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- George Soros May 2012 “You can’t cut your way out of a recession. You have to grow your way out of a recession.” Similarly: Bernake, and most economists. This is not just a liberal view, although Neocon economists dont like to say this. It is also evident in the European recession, not hard to see.
- Obviously the Republicans WANT TO DEEPEN THE RECESSION TO GAIN POWER and transfer wealth to the corporations and the 1%.
- Online Graduate Programs, from Brooke Folliot 2012, part of a larger project that covers all facets of graduate school, its practices and applications. Since the education landscape is continually transforming and the requirements are evolving, we aim to provide an objective comprehensive overview.
- Criminology and 21st Century Deviance article by Angelina Matson 2012 discusses how certain characteristics explainable in criminological terms exposed themselves up to and through the global financial crisis.
- ALEC - the long-secret Republican lobbyist group that claims to be a charity but writes the horrible antidemocratic and un-American laws for Red State legislatures like the wars on women and blacks - steps up attacks against Obama's clean energy strategy: Confidential memo seen by Guardian calls for climate change sceptics to turn American public against solar and wind power The Guardian, NYT May 10 2012.
- Game-over for the climate James Hanson, NYT May 10 2012.
- Speaking of the study of Bullying, Mitt Romney was a Bully Yahoo News, May 10, 2012 Romney apologizes for his Youth. (But he's still a bully today and claiming credit for the auto industry].
- What went wrong in America re: 2012 election Fact check on the controversies.
- Social Scientists Seek Ways Past Clash Over Climate Change By David L. Wheeler. Eighty-three percent of Americans believe the world's temperature is rising. Now researchers are studying why no one wants to talk about it. May 7, 2013. The Chronicle: Research.
- Propublica study predicts fracking fluids can migrate to our water supply in relatively few years May 4 2012 And there is a vocal minority of doubters, many of whom draw on critiques of the science promoted by industry-financed campaigns.
- Republican Business coalition group and the Republican Governor Bobbi Jindal behind the firing of LSU President because he would not fire Professors that Republicans wanted to get rid of The Chronicle of Higher Education May 2, 2012
- Astronomers build Hypertelescope in Southern French Alps Mar 26, Bruce Dorminey
- 1/10th of the world's (350,000) elephants were killed last year, same for rhinos, April 30, 2012
- Politicians such as Obama—and, I fear, Hollande — who carry out corporate agendas while speaking in the language of populism become enemies of liberal democracies. Apr 23, 2012 By Chris Hedges.
- Who owns America? Americans! Old news: 2011.
- Massive Wal-Mart corruption in Mexico Hushed up, NYT Apr 22, 2012
- NNDB continues to track the world (no date)
- Old news: September 6, 2011 in a secret closed-door gathering of rich conservatives, in June 2011, billionaire industrialist Charles Koch told his conservative audience "The 2012 election will be “the mother of all wars” with the political right fighting “for the life and death of this country”, using the phrasing of Saddam Hussein." Does that mean he is rooting for the death of this country”? So it would seem. see Koch brothers exposed.
- Police video taken about an hour later, after Zimmerman was attended to by paramedics, appeared to show him unmarred
- Joe Hagan, in Texas Monthly, finds that Dan Rather Was Right About George W. Bush: He was a National Guard deserter no less! How's that for the "great patriot"? RSN Apr 16 2012. Albert Lloyd, Bush's longtime National Guard expert. In an interview in 2008, is now found to have said he immediately recognized that the documents submitted to clear Bush in 2008 were forgeries: "I looked at them and I said, 'Don't do a damned thing with these, because these are fake.' "
- One of the Gawker (Fox Mole) reports about Fox News Apr 12. 2012
- Will publishers be crushed by Amazon? by Karen Christensen, Seattle Times, Apr 2, 2012
- Justice department responds to public pressure in increase investigation of securities fraud by the major Wall Street firms responsible for the financial meltdown Apr 13 2012
- The case against Zimmerman reported by the conservative New York Post Apr 13, 2012. See their earlier Zimmerman article April 12, 2012. The case had split the nation between the conservatives and progressives and with regard to ALEC pro-violence, pro-gun, voter suppression and anti-labor legislation.
- Top iPad app for education by a denizen of this wiki Apr 21 2012.
- ALEC Exposed: The Secret Underground Politically Biased Lawmaking Machine supporting racism, voter suppression, gun-law bigotry, anti-worker, anti-women, anti-middle class
- BREAKING NEWS: Intuit Out of ALEC; McDonald's, Wendy's, Mars, Kraft Foods, Coca-Cola and Pepsi too, while Koch Stands Ground, also Bill and Linda Gates and from the NRA; NJ Governor Christie Exposed as an ALEC addict] along with others (Rebekah Wilce, PRWatch)
- Republican recipes for a totalitarian state: In a five-four ruling this week, the supreme court decided that anyone can be strip-searched upon arrest for any offense, however minor, at any time. This horror show ruling joins two recent horror show laws: the NDAA, which lets anyone be arrested forever at any time, and HR 347, the "trespass bill", which gives you a 10-year sentence for protesting anywhere near someone with secret service protection. These criminalizations of being human follow, of course, the mini-uprising of the Occupy movement. RSN April 6, 2012
- Extreme right wing manifesto by Matt Kibbe for hostile takeover of the U.S. by the Tea Party, which is funded by the Koch brothers and led by Lollyist and former Republican Houseleader Dick Armey, praised by wingnut Glenn Beck
- How GOP got Catholicized CNN Friday 3-23-12
- Paul Ryan's Social Darwinism in his "Budget" Plan RSN. March 21 2012
- How the GOP budget will break the middle class
- The Banned Doonesbury Abortion Cartoons. RSN. March 21 2012.
- Traynor Martin petition 22 States (mostly Republican) have the "self defense" law that allows "Shoot to kill" and when there are no witnesses you are not investigated by the police because they are afraid of lawsuits. Of course you get off free only if these are black kids because of the presumption of suspicion. Why not try to relegalize lynching, Republican "lawmakers"? These laws and others are pushed by the National Rifle Associating, a lobbying group for the weapons industry interested in making profits from selling guns.
- This recovery is not like the Great Depression- the rich get richer Reuters national memo March 16 2012
- Problem is not greed but a need for regulations RSN March 17 2012
- Campaign Contributions: Total Over 10 Years (2001-2010), $11 million
- Lobbying Expenditures: Total Over 10 Years (2001-2010), $24 million
- Bailout Funds: $20 billion to save itself, $25 billion to buy Merrill Lynch, $118 in loan guarantees
- Profits in 2010: $4.4 billion
- Tax Refund for 2010: $1.9 billion
- CEO quits; Greg Smith resigns "due to the banks 'toxic and destructive' culture, one in which the bank's trading profits took precedence over its customers' financial well-being. Goldman managers allegedly called customers 'muppets,' and traders routinely asked how much was being made ripping off one customer or another" (RSN) Goldman stock loses 2.2 Billion in value. March 15 2012
- Corporate deception in polluting for profit: 70% of the fish are deformed in creeks grossly polluted with selenium, a highly toxic metal, as a result of mining operations in Idaho by the giant corporate conglomerate J.R. Simplot, whose scientific reports are found to be falsified to read 20%. 11 March 12 RSN.
- In an op-ed written for CNN on their website, Jane Fonda, Robin Williams and Gloria Steinhem, joined by Robin Morgan, liken Limbaugh to Nazi propagandist Josef Goebbels because, they say, he labels all of his enemies as “sub-human.” CNN Mar 10, 2012
- Food price bubble by 2013 predicted by NECSI
- The R2P debate March 9 2012
- Jerry Brown's initiatives for schools and safety would raise 7 billion for California
- ]http://images.apple.com/pr/library/2012/02/13Fair-Labor-Association-Begins-Inspections-of-Foxconn.html Hooray for Apple's concern with fair labor practices]
- chinese hackers gained full control of NASA's jet propulsion lab, copied and possibly deleted files from the crown of the US space program at JPL
- Israel-Netanyahu tries to force US to strike Iran saying the US is Planning an Iran War Strike Mar 1, 2012
- Today's Republican Party is as relevant to what America is becoming as an ice pick in New Orleans. In the meantime, though, we are in trouble: Beware. Robert Reich RSN 29 Feb 2012.
- Eat oranges, kale, garlic, (drink red wine), dark chocolate, sardines, lentils, almonds, pomegranates! - metabolism boost - The bad stuff: margarine, packaged mixes, soup cups, fast foods, frozen foods & pies, baked goods, chips & crackers, breakfast cereals, cookies & candy, toppings & dips
- Republican disinformation on what ails Europe -NYT Paul Krugman Feb 25, 2012
- So what does ail Europe? The truth is that the story is mostly monetary. By introducing a single currency without the institutions needed to make that currency work, Europe effectively reinvented the defects of the gold standard — defects that played a major role in causing and perpetuating the Great Depression.
- More specifically, the creation of the euro fostered a false sense of security among private investors, unleashing huge, unsustainable flows of capital into nations all around Europe’s periphery. As a consequence of these inflows, costs and prices rose, manufacturing became uncompetitive, and nations that had roughly balanced trade in 1999 began running large trade deficits instead.
- Laptop to bridge digital divide. Nicholas Negroponte, Founder of the MIT Media lab and OLPC (One laptop per child): Negroponte describes how the One Laptop Per Child project will build and distribute the "$100 laptop." Sanjay on CNN: negroponte.laptop.cnn
- Murders and factions split the Syrian strongmen, Hizbullah, and Iran Feb 25 2011.
- Koch Brothers news: "Mitt Romney is headed to a hotel ballroom today to give a speech sponsored by Americans for Prosperity, a front group founded and funded by the Koch brothers. Those are the same Koch brothers whose business model is to make millions by jacking up prices at the pump, and who have bankrolled Tea Party extremism and committed $200 million to try to destroy President Obama before Election Day." Jim Massina barackobama.com continues: Here's what Mitt Romney told his supporters just after his victory in the Florida GOP primary: "We must not forget what this election is really about: defeating Barack Obama." (not good government or fair governance). Then Romney gives his actual view of the Economy Feb 22, 2012
- 40% of Americans still belief god creates humans as they are today, down from 47% Journal Evolution: This View of Life
- Tiny DNA robot kills cancer cells Newsmax Health Friday, February 17, 2012 7:21 AM. The opening of a new era.
- Paul Ryan, CPAC's crackhead RSN Feb 11 2012
- ABCnews confirmation: obama jobs creation: “Twenty-two straight months of job growth; 3.1 million jobs added. " cited as true, Republicans say ZERO!
- The educational app for your kids to learn reading with iPad - Reading Raven
- backward causality: The Republican Mythmaking about Entitlement Feb 2, 2012 Robert Reich
- Demise of the dollar? Jan 26, 2012
- A storefront in Berlin YouTube viral. LG Optimus.
- "Who should have the primary strategic responsibility for making American workers globally competitive - the private sector or government? This will be a defining issue in the 2012 campaign." Robert Reich RSN 24 January 12
- Corporate Rule Is Not Inevitable By Sarah van Gelder, YES! Magazine 21 January 12
- The Last War Crime (YouTube) Censorship protested
- turning America back to the 1920s readersupportednews 2012-01-18
- The New Jim Crow Study Guide: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, By Michelle Alexander (The New Press, New York, N.Y., 2010, 290 pages.)
- the-mathematics-of-racism
- Brief Why be go black
- PREMISES FOR A NEW ECONOMY GTI Perspectives 2012
- WORLD TRADE GTI Perspectives 2010
- 2012 Networks and Globalization Policies. In, Balázs Vedres, and Marco Scotti (editors). Networks in Social Policy Problems. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press.
- Obama uTube
- Random opinions heard on what each Republican would do if elected: turn the govt into a business; bomb Iraq and end the govt; repeal the Civil Rights amendment; await the Rapture.
- Occupy supreme court
- Occupy feed from RSN
- 'The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.' NYT 12-30-2011 Krugman: Keynes was right.
- Bernanke interview on rescue of the economy back in January 25, 2011
- rage at sexism Viral video
- today's Tea Party is less an ideological movement than the latest incarnation of an angry white minority -- predominantly Southern, and mainly rural -- that has repeatedly attacked American democracy in order to get its way Robert Reich 12/21/2011
- 10000 Egyprian women in Cairo protest abuse by military while men, in amazement, cheer them on Cnn 2011/12/20
- Has Higgs-Boson (it's named after Bose after all as in Bose-Einstein) been discovered? Dec 7 2011 The Hindu - Opinion interviews of physicists.
- miserable effects of climate change forecasted at Scripps Institute of Oceanography. Thanks Karl, George, Dick and all your buddies in Exxon and the oil industry Dec. 13, 2011. Sign on San Diego.
- (Creation of Karl Rove) Bush hangs at Dallas Mall NowPublic CrowdPoweredMedia by YankeeJim | December 16, 2011
- A Petition to Support the Saving American Democracy Amendment
- Sen. Bernie Sanders has proposed a constitutional amendment that would overturn the
- Supreme Court decision in a case called Citizens United vs. FEC.
- The Saving American Democracy Amendment states that:
•Corporations are not persons with constitutional rights equal to real people.
•Corporations are subject to regulation by the people.
•Corporations may not make campaign contributions.
•Congress and states have the power to regulate campaign finances - 90,000+ signnatures so far
- http://sanders.senate.gov/petition/?method=signThePetition&uid=f1c2660f-54b9-4193-86a4-ec2c39342c6c&first_name=Mary&last_name=Prat&email=mprat@san.rr.com&verify_email=mprat@san.rr.com&address=6383+Camino+de+la+Costa&city=La+Jolla&county=&mailing_state=CA&zip=92037&email_text=
- Scientific Guide for "Complex Systems and Occupy Wall Street" Yaneer Bar-Yam, President and Professor, New England Complex Systems Institute. December 5, 2011.
- The U.N.'s top climate scientist cautioned climate negotiators Wednesday that global warming is leading to human dangers and soaring financial costs, but containing carbon emissions will have a host of benefits. Wed Nov 30 2011
- Dick Cheney on how the Obama administration has gotten some things right in the war on terror
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/how-wall-street-really-views-the-protesters/2011/11/19/gIQAfvSObN_blog.html Chris Hayes just aired an exclusive that provides an interesting look at how some of those being targeted by Occupy Wall Street may really view the protests. He reported that a memo from a prominent corporate lobbying firm to the American Bankers Association proposed an extensive public relations campaign — including opposition research into key movement figures and an elaborate media strategy — designed to discredit the movement, and Dems who embrace it]. 2011/11/22 Plumb line. The memo is written by former John Boehner staffers-turned-banking lobbyists.
- The red state model is also broken. salon.com/2011/11/22 "The appetite of red states for federal subsidies mocks the tirades of their politicians against the federal government. In March 2008, on the verge of the Great Recession, 22 Republican states were net recipients of federal subsidies, while only 10 Democratic-leaning states were. Sixteen blue states were net payers of federal taxes, compared to only one red state, Texas.
- Weapons for mass compliance. UC Davis administration violates basic human rights and decency - a strategy being used nationwide to induce political compliance with weapons developed by the Bush-Chaney policies. Chancellor Katehi's impressive learning skills - Glenn Greenwald ... "To justify her own lack of accountability, she invokes the same mentality for which Dick Cheney today praised Obama." Review the audio transcript
- Afghanistan: What the Anthropologists Say Sunday NYTimes Nov 18, 2011. Reviews: BAZAAR POLITICS Power and Pottery in an Afghan Market Town By Noah Coburn Illustrated. 254 pp. Stanford University Press. Paper, $22.95 AFGHANISTAN A Cultural and Political History By Thomas Barfield Illustrated. 389 pp. Princeton University Press. $29.95 CAN INTERVENTION WORK? By Rory Stewart and Gerald Knaus 236 pp. W. W. Norton & Company. $23.95
- Thousands of Workers Needed! says Fox News Oct 13, 2011. "A survey by Manpower Group found a record 52% of employers have difficulty filling positions. Thank about that - they can't find workers for the jobs they have" says Gerri Willis. Yeah, Gerri, typical FOX MISINFORMATION: You dont explain that Manpower is a company that hires and places TEMPORARY WORKERS.
- Fox's Gutfeld Continues To Push Lie That Keystone XL Pipeline Delay Cost 20,000 Jobs
- Here's the message from the 99% to the 1%, the corporations and the Supreme court: Hey, buy yourself a yatch, enjoy life, get rich: no problem. JUST DONT BUY YOURSELF A CONGRESSPERSON. Thats what's causing the destruction of America and our future.
- the 99% have been under attack in the USA by the CHAMBER OF COMMERCE since Aug 23 1971 writes Bill Moyer in How Wall Street Occupied America, Nov 21 2011 publication date. You can buy: The Looting of America for $9.96. 'Occupy' fights back for democracy.
- 'Occupy' returns to issues of economic inequality and corporate power Nov 17 2011 3 in 10 americans identify with 'occupy', 3 in 10 with 'tea party'
- Digital Learning Programs Around the Country AOL News. Feb 9, 2011 – 10:31 AM.
- See: Keeping Pace in Educaion
- Averting a planetary climate meltdown and environmental endgame from the proposed Keystone XL pipeline
- one of our UCI anthro students does cartwheels at the occupy LA protests against cuts to the UC yesterday - shortly after she is cuffed and arrested by LA police - California students now pay about $2.97 billion — toward the cost of their education -- much more than the state, which contributed $2.37 billion. Thank you Enron and the Republican Wall Street Tycoons who intentionally battered our state economies.
- A Theory of Political Parties by Kathleen Bawn (UCLA) Martin Cohen (James Madison University) David Karol (University of Maryland) Seth Masket (University of Denver) Hans Noel (Georgetown University) and John Zaller (UCLA) shows argues for a theory, increasingly applicable, in which "parties only strive to please voters when necessary to win elections. But this constraint is often minimal, however, due to voters’ lack of information about politics. Our theory contrasts with currently dominant theories, in which modern parties are viewed as vehicles through which office-holders solve problems related to reelection."
- Ohio Anti-Union Law Repealed By Voters As Conservative Agenda Is Rebuked In Elections Across America. Nov 9, 2011. Juvenile Gov. Kasich now will refuse to raise taxes to pay off his $8 million budget deficit and will cut local budgets. So how popular will swing state Ohio GOP be in 2012? In Mississippi, a "personhood" amendment -- widely seen as an attack on reproductive rights -- was defeated, while the Arizona State Senator behind the state's controversial immigration law was kicked out of office. But the Ohio results, and how they are interpreted by presidential candidates, may have the most political impact: No Republican has won the White House without Ohio, and only two Democrats have done so in more than a century. Elsewhere on the ballot, Ohio voters approved a proposal to prohibit people from being required to buy health insurance as part of the national health care overhaul.
- Billionairres Charles and David Koch are buying access to supress democracy's lifeblood: free and fair elections in 2012. They are literally trying to take away the right to vote of select demographic and minority groups! Tues Nov 4th 2011
- Oligarchy, American Style - Paul Krugman The New York Times Nov 4, 2011
- exactly who are the greedy and manipulative 1%
- Telling the Story of the Brain's Cacophony NYTimes Oct 31 2011. PROFILES IN SCIENCE | MICHAEL S. GAZZANIGA Decoding the Brain’s Cacophony
- The Obama Miracle The National Memo, Fri, 10/28/2011
- Money, Technology & Financial Inclusion
- Video of Stuart Kauffman NECSI and MIT/ESD Seminar: The End Of A Physics Worldview: Heraclitus and the Watershed of Life
- Worst fears: Its mostly banks -New Scientist article 24 October 2011 by Andy Coghlan and Debora MacKenzie - the Superconnected companies
- Republicans Turn Judicial Power Into a Campaign Issue
By Adam Liptak & Michael Shear, NYT, October 24, 2011 - G.O.P. presidential candidates are issuing attacks on the federal courts, stoking skepticism among conservatives about the judiciary.
- "Perry Supporter Predicts Second Holocaust VIDEO Remember the big prayer rally in Texas that Rick Perry held with controversial Evangelical leaders right before he announced his candidacy? The man who convened and emceed much of that event, Kansas City-based pastor Mike Bickle, believes that Jews may soon face a Second Holocaust. And according to reporter Max Blumenthal, Bickle seems to think they probably have it coming." Antisemitism now from the extreme right?
- Dylan Ratigan show October 19, 2011
- GAO Finds Serious Conflicts at the Fed October 19, 2011
- Full report
- FED GAVE BANKS 23.7 TRILLION - DYLAN RATIGAN FROM MSNBC Feb 3, 2010 Uploaded by Ron Paul
- 9 TRILLION Dollars Missing from Federal Reserve,Fed Inspector General Can't Explain May 12, 2009 Rep. Alan Grayson asks the Federal Reserve Inspector General about the trillions of dollars lent or spent by the Federal Reserve and where it went, and the trillions of off balance sheet obligations. Inspector General Elizabeth Coleman responds that the IG does not know and is not tracking where this money is.
- http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=aGq2B3XeGKok
- http://www.federalreserve.gov/oig/
- 9 Trillion Dollars Missing from Federal ReserveFebruary 28, 2011 -- Alan Grayson
- Dylan Ratigan show October 16, 2011 Foreclosure Fraud: 45 Trillion-dollars
- https://twitter.com/#!/occupywallst OWC explained to the 1% by Alan Grayson
- Book: The Collapse of American Criminal. William J. Stuntz (2011). Harvard University Press.
- US Marine stands up to NYPD: ”there is no honour in this!” as police beat peaceful protestors and haul them to jail #occupywallstreet. OORAH!! Youtube - tweets https://twitter.com/#!/occupywallst Dick Gregory: the same police brutality against peaceful unarmed protesters happened to us in the civil rights movement.
- Intellectual Roots of Wall St. Protest Lie in Academe? Well, not exactly. Monday, October 17, 2011. But the discussion is great, e.g., this quote from Walt Whitman - Lost People: Magic and the Legacy of Slavery in Madagascarby David Graeber
- Ari Berman blogs
- Koch Brothers Flout Law Getting Richer With Secret Iran Sales http://fb.me/XIkR4DdU
- Meet the Koch Brothers' Presidential Candidate Herman Cain: Are you ready to copy SIM CITY 9-9-9 government, cut your returns on your social security payments to ZERO, and cancel MediCare and Medicaid ENTIRELY? This is a man who speaks ill of blacks and states "people want to steal the keys to the cadillac." Just how much of Koch money goes into his personal account?
- The Bush tax cuts for millionaires cost the U.S. over 10 Million EVERY HOUR HuffPost 10/14/2011
- Occupy San Diego
- This is not the same 800 Tea Party paid participants being bussed around by the Koch brothers to bust up democratic town meetings - this is OWS - OWS petition
- Occupy Wall Street: The Most Important Thing in the World Now by Naomi Klein
- UC Council of UC Faculty Associations Support of OWS
- Koch Brothers serve up cancer to their neighbors
- India launches Aakash $35 computer, like iPad, to empower the poor, Steve Jobs died yesterday, serendipitously, buddhism-guided-life-mantra-focus-simplicity
- public domain and copyright issues debated in the court
- http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/ I am the 99% An orderly Occupy San Diego - waiting for a response from the top 1% running and ruining the economy
- [Sept 30 2001: Clarence Thomas and OCCUPYWALLSTREET Reader Supported News
- 9/11: What if? David Rose, Vanity Fair (Sept 2, 2011): "What if, two years before the 9/11 attacks - with the installation of a cell-phone-and-Internet system in Afghanistan - the U.S. had been handed complete access to al-Qaeda and Taliban calls and e-mails?" A secret deal was in place in 1999, the author reveals, but the incoming administration dropped the ball.
- Aug 20-21 play by play in Tripoli Wall Street Journal live blog
- Robert_Greenwald_filmmaker#The_Koch_Brothers_Exposed once again: by one of America's greatest Documentary filmmakers, Robert Greenwald
- Endgame could be coming with the proposed Keystone XL pipeline see Storms of My Grandchildren by James Hansen, USA's foremost expert in global warming
- OUTFOXED vs. Rupert Murdoch - OUTFOXED vs. Rupert Murdoch Visible links - YouTube on FoxNews
- Two Seats Flip in WI Recall
- Bets on: Wisconsin recall carries implications.... vs. Wisconsin recall vacuum Morning Aug 9, 2011
- Global protests begin
- What Happened to Obama? Aug 6, 2011 NYTimes
- The US GDP was $14.12 Trillion in 2009. Yet in just two of his junkets, Bush cost us over 23 Trillion: Now Koch and the Tea Party have cost us and the world untold Trillions in helping to cause the Credit meltdown.
- GAO finds the Bush Fed in 2008 made $16 Trillion in secret loans to JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, and GE during the 2008 financial crisis without input from Congress and citizens Aug 3, 2011. GAO Audit Finds Fed Loaned Trillions Secretly to Banks by Yi Yang - The Epoch Times
- The Three (Actually Seven) Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict Linda J. Bilmes and Joseph E. Stiglitz 2008
- US GDP slump with Bush and Tea-Party in Congress, growth with stimulus US economy: GDP growth, 29 July 2011, BBC Business News
- Fact check, July 28, 2011
- Progressives against Obama's capitulation to the right, July 28, 2011, The Nation
- Google news: Obama Boehner debt
- Hey GYPs the federal debt is not like household debt with collection agencies! Jason Johnson, July 28, 2011
- McCain reports that Conservatives are lying to America about House members believing that they can pass a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution as a solution to the debt ceiling.
- Will Grover Norquist be the man who pushes America off the Cliff?
- Wall Makes Fallback Plans for Debt Crisis. Goodbye country, as predicted two days ago re: "Disaster Capitalism." "financial players are devising doomsday plans in case the clock runs out. These companies are taking steps to reduce the risk of holding Treasury bonds or angling for ways to make profits from any possible upheaval." Fear that the government will not make good on its bonds.
- "Strong partisan divide on debt ceiling": Following Fox News' phony Seven Myths about the looming debt-ceiling disaster the CNN poll shows only 18% of the "people questioned say that if the debt ceiling is not raised, it would cause a crisis, with another 43 percent saying it would create major problems for the country. Three in ten say a failure to raise the debt ceiling would cause only minor problems and six percent say no problems would occur."
- ALEC Exposed: Milton Friedman's Little Shop of Horrors Mary Bottari, July 18, 2011 Huffington Post. "Corporations, like Koch Industries, Phillip Morris, Reynolds, Kraft, Wal-Mart, Bayer, Coca Cola, State Farm and more, sit on ALEC task forces and vote with state legislators to approve "model" bills in secret."
- July 16, 2011: The Economist this week: Failure to raise the debt ceiling need not entail default; but it would still ding Uncle Sam’s credit rating. - that's the last line in the article. That makes Fox news' first of the Seven Myths about the looming debt-ceiling disaster a massive distortion. So it would seem like Fox and Murdoch are pushing a collapse of US credit. The problem with this scenario for these presumptive profit-takers on disaster is that what is certain is bank failures, and thus collapse of the economy. In any case the first of Seven Myths being presented is false: you cant just "pay the interest" rather than default without huge consequences. --- But after the revelations about ALEC, Ghostwriting the Law for Corporate America, forty years in the making, the biggest scam in history may be coming: to 'ding' the US credit ratings thru the Debt ceiling conflicts or provoke a crash after which Murdoch, Koch and Koch, and other Milton Friedman "monetarist" mega-billionaires will buy up deflated US Treasury Bonds at much higher interest rates, leaving ordinary citizens in an economic catastrophe. Orchestrated now through WTJ and the GOP propaganda machine, massively destructive tactics such as these are documented by Naomi Klein, Disaster Capitalism. The smart money will push to get Moody to downgrade US credit ratings, then would buy Bonds, then push to meet the deadline of Aug 2nd and restore the AAA rating to save American corporations from hundreds of trillions of dollar losses. This is a very high risk strategy and risks dumping the US to a third-world country level, along with Greece and Ireland if they default.
- The real Koch brothers’ philosophy
- Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin have been endorsed by, or raised funds for, or have promoted or are actively promoted ministers and ministries that are established on the basis of demonic posession and exorcism. Greg Laden, July 14, 2011 "Exorcisms are Affordable because of Michele Bachmann's Generosity"
- New sources of accountability in news balance the biases of Murdoch's Fox and News of the World empires. follow-up bye bye blue sky.
- Scourge of World News, good riddance Rupert Murdoch and son The Guardian July 9, 2011
- On Michele Bachmann "The fact that she's not a heavy lifter, the fact that she's relatively unconcerned about the substance of legislation, does not mean that she's not crafty, that she's not intelligent and she's not fast," says former Minnesota Gov. Arne Carlson, a Republican. Her ideological radicalism should not be mistaken for stupidity.
Daily Beast: On Monday, Bachmann didn't talk a lot about her religion. She didn't have to—she knows how to signal it in ways that go right over secular heads. In criticizing Obama's Libya policy, for example, she said, "We are the head and not the tail." The phrase comes from Deuteronomy 28:13: "The Lord will make you the head and not the tail." As Rachel Tabachnick has reported, it's often used in theocratic circles to explain why Christians have an obligation to rule.
“Michele Bachmann says certain things that sound crazy to the general public,” says Frank Schaeffer. “But to anybody raised in the environment of the evangelical right wing, what she says makes perfect sense.”
- Why libertarians think the US is tyranny and why they want to destroy the democracy we have had for two centuries
- Ancient Sumerian and its Babylonian and Assyrian dialects (and the Semitic language of early Mesopotamian script) reconstructed: Ninety years in the making. NYT June 5, 2011. "The dictionary, with 28,000 words now defined in their various shades of meaning, covers a period from 2500 B.C. to A.D. 100."
- Birth of a word (Ted) and social networks meets massive computing
- Apple outsourcing jobs -- problems of location privacy -- -- List of companies outsourcing jobs -- Google Avoids Taxes, Uses Scheme That Costs U.S. $60 Billion Meanwhile Google, Apple, and many others pay, not the 35% US tax rate but only 2% in taxes by outsourcing revenues to Ireland and expenses to heavy tax countries with rebates.
- Displacement Caused by the Effects of Climate Change, , such as flooding, hurricanes, desertification or even the "sinking" of stretches of land
- NetSci2011 June 6-10, 2001 in Budapest, László Lovász is the keynote speaker.
- #WeAreOne - April4 Twitter
- What's the Worst Thing the Koch Brothers Have Done?
- What this country needs blog
- News and opinion: Republican sewercide the March 10, 2011 tidalwave
General news - Reader supported news - Mark Ash
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2026474_2026675_2039309,00.html #ixzz19WCFaZqF
- Native America project Geoff Mangum - (let's not let this happen again in Africa!): Native America project is a full-scale attempt to document the dispossession of the original peoples of the North American continent between 1492 and 1900 in the form of Google Maps and Google Earth "placemarks".
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