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  • Video: Activists Urge Moratorium on Utility Shut-offs
    29 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Monday, Dec. 29, 2008, the “Maryland Coalition to Stop the BGE Rate Hikes,” called a press conference. It was held at noon at the historic New Shiloh Baptist Church, in Baltimore, MD. The activists urged Gov. Martin O’Malley; members of the state’s General Assembly; and BGE/Constellation, the utility conglomerate, to support “a moratorium on utility shuts-off from Jan. 1, 2009 through May 31, 2009.” In its press release, the advocacy group underscored: “Ten people have died across (…)

  • Wall St. and the Fed Get Fatter, While Main St. Suffers
    29 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    “Wall Street has hijacked the economy for the last twenty some years.” - Richard L. Trumka, Secretary-Treasurer, AFL-CIO
    The Fed and Wall Street are the real powers in the land. During the financial meltdown crisis in the Fall of 2008, the U.S. Congress acted as a patsy for the fiscal elite. The Fed Chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, and the Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, Henry M. Paulson, Jr., ordered the politicos to give Wall Street banksters a bailout of $700 billion of taxpayers’ money with (…)

  • 50 Factors that Affect the Value of the US Dollar
    29 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    50 Factors that Affect the Value of the US Dollar
    By Jessica Hupp, August 8th, 2007
    Would you believe something as mundane as a rainstorm in New England can affect the value of the Dollar? It’s true. The US Dollar is subject to numerous influences, from politics to Walmart, and everything in between. The following list contains 50 factors that affect the value of the US dollar, both big and small.
    Balance of trade and investment
    The balance of trade and investment is often cited by (…)

  • Japan Should Scrap U.S. Debt, Dollar May Plummet, Mikuni Says
    28 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Japan Should Scrap U.S. Debt, Dollar May Plummet, Mikuni Says
    by Stanley White and Shigeki Nozawa
    Global Research, December 26, 2008 Bloomberg - 2008-12-24
    The article below is a wake-up call to the harsh reality of the financial fiasco that has visited the US. For further details see Matthias Chang’s articles on www.FutureFastForward.com and www.GlobalResearch.ca
    Japan should write-off its holdings of Treasuries because the U.S. government will struggle to finance increasing debt (…)

  • Kern’s Krew Collection of Peeping Toms
    27 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Kern’s Krew Collection of Peeping Toms by James Nimmo
    (OKLAHOMA CITY) At the website of Oklahomans for Excellence in Science Education (OESE, http://www.oklascience.org), there is a professional analysis of the latest resurrection of Rep. Sally Kern’s bill that would allow for the recitation of bible verses as "facts" and "evidence" in math and science classes in Oklahoma schools with the teachers forced to accept such balderdash as legitimate answers. Though this bill was vetoed (…)

  • PHOTOS-Mike Connell, Witness in Bush/Rove Vote Tampering, Dies in Plane Crash (Michael Connell)
    24 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Michael Connell, 45, webmaster to the stars of the neocon world, died instantly just before 6 p.m. Friday (Dec. 19) in a plane crash while landing at the Akron-Canton Regional Airport in Ohio. Connell had supposedly testified by deposition in a federal court case just 6 weeks earlier in a case that Republican/neocon operatives had long attempted to quash. http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/litigation/documents/Lincoln-Response-11-4-08-ExA.pdf
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  • All Right, But Just This Once.
    24 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    All Right, But Just This Once. By David Glenn Cox
    Years ago there was a “Far Side” cartoon with an angry lynch mob in front of an old, Western jail. The sheriff was addressing the mob, “Now you boys know that I can’t just turn him over to you without a fair trial. Well, all right, but just this once.”
    That pretty much covers my feelings towards Mr. Madoff. I’m all for law and order, but this admitted criminal, who used trust to defraud his victims, will now use the legal system to (…)

  • AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT - A CONTEMPORARY CHRISTMAS TALE
    24 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    AND TO ALL, A GOOD NIGHT A Contemporary Christmas Tale
    John Chuckman
    It was only a matter of time before Santa Claus himself came under the Neanderthal-eyed scrutiny of American intelligence. After all, Santa’s citizenship is unknown, and he crosses borders with no passport or other form of identification. No one knows whether he even has a valid pilot’s license.
    Although his image is well known, there is no official photograph on file with American border control, and he has never (…)

  • Video: Declare Baltimore: “A Foreclosures and Evictions Free Zone!”
    23 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Dec. 23, 2008, activists held a press conference, at 12:30 PM, along with a picket line, in front of the Baltimore City’s Sheriff’s Office, at the main Court House, near the City Hall. They requested a halt, a moratorium, to all foreclosures and evictions in the city, and that the Sheriff’s Office follow the precedent established by the Sheriff of Cook County, Illinois, and the Sheriff of Philadelphia, PA, in this regard. The rally, with the temperature hovering in the low 20s, was led by (…)

  • CALIFORNIA’S CONSTITUTIONAL BAN ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL
    22 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by David R. Hoffman
    When I was a teacher, I would often tell my students this hypothetical: “Our classroom has decided to form a new country and create a new government to run it. Now imagine that everyone in this class practices the same religion, except for two students.
    History has shown that many nations have been involved in violent conflicts because of religious differences, and some are still engaged in such conflicts today. To eliminate this problem in our new nation, we are (…)