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Without Volker Rule Next Crisis: Bigger & Quicker
Video 16:30. Bill Black: JP Morgan's Billions of derivative bets cannot be called a hedge but might be allowed under weakened Volker Rule. A 'hedge' is supposed to reduce risk of loss. Instead this supposed hedge, which was really a speculative play, increased the losses. And here's the ...
Nothing Changed by Electorial Politics Today
If you think things can be changed with electoral politics today, think again. Matt Taibbi's lastest Rolling Stone article has certainly confirmed my attitude towards electoral politics. The system, at this time, is totally broken. Elections are done using totally manipu...
Study Results: Marijuana Drivers Drive Safer
If marijuana really caused car accidents -- you know, the way alcohol does -- America's highways would be awash in blood because of the herb's growing popularity. But even as marijuana use -- and society's acceptance of it -- grows every year, highway fatalities are diminishing. Sure, so...
Iceland Dumps Government & Arrests Bankers
ICELAND. No news from Iceland?… why? How come we hear everything that happens in Egypt but no news about what’s happening in Iceland: In Iceland, the people has made the government resign, the primary banks have been nationalized, it was decided to not pay the debt that these creat...


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Background to May Day
Background to May Day: In 1884, unions declared that eight hours would constitute a legal day’s work from and after May 1, 1886. Whe...
Video 4:40 - Getting Away With it All by James with an interesting insight into the "I Don't Pay" Movement that seems to be spreading. ...
Anonymous - Message to the American People
Video 5:09 Dear brothers and sisters. Now is the time to open your eyes! In a stunning move that has civil libertarians stuttering wi...
Occupy Wall Street: The Most Important Thing in the World Now
I was honored to be invited to speak at Occupy Wall Street on Thursday night. Since amplification is (disgracefully) banned, and ev...
Fukushima: Nuclear Crisis is Getting Worse and Worse!
Video 7:56. Fukushima Nuclear Crisis. Japan is not out of the danger zone...in fact the nuclear crisis is getting worse and worse! We...
Dennis Kucinich: The Seattle Declaration of Mass Action
Video 8:51. I gave a speech in Seattle this past weekend, at Hempfest, the text of which appears and video of which is available, whic...
One on One with the Legendary Writer Gore Vidal
Video 24:53. I think I'm more important in the long run than that country (USA) which has not been heard from recently except for blowi...
It's Much Easier to Attack the Weak than the Wealthy
Video 11:00.  For The Republicans and Democrats it is much easier to make the working people pay for crisis than it is to confront...
Why Dems Must Drop Obama and Back Hillary for Prez
From HuffPost by Sandy Goodman. As far as I'm concerned, the most sensible idea to come out of this whole debt-ceiling mess so far is ...
Biggest Problem: Not Admitting the Country is Bankrupt
Video 7:01. I see the country's biggest problem is not admitting that the country's bankrupt. And if you don't admit that's the true p...
Judge Rejects Willie's Plea Deal for 3oz of Marijuana
Check This: Video 2min 23sec. A Texas Judge Rejects Willie Nelson Plea Deal On Arrest For 3 Ounces Of Marijuana. The judge in Willie N...
Fukushima: 'It Was Like Visiting Another Universe'
Video 8min 28sec. Disturbing that people believe normal life will return. Jan Beranek, who is with a team of Greenpeace activists inves...
Landslide Thailand Election Victory for Thaksin Party
Video 54sec. Thailand election completed. The opposition Puea Thai Party allied with exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra ha...
Debt-Ridden US Inches Towards Default Deadline
Video 2min 13sec. US President Barack Obama has cautioned that no area can be off-limits when it comes to tackling the country's recor...
US Wars Left 225,000 dead, Cost Up to $4.4 Trillion
US wars launched since the attacks of September 11, 2001 have left 225,000 dead and cost up to $4.4 trillion, according to a new study ...