12-12-20 NOT in the United States: German Police raids bank, arrest senior execs

In the past 48 hours, police in the U.K. and Germany have arrested senior bank executives for serious crimes. On Wednesday, Deutsche Bank offices were raided by 500 police because the CEO and CFO are under investigation for tax evasion. Meanwhile in the U.S., the Justice Department signed a settlement with HSBC Bank on Tuesday, for its involvement in money laundering, drug smuggling, and providing support to terrorists. HSBC Bank paid a trivial half of one quarter's profits and no executive will be criminally prosecuted.

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12-12-20 Canada and the the American Empire & Co.

Canada, UK, Israel, Egypt are all considered US allies to various degrees, yet the concerns raised in all these nations, regarding conduct of the US and its impact on these nations, are similar. jz

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AlterNet / By Andrew Gavin Marshall

Welcome to Canada Inc., A Subsidiary of the American Empire & Co.

Should Canada cooperate with the US in the wholesale plundering of the world?

December 18, 2012  |  

 

As one of the most resource-rich countries on earth, and the largest single trading partner with the United States, Canada is strategically positioned to influence the changing nature of global power structures. Do we support – and siphon our resources for the benefit of – the American Empire, co-operating in the wholesale plundering of the world, the oppression and impoverishment of peoples, destruction of global ecology, all for the benefit of an increasingly small class of global corporations and banks… Or, do we become independent and free? Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper once said, “You won’t recognize Canada when I get through with it.” With multiple “free trade” agreements under way, expanded corporate rights, expropriation of vast amounts of natural resources, Canada is becoming one of the world’s foremost corporate colonies, unrecognizable from what Canadians once imagined our nation to be.

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