Global Power Project, Part 7: Bilderberg Group and the Power of the Finance Ministry

Source  – occupy.com – This is the seventh installment in a series looking at the activities and individuals behind the Bilderberg Group. Read the first part, second part, third part, fourth part, fifth part and sixth part in the series.   Throughout the course of the financial and debt crises in Europe, politicians played a supporting role to financial markets and financial technocrats…

VOODOO ECONOMICS: QE Is Greatest Wealth Transfer in History

Source  – washingtonsblog.com – High-Level Fed Official: QE Is “The Greatest Backdoor Wall Street Bailout of All Time” – Many economists have said that quantitative easing (QE) quantitative easing benefits the rich, and hurts the little guy. It’s been known for some time that quantitative easing quantitative easing increases inequality (and see this and this.)…

Global Power Project, Part 6: Bilderberg Group and the Cult of Austerity

Source  – occupy.com –This is the sixth installment in a series examining the activities and individuals behind the Bilderberg Group. Read the first part, second part, third part, fourth part, and fifth part in the series. It could almost be a slogan: Bilderberg brings people together. Specifically, every year, the Bilderberg Group holds secret, “private” meetings at four star hotels around…

IMF’s Director Paulo Nogueira Batista: Greek Bailout Was “To Save German & French Banks”

Source  – keeptalkinggreece.com – This was never said officially before! “They gave money to save German and French banks, not Greece,” Paolo Batista, one of the Executive Directors of International Monetary Fund told Greek private Alpha TV on Tuesday. Batista strongly criticized not only the euro zone and the European Central Bank but also the…

Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch Received $6 Trillion Backdoor Bailout from Fed

Source  – wallstreetonparade.com – Yesterday, the Senate Banking Committee held the first of its hearings on widespread demands to reform the Federal Reserve to make it more transparent and accountable. Senator Elizabeth Warren put her finger on the pulse of the growing public outrage over how the Federal Reserve conducts much of its operations in…

TALKING PICTURES: Money For Nothing – Inside The Federal Reserve

Source  – moneyfornothingthemovie.org  – Narrated by the acclaimed actor Liev Schreiber, and featuring interviews with Paul Volcker, Janet Yellen, Jeremy Grantham and many of the world’s best financial minds, Money For Nothing is the first film ever to take viewers inside the world’s most powerful financial institution. MONEY FOR NOTHING is a feature-length documentary about the Federal Reserve – made…

Reaching the Limits of Failure: Too Big To Fail (Infographic)

Source  – econmatters.com – In previous crises, there was always a price paid for rescuing depositors. The 1984 failure of the country’s seventh-largest bank, Continental Illinois, forced the government to step in and guarantee depositors in full. The bank was finally absorbed by Bank of America in 1994, but the bank’s shareholders and management were…

The Assassination of Greece – By James Petras

Source  – panafricannews.blogspot.ca – James Petras was Director of the Center for Mediterranean Studies in Athens (1981-1984) and adviser to Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou (1981-84). Here he analyzes the Greek crisis and its issues within the European Union. The Greek government is currently locked in a life and death struggle with the elite which dominate…

Swimming with the Sharks: Goldman Sachs, School Districts, and Capital Appreciation Bonds

Source  – ellenbrown.com – ” The fliers touted new ballfields, science labs and modern classrooms. They didn’t mention the crushing debt or the investment bank that stood to make millions.                         — Melody Peterson, Orange County Register, February 15, 2013 – Remember when Goldman Sachs…

Global Power Project – Part 4: Bilderberg and the Global Financial Mafia

Source  – occupy.com,by Andrew Gavin Marshall – This is the fourth installment in a series that examines the activities and individuals driving the Bilderberg Group. Read the first part, second part and third part. In the previous Bilderberg article, I wrote that financial markets were “a type of global parasite with unprecedented power capable of determining the fate of…

Greece and the Endgame of the Neo-Colonial Model of Exploitation

Source  – charleshughsmith.blogspot.ca – With the bankruptcy of Greece now undeniable, we’ve finally reached the endgame of the Neocolonial-Financialization Model. We all know how old-fashioned colonialism worked: the imperial power takes physical control of previously independent lands and declares its ownership of the region as a newly minted colony. What’s the benefit of controlling colonies?In…

THE TRUTH IS OUT: Money is just an IOU, and the banks are rolling in it – By David Graeber

Source  – washingtonsblog.com – The UK Guardian is Earth’s third most-read on-line newspaper. In a revealing article, The truth is out: money is just an IOU, and the banks are rolling it in, the author explains what the Bank of England and US Federal Reserve admit: What we use for money is created as debt…

Global Power Project – Part 3: Bilderberg Group and Its Link to World Financial Markets

Source  – occupy.com, By Andrew Gavin Marshall – This is the third installment in a series examining the activities and individuals driving the Bilderberg Group. Read the first part hereand the second part here. This article looks at the published lists of participants attending recent Bilderberg meetings, specifically ones that took place between 2008 and 2014. From…

VOODOO ECONOMICS: How central banks have lost control of the world

Source  – telegraph.co.uk – The world’s oldest central bank has ventured into uncharted territory. Last week, Sweden’s Riksbank slashed its main policy rate into negative territory. In doing so, it became the 14th central bank to ease monetary policy so far this year, but the first to actually take its “repo rate” below zero to…

Massive cache of leaked data reveals how Swiss-HSBC helped clients conceal billions of dollars of assets in undeclared ‘black’ accounts

Source  – theguardian.com – The US government will come under intense pressure this week to explain what action it took after receiving a massive cache of leaked data that revealed how the Swiss banking arm of HSBC, the world’s second-largest bank, helped wealthy customers conceal billions of dollars of assets. The leaked files, which reveal…

A Very Pernicious Partnership: Keynesian Money Printers And Wall Street Gamblers

Source  – davidstockmanscontracorner.com – No sooner was the January jobs report released than the Wall Street Journal posted a succinct headline: “Hiring, Wages Pick Up as Job Market Nears Full Health”. Whether the job market is actually as red hot as the BLS’ headline numbers is a debatable topic, but it is absolutely clear that the “emergency” the…

99% PROOF: Historical Court Ruling In Canada Against Private Central Banking

Source  – liveleak.com  – Court Demands Bank Of Canada return to it’s original mandate issuing it’s currency Debt free,  Harper Government orders MEDIA BLACKOUT of this case. The Bank of Canada used to be a government lending institution, creating near interest free loans that built much of Canada’s infrastructure during the 50’s and 60’s. In…

Nomi Prins: The Sinister Evolution Of Our Modern Banking System

Source – peakprosperity.com – I quit Wall Street and decided that it was time to talk more about what was going on inside it, as it had changed. It had become far more sinister and far more dangerous. ~ Nomi Prins Today, the ‘revolving door’ connecting our political and financial systems is evident to anyone…

Former Canadian Minister Of Defense Talks About The Banker Takeover of Canada

Source – investmentwatchblog.com – In this video Luke Rudkowski sits down with former Canadian Minister of Defense and accomplished politician Paul Hellyer. Paul breaks down very important historical events that allowed bankers to take over the Canadian monetary system. http://investmentwatchblog.com/frm-canadian-minister-of-defense-talks-about-banker-takeover-of-canada/#hWtoThXUKZxmTsVG.99

IMF Riot Strategy: Predatory lending practices developed for third world now being imported to Europe – James Corbett

Source  – wakeup-world.com –  As many have heard by now, the leaders of the so-called BRICS nations – Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa – used the occasion of the 6th BRICS Summit in Brasilia, Brazil to announce the creation of the long-awaited BRICS Development Bank. Formally the “New Development Bank”, it will be…

FLASHBACK: Remembering The Currency Wars Of The 1920s & 1930s (And Central Banks’ “Overused Bag Of Tricks”)

Source  – zombiemarkets.com – Via Hoisington Investment Management, Deflation “No stock-market crash announced bad times. The depression rather made its presence felt with the serial crashes of dozens of commodity markets. To the affected producers and consumers, the declines were immediate and newsworthy, but they failed to seize the national attention. Certainly, they made no…

The Alchemy Of Interest, Usury & Modernity: The Origins And Secrets Of Central Banking Exposed

Source  – eurasiareview.com, By Matthew Johnson   – A Review of SM Goodson’s Inside the Reserve Bank: The Origins and Secrets of Central Banking Exposed (Norfolk and Good, 2013) One of the most difficult things to explain to American university students is how capitalism and communism share far more in common than they do in…

Former BIS chief economist fears QE warfare pushing world financial system out of control

Source  – telegraph.co.uk, By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, in Davos – The economic prophet who foresaw the Lehman crisis with uncanny accuracy is even more worried about the world’s financial system going into 2015. Beggar-thy-neighbour devaluations are spreading to every region. All the major central banks are stoking asset bubbles deliberately to put off the day of…

Collapse contagion? Former Soviet Republic devalues currency by 18% as currency wars ignite

Source  – naturalnews.com – Most Americans could never find the tiny former Soviet Republic of Turkmenistan on a map, but the energy-rich nation recently something that could certainly have global implications. As reported by Agence France-Presse (AFP) and financial analysis website Zero Hedge, Turkmenistan just devalued its currency against the U.S. dollar — for now,…

Debt, Fraud and Other Secrets of the Banking System

Soiurce  – wakingtimes.com – Shortly after the Federal Reserve (Fed) was established in the USA in 1913, the international Banksters changed the process of how banks lend money to the American people and the rest of the world. They did this by removing the gold backed US dollar and replaced it with fiat currency that…