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Collapse is surely a documentary meant to strike fear in all of us. World History is littered with examples of empires that grow, peak, and collapse. The USA should be no exception to that rule, but when the Portuguese, Spanish, French and British empires all finally became undone, how was it felt on “Main Street”? [...]
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From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression – and they're about to do it again The Great American Bubble Machine via Corrente
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…bankruptcy is about financial death and financial rebirth. Bankruptcy is the great American story rewritten. We’re a nation of debtors. Why do you think people left Europe to come to the United States? They left because they were in debt… frontline: secret history of the credit card: interviews: elizabeth warren | PBS
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AP Study Finds $1.6B Went to Bailed-Out Bank Execs – NYTimes.com
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Really interesting art by a guy who is fascinated with the hypocrisy in our government’s attitude towards narcotics, psychedelics and pharmaceuticals. He does not preach or raise alarms. He asks us to look: The Paintings of Adam Stennett
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This documentary comes from the Beastie Boys’ film studio, Oscilloscope Pictures, but it is no concert flick. Flow is a serious investigation into a very scary global situation: water. Water sustains life, but–unlike air–it is bottled, packaged, and diverted from those who need it most, to those who can pay the most. Director Irena Salina [...]
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Did you hear? The whole thing is a fake. It’s not even happening. The athletes are all in their home countries on stages with green-screens. See what I did there? I used hyperbole to make a satirical point. If you have no idea what I am referring to, good for you — you are able [...]
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Haven’t read this yet, but it sounds worth sharing: Dangers of a giant national database — article from 1967 was eerily prescient – Boing Boing
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Some friends of mine recently went to Venezuela, or the country that Bush wants us to think is the CCCP of South America: VENEZUELA ’08 – a photoset on Flickr
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Obviously Spitzer has made enemies. Powerful enemies. For them framing him could be as easy as shooting fish in a barrel. I guess he’s not denying that he patronized the escort service….kinda charming to hear about a straight sex scandal in politics these days…. So he screwed a high-class hooker. Clinton got a BJ from [...]
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