STUDY SHOWS WALL ST. LOBBYISTS SHAPED DEREGULATION BEHIND CRISIS

http://www.albionmonitor.com/0902a/copyright/wallstderegulation.html

by Marina Litvinsky

READ Sold Out: How Wall Street and Washington Betrayed America

(IPS) WASHINGTON -- A new report says that Wall Street has only itself to blame for the misguided deregulation that led to the current deepening financial crisis. Issued March 4 by Essential Information and the Consumer Education Foundation, the report documents billions of dollars spent by the financial sector on what would eventually be their own downfall. The 231-page report, "Sold Out: How Wall Street and Washington Betrayed America," shows that the financial sector invested more than $5 billion on purchasing political influence in Washington over the past decade, with as many as 3,000 lobbyists winning deregulation and other policy decisions that led directly to the current financial collapse. "The report details, step-by-step, how Washington systematically sold out to Wall Street," said Harvey Rosenfield, president of the California-based non-profit organization Consumer Education Foundation.

Inder empört über amerikanische Yoga-Patente

http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,druck-486178,00.html 

02. Juni 2007, 10:29 Uhr
Von Hasnain Kazim

Empörung in Indien: Findige US-Unternehmer im boomenden Fitness-Markt lassen sich immer mehr Yoga-Praktiken patentieren, etwa "Hot Yoga" oder "Bikram Yoga". Wenn überhaupt, heißt es in Neu-Delhi, gehört das Patent auf alte indische Philosophie Indien. Hamburg - Shiv Basant könnte jetzt ein bisschen Entspannung gut gebrauchen. Der Beamte im Gesundheitsministerium in Neu-Delhi, Abteilung Ayurveda, Yoga und andere traditionelle Heilverfahren, hat derzeit viel zu tun: Amerikanische Unternehmen wollen ein paar angeblich selbst erfundene Yoga-Übungen patentrechtlich schützen lassen. "Stellen Sie sich das mal vor!", sagt er. "Amerikanische Patente auf Yoga." Er schnauft. "Auf Yoga!"

George Soros on the Coming U.S. Class War

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/01/22/george-soros-on-the-coming-u-s-class-war.html

Jan 23, 2012 12:00 AM EST 'The situation is about as serious and difficult as I've experienced in my career.' Plus, an exclusive interview with IMF chief Christine Lagarde, who issues a dire warning for Europe. 'The situation is about as serious and difficult as I've experienced in my career.' by John Arlidge | January 23, 2012 12:00 AM EST You know George Soros. He’s the investor’s investor—the man who still holds the record for making more money in a single day’s trading than anyone. He pocketed $1 billion betting against the British pound on “Black Wednesday” in 1992, when sterling lost 20 percent of its value in less than 24 hours and crashed out of the European exchange-rate mechanism. No wonder Brits call him, with a mix of awe and annoyance, “the man who broke the Bank of England.”

The demise of the dollar

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/the-demise-of-the-dollar-1798175.html?printService=print

In a graphic illustration of the new world order, Arab states have launched secret moves with China, Russia and France to stop using the US currency for oil trading

By Robert Fisk

Tuesday, 6 October 2009

In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, Gulf Arabs are planning – along with China, Russia, Japan and France – to end dollar dealings for oil, moving instead to a basket of currencies including the Japanese yen and Chinese yuan, the euro, gold and a new, unified currency planned for nations in the Gulf Co-operation Council, including Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Qatar.

Japan auf der Suche nach einem Endlager

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/35/35048/1.html

Florian Rötzer 03.07.2011

Toshiba, Eigner von Westinghouse, drängt die USA, in der Mongolei ein Endlager für den durch Fukushima angewachsenen Atommüll zu errichten

Toshiba lobbying U.S. to build nuclear waste repository in Mongolia

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110702p2g00m0dm011000c.html

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Toshiba Corp. has lobbied a senior U.S. government official to realize an international nuclear fuel supply scheme that includes the construction of a nuclear waste repository in Mongolia, according to a copy of a letter by Toshiba's president obtained by Kyodo News on Friday.

The Real New World Order

http://www.princeton.edu/~slaughtr/Articles/RealNewWorldOrderFA.txt

By Anne-Marie Slaughter

From Foreign Affairs, September/ October 1997

Nuclear disposal site: a ruined village construction project in Mongolia, a dream of nuclear power in return for technical assistance

The most promising candidate primary Bayantaru village in Mongolia. Officers quarters built by the Soviet army was supposed to ruin

Revealed secret plans to build a disposal site for the first time an international nuclear waste storage in Japan, Mongolia and the United States. Mongolia is “nuclear waste” in return for an undertaking, as well as contemplate the construction of nuclear power plants in the United States technical assistance. Why you need an abundant nuclear underground Mongolia something. The most likely candidates eager to build the nation’s first nuclear power plant in Mongolia, Bayantaru Gobisunburu County Central (meaning rich grassland), visited the village. [Aikawa Haruyuki Gobisunburu County;)

Цөмийн хаягдлыг Монголын нутагт агуулбал мөнгө өгнө гэж хэмжээг нь хүртэл хэлээд байна

http://www.dailynews.mn/publish/?vid=19095
Япон, Америкийн Засгийн газар манай улсын дээд албан тушаалын хүмүүстэй нууц хэлэлцээр хийж Монголын газар нутаг дор олон улсын цөмийн хаягдлын агуулах барих төсөл хийж байсан талаарх мэдээлэл дуулиан тарьж байна. Гадаад харилцааны яамнаас уржигдар яаралтай хэвлэлийн бага хурал зарлаж энэхүү мэдээллийг үгүйсгэсэн. Манай улсад цөмийн хаягдлын агуулах барих нууц хэлэлцээрийн тухай Монголд ирж сурвалжлага хийсэн Японы "Майничи" сонины Лондон дахь тусгай сурвалжлагч Айкава Харүюкитай холбогдлоо. Тэрбээр өнгөрсөн дөрөвдүгээр сард Монголд ирээд буцсан бөгөөд Лондонгоос түүнтэй интернэтээр шууд холбогдож Н.Энхжаргал орчуулагчийн тусламжтайгаар ярилцсанаа хүргэе.

Mongolia Might Store Foreign Spent Nuclear Fuel, Senior U.S. Official Says

http://www.globalsecuritynewswire.org/gsn/nw_20110330_8553.php
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

By Elaine M. Grossman

Global Security Newswire

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration has held informal talks with Mongolia about the possibility that the Central Asian nation might host an international repository for its region's spent nuclear fuel, a senior U.S. diplomat said yesterday (see GSN, March 9, 2010).

Mongolia Balances Public Opinion With Nuclear Ambitions

http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/8921/mongolia-balances-public-opinion-with-nuclear-ambitions
By Jonathan Berkshire Miller | 23 May 2011

In recent months, news outlets in Japan and the U.S. have reported that Mongolia is negotiating with those two countries to serve as a regional depository for spent nuclear fuel. The proposed plan would permit geographically constrained countries in the region, such as Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, to dispose of their spent fuel in the spacious Central Asian state.

U.S. Embassy issues statement denying Mongolian nuclear fuel disposal plans

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110512p2a00m0na006000c.html
(Mainichi Japan) May 12, 2011

The United States Embassy in Japan has emphatically denied a Mainichi report that the U.S. and Japan were in talks to build a nuclear waste disposal and processing facility in Mongolia.

"The U.S. government is not negotiating a deal to send spent nuclear fuel to Mongolia," the U.S. Embassy stated on May 10. "There are a number of inaccuracies in the stories being reported today in Japanese newspapers about a spent nuclear fuel facility in Mongolia," the statement continued, referring to a media firestorm ignited by a Mainichi May 9 morning edition story outlining secret negotiations between the U.S. Energy Department and the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

GTSO: U.S. Geological Survey Warns Congress That Rare Earth Demand Increasing 8% Annually

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110606005534/en/GTSO-U.S.-Geological-Survey-Warns-Congress-Rare
June 06, 2011 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Rising Demand and Dwindling Chinese Exports Threaten U.S.’s Rare Earth Supplies

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As Green Technology Solutions, Inc. (OTCQB:GTSO) works to secure new sources of rare earth elements in Mongolia, Kenya, Botswana and elsewhere, demand for the critical elements continues to rise worldwide.

Bloomberg reported Friday that the U.S. Geological Survey told Congress’ House Natural Resources Committee that global demand for rare earths will increase at a rate of eight percent annually as production of green energy projects, tablet computers, smartphones and hybrid vehicles expands around the world. Domestic manufacturers concerned by potential supply shortages urged Congress last week to help reduce the U.S.’s dependence on China for its rare earth supplies. The Communist superpower, which produces more than 95 percent of the world’s rare earth supplies, alarmed many manufacturers around the globe by announcing last July that it would cut its export quotas by more than 70 percent despite growing global demand. In the months since, mineral prices have skyrocketed.