Did they mention taking the US economy out too? Yes, I know this would make Bush pretty stupid, or in on it.
All this seems to be Soros-like thinking. And now we have Wall Street trying t scare Boehner away from doing anything meaningful telling him he will drive us into default. Rush is talking about this now. The debt ceiling hold out until congress returns to common sense is the only hammer we have. We are now about to be scared off from saving the country. It’s a show down. Capitalism vs. Marxism
France is going broke just like the Greeks , maybe more so, they need to steal the oil, to pay their bills. How many trillions did the fed deposit in the world bank. One of the actions under TARP.
Sorry, I stopped reading with “Later, the same general said they planned to take out seven countries in five years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran”.
Given the parlous state of the military in 2001, nobody would even think of proposing such a plan. Why do you think that the order of battle for Iraq-2003 was inadequate?
“What do these seven countries have in common? In the context of banking, one that sticks out is that none of them is listed among the 56 member banks of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).”
And neither is or was Albania, Cyprus, Luxembourg, Malta, or Taiwan, or Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, or the Ukraine, Moldava, Azerbaijan or Georgia, not to mention the “western allies in Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Egypt, Qatar, and the U.A.E. (which lack of BIS membership hasn’t seemed to hurt their U.S. relations); and in terms of BIS membership neither is or was Yemen, or Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan or Uzbekistan members, yet, in terms of “U.S. interests” or even “western interests” that does not seem to be a problem in diplomacy or trade.
And of course that still leaves out Angola, Armenia, Benin, Botswana, Burundi, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Comoros, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Luxembourg, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique. Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Western Sahara Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, Senegal, Seychelles. Sierra Leone, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Zambia, Zimbabwe all of whom have no interest in the BIS either.
So, are they all next on the hit list.
So much for conspiracy theories and anonymous generals.
"I have never before heard of a central bank being created in just a matter of weeks out of a popular uprising. This suggests we have a bit more than a rag tag bunch of rebels running around and that there are some pretty sophisticated influences."
"As the United Nations works feverishly to condemn Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi for cracking down on protesters, the body's Human Rights Council is poised to adopt a report chock-full of praise for Libya's human rights record. The review commends Libya for improving educational opportunities, for making human rights a "priority" and for bettering its "constitutional" framework. Several countries, including Iran, Venezuela, North Korea, and Saudi Arabia but also Canada, give Libya positive marks for the legal protections afforded to its citizens - who are now revolting against the regime and facing bloody reprisal."