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Ted Newcomen is a citizen-journalist - someone who is tired of the lazy 'lamestream' media circus which is obsessed with the cult of celebrity and just recycles press releases for the establishment.
SHARE Tuesday, January 26, 2010 US Government manipulation of the stock market?
A recent economic study speculates on the widespread but under-reported belief that US government manipulation is actually behind recent stock market rally.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, November 1, 2010 How zombie banks and failing commercial real estate are impacting local economies
Our tame, lazy, "mainstream' media has done a lamentable job of connecting the dots linking the TARP bailout program, executive bonuses, zombie regional banks, failing commercial real estate, and struggling local economic development. This article highlights one example -" just one of hundreds across the nation.
SHARE Monday, December 9, 2013 Catalyst Capital Group Inc - Not the smartest guys in the room!
Hedge Funds are slowing taking over our domestic food chain. Not a good sign given their culpability in the recent financial meltdown. The failure of the Catalyst Capital Group to save the Fresh & Greens brand is symptomatic of the coming crisis in food retailing if this process is allowed to continue.
SHARE Friday, December 4, 2009 US Intelligence raises spectre of upcoming civil unrest in United Kingdom
US Intelligence has identified an upcoming serious threat to internal security in the United Kingdom. Continuing street protests and counter-demonstrations in English cities threaten to leave British authorities flat-footed as the nation's media ignores new threats to civil order caused by radical Muslims and their opponents.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, August 8, 2014 Dust off the pitchforks - Home Foreclosure racket continues
The lamestream media has totally failed to explain how the government's buy up of the finance industry's swamp of toxic debt actually works at a local level. Read on and discover how billions of your taxes are still bailing out the banksters, all thanks to our corrupt political mafia.
(12 comments) SHARE Monday, December 20, 2010 The beautiful symmetry of the foreclosure racket
Our 'lamestream' media has totally failed to expose the government's culpability in the current foreclosure scandal which sees genuine home buyers outbid by government quangos using taxpayer's money
SHARE Friday, September 11, 2009 US Military Mental Health Crisis
More US troops commited suicide in January 2009 than were killed in combat in both Iraq & Afghanistan. Mental health entry standards for new recruits have been lowered & subsequent problems are medicated with a dangerous cocktail of psychotropic drugs despite manufacturers warnings. This story follows the tragic history of one soldier - just one of thousands
(11 comments) SHARE Monday, January 6, 2014 How low can capitalism sink? Look to the new S.Africa
How sick is the capitalist system? To what depths will it plunge to make money out of the poor and disenfranchised? Read on and discover the 'new democratic' S.Africa
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, February 26, 2013 PNC Bank - Greed goes unchecked
Billions of tax-payer backed dollars rescued the banks from their own greed. Non-one went to jail & the banks continue to close branches, put up fees, award themselves huge bonuses, & pay dismal rates for hard working savers. Corporate welfare is now the bedrock of American capitalism.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, November 2, 2012 Foreclosure scam update - It just gets worse!
Billions of taxpayer $'s are still being wasted as the government buys up the bank's toxic assets via the home foreclosure process. This is an update on a two year old story that shows nothing has changed - the scam goes on!
SHARE Wednesday, November 25, 2009 New Anti-Islamic Working Class Group Rattles British Government
A new anti-islamic white working class grass-roots organization has got the British political establishment rattled. The English Defense League (EDL)has moved in to fill the vacuum caused by widespread disenchantment with traditional mainstream parties as the UK struggles with the economic recession.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, October 21, 2011 "time For Outrage" -- Wall Street And The Banksters Are The New Third Reich!
If there is one book that every American must read it is Stephane Hessel's 'Time for Outrage - Indignes-vous!' The ninety-three year old veteran of the French Resistance to the Nazi occupation explains how history echoes with the rise of the new financial elite who currently occupy our democracies.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, February 6, 2011 Karaoke journalism & the 'lamestream' media circus
The US 'lamestream' media plumbs new depths with its failure to hold our national leaders to account. PBS is no better than Fox, ABC, CNN etc
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 25, 2013 Delmarva Power -- Yet another example of shoddy service & unjustified rate rises
Only after banks and the US auto industry come the utility companies as poster children for corporate welfare.
Delmarva Power is making yet another application to increase its delivery charges on top of the 40% rise in the past six years
SHARE Monday, December 8, 2014 The United States of Amerika - Just another oxymoron?
Criminal Justice and the United States of America are oxymorons.
Police killings and racism are not the cause of our problems, they are merely the symptoms
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 24, 2012 Endgame in Sight for Greek Crisis Signals End to the Euro Fiasco
The "lamestream" U.S. media has fallen into the trap of following the 99 percent of Greeks instead of what's happening to the top 1 percent. The collapse of the Greek economy is days away. The captains of Greek finance and industry have already left the sinking ship!
SHARE Monday, December 9, 2013 Ex PM Blair keeps his snout deep in the trough
Former world leaders & political has-beens like Tony Blair are cleaning up big time on the lucrative speaking-circuit gravy train, all funded by the banksters who were bailed out by the public purse. This is money circulation at its darkest!
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 2, 2011 UN hypocrites ban arms sale to Libya -- Too little, too late?
The American & British 'lamestream' media has been wringing its hands about Gaddafi murdering hundreds of demonstrators but has been conspicuously silent about the hypocricy of UN members who have been selling weapons to the dictator which he is now using to kill his own people
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 11, 2016 Ex-FDIC Chief pleads poverty on property tax contributions
The former head of the FDIC, Sheila Bair, is pleading poverty in a spat over paying property taxes in her now job as President of Washington College, MD.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 3, 2011 UN hypocrites ban arms sale to Libya -- Too little, too late?
As usual the US 'lamestream' media has conveniently forgotten who supplied madman Gaddafi with the weapons & military training now being used to kill thousands of demonstrators. Chief among the guilty is ex-British PM Tony Bliar.