“The real owners are the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians, they’re an irrelevancy. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. […]

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If there’s one thing we in Southwest Florida should’ve learned from the housing bust, it is the dangers of excess market speculation. This time, it’s not real estate and mortgage derivatives, its oil.
According to the  Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), “Speculative traders’ interest in crude oil now account for roughly 70% of all trading in West […]

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From the documentary Iran (is Not the Problem):

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Speaking at his last US-EU summit, President Bush declared ” Iran with a nuclear weapon would be incredibly dangerous to world peace.” “They can either face isolation or they can have a better relationship with all of us if they verifiably suspend their nuclear enrichment programme,” he said.
“They’ve ignored the IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] in […]

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