U.S. Income Inequality Higher Than Roman Empire’s Levels: Study December 20, 2011 Print Version Source: Huffington Post Many tout the U.S. as the Roman empire of the modern world. But as it turns out, that comparison may not be all good. Income inequality in America is at levels even higher than those in ancient [...]
30 Major U.S. Corporations Paid More to Lobby Congress Than Income Taxes, 2008-2010 December 10, 2011 Print Version Source: International Business Times By employing a plethora of tax-dodging techniques, 30 multi-million dollar American corporations expended more money lobbying Congress than they paid in federal income taxes between 2008 and 2010, ultimately spending approximately $400,000 every [...]
Was Blagojevich Arrested On Corruption Charges After Going Up Against Bank of America? Posted by Camron Wiltshire on December 9, 2011 Site’ editor’s note: Former Illinois Governor Rob Blagojevich was sentenced to 14 years this week after being convicted of a wide range of corruption charges, including the allegation that he tried to sell the [...]
Class of Homebuyers Claims BofA Found a New Dirty Trick December 7th, 2011 This one will take your breath away. Via: Courthouse New Service: Bank of America found a new way to illegally extract money from customers, according to a federal class action: deduct taxes and insurance from mortgage payments, even though the homebuyers [...]
Wall Street’s “Secret Government” December 2nd, 2011 Via: Alternet: We now have concrete evidence that Wall Street and Washington are running a secret government far removed from the democratic process. Through a freedom of information request by Bloomberg News, the public now has access to over 29,000 pages of Fed documents and 21,000 additional Fed [...]
Turns out the ‘Government Sachs’ conspiracy theorists were right all along December 2, 2011 Print Version By Madison Ruppert EndTheLie.com In a shocking article published in Reuters, Felix Salmon confirmed what the so-called conspiracy theorists have said all along: former Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Hank Paulson was giving insider tips to his cronies at Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street [...]
Open Letter to Mayor Sam Adams from Occupy Portland Liason Team Introduction by Mark Vorpahl The following Open Letter is from the Occupy Portland Liaison Team to Portland Mayor Sam Adams. It was written in the wake of not only massive police violence against the supporters of the Occupy Movement in Portland on the weekend [...]
Furious at Latest U.S. Attack, Pakistan Shuts Down Resupply Routes to Afghanistan “Permanently” Written by John Daly Thursday, 01 December 2011 02:52 Message : Investors: Get a free copy of our latest investment report: The Biggest Upside Stock in the Bakken Oil Formation.This junior company already has great operational success on its huge Bakken land [...]
Occupy Movement: Next Step Convergence The US Occupy movement is at a critical point. To succeed it must develop a message of specific solutions to fix our broken system. People are seeing the next step as advocacy for constitutional amendments proposed through an Article V convention. by Joel S. Hirschhorn (libertarian) Contact Joel S. Hirschhorn [...]
Foreclosure Fraud Whistleblower Found Dead November 30, 2011 Print Version Source: MSNBC A notary public who signed tens of thousands of false documents in a massive foreclosure scam before blowing the whistle on the scandal has been found dead in her Las Vegas home. NBC station KSNV of Las Vegas reported that the woman, Tracy [...]
November 30, 2011 Print Version Source: RawStory Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) called for the U.S. Federal Reserve to be reformed after Bloomberg reported the central bank secretly loaned nearly $8 trillion to financial institutions from 2007 to 2009. Tens of thousands of documents obtained by Bloomberg under the Freedom of Information Act showed that [...]
Fed secretly handed out $8 trillion November 28, 2011 Print Version Source: RT We knew the last bailout from the Federal Reserve was pretty big, but not until now did we have statistics on the actually tally. If you thought that the $700 billion bailout for TARP was big, get a load of this. Just [...]
Hugo Chavez Brings First Shipment of Gold to Venezuela From Foreign Vaults as Global Economy Slides November 26, 2011 Print Version By Madison Ruppert – Editor of End the Lie In August Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez announced that he would be repatriating the foreign-held gold reserves in American and European banks and they received the [...]
The Return Of Debtors Prisons: Collection Agencies Now Want Deadbeats Arrested November 25, 2011 Print Version Source: Daily Ticker More than one-third of US states allow debtors to be arrested and jailed, says Jessica Silver-Greenberg in the Wall Street Journal. Judges typically grant arrest warrants when the debtors have failed to show up for [...]
AIG Sues U.S. Taxpayers for 25 Billion…Really. « on: November 23, 2011, 03:04:09 AM » A company run by former American International Group Chief Executive Maurice “Hank” Greenberg Monday filed a $25 billion lawsuit against the United States, claiming that the government takeover of the insurer was unconstitutional. In its complaint, Greenberg’s Starr [...]
