Occupy the London Stock Exchange US bankers stole billions' 'US bankers stole billions' Sun Oct 16, 2011 4:18PM Interview with financial journalist and broadcaster, Max Keiser from Paris After nearly one month of “Occupy Wall Street” protests the campaign against corporate greed, social inequality and the banking industry has gone global. Press TV has interviewed financial journalist and broadcaster, Max Keiser from Paris to discuss the issue. What follows is an approximate transcription of the interview: Press TV: Max Keiser, first give us your impression; and I remember listening to a couple of things that I think maybe you could expand more on it, you said people should take capitalism in their own hands as a tangible way and in terms of targeting the stocks of certain companies in one of the coverages that I was watching you on. Keiser: Well I think what's really captured people's imagination is the scale of the fraud. Then you've got... It's like the Supreme Court and the [US President Barack] Obama administration is taunting the people.
How to Connect to Mumble Wealth Destroyers The Corporation of the City of London has harmed you more than you know. By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 1st November 2011 It’s the dark heart of Britain, the place where democracy goes to die, immensely powerful, equally unaccountable. What is this thing? There are four layers of elected representatives in the Corporation: common councilmen, aldermen, sheriffs and the Lord Mayor. To become Lord Mayor you must first have served as an alderman and sheriff and “must command the support of, and have the endorsement of, the Court of Aldermen and the Livery”(9). The current Lord Mayor, Michael Bear, came to prominence within the City as chief executive of the Spitalfields development group(11), which oversaw a controversial business venture in which the Corporation had a major stake, even though the project lies outside the boundaries of its authority. Several governments have tried to democratise the City of London but all, threatened by its financial might, have failed. 15.
OccupyStreams.org - Global directory of #occupy live video streams The Wall Street Pentagon Papers: Biggest Scam In World History Exposed – Are The Federal Reserve’s Crimes Too Big To Comprehend? By David DeGraw, AmpedStatus What if the greatest scam ever perpetrated was blatantly exposed, and the US media didn’t cover it? Does that mean the scam could keep going? That’s what we are about to find out. I understand the importance of the new WikiLeaks documents. I’ve written many reports detailing the crimes of Wall Street during this crisis. Just when I thought the banksters couldn’t possibly shock me anymore… they did. We were finally granted the honor and privilege of finding out the specifics, a limited one-time Federal Reserve view, of a secret taxpayer funded “backdoor bailout” by a small group of unelected bankers. Wait, what? Yes. The Federal Reserve was secretly throwing around our money in unprecedented fashion, and it wasn’t just to the usual suspects like Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Citigroup, Bank of America, etc.; it was to the entire Global Banking Cartel. Talk about the ransacking and burning of Rome! Yes, the emperor doesn’t have any clothes. Think about it. See also:
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Google, Samsung unveil Ice Cream Sandwich-powered Galaxy Nexus | Wireless Samsung Electronics and Google took the wraps off the Galaxy Nexus, the latest Android handset to carry the flagship smartphone moniker. The smartphone, unveiled at a Samsung event in Hong Kong today, marks the debut of the latest version of Android, known as Ice Cream Sandwich (each iteration of Android is named after a dessert). For Samsung, the introduction of another flagship Google phone underscores its growing influence as an Android vendor. While the company was slow to shift away from basic phones and move into the smartphone game, it has more than made up for lost time with the success of its Galaxy line of Android mobile devices, particularly with its recent line of Galaxy S II phones in the U.S. It also made the previous Nexus phone, the Nexus S . "Samsung and Google have closely collaborated to push the mobile experience forward," J.K. Unlike previous versions, Ice Cream Sandwich will run on any mobile device. The Galaxy Nexus debuts amid a number of other super smartphones.
A May Day alert for the Occupy movement | Naomi Wolf So, Occupy got it together for May Day – at least, in New York City. You would never know it, though, from mainstream news: those reports were full of what I call the "erectile dysfunction" narrative, the default narrative in American new coverage of mass protest. "Why Occupy May Day Fizzled", as CNN had it: flaccid efforts, always in "drenching rain", that may be well-intentioned but have no staying power. But if you click onto the new site Occupy.com – or if you actually went to the rally held in the late afternoon in Union Square – it was a very different story: thousands of euphoric protesters, a massive sound stage, edgy hip-hop artists who had created Occupy anthems that were euphorically received by the crowd, and representation by dozens of community groups and unions in Manhattan. It seems Occupy has spent the winter changing its strategy – and building coalitions with existing community groups on the ground. The media outreach was better, though far from perfect.
Bank of America: Holding Depositors Hostage Is It Time To Close Down Bank of America? This is precisely the sort of arbitrage that ought to lead people straight to a nice date with Bubba: Bank of America Corp. (BAC), hit by a credit downgrade last month, has moved derivatives from its Merrill Lynch unit to a subsidiary flush with insured deposits, according to people with direct knowledge of the situation.The Federal Reserve and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. disagree over the transfers, which are being requested by counterparties, said the people, who asked to remain anonymous because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly. The Fed has signaled that it favors moving the derivatives to give relief to the bank holding company, while the FDIC, which would have to pay off depositors in the event of a bank failure, is objecting, said the people. The bank doesn’t believe regulatory approval is needed, said people with knowledge of its position. So let’s see what we have here. Bank customer initiates a swap position with Bank.
Guantánamo Bay contractor on shortlist to run UK police services | UK news A US Pentagon contractor that was involved in building Guantánamo Bay is on a shortlist of private consortiums bidding for a £1.5bn contract to run key policing services in the West Midlands and Surrey. The Texas-based Kellogg Brown & Root, which was sold off by the controversial Halliburton corporation in 2007, is part of a consortium which has made it to the final shortlist for a contract that will see large-scale involvement of the private sector in British policing for the first time. When KBR was still part of Halliburton it won a large share of Pentagon contracts to build and manage US military bases in Iraq after the 2003 invasion. Its former chief executive, Dick Cheney, was US vice-president. The Guardian has learned that 15 groups of companies and individual firms have made it on to the most recent shortlist. More than 200 firms initially expressed an interest at a "bidders' conference" held in March. "The police are fundamental to the society we live in.