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Tunisia Wants Its Gold Back, Issues International Arrest Warrant For Runaway President Ben Ali
Even as the situation in Tunisia continues deteriorating broadly, the country realizes that it needs its shiny assets back, and needs them fast, regardless of edibility or recent market corrections. As such it has just issued an international arrest warrant for deposed president Ben Ali. From the BBC: "Mr Chebbi said Mr Ben Ali should be tried for property theft and transferring foreign currency." We can't repeat enough: any dictatorial or Hewlett Packardian banana republic should make sure all of its gold is secure. In fact, since we are positive all of the gold, pardon, tungsten held at Ft. Knox is right there, it may be a good idea to put tracker beacons in the fake material. We are confident that sooner or later it will lead the broader population to not only the Textron vehicle used for one way transit, but to which non-extradition countries will soon be hosting our very own versions of the Tunisian President.
From the BBC:
Tunisia has issued an international arrest warrant for ousted President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and his family, the nation's justice minister has said.
Lazhar Karoui Chebbi said Tunisia had asked Interpol to detain Mr Ben Ali, who fled to Saudi Arabia earlier this month amid mass street protests.
Mr Chebbi said Mr Ben Ali should be tried for property theft and transferring foreign currency.
He was speaking as anti-government protests continued in the country.
In the capital Tunis, some of the protesters had apparently tried to breach barricades around the main government compound, and police responded by firing tear gas.
'Cleaning up'Mr Chebbi said Mr Ben Ali and his family members were being being sought for "illegal acquisition" of assets and "illicit transfers of funds abroad.
The minister added that seven family members were currently in custody, but several more had fled abroad.
In a separate development, protesters in Tunis clashed with police outside the government building.
The demonstrators - mainly young men and teenagers - demanded the resignation of the interim government led by Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi,.
The protesters said the cabinet was full of Mr Ben Ali's former allies, including Mr Ghannouchi.
"We have only one demand: for the government to fall. They all have to go. Ghannouchi should go first," protester Bassem El Barouni was quoted as saying by the AFP news agency.
Hamid El Gribi, another protester, said: "We have to clean up the rest of the old government."
Mr Ghannouchi has promised elections within six months, saying he will quit "in the shortest possible timeframe".
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I bet he can easily bribe his way out of deportation... anyone want the other side of this?
When the international medias and the local crowd are against you, it is generally very difficult to avoid prosecution and even death. Unless you have a secret bunker buried in the Sandwich islands.
Not really true TGP. Take the case of Baby Doc of Haiti. Or the Panamanian Strongman, or Idi A-mean. There is always a host country willing and able to provide you sanctuary. Whether for a price or a later prize.
All world leaders, bar none, take their walking and talking orders from the people that propped them into place. Again, see Baby Doc. Brought out of exile after so many years, surprise surprise, once the statute of limitations has expired. While Aristide cannot return.
And the Haitian people are struck dumb, locked in a cognitively dissonate place. Baby Doc is back....to run? Be punished? What?
It's a game!
ORI
http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2010/12/20/i-met-the-mother-of-cognitive...
Larry king interviews Hillary about bankers who are "on the run"
http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/8290775/- more on u2B sonoma bank
on Wed, 01/26/2011 - 08:17
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When the international medias and the local crowd are against you, it is generally very difficult to avoid prosecution and even death. Unless you have a secret bunker buried in the Sandwich islands.
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TheGreatPonzi,
You are pinning your hopes to the International Media and the peoples will.
The official story, as provided... maybe if the message is allowed to be real?
I would bet more on the will of the people, someone finds him somewhere someday drinking his coffee.
But in reality both are doubtful, as new demons now command his old station and they will soon absorb all the newly minted hatred.
The people forget, in almost all cases and have new demons to chase in the shadows… as provided.
HAHAHA!!
He's so safe in Europe, you just can't believe it.
Political Asylum! IF YOU CAN PROVE THEY ARE AFTER YOU BECAUSE OF YOUR POLITICAL BELIEVES, YOU CAN STAY!
He just has to show some Youtube footage and he's got his greencard. Like it or not, they are homefree.
He's silly: Who would choose gold over the almighty FRN?
Tunisia could always hire Blackwater mercs, issue a letter of marque and reprisal and offer say 20% of th recovered gold as the finders fee.
and what happens when they figure just easier to take the remaining Tunisian gold and call it a day?
Some people will get a damn good laugh then. Some people will just call it justice.
Then the target moves their own backs. After they are dead or in custody, those who retrieved it this time are still allowed 20% of the total.
Not rocket science.
It may also help to rent a low level diplomat from the State Dept, no one will dig very deep when his convoy is "attacked" while passing Ben Ali's place and everybody gets liquidated.
BYOB (BRiNG YouR oWN BuLLioN)
BYOB
Bullion, You're Only Backup :>)
"We have only one demand: for the government to fall. They all have to go. Ghannouchi should go first," protester Bassem El Barouni was quoted as saying by the AFP news agency.
Hamid El Gribi, another protester, said: "We have to clean up the rest of the old government."
God Willing!
By now I'm sure he's being pampered at the Waldorf....far away from all this platitude.
At this point and time on the insanity spectrum, the more world wide chaos, the better. I do not wish ill will on anyone, but there is a price tag for insanity. And our Federal Reserve Bank chairman has lost his mind...so...
We effectively live in an insane world. Everything which happens today is very new and strange compared to previous decades, and those who lived them will know I don't lie.
The Maghreb, for example, has been ruled by the same dictators for 30 years. Imagining them fleeing their country like vulgar tyrans with gold in their sack would have been impossible just a few years ago.
That's why I believe in hyperinflation. The unthinkable can and will happen, because reality and the laws of nature demand it. Many great, smart and powerful civilizations failed before.
All you have to do is open a few books. This world is BEYOND insane. Problem is, we've been warned about this for centuries. History will continue repeating itself until "the final tipping point" when this materially obsessed reality collapses on itself. It's too bad the people have to bear the weight - but it's their fault, no?
With material primacy comes spirital and moral degradation. We've no spirit or morals left unfortunately. With money as god comes things like social sciences in which human beings are simply viewed as an unconscious mass to be manipulated in an artificial money-making system.
But people love it. They love being a statistic. They love their little world compartmentalized into Ziploc bags. They love defining themselves by pointing outward - at their Lexus, their iPod touch (BUT IT HAS A CUSTOM SKIN, DAWG). It may take another century, but this whole system will be its own demise and the people who allowed it to come to fruition their watch will go with it.
Whether you read prophesy or just history the fact of the matter is inevitable.
I don't want the market to collapse or anything, I just want a return to one, in which you can count on the DJIA going down on bad news, and up on good. This constant, relentless incline, and outright manipulation has just turned the market into a complete joke.
Unfortunately, I don't think we'll get the latter without the former happening.
if ever the markets were "only" down on bad news and "up" on good news
even you would have become millionaire in the markets as exactly everybody
else. its not as easy as that ;-)
if thats your world view id recomend you not to trade in any markets at all ;-)
AND Obama is a whore! All this hubub about the missing gold....why do they care? Gold is a bubble and due for huge pullback and ye cant eats it.
Why would they want the gold back - they can't eat it can they?
Because they are barbarians. Duh.
Just cause its shiny and they want their bling back...but hell everyone knows golds not worth anything really!
As such it has just issued an international arrest warrant for deposed president Ben Ali. From the BBC: "Mr Chebbi said Mr Ben Ali should be tried for property theft and transferring foreign currency."
Wait a minute! Isn't the Bernank's middle name "Ali"??
Holy crap, it's the same guy!!
Baby I got your money, don't you worry, say hey!
I must say that I am amazed that it only seems to take 2 or 3 days of "street protests" to get these folkers to flee the country.
Contrary to the West, street protests elsewhere generally involve genuine violence, murders and pillage. Plus, Ben Ali and Mubarak have both been abandoned by their Army and police who refused to follow orders.
TheGreatPonzi nails it.
Our "street protests" in the West last only as long as the nearest Starbucks has enough coffee to fuel it...then they disband and all go to Facebook to talk of their "revolutionary actions".
So far. The real pissed off people havent protested yet.
They just go shopping at Safeway instead.
There hasn't been violent protest in the U.S. since around 1864. It's not even in the DNA anymore. As long as they can watch American Idol on weeknights and football games on the weekend, the average American will willingly don his serf hat and go work for Massa Blankfein all day long, lawdy lawdy.
Ben Ali was told to leave.
There are riots and bombe attacks everyday in Afghanistan and Irak but still
Karzaï and Talabani remain presidents.
Yeah, me too. Get the feeling there is more to this story?
I think Tunisia should put a bounty on Ben Ali. Anybody who successfully capture Ben Ali and send him back to Tunisia will be rewarded with part of the gold.
he'd be found in 15 minutes if they did that!
If I were his bodyguard, I would turn him in for the bounty.
oh they just got a big big raise...really big I am sure..
tumdiedum...waiting for Egypt to have its leader err dictator ousted out by the people...
They may get the man back, but the gold? It will not be seen again.
You're right. He's probably eating it as we speak.
Seriously though, how many billions of never-to-be recovered funds and cool shit are sitting in Swiss Banks right now?
Anyone? Bueller?
there is still a lot from WWII....but I think the Asians and the Middle East have their own storage now....
Is the name "Tunisia" not derived from Tungsten & Isia (The Lord helps me), so "The Lord helps me on Tungsten"?
But "isia" could also mean: "International Ski Instructor Association or "Irish Security Industry Association" or "Information and Software Industry Association".
You know...I give up.
Atunismia....( A Tun Is MIA ) (Tonne?)
"transferring foreign currency"?
But I've been told numerous times that gold isn't money.
Right, these world leaders must be crazy, buying up all the gold or stealing it when their people are about to hang them. What do they want with gold when they could have SPY futures?
Once in a while we get a break from the nonsense:
http://www.commodityonline.com/news/US-Senators-to-introduce-bills-to-repeal-rules-opposed-by-gold-dealers-35959-3-1.html
For real though!!! I mean, "it doesn't have any intrinsic value! It's just a barbarous relic!"
Fuck you, I ate it.
Or bullet to the back of the head, except for the most "loyal." I'd rather be untraceable if I were him, than protected by fallible fellow humans. Or at least fallible humans who knew my story and were still connected somehow to others back in Tunisia.
A new start!
They will be told,you can have your gold back.
For future security reason we will have to keep the
gold in store for you but no worry here is a receipt
that the gold is your.
ponzi bitchez.
Just hang out in Switzerland, even a "my dick is that small I have to use the back door" pedophile gets special treatment there.
Oh wait, I'm guessing Ben Ali isn't jewish?
Nevermind.
Polanski is Jewish?
The dirty, stinky, never to be sufficiently damned, French love him too.
The French oligarchy loves Polanski, the French people hate him.
To put the age old myth that gold is inedible to rest I provide the following link:
From pasta to pastries:
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&source=imghp&biw=1277&bih=626&q=edible+gold&gbv=2&aq=f&aqi=g9&aql=&oq=
I suspect President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and his family are munching down this very moment the 1.5 tonnes they looted from the treasury, happily spinning gold leaf into polished golden turds untraceable by even the most tenacious goldbug or central banker.
double post.
The Saudis already called "dibs" on that shit. 1.6 tons - 52k ounces... Consider that bullion SOLD! BOOYAH! "The JP Morgue" already gave the Saudis & Ali a premium on the physical from their discounted wholesale paper rate. Sitting at the LBMA wrapped in "The JP Morgue" yellow tape and already short leveraged 10X on the paper market!
Tunisia will never see an ounce of that shit! Unless they get some kind of kick-ass Chuck Norris Delta Team to steal it back from the LBMA. "The Bernank's" already figured it into his daily POMO buys this past Monday.
No wonder gold has dropped against currencies the last few days.
Now would be a good time for Ben Ali to buy some tungsten bars to send back.
Ben Ali says the gold is his back pay for all the dictating!
Where is interpol?
Still patting themselves on the back?
If Ben Ali had some broken condoms in his possession, well...
Tungsten bars are about as useful as the real deal so he should just argue that they should be worth more given the additional manufacturing steps.
And here I thought gold was a worthless old relic that doesn't earn any interest or something. I just don't understand what the Tunisian gov't is worried about. Besides, I'm sure the IMF will be there to rescue them.
Those PTB who are short have access to an unlimited amount of fiat dollars...wake up! The long side has a FINITE amount of dollars.
Thus, the price of gold and silver in fiat can go to essentially zero.
Taper your hopes. This is difficult to swallow, especially if you thirst for justice, or its your nest egg. The clever corrupted oligarch king of the earth can do as he pleases. You'll likely need to hold on to PM's until the proper time to iquidate them after the new currency arrives, regardless of whether they are only partially backed by gold (or a basket of currencies, commodities, etc).
Consider strongly that gold just might be supressed until the new currency arrives. This is important, because this was likely the plan from the beginning, to be able to reboot a new ponzi. It is important to know that the same old tricks will be used. They can't go pure 100 percent gold redeemable, because eventually they would lose their gold in purchasing the labor they need. Fiat is coming around again...bet on it. Different name, same game. Not enough people are educated, no matter what we WANT to believe. The game has been refined. The only way out it is now a wild card event to occur. Perhaps, peak everything, maybe another human bottlenect in history, mass earth upheavel, hadron collider sucks us into its newly formed blackhole!
I can smell it's the U.S. and their IMF doppleganger that's throwing the gauntlet down and suppressing AU prices for long enough time so they can set up that blue dollar, or bancor, or whatever they may want to call it up and in people's hands. Regardless of peak oil, what we have is peak ignorance, and once it's there, they can make most of chumps into infinity.. The american public will eagerly fall in line with the new improved semi-fiat (temporary until made pure fiat again). Those countries that use this new currency won't confiscate AU physically, they will simply, with the publics consent, make it impossible to trade, make liquid, or move through capital controls. Cache in at that time, or you'll be saving it for 4 generations later.
Yes, the cyclical ponzi lives and breaths as long as there is humanity. Just teach your children to recognize the cycle, symptoms, and the truth that allows them not to let it consume them spiritually.
I totally agree with you, but I have a different take on it. I think that when the hammer comes down on our currency and essentially the Euro also, they will have a plan in the US at least to have two currencies. One for international dealings and trade and the other for internal consumption. This way the US will be able to still trade with the rest of the world when this new currency will be based on a basket of commodities. And for the internal one (our dollars), it will be inflation city if not hyperinflation and we will be living in a controlled economy. Trust me it won't be good for the people living in the US but it will be good for the ones that run the govt. and was able to paper over all the entitlements and promises via inflationary fiat money that can only be used in one place (like monopoly money). Then for the countries and banks that have billions if not trillions of dollars of our dollar denominated bonds and assets, there will be a bargain cut and deals made with the new currency and with what they will give them as collateral. So that they will still be able to trade with the US and one another.
The dollar will be dead for trade outside of the US is what I believe in the very near future. And it's use only in the US and the possibility that they will make it illegal for citizens to hold the new currency shows how far that they will go. These new data retention this and that and spying wiretaps and the rest are being done in order to keep us in and under control in the US. Because they know that it won't be pleasant for the regular american citizen for decades as the new economic model comes into being. And what the new economic model will be? It will be one of Neofeudalism with a twist.