tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62767432012-01-26T15:38:21.708-05:00Truth, Justice, Liberty, Humanity . . . .Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13359188353648713239noreply@blogger.comBlogger20891100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6276743.post-74583616426164259952012-01-25T08:06:00.003-05:002012-01-25T08:09:48.802-05:00

If you say that we've heard it all before, you would be right. Because it sounds like President Obama gives the same State of the Union speech every year.

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Jon Stewart of The Daily Show mocks the moral hijinks of Newt "The Gingrich Who Stole South Carolina."

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"When you see me reach for the check, you'll know I'm posing." — Warren Buffett-----Warren Buffett wants to get into a money burning contest with the Republicans in Congress. You would think that the 2nd richest man in the United States, with a net worth of $39 billion would know something about taxes. He probably does, but he also apparently wants to do some posing while he dares Republicans to

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Atlantic Magazine has an interesting photo essay. Atlantic Magazine: America At Work -- According to the latest jobs numbers, issued by the Labor Department on January 6, the U.S. unemployment rate has dropped to 8.5 percent, down from 10 percent in 2009. The Great Recession has claimed more than 8.5 million jobs since 2007, and even though the current trajectory of the U.S. appears to be

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San Diego Realtor Jim Klinge does a quick tour of Mitt Romney's La Jolla, CA house. Romney bought the house in 2008 for $12 million, and according to Jim the house is going to be torn down and replaced with a new 8,100 square foot home. That is smaller than the 11,062-square-foot property he initially wanted to build last summer. ----View from the beach of the 3,009-square-foot Romney home in La

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They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. – Benjamin Franklin-----On New Year's Eve President Obama, threw the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights in a paper shredder. While everyone was focused on the New Year's Eve celebrations, and while he was vacationing in Hawaii with his family, Obama signed a rights destroying $662

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Here he comes. Ron Paul, is scaring the bejesus out of the Republic establishment. Newt Gingrich says he wouldn't even vote for Ron Paul if he turned out to be the Republican nominee. Some have called Paul's base of supporters a bunch of kooks. But, the following quote comes to mind when hearing that: First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. That may or

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YouTube.com: The poster writes: "Here is a video of my monitor being 'delivered'. The sad part is that I was home at the time with the front door wide open. All he would have had to do was ring the bell on the gate. Now I have to return my monitor since it is broken." NY Post: FedEx guy tosses computer monitor over gate -- A worker for the shipping giant was caught on tape delivering a

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Here's an interesting view on how to make the Presidential election a real debate about America's future. Democrats should vote for Ron Paul in the primaries. Washington's Blog: Democrats: Here’s How to Force President Obama to Debate Endless War, Indefinite Detention, SOPA and Other Assaults on Our Freedom, and Reining in the Out-of-Control Federal Reserve Banks Got Bailed Out … We Got Sold Out

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Nigel Farage calls out the bully boy bureaucrats in Brussels, who are building a europrison. Farage wants the United Kingdom to say out of this europrison. The blame game continues in Europe over who is responsible for the high-level split over a new EU fiscal agreement. UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage believes it is time for the British to decide whether they want to stay in the EU.

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Ever since Ronald Reagan in 1981 helped draw up the Military Cooperation With Law Enforcement Act, quickly passed by a very cooperative congress, effectively circumventing the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 by codifying military cooperation with law enforcement, the military has been encouraged to give any and all law enforcement agencies unfettered access to all military resources, training and

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If you read the steady drip, drip, drip of information coming out about the secret Wall Street bailouts by the Federal Reserve and the rotten corruption of U.S. officials like former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson it's easy to take the side of the #OccupyWallStreet movement. Wall Street is infested with a rotten nest of crooks. Bloomberg: Secret Fed Loans Gave U.S. Banks Undisclosed $13B  — 

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Here is one very interesting take on the economy that actually incorporates a few concepts from Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). When rappers start rapping about bailouts, IOU's, credit, and debt it's because we are in one big monetary mamma jamma. The economy explained by Tay Zonday: Mama Economy Lyrics: Are you confused about the Economy? Well have no fear! I'm going to explain the American

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Once again Nigel Farage of the United Kingdom's Independent Party (UKIP) calls out the faceless bureaucrats of the European Union who want to subvert democracy and who have installed their own puppet governments in Greece and Italy. Farage: Van Rompuy is no longer the quiet assassin of European democracy What gives you the right to dictate to the Italian people? ... related: TJN: Euro Cabal

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The developments coming out of Europe show that democracy is systematically being destroyed by a cabal of mostly unelected European bureaucrats. This cabal is working to preserve the cozy banking relationships and status quo that are the foundation of a Europe that is dominated by a rotting system of crony capitalism. Two democratically elected governments have been toppled by this Euro cabal in

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The brutality and intimidation that has been directed against the #OccupyWallStreet movement demonstrates that democracy and personal freedom are once again on a slippery slope in this country. The police state must be fought every day if you want to preserve democracy. If you don't keep up the pressure for democratic control, you lose it. It's use it or lose it. And that is something people find

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Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake did an epic Part 3 of their History of Rap medley on Friday night's (10/28/11) Late Night with Jimmy Fallon show. It was a monster medley that might be the best of their three Rap collaborations. Part 1 was performed on Wednesday, September 29, 2010, and Part 2 was performed on Tuesday, July 19, 2011. Both Parts 1 and 2 were very popular. The videos and song

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Wikileaks is temporarily suspending publishing operations while it tries to raise money. Wikileaks.org: We are forced to temporarily suspend publishing whilst we secure our economic survival. For almost a year we have been fighting an unlawful financial blockade. We cannot allow giant US finance companies to decide how the whole world votes with its pocket. Our battles are costly. We need your

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The Student Debt Clock is currently $948+ billion and counting. Student debt is now greater than credit card debt. Student debt is also twice as large as the infamous Greek national debt of $470 billion that now has everyone in a minor panic. Student debt is crushing a generation of Americans, who are losing faith in their future. Here is one young lady's take on the situation. Franchesca Leigh

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Guy Kawasaki survived working for Steve Jobs twice. At Silicon Valley Bank's CEO Summit on October 6, 2011, Guy shared lessons learned from one of the great entrepreneurs of the 21st century.

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The Vibe smart phone application is now being used to protect the privacy of protesters at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations in New York City. The demonstrators are logically making this move in response to the New York City Police Department's newly formed unit that is looking for wrongdoing on social media websites like Facebook and Twitter. NYPD is now following fast in the footsteps of

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Here are a couple of headlines regarding wealth that are at opposite ends of the spectrum. Who had the better system for protecting their wealth? Bold Brazilian Bank Heist Thieves pulled off a huge bank robbery on Saturday, August 27th, in São Paulo, Brazil, when they broke into 138 private safes belonging to at least 120 wealthy clients of Banco Itaú, Latin America’s largest bank. The heist

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Update: Jon Stewart hoses down "Tony Boloney" the rogue pepper-spraying New York cop. Stewart did the out-of-control cop one better. He brought in ex-"Law & Order SVU" star Christopher Meloni to impersonate Bologna and his rogue, pepper-spraying ways in what's sure to be the next hit TV crime drama, "The Vigilogna." Via: HuffPo: Jon Stewart Spoofs Anthony Bologna... ----Must Watch: Shameful

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A liquid flouride thorium reactor, also called a molten salt reactor, is safer and more efficient than the pressurized water reactors we are using now. If we want to avoid more Fukishima's then this is the way to go. Mike Norman Economics: Here is a video by Thorium Nuclear "crusader" Kirk Sorensen on the intriguing aspects of that potential global energy source. It is a long video (1:37:00) but

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One World Trade Center, formerly Freedom Tower, is going up at the rate of one story a week. It is now over 1000 feet tall, on it's way to 1776 feet. The Port Authority of NY and NJ has a website (WTCprogress) that follows the progress. One World Trade Center is now the tallest building in Lower Manhattan at 1,000 feet above street level, surpassing 40 Wall Street, which was built in 1930. Steel

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Lots of interest in decoding what made Steve Job successful, since he announced he was stepping down as Apple CEO. Nick Schulz's take is especially interesting. He says it was the string of failures that eventually forged the successful Steve Jobs. Nick Schulz /AEI.org: Steve Jobs: America's Greatest Failure -- Glory is sometimes born of catastrophe... All those successes were made possible by

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The U.S. Government is out of control. The U.S. Government, AKA "Uncle Sam" or the "Rogue Highwayman," is now robbing random citizens, who stumble on its broad pothole riddled bureaucratic boulevard. That once beautiful boulevard was known as Constitution Avenue. It has now become a dangerous and rundown toll road. The Fifth Amendment states that “No person shall be… deprived of life, liberty,

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely... — Lord ActonThe following Bloomberg story is shocking, because it shows the absolute and secret power of the Federal Reserve and Ben Bernanke to do whatever they want to. The Congress, the President, and the American public have no control over the Fed. It can slip $1.2 trillion through secret financial cracks to whoever it wants.

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via Kid Dynamite

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via Slope of Hope

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Roger Lowenstein at Bloomberg Business just wrote an interesting account of how Richard Nixon ended up taking the United States off the gold standard back in 1971. Bloomberg Business: The Nixon Shock -- How Nixon stopped backing the dollar with gold and changed global finance, a 40-year-old decision that still echoes in Greece, Ireland, and the U.S. ... Lowenstein's conclusion: The Nixon Shock

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Five police officers were convicted of shooting unarmed people post-Katrina in New Orleans. CNN: New Orleans cops convicted in post-Katrina shootings -- Five current or former police officers were found guilty Friday of deprivation of rights and other civil rights violations tied to fatal shootings on New Orleans' Danziger Bridge in the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, federal

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Funny: Too much Caucus Blockus is bad. via TheBigPicture

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One creative solution to the U.S. Government's debt-ceiling, which has bubbled up from the progressive MMT (Modern Monetary Theory) economic community, has been called the #trilliondollarcoin meme. The looming August 2nd deadline for raising the debt-ceiling, and the stalemate in Congress make this plan a possible option for the Obama administration. It is a maneuver where the President can

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Here is a nice visual that compares promises made versus the reality that is delivered. The same applies to the debt limit debate. via Slope of Hope

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via @lancearmstrong

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via MrTommyLand

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So what happens on July 11th (7-11), when you take a young child to a 7-Eleven Store for their free Slurpee that they have been promised over and over all day long on the radio as part of National 7-Eleven Free Slurpee Day. Nothing. Sorry, no free Slurpee for you, they said at two different 7-Elevens. This was because they were out of cups. When we offered to provide our own cup, the manager said

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“The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned.” — Section four, 14 Amendment, U.S. ConstitutionDoes the "debt ceiling" violate the Fourteenth Amendment, and therefore is unconstitutional? The debate will get more heated as the

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A rampaging mutant macroeconomic theory called Modern Monetary Theory, or MMT for short, is kicking keisters and smacking down conventional wisdom in economic circles these days. This is because an energized group of MMT economists, bloggers, and their loyal foot soldiers, lead by economists Warren Mosler, Bill Michell, and L. Randall Wray are swarming on the internet. New MMT disciples are

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This story about the homeless man who was sent to prison for 15 years after stealing $100 has been passed around thousands of times on the internet. Roy Brown, the homeless man, even has his own Facebook page. However, there is one little problem. If you try to find out the name of the sick judge, who sentenced Mr. Brown to 15 years for stealing the $100, or other details about the case you come

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Jon Stewart and the Daily Show rip into the "retiring a few years after puberty" Greeks. via ZeroHedge

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Here is a novel suggestion by David Goldman on how to deal with the Greek debt crisis. Simply, don’t allow the Greeks to default. Instead treat them like the delinquent tax dodging deadbeats they are. First, kick them out of the European Union for being liars and thieves and then have the ECB (European Central Bank) "turn up at Greece’s door like the loanshark who says, 'I bought your paper from

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Fukushima radiation is a certainly a baby killer. The long term health damage to the populations of Japan and the Pacific rim will be an issue for years. Aljazeera.net: Fukushima: It's much worse than you think -- Scientific experts believe Japan's nuclear disaster to be far worse than governments are revealing to the public. "Fukushima is the biggest industrial catastrophe in the history of

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Sad to see that Israel does not have freedom of speech or freedom of assembly. Lucas Koerner an American-Jewish student, who attends Tufts University in Boston, was in Jerusalem on Jerusalem Day, June 1st, 2011, when he was grabbed, beaten, and arrested by Israeli police because he was "wearing a kippah and a keffiyeh [and] standing with the Palestinians." This YouTube video and his blog tell

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Empire State Rebellion has launched A99 OpESR Communication #2: Ctrl+Alt+Bernanke. The Fed's screwing of most of the people most of the time will someday have repercussions. This looks like first steps. FaceBook: #OpESR - Operation Empire State Rebellion Amped Twitter: OpESR AmpedStatus.org: In this new video release, “as a first step,” Anonymous has called for public protests beginning on

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One website retitled the following Robert Scheer article: "Bernanke Puts Bankers First & The Public Last." That's the problem with Bernanke and the Fed: boosting the banks at the expense of the American middle class is the overall raw reality of their policies. Unfortunately Bernanke is unelected and untouchable until 2014, since Obama reappointed him to a second term in 2009. It would be

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It looks like the "Too Big To Fail" banks are going to become like public utilities and will be heavily regulated. So it should be no surprise that after having their wings clipped they might be a little upset. Lower profits and layoffs are the end result of more government intervention. "Too Big To Fail" has now become "Too Big To Prosper." The NY Post reports today that Wall Street firms

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Comrade Chairman Banana Ben Bernanke is slightly worried about long-term unemployment in the People's Republic of the United States. Central planning did not work for the Soviet Union. It hasn't worked for Cuba or any Communist nation. Why will Federal Reserve central planning be any different? Why do 12 people in a closed conference room get to price fix interest rates and decide now much

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National Inflation Association: College education is the largest scam in U.S. history! related: PewResearch.org: Is College Worth It? -- College Presidents, Public Assess Value, Quality and Mission of Higher Education... discussion: Bloomberg: U.S. College Education Isn’t Worth the Price: Survey -- Higher education fails to provide students “good value” for the money they and their families

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These Navy Seals are good at keeping a low profile.

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The U.S. has put itself on a slippery financial slope. The U.S. budget deficits and resulting debt-to-GDP ratio are headed down an "unsustainable path" if current trends continue. There is only one feasible way out of this mess according to a very concise and interesting analysis by James Gailbraith of the Levy Institute. It is for the Federal Reserve to squash interest rates, so that they yield

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Ben Bernanke's dollar debauchery is hitting Americans very hard. Here are reports about how bad his buck busting inflation is getting: Newsweek: Sticker Shock --  The Fed may deny it, but Americans know that prices are rising. Inflation is back. “I can’t eat an iPad.” This could go down in history as the line that launched the great inflation of the 2010s. Back in March, the president of

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Peter Schiff believes that Ben Bernanke is lying about the threat of inflation. He says Bernanke knows that if he fights inflation the phony economy that his monetary policy helped inflate will come crashing down. Schiff also says the only reason the U.S. is running these huge deficits is because Ben Bernanke is making it possible. The Fed's Quantitative Easing program is buying up most of the

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Bernanke caught in the inflation headlightsvia CartoonFactory Ben Bernanke has been upgraded from plain Buck Buster to the Buck Busting Buzzard. This is based on his obliviousness to wildfire inflation that is igniting all over the frick'n economy. Sure, if you look at just labor and housing costs prices seem stable, but everything else it seems is bust'n a move higher. The Ben "Buck Busting

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Ben Bernanke takes a nap during a lull at his first press conference Reporter falls asleep asking a question at Bernanke's press conference More nap time at Bernake press conference----The Ben Bernanke press conference this afternoon was pure kabuki theater, a boring charade of bureaucratic babble.  Bernanke, for example, got to use his new favorite babble buzzword, "transitory," three times. The

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“ It’s taken almost two centuries or bankers to pull the wool over Americans’ eyes, but today you and I are working for intrinsically worthless paper that can be created by bureaucrats — created without sweat, without creative ability, without work, without anything but a decision by the Federal Reserve. This is the disease at the base of today’s monetary system. And like a cancer, it will spread

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Sean Hannity of Fox News does a story entitled, "Behind The Bias at The New York Times." The story says that the NY Times, once the gold standard in print journalism, with the motto all the news that's fit to print, has lost its way. Their operational motto has now become: all the news that's fit to distort, all the news that's fit to suppress, and all the news that's fit to ignore. I thought it

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Ben Bernanke is bent on breaking the back of the U.S. dollar, by devaluing it. Here are some assorted views on how his plan is going: Editorial / Wall Street Journal: The World Flees the Flood of Soggy Dollar -- At an economic town hall this week, President Obama blamed "speculators" for rising oil prices. He should have mentioned the Fed and his own Treasury, which have encouraged the world to

jbnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6276743.post-19670119840804671572011-04-18T13:09:00.005-04:002011-04-18T17:53:14.567-04:00

This morning Standard & Poors downgraded the outlook for the United States credit rating to negative. The heat on Washington to get their fiscal act together on the budget deficit has been turned up. The Standard & Poors downgrade official means they believe that there is a one in three chance (33%) that the U.S. will lose its AAA rating within two years. Maybe this move shakes up the debate on

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via Slope of Hope related: CNN: U.S. credit rating outlook lowered by S&P -- Standard & Poor's lowered its outlook for the nation's long-term debt Monday, even as it reaffirmed the agency's top-tier rating for the U.S. economy... But the ratings agency lowered its outlook for America's long-term credit rating to "negative" from "stable," based on the uncertain political debate around the

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Charlie Sheen has tiger blood. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has rat blood. That's the conclusion you come to when analyzing the starkly different decisions made this past week by the Federal Reserve and the ECB (European Central Bank). Rats like to multiple and that is what Bernanke is doing with the dollar – multiplying them. The ECB sees inflation and raised its interest rates. A

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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said this past week that rising commodity costs are "temporary" and “the increase in inflation will be transitory.” Ben Bernanke is a liar. The Fed's Quantitative Easing (QE-2/money printing) program correlates very nicely with rising commodity prices. Plus, now that the inflation genie is out of the bottle it wants to run wild. The Fed's stubborn

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A couple of Japanese journalists traveled into the heart of the 20km restricted zone around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. They found stray dogs, grazing cows, and very few cars. All the while their Geiger counters mounted on the car’s dashboard keep clicking faster as they get closer to the nuke plant. Their counters hit a maximum of 112 microSieverts per hour when they got within

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Items of Interst: ClarionAdvisory.com: Food Stamp Graph… gulp -- According to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), 44,187,831 people were on food stamps at the beginning of February. SNAP rolls up to the USDA and they sure do make neat graphs don’t they? You know at least they’re graphing out in red, white & blue… SNAP should get together with the Bureau of Labor Statistics (

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Here are some interesting Youtube videos out of Japan showing efforts by workers to regain control of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors. This first one (made approximately March 22nd) shows workers spraying water on top of a damaged reactor building. This second one (made March 27th) is a fly over of the facility. It is still a smoking mess. These are 2 out of over 270 videos from the

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When 10 former ex-Chairpersons of the President's Council of Economic Advisors warn of a pending financial crisis, due to the deficit, maybe Congress and the President should pay attention. One of the ten is Christina D. Romer, who served as the chairwoman in the Obama administration, from 2009 to September 2010. However, our Congress is happy to fight over measley $50 billion chump change 

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The austerity measures and spending cuts in the United Kingdom are hurting. How soon before we see this level of violent protest erupt in the US? The Wisconsin protests were only a first act. Central London this Saturday, March 26th, 2011, is a nasty reminder of how class warfare is now actually looking like warfare. An HSBC branch bank is broken into and vandalized in the above video. ----

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Please take a moment from your stressful day and allow me to put some fuel into your apocalyptic nightmare tank. Let's consider that the radioactive glow coming off the crippled reactors at the Fukushima nuclear plant might draw some crazy person, like a mentally deranged moth to a nuclear flame. Is Japan taking enough measures to guard the Fukushima nuclear reactors from a possible kamikaze

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If you had any doubt that Wall Street was infested with crooks all you need to do is check out the Bloomberg Businessweek Insider's Guide To Insider Trading. It nicely breaks down the complex three overlapping insider networks that swapped corporate information. So far 22 individuals have pleaded guilty. The three major overlapping insider networks in this case were the following: The Galleon

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Many more people are now focusing on the problem of the spent uranium fuel rods at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. NY Times: Danger of Spent Fuel Outweighs Reactor Threat -- Figures provided by Tokyo Electric Power on Thursday show that most of the dangerous uranium at the power plant is actually in the spent fuel rods, not the reactor cores themselves. The electric utility

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update: At 11:57 JST (Japanese Standard Time), Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) released a photograph of Fukushima No.4 reactor showing that "a large portion of the building's outer wall has collapsed." Technicians were reported to be considering spraying boric acid on the building from a helicopter. The new Wednesday fire cast into doubt the earlier hope that the Tuesday blaze in the Unit 4

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This set of numbers for the U.S. economy does not look good. The prime reasons boil down to reckless spending by Congress and the President, and reckless money printing by the Federal Reserve. Who's got the guts to stop this run away train? Or is it already unstoppable? January 2009 Today (3/10/11) % chg Source Avg. Retail price/gallon gas in U.S. $1.83 $3.520 92.34% 1 Crude oil,

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CNBC has been running a portion of this clip as a promo for the network. The above clip is from (YouTube part 3) a Phil Donahue interview of economist Milton Friedman in December 1979, on The Phil Donahue Show. They discussed The Great Depression, the New Deal, the auto industry, the Chrysler bailout, Kmart and Sears, greed, Amtrak, auto emissions regulation and airbags, Ralph Nader, tariffs,

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Peter Jeffrey / Wall Street Journal: Bernanke Defends Himself as Rock Star From Mars -- Charlie Sheen His Media Coach Q. Ah. Now, you've been under fire at home and abroad for your aggressive program of low interest rates and big Treasury bond purchases. Is that policy misplaced at this point? A. I've been kicked around, I've been criticized. I've been this "aw, shucks" guy with this bee-atchin

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---- The Nation: FCIC Report Turns a Blind Eye to Wall Street Fraud -- Nothing erodes the authority and legitimacy of government more severely than a spreading awareness of unequal justice. The feds send hapless drug mules to prison for twenty years. For billion-dollar swindles, they won’t even call a grand jury. This corrosive contradiction can become a national disease. Americans are learning

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Internet Queen, Mary Meeker, offers a plan for "U.S.A. Inc" to get out of its financial hole. It makes a lot sense. Will any political leaders emerge to help turn around USA Inc.? Mary Meeker / Business Week: USA Inc: Red, White, and Very Blue -- Mary Meeker says that if the U.S. were a corporation, it would be sick—but fixable. Ideas for solving the U.S.'s long-term fiscal mess... the idea of

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There were forty-five gardeners from Greece. They said, "The weeds in the garden would decrease!" They made quite an array, And were very well paid. But, it all turned out to be a big fleece.-----Hedge Fund Manager Kyle Bass has a February investor letter that is amusing and insightful: ...my host informed me of an audit recently done on one of the largest hospitals in Athens. This hospital was

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 Ben Bernanke: Patron Saint of Easy Money & Easy Regulation Yesterday Ron Paul called the Federal Reserve a "Central Planning Cartel." Today we learn again that their central planning and regulation ain't that good. In fact, it stinks. The Fed was responsible for mortgage oversight, but they did little or no mortgage oversight. This according to John Paulson, who made billions betting against bad

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DylanRatigan.com: Food for Thought -- Dylan Ratigan and Bill Fleckenstein discuss how the Fed's money printing pump has helped create exploding world food prices, which are "strangling" poor people, especially in the Arab world. It's a "food bubble." Ratigan says the Fed's "hell-bent" money printing is designed to cover up the 2008 massive mega-bank theft. The theft is the Fed basically using

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Some charts that show how inflation has taken off due to the Federal Reserve's Quantitative Easing (QE2) money printing program. Slope of Hope: Nope. No Inflation Here. Not At All. DBA is the symbol for the PowerShares DB Agriculture Fund, a commodities ETF. It owns a basket of commodities weighted as follows: Corn -- 12.50% Soybeans -- 12.50% Wheat -- 12.50% Sugar -- 12.50% Cocoa -- 11.11%

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Warning signals are going off over the Fed's destruction of dollar and of the middle class, but very few are listening. Mike Whitney / Counterpunch.com: Treasury Yields are Blinking Red -- Treasury yields are "blinking red", but the Fed keeps acting like nothing's wrong. What's the deal? Let's explain: Fed chairman Ben Bernanke's bond purchasing program (QE2) has sent the yield on the 30-year

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More evidence that the Federal Reserve banksters live in an alternate reality. Plumping up the bonuses of Wall Street bankers and screwing the middle class with inflation is all that they are about with their massive money printing (quantitative easing) campaign. Jeff Matthews Is Not Making This Up: The Fed in La-La Land, Again -- The Federal Open Market Committee’s latest word on the economy

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A concrete plan of action for Egyptian protesters. Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic: Egyptian Activists' Action Plan: Translated -- Egyptian activists have been circulating a kind of primer to Friday's planned protest. We were sent the plan by two separate sources and have decided to publish excerpts here, with translations into English. Over Twitter, we connected with a translator, who

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Marc Faber, founder of the Gloom, Boom and Doom Report says Fed generated inflation, especially in food and energy prices, will hit the low income populations of emerging markets much harder than the consumers of the developed markets in the US and Europe. This is an unintended consequence of the Fed's money printing campaign. However, you can bet there will be some blow back on the US consumers.

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The State of Illinois is a financial basket case. But they want to turn their basket into a coffin by raising their personal income taxes 75%. Frederick Sheehan / Aucontrarian: Illinois is No Peter Pan -- "Top Illinois Democrats have agreed to push a plan that would temporarily boost income taxes by 75 percent and double cigarette taxes," harked CBS Chicago on January 6, 2011. The proposed plan

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CanadaFreePress.com: Nigel Farage To European Parliament: “The Euro Game Is Up… Just Who The Hell Do You Think You Are? -- Famous euroskeptic Nigel Farage (as seen previously here), in just under 4 brief minutes tells more truth about the entire European experiment than all European bankers, commissioners, and politicians have done in the past decade. related: Twitter.com / Nigel Farage -- And

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Did President Andrew Jackson really say that his greatest accomplishment as President was "I killed the bank"? He was referring to the "Second Bank of the United States", which was our country's second central bank. The American Dream animated short film blends history and economics to show how Central Banks, like the Federal Reserve, have been the den of financial evil doers for centuries.

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The English once upon a time took their money seriously. Ron Paul takes our money seriously. If he followed English tradition, Paul would have the chief moneyer's (Ben Bernanke's) private parts lopped off for his debasement of the U.S. dollar. Underbelly: That Bernanke Fella is One Brave Dude -- Underbelly's Minnesota bureau reports that some people take their money seriously: In this year,

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Ron Paul goes after the "obscene" Federal Reserve in this timely Fortune interview. Considered a fringe guy for years, Paul now gaining support from the mainstream. The fringe lunatics here at Johnsville support his "End the Fed" mission. Fortune.com: Will the Fed be able to survive Ron Paul? -- No doubt Paul's views fall outside the mainstream. At times, his thoughts are arguably off-putting

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Why is the U.S. Government keeping its "secrets" in a shoe box on Hillary Clinton's front porch? And why are so many people upset when someone picks up the shoe box and looks inside? And is diplomatic gossip really worth being called secret? Rep. Ron Paul gets to the real heart of the Wikileaks story - can we and should we handle the truth? Ron Paul's Nine Questions regarding Wikileaks: Number

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The Federal Reserve's Quantative Easing is making it quantitatively easy for the banks to prosper and the middle class to get screwed. Ben Bernanke is increasing the cost of living for every American and he's doing it to bail out his bankster overlords. His lip quivering interview on CBS's 60 Minutes shows the man for what he is: a frightened clueless technocrat. But he is still "100 percent

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The above title is clipped from one of the WikiLeak.org, US Government (USG) cables now online. This document was classified Secret, was dated February 8, 2010, and originated from the U.S. Embassy in Madrid, Spain. The main source of the information is a Spanish prosecutor. The name of a company where the Russian Mafia has a "sizeable investment" has been redacted. Also, paragraph #6 seems to

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Paul Volcker, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve (1979-1987): "I don't get it,"... By setting 2% as an inflation objective, the Fed is "telling people in a generation they're going to be losing half their purchasing power."Calculated Risk, 2009Thomas Jefferson: "if the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the

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h/t: World Economy News

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related: BuyNothingDay Why Black Friday Is a Trap - WSJ

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