Tag: corruption
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BRICS COULD HELP FUND GREECE IF ATHENS APPLIED
Greece Can Easily Get Funding From BRICS Bank: Russia BRICS Annual Summit Opens Today in Russian City of Ufa and Greece Is Likely to Be on the Agenda In response to an article in the London’s Financial Times almost a month ago (June 13), this writer said among other things: What if Greece decided it…
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€URO WAS DOOMED FROM THE START, EVEN BEFORE ITS BIRTH
€URO WAS DOOMED FROM THE START, EVEN BEFORE IT WAS BORN I recently exchanged some correspondence with a learned longtime friend and fellow-columnist from Australia who also monitors events in Europe closely. We “chatted” long distance about the €uro and the Greek crises. I reminded my friend of a column I wrote in 1998 (A…
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GREECE SAYS “OXI” (N€IN-NO) TO EURO/GLOBAL BANKSTERS… NOW WHAT?
OFFICIAL PROJECTION: “NO” SIDE TO WIN WITH 61% Greece says N€IN (NO) to Euro/Global Banksters As of 11:04 PDT, Greece’s interior ministry has released an official projection, showing that the no side is set to win by 61%. That is a landslide result for the government, which had urged people to reject the bailout proposals…
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“YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR:” US SUPREME COURT MAKES IT OFFICIAL (ACT III)
US SUPREME COURT LEGALIZES GAY AND LESBIAN MARRIAGE: SO WHAT? WHAT KENNEDY WANTS, KENNEDY GETS ‘I don’t have any problem with gay and lesbian marriage per se. But I have a big problem with how the Supreme Court arrived at that decision.’ (author of this article) “You Get What You Pay For:” US Supreme Court Makes…
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USURY AND TREATIES BASED ON HUMILIATION DON’T WORK
USURY AND TREATIES BASED ON HUMILIATION OF ONE SIDE DON’T WORK USURY – All usury was banned by Christian doctrine, as it was by Muslim doctrine. In the late Middle Ages the problem of financing the royal exchequer and setting up capitalist institutions in the face of the Christian ban on usury was resolved by…
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BILLARY CLINTON CASHING IN ON WHITE HOUSE FAME (AND INFAMY)
PAYBACK TIME FOR THE CLINTONS: THEY HAVE MADE OVER $25 MILLION IN SPEAKING FEES SINCE EARLY 2014 “We came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt,” Hillary Clinton told ABC in an interview on June 9 of last year. We came out of the White House not only dead broke,…
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DRONES THAT ACTUALLY SERVE, RATHER THAN KILL, ARE NOT SO WELCOME IN THE U.S.
Drone. What does that word connote in your mind? Death and destruction? And maybe spying, too? On us, Americans. Under the pretext of protecting us from “terrorism.” Talk about a fox guarding a chicken coop. Or a pot calling a kettle black. If you’re like most Americans whose minds are programmed by TV and Hollywood…
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GREED & ILLUSION OF CHOICE: NOBODY OWNS ANYTHING IN THE UNIVERSE
COMMENT: NOBODY OWNS ANYTHING IN THE UNIVERSE A reaction to Prof Robert Reich’s piece “The Conundrum of Corporation and Nation“ The problem with corporatocracy like ours in America is that it is driven by Greed. “Making money” is a euphemism for Greed. Which has come to connote “Goodness” thanks to our corrupt systems of government.…
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TOP ONE PERCENT HAVE AS MUCH WEALTH THE BOTTOM HALF
ERA OF GREED & PLUTOCRACY: RICH GOT RICHER UNDER OBAMA We live in an era of greed and plutocracy. That’s nothing new, of course. But things are getting worse for all but the top echelon of the New World Order. “Having it all and wanting more”, reads the headline of the Oxfam report released today. “Global…
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WORDS OF PRESIDENTIAL WISDOM WE DID NOT HEED…
…AND WHY WE HAVE FAILED TO HONOR AND PROTECT THEIR LEGACIES Abe, Ike, JFK, among others, warned us – the future generations of Americans. We did not heed their words of wisdom. We shrugged and shrank from our duties as free people. We turned into couch potatoes and allowed the corporations to usurp our liberties…
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