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http://www.cbe.org.eg/ Not Responding: Has The E(gyptian)CB Been Plundered?
We were doing some diligence on Egyptian (now historic) gold holdings but unfortunately the following link no longer seems to work:http://www.cbe.org.eg/ To those who guessed correctly that this is the web site of the Egyptian Central Bank, you win whatever is held in the vaults of said building. Which we are willing to bet against all that is held in our own tungsten warehouse in Kentucky, is absolutely nothing. To any potential readers in Egypt, may we recommend you go politely enter the building at 31 Kasr El-Nil Street, Cairo, go to the basement and check on the precious metal inventory. There should be 75.6 tonnes of gold. Which incidentally may also be a sufficient motive for someone to pull off a Die Hard 23.
As a reminder, there should be signs of life here: after all the ECB decided against hiking rates today despite what at first glance appears a food price inflation driven revolution:
Egypt's central bank kept its key overnight interest rates steady on Thursday as it struggles to foster growth without reigniting the high inflation that has fuelled unprecedented protests against the government.
An increase in rates could help slow consumer inflation that is running at an annual 10 percent, but could scare away investment that would help the government meet its growth target of 7 percent next year.
"The central bank is stuck between a rock and a hard place," said John Sfakianakis, chief economist at Banque Saudi Fransi.
"They can keep rates as is and maintain vigilance, but vigilance doesn't help much in this situation, which is that food inflation at 17 percent is creating huge disposable income problems."
"So the other scenario would be to increase rates, but increasing rates would not do anything at a time when the country is up and is going against the regime."
Police fought protesters in the Egyptian cities of Suez and Ismailia on Thursday, the third day of protests to try to oust President Hosni Mubarak.
And for the motherfucking win:
In a statement that accompanied the decision, the central bank repeated
its view that underlying inflation remain contained, saying some of the
worst price increases occurred in early 2010.
It is unclear if the head of the Egyption Central Bank was also 100% confident he too can take away inflation on a 15 minutes notice. All those who wish to ask him directly are invited to try:
+20 2-2393-6127
+20 2-2393-6066
+20 2-2393-4134
+20 2-2393-8903
+20 2-2395-1769
Alas, nobody is picking up.
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TD, it was Die Hard 3. Die Hard 2 was the airport and the SA Dictator.
Riddle 1:
As I was going to St Ives
I met a man with seven wives
Every wife had seven sacks
Every sack had seven cats
Every cat had seven kittens
Kittens, cats, sacks, wives
How many were going to St Ives?
Riddle 2:
You are given a 5 gallon jug and a 3 gallon jug in front of a fountain. Measure out exactly 4 gallons of water.
Fill the five from the three, mark the line, then fill the five with five. Pour from the five to the three so that three remain in the five. Now mark the three. That is your 2 GAL line. Empty the five, and fill it twice from the 2Gal line in the three. Good times.
OR
- Dump a full 3 into the 5
- 2 from a new 3 into the 5 (filling it) leaving 1 in the 3
- Dump 1 into empty 5
- Dump 3 into 5 containing 1 to make 4
or
- fill up 5
- from 5, fill up 3, leaving 2 in 5 and 3 in 3
- pour out 3 on the floor
-pour remaining 2 from 5 into 3, left with 0 of 5 and 2 of 3
- fill up 5
- dump 1 from 5 to fill up remaining 1 of 3, left with 4 in 5 and 3 in 3
the ZH Paradox:
only ZHers have the presense of mind to liberate the gold in central banks during a revolt.
only ZHers realize there's no more gold in central banks, so we don't bother.
Or in applying the Heisenberg Principle; "One either knows how much gold there was or how fast it left."
OR
- Fill up 3, and pour into 5
- Freeze it
- Fill remaining space in 5 (2 units at the top), twice.
That water expanded when you froze it. Plus there is the whole waiting to freeze thing. We need instant gratification here
Hey, I didn't say it was the *best* solution, or the most practical....but it is a solution of sorts.
I agree, most of the others are better!
Or, by eye, just saw off the top 2/3 of the fucker, fill the bottom and say; "Here."
Will you be my Chief of Staff?
What about...drink 4 gallons of beer, wait an hour, then piss in the 5 gallon bucket?
UF
Fill the five, then fill the 3 from the five. 2 gal left in the five. pour out the 3 gal, and pour the 2gal in the now empty 3 gal container. refill the 5 gal, and use to fill the 3 gal (1 gal out of the five) 4 gal left in the five gal. container. No pen needed.
You are given a 5 gallon jug and a 3 gallon jug in front of a fountain. Measure out exactly 4 gallons of water.
-- You can do it without marking the jugs. Fill up the 5 gal jug. Fill up the 3 gal jug from the 5-gal jug, leaving 2 gal in the 5 gal jug. Dump out the 3 gal jug and dump the 2 gallons you have in the 5 gal jug into the empty 3-gal jug.
Fill the 5-gal jug full again, then fill the 3-gal jug (containing two gallons of water) from the full 5-gal jug and you'll have 4 gallons remaining in the 5-gal jug.
one is going to st.ives
Only if the riddler is male, if the riddler is female we have to get into a debate about the colloquial use of "cat".
Wives: 7
Sacks: 49
Cats: 343
Kittens: 2401
total kittens cats, sacks wives: 2800.
the traffic congestion only occurs in the outbound lanes
1 is the answer
You don't know that the answer is one. You do know that it is at least one (the author), but there isn't any available information about anyone else going or not going. There could be several thousand headed there on another road.
Ahh, sophistry, the main educational benefit of 4 years at Harvard.
What about the narrator? +1 ? And "a man"? +1 ?
Oh come on, just unload a 11 round clip into the mofo asking the questions and move on.
Yowzah! A man of action!
1. Fill the 5 -> Pour into 3
2. Empty the 3 and pour the remaining 2 gallons from the 5 into the 3 -> Result is 2 gallons in the 3 gallon jug and the 5 gallon jug is empty.
3. Fill The 5 gallon jug again
3. Pour from the 5 gallon into the 3 gallon until the 3 gallon is full. Since there are already 2 gallons in the 3 gallon jug (from step 2), you would empty 1 gallon from the 5 gallon jug...leaving 4 gallons in the 5 gallon jug.
"And for the motherfucking win ..."
So funny, I just released my eggs.
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way ..."
Fill both half way.Pour the smaller into the larger.
2.5 + 1.5 = 4. Pour the 1.5 (3 gal) into the (5 gal).
every wife had seven brian sacks? or was brian kicked in the sacks?
Riddle 3:
How many central bankers can fit between a rock and a hard place?
I know the St Ives riddle, it's a good one though. How many were going to St Ives, it was the Person of course he said it in the first line. The man was someone he met while the person was going to St Ives. Also the 5 Gallon jug and 3 Gallon one is good also.
Step 1, Fill the 5 gallon jug and then pour it into the 3 gallon jug. The 5 gallon jug has 2 gallons left.
Step 2, Now throw the 3 gallon water away. Pour the 2 gallons from the 5 gallon jug to the 3 gallon jug. So no the 3 gallon jug has just 2 gallons of water.
Step 3, Fill the 5 gallon jug again, and pour 1 gallon to the 3 gallon jug. What do u have left in the 5 gallon jug ?? 4 gallons of water.. !
Fill the 3, pour it into the 5, then dump the 5 out,
Fill the 3, pour it into the 5, then dump the 5 out,
Fill the 3, pour it into the 5, then dump the 5 out,
Fill the 3, pour it into the 5, then dump the 5 out,
Fill the 3, pour it into the 5, then dump the 5 out,
Fill the 3, pour it into the 5, then dump the 5 out,
Fill the 3, pour it into the 5, then dump the 5 out,
Fill the 3, pour it into the 5, then dump the 5 out,
Fill the 3, pour it into the 5, then dump the 5 out,
Fill the 3, pour it into the 5, then dump the 5 out,
Fill the 3, pour it into the 5, then dump the 5 out ......
Oh, excuse me, we are talking water here, for a moment
I thought we were talking something else. Once
you get into a habit, it is hard to break.
BB
PS. I was just filling the 3 gal first to throw you off.
Out to lunch?
All the ISPs in Egypt were told to stop resolving .eg DNS traffic
That's a start but if you know the IP address in Egypt you are on your way. What has happened is that they "effectively" turned off the routers. They withdrew BGP announcements for networks in Eygpt. I bet some networks inside Egypt are working.
There's a third Gruber brother?
yippie kiyyea mother fucker
Insufferable.
Come on the Money is gone. The bank was looted a long time ago. Heck it was probably HSBC and JPM, they needed to cover their shorts. Unfortunately soon they will also loose their national treasures and museum items, which will turn up in private collections.
WikiLeaks would take state dept. computers and HD's.. oh, wait.. never mind..
Send em to me.. I'm a buyer..
Internet kill switch
turned off dns, they dont have a kill switch
I meant that. Nobody around here knows what DNS is. Though as a practical matter they could filter at the border routers, I don't think there is more than one or two trunks getting in, should be easy enough to shut things off for 90% of the country.
Unless people start digging their phone modems out of storage in the attic.
Normally Egypt is decently connected to the Internet. Their main commerical provider, TeData, peers with Cogent, Verio, Level3, among others (Mentor Graphics?), although how many actual physical cables these run on is a matter for speculation.
http://www.fixedorbit.com/AS/8/AS8452.htm
But, no, this is not simply a DNS outage. They've fallen off the global Internet completely as their route advertisements have been withdrawn ..
==============================================
= Global Crossing International IP Network =
= Contact: GBLX-IP NOC: ncc@gblx.net =
= +1-800-404-7714 | +1-406-651-4028 =
= UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS STRICTLY PROHIBITED! =
= =
= Route View Server =
= All connections and keystrokes logged =
= for European Route View Server =
==============================================
route-server.ams2>sh ip bgp 193.227.1.1
% Network not in table
route-server.ams2>
you beat me to it ... they're not in the DNS or routing tables right now.
maybe another cargo ship was dragging its anchor
Oh Yeah!
Remember the last time a "anchor was drug" in the Mediterranean about 5 years ago cutting 3 separate lines and were repaired within several days and just so happened the USS (or whatever the initials are) Jimmy Carter was there and voila! the lines were repaired.
Hint, look up the Jimmy Carter submarine.
cougar_w : "Nobody around here knows what DNS is."
Actually, I think that there are quite a few switched on IT people here.
Good place for a reminder. If you can't connect ZH during the next revolution, use the IP address:
ZERO HEDGE http://188.126.66.68/
Good until their SP changes it or until the drones blow up the server.
Wasn't the Pres-o-dent of Eqypt a no-show on TV today?
He was supposed to address the country. Probably too busy loading up the armored truck on the way to the airport.
Didn't Mubarak turn the internet off?
Yes, he did. Most people were on it when all of a sudd
Funny
LOL
It just keeps getting more interesting.
Now that's what you call looting
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1348992/Now-thats-looting-Tunisi...
"It is unclear if the head of the Egyption Central Bank was also 100% confident he too can take away inflation on a 15 minutes notice."
Apparently he left the printers for the airport about 15 minutes ago. Not sure what kind of capacity the ink cartridges and paper trays have unattended...
Al Jazeera reporting that the Egyptian State TV will be hosting an important announcement. Mubarak stepping down?
Now they are reporting the announcement will be made by the Speaker of the Egyptian Parliament. Mumbarak still MIA.
Any pictures of that guy they found in the trunk of that BMW?
In Chicago?
You mean the judge that originally threw Rahm off the ticket?
Will it be as important as the White House important announcements ("We're watching the situation closely")?
Considering that is is the Speaker of the Paliament is the one who would become interim president should mubarak resign or be incapable of ruling, it sounds like it be considerably more substantial.
Come on. The people are demanding an end to the government. Anyone looking at reform doesn't understand systemic collapse.
As interim president he would have the power to disband the current regime...guess we'll find out within the hour.
I predict Mubarak will announce that Egypt is secure in his safe hands... from Davos.
Some MSM fun...
Egypt govt denies disrupting websites - cabinet - RTRS26-Jan-2011 11:51
CAIRO, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Egypt's government denied that social media websites like Twitter and Facebook were disrupted, saying the government respected freedom of expression and sought to protect it, the cabinet spokesman said on Wednesday.
"The government would not resort to such methods," Magdy Rady said, after Egyptians complained Facebook and Twitter and other sites were being blocked and mobile networks were being disrupted.
Announcement released by mimeographed broadsides thrown from the roof of the telecommunications building.
If no luck, then I recommend you check all the sticky notes on the monitors for the FRBNY swap codes.
For timely updates on the "situation" on the ground in Egypt, please check out this Facebook page.
http://www.facebook.com/elshaheeed.co.uk
I can't get into it since I deleted my Facebook page, as of the 26th.
I'm deleting mine today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIw-ufWdWC8
Patrick Henry speech. Send this to everybody you know.
I would just like to say that although I am quite rich (not doubt do to my piety in the eyes of the one true Lord). I am not rich enough to be beheaded. TIA
noted. piety, not attention to grammar
should be
and by the way, that's pronounced "dew" not "doo".
Telephone rings:
Bang Dai-Ho: "Herrow.... Hosni? Me hear you have much trouble...tweet no work"
Hosni: "Yeah, well, pretty busy right now Bang...what's up?"
Bang Dai-Ho: "Me say, London no good for you"
Hosni: "Ummm....why do you say that?"
Bang Dai-Ho: "Me just say, have flend at new Shangai Depository name Acks-No Kweshun."
BAHAHA
haha :)
~Misstrial
The gold is still there. No one would dare take it since it's protected by the curse of the Mummy. Why, if someone were to take that gold, the Mummy would suck their soul from them, and turn them into a life sucking, walking undead ghoul, a caricature of ...
Hey, where the hell is Lloyd?
ha ha ha, great snippet td.
the answer to the tonnage question will be found at chester a. aurthur's grave i'm sure.
Wealthy reportedly getting in airplanes now. I suspect most of that 75 tons is missing by now
Well, yippie ki-yay, motherfucker!
succinct.
According to my traceroute, cbe.org.eg DNS entries have been removed. This goes beyond the Egyptian government simply cutting off the lines. It's been scrubbed worldwide.
It's targeting just the central bank because egypt.gov.eg DNS still resolves.
Oh yea, oh yea, oh yea. <1><2><3>. Trihump has poop for you. Flee and evade. If I have a flea, I evacuate 4 you.
Friday, January 28, 2011 5:00:15 PM RTRS - ASKED ABOUT CALMING THE SITUATION IN EGYPT, PARLIAMENT SPEAKER SAYS MATTERS ARE IN THE 'SAFE HANDS' OF PRESIDENT MUBARAK - TV
Is this Egypt or Allstate?
Obama couldn't get Mubarak on the line because
it has been busy. Apparently Mubarak had been
on the phone all day seeking an emergency
delivery of the Gulfstream G-Spot. It is a
slightly modified G550, the main differences are
that it can hold 10 fewer people, but more payload
load, with a specially designed cargo box that
can hold 5 tons of gold.
Epic thread is epic.
Attn Mr. Mubarak: Air Force One will be there in twenty five minutes to pick up you, your gold, gemstones, wives, wives shoes, and other assorted loot, er, personal possessions.
"Alas, nobody is picking up." Well Alas Alah, its Sat at 3am and weekend,...eh!
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/httpwwwcbeorgeg-not-responding-has-egyp...
The Bernank on the telephone with Saudi Arabia: "This is why we recommend any gold holdings be stored for safe keeping in the ultra safe New York Fed. You can count on your gold being safely stored regardless of any instability in your country".
Saudi Arabia: "What guarantee do I have JPM will not short future contracts prior to the NYF leasing out all my gold?"
Bernank: "I assure you, it will be Citi, not JPM so you can profit handsomely"
While we are wasting time filling buckets the bad guys are stealing the gold.
Obama already has the U.S. lode of gold crated and marked for shipment for his own self exile to his homeland of Kenya. He's taking Timmah and Bennie along to shine the bars and his knob.
seems internet back in egypt and that they are reading zerohedge:
15:39 29Jan11 -ARMY REPEL HUNDREDS OF PROTESTERS WHO ATTACKED ENTRANCE OF A CENTRAL BANK-RELATED BUILDING IN CAIRO SUBURB-WITNESS
15:47 29Jan11 -Army repel protesters at Egypt c.bank related building
CAIRO, Jan 29 (Reuters) - The Egyptian army used tanks and fired shots in the air to force back hundreds of protesters who were attacking the entrance to a building related to the Central Bank in a suburb of Cairo on Saturday, a witness said.
The protesters, who were using wooden planks to try to break into the building, which prints paper money, fled after seeing the tanks approach and hearing the shots. (Editing by Alison Williams)
Keywords: EGYPT/PROTEST BANK
Saturday, 29 January 2011 15:39:51RTRS [nLDE70S0DM] {C}ENDS