Category: Business
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“YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR:” US SUPREME COURT MAKES IT OFFICIAL (ACT IV)
LET IT RAIN (ACID)… SUPREME COURT TAKES THE U.S. TO THE DARK AGES OF INDUSTRIAL ERA POLLUTION THE SUPREMES RULE AGAINST EPA POLLUTION CONTROL “You Get What You Pay For:” US Supreme Court Makes It Official (Act IV) WASHINGTON, June 29, 2015 — The Supreme Court on Monday blocked one of the Obama administration’s most ambitious environmental initiatives,…
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CHINA HAS ALREADY SURPASSED U.S. AS WORLD’S BIGGEST ECONOMY
PERILS OF LONG-TERM ECONOMIC FORECASTS: THEY ARE STATIC, UNABLE TO ANTICIPATE TRENDS THAT WILL DISRUPT THEM Luckily for Economists, Nobody Remembers Long-term Trends after 20 Years… Well, Almost Nobody Back in 1994, The Economist and the World Bank issued a 25-year forecast for the world’s leading economies. This led to a special report, “Indo-China” to Gain…
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USURY AND TREATIES BASED ON HUMILIATION DON’T WORK
USURY AND TREATIES BASED ON HUMILIATION OF ONE SIDE DON’T WORK USURY – All usury was banned by Christian doctrine, as it was by Muslim doctrine. In the late Middle Ages the problem of financing the royal exchequer and setting up capitalist institutions in the face of the Christian ban on usury was resolved by…
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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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