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Turn This Election Into a Rout On the Strength of Numbers

800 billion dollars. 500 billion dollars. One trillion dollars.These figures in and amongst themselves don't register with the American people. We can't make sense of them. They are too big to...

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"Lost Treasure": (My Continuing Sculptural Gifts to the GOP)

Lost Treasure©2008 Emily Duffy Photo by Sibila SavageCross-posted at my blog.Dimensions: 29" x 29" x 21"Description: Small wood coffin filled with gold soldiers and coins. Inside, lid has an abused...

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No money to save my life but billions for Wall Street cowboys

Hypocrisy is literally killing me, and I am not alone.

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Government spending vs revenues vs bailouts

With all the money flowing from the government with the various bailouts, I, as a layman, wanted a better understanding of the magnitude of these new debts vs our government finances.

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A Hardship Letter to Countrywide - A Family on the Brink of Disaster

One reader - who we will call "Kitty" - has volunteered her to share her story, recounting the chain of events that has thrust her family from the comfort of middle-class security to the brink of...

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Bernanke, Paulson and Bair Testify - But Can We get a Witness?

By Anthony M. FreedTwo months ago, in late September, I penned a piece titled Liars, And The Lying Lies They Are Telling You, which examined just one single publicly available FDIC document from 2002...

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GM, Ford, Chrysler: Break 'em up!

When Jimmy Carter's justice department broke up Bell Telephone in the late 1970's we had a revolution in communications.All of a sudden, the heavy boot of Bell Telephone wasn't on the neck of all the...

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Napolitano Must Bring an End to Chertoff's Billion Dollar Speed Bumps

On the day that Barak Obama takes the oath of office workers will be pouring concrete and welding steel to extend the border wall.  Today, walls slice through 378 miles of our borderlands.  The Secure...

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Space Elevator Race - Revisited

...And so, for example, if America were to succeed in building a –in its essence a 22,000-mile cable, operating like a pulley, dangling down from a stationary satellite, a concept first put forth in...

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Obama fails first test; The Prolonged Chrysler Crisis

US Taxpayers rejoice as this Administration's meddling ends at  bankruptcy court - where it belonged many BILLIONS ago!I would ask that you step back to look at the larger landscape this episode...

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So, I'm Not Sure If I Understand This

    I'm kind of puzzled here. See, I can see why Wall Street is not real keen on having the Federal Government have some kind of Czalary Czar hand pick how much of our tax dollars can go to the bad...

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Deficits matter - the government is the economy now

Remember way back, the last time unemployment was over 10%, when Reagan was President, and his economic flunkies said "deficits don't matter"?Well they do ... and now the deficits are much much bigger...

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End Big Oil's Billions in Government Subsidies NOW!

    In the face of HUGE profits made by Big Oil it is time to stop subsidizing them with taxpayer money NOW. The American people are suffering. The Big Oil firms and their extremely wealthy executives...

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The Fine Line Between Hope & Delusion: The Gamble of President Obama’s Afghan...

Yes, there is some inherent risk in any foreign policy venture, but there seems to be something so…. what’s the word… compulsive, about our Afghan policy. Compulsive or problem gambling is defined as...

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Time to Get Out of Afghanistan

The President was right in his speech last month that we need to begin bringing our troops home from Afghanistan. But a counter-terrorism strategy doesn’t need 70,000 boots on the ground, any more than...

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Dollars from singles to trillions

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Ex AIG CEO sues US Taxpayers for $25 Billion MORE BAILOUT MONEY! They didn't...

And they wonder why we Occupy Wall Street! Just get a load of this . . .With job creating geniuses like this, who needs sociopathic super-villians?   Former AIG CEO Maurice Greenberg, however, thinks...

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BERNIE BERNIE BERNIE

Can Bernie get the Democratic nomination for President? More importantly, could he win in a general election for President? I wish I knew.Bernie Sander's is a hell of a guy. In fact, I don't think he's...

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THE TOP 10 MEN

THE TOP 10 No 1. BAE Systems – UKArms sales in 2008$32.42 billionFounded1999Employees107,000image: realitypod.com/...Element removedimage: realitypod.com/...Element removedBAE systems from UK, the...

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Is Defense a problem?

DefenseI totaled up the last 16 years Defense Budget the total came to “$9,580,000,000,000.00”.  That’s  9 as in Trillion so what does that tell me?  It’s obvious  you can not buy a winning military....

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NO NO NO DNC! YOU HAVE IT ALL WRONG!

I HAVE NO DOUBT MANY PEOPLE WILL DISAGREE WITH ME. NEVERTHELESS THIS IS THE WAY I SEE IT.The upcoming election is exceedingly important. It may be the most important election of your and my lifetime....

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Media Amassed for Donald

A friend of mine sent a note in Facebook that reminded me of the moment months ago when, seeing a news item about something Trump said or had done, I was incensed they would spend space proselytizing...

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Has anyone told Trump his 'big, beautiful' border wall is getting shoddier by...

Department of Homeland Security Sec. John Kelly dropped a bombshell revelation Wednesday about Donald Trump's precious border wall. Jamie DuPree writes: “I will say this, that it’s unlikely that we...

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Open letter to Warren Buffet and George Soros: Buy Trump off, by offering him...

Also, I would add he has too much at stake financially to relent.  He came into this to build his brand and make money.  Money is what motivates him.  It feeds his narcissism and ego, and is a way he...

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Trump's BIG Billion Dollar Raining Weapons Extravaganza

Trump reverses the Obama decision not to sell 40 million dollars worth of weapons to the soul-less Saudis by selling them a billion dollars worth instead.“The deals include Raytheon bombs, Lockheed...

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Call it a Hunch

Donald Trump has wanted to own an NFL franchise almost his entire (I was going to say adult, but somehow that didn’t seem to fit) grown-up life. He wanted one so bad he even bought a franchise from the...

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Trump's shutdown cost U.S. economy even more than the billions he demanded...

Donald Trump ‘s beloved border wall fever dream has cost the American economy hundreds of millions of dollars more than the proposed budget for his “beautiful steel barrier” of bigotry. S&P Global...

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Sen. Sanders drops truth bomb on Bloomberg and his billions: 'It wasn't you...

It’s debate night! Whether you like Sanders or Warren or Buttigieg or Biden or Klobuchar, one thing is clear: Michael Bloomberg is not doing well. At all. Debate moderators in their never-ending...

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Women should be allowed to star in movies that are both Rated R + 3D

Male Lead movies get to be both in 3D + rated R at the same time; all the time, from Dredd (2012) to the upcoming The Batman (2022). But women never get to star in a movie thats both rated R + 3D at...

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How Movie Studios are undeliberately killing Theaters

First, we have to eliminate 2 Myths:(1). 3D is dead Myth:Well here are the movies that released in 3D in 2K21:Godzilla VS. Kong $468 million (90+% from 3D Screenings)Fast & Furious 9 $726 million...

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