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November 3, 2008

McCain Camp Resorts to SPAM in the 11th Hour

I couldn’t believe it when I saw it. I had to test the link, despite the perils of following links offered in spam email. It directed me to johnmccain.com. And so it seems that the McCain camp, in the last 24 hours of the US election campaign, has resorted to a new low: SPAM . Claims that Obama was a terrorist weren’t enough.  The evils […]

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October 31, 2008

Paulson’s Swindle Revealed

From The Nation, we get this article . By now, some (maybe most) of you are saying, ‘yeah Bill.  We get it.  We’re getting ripped off and this is Georgie’s last stab at the world for making fun of him all these years.  We’re in the middle of the heist of the century.’ At least, I hope you are. Because once you do, then hopefully […]

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October 30, 2008

McCain Voting Machines

I thought this video was appropriate, given some of the frightening stories I’ve read about vote fraud and issues with electionic machines: Of course, in Canada, we didn’t need corrupt machines.  We just needed a few extra parties to split the vote.

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October 30, 2008

Iceland: The Canary in the neo-con Coalmine

This retelling of the financial situation in Iceland is direct and honest and clearly illustrates how what happened in Iceland over the last 4-5 years can easily happen in most other developed countries. The main point:  we’ve abdicated our social and financial control to non-governmental and non-democratic organizations that could care less about the welfare of the states that they impose their ‘rules’ on. I’ve […]

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October 29, 2008

Iceland: A Victim of Economic Larceny

I don’t think the little nation of Iceland entered the news much before September 2008.  When it did, it was depicted as iconic in its efforts to purchase hydrogen buses, run everything on geo-thermal energy and the home land of Bjork. Now, it’s the victim of economic larceny . The people of Iceland are being forced to pay 18% interest on their debts in order […]