NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 26: A demonstrator holds up a sign in front of the New York Stock Exchange on September 26, 2011 in New York City. Hundreds of activists affiliated with the 'Occupy Wall Street' demonstrations have begun living in a park in the Financial District near Wall Street. The activists have been gradually converging on Wall Street over the past two weeks to rally against the influence of corporate money in politics among other issues. Nearly 80 people were arrested over the weekend in a series of incidents with the police as the protesters attempted to march uptown. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
English: New York Water Taxis serving the IKEA Express line in the East River. Taken from Wall Street's Pier 11 in Lower Manhattan. In the background is Brooklyn. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 25: Protesters march to Wall Street during an ACT-UP and Occupy Wall Street demonstration on April 25, 2012 in New York City. ACT-UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), was marking their 25-year anniversary in supporting services for people with AIDS worldwide. They were joined by Occupy Wall Street protesters in a march from New York's city hall to Wall Street. The groups called for a tax on Wall Street transactions and speculative trades to raise money for to end the global AIDS epidemic and provide universal healthcare in the U.S. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
English: photo of rioters attacking a building on Lexington Avenue during the New York Draft Riot of 1863. The photo, appearing in William J. Bradley's "The Civil War: Fort Sumter to Appomatox", I believe falls under fair use as it is a historically significant photo of a famous individual and used for informational purposes. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 25: Protesters march to Wall Street during an ACT-UP and Occupy Wall Street demonstration on April 25, 2012 in New York City. ACT-UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), was marking their 25-year anniversary in supporting services for people with AIDS worldwide. They were joined by Occupy Wall Street protesters in a march from New York's city hall to Wall Street. The groups called for a tax on Wall Street transactions and speculative trades to raise money for to end the global AIDS epidemic and provide universal healthcare in the U.S. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)BOOKS- The NEW YORK GOLD ROOM: Wall Street's Big Gamble on the Civil War
In all American history since 1789, with its many financial booms and busts, only once has the United States Congress ever stepped in and closed down a major financial market in the middle of active trading, trying to stop speculation and cool prices. This took place in 1864 at one of the bloodiest points in the Civil War, prompted by a case of war profiteering in the extreme. It failed miserably.
MONEY: Boss Tweed's Bondholder Revolt
Tweed ran a happy city. Everyone made money under his system. Real estate boomed and business prospered. He financed his corrupt regime on low taxes while providing good service and plenty of graft for friends. To pay the tab, he borrowed.
Thomas Nast’s clever cartoons of the time depicted Tweed as a laughable crook. But one group that found no humor in the situation was the bondholders. In late July, they cut off credit. The city put $40,000 in bonds up at auction one day and failed to receive a single bid. A few days later, the Commercial and Financial Chronicle warned of a panic. In Europe, the Berlin Stock Exchange banned New York’s city and county bonds from its official trading list.
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United Nations COP…condemning Africans to poverty
Commonsense wisdom from African farmersThey know “sustainable development” really means sustained poverty and malnutrition
Africa does not need foreign aid in the form of handouts, Ngwenya emphasized. African farmers need modern technology and reliable, affordable electricity. They need the world to buy African produce. Instead, far too often, European and other First World countries impose rules or block African exports, using a multitude of excuses that can no longer be tolerated.
West Australian Government legacy…squalor
Premier Barnett refuses to help provide housing, and other benefits until the Woodside deal is given the go-ahead, to eliminate indigenous heritage at James Price Point, where the Goolarabooloo people have always said no…
There are suitable and better alternatives that also do not affect the world’s best examples of dinosaur trackways that are also important to indigenous heritage.( Genocidal politics are a hallmark of the Common Wealth. )
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