Jan 27, 2012 | Globalist Corporations
BP Accuses Halliburton of Destroying Critical Evidence In December 2011, BP filed a motion in federal court accusing Halliburton of intentionally destroying evidence related to cement work performed on the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico. The well’s blowout...
Jan 27, 2012 | Central Banking Elite
The Hidden Financial Backers Behind Occupy Wall Street When protesters flooded lower Manhattan in late 2011 under the banner of Occupy Wall Street, the movement was widely characterized as a spontaneous, leaderless uprising against corporate greed and financial...
Jan 27, 2012 | Globalist Corporations
In 2011, Iowa State University entomologist Aaron Gassmann published research confirming what Midwest farmers had been reporting from their fields: the Western corn rootworm beetle had developed resistance to the primary genetically engineered defense designed to kill...
Jan 27, 2012 | Abuses of Power, Globalist Corporations
The Expansion of Domestic Surveillance and Security Infrastructure By the early 2010s, a vast and rapidly growing network of surveillance technologies, security protocols, and legal frameworks had fundamentally reshaped the relationship between American citizens and...
Jan 27, 2012 | Globalist Corporations
In late 2011, reports emerged that Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR) was seeking subcontractors to staff and equip emergency detention facilities across five regions of the United States. The development drew attention because it followed several...
Jan 27, 2012 | Globalist Corporations
The U.S. economy underwent a significant structural transformation in the first decade of the 21st century, with persistent trade deficits, accelerating manufacturing job losses, and a growing dependency on foreign goods and energy reshaping the economic landscape....
Jan 27, 2012 | Central Banking Elite, Taboo Terminology
By Jonathan Azaziah Disinformation is defined as ‘misinformation that is deliberately disseminated in order to influence or confuse rivals.’ It is used by governments to mislead and brainwash their citizen populations, instigate wars, and blackmail foreign regimes. It...
Jan 27, 2012 | Central Banking Elite
The Grievances Behind Occupy Wall Street In September 2011, approximately 2,000 protesters gathered on Wall Street in lower Manhattan to launch what would become one of the most significant populist movements in recent American history. Unlike the Tea Party movement,...
Jan 27, 2012 | Central Banking Elite
How Banking Dynasties Shaped the Federal Reserve System The origins of the Federal Reserve reveal an intricate web of financial power that stretches from London to Wall Street. A congressional staff report published in 1976 by the House Banking Committee traced the...
Jan 27, 2012 | Central Banking Elite
Inside Zuccotti Park: A Firsthand Account of Early Occupy Wall Street On September 24, 2011, just days after the Occupy Wall Street movement began in New York City’s Zuccotti Park, the encampment was already developing the organizational structures and diverse...
Jan 27, 2012 | Central Banking Elite
The United States effectively operates with two budgets. One is the official federal budget, publicly debated and funded through taxation, covering everything from military spending and agricultural subsidies to Medicare and public-sector salaries. The other is an...
Jan 27, 2012 | Central Banking Elite, Video
Jan 27, 2012 | Central Banking Elite
By Steve Goldstein WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The Federal Reserve released earnings for 2010, with the central bank’s profit growing to $81.7 billion, a record high, from $53.4 billion, mostly due to growing interest earnings on federal agency and...
Jan 27, 2012 | Central Banking Elite
(Part one of a four-part series) The Four Horsemen of Banking (Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup and Wells Fargo) own the Four Horsemen of Oil (Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch/Shell, BP and Chevron Texaco); in tandem with Deutsche Bank, BNP, Barclays and other...
Jan 27, 2012 | Central Banking Elite, Video
Jan 27, 2012 | Central Banking Elite
WASHINGTON, March 31 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today questioned why the Federal Reserve provided more than $26 billion in credit to an Arab intermediary for the Central Bank of Libya. The total includes at least $3.2 billion in loans that the Fed was forced to...
Jan 27, 2012 | Central Banking Elite, Video
Reports of NYPD Officers Refusing to Work in Solidarity In late September 2011, as the Occupy Wall Street movement gained momentum in New York City, the protest’s organizers issued a statement on their website claiming that “over one hundred blue collar...
Jan 27, 2012 | Central Banking Elite, Video
The Sovereign People’s Movement, represented nationally through the people occupying the various Liberty Square locations across this great country, have laid out and democratically submitted and are currently voting on the list of following Demands to then be...
Jan 27, 2012 | Central Banking Elite
Largest Banks Likely Profited By Borrowing From Federal Reserve, Lending To Federal Government Get Business Alerts A newly-released study from the Congressional Research Service bolsters claims that the nation’s largest banks profited off the Federal...
Jan 27, 2012 | Central Banking Elite
A team of bankers starts to tap the country’s vast mineral riches, with help from the Pentagon. By James Bandler, editor-at-large Villagers assembled for a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the gold mine in Qara Zaghan. The U.S. government estimates that minerals worth...
Jan 27, 2012 | Central Banking Elite
Kase and Eileen Lawal at the CAMAC 25th anniversary party at Hobby Center. / HC 0 inShare Comments (0) Larger | Smaller Printable Version Email This Font A private jet that flew four international businessmen to the Democratic Republic of the Congo where they...
Jan 27, 2012 | Central Banking Elite
U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke’s two-year fight to shield crisis-squeezed banks from the stigma of revealing their public loans protected a lender to local governments in Belgium, a Japanese fishing-cooperative financier and a company part-owned by the...
Jan 27, 2012 | Central Banking Elite
(Kyle Cassidy) Wells Fargo is meeting today at noon with the Philadelphia homeowner who “foreclosed” on them, The Consumerist has exclusively learned. Patrick says he “received a call from upon high” late yesterday and that he now has an...
Jan 27, 2012 | Central Banking Elite
The objective of the war against Libya is not just its oil reserves (now estimated at 60 billion barrels), which are the greatest in Africa and whose extraction costs are among the lowest in the world, nor the natural gas reserves of which are estimated at about 1,500...
Jan 27, 2012 | Central Banking Elite
The Occupy Wall Street movement had been going strong for over a week in September 2011, and its profile was rising rapidly across both independent and mainstream media. Despite early skepticism — including my own — about whether a small group of demonstrators could...