Supporters of an escalation of the Afghanistan war often respond to criticism by asking "okay smart guy, what would YOU do to fight Al Qaeda in Afghanistan?"
Here's one answer ...
Congressman Kucinich said today:"America is in the fight of its life and that fight is not in Afghanistan -- it's here ... We are deeply in debt. Our GDP is down. Our manufacturing is down. Our savings are down. The value of the dollar is down. Our trade deficit is up. Business failures are up. Bankruptcies are up."
Nomi Prins - former managing director of Goldman Sachs
and head of the international analytics group at Bear Stearns in London
- is saying the same thing that financial bloggers have been saying:
The giant banks are manipulating their books to make themselves look
profitable.
In fact, Prins says that this might be worse than the fraud which occurred at Enron:
Whatever you think about the leaked emails showing that "tricks" were used to "hide the decline" in the climate data, and the fact that the original source data showing historical climate information was destroyed, you should agree on two things.
