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| Gulf Oil Spill ‘Could Go Years’ If Not Dealt With |
| 11.06.10 10:51 |
Americas on the move |
| The Obama Administration and senior BP officials are frantically working not to stop the world’s worst oil disaster, but to hide the true extent of the actual ecological catastrophe. Senior researchers tell us that the BP drilling hit one of the oil migration channels and that the leakage could continue for years unless decisive steps are undertaken, something that seems far from the present strategy. |
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| Who Judges the Judges: Reporters Without Borders seems to have a geopolitical agenda |
| 05.05.10 09:08 |
Americas on the move |
| An organization calling itself Reporters Without Borders (RWB; French: Reporters sans frontières, or RSF), has just named Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, China’s President Hu Jintao, Iran’s Mahmous Ahmadinejad, Kazakstan’s Nursultan Nazarbayev and Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko to their list of Forty Worst Predators of Press Freedom for 2010. Most significant about their list of “bad guys” is the geopolitical relation of those leaders and those countries to the current obvious “enemies list” of the US State Department. That is no accident as becomes clear when we look more closely at who funds |
| F. William Engdahl |
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| The Fateful Geological Prize Called Haiti |
| 29.01.10 22:40 |
Americas on the move |
| A former US President becomes UN Special Envoy to earthquake-stricken Haiti. A born-again neo-conservative US business wheeler-dealer preacher claims Haitians are condemned for making a literal ‘pact with the Devil.” Venezuelan, Nicaraguan, Bolivian and French and Swiss rescue organizations accuse the US military of refusing landing rights to planes bearing necessary medicines and urgently needed potable water to the millions of Haitians stricken, injured and homeless. |
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| US Doctors’ association calls for Moratorium on GMO Foods |
| 22.05.09 00:27 |
Americas on the move |
| The American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has just issued a call for an immediate moratorium on Genetically Manipulated (GMO) Foods. In a just-released position paper on GMO foods, the AAEM states that ‘GM foods pose a serious health risk’ and calls for a moratorium on GMO foods. Citing several animal studies, the AAEM concludes ‘there is more than a casual association between GMO foods and adverse health effects’ and that ‘GM foods pose a serious health risk in the areas of toxicology, allergy and immune function, reproductive health, and metabolic, physiologic and genetic health.’ The report is a devastating blow to the multibillion dollar international agribusiness industry, most especially to Monsanto Corporation, the world’s leading purveyor of GMO seeds and related herbicides. |
| F. William Engdahl |
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| We are in the midst of the ‘death of neoliberal ideology’ |
| 12.02.09 16:16 |
Americas on the move |
| Not only we are in the midst of the ‘death of neoliberal ideology’. We are seeing the death of the post-1944 Bretton Woods Dollar System, one of the most effective vehicles of economic imperialism ever devised. The US elites made a conscious decision during World War II to cleverly portray themselves as the ‘Good Guys’ in the world, and deny their actual imperial agenda. Their propaganda machine proclaimed America as the ‘defender of freedom, liberty, colonial liberation, free market.’ It was a brilliantly successful strategy until the foundations of the US economy, as a result of their expansion policies globally, began to rot from neglect, as US corporations sought increased profits from cheap labor plants abroad beginning the 1980’s. |
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| Paulson Panics as UK, Germany find own solution |
| 18.10.08 17:06 |
Americas on the move |
| America’s de facto Finance Czar, US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has reached for the panic button and made a dramatic 180-degree reversal of his financial bailout plan passed only days before. On September 23 in testimony before the US Congress, Paulson, former CEO of the politically influential Wall Street investment firm, Goldman Sachs, declared his adamant opposition to the idea of the US Government taking equity stakes in troubled major banks in order to provide them capital and stabilize the frozen interbank trading market. On October 13, that opposition to ‘nationalization’ collapsed. What happened to cause that sudden reverse is what interests us here. It shows the utter lack of coherency in the US financial elites over how to deal with their home-grown securitization of risk fiasco. |
| F. William Engdahl |
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| American concentration camps operational and ready |
| 13.10.08 19:02 |
Americas on the move |
| While attention is concentrated on the ongoing financial debacle taking place within the world’s largest financial system, the United States, there are ominous indications that the Bush Administration has long been preparing FEMA detention camps should popular protests at any point require imposition of Martial Law and a Presidential State of Emergency. Details of the camps, now said to number more than 800 across the United States is difficult to obtain for clear reasons. What has been verified is unsettling. |
| F. William Engdahl |
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| The PRE-PLANNED Financial/Economic 911 of 2008 |
| 12.10.08 13:33 |
Americas on the move |
| The GOOD NEWS is that this nation – its people – will now be compelled to beat their “swords into plowshares” and their “spears into pruning hooks”. Just as the Phoenix rose from its ashes, so too will America ascend to even greater heights. As long as She ascends with the guidance of the highest of ideals, loftiest of principles and noblest of intentions. |
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| The not so pretty side of Palin |
| 11.09.08 23:00 |
Americas on the move |
| A week ago, most Americans had never heard of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. Now, following her Vice Presidential acceptance speech viewed live by more than 40 million people, Palin is viewed favorably by 58% of American voters according to the latest Rasmussen Reports survey. The self-described ‘hockey mom’s’ poll ratings, if they are to be believed, are that of a rock superstar who is rated now higher than either McCain or Democrat Obama. The same Bush-Cheney propaganda apparatus that made the nation believe Saddam Hussein was the new Hitler and that Georgia was a helpless victim of ruthless Russian aggression after 8.8.08 in Georgia is clearly behind one of the most impressive media propaganda efforts in recent history—the effort to package Republican Vice Presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska for less than 19 months, to be the American dream candidate. A view into her background is beginning to leak out from those who know her in Alaska. |
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| Taming the beast! |
| 02.04.07 11:29 |
Americas on the move |
| The neo-conservatives’ six years in power have turned the country into a ferocious beast, despised more than feared by the people of the world, except for certain client governments, while domestically, the country is no longer recognizable by the staunchest of patriots as their place of birth. |
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