Duvet-Dayz.com: use this bar code to access our RSS feeds and posts on your mobile phone
Archive for the 'USA' Tag
56 post(s) are associated with this Tag
Video: Christmas at the White House 2009
A glimpse of this year’s holiday decorations at the White House.
When you see the decorations put up and created by many volunteers across the country you can feel their joy, love, wishes and hope with those who have some chance to make this world a better place for many and not just a very few.
Continue reading…
Music: Victor Jara Manifiesto
Not too long ago this voice was heard - but then silenced by murderers and thugs that have changed the face of this beautiful country for many years.
RIP - Victor - you will never be forgotten - but those who caused your death should be forgotten forever - their lives made never exist - but not their wrong doing and crimes.
Continue reading…
Financial Crisis: Max Keiser - “Goldman Sachs Are Scum”
“…They are literally stealing a hundred million dollars a day. Goldman Sachs is stealing every day on the floor of the exchange. They should be in the Hague, they should be taken on financial terrorism charges. They should all be thrown in jail…”
Continue reading…
Video: FDR Inaugurated
A video interesting in a few ways.
First historically of course, then because we will almost certainly hear a more or less similar speech in about a week, and third as times of today might turn out to be rather similar too.
Continue reading…
How to pay for National Health Care - The Wall Street way
For those who still don’t believe that something is substantially wrong with the way Wall Street and so-called investment banks / Hedge funds around the world have siphoned astronomical amounts into their pockets, here’s another example how the pyramid scheme worked / is being used.
Continue reading…
Images: The Manhattan Street Corners
Between March and November 2006 NYC photographer Richard Howe has created a collection of photographs of every one of the about 11,000 street corners in Manhattan.
So far about half of these images are available through online galleries on his web site with more being added step-by-step.
Continue reading…
Economy: The sad Car Maker joke
With the American car makers on the edge of the abyss and hoping for a bail-out by the government we thought it might be appropriate to remind you of this sad car maker joke…
Continue reading…
Data Visualization: The Three Trillion Dollar War
An outstanding infographic by the Good Magazine on the true cost of the war in Iraq.
The image is based on work by Nobel Prize laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilmes who have together published a book on this subject earlier this year (link below). There is also a video narrating the key parts of the graphics on the Good Magazine web site.
Continue reading…
Russia’s answer on the U.S. Elections: Obama Matryoshkas
In Moscow, matryoshka - little wooden dolls - of Barack Obama have become one of the best selling souvenirs among tourists and Russians.
While before the election both Obama and McCain dolls were offered by shopkeepers, the interest in McCain dolls that even before November 4th had sold in much smaller numbers, has now more or less completely diminished. Or as one of the sellers put it “my stock in McCain dolls is now worth about as much as shares in Lehman Brothers”
Obama dolls are a new addition to …
Continue reading…
Humor: Al Murray vs. Americans
In an effort to provide the new U.S. administration with a first hand experience on how your European Allies really tick, here’s a 6 minute cut of British comedian Al Murray talking about Americans.
Al Murray at his finest.
Continue reading…
