In addition to mandatory private health insurance premiums, we may soon be hit with a “mandatory savings” tax and other belt-tightening measures
urged by the President’s new budget task force. These radical austerity measures are not only unnecessary, however, but will actually make matters worse. The push for “fiscal responsibility” is based on bad economics.…
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Demonstrators in Athens denounce their government’s recent economic austerity measures. Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images
German response to Greece's emergency is another humiliation in an increasingly nasty war between Europe's North and South
As Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou and German Chancellor Angela Merkel prepared for a crisis meeting in Berlin Friday, a retired bank clerk named Yannis Pannousakis and a dozen supporters…
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By Lori Price, www.legitgov.org 05 Mar 2010 (This page
will be updated.)
John Patrick Bedell showed no emotion…
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(NaturalNews) Herbalist Greg Caton remains under arrest in the
United States after having been illegally kidnapped and extradited from
Ecuador by the FDA (
http://www.naturalnews.com/027750_G...). He faces a hearing on March 17th in a Louisiana court, and
he needs your help.
To
support Greg Caton's bid for freedom, NaturalNews is organizing a
letter-writing campaign that seeks to…
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So far this year the United States has succeeded in inflaming tensions with China and indefinitely holding up a new strategic arms reduction treaty with Russia through its relentless pursuit of global interceptor missile deployments.
On January 29 the White House confirmed the completion of a nearly $6.5 billion weapons transfer to Taiwan which includes 200 advanced Patriot anti-ballistic missiles. Earlier in the same month it was reported that Washington is also to provide Taiwan…
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UK, March 3, 2010 (Pal Telegraph) -First of all I would like us all toshare our deepest thoughts with Hollie whose dog died today. As we all
know the dog was at the centre of Hollie's life and became a tool for her father's devious ways. It was because of the dog that Hollie's mum Anne first got to know about her daughters suffering.....if we can recall.....it was her Dad who told Hollie what to do and if she didn't cooperate he would kill her pet dog.
Hollie and Mum…
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BRASILIA, Brazil—Brazil rebuffed a U.S. appeal for new sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, vowing during a visit from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton not to "bow down" to gathering international pressure.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva pre-empted Clinton even before she could make the case for new United Nations Security Council penalties. Silva is an outspoken opponent of sanctions, and his country currently sits on the Security Council, which…
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Tomorrow, Thursday, March 4, Congressman Dennis Kucinich plans to introduce a privileged resolution to end the Afghan War. The resolution requires that the House debate, within the next week, the continuing war in Afghanistan, now the second longest war in American history.
HOW THIS WILL WORK:
While we may not win a majority vote in the House on this first go-round, and would still have to get past the Senate and the President (a good time if ever there was one to throw…
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(CNSNews.com) – After a conservative group posted a video on Tuesday calling for the Department of Justice to release the names of department lawyers who previously worked in the private sector representing or advocating on behalf of terrorist detainees, a DOJ spokesman responded with a statement that still does not name the attorneys.
“As we noted in a letter to senators, the Justice Department's attorneys are subject to ethics and disclosure rules as required under both department…
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UKIP MEP Leader Nigel Farage has been hit with a €3000 fine for accusing the President of the European Council Herman van Rumpuy of having "the charisma of a damp rag".
Mr Farage was informed this afternoon by Jerzy Buzek, president of the European Parliament the he had decided to fine him €3000 for his comments relating to Mr van Rompuy and Belgium.
The fine represents 10 days pay, and is the maximum allowable under the rules of the European Parliament. Mr Buzek imposed…
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A friend of mine who is now a disilusioned high ranking member of the Jewish Freemasonry in Budapest has told me what is coming regarding the Greek crisis.
Greece was chosen to play the role of the European Union bankrupt member state in order to "create" the big problem to which the European Union is going to "find" the "solution" soon. Greece was chosen because it symbolizes Europe (nobody in Europe cares about countries like Hungary or Estonia) and because its economy…
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Scientists at the heart of the Climategate row were yesterday accused by a leading academic body of undermining science's credibility.
The Institute of Physics said 'worrying implications' had been raised after it was revealed the University of East Anglia had manipulated data on global warming.
On the spot: Professor Phil Jones being grilled by the Science and Technology committee in the Commons yesterday
The rebuke - the strongest yet from…
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Louis Menand examines a crop of new books about depression. Here Menand talks with Blake Eskin about why no one can agree on what depression is or how to treat it, and about the larger moral and philosophical implications of the debate.
You arrive for work and someone informs you that you have until five o’clock to clean out your office. You have been laid off. At first, your family is brave and…
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It is astounding how many economists, government officials, and Wall Street strategists construe the current economic conditions as evidence of a bona fide recovery. It is a testament to the power of the rose colored glasses handed out by our nation’s leading universities that such a feeling could be widely held despite the clear and present danger that compounds daily. The myopia leads us to enact policies that actually exacerbate our problems. The “remedies” are postponing, perhaps…
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The Washington Times is a newspaper that looks with favor upon the Bush/Cheney/Obama/neocon wars of aggression in the Middle Eastand favors making terrorists pay for 9/11. Therefore, I was surprised to learn on February 24 that the most popular story on the paper’s
website for the past three days was the…
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When is someone going to take down Goldman Sachs? They have been at the center of the financial crisis. They have enriched themselves by fraudulently helping the bubble grow. Then they enriched themselves by betting the bubble would collapse. They fraudulently helped Greece hide their true debt from the EU and now they are betting that Greece will collapse. The management of this company should be in jail cells. Abu Ghrab sounds about right. I'd even waive my distaste for… Continue
Added by Anti Oligarch on March 1, 2010 at 7:50pm —
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In November 2009 I detailed 25 US commercial banks that had trillions (with a “T”) of dollars’ worth of exposure to derivatives on their balance sheets. At the time, I stated that even if 4% of the notional value of these derivatives was “at risk” and only 10% of that 4% went bad, that you would wipe out the total equity at the five large US banks.
Given how mortgage backed securities turned out (and those securities WERE regulated, unlike derivatives), I believe that most, if not…
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"When an individual receives an electricity bill, they will come to know what the cost of turning on the gas or a light was to the environment." Simon Linnett, Executive Vice-Chairman of Rothschild, has called for a new international body, the World Environment Agency, to regulate carbon trading.
In a recently published paper, Trading Emissions, for the Social Market Foundation, Mr Linnett argues that the International problem of climate change demands an… Continue
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The US refusal to destroy opium poppy crops in Afghanistan guarantees that raw drug sources there will be inviolable, leading to heavy drug use in Russia, the head of the Russian federal drug control agency said.
The amount of narcotics brought into Russia has increased two-fold since the beginning of the anti-terrorism operation in Afghanistan,…
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