Monthly Archives: July 2009

Representative Waters Sponsors HR 3145: Abolish All Credit Default Swaps

Along with Ron Paul and Kucinich, Maxine Waters is one of the mavericks of the House of Representatives.  She has introduced a bill this month that I support 100%.  Like the ‘audit the Fed’ bill, HR 1207, this HR 3145 … Continue reading

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Reassuring Analysis of the History of Inoculations and Vaccines

Swine flu is still in the news.  People are still dying from it.  37 people died in Australia, for example.  There is lots of disinformation on the web concerning not only this epidemic but modern medicine, in general.  Some readers … Continue reading

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El Nino Brings Giant Squids To California Beaches

Time for some more weather news.  El Nino is strengthening in the Pacific.  This means, marine life is disrupted.  Giant squids are invading beaches where surfers like to play.  If crops fail in major sectors due to El Nino, this … Continue reading

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Trust Is Hard To Regain, Once It Is Lost

Trust in governments is falling.  This is no surprise.  Since WWII, governments that supposedly were ‘democratic’ have developed neo-Soviet-style secret systems.  As police state/Big Brother rules proliferate, trust in governments fall.  When we have the CIA or DARPA being used … Continue reading

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The Top 5 International Banks Are Keeping The Derivatives Beast Alive

Time to revisit the Derivatives Beast.  It hasn’t been growing rapidly for the last year but is poised to balloon even bigger.  This is due to the near total lack of any regulation on the part of governments.  The central … Continue reading

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CIT Goes Bankrupt While JPM and GS Get Even Richer

Here we go again: CIT will be allowed to fail since JPM and GS don’t have any finances involved in this bankruptcy, I am assuming.  They miscalculated when they let their rival, Lehman Brothers, go down the tubes.  To the … Continue reading

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DARPA Killing Robot Machines Eat Everything In Their Path

One of the things that bemused me when the very first Star Wars movie came out was, how obvious it was who was the Evil Doers: the empire!  And the technocrats of the empire worked to create the Death Star … Continue reading

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