By Daveparts
In the 1960’s the high water mark of American Industrial might, I remember my sister receiving a Japanese transistor radio as a birthday gift. We family members all marveled at it, not just the technology but it’s foreignness. This was America and we Americans had never seen any foreign goods, of course there was pottery and china and such, cheap paper products but this was high technology coming from a foreign land.
Ford Motor Company was offered national distribution (...)
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Bled White
26 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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Depressionomics
26 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsDepressionomics
At one time I used to believe the saying that those who didn’t study history were doomed to repeat it. But eventually I realized that’s not quite true - rather when the people who have lived history die, the way is open for history to repeat itself.
Back in the early 70’s a proposal was made to repeal the securities regulation that required that short sales on stock (selling a stock now, but delivering it a later date, in the hope that the price has gone down by the (...) -
It’s Official: The Crash of the U.S. Economy has begun
15 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
It’s Official: The Crash of the U.S. Economy has begun
by Richard C. Cook
Global Research, June 14, 2007
It’s official. Mark your calendars. The crash of the U.S. economy has begun. It was announced the morning of Wednesday, June 13, 2007, by economic writers Steven Pearlstein and Robert Samuelson in the pages of the Washington Post, one of the foremost house organs of the U.S. monetary elite.
Pearlstein’s column was titled, “The Takeover Boom, About to Go Bust” and concerned the (...) -
World military expenditure increase of 37 per cent over the ten-years period since 1997 (SIPRI)
11 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
Recent trends in military expenditure
World military expenditure in 2006 is estimated at $1204 billion in current prices. This represents an increase of 3.5 per cent in real terms since 2005 and of 37 per cent over the 10-year period since 1997. Average spending per capita has increased from $173 in 2005 to $177 in 2006 at constant (2005) prices and exchange rates and to $184 at current prices.
World military expenditure is extremely unevenly distributed. In 2006 the 15 countries with (...) -
Liar’s Primer
18 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
Having been a kid and now having been a parent I’m consider myself somewhat of an expert on the subject of lying. There are certain ground rules followed by even the most accomplished liars children, politicians, lawyers, newspaper editors everyone in the trade. First of all it’s never their fault they will never accept responsibility for anything associated with the calamity, “I wanted to be home on time Dad but I was riding with the guys and they promised me we’d be back on time.” Or (...)
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How to Protect the Environment by Printing Local Currency
16 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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Video and Information: Money As Debt (47:07) - This “animated presentation of "Money as Debt" tells in very simple and effective graphic terms what money is and how it is being created. It is an entertaining way to get the message out. The Cowichan Citizens Coalition and its "Duncan Initiative" received high praise from those who previewed it. I recommend it as a painless but hard-hitting educational tool and encourage the widest distribution and use by all groups (...) -
$100 BILLION for the War: The Breakdown
6 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentI guess everyone really would like to know where the $100 billion "suplimental", ostensibly earmarked "for the troops", is REALLY going. Well gang, here’s the breakdown.
9 billion to General Motors for weapons research and development.
8.9 billion for a general slush fund in case of "emergencies"
8.8 billion for liquor and hookers sent in from Istanbul,for commanding officers.
8.6 billion for cost overruns.
8.4 billion for the U.S. embassy to be decorated in serpentine marble and (...) -
Concerned Citizen
14 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentshttp://www.counterpunch.org/roberts02122007.html
February 12, 2007
Dump the Dollar!
How the World Can Stop Bush
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
What would be the consequences of a US or Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear energy sites?
At the 2006 Perdana Global Peace Forum, Australian medical scientist Dr. Helen Caldicott provided an authoritative analysis of the devastating impact on human life that would result from the radiation release from such an attack.
Dr. Caldicott described the (...) -
Impending Iran Holocaust - top Republican says World can stop Bush Iran War by dumping US dollar
14 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
8 commentsTOP REPUBLICAN Reagan Treasury official, writer, editor and academic Paul Craig Roberts has written that the World must stop Bush’s impending war on Iran that may involve nuclear weapons. Quoting Australian nuclear medicine expert Dr Helen Caldicott, he is horrified by the appalling consequences of a US-Israeli nuclear attack on peaceful, remote Iran (population 70 million).
Paul Craig Roberts declares that the World can halt Bush’s crimes by dumping the US dollar.
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UK ’using personal loans to cover tax bills
11 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentUK ’using personal loans to cover tax bills’ 09/01/2007
Personal loans may be used to help cover tax bills that are higher than they were originally expected to be, it has been suggested.
Those who are looking to fund their tax bills in this way should shop around for the best possible rate, according to Sainsbury’s Bank, a company that provides the product.
Sainsbury’s Bank draws attention to HM Revenue & Customs findings which show that 900,000 people missed last year’s tax (...)