Posted on March 28, 2008 by marcelinopena
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/3/28/amy_goodman_questions_sen_obama_on
Great response Barack, just great;
AMY GOODMAN: Can you call for a ban on the private military contractors like Blackwater?
[...]
SEN. BARACK OBAMA: Well, I don’t want to replace those contractors with more US troops, because we don’t have them, alright? But this was a speech about the economy.
AMY GOODMAN: The war is costing $3 trillion, according [...]
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Posted on March 26, 2008 by marcelinopena
Whoa a lot of stuff is becoming available via the internet that provide great insights on the current US economy. My job is to filter through it all and write a forecast for the next 6 months so expect more posts on this subject in the next month.
Who is Warren Buffet (1, 2)?
Get familiar with [...]
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Posted on March 25, 2008 by marcelinopena
A Conscientious Objection
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080323_a_conscientious_objection/
Posted on Mar 23, 2008
By Chris Hedges
Those of us who oppose the war, who believe that all U.S. troops should be withdrawn and the network [...]
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Posted on March 24, 2008 by marcelinopena
Amazing, China censors media within its borders to avoid looking honestly bad in regards to its violent treatment of the Tibetan people. Its gets so bad that the Tibetans are forced to bring this issue up in all settings including the lighting of the Olympic games torch in Greece. Simply amazing the very [...]
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Posted on March 22, 2008 by marcelinopena
I love this article by the Economists 2005 Dec 24 edition, that cites a clear snapshot of fake capitalism that has been plaguing the US since the 1800’s. Its lucid artilce provides excellent background on what happened in the past and compares to the recent decade of 2000 scandals created by the corpo-monopolies that [...]
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Posted on March 22, 2008 by marcelinopena
WorldCom in 2002 reported its Maintenance Expenditures as Capital Expenditures making a whopping earnings overstatment for 2001 at nearly $4 billion. The CEO was served a 25 year prison sentence starting in 2006.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/worldcom/
INDEPTH: WORLDCOM
The WorldCom story
CBC News Online | September 26, 2006
The following is a timeline showing the rise and fall of WorldCom Inc.:
Bernie [...]
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Posted on March 20, 2008 by marcelinopena
http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2008/03/i-am-barack-obama.html
–>analysis of who he is
http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/03/7695_black_and_more.html
–>analysis of the speech itself
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Posted on March 20, 2008 by marcelinopena
All 3 reports are super important but what I hope people will pay extra attention in on the Federal Reserve Buyout of Bear Stearns. This sort of thing is not done without severe repercussions for the rest of us.
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/3/20/fed_bailout_of_bear_stearns_first
March 20, 2008
Fed Bailout of Bear Stearns First of its Kind Since Great Depression
The nation’s fifth [...]
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Posted on March 17, 2008 by marcelinopena
http://www.france24.com/en/20080317-current-crisis-most-wrenching-1945-greenspan-financial-global-economy&navi=ECONOMIE
–>Some analysis on what is said.
We will never have a perfect model of risk
By Alan Greenspan
Published: March 16 2008 18:25 | Last updated: March 16 2008 18:25
The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the second world war. It will end [...]
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Posted on March 17, 2008 by marcelinopena
http://action.foe.org/content.jsp?content_KEY=3965
–>Synopsis by Friends of the Earth on Nano Particles in foodhttp://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=do-nanoparticles-in-food-pose-health-risk
–>article on Friends of the Earth research by Scientific American
http://www.foe.org/pdf/nano_food.pdf
–>Full report research by Friends of the Earth on Nano Particles in food
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Listen to this segment:
http://www.archive.org/download/DailyDigest031708/2008_03_17_burgos.mp3
*** Nanotech Particles Found in Food ***
GUEST: Ian Illuminato, Health and Environment Campaigner with Friends of the Earth, co-author of the [...]
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