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September 2012

Living Under Drones and Living Under Delusions: Reflections on Faith, Evidence, Socks, and America's War against Pakistan

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 12:07 — Winter

For the first time in more than a year, I have written a post for my "main" blog. Among other things, it says:

"What would you think if I told you I was wearing red and blue striped knee-socks? Would you believe me?"

But that's not all. It actually gets better, and you can read the whole piece here.

I welcome your comments below.

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A Night In London

Tue, 09/11/2012 - 00:32 — McJ

I enjoyed watching this concert so much, I thought I would share. smiling
If you are a Mark Knopfler fan, like Moi, it is an hour and a half of music awesomeness! party time!

A Night In London (Full Concert) - Mark Knoppler (1996)

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THE BIG (secret) BAILOUTS

Tue, 09/04/2012 - 22:27 — admin

As if we should be surprised. That the fed loaned out to banks more money than the US National debt. 16 Trillion (with T) dollars! WTF.

OK I know we are no fans of Ron Paul over here, but this is just too interesting for me to pass up,
http://www.policymic.com/articles/14098/ron-paul-was-right-all-along-her...

The first ever audit has been conducted over the last few months due to an amendment in the Dodd-Frank Bill. The results were truly staggering. Over $16,000,000,000,000.00 has been given in bailouts to banks and other corporations throughout the world from December 2007 – June 2010. Remember, that is just for a three year period. The Federal Reserve has been in existence since 1913. This $16 trillion dollar figure surpasses both the national debt and the annual gross domestic product for the United States.

According to the TARP, only $700 billion was supposedly given out to faltering banks and companies. However, Citigroup alone received $2.5 trillion. The Fed loaned money to banks in France, Scotland, and Belgium. Here is the list of some institutions that received the most money on page 131 of the report:

Citigroup: $2.5 trillion ($2,500,000,000,000)
Morgan Stanley: $2.04 trillion ($2,040,000,000,000)
Merrill Lynch: $1.949 trillion ($1,949,000,000,000)
Bank of America: $1.344 trillion ($1,344,000,000,000)
Barclays PLC (United Kingdom): $868 billion ($868,000,000,000)
Bear Sterns: $853 billion ($853,000,000,000)
Goldman Sachs: $814 billion ($814,000,000,000)
Royal Bank of Scotland (UK): $541 billion ($541,000,000,000)
JP Morgan Chase: $391 billion ($391,000,000,000)
Deutsche Bank (Germany): $354 billion ($354,000,000,000)
UBS (Switzerland): $287 billion ($287,000,000,000)
Credit Suisse (Switzerland): $262 billion ($262,000,000,000)
Lehman Brothers: $183 billion ($183,000,000,000)
Bank of Scotland (United Kingdom): $181 billion ($181,000,000,000)
BNP Paribas (France): $175 billion ($175,000,000,000)

According to Senator Bernie Sanders, “This is a clear case of socialism for the rich and rugged, you're-on-your-own individualism for everyone else.”