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The Economy Is A Lie, Too

Posted by smeddum on September 22, 2009

By Paul Craig Roberts


September 21, 2009
Americans cannot get any truth out of their government about anything, the economy included.  Americans are being driven into the ground economically, with one million school children now homeless, while Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke announces that the recession is over. Read the rest of this entry »

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Paralysed cancer drug girl to be put on at-risk register ‘to shut her up’

Posted by seumasach on September 21, 2009

Daily Mail

20th September, 2009

A mother who is planning legal action against a pharmaceutical giant – claiming her daughter was left partially paralysed after having an anti-cancer vaccine – has been told the teenager is to be put on the social services ‘at-risk’ register.

Cheryl Cave says allegations that she is abusing her 13-year-old daughter Ashleigh are an attempt to ‘shut her up’ as she is demanding an investigation into the safety of a drug used to protect girls against the HPV virus that causes cervical cancer.

Ashleigh collapsed shortly after being given the jab at school and has spent nearly a year in hospital.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1214662/GlaxoSmithKline-challenged-safety-Cervarix-anti-cancer-vaccine-left-girl-partially-paralysed.html#ixzz0RjgGEuTO

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Radio: Jim Willie and the Chinese/USA trade war?

Posted by smeddum on September 21, 2009

http://www.contraryinvestorscafe.com/partners.php?pid=62242

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As household debt shoots through the roof, some people are going on strike

Posted by seumasach on September 20, 2009

Iceland Weather Report

18th September, 2009

Icelandic households are in serious trouble. When the economy melted down last year, the krona plummeted and loans that people had taken in foreign currencies [they were all the rage here in 2006-2008] went through the roof. Initially the government responded by allowing people to freeze their loan payments for the time being. That freezing runs out in October, at which time households that are already heavily indebted will face an even greater burden, that in many cases will be insurmountable. Defaults have already started to increase – and starting in October they are likely to increase even more.

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Iran replaces Dollar with Euro in FX

Posted by seumasach on September 20, 2009

PressTV

20th September, 2009

Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has ordered the replacement of the US dollar by the euro in the country’s foreign exchange accounts.

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Public debt hits £800 billion – the highest on record

Posted by seumasach on September 20, 2009

Of course, spending has to be cut: let’s start with ending our wars, slashing defence spending and dismantling the apparatus of empire, as well as ending welfare for parasitic city financiers.

Times

19th September, 2009

Britain is clocking up debt at a rate of £6,017 per second as the Government struggles to balance the books. With tax receipts plummeting because of the recession, state borrowing grew by £16.1 billion last month — almost twice the entire budget for the 2012 Olympics.

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Canadian Government Sends Body-bags to First Nations for Swine Flu

Posted by seumasach on September 20, 2009

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Canada: Tamiflu, body bags and genocide

Posted by seumasach on September 20, 2009

Kevin Annett

bsnorrel.blogspot.com

19th September, 2009

Last week, many of the aboriginal people in the remote west coast village of Ahousaht were innoculated with the tamiflu vaccine. Today, over a hundred of them are sick, and the sickness is spreading.

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Radio. Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert on the Beijing put

Posted by smeddum on September 20, 2009

http://ia311324.us.archive.org/3/items/MaxKeiserRadio-TheTruthAboutMarkets-19September2009/tam190909.mp3

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Protest. The housing crisis in Scotland.

Posted by smeddum on September 20, 2009

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Edu Lobo e Marília Medalha – Porta-Estandarte (1978) Geraldo Vandre

Posted by seumasach on September 19, 2009

Olha que a vida tão linda se perde em tristezas assim

See how our beautiful world is lost in sadness

Desce o teu rancho cantando essa tua esperança sem fim

Let’s sing always of our hopes

Deixa que a tua certeza se faça do povo a canção

make from our belief a song of the people

Pra que teu povo cantando teu canto ele não seja em vão

that they may find in it their own voice

Eu vou levando a minha vida enfim

Such is my life

Cantando e canto sim

song without end

E não cantava se não fosse assim

and I wouldn’t sing but for this

Levando pra quem me ouvir

bringing to those who hear me

Certezas e esperanças pra trocar

certainty and hope instead of

Por dores e tristezas que bem sei

pain and sadness

Um dia ainda vão findar

which I know one day will end

Um dia que vem vindo

a day which is coming

E que eu vivo pra cantar

I live singing for this

Na avenida girando, estandarte na mão pra anunciar.

in the streets, a standard bearer for happier times

Words and music by Geraldo Vandre


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