Offshore Banking, Fraud, and the Crisis

Published on Triple Crisis, by Sara Hsu, January 16, 2014.

The global financial crisis that began in 2008 in the United States had roots in offshore banking, some of which have been revealed: the Bear Stearns’ 2007 Cayman Island hedge fund bankruptcy, in which the company attempted to file offshore to protect U.S. assets, Goldman Sachs’ off balance sheet Cayman deals in shaky asset-backed securities (ABSs), and Citigroup’s creation of structured investment vehicles in London to hide the sales of ABSs.   Continuer la lecture de « Offshore Banking, Fraud, and the Crisis »

U.S. Court of Appeals Allows ISP's to Selectively Block Web Traffic

Say goodbye to the Internet we’ve known – Published on Axis of Logic (first on Mercury News), by Troy Wolverton, Jan 15, 2014.

If you like how cable television works, you’re going to love how a court decision Tuesday could change the Internet.

Thanks to the ruling, broadband providers can now exert a lot more control over what sites you visit on the Internet and what services you can access. The decision would allow Comcast, for example, to bar its Internet subscribers from seeing videos from Netflix (NFLX) or from using Vonage’s Internet phone service.  Continuer la lecture de « U.S. Court of Appeals Allows ISP's to Selectively Block Web Traffic »

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Why the Washington Post’s New Ties to the CIA Are So Ominous

American journalism has entered highly dangerous terrain – Published on Global Research.ca, Jan 13, 2014.

  • … For the CIA, the emerging newspaper role of Mr. Amazon is value added to any working relationship with him. The CIA’s zeal to increase its leverage over major American media outlets is longstanding.
  • After creation of the CIA in 1947, it enjoyed direct collaboration with many U.S. news organizations. But the agency faced a major challenge in October 1977, when — soon after leaving the Washington Post – famed Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein provided an extensive expose in Rolling Stone.  Continuer la lecture de « Why the Washington Post’s New Ties to the CIA Are So Ominous »