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| ECONOMICS |
| The Land Lords: Some Facts |
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on Friday, July 15th, 2005 @ 00:52:27 MST (2975 views) |
| Ten percent of the U.S. population owns 82 percent of the real estate (and 81 percent of the stock and 88 percent of the bonds). |
| MEDIA |
| Propaganda |
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on Friday, July 15th, 2005 @ 00:28:39 MST (2556 views) |
| The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. |
| ECONOMICS |
| The Super Rich Are Out of Sight |
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on Friday, July 15th, 2005 @ 00:27:29 MST (14979 views) |
| The super rich, the less than 1 percent of the population who own the lion's share of the nation's wealth, go uncounted in most income distribution reports. Even those who purport to study the question regularly overlook the very wealthiest among us. |
| ECONOMICS |
| Battling Mainstream Economics |
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on Thursday, July 14th, 2005 @ 01:43:53 MST (2105 views) |
| There is a widespread complacency toward a global financial crisis—in which private speculators wield more power than governments over central bank coffers—that may swerve into a crash far worse than the Dirty Thirties, jeopardizing pension and retirement savings funds. "I have difficulty in understanding why the dismantling or closing down of productive assets—hospitals and schools—could constitute the key to prosperity. But that is what is actually being conveyed. The official mainstream economic agenda is that you have to close down, downsize, lay off, and that is the key to prosperity." |
| SCIENCE / HEALTH |
| Top 100 Aids Inconsistencies |
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on Thursday, July 14th, 2005 @ 01:22:39 MST (11351 views) |
| Any five of these 100 inconsistencies are grounds for a major overhaul of the Aids paradigm. They expose the misrepresentation, fraud, pseudo-science and hype that underpins the drugs and therapies used in Aids treatment today. The persistence of AIDS dogma is truly astonishing, in the face of so many specific scientific flaws. |
| ECONOMICS |
| THE END OF THE AGE OF OIL |
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on Thursday, July 14th, 2005 @ 01:06:42 MST (3146 views) |
| So, what does the future hold? Well, for one thing, there will be an oil crisis very soon. Whether that means it has already begun or won’t happen until later in this decade or sometime in the next decade, I don’t know. In my view, the numbers are not dependable enough for us to say. Either we, our children, or perhaps our grandchildren, are in for some very, very bad times. |
| POLICE STATE / MILITARY |
| War is a Racket! |
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on Wednesday, July 13th, 2005 @ 01:00:16 MST (65535 views) |
| War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses. |
| CORPORATISM |
| Drug Lobby Second to None: How the pharmaceutical industry gets its way in Washington |
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on Monday, July 11th, 2005 @ 01:28:18 MST (4862 views) |
| The pharmaceutical and health products industry has spent more than $800 million in federal lobbying and campaign donations at the federal and state levels in the past seven years, a Center for Public Integrity investigation has found. Its lobbying operation, on which it reports spending more than $675 million, is the biggest in the nation. No other industry has spent more money to sway public policy in that period.
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| ECONOMICS |
| Ownership Statistics: Why a Shared Capitalism is Needed... |
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on Saturday, July 09th, 2005 @ 22:32:21 MST (10407 views) |
| Current trends in economic inequality, both domestically and abroad, pose dangers to human dignity, democracy, political stability, fiscal sustainability, social justice, freedom, civil society, physical/mental health and environmental sustainability. These dangers are palpable, real and on the rise. |
| WAR ON TERRORISM |
| THE LAVON AFFAIR: IS HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF? |
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on Saturday, July 09th, 2005 @ 22:31:36 MST (3795 views) |
| In 1954, Israeli agents working in Egypt planted bombs in several buildings, including a United States diplomatic facility, and left evidence behind implicating Arabs as the culprits. The ruse would have worked, had not one of the bombs detonated prematurely, allowing the Egyptians to capture and identify one of the bombers, which in turn led to the round up of an Israeli spy ring. |
| GOVERNMENT / THE ELITE |
| Bloody Bill Clinton - American Caligula |
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on Saturday, July 09th, 2005 @ 17:16:55 MST (2736 views) |
| President Clinton may be in his final year of office but he leaves in his wake a trail of allegations that, if true, would rank him alongside some of history’s most notorious criminals. |
| ECONOMICS |
| The Origins of Modern Banking |
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on Saturday, July 09th, 2005 @ 16:41:56 MST (3915 views) |
| I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a money aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power should be taken from banks, and restored to the people. |
| MEDIA |
| The Doors Of Perception: Why Americans Will Believe Almost Anything |
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on Saturday, July 09th, 2005 @ 16:40:58 MST (3778 views) |
| These early mass persuaders postured themselves as performing a moral service for humanity in general - democracy was too good for people; they needed to be told what to think. Stauber describes Bernays' rationale like this: "the scientific manipulation of public opinion was necessary to overcome chaos and conflict in a democratic society." |
| ECONOMICS |
| How does capitalism affect liberty? |
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on Tuesday, July 05th, 2005 @ 23:09:30 MST (3922 views) |
| The enormous disparity of power and wealth between the capitalist class and the working class shows that the benefits of the "agreements" entered into between the two sides are far from equal. The proviso that is required to make every transaction strictly voluntary is not freedom not to enter any particular exchange, but freedom not to enter into any exchange at all. |
| ECONOMICS |
| Great Depression. George Bush vs Einstein on economic policy |
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on Tuesday, July 05th, 2005 @ 23:06:37 MST (2204 views) |
| According to Einstein, the policies of Bush are likely to result in another Great Depression. Depressions are caused by the huge transfer of wealth to a tiny minority at the top of the pyramid, which as Einstein put it, causes 'instability' in the 'utilization of capital', which then results in 'increasingly severe depressions', with the severity of the depression correlated directly with the degree of income inequality that has developed in a society. |
| IMPERIALISM |
| It's Imperialism, Stupid |
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on Monday, July 04th, 2005 @ 22:10:14 MST (2511 views) |
| Half-truths, misinformation and hidden agendas have characterised official pronouncements about US war motives in Iraq from the very beginning. The revelations about the rush to war in Iraq stand out all the more starkly amid the chaos that ravages the country and threatens the region and indeed the world. Human survival is not particularly significant in comparison with short-term power and wealth. These themes resonate through history. The difference today in this age of nuclear weapons is only that the stakes are enormously higher. |
| IMPERIALISM |
| The US Is A 'British' Financial Colony |
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on Monday, July 04th, 2005 @ 22:07:08 MST (2133 views) |
| It is sobering to remember that the U.S. has been a financial colony of Britain for almost 100 years. This is confirmed by the "Col. E.M. House Report", a chilling 10-page "progress report" dated June 10, 1919, which portrays the United States in exactly these terms. |
| IRAQ WAR |
| The Hidden Costs of War |
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on Sunday, June 26th, 2005 @ 22:40:34 MST (3711 views) |
| The cost of war is always more than anticipated. If all the costs were known prior to the beginning of a war, fewer wars would be fought. |
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