Obama calls critics of TPP secrecy 'Conspiracy Theorists'

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190. Thank you, Cass Sunstein.

We, OTOH, very much appreciate the heads-up. Thank you, Douglas Carpenter!

These times are worse than gangster times or bankster times, these are the people who bankrolled slavery times.

Here are a couple of modern day slavemasters, I mean, bankers, uh, I mean politicians, uh, I mean autocrats...



Baron de Rothschild and Prescott Sheldon Bush, Sr., sharing a moment and a bit o' information in this small world, back in the day. The back of the object they are examining shows typing in a box, similar to what is often used for identifying content on the front of a photograph. Were I to theorize, I'd say they likely are examining an AP wirephoto, based on similar images I have seen in the past. Were I to take a wild guess, I'd venture it's a map showing Interstate construction routes, or less likely as they control so many of them, a bank architectural diagram.

Rothschild and Freshfields founders’ had links to slavery, papers reveal

By Carola Hoyos
Financial Times

Two of the biggest names in the City of London had previously undisclosed links to slavery in the British colonies, documents seen by the Financial Times have revealed.

Nathan Mayer Rothschild, the banking family’s 19th-century patriarch, and James William Freshfield, founder of Freshfields, the top City law firm, benefited financially from slavery, records from the National Archives show, even though both have often been portrayed as opponents of slavery.

Far from being a matter of distant history, slavery remains a highly contentious issue in the US, where Rothschild and Freshfields are both active.

Companies alleged to have links to past slave injustices have come under pressure to make restitution.

JPMorgan, the investment bank, set up a $5m scholarship fund for black students studying in Louisiana after apologising in 2005 for the company’s historic links to slavery.

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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7c0f5014-628c-11de-b1c9-00144feabdc0.html

Geographers lead such innnnteresting lives.