Consumption will drop by 3-5% this year and China will begin to call in its loans and Saudi Arabia will agree to switch currency away from the dollar.

and Hugo Chavez is using his petrodollar windfall to create a replacement for the World bank/IMF

we’ll be seeing the results of bush’s economic incompetence soon

welcome to Wiemar America

that the economic growth model shoved down everyone’s throat by Wall Street is fundamentally unsustainable.

Our nation has been using this meme on other countries for decades. Please read “Confessions of an Economic Hitman” by John Perkins. You can trace how our World Bank, the IMF, State Department, and the Pentagon has created a control and expand the power and wealth of multinational corporations. It hasn’t created the consumption boom in the world that they predicted or needed but it continues to work in the US. Now, the economy is ready to free fall as the consumer’s tank is full and his pockets empty. Consumption will drop by 3-5% this year and China will begin to call in its loans and Saudi Arabia will agree to switch currency away from the dollar. I hope Obama has some very smart advisers to help him otherwise he will be a one term President and we all will be in the tank.

According to Left in Alabama Blog, WHNT says they will air the Siegelman segment during the 10 pm news tonight (Sunday). It might actually reach more people then.

Posted by: Melissa | February 24, 2008 at 11:13 PM

Why is Channel 19 trying to keep you from watching 60 minutes?

Okay, people from Northern Alabama and Mobile – very southeast – are letting me know that the show was blocked – black screen – during the Siegelman segment of 60 Minutes ONLY. I also got one email from Florida saying that they had strange GOP “Dem’s are soft on terror,” commercials. People, let me make myself clear here. If it is indeed true that so many people were blocked from viewing a show about DOJ corruption, then we are well into the arms of fascism.

CBS out of New York.” I contacted CBS News in New York and was told that “there is no delicate way to put this: the WHNT claim is not true. There were no transmission difficulties. The problems were peculiar to Channel 19, which had the signal and had functioning transmitters.” I was told that the decision to blacken screens across Northern Alabama “could only have been an editorial call.” Channel 19 is owned by Oak Hill Capital Partners, who can be contacted through Rhonda Barnat, 212-371-5999 or rb@abmac.com.

Update:
We are now being told that it was a technical issue with CBS in New York:

We apologize that you missed the first segment of 60 Minutes tonight featuring “The Prosecution of Don Siegelman.”

It was a techincal(sic) problem with CBS out of New York. We are working with them right now to see if we can re-broadcast the segment.

Please be patient with us during this time. We are doing our best to correct the problem.

Excuse me? Are they trying to tell us that a glitch in New York ONLY happened in Alabama — which is the topic of the 60 Minutes broadcast — and ONLY during the Don Siegelman segment? Are you kidding me? We have selective prosecution and now we have selective news delivery?

Methinks Larisa has a very good point…like usual!