Icelandic authorities arrested the former chief executive of collapsed bank Kaupthing on Thursday — the first high profile banker to be detained in the wake of the tiny Nordic country’s financial crisis. The special prosecutor tasked with investigating the Icelandic banking crash of October 2008 said that Hreidar Mar Sigurdsson […]
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[ Or – ‘What happens When You Fu@k Other People Over For Long Enough’ ] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3irHsNIv4Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgTLbAsxDgo Unless you are paying attention you wouldn’t know the entire European economy is collapsing, starting with Greece. A group of several thousand protestors gathered outside parliament in Greece on Thursday to protest against […]
A group of people have forced their way into the main Greek state broadcaster’s studio to protest government austerity measures … No Comment – Euronews: watch the international news without commentary @ www.euronews.net/nocomment/
[ The economically affluent 80’s meets the economically depressed 30’s ]
[youtube]6_P4lJD_OPI[/youtube] An open letter to Peter Mandelson regarding the newly announced Digital Economy Bill. If you disapprove of the Bill, sign the petition at https://petitions.number10.gov.uk/dont… Write your own message to Lord Mandelson at https://threestrikes.openrightsgroup.org/ Download the mp3: https://www.zshare.net/audio/69029460c… More information: Wikipedia: Digital Economy Act 2010 Times Online: The legislative farce […]
Morpheus: I know *exactly* what you mean. Let me tell you why you’re here. You’re here because you know something. What you know you can’t explain, but you feel it. You’ve felt it your entire life, that there’s something wrong with the world. You don’t know what it is, but […]
More Chicago-area homeowners lost their homes to foreclosure in the first three months of the year than in any quarter in the past five years. This disturbing statistic raises doubts about the effectiveness of mortgage loan modification efforts and could put more downward pressure on property values. Within the six-county […]
[ … paging Naomi Klein … ] In other words, the U.S. and other “agricultural powers” would provide Haiti food, “freeing up” Haitian farmers to go work in U.S.-owned sweatshops, thereby ushering in “an industrial era,” as if the cinder-block shells of assembly plants represent organic industrialization. Read the rest […]