FTR #745 WikiFascism, Part 2

Wik­iLeaks’ res­i­dent fas­cist Jermas/Shamir piv­otally involved with estab­lish­ing Wik­iLeaks in Swe­den; Julian Assange a com­pul­sive Jew-baiter with a Dar­win­ian, eugen­ics phi­los­o­phy. Enlist­ing a mys­te­ri­ous “nanny” to run impor­tant func­tions for Wik­iLeaks, Assange may well be part of the San­tikine­tan Park cult.

A Bit of Good News Amidst the Horror . . .

COMMENT: With all of the hor­rors unfold­ing around the world, a bit of good news might be wel­come. Amidst all the “pro­gres­sive” and right-wing carp­ing about Obama, a sig­nif­i­cant piece of infor­ma­tion has [under­stand­ably] been over­looked.
The story below might not appear very sig­nif­i­cant at first glance. Buried well down in the story, how­ever, is [...]

“Can You Picture Us in New York?”: Deutsche Borse to Gain Control of the New York Stock Exchange

COMMENT: It appears that the Deutsche Borse–con­trolled effec­tively by those large Ger­man finan­cial firms con­trolled by the Bor­mann cap­i­tal net­work–will be pur­chas­ing NYSE Euronext, the par­ent com­pany of “The Big Board.” This merger, if approved, would put the Ger­man share­hold­ers in the driver’s seat. Thanks to the “correction-to-the-correction” below.

This is sig­nif­i­cant and should be [...]

“Somewhere . . . Beyond the Sea . . . ” (Apologies to Bobby Darin)

COMMENT: Some very scary peo­ple, includ­ing extreme right-wingers asso­ci­ated with Face­book, as well as Car­lyle Group alumni, have been back­ing the con­cept of estab­lish­ing enor­mous, float­ing “Utopia” lin­ers as seago­ing liv­ing and recre­ational enclaves for the ultra-rich.
Pro­filed in FTR #718, Face­book finan­cial backer Peter Thiel is a major backer of this under­tak­ing. Along with associates, [...]

Prison “Suicide” in Switzerland of Financial Whistle-Blower

Com­ment: The man who pur­loined bank records that revealed that Ger­man nation­als were using for­eign bank accounts to avoid pay­ing taxes has allegedly “com­mit­ted sui­cide” in a Swiss prison.
How con­ve­nient. One can but won­der who might ben­e­fit from this.

“Sus­pect in Swiss Tax Data Sale to Ger­many Found Dead in Sus­pected Sui­cide” by Car­olyn Ban­del; bloomberg.com; [...]

FTR #689 Interview with Sterling and Peggy Seagrave

William Faulkner noted that “the past is never dead and buried. It isn’t even past.” War Gold stolen by the Japan­ese dom­i­nates the con­tem­po­rary eco­nomic land­scape; the engines of world polit­i­cal power turn in pre­ci­sion with these hid­den engines of wealth.

FTR #688 Darkness in the Vaults

Global finan­cial sys­tem pred­i­cated on tril­lions of dol­lars in wealth stolen by the Axis in WWII; “vic­to­ri­ous” allies shared in the spoils; the rule of law is totally dis­carded in order to pre­serve the sta­tus quo and the secrecy that sur­rounds it.

FTR #675 Interview with Lucy Komisar: No Such Thing as a Free Lunch

Food Ser­vices Giant Sodexo’s scams cost tax­pay­ers, school chil­dren big bucks; Tim­o­thy Gei­th­ner ignored U.S. Trea­sury bonds naked short sell­ing; Swiss Banks join­ing AIG in off­shore machinations.

FTR #665 Update on the Meltdown, Part 2

With much infor­ma­tion undis­closed, mind-boggling scope of finan­cial melt­down might pre­cip­i­tate resur­gence of fas­cism; Mad­off affair truly massive.

FTR #650 Analyzing the Causes of the Crash –
Interview with Lucy Komisar

Invest­ment indus­try cor­rupt to its foun­da­tions, in reg­u­lar col­lu­sion with U.S. reg­u­la­tory officials.