Britain: A Functioning Democracy It's Not We discussed the farce that was/is the UK election last night… consider… Or more clear… SNP + LibDems 4.3 million votes = 64 Seats UKIP 3.8 million votes = 1 Seat The election results under a fair voting system: CON 244 LAB 201 UKIP 83 LD 52 …
Category: Economy
May 08
Today’s News May 8, 2015
Russia Offers Help To Greece In German War Reparations Investigation Just a day after German President Joachim Gauck shocked his government by remarking in an interview that Germany should at least “consider” demands by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras that the nation pay billions of euros in reparations for the Nazi occupation of Greece, ekathimerini reports …
May 07
TPP Treaty May Not Have the Votes to Pass
The Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty that is being pushed by President Obama, is alarming to say the least. The free trade agreement, which would include at least a dozen nations, has been drafted in secret and largely written for the benefit of global corporations. The fact that our government could establish any treaty in secret is …
May 07
Today’s News May 7, 2015
When The Elites Wage War On America, This Is How They Will Do It Submitted by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com, The consequences and patterns of war, whether by one nation against another or by a government against the citizenry, rarely change. However, the methods of war have evolved vastly in modern times. Wars by elites …
May 06
Our Financial Future: Infinite Greed Meets a Funny Thing Called Karma
All those angered by the mere question of the viability of this predatory pillaging in the name of capitalism are incapable of even admitting this cultural crisis exists. Somewhere along the line, we lost the ability to distinguish between earning a profit and maximizing private gain by any means, i.e. Infinite Greed. If you insist …
May 06
Today’s News May 6, 2015
Everything That Is Wrong With Banking Today Here is the latest SmartKnowledgeU Podcast #5: “Everything Wrong With Banking Today”. To listen to this podcast on YouTube, please click the above image and then click the link “Watch this video on YouTube.” For those of you that would like a downloadable mp3 file of …
May 05
Experts Are Warning That The 76 Trillion Dollar Global Bond Bubble Is About To Explode
Warren Buffett believes “that bonds are very overvalued“, and a recent survey of fund managers found that 80 percent of them are convinced that bonds have become “badly overvalued“. The most famous bond expert on the planet, Bill Gross, recently confessed that he has a sense that the 35 year bull market in bonds is …
May 05
Today’s News May 5, 2015
How Chinese Oligarchs Used Fake Trade Invoices To Launder Almost $1 Trillion Globally Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, Our estimates show that the developing world lost US$991.2 billion in illicit financial flows in 2012, over ten times the amount of official development aid received by these countries in that year, and greater …
May 04
Is The New World Order Dying? 10 Recent Headlines Offer Hope
By Bernie Suarez We know the saying, you either see a glass half empty or half full. Your attitude, mindset and expectations guide your perceptions which in turn will guide your stated views and opinions of the world you live in. That said, depending on how you view the world one might make an argument …
May 04
Today’s News May 4, 2015
Why The Powers That Be Are Pushing A Cashless Society We Can’t Rein In the Banks If We Can’t Pull Our Money Out of Them Martin Armstrong recounts the push to ban cash … and argues that the goal of those pushing a cashless society is to prevent bank runs: The central banks are indeed …
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