Just so everyone is clear:

The Outstanding US Public Debt as of 06 Aug 2011 at 11:04:19 PM GMT is:
$ 1 4 , 5 7 3 , 0 5 1 , 8 5 1 , 5 9 5 . 3 0

The estimated population of the United States is 311,072,294
so each citizen's share of this debt is $46,847.80.

A million seconds is 12 days.
A billion seconds is 31 years.
A trillion seconds is 31,688 years.

A million minutes ago was - 1 year, 329 days, 10 hours and 40 minutes ago.
A billion minutes ago was just after the time of Christ.

A million hours ago was in 1885.
A billion hours ago man had not yet walked on earth.

A million dollars ago was five (5) seconds ago at the U.S. Treasury.
A billion dollars ago was late yesterday afternoon at the U.S. Treasury.
[Note: this was pre-Obama]

One trillion seconds ago - 31,688 years - Neanderthals stalked the plains of Europe.

Million: 1,000,000
Billion: 1,000,000,000
Trillion: 1,000,000,000,000

And we the people of the USA, formerly the richest and most abundantly resourced continent on the face of this planet owe 14 of them to the private banking cartels.
From 'Sirk' on the Yahoo comments thread.

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Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich

That's how it goes
Everybody knows

Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows that the captain lied
Everybody got this broken feeling
Like their father or their dog just died

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"I pledge that if any U.S. troops, contractors, or mercenaries remain in Afghanistan on Thursday, October 6, 2011, as that occupation goes into its 11th year, I will commit to being in Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C., with others on that day or the days immediately following, for as long as I can, with the intention of making it our Tahrir Square, Cairo, our Madison, Wisconsin, where we will NONVIOLENTLY resist the corporate machine by occupying Freedom Plaza until our resources are invested in human needs and environmental protection instead of war and exploitation.

We can do this together. We will be the beginning."
http://october2011.org/welcome

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Any Nation which does NOT bring a case against NATO is a snivelling coward and as such deserves the utter derision of the international community;
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28780.htm

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The rebels the US has supported (and possibly armed) are now dealing with "tribal hostilities" within their ranks, meaning they are now assassinating and killing one another.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28781.htm

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What does it all mean?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28775.htm

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Lowering the nation's rating one-notch below AAA, the credit rating company said "political brinkmanship" in the debate over the debt had made the U.S. government's ability to manage its finances "less stable, less effective and less predictable."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28768.htm

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What remains of political democracy has been undermined further as both parties have turned to auctioning congressional leadership positions.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28767.htm

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It is about destroying democracy, emasculating government-by-the people, and replacing it with government-by-the corporatocracy.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28779.htm

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From time to time, someone under 30 will ask me, "When did this all begin, America's downward slide?" They say they've heard of a time when working people could raise a family and send the kids to college on just one parent's income.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28774.htm

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What are the real reasons for the recent increase in the US public debt?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28771.htm

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Error is not a typo. Israel's terror has been America's error:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28773.htm

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Why has Netanyahu chosen to portray Iran's nuclear programme as the gravest threat to the survival of the Jewish people since Hitler?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28765.htm

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Years have been wasted making concessions to their colonisers. Palestinians were right to call for a secular state at the outset.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28776.htm

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It seems clear that under intense pressure and serious threats from the US government, the Pakistani government fell in line with the US government's claim that a commando raid had killed bin Laden.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28772.htm

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The odds seem long and the road looks steep, but Tim DeChristopher, and others like him, give me hope. And I know whose side I'm on.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28770.htm

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Everybody Knows
 
 By Leonard Cohen
 
 Everybody knows the deal is rotten
 Old black Joe's still pickin cotton
 For your ribbons and bows
 And everybody knows

Video and Lyrics :
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28769.htm

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Colombia stands at the crossroads: it can follow in the footsteps of its predecessor, narco-President Alvaro Uribe and remain a military dependency, a lone outpost of the US Empire in South America.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28777.htm

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Think you have any privacy when it comes to a social networking site?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28778.htm

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Why was the president's body in the hands of the military in a nation that is supposedly run by civilians.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28766.htm

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 Taliban say they downed helicopter in the deadliest single combat incident of the decade-long war.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2011/08/20118662233672861.html

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Afghan civilians may have been caught up in a NATO air strike against suspected Taliban insurgents, a foreign military spokesman said Saturday, amid claims up to eight civilians died.
http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110806/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanunrestsouth

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At least four Afghans including a policeman were killed when police fired on an angry crowd in Afghanistan's volatile south Friday, police said, after protesters claimed NATO forces had killed a number of civilians overnight.
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/four-afghans-killed-in-anti-nato-demonstration/96013/

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NATO's mission to protect civilian lives in Libya has been called into question after it admitted carrying out an air strike in a coastal town in which a mother and two children were killed.
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/NATO+bombing+raises/5210157/story.html

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Qatari plane supplies ammunition to Libya rebels: -

A Qatari plane made a quick stop in the rebel-held Libyan city of Misrata on Saturday to offload ammunition destined for rebel fighters, sources with knowledge of the flight said.
http://af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFLDE77505S20110806

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 Libyan leader Muammar Al Qathafi's son's comments in an interview to the USA daily newspaper, The New York Times, in which he vowed to strike an alliance with a faction of radical Islamists among the rebels, did not appear to go down too well with the Libyan government. It has distanced itself from Seif al-Islam's views.
http://tripolipost.com/articledetail.asp?c=1&i=6584

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Viva Libya!
Chavez sends letter to Libya's Gaddafi wishing him victory:

 "I give you a strong hug, Muammar, with an endless sentiment of brotherly affection. Long live Libyan people! Long live to you my brother-in-arms! Libya will live and will win," Chavez read out his letter to Gaddafi on air of Venezuela's national television VTV.
http://en.rian.ru/world/20110806/165590176.html

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Vladimir Putin has offered aid from Russian doctors to Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez for his further recovery.
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/putin-offers-medical-aid-to-chavez/828087/

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Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad seems to be holding on to power at the cost of more than a thousand lives.
http://bit.ly/psJaR2

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Turkey has been mostly left without support from the international community in its anti-terrorism efforts against a violent separatist campaign being waged by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the Southeast, a situation not unlike that of the 1990s.
http://bit.ly/nHXYE4

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An article, titled "Iran's Serious Stance in the Face of Syrian Events" and said to reflect Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps thinking, has warned that Syria would remain a strategic asset of Iran.
http://www.dp-news.com/en/detail.aspx?articleid=91841

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Following Iran's operations against the Party for Free Life of Kurdistan, the group says it will lay down arms if Tehran grants it the right to political activity.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/192617.html

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"The noose around Iran is tightening. Military planning against Iran is underway. And we are certainly concerned about an escalation of a large-scale war in this huge region," Rogozin added.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/192596.html

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When Somali mother Eblah Sheikh Aden gathered her seven children and set off walking for Ethiopia to find food, she never imagined she would end up sending some of her brood back into the heart of famine.
http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE77504D20110806

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Human rights groups and lawyers representing some of the detainees warned they do not plan to take part because it lacks "credibility or transparency".
http://tgr.ph/nC9SLY

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The average income was $54,283, a drop of more than $3,500, or 6 percent, from 2008. That put the average income at its lowest level since 1997.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/60717.html

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Tom Feeley