10 Aug 2012
'NATO after opportunity to enter Syria'
Black Panther Veteran Warns of A Trojan Horse or "Fascist Swine" Named Obama
Fatal Distraction (Part I) "Bombing Sudan, Clinton and Lewinsky"
Introducing the Gulf State Despots: 10 Facts about Saudi Arabia
Tony Cartalucci: The Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC)
comprises of 6 nations, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, the United
Arab Emirates, and Oman. In principle, Kuwait and Bahrain are
considered “constitutional monarchs,” in practice, all 6 are despotic
autocracies with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman
overtly “absolute monarchs.” Devoid of even a feigned semblance of
representative governance, these regimes brutally repress not only their
own subjects, but play active roles in repressing the people of other
nations, both on their borders and well beyond them.
Saudi
Arabia and Qatar are playing an active role in crushing dissent in
neighboring Bahrain – an opaque uprising obscured by a lack of Western
media coverage – apparently the result of Western press houses
conveniently ignoring unrest targeting governments linked to Western
interests, while intentionally subverting nations opposed to Western
interests.Abolish the IRS...
London is the ‘global capital of money-laundering’
Britain is still the money-laundering capital of the world, according
to a special six-page investigation published in this fortnight’s
Private Eye.
Richard Brooks, a former tax inspector responsible for Private
Eye’s groundbreaking exposés of corporate tax avoidance, turns his
attention to the dirty money flowing through our banks and tax havens.
Weeks after a US senate committee slammed Britain’s biggest bank,
HSBC, for facilitating vast money-laundering operations, including
washing money from Mexican drug cartels, he finds that light-touch
banking regulation and a thriving network of tax havens, have
made Britain the centre of an embezzlement industry that steals billions
from the world’s poor.
Brooks has spent months tracking high-profile corruption cases
as they make their way through British courts. He zeroes in on one of
the most outrageous cases, that of James Ibori, former governor of the
Delta State in Nigeria, who between 1999 and 2007, funnelled £200m of
pounds of state money through British banks to fund an outrageously
lavish lifestyle.
While many Nigerians went without basic education and social care, Ibori spent stolen loot on a Bentley, private school fees for his children, properties in
Hampstead, a fleet of armoured Range Rovers and dozens of gambling trips
to Las Vegas.
Euro Crisis Morphs into Generational Conflict "Trust no one over 30!"
People vs. banks, north vs. south, and rich vs. poor? While all
of these conflicts may be real, one of the biggest issues of the euro
crisis is rarely discussed: Older people are living at the expense of
the young, and it's high time the next generation took to the streets to
confront their parents.
"Que se vayan todos," or "Away with all of them," became one of the slogans chanted by the tens of thousands of "Indignados"
in Spain at protests last year. In addition to their eponymous outrage,
many had one thing in common: Most were young and viewed themselves as
victims of the crisis.
They might have been more specific and instead chanted: "All the old people
must go!" This phrase would apply because, in many ways, the euro
crisis is also a conflict between generations -- the flush baby boomers
in their fifties and sixties are today living prosperously at the
expense of young people.
Intergenerational equity -- measured among other things by levels of
direct and hidden debts and pension entitlements -- is particularly low
in Southern Europe. In a 2011 study of intergenerational equity in 31
countries by the Bertelsmann Foundation, Greece came in last place.
Italy, Portugal and Spain didn't do much better, landing in 28th, 24th
and 22nd place respectively. Currently, the unequal distribution of
income and opportunities is particularly distinct:
- The employment market collapse has hit young Europeans much harder than older generations. In Greece and Spain more than half of those under age 25 are unemployed -- twice the rate of older workers. Things are even worse in parts of southern Italy, where youth unemployment has risen above 50 percent.
- One reason for this situation is unequal employment circumstances. Older Spaniards and Italians, for example, profit from worker protection laws preventing them from getting fired that are quite strong by international comparison. But almost half of young Italians and 60 percent of young Spaniards are on temporary employment contracts and can easily lose their jobs.
- The burdens and risks of the euro bailouts are also mainly borne by young people. Ultimately, growing national debts and bailout funds worth billions will be financed through bonds that won't be due for many years to come.
Constantin Gurdgiev on "Dictator Draghi" & "the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" of Europe!
Who are the US 1% & what they do?
The top one percent of the world financial pyramid is protecting the one
percent and they are causing major damage to the 99 percent