Michael Hudson on de-dollarization (tags)
Krugman is saying that other people have no reason at all for what they’re doing. And when they move out of the dollar, there’s no reason for them to do it. If you read what these countries say, they explain why they’re doing what they’re doing. .
Housing the Homeless: Austin, Texas (tags)
In a city as prosperous as Austin, no one should have to live on the streets, period. That became even more clear as we saw folks still sleeping out under bridges when we knew that zero-degree temperatures were coming—and sometimes there were hotels or lit-up buildings right across the streets.
Debts are not a problem (tags)
The Democrats have learned from their mistakes. This time they want a big stimulus package to invest in infrastructure and climate protection. This change in sentiment is partly thanks to Keynesians like Paul Krugman, who have always called for government investment when the economy is paralyzed.
Bernie Sanders in Las Vegas: Being free, being high and eminent domain (tags)
The proclamation of a national climate emergency, the ban on oil and gas exports and the import of cheap medicines from Canada are to be implemented by means of the so-called "Executive Order"
26 Ways Trump Has Increased The National Debt By 4 to 5 Trillion Dollars (tags)
The corporate media boycott of Kevin De Leon, abolitionists of the death penalty, animal rights activists, vegans, and antiwar experts, There is a little more discussion about Trump's savaging of our national treasury.
22 Ways Trump Has Increased US Deficit By 4 to 5 Trillion Dollars (tags)
Despite cutting money for the health of hundreds of millions of Americans, education, bridges, mass transit, environmental enforcement, etc Trump has added trillions to the deficit.
Banks Enriched By Trump Deficit Increase Of 4 to 5 Trillion $ (tags)
The Trump regime under the guise of cutting government costs has increased them. Between 4 and 5 trillion dollars in costs have been added to the deficit enriching Chinese, Swiss, Japanese, British and American banksters.
Wells Fargo as the biggest US bank laundered billions from Mexican murderous drug cartels (tags)
Wells Fargo is profiting billions of dollars at the expense of all Americans.
61 Reasons To Vote Against Hillary Clinton (tags)
California's primary can change the world.
The 12 Wars And Bombed Countries of Clinton and Obama (tags)
The California primary can change the destiny of the planet. Please vote against Clinton and Trump.
A Case Against Hillary Clinton, Candidate Of Endless War (tags)
More hawkish than Obama, more willing to murder prisoners than her husband, a tyrant who woudl force parents to submit their chidlren to toxic vaccines, Clinton is tied to the military industrial complex
44 Reasons To Say No To Hillary Clinton (tags)
The Huffington Post has reported that 33% of Sanders voters will not vote for Clinton. Some will vote third party. Some will vote for Trump. Some will not vote. Bernie Sanders has won 19 states. In May he won West Virginia by 15%. Please help elect him president
The Steep Cost of Tax Dodging (tags)
Supports to a bridge crumble in Iowa City, Iowa, in a photo taken on September 15, 2014. The long-deteriorating infrastructure of the United States is repaired and maintained with tax funds, much of which are currently being withheld in offshore accounts by large corporations...
EBALDC’s partnership with Urban Core has resulted in protests (tags)
Considering that EBALDC had a fund balance of $22,884,524 during 2014, it appears that EBALDC, a so-called nonprofit housing developer, may be sucking it’s buildings dry financially with it’s general and administration fees, property management fees, repairs and maintenance fees, developer fees, and other charges it uses to collect huge sums of money from its many buildings and properties.
Time For US Govt. To Stop Junk Mail (tags)
US taxpayers have subsidized with hundreds of billions of dollars the junk mail ad industry whose absurdly low rates allow them to clog landfills, kill trillions of trees, cause global heating, and violate citizen privacy.
Iraq
Anthrax And Other Attacks On The American People By Agencies Of Our Government (tags)
Weaponized anthrax and other anthrax have been stored in at least 300 labs in the US... the CIA gave 1 billion dollars and 4000 sacrificial primates from Ft Detrick to Battelle of Tennessee to research weaponized anthrax
Washington's Bloated Defense Budget (tags)
anti-war
Time To Change Ohio Governors (tags)
Executioner, mass transit opponent, slasher of library funds, nonenforcer of Ohio environmental law, governor John Kasich should be dumped this fall. His opponent is former mayor, former county executive, former law enforcement official Ed Fitzgerald.
Southern California Mothers Fight Back Against Foreclosures for Mothers’ Day 2014 (tags)
On Mothers’ Day weekend, Los Angeles families rallied outside Wells Fargo bank to bring attention to the greed and corruption of the banks that continue to fraudulently foreclose on families across the nation.
Massive Pentagon Waste, Fraud and Grand Theft (tags)
Pentagon
North Korean economy surrenders to foreign currency invasion (tags)
Chinese currency and U.S. dollars are being used more widely than ever in North Korea instead of the country's own money, a stark illustration of the extent to which the leadership under Kim Jong-un has lost control over the economy.
Lanza and Holmes Fathers Both Linked to LIBOR/FICO Scandal (tags)
The fathers of both Adam Lanza and James Holmes were both potential whistleblowers in the LIBOR/FICO scandal. Following the shootings committed by their sons, neither father will testify. This is the classic MK ULTRA scenario of mind controlled puppets distracting the public from real issues of upcoming economic collapse. The psychology of MK ULTRA is a low budget CIA tactic to disarm the people of the U.S. following controlled shootings by overmedicated individuals.
Obama’s Shakedown of Medicare (tags)
In a political era of corporate dominance it was inevitable that doublespeak would become the official language of Washington, DC. Now “cuts” to social programs are referred to as “savings,” while the destruction of these programs is “reform.” This is the essence of President Obama’s doublespeakish “Race to the Top” public education “reform,” as well as his yet-to-be-announced deficit plan based on Medicare “savings.”
Why Do They Like Children? (tags)
Whenever we hear about sexual predators in our society we, desire to take action and hunt them, bring them to justice and get them off the streets. On the news often we hear of rings of such people getting busted. Sometimes it's the internet and child pornographers, etc. Sometimes it's closer to home. Either way, we're glad they're busted, exposed and off the streets. We consider that a high priority for law enforcement, wouldn't you agree? The safety, welfare and protection of our kids comes first and foremost, prior to anything else. We feel it in the pit of our stomachs, instinctively, whether we have kids or we don't, we must make them safe.
Praying To God for Help with Satan's Work (tags)
There are all kinds of reasons that people call upon their God for help. Often the best are for those inner reasons that are needed to help us with personal matters like work, our children, our loved ones, our health and the many basic decent things in life that from time to time can benefit from a little blind faith. We don't all believe in a God or a higher power and more and more of us believe this is about it, feeling you're born, you die - that's a that. Though many believe it's just an “opiate for the masses,” I feel that just because I don't believe in another's view, there is no harm, and in fact I've personally seen how it can be very helpful to people struggling with things like addictions, etc, though I never had that issue myself.
Abbas: Betrayal Pays Well (tags)
Palestine
Money, Power, and Politics (tags)
There has been much talk recently about the impact of money on politics, especially in the wake of the Citizens United ruling that has ratcheted up the role of corporate money in political campaigns. Organized labor was quick to blame this ruling for its defeat in Wisconsin. And many have assumed that the relation of money to politics is like a law of nature: the more money one has, the more political power one can wield.
Ed’s Aren't As Powerful As You Might Think They Are (tags)
When I was a student at the University of Connecticut between the years of 2003 and 2006 I had the opportunity to view an aspect of the way our tax dollars get spent up close and personal. I saw this, though I wasn't meant to, and the way things were to unfold, there certainly couldn't have been any script, none that got adhered to anyway. Like anyone else, I got upset about certain things I was to see with regards to where my tax dollars went from time to time if I saw something on the news. Up until that point though, it was never enough to pinpoint one specific thing and connect it to tax dollars. But while at the University of Connecticut, I learned just how our dollars can be burned up uselessly without a care and how people on the taxpayer dime can take advantage of the system, responsibility, position and money they've been granted.
Entitled To No Blowback (tags)
The notions that we need to be more aware of how our tax dollars are spent and that we should have more power and control over expenditures where taxes are concerned, have become increasingly popular in recent years. This is especially true since the onset of the recession and the disastrous dual wars that were, up until just recently, paid for out of taxes despite the fact Iraq turned out to be such a billion dollar mess. The idea we shouldn't spend willy nilly and should have more accountability makes sense and one wonders what caused us to so easily take our eye off the ball regarding this. It's regarded as a Republican or conservative value, but Democrats have been incensed by the way stimulus dollars were doled out and are just as concerned about financial accountability, though they may have different ideas about how the money gets spent.
FUNDAMENTALISM GROWS IN THE USA (tags)
Bad times for Americans, good times for all other people.
Video: Halliburton charged for selling nuclear technology to Iran (tags)
Company has had billions of dollars of contracts with the US government.
Occupy Demands And Civil Disobedience Guidelines (tags)
Demand one: Restoration of the living wage.
BTL:U.S. Senate Defeats Plan to Eliminate Billions of Dollars in Big Oil Tax Subsidies (tags)
Interview with Ben Schreiber, climate and energy tax analyst with Friends of the Earth, conducted by Melinda Tuhus
Obama Plans Gutting Regulations for Corporate Favorites (tags)
deregulation
Through The War on Islam in Libya The Party of Satan will Hijack Your Tax $ again (tags)
You have all undoubtedly heard Obushma The George W Bush Carbon Copy calling for an Expansion of The War on Islam into Libya (called The Cause to Free Libya, Pardon me while I Gag). Through this continuation of The War on Islam in Libya, The Global Satanic Government (The CIA) and The Rich Satanist and The Party of Satan (called The Republicans and The Democrats) will continue to Hijack Your Tax Dollars to Fund Gory Satanic Ritual Serial Murders Abroad.
Democracy promotion: America’s new regime change formula (tags)
"By the 1980s, the reign of terror that blazed across Latin America was too much for most people to stomach. From death squads to torture chambers and various massacres, the Latin American generals who trained in the US to spread democracy around the world quickly gained reputations for major human rights abuses. To replace the overt support for dictatorships, a new concept for regime change was born; one that sounds and looks better – democracy promotion."
Breaking the Vicious Circle of Poverty (tags)
In 2008 in Namibia the Lutheran bishop Zephania Kameeta provided a whole village with an unconditional basic income. BIG (Basic Income Grant) is like a magic word, the code for a bold idea that poverty is not a hopeless fate but an enemy that can be forced to its knees.
POCKET MONEY GOT ARRESTED (tags)
I want to apologize for all the trouble I caused lately up in Polk County Texas. I pled guilty to DISORDERLY CONDUCT and paid a fine of 200 dollars. However the Jailers are still holding some cash that I had on my person when I got arrested.
WE The People
20 Dead after Israel Attacks Gaza Humanitarian Ship in Int'l Waters (tags)
At least 20 people are dead and many are injured on the lead ship of the Gaza Humanitarian Aid flotilla after the Israeli military, paid for with US tax dollars, boarded and attacked the unarmed people. Contrary to Israel's lies, obviously prepared in advance, no one attacked these heavily armed thugs; this is a humanitarian vessel with civilians on board, and Israel continued its attack after the white flag was raised, all in international waters. Support this website and protest this outrageous violation of international law by US/Israel as Israel does not exist for 1 second without US tax dollars.
Behind The Scheme To Privatize NASA Elon Musk, The Downey Connection & Google Owners (tags)
Elon Musk who is planning to build "green" electric auto assembly plant in Downey is also working with Pres Obama to privatize the NASA program and turn the program over to him
Who Are You Working For? (tags)
Beginning with the campaigns for the 2008 elections political activism has hit peaks the likes of which haven’t been this consistent for decades. From all over the spectrum people are energized for causes close to their hearts. In doing so most end up selecting people they believe in to support for candidates in elections. Some of those candidates are sincere in their causes. We know not to expect perfect people nor every promise made kept, but we should count on some of promises, especially major ones, checked off.
Agency's 'edifice complex' siphoning millions of dollars from conservation in SG Valley (tags)
State's Rivers and Mountains Conservancy ignored its own grant guidelines in awarding itself and partners $3 million for construction of controversial $30 million San Gabriel River center. The agency plans two more interpretive centers in the same immediate area.
FREEMASONRY TAKES THE WORST IN BRAZIL (tags)
A delicious news.
Now we can starve seeing beautiful space pictures!
Are the Democrats Fighting the Banks? (tags)
How pathetic. President Obama sat at a table surrounded by super rich bankers, pleading with them to lend money to small businesses and workers. The media mislabeled Obama’s groveling as “encouraging,” “imploring,” and “pressing,” but a man who refuses to take action is powerless; and powerless people can only beg. This disgraceful meeting happened shortly after Obama got “radical” on national TV, calling the bankers “fat cats” and other tough words. But words are only that.
More food for Obama's wars: troops, oil, natural gas, pipelines, and $$$. . . (tags)
Why more food for Obama's wars? Heroin. Oil. Natural gas. Pipelines and transport corridors more oil and natural gas, and, no doubt, heroin. More U.S. dollars, borrowed from the Chinese, to secure more oil and gas and perpetuate the military industrial complex, which needs lots of dollars, and oil and gas, to keep fighting, and manufacturing, for war.
Federal Government Closes down Liberty Dollar (tags)
Many believe that the Liberty Dollar is a much sounder currency than the U.S. Government's paper dollar
Risk Development and Dollar Inflation (tags)
Two articles by emeritus professor Elmar Altvater reveal the contradictions of credit or bubble prosperity in the counter-revolution of capital. As work cannot define us, competitiveness and profit maximization do not define the human experience Speculation could bring a new feudalism..
Michael Hudson's "Super Imperialism:" The Economic Agenda of Imperial America (tags)
How imperial America is funded
U.S. Taxpayers Should Not Be A Pawnshop to Guarantee California Bonds (tags)
How Will California/America Recover Economically If Gasoline Hits Four to Five Dollars A Gallon, As Predicted Yesterday By Major News?
SAVE THE DATE! Revolutionary Revival Concert #2, for Nicaragua and El Salvador, June 13 (tags)
For the first time, both Nicaragua and El Salvador have revolutionary governments, and people in the United States can help them!
How New York Fought the Budget Defecit and Won (tags)
While nearly every state is facing severe budget deficits, New York State showed how to balance the budget without completely destroying the social safety net. New York took a few progressive steps forward in balancing the budget and painted a more sensible picture of “shared sacrifice” than what the average politician has proposed. Instead of sacrificing social programs and increasing taxes that affect primarily workers, two new tax brackets were created for New York’s wealthier citizens, generating 4 billion dollars in state revenue. Prior to the new budget, New York’s highest tax rate was 6.85 percent, for anyone making $20,000 or more. The additional tax brackets are 7.85% and 8.97% for those whose income is more than $300,000 and $500,000. These new rates are temporary and set to expire in 3 years. According to the Times-Union, "In broad strokes, the agreement closes the state's estimated $16.2 billion budget deficit through $6 billion in federal stimulus dollars, $6 billion in cuts to an array of programs, and $4 billion in new revenue through an increase in the personal income tax on affluent New Yorkers." The grassroots movement that pushed this “wealthy tax” forward not only asked that new tax brackets remain permanent but also asked for a third tax bracket on New Yorkers earning $1 million or more annually, which would have raised an additional billion dollars.
Money laundering and counterfeiting by terrorist and drug traffickers (tags)
So now they are coming up with new ideas and ways to launder huge amounts of cash.
What Obama's Trip to Europe Revealed (tags)
Declaring something a success doesn’t necessarily make it so. We learned this at the Bush-led G-20 summit only four months ago, when global leaders were expected to do something far-reaching in response to the world-wide economic crisis, instead of chatting about it. When nothing came of the meeting, we were told that the summit “succeeded” because it “laid the groundwork” for the next G-20 gathering, recently led by Obama. The four months between G-20 summits was one of rising massive unemployment and social misery for millions of people, creating an urgency that was unmet by the world leaders in London.
Take action to end marijuana prohibition in California! (tags)
Urge your legislators to support Assemblyman Tom Ammiano's marijuana legalization and regulation bill A.B. 390! Let's end marijuana prohibition in California! Stop wasting tax dollars incarcerating non-violent marijuana consumers!
Barack Obama Pirate Captain of Derivative TARP TANIC and Nuclear Iran (tags)
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Tarp Stimulus Banker Johns Save by Writing Off Kristin Davis Hookers (tags)
Some things never change.
Before the Bank Crisis:Where did All The Money Go??? (tags)
...or is it all just a "Big Scam" by the banks and corporations to use "Financial Terrorism" to manipulate and coerce the American public for its own greedy purposes???
Gas Tax Revenue just another legislative 'slush fund'
Let's ask Israel to relinquish its Nukes (tags)
What Israel didn't gain was greater security. "For decades, the occupation has imposed a system of absolute control on the lives of Palestinians that requires them to apply for permits either from the military regime ruling over them, known misleadingly as the Civil Administration, or from the Shin Bet," wrote British journalist Jonathan Cook earlier this year. "Israel has shown time and again that it selectively enforces law and order, depending on the ethnicity of killer and victim."
The Bailout Intensifies (tags)
Even through its muffled language, it was obvious that the typically non-alarmist New York Times was having trouble digesting the latest government announcements. On November 26, the Treasury and Fed revealed it would spend 800 billion more tax dollars towards new “lending” programs. That day, the Times concluded that the government was “sending a message that they will print as much money as needed to revive the crippled banking system.”[!] Later in the article we learn that “the government has assumed at least $7 trillion [!!] in direct and indirect financial obligations in the form of Wall Street bailouts, emergency lending and government guarantees on bank deposits, inter-bank loans and home mortgages.” The term “blank check” doesn’t begin to describe the vast amounts being tossed about.
We Are Already In The Future! (tags)
At election’s denouement, to the Right the outraged, self loathing of the loser & the losers, including one dude standing mutely in Michigan, a Republican delegate, in a Klan suit, describing Obama as an “Islamic communist”. To the Left, the self important drears who had urged us to throw our votes away, as they objectively, in the name of their “principles”, gave votes to John McCain.
The Federal Reserve: History of Lies, Thievery, and Deceit (tags)
Former Congressional Candidate, 6th District N.J. "I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers. To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt." Thomas Jefferson
Healthcare/Financial Reform (tags)
Healthcare Reform = The "Bailout" We ALL Need
Sharp drop in migrants’ money transfers from US (tags)
Mexico depends on migrants' remittances for eight percent of its Gross Domestic Product compared to 12 percent in Guatemala and no less than 18 percent of El Salvador's GDP. And these are the official statistics, which do not include US dollars passing the US border under car mats.
Requiao and director of HSBC in Dubai offer more partnerships with Parana State (tags)
The whole Middle East is a great demand for basic infrastructure, real estate investments, sources of clean and renewable energy and food. It was a fruitful meeting, Dubai and Parana have in common the strong presence of HSBC, where the bank maintained their regional headquarters
The particular problems of the old in the US version of unregulated capitalism
Bill Ayers: Republican Tool (tags)
A poster on Republicans for Obama reveals the Ayers-Annenberg-McCain connection.
When I was a kid growing up my parents weren’t rich weren’t poor. They didn’t have a lot of money, but enough to qualify as lower middle class and at times middle class. My father had a visiting teacher’s position at a university and my mother was an administrative assistant working towards a college degree. The highest tax bracket they got to was middle class just before my dad passed away in 1987.
EPCC: Tyrone Freeman Have To Answer for his Actions (tags)
The Echo Park Community Coalition (EPCC) express deep outrage over the Los Angeles investigative report of the Los Angeles Times that shows that Tyrone Freeman, a known protégé of SEIU International head Andy Stern have paid hundreds of thousands of dollars( $ 404, 510) to firms owned by Freeman’s wife and in-laws. As the organization that religiously followed the union struggle between UHW-West and the SEIU international, the LA Times article which detailed allegations of corruption within SEIU Local 6434 ,the Southern California Long Term Care Local- the EPCC have no doubt that Stern and Ana Burger had knowledge of the outrageous happenings in the Tyrone Freeman’s free-wheeling and dealings.
Conservation, Conservation, Conservation! (tags)
We have lost our consumer control to the corporate dictatorships.
STOP US TAX DOLLARS FUNDING REPRESSION IN THE PHILIPPINES (tags)
Thanks to Bush, US ciizens' tax dollars are being wasted funding the corrupt and brutal Arroyo regime in the Philippines. Arroyo has been condemned by Amnesty International. Human Rights Watch, Asia Commission on Human Rights, World Council of Churches ,UN Rapporteurs, and numerous organizations for committing thousands of extra-judicial murders of lawyers, journalists, church people, women and union organizers, indigenous minority peoples. We need to put a stop to this outrageous inhumanity.
Vegas anarchists flyer against taxes, torture and war on April 15th (tags)
April 15th is Tax Day, and in honor of the occasion, a newly-formed activist group, the Southern Nevada Alliance of the Libertarian Left, took their first public action today and issued their first communique with flyers posted on the streets of Las Vegas aiming to raise consciousness about the violence of the tax-and-torture warfare State.
The US military occupation of Iraq cannot be won militarily and cannot be paid for. The military occupation was sold as a cheap war that would only help the US and the world: more security and a lower price of oil. Empire and double standards bring only nihilism and distrust.
U.S. Fraud Corruption Kickbacks Abuse and Waste Worst in U.S. History (tags)
Almost 9 billion in cash simply vanished with no trace. What happened to all that cash? No one seems to know. There was not even so much as an investigation in to where it went.
Justice for NY's Stud Guv? (tags)
"Here I am thinking up against this family a calamity from which you people will not remove your necks!" (Mic. 2:3)
The US Will Experience Its Big Surprise (tags)
The dollar devaluation has to do with many things, above all with the double deficit. The US must become indebted more and more. China and Dubai could go on a shopping spree and buy oil companies. The US must earn euros to pay for the oil to be imported.
$11 Million to be slashed from CA HIV/AIDS Budget (tags)
The proposed budget that our governor has laid out will cut over 11 million dollars from California HIV/AIDS services.
Pak used anti-terror aid against India: Report (tags)
New York, December 24:Billions of dollars in American aid given to the Pervez Musharraf regime for anti-terrorism efforts have been wasted and much of it was diverted to help finance weapons systems designed to counter India rather than fight al-Qaeda and Taliban, US officials have said.
Iraq: Looking Back: 'Internationally Sponsored Genocide' (tags)
As you know, when I was here in April/May 1992, I thought things could get no worse. Yet in July this year, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations note in a Report: '..with deep regret', all the: 'pre-famine indicators being in place'. Further that an appreciable proportion of the population now had less calorific intake than the most famine stricken parts of Africa.
Israel asks U.S. foreign aid be paid in EUROS (tags)
in your face you lazy superstitious fuckheads, i guess americans are going to get what they deserve soon...
Israel asks U.S. foreign aid be paid in EUROS (tags)
Secretary of State Rice has acknowledged a communique from Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Levni which requests that all foreign aid payments and loans from the United States be made in Euros rather than in Dollars. Foreign Minister Levni cited the rapidly declining dollar and it's disfavor as a world currency as reasons for the request.
Marijuana Dealers/Growers Offer Schwarzenegger One Billion Dollars (tags)
August 6 -- A coalition of California marijuana growers and dealers has offered Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger one billion dollars to solve the current state budget crisis. The group, calling itself Let Us Pay Taxes makes the offer through its web site LetUsPayTaxes.com. The offer comes at a time when the California legislature is deadlocked on a new budget and California has stopped issuing checks for vitally needed social services. Legislators are currently arguing over which programs will be cut in order to balance the budget.
At Best Americans Ruled By Slick Used-Car Salesmen (tags)
Are we just stupid?
Brazil: Henrique Meirelles faces de tornado at CBB. (tags)
Lula prefers that Meirelles stays but syntonized with him. The PT prefers to see Meirelles out. In the absence of Palocci, he guaranteed the depressive growth of the economy in the the last four years.
The CAFR Outrage - Qualify The Motive Over the last several decades, the public of the USA has griped about:
Net Neutrality Life on Earth Depends Upon It says World Peace Religion (tags)
Do you want the present neutral internet or the new biased internet?
FAITH BASED INCINERATOR INITIATIVE (tags)
It is my grave concern that American workers, especially Christian workers, and others who snub wisdom in spite of, or in lieu of faith, be paid on time, and on their regularly scheduled payday. Therefore I demand that Bush pay me what he owes me on time or God will surely torture him in hell for a minimum of 500 years. The current balance due would be about 100 million dollars.
CALIFORNIA PROPOSITIONS: VOTERS BEWARE (tags)
Today voters need to beware when going to the polls to vote because much is at stake. Voters need to study the propositions and read their Official Voter Information Guide; and for those who will not, they need to vote no to spending their hard earn dollars and the future savings of our children. Voters should not be persuaded by expensive TV commercials because those commercials are more expensive than what we can realize.
The Lie Of The Federal Reserve (tags)
FED RUNNING SCARED Control of the currency means control of the law as defined by modern contracts written by England and some other entities unaffiliated with any nationalistic origin. Let us say they are all rather FICTIUONALK, except concerning the influence they exert over American Lives nd The American Future. They took control of the currency after the Civil War, and was REALLY what the civil war was all about. This below shows graphically what a house of cards this whole illegal scheme is, and if you want to get them, make it a point MAKE IT A POINT to start bartering and using other forms of currency like gems, silver, and gold.
Is the Dollar Hegemony Ending? (tags)
The demand for dollars will fall significantly when oil is transacted in euros. The US must control its twin deficits and reduce its foot-print to keep the confidence of foreign credi-tors. Radical restructuring and removal of incompetent leadership could avert crash.
Lay Dead? Rumors Abound that Ken Lay Still Alive (tags)
Houston - The sudden, unexpected death of Enron Corp. CEO Kenneth Lay on the eve of his court sentencing has prompted widespread speculation that the convicted multimillionaire is in fact, not actually dead.
Iran War for Dollar Hegemony (tags)
The run on the US currency has already begun. Preventing the IOB may help explain the extreme aggressiveness of the US toward Iran. Mending our own pockets and recalibrating energy and security policies are more sensible than the Bush doctrine.
Horowitz Unleashes Sheriff (tags)
South Central Farmers learn bittler lesson of the role of the courts and politicians.
Death Penalty, $250 Million Tax Burden (tags)
California taxpayers will spend an average of $200 to over $275 million for each prisoner on death row; and most of that cost is related to the high cost of capital trials, housing the death row inmate, the high cost for defense counsel and the tens of millions required to appeal convictions.
South Central farmers resist eviction (tags)
Farmers and community activists have established an encampment on the South Central Farm to resist eviction from it’s owner Ralph Horowitz. The South Central farmers were unable to raise 16.35 million to save the farm and face eviction this week. Joan Baez, Darryl Hannah and Julie butterfly hill joined in calling for the mayor’s last minute efforts to save the farm. Christina Aanestad reports.
Unconstitutional Panhandling law to be rewritten Tues. in Santa Cruz (tags)
Santa Cruz draconian law against begging has been ruled unconstitutional by a Federal court. Now the City is going to fix it, but activists say the entire law should be overhauled or the City would be subjected to more lawsuits. The City is dragging its heels on making any real changes.
LIVING LA VIDA RICH AND POOR IN MEXICO CITY (tags)
6 APRIL 2006. MEXICO CITY MONTHLY.- It’s a tragic-cynical reality show. The street is a mesh where rich and poor mingle without suspicion, but not because they want to be good neighbors. The rich have no guarantee of happiness, but they do have a secure present. This will continue because the poor don't hate them yet, since they can’t even imagine the macabre nature of income distribution. When they find out, everything could burst into crime.
Iran’s Oil Exchange threatens the Greenback (tags)
"The Bush administration will never allow the Iranian government to open an oil exchange (bourse) that trades petroleum in euros. If that were to happen, hundreds of billions of dollars would come flooding back to the United States crushing the greenback and destroying the economy. This is why Bush and Co. are planning to lead the nation to war against Iran. It is straightforward defense of the current global system and the continuing dominance of the reserve currency....."
Green Party Hosts South Central Farmers Presentation (tags)
Tonight the Santa Monica Greens hosted a presentation and fundraiser for the South Central Farm. A short video about the farm was shown.
WILL IRAN BRING REVOLUTION INTO THE USA ? (tags)
Iran’s Oil Exchange Threatens the Greenback by Mike Whitney www.dissidentvoice.org January 24, 2006
Human Traffic Denounced (tags)
Human Traffic Denounced
CUCKOO ECONOMICS (Abridged Ed.) (tags)
By deliberately confusing assets that can be *produced* with assets that can only be *acquired*, modern economics laid the ideological foundation for unemployment, poverty, inequality, and the looming global depression.
A History of Concealment and Deception (tags)
Washington hasn't the faintest idea about the kind of adversary it faces.. If Iran makes the Euro the oil trade currency, a greater flight from the dollar to the Euro and a catastrophe for the US could occur. The dollar will be weakened and imports more expensive.
Uncle Sam to give Israeli settler families 1 mil each to relocate (tags)
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More money down the drain: War cost bleeds states, cities (tags)
As U.S. casualties in Iraq topped 1,600, the U.S. Congress approved another $82 billion for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and related spending, with the bulk going to the Iraq occupation.
Call for Art- 9-11 Truth for Peace and Justice (tags)
The Northern California 9-11 Truth Alliance ahs issued a call for art- the theme "9-11 Truth for Peace and Justice." Over a thousand dollars in cash prizes, many additional awards, youth and adult categories, deadline July 1st. Entries to be posted online; winners art will also be published.
Neo-con's Definition of Freedom (tags)
It is imperative that the American people understand what this word means to the neo-cons.
ABRAMOFF USED DELAY TO FUND ANTI-INTIFADA MILITIA (tags)
"Native Americans were, unknowingly donating tens of thousands of dollars to Israeli settlers."
Thanks for your opinions, BA. Response here is re: Drug Prohibition (tags)
Don't Blame OPEC; Higher Gas Prices Are Almost Entirely Bush's Fault (tags)
What is making oil so expensive is not energy policy or even SUV’s, dangerous as those are for the environment. It’s Bush’s massive deficits and his willful destruction of the US dollar that has gas selling at $2.30 a gallon and rising.
Reporters Without Shame (tags)
This article from Sept. 2004 details how the founder of Reporters Without Borders, Robert Menard, was paying Cubans to write negative stories about their country -- and making a profit for himself.
George W.'s Hidden Secret (tags)
The Future of Hydrogen Energy
A Funny Thing Happened on Jury Duty (tags)
The first trial was for a man accused of selling crack - second offense - and carrying a gun.
The Case Against Administrator Natsios (tags)
In April of 2003, President Bush's appointee to the Agency for International Development appeared on Nightline and unequivocally claimed reconstruction in Iraq would only cost American taxpayers $1.7 Billion dollars. Damn lies, all of them. Six months later the transcript disappeared from USAID.gov. Good thing I saved it.
Some view the election of George W. Bush as providing him with a mandate to pursue his reactionary policies at home and abroad.
Past Time for an Accounting of This Massive Fraud (tags)
The termination of the search for WMDs in Iraq, after the expenditure of several hundred million dollars and not a single sign of anything, should have the hounds after Bush and his neo-con advisers, but don’t bet on it. These guys don’t apologize, they just keep messing things up worse.
Do you think Kevin Costner will do the prequel sequel?
An examination of the nature of US tsunami relief aid and the reasons for the differences in corporate news coverage of wars and natural disasters.
Natural Disaster, Unnatural Response (tags)
We should all be ashamed that the best our smug, self-satisfied president could offer the victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami was $10 million in change and his “heartfelt” sympathy.
How Can We Escape This Abyss? (tags)
One hand washes the other even if it is bloodstained.. The government of one of the poorest countries paid Enron $220 million per year for energy that was not produced!.. Now Bechtel and GE aresuing the Indian government for $5.6 billion..
The immanent planned collapse ... US Silent As Euro Screams Higher
Bush and the Wild West Myth (tags)
"Texas is as little Bush-Country as Bush born in refined Connecticut and educated at the elite Yale University is a cowboy.. Whoever arrives in deepest Texas quickly notices that this image (the Texan political-cowboy) is a myth that only exists in films and politics.."
OPERATION IRAQI PLUNDER (tags)
The United States spends Iraq's money - with little accountability.
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 7/30/04 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Russia, China, and Cuba.
The biggest Brazilian gold mine belongs to a US company (tags)
Serra Pelada gold mine, in the Amazonian State of Para, one of the main Brazilian gold producers, was bought by the US mining company Phoenix Gems, which paid 40 millions dollars to exploit 100 hectares. The contract of an important part of Serra Pelada mine’s shares, was subscribed last June 5th between a cooperative of "garimpeiros" (Brazilian gold searchers) and the US Company Phoenix Gems.
Election 04: Stop US Aid to Israel (tags)
With the worldwide outcry at the murder and torture of Palestinians and theft of Palestinian land for 56 years with US tax dollars, it is long overdue that US voters demand that all candidates oppose US aid to Israel if they want our vote.
Stop Voting for Pro-Israel Democrat-Republicans (tags)
The best way you can show support for the Palestinians being murdered and made homeless by Israel, with our tax dollars, is by never voting for any Democrat or Republican for any position as they all support Israel.
Political welfare queens. (tags)
Presidental candidates that steal our money to fund their failed campaigns.
Gary Nolan has been called a Neocon. Absolutly NOT true.
Bush to announce manned Mars mission (tags)
BBC carries a story claiming that Bush is to announce next week a manned mission to Mars. The cost is expected to be around a trillion dollars. He will also announce plans for a permanent lunar base.
Grocery Workers are Still Fighting (tags)
An article about the Southern California Grocery Strike/Lockout.
Capitalism is Legalized Robbery (tags)
An analysis of capitalism illustrating that not only are there periodic examples of large, conspicuous thefts by capitalists, but there also exists an everyday, subtle, disguised theft of the value created by the working class.
Group Contests Casino Owned by Extremist Backer (tags)
While U.S. Treasury officials scour financial records worldwide to stop funds donated by wealthy Arabs from flowing to radical Islamist groups, a small group of U.S. citizens is trying to shut down a major source of funding for Jewish extremists in Israel and the occupied territories.
Supermarket workers in struggle (tags)
The significance of the strike is based in the issue of health care. We are the only industrialized country to not have health care and the union estimates about 60 million went some time with out having any health care last year. This number is growing based the deteriation of the tiny bit of basic rights and benefits we have. It is time for us to not be on the defensive of these issues and begin to fight back.
Crucial That Progressives Recall Gray Davis (tags)
We must send the message to all current and future governors… Behave like Davis and your political career is over. His taking of over a million dollars each from the timber, prison and power industries, and then allowing rampant logging, building more prisons while cutting all other budgets, and only pretending to complain while behind his back allowing energy companies to complete the biggest corporate rip off in California history, means Davis must go.
The Cancun Summit-WTO on the edge of abyss (tags)
WTO
CHERYL SEAL REPORTS: Bush Anti-Terrorism "Medicine": Only the Drug Lords Win (tags)
While Bush is handing out over $10 billion to "anti-terrorism" programs designed to enrich a few pharmaceutical corporations, cities and states go begging - Just $1 billion has been tossed them, to be divided among all 50 states, to cover the cost of anti-terrorism public health upgrades for over 260 million Americans.
Protest Bu$h in Irvine Aug. 15th (tags)
Bush is coming to his homeland of Orange County!!! Let's make this protest as big as the one in Century City!!!
The Financial Costs of War (tags)
The war against Iraq will cost 100 to 2000 billion dollars depending on its course. Even the lower sum of 100 billion dollars is a lot of money, e.g. 40% of the federal budget of Germany.
Pre-war predictions of quick exit, oil-financed reconstruction evaporate (tags)
Even as U.S. troops continue to be killed in Iraq at the rate of about one a day, the United States faces the prospect of occupying the country indefinitely and leading an international reconstruction effort costing tens of billions of dollars, according to several estimates.
RIDE THE ORANGE COUNTY ANSWER BUS (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) TO CENTURY PLAZA Friday, June 27th Santa Monica Blvd. and Avenue of the Stars March to Rally at Century Plaza Hotel
The Minimum Wage is No Wage at All (tags)
Can't get much more "minimum"
GREENSPAN REPORTEDLY BRIBES AND AIDS BUSH IN GOLD SWINDLES, Part One (tags)
In clandestine meetings, over a period of months, the reportedly genuine documents were turned over to our research and investigation group by government officials clearly in an inside position to possess and confirm such data.
Ten things i hate about this administration (tags)
You all may add to the list if you wish.
The Many Contracts of Halliburton (tags)
If you have been confused by the constant flow of news stories on the Halliburton contracts for post-war Iraq, you have good reason to be.
From Whence Comes Income? (tags)
Much of the ignorance on the left comes from the false perception that income is distributed rather than earned.
Rarely is the Question Asked (tags)
There's something to be said about a president who tells so many fish stories...
Contracts for reconstruction in Iraq are primarily being handled by the USAID. The US Agency for International Development is headed by Andrew Nastios.
Cheney's Corp. Profits Huge from Iraq War (tags)
Dick Cheney's Halliburton Corp. will receive up to a billion dollars from the Federal Government for Iraq reconstruction.
shooting in Venice
The Overthrow Of The American Republic - Part 30 (tags)
Where lie the Buried Bodies?
Gnome$ for peace- How to Stop the Attack (tags)
Boycott the dollars and bring peace to the world. The more people you can persuade to join you in becoming a Gnome for Peace, the better the chance there is of weakening the dollar and the American economy by enough to prevent or limit a war.
A NEW GRAPHIC SYMBOL EXTENDS IN THE WORLD (tags)
Since December 3 2001, when the "CORRALITO" in Argentina was imposed, not to say straight SWINDLE, arose a new graphical symbol in the world.
mindless defense spending is the PROBLEM (tags)
yes, making war for profit is wrong! we must stop the root cause which is OUT OF CONTROL DEFENSE SPENDING!
The Real but Unspoken Reasons for the Iraq War (tags)
Although completely suppressed in the U.S. media, the answer to the Iraq enigma is simple yet shocking. The upcoming war in Iraq is actually an OIL CURRENCY war. The Real Reason for this upcoming war is this administration’s goal of preventing further OPEC momentum towards the euro as an oil transaction currency standard. However, in order to pre-empt OPEC, they need to gain geo-strategic control of Iraq along with its 2nd largest proven oil reserves. (This is a long essay)
We Want YOUR Help!
The fight for water. A fight for human rights (tags)
Water. We see it everywhere. (see related story below) Many of us take water for granted. All we have to do is open a faucet and this life-sustaining liquid just pours out into our glass to quench our thirst. But in many places it is not so simple to get that clean glass of water.
The Resistance calls for the implementation of a gift economy based on service and not purchase.
Equal Rights, Equal Responsibilities (tags)
A simple way to end slavery and save the world from the death-industrial complex....
Toward Drug Legalization (tags)
From Narco News Bulletin. A Conversation with Gustavo de Grieff. Translated from the Spanish. Por Esto! November 14, 2002
11/10 PeaceNoWar: US Dollars Yielded Unanimous UN Vote Against Iraq (tags)
From: www.PeaceNoWar.net US Dollars Yielded Unanimous UN Vote Against Iraq, Another $756,070,983 Spanding Spree by US DoD Last Week!!
Leftists Working for Poverty! (tags)
Want more poverty in the 3d world? Don't miss the next World Bank protest! Thanks Walter E. Williams! We are so lucky to have you.
Port of LA/LB Photos of Pile up! (tags)
While corporate America attempts to break the back of the union.... the Ports are piling up...1 billion dollars a day is going down the tube...
Before and after pictures of medical marijuana provider Genesis 1:29 garden. Stop DEA Terrorism!
Buying Your Brain With Your Money For War (tags)
Bush Administration Launches Unprecedented $200 Million Propaganda Campaign To Win You Over On Iraq War (using your money to do it!)
To presume that our lifetime has no value is to presume the legitimacy of slavery. Issuing citizens dividends directly from local treasuries is the most efficient, stable and democratic way to provide equal rights and equal responsibilities....
How many know the truth about the scam called wall street???
Grassroots meeting urges good jobs now (tags)
LINTHICUM, MD. – Washington-based Good Jobs First (GJF) brought together 300 labor union, community and environmental activists July 11-13 to demand that corporations provide living wage jobs with health care and union rights in exchange for the tens of billions of dollars in annual taxpayer subsidies they enjoy.
Global Decision of World Destiny (tags)
We see the world at a crossroad where we are either going to go forward towards restoration or backwards to the point of destroying the earth itself. It is said today that one billion two hundred forty thousand people on this earth live on less than one dollar per day. This is 20% of the world population of 6.2 billion people. At the other extreme there are about 500 people on the earth who consider themselves worth more than 1,000 million dollars. Their combined wealth of just these 500 individuals is estimated to be about 1.5 trillion dollars.
Global Decision of World Destiny (tags)
We see the world at a crossroad where we are either going to go forward towards restoration or backwards to the point of destroying the earth itself. It is said today that one billion two hundred forty thousand people on this earth live on less than one dollar per day. This is 20% of the world population of 6.2 billion people. At the other extreme there are about 500 people on the earth who consider themselves worth more than 1,000 million dollars. Their combined wealth of just these 500 individuals is estimated to be about 1.5 trillion dollars.
Vote with your dollars. Send congress a message you don't like the Bu$h agenda (tags)
Vote with your dollars. Send congress a message you don't like the Bu$h agenda
No F***ing Shit! U.S. planes drop $100 dollars bills on Afghanistan! (tags)
U.S. aircraft over southern Afghanistan have scattered $100 bills tucked into envelopes bearing a picture of President George W. Bush, witnesses said on Thursday.
Now.....Who Wants To Date A Millionaire? (tags)
Millionaire Mates - Rich & Famous Matchmaking..... Now a woman can seriously meet her "Prince Charming" through Millionaire Mates an exclusive dating club for Millionaires seeking their soul mate. Millionaire members include 2 Royal Prince's, a Duke and several celebrities!
Anti-Quarantine AIDS Activists Held On One Million Dollars Bail (tags)
First they came for the Middle Eastern/South Asian/Muslim people, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't Middle Eastern/South Asian/Muslim. Then they came for the people with AIDS. . .
America: The Good Neighbor. (tags)
This, from a Canadian newspaper, no less, is worth sharing.
Local Union members demand money back from the energy companies at rally (tags)
Union Members rallied today to demand :"We want all the money back" from the energy companies.
Union Workers and Supporters Rally at San Diego Union Tribune (tags)
300 plus people gathered in front of the San Diego Union Tribune to rally in support of Union Workers who have been involved in a nine-year struggle with the paper for a decent contract. the paper has responded with dirty tactics and typical union busting techniques.
Text of Medea Benjamin's speech for Energy Independence, July 4th Long Beach (tags)
Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Global Exchange and 2000 Green Party candidate for the US Senate, calls for Energy Independence, & freedom from global corporate tyranny, at a rally on July 4th in Long Beach, CA.
Letter to San Diego Union-Tribune (tags)
"San Diego Police hit a home run..." This is a letter I sent in response. Stephanie
Comments on the Hollander strike.
Anti's Need a Plan, Part 1 (tags)
Anti's Need a Plan, Part 1
Death Penalty Democrats (tags)
Death Penalty Democrat California Governor Gray Davis murders again, this time executing Robert Massie on March 27, 2001, who has been on and off Death Row for 36 years, courtesy us taxpayers. He was never rehabilitated, but was let out of prison, and thus killed again. Our tax dollars must go for rehabilitation, not punishment, if we are to solve any social problems at all.
Democracy Now Broadcasts Key Information in Struggle for WelfareControl2/12/2001 (tags)
Roughly 6 years ago when Tommy Thomson was elcted Governor in Wisconsin there were approximately 300,000 people in that Upper Midwestern State on welfare. Many of this total were women and children. Another large slice of the pie were people overcoming disabilities. The budget was about $500 Million dollars USA. Today only 35,000 people arte receiving welfare in Wisconsin and the budget is close to $600 Million dollars proving that the infirm , the poor and taxpayers are being violated in ways of unknown consequences. It was reported in Atlanta on 89.3 FM that 26 babies under 1 year old had died each year for the previous 6 years.
The Federal Reserve is an illicit corporation that is trashing America every day. The act that empowered them, the Fed. Res. Act of 1913 needs to be repealed!!
Appalachia Throbbing From Assaults on People and Environment:Corruption Finds a (tags)
Appalachians are suffering in areas of mainly parts of 4 states with large areas of Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania. This is where the poverty and lack of support is hurting the worst. Secondarly outside corporations are locating in these areas or leaving these areas with little or no regard for laws that were meant to protect these peoples. The federal government is robbing the Black Lung fund according to the Nation Magazine.
NAB's agenda to abolish the FCC and grab the entire broadcasting spectrum is right on schedule. The people must act on S20-23 and afterward to stop the greatest theft in US history.
The Horror of Mass Violence April 29,1992 Los Angeles Citizens and Residents (tags)
The Los Angeles Riots of 1992 left a death toll of nearly 51 and material damages of at least $463.7 million dollars and up to $1 Billion US Dollars. Estimates were made from Shinyodo Marketing and Helen Zia a Chinese-American woman with experience in auto assembly and with Ms. magazine.