Stacy Summary: Zero surprise that police are now waterboarding drug dealing suspects. Remember when we used to be innocent until proven guilty? That was before our neighbours had nothing to hide and authorised Cheney to bring in a new national motto for justice in America: Waterboarded until proven innocent.
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Stacy Summary: The end of colonialism is never a pleasant thing it seems for the beneficiaries of the free wealth, labour and resources. Britain’s free ride has been a remarkably long one and I wonder whether they won’t find another way to continue the colonial benefits flowing.
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Stacy Summary: We’ve thrown trillions down the financial oligarchs’ gold plated toilets. Trillions that are now unavailable to improve our schools, our industry or foster innovation. Instead, get government agendas like “Digital Britain,” which is allegedly about fostering innovation and making the UK into a knowledge economy, but is quite clearly a front for monopolists like Bono and Bill Gates to introduce barriers to the innovation that would, in fact, be their competition. In the meantime, like the Yankees before them, China quietly goes about disregarding copyright cartels and laying the groundwork for the next superpower.
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Stacy Summary: Travel across borders for humans is already severely restricted and is getting worse by the day; restrictions against the internet and free thought are increasing at an even more rapid pace; while bankers and capital are given free reign to go in and out as rapidly as they wish. Have created a MySpace page for PirateMyFilm (let’s see how long they allow us to keep it!) – go join/follow/comment while you can!!! What are your thoughts on the European elections?
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Global military spending rose 4% in 2008 to a record $1,464bn (£914bn) – up 45% since 1999, according to the Stockholm-based peace institute Sipri.
In contrast with civilian aerospace and airlines, the defence industry remains healthy.
“The global financial crisis has yet to have an impact on major arms companies’ revenues, profits and order backlogs,” Sipri said.
Stacy comment: The Global War on Terror as with the War on Drugs are just wars against competition, these alleged wars have created state backed monopolies in which those who dare to compete face multiple lifetime sentences. I know it’s obvious to anyone reading this blog but where are all the parties protesting this? There is only the Pirate Party as far as I can tell . . .
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Stacy Summary: Based on these numbers, the future doesn’t look good for this generation of baby boomer copyright monopolists! Looks real good for p2p! And PirateMyFilm!
12 percent of men and 4 percent of women plumped for the Pirate Party, according to the SVT survey.
Among voters aged under 30, some 19 percent are believed to have cast a vote for the Pirate Party.
“They are the biggest party among young people, bigger than both the Social Democrats and the Moderates,” said politics professor Sören Holmberg.
Pirate Party voters said they considered the freedom to file share by far the most important issue when deciding their party allegiance.
Another positive note from the election results in Sweden:
Aside from the Pirates, the Greens were Sweden’s other big winners, scoring a sensational 11.5 percent in exit polls and becoming the country’s third largest party behind the Social Democrats (25.1 percent) and Moderates (18.5).
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Stacy Summary: I guess pyramid schemes are all the rage in this period and history. The lesson being . . . There’s a Goldman Sachs banker born every moment!
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Stacy Summary: This chilly, quiet Sunday (fewer helicopters flying overhead today . . . oops, I spoke too soon, there goes one), I am mesmerised by this obesity chart (h/t Phil) Interesting how low down the list France and Italy are considering that they are two countries where large quantities of food are consumed that most Americans (who top the list of percentage obese) would avoid claiming that the food is ‘fattening.’ Perhaps it has to do with the fact that these nations actually eat real food that is not very far removed from the farm. There are few financiers extracting ‘equity’ (ie. the nutrients and quality of the food) between the farm and the plate. Many nations now seem to have many middlemen between farm and plate who remove ‘expensive’ nutrients that are replaced with cheap fillers. What else? I notice that the President ate dinner at a Max and Stacy regular and then stated that on his next visit, he wants to picnic in our local garden. He must have got the ideas from his Daily Briefings? 
And, finally, the Russian uprising story is maybe a ray of hope in that there is a tipping point where even the original gulag loving, polonium 210 wielding police state government is afraid of the people. Trying to confirm reports that several protestors were spotted wearing this tee-shirt.
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Stacy Summary: We talk about ‘free’ being the root of all evil, if you listen to Bono’s manager. Gordon Brown’s meltdown makes a suppository salesman look like a political giant. And Max recalls little Timmy Geithner stealing his toys in Flint Park.
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Stacy Summary: Send in your (positive!) comments here. Demand more! We should be on twice a week! We are lining up more guests including Rick Ackerman for next week. Catherine Austin Fitts and others for following weeks.
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Second half interview with Alex Jones:
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Stacy Summary: I couldn’t resist putting this story up . . . only for the maps that follow.
To think, Max grew up only a three minute drive from Timmy! If he still lived there, we could be reporting from the frontline of this personal financial crisis story.
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Stacy Summary: Place your bets in the comments section. Gold or dollar? Which will win the title fight?
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Stacy Summary: Oh yeah, green shoots are everywhere!
Benefits, such as Social Security, food stamps, unemployment insurance and health care, accounted for 16.2% of personal income in the first quarter of 2009, the Bureau of Economic Analysis reports. That’s the highest percentage since the government began compiling records in 1929.
In all, government spending on benefits will top $2 trillion in 2009 — an average of $17,000 provided to each U.S. household, federal data show. Benefits rose at a 19% annual rate in the first quarter compared to the last three months of 2008.
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Stacy Summary: Hopefully this is just the beginning. The money should be taken from Mozilo and given back to the victims of his crimes, which would, of course, be the American taxpayer and the hundreds of municipalities and pension funds around the world in which Countrywide’s fraudulent blew up.
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