The United States of Plutocracy

Posted on Sep 8, 2009
By William Pfaff

The United States has for practical purposes been a plutocracy for some years now. American national elections usually function more or less correctly, except that they have become all but completely dominated by money.
The contributors of money to Senate and House campaigns are dominated by the source of that money, and the [...]

Bilderberg 2009 Attendee List (revised)

Factsnews: This may or may not be the official list. It was translated automatically using Google Translate. From Infowars.com.
kurt@infowars.com

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Dutch Queen Beatrix
Queen Sofia of Spain
Prince Constantijn (Belgian Prince)
Prince Philippe Etienne Ntavinion, Belgium
Étienne, Viscount Davignon, Belgium (former vice-president of the European Commission)
Josef Ackermann (Swiss banker and CEO of Deutsche Bank)
Keith B. Alexander, United States (Lieutenant General, U.S. Army, Director [...]

Greece: maximum security measures for the group “Bilderberg” in Athens

Translated using Google Translate – (please excuse the grammar)
ATHENS – The Bilderberg Group, which meets every year the figures of the global elite of politics and business, Thursday began a two-day conference in a palace near Athens protected by extraordinary security measures, found AFP.
The vicinity of the Astir Palace, luxury hotel in the seaside suburb [...]

F*** The RIAA! No Seriously…

This morning, the number one story on Digg is “The Pirate Bay Trial: The Official Verdict – Guilty”. 
Excerpt from TorrentFreak.com
Just minutes ago the verdict in the case of The Pirate Bay Four was announced. All four defendants were accused of ‘assisting in making copyright content available’. Peter Sunde: Guilty. Fredrik Neij: Guilty. Gottfrid Svartholm: Guilty. [...]

Sadiq Khan says US foreign policy on Pakistan is damaging Britain

By Jamie Doward and Rajeev Syal
Observer.gaurdian.co.uk

Young Pakistanis ‘blame UK for drone deaths’

Sadiq Khan: claims the UK must distance itself from American foreign policy. Photograph: Jeff Overs/BBC/PA Wire

The UK must distance itself from American foreign policy if Pakistani youths are to be prevented from growing up hating Britain, according to the government’s social cohesion minister.
The comments by Sadiq Khan, who has [...]

ANALYSIS: What if the world all used the same currency?

There is an aricle on MSNBC written by John W. Schoen, Senior producer, that discusses the pros and cons of a global currency. It starts out with:
With the value of the dollar jumping up and down against other countries’ currencies, what if the world just agreed to use the same currency? It sounds like a simple idea. But like [...]

Borderless World the Long-held Dream of Bilderberg Group

By James P. Tucker, Jr.
Bilderberg will continue to push for world government at the May 14-19 secret meeting in Vouliagmeni, Greece, according to a participant. Alice Rivlin, who has represented the Brookings Institution at Bilderberg, smiled and nodded when asked if the agenda this year includes “world government, a world without borders and an American [...]

G-20 European Summit Could Trigger ‘Summer of Rage’

By Victor Thorn
www.americanfreepress.net
“A tsunami of dissent is coming, and it is not clear what will remain and what will be remade.” These are the words of UK journalist Micah White, and fear is now starting to build in Europe that a “summer of rage” may sweep across the continent.
Torcuil Crichton of The Herald described how [...]

USA has Two Options to Save its Economy: Declare Default or Trigger a War

By Ekaterina Yevstigneyeva~Global Research
The United States is the largest borrower in the world. The US national debt has already exceeded the level of 11 trillion dollars as of the beginning of 2009 and continues to grow like an avalanche. Experts say that the USA has only two ways to solve the problem: to either declare [...]

AIG Gets Flak Over Bonuses, But Derivatives Bailouts Are Where The Big Money Is

AIG has once again been paying out sums of money so enormous that you need to annex part of your brain just to comprehend them. It’s spending its bailout cash on the debatable (the wronged counterparties in its derivatives trading) and the outright bad (its employees via fat bonuses).
First, the juicy villainy. Over the weekend, [...]