"Vultures' Picnic" - Greg Palast (video)

Wisdom Quarterly

On April 20, 2010, British Petroleum's Deepwater Horizon exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 men and spilling countless barrels of crude oil into the sea.

Days later a confidential cable from a terrified insider arrived on investigative reporter Greg Palast's desk. He had the real, hushed-up facts of the disaster -- facts that can only be found buried in the files of a Central Asian dictatorship.

Vultures' Picnic charts the course of Palast's quest to bring the truth of the BP disaster to light as he and his team of journalist-detectives go from the streets of Baku, where Palast searches for a brown valise full of... More



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Bank Transfer Day: Nov. 5th, 2011

Guy Fawkes art on Bank Transfer Day

Saturday, Nov. 5, 2011 (Bank Transfer Day on Facebook) is a massive people's effort to stop supporting criminal, welfare-abusing corporate banks.

What can just one person do? One person's social media campaign in California has encouraged hundreds of thousands of consumers to consider moving their money to credit unions to protest outrageous bank fees, fines, and being charged for ATM debit card use. Her Facebook page ("Bank Transfer Day") shows tens of thousands of followers.

• What's the alternative? Find a Credit Union
  
• VIDEO: 1 million Americans moving from big banks
  

Large banks announced in recent weeks they would enact a variety of fees on checking accounts and debit card use blaming their welfare provider, the federal government. The feds put a cap on the money they can charge retailers for processing debit card charges. A federal cap applies only to banks with $10 billion or more in assets.

Such banks -- including Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase & Co., and Wells Fargo & Co. -- have caved in. They are canceling trial runs of debit card fees after consumer backlash. But what can one person do?

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Piggy Bank of America caves in: No $5 fee

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(WP) In a rare reversal, Bank of America announced today that it will drop a highly criticized fee for customers who swipe their debit cards. The bank had intended to begin charging the $5 fee next year, citing new federal regulations that it says have hurt its bottom line. But the debit charge drew a torrent of fury from customers, lawmakers, and even Pres. Obama. Faced with consumer backlash, Wells Fargo recently abandoned its own testing of a fee. Regions Bank and SunTrust have also dropped their charges. More

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• Fed mulls how to share its goals

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Woman dragged in bank then arrested (video)

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It is not enough not to protest. The secret police (undercover agents infiltrating peaceful movements) will drag you into the bank then arrest you for protesting in the bank.

It sounds Orwellian. It sounds impossible. It happened recently at CitiBank, Inc.

A plainclothes policeman dragged a woman into a bank protest to arrest her as an occupier of the bank. What was she doing? Was she trying to help the "occupiers" inside the bank get media attention or legal help? That will not be tolerated in Bush/Cheney/Obama's America! No, actually, she was a Citibank customer trying to close her account.

Corporate crime is organized, the best organized crime there is.

Close Your Account, Go to Jail
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I can not believe what I have witnessed in this video. Will they be showing this on the mainstream news?

People went in to close their Citibank accounts. But instead they were locked in the bank and arrested. Citibank claims they entered the bank as a large mob screaming and chanting. However, things appear to be very quiet and civilized until the police show up.

There is a female Citibank customer still outside trying to get her account closed. She is talking to a few of them from outside the glass when an undercover cop grabs her and with the help of a banker and police with clubs forcefully drags her in the bank. A man who tries to help her gets dragged in, too.

The Koch Brothers love what corporations are capable of.

She screams and clearly looks distressed, not understanding why she is being manhandled. The police HELP drag her into the bank! Then everyone starts yelling "this is wrong," "shame," "you are disgusting!" I found it highly disturbing.

Police are the Troublemakers at Peaceful Protests


Citibank knows he [yes "he," Mr. Citibank is a "corporate person" with more rights than you or I] can do whatever he wants under the present system.

He is an organized criminal, more umbrella than person, for criminals wearing suits. And the people's police are little better. Citibank supports its local police the way Wall Street donated to have the Occupy Wall Street movement kept as far from Wall St. as possible. More

Forget the People, Power to the Banks!