Enough With The Government Cover-Ups

Edward Harrison, 01.12.10, 04:20 PM EST What really happened to AIG and other bankrupt firms. It has come to light recently that American International Group withheld important information about its dealings with financial counterparties in the lead-up to its collapse and bailout by the Federal Reserve. What is most troubling about this episode is that [...]

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 [...]

The New American Plutocracy

by Paul Kurtz The following article is from Free Inquiry magazine, Volume 20, Number 4. Plutocracy: (1) government by the wealthy, (2) a controlling class of the wealthy. From the Greek ploutokratia, from ploutos, wealth, and kratia, advocate of a form of government. I am deeply troubled by the fact that in the upcoming presidential and [...]

Remind all your elected servants that ….

they are bound by the Government Code of Ethics…. Code of Ethics for Government Service House Document 103, 86th Congress, 1st Session – Passed by the Congress of the United States on July 11, 1958. ANY PERSON IN GOVERNMENT SERVICE SHOULD: I. Put loyalty to the highest moral principles above loyalty to persons, party, or [...]

BLAST FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE: “Bin Laden scorns Obama charm offensive”

Link:http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ggUtq3Mx9csdaQ6SjekFIAnF16NA “Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden on Wednesday scorned Barack Obama’s overture to the Islamic world and warned of decades of conflict, at the start of the US president’s Middle East charm offensive.” [Note that AFP takes for granted that CIA asset Osama bin Laden is still around. He's not. -He's dead.] Probe into ‘Bin Laden [...]

The UNITED STATES Isn’t a Country – It’s a Corporation!

    http://members.iimetro.com.au/~hubbca/corp_us.htm In preparation for stealing America, the puppets of Britain’s banking cabal had already created a second government, a Shadow Government designed to manage what the common herd believed was a democracy, but what really was an incorporated UNITED STATES. Together this chimera, this two-headed monster, disallowed the common herd all rights of [...]

Bush and Obama Administrations Both Violated Law By Refusing to Close Insolvent Banks

by George Washington www.opednews.com Geithner’s statements that he didn’t have the power to close down the big banks is false. Moreover, Geithner and Paulson actually broke the law which requires the government to close down insolvent banks, no matter how big. The Prompt Corrective Action Law (PCA) – 12 U.S.C. § 1831o – not only [...]

Silent Weapons for a Quiet War – LEAKED

Factsnews – The following are excerpts from a document that was supposedly found in 1986 in a copier purchased by IBM. It details the “Quiet War” being conducted by the elites in America and all over the world. Consequently, in the interest of future world order, peace, and tranquillity, it was decided to privately wage [...]

Guantanamo Bay Under Obama – More of the same?

Stephen LendmanGlobal ResearchMarch 9, 2009 As The New York Times reported on January 22, Barack Obama signed Executive Orders (EOs) banning torture and “directing the CIA to shut what remains of its network of secret prisons and ordering the closing of the Guantanamo detention camp within a year, government official said.” The closure EO is [...]

Visualizing One Trillion Dollars

by WallStats.com on 3/12/2009

It’s official, trillion is the new billion. No longer is government spending talked about in terms of a mere ten digits. With the recent flurry of government spending, we are going to need another three zeros to make sense of it all.

One trillion dollars; it’s a number that few people can comprehend, let alone your standard nine digit calculator. There have been attempts to put this number into perspective before. A trillion dollar bills laid end to end would reach the sun or you spend a dollar per second for 32,000 years or one trillion dollars in pennies would weigh as much as 2,755,778 Argentinosauruses (the largest known dinosaur). Fanciful as this may be, the real story behind one trillion dollars is in its economic impact. Let’s investigate what one trillion dollars can do.