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As expected, China is the new IMF.
China Says It Will Bail Out Insolvent European Countries | zero hedge
Taxation
Freedom From Banks
How Money Works
The Central bankers' Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in 1988 in the "Basel I" regulations imposed an 8% capital reserve standard on member central banks.
BEWARE THE PROPOSED GLOBAL MONETARY AUTHORITY!
Visa Exposed As Massive Credit Card Scam
SAN FRANCISCO—In coordinated raids Monday at locations in Delaware, South Dakota, and California, federal agents apprehended dozens of executives at Visa Inc., a sham corporation accused of perpetrating the largest credit card scam in U.S. history. According to indictments filed in U.S. District Court, Visa posed as a reputable lender, working through banks to peddle a variety of convincing-looking credit cards carefully designed to dupe consumers into spending far more money than they had.
92% Of Americans Are Socialists They Just Don't Know It
This article is asking a completely nugatory question, How much wealth should a segment of the population hold... Its an absurd question lacking any fundamental principle. What entitles any segment to hold rights to a given percentage of an economy's wealth??? SERIOUSLY, wow, philosophical, universal primaries, people....
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65 Ways That Everything That You Think That You Own Is Being Systematically Taken Away From You
Everything that you own is slowly being taken away from you.
By Daily Mail Reporter UPDATED: 10:53 GMT, 18 December 2010
Ghost towns of China: Satellite images show cities lying completely deserted
Unfortunately, shortly after their rise to prominence, the government, acting on the behalf of corporate interests, began engaging in a campaign of repression and persecution of the Wobblies. The Wobblies were fast becoming a formidable force in the labor movement and they were determined to put an end to it before it was too late.
We Need the Wobblies Now More Than Ever!
by Terrence Aym Created on : February 05, 2011 A day once existed in America when a woman like Dena Long-Christensen, 44, would have been celebrated, admired for her "can-do" spirit, and held up as a role model for others.
Utah woman jailed for selling flowers from her home - by Terrence Aym
But stealth taxes are also so much easier to inflict if allowances can be subtly adjusted to draw hundreds of thousands of extra people into a higher tax band without their really noticing.
The Pay As You Earn system is a scandal
The chief executive of Enbridge Inc. confirmed Thursday a major Chinese oil company is backing its controversial oil pipeline between Alberta and the West Coast.
Enbridge confirms Chinese firm investing in Gateway pipeline :: The Hook
delanceyplace.com 1/18/11 - fdr's father-in-law
In today's excerpt - whether Caribbean rum, Prohibition-era bootlegging, or Chinese opium, more than a few American and European fortunes have been alleged to come from unexpected sources:Who pays corporate taxes? It's not who you think
Stephen Gordon is a professor of economics at Laval University in Quebec City and a fellow of the Centre interuniversitaire sur le risque, les politiques économiques et l'emploi (CIRPÉE). He also maintains the economics blog Worthwhile Canadian Initiative. Corporate income taxes (CIT) have been in the political spotlight recently, but many may find it difficult to see how it affects their lives in the way that they understand how they pay personal income taxes and the GST. This lack of transparency is fertile ground for any number of misunderstandings and makeshift theorising, so the question I’m going to address here is: who pays the CIT? Not corporations: Corporations don’t pay the tax, for the simple reason that corporations are not people. Nor does it make sense to appeal to the cause of social justice by referring to ‘rich corporations.’More than 50% of US Government Spending Goes to the Military
[This article was first published by Global Research in April 2010] Recently, Live Science published a chart showing that the US spends about one-fifth of its budget on the military. But this aggregate view hides how Congress prioritizes spending, when you consider what is discretionary and voted upon each year. A more salient view of these figures segregates ‘discretionary’ spending from ‘mandatory’ spending. During the severe economic downturn of the past two years, how has Congress prioritized spending?Gift Economy