[sc pol 864] drie keer rechts is ook links

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Op vrijdag 17 februari 2006 17:20 schreef George-Butters het volgende:

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Dit is pas zorgelijk:
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Op vrijdag 17 februari 2006 17:14 schreef pberends het volgende:

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Op vrijdag 17 februari 2006 17:23 schreef pberends het volgende:

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Vreemd, lijkt wel of Amerika de grip probeert te vestigen op het buitenland, zodat bij een val van de dollar /recessie we allemaal meegaan met Amerika.

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Op vrijdag 17 februari 2006 17:23 schreef pberends het volgende:

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Vreemd, lijkt wel of Amerika de grip probeert te vestigen op het buitenland, zodat bij een val van de dollar /recessie we allemaal meegaan met Amerika.

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Op vrijdag 17 februari 2006 17:23 schreef pberends het volgende:

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Vreemd, lijkt wel of Amerika de grip probeert te vestigen op het buitenland, zodat bij een val van de dollar /recessie we allemaal meegaan met Amerika.

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Op vrijdag 17 februari 2006 17:27 schreef RichardQuest het volgende:

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"Amerika" ?

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Op vrijdag 17 februari 2006 17:32 schreef pberends het volgende:

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Weer veel merkwaardig nieuws uit de VS.....

McKinney: 'American citizens could be put in forced labor camps'

Cynthia McKinney, the only House Representative to stand up to the Bush White House crime syndicate, has gone further than ever before in her efforts to warn people about what the Neo-Cons' ultimate goals actually entail for freedom in America.

During a recent radio interview on the Alex Jones Show, McKinney illustrated the nature of a corrupt occupational government, stating that the administration was "stolen in 2000 and stolen again in 2004." McKinney said that it was doing the government a favor to describe them as a "criminal syndicate."

"It appears to me that our country is literally being hollowed out....our economy is being hollowed out," said McKinney.

McKinney shared Alex Jones' fears and those previously voiced by Republican Congressman Ron Paul, that Americans may be arrested and taken to forced labor camps in light of recent developments confirming Kellogg Brown and Root have secured a government contract to build the camps.

http://prisonplanet.com/a(...)riminalsyndicate.htm

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De koersondersteuning op Wallstreet begint steeds meer waarnemers op te vallen. Lees wat de veelgelezen Dennis Gartman daarover in zijn nieuwsbrief zegt....

From the Gartman Letter today:

P3:
"Further, and perhaps it is old age creeping upon us, but in the office we've tended to use an old saying more and more recently as share prices seemed weak but yet the Dow Industrials were closing higher. We have begun calling this "tape painting:" an old insiders game on The Street where in the few stocks in the Dow are manipulated higher in order to give the appearance of inherent strength while the broad market is actually weakening. The tape has been "painted" in the past week or so: we sense it and we don't like it. We don't like it at all. Indeed, we find it ominous:"

The Gartman Letter is a daily financial trading report (subscriptions cost $1100 per month), written for the past 20 years by Dennis Gartman

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Na Venezuela heeft nu ook Syrië alle dollarreserves verkocht ...

February 14, 2005

US row leads Syria to snub dollar

Syria has switched all of its government foreign exchange dealings from dollars to euros as part of a political stand-off with the US.

Government divisions and public sector firms have been ordered to use the euro for foreign goods and services by Syrian Prime Minister Naji al-Otari.

The state-owned Commercial Bank of Syria said the switch was "important and necessary".

Relations have been strained between the US and Syria for many years.

Syria's support for militant groups like Hezbollah in Lebanon and its hosting of the Palestinian group Hamas have been a major bone of contention as have US allegations - denied by Damascus - that its government had helped insurgents in Iraq and was seeking out weapons of mass destruction.

'US threats'

In 2004, the US imposed sanctions prohibiting certain US exports to Syria and froze the assets of Syrians it believed were linked to terrorism.

After the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri a year ago, the US led foreign pressure on Syria for its alleged role in the killing.

The Syrian government has denied any involvement.

Syrian President Bashar Assad has so far indicated that he will not allow UN investigators to question him about the assassination, but the US has warned Syria that it must upgrade its cooperation with investigators or face further action.

"The step aims to avoid any future disturbances," said Dureid Dergham, head of the Commercial Bank of Syria.

He said the move was necessary "in light of the current US threats against Syria, and the ensuing complications in banking procedures and transfer operations to Syria from US and European banks".

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Een onthullend verhaal afkomstig van Paul Craig Roberts, staatssecretaris onder Ronald Reagan ...

By Paul Craig Roberts

Baltimore Chronicle

Monday, February 13, 2006

http://baltimorechronicle.com/2006/021306Roberts.shtml

Last week the Bureau of Labor Statistics re-benchmarked the payroll
jobs data back to 2000. Thanks to Charles McMillion of MBG
Information Services, I have the adjusted data from January 2001
through January 2006. If you are worried about terrorists, you don't
know what worry is.

Job growth over the last five years is the weakest on record. The
U.S. economy came up more than 7 million jobs short of keeping up
with population growth. That's one good reason for controlling
immigration. An economy that cannot keep up with population growth
should not be boosting population with heavy rates of legal and
illegal immigration.

Over the past five years the U.S. economy experienced a net job loss
in goods-producing activities. The entire job growth was in service-
providing activities -- primarily credit intermediation, health care
and social assistance, waiters, waitresses, and bartenders, and
state and local government.

U.S. manufacturing lost 2.9 million jobs, almost 17 percent of the
manufacturing work force. The wipeout is across the board. Not a
single manufacturing payroll classification created a single new job.

The declines in some manufacturing sectors have more in common with
a country undergoing saturation bombing during war than with a super-
economy that is "the envy of the world." Communications equipment
lost 43 percent of its workforce. Semiconductors and electronic
components lost 37 percent of its workforce. The workforce in
computers and electronic products declined 30 percent. Electrical
equipment and appliances lost 25 percent of its employees. The
workforce in motor vehicles and parts declined 12 percent. Furniture
and related products lost 17 percent of its jobs. Apparel
manufacturers lost almost half of the workforce. Employment in
textile mills declined 43 percent. Paper and paper products lost a
fifth of its jobs. The work force in plastics and rubber products
declined by 15 percent. Even manufacturers of beverages and tobacco
products experienced a 7 percent shrinkage in jobs.

The knowledge jobs that were supposed to take the place of lost
manufacturing jobs in the globalized "new economy" never appeared.
The information sector lost 17 percent of its jobs, with the
telecommunications work force declining by 25 percent. Even
wholesale and retail trade lost jobs. Despite massive new accounting
burdens imposed by Sarbanes-Oxley, accounting and bookkeeping
employment shrank by 4 percent. Computer systems design and related
lost 9 percent of its jobs. Today there are 209,000 fewer managerial
and supervisory jobs than five years ago.

In five years the U.S. economy created only 70,000 jobs in
architecture and engineering, many of which are clerical. Little
wonder engineering enrollments are shrinking -- there are no jobs
for graduates. The talk about engineering shortages is absolute
ignorance. There are several hundred thousand American engineers who
are unemployed and have been for years. No student wants a degree
that is nothing but a ticket to a soup line. Many engineers have
written to me that they cannot even get Wal-Mart jobs because their
education makes them overqualified.

Offshore outsourcing and offshore production have left the United
States awash with unemployment among the highly educated. The low
measured rate of unemployment does not include discouraged workers.
Labor arbitrage has made the unemployment rate less and less a
meaningful indicator. In the past unemployment resulted mainly from
turnover in the labor force and recession. Recoveries pulled people
back into jobs.

Unemployment benefits were intended to help people over the down
time in the cycle when workers were laid off. Today the unemployment
is permanent, as entire occupations and industries are wiped out by
labor arbitrage as corporations replace their American employees
with foreign ones.

Economists who look beyond political press releases estimate that
the U.S. unemployment rate to be between 7 and 8.5 percent. There
are now hundreds of thousands of Americans who will never recover
their investment in their university education.

Unless the BLS is falsifying the data or businesses are reporting
the opposite of the facts, the U.S. is experiencing a job
depression. Most economists refuse to acknowledge the facts, because
they endorsed globalization. It was a win-win situation, they said.

They were wrong.

At a time when America desperately needs the voices of educated
people as a counterweight to the disinformation that emanates from
the Bush administration and its supporters, economists have
discredited themselves. This is especially true for "free-market
economists" who foolishly assumed that international labor arbitrage
as an example of free trade that was benefitting Americans. Where is
the benefit when employment in U.S. export industries and import-
competitive industries is shrinking? After decades of struggle to
regain credibility, free-market economics is on the verge of another
wipeout.

No sane economist can possibly maintain that a deplorable record of
merely 1,054,000 net new private-sector jobs over five years is an
indication of a healthy economy. The total number of private-sector
jobs created over the five year period is 500,000 jobs less than one
year's legal and illegal immigration! (In a December 2005 Center for
Immigration Studies report based on the Census Bureau's March 2005
Current Population Survey, Steven Camarota writes that there were
7.9 million new immigrants between January 2000 and March 2005.)

The economics profession has failed America. It touts a meaningless
number while joblessness soars. Lazy journalists at The New York
Times simply rewrite the Bush administration's press releases.

On February 10 the Commerce Department released a record U.S. trade
deficit in goods and services for 2005 -- $726 billion. The U.S.
deficit in advanced technology products reached a new high. Offshore
production for home markets and jobs outsourcing have made the
United States highly dependent on foreign provided goods and
services, while simultaneously reducing the export capability of the
U.S. economy. It is possible that there might be NO exchange rate at
which the United States can balance its trade.

Polls indicate that the Bush administration is succeeding in
whipping up fear and hysteria about Iran. The secretary of defense
is promising Americans decades-long war. Is death in battle Bush's
solution to the job depression? Will Asians finance a decades-long
war for a bankrupt country?
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Paul Craig Roberts was assistant secretary of the treasury in the
Reagan administration, associate editor of The Wall Street Journal
editorial page, and contributing editor of National Review. He is co-
author of "The Tyranny of Good Intentions." He can be reached at:
paulcraigroberts@yahoo.com. This article originally appeared at
counterpunch.org and is published in the Baltimore Chronicle with
permission of the author.

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Op vrijdag 17 februari 2006 17:23 schreef pberends het volgende:
Vreemd, lijkt wel of Amerika de grip probeert te vestigen op het buitenland, zodat bij een val van de dollar /recessie we allemaal meegaan met Amerika.

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Op vrijdag 17 februari 2006 16:41 schreef pberends het volgende:
Franse actrice Eva Green nieuwe Bondgirl

Hier krijg je toch een slappe van?

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Op vrijdag 17 februari 2006 18:02 schreef MrX1982 het volgende:
Zo laat en nog niets gehoord. Ik zou zeggen slecht nieuws.

Maar aan de andere kant geen nieuws is goed nieuws hoewel in dit geval...

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Op vrijdag 17 februari 2006 18:16 schreef Floripas het volgende:
Ik weet het niet...

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Romeinse Rijk, in je avatar? Eens kijken, uitgebreid. Heb je er bezwaar tegen als ik je even in het gezicht staar?

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Op vrijdag 17 februari 2006 18:21 schreef MrX1982 het volgende:

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Als ze hebben gezegd dat ze het vandaag zouden laten weten en dat niet hebben gedaan. Wel vreemd, heel weekend wachten tot maandag.
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Staar maar .

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Op vrijdag 17 februari 2006 14:47 schreef Jan_de_Hertog het volgende:
Deze titel is volgens mij al 100 x gebruikt

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Op vrijdag 17 februari 2006 18:23 schreef Floripas het volgende:

Ik zou zeggen, ongeveer 44 voor Christus. Wat jij?

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Islamic separatists in violence-wracked southern Thailand have begun to employ weapons and tactics that appear to be imported from the insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to analysts and experts.

One technique in particular, the use of a cement casing around a homemade bomb which both disguises it to look like a roadside marker and increases its lethality by creating razor sharp shards of concrete shrapnel, seems to have been imported directly from Iraq.

'That comes straight from Iraq -- or at least from the same training manuals they`re using in Iraq,' said Zachary Abuza, author of 'Crucible of Terror' -- widely considered the definitive study of Islamic extremism in Southeast Asia. 'Certainly, those kinds of tactics were never used in Thailand before.'

Over the past year, the separatists have undergone 'a remarkable transformation. It`s unique ... I`ve never seen anything like it before in an insurgency,' said defense analyst Jeff Moore who has written about the issue for Jane`s Terrorism and Insurgency Centre.