COTTON AND CORRUPTION
An estimated 10 million people in west and central Africa depend on cotton for their livelihoods with about 3 million of them in Burkina Faso.
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TIME TO GO BACK
NAPOLEON’S DEFEAT Napoleon, camped with his troops in the snow outside of Moscow, saw his imminent defeat before him. “Oh, Merde!” he said to his best friend, “I screwed up big time on this one!” And, he turned around and started marching home as the laughing Russians picked off his soldiers. EURO The same thing [...]
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Apr 30, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
MONEY FOR DUMMIES WILL NOT MAKE EINSTEINS
By Caroline Baum U.S. presidents are always yammering about the need to “invest in education” to prepare our children to compete in the 21st century. Barack Obama succumbed to the temptation last week in front of a huge, attentive audience for his State of the Union address. The president told the American people every child [...]
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Apr 10, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
U.S. DEATH RATES FALL 60 PERCENT!
US Death Rates Fall 60% in 75 Years, and 94% in Toddlers By Jenni Laidman, from Medscape In the last 75 years, the nation’s age-adjusted mortality rate fell 60%, dropping in every age group, but most dramatically among children aged 1 through 4 years, in whom mortality fell 94%, according to a National Center [...]
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Mar 13, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
NUCLEAR WAR BETWEEN THE U.S. AND RUSSIA?
The talk of nuclear warfare between the U.S. and Russia may seem far fetched in the year 2012. But, I am seeing all the evidence of such a war in the making. We must remember that both the U.S. and Russia are controlled by “military experts” in the area of warfare. These are men whose [...]
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Feb 10, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
HALF OF U.S. ARE LOW INCOME OR POVERTY–CENSUS
Census data: Half of U.S. poor or low income From CBS Squeezed by rising living costs, a record number of Americans — nearly 1 in 2 — have fallen into poverty or are scraping by on earnings that classify them as low income. The latest census data depict a middle class that’s shrinking as unemployment [...]
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Dec 15, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
SHOULD THE U.S. GO BANKRUPT? YES, OF COURSE!
The Republicans and the Democrats are struggling to find a way to pay off Fifteen Trillion dollars in public debt. They don’t want to raise taxes and they don’t want to cut the layers of pork that they give to all their rich and fat donors. Somehow, they want to convince the American public that [...]
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Nov 19, 2011 | 2 comments | View Post
CHINA WILL LOSE THREE TRILLION!
China Will Write Off $3 Trillion, Says Das of ‘Extreme Money’: Interview By James Pressley, from Bloomberg If Satyajit Das is right, China will end up writing off its $3.2 trillion in foreign reserves. Europe is shambling toward Japanese-style growth. And a day of reckoning is at hand for creditors and debtors alike. “Europeans are [...]
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Oct 18, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
