Director | April 9, 2009
Let’s start with a report from McClatchy news service quoting congressional oversight panel chief Elizabeth Warren that “it is not possible to exercise meaningful oversight over Treasury’s actions” with regard to the TARP bailout funds. Iowa Senator Charles Grassley also weighed in, “You can’t measure effectiveness when you don’t know what the goals and objectives […]
Director | November 21, 2008
In an interview on Tulsa radio station KFAQ, Senator Inhofe of Oklahoma said that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson had threatened members of Congress with a declaration of martial law if the Congress didn’t pass the TARP bailout package. See the story here.
Director | November 18, 2008
Senator Jim Inhofe (R. OK) said Saturday that “It is just outrageous that the American people don’t know that Congress doesn’t know how much money he (Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson) has given away to anyone,” in a statement to the Tulsa World. “It could be to his friends. It could be to anybody else. We […]
Director | November 8, 2008
The written transcript of Rep. Sherman’s video is here: http://www.c-spanarchives.org/congress/?q=node/77531&id=8902076 “Martial law” is a phrase used within Congress to refer to a special suspension of the normal rules. But Rep. Sherman’s reference to martial law may mean the real martial law. For a discussion of the secret meeting of March 13, 2008 in which the […]
Director | November 8, 2008
General Motors was a key to the U.S. victory in World War II as GM manufactured most of our fighting vehicles. Ford, on the other hand, has been a source of radical disinformation through the Ford Foundation. NWOU would be delighted to see Ford bankrupted and the Ford Foundation defunded, and we encourage everyone to […]
Director | October 15, 2008
NWOU offers a few thoughts and a few links on the global economic crisis for the confused. If you believe that more easy credit is the solution to a crisis brought on by easy credit, we refer you to a short article by Peter Schiff, who has been warning of a global credit crisis for […]
