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Thanks for the coffee mug Banzai...I love it!!!
Wow that was fast! Enjot it my friend.
STASI in THE USSA!
"The actual spot price of gold" uhhh, I don't think that has existed for decades. The price a bank pays for gold, the price a pension fund pays for gold, and the price and individual pays for the same physical bullion bar are all different. What the day traders will pay and what hedge funds will pay uh well lots of luck. I suggest a dart board then make an offer based on what price the dart hits. The market is pretty much Algos, Algore, and Alligators.
...other than that, everything is better than ever! - J. Dimon
http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130528134559-257626722-the-...
Read at your own risk.
Worthy of a banzai attack.
...other than that, everything is better than ever! - J. Dimon
http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130528134559-257626722-the-...
Read at your own risk.
Worthy of a banzai attack.
Thanks William.
eknanreb uoy kcuf
Kudos on the mailing label.
A little off topic - but reality imitates political satire - union fat cats (WB7 thought you might like this)
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/labor_big_real_heavy_sleeper_jl3C7gI710FI3XqpEl5o3O
love it, looks like a chicken broiler
You r what U eat
Thx
I am speechless.
Let me add this. There are some who say this kind of obesity is a natural disease. If you looked like that in natural conditions you would be dead in 2 hours. Moreover, you would not be able to kill or forage enough food to support that weight. Have you ever seen an aboriginal or other nomadic tribesman who looks like that?
It must be the Big Gulps he's been downing.
If Mike Bloomberg had his way, Jabba the Hutt would never have played a starring role.
Fema will serve politically correct portions of rice.
no doubt bad diet is a part of that, eating to excess to handle stress instead of having a nice healthy smoking habit :D
In any case I always suspect the endocrine disruption from pollution in the water in America but some people eat like cows and wonder why they're cow-sized.
If the supposed gold at Ft. Knox supposedly belongs to the people, how was it paid for? taxes? theft? Has it always belonged to the banks, in stealth, and that's why there's no audits cause TPTB know it?
If there were a bunch og Gold in Ft. Knox, who does it belong to? Exactly who is, "the people"?
If the Gold is not in my pocket and I can't go out and spend it, or put it into my bank account or buy some stock in a company to earn something on it as opposed to spending it, is it mine?
Or is someone holding up Ft. Knox as a big pot of gold at the end of some rainbow that they hope I will keep chasing after all my life, rather than be smart enough to get my own? When you have your own little pot of Gold at least no one can manipulate it, they have to short someone else's gold!
everyone in ky knows theres no gold in ft knox thats driven by it, if there was they might preasure wash the stone and weed eat some times
"No Gold in Fort Knox." Really; how does she know, if "no one can get in to check on it?" How many of you ZHer's believe her? Green = yes; Red = no. We'll see................
The question one has to ask is not has each bit of this been verified by independent experts, the media, or some other body. The question is: is what she is describing so incongruous with what we now know to be true that it must be some over blown fantasy.
The answer, given what we know and what we are now seeing, is that much of what she is saying rings very very true and is certainly not a fantasy.
And the question of how much gold is in the vaults and why it should not be independently audited is one big Central Bankster game of three card Monty.
Funny how a simple audit would answer that question. One has to wonder why CONgress is afraid of such a simply task then...
And ya did get the little krugman moon in there. Very alert.
In England the Taxi driver says they are privatising the courts and the prisons.
Krugmoon- LOL!
The shame of it is that he makes more in a month than I will for the rest of my life- but I'm not going to sell my soul to make money.
You couldn't sell your soul for money if you tried.
I don't know how to say this so I'll just come right out and say it -- your soul was comingled with some other souls and rehypothecated into Hell so that Jon Corzine could be made whole in the who-goes-to-heaven department.
We're planning a class-action lawsuit. Expect a letter.
I would.
BANZAI7 NEWS--A Starbucks’ coffee shop in the heart of Hong Kong’s financial district was recently discovered to be brewing coffee with water from a parking garage bathroom faucet ever since it opened in October 2011. The unsavory revelation has sparked outrage and drawn criticism from clientele and other locals who always suspected bankers were drinking some kind of shit.
A UBS Banker relieves himself after being shocked by his pay raise.
This is after drinking Hong Kong Starbucks...
Old Chinese Proverb: "He who use newspaper for toilet paper get ink on @$$"
LOL damn!!
I hear chinamen don't wash their hands.
Reminds me of a story from a plumbing contractor magazine. Guests were getting sick at a luxury resort in Asia. A consultant was called in. He tested the water.
Turned out the designer-label bottled water supplied in all the guest rooms was contaminated with fecal bacteria. Whereas the tap water from the bathroom faucet was just fine.
His temporary reco: empty all the purchased bottled water and refill the bottles with tap water. Problem solved.
Banzai you are killing me, rolmao.
ubiquitous - existing or being everywhere at the same time
Wow. That's like.... wow...
WB7 - you be like a graphics god or something?
Like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Stigmata_of_Palmer_Eldritch
How To Lie Like An Attorney General, ha !
Brilliant
And everybody be sure to catch the upside-down postal mailing label on the magazine cover above
The small touches on second look, are a particular genius of the humour of WB7
Can you imagine if there was a "truth" button on Google News?
World Bank Insider Blows Whistle on Corruption, Federal Reserve
Written by Alex Newman
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A former insider at the World Bank, ex-Senior Counsel Karen Hudes, says the global financial system is dominated by a small group of corrupt, power-hungry figures centered around the privately owned U.S. Federal Reserve. The network has seized control of the media to cover up its crimes, too, she explained. In an interview with The New American, Hudes said that when she tried to blow the whistle on multiple problems at the World Bank, she was fired for her efforts. Now, along with a network of fellow whistleblowers, Hudes is determined to expose and end the corruption. And she is confident of success.Your name:
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Citing an explosive 2011 Swiss study published in the PLOS ONE journal on the “network of global corporate control,” Hudes pointed out that a small group of entities — mostly financial institutions and especially central banks — exert a massive amount of influence over the international economy from behind the scenes. “What is really going on is that the world’s resources are being dominated by this group,” she explained, adding that the “corrupt power grabbers” have managed to dominate the media as well. “They’re being allowed to do it.”
According to the peer-reviewed paper, which presented the first global investigation of ownership architecture in the international economy, transnational corporations form a “giant bow-tie structure.” A large portion of control, meanwhile, “flows to a small tightly-knit core of financial institutions.” The researchers described the core as an “economic ‘super-entity’” that raises important issues for policymakers and researchers. Of course, the implications are enormous for citizens as well.
Hudes, an attorney who spent some two decades working in the World Bank’s legal department, has observed the machinations of the network up close. “I realized we were now dealing with something known as state capture, which is where the institutions of government are co-opted by the group that’s corrupt,” she told The New American in a phone interview. “The pillars of the U.S. government — some of them — are dysfunctional because of state capture; this is a big story, this is a big cover up.”
At the heart of the network, Hudes said, are 147 financial institutions and central banks — especially the Federal Reserve, which was created by Congress but is owned by essentially a cartel of private banks. “This is a story about how the international financial system was secretly gamed, mostly by central banks — they’re the ones we are talking about,” she explained. “The central bankers have been gaming the system. I would say that this is a power grab.”
The Fed in particular is at the very center of the network and the coverup, Hudes continued, citing a policy and oversight body that includes top government and Fed officials. Central bankers have also been manipulating gold prices, she added, echoing widespread concerns that The New American has documented extensively. Indeed, even the inaccurate World Bank financial statements that Hudes has been trying to expose are linked to the U.S. central bank, she said.
“The group that we’re talking about from the Zurich study — that’s the Federal Reserve; it has some other pieces to it, but that’s the Federal Reserve,” Hudes explained. “So the Federal Reserve secretly dominated the world economy using secret, interlocking corporate directorates, and terrorizing anybody who managed to figure out that they were having any kind of role, and putting people in very important positions so that they could get a free pass.”
The shadowy but immensely powerful Bank for International Settlements serves as “the club of these private central bankers,” Hudes continued. “Now, are people going to want interest on their country’s debts to continue to be paid to that group when they find out the secret tricks that that group has been doing? Don’t forget how they’ve enriched themselves extraordinarily and how they’ve taken taxpayer money for the bailout.”
As far as intervening in the gold price, Hudes said it was an effort by the powerful network and its central banks to “hold onto its paper currency” — a suspicion shared by many analysts and even senior government officials. The World Bank whistleblower also said that contrary to official claims, she did not believe there was any gold being held in Fort Knox. Even congressmen and foreign governments have tried to find out if the precious metals were still there, but they met with little success. Hudes, however, believes the scam will eventually come undone.
“This is like crooks trying to figure out where they can go hide. It’s a mafia,” she said. “These culprits that have grabbed all this economic power have succeeded in infiltrating both sides of the issue, so you will find people who are supposedly trying to fight corruption who are just there to spread disinformation and as a placeholder to trip up anybody who manages to get their act together.… Those thugs think that if they can keep the world ignorant, they can bleed it longer.”
Of course, the major corruption at the highest levels of government and business is not a new phenomenon. Georgetown University historian and Professor Carroll Quigley, who served as President Bill Clinton’s mentor, for example, wrote about the scheme in his 1966 book Tragedy And Hope: A History Of The World In Our Time. The heavyweight academic, who was allowed to review documents belonging to the top echelons of the global establishment, even explained how the corrupt system would work — remarkably similar to what Hudes describes.
"The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole,” wrote Prof. Quigley, who agreed with the goals but not the secrecy. “This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world's central banks which were themselves private corporations."
But it is not going to happen, Hudes said — at least not if she has something do to with it. While the media are dominated by the “power grabber” network, Hudes has been working with foreign governments, reporters, U.S. officials, state governments, and a broad coalition of fellow whistleblowers to blow the entire scam wide open. There has been quite a bit of interest, too, particularly among foreign governments and state officials in the United States.
Citing the wisdom of America’s Founding Fathers in creating a federal system of government with multiple layers of checks and balances, Hudes said she was confident that the network would eventually be exposed and subjected to the rule of law, stopping the secret corruption. If and when that happens — even if it may be disorderly — Hudes says precious metals will once again play a role in imposing discipline on the monetary system. The rule of law would also be restored, she said, and the public will demand a proper press to stay informed.
“We’re going to have a cleaned-up financial system, that’s where it is going, but in the meantime, people who didn’t know how the system was gamed are going to find out,” she said. “We’re going to have a different kind of international financial system.... It’ll be a new kind of world where people know what’s going on — no more backroom deals; that’s not going to keep happening. We’re going to have a different kind of media if people don’t want to be dominated and controlled, which I don’t think they do.”
While Hudes sounded upbeat, she recognizes that the world is facing serious danger right now — there are even plans in place to impose martial law in the United States, she said. The next steps will be critical for humanity. As such, Hudes argues, it is crucial that the people of the world find out about the lawlessness, corruption, and thievery that are going on at the highest levels — and put a stop to it once and for all. The consequences of inaction would be disastrous.
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Alex Newman, a foreign correspondent for The New American, is currently based in Europe. He can be reached at anewman@thenewamerican.comFuture News Flash? "Karen Hudes killed in freak auto accident."
That was my first thought; great minds and all that. I emailed the author and asked if any of the news services had picked this up and he answered me 'no, but not surprising since Hudes accuses the media of complicity.' If this is legit, it essentially is what everyone on ZH has been railing against for the last 5 years. I hope folks will share this with their friends/families. Good luck, WS 2009
She will get the conspiracy theorist ding bat treatment, unless she has a big file, then she is a real threat.
But there really is nothing remarkable or new about what she is saying if you are a fringe Zero Hedge low brow, is there?
We are hearing the same message now from so many diverse quarters that we are beyond the polite lying phase and deep into the grab everything you can off the table before all hell breaks loose phase.
There are files. What's remarkable is that she was Sr. Counsel to the WB and is in a position to know what is happening. I applaud her courage and wish her success. If she comes out on this, we all come out on this!
She was on Prison Planet tv and interviewed by Alex Jones on his radio show this week. She is optimistic about the future.
That would be fucking awesome! Have side by side columns with "Untruth" and "Truth".
I'd laugh my ass off!
I would pay to see it.
I can see it now, 10 Million down arrows to 3 or 4 up arrows...
Does anyone know of a website that displays the actual spot price of Gold instead of Kitco's manipulated paper spot price?
http://www.forex-markets.com/quotes.htm