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• Were Screwed! (hyperinflation & death of US economy)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Were Screwed! ShadowStats.com founder John Williams explains the risk of hyperinflation. Worst-case scenario? Rioting in the streets and devolution to a bartering system. Comments (151) Thursday, December 31, 2009 By Phil Maymin Courtesy of John Williams Economist/statistician John Williams shifts through the ...
  11 hours ago

• Post Revival: We are Separatists

  
  Challenging the Commonplace — Authority: 127
  Encouraged by Boris Option 3, I think it a good time to revive this post, written by Daphne and I in January 2009. The situation has not improved since then.*** For a long time, Ive pondered the benefit of my community, now Vancouver Island, being part of the political entity that is the Dominion of Canada. Not ...
  21 hours ago

• How to Game Canadian Parliamentary System

  
  Challenging the Commonplace — Authority: 127
  ... in five easy steps.1. Promise em anything. While the Official Opposition, complain about the unfair voting system, lax election laws, rules discouraging people from voting, lack of government transparency, Senate appointments...2. Win by a plurality under said unfair voting system, lax election laws, rules ...
  1 day ago

• Get Rid of Parliament

  
  Challenging the Commonplace — Authority: 127
  ... and we get rid of MPs. Canadians would save a whole bunch of money.Let the federal service do the work of government. Our MPs certainly arent.Oh, and about taking the knives to the pension plan for federal civil servants, you might start instead with the lucrative early retirement package for MPs. Six years of ...
  1 day ago

• Plies Picked Up By Feds

  
  Hip Hop Honey Online Magazine — Authority: 158
      Guess what I heard happened to your boy Plies. And it doesn’t sound like it’s good at all.   The other night after the Jingle Bash concert, one of my peopld got over 20 calls from different people who said that Plies was arrested by the Feds after he got off stage at the concert in Atlanta for ...
  1 day ago

• Report: Feds to give GMAC another $3.5 billion

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 165
  GMAC Financial Services is expected to receive $3.5 billion more in federal aid to further stabilize the lender, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.
  1 day ago

• Dollar Is Near 2-Month High on Recovery Signs, Fed’s Outlook

  
  Business Blog — Authority: 174
  The dollar traded near a two-month high against the yen on speculation the Federal Reserve will withdraw stimulus measures as the economy recovers.More: Dollar Is Near 2-Month High on Recovery Signs, Fed’s Outlook a2a_linkname="Dollar Is Near 2-Month High on Recovery Signs, Fed’s ...
  2 days ago

• Tesla Motors Prattles about “Range Anxiety” – But What About Loan Repayment Anxiety?

  
  San Francisco Citizen — Authority: 140
  Ah yes, the horrible Tesla Motors company , based in nearby San Carlos, CA, comes now to diagnose the public’s ”range anxiety”  concerning electric vehicles. Their point is that if you keep on charging up an electric car, it will keep on running. O.K. But why did Tesla need to get bailed out by the Feds ...
  2 days ago

• Trying To Revive An Economic Corpse

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Trying To Revive An Economic Corpse By Bill Bonner 12/28/09 Ouzilly, France – We’re coming to the end of the year… What have we learned? Here’s how we would put it, a four-word lesson that applies to almost everything: “It’s Not That Simple.” We were on pretty solid ground – at least as far as understanding ...
  2 days ago

• Logic Challenge

  
  Challenging the Commonplace — Authority: 127
  If Canadians dont want an election but instead, as expressed by Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff, they "want an alternative to the Harper government,"...And if Parliament is dysfunctional, as suggested by Liberal MP Keith Martin,...And if the NDP (and presumably, the Liberal Party of Canada) wants to make Parliament ...
  2 days ago

• Feds assess terror watchlists after airline attack

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Federal authorities met Monday to reassess the nations system of terror watchlists to determine how to avoid the type of lapse that allowed a man with explosives to board a flight to the U.S. even though he was flagged as a possible terrorist. A senior U.S. intelligence official said authorities were reviewing the ...
  3 days ago

• Napolitano Concedes Airline Security System Failed – ABC News

  
  Memmis.com News Agency — Authority: 174
  BBC News Napolitano Concedes Airline Security System Failed ABC News AP In this undated photo provided by the Web site saharareporters.com and verified by an Associated... Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano conceded Monday that the aviation security system failed when a young man ... ...
  3 days ago

• How the Fed’s Massive MBS Purchases Harm Banks?

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 158
  “The Fed is trying to stimulate the economy, help homeowners, and buoy the banks by re-inflating the housing asset bubble. Most mortgages are rolled up into securities (MBS) and sold to investors. We’ve written, through November, $126 million in mortgages versus $58 million last year. We’ve only kept on our ...
  3 days ago

• Feds Pay Virginia $500K for Providing Obama Inauguration Buses

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 165
  Northern Virginia was a staging ground for visitors who wanted to go to the Jan. 20 inauguration of President Obama.
  6 days ago

• Sen. Chuck Schumer mum on Senate health care bill that could bring cuts to New York

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  WASHINGTON BUREAU WASHINGTON - When the feds whack New York, you usually hear Chuck Schumer lead the outrage. But on health care, hes been practically mute about some mighty hits headed our way. Mayor Bloomberg and Gov. Paterson both slammed the Senate bill Monday, charging it would cost the city more than $500 ...
  6 days ago

• Tarmac Delays Limited To 3 Hours

  
  Joe. My. God. — Authority: 713
  The feds have ruled that the longest an airline can hold you prisoner on a delayed airliner is three hours. The Obama administration took aim Monday at tarmac horror stories, ordering airlines to let passengers stuck in stranded airplanes get off the plane after three hours. With its new regulations, the ...
  1 week ago

• Feds bid to shell ACORN (GAO steps in—FBI alerted)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  The feds want permission to strip ACORN of funding after a Brooklyn Judge ruled a cutoff is unconstitutional. ACORNs own internal review found management practices lacking. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) and Darrell Issa (R-Calif) announced a GAO investigation and called for the FBI to investigate. Original Article: Forum: ...
  1 week ago

• Feds defy order to provide same-sex benefits

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  SAN FRANCISCO -- The Obama administration refused Friday to follow a federal judges order to provide insurance benefits to the wife of a lesbian court employee in San Francisco and said its hands were tied by a discriminatory law. "This issue shows exactly why Congress needs to repeal" the law, which prohibits federal ...
  1 week ago

• T.I. Could Be Released Early

  
  The Hip Hop Chronicle UK — Authority: 158
  T.I. could be released from prison next month. The rapper who is serving a 366-day sentence for possession of illegal firearms went to prison in May earlier this year but it seems Tip could be transferred to a halfway house next month to see out his sentence. Edmond Ross, spokesperson of the Bureau of Prisons ...
  1 week ago

• Benefits Bill For Partners Of Federal Employees Headed To Full Senate Vote

  
  Joe. My. God. — Authority: 713
  Yesterday the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee approved a bill authorizing benefits for the partners of federal employees. The bill will now go to the full Senate. The benefits would include: health care, retirement and disability plans, family, medical and emergency leave, group life ...
  2 weeks ago

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