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So the banksters spend the last three years pillaging the world's public assets, driving us all into serfdom, and the corporate media tell us we're simply to suck it up and tighten our belts. But if some povvo kids in London should spend three days organising to nick flatscreens, well that's the end of fucking civilisation as we know it, apparently ( Read more... )

I made a guess in January and also back in 2008 that the US dollar would fall on 15 August 2011, a fortnight from now. We're talking a psychological marker here, like 1929's Black Thursday - this transition is, of course, taking longer than a day. Global monetary collapse was already well underway in 2008, so my remarks were less oracular vision, ( Read more... )

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That's how it's done, people of Earth. Freedom is not granted, it is claimed. Now begins their long work, never complete, of growing and maintaining this newborn freedom.

How long before the rest of us recognise the common cause we share with the Egyptians and Tunisians? Omar Suleiman was right - this revolution was provoked by foreign powers - ( Read more... )

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(That's 100 RMB, or 100 yuan, if you prefer)

Great Recession? Come on, a little honesty in labelling, please. The Greater Depression, at least. Or, if we don't get off our arses soonish, The New Dark Ages, perhaps.

In 2008 I asked if any of you would care to guess the date of the demise of the US dollar. I put 100 RMB on 15 August 2011. That bet ( Read more... )

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