Tag: Economy
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12/12 newspurge: running out of time on a decade
9/11 updates:carlyle, kissinger, saic & halliburton: a 9/11 convergence* where’s bin laden? gates says no intel in ‘years’* adviser: obama plans to launch osama hunt anew* years of deceit: US openly accepts osama long dead* obama lied: taliban did not refuse to hand over osama* ‘conspiracy theory with jesse ventura’ delivers 1.6m viewers, tru tv’s…
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media/memes: distractions, accidents & muckraking
forget afghanistan & health care: let’s argue football!* update: house panel passes college football playoff billsnl criticized over tiger woods domestic violence skit while rihanna on show*law & order svu: following the adl script?* weezer cancels tour after bus accident*on john lennon’s death: don’t softsoap me – gimme some truth* as the world turns: cbs…
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econocrash updates: black friday, back home & in the red
goodbye jobs, hello mom & dad, say young adults* fdic insurance fund closes quarter $8.2b in debt*fdic insurance fund falls into the red* dollars steepest drop since july*uk poised to lose jobs as £10bn nuclear power plant contract goes to US* german ‘robin hood’ borrowed from rich, loaned to poor*want a stock tip? buy stocks…
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bill to audit federal reserve moves forward
from allgov: The nation’s central bank has never been subjected to an outside audit, but growing frustration in Congress with the Federal Reserve may cause that to change. On Thursday, the House Finance Committee approved a bipartisan amendment that grants the Government Accountability Office the power to investigate the Fed’s deals with foreign and domestic…
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econocrash: goldrush, glitches & the recipe for disaster
obama’s feeble dollar sparks a new goldrush* fed sets attack dogs on ron paul after audit amendment passes*end the fed rallies across america* fury as credit crunch civil servant lands rothschild job*canadian bankruptcies soar 43%* ‘glitch’ could cost a million jobless*student protests continue at california universities* wave of debt payments facing US govt*fed under fire…
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food insecurity: more americans going hungry
from allgov: The Great Recession has left millions of Americans hungry not only for jobs but even food itself. A new report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows “food insecurity” rose dramatically in 2008—to the highest levels since the federal government first began keeping track of this problem in the mid-1990s. Nearly 50 million…
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econocrash: another day, another dollar
US national debt now tops $12 trillionfrom afp: The US public debt topped 12 trillion dollars for the first time in history, Treasury officials disclosed Tuesday, moving past a key barrier that raised hackles in Congress. Treasury data showed Monday’s outstanding debt at 12.031 trillion dollars, up from 11.999 trillion on Friday. The ballooning debt…
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cnbc: a new global currency & a new world order
the dollar will be ‘utterly destroyed’from blacklisted news: The dollar will “utterly get destroyed” and become “virtually worthless”, said Damon Vickers, chief investment officer of Nine Points Capital Partners. Due to the huge wage disparities between the United States and emerging markets like China, Vickers said that may resolve itself in some type of a…
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corbett report: episode107 – lessons in resistance: non-compliance
from corbett report: From Thoreau to Gandhi, King to Watada, a powerful tool in the struggle for freedom has been demonstrated again and again throughout history: non-violent, non-compliance. The New World Order wants you to riot, but the freedom fighters of today are practicing insubordination. Join us this week on The Corbett Report as we…
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drugwar: hayfork harvest, oregon pot school & more
marijuana growers upend hard-luck hayfork, californiafrom latimes: This hardscrabble Northern California town has become a hotbed for medical marijuana farming… Some students talk openly of farming pot after graduation, about the only opportunity in this depressed timber town. “It’s not a subculture here,” said [Supt. Tom] Barnett, who heads the Mountain Valley Unified School District.…
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econocrash: the fed, failure & dumping the dollar
rep. ron paul’s bill to audit the fed ‘gutted’ in committee*rep. watt guts bill to audit the fed*ron paul: be prepared for the worst*cit files for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection*9 more US banks fail; $2.5b hit for fdic*govt issues record $87m fine to bp*econ chair at george mason uni: politicians aren’t prostitutes … they’re pimps*…
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10/29 binge & purge: unhappy meals
obama supports the food industrial complex& all we get is a lousy white house garden?from organic consumers organization: I’ll admit it. I’m an unabashed fan of the First Lady. I read every article about the White House organic garden and I go to Michele’s farmers’ market every Thursday. I’m a fan and I’m a little…
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econocrash: crashes, crime, capitalism, whores & more
black tuesday & a return to big government*roubini: a big crash is coming, but i don’t believe in gold*former chairman of citigroup: restore glass-steagall*ex-sullivan & cromwell associate, under investigation for insider trading, commits suicide*madoff associate jeffry picower found dead in pool, police say*bernanke’s trillion-dollar decision*capitalism, socialism or fascism?*exposing lies about the fed, the cia &…
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more media/memes on legalizing & taxing marijuana
from abcnews: Not there yet, but the roundtable seemed to think that the legalization of marijuana is coming. John Podesta even suggested (in jest?) taxing marijuana could be a way to pay for health care. The times they are a-changin’. flashback: feds to issue new medical marijuana policy