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Last Monday, our Malcolm Massey, Neil Foster and Mark Anderson took a post-Bilderberg walk around the Grove Hotel to see what they could see. What they found was a meeting room with a Thomson Reuters display panel. 

Thompson Reuters at the Grove Hotel

The display panel with Thomson Reuters logo clearly marked was entitled "unleashing the power of our unified platform on financial markets".

A Bilderberg Agenda Item?

Why would Thomson Reuters advertise to Bilderberg Attendees? It is easy to see that Reuters would do so at a financial event for City of London traders or casino bank managers, but politicians and industrialists? How likely is it that the attending bankers were not already aware of the implications of Reuters trading platforms?

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Category: Economics | Views: 368 | Added by: LIBertea | Date: 2013/06/18 | Comments (0)

America is the richest country on Earth. We have the most millionaires, the most billionaires and our wealthiest citizens have garnered more of the planet's riches than any other group in the world. We even have hedge fund managers who make in one hour as much as the average family makes in 21 years!  

This opulence is supposed to trickle down to the rest of us, improving the lives of everyday Americans. At least that's what free-market cheerleaders repeatedly promise us.

Unfortunately, it's a lie, one of the biggest ever perpetrated on the American people.

Our middle class is falling further and further behind in comparison to the rest of the world. We keep hearing that America is number one. Well, when it comes to middle-class wealth, we're number 27.  

The most telling comparative measurement is median wealth (per adult). It describes the amount of wealth accumulated by the person precisely in the middle of ... Read more »

Category: Economics | Views: 469 | Added by: LIBertea | Date: 2013/06/18 | Comments (0)

'Risks of tar sands oil and the threats of dangerous climate change have only become clearer'

- Jacob Chamberlain, staff writer

A group of Nobel Peace laureates called for the immediate rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline in a letter sent to President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry Tuesday.

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Category: Health, Enviroment, Nature | Views: 557 | Added by: LIBertea | Date: 2013/06/18 | Comments (0)

Administration reading from the 'rule by fear' handbook

- Jacob Chamberlain, staff writer

NSA Director Keith Alexander has been misleading the public by saying that the NSA's shadowy surveillance programs, exposed by whistleblower Edward Snowden this month, have thwarted terrorist attacks, Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald told CNN's Piers Morgan Tuesday night.

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Category: Politics | Views: 529 | Added by: LIBertea | Date: 2013/06/18 | Comments (0)

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