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Recession-Proof Cars
2008-12-18 04:49:47
While we’re all griping about yet another handout to the least-deserving, worst-performing businesses in this country, there’s something especially galling about this one to many of us who cover the auto biz. See, while we often get accused of rooting against the domestics, that’s a downright lie. The problem isn’t that American carmakers can’t build [...]
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Madoff and Company Spent Nearly $1 Million on Washington Influence
2008-12-17 03:53:21
The man behind a $50 billion Ponzi scheme that has roiled Wall Street and shaken up the nonprofit world was also a long-time contributor to Democrats, the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics has found. Bernard Madoff was arrested last Thursday and charged with operating a fraudulent money-management business with which he advised investors, hedge funds [...]
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Interior Motives
2008-12-17 03:53:21
Having not yet been a senator for a full term, Ken Salazar (D-Colo.) hasn’t had much time to collect money from the industries that will take a special interest in him as Secretary of the Interior . Barack Obama seems poised to appoint Salazar to the Cabinet position, following a tradition of giving the post to [...]


Wealthy Out-of-Town Donors Foot the Inauguration Bill
2008-12-17 03:53:21
As Washington, D.C., prepares itself for what will likely be one of the largest inauguration audiences in history, some of the country’s wealthiest individuals in Hollywood and New York are financing the event as it grows into a major production. So far the presidential inaugural committee has collected at least $9.7 million from at least [...]
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N.Y. Times Examines Schumer’s Buck-raking on Wall Street
2008-12-17 03:53:21
A New York Times front-pager on Sunday that examined the ties between Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Wall Street employed data from the Center for Responsive Politics. Schumer has received more money from the securities and investment industry than almost any other member of Congress since 1989-$6.2 million. (Only President-elect Barack Obama and other 2008 presidential [...]
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Bush Administration created executive pay loophole
2008-12-17 03:53:20
The Bush Administration inserted an eleventh-hour provision into the $750 billion bailout bill to protect executive bonuses, a single sentence that will torpedo efforts to reduce bonuses even as companies slash tens of thousands of jobs and use taxpayer money to gobble up other companies at fire-sale prices. Pressured by constituents who worried that companies would [...]
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Marines Establish Military Presence in California
2008-12-17 03:53:20
Branson Hunter, writing for the Big Bear Observation Post blog, reports that the Marine Corps Air and Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC) and the local California Highway Patrol will be working together over the holiday “in a joint effort to reduce accidents and drinking and driving” in San Bernardino County. A clip from Alex Jones’ 9/11: The [...]
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Emergency Storage Food Among Products in Highest Demand
2008-12-17 03:53:20
At the end of 2008, there are three consumer marketplaces that are experiencing record sales volumes—firearms, precious metals, and emergency storage food. Crisis preparedness is increasingly the theme for those seeking a refuge for their money and comfort from their concerns. Minneapolis (Vocus/PRWEB ) December 6, 2008 – Gun dealers all over the United States are [...]
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Court sides with ACLU, strikes down Patriot Act gag provision
2008-12-17 03:53:20
ACLU victorious as federal court declares Patriot Act provision a violation of the First Amendment A federal appeals court ruling late Monday is the cause célèbre of the American Civil Liberties Union, as another provision of the Bush administration’s Patriot Act falls to the judicial system. Until the ruling, recipients of so-called “national security letters” were legally [...]
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10 false flags operations that shaped our world
2008-12-17 03:53:20
From Nero to 9/11, via Pearl Harbour and the Gulf of Tonkin incident… Joe Crubaugh provides an “all time greatest hits” of false flag operations, whereby one scenario is repeated… as the world keeps falling for the same lie. The most commonly known false flag operations consist of a government agency staging a terror attack, whereby [...]
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