Goldman Sachs tax avoidance techniques

Max Keiser talks to Stacy Herbert about Goldman Sachs tax avoidance techniques
recorded on January 9th 2010

Earthquake hits northern California

A 6.5-magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of northern California, the US Geological Survey has said.

The quake occurred on Saturday, 22 miles (35 kilometers) west of Ferndale and 224 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Sacramento, at a depth of nine miles (16 kilometers), AFP reported.

John Perkins ex-Economic Hit Man on Icelandic TV

John Perkins, a former respected member of the international banking community. In his book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man he describes how as a highly paid professional, he helped the U.S. cheat poor countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars by lending them more money than they could possibly repay and then take over their economies. John Perkins believes that Iceland too was hit by the economic hitmen as well as the US although with a slitely different approach than the ways used for the developing countries , in the Icelandic case John Perkins cites the case of ALCOA getting a sweet deal from the Icelandic government and using the the Icelandic resource of cheap energy to manufacture aluminum without benefiting the Icelandic average citizen