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During the most recent session of the United States Senate Committee on Banking Hearing, Elizabeth Warren, the Democrat senator from Massachusetts, reported on the illegal activities of HSBC; formerly The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation one of the largest banking and financial services institutions in the world. It serves around 60 million customers through four Global Businesses.

According to its web site, HSBC, the British financial company describes itself as:

“An unrivalled international network with a presence in all of the world’s major developed and faster-growing markets…”

Last December, 2012, HSBC  admitted to laundering nearly one billion US dollars for Colombian and Mexican drug cartels; additionally the company was found to have repeatedly violated US economic sanctions against Iran, Cuba, Libya, the Sudan as well as Burma, known as Myanmar. The US Treasury Department imposed a fine, recorded as the the largest fine ever imposed by the department for HSBC’s illicit actions. (more…)

On Sunday evening, February 25th 2013 in Hollywood, California at the annual American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the 85th time they are convening, actors, movie stars, technicians of very craft will be present to see who receives the coveted Oscar for outstanding achievement in various categories of the motion picture industry.

The following video created by Nelson Carvajal shows 84 Best Picture winners… (more…)

With this entry we are providing our readers with a kind of info-edu-tainment special. It’s Black History Month and Oscar season.

The following video interview conducted by reporters from the Washington Post web site The Fold  features two-time Academy Award winner Russell Williams…who is also Distinguished-Artist-in-Residence at the American University in Washington, D.C. (more…)

Here’s some interesting video footage taken last month during a manta ray night dive off the Kona coast of Hawaii. The video shows a bottlenose dolphin, tied up in fishing line, “asking” a human diver for help.

The dolphin swam into the lighted areas where scuba dive instructors, among them Keller Laros, noticed fishing line was restricting the dolphin’s movement. (more…)

Randy Newman, the multi-award-winning composer and singer-songwriter has recorded a new song in reaction to the latest shenanigans of the Republican Party. “I’m Dreaming of a White President” is sung to the Christmas classic “White Christmas”.

The staff of You Think What understands and we appreciate many of the cleverly written farcical lyrics and melodies created by Newman in the past…tunes like, “The Great Nations of Europe”, or “You’ve Got A Friend In Me” from the “Toy Story” series of Disney/Pixar animated films.

Newman has joined some other popular composers like the Boss, Bruce Springsteen, or the iconic Bob Dylan, and equally prolific creator, Ry Cooder in putting pen to paper to express their political feelings…ridicule, mock, ludicrous, lampooning, being sardonic… (more…)

The YouThinkWhat staff wish to congratulate Gabrielle Douglas, and her family, upon achieving the titles Champion, Gold Medalist, Olympian. The Best!

As if all the time, energy, money, sweat, tears, injuries and sacrifices made by the 16 year-old athlete, and her family, to successfully train for this occasion isn’t enough, and apparently it’s not enough for some people,* and you know who you are.* There are, as always, “some” who are envious, “they” are finding fault, and talking about her hair. (more…)

*“Now tell the rube he reminds you of George Washington,
and you want to go up to show him our legislative agenda.”

ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council, lobbies legislators in Washington, D.C. as well as your state’s legislators, to pass bills contrary to the best interests of you and your family. (more…)

We’ve been saying it all along. There is no housing shortage.

In the Depression of the 1930s there was so much surplus food it was dumped into the ocean rather than give it away to the millions who were starving.

In this current depression there are so many empty homes they, the banks, are letting them rot to the ground rather than give them as shelter to homeless persons, including children, even allowing them to pay whatever they can.
We seem to prefer waste to helping each other.

There is no excuse!

We hear all the time about the resilience of the American people; our We Can Do It attitude. We all know when the government wants to do a project, where there’$ a will there’$ plenty of funding for the project to prevail. (more…)

Chronic kidney disease is the silent killer of millions of black people across the United States. In Washington, D.C. 18 patients a day lose their lives while waiting for transplants.

According to medical experts there are more people living with kidney disease because dialysis treatment sustains a greater number of lives than ever before.
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Another pop culture icon has returned from the dead to appear in a wildly popular YouTube video. Mister Rogers has a remixed video by Symphony of Science’s John Boswell for PBS Digital Studios.

We’re talking about the same Mister Rogers, Fred Rogers, the man who was an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church,  an American educator, songwriter, author, and television host. The Boswell/Rogers collaboration is following on the heels of the successful  holographic image concert of Tupac Shakur. (more…)