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Written by Garrett Johnson
“For these ten marks I sold my virtue.”
- written on the back of German banknote, 1923
The news of the Federal Reserve injecting $38 billion into the mortgage-backed securities market didn’t get a lot of attention yesterday, but it should have.
Since a third injection is unprecedented, as such infusions typically only occur during a crisis, investors are again left wondering just how bad the subprime situation is and questioning whether or not an (…)

“The actual outlook [for the survival of Civilization] is very dark!” — George Orwell
Baltimore, MD — The commuter train belonging to the MARC Line, pulled out of Penn Station, on Aug. 7, 2007, at exactly 5:32 AM. I was lucky to get a seat. It was overbooked and headed for Washington, D.C. about an hour away. The first thing I noticed on the train was how quiet it was. No one was talking. There was no chattering—just—silence. The passengers were mostly sleeping. Some had on their head (…)

By Nicola Nasser*
The major political players who are involved in sealing off 1.5 million Palestinians into an open air prison in the world’s most densely populated 360-square-kilometre area of the Gaza Strip are unmercifully trespassing humanitarian borders there; they perceive in the collapsing economy of the Mediterranean coastal strip, which is rapidly developing into a humanitarian crisis, a political “window of opportunity.”
Ironically they are counterproductively citing security (…)

In this interview from April 15th, 1994, Dick Cheney reveals the reasons why invading Baghdad and toppling Saddam Hussein wouldn’t be a great idea. He also stipulates that "not very many" American soldiers’ lives were worth losing to take out Saddam during the Gulf War.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BEsZMvrq-I

“Resisting the Empire”: Documentary Filmmaker John Pilger on Struggles for Freedom in Israel-Palestine, Diego Garcia, Latin America and South Africa
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The renowned investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker John Pilger has spent the better part of his life documenting American empire and the resistance it has met. Pilger has made over fifty documentaries and is the author, most recently, of "Freedom (…)

This lecture, titled Safely Navigate the Falling US Dollar - Powerful Strategies for the Ethical Investor in Uncertain Economic Times was ... Tout » presented by Catherine Austin Fitts in Mill Valley, CA, December 15, 2004 to an overflow audience.
Building Wealth and Safety—the Solari Way We all need maps and tools for navigating these uncertain times. This introduction by Catherine Austin Fitts to the Solari Opportunity, presented before a spirited audience in Northern California, (…)

The Real Deal with Catherine Austin Fitts
Narco News Publisher’s Note: Catherine Austin Fitts is a former managing director and member of the board of directors of Dillon Read & Co, Inc, a former Assistant Secretary of Housing-Federal Housing Commissioner in the first Bush Administration, and the former President of The Hamilton Securities Group, Inc. She is the President of Solari, Inc, an investment advisory firm. Solari provides risk management services to investors through Sanders (…)

Dillon, Read & Co. Inc. and the Aristocracy of Stock Profits
by Catherine Austin Fitts
This is a historic documentation about the current international economic melt down, coup organisation, Identities, tricks and timelines of the international elite. It’s long and complete - save it to disc. It speaks about who is profiting from drugs and the privatisation of prisons and follows the $highway all the way.
http://www.dunwalke.com/

All decent people are obliged to resolutely oppose RACISM in all its ugly manifestations whether the Apartheid of Apartheid South Africa or of Apartheid Israel, whether the anti-Jewish anti-Semtism of the Nazis, the KKK and the traditional Anglo-Celtic Conservative Establishments or the anti-Arab anti-Semitism of the Racist Bush-ites (RBs) and the Racist Zionists (RZs). I have painted a HUGE painting "Bundoora Arabesque" (see: ) and am using it to OPPOSE gross breaches of national and (…)

FTSE plunge wipes out year’s gains
Nick Goodway, Evening Standard 10 August 2007. Updated 5:00pm
Central banks moved to bolster financial markets again today but failed to stop another wave of selling around the world.
Billions more were wiped off the value of Britain’s top companies after the FTSE 100 index plunged 232.9 points or 3.71% to close at a low of 6,038.3, while the FTSE 250 was 303.6 points lower at 10,908.5. Both indices are now below their levels at the beginning of 2007. (…)