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Dear Readers,Over the past several years I have scanned many newspapers and articles and tried to bring to your attention those things which I thought were of importance. Clearly, the MSM (main stream media) is being directed by this administration, and transparency, although it was promised, is no where to be seen. Turn from one channel to another on your television and the faces are

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On this Memorial Day may we all remember and give thanks to those men and women who have sacrificed and risked their lives in the line of duty so that we may experience our freedom and remain safe. Those freedoms cannot be taken for granted and we must read and reread our great Constitution and not allow it to be taken from us.To my family members who selflessly and nobly gave to this

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Newsmax reports:Already under increasing fire for his handling of an oil spill that many experts now say will be the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history, President Barack Obama is riling conservatives and veterans with his decision to skip the traditional Memorial Day ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery. Instead, he will vacation in Chicago.The decision not only has angered

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The people in charge of the recovery, never saw the crisis coming in the first place; the real estate situation has not gotten better and is about to get worse, as is the unemployment situation. AND this administration continues to add to our National Debt on a monthly basis, debt we can never repay and that just past $13 TRILLION dollars!People talk of ‘recovery,’ but it’s now three years

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President Obama guaranteed Americans that after health reform became law they could keep their insurance plans and their doctors. It's clear that this promise cannot be kept. Insurers and physicians are already reshaping their businesses as a result. Continue here...

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If you ever wonder why we are in trouble as a nation, you need go no further than to listen to this person (caller) and her ignorance of what our country is about.Take a few minutes and listen

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ALEA IACTA EST by Egon von Greyerz – Matterhorn Asset Management Yes this is it! We have crossed the Rubicon and events in the world economy are now likely to unfold in a totally uncontrollable fashion. Clueless governments still don’t understand that it is their ruinous actions that have created a credit infested and bankrupt world. They will continue to prescribe the same remedy that

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The National Inflation Association says the Federal Reserve is wrong about inflation: U.S. food prices are spiraling out of control, jumping 2.4 percent in March, the largest leap in 24 years.Combined with the highest unemployment in decades, higher food prices have caused huge numbers of Americans to turn to the food stamp program for help....Year-over-year, fresh and dry vegetables are up

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U.S. home foreclosures reached a record in April, a sign that government mortgage relief efforts have yet to turn the tide of property seizures, according to a report by RealtyTrac Inc. The headline reads "U.S. Home Seizures Reach Record as Recovery Delayed".Bank repossessions rose to 92,432 in April, up 45 percent from a year earlier. The link is here.

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BLS reported an increase of 290,000 jobs last week and unemployment rose to 9.9%. Hidden beneath the surface the BLS Black Box - Birth Death Model added 188,000 jobs.Added were 66,000 temporary census workers to the payrolls, and next month the Obama administration plans to hire 500,000 more temporary workers. Starting June through August they will all be fired. Read here for further

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Likely you are aware of the 1000 point decline yesterday in the DOW (DJIA). I understand that CNBC's commentators said it was due to fat fingers or some such nonsense (I don't listen to those talking heads, but that's another story). Actually I am amazed that it didn't happen years ago: one cannot watch the machination of electronic trading as it whizzes up and down at lightening speed and think

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This from Economic Policy Journal, an interview conducted at the Peterson Institute by Bob Schaeffer.Former President Bill Clinton blames the current financial crisis on the U.S. leaving the gold standard. During an interview conducted at the Peterson Institute by Bob Schaeffer, Clinton sounded like a hardcore gold bug as he said that the problems in the economy started when the U.S. went off

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A picture worth a thousand words comes from this NY Times pictorial. Banks and governments in these five shaky economies owe each other many billions of euros — converted here to dollars — and have even larger debts to Britain, France and Germany. Arrow widths are proportional to debt amounts.

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James E. Glassman, a managing director and senior economist at the $2 trillion bank, included shots at U.S. Senator Carl Levin of Michigan (a graph showing Michigan's job woes was titled "People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones"), the entire Congress, and pretty much everyone involved in the financial reform debate. Glassman also notes that "financial reform legislation in its

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Here is an excellent article on the subject titled “Earth Day 2010 – Celebrating 40 years of outrageous predictions of doom.”Forty years ago Earth Day was founded as a way to give greater visibility to environmental concerns across the globe. The event is celebrated annually and while the focus has now shifted to one primarily on manmade climate change, just like in 1970, today we continue to

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This from yesterday's IBD (Investor Business Daily):Cap-And-Trade: While senators froth over Goldman Sachs and derivatives, a climate trading scheme being run out of the Chicago Climate Exchange would make Bernie Madoff blush. Its trail leads to the White House. Lost in the recent headlines was Al Gore's appearance Monday in Denver at the annual meeting of the Council of Foundations, an

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In the last three weeks, we have finally done a half-baked investigation, mind you. Not -- nothing like we did in the Savings & Loan days -- of Washington Mutual (WaMu), Citicorp, Lehman, and Goldman. And we have found strong evidence of fraud at all four places. And we have looked previously at Fannie and Freddie and found the same thing. So the only six places we've looked, at really

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And we wonder why the SEC did nothing for years concerning the Bernie Madoff scam when they had been warned repeatedly!It seems many high-ranking officials have been too busy looking at porn rather than dealing with the nation's economy on the brink of collapse. Seventeen of the employees were "at a senior level," earning salaries of up to $222,418. Here is the article.

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If you don't think we have state run media, then guess again. The newspaper headlines all read GM Repays $8.1 Billion Loan In Full, when in fact GM did nothing of the kind. Basically it is still Government Motors.The taxpayers are still on the hook. GM took money out of one (TARP) pocket and put it in the other. Read here...What else? GM's pension is underfunded by more than $27 Billion dollars!

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From BigGovernment.comThe number of jobs in the U.S. is currently 129.7 million. So to justify the Administration’s current claim of 2.8 million jobs “created or saved” by stimulus, they need to also claim that without that stimulus there would be only 126.9 million jobs. That’s exactly what they do, displayed as the “baseline projection” level in the graphic below from an April 14, 2010

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By LOUISE STORY and GRETCHEN MORGENSONFor Goldman Sachs, it was a relatively small transaction. But for the bank — and the rest of Wall Street — the stakes couldn’t be higher.Accusations that Goldman defrauded customers who bought investments tied to risky subprime mortgages have only just begun to reverberate through the financial world. The civil lawsuit that the Securities and Exchange

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The European Union has declared traveling a human right, and is launching a scheme to subsidize vacations with taxpayers' dollars for those too poor to afford their own trips. Read it here...HUH?!?!

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Goldman Sachs Group Inc. faces a regulatory probe in Britain and scrutiny from the German government after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued the firm for fraud tied to collateralized debt obligations. Prime Minister Gordon Brown called yesterday for the Financial Services Authority to start an inquiry, saying he was “shocked” at the “moral bankruptcy” indicated in the

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Pajamamedia.com writes: If there has been one constant in our national politics of the last year, it has been the continuous assault by progressives and liberals against the grassroots tea party movement. As the tea party movement has gained support and become more effective, the attacks have ramped up...Meet Jason Levin, Beaverton, Oregon middle school teacher, who is the creator of http:

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This from the Dylan Ratigan Show. I cannot believe that MSNBC actually allowed Dylan to tell you the truth. Well worth understanding is the game the Federal Reserve and the large financials have played at the taxpayer expense. More importantly is knowing that Congress sits there doing nothing about it!http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/36233217#36233217

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You won't hear or see the following in the US media, but must read it from a Chinese web site called Popular Financing.PREFACE ON MARKET RIGSThe hearings took place two weeks ago. The news of Andrew Maguire's testimony on March 25th has circled the globe, ringing shrill in the ears of anyone half awake. Maguire is a metals trader from London, but watch somehow that his career takes a turn for

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President Barack Obama today released five specific objectives regarding the United States’ future nuclear force, but the most important objective of all – defending the United States and its allies against strategic attack – was not among them. Now, it is up to Congress, the American people and America’s allies to ask the President a simple, pointed question: Why won’t you defend us? Read

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Who is Paul Craig Roberts, and why should we care? (By Doug Hornig)It looks as though Paul Craig Roberts is throwing in the towel. Who is Roberts, and why should we care? He is a Ph.D. economist, journalist, and Washington insider of impeccable credentials. Former editor of the Wall Street Journal,

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Several things of note by John Mauldin in his Is This A Recovery:... The good news is that employment rose by 162,000 jobs last month, with about 48,000 of those being census workers and another 82,000 coming from the birth/death ratio, a way of guessing how many new businesses started.So 48,000 are temporary workers and another 82,000 are a guess. Somehow, that guess is hanging out there on a

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This is no April Fools. CEO's are speaking out about the enormous tax burden, billions of dollars, due to the Democrats health reform bill that was signed by Obama.AT&T will take $1B non-cash charge for health care (Forbes). The charge is the largest disclosed so far. Earlier this week, AK Steel Corp., Caterpillar Inc., Deere & Co. and Valero Energy announced similar accounting charges,

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The following is a letter from Ed Feulner, president of Heritage Foundation, in response to this morning's claim by Obama.President Obama this morning cited The Heritage Foundation’s research in an attempt to sell his health care package as a “middle of the road, centrist approach.” We take great exception to this misuse of our work and abuse of our name. This is but the latest act in a

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Don't be charmed by the 23% year-to-date rise of the home building sector in the stock market. The Census Bureau reports new home sales are at a record low and housing starts are now back to June 2009 levels. Read and review the charts from Calculated Risk.Just be careful with your investments.

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On Thursday and Friday I wrote about Gold Market Manipulation (Britains' gold market reserves) and the London metals trader Andrew Maguire who warned an investigator for the U.S. CFTC (Commodity Futures Trading Commission) that gold and silver was being manipulated by traders for JPMorgan Chase.Sadly, GATA (Gold Anti-trust Action Committee) reports that Maquire and his wife were injured by a

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Casey Research credits the following chart to Nick Laird of sharelynx.com for the following 83-year chart of the Dow - 1928 to 2010. Neither Bernanke nor Greenspan could see this bubble. Note the 'crash' of 1987 for comparison.Here is a interactive chart from Moneycentral.msn.com.

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Entertaining, but most importantly, fact based truths about Climate Change are presented by Lord Christopher Monckton in this two-part highlights, a presentation at the Sofitel Melbourne and recorded 1st February 2010.The Lah Nailed40,000,000 lives could have been saved... The Lah Nailed... Do we want an emissions-trading-scheme?Part IThe West is Not the problem, therefore not the solution...

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Yesterday I wrote here about the CFTC hearings. A trader who had important information and who wanted to speak at those hearings, was denied.On March 23, 2010, GATA Director Adrian Douglas was contacted by a whistleblower by the name of Andrew Maguire. Maguire is a metals trader in London. He has been told first-hand by traders working for JPMorganChase that JPMorganChase manipulates the

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Inquiries in England yesterday centered around Gordan Brown's involvement in selling Britain's gold reserves.Was This a Bailout of the Multinational Bullion Banks Involving the NY Fed, writes Jesse's Café Américain? ... The sticky issue is not so much the actual sale itself, but the method under which the sale was taken and who benefited... There is also a credible speculation that the sale

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Without having read the 2409 pages of the "health" care bill, the House voted 219-210 to pass the Senate version Sunday night, and Obama signed it on Tuesday. Besides enacting a most dramatic and unprecedented diminution in the individual liberty of citizens, it mandates that all Americans buy a government-approved health care plan (individual and employer mandates)... According to the CBO, by

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This is good news . Bloomberg reports: The U.S. Court of Appeals in Manhattan ruled today that the Fed must release records of the unprecedented $2 trillion U.S. loan program launched primarily after the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. The ruling upholds a decision of a lower-court judge, who in August ordered that the information be released. The full article is here.

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What do student loans have to do with health care? Nothing, except that Democrats stuck student loans into the health care bill. It's another power grab by the government to control one more entity of our lives, in this case to own ALL student loans.

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The Senate Oks Jobs Bill For Obama's Signature, but the Associated Press reports that it will not create many jobs.One feature of the President’s jobs bill is a tax cut for businesses that hire unemployed workers. The AP writes that “even the Obama administration acknowledges [the tax cut] would only work on the margins.” Here’s why, according to the AP:Tax experts and business leaders said

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60 MINUTESMichael Lewis writes about a handful of Wall Street outsiders who realized the subprime mortgage business was a house of cards and found a way to bet against it.Michael Lewis: Wall Street is able to delude itself because its paid to delude itself... if you pay someone not to see the truth, they will not see the truth...they, the big investment banks have long sought to exploit their

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Optimist I am, but each day as I scan the headlines and read about daily occurrences, I become a bit more disillusioned as to where we are headed in this country. I fear we are at a point of no return, that we are headed on the downside, for Americans have sat idly by and watched and allowed our country to be taken over by Progressives, Socialists and Marxists, or perhaps in simpler terms, by

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Walter Williams writes:Private industry and governments around the world have spent trillions of dollars in the name of saving our planet from manmade global warming. Academic institutions, think tanks and schools have altered their curricula and agenda to accommodate what was seen as the global warming "consensus."Mounting evidence suggests that claims of manmade global warming might turn out to

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How does Washington spend $3.8 TRILLION? Below are just a few of the items listed in Obama's 2011 budget. Read here in Business Insider to get further detail:$1.416 Billion on National and Community Service$789 Million for flood prevention$506 Million to rebuild aquatic ecosystems$180 Million for South Florida's ecosystem$1.3 Billion to the Census bureau for 2010 Census$2.6 Billion for the

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"In January, builders sold a whopping 1000 houses per day nationally. During the same month, Foreclosures rang up at 4300 and Notice-of-Defaults at 5100 per day nationally. What a mess. I really thought earlier in the year with massive mortgage rate and tax stimuli -- and the purposeful lack of distressed inventory due to HAMP and other mortgage mod and foreclosure prevention initiatives -- that

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ABC news reports this was the third time the killer whale Tillikum has been involved in a person's death, but there are reportedly no plans to take the massive animal out of the show. The headlines here read that it was the swing of Dawn Brancheau's ponytail that likely caused her death.What?! The third death and curator Chuck Tompkins says that the whale is "... a good animal" and they will have

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Greece's fiscal woes, the exposure of the European financial system to them, and the role played by Wall Street in hiding the problems all converge in a fifth-floor office near London's Liverpool Street station where a company called Titlos PLC was created in early 2009. Just 22 days after Titlos was born, the National Bank of Greece SA and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. arranged for the company to

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Last year Rush Limbaugh addressed CPAC, Conservative Political Action Conference, and this year's speaker was Glenn Beck. Here is an opportunity to listen to a man, self-made, self-taught, and who is a student of history.Part 1Part 2Hello, my name is the Republican party and I got a problem. I'm addicted to spending and big government...Part 340% say they are conservative... 36% say they are

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U.S. bank lending falls the fastest in history. David Rosenberg from Gluskin Sheff said lending has fallen by over $100bn (£63.8bn) since January, plummeting at an annual rate of 16pc. "Since the credit crisis began, $740bn of bank credit has evaporated. This is a record 10pc decline," he said...... "The reason the Great Depression became 'great' was the contraction of credit. You

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More waves of foreclosures will keep downward pressure on home prices in parts of the U.S. over the next several years, two new studies project.The studies—by John Burns Real Estate Consulting Inc. and Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC—both conclude that most efforts to modify loans with easier terms will delay, not prevent, the loss of homes to foreclosure.All those loan modifications

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Have you ever wondered why the BBC has been so biased towards the global warming movement? According to the UK Express... The corporation is under investigation after being inundated with complaints that its editorial coverage of climate change is biased in favour of those who say it is a man-made phenomenon. The £8billion pension fund is likely to come under

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Maria and Charlie Cardosa paid cash for their house in 2005 in Spring Hill, but Bank of America seized their home, removed their belongings and changed the locks on the doors. The couple had to file a lawsuit in federal court to prove Bank of America had the wrong address! Read the story here.What's happening in this country America?

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The Green PoliceCathy Zoi, formerly of the “Alliance for Climate Protection”, formerly Al Gore’s point person for his “Repower America” nationwide campaign, now heads up Obama’s DOE energy efficiency/renewables division. She says we need “swat teams” in neighborhoods to enforce energy efficiency retrofits for homes and businesses.Swat teams? Is this rather like the Gestapo?Here is a bit more

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ABC news reports that despite all the talk of green jobs, the overwhelming majority of stimulus money spent on wind power has gone to foreign companies, according to a new report by the Investigative Reporting Workshop at the American University's School of Communication in Washington, D.C.... Nearly 80 percent of $2 Billion dollars has gone to foreign manufacturers of wind turbines.So how is

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Obama has signed a commitment to underwrite offshore drilling in the amount of $2 Billion dollars, but it is not for the United States. It is for the Brazilian state-owned oil company, Petrobras. We, the American taxpayer is going to finance oil exploration off the coast of Brazil for the Brazilian state-owned oil company and whose largest shareholder happens to be George Soros.

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An important read is this article by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in the Telegraph.UK.Flow data shows an abrupt withdrawal of German and Asian capital from Club Med debt markets. The EU's refusal to offer Greece anything beyond stern words and a one-month deadline for harsher austerity – while admirable in one sense – is to misjudge how fast confidence is ebbing. Greece's drama has already

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The Herald Sun reported that representatives from 24 central banks and monetary authorities including the US Federal Reserve and European Central Bank met in Sydney last week and at a secret location and with high-level security.The arrival of the high-powered gathering coincided with a fresh meltdown on world sharemarkets, sparked by renewed concerns about global growth and sovereign debt.Fears

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The AFP reports: The Netherlands has asked the UN climate change panel to explain an inaccurate claim in a landmark 2007 report that more than half the country was below sea level, the Dutch government said Friday. According to the Dutch authorities, only 26 percent of the country is below sea level, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will be asked to account for its

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Paul B. Farrell, Marketwatch, writes:Retire: You can fuggetaboutit if the new Global Debt Time Bomb is detonated by any one of 20 made-in-America trigger mechanisms.Yes, 20. And yes, any one can destroy your retirement because all 20 are inexorably linked, a house-of-cards, a circular firing squad destined to self-destruct, triggering the third great Wall Street meltdown of the 21st century,

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You can go here to view the FDIC's balance sheet through the third quarter 2009, and for those of you who have succumbed into thinking that all is well, that we have been saved by Washington, I offer the following simple pictorial.Friday evenings, after everyone has gone home, another bank or two or three... and in this case Six New Bank Failures are taken over by the FDIC (total to date since

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Feb. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Investigations of misconduct related to the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program expanded in the fourth quarter as the U.S. rescue fund’s watchdog increased opened cases by 41 percent. Special Inspector General Neil Barofsky began 25 criminal and civil probes in the quarter, and had 77 total active cases, according to a quarterly report to Congress

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Morning headline reads: U.S. Economy: Growth Jumps 5.7%, Fastest Pace in Six YearsBe aware that under that glowing report there was an adjustment to inventory and the 3.39% of the 5.7% GDP was not due to growth but due to inventory build. 2.2% was the actual growth. Additionally, import growth was cut in half last quarter. Know that these numbers are only preliminary and will like be adjusted

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New homes sales plunged 7.6% in December to the lowest levels in nine months, and when we look at home foreclosures, it is not getting better and fear the worst is yet ahead of us.(IRVINE, CA) - It's going to be another dismal year in the home foreclosures category, according to new data released today by Irvine, CA-based RealtyTrac. In its Year-End 2009 Metropolitan Foreclosure Market Report,

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IBD (Investors Business Daily) reportsThe United Nations makes a claim that can't be supported by science, and U.S. researchers ignore temperature data from frigid regions. The crack-up of the global warming fraud is picking up speed.With so much of the science behind climate change coming under attack, especially among scientists, it's been a harsh winter for the global warming crowd: • In late

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Edwin J. Feulner, President of the Heritage Foundation, writes:The President of the United States tomorrow will inform the Congress on the State of our Union, as he is constitutionally mandated to do. The past 12 months have seen our country head down a dangerous course, and The Heritage Foundation can only hope that the President will use this time of reflection, coming on the heels of a

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Senator Tom Coburn writes: I recently suggested that seniors will die sooner if Congress actually implements the Medicare cuts in the health-care bill put forward by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. My colleagues who defend the bill—none of whom have practiced medicine—predictably dismissed my concern as a scare tactic. They are wrong. Every American, not just seniors, should know that the

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W. James Antle, III writes in the American Spectator:... A Republican who started the race down 30 points was elected to the Senate seat the late Ted Kennedy held for 47 years, winning 52 percent of the vote with 99 percent of precincts reporting. He won with a simple argument: "This Senate seat belongs to no one person and no one political party -- it belongs to the people of

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You think you want universal health care, then read what a Massachusetts Democrat recently wrote:I am a lifelong Democrat who will vote for Brown on Tuesday. My main reason is the universal health care plan that is said to be similar to the Massachusetts plan. Under Massachusetts universal health care, I have seen my care and that of my adult children decline during the past year. My daugher has

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Karl Denninger writes : If you've done nothing wrong, why are you threatening people Mr. Lacker? Lacker criticized legislation before Congress that would rescind an exemption on government audits of monetary policy and give politicians a greater say over the appointment of Fed bank directors and presidents. “Such moves would present very serious risks to the effectiveness of monetary policy and

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John Mauldin writes:And so we have uncertainty all around us. What will our taxes look like in the US in just 12 months? Health care? Who will finance the bonds, without a credible plan to reduce the deficit? And any plan that has Nancy Pelosi as its guarantor is by definition not credible. There is just so much that is uncertain, and all we can do is wait to see how it unfolds. My best guess

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Behind closed doors the Unions struck a deal with Obama and the Democrat leadership on healthcare: they, Big Labor Unions, Congress and Federal employees will be exempt from the 40% excise tax on high-priced health insurance premiums... Big Labor will get all of the big government health care spending they always wanted, but they will not have to pay for it. Continue to read what Heritage writes.

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The bitter winter afflicting much of the Northern Hemisphere is only the start of a global trend towards cooler weather that is likely to last for 20 or 30 years, say some of the world’s most eminent climate scientists. Read more here.

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This according to Reuters: The U.S. government has provided more than $1 trillion of support to financial companies in a bid to keep credit flowing to the U.S. economy.Last year our esteemed lawmakers tucked a new law into legislation that would give billions of dollars to bankrupt financial companies that will never make another loan... and for the benefit of many hedge funds.... "Understand

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Take a look at Shadow Government Statistics and see what the unadjusted rate is.

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Bill Gross is the co-founder of the world's largest bond fund and writes:"Question: What has become of the American nation? Conceived with the vision of liberty and justice for all, we have descended in the clutches of corporate and other special interests to a second world state defined by K Street instead of Independence Square. Our government doesn’t work anymore, or perhaps more accurately,

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Hard to believe that CNN is actually airing something such as this... the truth.

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A northern China port that is one of the world's largest was facing the worst ice conditions in 30 year.I wonder what Al Gore has to say about that?

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A great accounting by Jeff Clark, The Biggest Financial Deception of the Decade. Here is a piece of it, but the entire writing is HERE.Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on July 16, 2008, that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are “adequately capitalized” and “in no danger of failing.” Then-Secretary Treasurer Henry Paulson declared on August 10, 2008, “We have no plans to insert money into

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John Hussman writes: "The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.” ~ Vladimir Lenin, leader of the 1917 Russian RevolutionLast week, while Congress and the nation were preoccupied with the holidays, the Treasury made a Christmas eve announcement that it would be providing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac unlimited financial support for the next three years. The Treasury's

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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The massive stock-market rally in the past nine months is mostly due to secret government buying of stock-index futures, a respected stock-market analyst said Tuesday.Charles Biderman, chief executive of TrimTabs Investment Research, is the latest and most credible person to charge that the Federal Reserve and the Treasury (in league with top Wall Street firms) is

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Chris Dodd is the latest who will not seek re-election and that follows Byron Dorgan who announced he would be retiring less than 24 hours ago.List of Senators not seeking re-election:- Roland Burris (D-IL)- Christopher Dodd (D-CT)- Byron Dorgan (D-ND)- Paul Kirk (D-MA)- Kit Bond (R-MO)- Sam Brownback (R-KS)- Jim Bunning (R-KY)- Judd Greg (R-NH)- George LeMieux (R-FL)- George Voinovich (R-OH)

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Social Security Crippled By EconomyBruce Krasting writes at SeekingAlpha that the recession of the last two years has crippled Social Security and nothing short of a major overhaul can turn it around at this point.Eurozone Faces Debt Crisis This YearOfficials have borrowed heavily to pull the 16-nation zone out of its first recession, and debt levels are set to smash a huge hole in the ceiling

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Military Blogger Michael Yon Detained, Handcuffed by TSAAward winning war correspondent Michael Yon was detained and handcuffed at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport yesterday by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) personnel.Yon was returning to the United States from Hong Kong to visit family when TSA officials stopped him during a routine security checkpoint. “Officials asked me

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David Rosenberg writes that the recession may not be over: 90% of the growth in Q3 came courtesy of Uncle Sam’s generosity. In other words, the economy basically stagnated in the third quarter when GDP is measured “organically”.What is normal is that the first quarter of post-recession growth is that real GDP expands at a 7.3% annual rate; 2.2% is really nothing to get excited about — it’s

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While America was being fed the latest in Tiger Wood's disgusting saga, the LSM (lame stream media) didn't take the time to tell you that Obama was busy and quietly signing an Executive Order, giving INTERPOL, the International Criminal Police Organization rights on American soil that place it beyond the reach of our own law enforcement agencies, such as the FBI. This is a must read.

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This was posted in October, but I believe it worthy of re-posting considering the governments ability to undermine our United States Constitution.Judge Andrew Napolitano: "... the Law of the Land. And so if anybody says to you 'What do you do when the government violates our natural rights?' You do what the law of the United States says you do: it is the duty of the people to alter or abolish a

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Banks Roll Out New Check, Card FeesAlthough the LSM (lame stream media) has been touting the new rules of the Credit Card Act of 2009 as being consumer friendly, credit card companies were busy slipping in new fees and practices into customer contracts ahead of the law. Issuers are closing accounts, switching cards with fixed interest rates to variable rates and introducing cards that have an

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The following has been circulating on the internet and was sent to me via email. At this point the author is unknown, but it is one heck of an idea.Congressional Reform Act of 20101. Term Limits: 12 years only, one of the possible options below. A. Two Six year Senate terms B. Six Two year House terms C. One Six year Senate term and three Two Year House termsServing in Congress is an

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AMENDMENT XThe powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.In February 2009 August Review, Nick Dranius, director of the Goldwater Institute’s Center for Constitutional Government, was quoted as saying: “The federal government does not have the constitutional authority to spend

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Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) -- The Mayo Clinic will stop accepting Medicare patients as of tomorrow at one of its primary-care clinics in Arizona, saying the U.S. government pays too little. Mayo spokeswoman said they lost $840 million last year on Medicare. Do you suppose this is the start of things to come?

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Happy New Year!The first thing you can do is thank Congress for the tax increase that will take effect this year. It seems they hurried home for Christmas and allowed many tax breaks that affect individuals and businesses to expire. Heritage Foundation has listed some of those tax increases here.

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Reported today in ScienceDaily (Dec. 31, 2009) — Most of the carbon dioxide emitted by human activity does not remain in the atmosphere, but is instead absorbed by the oceans and terrestrial ecosystems. In fact, only about 45 percent of emitted carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere.And here is another article stating that new data shows that the balance between the airborne and the absorbed

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Sending your kid to college? Find out what they will be taught and how they cannot question orthodoxy without imperiling their career.This is Part I of a three-part series, Indoctrinate - U, a film by Evan Coyne Maloney. It takes some time to view, but as you are listening, my guess is the hair on the back of your neck will be upright.Indoctrinate U -Part 1/3 @ Yahoo! VideoHow Radical Professors

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Putin Urges Obama To Share U.S. Missile Defense DataEarlier this year, Obama conceded to the Russians and agreed to scrap the interceptor missiles promised to Poland by the previous administration. Now Putin says Obama needs to give the Russians "... all the information about the missile defense...".Al Qaeda Takes Credit... for Christmas Day Bomber attack on Northwest Flight 253. Did you know

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It looks like good timing by having made Janet Napolitano Homeland Security chief this year by the Obama administration. She was first elected Governor of Arizona in 2002 and re-elected in 2006. Time even selected her as one of five top governors in 2005!The new governor of Arizona, Jan Brewer, says the state is near collapse with an unprecedented budget deficit of $1.5 billion and with a next

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535 politicians who have no regard for our Constitution, who laugh at this country and the principles upon which it was founded, making deals in the back room to the highest bidder, sneaking through their 60-39 vote in the dark of the night, Christmas eve no less. It is about which Senator can get the most money. There is no longer a will of the people.

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Unprecedented is the debt of this U.S. government, and on Christmas Eve your Senate voted 60 to 39 to raise the debt ceiling to $12.4 Trillion dollars. They just keep on spending!Also this Christmas Eve, the Senate Democrats passed their healthcare bill, 60 to 39, a $871 Billion dollar measure. It will now go on to be reconciled by the House in the New Year.The Governor of Nebraska to Senator Ben

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Pagans who arrived at Stonehenge to celebrate Winter Solstice arrived 24 hours too early; the 2009 solstice fell at 5:47 pm yesterday December 22, rather than Monday the 21st.The Wall Street Journal reports that your Congress is hard at work, spending money of course, no, not on you, but on themselves and their spouses and financed by you. 12 U.S. House of Representative members recently traveled

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Citigroup Gets Huge New $38 Billion Dollar Bailout, Wiping Out All Taxpayers "Profits"The Washington Post reports that as part of the bank's TARP payback agreement, it's quietly been given a $38 billion tax break by the IRS.That's right! The Federal government and the IRS, you know the one headed by Tim Geithner, says screw you taxpayer, once again. Geithner issued an exception on the tax rules

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