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Peoples Public Trust Declaration
We are all Sovereign, divinely mandated, equal beings. We nominate Sovereigns and Governments to administer and manage our Nation.
We are the Peoples Public Trust and we have one goal - fixing the public services of this once-great nation.
Welcome to The Peoples Public Trust
The Institute for State Effectiveness - The Book
"Fixing Failed States" addresses one of the central issues of our times: the proliferation of failed states across the world and our inability to stabilize them. There are between forty and sixty failed states, and they house one billion people. The world's worst problems-terrorism, drug and human trafficking, absolute poverty, ethnic conflict, disease, genocide-originate in such states, and the international community has devoted billions upon billions of dollars to solving the problem.
One woman crossed the country alone in a motor home. Others united for a silent march. Yet another thinks laughter is the answer.
Forget the tie-dyed '60s; today's activists are coming from the mainstream
Bordeaux Religious Leaders Summit
The G-8 Heads of State will meet in Deauville, France, 26-27 May to advance cooperation on shared concerns related to development, security and geopolitical issues.
Portal:Real Economy Project - SourceWatch
Bloomberg News did a series of Freedom of Information Act requests of the Federal Reserve about their back door bailouts of financial institutions at the height of the financial crisis. Their article "Secret Fed Loans (of $7.7 trillion) Gave Banks $13 Billion (profits) Undisclosed to Congress" is long but a must read. They also have some specific databases that allow for bank by bank research. JP Morgan Chase and Bear Stearns
About Us | Center for Media and Democracy
The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) is a non-profit investigative reporting group.
Maria Stephan | International Peace and Conflict Resolution
E-mail: stephan@american.edu Dr. Maria J.
Christians have traditionally interpreted the famous passage "Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and to God, the things that are God's," to mean that Jesus endorsed paying taxes.
Render Unto Caesar: A Most Misunderstood New Testament Passage by Jeffrey F. Barr
Near the top of an office building at a secret address on Broadway in Lower Manhattan there's a door hung with a yellow placard, reading, "This is a good sign."
My Visit to Occupy Wall Street's Bat Cave | Mother Jones
Just as its shares started selling to the public for the first time, BATS Global Markets, one of the nation’s newest and largest electronic exchanges, halted trading on its own stock after a series of technical errors in its system. In a memo prepared for a coming Congressional hearing, investigators described how Jon S. Corzine, the firm’s former chief executive, asked an executive in the firm’s Chicago office to transfer $200 million to replenish an overdrawn account at JPMorgan Chase in London. Greg Smith, the former Goldman Sachs executive who recently resigned in spectacular fashion, has met with publishers this week, including imprints at several prominent houses, Julie Bosman of The New York Times reports. According to several people who were present, Mr.
Mergers, Acquisitions, Venture Capital, Hedge Funds - DealBook - NYTimes.com
California Civil Discovery: Law and Techniques — Contains the text of a course on pretrial discovery rules and techniques in California civil litigation.
California Legal Web Sites - FindLaw California
Section 10 of Article II establishes when approved initiatives go into effect, says what to do about conflicting initiatives on the same ballot, and gives the California State Legislature the authority to "provide the manner in which petitions shall be circulated, presented, and certified, and measures submitted to the electors." Statutes governing the process