WHAT'S GOING TO COLLAPSE...?! AMERICA...? NAH, NO WAY. WANNA BET? UHMMMM, LET ME THINK ABOUT IT. DON'T THINK TOO LONG, OR YOU'LL BE TOO LATE.

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My 1933 Nightmare

By David Michael Green

Can we really live in a country populated by so many fools,
people who can so readily, proudly and belligerently be made
into tools of their own destruction? Can the greatest political,
economic, cultural and military power on the world's stage
possibly be so incredibly backward at its core? Continue

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Can We Stop Banksters From Killing Financial Reform?

By Danny Schechter

If healthcare reform is at risk, financial reform seems
like a non-starter. The empire is striking back, and
suddenly what were once considered modest reforms
are running into roadblocks as they are branded the
work of Bolsheviks. Continue

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Sicko Movie

By Michael

MooreMoore shows us how France, England, Canada
and – yikes! – Cuba actually help sick people instead
of letting them wither and die for lack of health insurance.
Then he instructs us to loot those places for ideas.
Anti-American? Hell, no. Moore argues that if another
country builds a better car, we buy it. If it crafts a better
wine, we drink it. Why not free universal health care?

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Question for Bernanke: "Do You Have the Cojones to Raise Rates?"

By Mike Whitney

Bernanke should welcome the opportunity to show everyone
how he's pulled the world's biggest economy back from
the brink of disaster. All he needs to do is stop giving
away free money, shut down a few of his so-called lending
facilities, and stop manipulating interest rates by
purchasing mortgage-backed securities (MBS) from
Fannie and Freddie. How hard is that? Continue

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"The Collapse Gap"

The United States is going the way of the Soviet Union.

By Dmitry Orlov

There is a fair chance that the U.S. economy will
collapse sometime within the foreseeable future.
As things stand, the U.S. economy is poised to perform
something like a disappearing act. Continue

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This is No RecessionIt's a Planned Demolition

By Mike Whitney

Those days are over. The world is changing and the
US role is getting smaller. As US markets become
ess attractive to foreign exporters, the dollar will
lose its position as the world's reserve currency. As
goes the dollar, so goes the empire. Want some advice:
Learn Mandarin. Continue

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Entering the Greatest Depression in History

More Bubbles Waiting to Burst

By Andrew Gavin Marshall

The crisis has many bubbles, all of which dwarf the
housing bubble burst of 2008. Indicators show that
the next possible burst is the commercial real estate
bubble. However, the main event on the horizon is
the “bailout bubble” and the general world debt bubble,
which will plunge the world into a Great Depression the
likes of which have never before been seen. Continue

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Faulty Forecasting

By Ralph Nader

Unlike sloppy plumbers and carpenters who pay
a price for their mistakes, Wall Street forecasters
seem to be paid very well despite being chronically
wrong. Continue

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Hunger Hits Detroit's Middle Class

By Steve Hargreaves

On a side street in an old industrial neighborhood,
a delivery man stacks a dolly of goods outside a
store. Ten feet away stands another man clad
in military fatigues, combat boots and what
appears to be a flak jacket. He looks straight
out of Baghdad. But this isn't Iraq. It's southeast
Detroit, and he's there to guard the groceries.
Continue

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LAY OFF LAYOFFS

By Ted Rall

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WE'RE ON THE BRINK... OF WHAT? A 2009 DEPRESSION, THAT'S WHAT. NO WAY, JOSE.

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Crunch Time

By Mike Whitney

The impending global recession has nothing to do
with crafty mortgage lenders, opportunistic loan
applicants, dodgy rating agencies, or crooked home
appraisers. That's like blaming Lindy England for
Abu Ghraib. The source of the troubles is the Federal
Reserve and monetary policies that are designed
to rob people of their life savings. Continue

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The Bastards Never Die

By Joe Bageant

Abe Lincoln feared the large corporations born of
business profiteering during the U.S. Civil War --
the military industrial complex of the day -- easily
constituted the greatest threat to the American
republic. Continue

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I Smell a Clinton Coup Brewing

By JB Williams

The fact that millions of Democrat voters were intentionally
disenfranchised by their own party in the primaries
leaves the chosen one the prime target of too many
in-house enemies. And nobody in American politics is
better at organizing, mobilizing and exploiting in-house
enemies than the Clintons. Continue

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Skip the Happy Talk

This Depression Is Just Beginning

By Mike Whitney

How many hundreds of banks are being kept on life-support
because the FDIC is down to its last few farthings and
doesn't want to ignite a panic? Continue

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Is Hillary Going For The Kill At The Denver Convention?

By Alan Hart


According to conventional wisdom Barak Obama agreed,
for the sake of party unity, that Hillary Clinton should
be “put into nomination” at the Denver Convention, on
the understanding that when nominated, and before
the first roll call, she would release her delegates to him
and urge them to vote for him. That, apparently, is how
it’s supposed to happen next Tuesday evening. But is
that the way it will happen? Continue

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Go On, Admit It You Really Don’t Like The Police, Either

By Ted Rall

Race long has been a classic predictor of attitudes
toward the police. But high-profile cases of police
brutality, coupled with over-the-top security measures
taken since 9/11 that targeted whites as well as blacks,
have helped bring the races together in their contempt
for the police. In 1969, the Harris poll found that only
19 percent of whites thought cops discriminated against
blacks. Now, 54 percent of whites think so. Continue

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McCain's Neocon Warmonger

And none dare call it treason.

By Patrick J. Buchanan

Who is Randy Scheunemann? He is the principal foreign
policy adviser to John McCain and potential successor
to Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski as national
security adviser to the president of the United States.
But Randy Scheunemann has another identity, another
role. He is a dual loyalist, a foreign agent whose
assignment is to get America committed to spilling the
blood of her sons for client regimes who have made
this moral mercenary a rich man. Continue

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Legislators For Sale

Must Watch - By Keith Olbermann

Republicans and Blue Dog Democrats in Congress
are failing to represent their constituents in the
health care fight. Continue

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The Great Consumer Crash of 2009

By James Quinn

For the last seven years the American consumer has
carried the weight of the world on its shoulders. This
has been a heavy burden, but when you take steroids
it doesn’t seem so heavy. The steroid of choice for
the American consumer has been debt. We have
utilized home equity loans, cash out refinancing,
credit card debt, and auto loans to live above our
means. It has been a fun ride, but the ride is over.
We can’t get steroids from our dealer (banks)
anymore. Continue

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So Much for the Promised Land

By Chris Hedges

Elite African-American figures, Baker argues,
long ago placed personal gain and career advancement
over the interests of the black majority. They
espouse positions that are palatable to a white
audience, positions which ignore the radicalism
and structural critiques of inequality by
W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr. and
Malcolm X. And in a time when, as the poet
Yusef Komunyakaa has said, “the cell block
has replaced the auction block,” they do not
express the rage, frustration and despair of the
black underclass. Continue

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John McCain Discovers America

By David Michael Green

Our economy is in shambles, though the president
insists that the ‘fundamentals’ are just fine, and
McCain’s former chief economic advisor, Phil
Gramm, told Americans that there was no real
recession going on and they should just stop
whining about it. Continue

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Nuclear Chicken in Poland

Putin Can't Afford to Back Down

By Mike Whitney

The last thing Putin wants is a nuclear standoff with
the United States. But he will not shirk from his
responsibilities either. If the Missile Defense system
is deployed, Putin will be forced to raise the stakes
and send warplanes over the construction site. That
is the logical first-step that any responsible leader
would take before removing the site altogether.
Continue

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Is McCain Another George W. Bush?

by: Jack Cafferty

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A TRIBUTE TO "GEORGE CARLIN" AN AMERICAN
ICON: A TRUE "IDOL" IF THE TRUTH BE KNOWN
FOR MILLIONS OF "CRITICAL THINKING" FUCKING
AMERICANS...!

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(FAIR AND BALANCED? YOU BE THE JUDGE...)

THE O'REILLY FACTOR

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Health Care is Already Rationed in America...! Why is that?

QUOTE:



Copyright (C) 2009 by F. Scott Sinclair. All Rights Reserved.



Op-ed:



Because as the pundits have rattled the airwaves with their vitriolic

remarks about not having enough doctors, facilities, etc. to handle

another 47 million Americans; hence, they've managed to make

the argument for a government plan in the process. In other

words, medical care is only available to some no matter what

plan(s) are eventually adopted (whether that's a government

plan or collective private plans, or a combo thereof):

those with means and privilege don't like to be inconvenienced,

and that translates into rationing. Or in this case scenario, at

least 47 million Americans must be shut out of the health care

system in order not to inconvenience those who have paid the

full price of admission to the health care club in America. Because

even if the 47 million uninsured had enough money to buy

into the exclusive medical insurance club, there still wouldn't

be enough doctors or resources to handle them. So, only people

who can afford the most expensive care available can join the

club that is governed by the marketplace's theory of supply and

demand (or in this case, scarcity--whether intended, contrived,

or not). Those who are unemployed, and those who are uninsured

for other reasons, are considered to be collateral damage:

acceptable and necessary losses; just like a 4 or 5 percent annual

unemployment rate is acceptable and considered normal to any

healthy economic system. This is nothing more than pure greed

and selfishness, another arrow in the casket of the middle-class

and below. An acceptable aberration and deviation from the norm

of a smooth running, profitable health care system. Such callousness

will eventually take its toll when those marginalized awaken in a

cold sweat some August night. Time waits for no man...or woman.

May God show his mercy upon thee: all of us, and may our

Congress person's show wisdom in bringing this life and death

matter to a successful conclusion. Amen.

AMERICA ASSASSINATES PEOPLE ALL THE TIME...? YOU'RE KIDDIN'? NOPE:

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The US Assassinates People All The Time!

Rachel Maddow interviews Col. Lawrence Wilkerson

"We're killing the wrong people and we're killing
the wrong people in the wrong countries" Continue

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Bush's Hit Teams

By Robert Parry

The facts are already clear that his “global war
on terror” had morphed into an international
“dirty war” with Bush now having passed off
command to President Obama. Continue

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Video Shows British Army Officer Screaming at Hooded Iraqi Civilians

By Daily Mail Reporter

The men were scalded with boiling water, urinated
on, kicked, punched and hooded while in British military
custody, the hearing chaired by retired Court of Appeal
judge Sir William Gage was told. Continue

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Foreclosures At Record High In First Half 2009 Despite Aid

By Lynn Adler

U.S. home foreclosure activity galloped to a record
in the first half of the year, overwhelming broad
efforts to remedy failing loans while job losses
escalated. Continue

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Ex-FBI AgentWhy I Support a New 9/11 Investigation

By Coleen Rowley

In the absence of my being there in New York City
to stand with the 9/11 families, first responders and
survivors, I offer the following statement in support
of your goal of a new investigation into the attacks
of September 11th and the NYC CAN campaign to
place it on the ballot for November. Continue

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Goldman Sachs Posts Record Profits

Matt Taibbi Probes Role of Investment Giant in US Financial Meltdown

By Democracy Now - Audio and TranscriptGoldman
Sachs, the nation’s most powerful financial company,
has reported the richest quarterly profit in its
140-year history: $3.44 billion between April and
June. We speak to Matt Taibbi, whose new Rolling
Stone article argues that “Goldman Sachs has engineered
every major market manipulation since the Great
Depression.” Continue

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‘Government Sachs’ Strikes Gold ... Again

By Robert Scheer

Connect the dots: Goldman Sachs made $3.44 billion
in profit this past quarter, while the U.S deficit topped
$1 trillion for the first time in the nation’s history and
appeared to be headed toward doubling that figure
before the budget year is out. Since most of the increase
in the federal deficit is due to bailing out the banks and
salvaging the greater economy they helped destroy,
why is the top investment bank doing so well? Continue

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A BAND OF SCOUNDRELS...OR PATRIOTS, SURELY NOT A CABAL? YOU DECIDE...

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Death Squads and US Democracy

By Bill Van Auken

The revelation that the CIA initiated a covert program,
apparently involving assassinations, and kept it secret
from the US Congress on the orders of Vice President
Dick Cheney marks a deepening of the crisis in the
American state apparatus and an indication of the
degeneration of democratic processes within the US.
Continue

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The Man Who Knew Cheney's Secret

By Benjamin Sarlin

The New Yorker's Seymour Hersh was mocked in
March when he referred to Dick Cheney’s secret
squad of CIA assassins. Now, he talks to The Daily
Beast about the next shoe to drop. Continue

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Can The Economy Recover?

By Paul Craig Roberts

There is no economy left to recover. The US
manufacturing economy was lost to offshoring
and free trade ideology. It was replaced by a
mythical “New Economy.” Continue

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How Bad Will the Economy Get?

Really, Really Bad

By Thomas Greco, Jr.

Historically, every financial and economic crisis has
been used to further centralize power and concentrate
wealth. This one is no different, and in fact the moves
being promoted by the Obama administration and
the central banks of the Western powers will take
the whole world to the pinnacle of financial despotism --
unless enough people wake up and claim their own
"money power.” Continue

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Investigative Reporter Seymour Hersh Describes
'Executive Assassination Ring'

By Eric Black

Legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh
may have made a little more news than he intended
by talking about new alleged instances of domestic
spying by the CIA, and about an ongoing covert
military operation that he called an “executive
assassination ring.” Continue

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Crystal Ball GazingThe Future Is Deflation

By Mike Whitney

The US consumer, long considered an inexhaustible
resource, is tapped out. Without job security and
access to easy credit; consumer spending will slow,
prices will fall, demand will flag and the economy
will tank. There won't be a recovery. Continue

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"We're The Counterfeiters Of The World"

By Ron Paul - Video

The dollar now is worth 4 cents in comparison
to what it was worth in 1913 when the FED
was established. Continue

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Congressman Mark Kirk: China to Buy $80 Billion Worth of Gold

Video

Congressman Mark Kirk explains in detail China's
behind the scenes thinking about the dollar. Hint:
They are going to buy two Forth Knox's worth of
gold. Continue

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