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			<title><![CDATA[ Congressman: US debt MUCH worse than public told ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Rep. Jim Cooper: Bush is Hiding the True National Debt. It's Worse than You've Heard. Much Worse.<br>Submitted by BuzzFlash on Thu, 09/07/2006 - 5:15am. Alerts <br>A BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT <br><br>Though the Bush Administration's official budget lists the national debt and deficit as being incredibly high, they are actually far worse than reported, according to Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN). But dont just take his word for it, even if Cooper is a Rhodes Scholar and Harvard Law graduate. The following... ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ Peak Oil?  Try &quot;Peak Debt&quot; for gloom-n'doom ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/2005/0123.html">peak debt</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br>&lt;&lt;While you live,<br>Live in pleasure.<br>Even if you must incur debt,<br>Keep drinking melted butter.<br><br>One rarely known role that the debt plays is in concentration of wealth and the resulting inequality. THERE IS ALMOST ONE-TO-ONE CORRELATION BETWEEN THE INCREASE IN HOUSEHOLD DEBT AND THE INCREASE IN THE WEALTH OF VERY FEW AT THE TOP. I did not... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sun, 03 Sep 2006 19:49:05 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ speaking about imminent crashes.... ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Pop Goes the Bubble!<br>The Great Housing Crash of '07<br>By MIKE WHITNEY<br><br>This month's figures prove that the so-called &quot;housing bubble&quot; is not only real, but that its cratering faster than anyone had realized. As the UK Guardian reported just yesterday, &quot;the orderly housing slowdown predicted by the Federal Reserve will (soon) become a full-blown crash&quot;.<br><br>All the indicators are now pointing in the wrong direction. Consumer confidence is down, inventory is at... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:05:54 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ One World Market, baby ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ May only be of interest to those who have noticed how quickly corporations and markets and bourses are rushing to merge into increasingly giant enities.  One world market, baby.  <br><br>May also be of interest to those who were following the Clearstream scandal, tinged with an anglo-american vs. old europe flavor. Clearstream's main clearing competitor is as of yet scandal-free &quot;Euroclear,&quot; owned by Euronext. <br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2006 04:49:46 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ What's the real federal deficit? ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-08-02-deficit-usat_x.htm">www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-08-02-deficit-usat_x.htm</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br><br>  Great Read.<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/smile.gif ALT=":)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Mon, 07 Aug 2006 05:29:50 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Life and Debt (IMF/world trade) ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Jamaica  land of sea, sand and sun. And a prime example of the impact economic globalization can have on a developing country. Using ... all  conventional and unconventional documentary techniques, this searing film dissects the &quot;mechanism of debt&quot; that is destroying local agriculture and industry while substituting sweatshops and cheap imports. With a voice-over narration written by Jamaica Kincaid, adapted from her book A SMALL PLACE, LIFE AND DEBT is... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sun, 06 Aug 2006 07:50:42 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Neoliberalism in a nutshell ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jul 2006 11:07:18 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Thoughts from a Banking Expierence. ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ So I walked into a Bank today. I got paid from my new second job today and needed to cash my check. I walked in and provided them with the check and the proper documentation. A few seconds later the first words out of his mouth weredo you have an account with us sir? , No, I replied. He then told me that there would be a $5.00 charge for cashing my check. It was thier Check.<br>&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp Now, I know a thing or two about Banks. Seeing as for the last 7 years I have read many... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:56:19 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ The real estate wars - demolition derby ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Just thought today that maybe 9-11 and everything after (katrina and now labenon/israel) and this entier &quot;demolition&quot; scene points us to the obvious suspect - real estate sharks/mafia.<br><br>Perhaps 9-11 was a kind of small scale economic drill, seeing how much it takes to get big contracts of rebuilding, and the 'Key' for the number of humans required to be dead, for each million dollar or so.<br><br>Thinking how Ulmart (and before him Sharon) are more associated with Real Estate... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2006 20:46:13 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ The Africans are coming! ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Lock up your daughters!<br></em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5181080.stm">news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5181080.stm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Chirac warns of 'African flood'</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>French President Jacques Chirac has warned that Africans &quot;will flood the world&quot; unless more is done to develop the continent's... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:07:15 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ CRUNCH TIME FOR BANKS &amp; CROOKS, TRUSTOR SEEKS 70 TRILLIO ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ This appears to be a BLASTING BOMBSHELL....it is truly facinating! This should be posted EVERYWHERE and fast!  <br>Bama<br><br><br>CRUNCH TIME FOR THE BANKS AND THE CROOKS<br>THE TRUSTOR THE CIA SAID WAS DEAD SEEKS $70 TRILLION <br><br>Thursday 22 June 2006 00:43<br>By Christopher Story, Editor, International Currency Review, London<br>www.worldreports.org<br><br><br>LONDON, 21 June 2006  The integrity of the international banking system is on the line this week. This is because the behaviour... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jun 2006 12:17:25 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Buffett's Billions Go to Gates ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://money.cnn.com/2006/06/25/magazines/fortune/charity1.fortune/index.htm?cnn=yes">money.cnn.com/2006/06/25/...tm?cnn=yes</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000006&sid=aimfM9VqxrOw&refer=home">quote.bloomberg.com/apps/...refer=home</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>One week after his first Bilderberg meeting, Bill Gates steps down from Microsoft to focus on his $30... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jun 2006 16:09:32 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ The NAFTA Super Highway ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ First I've heard of it. Right wing fear mongering?<br><!--EZCODE HR START--><hr /><!--EZCODE HR END--><br><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=15497">www.humaneventsonline.com...p?id=15497</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Bush Administration Quietly Plans NAFTA Super Highway</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>by Jerome R. Corsi<br>Posted Jun 12, 2006 <br><br>Quietly but systematically, the Bush... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2006 08:01:37 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Ken Thomson, Canada's richest man, dies ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Ken Thomson, Canada's richest man, dies</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>Ken Thomson, who transformed the media empire founded by his father and became the richest person in Canada, has died at the age of 82.<br>Ken Thomson, shown in May, was the ninth-richest person in the world, according to Forbes magazine. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press)<br><br>Reports say he died at his Toronto office Monday morning. The cause of death was not announced.<br><br>Thomson... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2006 11:24:22 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ IMF - World Bank Crisis Deepens ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Critics Plan Offensive as IMF - World Bank Crisis Deepens</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>June 2, 2006 11:17 | by Walden Bello <br><br>The spring meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund took place at the end of April with police barricades ringing the two institutions at the heart of Washington, DC. There were almost no protesters in sight.<br><br>The action was indoors, a few blocks away, at the Institute for Policy Studies. There, the... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 03:46:36 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Arundhati Roy: India's Constituitonal Crisis, Corporatism... ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Eye-opening interview of world-renowned author and social activist Arandhati Roy on the present situation in India, providing a sharp perspective, comments and insights on what's happening there almost completely ignored by the MSM, reflecting the PTB's neoliberal, corporatist agenda driven by the Bush Junta -- a society fractured by internal dissent and class-driven conflict, corrupted and exploited by corporate interests, waging a defacto economic war on peasants and the poor, causing deep... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Thu, 25 May 2006 14:54:27 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ A New Liberty Now ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/new-liberty-now.html">www.lewrockwell.com/rockw...y-now.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>A New Liberty Now<br><br>by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.<br><br>Here is the introduction to the new edition of <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> (Mises Institute, 2006):<br><br>There are many varieties of libertarianism alive in the world today, but... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Tue, 23 May 2006 12:05:47 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ I want the earth plus 5 percent. ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <br> Just found this great lil link on the UK  9/11 truth forum in one posters signature.<br><br> Interesting little analogy to put it mildly ;<br><br> <!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Fabian was excited as he once more rehearsed his speech for the crowd certain to turn up tomorrow. He had always wanted prestige and power and now his dreams were going to come true. He was a craftsman working with silver and gold, making jewelry and ornaments, but he... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Mon, 22 May 2006 13:19:53 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Freefalling Dollar &amp; Bush Inc's War on Middle Class ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Sooner or later, the Fiddler WILL be paid. The neocon swindle always depended on the Gangster Dons being able to switch to another rigged-game when the last scam went bust -- But like every con, eventually all the well-heeled suckers wizen-up and then everybody's game -- even one's own circle of friends and family become likely marks to keep the racket alive just long enough to cover one's bets, the ultimate ponzi scheme, cannibilizing the home ground. But then, the ordinary citizens have... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sun, 14 May 2006 12:29:54 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ neocon plan to wreck the economy ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=325">kurtnimmo.com/?p=325</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br>Neocon Plan to Wreck the Economy <br>Saturday April 08th 2006, 4:20 pm <br><br>If we are to believe Sterling Seagrave, co-author of Gold Warriors and an extremely well-connected financial source in both the US and China as well as Europe, the White House, that is to say the Straussian neocons in control of the White House, have ordered the Federal Reserve to print a whopping... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sun, 09 Apr 2006 05:05:07 GMT</pubDate>
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