http://www.deepjournal.com/p/6.html en-GB DeepJournal daan@deepjournal.com Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:34:01 +0100 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:34:01 +0100 http://backend.userland.com/rss webtank.nl DeepJournal General news http://www.deepjournal.com/p/7/a/en/2598.html Dismiss his warning at your peril. Everything you learned, everything you believe and everything driving our political leaders is based on a misleading, outdated theory of history. The American Empire is at the edge of a dangerous precipice, at risk of a sudden, rapid collapse. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 webtank.nl/s/16/e/3373 General news http://www.deepjournal.com/p/7/a/en/2599.html Yet while serving out a hit piece against the global "9/11 Truth" movement, it is in fact the editors of the Washington Post who are demonstrably "fact-averse". Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 webtank.nl/s/16/e/3374 General news http://www.deepjournal.com/p/7/a/en/2597.html The problem with how we have reacted so far to the Great Recession of 2007 is that most of the recovery programs are, as in the '50s and '60s, only for those Americans living in the outer ring: programs such as "cash for clunkers", first-time homebuyer credits, expanded Pell Grants, etc. In 2010, however, after decades of wide-spread wage stagnation, the entire middle class needs help as well, and the simple proof of this is that overall income inequality in America is now the greatest since 1928, when we first began to measure it. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 webtank.nl/s/16/e/3372 General news http://www.deepjournal.com/p/7/a/en/2596.html Benjamin reports that the waterboarding sessions were "so excruciating" that some detainees simply decided not to struggle and let themselves drown. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 webtank.nl/s/16/e/3371 General news http://www.deepjournal.com/p/7/a/en/2595.html Joseph Stiglitz explained to Maria Bartiromo why he thinks the Fed is desperately in need of reform. Basically, it comes down to the influence the banks have in selecting the Fed chairman. How can we expect effective regulation or fair financial rescues from men who owe their power to the heads of the biggest banks? Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 webtank.nl/s/16/e/3370 General news http://www.deepjournal.com/p/7/a/en/2594.html It turns out, however, that the picture of Marja presented by military officials and obediently reported by major news media is one of the clearest and most dramatic pieces of misinformation of the entire war, apparently aimed at hyping the offensive as a historic turning point in the conflict. Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 webtank.nl/s/16/e/3369 General news http://www.deepjournal.com/p/7/a/en/2593.html That is why the market will allow dividends to persist at an average of two percent while the long-term average dividend is double that amount – implying that share prices should be half what they are today. It needs little imagination to see what must happen in the near future: the mother of all corrections. Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 webtank.nl/s/16/e/3368 General news http://www.deepjournal.com/p/7/a/en/2587.html The very concept of capitalism, Moore declares in the film, is the problem because it inevitably leads to a system where the richest few control the means of production as well as the levers of power -- leading to a "plutonomy," a term used in a leaked Citigroup memo from 2005, in which the finance juggernaut concluded that the United States is no longer a democracy. Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 webtank.nl/s/16/e/3362 General news