Epstein Secrets

investor confidence will develop up or down accordingly. And EU's economic policies will continue on with the ambiguity of Hollywood Accounting.... See The Washington Post's Editorial — In Cyprus, making up a euro solution on thefly. Initial signs that big depositors in the Bank of Cyprus would take a hit of 3o to 4o pe

it, but just a decade ago we started shelling out $2.2 trillion for a war in Iraq born of fraud. We can't afford it, while Dick Cheney's old outfit Halliburton raked in $4o billion worth of contracts because of that war. We can't afford it, while the State Department doles out three billion dollars over fi

the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council, a powerful group that pushes for states to pass laws that are often drafted by industry. As Washington Post journalists Tom Hamburger, Joby Warrick and Chris Mooney recently report, ALEC is not only insisting that it doesn't deny climate change — it's thre

king and prolonged wars as well. Unlike the citizen-soldiers of past eras, the mobilized warrior corporations of America's new mercenary moment—the Halliburton/KBRs (nearly $40 billion in contracts for the Iraq War alone), the DynCorps ($4.1 billion to train 150,00o Iraqi police), and the Blackwater/Xe/Acad

, and Richard Perl=. He also enjoyed considerable support among politicians and politic.' pundits in the United States, most notably Jim Hoagland of The Washingto= Post, who held him up as a notable force for democracy in Iraq. He =as a special guest of First lady Laura Bush at the 2004 State of the Union=Address.

=fore 9/11 ever happened and organized to maximize the profits of defense c=ntractors and fossil fuel companies like Vice President Dick Cheney*=99s Halliburton, which made $39 billion in profits over the course of the =onflict. George Bush has a lot to answer for; it now appears that Mr. Blai= does as well.