Source – ip-watch.org – While a full range of stakeholders would be affected by the outcome of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement under secret negotiation by the United States and a dozen trading partners, corporate representatives have had a special seat at the negotiating table, as shown by hundreds of pages of confidential emails from…
Source – alternet.org, By Andrew Gavin Marshall – “A study identified a number of companies with outsized control over a huge portion of the earth’s economy”: – In October of 2011, New Scientist reported that a scientific study on the global financial system was undertaken by three complex systems theorists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology…
Source – naturalsociety.com – People like to talk nasty about Hugh Grant, Monsanto’s CEO, and obviously a shareholder. The same goes for Bill Gates. He purportedly owns millions of shares of Monsanto stock as well. But who are the real owners of Monsanto? The answer might be shocking. The real owners of Monsanto stock are…
Source – crooksandliars.com – The Justice Department’s latest settlement with felonious big banks was announced last week, but the repercussions were limited to a few headlines and some scattered protestations. That’s not enough. We need to understand that our financial system is not merely corrupt in practice. It is corrupt by design – and the…
Source – pdafund.com – Sen. Bernie Sanders fired back at 80 CEOs who wrote a letter lecturing America about deficit reduction by released a report detailing how 18 of these CEOs have wrecked the economy by evading taxes and outsourcing jobs. 80 CEO’s raised the ire of Sen. Sanders by publishing a letter in the Wall Street…
Source – wallstreetonparade.com – Questions Swirl Around the Death of Wall Street Journal Reporter, David Bird: Wall Street Journal oil reporter, David Bird, set out from his New Jersey home for a brief walk on January 11, 2014 and disappeared without a trace. Last Wednesday, 14 months after his disappearance and the very same day…
Source – boingboing.net – Hedge funds buy swathes of foreclosed subprimes, force up rents, float rent-bonds: When a giant hedge fund is bidding on all the foreclosed houses in a poor neighborhood, living humans don’t stand a chance — but that’s OK, because rapacious investors make great landlords. Wall Street investors have bought more than…
Source – zerohedge.com – It appears the frauds, falsehoods, and f##king fallacies are all being exposed at the same time. While we have noted three companies that have collapsed in the last week – destroying their billionaire owners’ wealth in the process – it appears the Chinese capital destruction virus has spread to Germany. Joyou…
Source – washingtonsblog.com – Hundreds of tech companies and digital rights groups – including Imgur, DreamHost, Namecheap, AVG, Mediafire, Internet Archive, BoingBoing, Piwik, Private Internet Access, and more than 200 others signed a letter to Congress today stating: Criminalizing Journalism and Whistleblowing: TPP’s trade secrets provisions could make it a crime for people to reveal…
Source – truthinmedia.com, By Rachel Blevins – On Wednesday, the Department of Justice announced that five major banks – Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland, JPMorgan Chase, UBS and Citigroup – will be fined approximately $5.7 billion after pleading guilty to crimes involving the manipulation of global currencies and interest rates. The DoJ noted that four of…
Source – marketwatch.com – The United States and the world are engaged in a great debate about new trade agreements. Such pacts used to be called “free-trade agreements”; in fact, they were managed trade agreements, tailored to corporate interests, largely in the U.S. and the European Union. Today, such deals are more often referred to…
Source – tomdispatch.com – The past, especially the political past, doesn’t just provide clues to the present. In the realm of the presidency and Wall Street, it provides an ongoing pathway for political-financial relationships and policies that remain a threat to the American economy going forward. When Hillary Clinton video-announced her bid for the Oval Office, she…
Source – silverdoctors.com – The account balance on your bank account is known as a demand deposit. Under our Fractional Reserve Banking (FRB) system, your deposits are used by the banks to leverage lending. What most people think of as their account balance is actually something very different. Many people mistakenly believe that their account balance shows how much…
Source – beforeitsnews.com – Attorney Karen Hudes, Acting General Counsel for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, exposes the corrupt financial system that the global elite are using to control the wealth of the world. This is a timely broadcast as we see the world’s financial system teetering on the brink of insolvency. You…
Source – wsws.org – Kenneth Griffin, founder and CEO of Chicago-based Citadel, makes his debut atop the latest installation of The Rich List, Institutional Investor’s Alpha’s 14th annual ranking of the world’s top-earning hedge fund managers. But while average earnings for top hedge-fund managers were down to just $467 million from last year’s $846 million,…
Source – libertyblitzkrieg.com – Our estimates show that the developing world lost US$991.2 billion in illicit financial flows in 2012, over ten times the amount of official development aid received by these countries in that year, and greater than the amount of net foreign direct investment received. From 2003 – 2012, US$6.6 trillion left developing…
Source – theeconomiccollapseblog.com, By Michael Snyder – Warren Buffett believes “that bonds are very overvalued“, and a recent survey of fund managers found that 80 percent of them are convinced that bonds have become “badly overvalued“. The most famous bond expert on the planet, Bill Gross, recently confessed that he has a sense that the…
Source – reverbpress.com – Wall Street created the nightmare economic context of the unrest in Baltimore. You don’t need to have watched The Wire, one of the greatest dramas in American television history, to know that Baltimore has some rough neighborhoods. But things got a lot worse when the subprime mortgage crisis blew up in…
Source – whengoogleattacks.com – Investigators say that, political operatives David Plouffe, Rahm Emanual, Steven Rattner, Bill Daly, David Axelrod and Robert Gibbs arranged with Silicon Valley investors to take over the lithium battery industry in order to monopolize the trillions of dollars of lithium, and related mining deals, in Afghanistan. They say that they traded…
Source – care2.com – If you’re interested in watching how money influences politics, you would be smart to not only track who Hillary accepts campaign contributions from, but just as importantly who is lining Bill’s pockets as well. In looking ahead to a likely presidency from Hillary, we can take cues from the actions of…
Source – nationofchange.org – With two historic global trade deals almost complete, here’s how Bolivian protesters and global activists exposed the dark side of global trade pacts and paved the way for the battles to come. It’s time we end the corporate power play against our basic democracy. – There’s an international awakening afoot about…
Source – charleshughsmith.blogspot.ca – All those angered by the mere question of the viability of this predatory pillaging in the name of capitalism are incapable of even admitting this cultural crisis exists. Somewhere along the line, we lost the ability to distinguish between earning a profit and maximizing private gain by any means, i.e. Infinite…
Source – .salon.com – “… Schacht wielded unprecedented power over both monetary and fiscal affairs. Within months foreign media began addressing him as ‘Germany’s economic dictator.’ …” Hjalmar Schacht was the most powerful minister in Germany, an economic “wizard” with a destructive plan for growth Excerpt from “Hitler’s Shadow Empire: Nazi Economics and the Spanish…
Source – ewao.com -If there’s anything you read – or share – let this be it. The content of this article has potential to radically shift the world in a variety of positive ways. And as Monsanto would love for this article to not go viral, all we can ask is that you share, share,…
Source – zerohedge.com – Rapid Rise in Super PACs Dominated by Single Donors: Super PACS that get nearly all of their money from one donor quadrupled their share of overall fund-raising in 2014. – The wealthiest Americans can fly on their own jets, live in gated compounds and watch movies in their own theaters.…
Source – archive.org – The Creature from Jekyll Island – one of the classic expose’s of the treachery and thievery we call “The Federal Reserve” – which is curiously neither federal, nor is it a reserve. No one cuts to the center of the issue quite like Griffin. This is an issue which impacts nearly…
Source – zerohedge.com – Now that the confusion and the initial smoke following the stunning CFTC/DOJ/FBI allegation that the entire Flash Crash was the result of just one high latency UK trader’s actions has cleared, several critical things have emerged. First: Nav Sarao not a typical massively funded, connected and lobby-protected High Frequency Trader, such…
Source – rinf.com – Even before presidential candidates started lining up billionaires to kickstart their campaigns, it was clear that the 2016 election could be the biggest big-money election yet. This chart from the political data shop Crowdpac illustrates where we may be headed: Between 1980 and 2012, the share of federal campaign contributions coming…
Source – zerohedge.com – Ask any “economist” and they will tell you that one of the best ways to create economic growth is to devalue a currency to boost exports which in turn will increase profits and incomes. Moreover, they will tell you, that a single QE program equal to 24% of a country’s…
Source – theatlantic.com – Bank of the Underworld: Liberty Reserve was like PayPal for the unbanked. Was it also a global money-laundering operation? – In the fall of 2011, the U.S. Secret Service orchestrated a sting operation. The target was a Vietnamese man named Hieu Minh Ngo. Investigators believed he was a big-time identity thief…
Source – journal-neo.org – The last financial Tsunami was a doozer that almost destroyed the global financial system. It was the collapse of the Wall Street Mortgage Backed Securities bubble in March 2007. The results of that collapse are still very much with the world today. Never in the one hundred some years of the…
Source – tomdispatch.com, By Laura Gottesdiener – Unlike so many industrial innovations, the revolving door was not developed in Detroit. It took its first spin in Philadelphia in 1888, the brainchild of Theophilus Van Kannel, the soon-to-be founder of the Van Kannel Revolving Door Company. Its purpose was twofold: to better insulate buildings from the…
Source – thedailycoin.org, By Don Quijones – The week has not been kind to Rodrigo Rato, the embattled former vice-president of Spain, former president of the IMF, and former president of ongoing bank-bailout-fiasco Bankia. First the Spanish news website Voz Populi reported that he was under police investigation for tax fraud, money laundering and embezzlement.…
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