 | Senator Edwards on debt relief for developing nations. At a town hall meeting in Rochester NH Senator John Edwards answers a question about debt relief as a way to help the poorest nations. |
 | HEADLINE NEWS WITH DBICKFORDTRUTHTV! WHEN ARE ANY OF YOU LYING,MURDERING BASTARDS IN THE US GOVERNMENT/MEDIA GONNA SPILL THE BEANS ABOUT WHAT YOU KNOW SO WORLD DICTATOR BUSH GETS STOPPED! HOW ABOUT IT PAUL, KUCINICH,OBAMA,MCCAIN!? By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS, Associated Press Writer 17 minutes ago WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is asking Congress to let the government buy $700 billion in toxic mortgages in the largest financial bailout since the Great Depression, according to a draft of the plan obtained Saturday by The Associated Press. ADVERTISEMENT The plan would give the government broad power to buy the bad debt of any U.S. financial institution for the next two years. It would raise the statutory limit on the national debt from $10.6 trillion to $11.3 trillion to make room for the massive rescue. The proposal does not specify what the government would get in return from financial companies for the federal assistance. "We're going to work with Congress to get a bill done quickly," President Bush said at the White House. Without discussing details of the plan, he said, "This is a big package because it was a big problem." The White House and congressional leaders hoped the developing legislation could pass as early as next week. Administration officials and members of Congress were to negotiate throughout the weekend. The plan is designed to let faltering financial institutions unload their distressed mortgage-related assets on the government, and in turn the taxpayer, in a bid to avoid dire economic consequences. Bush said he worried the financial troubles "could ripple throughout" the economy and affect average citizens. "The risk of doing nothing far outweighs the risk of the package, and over time we're going to get a lot of the money back." He added, "People are beginning to doubt our system, people were losing confidence and I understand it's important to have confidence in our financial system." "In my judgment, based upon the advice of a lot of people who know how markets work, this problem wasn't going to be contained to just the financial community," the president said. He said he was concerned about "Main Street" and that what happens on "Wall Street" affects "Main Street." |
 | Viewpoint with James Zogby 2/14/08 - Helen Thomas Part 4 Part 4 of James Zogby's interview with Helen Thomas on Valentine's Day of this year. Continues Zogby's segment for caller Q/A. Questions include: 1) How has this administration impeded so many investigations? 2) Have you thought about packing up and leaving the country where one might have more freedom, etc.? 3) Her thoughts on the Infraguard force that can implement lethal force by private business? 4) Her thoughts on Bush administration destroying older documents and information and getting away with it. 5) Why is US against Iran developing nuclear capabilities to defend against neighbors who do have nuclear capabilities? 6) How come noone is talking about the national debt? 7) Advice for women over 50 to fight against age discrimination in the workplace. 8) Will the upcoming president be blamed for the existing problems like Carter did about the Vietnam War aftermath? |
 | What Did The Conservatives Do For Canada? A few clips of harper. Things not covered in the video - Accountability Act — passed April 11, 2006 Age of consent from 14 to 16 effective May 1, 2008 Agent Orange compensation package of $96 million $20,000 to all veterans and civilians who lived within 5 kilometers of CFB Gagetown in N.B. between 1966 and 1967 with illnesses associated with exposure Apology to Native people by Government of Canada on June 11, 2008 for residential school abuses Automative Innovation Fund of $250 million over five years (or $50 million a year) to developing greener, more fuel efficient vehicles Border guards armed Canada Employment Credit of $1000.00 Chinese Head Tax — government apology on June 22, 2006 Chinese immigrant provision of $20,000 to every individual and/or surviving spouses who paid the head tax plus a $24 million towards anhistorical recognition program Community Development Trust — $1 billion to help communities suffering from manufacturing and forestry industry slowdowns and unemployment Environmental plan Turning the Corner released on April 26, 2007 to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and air pollutants while balancing the needs of the environment and the economy, plus update on March 10, 2008 following public consultation Food Labelling Initiative — to clarify and modernize labelling on food products, including Product of Canada and Made in Canada claims to be fully in effect following consultations by December 31, 2008 GIS — Guaranteed Income Supplement for seniors changed to allow for higher earned income Homelessness Partnering Strategy $269.6 million over two years from April 1, 2007 to March 31, 2009 Homeless Research Demonstration Projects — In February 2008, Harper government allocated $110 million to the Mental Health Commission of Canada to find ways to help the growing number of homeless people who have a mental illness Hydrogen Highway — Created a $1.5 billon trust as part of a network of partners for hydrogen fuelling stations for fuel celled buses and vehicles in British Columbia Immigration & Refugee Protection Act changes — to shorten time taken to immigrate to Canada — fully approved by parliament on June 18, 2008 Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission established (IRSTRC) with Justice Harry Laforme as Chair — with commission to begin on June 1st, 2008 Kids sport tax credit (up to $500 per child) Land Claim Agreements — a total of 54 were settled up to and including 2008 Lobbying Act — passed July 2, 2008 Medical Alert Bracelets for Children — free of charge Mental Health Commission of Canada — established and incorporated as a non-profit corporation in March of 2007 Military spending increased to a post-war peak, including the delivery of four C-17 Globe Master strategic airlift aircraft Money laundering crack down on organized crime and terrorists Nahanni National Park expanded by 5000 square kilometres National Museums — $98 million for capital infrastructure projects over five years, with some urgent repairs starting immediately National Vehicle Scrappage — an environmental program by EcoAction to get vehicles 1995 or older off the road — started immediately and to be fully in effect by January 1st, 2009 Nunavik Inuit Land Claims Agreement Ombudsman for Victims of Crime established Ontario-Canada Infrastructure Agreement for $6.2 billion starting immediately Poland — Youth Mobility Agreement signed on July 14, 2008 that allows youth from either country to work and travel for up to one year Public transit tax credits Quebecois as a nation — a motion to confirm Quebec within a united Canada Restored citizenship for last Canadian involved in WWI Saskatchewan Carbon Capture Storage Project Save a Million Lives international program for people affected by poverty Savings Account that is tax free Softwood Lumber Agreement (Bill C-24) Street racing crack down Students exempted from taxation for scholarships, bursaries and fellowships Student improvements to financing programs with 2008 budget of $123 million with 2008, starting in 2009 following the expiration of the Canadian Millennium Scholarship Foundation Tackling Violent Crime Act Tax Back Guarantee — a plan to use interest sayings from national debt repayments to reduce personal income taxes, each and every year Taxpayers Bill of Rights Taxpayers Ombudsman Ukranian & Eastern European immigants — $10 million to educate Canadians about the internment in Canadian work camps during WWI Universal Child Care Benefit — $1200.00 per year for every child under age six Universal Child Care Plan Visa requirements lifted for up to six month visits — to Poland, Slovakia, Lithuania and Hungary |
 | Reagan Mythology Rewritten Reagan was a good-looking guy in a cowboy hat. The Reagan image is a sham which must be constantly rewritten in order to be successfully exploited. **************** Transcript: The Ronald Reagan brand is priceless to the Inner Party and we are eager to celebrate and exploit the legacy and optimism of Ronald Reagan in this election year. However, there are several important issues regarding the presidency of Ronald Reagan that must never be discussed in public, as these items severely contradict the image of a standard bearing conservative. Never ever talk about the 4 tax increases which Ronald Reagan pushed through Congress between 1982 and 1984. Do not ever talk about the 1986 increase of corporate income tax signed into law by Reagan. Tax increases are now anathema to the Inner Party, and any candidate who proposes tax increases the way Ronald Reagan did would be run out of the party. On social policy don't ever mention that Ronald Reagan granted amnesty to illegal immigrants. We are now running a very strong anti-immigration campaign and any candidate who alludes to an amnesty like the one Ronald Reagan granted in 1986 would be run out of the party. So don't ever mention that Ronald Reagan granted amnesty to illegal immigrants. In 1986. Cornerstones of conservatism have always included the quest for small government and the mandate of fiscal responsibility. So there are also a couple things here that you are forbidden to discuss. Don't ever mention that Ronald Reagan abandoned the conservative principal of balanced budgets by running up the largest deficits in American history. Don't ever mention that Ronald Reagan accumulated more national debt in his 8 years in office than all 39 presidents who came before him. Combined. In fact his accumulation of new federal debt is second only to George W. Bush. But don't mention that either. Do not ever mention Ronald Reagan's theory of "supply-side" economics, which George H.W. Bush called "voo doo economics" during the primary contest. And certainly don't ever mention that GHWBush was correct and that supply-side economic theory was a manifest failure, evidenced by the massive federal deficits which ballooned every year because the magical new revenue that was supposed to be generated by lower taxes never materialized. And of course don't suggest that the reason Ronald Reagan raised taxes a half dozen times was that supply-side economics was an idiotic failure. When discussing the war on terror, be silent about the fact that Ronald Reagan cut and run from Lebanon the instant things went wrong. 241 American servicemembers were tragically killed in a terrorist attack in Beirut and after proclaiming we would not be cowed by terrorists, Ronald Reagan waited 4 months and then withdrew American forces. Of course today we would skewer such a policy as being one in which the terrorists win. Don't ever suggest that RR let the terrorists win when he cut and run from Lebanon. Do not ever discuss the fact that Ronald Reagan went back on Jimmy Carter's pledge that we would never again import more oil than we did in 1977. Dear god, if we had stayed true to that pledge, and spent our resources becoming energy independent, developing new technologies instead of breaking our treasury by sending our army oversees to fight oil war after oil war in the middle east, it's mind-boggling to think how much more secure we would be, if we weren't dependent upon people who hate us, people we make richer and richer every year, people who are slowly buying us up as our currency becomes worthless. Don't mention any of that. Just show the picture of Ronald Reagan in a cowboy hat, and talk about everything being great. If you repeat it enough times, people will believe it. |
 | Davos Annual Meeting 2005 - Funding the War on Poverty Funding the War on Poverty A substantial boost to aid flows, major improvements in market access, and debt relief on more generous terms are needed to create a solid foundation for rapid growth and competitiveness in the developing world. New paths based on close cooperation and shared responsibilities between donor countries and developing nations, as well as the private and public sectors should be fully explored. 1) Are recent proposals for innovative sources of financing, such as the UK International Finance Facility or the "Lula Fund" viable options? 2) Will improved market access and FDI eventually replace traditional aid flows and permit a more effective integration of the developing world into the global economy? 3) If so, what are the three or four key steps which developing countries should take in order to fully benefit from international trade and to attract higher volumes of FDI? Can trade integration help? Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom William H. Gates III, Co-Founder, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Chairman and Chief Software Architect, Microsoft Corporation, USA Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil Benjamin William Mkapa, President of Tanzania Jeffrey D. Sachs, Chair and Director, Earth Institute, Columbia University, USA Domenico Siniscalco, Minister of Economy, Finance and the Treasury of Italy Moderated by William H. Frist, Senator from Tennessee (Republican), USA; Majority Leader, US Senate |
 | St Canices Cathedral - Scene of Satanism Protocols Hold Key to Our Exasperation By Henry Makow Ph.D. January 22, 2005 This week we watched in horror as a sanctimonious sociopath President George W. Bush stealthily signalled allegiance to Satan while making obscene promises to bring "freedom" to the world. This is after complicity in the most heinous attack on American soil in history; the establishment of a police-terror state; the theft of the 2000 and 2004 elections; not to mention the evil and unprovoked invasion of Iraq and the near doubling of the national debt. Bush is now staking everything on elections in Iraq that can only bring a pro-Iranian Shiite party to power. (One commentator has suggested the US is no longer fighting Israel's war and is now fighting Iran's.) At the same time he is threatening Iran with attack over its nuclear program. Does this make any sense? Not unless you see Bush as a straw man whose function is to advance world government by bankrupting the US and destroying American power and prestige. Remember the pantomime that preceded the war? The UN was against the war; the "rogue" U.S. ploughed ahead anyway. As the only superpower, America represents a major obstacle to world government. Defeat in Iraq, just like Korea and Vietnam earlier, is designed to cut her down to size. The explanation can be found in a book that we have been trained Pavlov-style to reject. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is the work of a Jewish Masonic secret society. Caught red-handed, they attempted to confuse the issue of world domination with anti-Semitism. The vast majority of Jews is not aware let alone in favor of this plot for world government by a small "Jewish" financial elite and their Masonic allies. In the Protocols, the author, who I suspect was Lionel Rothschild, writes that their goal is: "To wear everyone out by dissensions, animosities, feuds, famine, inoculation of diseases, want, until the Gentiles sees no other way of escape except by appeal to our money and our power." (Protocol 10) "We will so wear out and exhaust the Gentiles by all this that they will be compelled to offer us an international authority, which by its position will enable us to absorb without disturbance all the governmental forces of the world and thus form a super-government." (Protocol 5) Harold Rosenthal who was a member of this cabal boasts that they even implanted a "guilt complex" over the Holocaust and anti-Semitism that prevents society from addressing the threat. Through control of banking, they acquired a total monopoly of "the movie industry, the radio networks and the newly developing television media...we took over the publication of all school materials... Even your music! We censor the songs released for publication long before they reach the publishers...we will have complete control of your thinking." We "have put issue upon issue to the American people. Then we promote both sides of the issue as confusion reigns. With their eyes fixed on the issues, they fail to see who is behind every scene. We Jews toy with the American public as a cat toys with a mouse." Rosenthal fails to mention Jews themselves are brainwashed first, and then used to brainwash others. In the "Protocols" the writer confesses they encourage anti Semitism. "Anti Semitism is indispensable to us for the management of our lesser brethren." (9-2) Many Jews appear to be unwitting pawns, $ supporters, agents and scapegoats for the secret plans of their meglomaniacal leaders. PROMOTING BOTH SIDES When I look, I am distressed to see so many "Jews" behind every scene. According to an article in Israel's Haaretz newspaper, the Iraq war "was conceived by 25 neo conservative intellectuals, most of them Jewish." Many of the same people (e.g. Richard Perle, Douglas Feith) were members of a Likud party think tank that recommended in 1996 Israel "shape its strategic environment" beginning with the removal of Sadaam Hussein. The policy of the media, and the Democratic Party, both controlled by this banking cartel, is to give George Bush enough rope to hang himself (and us.) Bush has enjoyed immunity from genuine criticism in the mass media and political arena. They are surprisingly cooperative when it comes to NOT covering election irregularities or suppressing casualty figures. Even Dan Rather was squelched when we all know Bush's national service is suspect. The mass media is responsible for legitimizing the indefensible. |
 | "The Greatest" Muhammad Ali Ali: The Man He's still the most recognizable man on earth. And over forty years after he burst onto the scene as a gold-medal winner at the 1960 Rome Olympics, Muhammad Ali remains a magical figure, known and loved throughout the world. Dubbed "Athlete of the Century" by GQ magazine, Muhammad continues to receive accolades for his contribution to sports. He has been named Sports Illustrated's "Sportsman of the Century," the BBC's "Sports Personality of the Century," the World Sports Award's "World Sportsman of the Century," and the State of Kentucky's "Kentuckian of the Century." In 2005, he received the United States of America's highest civil award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. As a boxer, Muhammad brought unprecedented speed and grace to his sport, while his charm and wit changed forever what the public expected a champion to be. His accomplishments in the ring are the stuff of legend -- two fights with Sonny Liston, where he proclaimed himself "The Greatest" and proved he was; three epic wars with Joe Frazier; the stunning victory over George Foreman in the Rumble in the Jungle; and dethroning Leon Spinks to become heavyweight champion for an unprecedented third time. But there was always far more to Muhammad than what took place in a boxing ring. Muhammad's life and career have been played out as much on the front pages of newspapers as on the inside sports pages. His early embrace of the Nation of Islam and his insistence on being called Muhammad Ali instead of his "slave name," Cassius Clay, heralded a new era in black pride. His refusal to be inducted into the United States Army anticipated the growing antiwar movement of the 1960's. His willingness to stage his much-promoted and publicized fights in such far-flung locales as Kinshasa, Manila, and Kuala Lumpur signaled a shift from superpower dominance toward a growing awareness of the developing world. Daring to go against political policy to help people in need, Muhammad has made goodwill missions to Afghanistan and North Korea; delivered sorely-needed medical supplies to an embargoed Cuba; traveled to Iraq and secured the release of 15 United States hostages during the first Gulf War; and journeyed to South Africa to meet Nelson Mandela upon his release from prison. The Offical Muhammad Ali Website Today, championing the causes of the developing world has become a major focus of Muhammad's life. He has been instrumental in providing over 232 million meals to the world's hungry. Traveling across continents, he has hand-delivered food and medical supplies to children in Cote D'Ivoire, Indonesia, Mexico, and Morocco among other countries. In addition to his international efforts, Muhammad is equally devoted to helping charities at home. He has visited countless numbers of soup kitchens and hospitals, and helped such organizations as the Make-A-Wish-Foundation and the Special Olympics. He annually participates in "Fight Night," which generates funds for the Muhammad Ali Parkinson Research Center at Barrow Neurological Institute, in Phoenix, Arizona. At the State Capitol in Michigan, he advocated new laws for protecting children. He is also the namesake of the Muhammad Ali Boxing Reform Act (sponsored by Senator John McCain), a law that regulates professional boxing to protect boxers from unscrupulous promoters and poor health and bout conditions. In recent year, Muhammad has testified before the United States Senate several times regarding boxing reform. For his humanitarian efforts, Muhammad has been the recipient of countless awards. In addition to being honored by Amnesty International with their Lifetime Achievement Award, the Secretary-General of the United Nations bestowed upon him the citation of United Nations Messenger of Peace. In Germany, he was honored with the 2005 Otto Hahn Peace Medal for his involvement in the U.S. civil rights movement and the United Nations. He was also named the International Ambassador of Jubilee 2000, a global organization dedicated to relieving debt in developing nations. Other honors include an Essence Award, an XNBA Human Spirit Award and recognition from the National Urban League; 100 Black Men; Givat Haviva; the Oleander Foundation; The National Conference of Christians and Jews; Time magazine; and former President Jimmy Carter, who cited Muhammad as "Mr. International Friendship." |
 | Globalization, Trade Deficits, and the New Working Class Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/06/12/Gabor_Steingart_The_New_World_Disorder German journalist Gabor Steingart blames western nations' trade deficits for the shift of traditional manufacturing jobs to developing countries, a phenomenon he describes as a "second industrial age - blue-collar 2.0." ----- The 7 Fallacies of the Globalisation Debate: Is it destroying the West? The Flat World. Outsourcing. Free Trade. Each of these phrases is a flashpoint in one of the most heated debates of our lifetime: is it a force for good? - The Global Policy Institute Gabor Steingart is a German journalist and author. From 2001 until the end of June 2007, he headed the main city office of the news magazine Der Spiegel in Berlin today, he is responsible for the mirror office in Washington. |
 | NES and PSX game download for itouch how to get if all the debt of developing nations were forgiven today, those nations would still need to borrow tomorrow. |
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