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  • Loving Labor’s Losses: Whoredom is optional
    4 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Jason Miller
    Are we not the whores of big business, selling our product for their commercial lust? Arthur Erickson
    When George Bush spoke at a maritime training center in Piney Point, MD on Labor Day, 2006, ostensibly he was a respected leader paying tribute to the hard-working men and women forming the backbone of the nation’s economy.
    In reality, Bush is a pimp for the moneyed interests and corporations who wield most of the wealth and power in the United States. Bush, his (…)

  • Economy Booming for Billionaires
    1 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Holly Sklar
    Millionaires are so last millennium. The new Forbes 400 list of richest Americans is billionaires only.
    If you’re net worth is a mere $999 million, forget it. A billion means a thousand million, and that’s the Forbes 400 minimum — up from $900 million in 2005.
    Donald Trump and two of his kids grace the Forbes 400 cover, but ranked No. 94 with $2.9 billion, Trump’s a long way from No. 1 Bill Gates with $53 billion.
    The combined wealth of the 400 richest Americans is a (…)

  • SEC and FBI bare teeth at hedge funds
    28 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    SEC and FBI bare teeth at hedge funds By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard (Filed: 27/09/2006)
    The US government is losing patience with hedge funds, signalling the end of glory days for an unregulated industry with $1,700bn to hand and the ability to operate with near total freedom across the globe.
    The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) bared its fangs yesterday, launching a probe into Amaranth Advisors after it nearly collapsed this month when a lone trader lost $6bn betting on gas (…)

  • President Chavez proposes Latin American currency to replace US dollar
    28 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    President Chavez proposes Latin American currency to replace US dollar
    VHeadline.com News Editor Patrick J. O’Donoghue writes: Returning to Venezuela, President Hugo Chavez Frias has opened an natural gas industrial complex in Sucre.
    During the event, the President has accused the US Drug Enforcement Agency ( DEA) and The CIA of being infiltrated by narco- trafficking. • Both security agencies, Chavez Frias muses, sometimes contaminate Venezuelan police officers.
    "We broke an (…)

  • BREAKING: Even Motley Fool is predicting a U.S. market crash
    26 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Reposted from JerseyThursday
    Even Motley Fool is predicting a U.S. market crash
    I often find their advice all over the place. But, this time I think they are suggesting something a lot of us have been saying for awhile now... the U.S. market and dollar dive.
    http://biz.yahoo.com/fool/060925/115919648505.html

  • The World Bank is deporting farmers form their farmland
    22 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Two Via Campesina activists were detained by the Singapore authorities last night at Changi international airport and were deported this morning to Jakarta. They were interrogated for 14 hours continuously. They were not doing anything criminal and they had come to Singapore without any intention of disturbing the people of Singapore. But the officers kept saying that they were just obeying orders. Irma Yanni and Achmad Ya’kub, both working for the Federation of Indonesian Peasant Unions (…)

  • Breaking away as the only way out
    17 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Éric Toussaint
    The World Bank’s ongoing coup d’état
    The list of governments in power as a result of military coups and supported by the World Bank is impressive. Among the best known examples are the Shah’s dictatorship in Iran after Prime Minister Mossadegh was overthrown in 1953, the military dictatorship in Guatemala which the United States set up after the democratically elected president Jacobo Arbenz was overthrown in 1954, the Duvaliers in Haiti from 1957, General Park Chung (…)

  • Global Banking: The Bank for International Settlements (BIS)
    11 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Global Banking: The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Volume 5, Issue 11
    Preface
    When David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski founded the Trilateral Commission in 1973, the intent was to create a "New International Economic Order" (NIEO). To this end, they brought together 300 elite corporate, political and academic leaders from North America, Japan and Europe.
    Few people believed us when we wrote about their nefarious plans back then. Now, we look back and clearly see that (…)

  • The Money Masters: How International Bankers Gained Control Of America (Video part 1-3)
    11 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Money Masters: How International Bankers Gained Control Of America (Video part 1-3)
    ’An absolutely mind blowing film that covers the history of money and banking systems throughout Europe and America. It shows how a small group of men control countries through a corrupt system of finance and central banking, to enslave and oppress humanity.’ (Google video stream parts 1 - 3).
    1. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8442305921010099392&q=The+Money+Masters
    2. (…)

  • George Carlin - Who Really Controls America
    4 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    George Carlin - Who Really Controls America
    http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=935607276