Rendezvous With the Unknown

 

Chapter I

 

It was about 9:00 am when I received a text on my phone from the Pentagon. It was an Officer Dora…

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It’s not the fact that Yellowstone National Park sits atop a super volcano that hasn’t erupted in centuries and that seismic readings indicate disturbing outcomes. It’s not that the re-introduction of wild wolves into the park acreage has created newfound chaos for many animals’ native to the park. However, there is something else even more threatening that has occurred many times over, and the government is not…

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(Perhaps it’s the only way it can be told)

 

Chapter 1

Roy reached across the aisle of the DC-3 as it flew over Mexican skies. “Professor…

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Sadly, in the west we now have a divorce rate of 50% with 67% of married women saying that they would have an affair if they were not to get caught. Whereas by the 1960’s for most people, divorce was still unthinkable, only movie stars were known to have frequent divorces. Today it’s considered to be the norm to have as many as two to three marriages over the course of a lifetime. I’m particularly appalled at…

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For some inexplicable reason we have a leftist movement in the world that refuses to acknowledge the lessons of the past, refuses to utilize sound economic principles, and would have America further blunder down the road of more government spending, and less buying power of a collapsing US dollar. Is this a matter of disinformation and public…

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America's wealthiest households are increasingly squirreling away their cash, according to two recently published reports, in a trend that could pose a threat to the economy at large and exacerbate already high levels of income inequality.



America's top 1 percent saved their money at a rate of 37 percent last quarter, according to a recent survey from American Express Publishing and the Harrison Group highlighted by CNBC. That means that during that period, wealthy Americans put away… Continue

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By Doc Vega

In a statement to the press recently Maxine Waters, Democrat of California, said that 170 million persons would lose their jobs over the sequester cuts. In reality, there aren’t that many jobs in the US. Obviously, she needed to adjust her figures.

The illusion created by your…

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The Economic Collapse

May 26, 2011

If you listen to Ben Bernanke, Barack Obama and the mainstream media long enough, and if you didn’t know any better, you might be tempted to think that the economic crisis is long gone and that we are in the midst of a burgeoning economic recovery.  Unfortunately, the truth is…

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by Danny Schechter



President Obama’s highly anticipated health care speech started on a totally different subject: The economy.



“When I spoke here last winter, this nation was facing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, he told Congress and the peole at home. “We were losing an average of 700,000 jobs per month. Credit was frozen. And our financial system was on the verge of collapse.”



But,” he went on, “thanks to the bold and decisive action we… Continue

"You can't put people to work in American factories that don't exist."



By Glen Ford

February 25, 2009 "Black Agenda Report" - - The strength of the federal economic stimulus package is seriously diluted by the fact that many of the manufactured goods that will be purchased for the attempted recovery must be imported from outside the United States. America simply doesn't make lots of things, anymore. That means many billions… Continue