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In Money-Changers We Trust (Robert Scheer)
Read more...Dec. 28, 2010 (TruthDig) -- Two years into the Obama presidency and the economic data is still looking grim. Don’t be fooled by the gyrations of the stock market, where optimism is mostly a reflectio ...
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Once Upon a Time (David Glenn Cox)
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David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Jan. 2, 2010 -- As we approach the new year we must reflect, times are hard. The wars go on unabated, our people struggle unassisted, Wall Street continues on unmo ...
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2011: A Brave New Dystopia (Chris Hedges)
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Dec. 27, 2010 (Truth Dig) -- The two greatest visions of a future dystopia were George Orwell’s “1984” and Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World.” The debate, between those who watched our descent towards ...
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The economic outrage of 2010: Cowardly leaders failed to help working people -- and coddled the rich (Joseph Stiglitz)
Read more...Dec. 22, 2010 (NY Daily News) -- As we look back on 2010, the most significant economic event of the year was what didn't happen: Unemployment failed to come down, stubbornly hovering around 9.5 perc ...
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Global systemic crisis: Second half of 2011 -- European context and US catalyst -- Explosion of the Western public debt bubble (LEAP/E2020)
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Public announcement GEAB N°50 Dec. 16, 2010 (LEAP/E2020) -- The second half of 2011 will mark the point in time when all the world’s financial operators will finally understand that the West will not ...
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On the Streets of Bedford Falls (David Glenn Cox)
Read more...David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Dec. 13, 2010 -- There is not much happening this year on the streets of Bedford Falls. The Christmas decorations went up on Main Street, same as always, but it’s ...
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Warning Global systemic crisis – First quarter 2011: Breach of the critical threshold of global geopolitical dislocation (LEAP/E2020)
Read more...Nov. 16, 2010 (LEAP/E2020) -- Public announcement GEAB N°49 As the LEAP/E2020 team anticipated in its open letter to the G20 leaders published in the international edition of the Financial Times of 2 ...
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Sen. Bernie Sanders: Tax Cut Deal 'Is A Moral Outrage'
Read more...Dec. 7, 2010 -- WASHINGTON (sanders.senate.gov) -- Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement today on the agreement announced Monday between the White House and congressional Republi ...
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Farewell to the EU Superstate (Mike Whitney)
Read more...Dec. 6, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- Wednesday's press conference with ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet turned out to be a real jaw-dropper. While Trichet didn't commit himself to massive bo ...
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Happy as a Hangman (Chris Hedges)
Read more...Dec. 6, 2010 (TruthDig.com) -- Innocence, as defined by law, makes us complicit with the crimes of the state. To do nothing, to be judged by the state as an innocent, is to be guilty. It is to sancti ...
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U.S. Federal Reserve Conjures -- and Redefines -- Money (Matthew Cardinale)
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Nov. 30, 2010 (Inter Press Service) -- ATLANTA, Georgia - The private central bank of the United States, the Federal Reserve, has begun purchasing $600 billion of long-term U.S. Treasury Bonds, essen ...
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