Por Andre Damon
Los cinco bancos más grandes de Wall Street repartieron hacia fuera un expediente $39 mil millones en primas el año pasado, según los datos recogidos por el servicio de noticias de Bloomberg. Después de conducir centenares de millares de familias en ejecución de una hipoteca, causando una crisis financiera que afecta centenares de millones, y empujando los E.E.U.U. y las economías mundiales más cercano a la recesión, él […]

[El condado del Seminole, la Florida, es un hotbed de la oposición a la evolución de enseñanza]
EDAD del ANUNCIO - “esto es un buen día para los padres y los niños en condado y cualquier persona del Seminole que cree que las corporaciones no deben cazar en niños en escuelas,” dijeron a Dr. Susan Linn, director de la campaña para una niñez Comercial-Libre. “We are pleased that McDonald’s […]

They’re leaving “the Company” to snoop on your company. How C.I.A. agents are pushing corporate espionage to ominous new extremes.
Douglas Frantz

Photograph by: Matt Hoyle
In early September 2006, a vice president of Wal-Mart sent a highly personal email to his boss through what he thought was a safe email account. “My Gmail is secure,” Sean Womack […]

Robert Weissman
The U.S. public holds Big Business in shockingly low regard.
A November 2007 Harris poll found that less than 15 percent of the population believes each of the following industries to be “generally honest and trustworthy:” tobacco companies (3 percent); oil companies (3 percent); managed care companies such as HMOs (5 percent); health insurance companies […]

Steven Swinford and Jon Ungoed-Thomas
BRITAIN’S biggest energy companies have stifled competition to raise prices and make record profits of more than £4.5 billion, a Sunday Times investigation has found.
The six companies that control Britain’s gas and electricity are now facing demands that they be referred to the Competition Commission.
Executives in charge of the six major […]

Associated Press
The dollar rose slightly against the euro and pound on Friday, benefiting from nervous currency investors withdrawing from risky “carry trades.”
A slumping Wall Street, which fell more than 300 points on Friday, drove traders away from those trades.
Carry trades involve borrowing currencies from countries with low interest rates, such as Japan and Switzerland, and […]

By Matt Sullivan
India’s largest automaker is set to start producing the world’s first commercial air-powered vehicle. The Air Car, developed by ex-Formula One engineer Guy Nègre for Luxembourg-based MDI, uses compressed air, as opposed to the gas-and-oxygen explosions of internal-combustion models, to push its engine’s pistons. Some 6000 zero-emissions Air Cars are scheduled to hit […]

Templewest
Almost every news network did a story in 2007 about foreigners coming to the states to shop and invest, even in real estate.  What compelled this behavior?
Among the many troubles confounding Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke during this credit crisis is the steady decline of the U.S. dollar.  He and the Fed have reduced the federal funds target rate, […]

As more news about Benazir Bhutto’s assassination comes out, clearly implicating the Musharraff regime in the murder, our tax dollars are going toward paying Lockheed Martin for weapons to Pakistan.
“Washington, Jan 1 - The US Defence Department has awarded a $498.2 million contract to Lockheed Martin Corp to supply 18 F-16 aircraft to Pakistan just […]

The US dollar declined against the euro and the pound on Friday as traders continued to hotly debate whether the US Federal Reserve would continue cutting interest rates amid economic uncertainty.
The euro was swapping hands at US$1.4378 in late afternoon trading in New York, up from US$1.4320 late on Thursday.
The British pound was quoted at […]

The U.S. dollar index goes all the way back to March of 1973. However this 30 year chart of the index shows how the U.S. dollar is holding up against a basket of currencies. It’s weighted against 6 currencies (Euro, Japanese yen, Great British pound, Canadian dollar, Swedish krona and Swiss franc).
Click on the chart […]

Belly Up Banks, ready to go under?
Only 40 Billion of the 150 - 300  Billions Sub prime debts has thus far been written off, what will happen when the other 110 -  260  Billion is written off?
NOTE:  Sub prime debt - The BUSH crooks say the figure is 150 Billion, the bank of England says […]

Until late January this year, the hosiery town of Tirupur had been in a state of euphoria. Within days, its glee turned into a grimace.
Until late January this year, the hosiery town of Tirupur had been in a state of euphoria. Within days, its glee turned into a grimace. In February, the US dollar depreciated […]

The Monterey County Herald
A Boeing subsidiary accused of helping the CIA secretly fly terrorism suspects to be tortured in overseas prisons openly acknowledged its role in the “extraordinary rendition” program, a former employee of the smaller company said in court papers Friday.
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a federal suit claiming Jeppesen Dataplan Inc. […]

The U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill on Thursday to prohibit the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from using “waterboarding” and other harsh tactics to interrogate terrorist suspects.
Being voted 222-199, the intelligence bill was sent to the Senate and will take effect should President George W. Bush sign it.
Among the bill’s provisions that were made […]