Declining Empires, Diminishing Returns and Economic Inertia

blog.milesfranklin.com / By Andrew Hoffman / April 22nd, 2013

In the below article, Zero Hedge published one of the most alarming – and damning – charts imaginable, regarding the outlook for the dying American “empire”…

The Great Unrotation in US GDP

Specifically, it plots the U.S. 10-year Treasury yield against nominal GDP over the past 53 years; depicting a peak in “nominal GDP” during the nation’s most poignant inflation spike since the Civil War (in 1979); and in 10-year [...]

EU should ‘undermine national homogeneity’ says UN migration chief

Brian Wheeler
BBC News
June 23, 2012

COMMENT: Peter Sutherland is a consummate Bilderberg insider with a long pedigree filled with top globalist positions. Not only Chairman and Managing Director of Goldman Sachs International and former CEO of BP oil, but former director general for GATT and the WTO, and member of the Commission of the European Communities, theActionCommittee for Europe and chairman designate for the Allied Irish Banks.

The EU should “do its best to undermine” the “homogeneity” of its member states, the UN’s special representative for [...]

‘Sixth sense’ saves man’s life after harmless headaches suffered by identical twin reveal 1.6in tumour in base of HIS skull

Medical experts are describing it as an extraordinary example of sixth-sense – an identical twin’s headaches which led to his brother having a life-saving brain tumour operation.

When Sydney man Brenton Gurney, 38, began suffering from a series of headaches, he went for a brain scan, which revealed nothing wrong.

But Brenton then suggested his identical twin Craig should go for a check up – and specialists found a 1.6in brain tumour [...]

Electro-Motive Plant in London, Ontario, Closes After Lockout

http://billhicksisdead.blogspot.com/2012/02/update-electro-motive-plant-in-london.html

Here is the money quote:

Workers at Electro-Motive had been off the job since New Year’s Day after rejecting a new collective agreement that would have lowered the salaries of some workers currently paid $35 an hour to $18 an hour. Despite the closure announcement, picket lines remained active at the site on Friday.

The company apparently intends to relocate its operation to a facility in Muncie, Indiana, where Moffat says it [...]

The late Sir James Goldsmith warned that GATT would open Western labor markets to competitio­n with 4 billion poorer Asians

YouTube – 1. A prophetic interview with Sir James Goldsmith in 1994 Pt1

http://des­ip.igc.org­/gatt01.ht­ml
Goldsmith on GATT: Part 1

“THE NEW UTOPIA: GATT AND GLOBAL FREE TRADE
by SIR JAMES GOLDSMITH

Federal Document Clearing House Congressio­nal Testimony

SENATE COMMERCE GATT IMPLEMENTA­­TION
October 5, 1994

Global free trade has become a sacred principle of modern economic theory, a sort of generally accepted moral dogma. That is why it is so difficult to persuade politician ­s and economists to reassess [...]

The late Sir James Goldsmith warned that GATT would open up Western labor markets to competitio­n with 4 billion poorer Asians…

YouTube – 1. A prophetic interview with Sir James Goldsmith in 1994 Pt1

http://des­ip.igc.org­/gatt01.ht­ml
Goldsmith on GATT: Part 1

“THE NEW UTOPIA: GATT AND GLOBAL FREE TRADE
by SIR JAMES GOLDSMITH

Federal Document Clearing House Congressio­nal Testimony

SENATE COMMERCE GATT IMPLEMENTA­­TION
October 5, 1994

Global free trade has become a sacred principle of modern economic theory, a sort of generally accepted moral dogma. That is why it is so difficult to persuade politician ­s and economists to reassess [...]

The thousand-t­on job-killin­g monster was GATT, which opened up the U.S. labor market to 4 billion lower-inco­me Asians

by OldTulsan

The late Sir James Goldsmith warned about GATT in 1994:

YouTube – 1. A prophetic interview with Sir James Goldsmith in 1994 Pt1

http://des­ip.igc.org­/gatt01.ht­ml
Goldsmith on GATT: Part 1

“THE NEW UTOPIA: GATT AND GLOBAL FREE TRADE
by SIR JAMES GOLDSMITH

Federal Document Clearing House Congressio­nal Testimony

SENATE COMMERCE GATT IMPLEMENTA­­TION
October 5, 1994

Global free trade has become a sacred principle of modern economic theory, a sort of generally accepted moral dogma. That is why it is [...]