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originally posted by: crankyoldman
originally posted by: airforcerulessky
I dont know about you all, but I can't wait for something to happen for us regular folk in relation to cost of living. Every time I go for a short food run its $100. Regular 2 week shopping? $300-$400. Its nuts! I make a good living and I cannot get ahead of debt. I dont know how large families do it. It's just two of us and it's crazy. Gas is better and that helps but everything else is expensive. I pray our President sends the fed.
Not exactly relief for the regular guys, but interesting none the less...
Trump makes federal pay freeze official for 2019
Did this during the shutdown.
originally posted by: jadedANDcynical
a reply to: carewemust
This is a civil case and it looks like the version posted in the link you provided has been altered from the original.
In other words, it's bogus.
originally posted by: carewemust
originally posted by: crankyoldman
originally posted by: airforcerulessky
I dont know about you all, but I can't wait for something to happen for us regular folk in relation to cost of living. Every time I go for a short food run its $100. Regular 2 week shopping? $300-$400. Its nuts! I make a good living and I cannot get ahead of debt. I dont know how large families do it. It's just two of us and it's crazy. Gas is better and that helps but everything else is expensive. I pray our President sends the fed.
Not exactly relief for the regular guys, but interesting none the less...
Trump makes federal pay freeze official for 2019
Did this during the shutdown.
On the flip side, 2019 will see the largest Social Security Cost-of-Living Increase in 7 years.
www.marketwatch.com...
Among the 21 major industries in the U.S., the federal employees are among the highest paid. Employees in utilities, mining, and management of companies are ahead of the federal workforce. The other sectors are compensated less.
The latest BEA data indicate federal compensation is higher, on average, than compensation in the information industry, finance and insurance, and professional and scientific industries. Also, Edwards writes:
link
[T]he federal workforce has always had a heavy contingent of skilled professionals, such as lawyers. So that factor does not seem to explain why federal compensation has grown faster than private-sector compensation in recent decades. Average federal compensation was 39 percent higher than average private compensation in 1990.” That federal pay advantage jumped to 50 percent by 2000, and then to 76 percent by 2015.
originally posted by: MindBodySpiritComplex
Vatican court hands down first-ever money laundering sentence
The Vatican's bank made headlines following the 1982 death of Roberto Calvi, known as "God's banker" because of his links to the Holy See, whose corpse was found hanging from Blackfriars Bridge in London.
Prosecutors believe it was a mafia killing linked to money laundering via the bank.
This and other scandals has seemingly prompted a clean-up in recent years, first under Pope Benedict XVI and then under the current pontiff Pope Francis, with about 5,000 bank accounts closed.
Multiple Pope/Vatican references in past Q drops.
Also: Godfather III
Is it happening?
Situation as presented by Lord Blackheath, UK House of Lords.Speech on House of Commons floor February 16, 2012www.youtube.com... Summary of Lord Blackheath:
Evidence of massive money laundering by the US Federal Reserve via theRoyal Bank of Scotland in UK, which is an Inter-Alpha Group of Banks ownedby the Rothschilds, to a shell company in the Cayman Islands call Pure Heart Capital (Pure Heart Investments Ltd).
A total of $15 trillion was diverted to Pure Heart Capital in the Cayman Islands under order of the US Federal Reserve.
An extraordinary elaborate fraud which is not been carried about but has been prepared as a threat from one government to another Summary: According to Lord Blackheath – the alleged fraud and money laundering began in April 2009 with the alleged transfer to the UK Royal Bank of Scotland in the amount of $5 trillion USD. This wire transfer was followed 7-days later with another $5 trillion USD, and the last transfer of $5 trillion USD was 7-days later. Lord James told his colleagues that $15 trillion of the $36 trillion personally held by a Mr. Yohannes Riyadi wound up in the HSBC Bank ”for onward transit to the Royal Bank of Scotland.” He claimed the United States had been gradually stealing Riyadi’s money “for the specific purpose of helping to support the dollar.”
“Mr. Riyadi has sent me a remarkable document dated February 2006,” Lord James continued, “in which the American Government have called him to a meeting with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.” That meeting, he said,“was witnessed by Mr Alan Greenspan, who sign ed for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York of which he was chairman, as well as chairman of the real Federal Reserve in Washington.
It is signed by Mr Timothy Geithner as a witnesson behalf of the International Monetary Fund. The IMF sent two witnesses, the other being Mr Yusuke Horiguchi.” “These gentlemen have signed as witnesses,” he continued, “to the effect that this deal is a proper deal.
There are a lot of other signatures on the document. not have a photocopy; I have an original version of the contract.
“Under the contract, the American Treasury has apparently got the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to offer to buy out the bonds issued to Mr Riyadi to replace the cash which has been taken from him over the previous 10 years. It is giving him $500 million as a cash payment to buy out worthless bonds. That is all in the agreement and it is very remarkable.” The Federal Reserve claims the above mentioned information is a scam…
Donald J. Trump
Verified account
@realDonaldTrump
1 hour ago
It turns out to be true now, that the Department of Justice and the FBI, under President Obama, rigged the investigation for Hillary and really turned the screws on Trump, and now it looks like in a corrupt & illegal way. The facts are out now. Whole Hoax exposed. @JesseBWatters
originally posted by: Aallanon
a reply to: carewemust
Yes, yes it does. It defies credulity
originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: pheonix358
Sounds like you're disappointed by what you're learning too.