Finance entries
The IRS Will Do Your Taxes For You
Coming soon: The IRS will do your taxes for you Imagine this scenario: The IRS may soon just do your taxes for you — and send you the bill. If this sounds farfetched, it’s not. With a new congressional “super committee” tasked with finding $1.5 trillion in cuts by November, creative ways to find additional [...]
CNN And The Stimulus Protest (Video)
What CNN Didn’t Air During Stimulus Protest CNN Wants This Video Banned (SEE WHY) Article Content From: Founding Bloggers
The Founding Fathers And Corporations
What The Founding Fathers Thought About Corporations Citizens United. This is the 2010 Supreme Court case that shocked America, influenced an election, and reversed over 100 years of campaign finance laws. In this case, corporations were declared as people and as such declared to have the same rights as people do. It also opened the [...]
Freedom to Feudalism
Freedom to Feudalism When the Freemasonic “republic” called the United States was founded in 1776, there was no income tax and the people were generally free to do what they liked, so long as they did not injure the person or property of another. Unfortunately, each year the state and federal governments, which have always [...]
Euro On Edge, May Collapse By November
European Central Bank officials have agreed to buy Eurozone government bonds to fight the continental debt crisis. Although it’s not clear yet which bonds the bank is going to buy – experts expect them to be from debt-laden countries like Italy and Spain. That’s after the German government reportedly admitted that the EU rescue fund [...]
Fault Lines (Video)
Fault Lines: The Top 1% (Video) The richest 1% of US Americans earn nearly a quarter of the country’s income and control an astonishing 40% of its wealth. Inequality in the US is more extreme than it’s been in almost a century — and the gap between the super rich and the poor and middle [...]
Dollar should be replaced as international standard, U.N. report says
“The dollar is an unreliable international currency and should be replaced by a more stable system”, the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs said in a report released Tuesday. The use of the dollar for international trade came under increasing scrutiny when the U.S. economy fell into recession. The dollar has proved not [...]
Beyond Fair-Trade
You may have heard of fair-trade over a cup of coffee, in the chocolate aisle of the supermarket. So what does fair-trade mean? Fair- trade is a term used to describe a code of business practices between a producer of a product and an importer of a product. It indicates that the farmer (handcrafter, etc.) [...]
Green Jobs
By Sylvia Somerville In March 2009 Van Jones, human rights and environmental activist and author of The Green Collar Economy (HarperOne, 2008), became President Barack Obama ‘s special advisor for green jobs, enterprise and innovation. Jones believes that green jobs can rescue our economy, environment and revitalize communities that have been hardest hit by the [...]
Think Local Currency
Think Global Act Local is a familiar phrase that has been circulating in the Green Movement for a while. This usually brings shopping locally to mind. Buying products that are produced in our local area is important lubrication for keeping the wheels in our local economy turning. This encourages neighbors to work together to share [...]
