Category: Business
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WIRELESS WORLD: THEN AND NOW
TESLA’S INNOVATIONS BEAR FRUIT GLOBALLY OVER 100 YEARS LATER This is what advanced “high tech” looked like in 1890. It was a telephone tower in Stockholm, Sweden, which supported 5,000 lines (right). At about the same time, a 35-year old Serbian immigrant to the United States, Nikola Tesla, born in Smiljan, today’s Croatia (left), then part of the…
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A CASE OF CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE? IRS: 100,000 US TAXPAYERS’ FILES STOLEN, BILLIONS OF DOLLARS WASTED
In 2011, the IRS Wasted $3.6 Billion on Fraudulent Refunds, Even Sending Thousands of Refunds to Foreign Countries In One Account Alone, the IRS Deposited 590 Tax Refunds! 23,944 Tax Refunds Were Sent to Just One Address in Atlanta, Totaling $46,378,000! In 2015, Americans will pay $3.3 trillion in federal taxes and $1.5 trillion in state and local…
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BILLARY CLINTON CASHING IN ON WHITE HOUSE FAME (AND INFAMY)
PAYBACK TIME FOR THE CLINTONS: THEY HAVE MADE OVER $25 MILLION IN SPEAKING FEES SINCE EARLY 2014 “We came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt,” Hillary Clinton told ABC in an interview on June 9 of last year. We came out of the White House not only dead broke,…
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TWO AND A HALF CENTURIES OF TAX OPPRESSION IN AMERICA
RANKING OF 50 STATES BY AGGREGATE TAX RATES Tax Freedom Day or Tax Slavery Parole Day, Will Be Friday Apr 24 This Year “THE MORE THE WORLD CHANGES, THE MORE IT STAYS THE SAME” (J-B Alphonse Karr 1808-1890) I have been watching on Netflix the TV series “TURN.” It is about the American Revolution and the…
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POPULISM, THY FACE IS PUTIN
PLUTOCRACY, THY FACE IS OBAMA When was the last time you’ve heard of an American president holding a four-hour live “town hall meeting” with the whole nation? Never, of course, is the correct answer. Now contrast that with what the Russian president Putin has just done (Apr 16). He held a four-hour live televised “town…
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DRONES THAT ACTUALLY SERVE, RATHER THAN KILL, ARE NOT SO WELCOME IN THE U.S.
Drone. What does that word connote in your mind? Death and destruction? And maybe spying, too? On us, Americans. Under the pretext of protecting us from “terrorism.” Talk about a fox guarding a chicken coop. Or a pot calling a kettle black. If you’re like most Americans whose minds are programmed by TV and Hollywood…
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GREED & ILLUSION OF CHOICE: NOBODY OWNS ANYTHING IN THE UNIVERSE
COMMENT: NOBODY OWNS ANYTHING IN THE UNIVERSE A reaction to Prof Robert Reich’s piece “The Conundrum of Corporation and Nation“ The problem with corporatocracy like ours in America is that it is driven by Greed. “Making money” is a euphemism for Greed. Which has come to connote “Goodness” thanks to our corrupt systems of government.…
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UKRAINE CURRENCY COLLAPSED 50% IN 2 DAYS: SO WHAT?
UKRAINE CURRENCY JUST COLLAPSED 50 PERCENT IN 2 DAYS (Washington Post) Why the sudden collapse? Ukraine’s economy is being deliberately destroyed by the West in the hope that it would be rebuilt by the western multinationals. This is what happens when to countries which align themselves with the US-led New World Order. Ukraine is now on…
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IN A SNUB TO INDIA, OBAMA SHUNS TEMPLE OF LOVE IN FAVOR OF KING OF OIL
THE KING IS DEAD; LONG LIVE THE KING HEADLINE NEWS, Jan 24… The White House announced today that the president was canceling plans to visit the temple of love (Taj Mahal) in Agra, India. Instead Obama will go to Saudi Arabia to pay respects to the royal family following the death of King Abdullah. VEEP…
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TOP ONE PERCENT HAVE AS MUCH WEALTH THE BOTTOM HALF
ERA OF GREED & PLUTOCRACY: RICH GOT RICHER UNDER OBAMA We live in an era of greed and plutocracy. That’s nothing new, of course. But things are getting worse for all but the top echelon of the New World Order. “Having it all and wanting more”, reads the headline of the Oxfam report released today. “Global…
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