Just a few items posted here or happened within the last week- not all - just a few

1. G8 & G20 held last week in Toronto!

2. Time runs out for 1.2 million on unemployment (link: http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/06/29/unemployment.irpt/index.html?hpt=Mid

3. Link: http://www.roadtoroota.com/public/308.cfm (from MaxValueHolders last post)

4. Link: http://www.commodities-now.com/news/power-and-energy/2942-gensler-on-brin (ditto)

5. The Real Story In America: a Tale of Two People (from vhf last post)

6. Link: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65S40620100629 (from Scruffy’s post at 10.17)

Comment one:

All the above as a result of policies put in place by elected officials.

Are we being manipulated or do we not understand?

Also;

From today’s “World Report” by Christopher Story

Snippet:

WACHOVIA, WELLS FARGO, BANK OF AMERICA ARE CRIMINAL ENTERPRISES, LIKE WE SAID
Some time ago, we learned that Wachovia had consulted its lawyers to establish whether they could sue us for describing the bank, among others, as a criminal enterprise. Their lawyers are believed to have advised them, in so many words, that, not least given investigative journalistic freedom of speech considerations, our observations represented 'fair comment'. Behind that advice lay the knowledge that since Wachovia was involved in money laundering drug money, we might well know this and be able to prove it. So the matter was dropped.

As the entire 'Black' Octopus criminal carousel unravels faster than the kleptocracy can keep up with events, other sources are now starting to do our exposure work for us. Late in the day, as usual: but better late than never. We therefore take the opportunity to post, verbatim, the following article by Michael Smith for Bloomberg, which of course proves our point. Wachovia, Wells Fargo and Bank of America, for starters, are egregious criminal enterprises. Money laundering of drug proceeds is an unspeakable crime and the most senior officials of these institutions should be arrested and forced to suffer SEVERE consequences. But that isn't happening.

'MAINSTREAM' MEDIA CONTINUE TO IGNORE THE CENTRAL ISSUE: RAMPANT CRIMINALITY
We are sick and tired of the way the so-called 'mainstream' media are waffling about every nuance under the sun and OMITTING the central issue: RAMPANT CRIMINALITY and the banks' open-ended breaches of the law, and their arrogance based on fears that they might collapse.

Securitization is ILLEGAL in the United States and in all Common Law countries, as we have demonstrated and proved with the aid of impeccable outside academic research. Yet there has been NO RESPONSE TO OUR EXPOSURE OF THIS FLOUTING OF THE RULE OF LAW, EITHER.

The following Bloomberg report indicates that, at long last, some 'mainstream' reporters have managed to lift themselves off their brains and to start exposing the truth. Separately, we have been exposing drug-trafficking operations in our title The Latin American Times, and continue to do so. You may also be interested to know that before his 'switch', following the 'bait' during which he stole the Editor's $35,000 LOAN which should have been repaid at arms' length plus 7% per annum for two years, on 11th June 2007, Wanta told the Editor: 'If you expose the drug traffickers, they will kill you'. We listed that threat among the 37 threats against the Editor so far received.

And this from Yahoo

Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100630/bs_ynews/ynews_bs2966_2

Irony alert: IRS fails government audit

Wed Jun 30, 3:18 pm ET

Getting audited is such a hassle! Just ask the IRS

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A new report from the Government Accountability Office inspected the tax agency's financial statements from the 2009 fiscal year with the exacting thoroughness of, well, of an IRS auditor, and found a few billion-dollar errors.

According to the report (PDF), the IRS made a variety of accounting errors last year that "could adversely affect the reliability of its financial statements" and result in "duplicate or erroneous refunds." Among the mistakes were a "failure to record the receipt of a taxpayer’s $3 million payment" and an $8 billion discrepancy between two accounting systems tracking how much money taxpayers owe. The audit also found a $5.1 billion "unexplained variance" between the total amount the agency took in last year and the amount its detailed tax files said it took in.

But what's a few billion here or there, right?

In truth, the shortcomings are all relatively minor infractions given the size of the IRS, and don't materially affect its performance of its duties. And you'll find similar lapses in virtually any close examination of a huge bureaucracy.

But it's still good to know that the IRS had to go through it, if only so it can empathize with the American taxpayer.

— John Cook is a senior national affairs reporter for the Yahoo! News blog.

Comment two:

There are laws to prevent any wrong-doings such as above, but they only seem to apply to those that have the power to vote i.e. individuals.

And finally some sanity!

RR on Gold (From Scruffy’s post at 7.42

Happy Canada Day.

Good Luck to all!