Category Archives: Financial Terrorism
MAY DAY 2014: WORKING MEN SHOULD BE PISSED
So it’s International Worker’s Day…to paraphrase D. Boon from the video above, I’ll put it in simple words why working men (and women) are (or should be) pissed… 1. Banks got bailed out by workers while banks continue to prey … Continue reading
BANKS ARE A THREAT TO SOCIETY, NOT MARY MCCULLEY
This is unbelievable. Absurd. Kafkaesque. Mary McCulley was sent to jail yesterday because supposedly she is a “public risk” and doesn’t “respect the law”: “BUTTE – A federal judge chose to give a Kentucky woman a longer prison sentence than … Continue reading
FORGET HEARINGS, JAIL BANKERS
Indeed, these will be hearings (if and when they happen) on financial faux pas, not financial terrorism–and the second kind is the kind we need… Having new hearings on the Independent Foreclosure Review–which was abruptly ended by a settlement in … Continue reading
WHO OWNS WHAT: BANKS AND THE NEW FEUDALISM
In a new Salon article, David Dayen eloquently sums up root cause of the new feudalism, which is being helped along by the federal government and federal courts: “Many focus on how the failure to prosecute financial crimes, by Attorney … Continue reading
HAS THE WORM TURNED? WELLS FARGO MANUAL ADMITTED INTO EVIDENCE
Soon we will have a new deposition to pore and obsess over, getting ever closer to that sweet day when all of this foreclosure fraud is out in the open! Housing Wire explains: “A New York judge ruled that Wells … Continue reading
DEBT BY DESIGN: “IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO WORK YOUR WAY THROUGH COLLEGE NOW…”
And that’s the point of all these bubbles, and QE, and ZIRP, and inflation– it forces you to finance what you could once buy outright through working. This is the true end game of the “Nixon Shock,” petrodollar, credit bubbles, etc. … Continue reading
THE SOLUTION: SINCE THE MONEY ISN’T REAL, THE DEBT ISN’T EITHER
Very interesting commentary from David Graeber (Occupy movement leader and author of “Debt: The First 5,000 Years“) on the Bank of England’s recent admission that money is created out of thin air. Graeber sounds as excited as me in describing … Continue reading
THE WAY THINGS REALLY WORK: SWAPS AND SYRIA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS5DOg-_XXE A couple of interesting stories read over the weekend about how–not to beat a dead horse (because this horse is very much alive)–everything is rigged, from the “economy” to war. First a great one from Ellen Brown regarding interest-rate … Continue reading