Shadow Government Statistics

Linked with Walter Jon Williams – USA.

Have you ever wondered why the CPI, GDP and employment numbers run counter to your personal and business experiences?  The problem lies in biased and often-manipulated government reporting.

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Latest and Archives;
Primers;
Alternate datas;   
CPI Inflation Calculator;
Economic Indicators;
Consumer Price Index;
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Contact online.

About (on the Homepage): « John Williams’ Shadow Government Statistics » is an electronic newsletter that exposes and analyzes the flaws in current U.S. government economic data and reporting, as well as in certain private-sector numbers, and provides an assessment of underlying economic conditions, net of financial-market hype.

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NACA

Linked with Bruce Marks – USA.

The housing organization Neighborhood Assistance Corp. of America NACA – STOP THE TAXPAYER’S BAILOUT OF WALL STREET, JOIN THE CAMPAIGN FOR MAIN STREET

Linked with Bruce Marks – USA

The Main Goal: NACA is leading the fight against the bailout of lenders and investment bankers while advocating for real solutions for homeowners at risk of foreclosure. The focus is the outrageous $30 billion taxpayer bailout of JPMorgan/Chase’s takeover of Bear Stearns. On Wednesday March 26th, NACA organized more than 200 homeowners, many at risk of foreclosure, to storm the Bear Stearns corporate office in New York City. For over an hour we demonstrated inside their « home ». This is another non-violent « attack » as we bring the homeowner’s anger and frustration to the corporations and wealthy executives who created and profited from this mortgage crisis. A few press clippings are provided below: The campaign needs to continue. Please access the link to sign the petition to stop the bailout of these financial predators and to implement the Homeownership Stabilization Initiative for all owner-occupied non-investor homeowners:

1. Stop the resets
2. Reduce interest rates to the initial rate
3. Impose a moratorium on foreclosures
4. Require default mitigation including restructuring the mortgage to an affordable long-term mortgage payment. (NACA’S Mainpage).

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About: The Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America (« NACA ») is a non-profit, community advocacy and homeownership organization. NACA’s primary goal is to build strong, healthy neighborhoods in urban and rural areas nationwide through affordable homeownership.

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Fairness.com

Linked with Bruce Marks – USA.

The sitemapt is in the right column of every page

Homepage: More than 2000 people a day use our free information clearinghouse site to:

  • find advice about problems they face by browsing our 15,000 article links (categorized by topic and country/state);
  • get profiles of almost 10,000 people, publications, and organizations involved in fairness issues;
  • learn about important fairness issues of the day.

We hope you too will find the site reliable, objective, and (most importantly) helpful.

In early 2008 we’ll unveil a unique Election 2008 service; register here so we can keep you informed about exciting new developments!

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addr4esse: Fairness.com LLC, PO Box 6970, Charlottesville, VA, 22906-6970 USA (scroll down);
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About: 2008 will be the watershed year for Fairness.com; we have very exciting plans for Election 2008. If you have « political junkie » tendencies and/or want to raise the level of American political debate please use our contact form to let us know of your potential interest in our innovative new program. Details to be announced early next year.

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International Accountability Project IAP

Linked with Bruce Marks – USA.

Every year, millions of people around the world are forcibly uprooted in the name of development and progress.

The International Accountability Project (IAP) challenges unjust displacement by exposing and demanding accountability for the human rights impacts of development-induced displacement. We exert strategic pressure on the international banks and corporations that finance projects causing displacement, while strengthening communities’ power to hold their ground and defend their fundamental human rights … (full text Homepage and latest news).

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About: The International Accountability Project (IAP) is a small, public-interest, non-profit organization that was established in late 2003 by Dana Clark. The IAP was formed to improve citizen-based accountability at international financial institutions, and to promote the rights of people who are threatened with displacement by internationally-financed development projects.

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International Crisis Group

working to prevent conflict worldwide – in many languages

… The International Crisis Group is now generally recognised as the world’s leading independent, non-partisan, source of analysis and advice to governments, and intergovernmental bodies like the United Nations, European Union and World Bank, on the prevention and resolution of deadly conflict … (full text, about 1/2).

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research resources and links;
speeches;
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Download the Annual Report 2008, 52 pages – download previous reports on the same page
contact: advocacy and Field Offices.

(About 2/2):
… Crisis Group was founded in 1995 as an international non-governmental organisation on the initiative of a group of well known transatlantic figures who despaired at the international community’s failure to anticipate and respond effectively to the tragedies in the early 1990s of Somalia, Rwanda and Bosnia.

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