Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs Group has tripled the base salary of chief executive Lloyd Blankfein to $2m (£1.3m), up from $600,000.

And company filings show he was also awarded shares currently worth $12.6m, a 42% hike from the the stock bonus he received for 2009.

It comes even after the bank's profit fell 38% in 2010 to $8.35bn.

Banks were pressed to reduce bonuses in 2009 after the 2008 global economic collapse, largely…

For the first time in human history almost all of humanity is politically activated, politically conscious and politically interactive... The resulting global political activism is generating a surge in the quest for personal dignity, cultural respect and economic opportunity in a world painfully scarred by memories of centuries-long alien colonial or imperial domination... The worldwide yearning for human…

Egyptians are rising....Tunisians are rising.....Greeks are rising......Jordanians are rising....

WHEN WILL AMERICANS RISE?

WWW.UNITEDWESTRIKE.COM We've got a site, we invite ALL ACTIVISTS TO PEACEFULLY RESIST THE 15TH OF EACH MONTH AS WE GROW. IT IS TIME TO REALIZE THAT WE THE PEOPLE OF ALL NATIONS HAVE BEEN LIED TO AND STOLEN FROM BY THE SAME BANKING INTERESTS....

WE NEED ONLY: CLEAN AIR, CLEAN WATER,…

By Betty Freauf

January 30, 2011

NewsWithViews.com

In another interesting chapter in John T. Flynn’s 1949 book The Road Ahead, he warns Americans if we don’t change course, we are going to face doomsday just like England. He said the first attempt to provide Economic Planning through endless borrowing described in Part 5…

If this is any example of just how far-down-the-rabbit-hole we've gone as a nation, then I'm rreeaallyy concerned about our future.

http://denver.cbslocal.com/2011/01/26/csu-gets-grants-for-bomb-detecting-vegetation/

DoD has $8M laying around that they can blow on this??  Talk about some serious paranoia.....

First off, TSA is illegal. Period. End of discussion.  (So is DHS but that's for another day...)

Second, it is supposed to be the lawful responsibility [AND LIABILITY] of each and every city that has an airport to have an "airport authority" to provide, among many things, some measure of security.  (People have tried for years to put airport security off on the airlines but the airlines only lease space from each airport authority. Ergo, it's those community airport authorities who…

I decided to do some research this morning, as I have been seeing several different 'views' about the 'populist uprising' in Egypt.

After i found out some things, i decided to look around to see what the people were thinking as well.

I have more links (if you need them), but HERE is a blog response I posted on The Daily Paul.

I am not happy about what I found out, by the way.

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The president of the Federal Re serve Bank of New York doesn't know when to keep his mouth shut.



The entire Fed regularly observes what it calls a "blackout period" starting one week before Federal Open Market Committee meetings and lasts until the Friday after those meetings.



In case you don't know, FOMC meetings are where the Fed decides whether to change interest-rate policy.



But there is also a communiqué released just hours after the meeting concludes in which…

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