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Archive for April, 2010

Tsunami alarm: Tarpley predicts 2nd wave of global crisis emerging from Greece

Posted by seumasach on April 30, 2010

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Down with ‘Too Big to Fail’: Angry Americans march on Wall Street

Posted by seumasach on April 30, 2010

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Seize and Liquidate Goldman Sachs

Posted by seumasach on April 30, 2010

Webster Tarpley

Tarpley.net

27th April, 2010

Today’s Senate hearings, carried on CNBCBloomberg, and C-SPAN, represent the first major exposure of the American people to the scandalous frauds of the derivatives casino, including synthetic collateralized debt obligations (synthetic CDOs or CDO²). These are things most people have heard very little about. They begin to open up the shocking reality behind such shopworn euphemisms like “toxic assets,” “exotic instruments,” and “troubled assets.” Reactionaries in general and Republicans in particular have done everything possible to hide the role of derivatives, which must be considered the main cause of the financial panic of September 2008 which brought down Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, and AIG, after felling Bear Stearns in March of the same year. The reactionary legend, repeated yesterday on the Senate floor by financier minion GOP Sen. Gregg of New Hampshire, is that the crisis was caused by poor people taking out subprime mortgages and then defaulting, bringing down the entire Anglo-American banking system and triggering the bailouts. Either that, or too much government spending was too blame.

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Bring Down Goldman Sachs and Expose the Financial Coup

Posted by seumasach on April 29, 2010

David DeGraw

Global Research

28th April, 2010

Not only did Goldman Sachs profit on betting against CDOs they designed to fail; more importantly, they insured them through AIG which led to a $182 billion taxpayer bailout.

Have you heard the news? It’s everywhere! The SEC and Congress have all of a sudden sprung to life and are now “getting tough” on Goldman Sachs. Is this all the first phase of a long-awaited investigation that will reveal the causes of our current economic crisis, or is this just more show trials and psychological operations designed to manipulate public opinion and make the American people feel that our elected officials are finally standing up to their campaign funders on Wall Street?

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ECB warns on sovereign debt crisis

Posted by seumasach on April 28, 2010

FT

28th April, 2010

A top European Central Bank policymaker has intensified warnings of a “full-blown sovereign debt crisis” unless governments take ambitious steps to bring public finances under control, saying the UK, US and Japan faced an even greater challenge than the eurozone.

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Dollar surges on Europe downgrades

Posted by seumasach on April 28, 2010

It’s working! What a great idea having your own rating agencies- one minute you can triple AAA rate a junk CDO, the next you can trash competing currencies. You can even maintain UK government bonds at AAA rating! The battle for Europe is heating up- look out for retaliation soon.

The Street

28th April, 2010

The dollar surged to a new 11-month peak against a basket of its major counterparts overnight, broadly boosted by mounting sovereign credit concerns in Europe.

Yesterday, Standard & Poor’s ratings agency downgraded Greece’s government debt to junk status amid mounting concerns about its ability to finance its soaring debt.

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NATO countries begin ‘Brilliant Mariner’ naval exercise

Posted by seumasach on April 28, 2010

brahmand.com

15th April, 2010

A large fleet of warships, submarines, frigates and aircraft from 10 NATO countries and one non-NATO member has congregated here to take part in the ‘Brilliant Mariner’ maritime exercise in the Baltic Sea.

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Volcanic ash not affects NATO operations: chief

Posted by seumasach on April 28, 2010

18th April, 2010
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Monday that the alliance’s operations had not been negatively affected by volcanic ash from Iceland, which has caused an unprecedented airspace shutdown in large parts of Europe.

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EU says Greece won’t restructure; says it’s monitoring role of credit rating agencies

Posted by seumasach on April 28, 2010

Altafaj Tardio showed some disdain for the agencies. “Who is Standard & Poor’s anyway?” he said at the European Commission’s daily news briefing.”

It’s gratifying to see that the European Commission has twigged it regarding S&P’s blatant bias in downgrading Greek bonds for the benefit of the dollar and Wall Street. Now they are also downgrading Portuguese and Spanish debt in a strategy that is far too obvious to keep on succeeding. The rating agencies should be facing prosecution regarding their leading role in the subprime fraud rather than pontificating on the fate of nations.

Robert Wielaard, Associated Press

Canadian Business

28th April, 2010

The European Commission ruled out a Greek debt restructuring Wednesday and – with barely veiled annoyance – said it was “monitoring” credit rating agencies such as Standard & Poor’s that downgraded Greek bonds to junk status.

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Biologic effects and health hazards of microwave radiation-Warsaw Symposium 1973

Posted by seumasach on April 28, 2010

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Document: Goldman “shorted” mortgages because world wouldn’t expect it

Posted by seumasach on April 28, 2010

Truth Out

27th April, 2010

Washington – A key Goldman Sachs trading manager indicated in his personnel performance review that he could use the “fear” in the market of a coming collapse in the nation’s mortgage market to make profits for the Wall Street firm, documents released Tuesday show.

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