[CTRL] Fwd: [GATA] Supermodel joins hedge fund managers in dumping dollars
-Caveat Lector- ** See what's new at http://www.aol.com www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- 05:52PM ET Sunday, November 4, 2007 Supermodel joins hedge fund managers in dumping dollars By Bo Nielsen and Adriana Brasileiro Bloomberg News Service Monday, November 5, 2007 http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087sid=aCs.keWwNdiYrefer=home Gisele Bundchen wants to remain the world's richest model and is insisting that she be paid in almost any currency but the U.S. dollar. Like billionaire investors Warren Buffett and Bill Gross, the Brazilian supermodel, who Forbes magazine says earns more than anyone in her industry, is at the top of a growing list of rich people who have concluded that the currency can only depreciate because Americans, led by President George W. Bush, are living beyond their means. Even after the dollar lost 34 percent since 2001, the biggest investors and most accurate forecasters say it will weaken further as home sales fall and the Federal Reserve cuts interest rates. The dollar plummeted to its lowest ever last week against the euro, Canadian dollar, Chinese yuan, and the cheapest in 26 years against the British pound. We've told all our clients that if you had only one idea, one investment, it would be to buy an investment in a non-dollar currency, said Gross, the chief investment officer of Pacific Investment Management Co. in Newport Beach, California, and manager of the world's biggest bond fund. That should be on top of the list, said Gross, whose firm is a unit of Munich-based insurer Allianz SE. The dollar fell 0.8 percent last week to $1.4505, the weakest since the euro started trading in 1999. It lost 2.8 percent against the Canadian dollar to 93.51 cents and 1.8 percent versus the pound to $2.09. The Fed's U.S. Trade Weighted Major Currency Dollar index tumbled to 76.3, from 112.89 in January 2004. ...Bundchen's Demands BNP Paribas chief currency strategist Hans-Guenter Redeker, the most accurate foreign-exchange forecaster last quarter in a Bloomberg survey, said the dollar may drop to $1.50 per euro by year-end. The median estimate of 44 strategists surveyed by Bloomberg is for the currency to end the year at $1.43. Among those surveyed last week, the forecast ranges from $1.42 to $1.50. When Bundchen, 27, signed a contract in August to represent Pantene hair products for Cincinnati-based Procter Gamble Co., she demanded payment in euros, according to Veja, Brazil's biggest weekly magazine. She'll also get euros for the deal she reached last October with Dolce Gabbana SpA in Milan to promote the Italian designer's new fragrance, The One, Veja reported. Bundchen earned $33 million in the year through June, Forbes reported in July. Contracts starting now are more attractive in euros because we don't know what will happen to the dollar, Patricia Bundchen, the model's twin sister and manager in Brazil, said in a telephone interview in September from Sao Paulo. She declined to discuss details of the arrangements last week, as did Anne Nelson, Bundchen's agent in New York at IMG Models. ...Dollar Support Procter Gamble's Sao Paulo-based external relations director for Brazil, Andre Quadra, said he couldn't give details of the Pantene contract because of a confidentiality agreement. Analysts in a Bloomberg survey expect the dollar to strengthen in coming months as stronger-than-forecast reports suggest U.S. consumers will keep the economy out of recession. Payrolls grew by 166,000 in October, double the median forecast of economists in a Bloomberg survey. The dollar will rise to $1.43 per euro this year and $1.35 by the end of 2008, according to the median estimate in the survey. So far the data has shown the
[CTRL] Fwd: [ctrl] Armageddonites Push for More War | Good Grief! Imus Is Back on AIr
-Caveat Lector- ** See what's new at http://www.aol.com www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- Top Stories, Video and Blog Posts for AlterNet November 3rd, 2007 http://www.alternet.org ___ SHOCKING BUT TRUE: IMUS RETURNS TO RADIO By Rory O'Connor, AlterNet The Rasputin of radio is back, ready to beat down the defenseless for more cheap laughs. http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/66814/ BUSH IS RIGHT TO WORRY IF WATERBOARDING IS DEFINED AS TORTURE By Jane Smiley, HuffingtonPost.com We should take the criminality of the Bush administration's torture policy seriously, and that means making sure they are not above the law. (Also: A waterboarding simulation photoseries.) http://www.alternet.org/rights/66831/ AMERICA'S ARMAGEDDONITES PUSH FOR MORE WAR By Jon Basil Utley, Foreign Policy in Focus Some fundamentalist evangelicals have moved from forecasting Armageddon to actually trying to bring it about. http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/65845/ RAPTURE RESCUE 911: DISASTER RESPONSE FOR THE CHOSEN By Naomi Klein, The Nation With disaster services being privatized, the rich are buying their way out of catastrophe. http://www.alternet.org/stories/66743/ WHAT IT WILL TAKE TO BUILD A SUSTAINABLE U.S. By Kenny Ausubel, AlterNet We must imagine a new way of life in order to avoid the devastating environmental crises that face humanity, argues the visionary founder of the Bioneers conference. http://www.alternet.org/environment/66725/ BRING ON THE RECESSION By George Monbiot, Monbiot.com How else will the destructive effects of growth be stopped? http://www.alternet.org/workplace/66629/ ___ AlterNet Blogs: THE DAILY SHOW: IS AMERICA READY FOR A FLILF? [VIDEO] By Manila Ryce, The Largest Minority Daily Show correspondent Jason Jones lusts after the wives of Fred Thompson and Dennis Kucinich with hilarious results. http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/66827/ GIULIANI'S HEALTH CARE LIES COME BACK TO HAUNT HIM By Amanda Terkel, Think Progress Giuliani has been using false figures about Europe to attack the universal health care on the campaign trail. http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/66822/ ___ These stories, videos, blog posts, and more are available on AlterNet. http://www.alternet.org/ === Donate: Visit https://www.alternet.org www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---End Message---
[CTRL] Fwd: Scorecard for Past Skirmishes between Israeli and American Interests
-Caveat Lector- ** See what's new at http://www.aol.com www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- SKIRMISHES BETWEEN THE ISRAEL LOBBY AND OTHER ELITES WHICH ZIONISTS WON _http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/?id=1605lists=newslog_ (http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/?id=1605lists=newslog) - 1930's: Career British diplomats issued a government backed white paper suggesting tying Jewish immigration to Palestine to Palestinian economic interests, not just the Yishuv capacity. Weissman and other British Zionists mobilized their forces en masse and the effort succeeded in reversing this policy quickly (well discussed in Tom Segev’s excellent book on this period). -1940-1945: When there was strong sentiment in the US to help European Jews fleeing Nazi Germany, the Zionist lobby both in Britain and the US lobbied to limit Jewish immigration to the west and keep the door open only for one destination: Palestine (see Naeim Giladi’s book “Ben Gurion Scandals” and Lenni Brenner’s “51 Documents: History of the Nazi-Zionist collaboration). - 1948: When the State Department, the Pentagon, and all major career diplomats in the US stood against support for the establishment of Israel, President Truman explained his decision to his cabinet (privately) very clearly as relating to the lobby and voting adding that “I have no Arab constituency” (Truman papers and many history books). The US went on to twist the arms of other countries to support partition and the imposing of a Jewish state on Palestine. - June 1967: Israeli forces attacked the USS Liberty in international waters. Naval demands of an investigation were immediately attacked by the lobby in Congress. Senior Navy officers (and all survivors of the attack) were angry, but could do nothing in the face of a concerted media silencing campaign. Even in 2003 when new evidence emerged, little was reported on it (see _http://www.ussliberty.org/_ (http://www.ussliberty.org/) ) - 1980's: Israel uses US technology and financing to develop its own arms export industry competing with US arms exporters but also giving advanced technologies to US competitors. Many US arms industry leaders are unhappy, and some even complain openly, and Israeli-made Python II missiles now arm Chinese warplanes and in one instance threatened US planes. (see _http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/p-krane.html_ (http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/p-krane.html) ). - May 1987: The Reagan administration notified Congress of its intention to sell 1600 Maverick anti-tank missiles to Saudi Arabia. According to the NY Times: Within half an hour, lobbyists from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the only group registered to lobby Congress on legislation affecting Israel, were on the telephone to lawmakers about the proposal. Over the next 13 days, the committee mobilized its nationwide network of supporters with a series of memorandums and telephone calls urging them to lobby Congress. Though it is unclear whether the committee, known as AIPAC, can take all the credit, more than 260 members of Congress co-sponsored resolutions to block the sale, prompting President Reagan to withdraw it. _http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/pg-nyt2.html_ (http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/pg-nyt2.html) - Early 1991: Israel asked the US for $10 billion in loan guarantees to settle Russian Jews. George HW Bush told Shamir that Israel could have the guarantees if it freezes settlement building and promises that no Russian Jews would be settled in the occupied areas. Shamir simply called the lobby leaders to help. Mobilization was so swift and powerful that Bush received a barrage of media questions in a Press conference in 1991.. Bush uttered
[CTRL] Fwd: Neofeudalism
-Caveat Lector- ** See what's new at http://www.aol.com www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- Neofeudalism _http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neofeudalism_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neofeudalism) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Unbalanced_scales.svg) The _neutrality_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view) of this article is _disputed_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NPOV_dispute) . Please see the discussion on the _talk page_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Neofeudalism) . Please do not remove this message until the _dispute is resolved._ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:NPOVD#What_is_an_NPOV_dispute.3F) Neofeudalism literally means New _Feudalism_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudalism) and implies a contemporary rebirth of policies of _governance_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governance) and _economy_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy) reminiscent of those present in many _pre-industrial_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-industrial) feudal societies. The concept is one in which government policies are instituted with the effect (deliberate or otherwise) of systematically increasing the _wealth_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth) _gap_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_distribution) between the rich and the poor while increasing the power of the rich and decreasing the power of the poor (also see _wealth condensation_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_condensation) ). This effect is considered to be similar to the effects of traditional feudalism. The precise meaning of the term is in question and can be employed as a _pejorative term_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pejorative_term) to attack _political_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political) opponents. General Among the concerns of those who perceive (correctly or otherwise) an emergence of neofeudalism in contemporary society are class stratification, _globalization_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalization) , _multinational corporations_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multinational_corporation) , and _corporatism_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism) ._[1]_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neofeudalism#_note-0) Neofeudalism is part of the controversy over _income redistribution_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_redistribution) born out of massive societal shifts during the _industrial revolution_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_revolution) . At the time the issue was wealth disparity between _classes_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_class) , landholders, entrepreneurs, peasants, workers, and other economic and social groups. Neofeudalism encompasses the current debate over globalization to include entire societies, countries, regions (North versus South, Western versus non-Western), and supra-national non-state actors. Unlike other _geopolitical_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geopolitics) issues such as _environmentalism_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmentalism) and _security_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security) , the charge of neofeudalism largely focuses on _economics_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics) . In a party-neutral definition of the term, the traits ascribed to a supposedly emerging neofeudalism would not belong to one political party alone but are emergent throughout the whole political system in all or at least several major parties. Under this description the common factor linking neofeudal characteristics could best be described as the business interests catered to by a given party which describes a version of neofeudalism with its origin squarely in the realm of business interests and the interests of business owners advancing agendas that benefit them personally through
[CTRL] Fwd: Crusades vs Jihad -- Bernard Lewis, Neocon Forefather
-Caveat Lector- ** See what's new at http://www.aol.com www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- _http://bookclub.tpmcafe.com/story/2005/11/16/12635/421_ (http://bookclub.tpmcafe.com/story/2005/11/16/12635/421) Until that September 11, 2001, the two men most responsible for popularizing the idea of a clash of civilizations, Bernard Lewis and Samuel Huntington, were regarded as curiosities by mainstream national security and foreign policy experts. Their Ivy League credentials and access to prestigious publications such as Foreign Affairs, and the edgy radicalism of their theories, guaranteed that they would generate controversy, and they did. But few took their ideas seriously, except for a scattered array of neoconservatives, who, in the 1990s, resided on the fringe themselves. The Lewis-Huntington thesis was hit by a withering salvo of counterattacks from many journalists, academics, and foreign policy gurus. Samuel Huntington, whose controversial book The Clash of Civilizations amounted to a neoconservative declaration of war, wrote that the enemy was not the Islamic right, but the religion of the Koran itself: The underlying problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism. It is Islam, a different civilization whose people are convinced of the superiority of their culture and are obsessed with the inferiority of their power. The problem for Islam is not the CIA or the U.S. Department of Defense. It is the West, a different civilization whose people are convinced of the universality of their culture and believe that their superior, if declining power imposes on them the obligation to extend that culture throughout the world. What followed from Huntington's manifesto, of course, was that the Judeo-Christian world and the Muslim world were locked in a state of permanent cultural war. The terrorists--such as Al Qaeda, which was still taking shape when Huntington's book came out--were not just a gang of fanatics with a political agenda, but the manifestation of a civilizational conflict. Like a modern oracle of Delphi, Huntington suggested that the gods had foreordained the collision, and mere humans could not stop it. Huntington acknowledged--without mentioning the role of the United States--that Islam had been a potent force against the left during the Cold War. At one time or another during the Cold War many governments, including those of Algeria, Turkey, Jordan, Egypt and Israel, encouraged and supported Islamists as a counter to communist or hostile nationalist movements, he wrote. At least until the Gulf War, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states provided massive funding to the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamist groups in a variety of countries. But he had a neat explanation of how the alliance between the West and the Islamists unraveled. The collapse of communism removed a common enemy of the West and Islam and left each the perceived major threat to the other, he wrote. In the 1990s many saw a `civilizational cold war' again developing between Islam and the West. Huntington, who is not an expert on Islam, observed a connection between Islam and militarism, and he asserted: Islam has from the start been a religion of the sword and it glorifies military virtues. Just to make sure that no one could miss his point, he quoted an unnamed U.S. army officer who said, The southern tier--i.e., the border between Europe and the Middle East--is rapidly becoming NATO's new front line. Huntington quotes his guru on matters Islamic, Bernard Lewis, in order to prove that Islam presents an existential threat to the very survival of the West: `For almost a thousand years,' Bernard Lewis observes, `from the first Moorish landing in Spain to the second
