IMF poised to print billions of dollars in 'global quantitative easing'
The International Monetary Fund is poised to embark on what analysts have described as "global quantitative easing" by printing billions of dollars worth of a global "super-currency" in an unprecedented new effort to address the economic crisis.…
Politicians are well known liars; so well known that it hardly needs pointing out. Whether they are lying about spying on political rivals (Nixon), closing down coal mines (Thatcher), women they’ve had sex with (Clinton), or mythical weapons of mass destruction (Blair/Bush), lying and politicians go… Continue
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Contracts can’t be broken. We learned that lesson well over the past few days when AIG honchos swore that despite being bailed out by $173 billion in taxpayer funds, they couldn’t break the sacrosanct contractual bond that guaranteed billions in bonuses to the same top executives who… Continue
Added by Marklar on March 18, 2009 at 9:27pm —
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We got Freeman back on the program for an excellent discussion about Barackhenaton and the New Obama Dynast, The Black Pharos of the Kingdom. We begin to discuss past president Clinton and George W Bush. We discuss "W" as the… Continue
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Alternet By Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown. Posted March 16, 2009.
3/4 of Americans want to see a huge worker protection bill pass through Congress, and the greedy corporations are running scared.
Last October, Home Depot cofounder Bernie Marcus blew a gasket, spewing outrage in all directions. "This is the demise of civilization," he exploded. "This is how a… Continue
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The title refers to the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP), also known as the North American Union - formerly launched at a March 23, 2005 Waco, Texas meeting attended by George Bush, Mexico's President Vincente Fox, and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin. It's for a tri-national… Continue
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The following is the official court transcript of my one-on-one face-off as a juror with a federal judge over the limits – or lack thereof, in his view – of the commerce clause of the United States Constitution. I have added some commentary in brackets and italics to explain more fully what was going on in the courtroom, but the… Continue
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The Memory Hole - Rescuing Knowledge, Freeing Information
By Russ Kick at 6 March, 2009, 1:34 pm
OpenTheGovernment.org has a fantastic section tracking what we know and don’t know about the financial bailout. You’ll find news, documents, links to sites, and more. The Treasury Dept & Federal Reserve… Continue
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Many systemic challenges face the United States and the world, including a lack of accountability for American leaders for the crimes of the recent era, says former CIA analyst Ray McGovern.
In a March 8 speech in Kirkland, Washington, McGovern goes through these daunting problems from global warming to the loss of a "free media" in terms of keeping the American people adequately informed, but concentrates on how the Bush administration wantonly violated… Continue
Added by Marklar on March 10, 2009 at 3:54am —
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March 09, 2009 "Khaleej Times" -- - While the United States was fighting for its economic life, Obama administration officials and the media issued a blizzard of contradictory claims over Iran’s alleged nuclear threat, leaving one wondering who is really charge of US foreign… Continue
Amendment X: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Hypocrisy and politicians! There is nothing new in this love-match made by Cupid's arrow of self-interest, right? Wrong. In the current flurry of… Continue
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LONDON, March 8 (UPI) -- A former Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, terrorism detainee says memos from the spy agency MI-5 prove Britain colluded with CIA captors who were torturing him.
British resident Binyam Mohamed, who returned home last month after his release from nearly seven years of imprisonment at the U.S. prison camp in Cuba and other locales, cited MI-5 memos purporting to show how British officials orchestrated his questioning while… Continue
The site has been described as 'extraordinary' and 'the most important' site in the world
For the old Kurdish shepherd, it was just another burning hot day in the rolling plains of eastern Turkey. Following his flock over the arid hillsides,… Continue
Cardiff University researchers, who are part of a British-German team searching the depths of space to study gravitational waves, may have stumbled on one of the most important discoveries in physics, according to an American physicist.
Craig Hogan, a physicist at Fermilab Centre for Particle Astrophysics in Illinois is convinced that he has found proof in the data of the gravitational wave… Continue
Added by Marklar on March 7, 2009 at 11:30pm —
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The Daily Show: Jon Stewart calls CNBC for what it really is: clueless, in-the-tank reporting, of inflatable bubbles and blowhard CEOs, while the U.S. and world economies slowly slid into a meltdown:…
DW Description: Chris Langan is known to have the highest IQ in the world, somewhere between 195 and 210. To give you an idea of what this means, the average...