Tag: banksters
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mugabe, sanctions & sham elections
mugabe once again sworn in as presidentfrom press tv: Robert Mugabe is once again sworn in as Zimbabwean president after being declared the landslide winner of the country’s much-disputed election. The electoral commission said Mugabe won 85.51 percent of the vote compared to 43.2 percent in elections in March won by Tsvangirai with 47.9 percent…
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US stock plunge makes worst june since 1930
from cnn/money: U.S. stocks fell sharply Thursday with the blue-chip index enduring its worst June so far since 1930, and plunging to its lowest finish since Sept. 11, 2006, after getting slammed hard as crude soared to new highs and Goldman Sachs disparaged U.S. brokers and advised selling General Motors Corp. “We’re going to move…
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paulson power, global crash, US 4 sale & $timulus
paulson to urge new fed powersfrom washington post: Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. plans to call today for the Federal Reserve to be given new, explicit powers to intervene in the workings of Wall Street firms to protect the financial system, adapting his vision of how the financial world should be regulated to reflect…
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felonious soros warns of market crash
from guardian: George Soros, the billionaire hedge fund manager, will warn later today that the oil price has become a bubble that could trigger a stock market crash. The Financial Times reported today that Soros will tell the US Senate commerce committee that oil was pushed to its recent all-time peak of $135 a barrel…
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unions, currencies & the consolidation of power
south america nations found unionfrom bbc: The leaders of 12 South American nations have formed a regional body aimed at boosting economic and political integration in the region. At a summit in Brazil, they signed a treaty which created the Union of South American Nations (Unasur). Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said the…
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carlyle, cops, main core, youtube, turnpikes & redlights
carlyle group to acquire booz allen hamiltonfrom deseret news: Carlyle Group, the private-equity firm run by David Rubenstein, agreed to acquire Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.’s U.S. government-consulting business for $2.54 billion, its biggest buyout since the credit markets collapsed in July… The Booz Allen government-consulting unit has more than 18,000 employees and annual sales of…
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“If I Was a Terrorist” – By A Retired Navy Serviceman
from 8thestate: I received this in an email, and while I can’t confirm the identity of the messenger; his message seems apropos to what’s going on in America, so it seemed logical and reasonable to offer it to you in this context.
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states seize citizens’ property to balance their budgets
from abc: The 50 U.S. states are holding more than $32 billion worth of unclaimed property that they’re supposed to safeguard for their citizens. But a “Good Morning America” investigation found some states aggressively seize property that isn’t really unclaimed and then use the money — your money — to balance their budgets. related: house…
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wamu gets $7b infusion, cuts jobs, sees big loss
from reuters: Washington Mutual Inc, the largest U.S. savings and loan, said on Tuesday it obtained a $7 billion capital injection from private equity firm TPG Inc and other investors, but that mortgage problems will lead to a $1.1 billion quarterly loss and the elimination of 3,000 jobs… WaMu, as the thrift is known, said…
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1child, wall st mafia, fb-spy, mindread, bluebrain & moloch
premier says china will stick with one-child policyfrom afp: China will stick with its strict family planning rules, Premier Wen Jiabao said Wednesday, in an apparent rebuttal to officials who raised the possibility of changes to the one-child policy. “We will adhere to the current policy of family planning, keep the birthrate low, improve the…
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fed crisis, somali slaughter, chavez, shad, cia-pak
fed releases crisis preparedness videofrom rogue government: The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta this past January released a video on crisis preparedness. The timing of such a video being released is suspicious considering the prospect of bank failures and an inflationary collapse of the U.S. monetary system loom large… download the video here because youtube…
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radiation pills, blackwater ills, gold & a ‘gannon moment’
white house drops anti-radiation pill planfrom upi: The Bush administration has dropped a program to distribute anti-radiation pills to citizens who live near nuclear reactors, officials said. John Marburger, U.S. President George Bush’s top science adviser, said Monday the over-the-counter potassium iodide pills “offer negligible additional protection” against radiation exposure and there were more effective…
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scientology, spy drones, tasers & insider trading
will smith boosting scientologyfrom ny daily news: Will Smith has joined the ranks of Hollywood power players actively recruiting for the Church of Scientology… Smith, who is best buddies with Scientology booster Tom Cruise, has never confirmed that he joined the church. But he told “Access Hollywood” last month: “I was introduced to it by…
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biosensors, whistleblowers & plunge protection team
nyc wants more bioweapons sensorsfrom washinton post: City officials last month quietly activated some of the nation’s newest generation of early warning sensors to detect a biological attack, turning on a limited number of filing-cabinet-size air filters in sensitive, high-volume areas of Manhattan. But city officials say their effort to expand the program has run…
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settlement reached over loss of jfk archive in 9/11
from amateur photographer: The estate of President John F Kennedy’s personal photographer Jacques Lowe has accepted an undisclosed sum from JP Morgan Chase bank over the loss of 40,000 negatives in 9/11. Jacques Lowe’s treasured archive had been stored in a safe deposit box, housed within the vaults of 5 World Trade Center – a…