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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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Video: 30-Second Sarah
Sarah Palin’s debate performance, reduced to its essence.
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Video: Interview - Naomi Wolf - Give Me Liberty
A must see 27 minute interview with Naomi Wolf - with the seemingly relaxing of rule for deploying military troops in the U.S. and other western countries (we just heard the same about Germany today) against their own citizens, we soon will all be terrorist (if not warranted otherwise) and she is warning that martial law is just around the corner.
She is also mentioning that members of congress have been threatened with Martial law if they would not pass the so-called “Bailout” plan.
Also mentioned is the change of oath of the U.S. armed forces that…
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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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How much is One Billion
There have been quite a few comparisons what could be done with USD 700 Billions (700,000,000,000 Dollar) instead of assuring fat profits for a few - health insurance for all, fight poverty in Africa for ten years, save the planet instead of the bankers, pay for the work of more than 22 Million people for one year - but the best examples to visualize and put back into perspective how much only one Billion alone is, we listed below…
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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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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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