Day 10 (20 day story) year 2009
2009 – “Downsizing”
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2009 “Yes We Can”
2009 – Wall Street Executives Receives $18 Billion U.S.D. in Bonuses.
03/2008 – 05/2009: CNN Money (12/01/2010 ) Reports the Federal Reserve made $9 TRILLION U.S.D. in loans to major banks and Wall Street firms. “The amount of cash being pumped out to the financial giants was not previously disclosed”.
2009 – Amendment to AUDIT the Federal Reserve is approved by the House Financial Services Committee but obstructed by the New Federal Reserves chairman Ben Bernanke because it “would shatter the Fed’s independence.”
2009 – Exxon Mobil breaks its own record with $45.2 Billion U.S.D. in PROFIT. NOTE: 2008 – Gas Prices $1.61 – $4.11
2009 – Economy shrinks 3.8 percent.
2009 – Foreclosures increased 2.8 million, a 21% increase vs. 2008.
2009 “Unemployment”
2009 – Unemployment increases from 8,924,000 to 14,265,000.
2009 – 62.5 % American Families saw their net worth decline between 2007 – 2009.
2009 – Budget cuts are implemented as cities start going under financially and Main St U.S.A. shuts down. Credit dried up. There was no construction going on.
2009 – Buzz Words Nuclear War, Nuclear Armament, Nuclear Attack, and Nuclear Energy.
2009 “Mid East War”
2009 – State Department notifies Blackwater U.S. “Will not renew Security Contract”. Blackwater changes their name to XE
2009 – KBR Pleads guilty to paying Tens of Millions of dollars in bribes to Nigerian officials.
NOTE: KBR, was spun off from its former parent corporation Halliburton in 2007.
KBR/Haliburton has been under fire for its business practices in providing logistical support to the U.S. war effort in Iraq.
12/01/2009 – NEWS: Obama announces a surge of 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan to stem increased efforts by the Taliban in the country.
2009 – British Petroleum (BP), Exxon Mobil and Shell receive Iraq Oil Contracts.
They were among the oil giants that played the most aggressive role, lobbying to ensure that the invasion would result in an Iraq that was open to foreign oil companies.
2009 – NEWS: U.S. Army report indicates military veterans have double the suicide rate of civilians.