This interview with Catherine Austin Fitts is one of the most powerful 60 minutes of dialogue I have seen in some time. To quote Charles Burris: As former managing director and member of the board of directors of the Wall Street investment bank Dillon, Read & Company, and Assistant Secretary of Housing under George H.W. [...]

Here’s Matt Purple in “Corny Capitalism,” posted on American Spectator at the end of August: Earlier this year, the Environmental Protection Agency issued another one of those announcements read exclusively by government bureaucrats and green policy wonks. The EPA decided to delay a decision to increase the concentration of ethanol legal in gasoline from 10% [...]

Yet every scheme comes with a proclamation that says, “your government is looking to help you secure your retirement and your future.” Even the sheeple are offering resistance to this one. I’ve been covering the topic of government-mandated 401Ks since the fall of 2008, and I even noted that I detected the unmistakable whiff of [...]

The BMI-Obesity militarized police force is at your door, and they would love to stick your child into “intensive weight management programs” when necessary. And certainly, “when necessary” is open to a wide array of interpretations. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) – yes, Virginia, there is such a thing – recommends that all [...]

Van Jones may be gone, but his special interest rewards remain fully intact, and now the booty will be doled out to favored enviro-greenie recipients. Cash for Caulkers will be a homeowner welfare program aimed at inducing people to seek government-approved, green home improvements that will benefit the entire Green Industry. Homeowners can receive rebates [...]

Another milk hoist by the state: Two undercover investigators with the Springfield-Greene County Health Department allegedly caught two of the couple’s daughters on two occasions selling a gallon of milk each from a Springfield parking lot. Ohhhh, god forbid the violence! Horrors!The shocking crimes being committed nowadays! This is just another score in the government’s [...]

Like almost every sports stadium, Michigan’s Pontiac Silverdome was built for wealthy sports team owners and paid for by taxpayers, to the tune of $55 million in 1975. Since the sale of the dome a couple of weeks ago, locals are still talking about it because of the $583,000 sale price. Sold to the highest [...]

No need, really. Goldman already sits at the top of the ruling hierarchy and has the power to choreograph the financial markets. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) just named a new Chief Operating Officer for its Enforcement Unit, and this new guy is Adam Storch, a 29-year-old executive from Goldman Sachs. He’s been a [...]

The U.S. Treasury Department is the central headquarters of Wall Street, and Timmy Geithner is its demigod. The coup of the Treasury Department, which promotes itself as the “steward of U.S. economic and financial systems,” means an economy and financial system run by and for the Wall Street oligarchy, with Goldman Sachs spearheading the ruling class. Bloomberg runs [...]