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One year after his election, Barack Obama’s approval rating is lower at this stage than for any US president since Eisenhower. [ Even Bush II ? ] So why has the optimism surrounding his victory disappeared so suddenly? [ Barack Obama   …   … wanker … ] Every Wednesday […]

By Catherine Austin Fitts The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money. – Matt Taibbi, “Inside the Great American Bubble Machine” The Great Vampire Squid For years, it was hard […]

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SHELBURNE, Vt. – Peter Garritano thinks it’s time for Vermont to call it quits with America. The way the 54-year-old automobile salesman sees it, the “empire” is about to implode and tiny Vermont can lead the way by becoming its own independent republic. So he’s running for lieutenant governor, topping […]

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[ oh … great … ] “This is worth reading. It seems to me a pretty accurate assessment of what’s happening. What I can’t understand is why it’s so difficult for the whole world to see and understand what’s happening. I long wondered where all the money is coming from […]

A tiny part of a tiny part of the population of the earth will set the terms for the future of all humans. A tiny part that is broken, spent out, and increasingly disillusioned. That sliver of humanity is the broken, spent out, and increasingly disillusioned American middle class, burdened […]

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