The Video That Will Put Geithner Behind Bars

Mike Whitney | It’s clear that Geithner acted as the “chief facilitator” of industrial scale securities flim-flam which led directly to the Great Crash of ‘08.

Citibank exposes 600,000 customers’ Social Security numbers

Chicago Tribune | Citi called the mistake a “processing error.”

Wall Street Lobbyists Spend $400 Million to Kill Financial Reforms & Destroy America

Paul B Farrell | Wall Street’s control America is a drama right out of a Scorsese film about the mafia and crime in New York.

Treasury Plans to Take Social Security from Elderly for Unpaid Loans

Wall Street Journal | Treasury Department data shows that Social Security recipients comprise a large and growing percentage of people from whom the Treasury recovers debts.

Riots in Athens as thousands protest against cutbacks

London Evening Standard | Inside parliament, politicians were debating the €4.8 billion (£4.33 billion) austerity bill, which is expected to pass despite strong opposition.

Are unemployment benefits no longer temporary?

Washington Post | About 11.4 million out-of-work people now collect unemployment compensation, at a cost of $10 billion a month.

Failed Banks May Get Pension-Fund Backing as FDIC Seeks Cash

Bloomberg | The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is trying to encourage public retirement funds that control more than $2 trillion to buy all or part of failed lenders.

IMF floats climate change fund idea

UKPA | Strauss-Kahn proposed that countries adopt a quota system similar to the one it uses to raise its own money.

Iceland’s Voters About to Tell Global Banksters to Shove It

EconomicPolicyJournal.com | A vote is set for Saturday in Iceland on a referendum that would require Iceland to pay funds to the U.K. and the Netherlands.

IMF-style Austerity Measures Come to America

Ellen Brown | Unless we wake up to what is going on and take action, the “powers of financial capitalism” will have their way.

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