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		<title>The Birth Pangs of the Amero</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/the-birth-pangs-of-the-amero/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday George Soros was interviewed on CNN for his opinion on the present financial crisis. George Soros said that the days of the United States borrowing from China were over. The position of the United States as financial leader of the world is now compromised. The US debt load is going to dramatically increase [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8725&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>West turning to sukuk as debt markets dry up</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:16:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I think foreign companies realise there are alternatives and they will explore more, and look at new initiatives at Islamic banks to draw more capital and resources to service their clients. This is certainly growing,&#8221; Pitsuan told Arabian Business on the sidelines of the conference. &#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;
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		<title>Financial crisis: Countries at risk of bankruptcy from Pakistan to Baltics</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/12/financial-crisis-countries-at-risk-of-bankruptcy-from-pakistan-to-baltics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are mounting fears that Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Argentina could all now slide into a downward spiral towards bankruptcy, while western banks exposed to property bubble across Eastern Europe have seen their share price crushed.
The markets are pricing an 80pc risk that Ukraine will default, based on five-year credit default swaps (CDS) – an insurance [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8545&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Prudent economics &#8211; &#8220;Replace capitalism with Islamic financial system,&#8221; says cleric</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/12/prudent-economics-replace-capitalism-with-islamic-financial-system-sayscleric/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:42:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to: Replace capitalism with Islamic financial system: cleric
&#8220;The collapse of the capitalist system based on usury and paper and not on goods traded on the market is proof that it is in crisis and shows that Islamic economic philosophy is holding up,&#8221; said the Egyptian-born, Qatar-based cleric.
&#8220;The Western system has collapsed and we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8542&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-Democratic Nature of US Capitalism is Being Exposed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Such  																	interventionism  																	is a regular  																	feature of  																	state  																	capitalism,  																	though the  																	scale today  																	is unusual.  																	A study by  																	international  																	economists  																	Winfried  																	Ruigrok and  																	Rob van  																	Tulder 15  																	years ago  																	found that  																	at least 20  																	companies in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8532&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Indonesia keeps stock exchanged closed</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/indonesia-keeps-stock-exchanged-closed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[But President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and his economic team have sought this week to reassure investors that the economy is in much better placed now to weather any crisis.
The chairman of Indonesia&#8217;s capital market watchdog Fuad Rahmany says they suspended the stock exchange because the market had become panicky and irrational.  &#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;
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		<title>Bush, McCain abuse their legacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:23:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not a conventionally religious man, or even a very superstitious one, but I do wish George W. Bush would stop asking God to bless America.  Every time he does, we seem to be visited with another plague, suggesting divine wrath over our president&#8217;s evil ways. How else to explain the persistent calamity that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8360&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oil, war, lies and bulls**t</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/oil-war-lies-and-bullst/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s hardly any doubt that the George W Bush administration lied rather consciously about the cause of invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq. President George W Bush also has been deliberately untruthful to the American public on a number of domestic issues, such as illegal, indiscriminate wiretapping of US citizens, torture of foreign detainees and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8355&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cambodia&#8217;s Muslims as geopolitical pawns</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/cambodias-muslims-as-geopolitical-pawns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PHNOM PENH &#8211; Competition for influence in Cambodia, recently seen as a  																	two-country race between the United States and China, has now seen another  																	deep-pocketed suitor emerge: petrodollar-rich Gulf states.
While Washington has required counter-terrorism cooperation for its assistance,  																	and Beijing has sought greater access to markets, Middle Eastern countries seem  																	keen [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8300&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq to Give 82% of Proven Oil Reserves to International Oil Companies</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/iraq-to-give-82-of-proven-oil-reserves-to-international-oil-companies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 23:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new decision by the Iraqi parliament leaves Iraqi minorities with no representation in the country’s provincial councils as well as the legislature, Nidhal al-Laithi reports for Azzaman. By an overwhelming majority, the parliament early this week revoked paragraph 50 from the constitution under which Iraqi minorities were assigned a set of seats in legislative [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8199&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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