Saturday, 06 November 2010 11:12
'A study of the 43 constabularies in England and Wales found that almost half have more than £20million put aside for “rainy days”.
The findings call into question recent warnings from chief constables that officers and staff will have to be lost because of budget cuts of up to a fifth. The Treasury announced last month that central government funding for the police service would decrease by £1.2billion by 2014-15, exactly what is in the police “bank”.'
Saturday, 06 November 2010 10:59
'Even though water privatization has been a massive failure around the world, the World Bank just quietly gave $139 million to its latest corporate buddy.
Billions have been spent allowing corporations to profit from public water sources even though water privatization has been an epic failure in Latin America, Southeast Asia, North America, Africa and everywhere else it's been tried. But don't tell that to controversial loan-sharks at the World Bank. Last month, its private-sector funding arm International Finance Corporation (IFC) quietly dropped a cool 100 million euros ($139 million US) on Veolia Voda, the Eastern European subsidiary of Veolia, the world's largest private water corporation. Its latest target? Privatization of Eastern Europe's water resources.'
Read more: Watch Out: The World Bank Is Quietly Funding a Massive Corporate Water Grab
RSA: Changing Education Paradigms
Saturday, 06 November 2010 09:49
Yesterday's Ben Bernanke penned an Op-Ed in which he essentially said: "I am doing whatever I interpret my mandate to be, which right now means only thing: Dow 36,000. I am only accountable to the private bank that is the Federal Reserve, a few Wall Street CEOs, and no one else. Congress has no power over me. Try to stop me".'
Read more: QE2 - The Day After: Entire World Blasts Deranged Madman's Uncheckable Insanity
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