International Forecaster Weekly

Terms like Enemy combatant, Extraordinary rendition, Weapons of mass destruction,  double meanings, propaganda,  outrageous euphemisms, self-contradictions and plain old lies. More than that, they have become part of our everyday lives to the point where we often use them ourselves without even thinking through their meaning.

The bipartisan criminal class in Washington DC, the mandate of poverty and unemployment, shifting public wealth to bankers, warnings for a politically repressive country, kleptocracy as policy, cuts to our way of life should be fought publicly, Also commentary by Alfred Adask

NATO was never a perfect organization, is NATO's existence today under threat? Debates and demagoguery, Washington, Russia and Syria, Shots fired in the war for the Oval Office, Reagan's warnings, Taxmageddon changes, trouble in toyland, banks and credit, Fed in NYC attacked.

A good defense is still a good idea, we feel strongly about the possibliity of collapse of the current financial order... there are some things even you can do as a hedge against further economic meltdown, if you dont like what is happening, choose not to spend your money there. Boycotts are an active way to protest against the overwhelming amount of corporate interest in you.

We have six things that expose what the changes in the global economy really mean. From youth in Greece and Spain to the USA, real hardship is being felt. Household debt is rising, market valuations out of control, Unemployment hurts the world hard, big shortfalls in pensions and more.

pure propaganda speeches, UN AGM to let off some steam, the UN is back to the drawing board with the September session, major focus of course is on Obama, Iran, and Israel, as certain ideas become normalized, we consider the emergence of a truly global government.

Economies continue to decline, indefinite quantitative easing, economies continue to struggle, Europe riots, everyone has the wrong opinion about Quantitative easing anyway, Gold to be worth more.

Wall Street changes the rules any time it is threatened, rule changes claim to prevent a meltdown, collateral transformation, Congress demands to see more details in derivatives trades, limited amount of T-bills available to soak up demand, collateral that is rented. The risk is only going to be shuffled around.

A couple of important dates are coming up, a plan to buy sovereign bonds, a German plan, a Fed plan, Bernanke is no different from a lot of lunatic bankers, trillions in stimulus often create a short term party, inflation will eventually send us back to gold and silver,

Corbett counts off seven ways the markets are manipulated, from bots, plunge protection, insiders, shorting, and many more of the dirty tricks your money encounters one way or another when you invest.

Think big like the banksters, Iceland's approach to the 2008 banking crisis has left the country in a remarkably strong position, if you control the banking infrastructure of a nation, then it doesn't fundamentally matter what government takes power or what policies they implement.

bankers think of themselves as heros doing God's work, the banksters calamity has become our collective calamity, If you or I were in charge of a company that managed to lose $6 billion in six weeks and send shock waves through the global credit market, I imagine we'd be a bit sheepish about it. We might even blush and admit to being a bad manager. Or even resign.

      What you may not have known is that the script has flipped early in Syria, where the same players have been trying to effect a Libya 2.0... So what has caused this turning of the tide in the reporting on Syria? Why are so many truths coming to the surface all of a sudden? Perhaps a large amount of this is attributable to the logistics of an ongoing propaganda campaign.

Corbett discusses the exploitation of African resoureces, which continue to go below the radar, while the world is focused on debt crises and conflict in the middle east, getting Kony, Bob Rinear covers job solutions in a tough economy, with so much pressure on private citezens, the hopes and dreams of our next generation is on the line.

Asia-Pacific region to become the stragegic and economic center of gravity in the 21st century, China renewing its military, new plans for US Navy in the Pacific, the cold war was not what it appeared to be, major players being manipulated towards a major conflict, we need to find the hands controlling the puppets on the stage.