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Hawaii Reporter
by US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)

02/08/10

Last week, the House approved another increase in the national debt ceiling. This means the government can borrow $1.9 trillion more to stay afloat and avoid default. It has been little more than a year since the last debt limit increase, and graphs showing the debt limit over time show a steep, almost vertical trend. It is not likely to be very long before this new ceiling is met and the government is back on the brink between default and borrowing us further into oblivion...

http://tinyurl.com/yz67tdv


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=debt
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=spending
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Future of Freedom Foundation
by Andy Worthington

02/08/10

What is to be done about the idiocy that has spread, like a poisonous but imperceptible gas, from the Pentagon to Congress, and is now wafting through the White House, deranging all it touches? As it travels, this dismal infection transforms statistical impossibilities into magic numbers, which appear, to the uninformed observer, to confirm the most shameless lies of former Vice President Dick Cheney: that Guantánamo was teeming with hardcore terrorists, who couldn’t wait to ‘return to the battlefield’...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1002d.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gitmo
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Warum die Arbeitslosenzahl für die US-Regierung offiziell sinkt, wenn es mehr Arbeitlose gibt.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/147037



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Arbeitlos

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/08-5



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=globalization
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Thom+Hartmann

http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w129.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/grigg

http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski243.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Palin
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/kwiatkowski

It's one of those numbers that's so unbelievable you have to actually think about it for a while... Within the next 12 months, the U.S. Treasury will have to refinance $2 trillion in short-term debt. And that's not counting any additional deficit spending, which is estimated to be around $1.5 trillion.

http://www.silverbearcafe.com/private/02.10/bankrupt.html



World bankers meet in Sydney as recovery fears intensify

THE world's top central bankers began arriving in Australia for high-level talks as renewed fears about the strength of the global economic recovery gripped world share markets.

http://snipurl.com/ub1bh


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Treasury
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=deficit+spending
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=recovery

Molecular Kill-Switch Included

By Katie Drummond

The Pentagon's mad science arm may have come up with its most radical project yet. Darpa is looking to re-write the laws of evolution to the military's advantage, creating "synthetic organisms" that can live forever - or can be killed with the flick of a molecular switch.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24620.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Darpa
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Katie+Drummond

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17422


Informant: Kev Hall



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=missile+defense
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bruce+Gagnon

http://www.torontosun.com/comment/columnists/eric_margolis/2010/02/05/12758511-qmi.html


Informant: Kev Hall

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Addicted To Debt: Wars Sending US into Ruin

By Eric Margolis

Military spending gobbles up 19% of federal spending and at least 44% of tax revenues. During the Bush administration, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars - funded by borrowing - cost each American family more than $25,000.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24614.htm

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Poll: Obama approval rating sinks to 44%

New York Daily News

02/08/10

President Obama’s job approval rating has taken another dive, putting him underwater for the first time in the latest Marist poll. Just 44% of the country approve of the work Obama is doing, while 47% don’t like what they see...

http://tinyurl.com/yzb35el


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
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