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[Mutinyrural] Role of Lord Mountbatten in Power Transfer in India: But we do hesitate to discuss the THIRD Dimension of oIndian Holocaust and opt to VICTIMISE Ourselves in Intense hate Campaign, ZIONIST War Economy and Ethnic Cleansing Economic as well as religious. I was stunned to browse TV Channels .

[songsmith] Fatman: We were limping along next to the chest-high sandbags piled under the long eaves of the freshly-linseed-oiled clapboard Officers' Club when the back wall blew out and the party started in earnest. The six-by rocked up and over, .

[The Baseline Scenario] Who is Carlos Slim? « The Baseline Scenario: Many state schools are cutting classes and wholesale dropping students from their rosters. Thanks to privatization of student loans those who graduate with professional diplomas are spending the first decade of their careers paying back these loans, that is if they are lucky to be employed.

[the evil speculator - one nefarious trade at a time] Mystery Chart | the evil speculator - one nefarious trade at a time: Given how the SPX behaved yesterday, I would suggest that liquidity was being applied to get the yield down in order to provide a decent auction for the 2year. In other words, at the margin the liquidity is the financial system is so over-extended that it is becoming difficult for dramatic moves in multiple asset classes.

[Irvine Housing Blog] Irvine Housing Blog - Irvine Real Estate and Irvine Homes - The ...: The sad reality is that this method of Ponzi borrowing can work as long as (1) the amounts added to the home mortgage are less than the sustained rate of appreciation and (2) if the payments are still affordable with wage income. During the housing bubble, many borrowed much more than the sustained rate of appreciation and took out every penny as it accumulated.

[Balloon Juice] Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Apart From Better Sanitation and ...: Thus the undersized stimulus, further watered down by Presidents Nelson, Collins and Snowe, that now has us trapped in long term high unemployment, the absurd and arbitrary price tag on healthcare reform, the cynical and premature capitulation on e.g. drug .

[Economix] Europe Defends Its Course - Economix Blog - NYTimes.com: calculations, which show that the fiscal stimulus in European countries is wholly comparable to that seen in the United States, particularly when taking into account measures to cushion the effect of automatic stabilizers, which, by contrast with the United States, are a major factor in Europe. For instance, for the period 2009-10, discretionary measures adopted in Germany total 3.5 percent of G.D.P., compared with 3.8 percent in the United States.

[The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.] Morning Bell: Why the Obama Stimulus Failed | The Foundry ...: (NO MORE PORK.) They will also want to pass a bill that REQUIRES that all bills must ACTUALLY be posted on line for seven days for the public to review and that all bills must ACTUALLY be read by the Representative or Senator, BEFORE they may cast their vote. While I am dreaming, they would also pass a bill that will place a two term limit for both Congress and Senate and will include a provision that during those two terms, the Representative or Senator must carry their own health insurance and be unable to vote to raise their own salaries.

[Balloon Juice] Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Freakonomics: Good luck with that, .To them the fact that factory and union workers needed to negotiate in break/pee times is a sign of limp wristed weakness on the part of the workers, rather than a fight to the death for mere human dignity in a heartless mechanical workplace.

[BLOG.JMHAMILTONPUBLISHING.COM] Mr. Abelson Provides Several Quick Shocks of Reality on a Saturday ...: A telling example of that is the sentencing last week, to two years in prison, of seven former officials of Union Carbide India, who were charged with negligence in connection with a catastrophic gas explosion at its pesticide facility in Bhopal 25 years ago. (Carbide, which was acquired by Dow Chemical in 2001, had already divested itself, as the stuffy phrase goes, of the Indian unit.)

[Cracked: All Posts] 8 Amazing Stories of Ninja Failure | Cracked.com: I buy that you can get attacked by ninjas at random without having nefarious dealings, and I buy that you can be named something as sinister as ‘Lafortune’ without necessarily being a supervillain, but there is no way in hell you can do both of those things and expect us to believe you don’t live in a Volcano.

[Educhatter's Blog] The Public Voice in Education: Without School Boards, Where's the ...: School Trustees limped on, without taxing powers and engaged in a territorial struggle with the new kids on the educational block ( Parent Councils). Ten years later, the Ontario government still maintains a website urging parents to embrace their designated “advocacy “role in the system.

[The Big Picture] Krugman vs. Shlaes ”” Not A Fair Fight | The Big Picture: 4) This is the most important point: Trying to tar the stimulus approach to creating jobs and economic demand by citing the NRA and other programs that shared similarities to fascist policies is to spend one’s time arguing about irrelevancies. If FDR’s glib description of what ended the Depression–Replacing Dr.

[Firedoglake] It's the Economy, Stupid Democrats | Elections: it is a productivity increase that hopefully allows capital to redeployed, new hires, and higher wages, as non-productive CEOs/Senior Management are retired and workers for the insurance companies continue the same jobs as administrative service contract employees to the new Federal Plan – as is now done with Medicare).

[Thomas White International] Russia Country Profile | Russia Economy | History, Culture ...: Growth remained stagnant, while consumer and investment demand came to a grinding halt across all regions of Russia. The largely oil-dependent economy crushed under the impact of tumbling oil prices, which sunk to abysmally low levels as most major economies went into a recession.

[Popular Science - Science] In U.S. Senate, Climate Change Bill Dies With a Whimper | Popular ...: President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Blake Jones, a solar energy company CEO, check out solar panels at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Obama signed the stimulus bill at this event last year, and pledged to focus on climate change legislation that would curb carbon dioxide emissions and increase energy efficiency.

[Crooks and Liars] David Walker: We Need to Make Social Security 'More Savings ...: It also includes the bulk of revenue changes that CBO classified as “technical.” In the revenue area, so-called technical changes essentially refer to trends in collections that CBO’s analysts cannot tie directly to published macroeconomic data. In fact, those data become available with a lag and are subject to major revision;

[Money Matters] Money Matters: US And G7 Can't Escape Economic Rat Hole: The cures for the problems besetting the US/UK empire are not solved via the simple mechanism of changing interest rates. Indeed, I would suggest that 'stimulating' our economy every time we think it is slowing down has directly contributed to the internal economic collapse of this huge empire.

[Footprints Filmworks - Forum] Subject: FF News: Economies - by: Alvin Chinsamy: Neither extreme tightening nor extreme stimulus are on the table in any significantly sized advanced or emerging economy. On average, to cut deficits the advanced members of the Group of 20 leading economies plan spending and tax measures worth 1.25 per cent of national income in 2011, up from 1.1 per cent before Europe’s debt crisis.

[Latest entries from BlueOregon] Your Abbreviated Editorial/Pundit Roundup: Compost edition ...: I grind up my leaves in the fall with this cool neato electric blower / sucker / grinder that came with me from bad old North Carolina where I had 15 or more deciduous trees on the property. I layer them in and turn a few times during the summer, seems to work pretty well.

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