Bail-In and the Financial Stability Board: The Global Bankers’ Coup
by Ellen Brown (FSB), in the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland On December 11, 2014, the US House passed a bill repealing the Dodd-Frank requirement that risky derivatives be pushed into big-bank subsidiaries, leaving our deposits… more »
Obama’s Ukrainian Power Grab, Sanctions and the Boomerang Effect
James Petras Introduction In the biggest power grab since George Bush seized Eastern Europe and converted it into a NATO bastion confronting Russia, the Obama regime, together with the EU, financed and organized a violent putsch in the Ukraine which… more »
Goldman, Other Welfare Queens Tell Us Forget Social Security-Medicare Until 70
Michael Collins (Washington, DC 1/21) A long standing Money Party front, the Business Roundtable, wants you to wait until you're 70 years old before you get Social Security and Medicare benefits. This is just a reprise of the November 2012 dictate from… more »
“A Lot of People Believe This Stuff”: Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and the Politics of Public Relations
By: Andrew Gavin Marshall “Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” - George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language,” 1946 “It’s important, because a lot… more »
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The Two Faces of a Police State: Sheltering Tax Evaders, Financial Swindlers and Money Launderers while Policing the Citizens
James Petras “There is a degree of cynicism and greed which is really quite shocking” - Lord Turner Bank of England, Financial Service Authority, “The rotten heart of finance” The Economist Introduction Never in the history of the United States have we… more »
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Buffett Thanks "Uncle Sam" for Big Bailout Payday
Michael Collins The people's oligarch Warren Buffett just wrote a thank you letter to "Uncle Sam" published in the New York Times. It is the height of cynicism. (Image) Buffett has a carefully crafted public image as a brilliant but people-friendly… more »
America's Five Most Corrupt Capitalists (LOL)
By Robert Singer I just got another one of those, “must read emails to reinforce what I am suppose to know” from our friend J.J. Citizen aka Joey Aqui. “Read an article at AlterNet:
America's Ten Most Corrupt Capitalists (In the O'Bummer… more »
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Numerian: The Goldman Sachs Credo - So What if We Lie? It's Nothing Personal, It's Just Business
by Numerian posted by Michael Collins Reading the SEC allegations against Goldman Sachs and Co., you get the impression the agency would prefer a simple world where you could charge a company with lying and be done with it. Lying to one’s clients is at… more »
The Hoi Poloi v. Goldman Sachs
Numerian (Feb 15) Posted by Michael Collins with permission of the author Ask yourself who knows how much has really been borrowed by various governments around the world? Greece is turning into a battle royal between the global financial elites and the… more »
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