http://www.bloomberg.com

Secret Fed Loans Gave Banks $13 Billion Undisclosed to Congress
►http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-28/secret-fed-loans-undisclosed-to-congress-gave-banks-13-billion-in-income.

The Fed didn’t tell anyone which banks were in trouble so deep they required a combined $1.2 trillion on Dec. 5, 2008, their single neediest day. Bankers didn’t mention that they took tens of billions of dollars in emergency loans at the same time they were assuring investors their firms were healthy. And no one calculated until now that banks reaped an estimated $13 billion of income by taking advantage of the Fed’s below-market rates, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its January issue.

European Union Bans Exports to Syria of Systems for Monitoring Web, Phones - Bloomberg

Bloomberg News reported Nov. 4 that an Italian company, Area SpA, was building a surveillance system that would have given Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime the power to intercept, scan and catalog virtually every e-mail that flows through the country.

This week, a lawyer for the company, Fabio Ambrosetti, confirmed the company is exiting the deal and the project won’t be completed. He declined to comment further.

Earlier this year, Telecomix, a group of online activists, discovered that technology from a U.S. company, Blue Coat Systems Inc., was filtering web sites inside of Syria.

►http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-01/european-union-bans-exports-to-syria-of-systems-for-monitoring-web-phones

Koch Brothers Flout Law Getting Richer With Secret Iran Sales - Bloomberg
►http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-02/koch-brothers-flout-law-getting-richer-with-secret-iran-sales.html

tiens une histoire de #corruption et de vente secrète d’#armes des #Etats-Unis à l’#Iran, qui se passe en #France, ça n’intéresse personne ?

In May 2008, a unit of Koch Industries Inc., one of the world’s largest privately held companies, sent Ludmila Egorova-Farines, its newly hired compliance officer and ethics manager, to investigate the management of a subsidiary in Arles in southern France. In less than a week, she discovered that the company had paid bribes to win contracts.

#Fukushima Desolation Worst Since Nagasaki as Residents Flee - Bloomberg
►http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-26/fukushima-desolation-worst-since-nagasaki-as-population-flees.html

What’s emerging in Japan six months since the nuclear meltdown at the Tokyo Electric Power Co. plant is a radioactive zone bigger than that left by the 1945 atomic bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. While nature reclaims the 20 kilometer (12 mile) no-go zone, Fukushima’s $3.2 billion-a-year farm industry is being devastated and tourists that hiked the prefecture’s mountains and surfed off its beaches have all but vanished.
(...)
The bulk of radioactive contamination cuts a 5 kilometer to 10 kilometer-wide swath of land running as far as 30 kilometers northwest of the nuclear plant, surveys of radiation hotspots by Japan’s science ministry show. The government extended evacuations beyond the 20-kilometer zone in April to cover this corridor, which includes parts of Iitate village.

voir aussi la #carte de la radioactivité :
►http://radioactivity.mext.go.jp/ja/distribution_map_around_FukushimaNPP/0002/11555_0830.pdf

#nucléaire #cartographie #japon

#Cancer Cost Swells, Risks Becoming ‘Unsustainable,’ Lancet Says - Bloomberg
►http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-26/cancer-cost-swells-risks-becoming-unsustainable-lancet-says.html?cmpid=yh

Cancer treatment costs are rising at such a rapid rate that they threaten to become “unsustainable” even for rich countries, according to an expert panel assembled by The Lancet Oncology medical journal.
About 12 million people worldwide get cancer every year, and the costs associated with new cases was at least $286 billion in 2009, according to a report compiled by 37 experts from countries including the U.K., the U.S. and Germany. By 2030, about 22 million people will be diagnosed with the disease annually

et les articles (paywall) du Lancet :

Delivering affordable cancer care in high-income countries: 37 experts provide a comprehensive analysis of cancer costs, future challenges, and recommendations in the first Lancet Oncology Commission.

Cancer prevention: lifestyle changes could be one of the biggest measures used to control cancer costs.

Palliative care: a substantial proportion of the cost of cancer care is spent during the last months of life.

#santé #finances

Torture in Bahrain Becomes Routine With Help From Nokia Siemens - Bloomberg
►http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-22/torture-in-bahrain-becomes-routine-with-help-from-nokia-siemens-networkin

“It was amazing,” he says of the messages they obtained. “How did they know about these?”

The answer: Computers loaded with Western-made surveillance software generated the transcripts wielded in the interrogations described by Al Khanjar and scores of other detainees whose similar treatment was tracked by rights activists, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its October issue.

The spy gear in Bahrain was sold by Siemens AG (SIE), and maintained by Nokia Siemens Networks and NSN’s divested unit, Trovicor GmbH, according to two people whose positions at the companies gave them direct knowledge of the installations. Both requested anonymity because they have signed nondisclosure agreements. The sale and maintenance contracts were also confirmed by Ben Roome, a Nokia Siemens spokesman based in Farnborough, England.

Wall Street Aristocracy Got $1.2 Trillion in Fed’s Secret Loans - Bloomberg
►http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-21/wall-street-aristocracy-got-1-2-trillion-in-fed-s-secret-loans.html

Citigroup Inc. (C) and Bank of America Corp. (BAC) were the reigning champions of finance in 2006 as home prices peaked, leading the 10 biggest U.S. banks and brokerage firms to their best year ever with $104 billion of profits.

By 2008, the housing market’s collapse forced those companies to take more than six times as much, $669 billion, in emergency loans from the U.S. Federal Reserve. The loans dwarfed the $160 billion in public bailouts the top 10 got from the U.S. Treasury, yet until now the full amounts have remained secret.

Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke’s unprecedented effort to keep the economy from plunging into depression included lending banks and other companies as much as $1.2 trillion of public money, about the same amount U.S. homeowners currently owe on 6.5 million delinquent and foreclosed mortgages. The largest borrower, Morgan Stanley (MS), got as much as $107.3 billion, while Citigroup took $99.5 billion and Bank of America $91.4 billion, according to a Bloomberg News compilation of data obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests, months of litigation and an act of Congress.

15 % de la population ( soit 46 millions d’individus) survit avec des bons alimentaires et pendant ce temps il y en a qui jouent au monopoly, sans honte ni scrupules au détriment de l’ensemble de la collectivité...

..

#USA #capitalisme

D’après un document de Tristan Mendès-France #Google commercerait avec la dictature birmane
►https://plus.google.com/117124033424215759941/posts/J6kjRg5pT2F

- Google commerce (ou cherche à commercer avec la dictature) ;
– Google finance un journal de propagande

#birmanie

Sur la photo on voit aussi que Google est « inc » dans le Delaware, un état où les entreprises ne paient pratiquement pas de taxes (comme BP et tous les autres). #uncut

(et je suis toujours punie sur #Google+)

good 0 — evil 3

Les médias français dits dominants occultent totalement les conséquences de la catastrophe #nucléaire de #Fukushima, et pourtant celles-ci s’alourdissent de plus en plus...

Les menace sur la chaîne alimentaire au Japon se multiplient alors que la contamination au césium se diffuse

Threat to Japanese Food Chain Multiplies as Cesium Contamination Spreads

►http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-24/threat-to-japanese-food-chain-multiplies-as-cesium-contamination-spreads.

Fukushima Debacle Risks Chernobyl ‘Dead Zone’ as Radiation in Soil Soars - Bloomberg
►http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-30/japan-risks-chernobyl-like-dead-zone-as-fukushima-soil-radiation-soars.ht

Radioactive soil in pockets of areas near Japan’s crippled nuclear plant have reached the same level as Chernobyl, where a “dead zone” remains 25 years after the reactor in the former Soviet Union exploded.

#nucléaire #japon

Saudi Arabia Defies Mideast Upheaval - Glen Carey - Bloomberg
►http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-17/saudi-arabia-defies-mideast-upheaval.html

Saudi Arabia is leading a counter-revolution against the sweeping political changes in the Middle East by using money, force and religion.

As popular movements for democracy toppled leaders in Egypt and Tunisia and began threatening neighboring Bahrain and Yemen, Saudi Arabia’s Al Saud royal family strengthened control over the Arab world’s biggest economy. Once restrictive of the Muslim clerics, King Abdullah offered money and new censorship powers for their loyalty as he doled out 500 billion riyals ($130 billion) nationally in housing grants and other sweeteners.

The Al Saud have “positioned themselves as the guardians of the status quo,” Christopher Davidson, author of “Power and Politics in the Persian Gulf Monarchies,” said in response to e-mailed questions. “We are seeing a resistance to genuine reform by using a mixture of carrots and sticks.”

Bloomberg publie (étonnamment ?) un très intéressant article de Glen Carey sur la contre-révolution menée par l’Arabie séoudite. À noter, au milieu de la répression pure et simple :

– la participation des entreprises américaines, des banques et des agences de notation :

In Riyadh yesterday, Finance Minister Ibrahim al-Assaf told 1,200 conference delegates, including officials from JPMorgan Chase & Co., Moody’s Investors Service and BNP Paribas SA, that the Saudi economy was on track for stronger growth.

– l’achat des religieux wahabites (avec des sommes totalement délirantes) :

Political loyalties have their costs. Of the expenditure announced by Abdullah in February and March, $67 billion went to funds for housing, religious groups and the military, according to a royal decree issued by the king.

[...]

Abdullah issued a royal decree banning media services from publishing anything that “violates” Islamic law, “harms the reputation” of clerics, and threatens internal security, the official Saudi Press Agency in Riyadh said on April 29.

Un article qui ne pousse pas le bouchon, d’où son intérêt : des faits simples et clairs, plutôt incontestables. Qui montre que l’intérêt du big bizness international (ou « occidental ») passe par la répression de la démocratie, l’agitation sectaire et par le fait de filer des dizaines de milliards aux pires fondamentalistes religieux de la planète.

#arabie_séoudite