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 Pictured: The credit crunch tent city which has returned to haunt America
Farhan Mir
Subject: Corporatocracy – The Global Empire for Global Enslavement – Confessions of an Economic Hitman –Part 1  Venezuela President Hugo Chavez accused Cargill of growing specialized rice to evade price controls. Chavez orders nationalization of Cargill Chavez: Cargill Practices ‘a flagrant violation of everything that we have been doing’, President accuses food company of growing specialized forms of rice ~ and threatens Caracas–based food maker Polar saying ‘be alert’, In August, Chavez ordered nationalization of the Banco de Venezuela WORLD NEWSUK In World's 2nd Biggest Fall In Property ValuesThe document recommends that Israel adopt a positive attitude toward the planned U.S.–Iranian dialogue, but proposes ways of minimizing what Israeli officials see as the risks inherent in such talks. Its main points are as follows > >
Rule by law? or rule by fear? Since 9/11, and seemingly without the notice of most Americans, the federal government has assumed the authority to institute martial law, arrest a wide swath of dissidents (citizen and noncitizen alike), and detain people without legal or constitutional recourse in the event of ‘an emergency influx of immigrants in the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs’.
Barack Obama bets the farm in $4 trillion poker game
The President believes he can change US politics for a generation. If he’s wrong he could bankrupt the whole country CANADAAlberta no longer holds economic bragging rightsEDMONTON – – Alberta’s bragging rights as Canada’s economic engine are fading and Premier Ed Stelmach says people seem to be a little grumpy about it. SC/ENVIRONMENTBy James Howard Kunstler Peak Oil: What’s Next?
ORGANIC FOOD SAFETY BILLS THREATEN ORGANIC FARMING, FARMERS MARKETSAND CSA’S My comment: Sounds scary and daunting, but it assumes that the organic food police will have enough money to be enforcing such silly laws if they are actually passed. Furthermore, the more corporate food systems collapse, the less enforceable they will be. If hungry people begin rioting because there is no food in supermarkets, you bet they will be turning to local farmers for food and raw milk. AFRICA
Morgan Tsvangirai’s wife ‘killed by US aid truck’
The wife of Morgan Tsvangirai, the Zimbabwean prime minister, was killed after the car she was travelling in with her husband collided with a US aid lorry, it has been reported.
Million Face Starvation As Sudan Shuts Down
China Crisis As Economy Crumbles
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INDIA/SO.ASIAAMERICASHEALTH
FOOD SAFETY PROBLEMS SLIP PAST PRIVATE INSPECTORS My comment: The same unregulated
corporations that contaminate our food or allow the entry of contaminated food into the U.S. from other
countries are behind legislation that purports to regulate food safety and conveniently targets their growing
competition from organic farmers and CSA’s.
Coca–Cola to Remove Potentially–Dangerous Additive From Products by AugustWidely used as a preservative, sodium benzoate has been shown to damage DNA in yeast cells and, according to a study conducted by researchers at England’s Southampton University, sodium benzoate (E211) is ‘one of seven E–numbers found to worsen hyperactivity’ in humans. Furthermore, ‘[i]f combined with vitamin A, sodium benzoate can form a potentially carcinogenic substance, benzene’.
Vaccines as Biological Weapons? Live Avian Flu Virus Placed in Baxter Vaccine Materials Sent to 18 Countries
MARKETS84,000 households at risk of utility shut–offs
Customer protections to lapse next month What’s Dead (Short Answer: All Of It) All pension funds, private and public, are done. If you are receiving one, you won’t be. If you think you will in the future, you won't be. PBGC will fail as well. Pension funds will be forced to start eating their ‘seed corn’ within the next 12 months and once that begins there is no way to recover.
U–6 Unemployment Rate Was 14.8% in February Let‘s ‘keep it real’ for a minute.
The ‘official’ unemployment rate that is released by the US government every month is complete garbage. ‘Run on UK’ sees foreign investors pull $1 trillion out of the City
Banking crisis undermines Britain's reputation as a safe place to hold funds
5 WAYS RURAL WOMEN ECOPRENEURS SPARK ECONOMIC VIBRANCY Rural women ecopreneurs
continue to germinate new businesses across the countryside, running enterprises that blend livelihood with
stewarding the landscape and a passion for good food. These stories serve up inspiring hope, a needed nutrient
to dive media messages. OP EDOBAMA’S WAR: Liberal interventionism in the age of Obama. Author’s note: The following is the text of a speech delivered at a forum sponsored by the Students of American Liberty at East Tennessee State University, on March 4. REPOSTED: By Gaither Stewart: Here is my new article. There were others preceding this. ROME DIARY: MARCH 2009 UPDATE–FASCIST TIMES IN THE LAND WHERE LEMON TREES BLOOM ‘TOTTERING STEPS ALONG THE RIM OF FASCISM AND REVOLUTION’ RECIPE FOR A NATION a little revolutionary story about changing the world for the better
MIDDLE EAST/ASIAIran threatened with economic
meltdown:
The sharp downward spiral of oil prices has prompted economists to predict that Tehran is facing severe financial hardship within the space of a few months
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