By Robert Singer

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September 26, 2008

Will the bail-out really matter?

I will give you odds Congress will vote in favor of the bail-out. And that’s not just because Warren Buffet told Congress to act swiftly. Buffett said, “Wall Street's troubles were inseparable from the finances of everyday US consumers.” The key to figuring out how to bet on the bail-out is the word “consumer” AKA “shopper”. The highest priority for the Bush or for that matter any administration is shopping. Consider the following:

The Economic Stimulus Package was a plan to help the economy. Last spring, the IRS sent checks of up to $1200.00 to over 130 million households. Did it help? Of course not. Why would buying stuff from China that we don’t need and are apt to throw away as fast as possible help the “economy”?

Surely you remember December, 2006, when this nation teetered on the brink of a national economic recession. At that time the President implored Americans to shop more. He said: As we work with Congress in the coming year to chart a new course in Iraq and strengthen our military to meet the challenges of the 21st century, we must also work together to achieve important goals for the American people here at home. This work begins with keeping our economy growing. … And I encourage you all to go shopping more.”

And of course, no one will forget that after 9/11, when our country was in shock, President Bush could have suggested any number of appropriate things: to grieve, to pray, to hope. NO. He said to shop. TO SHOP?

Finally, you can’t lose money betting on the architect of the bailout, Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve. In 2002, he gave a speech about deflation. In that speech, he mentioned that the government is a fiat money system that owns the physical means of creating money. Control of the means of production for money implies that the government can always avoid deflation by simply dropping more money out of helicopters, so that is why he is known as "Helicopter Ben" with his "helicopter printing press”.

Bet the farm on the bailout.

You can find the article I wrote on 9-14 about shopping: "Give Us the ANWAR and Keep Shopping"-They Found They Can't Have Both

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By Mark Powell

Breaking News: Rob Kall, executive editor/publisher of OpEdNews.com, recently “Ranked Among Top 100 Blogs Overall," gets his news and opinions from The Peoples Voice (TPV).

Yesterday (1/3/2011, at 11 a.m.) TPV publishes OpEdNews Ranked Among Top 100 Blogs, Why?. The article had no XML feed description and was not picked up by Google News.

As of 11:01 a.m. there were still two articles by Katherine Smith that had not been removed (censored) from the OpEdNews website:

1. Baron Otto Von Bolschwing, SS Veteran of Eichmann's "Jewish Affairs"
2. Why was I born? Why are we here?

By 2 p.m. the links were dead, i.e., “This article is not currently available.” [1]

Here are the articles that Rob Kall doesn’t want you to read: [2]

• Baron Otto Von Bolschwing, SS Veteran of Eichmann’s “Jewish Affairs”
• The Nazi & Jewish Affair to Remember (November 2010)
• Why was I born? Why are we here?

What can you conclude when the Editor of one of the Top 100 Blogs goes to the trouble to scrub an article that was the #1 most popular on his site for 48 hours? As they say, when you are “over the target,” Expect a “404"

Here is the article that Rob Kall read yesterday (1/3/2011).

OpEdNews Ranked Among Top 100 Blogs, Why?

By Mark Powell

Just got a mass email from Rob Kall, executive editor/publisher of OpEdNews.com: "Nice to start the new year with this news: OpEdNews Ranked Among Top 100 Blogs Overall."

OpEdNews is Bold and Daring: The Way Progressive News Should Be (LOL)

Consider the top 15 articles at the site for the past week:
#1 12/30/2010: America's Gulf: New Report Says It's Dying (by Stephen Lendman)
#2 12/28/2010: Rove Might Be Trying To "Pull A Siegelman" With Julian Assange (by Roger Shuler)
#3 12/28/2010: Is an economic collapse being prepared? If so, for whose benefit? (by Richard Clark)
#4 12/27/2010: FROM MIDDLE CLASS TO SLAVE CLASS - COURTESY OF THE FED, THE WHITE HOUSE, CONGRESS AND THE BANKERS. (by lila york)
#5 12/27/2010: THE U.S. STOCK MARKET IS RIGGED (by lila york)
#6 12/23/2010: Pentagon's Christmas Present: Largest Military Budget Since WW II (by Rick Rozoff)
#7 12/31/2010: Obama's Outrage: Rage Against Russia, Silence at Indian Injustice (by Chris Floyd)
#8 12/28/2010: 2011 (by paul craig roberts)
#9 12/26/2010: Have You Been Fooled: These Dirty Pharma Marketing Tricks? (by Martha Rosenberg)
#10 12/27/2010: 2011: A Brave New Dystopia (by Chris Hedges)
#11 12/27/2010: Obama Year Two: Continued Betrayal and Failure (Part I) (by Stephen Lendman)
#12 12/29/2010: America Has Gone Away (by paul craig roberts)
#13 12/31/2010: Capricorn Solar Eclipse, January 4, 2011 (by Cathy Lynn Pagano)
#14 12/26/2010: The psychological, cultural & societal disintegration of America under post-industrial capitalism (by Richard Clark)
#15 12/26/2010: Welcoming the Summer Soldier: Suppressing Dissent in America (by David Model)

“Bold and Daring,” not really. “Thought Provoking,” not a chance. The same old rant that everyone else publishes, for sure.

Of the top 15 Rob had the “courage” to publish, almost every one is replete with negativity and a Corporatocracy rant. The identical rant that we are bombarded with at every other alternative news and opinion website, 24x7 (except, of course The Peoples Voice, currently featuring Thought Provoking Articles):

What we aren’t getting that they have, that we deserve but they won’t give us because life isn’t fair. And don’t forget the world is full of a bunch of greedy bastards who run the corporations that don’t care about anything but profits.

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