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| Weekly Address: Getting Our Money Back from Wall Street | |
| As the President continues to work on immediate job creation, he discusses his proposal for a new fee on the largest financial institutions to ensure that every cent of taxpayer assistance gets paid back. Saying that, were not going to let Wall Street take the money and run, he goes on to discuss the ongoing push to make sure banks can never put our economy at risk again. January 16, 2010. | |
| Date: 16 January 2010 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 765 - Votes: 0 - Rating: 0 | |
| Naomi Klein and Bill Quigley on US Policy in Haiti Over Decades and how right-wing sees opportunity in the current disaster | |
| US Policy in Haiti Over Decades Lays the Foundation for Why Impact of Natural Disaster Is So Severe http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/14... We discuss the situation in Haiti following Tuesdays massive earthquake, as well as the history of Haiti, with two guests who have spent a lot of time there: Bill Quigley, the legal director at the Center for Constitutional Rights, and Brian Concannon, director of the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti. Journalist and author Naomi Klein spoke in New York last night and addressed the crisis in Haiti: We have to be absolutely clear that this tragedy?which is part natural, part unnatural?must, under no circumstances, be used to, one, further indebt Haiti and, two, to push through unpopular corporatist policies in the interest of our corporations. This is not conspiracy theory. They have done it again and again. | |
| Date: 15 January 2010 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 806 - Votes: 4 - Rating: 5 | |
| Former CIA chief counter-terrorism official talks about Osama bin Laden and US wars abroad | |
| Robert Grenier, the former chief counter-terrorism official at the CIA, tells Al Jazeera\\\'s David Foster about America\\\'s battles abroad. Grenier also served as the agency\\\'s station chief in Islamabad in Pakistan. | |
| Date: 15 January 2010 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 796 - Votes: 5 - Rating: 2.8 | |
| Rush Limbaugh wants America not to Donate Haitians keith Olbermann | |
| Rush Limbaugh wants America not to Donate Haitians keith Olbermann | |
| Date: 14 January 2010 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 765 - Votes: 2 - Rating: 5 | |
| Pressure The Banks - Raj Patel and The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel | |
| Raj Patel notes that the financial regulation of the thirties happened because a lot of people pressured the governmet, and Katrina vanden Heuvel talks about a new movement away from big banks. GRITtv with Laura Flanders brings participatory democracy onto your computer screen and into your living room, bridging the gap between audience and advocates. | |
| Date: 14 January 2010 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 773 - Votes: 1 - Rating: 2 | |
| Dylan Ratigan on Banksters: U.S. economy hit by manmade perfect storm | |
| Wall Street bankers testifying before Congress yesterday said the financial collapse was the perfect storm. Dylan Ratigan and Eliott Spitzer say it was MANMADE and they should pay us back for the destruction. Spitzer adds: Follow the money. Copyright MSNBC 2010 | |
| Date: 14 January 2010 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 771 - Votes: 4 - Rating: 4.75 | |
| Exporting Corruption: 3/4 of Afghan Corruption Cases Involve Westerners | |
| The Afghanistan war is a breeding ground for corruption, and today McClatchy Newspapers reports that it\\\'s not just the corrupt Afghan government that\\\'s feeding at the trough. The Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) says about three-quarters of its active corruption investigations involved Westerners. As Ahmed Rashid points out in Brave New Foundation\\\'s Rethink Afghanistan documentary, U.S. and allied-nation official and private corruption helped set the stage for the venality of the Kabul government: \\ | |
| Date: 14 January 2010 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 771 - Votes: 3 - Rating: 5 | |
| Pat Robertson: Earthquake Happened Because Haitians Swore a Pact to the Devil | |
| Pat Robertson: Earthquake Happened Because Haitians \\ | |
| Date: 13 January 2010 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 746 - Votes: 0 - Rating: 0 | |
| Inside Story - Who killed the nuclear scientist? | |
| Iran faces more politcal intrigue after Massoud Ali Mohammadi, a prominent nuclear scientest, was killed by a bomb blast on Tuesday. [13 Jan 2010] Who was the assassinated professor? Was he a \\ | |
| Date: 13 January 2010 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 746 - Votes: 0 - Rating: 0 | |
| President Obama to Request Another $33 Billion for Unpopular Wars | |
| Learn more at http://rethinkafghanistan. The Associated Press reports that President Obama \\ | |
| Date: 13 January 2010 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 754 - Votes: 2 - Rating: 5 | |