Memes for the Week

[PRCalDude]

Hey, we need crap to argue about around here, so why not another thread?

I got these links off John Robb’s website

Wall Street’s financial coup d’etat:
http://kunstler.com/blog/2009/10/marching-toward-zombieland.html

MSM reporting as propaganda:

MSM Reporting as Propaganda (No One Minds Our New Financial Masters Edition)...

Niall Ferguson:

"We are living though a gradual shift away from a dollar-centric system."

"Is China the Germany of our time?" (Referring to the combination of economic dynamism and growing nationalism that stoked the aggressive ambitions of Nazi Germany.)

"The problem of being a declining empire doesn't have a solution." (Referring to the suggestion that a great many, if not all, of America's problems are fixable.)

The new localism:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/217029/output/print

[reddog6376]

Why is our gov’t subservient to the banking industry? Because they are bought and paid for.

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/indus.php?cycle=2008&cid=N00009638

http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/30/news/economy/snow_replacement/index.htm

You think they are looking out for us, or their pay masters?