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A JAZZMAN CHRONICLE. DISSEMINATE FREELY.
By Jack Random
Recently, the Center for American Progress published “Seven Reasons Why We Need to Engage in Afghanistan.” Sounding eerily like a Neocon Brain Trust from the Bush era, it was an argument defending the president’s policy of escalation in and prolonged occupation of Afghanistan.
The argument came in anticipation of Obama’s first international tour as president of the United States. He appealed to the members of the North Atlantic (…)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyHhe2WWU2A

US Consumers fall behind on loans at record rate
Updated 19h 13m ago
By Kathy Chu, USA TODAY
A record number of consumers are falling delinquent or into default on their loans, a problem that some economists say will only get worse this year.
A record 4.2% of consumer loans were delinquent at least 30 days in the fourth quarter, the latest data available, according to the Federal Reserve. Another 4% of consumer loans were in default, meaning they’d been written off by lenders. (…)

Learn from the Argentinean crisis
TERMINAL CRISIS BRINGS DOWN THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM
Adrian Salbuchi: Go Get Your Dollars Out Now! FAST!!!
Watch the video on YouTube.
Part One: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlDNMB6wYmI
Part Two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78ddURofMWs
or...
Type in the YouTube Search: "Salbuchi - Global Financial Collapse"
An Argentine opinion on the Global Financial Crisis by political analyst ADRIAN SALBUCHI, describing how the whole Global (…)

One-tenth of Americans already applies to food stamps: Each month, the U.S. lost 680,000 jobs
Despite the rescue packages and Konjunkturptogramme, the U.S. president in Obama trillion level incentives Schwill initial unemployment in the U.S. continues to grow. In March the unemployment rate climbed to 8.5 percent, and 660,000 more people lost their jobs. In the financial sector, however, only 43,000. The White House went so far optimistic assumption that unemployment by the end of the year (…)

Soros says U.S. banks "basically insolvent"
Mon Apr 6, 2009 10:37am
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. economy is in for "a lasting slowdown" and won’t recover this year, while "the banking system as a whole is basically insolvent," billionaire investor George Soros told Reuters Financial Television on Monday.
While nationalization of banks is "out of the question," he said stress tests being conducted by the U.S. Treasury could be a precursor to a more successful recapitalization.
But he (…)

US Communities print their own currency to keep cash flowing
By David Coates, The Detroit News, via AP
In Detroit, three downtown businesses have created a local currency, or scrip, to keep dollars earned locally in the community.
A small but growing number of cash-strapped communities are printing their own money. Borrowing from a Depression-era idea, they are aiming to help consumers make ends meet and support struggling local businesses.
The systems generally work like this: (…)

While running a police check was going well, the situation where a skid POLICE COMMISSIONER just attacked us.
COMMISSIONER says starts with taking the camera from our 1st confrere, then rushed on the second which had its accreditation MEDIA NATO press card will be requested and confiscated on the spot.
At this time we still do not know or is this card or press and we can recover.
One thing is sure, a complaint will be filed in the coming days.

“Thou shalt keep thy religion to thyself.” - George Carlin
He was just in time for April Fools’ Day, 2009! His name is Peter T. King and he’s a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Long Island, NY. And, for the last eight years, he was one of the prime enablers of the worst excesses of the Bush-Cheney Gang in the Congress. Now, with the financial meltdown ongoing, Rep. King has jumped onto the national stage to add unintended comic relief for the millions in shock (…)

Deep Recession in America: The Crash of 2009, The Collapse of 2010 The real economic collapse could come by the end of this year
by Humayun Gauhar
Global Research, April 5, 2009 The Nation (Pakistan)
Editor’s Note This article is meant to be provocative. Global Research does not necessarily share its conclusions.
Letter to my son
My dear Muhammad Ali:
I told you that it’s a funny world getting funnier. Many American analysts are saying that America’s real economic collapse could (…)