Big Banks Don’t Commit Any Crimes … Do They? Here are some recent improprieties by the big banks: Laundering money for drug cartels. See this, this, this and this (indeed, drug dealers kept the banking system afloat during the depths of the 2008…
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US Ambassador to Switzerland Donald Beyer has ruled out the likelihood of Washington’s military option against Tehran, given the exacerbating economic woes in the United States. In an interview with the Swiss daily Der Bund,…
Why Is the Libor Scandal So Important to You? There have been numerous big banking scandals recently. But the Libor scandal is the biggest financial scam in world history. See this and this. The former…
A man walks past the Bank of Greece headquarters with the plaque altered to read “Bank of Berlin” in Athens (AFP Photo/Louisa Gouliamaki) Cyprus, Ukraine, Venezuela, and Spain are among 10 countries, which are most…
Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on their ability to film or take pictures in Tehran (Reuters/Caren Firouz) Iran has halted oil sales to Greece in response to the EU sanctions…
Bad Policy Continues to Destroy the American Worker Fewer new jobs were created last month than in each of the previous four months, and fell far below expectations. Nomura is especially concerned about plunging retail jobs:…
Report: China Surpassed U.S. in 2010 While the IMF forecasts that China will surpass America as the world’s top economy in 2016, it may have already become dog top. As Arvind Subramanian – former assistant director in the Research…
A mountain in Central China’s Henan province is witnessing how the local economy has changed the way it develops. Changshoushan, or Longevity Mountain, has been a tourist destination since 2009. Over 200,000 people have…
[anyplayer:url=http://rt.com/files/news/us-france-oil-reserve-elections-793/i6657690ce2199941e92689e24f525be5_guest-oil-reserve-eyre.flv] The French prime minister has said that there’s a “good chance” the United States and Europe will agree to release oil reserves into the market to drive down crude prices, but discussions are still…
We’re told you are “very, very interested in how to reach into China, how to (bypass our government and) reach Chinese citizens directly”, and that you have enlisted help from apparent Chinese “dissidents”, asking where and how you should use your leverage. As we understand it, you mean to try to corrupt the allegiance of our people by attempting to destroy our loyalty and patriotism, to turn us against our own government, and to use us as pawns to undermine the foundation of our own country. We are writing to express our objection. Thanks, but You’ve Done Enough for us Already We have watched you, your cabinet, and your politicians as you daily condemn our country and our people, for the sake of what appears to be cheap political gain. We have watched as your media publish twisted, biased and unfair ‘news’ of our country, as they fabricate events and photos that are not real and never happened. We have watched the simple-minded in your country being stoked with bigotry, racism and even hatred, of our country and our people, by twisted stories and knowingly false accusations.