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The Roots Factory Home Page New evidence: undercover police triggered Barcelona riot Shocking new evidence has emerged showing agents provocateurs instigating last week’s anti-police violence in Barcelona. Facing a youth uprising of unprecedented proportions, it appears that Spanish politicians and police are resorting to the same dirty tactics that earned Hosni Mubarak the scorn of the Western world: planting undercover police officers inside the peaceful protest movement to provoke violence and discredit the movement. During last week’s protests in Barcelona, the peaceful indignados discovered about a dozen police infiltrators in their midst. The undercover riot police, posing as anarchists, were suspected by protesters of instigating violence against police and Catalonian government officials. Right after the riots, a YouTube video emerged showing peaceful protesters confronting the agents provocateurs before riot police moved in to secure their men, separating them from the indignados. The image below shows the police infiltrators.
Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) -- Bold Progressives Occupy San Diego .:Plata:. The abandonment of the gold standard in 1971 is closely tied to the massive unemployment the industrialized world has suffered in recent years; Mexico, even with a lower level of industrialization than the developed countries, has also lost jobs due to the closing of industries; in recent years, the creation of new jobs in productive activities has been anemic at best. The world’s financial press, in which leading economists and analysts publish their work, never examines the relationship between the abandonment of the gold standard and unemployment, de-industrialization, and the huge chronic export deficits of the Western world powers. Might it be due to ignorance? We are reluctant to think so, given that the articles appearing in the world’s leading financial publications are written by quite intelligent analysts. World trade before 1971 To be precise, we cannot fail to mention one exception. The US did nothing to slow the loss of gold. Consequences of abandoning the gold standard
Chris Hedges: Occupy Wall Street is ‘where the hope of America lies’ | Raw Replay Journalist Chris Hedges put in an appearance at the Occupy Wall Street protest on Sunday morning and engaged in a lengthy interview, during which he described the protest as “really where the hope of America lies.” Hedges was particularly impressed by the significance of Saturday’s mass arrests on the part of the New York Police Department. He told the interviewer, “The real people who are scared are the power elite. Of course, they’re trying to make you scared and us scared. Hedges went on to say that the protesters should be seen as “conservatives” because “they call for the restoration of the rule of law.” “The real radicals have seized power,” he asserted, “and they are decimating all impediments to the creation of a neo-feudalistic corporate state, one in which there is a rapacious oligarchic class, a thin managerial elite, and two-thirds of this country live in conditions that increasingly push families to subsistence level.”
Occupy Wall Street | NYC Protest for American Revolution Where's My Super-Cheap Mortgage? By AnnaMaria Andriotis With mortgage rates at a 50-year low and banks near his Brookline, N.H., home touting offers of 4% or less, Tom Rogers thought it would be a perfect time to refinance. But in spite of a solid credit score, after an exhaustive survey of lenders in the area and online, Mr. Rogers couldn't find a single one willing to give him such a rock-bottom rate. He eventually settled for a mortgage almost a full percentage point higher than what he had hoped for. "I was annoyed," he says. It is an increasingly common frustration. While there is always a spread -- not all borrowers qualify for the lowest rate, after all -- it is usually much smaller: An average spread is usually around 0.40 percentage point. The bigger discrepancy of late has little to do with borrowers' credit scores, which historically have largely decided what rates lenders choose to offer. Lenders say they haven't lowered rates further because, simply, they don't have to.
The Quiet Coup - Magazine The crash has laid bare many unpleasant truths about the United States. One of the most alarming, says a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is that the finance industry has effectively captured our government—a state of affairs that more typically describes emerging markets, and is at the center of many emerging-market crises. If the IMF’s staff could speak freely about the U.S., it would tell us what it tells all countries in this situation: recovery will fail unless we break the financial oligarchy that is blocking essential reform. And if we are to prevent a true depression, we’re running out of time. Jim Bourg/Reuters/Corbis One thing you learn rather quickly when working at the International Monetary Fund is that no one is ever very happy to see you. The reason, of course, is that the IMF specializes in telling its clients what they don’t want to hear. Every crisis is different, of course. The downward spiral that follows is remarkably steep.
Financial sector spent $5 bln lobbying DC last decade: Report By Greg Morcroft, MarketWatch NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- U.S. financial services firms spent more than $5 billion on lobbying and political donations between 1998 and 2008, and won fights on regulatory and political matters that contributed to the current financial collapse, according to a report from two watchdog groups. Essential Information, and the Consumer Education Foundation, reported that banks, investment firms and others made $1.7 billion of political contributions, and spent $3.4 billion on lobbying efforts in the last decade. The report, titled, "Sold Out: How Wall Street and Washington Betrayed America," identified roughly 3,000 officially registered lobbyists working for the financial services industry in 2007. "These companies drew heavily from government in choosing their lobbyists. The securities industry, which topped all contributors to politicians, spent just over half a billion dollars on political contributions during the last decade, according to the report's authors.
Daily Speculations Mar March 10, 2015 | 1 Comment Nothing highlights the effect of currency moves like foreign travel. The dollar had a major upmove this past year against major currencies. A 20% discount on everything is notable when traveling. I'm in Japan now where everything is cheap to begin with (I guess due to deflation) and subtracting another 5th is amazing. March 9, 2015 | 13 Comments Kindly vote for the best entry to "what is a trader" contest. March 9, 2015 | 70 Comments I'm holding a snap contest with a $ 1,500 reward. [Sorry, the contest is now closed. March 9, 2015 | Leave a Comment I thought this was a very good paper with market parallels. Abstract: Because members of the public have difficulty understanding risk presented in terms of odds ratios (e.g., 1 in 1000) and in comparing odds ratios from different hazards, we examined the use of time intervals between expected harmful events to communicate risk. Isomorphisms writes: David Spiegelhalter did a video on millimorts and micromorts. 1. 2. 3.