IMF to US: Cut Social Security

Com­ment: Does the GOP run the IMF? That might be a con­clu­sion one might draw from the IMF’s con­tention that the U.S. should cut Social Secu­rity ben­e­fits, in order to reduce its deficit. Guess we can add IMF to the list of indi­vid­u­als and insti­tu­tions that want lots of impov­er­ished, des­per­ate elderly and disabled.

The fol­low­ing [...]

FTR #714 Interview (#4) with Russ Baker, Author of “Family of Secrets”

Nixon’s removal from White House was an intel­li­gence coup, not a “reaf­fir­ma­tion of democ­racy”; Poppy Bush cen­trally involved in his removal; Nixon angered some of the same inter­ests as JFK and was removed by the same team.

FTR #711 Interview (#1) with Russ Baker, Author of “Family of Secrets”

Bush family’s his­tory and for­tunes pro­foundly linked to Wall Street, the petro­leum indus­try and the intel­li­gence com­mu­nity; “Poppy” Bush’s Zap­ata Petro­leum an appar­ent intel­li­gence front; Poppy appar­ently deeply involved with the JFK assassination.

BOHICA [Bend Over, Here It Comes Again], pt. 3: Major Red Ink on European Banks’ Books

Com­ment: More sto­ries high­light just how pre­car­i­ous the eurozone’s finances are right now.  There are $2.6 tril­lion in loans to Por­tu­gal, Ire­land, Italy, Greece, and Spain (the P.I.I.G.S),  that are held by Europe’s banks. No one knows who is hold­ing how much of those loans.  As a result, ter­ror grows in the Euro­pean finan­cial com­mu­nity about the [...]

Family of Secrets

The Bush Dynasty, the Pow­er­ful Forces That Put It in the White House, and What Their Influ­ence Means for America

BOHICA, Pt. II: A VERY Scary Story

Com­ment: BOHICA is a mil­i­tary slang acronym for “Bend Over, Here It Comes Again!” A very dis­turb­ing story regard­ing the euro zone cri­sis was fea­tured in The Wall Street Jour­nal. It looks like the short-term lend­ing to a lot of Euro­pean banks is dry­ing up...this is the kiss of death to finan­cial insti­tu­tions in today’s [...]

Economic Collapse Driving People to the Right

Com­ment: Nobel-Prize win­ning econ­o­mist Paul Krug­man has taken stock of a dis­turb­ing fact–economic cat­a­stro­phe pro­pels elec­torates in a right­ward direc­tion. In numer­ous broad­casts, we’ve high­lighted the deci­sive effect of the great depres­sion in win­ning hearts and minds for Hitler and his fel­low fas­cist dic­ta­tors.
Some­thing sim­i­lar is man­i­fest­ing itself today in the U.S. and Europe.
“Going to [...]

California GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Meg Whitman Tied to Goldman Sachs

Com­ment: Now that the SEC has seen fit to take Gold­man Sachs to the legal wood­shed for its actions in the sub­prime mess, it is worth not­ing that big-spending GOP can­di­date for Gov­er­nor of Cal­i­for­nia Meg Whit­man is deeply tied to these SOB’s.
“Whitman’s Ties to Finan­cial Giant Gold­man Sachs” by Lance Williams and Carla Mar­in­ucci; San [...]

The Nazis Take Advantage of the “Not-Sees”

Com­ment: In FTR #690, we exam­ined indi­ca­tions that the mys­te­ri­ous Roland Arnall–“the Johnny Apple­seed of subprime”–may well have been an oper­a­tive for the Under­ground Reich and the Bor­mann cap­i­tal net­work. The dam­age done to Amer­ica by the finan­cial col­lapse pre­cip­i­tated by the sub­prime cri­sis could not be exag­ger­ated.
How­ever, what­ever harm the Nazis have done and [...]

FTR #703 Interview with Daniel Hopsicker: Catching Up with the “Herd Shot ‘Round the World”

Infil­tra­tion point for the 9/11 hijack­ers, the Venice Air­port has a his­tory of involve­ment with wrong­do­ing and wrong­do­ers; Ponzi schemes the least heinous of their activ­i­ties; the deep his­tory of that facil­ity over­laps the assas­si­na­tion of Pres­i­dent Kennedy.