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by Tom Eley

02/08/09

Obama announced measures that purport to restrict executive compensation to $500,000 at financial institutions receiving billions in government assistance. … The measures are essentially a public relations exercise. Their aim is to provide political cover for a new and even larger Wall Street bailout, which Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will unveil next week...

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12205



The “crisis” is not the crisis

Arm Your Mind for Liberty
by George Donnelly

02/10/09

According to politicians, the ‘crisis’ is that the economy stopped growing and loans are not available. People are losing jobs and businesses are closing. But what painfully few people realize is that this is a healthy reaction to the government-facilitated excessive spending and production of the last decade. If the politicians insist on creating bubbles, they have to accept the consequences of them bursting as natural, necessary and curative. The real crisis is both that which caused the ‘crisis’ and the politicians’ reaction to the ‘crisis’...

http://georgedonnelly.com/opinion/crisis-is-not-the-crisis-obama


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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