Poor Bill Clinton. Until Hillary lugged him into the race, mostly because of her lackluster showing, his reputation as a President was fairly good. Of course the most impressive feature of his Administration was the infamous balanced budget, which he, and now Hillary, claim was the reult of their efforts. This is but one of countless claims that aren’t true, at least not completely true. At the time Bill actually insisted the budget couldn’t be balanced, while Newt Gingrich, who had (…)
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The Clinton’s Myth Regarding their Foreign Policy History
13 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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Cyclical Evolution
12 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
Cyclical Evolution By David Glenn Cox
There once was a being named Orso, a sojourner among the galaxies. Then it came unto him the creatures that would destroy his faith in all that he held sacred. Creatures to whom reality was but a concept and to whom truth was but a belief and logic was what ever they said it was. Truth was to them like an ocean wave crashing on the shore; its validity would climb up onto the sandy beaches only to and just as certainly then to retreat back from where it (…) -
Cleveland sues 21 banks over subprime mess
12 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
Cleveland sues 21 banks over subprime mess
Posted by Henry J. Gomez and Thomas Ott January 11, 2008 05:01AM
Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson took aim at Wall Street on Thursday with a lawsuit against 21 major investment banks that he said have enabled the subprime lending and foreclosure crisis here.
The one-of-a-kind suit, filed in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court, accuses venerable institutions such as Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and Wells Fargo of creating a public (…) -
2008 US Presidential Charade: More Criminality and Wars
12 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
Mondialisation.ca - Online Journal
2008 Presidential Charade promises deepening of Government Criminality and Expansion of War
It is time once again to dispel the mass insanity and unfounded hopes as another fresh election hell ensues. There will be no savior, no end to the continuing world crisis, and absolutely no “change."
The monsters behind each candidate
As the American public once again gets swept up into another beyond, ridiculous carnival over which “presidential (…) -
Wall Street Imploding over Credit Concerns
12 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
Wall Street was in retreat mode from the opening to closing bells on Friday as investors sold stocks amid an ongoing credit and banking crisis.
Today’s headliners were American Express (AXP) and Merrill Lynch (MER), both of which were seen suffering the consequences of an eroding US economy.
American Express was down more than 10% as the company warned that it would miss first quarter analyst estimates due to having to bolster reserves for delinquent credit card users. Stocks of other (…) -
Giant Write-Down Is Seen for Merrill
11 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
Giant Write-Down Is Seen for Merrill
January 11, 2008 By JULIA WERDIGIER and JENNY ANDERSON
Merrill Lynch is expected to suffer $15 billion in losses stemming from soured mortgage investments, almost double its original estimate, prompting the firm to raise additional capital from an outside investor.
Merrill, the nation’s largest brokerage firm, is expected to disclose the huge write-down when it reports earnings next week, according to people who have been briefed on its plans. The (…) -
Big four may lose $1bn loan to US firm
11 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
Big four may lose $1bn loan to US firm
Scott Murdoch | January 11, 2008 THE four major banks stand to lose most of the nearly $1 billion they invested in a troubled US mortgage group after agreeing to lend the money without any form of protection.
The Commonwealth Bank and National Australia Bank pumped $300 million each into Countrywide Financial and were joined by ANZ with $150 million and Westpac with $120 million.
Banking sources confirmed to The Australian yesterday that the (…) -
Hacking Democracy! Watch a man hack a NH voting machine right before your eyes
11 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
This will blow your mind.
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Tainted Hands across the Water, by John PILGER
11 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
NEWSTATEMAN
"The values we share with America are those of rapacious power and wealth"
When Gordon Brown spoke recently about his government’s devotion to the United States, "founded on the values we share", he was echoing his Foreign Office minister Kim Howells, who was preparing to welcome the Saudi dictator to Britain with effusions of "shared values". The meaning was the same in both cases. The values shared are those of rapacious power and wealth, with democracy and human rights (…) -
New Hampshire Rigged? Electronic Vote Fraud a Possibility
11 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
Were the New Hampshire results fraudulent? In shades of the underreported Ohio election scandal in 2004—which saw the imprisonment of two Cuyahoga County Elections officers—the ’08 New Hampshire Primaries saw large unexplained discrepancies between polls and the results.
Speculation is rampant that people from outside the State could have shown up and voted. I guess the sheer variety of explanations for why Hillary was able to engineer a spontaneous turnaround is a product of suspicion. (…)