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Humor: John Cleese on Sarah Palin
British comedian and former Monty Python star shares his thoughts about vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin…
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AIG: Execs went on leisure retreat - Taxpayers to foot the 500K bill
If you thought there might be some business ethics coming back to today’s executives in the banking business - think again. Looking at the biggest mess in worldwide finance ever created in mankind’s history and those guys still believe its business as usual. You hear stories of so-called executives that are leaving their sinking ships with severity / separation packages worth hundred of millions of dollars - at the same time their employees are left with nothing and many particularly the younger ones looking into a very gray future.
These are seemingly the signals sent out by the cover up plans hammered through these days by governments around the world - grab as much as you can today - we don’t know if we can sponsor your fat bonuses and pays with taxpayer subsidies in the near future. And don’t be shy - a hundred millions might not be as much tomorrow and you know - you did study economics and understand what happens as a result from these FED and other interventions with regards to inflation - don’t you?
Now one of the best indications what those people think has been provided during the House’s Oversight Committee hearing on AIG today. Just a week after the government agreed to bailout the tumbling AIG with USD 85 Billion of taxpayer money, the executives of AIG went on a leisure break spending almost USD 500K on manicures, massages, luxury dinners and hotel rooms…
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Video: 30-Second Sarah
Sarah Palin’s debate performance, reduced to its essence.
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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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USA: Let’s play Wall Street Bailout
A very interesting speech by Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) during the congress debate on the so-called Bailout (transcript below)…
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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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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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