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Robert Reich, Talking Points Memo: "While more Americans are coming around to 'supporting' the bailout bill, the vast majority still hate the idea of bailing out Wall Street. They're for the bailout bill now only because they fear that a failure to pass it will have worse consequences -- drying up credit at a time when Main Street is struggling. But make no mistake: America is mad as hell. They resent what they perceive as extortion by the Masters of the Universe."

http://www.truthout.org/100208A



The Specter of Wall Street: Wall Street's Comeback as the Place Americans Love to Hate

Steve Fraser, Tomdispatch.com: "Wall Street sits at the eye of a political hurricane. Its enemies converge from every point on the compass. What a stunning turn of events. For well more than half a century Wall Street has enjoyed a remarkable political immunity, but matters were not always like that. Now, with history marching forward in seven league boots, we are about to revisit a time when the Street functioned as the country's lightning rod, attracting its deepest animosities and most passionate desires for economic justice and democracy."

http://www.truthout.org/100208C

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The Fake $700 Billion Bailout/Rescue Plan

by Devvy Kidd

Few things shock me anymore, I'm sad to say. However, Monday, September 29, 2008, was something to behold. Not only didn't the insidious "bail out" pass in the U.S. House of Representatives, but a substantial number of Americans put up such a ruckus, it had to have had a very chilling effect on the shadow government. As I watched the DOW tank to -777, I wondered why the Bush Administration's PPT (Plunge Protection Team) didn't step in and stop the dive. It occurred to me why.......

http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd399.htm

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PROTOCOLS FOR ECONOMIC COLLAPSE IN AMERICA
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2008/10/02/p29151


Informant: Dorothee Krien



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