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October 23, 2013

UPDATE: Justice Department Misrepresents JP Morgan Settlement

(See Update below on this afternoon’s announcement of the settlement by JP Morgan)

Does anybody in DC tell the truth anymore?

From The Real News dot com

The settlement between JPMorgan Chase and the Justice Department has been reported at $13 billion, for charges that Chase sold toxic mortgage-backed securities that fueled the financial crisis of 2008.

The reported $13 billion amount is a misrepresentation of the actual figure by the Justice Department and has “nothing to do with mortgage-backed securities,” said former financial regulator Bill Black. [Read more…]

May 18, 2013

Fascists of the "Left"

by Wayne Madsen
Wayne Madsen Report dot com

The so-called “progressives” who decried the Bush administration’s anti-constitutional moves against the media are now singing the praises of the Obama administration for carrying out not only the same policies but ratcheting them up to include surveillance “fishing expeditions” against reporters for the Associated Press and The New York Times, among other media organizations. [Read more…]

February 14, 2013

Gangster Bankers: Too Big to Jail ~ How HSBC hooked up with drug traffickers and terrorists. And got away with it…

Illustration by Victor Juhasz

By Matt Taibbi
February 14, 2013 8:00 AM ET

The deal was announced quietly, just before the holidays, almost like the government was hoping people were too busy hanging stockings by the fireplace to notice. Flooring politicians, lawyers and investigators all over the world, [Read more…]

February 12, 2013

NDAA – Section 1021"Civilian Authority-the US Constitution" vs "Military Authority-Commander In Chief"

Abby Martin interviewed Thomas Drake, a Whistleblower who outed NSA’s covert wiretapping program known as Trailblazer, on this weeks “Breaking the Set.” [Read more…]

February 9, 2013

NDAA Appeal: Chris Hedges & Daniel Ellsberg Detail Potential Outcomes

We Are Change Sierra Adamson caught up with both Chris Hedges and Daniel Ellsberg outside the Second Circuit Court of Appeals last week after the Justices heard arguments in the Hedges v Obama NDAA appeal. Both Ellsberg and Hedges provide updates, next steps and what potential outcomes may be.

First up, Chris Hedges – [Read more…]

January 25, 2013

Was DOJ's Lanny Breuer the TBTF Banksters "hired gun?"

by Helen Tansey
January 25, 2012

One can’t help but be suspicious about the timing of Lanny Breuer’s, Assistant Attorney General for DOJ’s Criminal Division, recent decision to step down. Breuer was responsible for holding accountable the TBTF banking thieves who singlehandedly imploded America’s economy not to mention the rest of the global economy in 2008. [Read more…]

September 1, 2011

ATF Whistleblower: U.S. Gun Sting "Fast & Furious" Has Left Trail of "Crime Scenes and Dead Bodies"

Democracy Now! – “…Under the once-secret program known as “Operation Fast and Furious,” federal agents encouraged U.S. gun shops to sell thousands of weapons to middlemen for Mexican drug cartels. The program was meant to gain access to senior-level figures within Mexico’s criminal organizations, but agents lost track of as many as 2,500 guns. Last week, the Department of Justice acknowledged to Congress that firearms connected with the ATF’s controversial sting operation were used in at least 11 violent crimes in the United States, including the slaying of a U.S. Border Patrol agent. Meanwhile, the program has never led to any arrests, and three key ATF supervisors were promoted earlier this month. We’re joined by Vincent Cefalu, an ATF special agent who helped blow the whistle on Operation Fast and Furious and has since faced retaliation. “We allowed these guns to go, continue on, in the hopes of establishing some sort of chain, or this iron pipeline, which was so far from the truth,” Cefalu says…’

July 25, 2011

Bank Financed Drug Gang Plans to Overthrow Mexican Government Next Year

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
July 25, 2011

Last week, Carmen Álvarez Excelsior wrote a report for Salem-News.com claiming the notorious drug gang Los Zetas will attempt to overthrow the Mexican government next year using weapons sent by the United States.

Excelsior said the brutal gang uses an airport in Fort Worth, Texas, to fly the weapons into Mexico. Rejón Aguilar, one of the original seven members of Los Zetas who was recently captured by police, told Mexican officials the gang bought guns directly from the U.S. government under its Operation Fast and Furious. [Read more…]

June 29, 2011

BREAKING: ALIPAC CALLING FOR IMPEACHMENT OF BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

June 28, 2011

For National Release

Contact: Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC)
(866) 703-0864 / Press@alipac.us

The Americans for Legal Immigration PAC is calling for the impeachment of President Barack Obama for his involvement in the Operation Gunrunner scandal, as well as his recent edict instructing federal employees to establish a form of amnesty for illegal aliens in defiance of the Congress, existing federal laws, and the US Constitution.

Obama’s ICE Director John Morton issued a memo on June 17th to all ICE Field Office Directors, Special Agents-in-Charge, and all Chief Counsel, authorizing them to decline to remove illegal aliens who meet the qualifications for amnesty under the DREAM Act Amnesty which Congress has rejected many times.

Congressional investigations have determined that Obama’s ATF and Justice Department have been supplying assault weapons to the drug cartels that import most of America’s cocaine, methamphetamine, and illegal immigrants. [Read more…]

May 20, 2011

RT – Taibbi: 'U.S. politics – reality show sponsored by Wall Street'

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hpMEPYzdJ8

By Matt Taibbi
May 11, 2011 9:30 AM ET

They weren’t murderers or anything; they had merely stolen more money than most people can rationally conceive of, from their own customers, in a few blinks of an eye. But then they went one step further. They came to Washington, took an oath before Congress, and lied about it.

Thanks to an extraordinary investigative effort by a Senate subcommittee that unilaterally decided to take up the burden the criminal justice system has repeatedly refused to shoulder, we now know exactly what Goldman Sachs executives like Lloyd Blankfein and Daniel Sparks lied about. We know exactly how they and other top Goldman executives, including David Viniar and Thomas Montag, defrauded their clients. America has been waiting for a case to bring against Wall Street. Here it is, and the evidence has been gift-wrapped and left at the doorstep of federal prosecutors, evidence that doesn’t leave much doubt: Goldman Sachs should stand trial.

Read the rest of Taibbi’s article at Rolling Stone by clicking HERE