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US Economy is now a gigantic stagnant cesspool with turds floating at the top

The official unemployment rate last September was 9.1%. Today it is 8.2% but much of that difference is that millions are being shifted into those not being counted as part of the workforce anymore because they have supposedly just ‘dropped … Continue reading

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Cuba emerges victor of Cold Cash War

The ban on US travel to Cuba may be lifted, but isn’t the timing so 1989? Old Havana has been affected by the European tourists which have been coming for decades, but opening the gates to the capitalist hordes of … Continue reading

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Some 4,400,000 US jobs lost in last 15 months

“Since the start of the recession in December 2007, the economy has shed 4.4 million jobs, with more than half purged in the last four months alone.” For more about this, see Reuters U.S. economy sheds 651,000 jobs in February

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Collapsing Mexico

Collapsing Mexico was not the intent of Lawrence Summers, Obama’s new US Secretary of Treasury, but he has pulled it off BIG! Mexico’s economy today is shedding hundreds of thousands of badly needed jobs and is providing negative economic growth … Continue reading

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French again put Americans to shame

Contrast the French to Americans once again, as they respond to their country’s elite government delivered handouts in a way today unimaginable in pacified Obama nation USA. Huge crowds join French strikes Meanwhile, in America, crowds actually turn out to … Continue reading

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Israel, the ‘Jewish State’ of Vandals

Has any other country ever become so linked to vandalism as Israel? The national state bug is even the Caterpillar in the world’s eyes. For a group of people that talk about building a nation of milk and honey out … Continue reading

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The good news for America’s economy!

For the year 2008, the Dow fell 33.8 percent, for its bleakest year since 1931; the S&P skidded 38.5 percent; and the Nasdaq posted its worst year ever, with a 40.5 percent drop. That’s the good news! Capitalist world stocks … Continue reading

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The American dyslexia for economics

The interest rate for banks is down to zero. B of A and Citibank are still charging 39%. What again does economic news have to do with me?   The biggest news on the economy was BREAKING NEWS a week … Continue reading

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‘Patriotic’ pacifists and ‘Peace’crats to hold UFPJ lobbyfest gathering in Chicago

United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) will be holding a gathering in Chicago next week to start their plans for a 2009 Lobbyfest of Barack Obama. They still haven’t figured any of it out and most likely never will. Ostensibly … Continue reading

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$7.76 trillion

This just in from Bloomberg News- $7.76 trillion in guarantees (from the US government) For more about Bloomberg see wikipedia Bloomberg L.P. You heard it from the horse’s mouth and the horse is worried. Will the US Treasury itself collapse … Continue reading

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Will the Biden-Obama plan to ethnically divide Iraq into 3 parts lead to peace?

Joseph Biden is a long time proponent of creating 3 separate ethnic enclaves in Iraq so that the Pentagon can better dictate Iraq’s future. Essentially, Joe Biden is the actual architect of current Bush Administration strategy in Iraq, which is … Continue reading

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The junked out American economy

America is a junked out economy that only produces war and the crappiest delivery of health care at the costliest expense to all. It’s running on fumes just like General Motors. Running on fumes: GM could soon run out of … Continue reading

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Oval Office is NOT an Alzheimers Ward!

Their surge failed. GOP retreats from Colorado invasion, and preparing for a crushing defeat everywhere. Treasury Secretary, now in charge of bailout, says he “regrets” being 100% wrong about US economy. Say it ain’t so, Joe “the Plumber” purged from … Continue reading

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The Stripped Women of Wall Street

Leave it to the Capitalist System to find new and innovative ways to exploit people! Playboy looks for bare market on Wall Street   Now isn’t that just so cute? Fleeced bunnies for newly unemployed male workers to jack off … Continue reading

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Transferring bankruptcy from the private sector to the public sector

With all this bad private debt being hauled in by the US government hardly any notice has been given to the idea that the US Federal Government itself is putting itself at risk of default, too? In a way a … Continue reading

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The party’s over, it’s time to call it a day

…All except the really thick headed now know that the US party is over, though certainly there are a lot of thick headed Americans. So thick are they, in fact, that most Americans still believe the party is actually only … Continue reading

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Barack’s BIG accomplisment

COPY CAT LOSERS …..What is the big accomplishment of the Democratic Party’s candidate for President of the United States? It is the rehabilitation of the sad sack Republican Party, that’s what! Just read the latest poll results… McCain takes lead … Continue reading

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Global economic rapists are at it again

Why protest the G8 Summit July 7-9? Those hoodlums always look so determined. Here’s the rationale by the Emergency Exit Collective: The 2008 G8 on Hokkaido, a Strategic Assessment Emergency Exit Collective Bristol, Mayday, 2008 The authors of this document … Continue reading

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Our little Nero has another fire in him

Our IQ-pip-squeak-in-chief wrecks the US economy, slaughters a million people, steers the planet straight toward an iceberg, and now he’s trying to extort Americans to drill for oil on the coasts and in ANWR. Bush is still let to speak … Continue reading

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Is the Dalai Lama an intelligence asset?

We know, or should by now, that the U.S.’s own terrorist organization, the CIA, is behind all foreign relation actions and assassinations, mostly of the covert kind. They cover themselves by using NGO’s, front companies, black banks, and contracting services … Continue reading

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New Year’s Day predictions and the chiselers

When The First rolled in, I studiously avoided making any New Years Predictions. After having predicted that we were weeks away from the US attacking Iran, that we were heading above $3/ gallon gas to $5 a gallon, and that … Continue reading

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Map of GDP comparisons

How does the US economy compare with other countries? Check out The Map. Kind of explains the US ruling elites’ addiction to imperialism. East Timor has the distinction of being the world’s most pitiable economy, closely followed by other places … Continue reading

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Denver May Day pro- immigrant workers march

Reports are that 150,000 in Chicago marched for a Just Immigration Reform and an end to the government raids launched in the last year by the Bush Administration. That one was a huge demonstration by any standards. The march and … Continue reading

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Mexico’s oil is running out so up goes the Border Wall

Americans are under the impression that Mexico is an extremely poor country. It is not. It is the world’s 5th largest oil producer, and the US economy’s 2nd largest foreign supplier of oil. Canada is #1, while Saudi Arabia comes … Continue reading

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Intel Corporation

If we were ever to see PEACE, most of America would be in the unemployment line. The whole US economy would crash and unemployment would shoot up to 50-60-70-80% of us. That’s how grounded in war we have become. Just … Continue reading

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