http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/06ba38f2-b69b-11e3-905b-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2xOGe84Do
Citi is now in trouble with the Feds for several reasons – far flung overseas operations with lax audit controls and allegations of facilitating money laundering.
Can the concept of “Civil Forteiture” be applied to a bank and the government just seize all the deposits if the bank is involved in laundering proceeeds of criminal activity?
+1 Alex Jones
When I use the above link, it wants me to subscribe to see the article. If you go to it from Drudge Report, then you can read it. What a tease 🙂
You can subscribe for free and read half a dozen or so articles per week before FT asks you to upgrade to read more.
When Big Brother gets smart, he’ll force all of the foreign press to mandate subscriptions, which the vast majority of Yanks won’t pay for. Because it seems in this day and age, the only way to find out what is happening in the states – is to read the foreign press.
Big Bother is more than willing to put the reporters on the government payroll, but American reporters have ethics!
I disagree with that.
http://www.dailypaul.com/302854/cnn-paid-by-us-and-foreign-governments-to-control-content-emmy-winning-reporter-blows-the-whistle
I have vague memories in my youth of CBS and/or the NY Times knowingly having CIA employees on staff writing news. General Sarnoff over at NBC/RCA had a very symbiotic relationship with the government, as did Disney. Life was much simpler back in the good old days.
There were always the ww2 war correspondents. Obviously, they were not going to write something critical of the people they lived with and that protected their lives…. neither would they write something that would put themselves at risk by helping the enemy. Nothing immoral of wrong with that, but let the reader beware of the circumstances under which the information was provided.
http://m.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/austin-goodrich-cold-war-cia-officer-and-cbs-correspondent-dies-at-87/2013/07/06/65c40166-e59f-11e2-80eb-3145e2994a55_story.html
http://www.carlbernstein.com/magazine_cia_and_media.php
For extra credit
http://www.watergate.com/Woodward-Haig-Connection/Woodward-Haig-Connection.aspx
For super extra credit- what was the mickey mouse – spiro agnew connection?
Good one. Spiro “Spiggy” Agnew. Reference any National Lampoon magazine from the early 70’s.
It was a popular joke… that turned into a product
http://www.hodinkee.com/blog/2010/8/3/the-spiro-agnew-watch-a-gag-that-united-elizabeth-taylor-joh.html
We currently are involved in a war on terror, so that pretty much leaves the field open.
“In this context, the sprawling empire known as Bloomberg LP is the Juarez Cartel of bubble finance” <— say it ain't so and pass me my large sugary drink so long as it is sold by a major national corporation, ex-mayor mike.
above quote from:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-31/david-stockman-why-we-are-plagued-drivel-masquerading-financial-reporting
Bloomberg et al are really the symptom. The problem is money isn’t real and demand for stock has no connection to what the business earns. We have fake money buying fake stocks – it’s hard to report that accurately.
It’s the ultimate tool of the “haves” to suppress the “have-nots”. Pass a law so that you can appoint people to print as much money (not wealth) as needed to stay a “have”. The money printing goes to those that already own most of the assets and dilutes the earning/buying power of the people that do not get the newly printed money. In return, you buy off the impoverished with money from the middle class.