Tag: Economy
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beijing missiles, israeli aid, reconquista & ‘plan mercator’
beijing deploys missiles around the olympic stadiumfrom epoch times: The Opening of the Beijing Olympics will occur in about 40 days. The Chinese Communist regime has deployed surface-to-air missiles in Beijing City to prevent an airborne terrorist attack on the Olympics. According to a June 22 report from Hong Kong’s Sing Tao Daily, Beijing’s surface-to-air…
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report predicts $7/gallon gas
from raw replay: A new energy report predicts that oil will cost $200 a barrel in two years. If that happens, gas would go up to $7 a gallon. CBS News’ Priya David reports on the huge impact that would have on American lives. This video is from CBS Evening News, broadcast June 26, 2008.
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US stock plunge makes worst june since 1930
from cnn/money: U.S. stocks fell sharply Thursday with the blue-chip index enduring its worst June so far since 1930, and plunging to its lowest finish since Sept. 11, 2006, after getting slammed hard as crude soared to new highs and Goldman Sachs disparaged U.S. brokers and advised selling General Motors Corp. “We’re going to move…
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government sued over seizure of liberty dollars
from new york sun: The federal government’s attempt to stop a group of gold-standard activists from minting an alternative to the greenback is about to face its first legal test. A dozen people around the country filed suit in U.S. District Court in Idaho this week demanding the return of all the copper, silver, gold,…
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is everything seemingly spinning out of control?
from ap: Midwestern levees are bursting. Polar bears are adrift. Gas prices are skyrocketing. Home values are abysmal. Air fares, college tuition and health care border on unaffordable. Wars without end rage in Iraq, Afghanistan and against terrorism.Horatio Alger, twist in your grave. The can-do, bootstrap approach embedded in the American psyche is under assault.…
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paulson power, global crash, US 4 sale & $timulus
paulson to urge new fed powersfrom washington post: Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. plans to call today for the Federal Reserve to be given new, explicit powers to intervene in the workings of Wall Street firms to protect the financial system, adapting his vision of how the financial world should be regulated to reflect…
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gas hits national average of $4 for first time
from ap: Drivers are paying an average of $4 for a gallon of gasoline for the first time. AAA and the Oil Price Information Service say the national average price for a gallon of regular gas rose to $4.005 overnight from $3.988. But consumers in many parts of the country have already been paying well…
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felonious soros warns of market crash
from guardian: George Soros, the billionaire hedge fund manager, will warn later today that the oil price has become a bubble that could trigger a stock market crash. The Financial Times reported today that Soros will tell the US Senate commerce committee that oil was pushed to its recent all-time peak of $135 a barrel…
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america’s heartland is about to be gutted
the multinational corporate takeover of north americafrom people’s voice: For more than 13 years North America’s SuperCorridor Coalition (NASCO) and its members have been working diligently towards creating a superhighway connecting Canada, the United States and Mexico. However, the leaders of these countries continue to deny that such a project even exists. There are three…
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as energy fears loom, survivalists emerge
from ap: Convinced the planet’s oil supply is dwindling and the world’s economies are heading for a crash, some people around the country are moving onto homesteads, learning to live off their land, conserving fuel and, in some cases, stocking up on guns they expect to use to defend themselves and their supplies from desperate…
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as prices rise, snoops & snitches work overtime
contact crime stoppers to report a crime…like the stealing of a nationfrom nytimes: To gas prices, foreclosure rates and the cost of rice, add this rising economic indicator: the number of tips to the police from people hoping to collect reward money… with tipsters telling operators they need the money for rent, light bills or…
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“If I Was a Terrorist” – By A Retired Navy Serviceman
from 8thestate: I received this in an email, and while I can’t confirm the identity of the messenger; his message seems apropos to what’s going on in America, so it seemed logical and reasonable to offer it to you in this context.
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all-time lows: our money & our president
bush disapproval marks lowest in gallup history from usa today: President Bush has set a record he’d presumably prefer to avoid: the highest disapproval rating of any president in the 70-year history of the Gallup Poll. In a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday, 28% of Americans approve of the job Bush is doing;…
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wamu gets $7b infusion, cuts jobs, sees big loss
from reuters: Washington Mutual Inc, the largest U.S. savings and loan, said on Tuesday it obtained a $7 billion capital injection from private equity firm TPG Inc and other investors, but that mortgage problems will lead to a $1.1 billion quarterly loss and the elimination of 3,000 jobs… WaMu, as the thrift is known, said…
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treasonous treasury to give fiat fed more power
from new york times: The Treasury Department will propose on Monday that Congress give the Federal Reserve broad new authority to oversee financial market stability, in effect allowing it to send SWAT teams into any corner of the industry or any institution that might pose a risk to the overall system. The proposal is part…