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"Fortunately, the government was saved by an international loan that enabled it to make good on this debt after all, and an economic crisis was resolved. However, note—despite having identified the source of the problem as related to the peso, despite the short duration of the Mexican economic crisis, and despite the international loans to Mexico to fix the problem—that the real Mexican stock market was still, as of 1999,50% below its 1994 peak; it did not pass the 1994 peak in real inflation-corrected terms until ten years later." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Seen in this light, the nuclear threat, the greenhouse effect, the destruction of the rainforests, the wide-scale extinction of species, acid rain, soil erosion, the depletion of the ozone layer, the problem of atomic waste, pollution, the energy crisis, the economic crisis, the food crisis, the water crisis, the housing crisis, the sanitation crisis, and the many other crises that humanity faces are all symptoms of a deeper psychological crisis. The real crisis is in our thinking, in our perception of what it is we really want and how to go about getting it. Happiness ?" - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"The Real Story Behind Our Economic Crisis 1981 SYNOPSIS: In the past, we have been told that factors such as the over-regulation of business and the "declining moral fiber of the American worker" caused the worst economic crisis since the depression. However, testifying before the California Senate Committee on Industrial Relations, a UCLA professor, Maurice Zeitlin, outlined one basic cause that was not widely publicized. In brief, Zeitlin said we no longer have a competitive economy, and that monopoly, militarism, and multinationalization are at the root of our economic crisis." - Carl Jensen, 20 Years of Censored News (Get the book.)

"Consumer demand and the economic crisis of the medical system are probably the main reasons that increasing numbers of medical practitioners have turned to low cost treatments and even to prayer and spirituality. Particularly in the United States, where insurance fees for malpractice are exorbitant, physicians are increasingly interested in attending to their patients' spiritual needs. By building more personal relationships with their patients, a doctor lowers his risk of litigation considerably." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"This economic crisis afflicts not only public healthcare plans but also private programs. Neither Canada nor the United States has been able to control the growth of healthcare costs. Brian Ferguson, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Guelph, has shown that the healthcare system of both countries yield similar results if measured by the usual measures, such as infant mortality. The planners did not foresee the impact on health of the major technological changes in our food supply." - Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH, Naturopathic Nutrition: A Guide to Nutrient-rich Food & Nutritional Supplements for Optimum Health (Get the book.)

"Pressure for the government to "do something" to solve the mushrooming financial and economic crisis will bring forth only tough talk and an epidemic of populist proposals, many of which will be targeted at immigrants and foreigners. Calls for sharply higher tariffs, citizen identity cards, and massive walled borders will dominate the agenda. Not surprisingly, other nations will respond in kind, threatening economic and political retaliation and abandonment of the United States and its interests." - Michael J. Panzner, Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes (Get the book.)

"The only thing saving corn farmers today from further economic crisis is the new market for ethanol, which has reduced corn inventories and raised prices in 2006 and 2007. The French-American Connection The attack of the preventive harvesters in Le Broc prompted an unprecedented response by the police in the French province of Auvergne. Huge spotlights were installed around the GMO test fields to illuminate them at night. " - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"Intentionally or otherwise," Duncan continues, "by creating and lending the equivalent of $320 billion to the United States, the Bank of Japan and the Japanese Ministry of Finance counteracted a private sector run on the dollar and, at the same time, financed the U.S. tax cuts that reflated the global economy, all this while holding U.S. long bond yields down near historically low levels. "In 2004, the global economy grew at the fastest rate in 30 years. Money creation by the Bank of Japan on an unprecedented scale was perhaps the most important factor responsible for that growth. In fact, ?" - William Bonner, Addison Wiggin, Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis (Get the book.)

"In the midst of the economic crisis of 1893, a small group of railroad workers, including Debs, formed the American Railway Union, to unite all railway workers. Debs said: A life purpose of mine has been the federation of railroad employees. To unify them into one great body is my object. . . . Class enrollment fosters class prejudices and class selfishness. ... It has been my life's desire to unify railroad employees and to eliminate the aristocracy of labor . . . and organize them so all will be on an equality. . . ." - Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (Get the book.) "The year 1893 saw the biggest economic crisis in the country's history. After several decades of wild industrial growth, financial manipulation, uncontrolled speculation and profiteering, it all collapsed: 642 banks failed and 16,000 businesses closed down. Out of the labor force of 15 million, 3 million were unemployed. No state government voted relief, but mass demonstrations all over the country forced city governments to set up soup kitchens and give people work on streets or parks." - Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (Get the book.) "In 1873, another economic crisis devastated the nation. It was the closing of the banking house of Jay Cooke—the banker who during the war had made $3 million a year in commissions alone for selling government bonds—that started the wave of panic. While President Grant slept in Cooke's Philadelphia mansion on September 18, 1873, the banker rode downtown to lock the door on his bank. Now people could not pay loans on mortgages: five thousand businesses closed and put their workers on the street. It was more than Jay Cooke." - Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (Get the book.) "Antagonism and opposition of interest is introduced in the community; capital and labor stand opposed. The economic crisis of 1857 brought the shoe business to a halt, and the workers of Lynn lost their jobs. There was already anger at machine-stitching replacing shoemakers. Prices were up, wages were repeatedly cut, and by the fall of 1859 men were earning $3 a week and women were earning $1 a week, working sixteen hours a day. In early 1860, a mass meeting of the newly formed Mechanics Association demanded higher wages." - Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (Get the book.)

"The world oil production peak represents an unprecedented economic crisis that will wreak havoc on national economies, topple governments, alter national boundaries, provoke military strife, and challenge the continuation of civilized life. At peak, the human race will have generated a population that cannot survive on less than the amount of oil generated at peak—and after peak, the supply of oil will decline remorselessly. As that occurs, complex social and market systems will be stressed to the breaking point, obviating the possibility of a smooth ride down from the peak phenomenon." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

"This could cause a potential economic crisis among the wheat farmers in Canada. The organic farmers in the United States are similarly at risk from cross contamination. As of May 2001, all seed corn in the United States was thought to be contaminated with at least a trace of genetically engineered material. Organic groups believe that GE pollution of American commodities is so pervasive that it is not possible for farmers to keep their sources of seeds pure.43 It appears that some farmers whose land was contaminated with GE seeds are being sued because they did not buy GE seeds from Monsanto." - Doris J. Rapp, M.D., Our Toxic World: A Wake Up Call (Get the book.)

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