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CrossTalk: Dollar Death?

October 17, 2009 Posted by | Economics | , , , , , | Comments Off

Lavrov: No Proof Iran Makes Atomic Bomb!

October 17, 2009 Posted by | GeoPolitics | , | 5 Comments

Richard Dolan: The History, Politics and Social Consequences of UFOlogy!

  • I cannot say enough about how impressed I am of Richard Dolan. He brings a reasoned, methodical, thoroughness and impressive scholarship to UFO research and history, not found in other researchers. Is the UFO phenomena real? You will be surprise by how much documentary proofs he provides is his books.
     
  • Richard Dolan, eminent research and writer, gives us a historical, political perspective into the UFO phenomena. He goes through the entire gamut of social, political, black ops, military…etc of what has been happening for the past few decades. A historian par excellence with a methodical and scholarly approach to the UFO phenomena. He has just released volume 2 of his trilogy: UFOs and the National Security State: The Cover-Up Exposed, 1973-1991.

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  • There is also an interview of Richard Dolan by the Veritas Show on 13 March 2009 which is pretty good. It gives his background and why he went into UFO research.   
    Richard Dolan  -  UFOs and  The National Security State. 13 March 2009 Interview. Click to listen, MP3 file!

    Richard Dolan - UFOs and The National Security State. 13 March 2009 Interview. Click to listen, MP3 file!

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    Richard M. Dolan was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1962. He holds an MA in History from the University of Rochester and a BA in History from Alfred University. He earned a Certificate in Political Theory from Oxford University and was a Rhodes Scholar finalist. Prior to his interest in anomalous phenomena, Dolan studied US Cold War strategy, Soviet history, and international diplomacy.
     
    In 2000, he published a 500-page study, UFOs and the National Security State. This is the first volume of a two-part historical narrative of the national security dimensions of the UFO phenomenon from 1941 to the present. Included are the records of more than fifty military bases relating to innumerable violations of sensitive airspace by unknown objects, demonstrating that the US military has taken the topic of UFOs seriously indeed.
     
    Apollo 14 astronaut and VERITAS SHOW veteran Dr. Edgar Mitchell has called Dolan’s book “monumental,” while Dr. Hal Puthoff, Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin, has declared it to be “a must-read for serious students in the field.” Dolan has published numerous articles on anomalous phenomena, science, and the intelligence community for UFO Magazine. In 2003, he helped to found Phenomena, a magazine dedicated to leading edge issues pertaining to science and society, and for which he continues to serve as Senior Editor and regular contributor. Richard Dolan also continues to research and write volume two of UFOs and the National Security State. He lives with his family in Rochester, New York.

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October 17, 2009 Posted by | Science & Technology, Social Trends | | 2 Comments

If Americans Knew What Zionist Israel Is Doing!

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October 17, 2009 Posted by | GeoPolitics | , , , , | 16 Comments

Harajchi: Recession Will Be ‘Full-Blown Depression’

  • The stock market has put up an impressive performance. The bull rally up 60+% in 7 months is an all time record. What about Main Street. Are we seeing the turnaround? CNBC reports :
      
    This global recession will turn into a “full-blown depression,” Nicu Harajchi, CEO of N1 Asset Management, said Friday, adding that global stimulus hasn’t come down to Main Street. Wall Street is making money, while consumers aren’t, Harajchi told CNBC.
     
    “We have seen the G20 coming out with cross border capital injections of $5 trillion this year… But a lot of this money hasn’t really come down to Main Street,” he said. “When it comes down to corporate America, corporate Europe or even in Asia, in Japan, we are not seeing Main Street making any money,” he said. “Consumers are losing their jobs. They are struggling with their mortgages, with their credit. And we are just seeing this continuing.”
     
    The $5 trillion injection is “monetary expansion,” according to Harajchi. “At some point, which we believe to be 2010/11, some of the central banks are going to recall some of that money and that will turn from monetary expansion to monetary contraction.” He also said he doesn’t see the corporates or the public “being able to pay back that debt.” “We see 2010 becoming a much more risky year than 2009,” he said.
     
    Harajchi said unemployment data are “a leading indicator” instead of a lagging indicator. Mike Lenhoff, chief strategist at Brewing Dolphin Securities, told CNBC that the recovery will depend on the improvement in cyclical sectors. “The sooner companies generate their profits, and I think it is moving towards mainstream, it’s not just the financials now,” Lenhoff said. “If present trends continue, we’re talking about jobs being created sometime in the second quarter of next year. That could do a lot for consumer confidence.”
     
    Weak Dollar is Everybody’s Friend
    It is no longer up to the U.S. but more to the rest of the world to decide about the dollar’s status as the global reserve currency, Harajchi said. China and the Gulf countries which have their oil pegged to the dollar “would like to see some other currencies, maybe the euro, playing a more dominant role,” he said. Lenhoff disagreed with Harajchi, saying he believes the dollar will continue to play a dominant role in global trade and global finance.
     
    Central banks will continue to keep interest rates very low in order to avoid a depression, he said. The reason for the dollar’s recent weakness “is really down to Fed policy,” he added. “The Federal Reserve has made it crystal clear that interest rates are staying where they are for an extended period of time. We’re getting to see a more confident tone to global growth, to a recovery, and as a result of that, we’re seeing the tolerance towards risk aversion drop and that in turn has washed back onto the dollar as investors go in search of risk assets,” he said.
     
    “This is something we’re going to see for a while, until there is a change in Fed policy. That doesn’t seem imminent and certainly it doesn’t seem at all likely until sometime in the latter half of next year.” The dollar’s depreciation will help boost the S&P 500 index over the coming quarters, Lenhoff told CNBC. “A weak dollar is everybody’s friend,” he said. “If the dollar serves the role of an additional stimulus in reflating the U.S, then I think that it’s very good,” he said.

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October 17, 2009 Posted by | Economics | , , , , , | Comments Off

   

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