Sunday, March 24, 2013
Bill Black : Financial Fraud From Cyprus to London to New York
The financial industry brought the economy to its knees, but how did they get away with it? With the nation wondering how to hold the bankers accountable, The Real News interviews Bill Black, the former senior regulator who cracked down on banks during the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s. Black offers his analysis of what went wrong and his critique of the bailout.
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation then by deflation, the banks and the corporations will grow up around them, will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."
Thomas Jefferson
Build Up To WW3: Nulear North Korea Shows Anti US Video. WHITE HOUSE & Capitol Building ATTACKED
The last thing any kind of ” smart ” person does is to let his ” enemy ” know what he is going to do before he does it. This guy Kim is waked out his mind … Which can make him a danger …. But to whom and how ? Saddest thing is these seem to be the only people we can count on to crush and defeat the tyranny of the Global Cayman Islands Tax Evading Tory-Trotskyite Zionazis I still have a feeling that our ( the U.S. criminal govt. ) will use this nut to take the blame for a false flag .
North Korea has produced another anti-US video - showing the iconic White House and Capitol building in flames.
The four-minute video titled "Firestorms will rain on the Headquarters of War" was posted on the YouTube channel of the North's official website, Uriminzokkiri, which distributes news and propaganda from the state media.
The first two minutes used still photos of US fighter jets, B-52 bombers and aircraft carriers to portray the United States as a bullying nuclear power intent on bending Pyongyang to its will.
"Second by second, the fuse of a nuclear war is burning," a female narrator warned.
It then showed a sniper's crosshairs superimposed over the White House, before switching to animated footage of the dome of the US Capitol building exploding in a fireball.
"There is no limit to the range of our strategic rockets," the narrator said.
Angered by UN sanctions imposed after its nuclear test last month, North Korea has threatened the
United States with a pre-emptive nuclear strike, as military tensions on the Korean peninsula escalated to their highest level for years.
Although experts say the North is years from being able to fire a nuclear-tipped ballistic mile as far as the US mainland, US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel responded Friday with plans to boost West Coast missile defences.
It was the latest in a line of similarly-themed videos posted to the Uriminzokkiri channel.
An offering early last month showed New York in flames after an apparent missile attack, and another two weeks later depicted US soldiers and President Barack Obama burning in the flames of a nuclear blast.
North Korea has produced another video showing the United States under attack, this time with the White House and the US Capitol literally in the crosshairs.
The four-minute video titled "Firestorms will rain on the Headquarters of War" was posted Monday on the YouTube channel of the North's official website, Uriminzokkiri, which distributes news and propaganda from the state media.
The first two minutes used still photos of US fighter jets, B-52 bombers and aircraft carriers to portray the United States as a bullying nuclear power intent on bending Pyongyang to its will.
"Second by second, the fuse of a nuclear war is burning," a female narrator warned.
At the same time the U.S. and South Korea were preparing to fly B-54 bombers over their country, North Korea released a propaganda video encouraging the bombing of the White House and U.S. Capitol Building.
"Firestorms will rain on the Headquarters of War" sits at about four minutes long and shows numerous minutes what are ostensibly North Korean troops firing hundreds of artillery rounds up in the air. After a few minutes of this, the video shows images of the White House and the U.S. Capitol Building overlaid by a targetting reticule and then a sort of community-access level fire-effect.
The news came as South Korea and the U.S. set to fly B-52 bombers over the North.
North Korea has produced another anti-US video - showing the iconic White House and Capitol building in flames.
The four-minute video titled "Firestorms will rain on the Headquarters of War" was posted on the YouTube channel of the North's official website, Uriminzokkiri, which distributes news and propaganda from the state media.
The first two minutes used still photos of US fighter jets, B-52 bombers and aircraft carriers to portray the United States as a bullying nuclear power intent on bending Pyongyang to its will.
"Second by second, the fuse of a nuclear war is burning," a female narrator warned.
It then showed a sniper's crosshairs superimposed over the White House, before switching to animated footage of the dome of the US Capitol building exploding in a fireball.
"There is no limit to the range of our strategic rockets," the narrator said.
Angered by UN sanctions imposed after its nuclear test last month, North Korea has threatened the
United States with a pre-emptive nuclear strike, as military tensions on the Korean peninsula escalated to their highest level for years.
Although experts say the North is years from being able to fire a nuclear-tipped ballistic mile as far as the US mainland, US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel responded Friday with plans to boost West Coast missile defences.
It was the latest in a line of similarly-themed videos posted to the Uriminzokkiri channel.
An offering early last month showed New York in flames after an apparent missile attack, and another two weeks later depicted US soldiers and President Barack Obama burning in the flames of a nuclear blast.
North Korea has produced another video showing the United States under attack, this time with the White House and the US Capitol literally in the crosshairs.
The four-minute video titled "Firestorms will rain on the Headquarters of War" was posted Monday on the YouTube channel of the North's official website, Uriminzokkiri, which distributes news and propaganda from the state media.
The first two minutes used still photos of US fighter jets, B-52 bombers and aircraft carriers to portray the United States as a bullying nuclear power intent on bending Pyongyang to its will.
"Second by second, the fuse of a nuclear war is burning," a female narrator warned.
At the same time the U.S. and South Korea were preparing to fly B-54 bombers over their country, North Korea released a propaganda video encouraging the bombing of the White House and U.S. Capitol Building.
"Firestorms will rain on the Headquarters of War" sits at about four minutes long and shows numerous minutes what are ostensibly North Korean troops firing hundreds of artillery rounds up in the air. After a few minutes of this, the video shows images of the White House and the U.S. Capitol Building overlaid by a targetting reticule and then a sort of community-access level fire-effect.
The news came as South Korea and the U.S. set to fly B-52 bombers over the North.
Nightmare unfolding in Cyprus, as plan hatched to seize 25% of large bank deposits
Nightmare unfolding in Cyprus, as plan hatched to seize 25% of large bank deposits
A similar “wealth tax” has already been brought into effect in India recently. The Indian government has decided to levy an addittional 10% (‘just for this year”) on those with an income exceeding INR 10000000 (apprx. USD 183,750) as well as those investing in property of similar values. Just because those with such declared earnings are below 50,000 (who in any case are an unrepresented minority), not even a whisper is audible. On the other hand the government has blatantly indulged vote bank politics by marginally lowering income tax for the lowest taxable slab.Forget India. On the news today California just announced a new business tax that will be retroactive for 5 years!!! Geesus, this will fast track any rebellion the elites want to create, what the heck, maybe they are trying to incite WWlll….. Now that IMF has things roiling in Europe, maybe California will be the catalyst that wakes the US people up. I’d say IMF is stirring the pot on purpose then.The excuse that it’s money being laundered from Russia makes no sense. Is the EU now Russia’s law enforcement agency. If the Russian government isn’t worried about where the money came from why is anybody else? The real precedent being set here is that if you deposit your money in a “foreign” bank in a debt ridden socialist utopia you may end up losing it to the bankrupt government. Presumably these accounts full of supposedly illicit Russian money are among the largest in the Cypriot banks and will suffer paying the largest share of the of the debt burden. If the Cypriots don’t cut a deal (drilling rights , basing rights, etc.) to pacify the Russians they won’t receive a dime from foreign depositors for years. What went on behind the scenes here? Did the EU see an opportunity to steal Russian money to collect what it’s owed? Did the Cypriot government see an opportunity to steal Russian money to pay it’s debt? Did the Russians perhaps push for this to gain leverage to get the mineral and basing rights they want? Will the EU and the US permit that? Why did the Russians send six warships to the meditteranian this week?
Is Water the next Oil ?
water the next strategic commodity
Water scarcity involves water stress, water deficits, water shortage and water crisis. The concept of water stress is relatively new. Water stress is the difficulty of obtaining sources of fresh water for use, because of depleting resources. A water crisis is a situation where the available potable, unpolluted water within a region is less than that region's demand U.N. chief warns of growing water scarcity U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned that by 2030, nearly half the world's population could be facing a scarcity of water, with demand outstripping supply by 40%. One in three people already live in a country with moderate to high water stress, Ban told a U.N. event marking the opening of the International Year of Water Cooperation 2013. It also marked the 20th anniversary of the proclamation of World Water Day. "Competition is growing among farmers and herders; industry and agriculture; town and country; upstream and downstream; and across borders," the secretary-general said. Ban said international cooperation is essential "to protect and manage this fragile, finite resource," especially as the world population grows and the climate changes. And with more people moving to urban areas, water use is projected to increase by 50% by 2025, said Ambassador Thomas Mayr-Harting, head of the European Union delegation to the United Nations. By that time, he said, roughly 5.5 billion people - two-thirds of the projected global population - "will live in areas facing moderate to severe water stress." Mayr-Harting said the U.N. Millennium Development Goal of cutting in half the proportion of people without access to clean water by 2015 is likely to be surpassed. But he said "over 780 million people today do not have access to improved sources of drinking water, especially in Africa, and major inequities remain." Davos 2013: water scarcity is 'second most important world risk' UN general secretary Ban Ki-moon tells Davos that we must appreciate water more as World Economic Forum recognises the scale of the problem -- but what is being done? We tend to look after only what we value. Perhaps that is the reason why we have literally been pouring the world's fresh water down the drain. Yesterday, Ban Ki-moon, secretary general at the United Nations, reminded presidents, business leaders and NGOs at a meeting in Davos that "most of us do not appreciate water. We just take it for granted. Someone with a lavish life, we say he is spending money like water." The secretary general likes to practice what he preaches; he keeps only a small jug of water in his office and exhorts his staff not to waste the precious resource. He wants the world to do the same. He is by no means alone. Christopher Chiza, Tanzania's minister of agriculture, said it was a crying shame that 80% of the water used for irrigation in his country goes to waste. But times are changing and the World Economic Forum (WEF) has recognised water scarcity as the second most important risk facing the world in the years ahead. The problem with finding solutions is that many developing countries have little idea of how to address the problem, and are not able to measure rainfall patterns or water usage. To complicate matters, answers do not lie in the hands of any one group in society and the debate is highly political.
Water scarcity involves water stress, water deficits, water shortage and water crisis. The concept of water stress is relatively new. Water stress is the difficulty of obtaining sources of fresh water for use, because of depleting resources. A water crisis is a situation where the available potable, unpolluted water within a region is less than that region's demand U.N. chief warns of growing water scarcity U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned that by 2030, nearly half the world's population could be facing a scarcity of water, with demand outstripping supply by 40%. One in three people already live in a country with moderate to high water stress, Ban told a U.N. event marking the opening of the International Year of Water Cooperation 2013. It also marked the 20th anniversary of the proclamation of World Water Day. "Competition is growing among farmers and herders; industry and agriculture; town and country; upstream and downstream; and across borders," the secretary-general said. Ban said international cooperation is essential "to protect and manage this fragile, finite resource," especially as the world population grows and the climate changes. And with more people moving to urban areas, water use is projected to increase by 50% by 2025, said Ambassador Thomas Mayr-Harting, head of the European Union delegation to the United Nations. By that time, he said, roughly 5.5 billion people - two-thirds of the projected global population - "will live in areas facing moderate to severe water stress." Mayr-Harting said the U.N. Millennium Development Goal of cutting in half the proportion of people without access to clean water by 2015 is likely to be surpassed. But he said "over 780 million people today do not have access to improved sources of drinking water, especially in Africa, and major inequities remain." Davos 2013: water scarcity is 'second most important world risk' UN general secretary Ban Ki-moon tells Davos that we must appreciate water more as World Economic Forum recognises the scale of the problem -- but what is being done? We tend to look after only what we value. Perhaps that is the reason why we have literally been pouring the world's fresh water down the drain. Yesterday, Ban Ki-moon, secretary general at the United Nations, reminded presidents, business leaders and NGOs at a meeting in Davos that "most of us do not appreciate water. We just take it for granted. Someone with a lavish life, we say he is spending money like water." The secretary general likes to practice what he preaches; he keeps only a small jug of water in his office and exhorts his staff not to waste the precious resource. He wants the world to do the same. He is by no means alone. Christopher Chiza, Tanzania's minister of agriculture, said it was a crying shame that 80% of the water used for irrigation in his country goes to waste. But times are changing and the World Economic Forum (WEF) has recognised water scarcity as the second most important risk facing the world in the years ahead. The problem with finding solutions is that many developing countries have little idea of how to address the problem, and are not able to measure rainfall patterns or water usage. To complicate matters, answers do not lie in the hands of any one group in society and the debate is highly political.
Bank Holiday Coming to America ?
BANK MANAGER VERIFIES CASH WITHDRAWL LIMITS AND REDUCED HOURS COMING TO US BANKS WITHIN 60 DAYS
Gentlemen: Just received a call from a highly agitated bank manager who stated that within 60 days, banks will be greatly reducing their hours, days of operation, amount of withdrawals and a requirement to fill out "paperwork" if the amount is questioned by bank officials. Unless the form is completed, money will not be disbursed. What really irritated this manager is that after hearing our statements on the air, and receiving years of assurance that our positions and contacts were so much bravo sierra, now he hears from corporate people that it is apparently true after all. He said, "screw them, grab the money while you can." The parameters given were banks open two days a week for four to five hours with below minimum staffs, increased security and greatly reduced amounts of actual cash in the vault. Amount of withdrawal will be held to $500-2000 per day per customer account--not customer. So my account could only have either my wife or I withdraw, not both. That level could change at ANY time. There is no plan (at least known) for automatic confiscation from accounts--yet, and he said that the banks hold the "ownership" authority and final disposition of any items found in safety deposit boxes. (surprise, surprise!) Withholding mortgage payments could result in expedited (30) day foreclosures and 15 day Sheriff's locks on your front door.
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