Source – gizadeathstar.com – “…Disaster capitalism” is the deliberate use of sophisticated technologies capable of manipulating sudden geophysical changes normally attributable in law to “acts of God” in order to cheapen the value of property, land, or other assets, and to drive off the tenure of such property, land, or assets, in order to acquire…
Source – charleshughsmith.blogspot.com – “…How is paying dividends with debt rather than earnings not fraud? The net result of this fraud is the debt-burdened company eventually defaults on its debt, defrauding the investors who were suckered into the scam. But once again, the instigators of the fraud–private equity–have escaped with billions in gains and zero…
Source – business.financialpost.com – “…Greater Vancouver has acted as a laundromat for foreign organized crime, including a Mexican cartel, Iranian and Mainland Chinese organized crime,” the German report said. “The region has acquired an unenviable reputation for serving as a site for money laundering, drug trafficking, and capital flight” How Vancouver became the world’s ‘laundromat…
Source – riggedgame.blog – “…Six Wall Street mega banks] have engaged in—and continue to engage in—a crime spree that spans the violation of almost every law and rule imaginable. Taking the breadth and depth of their illegal conduct as a whole, the six biggest banks in the country look like criminal enterprises with RAP sheets…
Source – peakprosperity.com – “…Using this ecosystem of legalized theft, then have the various crooks involved monkey the prices of key commodities to levels that — surprise! — leave hardly any breathing room for the farmers, miners, loggers and refiners to live within. Now that the scam has been exposed, the appropriate question to ask…
Source – whowhatwhy.org – “…One of these loans was approved in April by the U.S. Export-Import Bank. It guaranteed $489 million in credits to a Russian oil company [Tyumen, owned by Alfa] whose roots are imbedded in a legacy of KGB and Communist Party corruption, as well as drug trafficking and organized crime funds, according…
Source – andrewgavinmarshall.com – “…To date, only a handful of the world’s largest banks have been repeatedly investigated, charged, fined or settled in relation to a succession of large financial scams, starting with mortgage fraud and the Libor scandal in 2012, the Euribor scandal and the Forex (foreign exchange) rate rigging. At the heart of…
Source – silverdoctors.com – “…Rob Kirby is scared…”Our way of life is in jeopardy and I fear for my daughter’s [and everyone else’s kids for that matter] future. It does not seem quite as bright as I once thought.” Rob will freely admit that he was once on the other side – a fellow working…
Source – theatlantic.com – “…Supreme Court Powell was well known as a proponent of corporate interests…a confidential memo he wrote that went public the year before began serving indicates as much. “The time has come,” he wrote to the director of the Chamber of Commerce, “for the wisdom, ingenuity and resources of American business to…
Source – home.solari.com – “…(I) helped the federal government implement these changes as president of Hamilton Securities Group – lead financial advisor and portfolio strategist to the FHA mortgage insurance operations. I did so until the honest officials and my company were forced out by phony scandals rigged by the Department of Justice and the…
Source – news.bitcoin.com – “…Some of the most well known banks in the world are also the biggest money launderers. The recent Troika Laundromat affair added another $8 billion to the trillions financial institutions wash every year. Over $2 trillion is laundered annually by criminals who utilize various ways to hide money in banks, which…
Source – investmentwatchblog.com – “…Influential economists and industrialists were ordered to preserve Nazi power by creating European common market, documents show” The European Common Market Nazi Past A writer who was collecting material for a fictional book based around the premise that top Nazis, seeking to preserve their power at the end of the second…
Source – madcowprod.com – ‘…Only rats talk. Trump was channeling John Gotti. They were four old dragons. Trump. Manafort. Stone. Corsi. Like the Chinese ‘Gang of Four’ that clung to power too long after the death of Mao Tse Tung. Before being deposed they’d been the masters—anti-capitalist roaders!— of a vast propaganda machine” Jerome Corsi:…
Source – riggedgame.blog – “…At the demise of empire, City of London financial interests created a web of offshore secrecy jurisdictions that captured wealth from across the globe and hid it behind obscure financial structures in a web of offshore islands. Today…Britain and its offshore jurisdictions are the largest global players in the world of…
Source – riggedgame.blog – “…Aaccording to its web site it has only 60 employees in all of Russia so they would have been terribly busy and even they MIGHT have noticed something was odd about $234 billion coming in and going straight back out. I also doubt every crook lined up at the same teller…
Source – activistpost.com – Earlier this month, it was reported that less than two weeks before the economic collapse of 2008, several members of Congress took their money out of the stock market. Many high-ranking government employees were given a heads-up about the impending market crash in secret meetings with the Federal Reserve and the…
Source – hendersonlefthook.wordpress.com – Not long ago, Chocolate Oligarchs and their fascist gendarmes seized Ukraine’s fertile wheat and barley fields, whilst bankster-funded Islamist rebels took Mosul & the adjacent Kirkuk oilfield – one of the world’s largest – for Exxon Mobil. BRIC nations saw imperial over-reach and, led by Putin, busied themselves preparing for the…
Source – .zerohedge.com – By now everybody knows that the primary consequence, one which we originally predicted back in 2009 – and many have since agreed – was completely intended, of the past 6 years of unprecedented monetary policy has been to push wealth inequality to record levels, not just in the US but across…
Source – heraldscotland.com – The Vatican’s bank, the Institute for Works of Religion (the IOR), acquired a sulphurous reputation in the 1970s when its American head, Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, went into business first with Michele Sindona, a Cosa Nostra-linked financier who would end up convicted of bankruptcy and murder, and then Roberto Calvi, who would…
Source – stuartjeannebramhall.com – “… The banksters crash the economy, you lose income and your home, they buy your house at auction, then they rent it to you at an ever-increasing price. The “new way” is the same old story: The rich robbing the rest of us”: What Happened to All Those Foreclosed Houses? – By…
Source – hendersonlefthook.wordpress.com – “…Lukoil epitomizes the corruption so rampant in Russia since the Soviet collapse. Bribery is the norm. Lukoil has given luxury jets to the mayor of Moscow, the head of Gazprom (the state-owned natural gas monopoly) and Kazakhstan President Nazarbayev. In the mid-1990’s Lukoil announced that it would sell another 15 % stake…
Source – madcowprod.com – “…Today it seems an odd coincidence—or something worse—that Citibank in 2004 loaned Ike Kaveladze’s Russian oligarch boss the exact same amount that Kaveladze had years earlier laundered through the bank”: ‘8th Man’ in mystery purchase of U.S. Mining Co. – By Daniel Hopsicker It’s been widely reported that Irakly “Ike” Kaveladze,…
Source – sfgate.com – From Wall Street to Castro’s Cuba: The Rise, Fall, and Exile of the King of White Collar Crime, Robert Vesco Convicted cocaine trafficker Carlos Lehder testified yesterday that Robert Vesco, the fugitive financier accused of looting millions from a Swiss-based mutual fund, helped him ply the drug trade in Cuba and…
Source – madcowprod.com – “…The death of Saudi arms dealer and CIA fixer Adnan Khashoggi in London two weeks ago reminds the world again about Adnan Khashoggi’s rich history with fellow Palm Beach ‘homie’ Donald Trump…Had he lived a bit longer, he would likely become famous again, especially if Deutsche Bank continues to stonewall the…
Source – zerohedge.com – Ideas have consequences, but not in a social vacuum. There are no social vacuums. Ideas that are held by a minority of fringe academics or polemicists sometimes become the foundations of victorious social movements after existing social institutions are undermined by a social crisis. OPTIMISM AND SOCIAL REVOLUTION There seems to…
Source – paulcraigroberts.org – “…The Western media have made it clear that they do not accept the people’s decision either. The vote is said to be “racist” and therefore can be disregarded as illegitimate. Washington has no intention of permitting the British to exit the European Union. Washington did not work for 60 years to…
Source – theguardian.com – “…The trouble started on July 30 1942 when the New York Herald-Tribune ran an article entitled “Hitler’s Angel Has $3m in US Bank”. UBC’s huge gold purchases had raised suspicions that the bank was in fact a “secret nest egg” hidden in New York for Thyssen and other Nazi bigwigs”: How…
Source – dissidentvoice.org – About 75% of US employees work 40 hours or longer, the second longest among all OECD countries, exceeded only by Poland and tied with South Korea. In contrast, only 10% of Danish workers, 15% of Norwegian, 30% of French, 43% of UK and 50% of German workers work 40 or more…
Source – govtslaves.info – There are currently 2.4 million people in American prisons. This number has grown by 500% in the past 30 years. While the United States has only 5% of the world’s population, it holds 25 percent of the world’s total prisoners. In 2012, one in every 108 adults was in prison or in jail, and one in 28 children in the U.S. had a…
Source – truthdig.com – California’s report said $440 million. New Jersey’s said $600 million. In Pennsylvania, the tally is $700 million. Those Wall Street fees paid by public workers’ pension systems have kicked off an intensifying debate over whether such expenses are necessary. Now, a report from an industry-friendly source says those huge levies represent…
Source – charleshughsmith.blogspot.ca – Reform is impossible in a system optimized for centralized power and financial predators and parasites. The problem with optimizing private gain by any means available is you also optimize financial predators and parasites. The problem with optimizing a system for centralized power (i.e. the federal government and Federal Reserve) is that…
Source: crooksandliars.com, By Susie Madrak Drugs money worth billions of dollars kept the financial system afloat at the height of the global crisis, the United Nations’ drugs and crime tsar has told the Observer. Antonio Maria Costa, head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, said he has seen evidence that the proceeds of…
Source – truthdig.com – Boycott, Divest and Sanction Corporations That Feed on Prisons – By Chris Hedges – All attempts to reform mass incarceration through the traditional mechanisms of electoral politics, the courts and state and federal legislatures are useless. Corporations, which have turned mass incarceration into a huge revenue stream and which have unchecked…
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