The Daily Crock

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the contrarian – The Fed Tipped Off Big Business

by Dave McGill
In the years leading up to the current recession, the Fed undoubtedly told large corporations to get prepared. It had looked down the track and had seen the recession train coming. It knew exactly what it was because, like every downturn since the 1950’s, the Fed was creating it. And when it [...]


by Dave McGill
An op-ed article in today’s L.A. Times reported that there are serious elements within the Pentagon that are agitating for a “long war.” In fact, the effort has launched a “doctrine,” according to the article by Tom Hayden, which projects a period of instability lasting from 50 to 80 years. In this scenario, [...]


by Dave McGill
With those words, Israel Defense Minister Ehud Barak acknowledged, last month, that the leaders of Iran are not a bunch of “nut cases” that would invite their own extinction by a first-use of the nuclear bomb, should they get it.


Why KILL this Healthcare BILL?

by Gene Messick
After writing and publishing some 40 previous Editions of [BAILOUT] devoted to Healthcare Reform across America, I’m still perplexed when readers write back confused or antagonistic. What is it that I have not explained well enough? Here, on the eve of victory or defeat, are the main three reasons to KILL [...]


by Dave McGill
A coordinated series of a dozen suicide bomb attacks in Kandahar has claimed dozens of lives this weekend. The city in southern Afghanistan is scheduled to be the site of the next major incursion by NATO forces. The offensive has not yet begun, but two military operations yesterday caused the deaths of 12 [...]


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