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By Andy Sullivan

The U.S. government must craft a plan next year to get its ballooning debt under control or face possible panic in financial markets, a bipartisan panel of budget experts said.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24206.htm



How Banks Fleece the Unemployed

By Barbara Koeppel

December 16, 2009 "Consortiumnews" -- While posting breathtaking profits in the last two quarters - Wells Fargo's $3.2 billion, Citigroup's $3 billion and Chase's $2.7 billion - U.S. banks have figured out a way to squeeze some extra dollars from those who can least afford it, the unemployed.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24199.htm



US House Passes Pro-Wall Street Banking Bill

By Barry Grey

Wall Street lawyers have helped draft the details of the House bill in closed-door meetings, while Obama and his top economic advisers have conferred repeatedly with the CEOs of the most powerful firms.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24204.htm



Congress set to raise borrowing limit by $2 trillion to $14 trillion

With the economy growing only sluggishly and Congress spending heavily on economic stimulus, two wars and extended unemployment benefits, the nation is running a deficit that hit a record $1.4 trillion in the latest fiscal year, adding to the national debt.

https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34420565/ns/business-personal_finance/



U.S. gave up billions in tax money in deal for Citigroup's bailout repayment

The federal government quietly agreed to forgo billions of dollars in potential tax payments from Citigroup as part of the deal announced this week to wean the company from the massive taxpayer bailout that helped it survive the financial crisis.

https://snipurl.com/tq4wf



Obama holds stage-managed meeting with Wall Street bankers

The true nature of the event was not lost on its attendees. "It's a PR [public relations] stunt," an unnamed CEO flatly told Time magazine prior to the meeting.

https://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/dec2009/bank-d15.shtml



Growing Up Empty: The Hunger Epidemic in America

Most Americans may find it hard to accept that millions in this nation are suffering from hunger -- an affliction most often associated with war-torn Africa or flood-ravaged Bengal.

https://motherjones.com/media/2002/11/growing-empty-hunger-epidemic-america


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Gulf Petro-Powers to Launch Currency in Latest Threat to Dollar Hegemony
https://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/evans-pritchard15.html

Moody's Warns of 'Social Unrest’ as Sovereign Debt Spirals
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The real person of the year, Ron Paul, puts the record straight

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Wednesday, Dec 16, 2009

Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke has been named TIME person of the year for 2009 and hailed as a saviour when in the real world he has overseen the worsening of the financial crisis, the looting of the American economy by foreign offshore banks and the destruction of the Dollar.

https://www.infowars.net/articles/december2009/161209Bernanke.htm

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The Most Powerful Man in the World
https://www.lewrockwell.com/spl/rp-bernanke-person-of-the-year.html

NIA Names Bernanke Villain of the Year 2009
https://www.lewrockwell.com/pr/nia-bernanke-villain.html

Few Cheers on Capitol Hill for Time's Ben Bernanke Pick
https://www.lewrockwell.com/spl/bernanke-rewarding-failure.html

Can Bernanke's Re-Coronation Be Blocked?
https://www.lewrockwell.com/spl/can-bernanke-be-blocked.html

SHTF: When the Rubber Dollar Hits Dr. Ben’s Helicopter
https://www.lewrockwell.com/calderwood/calderwood42.1.html

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Bernanke: Time's Man of the Year

Robert Borosage, The Campaign for America's Future: "Time Magazine's naming Ben Bernanke 'Man of the Year' is a little bit like celebrating an arsonist for his heroics in putting out a fire that he set. Bernanke has done creative and bold work in staving off a financial free fall. But he would also be on any list of the 10 people most responsible for creating the free fall."

https://www.truthout.org/topstories/121709vh2



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https://www.paltelegraph.com/columnists/peter-eyre/3125-the-weapons-used-in-iraq-afghanistan-have-far-reaching-effects


Informant: Dorothee Krien



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Palin's Climate "Epiphany"

Eugene Robinson: "Sarah Palin is such a cold-eyed skeptic about the Copenhagen summit on climate change that it's no surprise she would call on President Obama not to attend. After all, Obama might join other leaders in acknowledging that warming is a 'global challenge.' He might entertain 'opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.' He might even explore ways to 'participate in carbon-trading markets.'"

https://www.truthout.org/1215094



Palin the Pundit

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "Dealing with Sarah Palin, in the immortal words of Pee Wee Herman, is like unraveling a giant cable-knit sweater that someone just keeps knitting, and knitting and knitting. There is no end to it, no bottom to this ocean of idiocy, as evidenced by the latest iteration of the Palin phenomenon: out of the cold, clear blue sky, the former Alaska governor and internationally-renowned dunderhead, has declared herself an expert on global climate change in general, and on the Copenhagen summit in particular."

https://www.truthout.org/1218091



Roguishly Rouge: A Review of "Going Rouge: Sarah Palin - American Nightmare" Entirely in Quotes

Leslie Thatcher, Truthout Book Review: "I am having Sarah Palin nightmares. Few things draw in readers and garner clicks more reliably than articles (or, even better, pictures) of Sarah Palin. We can't look away. Like everyone else, I can barely take the waves of embarrassment that come from watching someone do something so badly. My cringe reflex is exhausted."

https://www.truthout.org/1223093



A Peek Inside Sarah Palin's Diary

Bernard Weiner, Truthout: "Dear Diary: It's been helter-skelter around here these days. Actually, there is no 'here.' I'm on the road every day, mostly at book signings for 'Going Rogue.' Turns out I'm real popular in the real America. You betcha."

https://www.truthout.org/1226091



Palin Failed to Lead on Oil and Gas Safety in Alaska

Dahr Jamail, Truthout: "There have been several recent oil spills and other environmental problems linked to the oil/gas production industry in Alaska. On December 23, a tugboat hit the Bligh Reef, the same reef struck by the Exxon Valdez 20 years ago. The recent grounding may have caused as much as 33,500 gallons of diesel fuel to spill into Prince William Sound."

https://www.truthout.org/105093

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Why I don’t write about Sarah Palin’s Facebook posts

Washington Independent
by David Weigel

12/23/09

The problem is that Palin has put the political press in a submissive position, one in which the only information it prints about her comes from prepared statements or from Q&As with friendly interviewers. This isn’t something most politicians get away with, or would be allowed to get away with. But Palin has leveraged her celebrity — her ability to get ratings, the ardor of her fans and the bitterness of her critics — to win a truly unique relationship with the press. She is allowed to shape the public debate without actually engaging in it...

https://tinyurl.com/yet3gwb



Palin rewrites history on “death panels”

Salon
by Alex Koppelman

12/23/09

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin just can’t let go of her ‘death panels’ myth. After getting back on the subject — which Politifact recently named ‘Lie of the Year’ — on Twitter, on Wednesday Palin’s Facebook page played host to yet another missive about it. This time, she sought to rewrite her own history, rather incredibly asserting that what she was referring to when she first mentioned ‘death panels’ was an advisory board she claims would lead to healthcare rationing...

https://tinyurl.com/yjtc7u8



Palin uses PAC to buy her own book

ABC News

02/01/10

Sarah Palin has been using her political action committee to buy up thousands of copies of her book, ‘Going Rogue,’ in order to mail copies of the memoir to her donors, newly filed campaign records show. The former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate had her political organization spend more than $63,000 on what her reports describe as ‘books for fundraising donor fulfillment.’ The payments went to Harper Collins, her publisher, and in some instances to HSP Direct, a Virginia-based direct mail fundraising firm that serves a number of well-known conservative politicians and pundits...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Palin, Fox, 'Jesus on Acid' and the End of the World

By Frank Schaeffer

She's all for unbridled US military action. She's for this because theologically speaking the more war the better, at least in the Middle East. Jesus needs war to fulfill "prophecy" so he can "come back"!

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ALBA alliance forgoes US dollar

The member nations of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas, ALBA, have decided to give up the US dollar in trading between them. They will instead use the sucre conventional monetary unit.

https://english.ruvr.ru/2009/12/14/3024295.html



Gulf nations sign monetary pact

Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi Arabia signed and ratified the pact on Tuesday, which will see them work towards setting up a joint central bank and implementing a single currency.

https://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/12/20091215165750877447.html



US joblessness cripples Americans: poll

With unemployment driving foreclosures nationwide, a quarter of those polled said they had either lost their home or been threatened with foreclosure or eviction for not paying their mortgage or rent.

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The Decline: The Geography of a Recession

Watch the deteriorating transformation of the U.S. economy from January 2007 -- approximately one year before the start of the recession -- to the most recent unemployment data available today.



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The Pentagon's 2010 budget request called for $534 billion, plus $130 billion to cover the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It did not include the estimated $30 billion that will be needed to fund President Barack Obama's recent decision to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan.

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By Alex Hannaford

What has the most unpopular US President of all time been doing during his first year of retirement?

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24190.htm



Unbearable Lightness of Obama

The Audacity of Retrenchment

By Robert S. Becker

How can the Obama who won the election, and the Peace Prize, by being not-Bush, match W.'s impulse to detach, delegate and default? And the final puzzle: how did a dense, inarticulate bully command his bully pulpit while the infinitely more articulate, tolerant newcomer fails to frame, let alone command key debates?

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Over 6,600 Uninsured Veterans Will Die by 2013: Estimate

By Brad Jacobson

Even more shocking is that these are modest estimates.
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