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NRA stands between faster investagations and bad guys with gunpowder.

Sources of food borne contaminates and illnesses can be hunted down quickly because of... more

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Probe watch: Investigations galore

It’s not just LIBOR. Banks and brokers are under scrutiny from all quarters

ON JULY 9th Russ Wasendorf senior, the owner and chief executive of Peregrine Financial Group, was found parked in front of his corporate headquarters in Cedar Falls, Iowa, more dead than alive. Reports of an attempted suicide were soon merged with reports that $215m, more than half of all customers’ funds at Peregrine’s commodity-brokerage unit, PFGBest, were missing from the company’s bank accounts. Within 36 hours, the firm announced it would go into liquidation and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) accused it of misappropriating customers’ funds for a period of more than two years, alleging that Mr Wasendorf submitted false statements of accounts to cover up the shortfall.

The loss of customers’ funds comes less than a year after money went missing at MF Global, a larger commodity broker. Although the circumstances surrounding the two brokers appear very different—MF Global collapsed abruptly after a series of margin calls prompted a scramble for cash, the PFGBest case is alleged to have involved abuse over a protracted period—both episodes raise disturbing questions about how these firms, and their regulators, protect customers’ money.

Despite the MF Global precedent, the collapse of Peregrine came as a surprise to many. The firm appeared to be thriving: only three years ago, when other financial firms considered a new coffee machine to be a big investment, it moved from Chicago into new headquarters in Mr Wasendorf’s home town. And Mr Wasendorf, whose passion for birds of prey explained his firm’s name, was a visible figure in the aftermath of MF’s collapse, publicly defending his own and the industry’s ability to protect consumer accounts. An investigation into what went wrong at PFGBest and how the futures industry should be regulated will doubtless follow.

It will have to work hard to win the attention of policymakers, so numerous are the investigations into the financial industry. On July 5th a congressional committee on investigations headed by Darrell Issa, a Republican from California, released details of a sleazy mortgage-assistance programme provided to politicians and others perceived to be influential by Countrywide, a failed mortgage lender acquired during the crisis by Bank of America...

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http://www.economist.com/node/21558583It’s not just LIBOR. Banks and brokers are under scrutiny from all quarters... more

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The Trillion-Dollar Lawsuit That Could End Financial Tyranny

The fascist cabal known as the Bilderbergers, CFR, committee of 300 etc., is... more

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Operation Satiagraha - Brazil Corruption Scandal exposed - Former Sao Paulo mayor, banker arrested

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Wave of committee investigations

Republicans Plan wave of committee investigations

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Transformers 3 investigations complete

Transformers 3 has been having constant setbacks since the shooting began. An... more

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Interviews= Manipulating The Media: Without a Vibrant and Independent Media.... we loose both the Truth and our Freedom.

Interview topics about: How the United States Television News Media's content... more

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America's First Native TV Network "WIN-TV"... a Target of Corporate Crime...

"First Native American Television Network to be launched soon... World Indigenous Network gives back native voice.

CORTE MADERA CA / World Indigenous Network ( WIN-Tv ) is an idea that was born into the mind of Gérard Angé two and a half years ago. He has invested over a million dollars of his own money into an innovative concept that is sure to cause much-deserved hype among Native Americans as well as non-natives.

World Indigenous Network, or Win-TV, is the first national 24-hour satellite and cable based American Indian television network. It could be up and running in less than three months after funding. The network will feature all aspects of indigenous life, including but certainly not limited to news, music, dance, sports, politics, religion, food, and tribal issues. Mr. Ange’ believes that the network will “give all indigenous peoples back a voice that was ripped away from them”.

Win-TV will feature several shows that will provide information, entertainment, and education all from a native standpoint. Some shows planned for the network include Good Morning Native America, the Native American’s version of the popular Good Morning America; Native America Talking, a Larry King-ish talk show on Native issues, All Native Sportscene, Kids Korner, the first children’s program targeted at Native American youngsters, and Medicine Wheel, a show that targets the unique health needs of indigenous people. These are only a few of many programs that will benefit viewers in all aspects of living.

Win-Com, the company’s retail division will have five separated parts: shop-at-home, eCommerce, catalog sales, merchandising, and retail outlets. These five divisions will work cumulatively to stimulate business for native people and native businesses, as well as provide marketing platforms to demonstrate native arts, crafts, and talents in a larger, more mainstream market.

Win-Com will also provide a way for non-Native Americans to receive a sincere look into native life and culture without movies, or history books. Finally, Win-Com should positively boost the company’s reputation through sales of apparel and other products that will carry the company logo.

The primary goal of Win-TV is to give Native Americans back a voice that has been long lost, although much deserved. Mr. Ange hopes to provide an “exchange between nations” through the networking of native ideas and platforms among other cultures."

Information about: WIN-Tv: Powerpoint & Videos : http://ow.ly/1pUTw

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Article#: 2595
7/16/2003
Candice Adson

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Little Dictator

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Dear President Obama, the people behind these crimes have not been prosecuted by the Judicial System. WHY?

Dear President Obama, The Facts below clearly show that homicide was committed to... more

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What did the Corporate $upreme Court do to our democracy? or, How we lost Democracy under the Law...

On January 21, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that corporations are entitled to... more

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U.S. Security Company Offers to Perform "High Threat Terminations" and to Confront "Worker Unrest" i

We saw this type of Iraq-style disaster profiteering in New Orleans and you can expect to see a lot more of this in Haiti over the coming days, weeks and months. Private security companies are seeing big dollar signs in Haiti thanks in no small part to the media hype about "looters." After Katrina, the number of private security companies registered (and unregistered) multiplied overnight. Banks, wealthy individuals, the US government all hired private security. I even encountered Israeli mercenaries operating an armed check-point outside of an elite gated community in New Orleans. They worked for a company called Instinctive Shooting International. (That is not a joke).

Now, it is kicking into full gear in Haiti. As we know, the member companies of the Orwellian-named mercenary trade association, the International Peace Operations Association, are offering their services in Haiti. But look for more stories like this one:

On January 15, a Florida based company called All Pro Legal Investigations registered the URL Haiti-Security.com. It is basically a copy of the company's existing US website but is now targeted for business in Haiti, claiming the "purpose of this site is to act as a clearinghouse for information seekers on the state of security in Haiti."

"All Protection and Security has made a commitment to the Haitian community and will provide professional security against any threat to prosperity in Haiti," the site proclaims. "Job sites and supply convoys will be protected against looters and vandals. Workers will be protected against gang violence and intimidation. The people of Haiti will recover, with the help of the good people from the world over."

The company boasts that it has run "Thousands of successful missions in Iraq & Afghanistan." As for its personnel, "Each and every member of our team is a former Law Enforcement Officer or former Military service member," the site claims. "If Operator experience, training and qualifications matter, choose All Protection & Security for your high-threat Haiti security needs."

Among the services offered are: "High Threat terminations," dealing with "worker unrest," armed guards and "Armed Cargo Escorts." Oh, and apparently they are currently hiring.We saw this type of Iraq-style disaster profiteering in New Orleans and you can expect... more

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Normality of fear

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FBI Veteran Executive Calls For Special Counsel Investigation, Prosecutions in Sibel Edmonds Case

An 18-year Counterintelligence and Counterterrorism Manager for the FBI has called for a Special Counsel to be appointed to investigate the allegations of FBI translator-turned-whistleblower Sibel Edmonds. John M. Cole, who now works as an intelligence contractor for the Air Force, made his comments during an audio interview released late last week with radio journalist Peter B. Collins.

He also offered a detailed insider's look at the concerns among high-level officials inside the Bureau as Edmonds' disturbing allegations began coming to light back in 2002, before they would be quashed for seven long years by the Bush Administration's unprecedented use of the so-called "State Secrets Privilege" to gag her.

Earlier last week, following the publication of a remarkable American Conservative magazine cover story interview with Edmonds --- detailing a broad bribery, blackmail, and espionage conspiracy said to have been carried out between current and former members of the U.S. Congress, high-ranking State and Defense Department officials and covert operatives from Turkey and Israel, resulting in the theft and sale of nuclear weapons technology on the foreign black market --- Cole had been quoted by the magazine confirming one of Edmonds' key allegations.

"I am fully aware of the FBI's decade-long investigation of" Marc Grossman, he said in response to the AmCon article/interview. Grossman had served as the third-highest ranking official in the Bush State Department and was alleged by Edmonds in the interview, and in a sworn, video-taped deposition a month earlier, to have been the U.S. ringleader for a massive Turkish espionage scandal reaching through the halls of power and into top-secret nuclear facilities around the country to the benefit of allies and enemies alike. Cole said that the FBI's counterintelligence probe "ultimately was buried and covered up," and that he believes it is "long past time" for an investigation of the case to "bring about accountability."

In his subsequent interview with Collins last week (audio and text excerpts posted below) Cole elaborated on those comments in much greater detail, noting that Edmonds has been "one hundred percent right on the money, on the mark" and confirming the existence of an "ongoing and detailed effort by Turkey to develop influence in the United States" through various illegal activities.

"Yes, I can confirm that," Cole told Collins, "That's true."

The FBI veteran executive also offered an insider's account of the panic that ensued inside the highest echelons of the bureau following Edmonds' first disclosure of information in 2002, recounting how an executive assistant director admitted to him at the time, just after the story first broke, "Well, all I know is that everything that Sibel is stating is true. I read her file. Everything she stated is, in fact, accurate."
Cole further describes how the concerns about Edmonds ultimately led to the Bush Administration's two-time use of the Draconian "State Secrets Privilege" in hopes of keeping her extraordinary information from becoming public. "Everybody at headquarters level at the bureau knew that what she was saying was extremely accurate."

"I know they didn't want her to go out and speak about it at all," Cole revealed, "and I know they were trying to figure out ways of keeping this whole thing quiet, because they didn't want Sibel to come out."

He also offered information which directly counters one of the criticisms of Edmonds' allegations as frequently offered by skeptics. Namely, that as a short time FBI contract translator --- even though she was tasked to review some seven years of counterintelligence wiretaps made from 1996 to 2002 --- she couldn't have had enough understanding of the full scope of the investigations to understand what was really going on.
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Unconstitutional

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GOP learns the definition of "Investigation" --promptly freaks out

Republicans from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence say that they will no longer participate in an investigation into the Bush administration’s interrogation policies, arguing that they were all for investigations until Attorney General Eric Holder outrageously called for investigations.

Investigations are one thing, but investigations are another matter entirely, a discombobulated Sen. Christopher Bond (R-MO) told the Washington Post.

“Had Mr. Holder honored the pledge made by the President to look forward, not backwards, we would still be active participants in the Committee’s review.”

We’d be investigating right now if it wasn’t for all this business about investigating!

Someone, fetch me the Tylenol, or at least explain to the sophomoric Mr. Bond, a man who refers to CIA agents accused of torture as “terror fighters,” that investigations inherently mean looking back at evidence, and cannot solely entail looking forward. “Looking forward” is a euphemism for covering up past crimes.

The GOP is starting to sound like a broken record with this, “We’d be changing stuff if we didn’t have to change stuff” anthem. First, we heard this with health care. “We’re psyched to change health care as long as we preserve private insurance companies!” And now it’s the same argument with the torture investigations. “Of course we want to prosecute crimes! As long as no one looks at any evidence, no witnesses are called, and absolutely no one acknowledges anything bad ever happened. I can’t hear you! [Fingers in ears] LA, LA, LA, LA!”

Really, what are the limits of this hapless quest for bipartisanship? There has to be a point where the Democrats accept that they are the adults in the room, and move forward with their promises of reform and accountability.

Thankfully, at least for the moment, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), the committee chairman, said she intends to press forth with or without Republican support. “That study and investigation is being pursued, additional staff are being hired, and the committee is continuing the work with all due diligence.”

Good. Unsurprisingly, investigations do better when they entail persons interested in the whole investigating part of the process.Republicans from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence say that they will no... more

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Who’s Afraid of Sibel Edmonds?

LINK TO FULL ARTICLE: http://amconmag.com/article/2009/nov/01/00006/

Who’s Afraid of Sibel Edmonds?

GIRALDI: And Grossman received money as a result. In one case, you said that a State Department colleague went to pick up a bag of money…

EDMONDS: $14,000

GIRALDI: What kind of information was Grossman giving to foreign countries? Did he give assistance to foreign individuals penetrating U.S. government labs and defense installations as has been reported? It’s also been reported that he was the conduit to a group of congressmen who become, in a sense, the targets to be recruited as “agents of influence.”

EDMONDS: Yes, that’s correct. Grossman assisted his Turkish and Israeli contacts directly, and he also facilitated access to members of Congress who might be inclined to help for reasons of their own or could be bribed into cooperation. The top person obtaining classified information was Congressman Tom Lantos. A Lantos associate, Alan Makovsky worked very closely with Dr. Sabri Sayari in Georgetown University, who is widely believed to be a Turkish spy. Lantos would give Makovsky highly classified policy-related documents obtained during defense briefings for passage to Israel because Makovsky was also working for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).

GIRALDI: Makovsky is now working for the Washington Institute for Near Eastern Policy, a pro-Israeli think tank.

EDMONDS: Yes. Lantos was at the time probably the most outspoken supporter of Israel in Congress. AIPAC would take out the information from Lantos that was relevant to Israel, and they would give the rest of it to their Turkish associates. The Turks would go through the leftovers, take what they wanted, and then try to sell the rest. If there were something relevant to Pakistan, they would contact the ISI officer at the embassy and say, “We’ve got this and this, let’s sit down and talk.” And then they would sell it to the Pakistanis.

GIRALDI: ISI—Pakistani intelligence—has been linked to the Pakistani nuclear proliferation program as well as to al-Qaeda and the Taliban.LINK TO FULL ARTICLE: http://amconmag.com/article/2009/nov/01/00006/ Who’s... more

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FBI WHISTLE BLOWER'S TESTIMONY EXPOSES ESPIONAGE, BRIBERY AND, BLACKMAIL, OF HIGHEST RANKING US OFFICIALS ~

We'll share with you the shocking video testimony given by FBI Whistle blower... more

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BREAKING NEWS/WASHINGTON DC: 8-8-09 BUSH ADMIN-LINKED TO MAJOR COVER UP OF TURKISH INTERESTS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSvlwg3F6q0

Former FBI Language Specialist Sibel Edmonds finally gets to testify under oath, after being hit with a gag order. Bombshells Under Oath: INCLUDE: CONGRESS MEMBERS NAMED IN ESPIONAGE, BRIBERY, SEXUAL BLACKMAIL SCHEMES; NEW BREWSTER JENNINGS / VALERIE PLAME DISCLOSURE...

Long gagged under the "state secrets" privilege by the Bush Administration, the Obama Administration's DoJ chose not to re-invoke privilege, paving the way for this information to finally make its way on to the unclassified public record.

WHEN CORPORATIONS FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS CAN USE OUR COURTS AS A TOOL TO SUBVERT THE FABRIC OF OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS THAT PROTECT ALL CITIZENS. THEN... WE ALL LOSE.

IN A SURPRISE TWIST: Our Trial Judge was quickly switched from The Honorable Barbara Miller to: Judge John M. True III.

OUR FIRST HEARING BEFORE JUDGE JOHN M. TRUE III ~ We were Denied our Constitutional Right to equal justice under the law.

" I was ordered by Judge True to represent our corporate case in trial." " I told Judge True NO! That I couldn't do that because I am not an attorney and, I wasn't qualified and, that we already had an Attorney." Judge True III replied: [quote] "That if I SAID THAT YOU would have to represent yourself - Then... that's exactly what you will have to do!... So, Deal With It-!!!!" . [end quote].

By doing that Judge John M. True III first denied us our Constitutional Right to equal justice under the law and then soon after Judge John M. True III... denied our Second Constitutional Right... The Right to a Trial.

On August 04, 2009, Judge John M. True III on behalf of Gap International, a TurkishAmerican company based in Pennsylvania, with self-claimed
[ Deep Government Connections] dismissed our case against the Defendants,

After six years, a series of quick odd rulings a surprise hearing without our attorney present. Fabricated Phony charges of missing "Assignment of Claims" documents that were in fact... never missing at all.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSvlwg3F6q0 Former FBI Language Specialist Sibel... more

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THE BENEFITS OF HAVING ~ “DEEP GOVERNMENT CONNECTIONS”.

~ THE BENEFITS OF HAVING DEEP GOVERNMENT CONNECTIONS ~ Until the thefts we had no... more

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