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Higher Interest Rates Just Around The Corner, And The Reasons Why

Bob Chapman, April 4 2005
Higher interest rates just around the corner, and the reasons why... and so is more money creation... European fools following George and the Neocons... Dow correction likely to signal the breakout for gold... Double standards in American Foreign Policy... hedge funds and mutual funds, and more...

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A Reward Of The Top Job At The World Bank For The Eminiently Unqualified Paul Wolfowitcz.

Bob Chapman, March 26 2005
A reward of the top job at the World Bank for the eminiently unqualified Paul Wolfowitcz, it's either terrifying or a sick joke... The death of manufacturing in America... no sense in getting a college degree anymore... from debtors to slaves... preemptive strikes as a defence policy... dollar losses and the end of the empire... no more Mr Nice guy!

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Euros For Oil Is Now The Norm

Bob Chapman, March 20 2005
Euros for Oil is now the norm... Vermont and Montana says bring 'em back... warrantless searches... Microsoft is making a teddy bear... two sets of laws... Agent Orange is not a crime... screening all K-12 for the need of meds... a liar and warmonger for the world bank... and more.

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Paxil Pushers Popped

Bob Chapman, March 13 2005
Paxil Pushers Popped... Saddam's Lawyer... Michael Chertoff loves to use torture... 9 billion missing in Iraq... gifts to the rich and disgraces to the poor... and more

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Oil Covers Failures

Bob Chapman, March 7 2005
Oil covers failures... mental gymnastics ... A close shave for Gilette employees... Internet controls... free trade notes... NIH kickbacks... and more

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Four Years Past The Point Of No Return

Bob Chapman, February 26 2005
Four years past the point of no return... The rape of social security... Gonzales, torture, and indefinite detention... Gov Swarzenegger pumping up Cal. state debt by 50%... The Cato Institude, an elitist propaganda machine... why isn't Bob Novak going to jail? RFID getting under our skin... and more

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Return To The Draft

Bob Chapman, February 21 2005
Return to the draft... the end of Social Security... Child slave labor at Wal-Mart... the end to class-action suits... RFID and DNA to identify every citizen... Review of some of our Forecasts... Fascism under the pretext of fighting terrorism... ides of March... Pentagon Comptroller Dov Zakheim resigns, unable to find 1 trillion... robot warriors, bringing back the nukes, and more....

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Fleecing The American Public

Bob Chapman, February 6 2005
Fleecing the American public... Ski Davos, Desert Iraq, death of cash, Department of Education is learning all about pork barrels, body bags full of money, Spitzerman, making the world safe for capitalism, Injustice undone in Guantanamo, Caligula Bush, and a special name on the Hit List...

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A Lever To Keep The Economy Afloat

Bob Chapman, January 30 2005
A lever to keep the economy afloat... record debt levels - 82 trillion, record rate of debt growth as well... Rumsfeld running operations off the books... Davos... Colombia and Venezuela... statistics to reflect upon... and more...

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Brit Pension Crisis Is Here

Bob Chapman, January 22 2005
Brit pension crisis is here... the unbalanced mind of our President... Illegal to collect rainwater in US now... Torture is Alberto Gonzales specialty... Saudi social panic... Halliburton is doing business in Iran... A catchall to jail anyone who disagrees with anything, State Senate Bill 742. Beatings for seniors, and more!

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War Is A Continuation Of Politics And Economics By Other Means

Bob Chapman, January 15 2005
War is a continuation of politics and economics by other means... Salvador option for Iraq... AWOL list going up... Rocket fuel safe for your drinking water... Wisconsin's loss is China's gain... what the state of Georgia and the Taliban have in common... and more!

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Our National Socialist Government Continues To Move Forward In Orwellian Fashion

Bob Chapman, January 8 2005
Our national socialist government continues to move forward in Orwellian fashion... distrust of US agenda throughout the world... One corporate scandal after another dealt with by fines... huge drop in international students at US grad schools... Eli Lily knew Prozac could kill you... and more!

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Another Albatross Around The Necks Of The Taxpayers

Bob Chapman, December 30 2004
Another albatross around the necks of the taxpayers... 1 dollar for a COLA... are internment camps coming back?... Monsanto contaminates academic freedom... 32% fewer white-collar investigations... The suspension of reality in America... Bankruptcies... harmful drugs easily approved... Euros for oil... the worst American government of all time... and more.

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The US Dollar Heads Relentlessly Down

Bob Chapman, December 11 2004
The US dollar heads relentlessly down ... silence on the torture in Guantanamo... TSA gone sex mad frisking breasts and crotches... the war for the 'Hearts and Minds' in Iraq is now lost... looking for a repeat of 1987 or 1929... Putin calls Bush administration a 'dictatorship coated in beautiful psuedo-democratic phraseology'... More than 181,000 dead people listed on the voting rolls in swing states for Bush... school grades down unemployment up... The Imperial Pax Americana rolls forward, crushing all in its path in its quest for world domination.

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Stalin And Hitler Would Be Very Proud Of George

Bob Chapman, December 4 2004
Stalin and Hitler would be very proud of George... the truth about Iran... and American intentions to dominate the Islamic world... China dollar dumping reveals worthiness of Gold... Re-Upping for the Marines... Fallujah bodycount... borrowing trillions.. strip-searching old ladies... the Fed goes bananas... so get ready for a new way of life in America, post dollar collapse... and more!

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