The [sic] Government Can http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/699.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO2eh6f5Go0 So accurate, it's hard to know whether to laugh or cry.
Big Bucks for Bailout Barons By Katrina vanden Heuvel One year after the global banking system collapsed the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) 16th Annual Executive Excess report -- "America's Bailout Barons" -- shows that the perverse system of executive compensation which contributed to the financial meltdown is still thriving for top bailout recipients. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23419.htm == How Bad Will It Get? By Mike Whitney The best-informed market participants believe that the 6-month rally is beginning to fizzle out. The consensus is that stocks are grossly overpriced and the fundamentals are weak. Bernanke's strategy has improved the equity position of many of the larger financial institutions but, unfortunately, there's been no spillover into the real economy. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23422.htm === Winners Lose By ROBERT C. KOEHLER The situation in Afghanistan is serious. We're getting "out-governed" by an enemy so ruthless it's bringing services to a desperate people ignored by the legitimate government we installed. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23417.htm === US's 'Arc of Instability' Just Gets Bigger By Pepe Escobar The full spectrum dominance doctrine requires the control of the Pentagon-coined "arc of instability" from the Horn of Africa to western China. The cover story is the former "global war on terror", now "overseas contingency operations" under the management of President Barack Obama's administration. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23420.htm === The Civilized Community of Nations "And on the most exalted throne in the world sits nothing but a man's arse." ~ Montaigne By William Blum If there's anyone out there who is not already thoroughly cynical about those on the board of directors of the planet, the latest chapter in the saga of the bombing of PanAm 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland might just be enough to push them over the edge. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23418.htm === The Empire and the Robots By Fidel Castro By 2008, approximately 1.5 trillion dollars were invested in defense budgets. The US spends 42% of world expenses in this area -- 607 billion -- not including war expenses, while the number of people who go hungry in the world has reached the figure of 1 billion. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23421.htm ----- Corpse Powered Robots? http://www.gadgetreview.com/2009/09/corpse-powered-robots.html http://www.robotictechnologyinc.com/index.php/EATR ===== White House fears liberal war pressure: White House officials are increasingly worried liberal, anti-war Democrats will demand a premature end to the Afghanistan war before President Barack Obama can show signs of progress in the eight-year conflict, according to senior administration sources. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0809/26654.html === Change.... What change? Obama Administration Argues Against Releasing Bush-Era Detainee Information: The Obama administration told a judge late Monday that it will continue to withhold information regarding past detainee policies for national security reasons, a decision assailed by the American Civil Liberties Union http://snipurl.com/rkqom === Fed makes $14bn profit on crisis loans: The Federal Reserve has made a $14bn profit on loan programmes that have provided hundreds of billions of dollars in liquidity to the financial system since the start of the crisis two years ago, according to Fed officials. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0296cf1a-9594-11de-90e0-00144feabdc0.html === Crooks, Computers, and the Coming Crash: As stocks continued to rally into September, one has to ask one's self, "just who's buying this rally?" The answer? Computers and no one else. http://www.kitco.com/ind/Summers/sep012009.html === Bailout bank execs compensated nicely: The 20 financial firms that have received the most bailout money from the government have, in the three years through 2008, awarded their top five executives pay packages worth a combined $3.2 billion, according to a study released Wednesday by the Institute for Policy Studies, a liberal think tank. http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stories/2009/08/31/daily58.html === U.S. consumer bankruptcies up 24 percent in August: Bankruptcy filings by U.S. consumers rose 24 percent in August compared with a year earlier and could reach 1.4 million this year, according to an American Bankruptcy Institute and National Bankruptcy Research Center report released on Wednesday. http://www.reuters.com/article/email/idUSTRE5815X020090902 === Even higher taxes coming for Californians: For only the second time in 30 years, the tax board is lowering the point where each tax bracket begins, bumping many people into a higher category. At the same time, officials are cutting back some deductions. Everyone will pay more, even people whose bracket or income doesn't change. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-taxes27-2009aug27,0,1796963.story === Police repeatedly taser 76 year old man: Glenrock Police Chief Tom Sweet said two officers "probably didn't do things the best way" when they used a Taser on a 76-year-old man driving an antique tractor in a parade. http://snipurl.com/rkqpq === If a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroys my property, and kills or threatens to kill me, or those that are in it, and to "bind me in all cases whatsoever" to his absolute will, am I to suffer it? : The American Crisis by Thomas Paine. - http://www.ushistory.org/PAINE/crisis/c-01.htm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ShadowGovernment" group. 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