"The Financial Services Modernization Act.'
"The Commodity Futures Modernization Act."
Goldman Sachs wrote them...
Clinton teed them up and Bush & Co. knocked them down the fairway.
Now Goldman owns the new president too.
The bankrup ...
Posted Sunday, April 18th 2010 at 1:25PM
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In 2005, during a visit to the South Bronx in New York City, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made a lofty promise to help active community members cope with local issues. A half-decade and a few million dollars later, Chavez’s promise has become a r ...
Posted Thursday, April 15th 2010 at 3:45PM
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The Great Con Job - There Is No Money!
In America today we are getting closer to fully exposing the greatest con and cover-up in this history, it involves our banks, the federal reserve, our congress, and, of course, you and me. ...
Posted Thursday, April 15th 2010 at 3:36PM
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A society not alert to signs of its own decay, because its ideology is a continuing myth of progress, separates itself from reality and envelops illusion.
One yardstick by which to measure the decay in our country’s political, economic, and cultur ...
Posted Monday, April 5th 2010 at 2:31PM
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Obamacare will further damage the doctor-patient relationship, and if it were a good program, it wouldn’t have to be imposed by force.
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Posted Thursday, March 25th 2010 at 1:56PM
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Ron Paul questioned Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner today on the Federal Reserve’s price fixing activities and the moral hazard generated by a “lender of last resort” that, in cooperation with the government, picks up the pieces and bails out insolve ...
Posted Thursday, March 25th 2010 at 1:54PM
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MIAMI (AFP) - In a sign of political battles to come, 14 US states filed lawsuits Tuesday challenging the constitutionality of health care reform just moments after President Barack Obama signed it into law.
Other states are expected to join the f ...
Posted Thursday, March 25th 2010 at 1:50PM
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It's a good thing many of today's investors aren't back in elementary school. In no time, they'd be diagnosed with ADD-Attention Deficit Disorder-handed a Ritalin prescription and told not to return until they popped a few pills.
Whys that? Bec ...
Posted Friday, March 19th 2010 at 1:40PM
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I have attached the 1929 through 1932 headlines from the papers during the great depression, the similarities to the events going on today are astonishing. Interest only loans were very popular during the twenties, they disappeared during the great ...
Posted Friday, March 19th 2010 at 1:32PM
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"Interest never sleeps nor sickens nor dies; it never goes to the hospital; it works on Sundays and holidays; it never takes a vacation; it never visits nor travels; it takes no pleasure; it is never laid off work nor discharged from employment; it n ...
Posted Tuesday, March 16th 2010 at 2:40PM
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By Raw Story
January 20, 2010 "Raw Story" -- US House Rep. Ron Paul says the CIA has has in effect carried out a "coup" against the US government, and the intelligence agency needs to be "taken out."
Speaking to an audience of like-minded liberta ...
Posted Saturday, January 23rd 2010 at 4:17PM
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With no limits on campaign financing, corporations will take over the government.
In a Special Comment, Countdown’s Keith Olbermann envisions a future United States in which today's Supreme Court ruling permitting unbridled corporate campaign spen ...
Posted Saturday, January 23rd 2010 at 4:04PM
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"The extent to which he can recover seems to me depends on his faith," Hume said. "He is said to be a Buddhist. I don't think that faith offers the kind of forgiveness and redemption that is offered by the Christian faith. So, my message to Tiger is ...
Posted Tuesday, January 5th 2010 at 3:57PM
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In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell described a superstate called Oceania, whose language of war inverted lies that “passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past’, ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the presen ...
Posted Tuesday, January 5th 2010 at 3:46PM
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Over three-quarters of its 40,000 staff (spread across 38 countries) are civil servants, inherited when their governments outsourced the work they were doing to Serco.
As well as thanking God for his success, CEO Chris Hyman is a Pentecostal Chris ...
Posted Monday, January 4th 2010 at 12:58PM
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Paul J. Balles argues that it is time to clean up the US government, in the light of President Obama’s prostituting himself to pharmaceutical industry pimps and recent revelations that every US government appointee must endure a background check by t ...
Posted Monday, January 4th 2010 at 12:44PM
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The following is a century-old 8th grade exam that was passed along to us and we thought that what it showed about our current educational system was important and needed to be shared.
As you read this, try to see how many of these questions yo ...
Posted Sunday, January 3rd 2010 at 3:27PM
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Are you a citizen of the United States? Be careful! I'll
tell you something that the United States Government will never
want to tell you: That's a "trick" question. The federal
(feudal?) government will ask you that trick que ...
Posted Thursday, December 31st 2009 at 3:03PM
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Here in America today, we Americans pride ourselves as being
staunch anti-communists. A lot of us think of the communists as
the bad guys and the cause of our troubles and that of the rest
of the world's. This bad guy must look really bad a ...
Posted Wednesday, December 30th 2009 at 3:03PM
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There is No "Fourteenth Amendment"!
by
David Lawrence
U.S. News & World Report
September 27, 1957
A MISTAKEN BELIEF -- that ...
Posted Wednesday, December 30th 2009 at 2:41PM
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By Barbara Koeppel
December 16, 2009 "Consortium News" -- While posting breathtaking profits in the last two quarters – Wells Fargo’s $3.2 billion, Citigroup’s $3 billion and Chase’s $2.7 billion – U.S. banks have figured out a way to squeeze some ...
Posted Thursday, December 17th 2009 at 1:03PM
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Pouring money into the private banking system has only fixed the economy for bankers and the wealthy; it has not done much to address either the fundamental problem of unemployment or the debt trap so many Americans find themselves in.
President ...
Posted Thursday, November 5th 2009 at 3:42PM
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The large-scale government intervention in the economy is going to end badly.
By Ron Paul,
A false recovery is under way.
Any number of pundits claim that we have now passed the worst of the recession. Green shoots of recovery are supposedl ...
Posted Tuesday, November 3rd 2009 at 6:07PM
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