Tag: rothschild
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geopolitiks: landslides, lockerbie, bodysnatchers & bombs
japanese election upends long-ruling party*opposition party wins by landslide*yukio hatoyama named prime minister*lockerbie convict hospitalized amid questions over prognosis*rothschild said to start fund*as lisbon looms, rothschild replaces merrill to advise on irish banking rejig*pinochet purges arrests ordered*former israeli pm ehud olmert indicted*’israeli bodysnatchers’: palestinian organ story has government in frenzied denial mode*el-baradei calls iranian threat…
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rothschild & freshfields founders had links to slavery, papers reveal
from financial times: Two of the biggest names in the City of London had previously undisclosed links to slavery in the British colonies, documents seen by the Financial Times have revealed. Nathan Mayer Rothschild, the banking family’s 19th-century patriarch, and James William Freshfield, founder of Freshfields, the top City law firm, benefited financially from slavery,…
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econocrash: panic, ponzi, predictions, scenarios & nightmares
8 really, really scary predictionsfrom fortune: Dow 4,000. Food shortages. A bubble in Treasury notes. Fortune spoke to eight of the market’s sharpest thinkers and what they had to say about the future is frightening… Nouriel Roubini: “We are in the middle of a very severe recession that’s going to continue through all of 2009…
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econocrash: unemployment, protests, transparency & theft
unemployed nationfrom abcnews: Carol Steinbrecher is a 55-year-old mother of three who, like many Americans, has spent most of her life working hard to provide the best for her family. But today she is part of another group of Americans, one that is growing larger every day: the unemployed. In the first ten months of…