by Suzanne Phillips
How a cleverly devised banking system robs the average person of the right to a decent life while providing enormous wealth for its corporate owners and stockholders
On May 23, 1933, Congressman, Louis T. McFadden, brought formal charges against the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Bank system, The Comptroller of the Currency and the Secretary of United States Treasury for numerous criminal acts, including but not limited to, conspiracy, fraud, unlawful (...)
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Heal The Money System Heal Society
17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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HANGING BY A THREAD
17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
HANGING BY A THREAD
By Peter Fredson
February 17, 2006
Yesterday I wrote a blog about the possibility of administration printing presses “counterfeiting” money. What happens when a nation keeps printing paper money without a backing in gold, silver or platinum reserves?
I pointed out that Germany once printed postage stamps which sold for thousands or hundreds of thousands of Deutschmarks, and that people to buy bread would take a wheelbarrow full of paper money to the store.
I (...) -
Labor movement gets a face-lift
17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
By Jane M. Von Bergen
"Awesome night," said Stephani Passaro, 21, shivering as she ducked into a minivan after a cold night knocking on doors this week in Bensalem’s suburban cul-de-sacs to talk about issues affecting working families.
It was awesome. No dogs chased Passaro and her nine fellow canvassers. Hardly anyone slammed doors on them, and they signed up 275 members to Working America, a 1.2-million-member grassroots affiliate of the AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest federation of (...) -
DEATH TO COUNTERFEITERS
16 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsDEATH TO COUNTERFEITERS
By Peter Fredson
February 16, 2006
Once I owned a small, gray, coarse paper bill, issued in Revolutionary days of the U.S. It was crudely hand-etched and printed on a small hand press. On it were the words: DEATH TO COUNTERFEITERS. Counterfeiters would have had an easy time printing any denomination of bill for the technical skill was minimal. The temptation to print money in those days of poverty and tumult must have been enormous, hence the penalty of (...) -
It’s capitalism or a habitable planet - you can’t have both
5 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentOur economic system is unsustainable by its very nature. The only response to climate chaos and peak oil is major social change
by Robert Newman
There is no meaningful response to climate change without massive social change. A cap on this and a quota on the other won’t do it. Tinker at the edges as we may, we cannot sustain earth’s life-support systems within the present economic system.
Capitalism is not sustainable by its very nature. It is predicated on infinitely expanding (...) -
US Official Admits He Smuggled $2m Of Aid Meant For Iraq
4 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
US Official Admits He Smuggled $2m Of Aid Meant For Iraq By Rupert Cornwell in Washington Published: 03 February 2006
In the first US corruption conviction relating to the occupation of Iraq, a former official pleaded guilty yesterday to stealing more than $2m (£1.13m) of reconstruction funds and taking more than $1m worth of contract kickbacks under a deal with an American businessman.
Robert Stein, 50, a contractor working for the now disbanded Coalition Provisional Authority, had a (...) -
THE END OF U.S. AID?
2 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsBy William Fisher
Foreign affairs experts agree that the Bush Administration is quietly using the Chinese water-torture method to slowly engineer the death of America’s traditional system for delivering foreign aid ? and some of them think it ?s not such a bad idea.
They point to the creation of the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) and the U.S. Global AIDS initiative outside the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), where such programs would normally be located. And, as (...) -
Government by Giveaway
31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
By Michael Parenti
In December 2005, the reactionaries who are running the government and ruining the country decided to cut about $42 billion from the human services budget over the next few years. Most of the cuts will come out of the hides of the very poorest among us. The victims include persons afflicted with disabling diseases who already have trouble trying to live on a monthly federal pittance.
But there is another side to this Scrooge story. There are others among us who are (...) -
Corporate Wealth Share Rises for Top-Income Americans
31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON Published: January 29, 2006
New government data indicate that the concentration of corporate wealth among the highest-income Americans grew significantly in 2003, as a trend that began in 1991 accelerated in the first year that President Bush and Congress cut taxes on capital.
In 2003 the top 1 percent of households owned 57.5 percent of corporate wealth, up from 53.4 percent the year before, according to a Congressional Budget Office analysis of the latest income (...) -
America Is Being Plundered by the Global Elite
31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsby The August Review
America is For Sale. The sale is "under the table" in that the American people don’t have a clue that it’s being slowly sold out from under their feet, one piece at a time. The sale is deceptive because as the red ink grows larger and larger, we are told by these same globalists that trade and budget deficits don’t really matter that much.
The sale is dishonest because it was planned from the beginning by elitist groups like the Trilateral Commission, to twist and (...)