World Needs Single Currency To Beat Crisis - Kazakh President
Kazakh leader calls for single global currency
Nobel-prize winner backs world currency
This is what they mean about the upcoming G20 being "a new Bretton Woods."

Russia cool on Kazakh idea for new world currency
They've got their own plans for a new regional currency. Which is what I think will happen across the globe.

International Cooperation Is the Way Out of the Financial Crisis
aaaargh!


Geithner Urges ‘Forceful’ G-20 Action, More IMF Funds
The Obama administration soon will also push Congress for legislation that allows the IMF to “mobilize” its stockpile of gold, Geithner said today. Congress would need to approve the IMF funding expansion, although it wouldn’t count against the budget deficit, he said.

Those of you who think gold will be the accepted currency of an apocalypse, take note. It's also subject to manipulation.


Bleak data from Asia, Europe ahead of G20 meeting

Geithner embraces G20, IMF, World Bank in global crisis battle plan

Obama Says ‘Concerted’ G-20 Action Needed on Economy

Russia opposes minimum fiscal stimulus for G20

France says US seems unconvinced on own stimulus

Banks want G20 to set up pricey bad bank

G20 backs boosting ADB's capital by $100 bln

Cable: G20 should be 'realistic'

Geithner hears complaints, crowing at G20


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Africa: Kofi Annan - 'Continent Must be Part of the Solution to the Global Economic Crisis'

World Bank warns of "very dangerous" year ahead
I agree, but for different reasons.

White House objects to UN calling US 'deadbeat'

Crossing over to Islamic banking
Also part of the arrangement.

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Advisor named for upcoming Summit of the Americas

U.N.'s Water Czar to Participate in Protests at U.N.-Backed Water Conference

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Google-Backed 23andMe Seeks Parkinson’s Patients Spit

Arphid Watch: End of the Verichip Saga?

Florida schools testing out biometrics

Science News / Networks Of Plunder

Air Force Plans Enormous Spy Blimp


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Once Every 28 Years: Blessing on the Sun

U.N. warns about natural disaster risks


There's No Pill for This Kind of Depression
Two, the economy isn't the only reason for our unease. There's more to it. People sense something slipping away, a world receding, not only an economic one but a world of old structures, old ways and assumptions. People don't talk about this much because it's too big, but I suspect more than a few see themselves, deep down, as "the designated mourner," from the title of the Wallace Shawn play.

Blind nut finds a squirrel! Or something.


Prince of Wales warns about climate change and then does the samba
*headdesk*

'At least 20,000 homeless' in Angola floods

Official: HIV/AIDS Rate in D.C. "Higher Than West Africa"
Sodom on the Potomac, indeed!

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Magnitude 4.5 - ECUADOR

Magnitude 5.2 - SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS

Magnitude 5.3 - SAN JUAN, ARGENTINA

Magnitude 5.7 - COSTA RICA
Strong quake shakes Costa Rica
Magnitude 5.8 - COSTA RICA
Magnitude 5.9 - COSTA RICA
Earthquakes Send Costa Rica's Southern Zone Into Panic, No Major Damage
Magnitude 4.9 - COSTA RICA
Magnitude 5.1 - COSTA RICA

Magnitude 4.7 - NORTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE

Magnitude 5.0 - PUERTO RICO REGION
4.9 earthquake north of Puerto Rico shakes island

Magnitude 5.2 - SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS REGION

Magnitude 5.1 - SICHUAN-GANSU BORDER REGION, CHINA
5.0-magnitude earthquake hits central China

Magnitude 4.5 - SAN LUIS, ARGENTINA

Magnitude 5.2 - OFF THE WEST COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATRA

Magnitude 5.5 - SOUTH OF AFRICA

Magnitude 5.0 - SOLOMON ISLANDS

Magnitude 4.8 - OFFSHORE TARAPACA, CHILE
Strong Earthquake Rocks Four Regions in Chile

Sea volcano blows its top 300km off NZ coast

Magnitude 6.2 - SOUTH OF PANAMA
Magnitude 4.9 - SOUTH OF PANAMA
Magnitude 4.8 - SOUTH OF PANAMA

Magnitude 5.4 - KEPULAUAN BABAR, INDONESIA

Magnitude 5.0 - KERMADEC ISLANDS, NEW ZEALAND

Magnitude 4.8 - PRIMOR'YE, RUSSIA

Magnitude 4.5 - EL SALVADOR

Magnitude 4.8 - GALAPAGOS ISLANDS REGION
Magnitude 4.7 - GALAPAGOS ISLANDS REGION
Magnitude 5.4 - GALAPAGOS ISLANDS REGION
Magnitude 5.4 - GALAPAGOS ISLANDS REGION

Magnitude 4.3 - OFF THE COAST OF OREGON
Magnitude 4.3 - OFF THE COAST OF OREGON

Magnitude 5.0 - AUCKLAND ISLANDS, NEW ZEALAND REGION

Magnitude 4.9 - PAKISTAN

Magnitude 5.4 - OFF EAST COAST OF THE NORTH ISLAND, N.Z.
Magnitude 5.2 - OFF EAST COAST OF THE NORTH ISLAND, N.Z.
4.3 magnitude earthquake hits New Zealand North Island

Colombian volcano rumbles, 3,000 evacuated

Pace of quakes speeding up near Yorba Linda

Light Earthquake Shakes Bulgaria's Pavlikeni

Magnitude 5.2 - WEST CHILE RISE

Magnitude 5.2 - SOUTHERN PERU

Magnitude 5.1 - CORDOBA, ARGENTINA

Magnitude 5.0 - KERMADEC ISLANDS, NEW ZEALAND

Magnitude 5.0 - TONGA

Magnitude 2.6 - EASTERN TENNESSEE

Epoch Times - Another Five Earthquakes Shake Sichuan Province