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Here are a pair of interesting You-Tube videos on fractional reserve lending sent by reader Magnus who lives in Sweden. Godfrey Bloom Blasts Fractional Reserve Lending as Fraud “The problem that we have is a flawed banking system, a fractional reserve banking system where bankers can lend money they don’t have. If you go back in time in the United States to the 1850s, that was a capital offense
President François Hollande’s popularity has sunk to a new low of 24%. Rather than blame his own policies for the huge rise in unemployment and the lack of competitiveness in France, Hollande pins hopes of fresh start on cabinet reshuffle .
Visit link: In Wake of US-Israeli Attack on Syria, UN Reveals Terrorists Not Government Used Sarin Gas
This is a guest post by Ed Ring editor of Union Watch , a project of the California Public Policy Center.
The Fortune 500-funded (page 19) , US foreign-policy think-tank, Brookings Institution – which has blueprinted designs for regime change in Libya as well as both Syria and Iran – stated this specifically in their report titled, " Assessing Options for Regime Change ." Image : The Brookings Institution, Middle East Memo #21 " Assessing Options for Regime Change (.pdf) ," makes no secret that the humanitarian "responsibility to protect" is but a pretext for long-planned regime change. …. Brookings describes how Israeli efforts in the south of Syria, combined with Turkey’s aligning of vast amounts of weapons and troops along its border to the north, could help effect violent regime change in Syria: "In addition, Israel’s intelligence services have a strong knowledge of Syria, as well as assets within the Syrian regime that could be used to subvert the regime’s power base and press for Asad’s removal
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