Bailout foes hold day of protests
September 26th, 2008 1:38 am
Grassroots groups and online activists rally against the proposed taxpayer rescue of Wall Street.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The public backlash against the Bush administration’s proposal to use tax dollars to bailout Wall Street spilled into the streets Thursday.
"People all over the country are up in arms about this," said David Elliot, a spokesman for grassroots advocacy group UsAction. "Our members are livid, and (…)
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Bailout foes hold day of protests
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Pakistan As "New" Front In Terror War.
26 September 2008The truck bomb that exploded in front of Islamabad’s Marriott hotel killing at least 53 people heralded in the latest salvo in the the U.S.’s and Mujahedin’s love/hate relationship. Their relationship began in 1979 in Afghanistan and Pakistan when the U.S., starting with Jimmy Carter and his National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brezezinski hatched an idea of using the most extreme militant Islamists to first draw in the Soviets (to Afghanistan) then go to war against them. At the time the U.S. (…)
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The Gore Presidency: An Alternative History
25 September 2008WASHINGTON, D.C. – With the first debate of the 2008 presidential campaign now set to take place on the campus of the University of Mississippi, it seems appropriate to reflect back upon the Supreme Court decision in Bush vs. Gore almost eight years ago and the subsequent history of the United States that has flowed from the swing vote of a single justice.
Writing for a 5-4 majority of the divided court, Justice Anthony Kennedy, a former Professor of Constitutional Law, upheld the Florida (…) -
$700Bn for a temporary fix??? NOT!!!
25 September 2008If we do what Bushcrew is proposing, this problem will just come back to haunt us all again in a few months and be even WORSE.
The real problem with the economy is that its primary driver - the middle class - is out of money to squeeze.
Everyone has been sqeezing and squeezing until the middle class has been bled dry - it’s just that many haven’t figured that out yet. They still have a little room on the credit cards, or they bought their house 15 or 20 years ago - but done the way (…) -
George Carlin: America is Tyranny (video)
25 September 2008http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-22719123.html
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Michael Parenti: NEU World Order - Globalization (video)
25 September 2008http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-22718985.html
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NATO’s Doomsday Seed Vault in the Arctic by F. W. Engdahl
25 September 2008Global Research , September 22, 2008
Using "Climate Change" as a Pretext to Appropriate World Seeds’ Treasure
The controversial ‘Doomsday Seed Vault’, a nuclear-bomb-proof vault deep into the side of a mountain in NATO-member Norway’s Svalbard, near the Arctic Circle, has begun to collect seed samples from the entire world to freeze in the newly opened facility. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, along with the Rockefeller Foundation, Monsanto Corporation, Syngenta Foundation and the (…) -
The "Kosovo Option" by Michel Chossudovsky
25 September 2008The Destabilization of Bolivia and the "Kosovo Option"
The secession of Bolivia’s Eastern provinces is part of a US sponsored covert operation, coordinated out of the US State Department, in liaison with US intelligence.
The death squads armed with automatic weapons responsible for killing supporters of Evo Morales in El Porvenir are supported covertly by the US. According to one report, "USAID has an "Office of Transition Initiatives" operating in Bolivia, funneling millions of dollars (…) -
From the archive: The secrets of Israel’s nuclear arsenal revealed
24 September 2008From the archive: The secrets of Israel’s nuclear arsenal revealed
October 5, 1986: Insight finds the warhead factory buried in the desert
THE secrets of a subterranean factory engaged in the manufacture of Israeli nuclear weapons have been uncovered by The Sunday Times Insight team.
Hidden beneath the Negev desert, the factory has been producing atomic warheads for the past 20 years. Now it has almost certainly begun manufacturing thermo-nuclear weapons, with yields big enough to (…) -
Video: House Speaker Pelosi Won’t Touch Impeachment
24 September 2008On the evening of Sept. 23, 2008, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave a talk, in Baltimore, MD, at the Central Pratt Library. It focused on her new book, “Know Your Power.” During the Q&A period, she was confronted about the issue of impeachment. The question was: “Why don’t you initiate the impeachment of President Bush?” Her response to the query was very long winded. She said impeachment proceedings would play into the hands of the Republican Caucus in the House. Speaker Pelosi added: (…)