The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The Baseline Scenario What happened to the global economy and what we can do about it Who is Carlos Slim? The US increasingly displays characteristics that we have seen many times in middle-income “emerging markets” – new dimensions of vast inequality, forms of financial instability that benefit the best connected, and consistently easy credit for the …
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The Atlantic May 2009 by Simon Johnson The crash has laid bare many unpleasant truths about the United States. One of the most alarming, says a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is that the finance industry has effectively captured our government—a state of affairs that more typically describes emerging markets, and is …
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Hot Topics AA: Agriculture needs billions of dollars by 2050: UN agency, 10/08/2009 AA: EAC militaries, US command set to stage joint war games, 10/10/2009 AA: Mideast oil exporters’ foreign reserves to rise: IMF, 10/11/2009 AA: Obama and the Nobel Prize: When War becomes Peace, When the Lie becomes the Truth, 09/11/2009 AA: Scientists join …
Hot Topics AA: Mubarak urges Israel to resume peace talks 10/04/09 AA: Old dispute could yet upset Armenia, Turkey peace 10/06/09 CZ: The Czech Year of Adjustments 10/02/09 GE: An Invasion by Any Other Name 10/06/09 IL: Lieberman wants ‘new Israeli foreign policy’ 10/07/09 IL: UN report has Israeli officers concerned they could be arrested …
Hot Topics AA: China, India lock horns over Kashmir 10/02/09 AU: O’Connor faces crime cash showdown 10/01/09 CN: China maps an end to the Afghan war10/01/09 CN: SCENARIOS: Key forces shaping China’s long-term future 10/01/09 KP: NKorea looks to unconventional warfare: US general 09/29/09 LK: Defending the defenders of Sri Lanka 09/29/09 LK: UN Urges …
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Hot Topics ER: Eritrea’s militarization 08/29/09 GM: GAMBIA: Plans to develop higher education 08/28/09 KE: Kenya says no political meddling in financial sector 08/31/09 LY: Libya Sends Swiss Jet Home, Without Detainees 08/28/09 MA: Morocco: HM the King calls for comprehensive reform of judicial system 08/26/09 NG: Nigeria’s border checkpoints violate regional integration agreement 08/31/09 …
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My bills are all due and the baby needs shoes and I’m busted Cotton is down to a quarter a pound, but I’m busted I got a cow that went dry and a hen that won’t lay A big stack of bills that gets bigger each day The county’s gonna haul my belongings away cause …
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