1.0 link 128153 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sasha-abramsky/sweetening-the-trillion-d_b_128153.html It's been said so many times this week, it hardly needs restating, but I'll restate it anyway: the financial collapse we're in the middle of, and the trillion dollar federal bailout now planned, is a once in a century event. We're living through the collapse of an entire economic - and by extension political - model, and the improvised emergence of an entirely new system for managing money, distributing wealth and risk, and keeping the wheels of modern, consumption-based societies...

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