Addendum is the sequel to the ground-breaking film “Zeitgeist“. This film explains why our world is so troubled, and how those troubles are born out of illusion. Watch and better understand the reality of how the world works.
October 7, 2008
Naomi Wolf : A Coup Has Taken Place in America
Naomi Wolf : A Coup Has Taken Place in America
This is an excellent radio interview with Naomi Wolf. Here she talks about the coup that took place in the US on October 1st, and how we can resist it. She also talks about the urgent need to arrest the President and his minions. Forward this to everyone you know.
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Business Syphilis
Stephen Colbert explains out latest Wall St. meltdown. It’s a case of Business Syphilis.
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‘MAIN STREET’ HOCKEY PUCKEY!
Apparently, your everyday, hard working hockey mom is worth about 1.2 million
ALASKA – REPUBLICAN vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her husband have pieced together a uniquely Alaskan income that reached comfortably into six figures even before she became governor, capitalising on valuable fishing rights, a series of land deals and a patchwork of other ventures to build an above-average lifestyle.
Add up the couple’s 2007 income and the estimated value of their property and investments and they appear to be worth at least US$1.2 million (S$1.7 million).
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Turns Out Palin’s Been Lying About This Too…
When I first heard Sarah Palin make the claim that she could “see Russia from her house” it sounded weird and, checking a map, seemed preposterous. Now, thanks to CNN, it’s been definitively proven an outright lie:
Sarah Palin Has Never Actually Seen Russia From Alaska
By Jed Lewison, Huffington Post
Posted on October 2, 2008Just when you thought the whole “I can see Russia from Alaska” thing couldn’t get any funnier … CNN’s Gary Tuchman delivers the goods: it turns out that Sarah Palin has never seen Russia from Alaska.
Tuchman went up to the part of Alaska from which you can actually see Russia, a remote island called Little Diomede located just 2.4 miles from its Russian twin, Big Diomede.
It turns out Gary Tuchman’s trip to Little Diomede sets him apart from Sarah Palin — because she’s never actually been there, nor has she set eyes on its neighbor in Russia.
Here’s the video of Tuchman’s report: [see the Huff Post website]
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October 6, 2008
Explaining the Credit-Crisis: Why The Bailout Won’t Work
from breadwithcircus.com
People don’t seem to understand the conditions that have led to what is being called the “Credit-Crisis.” I’ve been doing a lot of research on this and I think that I have a pretty good handle on what really happened here, so I’m going to try to explain it in a way that people unfamiliar with the disastrous practices of Wall Street can easily understand. Its complicated, but bear with me.
First, banks and other agencies began issuing what have been called sub-prime loans. These were mostly mortgages with really low interest rates. The loans were structured so that the people who took them out would have very low payments for the first eighteen months or two years of the agreement, but much higher payments after that. In many cases these loans were given to people who had no income, no job, no assets, and no ability to make payments once the higher rates kicked in. However, because of the time-lag between the issuing of the loans, and the day when payments would inevitably stop, firms realized that they had a brief window of opportunity to turn temporarily valuable loan papers into billions of dollars.
Enter the Collateralized Debt Obligation. (CDO) (more…)
The Tattlesnake – McPalin: It Just Gets Deeper and Deeper Edition
Random Notes on the Worst Presidential Campaign in Modern History, Tonight’s Debate, and Other Rumorous Swill
“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”
– Mark Twain
“Sooner or later people are going to figure out that if all you run is negative attack ads you don’t have much of a vision for the future, or you’re not ready to articulate it.”
– John McCain in 2000.
Gov. Cosmetically-Enhanced Pit Bull has hit the road, eructating hoary disproved Obama slurs and smears to try and save what’s left of McCain’s Electoral Death March from burial under an FDR-sized landslide next month.
The McCainiacs have become so tone-deaf, and run out of so much of the infamous bullshit alluded to by Howard Beale in “Network,” that McCain’s camp is inexplicably continuing to chase the GOP base that responds to Palin’s cutesy-wink tirades and snippy town-gossip slights. Even if the 30 percent of registered voters that comprise this ballyhooed base turn out to vote, McPalin still loses big, in no small part due to the most badly managed presidential campaign in modern history.
Faced with an economic crisis that may eclipse the Great Depression, the McCainiacs bafflingly went small-bore with discredited petty minutiae: Obama hung around with ‘domestic terrorist’ Bill Ayers; received favors from Tony Rezko; was part of the Chicago political machine that breathed it’s last a decade before Obama entered politics. If they are enthralled by the notion of legions of Working Class Independents showing up to save the day, maybe they should check Frank Luntz’s focus groups of Uncommitted voters who are checking the box for Obama this election — the blue-collar voters of yesterday are the blue-vest voters of today, and they aren’t happy with the Republican Slide to Doom. As the Time blog noted on Luntz’s focus group in August:
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