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[i]The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to the doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Inste... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/stockholmer/140 Wed, 15 Aug 2012 13:58:34 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/12/bailout-total-29-616-trillion-dollars/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

There is a fascinating new study coming out of the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. http://www.levyinstitute.org/ Its titled “$29,000,000,000,000: A Detailed Look at the Fed... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/stockholmer/139 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 20:32:03 http://www.zerohedge.com/news/corzine-simply-does-not-know-where-money-presenting-jon-corzines-complete-testimony-congress

Probably far more anticipated than the monetary announcements out of BOE (which just announced it is keeping rates at a record low of 0.5%, but no more QE), or even the ECB, ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/stockholmer/138 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:13:40 Exclusive Interview – Jim Willie: “The Public Will Not Wake Up Until At Least One Million Private Accounts Are Stolen”

http://bullmarketthinking.com/exclusive-interview-jim-willie-the-public-will-not-wake-up-until-at-least-1-million-private-accounts-are-stolen/

I had the chance to speak with t... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/stockholmer/137 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:33:32 MF Global and the great Wall St re-hypothecation scandal

http://newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com/Securities/Insight/2011/12_-_December/MF_Global_and_the_great_Wall_St_re-hypothecation_scandal/

(Business Law Currents) A legal loophole in international brokerage regulations means that few, if a... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/stockholmer/136 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:14:55 http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/social-security-2011-%E2%80%93-another-bad-year

Full calendar year 2011 numbers are now available to calculate the results for the Social Security Trust Fund. Here's a look at the key numbers that will be reported to Congress in four months:

Payroll Tax Rev... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/stockholmer/135 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:58:54 http://www.zerohedge.com/news/fate-mitt-romneys-presidential-campaign-hands-reuters-foia-request

It appears the GOP candidates are dropping like flies: first that one crazy guy, then Cain, and now... Mitt Romney? [b]According to a Boston Globe article, paraphrased by Reuters, the GOP frontrunner ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/stockholmer/134 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:26:38 http://www.businessinsider.com/program-1033-military-equipment-police-2011-12?utm_source=twbutton&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=bi#ixzz1fiJX3HIa

The U.S. military has some of the most advanced killing equipment in the world that allows it to invade almost wherever it likes at will.

We produc... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/stockholmer/133 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:33:10 http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/04/us-eurozone-imf-fed-idUSTRE7B30X320111204

(Reuters) - The Federal Reserve, along with the 17 euro zone national central banks, may help provide the International Monetary Fund with funds that could be used to aid debt-ridden states, a German newspaper sai... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/stockholmer/132 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 02:17:42 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-02/swedish-bonds-safer-than-german-debt-as-europe-crisis-upends-market-logic.html

Sweden is enjoying its lowest borrowing cost ever relative to Germany as investors reward the biggest Scandinavian economy for cutting its debt to less than half Europe’s averag... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/stockholmer/131 Sat, 03 Dec 2011 18:46:43 http://emsnews.wordpress.com/2011/12/01/fukushima-enters-china-syndrome-meltdown-is-destroying-cement/

http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/fukushima-np/images/handouts_111130_09-j.pdf

All the news from Fukushima is very bad. This will continue for the rest of our lives. Like Chernobyl, the tendency fo... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/stockholmer/130 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:09:10 http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/11/28/how-congress-and-the-entertainment-industry-plan-to-kill-the-internet-and-how-citizens-reddit-users-and-a-few-senators-are-fighting-back/


Two bills are moving through the Senate and the House at the moment, aimed at creating a host of new controls... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/stockholmer/129 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:22:47 http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/11/30/the-lessons-of-obamamania/

Ten years ago in America, War Party fervor was on the rise, the media was in tow, and many a liberal was on board. Thus began the Bush-Cheney era, one of the darkest moments in American history. Those years seem like only yesterd... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/stockholmer/128 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:48:07 http://ppjg.wordpress.com/2011/11/27/s-1867-hunting-americans/

Many of us have wondered if directed to; would our own military turn on us? It appears that this is the plan and has been all along, yet the question remains……would they actually do it if ordered to? S.1867, http://thomas.loc.gov/cg... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/stockholmer/127 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 01:14:20 http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/11/25/the-%e2%80%9cleft%e2%80%9d-and-libya/

The last time we met Michael Bérubé on this site was back in 2007, and he was up to his neck in a rubbish dump, where I’d placed him, in the company of other promoters of the 2003 war on Iraq: where, I asked, are those p... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/stockholmer/126 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:02:59 http://www.zerohedge.com/news/707568901000000-how-and-why-banks-increased-total-outstanding-derivatives-record-107-trillion-6

While everyone was focused on the impending European collapse, the latest soon to be refuted rumors of a quick fix from the Welt am Sonntag notwithstanding, the Bank of In... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/stockholmer/125 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 14:13:07 http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4152973,00.html


This isn’t the first time the Arab world falls in love with the negative images it invents. This was also the case in the 1990s and in the 2000s, when the Arab world fell in love with the martyr phenomenon. Poets wrote songs of praise fo... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/stockholmer/124 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 20:22:16 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8915245/Criminals-and-cyber-bullies-to-be-banned-from-the-web.html


It calls for police and courts to make more use of existing “cyber sanctions” to restrict access to the social networks and instant messaging services in cases of hacking, fraud and onl... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/stockholmer/123 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 19:05:01 http://www.cnbc.com/id/45416232


Anti-Occupy Wall Street" groups are taking on the protesters of "Occupy Black Friday" with "BUYcott Black Friday." Liberate Philadelphia/Liberate America, a Tea Party coalition of groups countering the "Occupy Wall Street" movement, are challenging the latest mov... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/stockholmer/122 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 22:56:01 http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/11/23/destroying-libyas-welfare-state/

The other day, I was listening to the voice of “liberal” radio, NPR, and was surprised to hear its bizarre, and yet quite candid, report on what it apparently views to be one of the more hideous aspects of the Gadhafi years –... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/stockholmer/121 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 19:55:28 http://www.herald.co.zw/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=27431:gays-will-be-severely-punished-says-president&catid=37:top-stories&Itemid=130

PRESIDENT Mugabe yesterday said homosexuals and lesbians will be punished severely for their behaviour which is inconsistent with African and C... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/stockholmer/120 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 19:01:57 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-dicker/the-koch-brothers-and-mf-_b_1089906.html

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But perhaps the most stunning piece of news we’re getting in the wake of the MF Global collapse is in the clients of the firm who managed to get away scot-free, with no freezing of accounts or capital — p... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/stockholmer/119 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:10:13 The German government likes to pride itself on its solid finances and claim the country is a safe haven for investors. But Germany's budget management is not nearly as exemplary as it would have people believe, and the national debt is way over the EU's limit. In some respects, Italy's finances are ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/stockholmer/118 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:36:47 http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/22/us-usa-crime-rezko-idUSTRE7AL22X20111122


(Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Tuesday sentenced Antoin "Tony" Rezko, a former Chicago fundraiser for President Barack Obama, to 10-1/2 years in prison for corruption and extortion.

Rezko's conviction was among ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/stockholmer/117 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:00:46 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-21/nuclear-regulator-dismissed-seismologist-on-japan-quake-threat.html#

Dismissed as a “nobody” by Japan’s nuclear industry, seismologist Katsuhiko Ishibashi spent two decades watching his predictions of disaster come true: First in the 1995 Kobe earthquake a... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/stockholmer/116 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:25:23