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…
Source – icij.org – Seychelles, a thousand miles from anywhere, is an offshore magnet for money launderers and tax dodgers. A look at this corruption-haunted archipelago shows how the offshore secrecy system has grown — and where it’s going. In the fall of 2012, two strangers from Africa showed up in Seychelles, an emerald-green archipelago…
Source – .publicintegrity.org – Attorney General Eric Holder said the Justice Department will determine within the next 90 days whether to charge individual Wall Street executives with crimes related to the 2008 financial crisis. Holder said he’s asked the prosecutors who have been investigating the major banks and their executives to make recommendations whether to…
Source – ragingbullshit.com – If the last six years have taught us anything, it is that the four-word combo “Too Big to Fail” should have no place in the everyday vernacular of any self-respecting market economy. It is an aberration that has robbed millions of people of untold trillions of dollars and could threaten to…
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…
Source – .nytimes.com – On the 74th floor of the Time Warner Center, Condominium 74B was purchased in 2010 for $15.65 million by a secretive entity called 25CC ST74B L.L.C. It traces to the family of Vitaly Malkin, a former Russian senator and banker who was barred from entering Canada because of suspected connections to…
Source – zerohedge.com – By now, there have been so many banker-related suicides that it has become a moot point of i) tracking them all or ii) trying to find a pattern. And yet, one name continues to stand out: JPMorgan. The bank which has been most prominent among the list of “suicided” bankers notched…
Source – motherjones.com – Once again, the Obama administration has set its sights on American companies that stash untaxed revenue abroad. Its 2016 budget, unveiled earlier this week, proposes to stick a one-time “transition toll charge” of 14 percent on the more than $2 trillion in corporate earnings parked overseas, regardless of whether they’re brought…
Source – newrepublic.com – Citigroup is one of three Wall Street banks attempting to keep hidden their practice of paying executives multimillion-dollar awards for entering government service. In letters delivered to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over the last month, Citi, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley seek exemption from a shareholder proposal, filed by…
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…
Source – allgov.com – mortgage crisis, an audit out of San Francisco has found that more than 80% of foreclosures broke some kind of law. City officials requested the audit that examined 382 randomly chosen foreclosures that occurred from January 2009 through October 2011. The findings revealed that 84% of the files involved “what…
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…
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…
Source – .visualcapitalist.com – Bre-X Scandal: A History Timeline Sponsored by: BDO and BDO Natural Resources LinkedIn Group This infographic documents the rise and fall of Bre-X. From initial private offerings at 30 cents a share, Bre-X stock climbed to more than $250 on the open market. Near the peak of Bre-X share prices, major…
Source -boingboing.net – Zimbabwe’s dictator Robert Mugabe unleashed a storm of brutal, genocidal violence after losing the 2008 elections — and now we know that it was funded by western hedge-funds and banks, led by Och-Ziff Capital Management, the largest publicly traded fund, with assistance from Blackrock, GLG Partners, and Credit Suisse, who raised $100M…
Source – emptywheel.net – Prominent Baltimore banker Ed Hale has come forward to reveal he was a CIA NOC while Chair of the Bank of Baltimore from sometime around 1991 until 2001. In a life that reads like a spy thriller, Hale says he was recruited into the CIA by former Alex Brown chairman Buzzy…
Source – alternet.org – America is the most unequal country in the developed world. We also pay the lowest taxes among all developed nations. Is there a connection? Runaway inequality and declining taxes are linked together through a set of economic policies called the “Better Business Climate” model which came to America around 1980. (By…
Source – emperors-clothes.com, by Randy Davis – “The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in essence, is fascism – ownership of government by an individual, by a…
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…
Source – emperors-clothes.com – U.S. CORPORATIONS AND THE NAZIS “A clique of U.S. industrialists is hell-bent to bring a fascist state to supplant our democratic government and is working closely with the fascist regime in Germany and Italy. I have had plenty of opportunity in my post in Berlin to witness how close some of…
Source – wallstreetonparade.com – Every now and then, someone raises the question of Mafia infiltration on Wall Street or suggests that Wall Street has become an Ivy-league educated, better tailored version of the mob. Now, two lawyers, Helen Davis Chaitman and Lance Gotthoffer have dramatically ratcheted up the debate, suggesting boldly in the latest chapter…
Source – prospect.org – This last year saw the pace of job growth pick up, a welcome development. Yet the economy remains far from healthy. In 2014 the twin issues of income inequality and stagnant wage growth for the vast majority of Americans took center stage. Better late than never. The top charts of 2014…
Source – buzzfeed.com – The former Florida governor serves as an adviser to Barclays, which was fined nearly $300 million for violating sanctions in 2010, prior to his work there. By Andrew Kaczynski, Buzzfeed Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush blasted the Obama administration’s decision to normalize relations with Cuba in a Facebook post Wednesday, but…
Source – equedia.com – For years I have been talking about how the banks have taken control of our civilization. This week, I want us to look at our current events from a much bigger perspective because the answers to most of our questions regarding oil and other things are often found by looking at…
Source – cnn.com – Barclays and the Oil Market: Agent Provocateur Ultimo: Prince Bandar and the Price of Oil (” … For the past 10 years oil is kept high by Wall Street’s mightiest (we mean Goldman Sachs) and the so-called market maker banks with the fattest fingers in the oil market pie – JP Morgan, Barclays, Deutsche Bank, Societe Generale.…
Source – veteranstoday.com – Gordon Duff was part of a Veterans Today Senior Staff Delegation that traveled to Damascus and was in consultation with the Veterans Today Board and other like minded individuals within the Military and Intelligence community. This Delegation included Veterans Today Senior Editor *Gordon Duff, Veterans Today Managing Editor **Jim Dean, Veterans…
Source – ellenbrown.com – On December 11, 2014, the US House passed a bill repealing the Dodd-Frank requirement that risky derivatives be pushed into big-bank subsidiaries, leaving our deposits and pensions exposed to massive derivatives losses. The bill was vigorously challenged by Senator Elizabeth Warren; but the tide turned when Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorganChase,…
Source – wallstreetonparade.com – t doesn’t get any more Orwellian than this: Wall Street mega banks crash the U.S. financial system in 2008. Hundreds of thousands of financial industry workers lose their jobs. Then, beginning late last year, a rash of suspicious deaths start to occur among current and former bank employees. Next we learn…
Source – wallstreetonparade.com – Last Thursday, the U.S. Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, chaired by Senator Carl Levin, released an alarming 396-page report that details how Wall Street’s too-big-to-fail banks have quietly, and often stealthily through shell companies, gained ownership of a stunning amount of the nation’s critical industrial commodities like oil, aluminum, copper, natural…
Source – wallstreetonparade.com – On Thursday, November 20, 2014, the body of 54-year old Melissa Millan, a divorced mother of two school-age children, was found at approximately 8 p.m. along a jogging path running parallel to Iron Horse Boulevard in Simsbury, Connecticut. A motorist had spotted the body and called the police. According to the…
Source – libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org – As we noted in our last post on the British crisis of 1816, while Britain emerged from nearly a quarter century of war with France ready to supply the world with manufactured goods, it needed cotton to supply the mills, and all of Europe needed wheat to supplement a series of…
Source – zerohedge.com – 52-year-old Belgian Geert Tack – a private banker for ING who managed portfolios for wealthy individuals – was described as ‘impeccable’, ‘sporty’, ‘cared-for’, and ‘successful’ and so as Vermist reports, after disappearing a month ago, the appearance of his body off the coast of Ostend is surrpunded by riddles… Tack…
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