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It's All About Efficiency!

By Berry Ives
October 10th, 2008

U.S. Government policy needs to focus on efficiency for the most rapid recovery from our current crisis. I'm talking about the stuff that should be happening no matter what you think of the bailout.

Here are my top contenders:

Reduce the U.S. military by 50% within the next president's first term
Many Hundreds of billions saved per year more »

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Your Power-Worshiping, Maliciously Negligent Media At Work

By David Sirota
October 10th, 2008

Last week, as the bailout bill was being debated, the blog Naked Capitalism got its hands on the tape of a secret Treasury Department conference call whereby government officials reassured Wall Street speculators that all the supposed Democratic "improvements" to Henry Paulson's original bill were speci more »

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Forcing Paulson to Be a Businessman, Not a Crony Capitalist

By David Sirota
October 10th, 2008

The last week has seen a tectonic shift in American politics and government. Those of us who opposed the $700 billion bailout have been proved correct, as the entire political, academic and financial Establishment has said what we were saying all along: the scheme to buy mortgage-backed assets is a giveaway to Wall Street, not a solution to a credit crisis. more »

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Colorado to Review How It Purges Voters’ Names

From nytimes.com
October 9th, 2008
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nytimes.com — "...The announcement came in response to an article in The New York Times describing how election officials in Colorado and eight other states were screening voter registration applications or removing people from the voter rolls in ways that seemed to violate federal law..."

You are being Robbed

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Who Owns The Federal Reserve?

By Ellen Brown
From globalresearch.ca
October 9th, 2008
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globalresearch.ca — The financial engineers of the US Kleptocracy appointed Ben Bernanke, an expert on the depression, to replace Alan Greenspan.

How fortunate, almost as if they knew what was coming even while they were pumping toxic debt into the Globalized banking system they created.

You are being robbed.

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How Is the Financial Crisis Affecting Cities?

By Harry Moroz
October 9th, 2008

The financial crisis has dug in its heels and Treasury’s plan to buy up troubled assets hasn’t been able to dislodge them. more »

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Tales from the Tippers

By Ian Mishalove
October 9th, 2008

The most important American election in recent memory will be here in less than 30 days. With deepening crises at home and abroad, millions of previously disengaged citizens are tuning in to try to make sense of it all.

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Crony Communist or Businessman?

By David Sirota
October 9th, 2008

Is Henry Paulson a crony communist or a businessman? The answer could be the difference between economic disaster and recovery.

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Top 10 Follow-Up Questions Not Asked by Brokaw.

By Cynthia Boaz
October 8th, 2008

1) Senator McCain, you do realize that 'prioritize' does not also mean 'doing everything at once', don't you?

2) What in the love of pete is "clean coal"?

3) Senator, with all due respect, can you respond to a question without ending with "my friends"?

4) What exactly did you mean by the term "that one"?

5) So a simple "yes" or "no" please- should health care be a commodity??? more »

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FT Editor: Paulson Bailout Aims to Enrich Paulson's Wall Street Pals

By David Sirota
October 8th, 2008

During the debate over the bailout, many of us said that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, a former Goldman Sachs executive, had crafted the bailout specifically to enrich his friends at Goldman Sachs. more »

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