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Many now weary want it stopped, Hudson saying:
Foreign countries seek "to create an international monetary system in which central bank savings do not fund the United States' military deficit....Russia, China, India and Brazil have taken the lead...." Look for others to follow.
The situation, however, remains fluid. The Fed keeps flooding markets with dollars. "Finance has become the new mode of warfare." Currency wars are in play for economic competitiveness, one nation jockeying against others during a transition period toward more stability and a fairer world economy. Because of today's global weakness, that condition may be years in the making with no assurance of winners or losers.
(2) US Department of Defense is the Worst Polluter on the Planet
Given America's imperial wars, global presence, heavy reliance on oil, and use of radioactive and other toxin emitting weapons, it's no surprise that the Pentagon "is responsible for the most egregious and widespread pollution of the planet." Yet virtually none of this gets reported, nor do environmental groups show concern. Worse still, "the Pentagon has a blanket exemption in all international climate agreements," effectively giving it carte blanche to contaminate air, water and soil freely wherever it operates.
According to Barry Sanders, author of The Green Zone: The Environmental Costs of Militarism, "the greatest single assault on the environment, on all of us around the globe, comes from" America's military, spreading death, destruction and contamination virtually everywhere. Expect no major media reports explaining it. Instead they hail America's armed forces as defenders of democracy, and governments under both major parties as servants of the people - omitting which ones, why global wars are waged, who pays for them, and who wins and loses.
(3) Internet Privacy and Personal Access at Risk
Post-9/11, both Bush and Obama administrations expanded intrusive government surveillance, including through Internet monitoring of personal communications. On April 1 last year, the Senate introduced two bills endangering a free and open Internet - S. 773: Cybersecurity Act of 2009 and S. 778 to establish a White House cybersecurity czar.
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