Terrorizing Dissent
This is the trailer for a new movie available online. Note that this may be disturbing for some viewers.
11/3/08
11/3/08
11/1/08
This bear market is not over. You have been warned!
The title of this post is borrowed from the conclusion of this article.
edit: The link no longer points to the article );
11/1/08
10/30/08
A Period of Consequences
A very interesting article that states:
In a little discussed speech titled “A Period of Consequences,” given at The Citadel military college in South Carolina on Sept. 23, 1999, then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush laid out his plan for America. Bush’s speech succinctly reflected the ideology of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), a neoconservative institute initiated in 1997 by The New Citizenship Project, under the direction of its president, Sen. John McCain.
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This is a power-craving administration that will do what it can to retain power.
The entire article can be found at truthdig here.
10/30/08
10/29/08
Entering a difficult period!
An investment advisor and a mathematician have some sobering advice in this video.
10/28/08
Dow Jones up 10.88%
I found this list in comments on a blog from calculated risk. So they are unverified.
Days with Greatest Percentage Gain
–Date– | % Change
03/15/1933 15.34
10/06/1931 14.87
10/30/1929 12.34
09/21/1932 11.36
10/13/2008 11.08
10/28/2008 10.88
10/21/1987 10.15
08/03/1932 9.52
02/11/1932 9.47
11/14/1929 9.36
12/18/1931 9.35
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The wall street journal has an interesting take in its blog on the rally today.
There are also interesting comments like:
“Keep the cheese, I want out of the trap.”
Comment by Truckbomb – October 28, 2008 at 7:24 pm
“I think the FED is pumping money into wall street to see it go up so they can then take even more of our money.”
Comment by CorruptPoliticiansMustBeArrested – October 28, 2008 at 7:31 pm
10/27/08
Scenes From the Global Class War
Michael Hudson, Dennis Kucinich’s former chief economic advisor, explains what really is happening in the current U.S. and world financial crisis with this article.
Note: You might have to scroll down a paragraph to read it.
10/26/08
Shocking TV Drama from 3/4/01
After reading David Ray Griffin’s most excellent and thoroughly corroborated book The New Pearl Harbor Revisited, I found a video of a TV drama named The Lone Gunmen. This TV show, which aired on March 4th 2001, demonstrates the possible how and why of what happened on 911.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3WW6eoLcLI&feature=player_embedded&w=425&h=344