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POPSFinally a Consumer Fights Back.
Although, I don’t relate to this woman's belief system, I DO relate to her as a consumer. All of us who have struggled with credit card debt and job losses know the frustrations of climbing a greased pole. The banks have been putting the screws to us for a long time. As a child, I would hear adults talking about LOAN SHARKS. On TV there were stories of bones being broken for non-payment by such LOAN SHARKS who charged exorbitant interest fees. I was glad to find out, this technique was illegal and US banks could never resort to such tactics to coerce payment. In adulthood, I learned quickly, that there were legal procedures of torture, no physical bone breaking but just as vexing. In Capitalism, the torture is mental and longer lasting. Today’s banks use teaser loans to lure us, once we’re captured by their come-ons they pounce and raise the APR's so high, that there is no escape from debt. I salute this lady who didn't take it lying down! She threw a few punches back!
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POPSFollowers of Islam Living on the Dole Devout followers of Islam believe the Koran to be the literal word of Allah as revealed to Mohammed, so accepting the fruit of usury is to disobey Allah! It is blasphemy! By knowingly accepting the dole, or other forms of financial assistance from the governments of Western countries, the followers of Islam living in these countries are knowingly disobeying the direct injunctions of Allah as revealed in the Koran! Read the full article...interesting
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POPSCredit card industry aims to profit from sterling payers Austan Goolsbee, an economic adviser to President Obama, said that while the credit card industry had the right to make a reasonable profit as long as its contracts were in plain language and rule-breakers were held accountable, its current practices were akin to “a series of carjackings.” “The card industry is giving the argument that if you didn’t want to be carjacked, why weren’t you locking your doors or taking a different road?” Mr. Goolsbee said.
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POPSWomen for Peace: "Who profits off of occupation?" Follow the money. The occupation would not be worth it, if it was not profitable - very very profitable. Profitable at criminal Mafia usury levels, all funded by the US, UN and EU. Not a pound of flesh but tons of Christian hide.
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POPSGibson's Paradox and the Gold Standard The roots of this most wicked experiment are traceable to the appointment of Alan Greenspan as Chairman of the Federal Reserve and then to academia – Harvard – where Robert Barsky and Lawrence Summers co-authored an academic research paper in the 1980s titled, Gibson's Paradox and the Gold Standard. After a stint as Chief Economist at the World Bank, Mr. Summers brought this “theory” to Washington mid-way through the first Clinton Administration as Under Secretary of Treasury to Robert Rubin where he began laying the groundwork – with co-conspirators Greenspan, Rubin and Clinton - for the implementation of his “theoretical research”: Gold price suppression began in earnest concurrently with changes in how the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency begins records the mushrooming growth of derivatives :
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POPSCRIME PAYS! something useful the CIA could be doing While US gaols are overflowing with drug dependant poor ,the Don,s seem to know how to work the stystem to get their product from Afgahnistan to the streets of the West.Italy,s biggest Industry seems to leave a lot to be said for all the Law @ Order political retoric that they spew forth every few years. For those who have lost loved ones the buck stops with the lack of political will to nail these barsted who no doubt line thier pockets for short term election to office, War on Drugs what a farce. War on poor more likely because they cant fight back moral cowards.
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POPSThe Next Card to Fall: Credit Cards? If the credit card industry is the next to fall, perhaps the silver lining will be restrictions on how much they can charge customers interest. As it is, current credit card interest rates, especially for those who fall behind in their payments, constitute usury.
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POPSOf bulbs and bubbles During the European Renaissance, it was, nevertheless, financial measures almost exactly like those used by banks and financial institutions today which freed up the flow of wealth to produce economic growth, and thence the great flowering of art and culture, creating the accumulation of glorious artistic treasures now housed in museums and galleries worldwide.
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POPS YOU JUST GOT SCREWED and Nobody Will tell you! URGENT!! Made the Digg front page in less than 3 hrs. Thank goodness some people still care what is happening in this country! Meanwhile, last year, Freddie Mac paid chairman and CEO Richard Syron nearly $19.8 million in compensation, Fannie Mae pres. and CEO Daniel Mudd recieved $12.2 million, including a $2.2 million bonus!
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POPSIran's Real Threat--Control of the International Bankers
Iran's real threat is to the "International Banksters". Yes, follow the money! Iran advocates a national central bank system which outlaws "usury", the corrupt interest for use of money decried by Christians like Martin Luther and Islamic law. Threatening the money system behind nations, threatens the banksters' power. The article continues: In Tragedy and Hope, Professor Carroll Quigley, ..wrote from personal knowledge of this group, which he called “the international bankers.” He said their aim was “nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole,” a system “to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements.”99 The key to the bankers' success was that they would control and manipulate the money systems of the world while letting them appear to be controlled by governments.[/quot
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POPSCredit Card Buyer Beware Amazing how some people don't understand that one very good, and much needed job of the government is to establish laws that protect us from this sort of greedy corporate practice. Too many people just keep repeating that same old Reagan quote.....the best government is a small government, or something like that..... as if all these corporate entities are going to do what is best for us. They think that when it comes to money, the banks are going to do something that will lessen their profits. How stupid!
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POPSBanks gone Wild It's easy to jump to conclusions that everyone must be a "deadbeat". But reality is much more complex.
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