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G8 summit opens Sunday at the NATO summit in Chicago.
One of the key issues to be considered by the NATO leaders is who will pay for the buildup of Afghan forces as ISAF draws down its troops. Afghan security forces are expected to total 350,000 by 2015, according to CNN National Security Analyst Peter Bergen.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who is attending the summit along with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, can only afford to cover a fraction of the cost of building up his country's forces. The cost of building up forces is expected to total roughly $4 billion annually by 2014, Bergen said.
France's new president, Francois Hollande, is widely expected to announce the withdrawal of French troops from Afghanistan by year's end.
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Here is a list of "10 strategies of manipulation" by American linguist Noam Chomsky
1 - A STRATEGY OF DISTRACTION.
The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political and economic elites, through the technique of flood or flooding continuous distractions and insignificant information. The strategy of distraction is also essential to keep the public interested in the essential knowledge in science, economics, psychology, neurobiology, and cybernetics. "Keep the public's attention distracted away from the real social problems, captivated by issues of no importance. Keep the public busy, busy, busy, no time to think, back to the farm and other animals (citing text 'silent weapons for quiet wars). "
2 - CREATE PROBLEMS AFTER OFFERING SOLUTIONS.
This method is also called "problem-reaction-solution." This creates a problem, a "situation" due to cause some reaction in public, so that it is the principal measures that want to accept. For example: let develops or intensifies the urban violence, or arrange for bloody attacks, so that the public is the principal of safety laws and policies to the detriment of freedom. Or also: create an economic crisis to accept as a necessary evil recession of social rights and the dismantling of public services.
3 - STRATEGY gradation.
To make it accept an unacceptable extent, simply apply it gradually, a dropper, for consecutive years. This is how radically new socioeconomic conditions (neoliberalism) were imposed during the 1980s and 1990s: the minimal state, privatization, precariousness, flexibility, mass unemployment, which is insufficient to pay decent tickets, so many changes that caused a revolution would be had been implemented at once.
4 - THE STRATEGY OF DEFER.
Another way to make an unpopular decision to accept is to present it as "painful and necessary" in obtaining public acceptance for the moment for a future application. It is easier to accept that a future sacrifice of an immediate sacrifice. First, because the effort is not used immediately. Then, because the public, the mass, always has the tendency to expect naively that "everything will improve tomorrow," and that the sacrifice required may be avoided. This gives the public more time to get used to the idea of change and accept it with resignation when the time comes.
5 - ADDRESSING THE PUBLIC AS younger children.
Most of the advertising directed at the general public uses discourse, arguments, characters, and particularly children's intonation, often close to the weakness, as if the viewer were a very young child or a mentally impaired. The more you get bringing mislead the viewer, the more it tends to adopt an infantile tone. Why? "If you address a person as if she had the age of 12 years or less, then, due to suggestibility, it will tend, with some probability, a response or reaction also lacks a critical sense as of a person 12 years or younger (see "Silent Weapons for quiet Wars"). "
6 - USING THE EMOTIONAL ASPECT MUCH MORE THAN A REFLECTION.
Make use of the emotional aspect is a classic technique to cause a short circuit on rational analysis, and finally to the critical sense of individuals. Moreover, the use of emotional register allows you to open the door to the unconscious to deploy graft or ideas, desires, fears and fears, compulsions, or induce behaviors ...
7 - Keep the public in ignorance and mediocrity.
Making the public is incapable of understanding the technologies and methods for their control and their bondage. "The quality of education given the lower social classes should be as poor and mediocre as possible so that the gap of ignorance that lies between the lower classes to upper social classes is and remains impossible to reach the lower classes (see 'Arms silent for quiet wars). "
8 - stimulates the public to be complacent mediocrity.
Promoting the public to think that fashion is the fact of being stupid, vulgar and uneducated ...
9 - STRENGTHENING THE REVOLT BY self-blame.
Make the individual believe that he alone is to blame for their own misfortune, because of the failure of their intelligence, their abilities, or their efforts. Thus, instead of rebelling against the economic system, the individual themselves helpless and blame themselves, which leads to a depressive state which one of its effects is to inhibit its action. And without action, there's revolution!
10 - THE BEST GUYS KNOW WHAT THEY KNOW IF SAME.
In the course of the last 50 years, advances in science have led to accelerated growing knowledge gap between the public and those owned and used by the ruling elites. Thanks to biology, neurobiology and psychology applied, the "system" has enjoyed an advanced knowledge of the human being, either physically or psychologically. The system has been able to better understand the average person than he knows himself. This means that in most cases, the system has more control and great power over individuals than the individuals themselves.
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"We will need to produce as much food in the next 40 years as we have in the last 8,000," said Jason Clay of the World Wildlife Fund at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). "By 2050 we will not have a planet left that is recognizable" if current trends continue, Clay said.
"More people, more money, more consumption, but the same planet," Clay told AFP, urging scientists and governments to start making changes now to how food is produced.
Population experts, meanwhile, called for more funding for family planning programs to help control the growth in the number of humans, especially in developing nations.
"For 20 years, there's been very little investment in family planning, but there's a return of interest now, partly because of the environmental factors like global warming and food prices," said Bongaarts.
"We want to minimize population growth, and the only viable way to do that is through more effective family planning," said Casterline.
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December 8, 2010 | Politics
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A high-profile spy scandal involving Russian nationals in the U.S seems to be coming to an end. Ten Russians who admitted being agents for a foreign country were brought from the U.S. to Vienna on Friday morning, where they were later exchanged for four people convicted of spying in Russia but pardoned by President Dmitry Medvedev after they signed to admit their guilt.
At 12:40 p.m CET (Central European Time) a plane of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry took off from the Schwechat airport in Vienna to bring the suspects to Moscow. The spy swap itself took just a bit more than an hour. The deported Russians moved from the one plane to the other and without being questioned by the Austrian customs service left for Russia.
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This prognosis of world economic for 2010 I found on sourse MM News. . So you can read the complete article in German here www.mmnews.de/. Frankly saying I cant agree with the opinion of anonymous author that the situation is so awful but would like to share with you with one of the various scenarios of the end of this world.There is certain reasons there.
Well, Sunday, 10. January 2010
It is always difficult to predict economic and political situation, especially now, when being broken up the ruling political and economic "elite" is still printing press trying to keep the present situation as long as possible.
Author: anonym
It is still impossible to say: "The game is finished!" However, I would give an approximate forecast chronology of economic and political events which might happen in 2010 without any claim to punctuality and completeness.
I understand that this chronology of evets 2010 is rather an approximate index of the way we are going to.
I. Prologue
2006 - Financial crisis
Autumn 2008 - Throwing on the real economy
October 2008 - Recession turns into depression
Trillion-dollar program to rescue banks
Autumn 2008 - Deflation of all "financial assets" ( "financial assets") (Eg property, stocks, etc..) then collapse in tax revenues in Germany
State land and communes need take 144 billion new loans in 2010
II. The beginning of the crisis
Beginning of 2010 - mass layoffs, a shorter working week "(=" delay in the end "and the first step to lay-offs)
1. wave of dismissals: industry (long-term-) investment goods, automotive industry
2. wave of dismissals: suppliers, construction of buildings after konyukturnyh programs.
From March / April 2010 - Possibility the failure of banks worldwide.
In Germany: Deutsche Bank, HRE, Landesbanken
From June / July 2010 3. - rising wave of dismissals: consumer goods, trade, banks and insurance
Subsidence consumption
Since the beginning of 2010 / early summer 2010 (April - June 2010) - Official U.S. bankruptcy and / or collapse of the Euro-currency? As a result Germany comes out from the euro area, to issue of new money in the former Europian contries.
4. wave of job cuts: the state retains only the most necessary personnel - military, police, the judicial system.
Unemployment rate: 50 - 60%
Burn foreign dollar assets
=de facto expropriation of creditors, the U.S. around the world
Hyperinflation in the U.S.
Monetary reform in the United States:
1.000 to 10.000 of the old $ 1 new = $ (gold dollar?)
(partly) the collapse of cashless payment systems. Restrictions / ban on cash withdrawals.
Destruction globalization
(container ships would not get more "credit letters" - "letters of credit)
From July - August 2010 The first interruption to the provision of goods.
Tourism collapsing minimum to 50%
III. Aggravation
August - October 2010 - Beginning of hyperinflation in Europe, the European Central Bank includes the machine.
Germany must pay 400 billion of old debts.
Since February 2009 U.S. it was printed 3 - 5 trillion. to cover the budget deficit, Europe is about 3.000 billion
Summer 2010, at the latest June - August 2010 The collapse of the market debt securities Germany
IV. Hyperinflation
From April - May 2010 The significant increase in prices for food and consumer goods, (+ 20%) Þ impairment konyukturnye money seep into the real economy.
Since the autumn of 2010
(September - October 2010) Prices are rising by 50% per month
Start World of hyperinflation.
Autumn 2010 -- Summer 2012 Global hyperinflation, accompanied by a system of unsecured interim rates.
Autumn 2009 / 2010 - Last relatively good harvests? World drought reduces crop yields worldwide by 50%? There comes, at least in part, the collapse of mechanized agriculture, as well as fuel, fertilizers and spare parts difficult to obtain, the peasants have a lot of debt.
Summer - Fall 2010 Temporary stop oil and gas. Perhaps the war between the Arab and the Israeli army. Partial victory for the Arabs because Israel has no support for the U.S. and Germany. Reduce consumption of oil and gas.
Late Fall 2010
(October - November 2010) The resumption of oil and gas supplies in exchange for food, machinery, equipment, and so on. Payment in precious metals.
Late August / Fall 2010 End manipulated financial circles in the U.S. prices for precious metals. The collapse of the U.S. bond market, the yield of the dollar and paper assets. Stock market crash (Dow Jones at 500 - 1000?)
1 ounce of gold is worth at least until the summer of 2010 $ 2,500, then at least $ 10,000
1 ounce of silver around $ 50, then to $ 1,000
(price of gold rises to five times higher than the level of food, silver - about 25-30 times!
V. Phase chaos
Autumn 2010 Early elections in many countries, national parties are losing voters, the extremists would take at least a third of parliaments.
At the latest since October 2010 Serious shortages of food, fuel, energy. Hungry riots. Prerevolutionary state.
Announcement of an emergency. Economic activity is reduced by 50%.
October - December 2010 "Sad" winter 2010/2011: Hyperinflation.
At 98% People savings dissolved in air. Nischanie People masses.
Mass unemployment, hunger, impoverishment.
Winter 2010 Mainly the "right" of revolution in Europe. There are new political structures. Round tables (public discussion).
With 2012 Reborn whether Monarchy, eg. The Habsburgs in Central Europe?
Concluding remarks
Important: due to attempts to save the system and manipulated as for example. printing money, possibly further extension of the existing system for a period of 6 to 12 months. In accordance with the specified time will be to move forward.
In the case of acceleration processes (due to the seriousness of the situation) all dates are moved forward (eg three months).
My assumptions are based on available to me by December 2009 data. In no case do not claim to accurate prediction of events in 2010! Yet ...
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December 14, 2009 | Politics
Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has spent the night in a hospital after being attacked at a rally in Milan Sunday. His spokesman reports he is tired and aching, and doctors are advising that he rest
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e was admitted to hospital on Sunday with broken teeth, a fractured nose and a scarred face after a man with a history of mental problems threw a statuette of Milan cathedral at him as he signed autographs after a political rally.
A medical bulletin said on Monday there were no big worries about Berlusconi's condition but he would stay in hospital at least until Tuesday because he was complaining about sharp pains in the head and face and had lost about a liter of blood.
His doctor, Alberto Zangrillo, said on state television Berlusconi would not return to work for 10 days.
Some commentators said the attack would help Berlusconi, whose high ratings have been hit by accusations of corruption and sex scandals. They said a "sympathy factor" was likely to boost his popularity, and that the attack would strengthen his position in his sometimes fractious center-right coalition.
"I expect his ratings to go up in the eyes of public opinion and this will also make it harder for anyone in the center-right to aspire to take his place anytime soon," leading national political commentator Massimo Franco told Reuters.
Images of Berlusconi's bloodied and bruised face were shown on television around the world and on the front pages of all Italian newspapers, but the headlines and comments went well beyond the injuries.
"A Time of Hatred" was the headline used by La Nazione newspaper of Florence. The word "hate" was used in many headlines and commentators as Italy searched its soul over what happened to its controversial and divisive premier.
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