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Statistics: US Elections and IQs
Just before tonight’s so-called Vice-Presidential candidates TV debate a chart we found a while ago that relates average IQs by U.S. states and their voting in the 2004 U.S. Presidential Elections.
Well you might say don’t trust statistics you haven’t faked yourself, but then go on and…
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Animation: The Hidden Cost of War
A great infographics animation providing a break-down of the real cost of the Iraq war to the U.S. Economy and society.
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USA: Bailout Driven by Fear Not Fact
Ohio congressman Dennis Kucinich suggested the $700 billion bailout package was sending America towards ‘casino socialism, where the only real product is debt.
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The Incredible Lightness of Being: Today Wall Street
I guess there is not much that need to be said on what happened today at Wall Street. We dropped in charts of the leading stock indexes / average (DJIA & NASDAQ) for documentation.
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USA: Scaring people all the way around
Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart reminds us of the similarity between G.W.Bush’s big bailout speech and his Iraq invasion speech five years ago.
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Press: Naomi Wolf on S.Palin
Naomi Wolf, who also writes for Huffington Post, has published an interesting opinion piece at AlterNet (link below). If you like her point of view or not, this is definitely worth reading…
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Bail-Out: Fallen Masters
This is definitely our last post for a while on this topic but the video is done so well that we thought you should watch it.
Basically - in essence - what some of those responsible for the crisis might believe that will happen to them in the future. Nothing, they will just carry on enjoying your money.
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Bail-Out: The Nigeria Connection
So we are not the only ones making fun of the great thought through U.S. bail-out plan that in its original form would provide almost absolutistic powers to the U.S. treasury secretary.
There is a great image (link below) on Flickr asking for support in the form of a Nigerian email scam letter
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Humor: The true story behind the U.S. 700 Billion Bail-out plan
Much has been said this week about the so-called USD 700 Billion bail-out plan for banks by the current U.S. administration and finally the right question was asked in congress yesterday - How did you arrive at that USD 700 billion number…
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Corruption: At least USD 13 Billion Iraq Aid wasted or stolen
The Washington Post today (link below) has a very interesting report on fraud, corruption and waste surrounding the U.S. Iraq reconstruction program.
Salam Adhoob, the former chief investigator of the Iraq’s Commission on Public Integrity (the equivalent to the U.S. FBI) estimated in a hearing of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee yesterday, that out of the about USD 50 Billion U.S. taxpayer money that has so far been disbursed to the Iraq reconstruction program, at least USD 13 Billion have been wasted or stolen through various fraud schemes.
The former chief investigator and head of a 200 strong auditors team was one of three Iraqis testifying before the committee yesterday - all providing evidence of widespread corruption and waste up to the point, as one of them said, that Iraqi government officials are financing al-Qaeda terrorists through some of these schemes.
An additional USD 9 Billion were estimated…
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