The big banks caused the financial crisis, and are continuing to drag the world economy down the into a black hole. So what are the governments of the world doing to address this core problem? Breaking up the giant banks? Nationalizing them? Holding …
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Instead of Actually Stabilizing the Economy By Reining In the Giant Banks, Governments Just Launching More Faux Stress Tests as a P.R. Stunt
November 30th, 2010 |
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France, Ireland and Hungary Seize Pensions As Part of Move By Governments to Use Long-Term Assets to Fill “Short-Term Deficits”
November 29th, 2010 |
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France is apparently following the example of Ireland and Hungary and seizing pension funds.According to eFinancialNews, the French parliament passed a law last week allowing 36 billion Euros to be seized from the French reserve pension fund to be used…
The Big Lie: Governments Have to Save the Big Banks
November 28th, 2010 |
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Many of the world’s top economists and financial experts have said that the too big to fail banks are destroying the world economy, that they must be broken up in order to restore stability, and that small banks can easily pick up the slack and make al…
“Civil governments in Pak have never performedâ€: Musharraf
November 13th, 2010 |
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All civil governments in the history of Pakistan have failed to deliver to the people and to the state, former military ruler Pervez Musharraf has said. In an interview on National Public Radio, Musharraf said, “The important thing for an elected government is to deliver to the people and to the state. If that is [...]
Dell Health Care Services Target State Governments
June 10th, 2010 |
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Now that the health care reform bill is signed into law, Dell is looking to offer local state governments a set of IT services designed to help meet new federal regulations regarding issues such as Medicaid. Since its acquisition of Perot, Dell is moving deeper into the IT services field, especially in the health care and government markets. – Dell is looking to offer state governments a health care
check-up.
On June 9, Dell officially launched its latest IT services
initiative, called Dell State Health Services. Spending on IT health care is
expected to increase about 4 percent in 2010, according to Gartner, and Dell
and other servi…
Google Eyes Strong Q1 Despite Pressure from Governments, Apple, Facebook
April 14th, 2010 |
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Google will report its first-quarter earnings after market close April 15. Analysts expect the company to report $6.57 in earnings per share on sales of $4.93 billion, up from $5.16 EPS on $4.1 billion in revenue in the first quarter of 2009. Although Google retained a 65 percent search market share in March, its future outlook is less clear, given pressure from governments and rivals such as Apple, Facebook and Microsoft. This gives investors reason to be cautious.
– Industry analysts expect a strong first quarter from Internet bellwether
Google despite government challenges in the United
States and abroad and competition from Apple
and Facebook.
Google will report first-quarter earnings after the market closes April 15.
Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters s…
Chinese spy network hacked Indian government’s secret data
April 8th, 2010 |
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The researchers and analysts who take care of cyber security have found a spy network in China called “Shadow Network” which used to hack important Indian government documents along with the sensitive data from the office of Dalai Lama’s and the UN.
China is suspected to own a Cyber Warfare Doctrine which is developed with [...]
Top Analyst: “Developed Market Governments Are Insolvent By Any Reasonable Definition”
March 23rd, 2010 |
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Dylan Grice, a top analyst for European financial giant Société Générale, writes:Developed market governments are insolvent by any reasonable definition.Who could have known? Everyone, actually.As I wrote in December 2008, “The “Central Banks’ Cent…
Governments From Around the World ADMIT That They Carry Out False Flag Terror
February 20th, 2010 |
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Preface: Please skip to the end of this essay (entitled “Why Should I Care?”) if you want to see why this issue is important to the economy, civil rights, and the political causes which are most important to you.Governments from around the world admit …
Governments ADMIT That They Carry Out False Flag Terror
February 16th, 2010 |
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Forget the claims and allegations that false flag terror – governments attacking people and then blaming others in order to create animosity towards those blamed – has been used throughout history. This essay will solely discuss government admissions …
Data and transparency: Of governments and geeks
February 4th, 2010 |
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In several countries more official data are being issued in raw form so that anybody can use them. This forces bureaucrats and creative types to interact in new ways
Correction to this article
YOU might think that Clay Johnson, a campaigner for transparency, would be pleased to see a ferret, with a deerstalker hat and magnifying glass, pop up on his screen. This creature is the mascot for BetaDataFerrett, an online application offered by America’s Census Bureau. …
Dinkić points finger at local governments, owners
January 25th, 2010 |
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Mlađan Dinkić said that many strikes in Serbia are mostly happening in companies which were not working well even before privatization. The economy minister was quoted as saying in Novi Sad on MOnday that the wave of strikes is not surprising, “because the post-recession period is always difficult†but added that it has become a rule in Serbia that strikes are organized by companies that were working poorly before they were privatized.
Governments call for restraint in Japanese whaling protests
December 7th, 2009 |
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The governments of New Zealand, Australia and The Netherlands called Monday for people protesting against Japanese whaling in the Southern Ocean to exercise restraint and avoid violence. As the Japanese whaling fleet headed for the Southern Ocean, New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully,
Roubini: “When Governments Reach the Point Where They Are Borrowing to Pay the Interest on Their Borrowing They Are … Running a Ponzi Scheme”
August 28th, 2009 |
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In a new essay in Forbes, Nouriel Roubini writes:Net public debt is going to double as a share of GDP between 2008 and 2014. Even using the very optimistic forecasts of the Congressional Budget Office, which anticipate growth of around 4% over the next…
Eric Blinderman: Do Governments Need The Media to Bring Criminals to Justice?
July 24th, 2009 |
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America’s Most Wanted has successfully bridged the gap between entertainment and law enforcement; The Wanted attempts to do this on an international scale.