The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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Bank Crimes Pay: Under the Thumb of the Global Financial Mafiocracy
The world's big, most law-breaking banks don't simply act as a cartel in terms of the criminal activities they engage in – but form a network of global corporate control that reaches into every corner of our lives.
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Global Power Project: Bilderberg Group and Europe’s Technocrat Titans
In the debt crisis, sovereignty is increasingly transferred from European nations and their democratically elected leaders to the supra-national technocratic structure of the E.U. – and the top bureaucrats and technicians who run it.
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Global Power Project: Bilderberg Group and the Central Bankers
Here we provide a glimpse into the decisions and actions taken by some of the top European technocrats responsible for managing the debt crisis – and the adamantly pro-market ideologies they advocated.
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Austerity Revisited: How Global Financiers Rigged the Bank Bailouts of the 1980s
Top financiers at the International Monetary Conference engineered so-called "aid packages" for crisis-hit developing nations that were, much like today, nothing more than bailouts for the big banks.
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Global Power Project: The Group of Thirty and Its Methods of Financial Governance
What makes the G30 so important is not only that they are taken seriously by policymakers and market "participants" – but that the very individuals making the recommendations are in positions of power to directly implement or support those recommendations.
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Global Power Project: The Group of Thirty and the "Good Discussion" They're Still Having
Emerging from the Rockefeller Foundation in the late 1970s, the Group of Thirty was designed as a think tank, lobby/industry group and, ultimately, a consensus-building institution for the global elites – to ensure that they stayed that way.
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Global Power Project: Central Bankers and the Institute of International Finance, Part 3
The relationship between the powerfully connected Institute of International Finance and global central bankers goes well beyond the timid attempts at “regulation” on the part of global banks, as this third segment in the IFF series reveals.
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Global Power Project: Connecting Josef Ackermann, the Institute of International Finance and the Euro Debt Crisis
When the European debt crisis hit headlines in 2010, the Institute of International Finance was again on the scene and playing a major part, like it did during the 1980s debt crisis. At the center this time was the CEO of Deutsche Bank, Josef Ackermann.
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Global Power Project: Exposing the Institute of International Finance, Part 1
The Institute of International Finance represents the very "visible hand" of financial markets, wielding immense influence and boasting unparalleled access to central bankers and top policymakers from around the world.
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Global Power Project, Part 10: TransCanada Corporation, Kings of the Keystone Pipeline
The government of Canada has, for years, been writing laws and implementing major policies at the direct suggestion of the oil industry — most recently TransCanada, which is seeking a green light to complete the Keystone XL.
