Is the United States a Failing State?
By Barry Weisberg
The American provision of public services such as health care, education, social welfare or public safety, is a failure. Fewer people are covered by health care than in any industrial country (the World Health Organization ranks the US 37th in health care delivery); the infant mortality rate has sunk from 12th in 1960 to 29 in 1990 and 30th in 2005.
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24846.htm
'Death of American Capitalism:' The 10 Final Scenes
By Paul B. Farrell
Do Main Street's 95 million investors know something Warren Buffett's long-time partner, Charlie Munger, doesn't know? Munger is warning us "It's Over" for America. Yes, "o-v-e-r," America's in decline, at the end-of-days, coming to "financial ruin," says Munger.
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24847.htm
Once More For The Record
An update on The Annotated Obama
By Joe Bageant
Obviously Barack Obama has wiped his a... on his campaign promises. That's yesterday's news. Americans demand jazzy new and ever more shocking "news" daily, or else they fall asleep before their TV sets face down in their sausage pizzas from Brooklyn to Beaumont.
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24838.htm
The Drive to Eliminate Social Security Accelerates
By Shamus Cooke
Tackling Social Security has been on the to-do list of the corporate elite for years, and they're not waiting any longer.
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24837.htm
How Advertising Manipulates Our "Caveman" Brains
Why We are Susceptible to Manipulation
By Washington's Blog
Research shows that one of the most powerful ways to stimulate more buying is celebrity endorsement. Neurologists at Erasmus University in Rotterdam report that our ability to weigh desirability and value doesn't function normally if an item is endorsed by a well-known face.
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24845.htm
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Capitalism Offers Unlimited Irresponsibility, for Some
Writing for Le Monde, corporate governance expert Pierre-Yves Gomez explores the ever more tenuous relationship between personal risk-taking and corporate management or ownership in a society where managers and owners of the biggest companies enjoy assured returns and limited risks, while taxpayers reap limited - if any - rewards, and run unlimited risks.
https://www.truthout.org/unlimited-irresponsibility-capitalism57103
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Romans 13 and Anarcho-Capitalism
https://www.lewrockwell.com/fedako/fedako17.1.html
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=failing+state
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=capitalism
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=corporate+elite
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=financial+ruin
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=social+security
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Main+Street
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=taxpayer
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Barry+Weisberg
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+B.+Farrell
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Joe+Bageant
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Shamus+Cooke
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=/fedako
The American provision of public services such as health care, education, social welfare or public safety, is a failure. Fewer people are covered by health care than in any industrial country (the World Health Organization ranks the US 37th in health care delivery); the infant mortality rate has sunk from 12th in 1960 to 29 in 1990 and 30th in 2005.
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24846.htm
'Death of American Capitalism:' The 10 Final Scenes
By Paul B. Farrell
Do Main Street's 95 million investors know something Warren Buffett's long-time partner, Charlie Munger, doesn't know? Munger is warning us "It's Over" for America. Yes, "o-v-e-r," America's in decline, at the end-of-days, coming to "financial ruin," says Munger.
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24847.htm
Once More For The Record
An update on The Annotated Obama
By Joe Bageant
Obviously Barack Obama has wiped his a... on his campaign promises. That's yesterday's news. Americans demand jazzy new and ever more shocking "news" daily, or else they fall asleep before their TV sets face down in their sausage pizzas from Brooklyn to Beaumont.
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24838.htm
The Drive to Eliminate Social Security Accelerates
By Shamus Cooke
Tackling Social Security has been on the to-do list of the corporate elite for years, and they're not waiting any longer.
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24837.htm
How Advertising Manipulates Our "Caveman" Brains
Why We are Susceptible to Manipulation
By Washington's Blog
Research shows that one of the most powerful ways to stimulate more buying is celebrity endorsement. Neurologists at Erasmus University in Rotterdam report that our ability to weigh desirability and value doesn't function normally if an item is endorsed by a well-known face.
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24845.htm
--------
Capitalism Offers Unlimited Irresponsibility, for Some
Writing for Le Monde, corporate governance expert Pierre-Yves Gomez explores the ever more tenuous relationship between personal risk-taking and corporate management or ownership in a society where managers and owners of the biggest companies enjoy assured returns and limited risks, while taxpayers reap limited - if any - rewards, and run unlimited risks.
https://www.truthout.org/unlimited-irresponsibility-capitalism57103
--------
Romans 13 and Anarcho-Capitalism
https://www.lewrockwell.com/fedako/fedako17.1.html
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=failing+state
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=capitalism
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=corporate+elite
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=financial+ruin
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=social+security
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Main+Street
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=taxpayer
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Barry+Weisberg
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+B.+Farrell
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Joe+Bageant
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Shamus+Cooke
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=/fedako
rudkla - 23. Feb, 22:06
