March 2nd, 2010 Unpaid dental bill dogs Utah homeowner
February 28th, 2010 @ 5:59pm
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah woman who lost the title to her house over an unpaid $68 dental bill has been given a reprieve.
The Utah Court of Appeals ruled Capri Ramos is entitled to another opportunity to void the sale of her house at [...]
January 6th, 2010 Wednesday January 6,2010
Daily Express Reporter
BRITAIN faces a “probable’’ sterling crisis before the general election, with economists predicting the value of the pound will fall below the euro.
It would be triggered if Labour dramatically narrowed the Tories’ poll lead. This would spark market concern that Britain would not get a new government committed to tackling [...]
December 16th, 2009 By Daniel Gross
Posted Friday, Dec. 11, 2009, at 12:17 PM ET
In November, I met with an executive at one of China’s new private equity firms. He talked up the firm’s investments in energy software and mobile communications. But companies that export? He wouldn’t touch them.
The fact that China’s smart money is now looking inward and [...]
November 6th, 2009 By Paul Craig Roberts
November 06, 2009 “Information Clearing House” — -The US government is now so totally under the thumbs of organized interest groups that “our” government can no longer respond to the concerns of the American people who elect the president and the members of the House and Senate. Voters will vent their frustrations [...]
November 3rd, 2009 By Rick Wolff
Global Research, November 3, 2009
Socialist Project – 2009-11-02
Crises expose the system’s irrationalities and wasteful resource allocations. For example, Madoff and his many, smaller imitators reveal the tips of corruption icebergs. More important, the crisis-induced fiscal emergencies looming in most of the 50 states demonstrate several absurdities in our economic system.
The Center on Budget [...]
October 27th, 2009 Labour threw open Britain’s borders to mass immigration to help socially engineer a “truly multicultural” country, a former Government adviser has revealed.
By Tom Whitehead, Home Affairs Editor
Published: 6:42PM BST 23 Oct 2009
The huge increases in migrants over the last decade were partly due to a politically motivated attempt by ministers to radically change the country [...]
October 27th, 2009 By Paul Craig Roberts
October 26, 2009 “Information Clearing House” — Evidence that the US is a failed state is piling up faster than I can record it.
One conclusive hallmark of a failed state is that the crooks are inside the government, using government to protect and to advance their private interests.
Part 2
Another conclusive hallmark is [...]
October 23rd, 2009 Posted on 20 October 2009
by State Rep. Susan Lynn (TN-57th)
The following is a letter from Tennessee to the other 49 State Legislatures
We send greetings from the Tennessee General Assembly. On June 23, 2009, House Joint Resolution 108, the State Sovereignty Resolution, was signed by Governor Phil Bredesen. The Resolution created a committee which has as [...]
October 8th, 2009 October 5th, 2009 |
Ok, the average American makes about 45k a year. Uncle Sam forces you to pay 6.2% of your income to Fica, aka Social Security (SS). Uncle Sam also forces your employer to match that 6.2%, also contributing it to Fica on your behalf. Thus, 12.4% of your income is contributed [...]
October 6th, 2009 this is a setup for the downfall of gold and silver prices in the near future. buy it all up, watch the market crash, then sell to the banksters for pennies on the dollar. how can no one see this? all the patriots are celebrating this like it’s for their benefit or something. gold is [...]
October 5th, 2009 By JULIE CRESWELL
For most of the 133 years since its founding in a small city in Wisconsin, the Simmons Bedding Company enjoyed an illustrious history.
Presidents have slumbered on its mattresses aboard Air Force One. Dignitaries have slept on them in the Lincoln Bedroom. Its advertisements have featured Henry Ford and H. G. Wells. Eleanor Roosevelt [...]
September 17th, 2009 By Colin Barr, senior writer
Sep. 10, 2009, Last Updated: September 12, 2009: 7:25 PM ET
Stocks have rallied — but corporate officers and directors are now selling after buying the dip.
NEW YORK (Fortune) — Can hundreds of stock-selling insiders be wrong?
The stock market has mounted an historic rally since it hit a low in March. [...]
September 17th, 2009 Thursday, September 17, 2009
Deborah Levine
MarketWatch Pulse
NEW YORK — The Treasury Department said Thursday it will issue $112 billion in notes next week. A record $43 billion in 2-year notes will be sold on Tuesday, followed by $40 billion in 5-year debt on Wednesday. The final offering will be $49 [...]
September 12th, 2009 discuss this topic in the forums – (1) Posts
September 12th, 2009 Corporate officers and directors were buying stock when the market hit bottom. What does it say that they’re selling now?
By Colin Barr, senior writer
Last Updated: September 11, 2009: 7:27 AM ET
NEW YORK (Fortune) — Can hundreds of stock-selling insiders be wrong?
The stock market has mounted an historic rally since it hit a low in March. [...]
September 9th, 2009 September 9, 2009
Pulse of the Planet
http://www.counterpunch.org/checker09092009.html
By MELISSA CHECKER
Whether you’re a climate change denier or doomsayer, an avid recycler or rabid consumer of plastic bottles, there is one very good but little-known reason to oppose carbon offsets: their immediate and dire human costs. Offset opponents have always maintained that using them to reduce greenhouse gas emissions [...]
September 9th, 2009 Well folks. Bought and payed for is no longer a euphemism.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/judicial/2009-09-09-courtFEC_N.htm
By Joan Biskupic, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court appeared poised to open the door to more corporate spending in political elections Wednesday, in a fast-paced special hearing over campaign-finance regulation.
If the conservative majority moves in that direction — which would mean reversing decisions that [...]
August 30th, 2009 By Mike Whitney
Global Research, August 31, 2009
Ben Bernanke never should have been reappointed as Fed chairman. Obama made a big mistake. The main thing to remember about Bernanke is that, in the two years since the financial crisis began, he’s made no effort to force the large banks and financial institutions to write-down their losses. [...]
August 28th, 2009 Friday, August 28, 2009
Washington’s Blog
Commonly-accepted wisdom says that we can inflate our way out of our debt crisis.
Ben Bernanke and Paul Krugman apparently think we should force inflation on the economy. University of Oregon economics professor Tim Duy thinks the U.S. will ultimately try to inflate its way out of debt.
Warren Buffet says:
A country [...]
August 28th, 2009 Posted by James aka adap2k on August 28, 2009 at 3:28pm
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usatoday
More Americans are having their power shut off as the weak economy makes it harder to pay bills.
“We see record numbers of households becoming disconnected or in danger of disconnection,” says Mark Bixby, energy director of Rockford, Ill. Five years ago, [...]
