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Muhammad Rafeeq Banking Consultant and Internet radio broadcaster
A Banking Management consultant who has experience in the City going back over 20 years.
He began his City career in the discount houses, who traditionally facilitated the issuance of the British national debt through UK Treasury bills and UK [...]
Goldman Sachs sent $4.3 billion in federal tax money to 32 entities, including many overseas banks, hedge funds and pensions, according to information made public Friday night.
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The editors of The Daily Bell are pleased to present this exclusive interview conducted by Scott Smith with Web of Debt author Ellen Brown.
Introduction: Ellen Brown developed her research skills as an attorney practicing civil litigation in Los Angeles. In Web of Debt, her latest book, she turns those skills to an analysis of the [...]
Give Us Your Lavishly Rich, Your Xenophobic
Immigrants. Taking our jobs and public assistance. The cause of all our problems.
But it’s not true.
We’re blaming people who are struggling day-by-day to survive on their own or support their families,
while we applaud a system that allows a financial expert to make enough money to pay the salaries of [...]
Is the Tea Party racist?
Democrats who play liberals on TV say it isn’t.
Vice President Joe Biden says the Tea Party “is not a racist organization” per se,
but allows that “at least elements that were involved in some of the Tea Party folks expressed racist views.”
Right-wing Congresswoman Michele Bachmann has received permission to [...]
Very often, if you want an explanation for things that seem to be beyond explanation,
you can profit from looking to the past.
This interview – recorded nearly 30 years ago about events that took place over 60 years ago
is one of the most remarkable bits of video I’ve ever seen.
Must watching.
Video:
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/898.html
This is one of those are interviews that makes you glad [...]
In an attempt to be proactive, or seem proactive, governments and scientists are ‘considering‘ changing the climate.
Using man made volcano-like smoke stacks, reflective particles in the upper atmosphere, aerosolized particles dispensed from aircraft
…and other such dangerous (not to mention expensive) ideas.
Whilst I’m in no rush to usher in a ‘compulsory earth-based religion’ (and there are [...]
Watch this movie.
On at the Auckland film festival
http://www.nzff.co.nz/default.aspx?id=8791®ion=2
Still tickets available for the last two shows. … ooooh but hurry.
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The official ‘redband’ trailer for American The Bill Hicks Story www.americanthemovie.com
This groundbreaking new documentary uses a stunning new animation technique to tell the story of the modern cultural icon Bill Hicks.
Music: “Breathe Me” performed by Sia, courtesy of [...]
Pluto Press, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, and Fernwood Publishing Inc. have jointly issued
Economics for Everyone: A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism by Jim Stanford.
Jim is one of Canada’s best-known economists: he works for the Canadian Auto Workers,and writes a regular economics column for the Globe and Mail.
This [...]
[ "There is no purpose for government - except to improve the live's of the citizens"
Some of those leather chaired legislation-jockeys currently taking up space in Wellington
actually improved your life the other day
merely by pointing out to the populace of this agrarian mini-continent
that food consumers
(i.e. you and everyone you know)
are getting horribly fleeced by [...]
We is a fast-paced 64 minute documentary that covers the world politics of power, war, corporations, deception and exploitation.
It visualizes the words of Arundhati Roy, specifically her famous Come September speech, where she spoke on such things as the war on terror, corporate globalization, justice and the growing civil unrest.
It’s witty, moving, alarming and quite [...]
The IMF is shouting about the need for austerity today, but it was strangely quiet during the build-up of the bubble that got us here.
Is advice from the IMF better than advice from a drunk in the street?
That is the question that people around the world should be asking as the International Monetary Fund dishes [...]
Our situation is admittedly dire.
Oligarchs are seizing more overt control in most countries in the world, the worldwide economy is on course for another – even bigger – train wreck, countries are cracking down on freedom and becoming more tyrannical, we are in a permanent state of war (and see [...]
Not to worry, they tell us, we’re pulling out of this recession, we’re making progress – the key is more liquidity, more stimulus, more credit, more consumption, more growth.
The time has come to call their bluff.
We need to band together and challenge this powerful intellectual army, whose generals include Greenspan, Summers, Bernanke, [...]
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Supporters of a local currency scheme are ramping up their efforts to boost the use of a Bay of Islands dollar.
The Bay of Islands Community Exchange is asking people to use a computerised barter system to pay for goods and services this month as the exchange prepares to launch a Bay dollar on July 1.
Exchange [...]
Brian Cowen last night finally admitted the €22bn of taxpayers’ money being pumped into Anglo Irish Bank won’t ever be seen again.
[ ... like a bank robbery in reverse ... ]
Mr Cowen was repeatedly quizzed by opposition leaders on the view of the nationalised bank’s chairman that the “lion’s share” of the €22bn was gone.
“That [...]
[... and not before time. ]
For a few years, Latin America has increasingly been the focus of media attention.
The main reason for this is the development in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador.
Three countries which had suffered under dictatorships or a long time are now treading new political paths.
What exactly has changed and [...]
‘End the Fed’
Human greed is the monster that we cannot seem to kill
It drives evil people to impose their evil will
Ever since the beginning it has been the same way
Michael and his angels against the demons of today
Now the Federal Reserve Bank is the monster’s secret lair
It hides behind the government and no one knows [...]
The middle class has been systematically shackled by large amounts of debt, banking debt to be exact in a new form of financial serfdom.
Much of this started in the early 1970s on par with the deficits don’t matter policy that engulfed our monetary policy for the next four decades.
Like any giant structure built on debt, there [...]
The parts of the world hit hardest by the best-known Afghan business – the drug business -
are Europe, Russia, and Iran, which absorb some 80% of the drugs produced in Afghanistan.
Currently the country is responsible for 90% of the global narcotics output.
Russia’s drug control agency chief V. Ivanov outlined the situation [...]
Oliver Stone’s powerful new documentary about progressive change in Latin America is opening in the US this month.
JFP President Mark Weisbrot co-wrote the script.
The trailer is here:
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While individuals, businesses and governments suffer from a credit crisis created on Wall Street,
the banks responsible for the crisis are tapping into nearly-interest-free credit lines and using the money to speculate or to make commercial loans at much higher rates.
By forming their own banks, states too can tap into very low [...]
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