Thu 18 Jun 2009, 2:52 pm by J.B.

http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/06/17/pm_risk/


http://www.kentucky.com/181/story/834468.html


The FEDERAL RESERVE- a privately owned bank- will now oversee all US companies, the Stock Market, mortgages, all banking, and anything else that has to do with money.

Under the guidance of Tim Geitner (Formerly president of the New Y...

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Wed 01 Jul 2009, 6:14 am by PhunkyPhishStyle

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8118721.stm

"Gazprom seals $2.5bn Nigeria deal"

Russia's energy giant Gazprom has signed a $2.5bn (£1.53bn) deal with Nigeria's state operated NNPC, to invest in a new joint venture.

The new firm, to be called Nigaz, is set to build refineries, pipelines and gas power stations in Nigeria.

Anal...

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Tue 30 Jun 2009, 11:03 pm by J.B.

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Sat 27 Jun 2009, 7:37 am by cheese and whine

Under questioning, Attorney Gen. Holder was surprisingly
forthright in admitting that the hate bill is not intended to protect
everyone, or even the majority. He said only historically oppressed
minorities were to benefit. This means Jews, blacks, homosexuals,
women, etc. Holder made it clear that if a white Christian male,
including a serviceman or police office...

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Mon 29 Jun 2009, 2:43 pm by J.B.

http://www.cbs8.com/Global/story.asp?S=10610182

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) - The Air Force has
successfully launched an unarmed Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic
missile from the California coast to an area in the Pacific Ocean some
4,200 miles away.

Lt. Raymond Geoffroy says the ICBM was launched from Vandenberg Air
Force Bas...

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Mon 22 Jun 2009, 8:09 am by PhunkyPhishStyle

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jun/21/iraq-inquiry-tony-blair-bush

A confidential record of a meeting between President Bush and Tony Blair before the invasion of Iraq, outlining their intention to go to war without a second United Nations resolution, will be an explosive issue for the official inquiry into the UK's role in toppling Saddam Hussein.

The memo, writ...

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Tue 23 Jun 2009, 7:50 pm by Chen

The other night I was driving around and flipping through radio
stations to find something I could listen to. Briefly I landed on some
call in crap in between songs with a pussy announcer where people were
just saying the dumbest shit imaginable. One caller said something so
mindbogglingly retarded that I started to wonder how this guy manages
to breathe. This...

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Wed 10 Jun 2009, 3:40 pm by J.B.

I thought it would be interesting to take a look at what US Defense systems and programs have been cut so far, in order to pay for social welfare programs.

I did a search on which programs have been cut, or completely canceled, and I was surprised to find out just what has already been done.

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Fri 19 Jun 2009, 9:55 pm by PhunkyPhishStyle

Passed 405-1
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2009/roll411.xml

Gee - I wonder who that one lone 'nay' was?

I rise in reluctant opposition to H Res 560, which condemns the Iranian government for its recent actions during the unrest in that country. While I never condone violence, much less the violence that governments are only too willing to mete out to their own citizen...

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