As November 6, 2012 Approaches, Republicans Tout Austerity’s Misery as Solutionby Jude CowellOne year of austerity measures enacted in Britain has only contracted the UK economy as foretold and pushed Brits into the streets en masse. The UK government’s social experiment has brought no real improvement to economic and social conditions across the pond and a worsening is apparent. Can Washington
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Is John Huntsman a Man with a Plan?
Perhaps you’ve heard that 2012 candidate John Huntsman is the only Republican hopeful with a detailed plan to end banking’s Too Big to Fail dilemma.(Well, it helped create a massive dilemma for 99% of us. Bankers seem fine as-is.)Ah yes, I remember those halcyon days not so long ago (June 21, 2011 actually) when John Huntsman announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for president. It
Celente: Wall St is Washington, Washington is Wall St (OWS video)
Nov 4, 2011: here’s economist Gerald Celente breaking down the financial and political facts of our current lousy circumstances and listing the Obama Economic Team’s criminals and Goldman-Sachs agents past and present whom I suspect may actually be Rothschild agents in disguise–operatives and infiltrators of Illuminati proportions:Let’s continue supporting Occupy Wall Street! For they’re
Keith Olbermann: "The Four Great Hypocrisies of the Debt Deal" (video link)
It’s times like these that I wish Current TV would allow embedding of their videos but if there’s a way to embed them, I haven’t discovered it yet.Instead, here’s a link to Keith Olbermann’s Four Hypocrisies of the Debt Deal commentary. The page includes, I believe, a link to the transcript, if you prefer.Plus, here’s a standing question for you from an author whose novels exposed the horrid
Jon Stewart on the US Debt Ceiling Crisis (video)
The Daily Show – Broke Bank MountingGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on FacebookWednesday June 29, 2011: Thank goodness! Someone without an election campaign to finance, The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart, deals with the tiresomely political stalemate and one-upsmanship between Ds and Rs concerning the US economy and the August 2nd debt ceiling
CA Treasurer denounces State Bankruptcy as "baloney"
An open statement has arrived in my Inbox from Sacramento, CA:FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 21, 2011Contact: Tom Dresslar/916.653.2995 Treasurer Lockyer Criticizes Effort to Let States File for Bankruptcy PDFSACRAMENTO State Treasurer Bill Lockyer today issued the following statement regarding reports about a possible move in Congress to let states declare bankruptcy: "To the folks in Congress
Feeling Rich? Perception Matters
Jan 21/22, 2011: Public Radio’s MarketPlace has an interesting interview you may wish to read or listen to which concerns the fact that it isn’t level of income alone which makes a person admit that he or she is "rich." It’s just as much a matter of perception: the perception of what it means to be rich that affects our ideas about wealth and taxes, and our self-images of where we are on the
JP Morgan Profits Big from Food Stamps (video)
Giving ‘a finger in every pie’ new depth of meaning, JP Morgan is the largest processor of Food Stamps in America. What could possibly be wrong with this picture?Read more…~:~New Blog Feature in Sidebar: just under my Tweet feed, you’ll find ‘Freemason US Presidents and VPs’. If you’re unaware that some number of US presidents were followers of The Craft (or associated in some way with
Obama presser w/ his natal Neptune rising 9.10.10
Update 9.10.10: just read Paul Krugman’s piece Things Could Be Worse which addresses the economic measures of the president as mentioned in his presser today, R v D tactics and what would happen if Rs take control in November midterms, and compares our financial crisis 2008 with Japan’s response to their own financial crisis of the 1990s. A good read.And if you missed it, here’s a White House