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Strategies & Market Trends : Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis

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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (107626)2/1/2010 1:36:44 AM
From: Proud Deplorable2 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 116555
 
"And MOST IMPORTANTLY, I don't see the global economy becoming more stable and interlocked by encouraging a return to a multi-polar political system."

This means that you support The New World Order!
This is where I get off this with you.

When it comes to what is going on in Iraq you guys can come up with every bogus argument you can for why you declared war illegally in order to steal Iraq's oil to make sure that Russia and China don't get any. Let's not forget who installed Saddam in the first place

Regime Change: How the CIA put Saddam's Party in Power
hartford-hwp.com

"According to Richard Sale, Iraq was then regarded as a key buffer and strategic asset in the Cold War with the Soviet Union. In the mid-1950s, Iraq was quick to join the anti-Soviet Baghdad Pact which was to defend the region and whose members included Turkey, Britain, Iran and Pakistan."
en.wikipedia.org

Read this article before the Americans have it deleted from Wikpedia

...and how about Iran?
Do you even know the story of why the Shah was overthrown and why religious leaders now control Iran?

"As Iran's domestic economic troubles grew, American 'security' advisers to the Shah's Savak secret police implemented a policy of ever more brutal repression, in a manner calculated to maximize popular antipathy to the Shah. At the same time, the Carter administration cynically began protesting abuses of 'human rights' under the Shah."

"The Shah's government was rotten to the core and highly repressive. The people had had enough and they got all riled up by their religious leaders at the time. The Shah was put in place not by ancient tradition but rather by the United States and its allies. You should do some reading about this interesting period in history."

and now for the best example of American hypocrisy.

7) Equatorial Guinea (Production: 356,000 barrels per day) Oil production and a population of half a million means that Equatorial Guinea boasts the highest GDP per capita in Africa.. The discovery of the offshore Zafiro oil field by Exxon Mobil and Ocean Energy in 1995 kick started oil production in Equatorial Guinea and remains the largest producing oil field to date. The exploration and development of new fields continues a pace, with the recently discovered Alba fields showing a lot of potential.

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"In Equatorial Guinea, a former Spanish colony, human rights activists said the oil companies' payments there have helped prop up Obiang, who has ruled since seizing power in a military coup in 1979. State department reports have for years cited the regime for human rights violations, including torture, beatings and abuse of prisoners and suspects, sometimes resulting in death."
washingtonpost.com

and on a previous dictator you probably never heard of
news.google.com

The FACTS are that American foreign policy ignores human rights violations when the country has oil and the leader is friendly to the USA. When a country has oil and its not friendly to the USA then the country is either marginalized, attacked directly under the pretense of freeing the population from some dictator. Cannot you see this? Americans will lie and steal another countries natural resources and murder hundreds of thousands of people just so the retards in Hollywood can air the Grammy's

" While oil revenue has filled government coffers, most of the citizens still survive on about $1 a day. Three of four residents suffer malnutrition, but only 1 percent of the budget was spent on health care between 1997 and 2002.

Obiang, his family and members of his government live lavishly. Obiang owns two houses in Potomac, valued at $1.3 million and $2.5 million, property records show. One of his sons, Teodoro Nguema Obiang, owns a $6.9 million house in Los Angeles. "

U.S. Government Documents Crime Spree by Dictator’s Son: Why no action by the feds?
thefoundationoflife.blogspot.com


In 2004, George W. Bush issued Presidential Proclamation 7750, which barred corrupt foreign officials from entering the United States and ordered the State Department to compile a list of banned individuals. Three years later Congress approved a complementary measure that said the State Department should take special heed to bar officials when there was “credible evidence” to believe they were involved the theft of natural resources revenues. Last July, the State Department issued a report noting that corruption eroded “confidence in democratic institutions” and that fighting it was a central tenet of American foreign policy. The report also stated that the Obama administration would “vigorously” enforce 7750, better known as the Anti-Kleptocracy Intiative, and give particularly close scrutiny to visa requests from individuals involved in corruption involving natural resources.

Why, then, is a notoriously crooked official from oil-rich Equatorial Guinea allowed to enter the country and to hold vast millions in assets here? It’s certainly not because the U.S. government is unaware of the scandalous activities of Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue. Previously undisclosed documents — obtained by London-based Global Witness and provided to Harper’s Magazine — reveal an extensive federal investigation of Obiang Mangue was underway at least two years ago. Global Witness’s report on the U.S. investigation into Obiang Mangue is available here.

Obiang Mangue, often called Teodorin, is the son and potential successor to Equatorial Guinea’s long-ruling dictator. The investigation, led by the Justice Department and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), identified a list of Teodorin’s American assets. They include an estate in Malibu, which sits on sixteen acres of land and boasts a swimming pool, tennis courts, and a four-hole golf course. Teodorin paid $35 million in cash for the property three years ago. He also owns a $33.8 million Gulf Stream V private jet, millions of dollars worth of sports cars, and at least two luxury boats, and has used money laundered through shell corporations to finance his American shopping sprees, according to the documents.

A Justice Department memorandum from September of 2007 noted that Teodorin’s salary as Minister of the Agriculture and Forestry paid only $5,000 per month. “[I]t is suspected that a large portion of Teodoro Nguema OBIANG’s assets have originated from extortion, theft of public funds, or other corrupt conduct,” said the document, which also detailed how between 2005 and 2007 Teodorin had funneled into the United States at least $75 million — nearly twice the amount allocated by Equatorial Guinea for its yearly national education budget.

MALIBU HOME


A PowerPoint prepared by ICE’s lead investigator on the case identified the inquiry’s goals as being to “identify, trace, freeze, and recover assets within the United States illicitly acquired through kleptocracy by Teodoro Obiang and his associates,” and to “deny safe haven in the United States to kleptocrats.”

In September 2007, an American delegation met investigators in France, where Teodorin has also lived (quite well) and been the subject of law enforcement inquiry. At the meeting it was agreed that the U.S. would submit to French authorities a “commission rogatoire internationale,” or a formal request for cross-border legal assistance.

Yet two years later the investigation into Teodorin is stalled, according to two sources that spoke about the case off the record. And though the State Department will not publicly disclose the list of foreign officials barred under Bush’s Proclamation 7750, Teodorin is not on it. An official at Equatorial Guinea’s embassy in Washington, who asked to remain unidentified, said he had traveled to the United States as recently as late-September, when he helped officially inaugurate his country’s consulate in Houston.

MUCH MUCH MORE IN THE SAME ARTICLE
thefoundationoflife.blogspot.com

Conclusion.....I'm finished with this crap. You have no idea of what is going on in the real world. Nothing at all personal but you can shove your NEW WORLD ORDER, especially if it is administered by America and her friends.

So get back to me when the USA overthrows and hangs Obiang
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