Agence France-Presse notes: Three years after Iceland’s banks collapsed and the country teetered on the brink, its economy is recovering, proof that governments should let failing lenders go bust and protect taxpayers, analysts say. ***
November 8, 2011
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CHICAGO | Sat Nov 5, 2011 11:42pm EDT (Reuters) – Ron Paul was declared the winner on Saturday of a weeklong Republican presidential straw poll in Democratic President Barack Obama’s home state of Illinois. Texas Congressman Paul won 52 percent of the combined 3,649 online and in-person votes cast between October 29 and Saturday evening.… [Read more…]
November 8, 2011
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For the past eight months, a group of volunteer Iowa activists have been contributing to these Power Rankings and attempting to answer what GOP candidate is positioned to capture caucus gold if the event was tonight. The panelists have watched as candidates entered the race, surged to the top and then were found to be… [Read more…]
November 8, 2011
by Rachel Brown Whether or not Greece defaults, or leaves the EU, doesn’t matter. The only relevant statements given at the recent G-20 summit, were that of Christina Kirchner, who pointed out that the system is designed to destroy countries, and that of President Obama, who declared his willingness to bomb Iran.
“The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, and more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.
As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money powers of the country will endeavor to prolong it’s reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
--Abraham Lincoln
November 8, 2011
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