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Schiff Report Video Blog August 18th 2010

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Here’s why a government-run healthcare system is not the answer. Read more at: http://www.acton.org/press/special/christians-and-health-care
Michael Miller exposes the key problems with universal health care, arguing that more bureaucracy and regulation is not the answer to our health care problems. True health care reform means increasing consumer choice, not more government involvement.

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Here’s why a government-run healthcare system is not the answer. Read more at: http://www.acton.org/press/special/christians-and-health-care
Michael Miller exposes the key problems with universal health care, arguing that more bureaucracy and regulation is not the answer to our health care problems. True health care reform means increasing consumer choice, not more government involvement.

http://www.acton.org

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According to statistic, about 30% of private properties were bought by foreigners, this is definitely the main reason cause properties price to increase. The Government instead of go to the root cause of the problem, are making thing more difficult for the local to buy a property, such as maximun loan become 70% for second home. This definitely only affect the local, as most foreigners are buying by cash. Is the government sane or they just prone the foreigners??

As Singaporeans, we have to justify for what we want for our country and future. If it’s positive and achievements attained by our Government, definitely it’s applaudable. Voicing your dissent positively is patriotic and your duty as Citizens of Singapore. If your views are not heard, then what is a consensus? Therefore, I feel it is still good to give your opinions and comments so long it can be heard and pondered over by our Government. If it is constructive, that adds to further improvements and if destructive, then take it with a punch of sale and look at it from a critical appreciation angle.

Hope all of us look at all comments and postings as the voice of One United Nation.

Please pardon my drifting away from the main topic as I wish to draw attention to those who debates over unnecessary issues and starts "attacking" our own fellow Singaporeans.

Anyway, the property market is not going to cool off at all. Instead, the new restrictions will make it more difficult for Singaporeans and their next generations to come. Many private property developers are even forecasting that prices would not come down for the next few years. As for HDB flats (so-called public housing), when was the last time it really becomes affordable after ruling to include private banks to offer loans for HDB units and pushed up mortgages and overall prices?

To certain extent, building 22,000 more units, an increase from previously 16,000 units as reported, will help. Question is what type of housing will be built and catering for which division of Singaporeans? The rich, middle or lower income? Affordability? Or this increase will benefit PRs and foreigners because after re-sale units prices are down due to this additional supply.

All these remains to be seen and explained. This year’s National Day Rally is not much different from any other years. It still gives you hope, aspirations and dreams. The thing is whether you, as a Singaporean, dares to aspire, dream or hope.

Take Action. Visit http://www.bankruptingamerica.org/take-action/ to send this video to your Congressman and tell them to reform Washington’s wasteful spending now.
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How do we tell Washington how we feel? We show them. We sifted through the top public opinion polls, compiled the results most representative of the nation, prettied them up, and set them to compelling music. Lawmakers must be shown what the nation thinks of them and their many years of policies that are bankrupting America.
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Polls in video:

“6 out of 10 Americans think the country is headed in the wrong direction — Reuters, July 2010″

“43% have a favorable view of the Democratic Party. 36% for the Republican Party. — Gallup, May 2010″

“Congress’s approval rating has been under 29% consistently for since 2005. Gallup, 2005-2010″

“The same as OJ Simpson’s approval rating a year after his trial. — Gallup, 1995″

“Congress’s approval rating today – 19%. Gallup, Aug 2010″

“Nearly half of likely voters think a random selection of people from the phone book would do better than Congress. — Rasmussen, January 2010″

“86% of Americans say the system of government is broken. — CNN/Opinion Research Corp, February 2010″

“The two most important issues to Americans are: jobs [and] the budget deficit – Pew and the National Journal, July 2010″

“Unemployment has nearly doubled since the end of 2007. – Bureau of Labor Statistics, June 2010″

“53% think we’d be better off without the stimulus. – Time, July 2010″

“67% oppose a new stimulus. – Time, July 2010″

“66% believe government wastes “a lot” of our tax dollars. – Center for American Progress, August 2010″

“A majority believes we should [cut spending to stimulate the economy]. – Democracy Corps, June 2010″

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Time was when American media wore their biases on their sleeves. The history of media ethics shows this system of honesty in media bias, so common in the nineteenth century, giving way to the doctrine of “objectivity” early in the twentieth century. Media historians chart the zenith of objectivity’s prominence occurring around the 1950’s. However, over the last fifty years objectivity has succumbed to a state of confusion.

The huge American media conglomerates have not admitted this seismic cultural shift towards accepting the reality of media bias (although understood as a fact by most of their consumers). They still march under the false advertising of “objectivity” and “neutrality”. Wouldn’t it be better for our nation if newspapers, not to mention other forms of media, simply displayed openly their prejudices and points of view? Imagine: “The New York Democrat Times”, “The Los Angeles Liberal Times”, “The Washington Post and Democrat”, “Boston Liberal Democrat Globe”.
As Charles Griffin Ross turns in his grave, and the American Mainstream Media harbors a warm spot for yellow journalism, It is time to pull the mask of “objectivity” off these malignant cultural tumors we call “journalists”.

Video excerpts of the anti-war rally are from across the web, and are used for commentary under the “fair use” statute.

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The US government does not want to have public 9/11 trials in a civilian court. Officials are doing their best to bring Khalid Sheik Mohammed to military tribunal. Manny Badillo had an uncle who was murdered by the 9/11 terrorist attack and now works for we are change. Badillo believes that the trial should be public because he says it is the only way to get the evidence out there for the public to see.

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As of Jan 21, 6 am GMT, the link is back and working again. Interesting?
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I guess they are trying desperately to prevent any bank runs, or a general panic.

Note that while David Prosser is normally a financial markets writer, Ben Russell is a general staff writer, and may not have been “thinking clearly” when he wrote this piece. Nevertheless, once published is it right for it to be removed? Or should an amended, less controversial version been published?

I do hope neither of these gentlemen are sacked for this.

Please get a hold of ‘YoutubeDownloaderHD” – you can freely download and share / post this video in any way you like. Please make sure your description includes all of this text though.

British banks are ‘technically insolvent’
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/british-banks-are-technically-insolvent-1418229.html

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Money Saving Expert forum comments:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=17772259

naked capitalism blog:
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2009/01/british-banks-deemed-technically.html

Peace

Full text of article:

British banks are ‘technically insolvent’

By Ben Russell and David Prosser
Saturday, 17 January 2009

Britains biggest banks are “technically insolvent”, Royal Bank of Scotland said yesterday, as the global banking industry was rocked by another day of turmoil, including the announcement of $23bn (£16bn) of new losses from Merrill Lynch and Citigroup, the giant US institutions.

Analysts working for RBS, one of several British banks to have received emergency funding from the UK Government last year, told the City that “the domestic UK banks are technically insolvent on a fully marked-to-market basis”.

The warning does not mean British banks are about to go bust, because the assessment is purely theoretical, and RBS said the position was “not unusual at this stage in the economic cycle”.

However, it will add to pressure on the Government to provide more support for the country’s banks. Treasury officials are now set to spend this weekend in talks about a fresh round of measures, which could be unveiled as early as next week, to free up lending to households and major corporations hit by the credit crunch.

The value of Barclays fell by a quarter in stock market trading yesterday, amid a series of wild rumours about its finances, although the bank said it saw no need to comment on the drop. Its board said in a statement last night that it knew “no justification for the fall”.

The statement said next month the bank expected to report that profits before tax for 2008 were “well ahead” of the £5.3 billion forecast by analysts.

City analysts said the bank had been targeted by traders after regulators lifted a ban yesterday on the short selling of financial stocks. Barclays’ share price, along with the value of other British banks, was also hit by dismal news from the international markets, including the announcement on Thursday night that the Irish government was nationalising Allied Irish Banks. In the US, Bank of America announced yesterday that it was taking a $20bn injection of emergency funding from the US government, subsequently revealing that Merrill Lynch, the investment bank it rescued last year, had lost more than £15bn in the final three months of last year.

Citigroup, once the world’s largest bank, announced more than $8bn of losses for the final quarter of last year, and revealed plans to split itself in two.

Treasury officials were still discussing plans to help British banks last night but the proposals are likely to include up to £100bn of new guarantees for the wholesale markets that underpin mortgage and other loans.

Other possible measures being considered include state support to help Britain’s largest companies raise their own funds. Another option is to launch a “bad bank” to remove tainted assets from the banks’ balance sheets, though while this policy is under consideration, it is thought to remain some way off.

Other proposals include ring-fencing the toxic assets within bank balance sheets. Lord Mandelson, the Business Secretary, has also talked of easing the terms of the government’s £37bn bank bailout in order to kickstart lending. Downing Street made it clear yesterday that the Government remained committed to doing “whatever is necessary to help British businesses and families get through this global financial recession”.

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World Government is coming…. and it’s coming fast!!!
Whether it succeeds or not, depends on us… And not on a MAJORITY of us (at least not at first), but rather, it depends on whether a much smaller group of FREEDOM FIGHTERS will rally the Peoples of the world against the New World Order Masters…
So, what will it be with you? Do you accept or resist the coming World government?

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Many people who regard themselves on the left supported Bush’s attack on Afghanistan. That the CIA had supported Osama Bin Laden was ignored, that the Clinton administration had secretly backed the Taliban, even giving them high-level briefings at the CIA, is virtually unknown in the United States. The Taliban were secret partners with the oil giant Unocal in building an oil pipeline across Afghanistan. And when a Clinton official was reminded that the Taliban persecuted women, he said, “We can live with that.” There is compelling evidence that Bush decided to attack the Taliban not as a result of 9-11, but two months earlier, in July of 2001. This is virtually unknown in the United States—publicly. Like the scale of civilian casualties in Afghanistan. To my knowledge only one mainstream reporter, Jonathan Steele of the Guardian in London, has investigated civilian casualties in Afghanistan, and his estimate is 20,000 dead civilians, and that was three years ago.

The enduring tragedy of Palestine is due in great part to the silence and compliance of the so-called liberal left. Hamas is described repeatedly as sworn to the destruction of Israel. The New York Times, the Associated Press, the Boston Globe—take your pick. They all use this line as a standard disclaimer, and it is false. That Hamas has called for a ten-year ceasefire is almost never reported. Even more important, that Hamas has undergone an historic ideological shift in the last few years, which amounts to a recognition of what it calls the reality of Israel, is virtually unknown; and that Israel is sworn to the destruction of Palestine is unspeakable.

There is a pioneering study by Glasgow University on the reporting of Palestine. They interviewed young people who watch TV news in Britain. More than 90 percent thought the illegal settlers were Palestinian. The more they watched, the less they knew—Danny Schecter’s famous phrase.

The current most dangerous silence is over nuclear weapons and the return of the Cold War. The Russians understand clearly that the so-called American defense shield in Eastern Europe is designed to subjugate and humiliate them. Yet the front pages here talk about Putin starting a new Cold War, and there is silence about the development of an entirely new American nuclear system called Reliable Weapons Replacement (RRW), which is designed to blur the distinction between conventional war and nuclear war—a long-held ambition.

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