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Canada: Class Action Accuses Banks of Illegal Creation of Money
Economy
Ap 19/05 - John Ruiz Dempsey, criminologist and forensic litigation specialist filed a class action suit on behalf of the People of Canada alleging that financial institutions are engaged in illegal creation of money, reports Tom Kennedy, a Canadian activist for economic reform.
One of the best kept secrets is the mechanism of money creation in today's economic system. Although not really a secret at all, the fact that money is created not by and for the people who use it and not even by the government, but is issued by commercial banks when giving loans to private persons or government, is hidden by what could be described as thick clouds of smoke, put out by economists and government departments.
The complaint was filed Friday April 15, 2005 in the Supreme Court of British Columbia at New Westminster. It alleges that all financial institutions who are in the business of lending money have engaged in a deliberate scheme to defraud the borrowers by lending non-existent money which are illegally created by the financial institutions out of "thin air."
The legal action brings to the fore one of the major economic "drag factors" - the interest charged by banks for money that technically and legally is not theirs to lend, because even governments end up paying interest to banks lending money for public spending, and they in turn charge tax payers.
Morgan Stanley ordered to pay damages
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (Reuters) - May 05 - U.S. investment bank Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MWD - news) was ordered on Monday to pay $604 million in damages to Ronald Perelman, a billionaire investor who claimed he was defrauded by the Wall Street firm over the sale of a business, but immediately said it would appeal.
A jury in West Palm Beach, Florida, found Perelman relied on Morgan Stanley's advice when he agreed in 1998 to sell his 82 percent stake in camping goods company Coleman Co. for a mix of cash, debt and shares in appliance maker Sunbeam.
Perelman's $680 million stake in Sunbeam became worthless when the company sought bankruptcy protection in 2001 after a massive accounting scandal came to light.
JPMorgan says "sorry" over slave ownership
13,000 enslaved individuals as collateral on loans
No Plan to reimburse families for capital derived from enslavement
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jan 21/05 - Banks that later became part of JPMorgan Chase & Co. received thousands of slaves as collateral for 19th century loans, the No. 2 U.S. bank has said in an apology.
The bank made the revelation to the city of Chicago to comply with an ordinance requiring companies doing business with it to disclose any links to slavery.
JPMorgan also sent a letter to employees apologising for its' predecessors involvement in a "brutal and unjust institution".
Citizens Bank and Canal Bank in Louisiana served plantations from the 1830s until the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), Chairman William Harrison and President Jamie Dimon said in the letter. The banks sometimes took ownership of slaves when plantation owners defaulted on loans.
JPMorgan Chase, which became the second largest bank in the United States last year after buying Chicago-based Bank One Corp., estimated that between 1831 and 1865, Citizens Bank and Canal Bank accepted approximately 13,000 slaves as collateral. The banks eventually owned about 1,250 slaves.
"We apologise to the African-American community, particularly those who are descendants of slaves, and to the rest of the American public for the role that Citizens Bank and Canal Bank played," the letter said.
JPMorgan said in its disclosure to Chicago that Canal and Citizens merged in 1924, and appear to have been taken over by Chase in 1931. Canal failed and some of its deposits and loans were included with National Bank of Commerce in New Orleans when it was formed in 1933. In 1998, Bank One purchased the New Orleans bank.
Details from JPMORGAN at http://www2.bankone.com/presents/home/
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BISHOP
SAYS THAT PRINCE CHARLES 'MUST ATONE' FOR HIS CONDUCT
By Dan Wooding
Founder of ASSIST Ministries
LONDON, UK (ANS) -Sunday, March 27, 2005 - A leading Church of England bishop has said Prince Charles must apologize to the former husband of his fiancée before their wedding in Windsor on April 8, says the BBC in London.
In a story posted on its website, it reveals that David Stancliffe, Bishop of
Salisbury, said church rules meant the prince should “make good any hurts”
before he marries Camilla Parker Bowles.
The bishop, quoted in the Sunday Times (of London), did not specify what form
any apology to Andrew Parker Bowles should take.
A spokesman for the prince would not comment on the “private matter.”
Prince Charles and Mrs. Parker Bowles are to be married in a civil ceremony and
will then attend a church service in St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.
“The church recently relaxed its rules on remarrying divorcees whose former
spouses are still alive,” said the BBC story.
“But it is known to be divided over the prince's wedding. He will become the
Church's supreme governor if he becomes King.”
BBC - Mar 29/05 - Spanish banking giant BBVA has bid 6.4bn euros ($8.3bn; £4.4bn) to take over Italy's Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL) , in which it holds a 15% stake.
The all-share deal, if it goes ahead, would be the first ever foreign takeover of an Italian bank.
The government and the Bank of Italy are keen to keep Italy's banks in domestic hands, despite pressure from the European Commission.
The Netherlands' ABN-Amro is also eyeing an Italian deal.
It has indicated it could bid for Banca Antonveneta, Italy's ninth-biggest lender. BNL holds the number four spot.
Market to decide
The Bank of Italy has already told ABN that its bid is in line with Italy's takeover regulations.
But suspicion remains that Bank of Italy governor Antonio Fazio will try to stall the deals by encouraging the creation of a consortium of domestic investors.
"A single regional financial market"
BBC - Sept 6/04 - Santander Central Hispano's £8.6bn ($15.3bn) bid for UK lender Abbey will help create a single regional financial market, the European Union (EU) said.
The comments by the EU's competition commissioner Mario Monti come as regulators mull over whether to approve Spanish bank Santander's move.
A decision is expected by 17 September on what would be Europe's largest cross-border banking merger.
According to weekend press reports, UK bank HBOS is considering a rival bid.
Controversy?
Mr Monti, however, appeared to give his backing to Santander's move.
"It is one of the first cross-border transactions in the banking sector, and it will increase the integration of the common market and that of the financial services," Mr Monti told reporters in Italy over the weekend.
"At first glance, it is a contribution to the objective of the Commission of having a more integrated financial services market."
According the Independent, a UK newspaper, the comments have angered HBOS, which called them "inappropriate".
"If Mr Monti made this remark, it is a worrying development. The (European) Commission has yet to make any decision about about the proposed deal by Santander for Abbey," the Financial Times cited an HBOS spokesperson as saying.
HBOS is expected to decide this week whether it will table a bid for Abbey, the Sunday Telegraph reported the previous day.
President tells Argentines to boycott Shell Oil co [for
PRICE GOUGING]
Thu Mar 10/05
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (Reuters) - President Nestor Kirchner has told Argentines to boycott Anglo-Dutch energy giant Shell for hiking its gasoline prices this week.
As Kirchner lashed out at Shell for the second day for fuelling inflation, militant unemployed picketers that support Kirchner said they would occupy Shell stations in the capital.
"Argentines should not buy from them, they have to say: 'No to Shell,'" Kirchner said on Thursday at an event to give schoolchildren smocks.
"Let's unite and not even buy a can of oil from them," he added. "May they realize that Argentines no longer put up with this. A national boycott is the best thing the people can do."
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Newly
released documents: U.K. publisher congratulated Hitler
LONDON - Mar 2/05 - Hrtz - A British newspaper publisher congratulated Adolf Hitler for annexing Czechoslovakia and urged him to march on Romania, according to government documents released yesterday.
The letter by the first Viscount
Rothermere, who owned the Daily Mail newspaper, was intercepted by
British security agents who were keeping watch on a German agent employed by the
late aristocrat.
Rothermere's fascist sympathies were well known before World War II, and he had
backed Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasing Hitler.
Rothermere, great-grandfather of the current owner of the Daily Mail, had hired
Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingfurst to promote his contacts
with Hitler and other German leaders.
In 1933, the year that Hitler gained power, British intelligence agency MI6
reported that French agents had discovered documents in the princess's apartment
in Paris showing that she was also a paid agent of the Nazis. Her assignment,
the documents indicated, was to urge Rothermere to support Germany's campaign
for the return of lands lost to Poland after World War I.
Rothermere and the princess fell out in 1938. He cut off payments to her, and
she sued for breach of contract.
The following year, British security agents intercepted documents carried by her
lawyer for use in the court case. Among them was a letter from Rothermere to the
Nazi government congratulating Hitler on the invasion of Czechoslovakia and
urging a thrust against Romania.
London Mayor Ken Livingstone recently raised the issue of the Daily Mail's
prewar editorial line in defending his outburst at a reporter for the Mail's
sister paper, the Evening Standard. Livingstone has refused to apologize to the
Jewish reporter for calling him a concentration camp guard.
Politicians grill financial aides on Prince
Charles' royal coffers
LONDON (AFP) -Feb 8/05 - Politicians quizzed financial aides to Prince Charles on the heir to the throne's multi-million pound income, in an unprecedented probe into the finances of the royal family.
MPs on the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee asked Duchy of Cornwall secretary Bertie Ross why the money earned by the prince from the Duchy, his private estate, has jumped 300 percent in the past decade.
Charles received 11.9 million pounds last year.
"This is the result of the estate being well managed", replied Ross, noting that it was not his place to comment on the amounts being paid to the prince.
Edward Leigh, a Conservative MP who is chairman of the Commons Public Accounts Committee, which conducted the probe, said "this is probably the first time a parliamentary committee has examined the accounts in this way."
The duchy was given to Charles on his 21st birthday by his mother Queen Elizabeth II and provides his sole source of income.
Charles receives a salary from the profits -- though does not own the capital -- of the 140,000-acre (57,000-hectare) duchy, which has existed since the 14th century to provide revenue for the heir apparent.
The estate is publicly regulated to ensure it is run efficiently and that its capital -- valued at about 350 million pounds -- is well used.
As a Crown body, the duchy is exempt from tax, but since 1993 the prince has voluntarily paid income tax, now at 40 percent, on his income.
Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office (NAO) spending watchdog who sat in on the session, asked to examine the duchy's finances and report on his findings to parliament.
However, Ross turned down the request, saying the prince's income was private.
The crown estate is not required to open itself up to such scrutiny.
Wolfensohn May Step Down From World Bank
WASHINGTON - Jan 2/04 - AP - James Wolfensohn said Sunday he anticipates bowing out in 2005 as World Bank
president and not serving a third five-year term, but would do whatever shareholders ask of him.
"I've had 10 years, and I think that's probably enough. But if the need is there, I'll do whatever the shareholders want," he told ABC's "This Week" on Sunday. "My understanding and my belief is that probably during the course of this year I'll give over to someone else."
Wolfensohn's term expires June 1. As bank president since June 1, 1995, he has emphasized reducing poverty in developing nations and making lending projects more effective. Previously, he headed the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and was a Wall Street investment banker for 20 years.
The United States is the bank's largest shareholder among 184 nation-members.
MONEY, POWER, and MODERN ART
PART 1: Ruthless empire builders
In the summer of 1907, the US economy crashed, with a large number of big businesses and major Wall Street brokerages going bankrupt. By October, the venerated Knickerbocker Trust in New York City and the blue-chip Westinghouse Electric Co had both failed, touching off what came to be known as the Banking Panic of 1907, the latest and most severe of four nationwide banking panics that had occurred in three decades. The stock market plummeted and panic-stricken depositors made massive runs on the nation's banks.
Once more J P Morgan (1837-1913) acted to restore financial order. This was not his first exercise to save finance capitalism from free market forces, each time making his control of the financial markets more complete. He summoned leading bankers and financial titans to his palatial home on 36th Street and Madison Avenue in New York, where they set up a rescue operation in his ornate library. Over the course of the next three weeks, Morgan and his team bypassed legal constraints to channel money from the stronger institutions they owned to the weaker ones they had just acquired through predatory fire sales to keep the system afloat, halting the panic with the cooperation and gratitude of the government. Morgan strong-armed banks to agree to settle accounts among themselves with clearinghouse certificates rather than cash and thus increased the money supply without involving the government, and ended up owning a much larger share of the financial sector paid for with paper. In the finger-pointing following the crisis, reformers in both political parties agreed that the US banking system was fundamentally flawed and needed structural reform.
MONEY, POWER and MODERN ART
PART 2: A monetary coup d'etat
Hamilton's national bank was partially state-owned, quite unlike the Federal Reserve System, which is wholly owned by private banks that have usurped the people's sovereign power to create money.
The first national bank, modeled after the Bank of England, which had been instrumental in the emergence of the British Empire, was established by Federalists as part of a nation-building system proposed by Alexander Hamilton, the first secretary of the US Treasury, who realized that the new nation could not grow and prosper in a competitive world without the full application of sovereign credit with a sound financial system mediated through a national bank chartered, partially owned and fully controlled by the central government. The first national bank in the US was the Bank of the United States (BUS), which was founded in 1791 and operated for 20 years, until 1811. A second Bank of the United States (BUS2) was founded in 1816 and operated also for 20 years until 1836.
MONEY, POWER and MODERN ART
Part 3: The year of contradictions
On January 27, 1913, 800 employees of the Doherty Silk Mill went on strike when four members of the workers' committee were fired for trying to organize a meeting with the company's management to discuss the four-loom system. Within a week, all silk workers were on strike and the 300 mills in the town were forced to close. During the dispute more than 3,000 pickets were arrested, most of them receiving a 10-day sentence in local jails. Two workers were killed by private detectives hired by the mill workers. These men were arrested but were never brought to trial. However, the strike fund was unable to raise enough money and, in July 1913, the workers were starved into submission.
Bill Haywood of the American Socialist Party and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, a founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union who was active in the campaign against the conviction of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, arrived in Paterson and took over the running of the strike for the Industrial Workers of the Work (IWW). John Reed, a well-known socialist journalist, arrived in the town to report the strike. He was soon arrested and imprisoned in Paterson County Jail. Other left-wing journalists such as Walter Lippmann and Mabel Dodge arrived to show solidarity with Reed and to support the demand that reporters should be free to report industrial disputes. After World War I, Dodge married Tony Lujan, a native American, and established an artist colony in Taos, New Mexico. In 1922, D H Lawrence stayed at Taos, where he wrote The Plumed Serpent (1926). The main character in his short story "The Woman Who Rode Away" was based on Dodge.
Martin Green, a writer attuned to cultural juxtapositions, links the Armory Show and the Paterson Strike Pageant with the argument that modern art and revolutionary politics share a spiritual, transcendental goal. Green detailed the scene inside the salon of Mabel Dodge, who was ensconced in respectability yet actively subverted it, as Abby Aldrich Rockefeller did in a more obtuse manner. He also reported vividly the scene at Wobblies union halls where people of any race or nationality were welcome and workers' poems were composed on the spot.
Reed, who wrote Ten Days That Shook the World, and who was the only American to be buried inside the Kremlin, wrote: "All I know is that my happiness is built on the misery of others ...
Trade Blocks: South American Free Trade Agreement
South America Eyes EU-Style Integration
CUZCO, Peru (Reuters) - Dec 8/04 - South American leaders on Wednesday launched a regional integration pact they said would go beyond rhetoric and usher in European-style unity, but only half the future bloc's 12 presidents turned up to sign it.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, whose country is the region's economic powerhouse, vowed integration would go beyond rhetoric and translate into concrete gains, like a $700 million highway linking the Atlantic and Pacific that Brazil and Peru plan to build.
"If in the past, geography divided us, today it unites us," he said. "What we have done today is no small thing."
The leaders of Argentina, Ecuador, Paraguay and Uruguay had already stayed away from the summit in Peru's ancient Inca capital, Cuzco, for domestic political and personal reasons.
But the Colombian and Bolivian presidents, who did attend, skipped the signing ceremony. That left just Lula and the leaders of Chile, Venezuela and Peru -- plus those of Suriname and Guyana who will join the South American Community of Nations later. Foreign ministers from the other countries signed.
Bhopal Survivors Gain Allies in 20-Year Quest for Justice
WASHINGTON, D.C., Dec 2 -Yahoo News - On the 20th anniversary of the most lethal accident in corporate history, the survivors of the 1984 Bhopal disaster are finding new allies in their fight for justice.
Amnesty International this week released a ground-breaking new report on the continuing impact of the leak of some 27 tons of highly toxic methyl isocyanate gas from
Bhopals Union Carbide plant exactly 20 years today, while activist shareholders of
Dow Chemical Company, which bought Union Carbide
three years ago, vowed to press their efforts to have the company take responsibility.
Bhopal was the greatest human rights disaster arising from corporate negligence, said Amnestys secretary general, Irene Khan, who said the failure of U.S.-based companies to compensate victims underlined the importance of making multinational business accountable across international borders.
Companies have elected jurisdictions where governments are not strong enough, willing or able enough to enforce regulations, she said. The legal gap that allows this to happen must be closed so that a disaster like Bhopal is not repeated.
Between 7,000 and 10,000 people residents of shantytowns that abutted Union Carbides pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, died within minutes or hours of the gas leak which the company has long insisted resulted from sabotage.
Since then, an estimated 15,000 more have passed away as a result of their exposure to the gas, according to public-health experts.
More than 150,000 survivors, including children born to parents who were exposed to the gas, suffer some form of chronic illness or damage caused by the incident including cancer, neurological problems, chaotic menstrual cycles, and mental illness. More than 50,000 of the survivors are considered too sick to earn a living.
Body of Prince Bernhard transferred to The Hague to lie in state
THE HAGUE (AFP) -Dec 6/05 - To the sound of "the end of the hunt" played by eight horn players, the Dutch royal family solemnly escorted the body of
Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands from the Soestdijk palace to The Hague, where it will lie in state.
Bernhard died Wednesday at the age of 93.
The personnel of the royal palace formed up in ranks to say farewell as the prince was carried to the Noordeinde palace in the Hague, where members of the diplomatic corps, the parliament and the government were to pay their last respects on Monday.
The public will be allowed to visit the bier in the chapel of the castle from Tuesday to Thursday.
Prince Bernhard & Lockheed
The prestige of the House of Orange suffered a serious blow in 1976 when Prince Bernhard was implicated in the Lockheed bribery scandal. A commission of three wise men was set up to investigate allegations that Bernhard had accepted a large sum of money from the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation in America in exchange for promoting the company's interests in the Netherlands.
The commission concluded that Bernhard's dealings with Lockheed had not in the end affected Dutch military acquisitions policy and the government ultimately decided not to prosecute the prince. The queen considered abdication in the event of legal proceedings against her husband. Instead, Bernhard was forced to relinquish all his public functions and resign from all his military ranks, a decision that was partially reversed under pressure from former members of the Dutch resistance.
Prince Bernhard & Worldwide Fund for Nature
Although he almost never again wore a military uniform, Bernhard's presence remained indispensable at the annual commemoration of the German capitulation in Wageningen and he continued to sport the white carnation that practically became his personal insignia.
For the international community, the achievement he will most often be remembered for in the future is his work as founder-president of the World Wildlife Fund.
Founded in 1961, the Worldwide Fund for Nature, as it is now called, is the world's largest voluntary organisation promoting nature conservation. It's a subject that has never failed to arouse his emotions.
Prince Bernhard was closely involved in some of the key events of this century: World War II resistance, post-war economic reconstruction Western security and environmental preservation. He was a man who consciously experienced and reflected on the contradictions of his age.
Prince Charles Tries to Undo Memo's Damage
LONDON - Nov 23/04 - Europe/AP- The tempest over Prince Charles' views on upward mobility was all a misunderstanding, the heir to the throne said Monday, insisting he had not said that people should "know their place" — and by implication, trim their ambitions to match their social rank.
"I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability,"
Charles told a conference organized by Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams. "Often all that is needed is the right help at the right time for them to make the most of it."
That was not the impression many got from a royal memo disclosed last week, in which the prince railed against those who think they can advance to become "high court judges, brilliant TV personalities or infinitely more competent heads of state without ever putting in the necessary work or having natural ability."
It was that last section that drew the most attention in the media, coming as it did from a man who would become head of state just by outliving his mother, Queen Elizabeth II (news - web sites).
Charles' handwritten memo became public Wednesday at an employment tribunal where a former personal assistant in his private office, Elaine Day, claimed unfair dismissal. The prince wrote the memo in reply to Day's suggestion that personal assistants with university degrees should be given the opportunity to train to become private secretaries — a more senior position.
"What's wrong with everyone nowadays?" the Prince of Wales huffed in the note. "What is it that makes everyone seem to think that they are qualified to do things far beyond their technical capabilities? It's social utopianism which believes humanity can be genetically and socially reengineered to contradict the lessons of history."
The British press immediately pounced on the remarks, and two government ministers — including Education Minister Charles Clarke — publicly upbraided the prince.
The Sunday Times commented that the affair revealed Charles' office as a place where the "boss is a mercurial ego fond of homespun philosophy who dreams of greater stardom. Petty rivalries abound. Titles and hierarchy are all."
Some media reports appeared under headlines about "knowing one's place," but Charles insisted Monday he said no such thing.
"I think that `people should not try to rise above their station' is a travesty of the truth, nor indeed have I ever used any such words or anything like them," Charles told the archbishop's gathering Monday. The meeting was closed to the media, but Charles' office released a text of his remarks.
"For the last 30 years, I have done all I can to give young people who have limited opportunities a chance to succeed," Charles said. His Prince's Trust has sponsored many programs to help disadvantaged youth.
"Success can come in many forms," he added. "In my view it is just as great an achievement to be a plumber or a bricklayer as it is to be a lawyer or a doctor. Not everyone has the same talents or abilities, but everyone, with the right nurturing, can make a real difference to their communities and to the country."
Despite his modest academic record — he attended Cambridge University but didn't get a degree — Charles has ranged widely in his pronouncements, promoting organic farming and alternative medicine, condemning modern architecture and bemoaning the decreasing use of the Book of Common Prayer.
While he claimed his views on education have been misrepresented, Charles defended his "old-fashioned" values in the speech Monday.
Yale Holds Secret Spot in Bush, Kerry Pasts
Oct 04
BOSTON (Reuters) - Conspiracy theorists,
rejoice: the man elected president on Nov. 2 will be a member of an elite secret
cabal with tentacles that reportedly stretch into all layers of American
society.
We're not making this up.
Despite their ideological differences, Democrat John Kerry and Republican
George W. Bush share much in common. Each was raised amid wealth and privilege
in the northeastern United States, and each attended Yale University in the
1960s where they joined the same secret society: Skull and Bones.
Founded more than 150 years ago, Skull and Bones is shrouded in the kind
of mystery befitting the Gothic, Ivy League campus where its members meet behind
closed doors in a windowless structure known as the tomb. It started admitting
women in 1991.
Guess
who's at Bilderberg meeting today
Italy
hosts 50th-anniversary confab of mysterious society of world leaders
India to flood the world with textiles
NEW DELHI - May 12/04 - The multifiber agreement, established in 1975,
allocates quotas on the amount of clothing and textiles that developing nations
with cheap labor can export to rich countries, expires
January 1, 2005. For once, India is ready for the opening up of these key
markets, particularly in Europe and the US, and has already made careful,
strategic plans such as the integration of agriculture (long staple cotton),
yarn and textile production to avoid cotton price fluctuation which would affect
textile production costs.
A new generation of managers is running Indian mills now and is more focused on
integrated mills, for their quality and cost-saving factors.
AP Chief Unveils Plan to Fight Secrecy
May 7/04 - RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Denouncing
increased official secrecy, Associated Press President and CEO Tom Curley
unveiled a plan Friday for a media advocacy center to lobby in Washington for
open government.
At every level of government, records are being sealed and requests for
information denied, and courts are imposing gag orders and sealing documents,
Curley said, speaking in the Hays Press-Enterprise Lecture series.
16 April 2004
The news that the bankers Rothschild are to withdraw from the gold market, in which they have been a major player for two centuries, has been hailed as the end of an era.
Watts forced out over Shell oil reserves fiasco
The mother of
all financial scandals
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Just tell us the truth
Public-health bureaucrats have grown smugly accustomed to telling us what we should think -- instead of what we should know.
Breeding A Culture of Death
If President Bush had actually read some of the letters from the teen lobbyists-in-training, he would not have had much reason to smile.
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Hidden History: Politics & Money behind the Scenes
A short fiscal and financial history of England,
1815-1918
Author Rees, James Frederick, Sir
A short fiscal and financial history of England, 1815-1918, by J. F. Rees.
Imprint London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. [1921]
245 pages
Subject Finance, Public -- Great Britain -- History -- 1815-1918.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Finance -- Great Britain.
Bibliog. "Notes on books"; p. 224-229.
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A brief account of the finances and paper money of the revolutionary war
Author Schuckers, Jacob William
Title A brief account of the finances and paper money of the revolutionary war
Publish info Philadelphia, J. Campbell & son, 1874
Descript'n 130 pages
Note On cover: A brief account of the finances ... By J. W. Schuckers
Subjects Finance -- United States -- History
Paper money -- United States
On Metallic and Paper Currency
Author Overstone, Samuel Jones Loyd, Baron, 1796-1883
Title Tracts and other publications. By the Right Hon. Lord Overstone
Publish info London, [Printed by Harrison and sons] 1857
Descript'n viii, 649 pages
Note Prefatory note signed: J. R. M. [i.e. J. R. McCulloch]
Subjects Currency question -- Great Britain
Banks and banking -- Great Britain
Money -- Great Britain -- History
Alt name McCulloch, J. R. (John Ramsay), 1789-1864, editor
History of the Sherman Law
Author Walker, Albert Henry, 1844-1915
Title History of the Sherman Law of the United States of America / by Albert H. Walker
Publish info New York : Equity Press, 1910
Descript'n xiii, 320 pages
Note Includes index
Subjects United States. Sherman Act
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Trusts, Industrial -- United States -- Cases
Lords of industry, by Henry Demarest Lloyd
Lords of industry
Author Lloyd, Henry Demarest, 1847-1903
Title Lords of industry, by Henry Demarest Lloyd
Publish info New York, London, G.P. Putnam's sons, 1910
Descript'n v, 355 pages
Includes index
Contents The story of a great monopoly. 1881.-- The political economy of seventy-three million dollars. 1882.-- Making bread dear. 1883.-- Lords of industry. 1884.-- Servitudes not contracts. 1889.-- What Washington would do to-day, February 22, 1890.-- Uses and abuses of corporations. 1894.-- The sugar trust and the tariff. 1897.-- The national ownership of anthracite coal mines. 1903.-- The failure of railroad regulation. 1903
Subjects Trusts, Industrial -- United States
United States -- Economic conditions
Monopolies and the people
Monopolies and the people
Author Baker, Charles Whiting, 1865-
Title Monopolies and the people, by Charles Whiting Baker
Publish info New York and London, G. P. Putnam's sons, 1900
Edition 3d ed., rev. and enl
Descript'n xxiii, 368 pages
Series Questions of the day,
Subjects Monopolies -- United States
Trusts, Industrial -- United States
Competition
Railway secrecy and trusts
Railway secrecy and trusts
Author Bonham, John Milton
Title Railway secrecy and trusts
Publish info New York & London, G. P.Putnam's Sons, 1890
Descript'n 138 pages
Series Questions of the day, no. 61
Subjects Railroads and state -- United States
Trusts, Industrial -- United States
The raid on prosperity, by James Roscoe Day
The raid on prosperity
Author Day, James Roscoe, 1845-1923
Title The raid on prosperity, by James Roscoe Day
Publish info New York, Appleton, 1908
Descript'n ix, 351 pages
Contents The new age.--The proportions.--The citizen.--The rights of speech.--Reactionaries.--Stretching the Constitution.--Rights of corporate business.--The corporations.--The Standard Oil Company.--Standard Oil defended by economic writers.--The Standard Oil Company in court.--Exact justice.--Swollen fortunes.--Charitable trusts.--Tainted money.--Labor unions.--Workingmen.--The remedy.--Men for the times
Subjects Corporations
Trusts, Industrial
United States -- Economic conditions
Twenty-eight years in Wall Street
Two Volumes
Twenty-eight years in Wall Street
Author Clews, Henry, 1836-1923
Title Twenty-eight years in Wall Street
Publish info New York, Irving Publishing Co., 1888
Descript'n xxiv, Two Volumes - 716 pages
Note Added title page, illustrated
Subjects Speculation
Capitalists and financiers -- United States
Business
Wall Street (New York, N.Y.)
The conspiracy of capital
The conspiracy of capital
Author Bancroft, Clinton
Title The conspiracy of capital
Publish info Girard, Kansas, Wayland, 1901
Descript'n 138 pages
Subjects Capital
Pastors, Politicians & Pacifists: The Religious Basis of the New World Order
Pastors, Politicians & Pacifists: The Religious Basis of the New World Order
(written in the1920s)
Find out about the History & Genesis of the WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES (WCC),
and
the Forces & Foundations directing the organization.
Well you have heard it said - for years - that many Church Denominations are politically controlled instead of being directed by people who are real Christians,and who are in favor of historical Bible teachings. One of the well known examples of this is the World Council of Churches. But how did they come into existence ? Which Billionaire decided to fund the World Council of Churches (and its earlier version, the National Council of Churches). Where is the Proof ?
Right in this long-supressed book ! This book names names and documents it .Topics Include Billionaire X subsidizes the Churches (he is named specifically in the Book), Cooperating against the USA in WW I, cooperation with the Radicals, "Helpful" Hints for Sermons, A Highly Financed Movement, the Myth of this church movement as truly Democratic, The Political Agenda, An Appeal from Labor Leaders, Threatening the Christian Faith, Opposition to the American Legion, Neutralizing the Churches, the Radical Hookup of the National Council of Churches, the Family Tree, Documents, Charts of Organizational Hookups, and Index -
One of the Best works available on the Political Takeover of Churches
221 Pages - Available Now - $ 17.95
Available Now
Life of John Jacob Astor
To which is appended a copy of his last will
Author Parton, James, 1822-1891
Title Life of John Jacob Astor. To which is appended a copy of his last will. By James Parton
Publish info New York, American news company, 1865
Descript'n vi, [13]-121 pages
Subjects Astor, John Jacob, 1763-1848
The oldest and the newest empire : China and the United States
Author Speer, William, 1822-1904
Title The oldest and the newest empire : China and the United States / by William Speer
Publish info Hartford : S. S. Scranton, 1870
Descript'n 681 pages
Subjects Chinese -- California
China
China -- History
China -- History -- Opium War, 1840-184
The
Strange Career of Herbert Hoover:
Under
Two Flags
by
John Hamill
(1931)
Want to find out about some
behind-the-scenes activities of an American President ? Whether fact or fiction,
this first edition republished presents an abundance of allegations, with much
documentation. Originally published by William Fara in New York, (1931) .This
book became one of the Banned Books of the Thirties, and embarassed the leaders
of the day. Topics include Hoover's early career & activities in Europe,
Africa and Australia after his graduation from Stanford, and his time involved
in one of the earliest NGO (Non Governmental Organizations), the Belgian
Relief Commission.
Hoover was often blamed for the Great Depression, whether he intended it or not.
Was this book only Character assassination in the name of expose, or more
reality than the public wanted to hear ? The book was published just in time to
influence the elections of 1932. Was Hoover the prototype of the Economic
Models for George Bush ? Make up your own mind by reading this first edition
republished firsthand.
381 Pages – Index-
$ 24.95
Available Now
Secrets
of the Great Whiskey Ring: Corruption in the Grant Administration
(1880)
The Politics of the Grant Administration behind the scenes
The Whiskey Ring - A Saga of True Politics
$ 19.95
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The
Myth of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
by
Herman Bernstein
Did
the Tsarist Secret Police (Okhrana) help to publish and promote the Protocols ?
How
was the Priest Sergius Nilus involved ?
How
do you plan a conspiracy and at the same time, hire others to blame a third
party ?
Are
you Interested in the Truth ? Want to find out just who created the Protocols of
Zion, and who found them convenient to promote ?
If the Protocols are a forgery, then where do they come f
