It happened all before: the 1976 swine flu pandemic and the US government vaccination propaganda that caused deaths and long-term illnesses

The WHO and the US administration in alliance with Big Pharma are involved in a major propaganda campaign to implement compulsory vaccination. There is no more “honest reporting” by mainstream TV as in this 1979 CBS TV program. Today, with some exceptions, network TV in America and in other Western countries such as Australia is [...]

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Manipulation is rife on stock markets

Are Our Markets Being Manipulated By “Rogues” Or Firms?
Jul 15, 2009 By Danny Schechter
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There’s New Evidence to Suggest that Crime In The Financial Markets is Rife
Everyone has heard of the Wikipedia but not everyone knows about the Investopedia, a Forbes website, that monitors finance for market players.  One of [...]

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There is a solution to bailed out banks refusing California’s request to tide over loans until October

This is an example for the Obama administration’s economic policies in action. It bails out the banks after they have been managed badly, and then the same banks refuse to use a small amount of that public money to give a loan reprieve to the State and therefore people of California, accusing the state of [...]

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G20 or G192? The global economy needs structural change and not restoration

Let’s face it: the UN does not represent the people of countries but their governments, and governments in general do not represent their people either. Nevertheless, the tussle represented in the two videos above is an interesting one: it reflects a power differential, that between the political [...]

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Obama’s Cap and Trade Carbon Emissions Bill – A Stealth Scheme to License Pollution and Fraud

By Stephen Lendman
Global Research

On May 15, HR 2454: American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (ACESA) was introduced in the House purportedly “To create clean energy jobs, achieve energy independence, reduce global warming pollution and transition to a clean energy economy.”
In fact, it’s to let corporate polluters reap huge windfall profits [...]

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Sharp decline in employment of Blacks, slight employment increase for Whites: equality in America

The following New York Times article talks about employment inequality in New York, but it also mentions that that city reflects a nation-wide trend – just much more extreme. In the year ending April 30, Whites in New York gained about 130,000 jobs over the previous 12 months while Blacks, Hispanics and Asians lost 61,000 [...]

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Roller Babies

4 million views in 12 days – not surprising. having just read an article on memristors, i strongly suggest to leave instructions in your synapses that there’s no need to buy evian . sound: “rapper’s delight” by dan the automator.

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Circulation charge: a new way of looking at a global currency

Natural Money – A New Book – “New Currency – How Money Changes the World as we know it”
[Reposted from Robert Paterson's Weblog]

Why can’t we fix what we know is wrong?
The gap between rich and poor widens – today a billion people starve – in 1800 there were only a billion people on Earth. Starvation [...]

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Mainstream economists replace the role of climate skeptics to ensure inaction on climate change

Reposted from Climate and Capitalism
A new book by economist Frank Ackerman, Can We Afford the Future?: The Economics of a Warming World (Zed, 2009), presents an important and startling thesis:
“As the climate science debate is reaching closure, the climate economics debate is heating up. The controversial issue now is the fear that overly ambitious climate [...]

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American Economic Triumphalism Is Over

Not that I would call European governments like those of France, Italy or or Germany ’socialists’, but this piece of American self-reflection the bygone era of US capitalist hubris by Ruth Conniff in The Progressive sounds quite refreshing.
Oh, those silly French. Remember how much fun we used to have at their expense? Back in the [...]

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Australian economists urge government to establish a people’s bank

I never thought that I have much in common with protagonists of capitalism, such as prominent economists – or should I say I didn’t expect their philosophy having any overlap with my own. Taken at face value though, the suggestion by six influential economists to have the federal government establish a people’s bank to break [...]

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Whose Country is it anyway? America has been stolen from its people.

By Prof. John Kozy
Global Research

Woody Guthrie sang, “This Land Is My Land, This Land Is Your Land,” but it isn’t. It was stolen a long time ago. Although it may have been “made for you and me,” people with absolutely no loyalty to this land now own it. It needs to be taken, not bought, [...]

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Obama style change: everything remains the same, but his marketing is better

“Business Liberalism”: The Real Meaning of Obama’s “Pragmatic” Reluctance to “Tilt at Windmills”
By Paul Street
Paul Street’s ZSpace Page / ZSpace
(Reposted)
Early last April the New York Times published an article with an ironic title: “In Cuba , Change Means More of the Same.”  This “news” item reported that “rather than dismantling Cuba ’s socialist framework,” [...]

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With US lawmakers’ election campaigns bankrolled by the financial industry, what are the chances for change?

Who can we bank on, who can we trust, as the crisis sharpens?
By Schechter, Danny
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Washington seems tethered at the hip to Wall Street and does it’s bidding.
Can it possibly be true that the Congress can’t walk and chew gum at the same time? This question is prompted by the announcement that [...]

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Weekly list of articles on topics from the financial crisis to Iranian elections

F. William Engdahl, Larry Everest, Catherine Lutz and Cynthia Enloe, and Ellen Brown are guests on The Global Research News Hour
Host: Stephen Lendman, June 22-26
- 2009-06-26

Obama’s Financial Reform Proposal: A Stealth Scheme for Global Monetary Control
- by Stephen Lendman – 2009-06-24

Peruvian government forced to repeal Amazon free trade decrees
- by Luis Acre – [...]

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Obama’s financial industry reform: business as usual

Obama’s reform, saying it once again, does not make any major structural changes. The US president’s words are just weasel talk, glossing over the fact that Wall Street is still in control. The regulator, the Federal Reserve, claims not knowing who its trillions of dollars distributed to financial institutions are going [...]

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Obama capitulates to Wall Street

Instead of Real Financial Reform, Obama’s Plan capitulates to Wall Street
by Prof. Michael Hudson
Global Research
The story is worse than just “Pres. Obama labored, and brought forth a mouse.” He is morphing into Joe Lieberman in reaching across the aisle for Republican support – and no doubt future campaign contributions from the financial sector. [...]

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The retreat of the shadow lenders, why deflation and not inflation is the order of the day

by Ellen Brown
Global Research
Web of Debt
While contrarians are screaming “hyperinflation!”, the money supply is actually shrinking. This is because most money today comes into existence as bank loans, and lending has shrunk substantially. That means the Fed needs to “monetize” debt just to fill the breach.
On June 3, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben [...]

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The Good, the Bad, the Ugly: Financial Sector Reform

Obama yesterday announced his financial reform plans, and it is already clear that everything will remain more or less the same. The reform already is half-hearted, and most of the reasonably good bits will get the chop once the proposals hit the Senate, where senators’ pockets are well- lined by the US banking and financial [...]

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Apple greed: buy a mac now and you’ll have to pay extra for the soon to be released OS upgrade

This stinks! It makes me even like Micro$oft better. Download Squad reports that Apple has decided to charge users, who buy a Mac now sporting the Leopard OS, US$9.95 if they want to upgrade to the soon to be released Snow Leopard. Micro$oft on the other hand offers buyers who get a computer now with [...]

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