[youtube]Q8EKGtf_YrY[/youtube] In an unprecedented defeat for the Federal Reserve, an amendment to audit the multi-trillion dollar institution was approved by the House Finance Committee with an overwhelming and bipartisan 43-26 vote on Thursday afternoon despite harried last-minute lobbying from top Fed officials and the surprise opposition of Chairman Barney Frank […]
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Sooner or later, office buildings and other commercial real estate financed during the credit bubble will generate hurricane-scale losses for banks. Banks in recent years have been hammered by losses on home mortgages, buyouts and corporate defaults. Now, lenders face big losses from loans backed by […]
… it’s not a pretty picture. invasions … bombings … overthrowing governments … occupations … suppressing movements for social change … assassinating political leaders … perverting elections … manipulating labor unions … manufacturing “news” … economic and political sanctions … death squads … torture … biological warfare … depleted uranium […]
By Jeff Clark of Casey Research As you read this, the Chinese government is doing an extraordinary thing… something nearly unheard of in the modern world. It is encouraging citizens to put at least 5% of their savings into precious metals. The Chinese government is telling people gold and silver […]
HSBC earned more than £650m in fees from work for Textron, US manufacturer of cluster weapons By Nick Matheson Guardian.co.uk The deadly trade in cluster bombs is funded by the world’s biggest banks who have loaned or arranged finance worth $20bn (£12.5bn) to firms producing the controversial weapons, despite growing […]
Dear American Express, How are you? I know how hard this global recession has been on everyone, so I thought I’d check in on an old friend. We have had a professional relationship for over ten years. Me? Well, I’m getting by. Several months ago, I was laid off with […]
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An interesting ad from Australia for a fake political party. Truly creepy. [youtube]6IfGUSBSF4I[/youtube]
By Webster G. Tarpley 10-7-9 REYKJAVIK, Iceland — A leading member of the Icelandic parliament called Monday night for the country to declare a debt moratorium and stop attempting to pay the $6 billion which the British and Netherlands governments are seeking to extort from Iceland with the help of the […]