| The Broadcasters’ Big Payday
It's like money in the bank for broadcasters, as the first billion-dollar presidential campaign continues. While the world's oldest democracy, the United States, spends trillions of dollars claiming to bring democracy to Afghanistan and Iraq (through the barrel of a gun), what have we got here? A process driven by major donors shoveling huge sums of cash into the troughs of television broadcasters, who are holding the electoral process hostage through their control of the public airwaves. The same broadcasters arbitrarily exclude viable candidates from their so-called debates, elevating themselves to kingmaker. According to TNS Media Intelligence/CMAG, a group that tracks political advertising, overall spending by the presidential candidates in Iowa topped $50 million.
Paper Promises Poised On Precarious Perch
The following is an excerpt from commentary that originally appeared at Treasure Chests for the benefit of subscribers on Tuesday, November 27th, 2007. Whether it be due to a global currency crisis, it's effects, or because worse is yet to come, no matter, the ever-growing hyperinflationary mountain of paper promises is precariously perched on the edge of a precipice ready to fall, and in doing so; such an event would accelerate the end of the US Dollar ($) empire, along with its dominance in world affairs and trade. And no amount of fairy tales or interventions will be able to halt the $'s slide from prominence - nothing. This is becoming more evident in the fact the credit crisis is now spreading to Asia, where the stock markets have become destabilized. How bad could this get? Answer: If what we are witnessing is at a minimum a Grand Super-Cycle Degree event, then a total collapse of stock, bond, and currency markets world-wide could be in store as the globe reverts back to more regionalized economies, and localized currencies.
OTA launches first professional financial training center in UAE
'The U.S. Consulate is pleased to welcome OTA to Knowledge Village and to Dubai and the U.A.E. In our increasingly globalized world, the demand for quality international education programs is skyrocketing. OTA has rightly seized that opportunity, and we look forward to helping it flourish here,' said Peter Neisuler, Public Affairs Officer, U.S. Consulate. Online Trading Academy™ has conducted financial and active trading training since 1997. From its headquarters in Irvine, California, the company has established and progressively developed live classes and online mentoring as its core curriculum in teaching its courses to active self-directed investors and traders. Its teaching methods evolved from the company's roots as one of the largest trading floors in the world with 180 traders who were trading over half a billion dollars of securities daily.
Aybar gone, Lillibridge could win job
Let's call a moratorium on news at least until pitching camp starts in a couple weeks. Whaddya say, Braves? No? Well, OK. Just thought I'd try. Speaking of Joe Strummer and the Clash, if you've not seen the movie or heard the soundtrack, you gotta hear the opening line of the Strummer biopic "The Future Is Unwritten." Someone off-camera asks him what Strummer wants written in graphics, how he wants to be referred to when they first show him on screen. "I'd like you to write Punk Rock Warlord," he says in his great Cockney accent, "with Warlord being one word." Anyway, where were we? Teixeira signs; what does it mean? While there was never any doubt Mark Teixeira would play for the Braves in 2008, there was still some sense of relief in Braves Nation when he signed a new contract Thursday without going through any of the potentially contentious steps of the arbitration process.
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