ARAB GOVERMENTS

Arab governments must immediately:

Expel all officials of the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and their subset of lending institutions.

Arab countries which are currently under the yoke of IMF conditionalities (notably Egypt and Jordan among the Arabs, and Pakistan among the Moslem states) must unilaterally and immediately throw them off and reassert their national sovereignty.

Every Arab state should unilaterally and immediately declare a debt moratorium in the form of an open-ended freeze on all payments of interest and principal of international financial debt in the Argentine manner, starting with sums allegedly owed to the IMF-World Bank.

The assets of foreign multinational monopolistic firms, especially oil companies, should be seized as the situation requires.

Basic food staples and fuels should be subjected to price controls, with draconian penalties for speculation, including by way of derivatives.

Dirigist measures such as protective tariffs and food price subsidies can be quickly introduced.

Food production needs to be promoted by production and import bounties, as well as by international barter deals.

National grain stockpiles must be quickly constituted.

Capital controls and exchange controls are likely to be needed to prevent speculative attacks on national currencies by foreign hedge funds acting with the ulterior political motives of overthrowing national governments.

Most important, central banks must be nationalized and reconverted to a policy of 0% credit for domestic infrastructure, agriculture, housing, and physical commodity production, with special measures to enhance exports.

Once these reforms have been implemented, it may be time to consider the economic integration of the Arab world as an economic development community in which the foreign exchange earnings of the oil-producing states can be put to work on the basis of mutual advantage for infrastructure and hard commodity capital investment across the entire Arab world.

The alternative is an endless series of destabilizations masterminded by foreigners, and, quite possibly, terminal chaos.

Shut Down The Federal Reserve, Break Up The Big Banks And 16 Other Ideas Barack Obama Could Have Proposed If He Actually Wanted To Fix The Economy

clipped from: theeconomiccollapseblog.com
#1 We Must Shut Down The Federal Reserve
#2 We Must End Trade With All Nations That Allow Their Citizens To Be Paid Slave Labor Wages Or That Do Not Respect Basic Human Rights
#3 We Must Radically Reduce The Size Of The Federal Government
#4 We Must Provide Temporary Jobs For The American People During The Economic Transition
#5 We Must Ban All Short Selling
#6 We Must Ban Virtually All Derivatives
#7 We Must Break Up The Big Wall Street Banks
#8 We Must Initiate A Massive Law Enforcement Crackdown On Our Financial Markets
#9 We Must Order U.S. Oil Companies To Use Untapped Oil Reserves In The United States And We Must Aggressively Develop Alternative Energy Sources
#10 We Must Stop Paying Farmers Not To Grow Food
#11 We Must Secure The U.S. border With Mexico
#12 We Must Shut Down The IRS
#13 We Must Slash Red Tape And The Miles Of Ridiculous Regulations
#14 We Must Conduct A Massive Law Enforcement Crackdown On The Health Care Industry
#15 We Must Stop Trying To Police The World
#16 We Must Pull Out Of The United Nations And We Must Dramatically Reduce Foreign Aid
#17 We Must End All Of The Ridiculous Police State Measures Which Are Chasing Tourists Away From Our Soil
#18 We Must Seize The Assets Of The Ultra-Wealthy Individuals And International Banks That Have Been Committing Fraud Against The U.S. Government For Decades

Catherine Austin Fitts: The Looting Of America

The Planned Gutting of Industrial America: Who Did It and Why

By John Hoefle
http://educate-yourself.org/cn/southernstrategyassaultonamerica01jan01.shtml
January 1, 2001

Original title: Southern Strategy: Assault on the American Republic published in EIR January 2001

The political success of Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter's "Southern Strategy,'' transforming the White House and Congress into bastions of white Southern power, would have been impossible, without the economic transformation of the United States from the greatest industrial and scientific nation-state in history, to a post-industrial nation of white-collar accountants, real estate brokers, computer programmers, retail clerks, and hamburger-flippers.

This transformation of America, over the past 30-plus years, has been characterized by the collapse of the urban industrial and cultural centers of the North--New York, Detroit, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Cleveland, etc.--and the gradual emergence of the "New South'' as the heartland of America's post-industrial economy.

Today, Southern cities like Houston, Dallas, Atlanta, and even Charlotte, North Carolina dominate the new economy'' and house the multinational corporate and banking headquarters that preside over the deregulated looting of every last remaining income stream.