Selling Out America to Wall Street
Stephen LendmanAmericans have been defrauded by a Washington-Wall Street conspiracy
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Americans have been defrauded by a Washington-Wall Street conspiracy
He adds that “the gap between Americans who want to govern themselves and the politicians who want to rule over them may be as big today as the gap between the colonies and England during the 18th century.”
They simply took the money they borrowed from the government at zero percent and lent it back to the government by buying Treasury bills that paid interest of three or four percent. It was basically a license to print money
If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair. If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red. If the Army & Marines are in IRAQ , it's because they want them in IRAQ.
The Plunge Protection Team either made "decisions" or contributed to decisions being made by others that it doesn't want us to know about. And this was in 2007 -- well before the so-called financial meltdown that gave Paulson and his crew a free hand
The man who died after being arrested at a police road block on Thanksgiving Eve died from blunt force trauma, the attorney representing his family said last night. "The (medical) examiner's office informed us that the cause of death was blunt for
You see....this is how this sh*t always starts. Now I want hookers every time I fill in for Ernest on "Declare Your Independence" under the “Morale Welfare Recreation” category of our agreement.
You won't believe the sweetheart deal that the Indymac boys were given by the FDIC Video: http://thinkbigworksmall.com:80/mypage/archive/1/29027 Article: Banks' sweetheart deals with FDIC are encouraging foreclosures http://cfcsux.blogspot.com/
Public inquiries on the decision to wage war on Iraq that are silent about the crimes committed, the victims involved, and provide for no sanction, whatever their outcome, are not enough. Illegal acts should entail consequences: the dead and the harm
It is not a secret to anyone who has been closely following the FDIC's quasi criminal bank takeover practices over the past year, that acquirors of failed banks end up receiving a massive and risk-free gift in the form of taxpayer benefits via the FD
Can anyone say "spousal immunity"? The National Enquirer is reporting that John Edwards has proposed to mistress, Rielle Hunter. Of course, Hunter will not have to testify against him in any possible corruption trial.
A controversial real-estate investor sold Glendale, Arizona a piece of land for $6.6 million on the same day he bought it for about $5.5 million. The land, which the city previously leased for a youth-sports complex and overflow parking near the
This is why you have Papa Bush as an adviser. Bad things disappear or are never brought up. Economic Policy Journal
As players blend and blur their roles across organizations, the boundaries and purposes of those organizations also blend and blur.
David Barber, the appointed head of the Alabama Task Force on Illegal Gambling, won a jackpot gambling in Mississippi. So while he’s fighting gambling in Alabama, trying to keep it illegal, he’s popping over the border for some quick cash.
Bank of America Corp. approved more than $4 billion in 2009 pay for its investment bankers and traders, meaning those workers will collect an average of $300,000 to $500,000 for the year, according to a person familiar with the matter.
This is a Demonstration Project for PUBLIC SCHOOL HEALTH CLINICS and guess what? These HEALTH CLINICS are in the Obama healthcare bill.
American International Group plans Wednesday to pay another round of employee bonuses, worth about $100 million, said several people familiar with the matter, a year after similar payments at the bailed-out insurance giant infuriated many Americans a
You can't leverage yourself 164 times legally in any form or fashion in the United States, and such a margin, assuming you came up with some way to do it, would make all of the firms that blew up in 2008 and 2009 look like pikers...
A Phoenix real-estate broker filled a vacancy on the City Council, and ever since, he's championed moving the planned Loop 202 extension south, from Ahwatukee Foothills to the Gila River Reservation. His development deals along the freeway blur
A Transportation Security Administration employee in Florida is behind bars this weekend after a 15-year-old girl claimed he groped her and asked if she would be his "sex slave," according to published reports.
Judicial Watch has discovered that Nancy Pelosi stuck taxpayers with the bills for babysitting and flying her kids and grandkids across the country. Doug Ross found that she used the military to do it even when no congressional representatives were
“If someone were to tell you that chemicals added to the food could cause brain damage in your children, and these chemicals could effect how your children’s nervous system formed during development
Democrats and Republicans alike pummeled Treasury Secretary Geithner over his role in the $180 billion bailout of insurance giant AIG, venting public anger over Wall Street's return to prosperity while unemployment stands at 10%.
ATLANTA - A former federal prosecutor hired by gun manufacturer Glock to investigate fraud within the company has been accused of stealing about $3 million from the gunmaker.
Neil M. Barofsky is not a household name like some special investigators of the past — Kenneth Starr during the Clinton administration or Archibald Cox in the Watergate years.
US securities regulators originally treated the New York Federal Reserve's bid to keep secret many of the details of the American International Group bailout like a request to protect matters of national security, according to emails obtained by Reut
Big Pharma endlessly push their drugs as miracles. Then FDA and Big Pharma play musical chairs. This system is chronically flawed. Our body’s have a natural renewal system, our own Adult Stem Cells. www.HealthGa
Then he pulled a small, clear plastic bag from her carry-on. Inside the bag was fine, white powder. She remembers his words: "Where did you get it?" Just kidding, he said. He waved the baggie. It was his.
Sociopaths have always been with us. Without conscience themselves they lie without compunction, kill to achieve their ends. Now, we can identify all of them, those in government, in corporations, and those poised to destroy us personally.