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Worlds Tallest Buildings

The Taipei Towers with 101 floors is 508 metres (1,667 feet) high. It cost a whopping $1.8 billion to build the tower. Officially it is still the highest tower in the world. Built in 2004, the building was...

9 comments    sears tower taipei 101
Two-headed eagle emblem of the Byzantine Empire (Roman Empire) on a Red Shield - Today it is also the Russian coat of arms.70

Mayer Amschel Bauer changed his name from Bauer to Rothschild and became the founding father of International Finance

Nathan Rotschild and the Battle Of Waterloo How to do like the Rothschild's and become extremely wealthly In 1743 a goldsmith named Amschel Moses Bauer opened a coin shop in Frankfurt, Germany. He hung above...

2 comments    education history globalization
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How Lehman Brothers became Bankrupt?

lehman brother share stock prices before they crashed to bankruptcy The Lehman Brothers , one of the most reputed and fortune 500 ranked 17th best company crashed into bankruptacy at the Wall Street...

10 comments    finance money investment
He plays down the group's role in setting the international agenda62

The Bilderberg Group - no more a secret in mass Medias

He plays down the group's role in setting the international agenda In 1974, U.S. Senator James Buckley wrote: "I don't subscribe to the theory that there exists an organization of international bankers called...

1 comment    business finance politics
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The World Bank, GATT and Free Trade by Noam Chomsky

in "Keeping the Rabble in Line" by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian The World Bank, GATT and Free Trade April 20, 1992 DB: In 1944 at the Bretton Woods conference in New Hampshire the World Bank and the...

4 comments    business finance politics
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Federal Reserve Act: the most Influential Act in US/World History since the Constitution

"In his final Senate years, Aldrich chaired the National Monetary Commission. His Aldrich Plan, providing for flexible cash reserves, was the forerunner of the Federal Reserve System." -- Senate.gov "This...

5 comments    finance education politics
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The Chase Manhattan Bank: Rockefeller's Bank

After an epidemic of yellow fever in 1798, in which coffins had been sold by itinerant vendors on street corners, Aaron Burr established the Manhattan Company, with the ostensible aim of bringing clean...

6 comments    finance money world bank
James Baker wrapped up a Gulf tour by securing a promise from Saudi Arabia to negotiate a “substantial” reduction of Iraq’s estimated $28 billion debt to the Kingdom.59

Saudi Prince recognized to have financed alleged Terrorist Foundations on US Soil in a lawsuit by 9/11 victims but ...

A lawsuit seeking $1 trillion in damages on behalf of the victims of the September 11 had been launched against Saudi Arabia. As counteroffsensive, according to MSNBC article, the Saudi defense minister...

1 comment    business finance politics
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How Mike Milken witnessed the full power of the establishment triangle: big business, big unions and big government.

"I don't know whether or not Mike Milken realized at the time that he had found a way of financing an immense revolution in America, but now he has witnessed the full power of the establishment triangle: big...

0 comments    business finance politics
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BIS - Bank of International Settlement: the Mother of all Central Banks

The BIS was originally established in May 1930 by bankers and diplomats of Europe and the United States to collect and disburse Germany's World War I reparation payments (hence its name). It was truly an...

0 comments    finance politics fed
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