HUNTING THE BIG UMBER BIRD
I have to tell you a very dull story. It relates no shootouts, no hangings, no burnings at the stake. This story would make a really bad comic book, er, sorry, graphic novel. Heck, it would make an...
View Article"Our Energy Moment": The Blue Engine Behind Fracked Gas Exports PR Blitz
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlogBehind nearly every major corporate policy push there’s an accompanying well-coordinated public relations and propaganda campaign. As it turns out, the oil and gas...
View ArticleWhy the Democrats Lost!
1. No Backbone! 2. No clear message! 3. Not having their party leader's back!
View ArticleSay it with me: THE REPUBLICAN BAILOUT BUDGET
No one likes taxpayer-funded Wall Street bailouts, not even Tea Partiers. However, if you look at changes proposed to the Dodd-Frank law in the current House Republican budget proposal, it sets Wall...
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Rep. Citibank, Er, Yoder Comes Out to Decry His Poor Treatment
Kevin Yoder, who had previously been seen as hiding out from the press, took time yesterday to interact with the Kansas City Star. http://www.kansascity.com/...Critics say that the relaxed rule — part...
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Break Up the Big Banks and #OccupyCitibank
[This is an announcement from some Occupy Wall Street folks in support of an action tomorrow, 12/18/14. I am one of the signatories.]Occupy Wall Street is an idea whose time has come. And those of us...
View ArticleCartoon: Citibank democracy
Now that the secret back room dealings are done and the latest budget bill passed Congress (of course, at the 11th hour), we can see the thumbprints of Wall Street once again. Actually, more than...
View ArticleElizabeth Warren by Hillary Clinton
It was always going to take a special kind of leader to pick up Ted Kennedy’s mantle as senior Senator from Massachusetts—champion of working families and scourge of special interests. Elizabeth Warren...
View ArticleSEC: Name Those Responsible for Fleecing Investors
As Gretchen Morgenson reported in Sunday's New York Times, the S. E. C. recently reached a settlement with Citibank over Citibank's promotion of risky municipal bonds to investors as safe investments....
View ArticleWhat Everyone Here Needs to Know About the Financial Meltdown
Please, if you don’t think you understand the financial meltdown and why Obama rescued Wall Street and what they were rescued from, please know this very simple explanation of what has not been...
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A Tale of Two Economies
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light,...
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Go figure...When was the last time you saw a toothpaste commerical?
This has gotten ridiculous. Big Pharma, Big Insurance and the Automobile industry OWN the airwaves. Oh yeah..when was the last time you saw a pepsi commercial? Every now and then you will see a...
View ArticleNY Times now reporting second undisclosed loan to Cruz's 2012 campaign
Not really a diary, since it’s kind of breaking news, but…The New York Times is now reporting that Ted Cruz obtained a loan from Citibank and failed to report it in FEC filings. This would be the...
View ArticleTrump going for the kill on Cruz.
This is not a week that Calgary Teddy Cruz is going to want to memorialize in his remembrance chest. First, there was the fact that not only wouldn’t the Donald drop that very inconvenient issue...
View ArticleToo Many Secrets
Not knowing about the politically imprisoned former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman or the private rich and powerful men’s Bohemian Grove Club or what happened to the Electric Car and why, is not the...
View ArticleFin Crisis Commission referred Robert Rubin to DoJ for prosecution in 2010....
Fortune has the story: Robert Rubin Was Targeted for DOJ Investigation by Financial Crisis CommissionIn late 2010, in the waning months of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, the panel responsible...
View ArticleFed/FDIC tell five big banks their resolution plans are not credible, could...
Bernie’s campaign, Elizabeth Warren’s statements and widespread support for their call to abolish Too Big To Fail banks is having a real impact on how regulators act towards the largest financial...
View ArticleCitibank Targeted at Sacramento Picket Wednesday In Solidarity with Standing...
After news that Native Americans were attacked by dogs and private security guards at the encampment against the Dakota Access Pipeline on Saturday, a series of support actions in solidarity with the...
View ArticleSacramento Area Residents Hold Protest Against Dakota Access Pipeline Outside...
Over 20 people showed their solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s struggle against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) Wednesday by holding a demonstration outside of Citibank on Alhambra...
View ArticleSacramento Area Activists Hold Protest In Solidarity With Standing Rock
The Sacramento Area Friends and Relatives of the Lakota Nation sponsored a peaceful and indigenous faith-based protest in support of the Standing Rock Sioux on October 28 from 3 pm to 5 pm at the...
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