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Richard (RJ) Eskow: Cyprus Has the Global Money Elite's Fingerprints All Over It
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Cyprus Has the Global Money Elite's Fingerprints All Over It~~ That's confiscation, not taxation -- and their rationale seems to be that these depositors had a really, really good interest rate.
That, and the fact that they weren't bankers.
They'll shaft 100 innocent people to get one person they don't like.
Sure, some Cypriot depositors are Russian oligarchs. But this tax applies to everybody. How many innocent people is it worth shafting to get at one shady character -- 10? 100? 1,000?
They won't say. But apparently it's a lot.
Chief Red Cloud was right.
There is a Native American tribe named the Oglagla Lakota. Like all Native American tribes, they made numerous treaties with the U.S. government, most of which the U.S. government promptly broke.
One of the tribe's chiefs was called Makhpia-sha -- in English, "Red Cloud." The Dakota-Lakota-Nakota Nation's Human Rights Advocacy Coalition reminds us of the famous quote attributed to Red Cloud:
"They made us many promises, more than I can remember. But they kept but one -- they promised to take our land... and they took it."
An EU-guaranteed savings account, like its American counterpart, is a promise. The idea of sovereignty among nations is a promise. Economic self-determination is a promise. A well-regulated banking system that protects your livelihood is a promise.
But the global financial sector's implicit promise, one that was made explicit by events in Cyprus, is this: Whenever they need or want your money, they consider it theirs to take -- and sovereignty be damned.
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GOING GLOBAL EAST MEETS WEST - ARTICLES OF INTEREST: Palestinian Authority to receive $500mn in aid as ...
GOING GLOBAL EAST MEETS WEST - ARTICLES OF INTEREST: Palestinian Authority to receive $500mn in aid as ...: Thanks to bama for article below .. This is another temporal marker that we've been looking for .. Phoenix will explain further in his S...
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America is shamed that only Rand Paul is talking about drone executions | Amy Goodman | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
America is shamed that only Rand Paul is talking about drone executions | Amy Goodman | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk ~~ Senator Rand Paul during his 13-hour talking filibuster insisting that Obama administration provide stronger assurances that US citizens will never be killed by drone attack on US soil. Photograph: AP
You could say that a filibuster occurs when a senator drones on and on. The problem with the US Senate was that there were too few senators speaking about drones this week.
President Barack Obama's controversial nomination of John Brennan as director of the Central Intelligence Agency was held up Wednesday afternoon by a Senate filibuster. The reason: Brennan's role in targeted killings by drones, and President Obama's presumed authority to kill US citizens, without any due process, if they pose an "imminent threat". The effort was led by Tea Party Republican Rand Paul of Kentucky, joined by several of his Republican colleagues. Among the Democrats, at the time of this writing, only Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon had joined in the genuine, old-fashioned "talking filibuster", wherein the activities of the Senate floor are held up by a senator's speech.
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Seize the Time: The Eighth Defendant | Indiegogo
Seize the Time: The Eighth Defendant | Indiegogo ~~ Help Support This Highly Historical "Sixties Protest Movement" Independent Film Production~~That Rocked The World !!!