Month: May 2015

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The world’s five biggest banks have been fined a total of $5.7 billion for manipulating foreign exchange markets. It’s the biggest combined bank settlement in history.

Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland, JPMorgan, UBS and Citigroup were hit with penalties from UK and US authorities Wednesday.

Four of them agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges for rigging benchmark interest rates, the US Department of Justice said.   Continue reading “Five banks to pay record $5.7bn fines over key rates manipulation – US regulator”

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Ricky Jackson, who spent 39 years in jail for a murder he did not commit, is suing the police officers who allegedly helped frame him. Jackson was convicted on the testimony of a 12-year-old boy who didn’t see the crime and later retracted his statement.

The lawsuit, which was filed on Tuesday against the city of Cleveland, alleges that eight officers, including detectives and their superiors, were involved in framing Jackson and brothers Wiley and Ronnie Bridgeman for the killing of salesman Harold Franks, which occurred in the Cleveland area in 1975. Three of the officers involved in the case have since passed away.   Continue reading “Innocent Ohio man sues Cleveland cops after 40yrs in jail”

Mail.com

GOLETA, Calif. (AP) — Cleanup crews are preparing to fan out along a stretch of California coastline stained by crude oil that spilled from broken pipe and flowed into the ocean.

Crew members from an environmental cleanup company were briefed early Wednesday and given boots, gloves, shovels and rakes. An estimated 21,000 gallons of crude flowed Tuesday from an onshore pipeline in southern Santa Barbara County, forming a slick that left gobs of goo along sand and rocks at Refugio State Beach.   Continue reading “Efforts underway to scrub spilled oil from California coast”

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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon is about to embark on a first-in-the-nation program that aims to charge car owners not for the fuel they use, but for the miles they drive.

The program is meant to help the state raise more revenue to pay for road and bridge projects at a time when money generated from gasoline taxes are declining across the country, in part, because of greater fuel efficiency and the increasing popularity of fuel-efficient, hybrid and electric cars.   Continue reading “Oregon to test pay-per-mile idea as replacement for gas tax”

Heartland – by H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D.

Switzerland joins a growing list of countries whose temperature measurements have been adjusted to show greater warming than actually measured by its temperature instruments. In previous editions of Climate Change Weekly(CCW), I reported weather bureaus in Australia (CCW #139) and Paraguay (CCW #158) were caught adjusting datasets from their temperature gauges. After the adjustment, the temperatures reported were consistently higher than those actually recorded. Science journalist Markus Schär of the Swiss news weekly Weltwoche discovered the Swiss Meteorological Service (SMS) tampered with its datasets as well.   Continue reading “Temperature Fibbers Being Investigated”

Natural News – by Daniel Barker

Army Veteran Donald Siefkin wasn’t asking for much when he called the emergency room at the Seattle VA Hospital on February 27. The 64-year-old was parked just a few feet from the ER entrance and was in severe pain from a broken foot he had suffered earlier that day. The pain was getting worse, and his foot swelled to the “size of a football” on a 3.5-hour drive to the Seattle-Tacoma airport from his home in Kennewick, Washington.   Continue reading “Seattle VA hospital staff refused to walk 10 feet to help disabled vet into ER, demanded he call 911 instead”

Abel Danger

Plum City – (AbelDanger.net): United States Marine Field McConnell has linked Serco’s Digital Fires training program to the SBA 8(a) companies (ICE, Inc. and VATC) which have allegedly been hired and coordinated through the onion router (Tor) network to set up a man-in-the middle hack during the Jade Helm exercise of The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS).

McConnell has explained how Serco used an 8(a) Tor clock on Boeing E-4B aircraft for the 9/11 hack of the specially modified C-135 [‘Speckled Trout’] carrying General Henry Shelton, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to a NATO conference in Budapest, Hungary, before his scheduled return via London where he was to be knighted by the Queen [Marines ask “Why?”].   Continue reading “Marine Links Serco’s Digital Fires To 8(a) Tor In The Middle, Jade-Helm Joint-Chiefs Hack”

CNS News

BERLIN (AP) — Swiss bank UBS says it is pleading guilty to wire fraud and is paying $545 million to settle U.S. cases of market manipulation.

The bank said Wednesday that under the deal with U.S. authorities it will be granted conditional immunity from prosecution in a Department of Justice probe on the manipulation of foreign exchange rates. UBS AG said it was the first to report to the DOJ potential misconduct by banks in forex markets.   Continue reading “Swiss bank UBS settles US legal cases for $545 million”

Armstrong Economics – by Martin Armstrong

Mayer Amschel Rothschild, founder of the Bank of Rothschild, is commonly misquoted to have said: “Let me issue and control a nation’s money and I care not who writes the laws”. That is very nice and quaint, but times have changed. In those days money was coin. What the Rothschilds really controlled was not so much money, but debt. They were the lenders to the Princes of Europe. They funded wars for profit.   Continue reading “The Nationalization of Banks?”

BATR – by James Hall

Wrapped in a worldwide currency depression, the intentional zero interest rate strategy has fostered great damage to the practice of saving. Nevertheless, not everyone believes or blames central banksters for enacting a deliberate policy. Reporting on one such denier is UK columnist Jeremy Warner. He writes in the Telegraph article, When will interest rates rise? The way things are going, maybe never.

“As Ben Broadbent, deputy governor of the Bank of England, put it in a recent speech: “Rather than causing the decline themselves, central banks have instead been accommodating a deeper downward trend in the natural, or equilibrium rate of interest.”   Continue reading “Will Interest Rates Ever Rise?”

Not My Tribe – by Eric Verlo

Was the Waco Shoot-out a gunfight between rival gangs or an ambush laid by law enforcement? Police are monopolizing the testimony but the evidence suggests a barroom brawl became a pretext to kill or arrest essentially grassroots organizers, now charged with “organized crime”. Investigators can litter the crime scene with brass-knuckles and knives but the shell casings are going to be police issue. Motorcycle headlights were on, indicating club members were trying to leave. Police claim that the brawlers redirected their fire toward officers, but did that happen while the bikers were trying to ride off? Because that task requires both hands. This gangland shoot-out has all the subtlety of the St Valentine’s Massacre.   Continue reading “Deadliest motorcycle gang in Waco shoot-out was not Bandidos, Cossacks, Scimitars, or Vaqueros. It was police.”

Govt. Slaves

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Govt. Slaves

California:  God can’t stop Obama Care from killing off six Christian run hospitals in one fell swoop! Bankrupt Daughters of Charity Health System tried to sell-off six hospitals but nobody wanted to buy, so now at least 280 healthcare workers will become unemployed!  Administrators stated that the current layoffs will barely “restore our hospitals to break-even status financially” due to Obama Care insurance reimbursement cuts.  To make matters worse, and guarantee a total hospital system shutdown, government Obama Care administrators have told ten insurance companies to stop sending their customers to Daughters of Charity Health System!  Riverbed Technology issued two layoff WARNs for June, saying 160 people will become jobless!   Continue reading “Job Losses & Stores Closing Keeps Increasing”