CSM News: Una Corte d'Assise Speciale per i signori del signoraggio

開かれた通貨宣言
Manifesto “Dinero Abierto”
Manifeste des Monnaies Libres
Call for the building of a European Network for Public Money

Attualità (Jacopo Fò aderisce con la fantastica struttura di ALCATRAZ allo SCEC!)

Non-solo-SCEC - settembre 2008:

Video sul progetto SCEC - Nello De Gennaro, Tempo Reale Channel, 30 settembre 2008

Principi di Economia in Libero Stato - Luca Vannetiello, Libera Pluriversità di Napoli, 2008

Ezra Pound (video) - speciale RaiEdu, 11 settembre 2008

La sterlina di Lewes [video] - TG1-RAi, 10.09.2008

Totnes Pound, Brixton Brick Challenge U.K. Sterling - By Shelley Smith, Bloomberg, Sept. 9, 2008
The Totnes pound started circulating last year. The town of Lewes, in southeast England, will introduce the Lewes pound today. London's suburb of Brixton has used the ``Brixton brick'' on a trial basis and plans full implementation of the currency in 2009

Community Currency Systems at IRTA's 29^th Annual Conference at the Westgate River Ranch Resort outside
of Orlando, Florida, USA, September 22-24, 2008

Arriva anche in Calabria lo "scec", una moneta che affiancherà l'euro - Il Quotidiano, 2 settembre 2008

Una moneta locale contro il carovita - Il Quotidiano, 2 settembre 2008

Una moneta locale per contrastare il carovita e aumentare il benessere - Gazzetta del Sud, 2 settembre 2008

CSM NEWS settembre 2008: (Una tipica multinazionale nell'èra del signoraggio: il caso "FORD CONNECTION")

Denis Robert e Marco Saba, a Lecco

LA CRISI AMERICANA VISTA DALL'ECONOMISTA NINO GALLONI - AgenParl, 30 Settembre 2008
Benelux, Germania e Gran Bretagna dovrebbero spiegarci com'è, adesso, che gli Stati possono sborsare quasi cento miliardi tra euro e sterline allo scopo di salvare le varie Dexia, Fortis e Bradford mentre le risorse non ci sono mai per effettuare importanti e necessarie opere produttive idonee al rilancio dell'economia e, quindi, alla reale fuoriuscita dalla crisi

L’usura quale forma estrema di signoraggio secondario (.pdf) - Avv. Alfonso Luigi Marra, 16.09.08
Circa il fatto che l’usura configura la forma estrema di signoraggio secondario, consistendo esso nella percezione da parte delle banche di interessi cinquantuplicati su denaro altrui realizzata attraverso il prestare cinquanta volte i depositi

Only $4 billion in grants to local communities? - 21 Sep 2008
Better would be to spend the $4 billion in grants to establish local currencies to increase the broad buying power of the people

U.S. Could Emerge as Major Player in Suits Stemming From Financial Crisis - Anthony Lin, New York Law Journal, September 22, 2008
In the wake of most economic crises, the silver lining for lawyers and law firms is a surge in litigation. In the current crisis, the massive scale of government intervention may limit the scope of private action. Instead, the government, especially if it proceeds with a proposal for a bailout agency similar to the Resolution Trust Corporation created in response to the 1980s Savings & Loan crisis, could emerge as the biggest litigant of all. Much of the litigation could be on behalf of taxpayers

[clearing] DTCC: The unknown 20 trillion dollar company - The NewsLog of Flemming Funch, 2003-10-30

We Are In One Of The Great Vortexes Of History - By Karl Schwarz, 9-21-8
The unchecked banking greed and the lack of proper legal controls and governmental oversight (thesis) has led to the current nightmare events of major banks and insurance companies failing or being bought out or funded by governments (antithesis). The synthesis is that, just in the United States alone, one trillion dollars of new public debt has been created in the last week or so to "solve" the problems. New debt that enriches the private owners of the Federal Reserve System (In Europe, think about who really are the private owners of the ECB...)

Putin calls for changing the architecture of the international financial system - Itar-Tass, September 20, 2008
The whole world economy cannot depend on one money-printing machine

Impacts of the Financial Crisis: The U.S. Is Becoming an Impoverished Nation - by Richard C. Cook (former US Treasury officer), Global Research, September 19, 2008
The Federal Reserve and Treasury are trying to forestall and cover up the bankruptcy of the entire U.S. economy, which already is looming. But the injection of liquidity into the system only means more loans and more interest. With more foreclosures and bankruptcies, it also means that more assets pass into the bankers’ hands

Global Financial Meltdown - by Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, September 18, 2008

Intervista a Marco Saba: Crack bancario, crack sociale (testo + video) - di Daniele Martinelli, 18 Settembre 2008

WHY FANNIE, FREDDIE AND AIG ALL HAD TO BE BAILED OUT - Ellen Brown, September 18, 2008
It’s the best game in town. Take a huge amount of risk, be paid exceedingly well for it and if you screw up -- you have absolute proof that the government will come in and bail you out at the expense of the rest of the population (who did not share in your profits in the first place)

Wall Street Socialism - By Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive, September 17, 2008
The federal government could have backed every single individual in foreclosure for the amount that it's forked over to Wall Street. But helping needy individuals is not our government's priority

Lehman Brothers, ''si rischia un altro 1929'' - Adnkronos, 16 set. 2008
Galloni: ''Serviranno modelli economici alternativi a quello attuale per evitare il coinvolgimento diretto delle attività produttive''. In Borsa crollano AIG e Goldman Sachs

Let the bank runs begin! - By Patrick Wood, The August Review, September 15, 2008
Nothing can stop it at this point

The Crash of Western Capitalist Civilization? - By: Richard C Cook, former US Treasury officer, Sep 14, 2008
“Train-wreck” doesn't even begin to describe what is starting to happen to the U.S. today with the financial crisis, an onrushing depression, and the failure of George W. Bush's war policy as he is faced down by Iran and the Russian bear

JP 1-06, Financial Management Support in Joint Operations - Joint Chiefs of Staff, 4 March 2008
This publication provides doctrine for financial management in support of joint [civil-military] operations, to include multinational and interagency financial coordination considerations...

Organizzazioni spontanee sul territorio - Beppe Grillo, 14 Settembre 2008
I gruppi spontanei sul territorio stanno crescendo. Sono 505 in tutto il mondo. Più di 73.000 persone. In Italia sono ovunque, da Ferrara a Siracusa. Meetup è adesso in italiano

Pareto's Bazooka - By Chan Akya, Asia Times, Sep 13, 2008
The larger framework for studying the interplay of governments with financial markets in crisis situations is defined in the rules of Pareto Optimality. Simply put, a Pareto optimal situation is one in which all players in the game get efficient outcomes. An external agent, like the government, that seeks to influence the outcome can either create a higher chance of such an optimality (a Pareto Improvement) or more likely, not

The American Empire is Another Bubble - by Don A. Rich, Mises institute, 9/12/2008
If Ludwig von Mises were to peruse today's newspapers, he would recognize the symptoms of a worldwide central-bank-generated credit bubble and its oncoming collapse

Call for the building of a European Network for Public Money - CSM, August 2008

Altre News settembre 2008 SE LA BANCA RIFIUTA DI DARVI CONTANTI, CHiAMATE IL 112
E FATE VERBALIZZARE LO STATO D'INSOLVENZA !!!

Hai saputo del coinvolgimento di Claudio CIAMPI nello scandalo BNL-ATLANTA?

Le nanotecnologie basteranno per gestire le minuscole riserve di cash rimaste nelle banche?

09/30/08 - Inflation In-Stereo - by The Mogambo Guru
"The next thing I know, my stupid boss is at my door, glaring at me, and I can see in her eyes that she is really pissed about something important. But since I often scream like that about the horrors of inflation in prices, I know it can't be about that…"

Wachovia Bank - By Aaron, FDIC FAILED BANKS, September 29th, 2008
News has emerged that Citigroup is taking over the banking operations of Wachovia

09/29/08 - The World's Most Powerful Currency? - by The Mogambo Guru
"In short, those crafty Chinese, a fifth of the world's population, may be getting ready to issue a gold-standard money, which will instantly make their currency the strongest in the world…"

09/26/08 - Big Banks and Bumbling Idiots - by The Mogambo Guru
"Right now we have greedy, lying, thieving, staggeringly stupid weenies owning the banks, and tomorrow there will just be two more big banks owned by greedy, lying, thieving, staggeringly stupid weenies! Hahaha!"

09/25/08 - Cower Before the Great and Powerful Paulson - by The Mogambo Guru
"My God! This is beyond belief! The Secretary of the Treasury will be above the law! My God! I was going to wax loudly indignant, as should all thinking people, when Mr. Sorkin eclipsed me…"

Washington Mutual - By Aaron. FDIC FAILED BANKS, September 24th, 2008
WaMu has now officially been put out of its misery

09/24/08 - Who's Doing Who a Favor? - by The Mogambo Guru
"Instantly, I was out the door, into the car, careening crazily down the streets on my way to the bank! Bursting into the loan officer's office, I said, 'How much money you got? I'll borrow it all!'"

09/23/08 - What is a Gold Bug? - by The Mogambo Guru
"A genuine gold bug is a person who is emboldened by knowing that 4,000 years of continuous economic history proves that EVERY fiat currency has failed, as they will always fail, and that gold will rise, just like it always has…"

09/22/08 - Financial Head Loppings - by The Mogambo Guru
"So, for the Congressional Budget Office to bring up the totally irrelevant 2007 fiscal budget deficit of $161 billion makes me yell, 'Off with his head! Off with his head!' with every bit of imperious Red Queen arrogance I can muster."

Battle plan for the 50 states - by Devvy Kidd, newswithviews.com, September 22, 2008
"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite." – James Madison, "Federalist No. 45," Jan. 26, 1788. Last week, with the blessing of Bush and most of the U.S. Congress, the robber banker barons threw gasoline onto a bonfire. The financial Mt. Vesuvius hasn't blown yet, but it will, and what was done last week and most likely through today, will be horrific. America has crossed the Rubicon.......

America Reduced to Third World Status - by Joan Veon, newswithviews.com, September 22, 2008
For more than a week the news media has been a buzz, clamoring for the need to change our regulatory system. The passage, by Congress, of “The Treasury Blueprint for a Modernized Financial Regulatory System,” will hand over to the Federal Reserve the last vestiges of our financial sovereignty: savings and loans; state chartered banks; thrifts and credit unions; the entire mortgage and insurance systems, as well as oversight of the Payment and Settlement System of Wall Street. In addition, the Feds would gain oversee rights to all of America’s financial markets......

Netherlands imposes three-month ban on ‘naked’ shorting - New York Post, 22 Sep 2008
The Netherlands has outlawed "naked" short-selling of financial stocks for the next three months to increase the orderliness of financial markets

Star hedge fund manager returns investor capital - Financial Times, 22 Sep 2008
Andrew Lahde, the outstanding hedge fund manager of the past two years, has closed down his funds and is returning capital to investors after concluding that the risk of losing money from a bank collapse is too high

Americans Suckered into Bailing-out Investment Banking Drug-pushers - By: Alex Wallenwein, The Market Oracle, Sep 21, 2008
Question: What happens when you destroy a negative? Is that a bad thing, or a good thing?
Answer: It depends on how good of a liar you are. If you can get everybody to believe that the negative is something of positive value, its destruction will be seen as a catastrophe

Paulson's Market Manipulation Bailout Will Fail Because... - By: Robert McHugh PhD, Sep 21, 2008
The Treasury will issue notes to the Fed, the Fed will come up with the cash (printed out of thin air), and the cash will be handed to Wall Street. This process fails miserably to solve the problem, which is the dire financial condition of the average American household. The trillions of dollars being printed out of thin air should be going to each and every household in America , not just Wall Street .Because the plan fails to bailout the American household, it will fail

Can you believe this? Under the Paulson Merry-go-round reversed-time's-arrow plan, the Treasury will buy the toxic paper, which will give the financial sector the funds to pay off debtors, who will use the funds to buy the Treasuries the feds will have to issue to finance the toxic-paper purchases... This not only defies the JUDICIAL LAW, this defies the ENTROPY LAW (the Second Law of Thermodynamics). Definitely, we are freaking doomed.

Treasury Seeks Asset-Buying Power Unchecked by Courts - By Alison Fitzgerald and John Brinsley, Bloomberg, Sept. 21, 2008
The Bush administration seeks ``dictatorial power unreviewable by the third branch of government, the courts, to try to resolve the crisis,'' said Frank Razzano, a former assistant chief trial attorney at the Securities and Exchange Commission now at Pepper Hamilton LLP in Washington. ``We are taking a huge leap of faith.''

[seigniorage wars] The Destabilization of Bolivia and the "Kosovo Option" - by Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, September 21, 2008

Understanding the Crisis - by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., mises.org, 9/20/2008
The core issue is that there is nothing to restrain money creation. The first time that people hear this, they find their minds rather boggled, and they want to know more. My whole experience in this area is that once people start digging around the area of monetary theory, they find that (1) it is not as difficult a subject as it seems, (2) it is endlessly fascinating, and (3) it explains far more than they realized before

Financial Bailout: America's Own Kleptocracy - by Michael Hudson, Global Research, September 20, 2008
The largest transformation of America's Financial System since the Great Depression. The Invisible Hand turned out to be accounting fraud, junk mortgage lending, insider dealing and a failure to relate the soaring debt overhead to the ability of debtors to pay - all of this mess seemingly legitimized by computerized trading models, and now blessed by the Treasury

Bank of China buys into French bank Rothschild - China Daily, 2008-09-19
When the central bank is owned by the government, you can also buy the Rothschilds....

Financial Armageddon and the Re-pricing of Collateralized Debt - By: John Mauldin, The Market Oracle, 2008 Sep 20, 2008
Let's make a massive amount of bad loans and get them on the books of most of the major financial institutions because they are rated investment grade. Then let's have the loans start to go bad. Throw in some general panic as everyone tries to sell the loans. No one is buying
Collapse

Financial crisis: Default by the US government is no longer unthinkable - By Liam Halligan, Telegraph, 21/09/2008
September 2008 marks the moment when the scale of our excesses, the extent of our debts and the moral bankruptcy of our financial regulatory system finally began to be truly exposed

Ron Paul On the Banker Bailout (video) - YouTube, September 19, 2008

The World Gone Crazy and Your Gold Stocks - Kenneth J. Gerbino, 321gold, Sep 20, 2008
Financial institutions with various types of commercial paper, interest rate certificates, and packaged loan or debt portfolios insured by derivatives or some other contractual form of IOUs are now impossible to value or analyze

Banche italiane: Unicredit e IntesaSanpaolo quelle più "gonfiate" - 2008-09-20

Montezemolo: basta banchieri ingordi - ANSA, 2008-09-20
Il presidente di Fiat e Ferrari dice che ''sara' un mondo diverso: e' la fine di anni di ingordigia di molti banchieri, soprattutto americani..."

Crisi mutui: fallisce Americanbank - ANSA, 20 SET 2008
Ameribank chiude i battenti, divenendo cosi' la dodicesima banca statunitense a fallire quest'anno

Hang On To Your Wallets! The Government Is About To Rescue Us - By Dave Lindorff, rense.com, 9-20-8
Game over

Rescue Plan Seeks $700B to Buy Bad Mortgages - By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS Associated Press Writer, September 20, 2008
Bush rescue plan seeks $700B for to buy bad mortgages, would raise limit on national debt
Cupola

Escape of the bankrupt - Nick Leeson, The Guardian, September 19 2008
The authors of this horror story - the banks themselves - are not just technically insolvent. They are morally bankrupt. I was imprisoned for my role in Barings' collapse. Who will face justice for this recklessness today?

Lehman's demise: a banker's personal diary - Toby Lewis, Financial News, 19 Sep 2008
The last five days has witnessed the re-shaping of Wall Street, with the takeover of Merrill Lynch by Bank of America and the bailout of insurer AIG. But no event has had more visibly personal consequences than the collapse of Lehman Brothers. At the end of a momentous week , Financial News asked one London-based employee for their own account of the last few days. The employee is known to Financial News, but has asked to remain anonymous

McCain says SEC chief should be fired - The Wall Street Journal, 19 Sep 2008
US senator John McCain called for the dismissal of Christopher Cox, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, blaming him for much of the financial crisis that is now ripping the nation

WAIT A MINUTE, WHAT'S GOING ON? - By Geoff Metcalf (former Green Beret), NewsWithViews.com, September 19, 2008
Nobel laureate Milton Friedman correctly observed, "There are severe limits to the good that the government can do for the economy, but there are almost no limits to the harm it can do."

FDIC Running out of Cash: No Bank is Safe in this Alarming Atmosphere - Global Research, September 19, 2008
Christopher Whalen, senior vice-president and managing director of Institutional Risk Analytics, said: "We've got a … retail bank run forming in this country."

09/19/08 - The Greatest Buying Opportunity of All Time - by The Mogambo Guru
"I can see that this is drifting too far to the "theoretical" side of things for my tastes, and my impatience flared, as all I want is a way to make a lot of money by betting on gold and silver soaring in price…"

Once we were bankers - di Eugenio Benetazzo, 19/09/2008
"Una volta eravamo banchieri", così si presenteranno tra dieci anni davanti ad una pinta di birra in un qualche squallido pub di alcolizzati, molti consiglieri di amministrazione di istituti di credito e di banche d'affari che sono destinati a fallire nei prossimi trimestri

Henry Paulson il pataccaro! - di Marco Sarli, 19 settembre 2008
La cosa davvero stupefacente è che nessuno stia allestendo il più grande processo della Storia statunitense, una sorta di Norimberga della finanza, che richiederebbe un gigantesco stadio solo per ospitare gli imputati e lo stuolo di avvocati al seguito, un processo che dovrebbe vedere tra i principali imputati Ben Bernanke, in arte Bernspan, Henry Hank Paulson e l'ineffabile e molto improbabile capo massimo della Securities and Exchange Commission, Christopher Cox

"Serve una terapia d'urto o le Borse rischiano la chiusura" - di MASSIMO GIANNINI, la Repubblica, 18 settembre 2008
Il racconto di un trader: ormai il sistema è al collasso. "Sta accadendo qualcosa di inimmaginabile, mai visto prima". Le banche d'affari sono il "motore" del sistema finanziario globale. I loro clienti, investitori istituzionali ed hedge funds, sono l'olio che fa girare quel motore. Nel momento in cui l'olio viene a mancare, perché i clienti smettono di versarlo, il motore fonde, e la macchina è da buttare". La velocità con cui questa crisi si sta avvitando su se stessa è impressionante. Per questo, in attesa che qualcuno decida qualcosa, l'operatore ipotizza addirittura che le autorità decidano, da un giorno all'altro di chiudere le Borse...

'Lehmans abandoned its UK staff': Ex-employee reveals riddle of missing billions switched from London to New York - By Daily Mail Reporter, 17th September 2008
Robert Daniels, a senior head at the firm, says that the $5bn that was transferred to the New York office on Friday evening has left its UK employees high and dry

Bugs were right about derivatives disaster, Citigroup analysts say - Gata.org, September 19, 200
MineWeb's Dorothy Kosich writes about a new report from Citigroup analysts John H. Hill and Graham Wark, who last year wrote a report acknowledging that central banks were strategically intervening in the gold market to suppress gold's price

Bright Side of a Total Financial Market Collapse - Commentary by Michael Lewis, Bloomberg, Sept. 18, 2008
One of life's rules is that there's bad in good and good in bad. The total collapse of the U.S. financial system is no exception

Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity and The Subprime Scandal - By Danny Schechter, Reviewed By Stephen Lendman, 9-18-8
Imagine the future if the economy crashes, millions more become unemployed, lose their homes, and hundreds of billions keep being spent on fruitless wars by whomever becomes president and whichever party controls Washington. Imagine also how people affected will respond or should.

United States Economy Stares Into the Abyss - Debt, Velocity of Money and Ethics - By: Brian Bloom, The Market Oracle, Sep 19, 2008
The more bailouts occur, the faster will US Public Debt and inflation grow

Systemic Failure of the United States- Game Over - By: Jim_Willie_CB, The Market Oracle, 2008 Sep 18, 2008
Hidden inside the AIG bailout funding package, surely hastily cobbled together, but carefully enough to include a totally corrupt clause, was a handy dandy clause that permits raids. The conglomerate financial firms are permitted at this point to use private individual brokerage account funds to relieve their own liquidity pressures. This represents unauthorized loans of your stock account assets. So next, if the conglomerate fails, your stock account is part of the bankruptcy process !!!

[really?] Credit Crisis Out of Control- US Government Admission "No One Knows What to Do" - By: Mike Shedlock, The Market Oracle, 2008 Sep 18, 2008
"We are in new territory, this is a different game," Reid said at a briefing in Washington. Neither Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke nor Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson "know what to do but they are trying to come up with ideas," Reid said

Eustace Mullins Has Been Found And Is Safe - rense.com, Sept 17, 2008

Panic Sweeping Wall Street May Leave No One Standing - USNews, September 18, 2008
Worst Crisis Since '30s, With No End Yet In Sight

Paulson, Bernanke Push Plan to Cleanse Balance Sheets - By Alison Vekshin and James Rowley, Bloomberg, Sept. 18, 2008
``We will try to put a bill together and do it fairly quickly,'' said House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat. ``We are not in a position to give you any specifics right now'' on the proposals, he said when asked about the potential cost

[controinsorgenza] CARO VITA, PANE GRATIS IN PIAZZA A NAPOLI - 18 Settembre 2008
La notizia più clamorosa è che, secondo Antonio Lirosi, garante nazionale dei prezzi, non esisterebbe un problema di aumento indiscriminato del prezzo del pane aumentato in un anno del 30-35%

Putnam Fund closes after investors pull cash - By Mark Jewell, AP Business Writer, September 18, 2008
Putnam Investments on Thursday suddenly closed a $12 billion money-market fund and announced plans to return investors' money after institutional clients pulled out cash despite the fund's lack of exposure to troubled financial firms such as Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.

Credit crunch, economic turmoil halts commercial real estate deals: report - By Amy Hoak, MarketWatch, Sept. 18, 2008
Commercial real estate deals are, for the most part, on hold these days as buyers and sellers wait for the credit crunch to ease and the economy to rebound, according to a report released Thursday by PricewaterhouseCoopers

Buffett’s buying, but not financials - Option Armageddon, September 18, 2008
One great asset going cheap right now: people

09/18/08 - Funding Your Retirement on Poor Pizza Profits - by The Mogambo Guru
Welcome to modern America, where the rich get richer by borrowing money and credit created by the Federal Reserve, and then loaning it to the government, while everybody else gets poorer as the resultant inflation in the money supply is diffused through the economy as inflation in prices

China accuses US of financial WMD - PressTV, 18 Sep 2008

Hedge Funds Drive Britain's Biggest Mortgage Bank Towards the Edge of Collapse - The Market Oracle, 18/09/08
Hedge funds over the last 3 days have been in relentless pursuit of Britain's biggest mortgage bank, Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) as the next bank to be pushed over the credit crisis and housing bear market cliff, amidst an atmosphere of global defaults in the wake of Lehman's collapse on Sunday

Who Should Obama Turn to for Advice During the Economic Crisis? - By Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive, September 17, 2008

09/17/08 - Landing a Broken Airplane - by The Mogambo Guru
"I prove this brash allegation by showing how few of them own any gold, even as the Federal Reserve keeps expanding the money supply, which is so stupid that it qualifies as 'moronic.'"

09/16/08 - Topsy Turvy Government Policy - by The Mogambo Guru
"Drawing myself up in a posture of overbearing arrogance born of what appears to be some kind of natural law or something, I point out that booms always turned to busts, and precious metals always turned out to be the best investment of all."

Gold Soars Most Since 1999, Silver Surges on Demand for Haven - By Pham-Duy Nguyen, Bloomberg, Sept. 17, 2008

White House says concerned about more companies - Reuters, Sep 17, 2008
The White House on Wednesday defended government actions to shore up troubled insurance company American International Group Inc, saying it was to prevent broader harm and that there was concern about other companies

US Economy: Rudderless, Reeling From Direct Hits. A Raid On Private Pensions? - By Paul Craig Roberts, rense.com, 9-16-8
A country that had intelligent leaders would recognize its dire straits, stop its gratuitous wars, and slash its massive military budget, which exceeds that of the rest of the world combined. But a country whose foreign policy goal is world hegemony will continue on the path to destruction until the rest of the world ceases to finance its existence

Odissea per un mutuo da cambiare tra ostruzionismo e proposte truffa - di ROSARIA AMATO, Repubblica.it, 17 settembre 2008
Ampiamente aggirate le norme della legge Bersani: c'è persino chi ha pagato spese non dovute senza ottenere il passaggio alla nuova banca

Crack Lehman/ Dopo il crollo si contano i danni: ecco chi rischia e quanto in Italia e nel mondo - AffariItaliani, 17.09.2008
Intesa Sanpaolo ha annunciato di essere esposta per centinaia di milioni di euro... Decisamente più contenuti gli importi per Banca Popolare di Milano e Bpu...

Medioluanum, "la banca crollata intorno a voi" - 17 settembre 2008

Luxembourg: Dexia plonge avec 500 millions d’euros - L'Investigateur, 15/09/2008
Après Axa, c'est au tour de la banque franco-belge Dexia de faire connaître au marché son exposition sur Lehman Brothers

[Londinium Overlords] "A secret cabal taking down our banks?" - Rayelan, RMNews, 17 September 2008
I sincerely hope the WORLD does NOT blame the American people for what this PARASITE has done to our country... i.e. raped and pillaged it and its people... and then USED the money they bled off our labor to rape and pillage nations world wide
worst of time

Sources: Morgan Stanley / Oliver Wyman

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Rejects Budget - KEYT3, Sep 17, 2008
The announcement marked the first time in modern history that a California governor would veto a state spending plan

Treasury bails out Fed; now who bails out Treasury? [YOU!] - Gata.org, 2008-09-17

Bernanke: 'We have lost control' - By Joshua Boak, Chicago Tribune, September 17, 2008
Economist recounts talk with Fed chairman

Chinese government paper urges new world financial order - By Chris Buckley, Reuters, September 17, 2008
Threatened by a "financial tsunami," the world must consider building a financial order no longer dependent on the United States, a leading Chinese state newspaper said on Wednesday

AIG Falls on Concern Shareholders Will Be Wiped Out - By Hugh Son and Erik Holm, Bloomberg, Sept. 17, 2008

US To Declare October ‘Economic Emergency’, Suspend Elections - By: Sorcha Faal, September 16, 2008
The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) is reporting in the Kremlin today that the Bank of England has received from the United States Federal Reserve Bank a ‘notice’ that President Bush is preparing to declare an ‘Economic Emergency’ during the week of October 5th and will further announce that the American Presidential election due to be held on November 4th will be ‘indefinitely suspended’
fire

Morgan and Goldman shares plunge as fears rise - By Joseph A. Giannone and Dena Aubin, Reuters, September 17, 2008
Morgan Stanley's shares sank 40 percent below the depths reached during the Asia debt crisis and collapse of Long Term Capital Management a decade ago. Goldman stock plummeted 22 percent to a three-year low

Russia Halts Trading on Concerns for Banks - By ANDREW E. KRAMER, NYT, September 17, 2008
After this second closing, the Russian central bank and regulators, who had huddled through the day, announced a sharp reduction of 4 percent in reserve requirements for commercial banks, a move that will have the effect of allowing more money to circulate in the financial sector

Breaking News: Lehman To Be Acquired by Tooth Fairy - 321gold, Sep 17, 2008
In related news, Lehman has agreed to sell all of its level III capital, including CDOs, ABSs, pet rocks, baseball cards, slightly used condoms, and credit default swaps written by MBIA and Ambac. Lehman's level III capital will be acquired for 150% of its face value by Tinkerbell, who will carry it off to Neverland to be fed to a crocodile

[seigniorage scam] Broke! - by Michael Fox, The Smirking Chimp, September 17, 2008
The bailout of AIG has exposed more than just the collapse of Casino Capitalism. It exposes the governmental system to be as much a sham as our economy has been! How is it that $85 billion can just materialize to bail out this one insurance company?

Russia: Stock market sell off turns attention to system framework - Russia Today, September 17, 2008
The scale of the stock market selloff is worrying the country’s stock-market regulators - who are turning their attention to trading rules and market infrastructure

TREMONTI, LA CRISI PUO' AGGRAVARSI - AGI, 17/09/2008

BORSE A PICCO, BRUCIATI 124 MILIARDI - AGI, 17/09/2008

Wall Street crolla ancora e trascina giù l'Europa - Repubblica.it, 17/09/2008

09/15/08 - Spooky Stats from the U.S. Mint - by The Mogambo Guru
"It gets spooky when he goes on to note that 'indeed, the Mint's inventory did vary monthly, up until March 2006. But according to the Treasury's reports, the Mint's working stock has remained exactly 2,783,218.656 ounces since April 2006.'"

The Window is Open - James Turk, GoldMoney, 14 September 2008
Last year the Treasury and the Federal Reserve told us the sub-prime crisis was "contained". Then they told us that bailing out Bear Stearns would end the financial meltdown. They told us that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had sufficient capital and liquidity and would not need a bailout. What else are they going to tell us trying to make us believe that today's over-indebted financial structure will not collapse?

National Endowment For The Arts Funds Construction Of $1.3 Billion Poem - The Onion, September 12, 2008
The poem is expected not only to revitalize the community, Gioia said, but also create jobs for the nation's hundreds of out-of-work poets

Struggling Air Force One To Begin Selling Passenger Tickets - The Onion, September 10, 2008
With oil prices hitting record levels, the United States Air Force announced today that it has begun selling passenger tickets on all flights operated by its Air Force One fleet in order to maintain the service as a "feasible enterprise."

THE FINAL DESTRUCTION OF THE MIDDLE CLASS - By Joan Veon, NewsWithViews.com, September 15, 2008
The situation we are confronted with did not happen in the last few years, but began in 1913 when a group of cunningly deceitful legislators passed the Federal Reserve Act on December 24 at 11:45 p.m., after those who were opposed went home for Christmas. The entire financial system of the U.S. was transferred from Congress to a private corporation that is NOT accountable to Congress...

Wilbur Ross sees about 1,000 bank closures: report - Reuters, Sep 15, 2008

European Central Banks Ready to Inject Billions - By CARTER DOUGHERTY, NYT, September 15, 2008
The European Central Bank said that it lent 30 billion euros or $42.7 billion at 4.25 percent, in an almost identical repeat of an episode that started the financial crisis in Europe in August 2007

As Lehman Faces Liquidation, Another One Bites The Dust - by Danny Schechter, Global Research, September 15, 2008
Who Will Protect Us from Plunge Protection? Congress and The Press Must Probe This Secret “Working Group”

ASIA: Financial havoc wallops U.S. dollar and stocks - By Kevin Plumberg, Reuters, September 15
Rapid-fire developments on Wall Street, only a week after the U.S. government bailed out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, left some analysts literally speechless

[effetto domino] Europa, effetto Lehman: giù banche e assicurazioni - L'Unione Sarda, 15 settembre 2008
Si aggrava la situazione dei titoli bancari e assicurativi sui principali listini europei, per timori di un allargamento della crisi dopo il crac di Lehman Brothers. L'indice di riferimento dei titoli bancari (Djstoxx) scende oltre il 9%

Banche: Goldman e M.Stanley crollano a Wall Street - MF-DJ, 15 settembre 2008

RULE OF LAW OF PERPETUITY & FED. R. BANKING SYSTEMS - Posted By: watcher51445, RMNews, 15 September 200
“I can’t believe we could have a once-in-a-century type of financial crisis without a significant impact on the real economy globally, and I think that indeed is what is in the process of occurring,” Greenspan said
banksters leaving

A bankster leaving the office of the U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers in London on Monday. (Photo: Andrew Winning/Reuters)

INFLAZIONE: In un anno la pasta aumentata del 25% - Quotidiano.net, 15 settembre 2008
Dati dell'Istat: le città dove si sono registrati gli incrementi più elevati sono Cagliari, Torino e Palermo. Più moderati gli aumenti a Trieste, Roma e Bologna

[the Lizard Lords from Londinium] VIDEO EXPLAINING "THE CITY OF LONDON" - Posted By: Rayelan, 14 September 2008
Many of you have read my references to the Lords of Londinium or the Londinum Overlords... Or sometimes I even call them the Reptilian Overlords of Londinium. This video explains what the City of London is, who is allowed to reside there...

[the Lizard Lords from Londinium] WALL STREET STARTS CANNIBALIZING ITSELF - - DELICIOUS!! - by Rayelan, 15 September 2008
Batten down your hatches and ask yourself how you and your loved ones are going to get through all of this

GATA: BERNANKE LAUNCHES THE MONEY COPTERS - WALL ST BANKS FIGHT FOR [THEIR] LIFE - September 15, 2008
The Federal Reserve announced a dramatic expansion of its lending operations, saying it would in future accept toilet paper...

Lehman Files for Biggest Bankruptcy as Suitors Balk - By Yalman Onaran and Christopher Scinta, Bloomberg, Sept. 15
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., the fourth-largest U.S. investment bank, succumbed to the subprime mortgage crisis it helped create in the biggest bankruptcy filing in history

Fallimento Lehman, Goldman e Morgan le sopravvissute - MF Online, 15/09/2008
Goldman e Morgan alzeranno il velo sui propri conti trimestrali la settimana prossima

Feds, Wall Street race to try to save Lehman - By JEANNINE AVERSA and JOE BEL BRUNO, Associated Press, September 14, 2008
Top officials from the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department and executives from several Wall Street banks met at the New York Fed's downtown Manhattan headquarters Saturday for the second day in a row try to hash out a deal to rescue Lehman Brothers. The government has drawn a line in the sand over using taxpayer money to help rescue Lehman Brothers, however...

DOVE SAYS THE BANK FAILURES ARE A HOAX - RMNews, 14 September 2008
In 1929, the Illuminati who own the Federal Reserve and the Illuminati who owned the major stock brokerages WORKED TOGETHER TO STAGE the 1929 stock market crash. They cause the markets to go down and then they BOUGHT UP the stocks being sold at low prices and in this way, the Illuminati made themselves richer at the expense of everyone else

Merrill now in shorts' sights as Lehman crumbles - By Elinor Comlay, Reuters, Sep 12, 2008
"People are saying, 'Who's next on the list?"' said Matt McCormick, portfolio manager and banking analyst at Bahl & Gaynor in Cincinnati

August foreclosures hit another record high - By Les Christie, CNNMoney.com. September 12, 2008
There were 304,000 homes in some stage of default last month, and 91,000 families lost their homes

XL's Spreadsheet Fails to Addup - By: Nadeem_Walayat, The Market Oracle, 2009 Sep 12, 2008
XL, Britain's third largest tour operator went bust today leaving more than 90,000 holiday makers stranded across the globe and another 200,000 with advance bookings facing a loss. The fallout from the derivatives deleveraging due to basically banking sector greed during the credit boom years has gradually traversed itself from the devastated financial sector towards the wider economy, no sector is being left untouched with the last sector to feel the pinch being the commodities that as little as a month ago were still in full boom mode

Venezuela's Chavez says US ambassador must leave - AP, Sep 11, 2008
Chavez said he's asking U.S. Ambassador Patrick Duddy to leave as a means of showing solidarity with Bolivian President Evo Morales, who expelled Washington's envoy in La Paz

Black hole experiment

For Lehman Employees, the Collapse Is Personal - By GERALDINE FABRIKANT and ERIC DASH, NYT, September 11, 2008
In the last few days, employees of Lehman Brothers have wrung their hands as the value of their stock evaporated before their eyes. Now, many fear losing their jobs, too. Terminal workers working at their terminals...

A murderous theatre of the absurd - johnpilger.com, 11 Sept 2008
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger examines news as parody as those prominent in the British media seek to justify the official versions of the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan

[seigniorage beneath the shadow of The Bomb] The lies of Hiroshima are the lies of today - johnpilger.com, 6 Aug 2008
When I first went to Hiroshima in 1967, the shadow on the steps was still there. It was an almost perfect impression of a human being at ease: legs splayed, back bent, one hand by her side as she sat waiting for a bank to open. At a quarter past eight on the morning of August 6, 1945, she and her silhouette were burned into the granite

Perverse US Dollar Rally Prelude to Financial System Collapse - By: Jim_Willie_CB, The Market Oracle, Sep 11, 2008
The uplift coming this autumn and winter will be historic, as new chapters will be written on the global financial rehabilitation and remake. The world is planning the post-US era, amused by the celebration taking place on Wall Street. It will wind down soon enough. The next chapter will be characterized by isolation, retribution, receivership , dismissed government, overriding supply contracts, and redrawn lines

09/12/08 - Going into Debt to Buy a Debt - by The Mogambo Guru
"You elected corrupt, socialist scumbag morons who have now spent us into deficit-spending bankruptcy by letting the Federal Reserve create the money that people borrowed (thus creating a debt) so that they could buy Treasury debt! Hahaha! Going into debt to buy a debt!"

09/11/08 - Stupidity Protection Plan - by The Mogambo Guru
"Man, oh man! 'Nothing is off the table'! Wow! How come I never have anyone covering my Mogambo Incompetent Butt (MIB) like that, saying, 'Let's protect Mogambo from the results of his own stupidity and stick somebody else with the bill?'"

Buffett votes no confidence in banking system - Option Armageddon, September 10, 2008
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has told one of its subsidiaries—(Kansas Bankers Surety)—to stop insuring bank deposits above the amount guaranteed by the federal government, dealing a fresh blow to the financial-services industry as it tries to assuage anxious customers

The Robber Baron and the Black Knight - Sam Mathid, 321gold.com, Sep 10, 2008
The British member of the Rothschild banking family, Nathan Rothschild, is famous for his early 19th Century quote: "Buy when there is blood in the streets". He is reputed to have made a fortune in the Battle of Waterloo stock market panic. The full quote is believed to be "Buy when there is blood in the streets, even if the blood is your own."

Dissolving Lehman Brothers - The Bank Implode-O-Meter, September 9th, 2008
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. fell a record 45 percent in New York trading after talks about a capital infusion from Korea Development Bank ended. The Wall Street firm is continuing to negotiate with other potential investors, a person briefed on the matter said

09/10/08 - Deployed to the Unemployment Line - by The Mogambo Guru
"The latest report of employment showed that the U.S. unemployment rate is now at 6.1%, which is up from 5.7% a month ago. Worse, of the 7 sectors tracked in the report, only in government and education/healthcare is employment rising!"

09/09/08 - Robbing the Poor of Jeffersonian Wisdom - by The Mogambo Guru
"Because the government (in our case, through its proxy the Federal Reserve) creates excessive amounts of money and credit…the poor must consume less, and the money they spend flows to the rich guys who borrowed the money in the first place!"

Paulson's Actions Herald the Financial Collapse of the American Economy - By: Peter_Schiff, The Market Oracle,, Sep 08, 2008

An Interview with Economist Michael Hudson - By MIKE WHITNEY, Counterpunch, September 8, 2008
Fannie and Freddie were notorious for their heavy Washington lobbying. They bought the support of Congressmen and Senators who managed to get onto the financial oversight committees so that they would be in a position to collect campaign financing from Wall Street that wanted to make sure that no real regulation would take place. Nearly all real estate experts are in agreement that for the next year or two, many of today’s homeowners will find themselves locked into where they are now living. Their situation is much like medieval serfs were tied to their land. They can’t sell, because the market price won’t cover the mortgage they owe, and they don’t have the savings to pay the difference

09/08/08 - No Accounting for Currency - by The Mogambo Guru
"Now I am curious to know how much an ounce of gold would be if the $829 billion in actual U.S. cash-and-coin that exists was netted against the 261 million ounces of gold that the Fed is supposed to have. Hmmm!"

09/05/08 - The Assets of Penultimate Fools - by The Mogambo Guru
"…all the money 'invested' during the boom in stocks, bonds and houses is lost unless more money is created for another crop of 'greater fools' to buy the assets from the 'penultimate fools!' Hahaha! It's insane!"

The Bank Implode-O-Meter - Your play-by-play for the end game of modern banking

In Possible First for Texas, Woman Sues Over Predatory Lending - The Associated Press, September 5, 2008
Alpha Mortgage USA and American Home Mortgage Servicing engaged in a racially targeted predatory lending practice called "reverse redlining," according to a lawsuit filed in federal court by a black suburban Houston woman

If a Scratch-Off Is a Rip-Off, Litigation May Be the Prize - The National Law Journal, September 5, 2008
If your scratch-off is a rip-off, prepare to pay up. A host of lawsuits have been filed by disgruntled lottery and sweepstakes consumers, including a business professor who is suing the Virginia Lottery for allegedly selling roughly $85 million in defective scratch-offs where the top prizes had already been claimed. Similar lawsuits are pending in four other states

Abramoff Gets Four Years for Corruption - The Associated Press, September 5, 2008
Jack Abramoff, the once-powerful lobbyist at the heart of a far-reaching political corruption scandal, was sentenced on Thursday to four years in prison, a term longer than had been sought by prosecutors

2 Wall St. brokers accused of $1B subprime fraud - By TOM HAYS, AP, Sept. 4. 2008
"The defendants' fraudulent misrepresentations and bait-and-switch tactics saddled investors with unknown risks they did not bargain for," U.S. Attorney Benton Campbell said in announcing the case against the former Credit Suisse Securities brokers

Once in 100 Years Credit Crisis, World Heads for Deflationary Collapse - Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2008, Sep 03, 2008

[from Kakistan] Who Wants To Be CEO Of A Red, White And Blue Kakistocracy? - by Richard Sauder, rense.com, 9-3-8
The Federal Reserve Notes are unconstitutional money, which is to say that they are COUNTERFEIT currency, because they are not silver or gold, or backed by silver or gold, as legally required by the U.S. Constitution

Protecting Our Banks
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the body that insures bank deposits up to $100,000, has raised the number of "troubled banks" to 117. What is being done to keep the banks from going bust?
- Holding a money drive where community members are encouraged to bring allof their unused cash to a local bank
- Heart-wrenching bank scene from It's A Wonderful Life playing on a loop in the lobby
- As morale boost, scent of cash pumped constantly through bank
- Poorer customers now charged preemptive overdraft fees
- Oversized foam-core cutouts of $100 bills will be placed on easels in bank lobbies to allay patrons' worries about their bank's solvency
- Holding a contest to give one lucky bank 30 minutes with a shopping cart inside the U.S. Treasury building
- Planting a $5 bill in vault and seeing what happens
- Introducing tough new criteria for prospective borrowers, such as having a job

Il FMI finanzia la destabilizazione della Georgia - 3 settembre 2008

Sgarbi regala case a chi le restaura - Corriere della Sera, 1 settembre 2008

Las Vegas homes for $60 a Square Foot? - Economicrot, September 01, 2008

Gold & The Collapse of Paper [debt] Money - Darryl Robert Schoon, Sep 1, 2008
The great stock market bubble of the 1920s was caused by the sudden influx of leveraged credit from the introduction of debt-based money by the Federal Reserve in 1913. Just 16 years after its introduction, the explosive growth of credit in the hands of speculators led to the collapse of the US stock market in 1929 and was to bring the world economy to a virtual standstill by 1933. We are about to see a variation of that disaster, except this time it will be worse

[Rothschild News] Atticus Capital: persi 5 miliardi di dollari da inizio anno - SoldiOnline, 02-09-2008
Nathaniel Rothschild

- AMI 2008 Monetary Reform Conference at Roosevelt University in Chicago, Sept. 25-28, 2008
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