All Blog Posts Tagged 'imf' (771)

15-07-2002 US planning to recruit one in 24 Americans as citizen spies

How did they know? They're not part of Merdoch's Media Empire are they?

The Bush Administration aims to recruit millions of United States citizens as domestic informants in a program likely to alarm civil liberties groups.

The Terrorism Information and Prevention System, or TIPS, means the US will have a higher percentage of citizen informants than the former East Germany through the infamous Stasi secret police. The program would use a minimum of 4 per cent of Americans to… Continue

Added by Anti Oligarch on October 26, 2009 at 1:54pm — 1 Comment

The U.S. military's quest to weaponize culture

The Pentagon seems to have decided that anthropology is to the war on terror what physics was to the Cold War. As an anthropologist, this makes me very nervous.

Where former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld believed that the United States would vanquish its enemies through technological superiority, his replacement Robert Gates has said that cultural expertise in counterinsurgency operations will be crucial in the future wars he anticipates.

When research that could…

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Added by Anti Oligarch on October 26, 2009 at 1:40pm — No Comments

Joe Glenton - Serving soldier defies orders to speak out on Afghan war

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Added by Anti Oligarch on October 25, 2009 at 6:22am — No Comments

Dutch Seize Bank After Run on Assets

By BART KOSTER and STEPHEN FIDLER

AMSTERDAM -- The Dutch central bank shuttered DSB Bank NV, a struggling consumer and mortgage lender, after a run by depositors that followed a call from a consumer group to pull money out of the controversial institution.

The government said it would begin an investigation into what happened at the bank, a privately owned institution with reported assets of some €8 billion ($11.77 billion).

The DSB seizure was described by the… Continue

Added by Anti Oligarch on October 17, 2009 at 4:02pm — No Comments

Study on the requirements and options for Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) application in healthcare

This is for Europe I'll post about the US asap.

By: Constantijn van Oranje-Nassau, Helen Rebecca Schindler, Lorenzo Valeri, Anna-Marie Vilamovska, Evi Hatziandreu, Annalijn Conklin

This report provides an assessment of the main drivers, obstacles and uncertainties surrounding the deployment of RFID in healthcare in Europe. It identifies the most promising RFID applications in healthcare delivery by reviewing potential for increasing patient safety and the reduction of… Continue

Added by Anti Oligarch on October 16, 2009 at 3:00am — No Comments

Lynn Forester de Rothschild stands by her woman

Lynn de Rothschild

Take a quick look at her pedigree, and you wouldn’t think de Rothschild, wife of Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, could be this hard-nosed. She is rich, charming and beautiful. Portfolio has called her the “the flashiest hostess in London.”

But look closer and you’ll find an iron will. Some Londoners call her “Lady Lynn de Pushy.”

She has long been a power player, counting the Clintons and Tony Blair as good friends. Former husband Andrew…

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Added by Anti Oligarch on October 14, 2009 at 5:10pm — No Comments

Rothschild watch

Starting with this little diamond I'd like to invite you all to help bring these ruthless monsters to justice.

Foreign Office, November 2nd,1917

Dear Lord Rothschild,

I have much pleasure in conveying to you on behalf of His Majesty's Government the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations, which has been submitted to and approved by the Cabinet:

"His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in…

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Added by Anti Oligarch on October 14, 2009 at 4:44pm — No Comments

Frederic Mitterrand French culture minister in 'boy sex' row

France's Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand is facing intense pressure over a book he wrote that described paying for "young boys" in Thailand.

Frederic Mitterrand has rejected criticism from the far right

The book was written four years ago, before he joined the government, but is back in the headlines following his impassioned support for Roman Polanski.

Polanski has been arrested in Switzerland on child sex charges.

Mr… Continue

Added by Anti Oligarch on October 9, 2009 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Campaign to stop IMF and war funding

Added by Tara on June 17, 2009 at 11:49am — No Comments

IMF to print billions of dollars in free global super-money.

IMF poised to print billions of dollars in 'global quantitative easing'

The International Monetary Fund is poised to embark on what analysts have described as "global quantitative easing" by printing billions of dollars worth of a global "super-currency" in an unprecedented new effort to address the economic crisis.…

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Added by Marklar on March 22, 2009 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Obama Executive Order Seeks to "Synchronize and Integrate" State and Federal Military Forces

Executive Order Seeks to "Synchronize and Integrate"

In the wake of the Flight 253 provocation, over-hyped terrorism panics, and last year's Big Pharma and media-engineered hysteria over the H1N1 flu pandemic, President Barack Obama signed Executive Order 13528 on January 11.

Among other things, the Executive Order (EO) established a Council of Governors, an "advisory panel" chosen by the President that will rubber-stamp long-sought-after Pentagon… Continue

Added by Anti Oligarch on November 30, 1999 at 12:00pm — No Comments