Jon Rappoport: What Happened to $2.5 Trillion Allegedly Spent Against Poverty? Is Government a Giant Money-Laundering Scheme?

Is government aid a giant money laundering scheme? Remember something called the War on Poverty? The Great Society? President Lyndon Johnson declared it and announced it in 1965. Since then, the federal government and state governments have poured staggering amounts of dollars into the program. How many dollars? Does anyone know? In his 1992 book, …

SmartPlanet: The Switching Economy Puts $5.9 Trillion Up For Grabs

The ’switching economy’ puts $5.9 trillion up for grabs By Tyler Falk | October 23, 2013 For companies around the world there are literally trillions of dollars worth of revenue up for grabs in what Accenture calls, in a new report, the “switching economy.” According to the ninth annual Accenture Global Consumer Pulse Survey, which …

Sterling Seagrave: Benjamin Fulford Comments on Trillions of dollars’ worth of bonds now in the possession of the White Dragon Society

Thanks Jill for passing this over…..I will comment throughout.  This is exactly where I got my feet wet and where the real power of the world resides and that is with the true owners of these instruments.  All governments are loaned these and of course there is a history on that alone. benjamin July 2, …

David Swanson: How Broke Do We Have to Be To Stop Trillion Dollar Pork?

by Lisa Savage and Janet Weil The omnibus military spending bill known as the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) rolled out of the House Armed Services Committee pulling a trailer load of amendments and barreling down an increasingly potholed road. In the same week as news broke of massive school closings in Chicago and Philadelphia …

Berto Jongman: EU Loses One Trillion a Year to Tax Evasion — Comment on the Tax Gap, the Information-Sharing Gap, and the Legitimacy Gap

EU tax: Barroso urges full automatic exchange of data The head of the European Commission has told the European Parliament he wants EU-wide exchange of income data as part of the fight against tax evasion. Jose Manuel Barroso said he would urge Wednesday’s summit of EU leaders to support automatic exchange of people’s earnings data …

Winslow Wheeler: AF-IQ – $4 to $6 Trillion Cost — All Predictable

Below find excerpts of Harvard Professor Linda Bilmes latest analysis of the costs of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Note that the costs are now estimated to lay somewhere between $4 trillion and $6 trillion. Find this important study at the Harvard website: Bilmes, Linda J. “The Financial Legacy of Iraq and Afghanistan: How …