Archive for October, 2009
Obama Lifts a Ban on Entry Into U.S. by H.I.V.-Positive People
President Obama on Friday announced the end of a 22-year ban on travel to the United States by people who had tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS, fulfilling a promise he made to gay advocates and acting to eliminate a restriction he said was “rooted in fear rather than fact.”
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Bankoween! Nine Banks, 153 Branches
On George Ure’s Urban Survival website he documents yesterday’s nine bank closings. He writes:
“…This week, the FDIC press releases were organized somewhat differently: instead of giving the number of branches for each of the nine banks involved in this week’s reorganizations, only the group total was given for the nine banks. 153 branches is a [...]
Welfare: How Much Longer Can It Last?
Over the last few years the number of people receiving food stamps and other welfare has increased dramatically. The ‘welfare issue’ is one which is rarely addressed by the U.S. mass media because the topic angers people, especially those who are paying taxes and not receiving anything in return for it.
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On The Edge with Max Keiser and Catherine Fitts
In this entertaining episode of On The Edge Keiser profiles oil tycoon Boone Pickens as dingbat of the week. Pickens made comments recently saying that Americans are entitled to Iraqi oil because 5,000 servicemen died there. Keiser also talks about the demonstration against the recent American Bankers Association dinner in Chicago.
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House healthcare bill. . . 1990 pages!
House health bill clocks in at 1,990 pages
It runs more pages than War and Peace, has nearly five times as many words as the Torah, and its tables of contents alone run far longer than this story.
The House health care bill unveiled Thursday clocks in at 1,990 pages and about 400,000 words. With an [...]
US DOD Nuclear Weapon Espionage Arrest!
Technically and in all seriousness, to me that sounds like an incredibly important headline worthy of front page news. We have an espionage arrest involving a former employee of the United States Department of Defense, concerning not only nuclear weaponry, but also military satellites and other top secret weapon systems. This just happened [...]
Pasco’s Rapidly Deteriorating Economy
After watching many of Inflation.us’s news videos I decided to record one of my own documenting some of the effects of the depression on Pasco county’s economy. As the video shows the business climate in my area is rapidly deteriorating right along with the national economy. Please share the video with your contacts.
Israel: Our democracies, You are on high-alert!
As most of us are already aware, Israel has been accused of committing war crimes, AGAIN, but this time there has been a little bit more traction and visibility to the accusations. The recent Goldstone Report, provided to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), is a current example. It was [...]
Cross Talk: Israel on Trial
In this episode of Cross Talk two political analysts; one Iranian, the other Israeli, debate the recently released U.N. sponsored Goldstone report. The report entails the Gaza conflict which occurred last winter, it condemns both the Israeli military and Hamas for committing war crimes against each other. In the debate you will see the Iranian [...]
Hillary in the Promise Land, Counterterrorism too if time permits!
One of my least favorite American Presidents of all time is Slick Willy Clinton. If you remember, it was only a decade ago that he became the second US President in the history of this country to be impeached in the House of Representatives. Yes, he was later acquitted by the Senate but [...]
Life isn’t Fair!
‘Life isn’t fair’, heard that one a lot as a boy. Usually when I was complaining about so-and-so had something I wanted but did not have. Well there they go again! Those darn pesky Iranians are looking to legitimize the Iranian nuclear program, which by all accounts are indeed used and intended [...]
Bolton: Israel has a right to pre-emptively strike Iran
In his interview with Russia Today John Bolton continues his overwhelming support for the state of Israel. He says that the Iranians are working toward developing nuclear weapons and that Israel has a right to pre-emptively strike the Iranian republic. Bolton has been a firm supporter of AIPAC and of Jewish interests for his entire [...]
Wikipedia – Jew Source for All Branches of Knowledge
Encyclopedia – a work that contains information on all branches of knowledge or treats comprehensively a particular branch of knowledge usually in articles arranged alphabetically often by subject (Merriam-Webster)
If you are like me, you have undoubtedly noticed the rise to power of Wikipedia. This is the online self-described “Free Encyclopedia” that was created in [...]
Ammo for Barter – Ammo vs. Money
In the following article Terence Gillespie explains some of the reasons why ammunition is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain. He believes that people are using ammo to barter with. He also feels that as our currency continues to lose its value that bartering will become much more commonplace.
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Open, Public Top Secrets
This is a timely follow up to the story we reported last week. The below article is from today’s edition of the Guardian and a feed from the Associated Press. See our story from yesterday called; Bibi The Great for more background on this one.
This one comes to us from the UK based Guardian News [...]
On The Edge with Max Keiser and Paul Craig Roberts
In this enlightening episode of On The Edge Keiser talks with former assistant secretary of the treasury Paul Craig Roberts. The segment with Roberts is very in depth, during it, Roberts talks about his most recent column titled, “U.S. Joins the Ranks of Failed States”.
Roberts who is credited with being the father of Reaganomics asserts [...]
Bibi The Great
You will probably recall last month there was a big to-do and a lot of media coverage about the annual U.N. General Assembly in New York. While leaders from around the world gathered for that event, the logistics coincided nicely to hold the Group of 20 conference in Pittsburgh.
That is where our Commander and [...]
FDIC Head Sheila Bair Attempts to Quell Crisis of Confidence
In the following video Shelia Bair cites this year’s 100th bank failure, she goes on to assure Americans that the banking system is sound and that people should leave their money in the banks and not worry about it. What she doesn’t say in the video is that technically there have been over 2,000 bank [...]
Nineteen Eighty-Four on Obama’s Desk!
We have all unfortunately been desensitized to the concept of “Hate Crimes”. I say unfortunately because the idea of Hate Crimes, that is the Orwellian idea of Hate Crimes, has been around long enough that most Americans don’t even think about it. And granted it is a stretch for me to assert that [...]
Oil Spike Threatens The Imaginary Recovery
In the following video the financial geniuses at Yahoo Tech Ticker Henry Blodget and Aaron Task talk down the dollar. They’re finally admitting that the rising oil and commodity prices are due to the debasement of our currency. Just a few short months ago they were saying that the dollar was strong and would continue [...]
Bernie Madoff: Sex, Drugs, and Smoking Rock-n-Rolls
When it comes to Bernie Madoff, there is really just too much to talk about. Most all of it has already been said and usually multiple times. Most people will remember him as the convicted felon now serving time for what has been called the “the largest investment fraud in Wall Street history”. [...]
Tampa Tribune owner Media General announces third quarter net loss of $62.5-million
Media General is a mid-sized mass media conglomerate which owns over 20 daily newspapers including the Tampa Tribune along with 250 weekly papers. The company also owns 18 network affiliated TV stations. Today the company reported one of its biggest quarterly losses on record.
Most people will attribute the loss to a rapidly deteriorating business climate, [...]
John Mauldin: Tax Hikes Will Kill the ‘Recovery’, Which Isn’t Real Anyway
John Mauldin is president of Millennium Wave Securities. In the following video Mauldin says that the recovery is not real. He goes on to explain that the rising unemployment won’t go down any time soon, and he adds that any tax hikes imposed by the government would do great damage to the already struggling economy. [...]
Tampabay.com now requires registration for comments on stories
The website is the online version of the St. Petersburg Times newspaper. The paper says the move is to try to stem the flow of “abusive” comments which “violate the company’s standards”.
The way I interpret this latest move by the paper is that they want an easier system to control comments which clash with the [...]
Niall Ferguson: U.S. Empire in Decline, on Collision Course with China
Ferguson is a Harvard professor and author of “The Ascent of Money”. In the following video he gives reasons why the U.S. is in deep decline.
He explains how an ascending power can’t borrow nine trillion dollars from the rest of the world and expect to stay on top for too long, and he also [...]