Along This Path

The sick man of North America

Seeded on Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:45 PM EDT ()

An empire built on debt, is an empire built on sand. The US government now owes a staggering $10 trillion. American consumers owe $14 trillion. Welcome to the United States of debt. Twenty-four trillion dollars is a gargantuan sum, even for the mighty US economy.

china, pakistan, america, politics, debt, economic-crisis

Sarkozy challenges Germans with new Europe power bid

Seeded on Thu Oct 23, 2008 3:05 PM EDT (Independent.co.uk)

President Nicolas Sarkozy would like to emerge as the economic "president" of Europe until 2010 - overseeing a united response to the world financial crisis by the 15 Euroland nations and Britain.

britain, europe, politics, nicolas-sarkozy, financial-crisis

On the Edge

Sun Oct 19, 2008 12:13 PM EDT

As the media and political elite, usher us from crisis to crisis, from one era of turbulent times straight into deeper and more troublesome waters, I have watched as the people around me ether panic at the very thought and scale of the challenges that face us and consequently bur …

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bush, financial, europe, crisis, money, politics, camp-david, zeitgeist

Storm over Big Brother database

Seeded on Wed Oct 15, 2008 8:14 AM EDT (Independent.co.uk)

With a more than dubious record of securing the nations personal details, the seemingly hyper paranoid UK Government is outlining there plans for there ultimate database state.

politics, government, uk, big-brother, database, jacqui-smith

Thank You, Mr President

Seeded on Wed Oct 15, 2008 7:20 AM EDT (Eric Margolis)

A brief overview of how the Bush administration helped to take The United States of America from relative financial prosperity and consequently plunged the country into a quagmire of economic turmoil that will plague the country and equally the rest of the world for years to come …

bush, financial, crisis, politics, president

Minister warns over terror plot

Seeded on Tue Oct 14, 2008 2:18 PM EDT (BBC News)

24 hours after a humiliating defeat on the UK governments proposed 42 day detention plan, the public are now informed of "another great plot building up again"

politics, threat, uk, war-on-terror, scare-tactics, 42-day-detention