? and there is unanimous 
opinion among the OAS as well that we need to restore the constitutionally, 
democratically elected president.

QUESTION: But not for the full term, though.

MR. KELLY: Well, that??????s all being worked out. I would assume it??????s 
the full term, but it??????s an OAS issue next.

QUESTION: Thank you.



From nmgoro at gmail.com  Wed Oct  7 08:28:23 2009
From: nmgoro at gmail.com (Nestor Gorojovsky)
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:28:23 -0300
Subject: [A-List] Arg banksters
In-Reply-To: <86b3ml$14po12@ipo3smtp.cc.utah.edu>
References: <86b655$65v0g2@ipo4smtp.cc.utah.edu>	<82b839ea0910060448l691b3e59y15262768c5cbbf0a@mail.gmail.com>
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Message-ID: <4ACCA587.4080107@gmail.com>

Todd Boyle escribi?:

> monetary inflation is actually good for the little guy, 
> imo, if we play our cards right and work a little bit.   Dollar 
> deflation is murder, in comparison.  Other than the fact it forces 
> people entirely out of the corporate system which can be good, if it 
> continues a long time... As we've seen many times including Argentina, 
> the banksters pretty quitkly realize they're losing the grip on the 
> whole country if the country abandons its currency and banking system, 
> so, they always want to relent and liberalize it.  They even have to 
> force their noncooperating other banks into coordinated action, to save 
> their industry.

a) we are waging a strong, and eventual (& hopeful) ly victorious war 
against the concentrated media in Argentina. After this law passes the 
Senate, which will most probably happen Friday next, the government will 
confront the financial system, where the regulations date back to the 
murderous banksters-oligarchs-gorilla dictatorship of 1976.

b) could you please expand on what does the Argentina exampel have to 
add to our knowledge of the ways of the banksters? Maybe I am wrong, but 
if I understand you well I am afraid your interpretation is a bit 
misleading.


From noreply at coha.org  Wed Oct  7 07:43:03 2009
From: noreply at coha.org (Council on Hemispheric Affairs)
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 09:43:03 -0400
Subject: [A-List] Prospects for a Resurgent Cuban Tourism Market
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From suzannedk at gmail.com  Wed Oct  7 10:28:52 2009
From: suzannedk at gmail.com (Suzanne de Kuyper)
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 18:28:52 +0200
Subject: [A-List] Fwd: The Dollar's Death
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Suzanne de Kuyper <suzannedk at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 6:23 PM
Subject: The Dollar's Death
To: fergiewghitney at msn.com


Sorry I did not use your title for the article.  The definitive move away
from the dollar is well under way now and for some time.  Washington's big
stick is nuclear and, as it's complete support of anything Israel does
shows, Washington is more than merciless if it's way is blocked, including
the desruction of the country involved, see Iran  You write that the dollar
excersizes soft tyranny.  I beg to differ, there is nothing soft about it.
The blocking of vital sales to foreign countries of parts of G.M. show the
reluctance of foreign countries to become embroiled in U.S. Government
supported monopolies. They tend to absorb their saviors  And, under U.S. War
Powers Laws, G.M. being a contributor to U.S. Homeland Security, any buyer
of a 'spin-off' is treading shark-infested waters.

This financial crisis seems almost the perfect set-up for the U.S. to avoid
repaying what it owes China and Japan as it keeps the dollar low, low, (less
interest) and then uses any funds it can find or print to beef up NATO
expansion encircling the E.U. and Russia, rather than save the peoples in
it's own country.

The Financial Times of London wrote about the basket of currencies being
necessary to replace the dollar more than two years ago.  When a paper of
great world coverage sends out a column like this of earthshaking importance
you have to know that the change has been fiercely debated for years before
by biggies.   Is in process now, sir.

sincerely, suzannedk at gmail.com   Amsterdam NL
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From shimogamo at ashisuto.co.jp  Thu Oct  8 03:42:18 2009
From: shimogamo at ashisuto.co.jp (Bill Totten)
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 18:42:18 +0900
Subject: [A-List] World War Three Anybody?
Message-ID: <20091008184218.df7c555b.shimogamo@ashisuto.co.jp>

Clusterfuck Nation 

by James Howard Kunstler 

Comment on current events by the author of 
The Long Emergency (2005) 

www.kunstler.com (October 05 2009) 

When Alan Greenspan predicted three percent economic growth showing
up in the reported figures for the third quarter of 2009, did he
mean executive compensation packages? Maybe the lesson here is:
don't ask a crackhead to predict the future supply of crack.
Greenspan's greatest success may be to drive economics into such
disrepute that it will be cut loose from the universities and only
be taught by mail order or internet subscription from the same
outfits that offer PhD's in astrology. That is, before the
universities themselves go broke. 

The predicament that the USA finds itself will not be "solved" at
the scale of operation that we're accustomed to, and we should just
stop wasting precious time and dwindling resources in the idle hope
that it will be. The failure to recognize this dynamic is the most
impressive part of the meltdown. The only thing that the federal
government is likely to prove in the process is the ineffectiveness
of its actions as applied to any of the raging current problems
from the killing burden of hyper-debt to the brushfires of
geopolitics. Congress will only make the health care system more
complex. Both congress and President Obama will do everything
possible to keep housing prices unaffordable - in a quixotic effort
to protect the collateral of the big banks. Capital will continue
to vanish in the black hole of default. 

Something's got to give in the remaining three months of 2009. My
guess is that attention will shift overseas for a while. This will
not be due, as many probably think, to a cynical effort by the
government to divert attention from the financial fiasco, but
because the intrinsic tensions in the Middle East are reaching the
snapping point. Iran is being called out on its nuclear program.
If, from the start, it had just maintained the need for electric
generating power in the face of dwindling fossil fuel reserves,
they might have gone unchallenged. As it happened, though, the
elected leader of Iran made too many intemperate remarks about
wiping other nations off the face of the earth, and this has only
prompted the leaders of other nations to take his remarks at face
value and presume that Iran's nuclear program was devoted to
armaments, not electric power generation. 

So, now the USA has picked up the gauntlet. If Iran doesn't act to
demonstrate the de-activation of its bomb-making capacity, then the
USA will try to impose sanctions depriving Iran of necessary
imported supplies. (Iran actually imports gasoline, due to
inadequate refineries.) For sanctions to be effective, support will
be required by other nations, including Iran's chief gasoline
supplier, China. What a delicate calculus this will be! I rather
imagine that China would not like to see the Middle East blow up.
I'm not so sure about the nations of the Middle East though, or at
least major parties in certain nations. The rulers of Saudi Arabia
would probably enjoy seeing Iran get into big trouble, since Iran
is Saudi Arabia's most active antagonist, working tirelessly to
destabilize the Kingdom. Al Qaeda interests dispersed in many
nations would certainly cheer any mayhem. The Taliban would love
anything that takes the spotlight off them in Afghanistan. The
Russians are conflicted between the wish to enhance their own
leverage in world affairs and their need to discipline Islamic
maniacs along their own borders. Europe is probably scared to death
of anything that might threaten their energy lifeline. Pakistan is
too tormented to have a position, but its radical Islamist factions
are probably on the side of disorder - as the best remedy for the
status quo. If any of that spills over on India, as in the Mumbai
bombing, then that flashpoint could turn to conflagration very
quickly. We forget about Turkey, which was the hegemonic player in
the region for centuries until its swift decline after 1914, but it
has potent military capability and very mixed feelings about the
the Jihad to ruin the West (since it is partly of the West). And
finally there is Israel, the object of Iran's intemperate public
statements. 

This is a dangerous situation. I'm not so sure that Israel could
launch an effective attack on Iran's nuclear infrastructure, but it
might try anyway, especially if a US-backed sanctions effort fails
to coalesce quickly. I'm not sure Israel would seek permission from
the US to do this, though the US would certainly be tasked with
defending the shipping lanes in the Persian Gulf. Iran might
succeed in sinking more than a couple of US ships-of-the-line with
sunburn missles and other toys, and this would lead to the bigger
danger of oil supplies being choked off to the rest of the world.
The US air response would be impressive, but possibly not effective
against hardened targets. The leaders of Iran might exult even if
the Iranian people were swept into a maelstrom. I imagine that what
followed would be a very extravagant military frenzy amounting to
World War Three, with European air forces and navies dragged in,
with Hezbollah and Syria striking back at Israel, India and
Pakistan possibly incinerating each other, and mayhem galore among
the bystanders in Iraq, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Afghanistan. There
could easily be internal mischief in the UK, France, and Germany
from angry immigrant populations, and "sleepers" could work some
overdue hoodoo in the USA. I don't know what Turkey would do, but
it could be the biggest beneficiary of a bad regional meltdown,
providing the only effective governance what remains in the region.
China and Japan would probably just gape at the spectacle in wonder
and nausea from the sidelines as they saw their energy supplies for
years-to-come go up in flames. 

The G-20 nations would be crippled as global oil supplies were
choked off indefinitely. And if anyone - Iran, or its friends
inside the Kingdom - managed to pull off a stunt such as blowing up
the Ras Tanura oil terminal - then a darkness will spread across
places that were used to being lighted and they will stay dark a
long time. 

I don't know if any of this will come to pass, but as I said,
tensions have reached a breaking point, including the greater
tensions of history, which seem to require periodic release no
matter how poignant the Pete Seegar songs are. It is perhaps, just
another prime symptom of "overshoot", the world's way of shedding
some of the toxic organisms that are making it so unhappy - Gaia in
a really bad mood. 

If nothing develops along these lines on the geopolitical scene,
the USA is still stuck in its predicament of trying desperately to
maintain an overscaled living arrangement, with no coherent public
discussion of downscaling, re-scaling, or re-arranging things. My
guess is that this kind of restructuring only occurs when all other
options have been exhausted. The last time the USA found itself in
an intractable economic morass, World War Two came along and it
made things all better here (after considerable sacrifice for us
and catastrophe elsewhere). After World War Two, we ruled the world
for a couple of generations. The outcome of World War Three would
not be so favorable for us. At the very least, it would leave us
attempting to run things on about one-quarter of the oil we're used
to. That does not suggest a seamless transition between how we
behave now and how the future will require us to behave
differently. 

_____ 

My new novel of the post-oil future, World Made By Hand, is
available at all booksellers. 

http://kunstler.com/blog/2009/10/world-war-three-anybody.html


http://www.billtotten.blogspot.com
http://www.ashisuto.co.jp


From cb31450 at gmail.com  Thu Oct  8 05:06:39 2009
From: cb31450 at gmail.com (c b)
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 07:06:39 -0400
Subject: [A-List] Tens of thousands denied personal freedom by private
	property system
Message-ID: <5c2e4d230910080406s6c1f1997qc441e2877dfc6649@mail.gmail.com>

Posted: Oct. 8, 2009

Cobo a scene of desperation
Social service agencies are bracing for more troubles
BY TAMMY STABLES BATTAGLIA and MATT HELMS
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITERS


The economic tsunami washing over metro Detroit swept its casualties
to the doors of Cobo Center on Wednesday in the form of 35,000 people
so desperate for help with mortgage and utility bills that threats
were made, fights broke out and people were nearly trampled.

Some were treated by emergency medical workers on site.

It was one of the most dramatic signs to date of how deeply
joblessness and the home foreclosure crisis have pushed people from
the lower and middle ends of the economic scale to seek help wherever
they can.

City officials said a total of about 65,000 people over the past few
days have gotten applications -- due next Wednesday -- for a share of
$15.2 million in federal stimulus money to help people avoid
foreclosure or quickly rebound from homelessness.

Ultimately, as few as 3,500 people may receive the help.

Area social service agencies worry the problem will worsen because of
lingering economic woes and the masses of people who could soon run
out of unemployment benefits.

Racquel Sawyers, 35, a laid-off engineer for General Motors and
Chrysler, went home after seeing the crush at Cobo. "I'm just trying
to do what I can right now," she said.

Kelli Phillips tries to make the numbers work: $650 a month for rent,
$300 to $500 a month to heat her old house, plus food for her and her
boys, ages 6 and 17.


The unemployed office worker does it all on $1,000 a month, plus
"borrowing, doing odd jobs," said Phillips, 42, of Detroit. "I clean
houses for people."


That's why she stood in the chaos of thousands lined up outside Cobo
Center on Wednesday, hoping for a chance at $3,000 in assistance
through a Detroit housing and utility payment program funded through
the federal stimulus program.


The huge lines were a sobering glimpse into the deep economic trouble
in metro Detroit, but they were no surprise to social service agencies
struggling to provide food, clothing, utility and housing assistance
to people living in the state with the nation's highest unemployment
rate -- 15.2% in August -- and a city where joblessness is approaching
30%.


Folks are out of work, out of money and running out of hope.


"People seem to be falling between the cracks of government programs
that are supposed to help them," said Kristin Seefeldt, a research
scientist for the National Poverty Center at the University of
Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.


Seefeldt, who is following 45 low-income Detroit women for a study on
the recession's impact on poor people, said the group is a microcosm
of what's happening across the state and country. They're losing jobs
and having a hard time finding new ones. More than half owe money to
utility companies, ranging from $200 to several thousand, that they're
unable to pay because groceries, rent and food come first.


"They may be able to keep up with current payments, but there's always
this back debt that they owe," Seefeldt said. "People are struggling.
They're really struggling. Although, I would say many of them would
say, 'At least I have a roof over my head.' "


Metro Detroit's economic troubles are severe. Michigan unemployment
was at 15.2% in August -- and 27.8% in Detroit proper.


"You have to go back to the 1982 recession to find unemployment levels
at or above the levels we're at in 2009," said Bruce Weaver, an
economic analyst for the state's Department of Energy, Labor and
Economic Growth.


Weaver said the state lost 330,000 nonfarm jobs between August 2008
and August 2009, a 7.9% drop. Of those, 142,000 were in manufacturing,
a 25% drop in that sector.


Social service agencies say they're swamped with requests for aid.


"It's probably the worst hunger crisis we've seen in our history,"
said Anne Schenk, spokeswoman for Detroit's Gleaners Community Food
Bank, the state's largest food bank, serving five counties in
southeast Michigan.


Schenk said charitable groups are bracing for even more troubles as
the long-term jobless run out of unemployment benefits -- as many as
50,000 in the next few months in Michigan if the federal government
doesn't approve an extension.


"That, we're anticipating, is going to throw a lot more families into
poverty," Schenk said. "It's going to happen three months from now, or
six months from now, or within the year. We are looking at every
strategy available to us to get more food and get it out" to agencies
that provide food directly.


Heading into 2009, Michigan was already in bad shape. According to
U.S. Census Bureau estimates for 2008, 1.4 million Michiganders lived
below the poverty line, about 14% of the state's population. In
Detroit, the number was 33%. The bureau puts the poverty level at
about $22,000 in yearly household income for a family of four.


Bill Sullivan, director of 211, the services hotline of United Way for
Southeastern Michigan, said the region is being jolted by job losses
and a culture and society that are unsustainable.


"What we saw at Cobo today is nothing new" to people struggling to get
by, Sullivan said. "It's new to everyone else. The people who are most
affected by a lack of jobs, what they experienced today is what they
experience every day on a certain level."


Robyn Smith, community relations director for the Coalition on
Temporary Shelter, said the tremendous crush of people didn't sadden
her.


"I'm happy because there's something available," she said as she
collected filled-out applications from a doorway guarded by a Detroit
police officer to keep people from slipping in. COTS provides 44,000
shelter nights a year to the city's homeless people, about 40%
families and about half working poor people.


People fainted and others fought as police tried to keep people calm
and cooperative in line at Cobo, with some waiting since Tuesday
night. By 11:45 a.m., Detroit Mayor Dave Bing's office sent out word
for people to stay away.


Inside Cobo, lines led up to a crush of people outside the Riverview
Ballroom, where Detroit Planning & Development employees were to hand
out applications. At about 10:30 a.m., a shoving match broke out in
the crowd, and many of the people bolted away.


"It's a disaster here," City Council candidate Gary Brown said. Brown,
a former Detroit Police assistant chief, handed out bottles of water
to those in line. "This is dangerous. Very unorganized, very
dangerous."


Police said only a few people were hospitalized for medical issues or
minor injuries in the skirmishing.


Camille Lewis and Lakia Montgomery, both 25 and longtime friends,
moved in together to save money after Lewis was laid off from her
Aramark job cooking at Cobo and Montgomery was let go from an adult
foster care position.


"When that happened, we had to move in together," Lewis said. "That's
what's making it easier."



Contact MATT HELMS: 313-222-1450 or mhelms at freepress.com. Free Press
data analyst Kristi Tanner contributed to this report.


From cb31450 at gmail.com  Thu Oct  8 05:54:47 2009
From: cb31450 at gmail.com (c b)
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 07:54:47 -0400
Subject: [A-List] Michaels, Against Diversity
Message-ID: <5c2e4d230910080454ta998c72n958aeed02e5c3fd6@mail.gmail.com>

"Is the relevant thing about all those people abandoned in New Orleans
the fact that they are black or the fact that they are poor. We like
blaming racism, but the truth is there weren't too many rich black
people left behind when everybody who could get out of New Orleans did
so. The Republican party policies that left the poor behind were not
racist, and economic inequality in American society has grown under
Democratic presidents as well as Republicans. That doesn't mean, of
course, that racism didn't play a role in New Orleans. It just means
that in a society without any racial discrimination, there still would
have been poor people who couldn't find their way out of New Orleans.
Whereas in a society without poor people (even a racist society
without poor people) there wouldn't have been." (p 79)

^^^^^^^^
CB:  The evidence that US society in 2009 is racist is that in most
categories of quantity and quality of life Red, Brown and Black people
are worse off statistically than White people.  Life
expectancy/mortality, morbidity, income, net worth, level of
educational attainment, employment/unemployment, billionaires,
millionaires, supervisery positions, executive positions, living near
abandoned buildings , drug houses, and illegal dumping, living near
environmental pollutants,  et al. Until those gross and trenchant
discrepancies go away, "racism do exist" as Coleman Young once put it.
Also, this is why anti-affirmative action is racist, because, what
other way but through some form of affirmative action will this
structure of racist discrimination be deconstructed ?

On another dimension here, to understand the distinction between
"personal" racism and structural racism, consider Supreme Court
Justice Clarence Thomas, who is "personally" Black.  He is more of a
structural racist or done more to perpetuate structural racism than
99% of White people.  I want to say he has done more to continue
structural racism than 100% of the Ku Klux Klan, but George Bush ,
William Rehnquist, et al. may be or have been members of the KKK.
Anyway, I don't know that Thomas is personally prejudice against Black
people ,though that is not impossible. No matter if he is, because his
major role in making the racist reverse
discrimination/anti-affirmative action doctrine the law of the land
means he has done more to keep structural racism than the most racist
average white person. Ward Connerly is another example. He organized
the initiative in Michigan and elsewhere to make affirmative action
unconstitutional.

Even GM and the Pentagon opposed outlawing affirmative action, which
poses an interesting historical development question for the basic
Marxist formulation concerning racism as a main divider of the working
class. Perhaps this development suggests what to do with all the
attention on this thread and elsewhere to the "separation" of rich and
middle class Black people from working class and poor Black people.
Maybe  now the bourgeoisie scheme to leave the working class divided
by race, and further divide Black people from each other on top of
that. They want to minimize the possibility of future Angela Davises,
Malcolm X's and ML Kings (and O's, smile).

On the identity of racism and imperialism/colonialism, and workers of
all countries failing to unite and failing to lose their chains,
Europe seems to be now backing historically into an Americanization,
as the rightwing rises there on the prejudice and racism of white
working masses against darker peoples going "home" to their former
colonialist metropoles.


From tal1 at cogeco.ca  Thu Oct  8 14:07:13 2009
From: tal1 at cogeco.ca (Tony B.)
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 16:07:13 -0400
Subject: [A-List] The NATO First Act of the United States
Message-ID: <05432654E40243A2BB466F46F61EBB9F@TonyPC>



http://www.redress.cc/global/cking20091008





Europe is under imminent threat



The NATO First Act of the United States
By Christopher King

8 October 2009

Christopher King analyses the current state of relations between Europe and 
the United States. He argues that the US military presence in Europe, and 
the transformation of NATO into an American tool, is tantamount to military 
occupation and is an obstacle to the development of pan-European and 
European-Russian relations.

The spectacular carnage and destruction of Iraq and Afghanistan have 
distracted our attention from the big picture, of which these appear to be a 
relatively small part.

Sometimes we have to adopt a new view of our world and this is one of those 
times. Because of the secrecy, propaganda and lies that now characterize our 
governments it is necessary to work backwards from their actions in the 
public domain to determine the truth. I wish to offer three data points that 
fit into the trend of the USA?s undisguised primary objective ? to be the 
dominant military power in the world. This was reiterated by President 
Barack Obama at Annapolis Naval Academy (New York Times, 22 May 2009, speech 
text p.3, penultimate paragraph)

These items of data are:
The Polish/Czech missile system
The current Middle Eastern wars
The NATO First Act of the United States
US military bases in Europe ? an occupation in all but name
The Polish/Czech missile system was supposed to defend Europe and the United 
States against missiles from Iran and other unspecified rogue states. No-one 
believed this rubbish spouted by Condoleezza Rice, among others, and the 
reaction of the Polish and Czech governments to its cancellation proved the 
lie. They were aimed at Russia and everyone knew it. But why? The Russians 
were threatening no-one, they had embraced a market economy and wanted 
acceptance by the international community.

Let?s review a little history. When the Soviet Union collapsed and Russia 
adopted the market economy that the US and Europe wanted it to, NATO 
suddenly had no reason to exist. It wasn?t just that military jobs and 
careers would vanish together with lucrative arms contracts and the 
industries that supplied them. There was no longer any reason to keep US 
military bases in Europe.

In contemplating the changed order in Europe it would be evident that Russia 
would become more important economically to the European Union than the US. 
Russia had gas, mineral resources and markets ripe for development to offer 
Europe. These would complement perfectly European industries and technology. 
If the expanding EU and Russia should merge economically, an economic and 
military superstate would result. From a US viewpoint this would be highly 
undesirable.

US strategists would have quickly realized that, by virtue of its bases, the 
US had since 1945 governed all Euro-Russian relationships. The European 
contribution to NATO?s firepower was insignificant compared with US nuclear 
weapons installed in Europe. If US bases were removed, the ability to govern 
European-Russian relations would be lost. How to keep them? The answer: new 
enemies were needed.

The 9/11 attack on the World Trade Centre, Osama Bin Laden?s lever to get 
the US out of Saudi Arabia, was therefore a gift. It enabled the US to enrol 
NATO in a totally irrelevant and disproportionate attack on the Afghan 
Taliban, who had nothing to do with it and later, Saddam Hussein and Iraq on 
wholly false and illegal grounds. False allegations about Iran?s nuclear 
programme could also generate a simmering discord that could be escalated at 
any time, with the possible prize of direct control of both Iraqi and 
Iranian oil. In the event, the conquests of Iraq and Afghanistan have been 
more difficult than anticipated, with extensions to Pakistan. But no matter. 
Enemies aplenty, too weak to threaten the US, had been found. European 
politicians such as Anthony Blair and Nicholas Sarkozy whose personal 
interests (Blair, money; Sarkozy, Israel) lay with the US, were happy to 
have NATO participate in this. Sarkozy brought France, which had always 
promoted an independent European force, into NATO for this purpose.

Europe through NATO, therefore, currently provides:
A fig-leaf of legitimacy to the fictitious US ?war against terror?
Manpower for the USA?s territorial and oil grab as well as future adventures
A rationale for the retention of US bases in Europe
A European force within Europe controlled by the US
Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union NATO has undergone subtle but 
important structural changes. Prior to that event, US and European armed 
forces were substantially separate and were directly controlled by their 
various governments. Following the USSR?s collapse, European NATO forces 
have become integrated with US forces. NATO itself has become a 
political-military entity substantially independent of European 
governments ? but not of that of the US.

NATO?s Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, is American ? General James L. 
Jones. This has always been an American post. For purposes of public 
perceptions, Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, former prime minister 
of Denmark, is the face of NATO in Europe. Rasmussen is a puppet because the 
official structure of NATO is a sham. It is equivalent to the ?independent? 
forces of Iraq and Afghanistan which have been set up to act for the US. 
Command of NATO forces also lies with the US. As in Iraq and Afghanistan, 
real military power in European NATO countries lies in the United States 
bases on their territory rather than with their governments.

The US transformation of NATO enables the US to train, identify and promote 
those European armed services personnel who are willing to identify with US 
objectives and who can be relied on to act in US interests within Europe. We 
have seen this in Georgia where NATO and Israel trained and armed the troops 
who invaded South Ossetia as the recent EU report makes clear. This was 
clearly a US/NATO-inspired provocation of Russia that was seized on by the 
pro-US media and politicians as unprovoked Russian aggression.

Similarly, the 28 June coup in Honduras was carried out by officers who had 
been trained at the School of the Americas, a military training college for 
South American officers at Fort Benning, Columbus, Georgia (USA). Almost 
every South American coup leader and dictator has been trained there. 
Graduates of Fort Benning return to their countries but maintain links with 
the US. This is the channel for US subversion of South American governments. 
Its manuals, released in error, teach techniques in subversion and terrorism 
generally ? use of explosives, kidnapping, murder, false imprisonment, 
targeting family members, torture and motivation by fear.

The Honduras coup appears to have surprised the Obama administration. If so, 
elements of the US military are undertaking foreign policy initiatives 
independently of the administration. Honduras has a US army base at 
Tegucigalpa.

In Europe, the US has bases in all NATO countries and, among other things, 
is training the armies of Georgia, which provoked Russia to military action, 
and Ukraine, which cut off gas supplies to Europe during the winter of 
2008/9, probably on US prompting. The US is pressing for admittance of these 
reckless governments to NATO. It is duplicating in European armies the 
process of gaining loyalty to US interests that it undertakes at the School 
of the Americas in respect of the armies of Latin American countries.

US bases are the wide open back doors for CIA kidnapping and transfer of 
prisoners for torture, assassination, import of weapons and entry of 
personnel and money for clandestine purposes within Europe or in transit to 
other unfortunate countries and political subversion. They have the ability 
to provoke Russia and if necessary use force within Europe itself if 
European governments should seek to act against the USA?s perceptions of its 
interests. There is no good reason whatsoever for the US to have bases on 
European soil, or none that benefit Europe. They could certainly be used to 
protect the United States from enemies that it creates but only at heavy 
cost to Europe. These bases make Europe merely a pawn in the USA?s defence, 
from which Europe receives nothing whatsoever.

There is reason to believe that the US was involved in ?popular? uprisings 
or campaigns in Serbia, Georgia, Belarus and Ukraine, according the the 
Guardian. Can you imagine what the US reaction would be to another country 
orchestrating an uprising or political campaign against the US government? 
US embassies and bases are pustules of deadly infection in any country that 
hosts them.

Now, I have described the current European situation in which the US does 
exactly as it pleases for its own benefit, particularly agreements with 
Poland and the Czech Republic to install a missile system that everyone 
knows is aimed at and intended to provoke Russia. Recently, President Obama 
announced that this proposed system is cancelled.
One might think that this is a wonderful thing and, in itself, that is true. 
The chronology up to this point is:
8 August 2008: Georgia invades South Ossetia with NATO encouragement (Bush)
14 August 2008: Missile deal agreed with Poland and Czechs (Bush)
7 January 2009: Ukraine cuts off Russian gas to Europe and US blames Russia 
(Bush)
20 January 2009: Obama inaugurated
10 June 2009: NATO First Act
presented to Congress and currently in Committee
17 September: Obama tells the Polish prime minister that missile shield is 
cancelled.
The NATO First Act
The NATO First Act appears to be a hangover from the Bush years and it is 
not clear how it got to Congress in its present state given Obama?s 
subsequent cancellation of the Polish and Czech missile installations, since 
these are contained in it. One cannot imagine, however, that Obama would be 
pleased to have inherited Bush?s Middle Eastern wars as well as a new cold 
war with Russia, a country that could really do serious harm to the US.
Obama is doubtless perfectly happy with the Bush regime?s empire objectives 
that are consistent with standing US policy, but as a saner, more 
intelligent man, probably considers that they have gone too far with Russia. 
The missile shield and other nonsense on Russia?s border needlessly endanger 
the US and upsets Europe. Control of NATO and the appearance of cooperation 
with Russia will do just as well.

The NATO First Act therefore gives authorization to arms supplies to NATO 
and partner countries, missiles for Poland and the Czech Republic and 
cooperation with Russia on missile data and arms reduction. The key element 
of the act, however, is this (section 2):
US bases in Europe cannot be closed other than:
(a) by request of the host government or
(b) authorization by Congress.
The US has always been able to bribe decadent Europeans to do whatever it 
wants, so the first possibility for closing US bases can be dismissed. It?s 
the second part that?s interesting. It?s quite extraordinary of, course, 
that the US president, the commander-in-chief, can?t close down a US base if 
he wants to.

Congress is required to authorize closure of European bases in order to 
prevent any lily-livered chicken president who can?t stomach a punch-up with 
unreconstructed commies or effete Europeans, giving up US bases and 
lessening control of Europe. Any such presidential request to Congress will 
give ample opportunity to muster counter-pressure. Europe is going to stay 
welded hip and shoulder to the USA and you?d better believe it.

The purpose of this US legislation is to make the structure of the present 
US bases in Europe permanent, according to Doug Bandow, senior fellow of the 
Cato Institute and this is obviously its main aim. Sally McNamara of the 
Heritage Foundation claims that it will advance trans-Atlantic security, by 
which she means US security. She likes Bush?s bold initiatives in gaining 
missile sites in Eastern Europe, although why is difficult to imagine.

To ensure that Europe?s defence relies on the US, the two independent 
European strategic forces, the UK and France, have had their nuclear 
arsenals downgraded to the tactical level by Blair/Brown and Sarkozy. This 
means that the UK and France no longer have inter-continental hydrogen 
fusion armed missiles, although they do have short-range, low yield fission 
weapons (your basic atom bomb). It also means that the UK and France cannot 
threaten the US. Or indeed its proxy, Israel, some of whose belligerants 
have suggested that they could attack Europe if necessary. Europe?s teeth 
have been pulled.

I had originally thought that the Eastern European missiles were some sort 
of diversion from the Middle Eastern wars. They were, in fact, clumsy 
Bush-Cheney over-kill that revealed their true objectives ? consolidation of 
the armed occupation of Europe.

Far from having a ?special relationship? with the US, the UK and Europe have 
been subjected to armed occupation by corrupt politicians. The talk of 
?special relationship? is flattery by the US and self-deception by our weak 
politicians. We see the US at work in Eastern Europe. The notion that US 
bases are in Europe for its protection, that the US and Europe are equal 
partners in NATO is nonsense. Europe is as occupied by the US as Iraq or 
Afghanistan and NATO will do as the US wishes, just as the forces of Iraq 
and Afghanistan do. NATO countries will from now on have no independent 
forces. The appearance of European independence is wholly illusory.
High treason
A useful expression comes to mind here. It is high treason. High treason is 
defined in the UK as, briefly, a crime by one owing allegiance to the Crown 
who seeks to depose, injure or wage war against the Crown or to aid the 
Queen?s enemies within her realm. This includes collaboration with an 
invading foreign power. One can as easily identify an invading foreign 
power, whether in the UK, Europe or Iraq and Afghanistan. It constitutes 
armed foreigners on one?s territory when they have no business being there. 
The US has demonstrated in Eastern Europe that its forces are in Europe to 
foster trouble. More than that, they are here to control Europe.

There will always be traitors willing to collude with the enemy. The Nazis 
found and used them; the Palestinians have them in Mahmoud Abbas who at this 
moment does not recognize the Goldstone Report condemning Israel?s war 
crimes; the US has found them in Europe and the UK. Many identified 
themselves by ranting about Russia?s aggression in South Ossetia. Gordon 
Brown and David Milliband, our foreign minister, come to mind.

You might say, ?But the USA has always been our friend. It helped us during 
the last two great wars and helped hold the line against the Soviet Union. 
Generally speaking, that has been true and it has been in the USA?s interest 
to be our friend. Even before the Soviet Union collapsed, however, it was 
the source of subversion and a friend to dictators all over South America 
and indeed, the world. It overthrew the democratic Iranian Mossadeq 
government and installed the Shah in order to control Iranian oil. Now we 
have its promotion of nuclear armed Israel that established itself by 
stealing Palestinian land and continues to do so; there are the wars and 
destruction in Iraq and Afghanistan based on naked lies, the beginnings of 
Pakistan?s destabilization, provocation of Russia from within Europe itself 
with the South Ossetia debacle, the Polish/Czech missile shield now 
cancelled and the Ukrainian gas crisis that Ukraine would never have 
undertaken without US backup. Then there is state-approved torture, 
kidnapping even from Europe and the flouting of the Geneva Convention and 
all conception of civilized law in its Guantanamo Bay torture facility. 
Complete innocents are still imprisoned there, seven months after Obama?s 
inauguration. Nine innocent Uighurs are being sent to the prison island of 
Palau after seven years there. Then there is the school for subversion and 
terrorism at Fort Benning.
USA ? the sort of country Europe should have as a friend?
Really, is this the sort of country that we should have as our friend? Do we 
really trust its army bases and nuclear weapons on European soil? It is 
simply impossible that a country that behaves like this can be anyone?s 
friend. It only acts in its own interests and cares nothing for the 
suffering it causes to others. To the US, every problem has only a military 
solution. All it ever offers to other countries are bribes, weapons and 
trouble. Europeans who imagine that the US is their friend are gravely 
deluded.

Europe needs to wake up to the enemy currently established within it. There 
is no threat of missiles to Europe; any threat of terrorism arises from 
collaboration with the US in its Middle Eastern atrocities. There is no 
reason whatsoever to keep US bases on European territory. The NATO First Act 
is consolidation of the USA?s stranglehold on Europe, which it clearly 
signals. A failed, bankrupt state, a failed social experiment itself, the US 
now wishes to parasitize Europe and prevent Europe?s independent development 
in concert with Russia. Europe and Russia need each other for future 
security and development. Neither needs the United States.

Despite the NATO First Act?s immense importance to Europe, it is attracting 
no attention whatsoever. As I write, only 162 persons have read the text on 
the Congress website in the last five months. Those Europeans who are 
interested in preserving their freedom of self-determination should interest 
themselves in it, choose governments willing to detach from NATO, form a 
Euro-force and prepare to defend Europe.



Christopher King is a retired consultant and lecturer in management and 
marketing. He lives in London, UK.








From tal1 at cogeco.ca  Thu Oct  8 14:07:37 2009
From: tal1 at cogeco.ca (Tony B.)
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 16:07:37 -0400
Subject: [A-List] U.S.-India Military Axis: Foundation For New Asian NATO
Message-ID: <80D9BF2C14884FB1B0F445580CFCA975@TonyPC>


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Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 3:22 PM
Subject: [stopnato] U.S.-India Military Axis: Foundation For New Asian NATO


  http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-10-08-voa15.cfm

Voice of America
October 8, 2009

India-US Military Relations Growing Rapidly
By Ravi Khanna

Washington: For decades, India mostly depended on, first, the Soviet Union 
and then Russia for its military supplies. But as the Cold War ended and 
India's relations with the United States began improving during Bill 
Clinton's presidency, New Delhi gradually increased its military cooperation 
with Washington.
....
Today, besides holding joint military exercises with the U.S. military, 
India has also been buying U.S. armaments worth billions of dollars.

Airborne Early Warning Air Craft, Hawkeye E-2D

The latest India-U.S. defense deal is the sale of this Airborne Early 
Warning Air Craft, Hawkeye E-2D, developed by American arms manufacturer, 
Northrop Grumman.

Woolf Gross, the corporate director at the company, says the reconnaissance 
plane has yet to be introduced in the U.S. Navy. Its sale to India, he says, 
is a symbol of how close India/U.S. military relations are.

"So they [the Indians] could have advanced Hawkeyes in India about the same 
time that the U.S. Navy becomes fully operational with the same aircraft," 
he explained.

During Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit to India in July, the two 
countries agreed on the terms of such high technology sales to India.

India's Ambassador to Washington, Meera Shankar is optimistic about future 
cooperation.

"Our militaries once unfamiliar with each other now hold regular dialog and 
joint exercises in the air and on land and sea. We coordinate anti-piracy 
efforts and have worked together on humanitarian missions. Our defense trade 
was negligible a decade ago. We placed orders worth $3.5 billion last year 
and it could grow even more in the future," Shankar said.

Since joint exercises between the two countries are expected to grow, it is 
better for India to buy equipment that is compatible with the U.S. military, 
says Walter Andersen at Johns Hopkins University. He says India imports most 
of its oil and gas and other merchandise by sea, and India is in favor of 
holding more joint naval exercises.
....
Military analysts say the ongoing military cooperation between India and the 
United States is bound to grow as India plans to spend billions of dollars 
for modernizing it defense capabilities. India, they say, is preparing for 
short term threats from Pakistan and long-term deterrence against China.
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From tal1 at cogeco.ca  Thu Oct  8 14:38:19 2009
From: tal1 at cogeco.ca (Tony B.)
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 16:38:19 -0400
Subject: [A-List] Bosnia faces collapse
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WSWS

Bosnia faces collapse
By Paul Mitchell
8 October 2009

A number of reports have pointed to the increasing threat of Bosnia and 
Herzegovina collapsing. Some have talked about the possibility of war 
breaking out.

In October 2008, former Bosnian High Representative Paddy Ashdown and 
Richard Holbrooke, now US Special Envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan, warned 
that Bosnia was a "powder keg" and "in real danger of collapse."

In February 2009, US Director of Intelligence Dennis Blair told the US 
Congress that Bosnia's survival as a multi-ethnic state was "seriously in 
doubt." The Dayton Agreement that ended the Bosnian war in 1995, Blair 
continued, had "created a decentralized political system that has entrenched 
rather than eradicated ethnic prejudices and insecurities."

The following month the International Crisis Group, which numbers former 
presidents, ministers and businessmen amongst its members, warned that the 
Dayton agreement "is arguably under the greatest threat since the war ended 
in 1995."

In May, the US Congress passed a resolution on Bosnia calling for the 
appointment of a new US special envoy to the Balkans region and for the post 
of High Representative-created by the Dayton agreement as a pro-consular 
official with ultimate authority in Bosnia-to continue. It called on the 
European Union to reconsider its plans to pull out the European peacekeeping 
force, EUFOR, which replaced the NATO-led one in December 2004. Also in May 
US Vice President Joseph Biden visited the Balkans and warned the Bosnian 
parliament not to fall back into "old patterns and ancient animosities."

Last month, professors Patrice McMahon and Jon Western warned in Foreign 
Affairs magazine that 14 years after the agreement was signed, Bosnia "now 
stands on the brink of collapse." More ominously, they say that Bosnians 
"are once again talking about the potential for war."
In their article "The Death of Dayton: How to Stop Bosnia From Falling 
Apart," McMahon and Western explain that Bosnia was once touted as "the 
poster child for international reconstruction" and received financial and 
logistical support that made the post-World War II rebuilding of Germany and 
Japan "look modest" in comparison.

By the end of 1996, they say, the country was occupied by 60,000 troops and 
the focus of reconstruction efforts by 17 different foreign governments, 18 
United Nations agencies, 27 intergovernmental organizations, and about 200 
nongovernmental organizations. Since then the country has received over $14 
billion in foreign aid, equivalent to $300 per person per year, which 
compares to $65 per person in Afghanistan. Much of that aid has vanished 
into thin air. One investigation revealed that more than $1 billion in 
aid-nearly one-fifth of the total handed out between 1996 and 1999-had 
disappeared.

Despite all this assistance, McMahon and Western complain, Bosnia's economy 
is stalled and there is huge unemployment and poverty. The country remains 
divided into the two semi-independent entities created by the Dayton 
agreement: the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, inhabited mainly by 
Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats, and the Serb-dominated Republika Srpska, 
each with its own government controlling taxation, educational policy, and 
even foreign policy. A single Bosnian army has been created, but each 
brigade is comprised of ethnically based battalions.

According to McMahon and Western, Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik is 
actively pursuing secession for Republika Srpska and Bosnian Croat 
politicians are demanding more autonomy within the Federation. Haris 
Silajdzic, the Bosnian Muslim representative in the collective presidency, 
has called for a more centralized state (there are already 160 government 
ministers) and the dissolution of Republika Srpska.

Dodik has attempted to downplay warnings of collapse and war. In a letter to 
the New York Times (September 21, 2009) he asserted that "there is 
absolutely no threat of a return to violence" and for those making "alarmist 
cries" to stop. But in the next breath he boasts that his Republika Srpska 
has survived the financial storm better than the Federation and that "We do 
not support the centralized model that some in the international community 
have sought to impose on Bosnia and Herzegovina."

At the same time Dodik was writing, Rajko Vasic, general secretary of the 
largest Serb party, the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, reacted to 
statements by the Bosnian Muslim Party of Democratic Action that the 
"patriots of Bosnia" would prevent the country's dissolution as itself "a 
direct threat of war."
Nowhere is ethnic division more defined than in the Federation capital of 
Mostar. The Croat majority now live mainly in the western part of the city, 
and the Bosnian Muslims in the east. Of the 24,000 Serbs that lived in 
Mostar before the war, only a handful remain. Many Croats have taken 
advantage of their right to Croatian citizenship to emigrate to Croatia, 
with a recent report suggesting that their number has dropped from about 
820,000 before the war to 466,000 today.
The administration of Mostar is collapsing largely as a result of attempts 
by Croat politicians to impose a Croat identity on the city. They argue that 
Sarajevo is "Muslim" and Banja Luka is "Serb," but the Croats have no 
capital of their own. As a result, there has been no mayor, budget or 
functioning city council since elections in October 2008. City workers have 
not been paid for months.

Councillors have failed on 14 separate occasions to elect a mayor or create 
any common institutions. Even a basic utility such as the Mostar water 
company operates as two parallel structures, with a Croat director and staff 
overseeing supply to the Croat west bank, while a Bosnian Muslim director 
looks after the supply to the eastern side of the city.

The situation in Bosnia is a foreign policy disaster for the US and EU and a 
tragedy for the Balkan peoples. The Balkans region was meant to be the arena 
in which the US established the ground rules and the EU would take over, 
flexing its muscles for the first time following the launch of the Common 
Security and Defence Policy a decade ago. The EU's main strategy in the 
region has been to offer the prospect of EU membership, but several EU 
member states are now opposed to further enlargement of the bloc until 
fundamental "reforms" are carried out.

Increasing numbers of people in the Balkans region are questioning the 
advantages of EU membership in a period of global recession. Bosnia has been 
forced to take out a $1.6 billion emergency loan from the International 
Monetary Fund. As a result, "structural adjustment" is to be speeded up 
involving more privatizations, wage cuts and reductions in social and 
war-related benefits-entailing what the IMF describes as "extreme public 
discomfort" and a threat to "social stability." This takes place in a 
country in which the population already suffers 27 percent unemployment and 
25 percent poverty rates.

The Western powers are largely responsible for the region's division into 
ethnically based regimes dominated by nationalists. The US and Germany in 
particular deliberately engineered Yugoslavia's break-up along ethnic lines, 
with a complete indifference to the inevitable tragic consequences of their 
intervention. It was inevitable, given the history and politics of 
Yugoslavia, that the piecemeal break-up of the federation would lead to 
civil war and create new ethnically based states incapable of providing a 
progressive solution to the problems facing the Balkan people-entrenched 
poverty, unemployment, crime and corruption.

The situation brought about by the Western powers and the nationalist 
politicians in Bosnia has led to a collapse in support for the country's 
political institutions. A recent poll showed Bosnia "outperforms all other 
[World Values Survey] transformation countries" in showing "no interest at 
all" in politics. Most young people are "outside the political process," and 
nearly 80 percent of all Bosnians feel that none of the political parties 
represent their interest.

The inability of the EU, the US and various ethnically based governments to 
solve the social disaster in the Balkans can only be resolved by the 
building of an internationalist party based on the perspective of the United 
Socialist States of the Balkans.


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From shimogamo at ashisuto.co.jp  Fri Oct  9 03:45:22 2009
From: shimogamo at ashisuto.co.jp (Bill Totten)
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 18:45:22 +0900
Subject: [A-List] Marketing in a Small Town
Message-ID: <20091009184522.8ff3acc3.shimogamo@ashisuto.co.jp>


Interview Number 3

by Dmitry Orlov

ClubOrlov (September 26 2009)

Dmitry Davydov runs a popular Russian-language blog {1}. Periodically
we correspond, and publish the correspondence. The Russian original is
at {2}.

DD: In the American (and not just American) media, one can periodically
read about the barbaric Sharia law, according to which women can be
stoned to death. Or about an eight-year-old Saudi girl who was sold
into marriage to settle her family's debts. There are entire Web sites
devoted to "stupid laws", especially in the southern states, according
to which, for instance, it is illegal to have sex completely naked.
However, few can see the absurdity and the barbarous nature of many US
laws on intellectual property, according to which one can be fined ten
thousand dollars for downloading a song or a movie from a torrent {3}
(China, Russia and the Ukraine, where piracy flourishes, are considered
uncivilized and legally underdeveloped). You once said (albeit in a
different context), that those who pay for software are fools. It would
be nice to know your opinion of the system of intellectual rights
specifically and the US legal system in general. Does it do more harm
or good, and why are you convinced that the "legal-police-prison"
complex will be one of the first victims of collapse?

DO: One of the main foundational insights of the Anglo-Saxon
civilization (if can be honored by the use of such a bombastic term) is
that unenlightened people are easier to control than enlightened ones.
The effects of this can be seen in the fact that in all
English-speaking countries there is a very stable layer of low-class
people (the so called "underclass") and, except for a bit of lip
service, it does not occur to anyone to remedy this situation. It can
also be seen in the eagerness of the elites to impersonate British
aristocracy by copying their strange habits and customs, as well as in
the worship of the British throne by members of the general public,
even in countries which shed considerable blood to win their
independence from the empire. This can also be seen in the education
system, which, except for the most privileged, strives to teach a
trade, rules of conduct and obedience, rather than to expand the mental
horizon. Not long ago, the acquisition of certain "dangerous" kinds of
knowledge was even banned: for example, sailors on British vessels were
forbidden to study navigation, and only officers were allowed to know
how to chart a course or to pilot a vessel into a harbor. The same
tendency can be observed in the Anglo-Saxon system of justice: the
language of lawyers bears little resemblance to normal English, and
everything is done to ensure that members of the public are not in a
position to understand the meaning of not just the laws, but even of
the contracts and agreements which they are forced to sign in order to
gain access to employment, housing or medical care. Inconvenient laws
are studiously ignored. For example, in the US court system, a jury has
the right of nullification: they have the right to reject any law as
invalid and to acquit the defendant regardless of his "guilt" under a
law they see as unjust. So here's a proven method: If you are summoned
as a juror, and you do not wish to serve, all you need to do is write
the words "I believe in jury nullification" on the form, and the court
will send you home at once! In the area of intellectual property
rights, although the original copyright system protected the rights of
inventors and authors, now it has become a way to ration access to
information depending on one's ability to pay. All countries have to
participate in this system to some extent in order to be able to defend
and protect their own interests, but they should not be too zealous in
the implementation of these laws, which are often inconsistent with the
public interest. In the current situation, any attempt by the United
States to enforce their system of intellectual property rights against
citizens of other countries can be successfully ignored, if correctly
assisted by the local governments. As for the legal-police-prison
complex in the US, there is no longer any need to make predictions: the
gaps in the budgets of many states are such that they are forced to
prematurely release hundreds of thousands of prisoners. Already in
several of the most depressed cities in the US murders are not
prosecuted due to lack of police resources. All of this is all starting
to look more like ordinary lawlessness than like a system of legal
terror.


DD: Recently on CNN there was a report about the US mission to the
moon. The Indians are planning to land there in 2020, the Russians and
Americans in 2025, and the Chinese in 2030. I think that the popularity
of conspiracy theories about the staging of those events is that we
find it hard to imagine that we can not repeat the achievements of
three decades ago without a huge effort. Meanwhile, examples similar to
the lunar program are starting to occur more and more frequently.
Experts say that Russia has lost the ability to produce modern weapons
on a large scale for quite trivial reasons, such as lack of
sufficiently skilled metalworkers, because the system of training them
has collapsed. How justified are we in fearing that we (the world in
general, not just Russia) are starting to slip back in time in terms of
technology?

DO: In the end, the history of human trips to space will engender new
myths: the primitive idols of the future will not be winged, but will
sit astride rockets dressed in spacesuits. These trips were only
possible thanks to large-scale industrial systems based on the use of
fossil hydrocarbons, reserves which have already been exhausted, on
average, about half. It will not be possible to exhaust them
completely: the technological rollback has already started. It starts
long before a particular resource is completely exhausted. To maintain
homeostatic equilibrium, an industrial system requires a continuous
flow of investment, and in order for this to happen capital must
continually be created. If, say, the profitability of a coal mine is
inversely proportional to shaft depth, it is enough to get to a depth
at which the income is not sufficient to continue to update equipment,
and the mine will close, regardless of how much coal there is left in
it. But such a rational approach is rarely taken. Rather than make a
difficult but timely decision, everyone begins to economize on safety,
defer repairs, take on debt and so on. Periodically, the idea comes up
that the situation can be improved if only everyone would show more
zeal or ingenuity. We certainly all need some level of technology, and
we all ought to stop to think hard which technologies can be sustained
at a continually decreasing level of extraction of various natural
resources. Instantly the thought occurs that aerospace technologies
will not make it onto this list.


DD: How important are science and technology in modern society, as an
ideology, or, if you like, a religion? Why do people prefer to believe
that the problem will be solved by hanging solar panels on the roof and
buying an electric car, although obviously a more simple solution would
be to change the lifestyle so that one's dependence on the car is
minimal?

DO: I have thought about this long and hard, and came to the conclusion
that it all comes down to a very basic question: "How to please a
girl?" After all, any modern, progressive, educated and attractive
person begins to scoff if you take away her flush toilet and substitute
a bucket, or if she has to go shopping leading a donkey, or if, instead
of a shower, she is invited to go and stoke a sauna. From time
immemorial status in society has been determined by access to luxury
goods. As society becomes richer, luxuries turn into necessities. And
when society starts to grow poorer again, it turns out that there is no
going back. That is, there is a way back, but it is blocked by the
innate tendencies of our clever species. My wife and I spent two years
living aboard a very attractive and practical yacht slightly less than
ten meters in length at the waterline, and although the wife
understands everything very well, even she cannot stop herself from
casting a sideways glance when a yacht like Abramovich's walks past us,
and from making some comment, like "Oh, now this I understand, this is
the real thing!" And there is no point in explaining to her that what
we have here on board is a very high level of civilization, while
Abramovich is just an ordinary consumer. It is very hard, gentlemen, to
change the lifestyle, but not change the woman! If someone succeeds in
this, then he is a hero and a genius, and we should all learn from him.
In the meantime, we are going to live in an apartment, and put the boat
on the hard, and install all sorts of solar panels, water heaters, and
other technological junk.


DD: There are quite a number of people who view the current crisis not
as financial or economic, but as a moral crisis and a crisis of
rationality. We have developed an entire system, or even multiple
systems, that require you to constantly lie and deceive in order to
make it into the upper middle class. I mean all of these brokers,
bankers, brand managers and so on. This same "plague" has afflicted the
academic community, where economic theories are completely independent
of reality and common sense. Even in everyday life there is a huge
rollback of rationality - otherwise a film like "The Secret", Tony
Robbins, "positive thinking" and training for "personal growth" would
never have become so popular. What's next - a new renaissance or a new
Dark Age? How strong is the relationship between the crisis and
questions of world-view, faith and culture?

DO: I do not see a fundamental difference between lying in financial
and economic realms and lying as a moral and rational matter. Financial
and economic lies are that you can endlessly stimulate economic growth,
despite the fact that the natural resources and the soil are wearing
out, that forests are being cut down, that the environment and the
climate have been disrupted, and that investments in high technology do
not pay. The moral and rational lies are that economic growth is a good
thing, indeed, a necessary thing, otherwise all will be very bad. In
the West these lies are taught well at prestigious universities like
Harvard, and countries wishing to participate in the global economy
have to recruit their graduates to help their central banks and finance
ministries to lie on their behalf. Putting it politely, the ability to
lie is the ability to pretend. And now our credentialed liars are all
pretending that the crisis has ended. Has it really, or is this just
the end of the first turn of the crisis spiral, with no end in sight?
After all, whether or not you lie, you cannot run away from reality. I
do not know whether the coming age will be Dark Age, but I am sure that
it will be rather dim. After all, the art of lying has displaced a lot
of useful knowledge.


DD: In Ireland, you talked about the fact that modern methods of
warfare are economically inefficient. That is, you can equip twenty
thousand rebels with Kalashnikov rifles (AK-47) and grenades, and they
will successfully resist a army that uses tanks and aircraft, that cost
tens of millions of dollars. However, guerrilla actions are effective
only for defensive purposes, and not conquest. Theoretically, the
crisis could lead to Americans being forced to curtail their activities
in Iraq and Afghanistan. The US really are the main aggressors in the
world now, but I have major doubts that, as soon as the aircraft
carriers are mothballed, we will live in peace and harmony, all will
lay down their arms and begin to "work the earth".

DO: People fight for all sorts of reasons, and I am sure that military
actions in some parts of the world will continue after the
disappearance of US from the global battlefield. There is no doubt that
Kalashnikovs and grenades have given the poor throughout the world to
the ability to bravely defend themselves against the most
technologically equipped army. Wars either pay off or the aggressor
goes bankrupt, and wars against today's poor but very successful
guerrillas pay off much worse than wars against rich, peaceful and
defenseless nations (of which there are none left). Americans are still
fighting, because they are fighting on credit, but when at last their
funding runs out, I suspect that this whole style of war will finally
recede into the past. Certainly, there will be plenty of small and
large-scale slaughter, particularly in heavily overpopulated and
impoverished countries, but for this even Kalashnikovs are not needed.
For example, in Rwanda the Hutu tribe did an excellent job with
machetes, while the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia quite successfully
strangled a lot of people with plastic bags. I do not know how many
more countries will follow such a path, but in general I think that,
thanks to the successes of modern guerrilla practice, the profitability
of military action will continue to decrease.

Links:

{1} http://davydov.blogspot.com/

{2} http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2009/09/3.html

{3} http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/torrent

http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2009/09/marketing-in-small-town-interview-no-3.html


http://www.billtotten.blogspot.com
http://www.ashisuto.co.jp


From cb31450 at gmail.com  Fri Oct  9 05:56:51 2009
From: cb31450 at gmail.com (c b)
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 07:56:51 -0400
Subject: [A-List] 2009 Red October Campaign
Message-ID: <5c2e4d230910090456w4d0c051ayca2b828eb6a52343@mail.gmail.com>

2009 Red October Campaign
Roll back the corrupting intersection between private
accumulation and public service!
Blade Nzimande, General Secretary SACP
Umsebenzi Online
October, 2009
http://www.sacp.org.za/main.php?include=pubs/umsebenzi/2009/vol8-17.html#redpen


On Sunday 4 October 2009, the SACP held a lively and
vibrant rally to launch its national 2009 Red October
Campaign in Khayelitsha, Cape Town. It was one of the
best attended rallies in that part of our country, and
once more underlined the mobilisational capacity of the
SACP through campaigns that capture the hearts and minds
of the workers and the poor of our country.

There are three inter-related aspects to our 2009 Red
October Campaign: building an affordable and quality
health system for all; intensifying the struggle against
corruption in all of society; and disrupting the
intersection between business and public service
interests.

In this publication we have before said a lot about the
centrality of the establishment of a national health
insurance scheme (NHI) for the provision of accessible,
affordable and quality health care for all South
Africans. The fundamental principle of an NHI is that of
ensuring that every South African, rich or poor, black
or white, employed or unemployed, is covered by this
scheme. The aim of the scheme is to ensure that no South
African must be expected to make an upfront payment for
health services, whether in the public or private health
care sector. In addition, those who have resources must
subsidise those who do not have, and that we build an
equitable health care system, where we move away from
the current unequal and unjust, regime, where more than
60% of resources poured into health services benefit
only about 14% of the population, which happens to be on
private medical aid schemes.

The reason for the mobilization of our people around the
NHI is two-fold. Firstly, to explain the principles and
objectives of an NHI; and how such a system is going to
benefit the overwhelming majority of our people.
Secondly, to counter the reactionary efforts by the
capitalist classes in the private health sector to
defeat or undermine government`s efforts towards the
establishment of the NHI. It is our conviction, as has
been consistently shown in the past that only mobilized
popular power can defeat the greed of capitalism and
ensure that the workers and the poor themselves drive
programmes for their own benefit.

To this end, we shall use our 2009 Red October Campaign
to convene thousands of red forums, in communities and
workplaces, to discuss the NHI and ensure that it is
properly understood by all our people. Where necessary
we shall also be calling marches and demonstrations to
expose the greed of capitalist health institutions and
mobilize our people to roll back the market in the
provision of health care.

The second and major focus of our 2009 Red October
Campaign is that of disrupting the relationship between
private business interests and public service. Most
promising revolutions, especially in capitalist
environments, have faltered and even rolled back because
of the triumph of money and moneyed interests over the
interests of the workers and the poor.

Some of our detractors, both inside and outside our
movement, argue against this focus of our campaign is
inappropriate on the grounds that ours is a multi-class
movement that embraces all social classes. Yes, this is
true, BUT:

    *

      Much as our movement is a multi-class movement,
    and that is precisely where its strength lies, at
    the same time it is a movement biased towards the
    workers and the poor. Such a bias is informed by the
    fact that our struggle is about fighting poverty and
    to drastically reduce social inequalities in
    society. In order to achieve these objectives the
    interests of the overwhelming majority of our people
    (the workers and the poor) must be at the centre of
    our ongoing national democratic revolution. The very
    concept of a national democratic revolution is
    premised on the leading role of the working class in
    the transformation of South African society. *

      Being a multi-class movement does not equal to
    class neutrality. In fact class neutrality is a
    myth, and is often used as a cover to privilege the
    interests of elites over those of the masses. * We
    are also faced with the very real danger of two, but
    deeply interrelated, threats. The first one is that
    of the use of access to state power or holding of
    public office as a platform for private capitalist
    accumulation. Existing in our society today is the
    practice of use of public office to give out tenders
    by those who hold such office for their own benefit
    and to dispense patronage. This is what our 2009
    Special Congress discussion document refers to as
    `the throwing of the javelin` or
    `tenderpreneurship`. In fact such practices are
    completely unfair to those entrepreneurs, especially
    SMEs, who are working hard to build their
    businesses, whilst those occupying state office and
    simultaneously issue tenders for their own benefit
    have a hugely unfair advantage. The second threat is
    that using business influence to try and capture the
    state so that it serves such private business
    interests. It is for this reason, amongst others,
    that both the ANC and SACP have taken resolutions
    for their leadership collectives at various levels
    to declare their business interests and
    associations.

We shall use our Red October Campaign to openly discuss
these dangers and spread awareness and ideological
consciousness about the dangers of this relationship to
our people. This by no means imply, as some of our
detractors also say, that people in leadership positions
are prevented from pursuing business interests. But
these cannot be pursued in a parasitic manner and at the
direct expense of servicing the interests of our people
as a whole. Disrupting the intersection between holding
of public office and using such to pursue private
business interests, as well as the opposite phenomenon,
is an absolute condition for building a developmental
state.

The third component of our Red October Campaign is that
of intensifying the struggle against corruption. Whilst
this is distinct from the above, but there is a
relationship between the two. It is usually on the
interface between public office and private business
interests that corruption festers. However, corruption
is not only found in the public sector, but it is also
widespread practice in the private sector as well, and
must therefore be rooted out in the whole of society. It
is for this reason that the SACP welcomed the initiative
by the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union
to expose corruption and mismanagement at the South
African Airways.

Through the convening of red forums the SACP seeks to
mobilize our people and build their confidence in
exposing corruption. Often people are aware of corrupt
practices, but are afraid to act because sometimes it is
powerful individuals who are involved. Or even where
they point out such maladies no action is taken. We
believe that through the organized mass power and
awareness of our people we can deepen the struggle
against corruption and that appropriate action is taken
whenever this happens.

As we say in our Special Congress discussion document,
the struggle against corruption is not only a moral
struggle, but it is a principled political struggle at
the heart of defending and advancing the national
democratic revolution. It is an essential condition for
the realization of the five priorities of the ANC-led
alliance election manifesto.

Once more our Red October Campaign is a call to all
communists to be at the forefront of the mobilization of
our people. for the sake of our revolution! Let every
SACP branch and district convene as many of the red
forums as possible during this month and beyond.

Asikhulume!!


From cb31450 at gmail.com  Fri Oct  9 06:12:42 2009
From: cb31450 at gmail.com (c b)
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 08:12:42 -0400
Subject: [A-List] Robert Fisk: Oil producers moving off the dollar
Message-ID: <5c2e4d230910090512w1dbe5fbfg2f869724395fd7a2@mail.gmail.com>

From: Todd Boyle <toddfboyle at gmail.com>

In my opinion this will be a huge relief for the beleaguered
American worker.  If it's true.
Todd.
////////////////

CB: Sounds like the end of dollar hegemony. Henry Liu will have a lot
to say about this.

^^^

By Robert Fisk
The Independent, London
Tuesday, October 6, 2009

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/the-demise-of-the-dollar...


From critical.montages at gmail.com  Fri Oct  9 07:37:22 2009
From: critical.montages at gmail.com (Yoshie Furuhashi)
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 09:37:22 -0400
Subject: [A-List] Nobel Peace Prize for Obama?
Message-ID: <cd351fdc0910090637v7e82bf4fn8c144a09ae3464e0@mail.gmail.com>

The only things that O has done which are arguably pro-peace are to
send a Nowruz video card to the Iranians and not to invite Dalai Lama
to the White House.  :-0  Other than those, he has either done little
to nothing (Cuba, Israel/Palestine) or done things to undermine peace
(more troops to Afghanistan, the Honduras coup, the seven new US bases
in Colombia). -- Yoshie

<http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE59824J20091009>
Praise and skepticism greet Obama Nobel award
Fri Oct 9, 2009 8:01am EDT

LONDON (Reuters) - A surprised world greeted the award of the Nobel
Peace Prize to U.S. President Barack Obama with a mixture of praise
and skepticism on Friday.

In its announcement, the Norwegian Nobel Committee hailed Obama's
"extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and
cooperation between peoples."

Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg referred to Obama's work for
peace and disarmament, saying: "This is a surprising, an exciting
prize. It remains to be seen if he will succeed with reconciliation,
peace and nuclear disarmament."

Afghanistan's Taliban mocked the award, saying it was absurd to give
it to Obama when he had ordered 21,000 extra troops to Afghanistan
this year.

"The Nobel prize for peace? Obama should have won the 'Nobel Prize for
escalating violence and killing civilians'," Taliban spokesman
Zabihullah Mujahid told Reuters by telephone from an undisclosed
location.

Mohamed ElBaradei, director-general of the U.N. International Atomic
Energy Agency -- awarded the prize in 2005 -- said: "I cannot think of
anyone today more deserving of this honor. In less than a year in
office, he has transformed the way we look at ourselves and the world
we live in and rekindled hope for a world at peace with itself."

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said in a statement:
"The award of the prize to President Obama, leader of the most
significant military power in the world, at the beginning of his
mandate, is a reflection of the hopes he has raised globally with his
vision of a world without nuclear weapons."

In the Middle East, chief Palestinian peace negotiator Saeb Erekat
said the award could be a good omen for peace in the region.

"We hope that he will be able to achieve peace in the Middle East and
achieve Israeli withdrawal to 1967 borders and establish an
independent Palestinian state on 1967 borders, with Jerusalem as its
capital," he told Reuters

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak told army radio he believed the
award would enhance Obama's ability "to contribute to establishing
regional peace in the Middle East and a settlement between us and the
Palestinians that will bring security, prosperity and growth to all
the peoples of the region."

The Islamist movement Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip and opposes
a peace treaty with Israel, was more skeptical.

"Unless real and deep-rooted change is made in American policy toward
recognizing the rights of the Palestinian people I would think such a
prize would be useless," Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas prime minister in the
Gaza Strip, told reporters after Friday prayers.

REAL CHANGE

Saleh al-Mutlaq, a senior Iraqi Sunni Muslim lawmaker, told Reuters:
"I think he deserves this prize. Obama succeeded to make a real change
in the policy of the United States -- a change from a policy that was
exporting evil to the world to a policy exporting peace and stability
to the world."

In Indonesia, Masdar Mas'udi, deputy head of Indonesia's largest
Muslim organization Nahdatul Ulama, said: "I think it's a good thing.
I think it's appropriate because he is the only American president who
has reached out to us in peace. On the issues of race, religion, skin
color, he has an open attitude."

In Pakistan, Liaqat Baluch, a senior leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami, a
conservative religious party, said: "It's a joke. How embarrassing for
those who awarded it to him because he's done nothing for peace. What
change has he brought in Iraq, the Middle East or Afghanistan?"

South Africa's Archbishop Desmond Tutu, awarded the prize himself in
1984, hailed the award as "a magnificent endorsement for the first
African American president in history."

Two other former recipients, Mikhail Gorbachev and Wangari Maathai,
were among the first to offer their congratulations.

Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader awarded the prize in 1990, was
quoted by Itar-Tass news agency as saying: "In these hard times people
who are capable of taking responsibility, who have a vision,
commitment and political will should be supported."

Maathai, a Kenyan environmentalist who won in 2004, referred to
Obama's mixed heritage of a Kenyan father and American mother, called
it "another very encouraging event for Africa."


From bogus@does.not.exist.com  Mon Oct  5 09:29:38 2009
From: bogus@does.not.exist.com ()
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:29:38 -0000
Subject: No subject
Message-ID: <mailman.9.1255095454.31205.a-list@lists.econ.utah.edu>

share in Barack's honor. We congratulate him."

Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangarai, who had been among the
favorites to win this year, said Obama was an extraordinary example.

"I wish to congratulate President Obama. I think he is a deserving
candidate," he told Reuters during a visit to Spain.

(Writing by Andrew Dobbie; Editing by Angus MacSwan)


From tal1 at cogeco.ca  Fri Oct  9 14:48:20 2009
From: tal1 at cogeco.ca (Tony B.)
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 16:48:20 -0400
Subject: [A-List] War is Peace
Message-ID: <29EA6377A95A49C4A2DD9E5FF3CABBDC@TonyPC>



Warmonger Wins Peace Prize

By Paul Craig Roberts

October 09, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- It took 25 years longer 
than George Orwell thought for the slogans of 1984 to become reality.

"War is Peace," "Freedom is Slavery," "Ignorance is Strength."

I would add, "Lie is Truth."

The Nobel Committee has awarded the 2009 Peace Prize to President Obama, the 
person who started a new war in Pakistan, upped the war in Afghanistan, and 
continues to threaten Iran with attack unless Iran does what the US 
government demands and relinquishes its rights as a signatory to the 
non-proliferation treaty.

The Nobel committee chairman, Thorbjoern Jagland said, "Only very rarely has 
a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and 
given its people hope for a better future."

Obama, the committee gushed, has created "a new climate in international 
politics."

Tell that to the 2 million displaced Pakistanis and the unknown numbers of 
dead ones that Obama has racked up in his few months in office. Tell that to 
the Afghans where civilian deaths continue to mount as Obama's "war of 
necessity" drones on indeterminably.

No Bush policy has changed. Iraq is still occupied. The Guantanamo torture 
prison is still functioning. Rendition and assassinations are still 
occurring. Spying on Americans without warrants is still the order of the 
day. Civil liberties are continuing to be violated in the name of Oceania's 
"war on terror."

Apparently, the Nobel committee is suffering from the delusion that, being a 
minority, Obama is going to put a stop to Western hegemony over 
darker-skinned peoples.

The non-cynical can say that the Nobel committee is seizing on Obama's 
rhetoric to lock him into the pursuit of peace instead of war. We can all 
hope that it works. But the more likely result is that the award has made 
"War is Peace" the reality.

Obama has done nothing to hold the criminal Bush regime to account, and the 
Obama administration has bribed and threatened the Palestinian Authority to 
go along with the US/Israeli plan to deep-six the UN's Goldstone Report on 
Israeli war crimes committed during Israel's inhuman military attack on the 
defenseless civilian population in the Gaza Ghetto.

The US Ministry of Truth is delivering the Obama administration's propaganda 
that Iran only notified the IAEA of its "secret" new nuclear facility 
because Iran discovered that US intelligence had discovered the "secret" 
facility. This propaganda is designed to undercut the fact of Iran's 
compliance with the Safeguards Agreement and to continue the momentum for a 
military attack on Iran.

The Nobel committee has placed all its hopes on a bit of skin color.

"War is Peace" is now the position of the formerly antiwar organization, 
Code Pink. Code Pink has decided that women's rights are worth a war in 
Afghanistan.

When justifications for war become almost endless--oil, hegemony, women's 
rights, democracy, revenge for 9/11, denying bases to al Qaeda and 
protecting against terrorists--war becomes the path to peace.

The Nobel committee has bestowed the prestige of its Peace Prize on Newspeak 
and Doublethink.

Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan 
administration. He is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions.He can be 
reached at: PaulCraigRoberts at yahoo.com 




From tal1 at cogeco.ca  Sat Oct 10 01:40:26 2009
From: tal1 at cogeco.ca (Tony B.)
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:40:26 -0400
Subject: [A-List] Afghanistan: Massive Expansion Of US-NATO Counterinsurgency
Message-ID: <43B56F1BDD09496FBB473810C774D116@TonyPC>


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Rick Rozoff
To: stopnato at yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 10:35 PM
Subject: [stopnato] Afghanistan: Massive Expansion Of US-NATO 
Counterinsurgency


  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15600

Global Research
October 9, 2009

Massive expansions of US-NATO ?counterinsurgency? in Afghanistan
McChrystal demands bloodshed
by Larry Chin


US and NATO commander Stanley A. McChrystal is demanding a massive expansion 
of ?counterinsurgency? operations in Afghanistan that, according to 
classified documents, would require 500 thousand troops over the next five 
years.

While bellicose new calls for the Obama administration and NATO to 
exponentially deepen the ?war on terrorism? are being repeated endlessly, 
McChrystal and his own horrific crimes have received scant notice in the 
corporate propaganda media.

Murderer

McChrystal is a cold-blooded killer, who spearheads the Joint Special 
Operations Command (JSOC), which writer Seymour Hersh identified as an 
executive assassination wing of the White house - a death squad.

As noted in Steve Lendman?s "Afghanistan's Operation Phoenix":

?McChrystal is a hired gun, an assassin, a man known for committing war 
crime atrocities as head of the Pentagon's infamous Joint Special Operations 
Command (JSOC) - established in 1980 and comprised of the Army's Delta Force 
and Navy Seals, de facto death squads writer Seymour Hersh described 
post-9/11 as an "executive assassination wing" operating out of Dick 
Cheney's office.

?A 2006 Newsweek profile called JSOC ?part of what Vice President Dick 
Cheney was referring to when he said America would have to 'work on the dark 
side' after 9/11??

?In his May 17 article titled 'Obama's Animal Farm: Bigger, Bloodier Wars 
Equal Peace and Justice", James Petras called him a ?notorious psychopath? 
in describing him this way:

??His rise through the ranks was ?marked by his central role in directing 
special operations teams engaged in extrajudicial assassinations, systematic 
torture, bombing of civilian communities and search and destroy missions. He 
is the very embodiment of the brutality and gore that accompanies 
military-driven empire building.??

??JSOC's assignment was (and still is) to capture or kill ?high-value? 
combatants, including Saddam Hussein, Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, and many 
hundreds of Iraqis targeted in sweeping capture and extermination missions 
that include lots of collateral killings and destruction.?

Deception and propaganda

In addition to his role as a leading hit man for both the Bush-Cheney and 
Obama administrations, McChrystal has also spearheaded the official 
cover-ups of notorious black ops, including the manufactured "capture" of 
Saddam Hussein, to a host of deceptions surrounding the ?kill? of Musab 
Zarqawi, which the Pentagon has admitted was a fabrication and a psy-op.

It was also McChrystal who personally led the cover-up of the friendly fire 
murder of Pat Tillman.

Torturer

McChrystal and his thugs are enthusiastic proponents of sadistic torture, as 
noted by Lendman, ?committing endless atrocities Baghdad's Camp Nama (an 
acronym for Nasty-Ass Military Area) and elsewhere in Iraq.

?Through most of 2003 and 2004, detainees were held at interrogation 
facilities like Camp Nama at Baghdad International Airport (BIAP). With good 
reason, it was off-limits to the ICRC and most US military personnel. In 
summer 2004, it was moved to a new location near Balad and also had 
facilities in Fallujah, Ramadi and Kirkuk.

US personnel and former detainees reported torture and abuse as common 
practice, including beatings, confinement in shipping containers for 24 
hours in extreme heat, exposure to extreme cold, death threats, humiliation, 
psychological stress, and much more.?

Hell?s warden

What the world is witnessing in McChrystal?s skyrocketing public profile and 
political power is yet another instance in which a murderous psychopath is 
not where he belongs (in a high security prison, or institutionalized), but 
in command of US and NATO forces, virtually dictating the course of world 
events.

There is little doubt that the Obama administration, already an enthusiastic 
proponent of the "war on terrorism" deception, will follow McChrystal deeper 
in the abyss of death, horror and genocide. Throughout the years of imperial 
set-up into the 9/11 operation and the world war that ensued thereafter, 
Afghanistan today remains the key geostrategic hub for oil and gas pipelines 
and transit routes, opium and narco-trafficking, and military control of the 
Eurasian sub-continent. Obama?s vaunted promise to withdraw troops from Iraq 
is nothing more than a transfer of operations into Afghanistan (and 
Pakistan, Iran, etc.)

Seasoned observers of history, particularly the atrocities of the US wars in 
Vietnam and Latin America, are too familiar with the word 
 ?counterinsurgency?; what the code word means, how it will be used as a 
pretext, and what will happen next.

A world-class killer, assassin and spook will lead the charge.
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From noreply at coha.org  Thu Oct  8 13:14:00 2009
From: noreply at coha.org (Council on Hemispheric Affairs)
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 15:14:00 -0400
Subject: [A-List] South America and Its Likelihood of a Season of Splendid
	Little Wars: An Analysis of Arms Races and Regional
	Geopolitics & COHA This Week In The News
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From suzannedk at gmail.com  Fri Oct  9 06:11:21 2009
From: suzannedk at gmail.com (Suzanne de Kuyper)
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 14:11:21 +0200
Subject: [A-List] Obama Nobel Peace Prize
Message-ID: <dce6f8b40910090511h18a1edefyfe8f8c604724bd7a@mail.gmail.com>

Shock, deep sorrow that the prize goes so fast to a man not yet able to
confront the war party of his own country.  An untested U.S. President so
chosen by the august Nobel Prize  choosers when through the explosive NATO
expansion within all Europe, preparing for war, maybe those older men of
probity express by their choice their fear of his war capabilities?
Is the Nobel Prize integrety now over?

S. M. de Kuyper
van Oldenbarneveltplein 17-2
1052 JL Amsterdam, NL

suzannedk at gmail.com
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From nscchicago at igc.org  Thu Oct  8 23:21:55 2009
From: nscchicago at igc.org (NSC WORKERS COOP)
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 00:21:55 -0500
Subject: [A-List] Join the Nicaragua Network! / Join Delegation to Nicaragua
Message-ID: <7EF4B251A6FB47019B3DD6169FAFF00F@NSCCHICAGO>



Tom Baker here, Nicaragua Solidarity Chicago, 
member of Executive Committee Nicaragua Network 
Alliance for Global Justice. 

See attached invitation to join delegation to Nicaragua


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From nscchicago at igc.org  Fri Oct  9 14:07:39 2009
From: nscchicago at igc.org (NSC WORKERS COOP)
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 15:07:39 -0500
Subject: [A-List] FW: [Lasolidarity] Media Myths on Colombia / Corrected and
	with respective link
References: <C6F38B47.12076%csn@igc.org>
Message-ID: <E9BCEA83B3B14368B334A8B7CF6A4C95@NSCCHICAGO>

Media Myths on Colombia / Corrected and with respective link


Tom Baker here and I'm anxious for people 
to begin recognizing the patterns, the consistencies, 
about the ship of State, with the US and Oligarchy 
International at the helm. The "Ship of State" ain't 
no pretty little sailboat; it's a tank with guns and goons. 

For instance, 
WE GOT VIETNAMS EVERYWHERE 
the cast may be different but the play is the same 

Nowhere, re Colombia, is anybody doing anything 
about the reality of the people's struggle. Seems it's 
been bougie wougied out. Why don't people know 
about and respect these generations of popular 
struggle against oppressive regime, the dominance 
of stupid ass oligarchy. How cum that's the only 
language, stupid ass oligarchy, stupid ass bougie wougie 


From bogus@does.not.exist.com  Mon Oct  5 09:29:38 2009
From: bogus@does.not.exist.com ()
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:29:38 -0000
Subject: No subject
Message-ID: <mailman.11.1255175180.31205.a-list@lists.econ.utah.edu>

You mean they just chose to do this for no reason=20
You mean they weren't pushed into this, rising up=20

Vietnams everywhere. Look at the patterns.=20
We fumigated the hell out of Vietnam, Monsanto You.=20
The US and oligarchies everywyhere display the same=20
respect for people and people's rights, dignity. NONE.=20

Bubba, with this huge displacement of people from their=20
lands, what else you call it? LAND GRAB is going on=20
wherever the US has its guns and goonies.=20


Morally, of course, the aggressor loses. So fucking what.=20
He ain't playing no morality game.=20
er, actually, he's going to beat you up with his morality
whatever that is. He ain't listening to yours.  =20

What happens to People Think when the consensus=20
is expressed: that the Tank of State is serious about=20
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  ----- Original Message -----=20
  From: CSN=20
  To: CSN Urgent Action List=20
  Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 12:27 PM
  Subject: [Lasolidarity] [csn-web] Media Myths on Colombia / Corrected =
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  =20

                                              Media Myths on Colombia

  =20

              I have a recurring question: Why do the major media in =
this country so often get Colombia so wrong?

  =20

               A recent example of media coverage confirms my concern. =
Lara Logan, CBS News chief foreign correspondent, reported for CBS News =
on July 27, 2009 =
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/07/27/eveningnews/main5192173.shtml?t=
ag=3DcontentMain;contentBody that Colombian Special Operations Forces =
would soon be sent to Afghanistan to help the U.S. defeat the Taliban =
there. Ms. Logan began her account by stating that the "battle tested" =
Colombian commandos had gained their experience "from having defeated =
terrorists in their own country". Except they have not done so: the FARC =
and ELN guerrillas continue to have several thousand armed personnel in =
the country. And the paramilitary forces, classified as "terrorists" by =
the U.S. State Department on September 10, 2001, are active in =
substantial numbers throughout Colombia. In many instances they have =
acted in concert with units of the Colombian Army, which has itself =
engaged in massacres, forced displacement and extrajudicial executions =
on a wide scale, as detailed in a CSN report elsewhere on this website. =
While Ms. Logan rapturously proclaims that the Colombian Army is =
composed of "some of the finest soldiers in the world", she fails to =
mention the Army's widespread kidnapping of youths to kill them and =
present them falsely as "guerrillas killed in combat", so as to earn =
rewards promised for dead guerrillas in a Ministry of National Defense =
document (the so-called "false positives" scandal).=20

  =20

              Ms. Logan goes on to report that Colombia's "economy is =
thriving and order has been restored". One wonders what country Ms. =
Logan is referring to. Anyone who has spent any time in Colombia =
recently knows that unemployment is very widespread, with beggars and =
prostitutes more visible than ever on the streets of major cities and =
with severe food shortages in the countryside. And "order", Ms. Logan? =
There are currently 4.5 million internally displaced people in Colombia, =
more than in any other country in the world except Sudan/Darfur! This =
displacement of some 10% of the country's population is largely the =
result of the policies carried out by Colombian President Alvaro Uribe =
Velez during the seven years of his presidency.  Ms. Logan's concept of =
"order" is indeed very strange!

  =20

              Instead of examining what has happened in the so-called =
"War on Drugs", Ms. Logan enthuses that cocaine production has fallen by =
28%. If she were to check her sources carefully, she would find that =
coca production has actually increased since the U.S. brought coca crop =
fumigation to Colombia, at a cost of some $6 billion since the year =
2000. She would do well to adopt the view expressed by Members of =
Congress who signed a recent letter circulated by Wisconsin =
Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin in which they categorized the drug war as a =
failure. (See the letter reproduced elsewhere on this webpage.) Not only =
has the fumigation failed to substantially reduce the production of =
coca, it has destroyed the food crops of thousands of small-scale =
farmers, forcing them impoverished off their lands into the cities, =
where they remain unemployed, or pushing them into the rainforest, where =
they cut out parcels on which to grow coca, the only crop which is =
economically productive for them, given the Colombian government's long =
failure to provide farm-to-market roads, crop subsidies, agricultural =
credit, or agricultural extension programs which might make alternative =
crops economically feasible.=20

  =20

              Instead of extolling the current Colombian government's =
supposed achievements, as supported by U.S. policies, Ms. Logan should =
focus on what the billions of dollars of U.S. military aid to Colombia =
have really achieved. Since 2000 the U.S. has poured more than $6 =
billion into military and related expenditures in Colombia. The results? =
1)Thousands of Colombians killed each year by armed groups, most of the =
killings by paramilitaries involved in the drug trade many of whom are =
supported by act or omission of the Colombian Army; (2) small farmers' =
food crops decimated by fumigation carried out by private contractors =
supported by Colombian military units; and 3) misuse of funds by a =
staggeringly corrupt Presidential administration, with the DAS =
(Presidential security apparatus) murdering people, illegally =
wiretapping and intercepting communications of members of the Colombian =
Congress and Supreme Court Justices; high-ranking members of the Uribe =
Administration bribing Congresswoman Yidis Medina to change her vote in =
a Congressional committee to permit President Uribe's reelection; a =
Ministry of Agriculture program lavishing money on President Uribe's =
political supporters under the pretence of advancing environmental =
protections. And these are only a small sample of the ways in which =
corruption has become endemic in the current Colombian government.

  =20

              How does Ms. Logan characterize this corrupt government? =
She cites an evaluation she attributes to U.S. Ambassador William =
Brownfield: Colombia is the best investment of U.S. taxpayer money this =
century!!! Ms. Logan needs to visit rural Colombia, and she needs to =
talk to human rights organizations, not simply take at face value the =
gibberish our embassy hands out. She should come on one of our =
delegations---several journalists have---to visit the real Colombia. As =
far as that goes, Ambassador Brownfield could not even bring himself to =
make his preposterous conclusion to one of our delegations in a meeting =
with us a few weeks ago. He knows we know the country too well to =
conclude that U.S. funding for Colombia has been a good investment. But =
he also knows that CBS at its highest reporting level in Latin America =
is woefully ignorant of what goes on in Colombia!

  =20

              Ms. Logan concludes her piece by quoting a U.S. official =
as saying: "The more Afghanistan can look like Colombia, the better." =
Let's see, that means we want Afghanistan to be run by a corrupt =
authoritarian government linked to illegal paramilitaries engaged in =
drug-trafficking; with 10% of its population internally displaced; with =
Armed Forces engaged in horrific attacks on noncombatant civilians; and =
with an anti-drug program that decimates small farmers' subsistence =
crops. Heaven help us if Afghanistan reproduces the Colombian model! And =
heaven help us if lazy, sloppy journalism like that of Lara Logan of CBS =
News reports the "progress" in Afghanistan as she has reported the =
supposed "progress" in Colombia!=20

                                                             =20

                                                                         =
             John I. Laun

                                                                         =
             October 2, 2009

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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>For instance, </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>the cast may be different but the play is the same=20
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>Nowhere, re Colombia, is anybody doing anything =
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>been bougie wougied out. Why don't people know =
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>struggle against oppressive regime, the dominance=20
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>of stupid ass oligarchy. How cum that's the only =
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>language, stupid ass oligarchy, stupid ass bougie =
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>From where did the FARC, ELN and popular movement =
come?=20
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>You mean they just chose to do this for no reason=20
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>You mean they weren't pushed into this, rising up=20
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>Vietnams everywhere. Look at the patterns. =
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>We fumigated the hell out of Vietnam, Monsanto You.=20
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>The US and oligarchies everywyhere display the same=20
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>Morally, of course, the aggressor loses. So fucking =
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>whatever that is. He ain't listening to yours.=20
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>is expressed: that the Tank of State is serious =
about=20
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>oppression and service to the oligarchy, people are=20
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>a toy.&nbsp; </FONT></DIV>
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2009 12:27=20
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[csn-web] Media=20
  Myths on Colombia / Corrected and with respective link</DIV>
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  recent example of media coverage confirms my concern. Lara Logan, CBS =
News=20
  chief foreign correspondent, reported for CBS News on July 27, 2009 =
<FONT=20
  color=3D#0000ff><U><A=20
  =
href=3D"http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/07/27/eveningnews/main5192173=
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  that Colombian Special Operations Forces would soon be sent to =
Afghanistan to=20
  help the U.S. defeat the Taliban there. Ms. Logan began her account by =
stating=20
  that the =93battle tested=94 Colombian commandos had gained their =
experience =93from=20
  having defeated terrorists in their own country=94. Except they have =
not done=20
  so: the FARC and ELN guerrillas continue to have several thousand =
armed=20
  personnel in the country. And the paramilitary forces, classified as=20
  =93terrorists=94 by the U.S. State Department on September 10, 2001, =
are active in=20
  substantial numbers throughout Colombia. In many instances they have =
acted in=20
  concert with units of the Colombian Army, which has itself engaged in=20
  massacres, forced displacement and extrajudicial executions on a wide =
scale,=20
  as detailed in a CSN report elsewhere on this website. While Ms. Logan =

  rapturously proclaims that the Colombian Army is composed of =93some =
of the=20
  finest soldiers in the world=94, she fails to mention the Army=92s =
widespread=20
  kidnapping of youths to kill them and present them falsely as =
=93guerrillas=20
  killed in combat=94, so as to earn rewards promised for dead =
guerrillas in a=20
  Ministry of National Defense document (the so-called =93false =
positives=94=20
  scandal).=20
  =
<BR><BR>&nbsp;<BR><BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nb=
sp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Ms.=20
  Logan goes on to report that Colombia=92s =93economy is thriving and =
order has=20
  been restored=94. One wonders what country Ms. Logan is referring to. =
Anyone who=20
  has spent any time in Colombia recently knows that unemployment is =
very=20
  widespread, with beggars and prostitutes more visible than ever on the =
streets=20
  of major cities and with severe food shortages in the countryside. And =

  =93order=94, Ms. Logan? There are currently 4.5 million internally =
displaced=20
  people in Colombia, more than in any other country in the world except =

  Sudan/Darfur! This displacement of some 10% of the country=92s =
population is=20
  largely the result of the policies carried out by Colombian President =
Alvaro=20
  Uribe Velez during the seven years of his presidency. &nbsp;Ms. =
Logan=92s=20
  concept of =93order=94 is indeed very=20
  =
strange!<BR><BR>&nbsp;<BR><BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&=
nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Instead=20
  of examining what has happened in the so-called =93War on Drugs=94, =
Ms. Logan=20
  enthuses that cocaine production has fallen by 28%. If she were to =
check her=20
  sources carefully, she would find that coca production has actually =
increased=20
  since the U.S. brought coca crop fumigation to Colombia, at a cost of =
some $6=20
  billion since the year 2000. She would do well to adopt the view =
expressed by=20
  Members of Congress who signed a recent letter circulated by Wisconsin =

  Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin in which they categorized the drug war as =
a=20
  failure. (See the letter reproduced elsewhere on this webpage.) Not =
only has=20
  the fumigation failed to substantially reduce the production of coca, =
it has=20
  destroyed the food crops of thousands of small-scale farmers, forcing =
them=20
  impoverished off their lands into the cities, where they remain =
unemployed, or=20
  pushing them into the rainforest, where they cut out parcels on which =
to grow=20
  coca, the only crop which is economically productive for them, given =
the=20
  Colombian government=92s long failure to provide farm-to-market roads, =
crop=20
  subsidies, agricultural credit, or agricultural extension programs =
which might=20
  make alternative crops economically feasible.=20
  =
<BR><BR>&nbsp;<BR><BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nb=
sp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Instead=20
  of extolling the current Colombian government=92s supposed =
achievements, as=20
  supported by U.S. policies, Ms. Logan should focus on what the =
billions of=20
  dollars of U.S. military aid to Colombia have really achieved. Since =
2000 the=20
  U.S. has poured more than $6 billion into military and related =
expenditures in=20
  Colombia. The results? 1)Thousands of Colombians killed each year by =
armed=20
  groups, most of the killings by paramilitaries involved in the drug =
trade many=20
  of whom are supported by act or omission of the Colombian Army; (2) =
small=20
  farmers=92 food crops decimated by fumigation carried out by private =
contractors=20
  supported by Colombian military units; and 3) misuse of funds by a=20
  staggeringly corrupt Presidential administration, with the DAS =
(Presidential=20
  security apparatus) murdering people, illegally wiretapping and =
intercepting=20
  communications of members of the Colombian Congress and Supreme Court=20
  Justices; high-ranking members of the Uribe Administration bribing=20
  Congresswoman Yidis Medina to change her vote in a Congressional =
committee to=20
  permit President Uribe=92s reelection; a Ministry of Agriculture =
program=20
  lavishing money on President Uribe=92s political supporters under the =
pretence=20
  of advancing environmental protections. And these are only a small =
sample of=20
  the ways in which corruption has become endemic in the current =
Colombian=20
  =
government.<BR><BR>&nbsp;<BR><BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbs=
p;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;How=20
  does Ms. Logan characterize this corrupt government? She cites an =
evaluation=20
  she attributes to U.S. Ambassador William Brownfield: Colombia is the =
best=20
  investment of U.S. taxpayer money this century!!! Ms. Logan needs to =
visit=20
  rural Colombia, and she needs to talk to human rights organizations, =
not=20
  simply take at face value the gibberish our embassy hands out. She =
should come=20
  on one of our delegations---several journalists have---to visit the =
real=20
  Colombia. As far as that goes, Ambassador Brownfield could not even =
bring=20
  himself to make his preposterous conclusion to one of our delegations =
in a=20
  meeting with us a few weeks ago. He knows we know the country too well =
to=20
  conclude that U.S. funding for Colombia has been a good investment. =
But he=20
  also knows that CBS at its highest reporting level in Latin America is =

  woefully ignorant of what goes on in=20
  =
Colombia!<BR><BR>&nbsp;<BR><BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;=
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Ms.=20
  Logan concludes her piece by quoting a U.S. official as saying: =93The =
more=20
  Afghanistan can look like Colombia, the better.=94 Let=92s see, that =
means we want=20
  Afghanistan to be run by a corrupt authoritarian government linked to =
illegal=20
  paramilitaries engaged in drug-trafficking; with 10% of its population =

  internally displaced; with Armed Forces engaged in horrific attacks on =

  noncombatant civilians; and with an anti-drug program that decimates =
small=20
  farmers=92 subsistence crops. Heaven help us if Afghanistan reproduces =
the=20
  Colombian model! And heaven help us if lazy, sloppy journalism like =
that of=20
  Lara Logan of CBS News reports the =93progress=94 in Afghanistan as =
she has=20
  reported the supposed =93progress=94 in Colombia!=20
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