One thing is more than certain though, we are on the brink of a major social and worldwide transition, which still is being unoticed by most of the world citizens. I have spent some time to read several leftist papers/wesbites since Nov, 2, 2004 and it is very scary, the so-called leftists/dems are talking so radically against the so-called right/reps, that they too have started to sound like "Hitler"...
PROLOGUE
the end is always now
Bob Trubshaw
Based on a chapter in Explore Mythology
http://www.goldismoney.info/forums/showthread.php?t=14687
NOW TO THE FACTS:
Internet Phone Victory
November 10, 2004
Federal regulators sent a powerful message Tuesday to California and other states to leave the fledgling Internet telephone industry alone for now. The Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously to support a request by Vonage Holdings Corp., one of the largest Internet telephone providers, to classify the technology as an interstate service, exempt from most local regulations...... (see link bottom page)
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Online Learning Has Schools Nervous
Tue Nov 9 | AP
DENVER - A growing number of Colorado school superintendents are devising strategies to soften the blow of losing students to online schools....... "If I lose two kids, that's $20,000 walking out the door," said Dave Grosche, superintendent of the Edison 54JT School District. During the 2000-01 school year, the state spent nearly $1.1 million to educate 166 full-time cyberschool students, according to the Colorado Department of Education (news - web sites). This year, the state projects spending $23.9 million to educate 4,237 students in kindergarten through 12th grade. The figures make school officials nervous because losing a student means losing accompanying state funding. As a pre-emptive strike, Grosche started the district's own online school, Edison Academy, three years ago. "I was worried about making sure that if one student left, my budget wasn't a disaster," Grosche told The Denver Post.......The state gives each school a per-pupil revenue for students who attend brick-and-mortar schools. The funding is based on a formula that factors in the cost of living, school size and the number of at-risk students. Edison, for example, gets $10,319.94 for each of the 100 students. The state spends $5,627 to educate each online student in Colorado. In all but two of the state's 178 districts, the cost of educating an online student is lower than for a traditional student..... MORE
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Greenspan, Fed Governors Warn on Spending as Succession Looms
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan says the growing U.S. budget deficit could destabilize the economy. Fed Governor Susan Bies says Congress spends like it's dipping into a ``a cookie jar.'' St. Louis Fed President William Poole says Social Security is in jeopardy. In the last two months, Greenspan and at least seven other Fed officials have warned lawmakers about tax and spending policies that have led to record budget and current account gaps..... Greenspan urged Congress on Sept. 8 to rein in spending and return to the ``pay-as-you-go'' system that was in place during President Bill Clinton's administration, whereby all new expenditures or tax cuts needed to be offset by reductions in other programs or higher fee income from government services...... ``We cannot continue to just go on without saying, `We can have this, but not this,' and pay-go embodies that mechanism,'' the chairman said. The costs of Social Security and Medicare are likely to balloon as the 84 million members of the baby-boom generation -- those born between 1946 and 1964 -- begin to retire in 2010, pushing federal government obligations higher, even as the taxpaying workforce shrinks. ``If we have promised more than our economy has the ability to deliver to retirees without unduly diminishing real income gains of workers, as I fear we may have, we must recalibrate our public programs so that pending retirees have time to adjust through other channels,'' Greenspan said in an Aug. 27 speech in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. ``If we delay, the adjustments could be abrupt and painful.'' Greenspan was chairman of the Commission on Social Security Reform from 1981 to 1983........
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aupqr_mhmBUs&refer=us
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The FDA, Godfather Of The U.S. Drug Racket?
November 09, 2004
Reputation of the FDA in shambles after Vioxx scandal; calls for wholesale FDA reform gain momentum
"...the agency’s senior management is more concerned with external appearance than rigorous science." -- Dr. Richard Horton, editor, The Lancet
The reputation of both the FDA and Merck lies in shambles today after evidence continues to surface that shows the FDA knowingly approved, promoted and refused to recall a dangerous drug that caused an untold number of fatalities among the American population: Vioxx. As readers of this website have long known, the FDA sees its job as promoting drugs and the financial interests of pharmaceutical companies, not in protecting the public health. We've known, all along, that it would take a scandal to reveal the true nature of the FDA and see serious calls for reform. Well, folks, the scandal is here, and the FDA is now under intense fire by the international medical community for its role in covering up the truth about Vioxx for four years........ The FDA, godfather of the U.S. drug racket:
For decades, the public has blindingly trusted the FDA, despite the growing evidence that the agency acts more like a 1920's Chicago mob than an organization dedicated to protecting the public health. The FDA is far more interested in protecting the profits of Big Pharma, it seems. In a very real sense, the FDA is the godfather of the U.S. drug racket, where dangerous chemicals are hyped, approved and sold to the American people, regardless of their true dangers. I've been shouting this message for years, and now, finally, people around the world are starting to listen....... The FDA censors its own scientists
Another FDA researcher, Dr. Andrew Mosholder, was censored and not allowed to testify in February, 2004 about his study that found antidepressants increase the risk of suicides in children. ...... MORE
http://www.newstarget.com/002157.html
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Intervention Before Bankruptcy ('big three' automakers in the throes of a 'death spiral'?)
November 10, 2004
Imagine, for a moment, that you woke up to discover that the "Big Three" automakers were in the throes of a "death spiral," a vicious cycle of rising costs and declining market share, until, one by one, they were forced to file for bankruptcy protection. The filings wipe out an ocean of debt, leave millions of retirees without the pensions and the health coverage they were counting on, put networks of suppliers and dealers in jeopardy, and transfer billions of dollars in unfunded liabilities to the government's pension insurance program.
Now ask yourself how you'd feel about it? What impact would it have on the U.S. economy and the competitive stance of American business? Would it be worth it to have the government do something to help the companies pull out of their downward spiral, even if it meant spending some money or taking on some extra risk?........
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A38350-2004Nov9
AND MANY MORE HEADLINES ON:
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