Paul Grignon on Economics 101: Digital Coin

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corbettreport
November 18, 2009

Paul Grignon, the creator of the popular “Money as Debt” documentaries, joins Economics 101 to discuss his solution for an alternative currency. Digital Coin operates as a system of unique digital objects that function as self-issued credit. The value of this is measured relative to a “Perpetual Coin” unit of measure and fluctuates based on demand for that individual’s goods and services. For much more information on this fascinating idea, please visit the Digital Coin website: http://www.digitalcoin.info

Palinoscopy – Hitler in heels with a smiley face by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH

by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH
Featured Writer
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crossposted on Buzzflash.com
Nov. 18, 2009

So Going Rogue and its companion guide to the truth, Going Rouge (available right here on BuzzFlash), are both out. And so is Sarah Palin. She is like the cat that got out of the bag. Since leaving the Alaska governorship, she has been stoking the Palin Fires. In a state in severe economic and environmental difficulty, there was simply no future there, right; and especially Right: might even have to take stimulus money. Definitely no future even if you can see Russia from it, that is on a very clear day standing tippy-toes on its farthest western point, at the Bering Strait (a very long ways from either Anchorage or Wasilla). She has her book and it and she are getting a lot of attention. Palin runs on enemies, not problems or programs to solve them (especially if one problem is premarital sex and the only available solution is abstinence-only education in high school). Her two main enemies are “the media” and “big government.”

The BNP and bridging the gulf of disbelief By William Bowles

By William Bowles
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Creative-i
18 November 2009

By now it must surely be obvious to everyone that a vast gulf exists between the rulers and the ruled, so much so that the ruled have all but given up listening. The ruling elite are now so desperate that hardly a day goes by without some political dinosaur telling us that ‘we have to reestablish the trust of the people, a trust that has completely broken down’. But it ain’t ain’t working and with good reason.

Enter the British National Party (BNP).

You have to ask yourself the question, why now? Why did the BBC suddenly decide that it’s on the side of ‘free speech’? Their reason, that large numbers of people voted for the BNP hence the BBC had to give them a voice, simply doesn’t wash. If it were so then why haven’t we seen the BNP on ‘Question Time’ before? Moreover, why do we hear no voice from the left on Question Time if the BBC is so concerned with presenting ‘alternative’ views on its ‘flagship’ programme?

CIA to Dish out $3 Million to buy silence in Another Narco Scandal by Sibel Edmonds

by Sibel Edmonds
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originally published by Boiling Frogs Post
18 November 2009

The Mighty Agency on it’s Knees in a Legal Battle

After 15 years of legal battles the CIA agrees to pay $3 million to a former DEA agent who accused a former CIA official of illegally eavesdropping on him as part of a joint CIA and State Department effort to thwart DEA’s anti-narcotics mission in Burma in the early 1990s.

Richard Horn was stationed in Burma in the early 1990s as the DEA country attaché to Burma, a nation that is ranked as one of the top opium poppy producing countries in the world. He was in charge of overseeing DEA’s mission in Burma involving eradication of the opium poppy, which is used to produce heroin.

The Logic of the 9/11 Trials, The Madness of the Military Commissions by Andy Worthington

by Andy Worthington
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www.andyworthington.co.uk
18 November 2009

With just over two months to go until President Obama’s deadline for the closure of Guantanamo, the administration has finally woken up to the necessity of actually doing something to facilitate the prison’s closure by announcing on Friday that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other prisoners accused of involvement in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 will be brought to New York to face federal court trials.

Despite the fact that the “War on Terror” was launched over eight years ago to pursue those responsible for the 9/11 attacks, and despite the fact that Attorney General Eric Holder noted, in a statement announcing the trial, that the opportunity for the relatives of the 9/11 victims “to see the alleged plotters of those attacks held accountable in court” had been “too long delayed,” Republican critics immediately leapt on the announcement, with Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell describing it as “a step backwards for the security of our country” that “puts Americans unnecessarily at risk.”

Advice on Afghanistan by Ralph Nader

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by Ralph Nader
The Nader Page
Nov. 18, 2009

Image by Dandelion Salad via Flickr

Dear President Obama,

You are nearing the day of decision as to whether you order the dispatch of more soldiers to Afghanistan.

Some of your advisors have urged up to 50,000 more soldiers, including several thousand called trainers of the Afghan army.

Other advisors have urged more caution, notably the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan and former general, Karl W. Eikenberry, who opposes more soldiers so long as the Afghan government remains grossly dysfunctional.

Beside your own military and civilian advisors, you are receiving disparate counsel from an anemic Congress and your allies abroad.

Rumors Of Coups And War: U.S., NATO Target Latin America by Rick Rozoff

by Rick Rozoff
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Stop NATO
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com
18 November, 2009

There is no way of overestimating the challenge that the emergence of ALBA and the overall reawakening of Latin America pose to the role that the U.S. arrogates to itself as lord of the entire Western Hemisphere. The almost two-century-old Monroe Doctrine exemplifies Washington’s claim to exclusive influence over all of North, Central and South America and the Caribbean Basin and its self-claimed right to subordinate them to its own interests. Never before the election victories of anti-neoliberal forces throughout Latin America over the past eleven years has the prospect of a truly democratic, multipolar New World existed as it does now.

It is in response to those developments that the U.S. and its former colonialist allies in NATO are attempting to reassert their influence in the Americas south of the U.S. border.

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Jane D’Arista on gold and fiat money Parts 7-8

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TheRealNews
November 17, 2009

Jane D’Arista on gold and fiat money

The love in Zekerullah’s journey to peace

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ourjourneytosmile
November 17, 2009