Economic Crash Forecast for 2010
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3/24/10
Note from David: We are not sure who authored the original list of economic forecasters but we have separated them into secular and, below that, prophetic. We don’t stand behind any individual's forecast but one thing is clear: the signs they are reading is pointing them to a collapse in 2010. Prophetic voices below are in agreement. Because we had so many dreams and prophecies to this effect a few years ago, I told you there would be two waves of economic destruction. The first wave would come and go and things would recover some but then the second wave would bring a depression. Many gifted economists predicted at least the first wave. Well, we had the first wave and some recovery has come. Now some of the best and brightest economists are predicting the second wave to be far worse. This will bring the new world economic order and then political order of the Beast. Because of what I now know is coming, I suggest you get away from the big cities and walk with the Lord in His Biblical economy: 2 Corinthians 8 & 9; Matthew 6; Luke 6:38. Give, share, love and God will give unto you.
Secular Voices
Bob Chapman
First 6 months of 2010, Americans will continue to live in the 'unreality'...the period between July and October is when the financial fireworks will begin. The Fed will act unilaterally for its own survival irrespective of any political implications ...(source is from insider at FED meetings). In the last quarter of the year we could even see Martial law, which is more likely for the first 6 months of 2011. The FDIC will collapse in September 2010. Commercial real estate is set to implode in 2010. Wall Street believes there is a 100% chance of crash in bond market, especially municipals sometime during 2010. The dollar will be devalued by the end of 2010.
Gerald Celente
Terrorist attacks and the "Crash of 2010". 40% devaluation at first = the greatest depression, worse than the Great Depression.
Igor Panarin
In the summer of 1998, based on classified data about the state of the U.S. economy and society supplied to him by fellow FAPSI analysts, Panarin forecast the probable disintegration of the USA into six parts in 2010 (at the end of June – start of July 2010, as he specified on 10 December 2000
Neithercorps
Have projected that the third and final stage of the economic collapse will begin sometime in 2010. Barring some kind of financial miracle, or the complete dissolution of the Federal Reserve, a snowballing implosion should become visible by the end of this year. The behavior of the Fed, along with that of the IMF seems to suggest that they are preparing for a focused collapse, peaking within weeks or months instead of years, and the most certain fall of the dollar.
Webbots
July and onward things get very strange. Revolution. Dollar dead by November 2010.
LEAP 20/20
2010 Outlook from a group of 25 European Economists with a 90% accuracy rating- We anticipate a sudden intensification of the crisis in the second half of 2010, caused by a double effect of a catching up of events which were temporarily « frozen » in the second half of 2009 and the impossibility of maintaining the palliative remedies of past years. There is a perfect (economic) storm coming within the global financial markets and inevitable pressure on interest rates in the U.S. The injection of zero-cost money into the Western banking system has failed to restart the economy. Despite zero-cost money, the system has stalled. It is slowly rolling over into the next big down wave, which in Elliott Wave terminology will be Super Cycle Wave Three, or in common language, "THE BIG ONE, WHERE WE ALL GO OVER THE FALLS TOGETHER."
Joseph Meyer
Forecasts on the economy. He sees the real estate market continuing to decline, and advised people to invest in precious metals and commodities, as well as keeping cash at home in a safe place in case of bank closures. The stock market, after peaking in March or April (around 10,850), will fall all the way down to somewhere between 2450 and 4125 during the next leg down.
Harry Dent (investor)
A very likely second crash by late 2010. The coming depression (starts around the summer of 2010). Dent sees the stock market--currently benefiting from upward momentum and peppier economic activity--headed for a very brief and pleasant run that could lift the Dow to the 10,700-11,500 range from its current level of about 10.090. But then, he sees the market running into a stone wall, which will be followed by a nasty stock market decline (starting in early March to late April) that could drive down the Dow later this year to 3,000-5,000, with his best guess about 3,800.
Richard Russell (Market Expert)
(from 2/3/10) says the bear market rally is in the process of breaking up and panic is on the way. He sees a full correction of the entire rise from the 2002 low of 7,286 to the bull market high of 14,164.53 set on October 9, 2007. The halfway level of retracement was 10,725. The total retracement was to 6,547.05 on March 9, 2009. He now sees the Dow falling to 7,286 and if that level does not hold, “I see it sinking to its 1980-82 area low of Dow 1,000.” The current action is the worst he has ever seen. (Bob Chapman says for Russell to make such a startling statement is unusual because he never cries wolf and is almost never wrong)
Niño Becerra (Professor of Economics)
Predicted in July 2007 that what was going to happen was that by mid 2010 there is going to be a crisis only comparable to the one in 1929. From October 2009 to May 2010 people will begin to see things are not working out the way the government thought. In May of 2010, the crisis starts with all its force and continues and strengthens throughout 2011. He accurately predicted the current recession and market crash to the month.
Lyndon Larouche
The crisis is accelerating and will become worse week by week until the whole system grinds into a collapse, likely sometime this year. And when it does, it will be the greatest collapse since the fall of the Roman Empire.
WALL STREET JOURNAL- (2/2010)
"You are witnessing a fundamental breakdown of the American dream, a systemic breakdown of our democracy and our capitalism, a breakdown driven by the blind insatiable greed of Wall Street: Dysfunctional government, insane markets, economy on the brink. Multiply that many times over and see a world in total disarray. Ignore it now, tomorrow will be too late."
Eric deCarbonnel
There is no precedence for the panic and chaos that will occur in 2010. The global food supply/demand picture has NEVER been so out of balance. The 2010 food crisis will rearrange economic, financial, and political order of the world, and those who aren’t prepared will suffer terrible losses…As the dollar loses most of its value, America's savings will be wiped out. The US service economy will disintegrate as consumer spending in real terms (ie: gold or other stable currencies) drops like a rock, bringing unemployment to levels exceeding the great depression. Public health services/programs will be cut back, as individuals will have no savings/credit/income to pay for medical care. Value of most investments will be wiped out. The US debt markets will freeze again, this time permanently. There will be no buyers except at the most drastic of firesale prices, and inflation will wipe away value before credit markets have any chance at recovery. The panic in 2010 will see the majority of derivatives end up worthless. Since global derivatives markets operate on the assumption of the continued stable value of the dollar and short term US debt, using derivatives to bet against the dollar is NOT a good idea. The panic in 2010 will see the majority of derivatives end up worthless. The dollar's collapse will rob US consumers of all purchasing power, and any investment depend on US consumption will lose most of its value.
Alpha-Omega Report (Trends Forecast)
Going into 2010, the trends seemed to lead nowhere or towards oblivion. Geo-politically, the Middle East was and is trending towards some sort of military clash, most likely by mid-year, but perhaps sooner...At the moment, it seems 2010 is shaping up to be a year of absolute chaos. We see trends for war between Israel and her neighbors that will shake every facet of human activity...In the event of war, we see all other societal trends being thoroughly disrupted...Iran will most likely shut off the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf. This will have immense consequences for the world’s economy. Oil prices will skyrocket into the stratosphere and become so expensive that world’s economies will collapse..There are also trend indicators along economic lines that point to the potential for a total meltdown of the world’s financial system with major crisis points developing with the change of each quarter of the year. 2010 could be a meltdown year for the world’s economy, regardless of what goes on in the Middle East.
Robin Landry (Market Expert)
I believe we are headed to new market highs between 10780-11241 over the next few months. The most likely time frame for the top is the April-May area. Remember the evidence IMHO still says we are in a bear market rally with a major decline to follow once this rally ends.
John P. Hussman, Ph.D.
In my estimation, there is still close to an 80% probability (Bayes' Rule) that a second market plunge and economic downturn will unfold during 2010.
Robert Prechter
Founder of Elliott Wave International, implores retail investors stay away from the markets… for now. Prechter, who was bullish near the lows in March 2009, now says the stock market “is in a topping area.”predicting another crash in 2010 that will bring stocks below the 2009 low. His word to the wise, “be patient, don’t rush it” keep your money in cash and cash equivalents.
Richard Mogey
Current Research Director at the Foundation for the Study of Cycles- Because of a convergence of numerous cycles all at once, the stock market may go up for a little while, but will crash in 2010 and reach all-time lows late 2012. Mogey says that the 2008 crash was nothing compared to the coming crash. Gold may correct in 2009, but will go up in 2010 and peak in 2011. Silver will follow gold.
James Howard Kunstler (January 2010)
The economy as we’ve known it simply can’t go on, which James Howard Kunstler has been saying all along. The shenanigans with stimulus and bailouts will just compound the central problem with debt. There’s not much longer to go before the whole thing collapses and dies. Six Months to Live- The economy that is. Especially the part that consists of swapping paper certificates. That’s the buzz I’ve gotten the first two weeks of 2010.
Peter Schiff (3/13/2010)
"In my opinion, the market is now perfectly positioned for a massive dollar sell-off. The fundamentals for the dollar in 2010 are so much worse than they were in 2008 that it is hard to imagine a reason for people to keep buying once a modicum of political and monetary stability can be restored in Europe. In fact, the euro has recently stabilized. My gut is that the dollar sell-off will be sharp and swift. Once the dollar decisively breaks below last year's lows, many of the traders who jumped ship in the recent rally will look to re-establish their positions. This will accelerate the dollar's descent and refocus everyone's attention back on the financial train-wreck unfolding in the United States. Any doubts about the future of the U.S. dollar should be laid to rest by today's announcement that San Francisco Federal Reserve President Janet Yellen has been nominated to be Vice Chair of the Fed's Board of Governors, and thereby a voter on the interest rate-setting, seven-member Open Markets Committee. Ms. Yellen has earned a reputation for being one of the biggest inflation doves among the Fed's top players." Schiff is famous for his accurate predictions of the economic events of 2008.
Lindsey Williams
Dollar devalued 30-50% by end of year. It will become very difficult for the average American to afford to buy even food. This was revealed to him through an Illuminati insider.
Unnamed Economist working for US Gov't (GLP)
What we have experienced the last two years is nothing to what we are going to experience this year. If you have a job now...you may not have it in three to six months. (by August 2010). Stock market will fall = great depression. Foreign investors stop financing debt = collapse. 6.2 million are about to lose their unemployment.
Jimmy "Doomsday"
DOW will fall below 7,000 before mid summer 2010- Dollar will rise above 95 on the dollar index before mid summer 2010- Gold will bottom out below $800 before mid summer 2010- Silver will bottom out below $10 before mid summer 2010- CA debt implosion will start its major downturn by mid summer and hit crisis mode before Q4 2010- Dollar index will plunge below 65 between Q3 and Q4 2010- Commercial real estate will hit crisis mode in Q4 2010- Over 35 states will be bailed out by end of Q4 2010 by the US tax payer End of Q4 2010 gold will hit $1,600 and silver jump to $35 an oz.
George Ure
Markets up until mid-to-late-summer. Then "all hell breaks lose" from then on through the rest of the year.
Prophetic Voices
Neville Johnson
As I thought and prayed about the past year I felt the Lord say to me that 2010 was a year of labor pains, with the contractions getting closer and closer together towards the end of the year.
Rick Wiles
Use the first 6 months of 2010 to prepare for the last 3 months of 2010. Purchase everything you need while you still can. Pay off your debts. Judgment is coming upon America (she will be shaken physically, financially, and spiritually)- not the end of the USA, only TEOTUSAAWKI- supply chain will be disrupted for years, admitted insolvency- handed over to allies for pennies on the dollar. POSSIBILITIES: (not prophecies) EMP attack, China Russia NK cyber attack, delayed Y2K bug.
Sadhu Sundar Selvaraj
Starvation and famine/financial problems will develop. Terrorist attacks. Banks close. Tsunami. 7 new diseases worse than swine flu.
Amos Scaggs
The ultra-rich will go broke. I don’t mean go bankrupt I mean go broke, no money. I saw ultra rich people working for food because they were broke. This will happen by mid-February 2011.
Andrey Rasshivaev
At the very end of the year of 2007 I have received a revelation from God that the coming 2008 year was going to be the year of the beginning of outpouring of God's judgment upon this world...About half a year ago God has given me a further revelation. He reveled me that the crisis was just the very beginning. The world is going to face the total and complete economical and financial collapse in August-September of this new 2010 year.
Greg Evensen
Economic meltdown and possible martial law in the mid summer 2010.
Larry Randolph
... there is yet a seven-fold shaking of greater magnitude coming that will produce enormous and perhaps catastrophic disruptions on economic, political, geophysical, atmospheric, and spiritual levels.
Weather Bill
Huge earthquake in America in September 2010. This EQ to come is going to start the swift downfall of America
Unnamed (dream from mid 2006)
... I saw boom and bust cycle, and the bust years were light gray to really dark gray with the light gray being the less severe, and the dark gray more severe. I could see over the past few cycles, each of the periods of bust were getting more and more severe. I saw the year 2010, that year was pitch black. Anyone who didn't prepare would lose everything, and it was so devastating, USA would never recover... and there is but one way to prepare for anything and that is to trust Jesus for everything. I keep seeing hyperinflation. Food prices soar so high that if you ordered a small fry you it can cost like $20.00. Think of paying $60 for one potato. I keep seeing prices that would today they would only charge at a high class extravagant restaurant for just small bits of food. Then I have had many dreams where the American dollar collapses and there is no more cash, just paper I.O.U's. No one will be able to get a loan, even if already approved and already have the paperwork done. This seems to trigger some kind of religious revival because people seek comfort from God in all of this suffering.
Harold Eatmon (1990)
I had a vision of the stock market soar and then crash. After the crash, many big business corporations and private parties bought up stocks because of the low cost to buy in. Then I saw the market begin to climb again in a short period of time. Then it crashed again bringing tremendous loss, ruin and devastation to all who bought in the first time. This is what I have labeled "Two Black Mondays" . The time period between the Two Black Mondays was very close together. I could not tell exactly how close. There are some tell tale signs indicating the season and the setting. I saw the season to be when *"the leaves fall to the ground"* then the first crash would occur."Like Joseph in Genesis, I believe America will have fat years of financial blessing. I also believe there are coming lean years of financial difficulty for America. [Note: while this doesn't give an exact date, this prophecy was dead on accurate- the markets crashed -777 points on MONDAY 9/29/08, roughly 1 week into the FALL (leaves fall to the ground.) The markets then rebounded OVER A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME (from April 2009 to October 2009 the markets rallied nearly 4000 points!) and everyone bought back in. According to this prophecy, the next huge crash will happen on a Monday. Eatmon even accurately predicted the coming 'fat years' and the now present 'lean years']
Garret Crawford (5/28/09)
The first thing I recall in this dream is I was lying in bed, reminiscing about a strange dream I had seen. In this dream, I had met a young, red-haired man who was the nephew of author Tom Clancy. After getting out of bed, it had crossed my mind that I had to go over to a friend of mine's home for something and he was expecting me. I got in my car and drove over to his home; I walked up the step and opened the door. As I swung the door open, I saw two men whom I had never met before, sitting in my friend’s living room. One was a heavy-set man and the other was a younger fellow with red hair. The red-haired man was setting up a camera and tripod, as if he was going to film me, like in a documentary. At this point, I knew that he was in fact Tom Clancy’s nephew. I walked over to him and asked “Do you believe in prophetic dreams?” He replied with a yes. I then told him that the Lord revealed to me this morning that I would be meeting him. After this encounter I found that the two men were impressed with this miracle and that allowed me to be able to talk with them about many things. After some conversation and time had passed, one of the men, either my friend or the heavy-set companion of the nephew, said to me, “You know, I never forgot what you said about the market crashing; I still think about that.” (I guess he was referring to the dream I had about a year ago where I feel the Lord showed me two crashes of the market.) “Yesterday the market dropped like a hundred-and-something points; I think you were right on.” (I had the dream on the 28th, so if the dream was correct there should have been a loss of over 100 points on the 27th. I looked it up and found the market closed down 173 points on the 27th. So maybe this was just a sign that an all-knowing intelligence was at work in my dream.) I solemnly responded to him that that wasn‘t the crash. I told him to expect something closer to the market index crashing to 5000 (or losing 5000 points, I can’t remember exactly. I never perceived in the dream that this one-day loss of 100+ points would directly precede the greater crash, but that it would be a way down the road. I think the man's comment represents the worldly, hopeful belief that the worst is over or that only a little pain will be felt. But to the lost's surprise, the crash that is soon to come will be beyond their worst fears.)
Pastor Leo Strathman
Yes, My Children, Judgment is coming this year. It is coming worse than it has ever been before. My Children, My Children, My Children, Look to Me for the things coming upon the world. It is going to scare men's hearts, put fear in men's hearts, and men are going to die for fear. Those who are NOT Trusting in Me. Those who are NOT Trusting in My Word. NOT Trusting in Me and My Word. NOT Looking To Me. Yes, My Children, this world is going to turn upside down. Your world, your world, is going to turn upside down, the likes of which you have not ever seen. Judgment is coming. It is at the door and it will be this year, says the Lord. It will multiply. It will increase. It will get worse and worse and worse. Yes, My Children, your finances will get worse, food will get higher, gasoline will go higher. Everything that you have to purchase will go higher and the money will be worth less. My Children, there is a great famine coming on the land, mostly it is created. It is a created famine. But, My Children, you must Look To Me...
Robert Holmes
On October 21, 2008 the Lord said to me (of the global economic crisis): “It will be a dead cat bounce,” meaning it will go down fast, bounce back then fall again. In April 2009, after some growth had taken place, the Lord affirmed, “Don’t get too excited about the market news, it will crash again.” In September 2009, He commented on stock market prices (as measured by the Dow Jones), “It will be a W curve”. Though it will improve through to mid 2010, it will crash again under “the weight of debt”.
Deryn Johnstone (1/25/2010)
"We will experience a worldwide economic upheaval resulting in the collapse of our monetary system. This economic crash will come suddenly, sending shockwaves throughout the world. It will be the opening of the establishment of a new one-world monetary system under a new one-world government. When this worldwide economic disaster hits, it will be unlike anything we have ever experienced. The world will be thrown into a state of shock. Panic and fear will grip the hearts of the people everywhere. They will be confused, not knowing what to do or where to go. During this time, the people of God will be clearly distinguished from the world by God's supernatural provision in their lives. It will not be the absence of problems and adversity among God's people that will be a witness to the world, but in the midst of this financial crisis the world will see God's strong arm of provision for His people.
Michael Johnson
Let me preface my words tonight by saying that even though we see fearful things coming to this nation and this planet, we must realize and recognize that “God has not given us a spirit of fear. This year I see things happening very quickly-an acceleration of things in the natural and the supernatural...I see false prophets, self appointed and self seeking-arising in this nation, speaking words of peace and prosperity-prophesying for money and gain-they will receive great notoriety, but a sudden turn of events will expose their greed and deception...I see the collapse of our economy bringing about a new monetary system, a new form of government and a new national religion...I see Americans continuing to be lulled into a false sense of security because of continued forecasts of a booming economy. However, I see this brief economic spurt giving Christians and churches a short window of opportunity to get their houses in order. However, I see this window of opportunity closing. I see us waking up one morning to the announcement that our nation is broke and that drastic measures, which have been in motion for some time-must now be taken. The collapse of our economy is spoken of in the book of Lamentations... Now the good news: I see the church, responding to the condition of our nation, awaking out of its slumber and sleep, and going forth as a might army. I see the church coming out of hiding, falling on its face!
Robert L
What is going to happen this year? 1. The stock market in America will not only crash, it will no longer exist 2. The President of the USA will foolishly bring sanctions on the nation of Israel 3. There will be a great earthquake that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific 4. The greatest fear will be none of these things; it will be the lack of food men will fear most. The sad truth is that even after all these things have taken place in 2010, most will not repent and turn back to God, most will become even more corrupt as we speedily rush toward the end of time.
Samuel Garcia (11/04/07)
Last night/this morning I had a dream that I had in two parts. The first part I awoke and asked THE LORD to give me further understanding of and then I went back to sleep and THE LORD gave me the second part of the dream. In the first part of the dream I felt like I had just left church, it being Sunday and I was headed towards the store I work in which is a check cashing store; as I approached it I noticed that it was closed and that alarmed me because it was open when I left to go to church in the morning, so that concerned me but I did not see my bosses car so I decided to call her but I got a recorded message from the operator about the phone being out of service or something like that. I also noticed that I did not see any cars driving in the streets and it seemed like it was around Christmas time; then I woke up. The second part of the dream started exactly in the same location the first part started -- in back of the store; then I walked towards the front of the store and I noticed that the store was closed again but then I looked a second time and the store had become a ONE DOLLAR BARGAIN STORE but it seemed like it had shifted. The store had shifted and it was in a location where a massage parlor currently is. So I went inside and asked what appeared to be a security guard what had happened to the people that owned the check cashing store and the guard assured me that that family was well and in good health. I did notice that inside the DOLLAR STORE the items were in a open box and low quality and they seemed to be Christmas accessories. I stepped out of the store and felt that I was in the future and it was anywhere between 2008 and 2010 and I told the guard that I was aware that I was in a dream but as I said that I felt myself leaving the dream; then I woke up. I felt that the dream basically was saying that a MAJOR economic collapse was going to happen in this country due to the fact that I did not see any cars driving in the street and that the check cashing store which requires you to have large sums of money has become a ONE DOLLAR STORE with poor quality items.
Dennis Cramer
DREAMS! 2010 will be a year where ALL Believers will see a dramatic increase in the number of spiritual dreams they experience. Seventy-five percent of them will be warnings. Take heed.
Elaine Tavolacci (January 2010)
Yes things in the natural will continue to grow darker but don’t look to the media keep your eyes on Jesus. He is your source and He is your deliverer. Yes there is a changing of the guard. Some of you are confused because you have also been hearing many prophetic words from credible prophetic voices that seem to be contrary to one another. We are hearing that we are coming into a season of a great move of the Holy Spirit but we are also hearing that we are coming into the worst days in history. Who are we to believe? Both are accurate. It is like looking into a diamond. The Lord is showing some people one facet of the diamond who are seeing the brilliance of it, some are seeing the transparency of it but there are others that are looking into the other side and seeing the flaws. As you stay connected to the giver of life you will be safe in the secret place and experience the awe of God in your life in 2010.
Gene Redlin
You hear in media that things will be OK. Things are recovering. Strained optimism is everywhere. They are nothing more than signs in the tea leaves. False hope is rebounding everywhere. Even those who are MY Prophets are saying things will be fine. That is true, but not for all people and not for a long time...The only thing supporting this economy is hope in government, hope in systems, hope in hope. Until Hope in ME is restored there is no hope. Only hopelessness. The greed and excess that caused Baal to fall has not yet been removed from a system with evil as it's intention. This is more than just a floating higher balloon driven by so much hot air, this is an illusion. People have become prisoners of hope. There will be one more drastic downturn soon. Efforts will be made to hold this off until after the political season. It will only make things worse. Corruption to be removed is at the heart of this judgment. Once this downturn is completed it will be a very long time until recovery can take place. Well into the decade to come. 2015. Oil prices will soar, for a short time. Gold will go up in value for a very short time, housing will not recover for a very long time, Unemployment is going to stay very high. This will be a time for you to learn to TRUST in MY provision. For some it will be ravens by the Brook. For others a cruz of oil and a little meal. Fear not. It's all part of an adjustment that must come. It will mean a currency devaluation that will stagger many. Wealth will be destroyed. It will mean that many will come to the end of themselves. True wealth will be found, and it's not in worldly systems. It's time for truth and justice to be restored. The old systems have become a false God. It was essential that this idol come down. I will have no other God's before ME. I stand above any man's market or economy. When I call a famine or prosperity I call for it and it will happen. Be certain, I will take away anything that tries to substitute itself for dependence on ME. Particularly those called by my name must repent of dependence on the world for their provision as if they have forgotten my name as Jehovah Jireh. I am the Lord your God, there is no other. There will be more change in this decade then you ever imagined. Restoration of many things. Tearing down of others. Seeming disasters beyond understanding. Amazing miracles. Discoveries. Peace. War. Resolution. Birth. Death. Pain. Joy. Challenges to everything you believe. Then affirmation of that Faith you hold so dear. You will be refined as by fire. And it has ever been thus. And will be. The end of 2010 will be the beginning of these things.
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Apr 20, 2010
Revisiting Economic Man
(The Intelligence Daily) — Recent empirical studies suggest that people, far from being self-interested ‘rational maximizers’, have an innate tendency to share and cooperate. Could renewed scientific interest in the essence of human nature provide the building blocks for an alternative economic order? By Alexia Eastwood.
A wealth of literature has recently emerged emphasising humanity’s biological and social propensity for sharing and cooperation, effectively challenging the model of human nature that has underpinned the dominant political and economic structures of recent decades.[1] Empirical evidence from studies of behavioural psychology has suggested that our inclination to share and cooperate is hardwired into our genetic code and may have acted as an evolutionary advantage in human societies throughout the ages.[2] These new findings confirm what anthropological research has long suggested; that basic human nature does not conform to the narrow model of economic rationality that our society often assumes to be a self-evident truth.
The debate about the essence of human nature is not a point of mere philosophical contention but in fact has far-reaching consequences for the society we live in, informing a meta-narrative for how we construct and relate to the world around us. The discipline of economics began as moral philosophy and sought to discover the ‘natural’ laws of the economy. To begin to achieve this goal required an understanding of human nature to inform the inquiry. Adam Smith and David Ricardo, often regarded as the founding fathers of economics, informed their philosophy with a view of human nature based on the utilitarian principle that human beings are ‘rational maximizers’ of their own interest. This model of human nature is still used today and is often referred to as Economic Man or Homo Economicus.[3] Smith’s suggestion that the self-interested actions of individual agents guided by the ‘invisible hand’ of the market would lead to the greater good of all society further enforced ideas of the ‘hyper-rational individual’, and underlies much of our current economic framework.[4]
Modern economics uses these underlying assumptions of human behaviour as the basis for mathematical models, which are often used to develop policy and shape social outcomes. Neoliberal ideology, which incorporated ideas of neoclassical economics, rose to political dominance during the 1980s championed by Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan and Helmut Kohl. They drew not only upon economic theory to support their worldview, but also on the findings of contemporary behavioural science such as rational choice theory and John Nash’s game theory, both of which aimed to scientifically prove the essentially self-interested and rational nature of individuals. Economic Man thereby left the sphere of philosophy and became perceived by many policymakers as scientific fact, enabling Thatcher to make her infamous claim in 1987 that “there is no society”. This marked the advent of an era of socio-economic policies based on assumptions of a highly individualistic and self-interested human being.
The global economy we see today, sustained and justified on these basic theoretical foundations, has been extraordinarily successful in presenting itself as both natural and inevitable. Criticisms of the poverty and extreme inequality that characterise and polarise our societies have long been met with cries of “there is no alternative” and mutterings of ‘rising tides’ and ‘trickle downs’. If it can be proven once and for all that Economic Man is not an accurate representation of the essence of human nature, the entire economic system upon which it was based begins to seem less logical and certainly not natural or inevitable. Perhaps there is an alternative after all.
The study of anthropology can be a useful tool to examine the human condition as it illuminates the myriad different ways that cultures across the globe have chosen to organise their societies and economies. Even a cursory glance at human history and most other forms of society outside the Western world reveal how culturally specific and temporal Economic Man really is; as the economic historian Karl Polanyi stated, no other society outside of our own has ever raised the pursuit of economic gain to the guiding principle of society or understood it as definitive of the human condition.[5]
Even notions of poverty and wealth, which we tend to accept as universal and undisputable concepts, are culturally constructed and anything but universal. In other cultural contexts, wealth has been demonstrated or represented not by the accumulation of material goods but by their redistribution through practices of gift giving, as in the potlatch practice of indigenous communities in the Pacific North West or the Kula exchange of the Trobriand Islands.[6] Anthropologists have documented a wide variety of economies based on notions of reciprocity and sharing, economic values that not only ensure the material provision of goods but also provide strong social cohesion within a community. In examining different methods of social and economic provision what becomes clear is that humans are not necessarily driven to accumulate material goods, but rather act more consistently based on social motivations, prioritising their social standing within their community.[7]
New findings in behavioural science also support a more cooperative basis of human nature. Recent experiments in behavioural and evolutionary psychology have found that human beings as social animals are generally inclined to share and cooperate, and that it is these principles that have given our species an evolutionary advantage rather than the tendency toward competitive individualism.[8] Children, for example, have been found to be innately helpful and cooperative, whilst scientists using imaging technology have discovered that our brain chemistry shows the same pleasure in helping others as in helping ourselves.[9] Another experiment that combines behavioural science and anthropology has used game theory in cross-cultural settings to test the hypothesis of Economic Man. The study found that self-interested behaviour was not a consistent response.[10]
The ongoing economic crisis has been heralded as a moment for change and reflection, and coupled with the environmental crises of man-made climate change and the loss of biodiversity, it is clear that we are at a crossroads. Perhaps it is time to sit back and take stock, re-examine the truths we have taken for granted and think about the world we want to leave to our children. An inclusive twenty-first century society needs a new vision of and for humanity, and the renewed scientific interest in the essence of human nature may provide the building blocks for an alternative economic order built upon values of sharing and cooperation.
Visit Share The World’s Resources
References:
[1] For example, see Jeremy Rifkin, The Empathic Civilization, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2009; Michael Tomasello, Why We Cooperate, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2009; Frans De Waal, The Age of Empathy, New York: Harmony Books, 2009; Humans May Be Hardwired to Share, ABC Science, 28 August 2008.
[2] Michael Tomasello, Why We Cooperate, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2009.
[3] For an in-depth examination of the nature of Economic Man, please see Adam Curtis’ Documentary: The Trap
[4] Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998, page 292.
[5] Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Times, Boston: Beacon Press, 2001, page 45.
[6] See Marcel Mauss, The Gift. Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies, London: Routledge, 2001.
[7] Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Times, Boston: Beacon Press, 2001, page 48.
[8] Yasmin Anwar, Do Kinder People Have an Evolutionary Advantage? Alternet, 4 March, 2010. Nicholas Wade, We May Be Born With an Urge to Help, The New York Times, 30 November 2009.
[9] The Straits Times, Humans Want to Share, 25 February 2010.
10] Joseph Henrich et al, Economic Man in Cross Cultural Perspective. Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small-scale Societies, Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 28, Cambridge University Press, 2005, page 795-855.
A wealth of literature has recently emerged emphasising humanity’s biological and social propensity for sharing and cooperation, effectively challenging the model of human nature that has underpinned the dominant political and economic structures of recent decades.[1] Empirical evidence from studies of behavioural psychology has suggested that our inclination to share and cooperate is hardwired into our genetic code and may have acted as an evolutionary advantage in human societies throughout the ages.[2] These new findings confirm what anthropological research has long suggested; that basic human nature does not conform to the narrow model of economic rationality that our society often assumes to be a self-evident truth.
The debate about the essence of human nature is not a point of mere philosophical contention but in fact has far-reaching consequences for the society we live in, informing a meta-narrative for how we construct and relate to the world around us. The discipline of economics began as moral philosophy and sought to discover the ‘natural’ laws of the economy. To begin to achieve this goal required an understanding of human nature to inform the inquiry. Adam Smith and David Ricardo, often regarded as the founding fathers of economics, informed their philosophy with a view of human nature based on the utilitarian principle that human beings are ‘rational maximizers’ of their own interest. This model of human nature is still used today and is often referred to as Economic Man or Homo Economicus.[3] Smith’s suggestion that the self-interested actions of individual agents guided by the ‘invisible hand’ of the market would lead to the greater good of all society further enforced ideas of the ‘hyper-rational individual’, and underlies much of our current economic framework.[4]
Modern economics uses these underlying assumptions of human behaviour as the basis for mathematical models, which are often used to develop policy and shape social outcomes. Neoliberal ideology, which incorporated ideas of neoclassical economics, rose to political dominance during the 1980s championed by Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan and Helmut Kohl. They drew not only upon economic theory to support their worldview, but also on the findings of contemporary behavioural science such as rational choice theory and John Nash’s game theory, both of which aimed to scientifically prove the essentially self-interested and rational nature of individuals. Economic Man thereby left the sphere of philosophy and became perceived by many policymakers as scientific fact, enabling Thatcher to make her infamous claim in 1987 that “there is no society”. This marked the advent of an era of socio-economic policies based on assumptions of a highly individualistic and self-interested human being.
The global economy we see today, sustained and justified on these basic theoretical foundations, has been extraordinarily successful in presenting itself as both natural and inevitable. Criticisms of the poverty and extreme inequality that characterise and polarise our societies have long been met with cries of “there is no alternative” and mutterings of ‘rising tides’ and ‘trickle downs’. If it can be proven once and for all that Economic Man is not an accurate representation of the essence of human nature, the entire economic system upon which it was based begins to seem less logical and certainly not natural or inevitable. Perhaps there is an alternative after all.
The study of anthropology can be a useful tool to examine the human condition as it illuminates the myriad different ways that cultures across the globe have chosen to organise their societies and economies. Even a cursory glance at human history and most other forms of society outside the Western world reveal how culturally specific and temporal Economic Man really is; as the economic historian Karl Polanyi stated, no other society outside of our own has ever raised the pursuit of economic gain to the guiding principle of society or understood it as definitive of the human condition.[5]
Even notions of poverty and wealth, which we tend to accept as universal and undisputable concepts, are culturally constructed and anything but universal. In other cultural contexts, wealth has been demonstrated or represented not by the accumulation of material goods but by their redistribution through practices of gift giving, as in the potlatch practice of indigenous communities in the Pacific North West or the Kula exchange of the Trobriand Islands.[6] Anthropologists have documented a wide variety of economies based on notions of reciprocity and sharing, economic values that not only ensure the material provision of goods but also provide strong social cohesion within a community. In examining different methods of social and economic provision what becomes clear is that humans are not necessarily driven to accumulate material goods, but rather act more consistently based on social motivations, prioritising their social standing within their community.[7]
New findings in behavioural science also support a more cooperative basis of human nature. Recent experiments in behavioural and evolutionary psychology have found that human beings as social animals are generally inclined to share and cooperate, and that it is these principles that have given our species an evolutionary advantage rather than the tendency toward competitive individualism.[8] Children, for example, have been found to be innately helpful and cooperative, whilst scientists using imaging technology have discovered that our brain chemistry shows the same pleasure in helping others as in helping ourselves.[9] Another experiment that combines behavioural science and anthropology has used game theory in cross-cultural settings to test the hypothesis of Economic Man. The study found that self-interested behaviour was not a consistent response.[10]
The ongoing economic crisis has been heralded as a moment for change and reflection, and coupled with the environmental crises of man-made climate change and the loss of biodiversity, it is clear that we are at a crossroads. Perhaps it is time to sit back and take stock, re-examine the truths we have taken for granted and think about the world we want to leave to our children. An inclusive twenty-first century society needs a new vision of and for humanity, and the renewed scientific interest in the essence of human nature may provide the building blocks for an alternative economic order built upon values of sharing and cooperation.
Visit Share The World’s Resources
References:
[1] For example, see Jeremy Rifkin, The Empathic Civilization, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2009; Michael Tomasello, Why We Cooperate, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2009; Frans De Waal, The Age of Empathy, New York: Harmony Books, 2009; Humans May Be Hardwired to Share, ABC Science, 28 August 2008.
[2] Michael Tomasello, Why We Cooperate, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2009.
[3] For an in-depth examination of the nature of Economic Man, please see Adam Curtis’ Documentary: The Trap
[4] Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998, page 292.
[5] Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Times, Boston: Beacon Press, 2001, page 45.
[6] See Marcel Mauss, The Gift. Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies, London: Routledge, 2001.
[7] Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Times, Boston: Beacon Press, 2001, page 48.
[8] Yasmin Anwar, Do Kinder People Have an Evolutionary Advantage? Alternet, 4 March, 2010. Nicholas Wade, We May Be Born With an Urge to Help, The New York Times, 30 November 2009.
[9] The Straits Times, Humans Want to Share, 25 February 2010.
10] Joseph Henrich et al, Economic Man in Cross Cultural Perspective. Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small-scale Societies, Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 28, Cambridge University Press, 2005, page 795-855.
NATO: F-16 fighters damaged by volcanic ash
By SLOBODAN LEKIC (AP) – 5 hours ago
BRUSSELS — A senior Western diplomat says several NATO F-16 fighters suffered engine damage after flying through the volcanic ash cloud covering large parts of Europe.
The official declined to provide more details on the military flights, except to say that glasslike deposits were found inside the planes' engines after they patroled over European airspace.
Last week, two Finnish Air Force F-18 fighter-bombers suffered similar damage while flying through the ash plume that has paralyzed air traffic over much of Europe. Both landed safely, but their jet engines will require expensive overhauls.
Volcanic ash tends to stick to a jet engine's interior parts, such as the turbines, where it melts to form a glassy coating. This restricts air flow and heats up the engine, leading to engine failure.
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More: Volcano could hurt airlines more than 9/11
BRUSSELS — A senior Western diplomat says several NATO F-16 fighters suffered engine damage after flying through the volcanic ash cloud covering large parts of Europe.
The official declined to provide more details on the military flights, except to say that glasslike deposits were found inside the planes' engines after they patroled over European airspace.
Last week, two Finnish Air Force F-18 fighter-bombers suffered similar damage while flying through the ash plume that has paralyzed air traffic over much of Europe. Both landed safely, but their jet engines will require expensive overhauls.
Volcanic ash tends to stick to a jet engine's interior parts, such as the turbines, where it melts to form a glassy coating. This restricts air flow and heats up the engine, leading to engine failure.
Copyright © 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gOf6EkFL_a2lZK_hHNlDWEig3uXwD9F63E6G4
More: Volcano could hurt airlines more than 9/11
The volcanic ash cloud that has grounded many flights could deal a bigger economic blow to the airline industry than the attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001, the EU's transport commissioner said Monday.
European Commissioner Siim Kallas also told a news briefing that the European Union could not compromise on passengers' safety during the crisis.
Airline industry group IATA has criticized Europe's response to the ash cloud and called for urgent steps to reopen airspace after five days of closures that have cost airlines more than US$200 million a day. More
European Commissioner Siim Kallas also told a news briefing that the European Union could not compromise on passengers' safety during the crisis.
Airline industry group IATA has criticized Europe's response to the ash cloud and called for urgent steps to reopen airspace after five days of closures that have cost airlines more than US$200 million a day. More
Power Downs, Evacuations, Strange Events in Weeks Before 9/11
From factsnotfairies:
Reminder:
George Bushs younger brother, Marvin Bush, was the Director of Securacom, the company that provided electronic security for both the World Trade Center and Washington Dulles Airport (where Flight 77 took off) on 9/11. George Bushs cousin, Wirt D. Walker III, was CEO of this company from 1999 to 2002.
Securacom had an $8.3 million contract from 1996-2002 to install a new security system. Scott Forbes, a Senior Database Administrator for Fiduciary Trust, reports unprecedented power-downs for the whole weekend prior to 9/11. William Rodriguez, the 9/11 Last Survivor, explains that the security doors were left wide open for anyone to go in or out, and the security cameras were turned off.
People reported seeing men in overalls carrying huge toolboxes and long wheels of cables. The explanation was that internet cables were being upgraded. Ben Fountain, a financial analyst, reported numerous unusual evacuations in weeks before 9/11. What were they really doing?
When the Towers were built, the steel beams were sprayed with fire-proof asbestos. Learning of the new health dangers, the asbestos was expected to be removed from every beam. This was almost undoable. Estimates for the cost of doing this were over a billion dollars.
George Bushs younger brother, Marvin Bush, was the Director of Securacom, the company that provided electronic security for both the World Trade Center and Washington Dulles Airport (where Flight 77 took off) on 9/11. George Bushs cousin, Wirt D. Walker III, was CEO of this company from 1999 to 2002.
Securacom had an $8.3 million contract from 1996-2002 to install a new security system. Scott Forbes, a Senior Database Administrator for Fiduciary Trust, reports unprecedented power-downs for the whole weekend prior to 9/11. William Rodriguez, the 9/11 Last Survivor, explains that the security doors were left wide open for anyone to go in or out, and the security cameras were turned off.
People reported seeing men in overalls carrying huge toolboxes and long wheels of cables. The explanation was that internet cables were being upgraded. Ben Fountain, a financial analyst, reported numerous unusual evacuations in weeks before 9/11. What were they really doing?
When the Towers were built, the steel beams were sprayed with fire-proof asbestos. Learning of the new health dangers, the asbestos was expected to be removed from every beam. This was almost undoable. Estimates for the cost of doing this were over a billion dollars.
The PTB Continue Their Stealth Poisoning of Americans
From last July but still important and of course disgusting:
Related: Afghan interpreters ‘abandoned’ after being wounded
The person who may be responsible for more food-related illness and death than anyone in history has just been made the US food safety czar. This is no joke.And, I don't know about the veracity of this, but it is plausible:
Here's the back story.
When FDA scientists were asked to weigh in on what was to become the most radical and potentially dangerous change in our food supply -- the introduction of genetically modified (GM) foods -- secret documents now reveal that the experts were very concerned. Memo after memo described toxins, new diseases, nutritional deficiencies, and hard-to-detect allergens. They were adamant that the technology carried "serious health hazards," and required careful, long-term research, including human studies, before any genetically modified organisms (GMOs) could be safely released into the food supply.
But the biotech industry had rigged the game so that neither science nor scientists would stand in their way. They had placed their own man in charge of FDA policy and he wasn't going to be swayed by feeble arguments related to food safety. No, he was going to do what corporations had done for decades to get past these types of pesky concerns. He was going to lie.
Dangerous Food Safety Lies
When the FDA was constructing their GMO policy in 1991-2, their scientists were clear that gene-sliced foods were significantly different and could lead to "different risks" than conventional foods. But official policy declared the opposite, claiming that the FDA knew nothing of significant differences, and declared GMOs substantially equivalent.
This fiction became the rationale for allowing GM foods on the market without any required safety studies whatsoever! The determination of whether GM foods were safe to eat was placed entirely in the hands of the companies that made them -- companies like Monsanto, which told us that the PCBs, DDT, and Agent Orange were safe.
GMOs were rushed onto our plates in 1996. Over the next nine years, multiple chronic illnesses in the US nearly doubled -- from 7% to 13%. Allergy-related emergency room visits doubled between 1997 and 2002 while food allergies, especially among children, skyrocketed. We also witnessed a dramatic rise in asthma, autism, obesity, diabetes, digestive disorders, and certain cancers.
In January of this year, Dr. P. M. Bhargava, one of the world's top biologists, told me that after reviewing 600 scientific journals, he concluded that the GM foods in the US are largely responsible for the increase in many serious diseases.
In May, the American Academy of Environmental Medicine concluded that animal studies have demonstrated a causal relationship between GM foods and infertility, accelerated aging, dysfunctional insulin regulation, changes in major organs and the gastrointestinal system, and immune problems such as asthma, allergies, and inflammation
In July, a report by eight international experts determined that the flimsy and superficial evaluations of GMOs by both regulators and GM companies "systematically overlook the side effects" and significantly underestimate "the initial signs of diseases like cancer and diseases of the hormonal, immune, nervous and reproductive systems, among others."
The Fox Guarding the Chickens
If GMOs are indeed responsible for massive sickness and death, then the individual who oversaw the FDA policy that facilitated their introduction holds a uniquely infamous role in human history. That person is Michael Taylor. He had been Monsanto's attorney before becoming policy chief at the FDA. Soon after, he became Monsanto's vice president and chief lobbyist.
This month Michael Taylor became the senior advisor to the commissioner of the FDA. He is now America's food safety czar. What have we done?
A most chilling report circulating in the Kremlin today prepared by the Russian Academy of Medical and Technical Science for Prime Minister Putin states that a “mysterious die-off” in the United States has claimed over 2,000,000 lives since 2008 and is “more than likely” linked to a “crossover” plant disease linked to genetically modified grains and foods.Tip to jha
Related: Afghan interpreters ‘abandoned’ after being wounded
Heart of McDarkness
"Kill them all..."
-- Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now
The latest bunker mentality bunk to emanate from Gen. Stanley McChrystal, commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, is that he has too many civilian contractors hoofing around on his turf. Back in June 2009, a "civilian surge" was a key component of his strategy. What made him change his mind?
Maybe his attitude adjustment has something to do with the recent announcement that five former Blackwater employees, including former president Gary Jackson and former vice-presidents William M. Mathews Jr. and Ana Bundy, have been indicted on charges of illegally obtaining automatic weapons and then lying about it. Also indicted was former Blackwater general counsel Andrew Howell. Some general counsel he turned out to be: Your honor, my clients maintain that the weapons in question only become automatic after their triggers are held in the firing position for a specified interval, therefore…
Mercenary icon Blackwater has been in legal extremis for some time. The five Blackwater Barts who went to trial in a U.S. district court for slaughtering Iraqi civilians in a 2007 incident recently got off, but only on a technicality; the prosecutor, Kenneth Kohl, did a header from the high board into the canvas by basing his case on evidence he knew would be thrown out.
Blackwater’s Afghanistan rap sheet is equally abysmal. As reported in March by Tim McGlone of the Tidewater Virginian Pilot, recently released documents show the company’s employees and their supervisors in Afghanistan are "running amok – drinking heavily, using weapons without permission, and ignoring Army protocol. " This dysfunctional environment led to the shooting deaths of two Afghan civilians by a pair of Blackwater "workers" who, prior to becoming freelance gunslingers, received other-than-honorable discharges from the U.S. military (which answers the eternal question "where do we find such men?").
Draft of Secretive International Copyright Treaty Leaked -- Confirms Fears About Internet Freedom
Just in from Alternet:
On the table: losing internet access due to infringement allegations, and widespread data sharing across national borders.
April 19, 2010 |
Negotiations on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) resumed last week in Wellington, New Zealand, with Canada, the United States, the European Union, and a handful of other countries launching the eighth round of talks. While even the most optimistic ACTA supporters do not expect to conclude an agreement before the end of the year, the next five days may prove to be a pivotal point in the negotiations since over the past several weeks, there have been two major leaks that could dramatically alter the still-secret discussions.
The first leak was an internal Dutch government document chronicling the positions of each ACTA participant on treaty transparency. The level of ACTA secrecy is highly unusual for an agreement focused on intellectual property issues, leading to a steady stream of parliamentary resolutions and political demands for transparency coming from around the globe.
US insists on keeping treaty secret
The standard response to transparency criticisms from many governments (including Canada) was to claim that they favored releasing the ACTA text to the public, but that other unnamed countries did not. Since there was no consensus, the text could not be released.
The Dutch leak succeeded in blowing the issue wide open by identifying precisely which countries posed barriers to transparency. The document identified the U.S., Singapore, South Korea, and a trio of European countries as the remaining holdouts. Once publicly identified, the European countries quickly reversed their positions. The E.U. now unanimously supports the releasing of the text alongside Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and Switzerland. With the outing of the transparency issue, it will fall to the U.S., which is widely viewed as the critical stumbling block, to justify its insistence on keeping the treaty secret.
Maintaining support for secrecy also faces a second pressure point -- the second major leak was a copy of the draft agreement itself. In other words, while countries maintain official positions of treaty secrecy, a draft is readily available for anyone with Internet access. Because the text has not been officially released, however, government officials have refused to comment on substantive provisions revealed by the leaked document.
Identifying the opposition to transparency may have been welcome news, but the availability of the leaked text was more bittersweet. On the one hand, ACTA watchers were grateful for the opportunity to see first-hand what has been discussed behind closed doors for the past three years.
Three strikes and you're out?
On the other, the text confirmed many fears about the substance of ACTA. If adopted in its current form, the treaty would have a significant impact on the Internet, leading some countries to adopt three-strikes-and-you're-out policies that terminate subscriber access due to infringement allegations, increasing legal protection for digital locks, mandating new injunction powers, implementing statutory damages provisions worldwide, and engaging in widespread data sharing across national borders.
Moreover, ACTA may live as an institution that potentially replaces some of the responsibilities currently performed by the United Nations' World Intellectual Property Organization. Canada drafted the institutional chapter, which envisions an oversight council, secretariat, dispute resolution, and technical assistance to developing countries.
While some countries insist ACTA will not change their domestic laws, the leaked text suggests that this is very unlikely since there remains considerable disagreement on some provisions. In fact, the New Zealand round of talks may mark the first time countries seriously begin to bargain on key provisions, setting up a week that may go a long way to determine the future scope of the treaty.
Michael Geist, whose column on digital policy and law runs every Tuesday on The Tyee, holds the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law. He can reached at mgeist@uottawa.ca or online at www.michaelgeist.ca.
On the table: losing internet access due to infringement allegations, and widespread data sharing across national borders.
April 19, 2010 |
Negotiations on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) resumed last week in Wellington, New Zealand, with Canada, the United States, the European Union, and a handful of other countries launching the eighth round of talks. While even the most optimistic ACTA supporters do not expect to conclude an agreement before the end of the year, the next five days may prove to be a pivotal point in the negotiations since over the past several weeks, there have been two major leaks that could dramatically alter the still-secret discussions.
The first leak was an internal Dutch government document chronicling the positions of each ACTA participant on treaty transparency. The level of ACTA secrecy is highly unusual for an agreement focused on intellectual property issues, leading to a steady stream of parliamentary resolutions and political demands for transparency coming from around the globe.
US insists on keeping treaty secret
The standard response to transparency criticisms from many governments (including Canada) was to claim that they favored releasing the ACTA text to the public, but that other unnamed countries did not. Since there was no consensus, the text could not be released.
The Dutch leak succeeded in blowing the issue wide open by identifying precisely which countries posed barriers to transparency. The document identified the U.S., Singapore, South Korea, and a trio of European countries as the remaining holdouts. Once publicly identified, the European countries quickly reversed their positions. The E.U. now unanimously supports the releasing of the text alongside Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and Switzerland. With the outing of the transparency issue, it will fall to the U.S., which is widely viewed as the critical stumbling block, to justify its insistence on keeping the treaty secret.
Maintaining support for secrecy also faces a second pressure point -- the second major leak was a copy of the draft agreement itself. In other words, while countries maintain official positions of treaty secrecy, a draft is readily available for anyone with Internet access. Because the text has not been officially released, however, government officials have refused to comment on substantive provisions revealed by the leaked document.
Identifying the opposition to transparency may have been welcome news, but the availability of the leaked text was more bittersweet. On the one hand, ACTA watchers were grateful for the opportunity to see first-hand what has been discussed behind closed doors for the past three years.
Three strikes and you're out?
On the other, the text confirmed many fears about the substance of ACTA. If adopted in its current form, the treaty would have a significant impact on the Internet, leading some countries to adopt three-strikes-and-you're-out policies that terminate subscriber access due to infringement allegations, increasing legal protection for digital locks, mandating new injunction powers, implementing statutory damages provisions worldwide, and engaging in widespread data sharing across national borders.
Moreover, ACTA may live as an institution that potentially replaces some of the responsibilities currently performed by the United Nations' World Intellectual Property Organization. Canada drafted the institutional chapter, which envisions an oversight council, secretariat, dispute resolution, and technical assistance to developing countries.
While some countries insist ACTA will not change their domestic laws, the leaked text suggests that this is very unlikely since there remains considerable disagreement on some provisions. In fact, the New Zealand round of talks may mark the first time countries seriously begin to bargain on key provisions, setting up a week that may go a long way to determine the future scope of the treaty.
Michael Geist, whose column on digital policy and law runs every Tuesday on The Tyee, holds the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law. He can reached at mgeist@uottawa.ca or online at www.michaelgeist.ca.
WIKILEAKS..SNAKE OIL or JUST A HACKERS WET DREAM??
Just in from Cryptome:
Its interesting to note that WIKILEAKS is floundering somewhat
from a lack of funds..
The Daily Telegraph reports that the majority of the funds
raised will go towards paying the website's hosting costs, which
are widely distributed across several countries and are heavily
secured against attack.
In an interview joint founder Assange brags that WikiLeaks has
no headquarters, no office, no formal structure other than the
name and the truth-seeking ideology attached to it. Co-founder
or not, Assange is clear about who holds power at Wikileaks. Who
gets the final call in a dispute? "Me, actually," Assange
(former hacker) says. "I'm the final decision if the document
is legit." (This is not reassuring)..
Assange brags about how lean the organisation is with no
premises etc... Then one assumes he would fully disclose his
operating costs. Detailing just why he is looking for a cool
$600K for such a low overhead operation. ($600K overall budget
and just $200K to keep the lights on.)
Existing donors are somewhat concerned, and have refused to
bankroll Assange without acceptable accounting and audit
procedures, including past expenditures. This is the reason why
WIKILEAKS is spinning its wheels. Its an issue of Assange’s
credibility, and NOT the philosophy behind WIKILEAKS.
No transparency or audit trails concerning operating procedures,
or a technical review of security and technology issues which
are supposed to protect whistleblowers; Very lax procedures
concerning the use encryption technology and document
verification using digital signatures.
WIKILEAKS is a very serious accident just waiting to happen,
they convince the whistle blower that their anonimity is
protected, and their data is secured. NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER
FROM THE TRUTH. Unfortunately someone in an oppressive third
world environment is going to suffer the consequences of Julian
Assange's security assurance snake oil pitch.
What we have here is a high profile ex-hacker trawling for $600K
operating expenses. Anyone with a few bucks can buy into
Assange's snake oil, including fronts for any government agency
anywhere. From that moment on audited accounts don't seem to be
available.
A WIKILEAKS Insider....
eof..
Its interesting to note that WIKILEAKS is floundering somewhat
from a lack of funds..
The Daily Telegraph reports that the majority of the funds
raised will go towards paying the website's hosting costs, which
are widely distributed across several countries and are heavily
secured against attack.
In an interview joint founder Assange brags that WikiLeaks has
no headquarters, no office, no formal structure other than the
name and the truth-seeking ideology attached to it. Co-founder
or not, Assange is clear about who holds power at Wikileaks. Who
gets the final call in a dispute? "Me, actually," Assange
(former hacker) says. "I'm the final decision if the document
is legit." (This is not reassuring)..
Assange brags about how lean the organisation is with no
premises etc... Then one assumes he would fully disclose his
operating costs. Detailing just why he is looking for a cool
$600K for such a low overhead operation. ($600K overall budget
and just $200K to keep the lights on.)
Existing donors are somewhat concerned, and have refused to
bankroll Assange without acceptable accounting and audit
procedures, including past expenditures. This is the reason why
WIKILEAKS is spinning its wheels. Its an issue of Assange’s
credibility, and NOT the philosophy behind WIKILEAKS.
No transparency or audit trails concerning operating procedures,
or a technical review of security and technology issues which
are supposed to protect whistleblowers; Very lax procedures
concerning the use encryption technology and document
verification using digital signatures.
WIKILEAKS is a very serious accident just waiting to happen,
they convince the whistle blower that their anonimity is
protected, and their data is secured. NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER
FROM THE TRUTH. Unfortunately someone in an oppressive third
world environment is going to suffer the consequences of Julian
Assange's security assurance snake oil pitch.
What we have here is a high profile ex-hacker trawling for $600K
operating expenses. Anyone with a few bucks can buy into
Assange's snake oil, including fronts for any government agency
anywhere. From that moment on audited accounts don't seem to be
available.
A WIKILEAKS Insider....
eof..
The Polish Plane Was Likely Sabotaged. Why?
Find out here:
SABOTAGE OF POLISH PLANE?
TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 2010
NEO-CON CIA AGENT TO TAKE OVER POLAND?
Poland’s patriots gone in an instant
Quote: "The decision was made by President Kaczynski and his cabinet to begin the process of devaluing their currency and exiting the E.U. in order to stabilize and save Poland’s economy, when this terrible crash occurred."
Following death of Kaczynski, great powers vie for influence in Poland
JEWISH DELEGATION CANCELED JOURNEY ON POLISH PRESIDENT'S PLANE
SABOTAGE OF POLISH PLANE?
TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 2010
NEO-CON CIA AGENT TO TAKE OVER POLAND?
Poland’s patriots gone in an instant
Quote: "The decision was made by President Kaczynski and his cabinet to begin the process of devaluing their currency and exiting the E.U. in order to stabilize and save Poland’s economy, when this terrible crash occurred."
Following death of Kaczynski, great powers vie for influence in Poland
JEWISH DELEGATION CANCELED JOURNEY ON POLISH PRESIDENT'S PLANE
Just more "coincidences" (talking 'bout controlled demolitions)
The Goldman Scam & John Paulson's Links to 9-11
By Christopher Bollyn - Bollyn.com - April 20, 2010
The latest news about the fraud at Goldman Sachs confirms what I have been saying all along about the financial "meltdown" and government bail-outs of 2008-2009 - it was a massive Zionist fraud, which I called the Fleecing of America. As Britain's Observer reported on 18 April 2010 in an article entitled "Now we know the truth. The financial meltdown wasn't a mistake – IT WAS A CON." -
The man at the center of this scam is a man named John Alfred Paulson and his company. The New York Times reports that Paulson personally made an estimated $3.7 billion in 2007 as a result of his hedge fund’s performance, and another $2 billion in 2008. The charge is that Goldman's vice-president Fabrice Tourre created a dud financial instrument packed with valueless sub-prime mortgages at the instruction of hedge fund client Paulson, sold it to investors knowing it was valueless, and then allowed Paulson to profit from the dud financial instrument.
John Alfred Paulson
John Paulson and Stephen Berger joined Odyssey Partners in 1982, the year it was founded by Jack Nash (left) and Leon Levy (right).
The late Jack Nash (in 1995) was a devoted Zionist supporter and chairman of the American Friends of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem (AFIM). His wife Helen is currently a vice president of the Zionist organization, of which the Baroness Nadine de Rothschild is the Honorary President and Jo Carole Lauder, the wife of Ronald Lauder, is an executive committee board member.
Ronald Lauder, a close friend of Benjamin Netanyahu, looks pretty miserable for a multi-millionaire Zionist in his mid-60s (even with his secretive Israeli girlfriend/Mossad handler/art dealer Daniella Luxembourg). Lauder was the driving force behind the privatization of the World Trade Center, a key part of the 9-11 plot. Guilt destroys a person up from inside. There is no escape, Ron.
Lauder's full-time Mossad handler Daniella Luxembourg and "contemporary art specialist" Amalia Dayan, both of Phillips, de Pury & Luxembourg. Dayan is the grand-daughter of Moshe Dayan. The world of Zionist terrorism is small and based on certain family ties. The Zionist terrorist regime of Israel today is very much like the Sicarii Zealots of the First Century. The Sicarii were Jewish robbers and terrorists who killed other Jews to further their extremist ends. Facing the power of the Roman army, the Sicarii wound up killing hundreds of Jews in the massacre of Masada. The Israeli terrorist regime of Netanyahu and Barak uses Jews as human shields, which endangers all Jews, Zionist and non-Zionist, in the same way as the Sicarii of Masada in the First Century. Israel today is becoming more and more like one huge Masada.
...AND 9-11
Stephen BergerStephen Berger was executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (1985-1990), the owner of the World Trade Center, when Atwell Security, a Mossad company, received the security contract in 1987.
Sources and Recommended Reading:
"Now we know the truth. The financial meltdown wasn't a mistake – it was a con," by Will Hutton, The Observer (U.K.), April 18, 2010
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/apr/18/goldman-sachs-regulators-civil-charges
The Architecture of Terror: Mapping the Network Behind 9-11
http://www.bollyn.com/the-architecture-of-terror-mapping-the-network-behind-9-11
By Christopher Bollyn - Bollyn.com - April 20, 2010
The latest news about the fraud at Goldman Sachs confirms what I have been saying all along about the financial "meltdown" and government bail-outs of 2008-2009 - it was a massive Zionist fraud, which I called the Fleecing of America. As Britain's Observer reported on 18 April 2010 in an article entitled "Now we know the truth. The financial meltdown wasn't a mistake – IT WAS A CON." -
The global financial crisis, it is now clear, was caused not just by the bankers' colossal mismanagement. No, it was due also to the new financial complexity offering up the opportunity for widespread, systemic fraud.
The man at the center of this scam is a man named John Alfred Paulson and his company. The New York Times reports that Paulson personally made an estimated $3.7 billion in 2007 as a result of his hedge fund’s performance, and another $2 billion in 2008. The charge is that Goldman's vice-president Fabrice Tourre created a dud financial instrument packed with valueless sub-prime mortgages at the instruction of hedge fund client Paulson, sold it to investors knowing it was valueless, and then allowed Paulson to profit from the dud financial instrument.
John Alfred Paulson
As the Observer reported on April 18:
The reality was that Paulson was frantically buying credit default swaps in the CDO that would go up in price the more valueless it became – a trade that would make more than $1 billion. Worse, Paulson had identified some of the dud sub-prime mortgages that he wanted Tourre to put into the CDO. If the SEC case is true, this was a scam – nothing more, nothing less.
PAULSON'S CONNECTION TO STEPHEN BERGER
Following Harvard Business School, Paulson began his career working as a Management Consultant at Boston Consulting Group from 1980 to 1982 (where Benjamin Netanyahu began his career in 1976) and as an Associate at Odyssey Partners from 1982 to 1984. Paulson's career at Odyssey Partners brought him into a small circle of Zionist finance scoundrels comprised of Stephen Berger, Leon Levy, and Jack Nash.John Paulson and Stephen Berger joined Odyssey Partners in 1982, the year it was founded by Jack Nash (left) and Leon Levy (right).
The late Jack Nash (in 1995) was a devoted Zionist supporter and chairman of the American Friends of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem (AFIM). His wife Helen is currently a vice president of the Zionist organization, of which the Baroness Nadine de Rothschild is the Honorary President and Jo Carole Lauder, the wife of Ronald Lauder, is an executive committee board member.
Ronald Lauder, a close friend of Benjamin Netanyahu, looks pretty miserable for a multi-millionaire Zionist in his mid-60s (even with his secretive Israeli girlfriend/Mossad handler/art dealer Daniella Luxembourg). Lauder was the driving force behind the privatization of the World Trade Center, a key part of the 9-11 plot. Guilt destroys a person up from inside. There is no escape, Ron.
Lauder's full-time Mossad handler Daniella Luxembourg and "contemporary art specialist" Amalia Dayan, both of Phillips, de Pury & Luxembourg. Dayan is the grand-daughter of Moshe Dayan. The world of Zionist terrorism is small and based on certain family ties. The Zionist terrorist regime of Israel today is very much like the Sicarii Zealots of the First Century. The Sicarii were Jewish robbers and terrorists who killed other Jews to further their extremist ends. Facing the power of the Roman army, the Sicarii wound up killing hundreds of Jews in the massacre of Masada. The Israeli terrorist regime of Netanyahu and Barak uses Jews as human shields, which endangers all Jews, Zionist and non-Zionist, in the same way as the Sicarii of Masada in the First Century. Israel today is becoming more and more like one huge Masada.
...AND 9-11
Stephen BergerSources and Recommended Reading:
"Now we know the truth. The financial meltdown wasn't a mistake – it was a con," by Will Hutton, The Observer (U.K.), April 18, 2010
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/apr/18/goldman-sachs-regulators-civil-charges
The Architecture of Terror: Mapping the Network Behind 9-11
http://www.bollyn.com/the-architecture-of-terror-mapping-the-network-behind-9-11
It’s The Economy Stupid – Nearly 80 Percent Of Americans Say They Don’t Trust The Government
Maybe bailing out the people instead of the banksters could have worked, or at least it could have transformed the US of A in a sort of big Sweden, but now it is too late, unless you think that it would be possible to recover the trillions squandered up to now in gift to the banks and pointless war crimes around the world to justify an ever-growing military-industrial complex, and use them in a more useful way instead. Now, only the worse scenario i.e. either a sort of Weimar (hyperinflation) or Argentina (default), followed by a WW3 is the most plausible.
My humble advice is to expatriate a.s.a.p. or at least prepare a move to some place where you can be self-sufficient for the basic needs in case the above happens as I expect. Don't forget to realize a bunker stuffed with lots of guns and ammo to keep out the hordes of mor*ns who made all this possible and who will come to ask you a free lunch (or will want you as a lunch).
From the Economic collapse blog:
Back during Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign, "It's the economy, stupid" was a phrase that Clinton campaign officials used to keep the focus on the troubled U.S. economy. The truth is that Americans as a whole care about very few things more than their own economic well being, and by keeping the debate focused on economic issues, Clinton was able to defeat George H. W. Bush. Nearly 20 years later, that slogan is as true today as it ever has been. The American people care dearly about their own wallets and bank accounts.
With the economy tanking badly and with unemployment at very high levels, dissatisfaction with the U.S. government is at record highs. In fact, acccording to a newly released poll byPew Research Center, just 22% of Americans believe that they can trust the government in Washington almost always or most of the time. Nearly half of the respondents said that the government has a negative effect on their daily lives. Only 25% of those responding expressed a favorable opinion of Congress, which was the lowest favorable rating for Congress in a quarter century of Pew Research Center surveys.
So why are the American people so angry and frustrated with their government?
It's the economy, stupid.
Millions of Americans have lost their jobs and their homes, and millions more Americans are on the verge of losing their jobs and homes.
There are approximately 5.5 unemployed Americans for every job opening. RealtyTrac projects that there will be 4.5 million home foreclosures in 2010. The economic nightmare just keeps going from bad to worse.
The result is a massive horde of pissed off American voters.
As long as Americans are fat and happy and their wallets are full, most of them really could care less how involved the government is in their lives. But when things go bad economically, all of a sudden the government becomes a major annoyance.
And this is not a Republican v. Democrat thing either. The truth is that both parties have been radically expanding the size of the U.S. government for decades. Both parties have been spending taxpayer money like there is no tomorrow. Both parties have mortgaged the future of America to please their constituents.
Now average Americans from both parties are alarmed at how large the government has become and how badly it is screwing things up. Just consider the following quote from USAToday.com....
"The government's been lying to people for years. Politicians make promises to get elected, and when they get elected, they don't follow through," says Cindy Wanto, 57, a registered Democrat from Pennsylvania who joined several thousand for a rally in Washington on April 15 — the tax filing deadline. "There's too much government in my business. It was a problem before Obama, but he's certainly not helping fix it."
If he wants to get re-elected, the best thing that Barack Obama could do to get votes would be to get the U.S. government to spend as much money as humanly possible in a last ditch attempt to stimulate the U.S. economy with a flood of paper money. That might work just long enough to get re-elected and buy himself another four years in the White House. Of course that strategy would also likely create hyperinflation and would make the long-term financial problems of the U.S. government far, far worse.
But unless the American people start feeling a lot better about the economy, they are not going to look too kindly on anyone who is currently holding office either in 2010 or in 2012.
Meanwhile, playing politics is more profitable than it ever has been.
Barack Obama and his wife Michelle raked in a cool 5.5 million dollars in 2009.
Sarah Palin has earned approximately 12 million dollars since last July.
According to Forbes magazine, Glenn Beck made 32 million dollars in the 12 months ending March 1st.
Politicians may not be very popular these days, but it sure is a profitable racket if you can get into the club.
Republicans make a ton of money convincing millions of Americans that the Democrats are the cause of all the problems that they are experiencing. Democrats make a ton of money convincing millions of Americans that that Republicans are the cause of all the problems that they are experiencing. Meanwhile, both parties continue to pile up the biggest mountain of debt in the history of the world and continue to sell out the future of our children and our grandchildren.
Neither party seems interested in addressing the root causes of our national financial nightmare. Instead, politicians from both parties seem to think that they can keep making all kinds of promises to get elected and then never delivering on them.
Well, the American people are starting to wake up to all of this nonsense. Tens of millions of Americans are experiencing extreme financial pain and they are looking for answers.
Unfortunately, the U.S. economy is going to get a whole lot worse, and very few of the politicians in Washington have the guts to tell the American people the truth.
My humble advice is to expatriate a.s.a.p. or at least prepare a move to some place where you can be self-sufficient for the basic needs in case the above happens as I expect. Don't forget to realize a bunker stuffed with lots of guns and ammo to keep out the hordes of mor*ns who made all this possible and who will come to ask you a free lunch (or will want you as a lunch).
From the Economic collapse blog:
Back during Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign, "It's the economy, stupid" was a phrase that Clinton campaign officials used to keep the focus on the troubled U.S. economy. The truth is that Americans as a whole care about very few things more than their own economic well being, and by keeping the debate focused on economic issues, Clinton was able to defeat George H. W. Bush. Nearly 20 years later, that slogan is as true today as it ever has been. The American people care dearly about their own wallets and bank accounts.
With the economy tanking badly and with unemployment at very high levels, dissatisfaction with the U.S. government is at record highs. In fact, acccording to a newly released poll byPew Research Center, just 22% of Americans believe that they can trust the government in Washington almost always or most of the time. Nearly half of the respondents said that the government has a negative effect on their daily lives. Only 25% of those responding expressed a favorable opinion of Congress, which was the lowest favorable rating for Congress in a quarter century of Pew Research Center surveys.
So why are the American people so angry and frustrated with their government?
It's the economy, stupid.
Millions of Americans have lost their jobs and their homes, and millions more Americans are on the verge of losing their jobs and homes.
There are approximately 5.5 unemployed Americans for every job opening. RealtyTrac projects that there will be 4.5 million home foreclosures in 2010. The economic nightmare just keeps going from bad to worse.
The result is a massive horde of pissed off American voters.
As long as Americans are fat and happy and their wallets are full, most of them really could care less how involved the government is in their lives. But when things go bad economically, all of a sudden the government becomes a major annoyance.
And this is not a Republican v. Democrat thing either. The truth is that both parties have been radically expanding the size of the U.S. government for decades. Both parties have been spending taxpayer money like there is no tomorrow. Both parties have mortgaged the future of America to please their constituents.
Now average Americans from both parties are alarmed at how large the government has become and how badly it is screwing things up. Just consider the following quote from USAToday.com....
"The government's been lying to people for years. Politicians make promises to get elected, and when they get elected, they don't follow through," says Cindy Wanto, 57, a registered Democrat from Pennsylvania who joined several thousand for a rally in Washington on April 15 — the tax filing deadline. "There's too much government in my business. It was a problem before Obama, but he's certainly not helping fix it."
If he wants to get re-elected, the best thing that Barack Obama could do to get votes would be to get the U.S. government to spend as much money as humanly possible in a last ditch attempt to stimulate the U.S. economy with a flood of paper money. That might work just long enough to get re-elected and buy himself another four years in the White House. Of course that strategy would also likely create hyperinflation and would make the long-term financial problems of the U.S. government far, far worse.
But unless the American people start feeling a lot better about the economy, they are not going to look too kindly on anyone who is currently holding office either in 2010 or in 2012.
Meanwhile, playing politics is more profitable than it ever has been.
Barack Obama and his wife Michelle raked in a cool 5.5 million dollars in 2009.
Sarah Palin has earned approximately 12 million dollars since last July.
According to Forbes magazine, Glenn Beck made 32 million dollars in the 12 months ending March 1st.
Politicians may not be very popular these days, but it sure is a profitable racket if you can get into the club.
Republicans make a ton of money convincing millions of Americans that the Democrats are the cause of all the problems that they are experiencing. Democrats make a ton of money convincing millions of Americans that that Republicans are the cause of all the problems that they are experiencing. Meanwhile, both parties continue to pile up the biggest mountain of debt in the history of the world and continue to sell out the future of our children and our grandchildren.
Neither party seems interested in addressing the root causes of our national financial nightmare. Instead, politicians from both parties seem to think that they can keep making all kinds of promises to get elected and then never delivering on them.
Well, the American people are starting to wake up to all of this nonsense. Tens of millions of Americans are experiencing extreme financial pain and they are looking for answers.
Unfortunately, the U.S. economy is going to get a whole lot worse, and very few of the politicians in Washington have the guts to tell the American people the truth.
Eurointelligence Daily Briefing - 20 April 2010
- Greek finance ministry sources say they think debt rescheduling is a possibility;
- perceptions are gathering strength in financial markets that restructuring/rescheduling is coming;
- IMF is expected the issue to be raised in talks with the Greek government;
- Papandreou says he will not hesitate to call on the EU/IMF loan when he needs the money;
- Axel Weber tells German MPs that Greece will need more money than €30bn;
- Greek 10-year yields rise to 7.76%, the highest since the start of EMU;
- Papandreou’s office confirms that there will be no more austerity measures for 2010 beyond those already announced;
- also rules out wage cuts in the private sector;
- prospects for Greek aid forces Germany to delay legislation to help the long-term unemployed;
- Wolfgang Schauble says member states of the euro area cannot be allowed to default;
- Alan Beattie draws interesting parallels between Greece and previous IMF rescue operations;
- Germany’s investment outlook is brightening;
- A German economics institutes calls for a €100bn tax cut, while politics is currently moving in the opposite direction;
- the Spanish blog Nada €$ Gratis, meanwhile, draws disturbing parallels between Japan and Spain.
Comment and Analysis
Greece will have to restructure or reschedue
By: Wolfgang Münchau
The question is no longer whether Greece will go broke, but how.
AN EXAMINATION OF OBAMA’S USE OF HIDDEN HYPNOSIS - TECHNIQUES IN HIS SPEECHES
THE EVIDENCE IS HERE: This document contains over 60 pages of evidence and analysis proving Barack Obama’s use of a little-known and highly deceptive and manipulative form of “hack” hypnosis on millions of unaware Americans, and reveals what only a few psychologists and hypnosis/NLP experts know.
Barack Obama’s speeches contain the hypnosis techniques of Dr. Milton Erickson, M.D. who developed a form of “conversational” hypnosis that could be hidden in seemingly normal speech and used on patients without their knowledge for therapy purposes. Obama’s speeches intentionally contain:
- Trance Inductions
- Hypnotic Anchoring
- Pacing and Leading
- Pacing, Distraction and Utilization
- Critical Factor Bypass
- Stacking Language Patterns
- Preprogrammed Response Adaptation
- Linking Statements/ Causality Bridges
- Secondary Hidden Meanings/Imbedded Suggestions
- Emotion Transfer
- Non-Dominant Hemisphere Programming
Obama’s techniques are the height of deception and psychological manipulation, remaining hidden because one must understand the science behind the language patterns in order to spot them. This document examines Obama’s speeches word by word, hand gesture by hand gesture, tone, pauses, body language, and proves his use of covert hypnosis intended only for licensed therapists on consenting patients. Obama’s mesmerized, cult-like, grade-school-crush-like worship by millions is not because “Obama is the greatest leader of a generation” who simply hasn’t accomplished anything, who magically “inspires” by giving speeches. Obama is committing perhaps the biggest fraud and deception in American history.
Obama is not just using subliminal messages, but textbook covert hypnosis and neuro-linguistic programming techniques on audiences that are intentionally designed to sideline rational judgment and implant subconscious commands to think he is wonderful and elect him President. Obama is eloquent.
However, Obama’s subconscious techniques are shown to elicit powerful emotion from his audience and then transfer those emotions onto him, to sideline rational judgment, and implant hypnotic commands that we are unaware of and can’t even consciously question. The polls are misleading because some of Obama’s commands are designed to be triggered only in the voting booth on November 4th.
Obama is immune to logical arguments like Wright, Ayers, shifting every position, character, and inexperience, because hypnosis affects us on an unconscious and emotional level. To many people who see this unaccomplished man’s unnatural and irrational rise to the highest office in the world as suspicious and frightening and to those who welcome it, this document uncovers, explains, and proves the deceptive tactics behind true “Obama Phenomenon” including why younger people are more easily affected.
Read all (67pp. pdf)
Barack Obama’s speeches contain the hypnosis techniques of Dr. Milton Erickson, M.D. who developed a form of “conversational” hypnosis that could be hidden in seemingly normal speech and used on patients without their knowledge for therapy purposes. Obama’s speeches intentionally contain:
- Trance Inductions
- Hypnotic Anchoring
- Pacing and Leading
- Pacing, Distraction and Utilization
- Critical Factor Bypass
- Stacking Language Patterns
- Preprogrammed Response Adaptation
- Linking Statements/ Causality Bridges
- Secondary Hidden Meanings/Imbedded Suggestions
- Emotion Transfer
- Non-Dominant Hemisphere Programming
Obama’s techniques are the height of deception and psychological manipulation, remaining hidden because one must understand the science behind the language patterns in order to spot them. This document examines Obama’s speeches word by word, hand gesture by hand gesture, tone, pauses, body language, and proves his use of covert hypnosis intended only for licensed therapists on consenting patients. Obama’s mesmerized, cult-like, grade-school-crush-like worship by millions is not because “Obama is the greatest leader of a generation” who simply hasn’t accomplished anything, who magically “inspires” by giving speeches. Obama is committing perhaps the biggest fraud and deception in American history.
Obama is not just using subliminal messages, but textbook covert hypnosis and neuro-linguistic programming techniques on audiences that are intentionally designed to sideline rational judgment and implant subconscious commands to think he is wonderful and elect him President. Obama is eloquent.
However, Obama’s subconscious techniques are shown to elicit powerful emotion from his audience and then transfer those emotions onto him, to sideline rational judgment, and implant hypnotic commands that we are unaware of and can’t even consciously question. The polls are misleading because some of Obama’s commands are designed to be triggered only in the voting booth on November 4th.
Obama is immune to logical arguments like Wright, Ayers, shifting every position, character, and inexperience, because hypnosis affects us on an unconscious and emotional level. To many people who see this unaccomplished man’s unnatural and irrational rise to the highest office in the world as suspicious and frightening and to those who welcome it, this document uncovers, explains, and proves the deceptive tactics behind true “Obama Phenomenon” including why younger people are more easily affected.
Read all (67pp. pdf)
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