A Stealth Coup d’État in the United States

  22.06.2012                          By Lawrence Sellin On November 19, 1863 during the Consecration of the National Cemetery following the July 1-3, 1863 Battle of Gettysburg, President Abraham Lincoln pondered whether the new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal could long endure. Contrary to Lincoln’s hope, the…

News theater: Reporters rehearse questions in advance with White House Press Secretary

(NaturalNews) If you’ve ever seen a White House press conference, to the naked eye it looks a lot like a spontaneous evolution of questions and answers from intrepid reporters digging for answers from a press secretary who appears, at times, to be taken off guard by the queries. But is it all that? One local…

Canada’s 86 richest individuals and families have accumulated as much wealth as the country’s poorest 11.4, a third of Canada’s population

OTTAWA – While politicians in Ottawa still can’t decide who is in the middle class, a new analysis suggests wealth is increasingly gravitating to the very top. The report by the left-leaning Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives shows that the country’s 86 richest individuals and families — or 0.002 per cent of the total population…

Voter fraud in the US: the same tricks as in the former Soviet Union

  Ironically, as the presidential election in the United States nears, concerns raised by civil society groups about the election’s fairness and integrity are starting to mirror concerns routinely raised by Western-supported civil society groups in Russia. Ballot box stuffing, busing around from one polling station to another of suspiciously looking groups of people, strange…

Koch Brothers quietly seek to ban all new mass transit in Tennessee

The Tennessee Senate passed a bill last week that, if approved, would broadly ban mass transit projects in the region, an anti-transit effort that’s gotten some help in the state from Charles and David Koch. On Thursday, the Tennessee Senate passed SB 2243, which includes an amendment that “prohibits metropolitan governments and any transit authorities…

The Prison Industry in the United States: Big Business or a New Form of Slavery?

Human rights organizations, as well as political and social ones, are condemning what they are calling a new form of inhumane exploitation in the United States, where they say a prison population of up to 2 million – mostly Black and Hispanic – are working for various industries for a pittance. For the tycoons who have…

US now spending 26% of available tax revenue just to pay interest

By the 19th century, the Ottoman Empire had become a has-been power whose glory days as the world’s superpower were well behind them. They had been supplanted the French, the British, and the Russian empires in all matters of economic, military, and diplomatic strength. Much of this was due to the Ottoman Empire’s massive debt…

Citi Fails Fed Stress Test … The REAL Story

Bloomberg reports that Citigroup has failed the Fed’s new round of stress tests: Citigroup Inc.’s capital plan was among five that failed Federal Reserve stress tests, while Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Bank of America Corp. passed only after reducing their requests for buybacks and dividends. Citigroup, as well as U.S. units of Royal Bank…

US Prepares To Provide A Billion To Ukraine As Detroit Plans Mass Water Shutoffs Over $260 Million

“…Either way, one thing is certain: in order to enforce the fading Pax Americana in the Ukraine, and to keep the funding to the otherwise insolvent Ukraine flowing, which as everyone knows will be first and foremost used to pay Russia’s Gazprom, the US is about to send lots of money abroad. As in, not…

Document: JPMorgan Chase Bets $10.4 Billion on the Early Death of Workers

Families of young JPMorgan Chase workers who have experienced tragic deaths over the past four months, have been kept in the dark on many details, including the fact that the bank most likely held a life insurance policy on their loved one – payable to itself. Banks in the U.S., as well as other corporations,…

NSA Recorded the CONTENT of ‘EVERY SINGLE’ CALL in a Foreign Country … and Also In AMERICA?

The Washington Post reports – based upon documents leaked by Edward Snowden – that the NSA is recording “every single” phone call in one foreign country (at the request of the NSA, the Post is withholding the name of the country. However, the Post notes that the NSA is also planning on expanding the program…

“Rigged Markets” and the Crimes of Wall Street: Banker Suicides, The Prequel to Global Financial Collapse

The onset of the great depression of the 1930′s brought a spike in banker suicides, Will Rogers noted of the time, “When Wall Street took that tail spin, you had to stand in line to get a window to jump out of, and speculators were selling space for bodies in the East River.” http://www.globalresearch.ca/rigged-markets-and-the-crimes-of-wall-street-banker-suicides-the-prequel-to-global-financial-collapse/5373756

Money wins Congressional races 91% of the time

In my very brief time on Capitol Hill after college I remember that raising money as soon as a Congressperson was elected was of the absolute highest priority. If one didn’t raise a pile of money early the other party might perceive you as weak and would then dump cash into your next opponent’s campaign……

The State, the Deep State, and the Wall Street Overworld

Peter Dale Scott In the last decade it has become more and more obvious that we have in America today what the journalists Dana Priest and William Arkin have called two governments: the one its citizens were familiar with, operated more or less in the open: the other a parallel top secret government whose parts…

Is the Deep State Fracturing into Disunity?

I recently proposed the idea that Wall Street now poses a strategic threat to national security and thus to the Deep State itself: Who Gets Thrown Under the Bus in the Next Financial Crisis? (March 3, 2014) Many consider it “impossible” that Wall Street could possibly lose its political grip on the nation’s throat, but I suggest…

Wall Street Bonuses Soar 15% To Highest Since 2007

Wall Street bonuses (on average) in 2013 rose 15% to the highest since 2007. As OSC Tom DiNapoli notes, “Securities industry employees took home significantly higher bonuses on average… although profits were lower than the prior year.” In fact, as we noted earlier, profits at the banks fell 30%… Continue Reading… http://theinternetpost.net/2014/03/13/wall-street-bonuses-soar-15-to-highest-since-2007/

America Is a “Failed State” with a “Dual Justice System … One for Ordinary People and then One for People with Money and Enormous Wealth and Power”

It is now mainstream news that none of the big financial criminals have been prosecuted. The New York Times is running an article today entitled “In financial crisis, no prosecutions of top figures”, which has been picked up as the leading front-page story by MSNBC. The story even quotes Bill Black: But their policies have…