Mexicans fear cartels are winning

Financial Times | The municipality of San Fernando in north-eastern Mexico was known for farming, fishing and a quiet way of life.

Rich Dad’s Advisors: Guide to Investing In Gold and Silver

Rich Dad's Advisors: Guide to Investing In Gold and Silver: Protect Your Financial Future

How WikiLeaks Keeps Its Funding Secret

August 23, 2010 By Jeanne Whalen and David Crawford The controversial website WikiLeaks, which argues the cause of openness in leaking classified or confidential documents, has set up an elaborate global financial network to protect a big secret of its own—its funding. Some governments and corporations angered by the site’s publications have already sued WikiLeaks or blocked access

Der Spiegel: US middle class vanishing

Press TV | The negative consequences of the global financial crisis include a widened social class rift and the elimination of the middle class in the US.

A Homeowners’ Rebellion: Could 62 Million Homes be Foreclosure-Proof?

Ellen Brown | Mortgages bundled into securities were a favorite investment of speculators at the height of the financial bubble leading up to the crash of 2008.

Blagojevich, political corruption and health care reform

(NaturalNews) Thanks to a lone, holdout juror, former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich narrowly escaped being found guilty of trying to sell a U.S. Senate seat. He was found guilty on only one charge: Lying. Stop the presses! A politician lied? Say it ain’t so… If that crime were widely prosecuted, there would hardly be a Congressman or Senator left standing in Washington. Not to excuse Blagojevich’s behavior — he was apparently a two-faced political sellout — but who in Washington hasn’t lied? As Ross Perot will tell you, nobody ever got elected telling the voters the truth they don’t want to hear. Especially when it involves the national debt — a topic that’s still off limits during virtually every political campaign. Lying is a matter of course for “successful” politicians, from the day their campaign begins to their last day in office (and often, even continuing far after…) But let’s get to the more serious criminal charge here: That Blagojevich allegedly attempted to sell a U.S. Senate seat. Again, not to excuse Blagojevich’s behavior (which was despicable), …

Is an International Financial Conspiracy Driving World Events?

Richard C. Cook | “Our plan for the world” is one that is based on genocide, world war, police control of populations, and seizure of the world’s resources by the financial elite and their puppet politicians and military forces.

Military Industrial Complex: Of 158 retired generals advising wars, 80% tied to defense industry; 29 are defense CEOs

USA Today | Of the 158 retired generals and admirals identified as mentors, 80% had financial ties to defense contractor; 29 were company executives.

Fed Control Puts Outsiders In A Disadvantage

Fed feeds insider information, the need to re-liquefy, threats of deflation, clearly the dollar no longer brings stability to the financial system, losses mount for home owners, gulf residents, job layoffs rise.

Social Security in the red this year

Washington Times | Meanwhile President Obama’s health care overhaul has given Medicare’s basic Hospital Insurance an extra 12 years of financial stability, though it did not solve all of the program’s long-term challenges.

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