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Non-solo-SCEC - agosto 2008:

Community Currency Systems at IRTA's 29^th Annual Conference at the Westgate River Ranch Resort outside
of Orlando, Florida, USA, September 22-24, 2008

Liberty Dollar: Answer to US Complaint Filed - August 18. 2008

Moneta comunale come denaro per lo sviluppo umano integrale e sostenibile - traduzione italiana: Ciro Brescia, nuovoecosistema, 18 agosto 2008
In Venezuela nasce la moneta comunale, adempirà con le funzioni del denaro come strumento generale di scambio per il quale si richiede solo l'accettazione dei partecipanti

Moneda Comunal como dinero - Por: Miguel Cortez, aporrea.irg, 16/08/08
La MC cumplirá con las funciones del dinero como instrumento general de cambios para lo cual solo requiere la aceptación de los participantes en el GIS. Los miembros del GIS podrán intercambiar su producción por la MC y utilizarla para intercambios futuros

Corporate Media Bashes New Chavez Enabling Law Decrees - By Stephen Lendman, rense.com, 8-15-8
The New York Times and its on-the-scene reporter Simon Romero objected to "a wave of takeovers of private companies," including nationalizing "a large Spanish-owned bank." He was unconcerned about "relatively minor" decrees but took aim at more far-reaching ones and some he called efforts to "formalize socialist-inspired policies on the margins of the formal economy, like a measure declaring barter a legitimate system of payment."

L'alternativa di Totnes - GERALDINA COLOTTI, il manifesto, 10 Agosto 2008
Totnes si è anche dotata del Totnes Pound, una moneta autonoma che vale quanto una sterlina inglese, ma si può acquistare per 95 centesimi e la differenza costituisce un piccolo margine economico per chi l'acquista. Tutti i commercianti che aderiscono alla filosofia delle Transition towns accettano la banconota che circola in un ambito geografico limitato per consentire «alla ricchezza di rimanere nella comunità»

Al via i voucher-vendemmia per studenti e pensionati - La7.tv, 07/08/2008
I contributi Inps e Inal sono già incorporati nei "buoni"

BUONI VENDEMMIA: ANCHE IN PIEMONTE APERTE LE REGISTRAZIONI - Agenfax, 7 agosto 2008
In seguito all’emanazione, a livello nazionale, della circolare Inps n. 81 del 31 luglio, che fornisce le istruzioni operative per attivare la sperimentazione del lavoro accessorio per la prossima vendemmia, anche in Piemonte la procedura è pienamente operativa. I “buoni” o “voucher” vendemmia sono buoni nominali del valore di 10 euro, di cui 7,50 euro rappresentano la retribuzione netta del lavoratore (non corrispondono a una paga oraria, ma costituiscono ticket unitari di pagamento)

Habilitante: Ley para el Fomento y Desarrollo de la Economía Popular - YVKE Mundial, 4 de Ago de 2008
Decreto N° 6.130, con Rango, Valor y Fuerza de Ley para el Fomento y Desarrollo de la Economía Popular.- Véase N° 5.890 Extraordinario de la GACETA OFICIAL DE LA REPÚBLICA BOLIVARIANA DE VENEZUELA, 31 de julio de 2008

"OPINIONI PERSONALI" Incontri settimanali con Danilo Perolio: "Il Progetto Arcipelago SCEC in Valsesia e nel Vercellese"
Le registrazioni delle 13 puntate della trasmissione "Opinioni Personali", dedicata alla presentazione del Progetto Arcipelago Scec in Valsesia e nel Vercellese, andate in onda dal 7 maggio al 30 luglio 2008 sull'emittente televisiva locale "Telemonterosa", sono ora disponibili a tutti sul sito "YouTube"

TRACOLLO IMMINENTE! Il movimento della Transizione - Il Blog di Jacopo Fo
E’ partita dall’Inghilterra l’esperienza concreta della creazione di nuove forme di economia locale. Un movimento che si pone innanzi tutto il problema di organizzare l’autodifesa economica, energetica e alimentare contro la crisi del sistema petrolio

"LO SCEC MEGLIO DELL'EURO? ISTRUZIONI PER L'USO" - MERCOLEDI' 6-13-20-27 AGOSTO 2008 ore 21.00 presso il Centro Studi a Capriccio di Vigonza (Pd)

BITCOM: una nuova valuta locale elettronica

[Trade Dollars] Bartercard solution to accommodation shortage - B.SAVVY, Autumn 2008
In one of the largest barter trade deals in Australia, $2.1million is being paid in Bartercard Trade Dollars. This represents half the $4.2 million of investors’ funds raised for the $11.5 million Sands Motel project in Newman

Why barter? - By Bethany Clough, The Fresno Bee, 08/02/08
Organizations that help businesses trade for goods and services in the Fresno area say they are seeing uptick as people look for ways to save cash in tight economic times

CSM NEWS agosto 2008: (Pubblicità: IL NUOVO SITO DEL CASO "FORD CONNECTION")

Denis Robert e Marco Saba, a Lecco

Call for the building of a European Network for Public Money - CSM, August 2008

L'ON. ALFONSO LUIGI MARRA DESIGNATO COORDINATORE POLITICO PER LA CAMPANIA DELLA C.D.C. - Il Popolo Online, 10 AGOSTO 2008

Daniel Hardcastle, Jun, Banks And Bankers, Whittaker And Co., 1842

CREIAMO L’AUREO! LIBERIAMOCI DALLA DITTATURA USUROCRATICA E GUERRAFONDAIA DEL DOLLARO - di Guglielmo Maria Lolli-Ghetti, 7 agosto 2008

"Islamic Finance: Overview and Policy Concerns," CRS Report for Congress, July 29, 2008

Jack London, The Iron Heel, Macmillan, 1908
"John D. Rockefeller owns Standard Oil stock worth between four and five hundred millions at the market quotations. He has a hundred millions in the steel trust, almost as much in a single western railway system, half as much in a second, and so on and on and on until the mind wearies of the cataloguing. His income last year was about $100,000,000--it is doubtful if the incomes of all the Rothschilds together make a greater sum. And it is going up by leaps and bounds."

In italiano: Jack London, IL TALLONE DI FERRO, 1908
A quei tempi le ruberie erano incredibilmente comuni. Tutti rubavano la proprietà agli altri. I dirigenti della Società rubavano legalmente o facevano legalizzare le loro ruberie, mentre le classi più povere rubavano illegalmente. Nulla, che non fosse custodito, era sicuro. Un numero enorme di uomini era impiegato come guardiano per proteggere la proprietà. Le case dei benestanti erano depositi di sicurezza, sotterranei e fortezze insieme. L'appropriarsi di cose personali altrui, che osserviamo oggi nei nostri figli, è considerato come un retaggio istintivo del caratteristico furto comunissimo in quei tempi...

A Modest Enquiry into the Nature and Necessity of a Paper-Currency - by Benjamin Franklin, April, 1729

MODULO DI DENUNCIA PENALE DEI GOVERNATORI E DIRIGENTI DELLA BANCA D’ITALIA, DEI TITOLARI E DIRIGENTI DI MINISTERI DI ECONOMIA, FINANZA, TESORO, BILANCIO E DEI RAGIONIERI GENERALI DELLO STATO, PER LE IPOTESI DEI REATI P. E P. DAGLI ARTICOLI 81, 110, 241, 283, 314, 416 BIS, 479, 489, 629, 640 C.P. FALSO IN BILANCIO – EVASIONE FISCALE -- REATI IN CORSO D'ESECUZIONE
La contrazione del debito pubblico attraverso l’emissione di titoli del debito pubblico avviene in modo pretestuoso, senza reale corrispettivo, al solo fine di attuare un trasferimento di potere d’acquisto dai contribuenti (dal popolo) ai banchieri privati e un indebitamento dello stato, del popolo, verso di loro

Altre News agosto 2008 (Timeline: only few countries until recently did not have a Rothschild-family controlled central bank. Two of those countries were: Afghanistan; and Iraq. Among the remaining are: Iran; North Korea; Venezuela; Sudan; Cuba; and Libya...)

Hai saputo del coinvolgimento di Claudio CIAMPI nello scandalo BNL-ATLANTA?

The Bank Implode-O-Meter - Your play-by-play for the end game of modern banking

In Possible First for Texas, Woman Sues Over Predatory Lending - The Associated Press, September 5, 2008
Alpha Mortgage USA and American Home Mortgage Servicing engaged in a racially targeted predatory lending practice called "reverse redlining," according to a lawsuit filed in federal court by a black suburban Houston woman

If a Scratch-Off Is a Rip-Off, Litigation May Be the Prize - The National Law Journal, September 5, 2008
If your scratch-off is a rip-off, prepare to pay up. A host of lawsuits have been filed by disgruntled lottery and sweepstakes consumers, including a business professor who is suing the Virginia Lottery for allegedly selling roughly $85 million in defective scratch-offs where the top prizes had already been claimed. Similar lawsuits are pending in four other states

Abramoff Gets Four Years for Corruption - The Associated Press, September 5, 2008
Jack Abramoff, the once-powerful lobbyist at the heart of a far-reaching political corruption scandal, was sentenced on Thursday to four years in prison, a term longer than had been sought by prosecutors

2 Wall St. brokers accused of $1B subprime fraud - By TOM HAYS, AP, Sept. 4. 2008
"The defendants' fraudulent misrepresentations and bait-and-switch tactics saddled investors with unknown risks they did not bargain for," U.S. Attorney Benton Campbell said in announcing the case against the former Credit Suisse Securities brokers

Once in 100 Years Credit Crisis, World Heads for Deflationary Collapse - Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2008, Sep 03, 2008

[from Kakistan] Who Wants To Be CEO Of A Red, White And Blue Kakistocracy? - by Richard Sauder, rense.com, 9-3-8
The Federal Reserve Notes are unconstitutional money, which is to say that they are COUNTERFEIT currency, because they are not silver or gold, or backed by silver or gold, as legally required by the U.S. Constitution

Protecting Our Banks
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the body that insures bank deposits up to $100,000, has raised the number of "troubled banks" to 117. What is being done to keep the banks from going bust?
- Holding a money drive where community members are encouraged to bring allof their unused cash to a local bank
- Heart-wrenching bank scene from It's A Wonderful Life playing on a loop in the lobby
- As morale boost, scent of cash pumped constantly through bank
- Poorer customers now charged preemptive overdraft fees
- Oversized foam-core cutouts of $100 bills will be placed on easels in bank lobbies to allay patrons' worries about their bank's solvency
- Holding a contest to give one lucky bank 30 minutes with a shopping cart inside the U.S. Treasury building
- Planting a $5 bill in vault and seeing what happens
- Introducing tough new criteria for prospective borrowers, such as having a job

Il FMI finanzia la destabilizazione della Georgia - 3 settembre 2008

Sgarbi regala case a chi le restaura - Corriere della Sera, 1 settembre 2008

Las Vegas homes for $60 a Square Foot? - Economicrot, September 01, 2008

Gold & The Collapse of Paper [debt] Money - Darryl Robert Schoon, Sep 1, 2008
The great stock market bubble of the 1920s was caused by the sudden influx of leveraged credit from the introduction of debt-based money by the Federal Reserve in 1913. Just 16 years after its introduction, the explosive growth of credit in the hands of speculators led to the collapse of the US stock market in 1929 and was to bring the world economy to a virtual standstill by 1933. We are about to see a variation of that disaster, except this time it will be worse

[Rothschild News] Atticus Capital: persi 5 miliardi di dollari da inizio anno - SoldiOnline, 02-09-2008
Nathaniel Rothschild

[seigniorage masters] A Beretta a day keeps the dead at work away - Beppe Grillo, 31 August 2008

Men and half men, ominicchi, piglianculo and quaquaraquà - Beppe grillo
Italians didn’t deserve Giovanni Falcone. He knew that they would murder him. Just as Paolo Borsellino knew. They went to their death like the first Christians in the Coliseum. Left on their own by the institutions, the parties, by many colleagues. Borsellino died in front of his mother’s house. No security measure had been arranged

Central Bankers Go To Austrian School? - by The Mogambo Guru, 08/29/08
Probably like you, I have spent a lot of time in bars educating the common people found there that central bankers and most economists of the world are a corrupt, moronic and treacherous clot of intellectual traitors who don't know squat about economics, and instead believe strange, new equation-based theories that have names like "General Dynamic Integrated Analytical Equilibrium Monetary Whiz-Bang Do Wah Diddy Theory" that is all predicated on laughable-yet-inviolable imperatives

Nymex Ex-Clerk Barred From Futures Industry - Dow Jones Newswire, 27 Aug 2008
At the time, the exchange was investigating the illegal practice of trading ahead of customer orders, a probe that resulted in guilty pleas from several former floor brokers and clerks, including a former member of the Nymex board of directors

A-Holes at the J-Hole - by The Mogambo Guru, 08/27/08
This money supply/inflation thing is important because the world's biggest collection of idiots in the field of economics (featuring the clueless academic Ben Bernanke, chairman at the Federal Reserve) are convening at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, for the big annual conference on monetary policy where they will try and come up with some new scam or scheme that will hopefully correct the problems they caused with their last scam or scheme, which predictably failed. I can't stop laughing! This is so bizarre, so "theater of the absurd", that my mind is stuck in laughing mode! Hahahaha!

Worthless Money, Worthless Economy - by The Mogambo Guru, 08/25/08
After $150 billion borrowed, put into stimulus checks, sent and spent, tax revenue was still down 6%? Staggering! The economy is so bloated, indebted and dysfunctional that $150 billion of additional raw spending produces 6% less taxable income? Hahaha! We are so freaking doomed! "Honest government, honest money. Dishonest government, dishonest money. Worthless government, worthless money."

Double-Count Accounting Magic - by The Mogambo Guru, 08/21/08
I laugh when I look at the banks and notice that "non-borrowed reserves" is still a negative $123.3 billion! Hahaha! I mean, their total reserves are a paltry $44.4 billion, and of that, they borrowed $123.3 billion! Hahahaha! Creative accounting at its finest! Hahaha! And this laughable $44 billion that they call their "reserves" is their "cushion" against about $6.8 trillion in deposits! Hahahaha! And deposit insurance? Hahaha! Forget it; the charade of FDIC as "insurance" is exposed when one learns that the FDIC has only $53 billion to cover $6.84 trillion of bank deposits! (e ora, provate a fare il parallelo con il Fondo Interbancario di Tutela dei Depositi !!!)

Foreign Central Banks Behind Rally in U.S. Treasuries - By Jim Sinclair, www.JSMineSet.com, August 28, 2008

Bailout aid for Wall Street questioned at Fed event - By Jeannine Aversa - Associated Press via Yahoo News, August 23, 2008
It is difficult to avoid the impression that the Fed is too close to the financial markets and leading financial institutions, and too responsive to their special pleadings, to make the right decisions for the economy as a whole

Gene Arensberg: Silver sucker-punched by two U.S. banks - August 25, 2008
Gene Arensberg credits silver market analyst Ted Butler for exposing the recent vast downward manipulation of the silver market by two unidentified U.S. banks. Arensberg expects the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to take action against these banks

Washington is quietly repudiating its debts - By Gerald P. O'Driscoll Jr., The Wall Street Journal, August 22, 2008

U.S. appeals court validates gold clause in rental contract - By Lisa Cornwell, Associated Press via Yahoo News, August 28, 2008

FALLISCONO ALTRE DUE BANCHE - Eugenio Benetazzo, 27 agosto 2008
Con la Columbian Bank, in Kansas, salgono a nove le banche fallite negli Stati Uniti da inizio 2008. Banca regionale con asset per 725 milioni di dollari e 622 milioni in depositi, il fallimento della Columbian ha valore prevalentemente segnaletico. Ben Bernanke, presidente della Federal Reserve, ha parlato di uno dei contesti economici più difficili a memoria d'uomo, Ed anche in Europa continuano ad accendersi spie d'alarme sul settore del credito. La Danimarca ha dovuto procedere ad una nazionalizzazione-salvataggio per la sua ottava maggiore banca, Roskilde Bank, gravemente colpita dalla crisi dei mercati globale. Il paese scandinavo segue così quanto già fatto nei mesi scorsi dalla Gran Bretagna, dove lo Stato è dovuto intervenire direttamente per salvare la Banca Northern Rock, anch'essa specializzata in mutui.

Bankruptcy Filings Near 1 Million in Past Year - The Associated Press, August 27, 2008
Nearly 1 million individuals and businesses filed bankruptcy in the 12 months ended June 30, according to U.S. Court data released Wednesday

[blanchiment du seigneuriage] Affaire Clearstream : Le Monde lave plus blanc - Marie-Anne Boutoleau, Acrimed, 25 août 2008
Denis Robert subit depuis huit ans le harcèlement judiciaire de cette « banque des banques » luxembourgeoise sur laquelle il a mené une longue enquête, qui a donné lieu à la publication de trois livres et à la réalisation de deux films

CENTRAL BANKERS MEET AGAIN IN JACKSON HOLE, WY - WHAT WAS SAID? - RMN, 22 August 2008
The Jackson Hole conference that starts today will not be as exciting as the Democratic convention next week, but the discreet gathering of central bankers and economic policymakers in Wyoming may well prove to have a more substantial bearing on the lives of people around the world than the razzle-dazzle in Colorado next week

Freddie, Fannie Failure Could Be World `Catastrophe,' Yu Says - By Kevin Hamlin, Bloomberg. Aug. 22, 2008
A failure of U.S. mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could be a catastrophe for the global financial system, said Yu Yongding, a former adviser to China's central bank

Brazil's farms see quiet revolution - By Gary Duffy, BBC News, 20 August 2008
Of the 350 million hectares of land available for agriculture across Brazil, analysts say only 70 to 80 million hectares are being used, and the potential for growth is enormous

Stagflation is Here, and It is a Weapon of Mass Destruction - by Richard C. Cook, Global Research, August 20, 2008
With inflation now running at close to ten percent, we have entered a period of stagflation potentially worse than the 1970s. And stagflation is nothing less than a weapon of mass destruction aimed at the livelihoods not only of the elderly and those on fixed incomes, but also on students, the unemployed, families, and almost everyone who has a job in the producing economy

Economic slowdown: World markets fall sharply amid fears that credit crunch has further to run - Larry Elliott, The Guardian, August 20 2008
The FTSE 100 index fell by almost 2.5% as financial market traders braced themselves for a fresh bout of turbulence triggered by concern that weakening growth in Europe, North America and Asia would add to the problems of western banks

U.S. food prices seen rising most since 1990 - By Christopher Doering, Reuters, August 20, 2008
U.S. consumers should brace for the biggest increase in food prices in nearly 20 years in 2008 and even more pain next year due to surging meat and produce prices, the Agriculture Department said on Wednesday

08/20/08 - The New Silver: Now Made with Real Paper - by The Mogambo Guru
"So, from now on, if you ever want to buy some silver, MSS will sell it to you at the lowest price possible; the spot price! All you have to do is just send the money to me, in cash, in a plain brown envelope addressed to 'Occupant', and I will gladly send you a piece of paper that says I sold you some silver."

PickensPlan: IT'S TIME TO STOP AMERICA'S ADDICTION TO FOREIGN OIL
"I've been an oil man all my life, but this is one emergency we can't drill our way out of. But if we create a new renewable energy network, we can break our addiction to foreign oil." A 2005 Stanford University study found that there is enough wind power worldwide to satisfy global demand 7 times over — even if only 20% of wind power could be captured
PickensPlan

Robert Shiller (YALE economist) Raises The Bankruptcy Issue - by John Hoefle, Executive Intelligence Review, August 22, 2008
Shiller begins with the observation that the viewpoints of the specialists and the various institutions are too narrow, that they have failed to alert us in advance to the array of potential problems we face, and that, "nobody seems to have a well-tuned plan to handle them. Given the threats posed by the financial crisis, a better framework for dealing with systemic crises is urgently needed

IBERO-AMERICA: How To Triple Food Production By Developing High-Speed Rail - by Dennis Small, Executive Intelligence Review, August 15, 2008
As the world financial system disintegrates in a hyperinflationary blowout, the planet today is teetering on the brink of widespread starvation. As Schiller Institute chairwoman Helga Zepp-LaRouche has insisted, the world can and must double food production in the short term, with national self-sufficiency in production in every sovereign nation-state

Sharp contraction in money supply points to Wall Street crunch - By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, The Telegraph, August 19, 2008
Data compiled by Lombard Street Research shows that the M3 "broad money" aggregates fell by almost $50 billion (L26.8 billion) in July, the biggest one-month fall since modern records began in 1959

CMRE's October meeting examines the financial crisis - Gata.org, August 19, 2008
For its annual fall dinner meeting, to be held in New York City on Thursday, October 16, the Committee for Monetary Research and Education will be asking the not-so-musical question: Is this the epicenter of the biggest financial crisis in history?

Why landlords won't profit from the rental boom - By John Stepek, MoneyWeek, Aug 19, 2008
House prices have a long way to fall yet

British Families, Drowning in Debt - By Thomas Hüetlin, Spiegel, 08/19/2008
For 30 years, the British economy has been on a steady climb skyward. Now it's being hit with a credit crisis that resembles the American subprime disaster. And just like across the pond, the victims are those who can least afford it

US producer price index for finished goods is up at an annualized rate of 15.38% - RMN, 19 August 2008

US DEBT DOUBLED INSTANTLY WITH RECENT BANK BAILOUTS - RMN, 19 August 2008

Lehman In Deep Trouble - MISH'S Global Economic Trend Analysis, August 19, 2008
Lehman

When the window shuts and your balance sheet erodes, you are finished. Period.

Merrill, Wachovia in Danger of Failing: Strategist - CNBC, 18 Aug 2008
Merrill Lynch, Wachovia and other financial companies are at risk of failure as the cost of raising capital soars at a time when the banks need to pay settlements over auction rate securities, David Kotok, chairman & chief investment officer from Cumberland Advisors, told CNBC Monday

Credit crunch may take out large US bank warns former IMF chief - TimesOnline (UK), August 19, 2008
The deepening toll from the global financial crisis could trigger the failure of a large US bank within months, a respected former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund claimed today, fuelling another battering for banking shares

The Profit Potential of Tasty Pork Products - by The Mogambo Guru (Richard Daughty), 08/19/08
This "dance of death" thing works like a charm in the field of economics as the Fed and the government create money and credit to bail out themselves and their nasty friends

Wall Street pulls back as financials fall - By TIM PARADIS, AP, Aug 18, 2008
Wall Street retreated Monday after Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac fell to their lowest levels in nearly 20 years on concerns that the government might need to bail out the mortgage financiers. Weakness in the overall financial sector sent the Dow Jones industrial average down more than 175 points

WHO OWNS THE RBA? - RESERVE BANK OF AUSTRALIA - VIDEO & LINKS TO ARTICLES - By: Rayelan, RMN, 17 August 2008
Here is a video that informs the people of Australia that the same group of thieves and murderers who own the Federal Reserve banks here in the United States, also own/control/run the Reserve Bank of Australia

08/18/08 - Unemployment Survival Guide - by The Mogambo Guru
"All of this unemployment must be impacting demand for goods and services, which may be what prompted Jim Sinclair of jsmineset.com to ask a lot of questions, including 'Do you really believe that present inflation is demand driven?'"

HILLARY'S RICH FRIEND- LADY DE ROTHSCHILD AMBUSHES BARACK OBAMA - Posted By: tangodog, RMN, 17 August 2008

La BCE sostiene il dollaro. Coi soldi nostri - Maurizio Blondet, Effedieffe, 16 agosto 2008
in un’area metropolitana della Florida, Cape Coral-Fort Myers, una famiglia su 64 ha perso o sta perdendo la casa; in California, una famiglia ogni 186; in Nevada, una ogni 106. Le banche si trovano con almeno 750 mila unità immobiliari sequestrate, che non riescono a vendere nemmeno a prezzi drasticamente calanti. Eppure, il peggio deve ancora avvenire

Fuel Spending Tops Car Costs for 1st Time Since 1982 - By Margot Habiby, Bloomberg, Aug. 15, 2008
Consumers spent more on gasoline than vehicles and parts for the first time in 26 years in May and June, as U.S. pump prices headed for a record

A Fabrication Bottleneck or Something More - by James Turk, GoldMoney, 17 August 2008
When I see or hear that store "shelves are bare", my first reaction is that government price controls have been imposed. Price controls always create shortages. But there are no price controls on the precious metals - at least not yet anyway. So absent price controls, the answer to dealer shortages is simply that the price of gold and silver is just too cheap

The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008: An Analysis by Catherine Austin Fitts
By the summer of 2001, to finance trillions of undocumentable transactions, the U.S. government would have built up quite a discrepancy between outstanding securities and those reported on the U.S. government books, and another discrepancy between agency securities collateralized with things such as mortgages and actual valid liens on real things in the material world. Which leads us back to the interesting fact that the first plane that headed into the World Trade Center North Tower on September 11, 2008 took out Cantor Fitzgerald, the leading government bond dealer. All 658 employees present that day died, along with the system Cantor Fitzgerald used for settling transactions. This was not the only financial data destroyed that day. DOD has claimed that the attack on the Pentagon that day destroyed financial records. In addition, the destruction of WTC 7 resulted in loss of SEC and other federal agency enforcement records. Only one thing can cancel the day of reckoning, and that is a return to productivity—a reengineering of resources in households and communities; a revitalization of culture, education, and markets; a rebuilding of infrastructure; an integration of new technology and new process; and a shift away from warfare, centralization, financial fraud, and organized crime and those who lead and promote it

Bahrain's first Islamic Visa card launched - Gulf Daily News, 17th AUGUST 2008

Sue the private owners of the Federal Reserve Bank - APFN, Aug 15, 2008

Most companies in US avoid federal income taxes - By JENNIFER C. KERR, The Associated Press August 12, 2008
Collectively, the companies reported trillions of dollars in sales, according to GAO's estimate
Tax Administration: Comparison of the Reported Tax Liabilities of Foreign- and U.S.-Controlled Corporations, 1998-2005 - GAO-08-957 July 24, 2008

U.S. Home Sales Fall to 10-Year Low as Prices Tumble - By Kathleen M. Howley and Dan Levy, Bloomberg, Aug. 14, 2008

Crime-ridden Arkansas town expands 24-hour curfew - By JON GAMBRELL, Associated Press, Aug 13, 2008
The area under curfew, in what used to be a West Helena neighborhood, sits among abandoned homes and occupied residences in disrepair

Foreclosure fallout: Houses go for a $1 - Ron French, The Detroit News, August 13, 2008
One dollar can get you a large soda at McDonald's, a used VHS movie at 7-Eleven or a house in Detroit. The fact that a home on the city's east side was listed for $1 recently shows how depressed the real estate market has become in one of America's poorest big cities. And it still took 19 days to find a buyer
Crollo del mercato immobiliare

UBS accused of auction-rate fraud - The Wall Street Journal, 15 Aug 2008
New Hampshire securities regulators accused a division of UBS of urging New Hampshire's main student lender to continue plunging into the auction-rate-securities market although the Swiss bank knew that market was failing

Spanish government cuts short holiday as economy collapses - By Fiona Govan, Telegraph, 14 Aug 2008
Spain's cabinet ministers took the unprecedented step of interrupting their summer holidays to hold an emergency meeting on the nation's deepening economic crisis

Top UBS private banker granted permission to leave US - The Wall Street Journal, 15 Aug 2008
Martin Liechti, the Zurich-based head of North and South America for UBS' overseas wealth management operations, has been granted permission by US authorities to leave the country

Ex-Salomon Brothers chief faces IRS fine - New York Post, 15 Aug 2008
John Gutfreund, the fallen Salomon Brothers chief who in the 1980s was called the "King of Wall Street", has been fined more than $430,000 (€292,091) by the Internal Revenue Service, a document filed with the Finance Department revealed

W ag the Dog: How to Conceal Massive Economic Collapse - by Ellen Brown, Global Research, August 14, 2008
The underlying problem is little discussed but impossible to repair – a one quadrillion dollar derivatives scheme that is now imploding. Banks everywhere are facing massive writeoffs, putting the whole banking system on the brink of collapse. Only public bailouts will save it, but they will bankrupt the nation [hence the solution proposed by us: state money coupled with local/regional currencies]

Il Presidente spazzino nel 'Paese del marciapiede' - Famiglia Cristiana sul sito di Di Pietro, 14 agosto 2008
È un 'Paese da marciapiede' quello che sta consumando gli ultimi giorni di un’estate all’insegna della vacanza povera, caratterizzata da un crollo quasi del 50% delle presenze alberghiere nei luoghi di vacanza

The credit crunch: why there's far worse to come - By David Stevenson, MoneyWeek, Aug 14, 2008

Goldman Balks At Helping Rich Clients Recover From 'Auction Rate' Securities - Wall Street Journal, August 14, 2008
Anche i ricchi piangono...

JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley plan $7bn ARS buyback - Dow Jones Newswire, 14 Aug 2008
JP Morgan Chase & Co. and Morgan Stanley agreed to buy back more than $7bn in auction-rate securities as part of an agreement to end probes by state and federal regulators into how they marketed the complex securities

SEC seeks input on consolidating insider trading probes - Dow Jones Newswires, 14 Aug 2008
US stock exchanges have agreed to consolidate insider trading investigations, designating two self-regulatory groups to handle probes now split among 11 different markets

No Good Guys in Russia-Georgia War - By Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive, August 11, 2008

The Great Variety of Poor Rich People - by The Mogambo Guru, 08/13/08
Randall Forsyth in his Current Yield column in Barron's reminds us that GDP accounting means that "Soaring prices of imports, including petroleum, lowers the GDP deflator" because "imports count as a negative." Hahaha! Inflation went down because imports went up in price!

Stage 2 of Gold Bull Market Is Just Beginning - By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, The Telegraph, August 12, 2008
My guess is that political protest will mark the next phase of this drama. Almost half a million people have lost their jobs in Spain alone over the last year. At some point the feeling of national impotence in the face of monetary rule from Frankfurt will erupt into popular fury. The ECB will swallow its pride and opt for a weak euro policy, or face its own destruction

CFTC forms task force to probe currency trading fraud - Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug 2008
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has formed a task force within its enforcement unit to probe and prosecute fraud in the off-exchange retail foreign currency market, as well as to work with other federal and state regulators and criminal authorities

LIBERTY OR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT? - By Michael Shaw, NewsWithViews.com,August 10, 2008

Budget guru sees ‘super-subprime crisis’ - By Jason White, MSNBC, Aug. 11, 2008
Social Security, Medicare promises made, but how can they be paid for?

Five pension schemes sue Lehman Brothers - Elizabeth Pfeuti, Financial News, 11 Aug 2008
Five pension schemes have lodged claims for damages against US investment bank Lehman Brothers in what is expected to be among the first of many cases as investors begin to seek compensation for losses incurred during the sub-prime crisis

New York State in bid to save monoline bond insurers - Yaël Bizouati, Financial News, 11 August 2008
Eric Dinallo, superintendent of the New York State Insurance Department, is negotiating deals between troubled monoline bond insurers Financial Guaranty Insurance Company and CIFG and banks to cancel insurance contracts in exchange for cash

Cuomo seeks auction-rate pacts with 3 banks - By Joseph A. Giannone, Reuters, 11 Aug 2008

Slump in U.S. to Worsen as Consumers Get `Squeezed' - By Timothy R. Homan and Alex Tanzi, Bloomberg, Aug. 11, 2008
The decline in buying power is one reason economists forecast spending will slow

[global insolvency] The Balance Sheet Lies of Merrill Lynch and Wall Street's Failing Cabal - James Quinn, The Cutting Edge, August 11th 2008
Merrill Lynch reported a loss of $4.7 billion for the 2nd quarter on July 17. On July 28, eleven days after this earnings report they announced a $5.7 billion write-down and the issuance of $8.5 billion of stock. Thain, the $50 million man, is either lying or completely clueless regarding the company he runs. The SEC needs to investigate him, rather than short-sellers. Merrill Lynch books appear to be a fraud and the statements of its CEO cannot be trusted

Mystery Solved - by James Turk, GoldMoney, 7 August 2008
With this intervention, central banks have bought some time. But alas, they have not fixed the problem

UBS's Clients Pull Funds as Securities Losses Mount - By Elena Logutenkova, Bloomberg, Aug. 11, 2008
The withdrawals is a clear signal of an erosion of confidence in UBS after it amassed 25.4 billion francs of net losses, the most of any bank, in a mistimed bet on the U.S. mortgage market

August, the Month of Change - Executive Intelligence Review, August 8, 2008
Sources close to the Federal Reserve report that the Fed has a secret list of 700 banks in critical danger, and another 700 in serious trouble

[seigniorage war] Rep. Ron Paul: The US is heading into an illegal attack on Iran - by Attorney Harold H. Burbank II, Global Research, August 9, 2008

The Real State of the US Economy - by William F. Engdahl, Global Research, 2008-08-02
Can we have a sound banking system where the only functioning part is literally insolvent—its debts greater than its assets?

[seigniorage war] Petro-Euro Vs Petro-Dollar - Good Eye opener

Getting Closer to Debasing the Currency - by Thorsten Polleit, Mises Institute, 8/7/2008
Would there be a political willingness to declare the national banking sector bankrupt?

THE MANAGEMENT PLAN - By Dennis L. Cuddy, NewsWithViews.com, August 11, 2008

Autostrade pubbliche, profitti privati - Beppe Grillo, 8 Agosto 2008
La concessione è un diritto di sfruttamento dei cittadini assegnato dallo Stato

e-Gold GUILTY PLEA, e-Bullion TROUBLES, Phoenix Dollar "CLOSED INDEFINITELY" - By: hobie, RMN, 10 August 2008
James Fayed and his estranged wife Pamela Fayed were co-owners of e-bullion. Pamela Fayed was found stabbed to death in a parking garage July 28 in Century City, CA

Soros Is CIA In EU - By Karl Schwarz, rense.com, 8-10-8

The Greatest Transfer of Wealth in History- Bob Moriarty, 321energy, August 10, 2008
Over the counter derivatives now total over $596 trillion dollars, (click here [pdf]) ten times the size of the world economy. Those are paper assets, their value is derived from some other asset. That derivative size is what is going to destroy the world’s financial system, it’s all fraud

Systemic Paralysis - by Sharon Kayser, August 9, OEN, 2008
Usury is the root of all evils and this is something that will never be taught at school, unless there is a radical and interllectual wake-up call. If you need an example illustrating the plague of ignorance, let's consider Japan, where the suicide epidemic is tied to an economy under strain. As a result, after a decade of reforms and weak growth many middle-age and elderly men unemployed chose to end their lives. While the Japanese system allows the beneficiaries to collect life insurances in cases of suicide, we shouldn't jump to any fast conclusions. Throughout India, more and more troubled farmers are killing themselves...

[fast-forward toward a global insolvency] Credit Crisis Triggers Unprecedented U.S. Response - By David Cho and Neil Irwin, Washington Post, August 9, 2008
Now, the contagion has rapidly spread from mortgages to bonds and exotic securities, student and corporate lending, credit cards and home equity loans, and residential and commercial real estate

Credit Suisse auction-rate debt suit may start frenzy - By Duncan Martell, Reuters, Aug 8, 2008
STMicro claimed in its lawsuit that "at least a dozen other multinational corporations are victims of the same scheme carried out by the same group of brokers and directors at Credit Suisse Securities and furthered by Credit Suisse."

The Fast Disappearing U.S. Middle Class - By: Jennifer Barry, The market Oracle, Aug 09, 2008 - 05:19 AM
The family of 2005 spent 32% less on clothes, 18% less on food, and 52% less on appliances than the equivalent 1970 family. Electronic gadgets only account for an increase of $300 per year adjusted for inflation. In short, discretionary spending as a percentage of income was down

Trillions Lost in Recent Economic Failures - August 6 2008
The banks now hide their damage from this fraud off balance sheet, and through "creative accounting" methods blessed by corrupt government regulators, they continue to mark their assets to model, and not to market, which models are based on bogus black box computations and statistical pipe-dreams and fantasies. As this transpires, our leading financial institutions continue to wander around aimlessly as insolvent financial zombies in a remake of George Romero's "Night of the Living Dead," while claiming from their mouth to God's ears that their capital position is sufficient and that their financial condition is healthy

Ley de crédito al sector agrícola permitirá agilizar el apoyo a productores - Prensa Web YVKE, ABN, 7 de Ago de 2008
La afirmación la hizo el ministro para la Agricultura y Tierras, Elías Jaua, aclarando que "el sector agrario y el sector rural tienen un conjunto de variables que van más allá de la producción y por eso se promulgaron estás leyes".

Killing me softly - di Eugenio Benetazzo, 8/08/2008
I suv americani stanno letteralmente uccidendo dolcemente i loro proprietari ormai non più in grado di sostenere finanziariamente sia il pagamento delle rate dei light leasing quanto il costo del pieno di benzina...

US investment: Mis-selling of 'safe' securities lands Citigroup with $7.3bn bill - Andrew Clark, The Guardian, August 8 2008

Are central banks getting it all wrong? - By Sumeet Desai, Reuters, August 8, 2008

UBS will buy back bonds for $19.4b - By Beth Healy, Boston Globe, August 8, 2008
Investors misled, regulators say; Announcement expected today

Bank of America gets subpoenas, reports SEC probe - Reuters, Aug 7, 2008
Bank of America Corp, the largest U.S. retail bank, said on Thursday it received subpoenas and requests for information relating to auction-rate securities from federal and state government agencies

ECO - Sanzioni Antitrust, Aduc: Banche, associazione a delinquere? - Velino, 8 ago 2008
Dai 300.000 euro della Banca Sella ai 500.000 di Deutsche Bank e Unicredit Banca e Unicredit Banca di Roma, si tratta di cifre che vengono giornalmente create dal nulla, attraverso false scritture contabili

[signori del signoraggio] L’estate degli oligarchi - Maurizio Blondet, Effedieffe, 7 agosto 2008
Nove anni di trattattive e manovre, con la consulenza di un gruppo britannico (United Financial Group), e il suo capo, Steven O’Sullivan, che ha passato quei nove anni a Mosca per oliare l’accordo...

USA: comincia il grande esproprio, fase 2 - Maurizio Blondet, Effedieffe, 6 agosto 2008
Tutti gli economisti in cattedra non fanno altro che questo: occultare la questione della distribuzione della ricchezza

I.O.U.S.A.: Indebted Ever After - By Frank Ahrens, Washington Posty, August 7, 2008
Scared by National Deficit? You Should Be, Filmmakers Say

Inflation and the New World Order - by Richard C. Cook, Global Research, August 3, 2008
INFLATION AS CLASS WARFARE? According to relief workers in Haiti , mass starvation could begin in six to twelve months. Meanwhile, in our own country, traders have been making millions short-selling the declining U.S. stock market while some hedge fund managers made over a billion dollars last year. Their lobbyists have been battling in Congress to stop a move to raise the relatively low rate of taxation on their capital gains to the level of earned income. In other words, while ordinary people starve, Wall Street is doing just fine. Are we seeing the totalitarian dictatorship of the world’s financial elite being rolled out, with petroleum and food prices the primary weapon of a final coup d’etát against every national government on earth and their citizens? And if we knew who these “high-end investors” were, and who controlled them, wouldn’t we then understand who is in charge of the New World Order and for whom it really functions?

Capitalism lies in shambles, and the left has gone awol - Aditya Chakrabortty, The Guardian, August 7 2008
It should be the moment for progressives to proffer remedies, and yet a year into the credit crunch they remain largely silent

WELCOME TO TRUTH ATTACK: spreading the message THEY don't want you to hear
DOES ANY STATUTE MAKE YOU LIABLE FOR THE INCOME TAX? ARE YOUR PERSONAL EARNINGS “INCOME”? OR ARE THEY GROSS RECEIPTS THAT INCLUDE NO SEVERABLE INCOME? IS YOUR FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT TO EARN A LIVING “TAXABLE”? OR IS IT EXEMPT? THE INCOME TAX IS IMPOSED ON “TAXABLE” “INCOME”—DO YOU HAVE EITHER?

Euro Bank's Hawks Take a Pounding - By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, The Telegraph, August 8, 2008
Jim O'Neill, chief economist at Goldman Sachs, said the slide in Germany had knocked away the eurozone's key prop. "There's not much left once you take out Germany's staggering export growth. Each time there's a global shock, European policy makers say that they are relatively immune, and each time that turns out not be the case," he said

Industry Group Urges Wall Street Reforms - Dow Jones, August 6, 2008

What Is Money? - by James Turk and John Rubino, DollarCollapse.com, 8/7/2008

Connecticut sues Countrywide over lending practices - Dow Jones Newsletter, 7 Aug. 2008
Connecticut has sued Bank of America's Countrywide Financial Corp. for allegedly deceptive lending practice

Syrian dissident economist freed - BBC News, 7 August 2008
Syrian dissident Aref Dalila, who was jailed nearly seven years ago, has been freed by the Syrian authorities

08/07/08 - Fractional-Reserve Banking at its Finest - by The Mogambo Guru
"TFC is what gets created with the literal push of a button at the Fed, and then deposited into the banks (or into the Fed itself!) and then turned into actual money when someone borrows this just-created-out-of-thin-air credit…"

The McCain Nuclear Plan: Homer Simpson without the Donut - By Greg Palast, August 7, 2008
While The New York Times reporters following McCain repeated his line about “inexpensive” nuclear power without question, a buried wire story on the same day noted that the Energy Department is putting the unfunded bill for disposing nuclear plant waste at $96.2 billion – nearly a billion dollars per plant operating today. And no one even knows exactly how to do it, or where

Greedy bankers, lousy government led to housing mess - HARRY BRUCE, The Cronicle Herald, Aug 3, 2008
"But that’s the show we’re watching, brought to you by somnambulant regulators, greedy bank executives and incompetent corporate directors. This wasn’t the way the ‘ownership society’ was supposed to work."

08/06/08 - Monetary Joyride - by The Mogambo Guru
"I explained that, yes, I had my foot on the accelerator, but the car went fast all by itself! In fact, the more I stepped on the accelerator, the faster the car went! It's obviously one of the mysteries of the universe!"

CASA: SUNIA, GOVERNO SOTTRAE 550 MLN A EMERGENZA ABITATIVA - AGI, 6 ago. 2008

UBS In-Houser Quits Over Securities Investigation - Leigh Jackson, Legal Week, August 6, 2008
UBS investment banking general counsel David Aufhauser has resigned from his post following allegations of involvement in the bank's alleged sale of auction-rate securities based on inside market knowledge

The journal Trends in Analytical Chemistry discover that Federal Reserve notes are backed by cocaine - August 5, 2008

In Mauritania colpo di stato militare - ANSA, 2008-08-06

Knights Templar heirs in legal battle with the Pope - By Fiona Govan, Telegraph, 04 Aug 2008
The heirs of the Knights Templar have launched a legal battle in Spain to force the Pope to restore the reputation of the disgraced order which was accused of heresy and dissolved seven centuries ago

Europe Tries to Handle Political Fallout of Pension Cuts - New York Times, August 6, 2008

Forbes.com list of 'fastest-dying' cities includes four in Ohio - By Dan Gearino, THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH, August 5, 2008
Canton, Cleveland, Dayton and Youngstown get the dubious distinction, based on their anemic population growth and their sluggish gains in overall economic activity

11 charged in connection with credit card fraud - By RODRIQUE NGOWI and ANNE D'INNOCENZIO, Associated Press, Aug 5, 2008
Eleven people, including a U.S. Secret Service informant, have been charged in connection with the hacking of nine major retailers and the theft and sale of more than 41 million credit and debit card numbers, the Justice Department announced Tuesday

Morgan Stanley Said to Freeze Client Home-Equity Credit Lines - By Christine Harper, Bloomberg, Aug. 5, 2008

How Much Money Does an Economy Need? - by David Gordon, Mises Institute, 8/5/2008
The whole point of free markets is to keep reducing prices, so that more and more people can afford to buy

NOT ONLY SOCIALISTS WERE DUPED: The Fraud of 'Free Trade' - by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., EIR, August 8, 2008

LaRouche to Washington: Stop Bailing and Think! - by John Hoefle, Executive Intelligence Review, August 8, 2008
Sure, it will be embarrassing for a while for them to admit they have been on the wrong track, but it is better than the humiliation they face when the banking system completely disintegrates, and takes their trillions of dollars of bailout money with it

Lotta all’evasione: il mito e la realtà - Maurizio Blondet, Effedieffe, 04 agosto 2008
Invece che emolumenti tassabili, Tronchetti e Buora avevano solo plusvalenze azionarie: in esenzione fiscale totale. Nessun reato accertato

A second, far larger wave of U.S. mortgage defaults is building - By Vikas Bajaj, IHT, August 4, 2008

America is bankrupt - says Dutch Socialist MP Ronald van Raak - Spectrezine, August 5th, 2008
Taxes on the rich will be lowered, just as they are each year. The bill for America’s bankruptcy will be paid by the poor. In the United States, and in the rest of the world

Most US shareholder class actions blame sub-prime - David Walker, Financial News, August 5, 2008
More than half of shareholder class actions filed in US federal courts in the first half of this year included allegations about sub-prime, and involved losses of at least $200bn (€128.6bn), a study has found

SocGen trading probe widens - The Wall Street Journal, August 5, 2008
French prosecutors have placed the assistant of Jerome Kerviel, the man behind Societe Generale's €4.5bn ($7 billion) trading loss, under formal investigation, according to the assistant's lawyer, deepening the probe into one of Europe's biggest-ever corporate scandals

38% of Americans Have Trouble Paying For Food - by ShadowSD, Aug 03, 2008

US Financial System in Crisis as Government Hides the Truth to Prevent Bond Market Panic - The Market Oracle, Aug 05, 2008

Nation To Try Its Luck Out West - The Onion, August 4, 2008
Entire Population Seeking Greener Pastures

Greenspan warns more banks may be bailed out - Angela Balakrishnan, guardian.co.uk, August 05 2008

Citigroup Posts Loss on Credit-Card Securitizations - MISH'S Global Economic Trend Analysis, August 04, 2008
As the Fed the SEC, and others continually allow banks to delay addressing the problems they are facing, those problems keep growing in size (Tale e quale anche qui in Europa!)

Washington's Intervention Addiction - by Ron Paul, 08-04-2008
The question is – do we allow some lending institutions to collapse, or do we allow the dollar to collapse? To extend the metaphor, do we endure the temporary discomfort of withdrawal, or do we continue on until there is a fatal overdose? We can delay the agony, but only for a little while, and then we will all end up paying the price for the mistakes of a few

Not Practical To Tell The Truth - MISH'S Global Economic Trend Analysis, August 01, 2008
The Fed, the SEC, and the Treasury department are all jumping through hoops attempting to disguise this fact, but their collective panic to bail out the wealthy at the expense of the poor tells the truth, even as they find it "impractical" to do so

08/04/08 - The Half and Half in Your Economic Coffee - by The Mogambo Guru
"And given that banks, when selling foreclosed houses, actually net about half the price of the mortgage, that means to me that houses are, by extension, overpriced by half, and as such will surely not be rising in price for a long, long time to come."

Hundreds of banks will fail, Roubini tells Barron's - Reuters, Aug 3, 2008
Taxpayers will pay a big price for helping bail out the rest of the financial services industry as well, Roubini said -- at least $1 trillion and more likely $2 trillion

Rx for economic pain: Try a dose of reality - Steve Chapman, Chicago tribune, August 3, 2008
"There's a great misunderstanding of what's happened," says economist Allan Meltzer. The main trouble, in his view, is not that Americans are suffering from weak or negative economic growth. It's that they have suffered a loss of wealth, a very different ailment

U.S.: What to do When Your Bank Closes - Bankers and The Digital Economy, August 2, 2008

RBI takes a liking to yuan, Australian dollar - Gayatri Nayak, The Economic Times, 4 Aug, 2008
Reserve Bank of India is gradually shifting away from hard currencies such as the dollar, the yen, the euro and the pound within its portfolio of foreign exchange reserves to other currencies

NY state to sue Citigroup for securities fraud - Times Online, August 4, 2008
Andrew Cuomo, the New York State Attorney General, plans to imminently charge Citigroup, accusing it of fraudulently marketing and selling auction-rate securities, and destroying documents that had been subpoenaed

SEC mulls changing rules for accounting mistakes - The Wall Street Journal, August 4, 2008

Royal Bank of Scotland poised for biggest loss in UK banking history - The Sunday Times, August 3, 2008
Britain's second largest bank expected to reveal it has lost £1 billion in first half

UNCONFIRMED: PRESIDENT BUSH ISSUES EX. ORD. TO NATIONALIZE US FED & STATE BANKS - 3 August 2008

La latitanza di Consob e Banca d'Italia - Antonio Di Pietro, 3 Agosto 2008
"Noi dell'Italia dei Valori abbiamo preparato un pacchetto di leggi che in materia di risparmio e credito mirano a trovare fondi per il rilancio dell'economia del Paese."

Oil: Frontrunning Humanity [.doc] - American Monetary Institute, August 3, 2008
The Senators are not demonic, but their ideology, summarized as “Market worship,” which ignores the human part of the resulting tragedies, certainly is

PLANNED COLLAPSE OF AMERICA - By Frosty Wooldridge, NewsWithViews.com, August 4, 2008
In his noble piece, The Planned Collapse of America, Peter Chamberlin wrote, “The government has known for decades that America is on a countdown to self-destruction. Among the elite it is common knowledge that our “global economy” must one day collapse from its own dead weight

Banks getting fatter as customers struggle - By Blair Speedy, news.com.au, August 04, 2008
InfoChoice head of research Steven Anderson said the size of the banks' profit margins disproved the bankers' claims that profits were under pressure as a result of the troubled credit market

High Court Review Sought on Judicial Recusals - The National Law Journal, August 4, 2008
The ethical hornets' nest stirred up by the refusal of an acting West Virginia chief justice to recuse himself from a multimillion-dollar appeal involving his major campaign contributor has reached the U.S. Supreme Court in a petition framing today's increasingly unsettling intersection of money and judicial elections

Michael Nield, The Police State Road Map, March 2005
The Western money monopoly is the central pillar of the New World Order monolith. The ownership and control of commercial activity by a few European and American families has created the necessary concentration of financial power to manipulate public policy at all levels through co-optation of politicians, policy institutes, charities, educational establishments, and media outlets. Maintaining this international army is a very expensive business, so it is important to understand the source of its funds

Henry Paulson Has Lost Control Over US Finance And Economy - By F. William Engdahl, rense.com, 8-2-8
In fact what he did not say was that the US bank deposit insurance fund, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has a list of problem banks that numbers 90. Not included on that list are banks such as Citigroup, until recently the largest bank in the world

Citigroup to be charged by Cuomo, faces SEC probe - By Joseph A. Giannone and Jonathan Stempel, Reuters, Aug 1, 2008
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo plans to imminently charge Citigroup Inc (C.N), accusing it of fraudulently marketing and selling auction-rate securities, and destroying documents that had been subpoenaed

BREAKING: Pres/CEO and Chairman Resign From Failing Bank - Mark Nickolas's blog, Aug 1, 2008
Big developments this afternoon concerning Silver State Bancorp -- the bank from which Andrew McCain (son of John McCain) suddenly resigned from its board of directors a week ago for "personal reasons." Neither McCain nor the bank have been willing to publicly discuss the reasons for his departure

Florida bank closed by FDIC: First Priority Bank becomes the eighth bank failure of the year. Branches will reopen as Sun Trust Bank - By Ben Rooney, CNNMoney.com, August 1, 2008

Former Treasury official is at center of UBS probe - The Wall Street Journal, 1 Aug. 2008
A former Treasury Department official - David Aufhauser - is at the center of a civil complaint recently filed by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo against UBS AG, in which the firm is accused of fraud in the auction-rate securities market

[signoraggio] Disposizioni per lo sviluppo economico: intervento in Aula - Sen. Donatella Poretti, PD, 1 Agosto 2008
Perché lo Stato non si riappropria dell’onore e onere di emettere direttamente moneta invece di lasciare quei proventi, ossia il cosiddetto signoraggio, alla Banca d’Italia o alla Banca centrale europea?

IndyMac Bancorp Files for Liquidation After Seizure - By Jeff St.Onge and Tiffany Kary, Bloomberg, Aug. 1, 2008

- AMI 2008 Monetary Reform Conference at Roosevelt University in Chicago, Sept. 25-28, 2008
- 314° anniversario del signoraggio il 27 - 7 - 2008 (anno sabbatico) - 314th seigniorage anniversary (anno Templare 890)