Economics play a pivitol part in Human Health…Whether it be buy quality food, or just food. Control and individuals Disposable wealth, you control many aspects of a person health (i.e. Mental and Physical)
Editor’s Note (Ralph Turchiano) Re-Post Request for cross reference HSBC and Panama files. Original Post date 28 October 2012 Engineering Evil : Authenticity Still Requires further verification Being on a List does not imply guilt Current Source Info: Zougla Keep Talking Greece “Clicking on each image will open an […]
By ADAM KLASFELD MANHATTAN (CN) – Commerzbank must pay $1.45 billion to five state and federal regulators for facilitating Iran and the Sudan’s laundering of money, as well as helping the Japanese optics manufacturer Olympus pull off a massive accounting fraud. At $610 million, New York’s […]
Published: Friday, 31 May 2013 | 11:30 AM ET By: Robert Frank | CNBC Reporter & Editor The Rich Get Richer Friday, 31 May 2013 | 2:52 PM ET The top 1 percent now controls 36 percent of the world’s wealth, according to the Boston Consulting Group. CNBC’s Robert […]
06 March, 11:35 (ANSAmed) – ATHENS, MARCH 6 – The Greek Financial Crimes Squad (SDOE) is examining details of the bank accounts of the three relatives of former Finance Minister Giorgos Papaconstantinou whose names were removed from the so-called Lagarde list of wealthy Greek depositors, and is to […]
Patrick Cockburn Monday, 4 March 2013 If one object had to serve as a symbol Iraqi corruption and dysfunctionality, it might be the ADE-651 bomb detector. Exposed as a fake long ago, it is still employed by the Iraqi security forces to check for explosives and weapons, […]
An ‘old guard’ remain the richest people on earth John Hall Monday, 4 March 2013 A record number of new entries appear on the 2013 Forbes Billionaires list, but an old guard including Carlos Slim and Bill Gates remain the richest people on earth. There are now 1,426 […]
by Reuters|21 February 2013 Queen Alexandra wearing the Koh-i-Noor in her coronation crown (left) and a copy of the new cut of the Koh-i-Noor. Amritsar, India – British Prime Minister David Cameron says a giant diamond his country forced India to hand over in the colonial era that […]
Posted: February 20, 2013 – 22:55 Posted by siteadmin caption: Beyonce and Jayzee in Nigeria in October 2006 By SaharaReporters, New York SaharaReporters has uncovered a document indicating that a million dollars of Bayelsa State’s poverty alleviation fund was spent by then Governor Goodluck Jonathan on bringing […]
Claims taxpayers’ money is being spent on ‘buying off’ critics of the Education Secretary’s pet project James Cusick, Richard Garner Tuesday, 12 February 2013 Officials from Michael Gove’s department are offering £65,000 “bribes” to convince reluctant headteachers to convert their schools to academies. The sweeteners are being offered […]
<!—->EEV: Reposted per request: Feb. 4, 2013 – 01:14PM | Last Updated: Feb. 4, 2013 – 05:29PM | By ARAM ROSTON | President Barack Obama has nominated John Brennan (above) as CIA director. Financial disclosures related to Brennan’s years in the private sector have raised new questions. (Saul Loeb […]
Feb 2, 2013 19:36 Moscow Time Spain’s PM denies receiving secret payments Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has denied media claims that he and other members of the governing Popular Party received secret payments. “I have never received nor distributed undeclared money,” he said at an extraordinary session […]
AFP Wednesday, Jan 23, 2013 COLOMBO – The price of a cup of tea could rise after the world’s biggest producers agreed to join forces to boost profits, a Sri Lankan minister announced Wednesday. After two days of talks in Colombo between Sri Lanka, India, Kenya, Indonesia, Malawi […]
Published: 12 January, 2013, 17:20 Edited: 12 January, 2013, 18:31 Athens passed new tax increases to boost revenue by US$3 billion to keep in line with previous commitments to creditors. The new measures limit family benefits and force the middle class to pay over 40 per cent of […]
By ROBERT KAHN (CN) – Bank of America and other heavy hitters defrauded cities and counties by conspiring to fix, and lie about, the LIBOR rates, four California counties and cities and a Bay Area utilities district claim in separate federal antitrust complaints. The London Interbank […]
News is likely to provoke more anger from commuters still reeling from the New Year inflation-busting rise in train fares last week. Rob Williams Sunday, 6 January 2013 The minister responsible for rail fares, Simon Burns, is under fire today after it emerged that he commutes to work […]
By Hayley Peterson PUBLISHED: 00:00 EST, 3 January 2013 | UPDATED: 06:25 EST, 4 January 2013 Middle-class workers will take a bigger hit to their income proportionately than those earning between $200,000 and $500,000 under the new fiscal cliff deal, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center. […]
Posted by: Usman Ahmed Posted date: January 02, 2013 NEW YORK: The combined assets of the world’s 100 richest people grew by $241 billion in 2012 to almost $1.9 trillion, according to the Bloomberg business news agency. The fastest fattening were the tycoons of the telecommunications and […]
LOS ANGELES (CN) – An L.A.-area investment adviser cherry-picked trades to scoop up $2 million for himself, while losing $4.4 million for his customers, the SEC claims in court. The SEC sued Aletheia Research and Management Inc. and its CEO Peter Eichler Jr., in […]
Central bankers rarely do radical, or even surprising, things. This week it happened twice. Hold on to your pinstripes. Thomas MuchaDecember 14, 2012 06:19 Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke holds a press conference following a Federal Open Market Committee meeting at the Federal Reserve Bank headquaters December 12, […]
EEV: So the Investors pay while the criminals once again go free HSBC’s record $1.9bn fine preferable to prosecution, US authorities insist Dominic Rushe in New York and Jill Treanor in London guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 11 December 2012 15.37 EST Assistant attorney general Lanny Breuer said taking away HSBC’s US banking licence […]
The minister and a warning to the Telegraph before expenses story Maria Miller’s advisers warned The Daily Telegraph to consider the minister’s role in implementing the Leveson Report before this newspaper published details of her expenses. Maria Miller Photo: EPA By Claire Newell and Holly Watt 10:00PM GMT 11 […]
Adam Taylor Dec. 3, 2012, 4:22 PM pasokphotos via Flickr The so-called “Lagarde List” is causing trouble in Greece again, with new reports linking it to the very top levels of political society. On Sunday two Greek weekly magazines, To Vima and Proto Thema, reported that Margarita Papandreou, […]
News @ AsiaOne Furious Spaniards who say banks cheated them of their savings took to the streets demanding that the bailed-out lenders give them their money back. -AFP Sat, Dec 01, 2012 AsiaOne MADRID – Furious Spaniards who say banks cheated them of their savings […]
The US Treasury has issued a damning criticism of Germany’s chronic trade surplus in its annual report on worldwide exchange rate abuse, although it stopped short of labelling the country a currency manipulator. The report said Germany’s current account surplus is running at 6.3pc of GDP Photo: AP By […]
Alexander Perepilichnyy, a 44-year-old businessman who left Russia three years ago, was found dead outside his luxury mansion on an exclusive private estate in Surrey two weeks ago Jerome Taylor Wednesday, 28 November 2012 Prosecutors in Switzerland say the sudden death of a Russian whistle blower […]
Alexander Perepilichnyy is the fourth person connected to a murky tax case to have met a suspicious end Jerome Taylor Tuesday, 27 November 2012 With its sweeping vistas of the Persian Gulf and central location in the Middle East’s glitziest city, Dubai’s Palm Jumeirah is one […]
Oil generated £19 billion in revenues last year, yet much is believed to have gone straight into the pockets of President Ilham Aliyev and his family Azeri government has threatened journalists and activists are tortured Leaked documents recently compared President Aliyev and his ruling clan to the mafia […]
‘A major blow to the revolution’ says ElBaradei as president hands himself sweeping new powers LAST UPDATED AT 10:05 ON Fri 23 Nov 2012 EGYPTIAN reformists who risked their lives to overthrow the Hosni Mubarak regime last year have reacted with horror to the decision of his successor, […]
Posted 2012/11/22 at 11:41 pm EST MUMBAI, Nov. 22, 2012 (Reuters) — The Indian joint venture of Wal-Mart Stores Inc <wmt.n> has suspended its chief financial officer and other employees as it investigates alleged violations of U.S. anti-bribery laws, a development that could hamper India’s efforts to open […]
Special Investigation: Hundreds of politicians have each accepted thousands of pounds worth of trips to exotic locations. So what do their hosts want in return? Oliver Wright, Matthew Macaulay Thursday, 22 November 2012 Backbench MPs have gone on more than £1.5m of trips with all expenses […]
Funds for struggling schools slashed, report reveals Richard Garner Thursday, 22 November 2012 Funding for struggling schools has been slashed to cover a £1bn overspend in the academies programme, a report reveals today. Spending on a range of education programmes – including improving under-performing schools – has been […]
Nicolas Sarkozy faces the humiliating prospect of being placed under formal criminal investigation when he appears before a judge on Thursday to answer corruption charges. Nicolas Sarkozy is facing a number of investigations Photo: AP By Peter Allen, Paris 3:01PM GMT 21 Nov 2012 The possibility was raised […]
Crown Prosecution Service said that five people are to face action as part of Operation Elveden The others are former News of the World royal correspondent Clive Goodman, former Sun chief reporter John Kay and Ministry of Defence employee Bettina Jordan Barber 52 people have been arrested as […]
At least 32 MPs have been found to be claiming rent for second homes on their expenses while simultaneously letting out property nearby, an investigation reveals. John Denham, a former Labour cabinet minister, was among MPs found to be renting out homes in London Photo: PAUL GROVER By […]
By Agence France-Presse Saturday, November 17, 2012 23:03 EST They may be known for flashy cars and state of the art weaponry, but Mexican druglords have found an earthy new source of wealth: dirty old coal. They are mining it themselves in a coal-rich area along the US […]
The “Copyright Alert System” – an elaborate combination of surveillance, warnings, punishments, and “education” directed at customers of most major U.S. Internet service providers – is poised to launch in the next few weeks, as has been widely reported. The problems with it are legion. Big media companies […]
*Engineering Evil: Wow, I would really like double confirmation on this. Tuesday, 13 November 2012 A Ukraining woman who managed to escape from what she called “World’s hell hole” gave an interview with details about Kosovo’s Prime Minister Hasim Thaci and his harem in which 52 slaves ‘worked’ […]
Allies of President Robert Mugabe have carried out the “biggest single plunder of diamonds” since the days of Cecil Rhodes, stealing Zimbabwean gems worth $2 billion (£1.26 billion) over the last four years, according to a new study. Zimbabwe’s Marange field has one of the world’s biggest diamond […]
Reposted at request in regards to the HSBC Jersey offshore account scandal 26th May 2011 Update: Global Witness publishes the Libyan Investment Authority financial position as of September 2010 Read BBC Business Editor Robert Peston’s analysis of this story Listen to Global Witness discuss this investigation on the BBC […]
By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED:00:02 EST, 10 November 2012| UPDATED:00:28 EST, 10 November 2012 In just a few days, San Francisco’s legislature will vote on a landmark new bill that if approved would allow city employees to undergo sex change operations on the government’s dime. The comprehensive […]
Posted 2012/11/10 at 1:51 pm EST MADRID, Nov. 10, 2012 (Reuters) — Spain’s conservative prime minister and the leader of the opposition aim to agree measures on Monday to stop banks evicting homeowners after a woman’s suicide before her property was repossessed caused public outrage. “No one should […]
President Hollande blamed for driving out a ‘national treasure’ with planned 75 per cent top tax rate LAST UPDATED AT 16:06 ON Fri 9 Nov 2012 FRENCH President Francois Hollande is under fire after reports that his policy of increasing taxes for the rich has prompted […]
Hasan Suroor “We received the data and we are studying it,” says HMRC Even as the Indian government faced criticism for not taking action over claims of black money allegedly held by Indians in HSBC’s branch in Geneva, the British tax authorities on Friday launched an investigation into […]
Britain’s biggest bank is at the centre of a major HM Revenue and Customs investigation after it opened offshore accounts in Jersey for serious criminals living in this country, The Telegraph can disclose. The disclosures raise serious questions about HSBC’s procedures in Jersey Photo: ALAMY/REUTERS By Holly Watt, […]
UK will still send £30m of ‘expertise’ to India after aid cuts Existing schemes that have already been agreed will continue until the last of them concludes in 2015, when all UK financial aid to India will cease Photo: AFP <!– remove the whitespace added by escenic before […]
By Sarah N. LynchPosted 2012/11/08 at 8:55 pm EST WASHINGTON, Nov. 8, 2012 (Reuters) — Staffers at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission failed to encrypt some of their computers containing highly sensitive information from stock exchanges, leaving the data vulnerable to cyber attacks, according to people familiar […]
Benghazi documents available to senators only when they are out of town Posted By Josh RoginThursday, November 8, 2012 – 12:16 PM Share Under pressure from senators, the State Department is allowing some lawmakers to look at cables and other documents related to the Sept. 11 attack […]
(ANSAmed) – ATHENS, NOVEMBER 8 – Greece’s jobless rate rose for a 39th consecutive month to a new record of 25.4% in August, more than double the euro zone average, Kathomerini online reports quoting Greece’s statistics service ELSTAT. The jobless rate has more than tripled since […]
Facebook’s operator Sheryl Sandberg earned $7.4 million last week after receiving $401 million in company stock Tech blogs are wondering if employees will begin leaving the company after a huge $3.1 billion payday Facebook’s stock closed on Monday at $21.16 a share, down from $45 when the company […]
The International Monetary Fund has told France to take urgent measures to head off national economic decline, warning that the country risks being left behind as southern Europe embraces reform. Francois Hollande is facing a nationwide revolt by business leaders Photo: Reuters <!– remove the whitespace added by […]
