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Author Archives: S.J. Kerrigan
Judge Stands Up For the People and Everyone Complains
Judge Jed Rakoff is probably one of the few honest judges we have left. He recently refused to accept an SEC settlement with Citigroup in which they sold mortgages and then bet against them, saying that the $95 million they were asked to pay was “pocket change” and required no admission of guilt. “If the […]
ACLU: Proposed Law Will Allow Military to Detain American Citizens Indefinitely Without Trial
Are we about to take another major step toward tyranny? According to the ACLU, on Monday or Tuesday, the Senate will vote on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which includes a provision which they say will allow the US Military to permanently detain American citizens indefinitely and without trial, akin to the Japanese internment camps […]
Lobbying Firm’s Memo on Plan to Undermine Occupy Wall Street
We’ve known for some time now that the financial services industry has been “livid” with Democrats who’ve tacitly supported the Occupy Wall Street protesters. Politico reported last month: Banking executives personally called the offices of DCCC Chairman Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) and DCCC Finance Chairman Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.) last week demanding answers, three financial services […]
The Secret Conception of the European Super State
The UK’s Telegraph reported yesterday on the leak of a German memo in which the economic powerhouse intends to create a new “super state,” whereby they will be able to control the economies of European nations. So much for national sovereignty. This is the kind of arrangement that only a few years ago would have […]
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Tagged Banks, European Debt Crisis, Financial Crisis, Privatization
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Some Thoughts About OWS
About 2 months ago, I was wandering the pit of despair and intellectual ruin that is Facebook only to stumble upon a new protest who’s mission was to target Wall Street with one single goal. They left it open to the protesters what that goal would be. This way, people with different concerns might have […]
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You Want to Know What #Occupy Wall Street is About?
If you want to know why people are protesting on Wall Street, it’s very simple. Author and former IMF official Jon Perkins said it very succinctly: “Elected officials – including the President – no longer write the laws; the corporate lobbyists write and pass them through our elected officials, whose campaigns they finance.” Any insinuation […]
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Fight Club (Film, 1999)
Just got done watching it tonight with some friends, and I wanted to write something up about it quickly while it was still fresh in my mind. If this seems a bit less formal than usual, that’s probably why. I was amazed (yet again) how ahead of its time it is. One of the things […]
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The Day America Died, By Paul Craig Roberts
This is a repost of an article by Paul Craig Roberts, originally posted at LewRockwell.com. Paul Craig Roberts [send him mail], a former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury and former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He is an economist and is also known as the co-founder of Reaganomics. He regularly criticizes both […]
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Chained CPI Will Slowly Rob Social Security Beneficiaries
Just a little history for those not following the fraud in Social Security: In the recent negotiations, just about the only thing the administration and Republicans could agree on was the introduction of a new measurement device for inflation, which would be applied to the Social Security program. To summarize, over time the new measurement of inflation […]