Why isn't Hank Paulson in prison for stealing US Taxpayer dollars and laundering them through AIG enroute to Goldman Sachs? How much of that money wound up in his numbered Swiss Account?
Do you know who really owns Goldman? It's the same banksters who own the Federal Reserve. Ask David Rockefeller where the money went!
Who made bets against the US and global economy, then demanded that US taxpayers pay off the illegal bets - insisting that there names not be revealed?
Interrogate David Rockefeller. - plunger
NYTimes: A.I.G., Where Taxpayers’ Dollars Go to Die
The economist J.K Gailbraith used the term "bezzle" to denote the amount of money siphoned (or "embezzled") from the system.
In good times, he remarked, the bezzle rises sharply, because everyone feels good and nobody notices. "In [economic] depression, all this is reversed. Money is watched with a narrow, suspicious eye. The man who handles it is assumed to be dishonest until he proves himself otherwise. Audits are penetrating and meticulous. Commercial morality is enormously improved. The bezzle shrinks." [Galbraith, The Great Crash 1929]
Worse than the Great Depression - This is Math, not Politics
Top U.S., Foreign Banks Got $50 Billion in AIG Aid. Beneficiaries of the government's bailout of American International Group Inc. include dozens of U.S. and foreign financial institutions that have been paid roughly $50 billion.
I'm sure the knowledgeable people already know this. But it turns out that one of the features of the 2005 Bankruptcy bill was to put derivative counter parties at the front of the line ahead of other creditors in bankruptcy proceedings.
Fraud probe into UK firm's role in collapse of world's largest insurer AIG
How an AIG gambling operation was off shored to London to enjoy/take advantage of less stringent regulatory laws...how much did AIG's senior executives know, or understand, about the London office's activities???
Who got AIG's bailout billions?
AIG still facing huge credit losses
$5 Billion in Lobbying for 12 Corrupt Deals Caused the Multi-Trillion Dollar Financial Meltdown
Special Commentary by Big Dan: "I have AIG car insurance. I recently noticed that when I called them, they answered the phone: '21st Century'. I asked them if I had the wrong number, and they said 'NO'. Has anyone noticed that AIG car insurance is now '21st Century'? I haven't seen that anywhere in the news! Have you???"CNBC responds with silence to Jon Stewart’s damning portrayal of the network.
Jon Stewart on Dave Letterman -- Still Kicking CNBC's Ass
...and here's the original clip of Stewart frying CNBC:
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The GOP's War on Iraq and America
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Jim Swanson served for two years in the U.S. Peace Corps as an irrigation engineer in Morocco, a Muslim nation in North Africa. He is appalled at the rise of the Christian Reich's upside-down version of Christianity—Pro-War and Pro-Rich—and Bush's and the GOP's War on Iraq and America.
Raised in the Lutheran tradition in North Dakota and now a longtime Methodist in California, he is ashamed that George W. Bush is a fellow Methodist and that Dick "Shooter" Cheney is a fellow Earthling.
Swanson, based in the Silicon Valley in California, has more than 30 years of extensive business, legal, and international experience. He and Michael Baird are co-authors of Engineering Your Start-Up: A Guide for the High-Tech Entrepreneur (second edition). They are founders of Los Altos Incubator (firstonline.com), a virtual incubator where aspiring entrepreneurs seek expert advice.
Swanson is a graduate of Stanford Law School, Stanford Graduate School of Business, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
