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US Set To Alienate Angry Germany Next, As Crackdown Shifts From BNP To Commerzbank, Deutsche Bank
As we reported over the weekend in "By "Punishing" France, The US Just Accelerated The Demise Of The Dollar", following the record $9 billion fine against French BNP, the outcry has been fast and furious, with virtually everyone in the local chain of command, from the CEO of Total to the head of the Bank of France (and ECB member) Christian Noyer, all saying that the US is now clearly abusing the reserve power of the dollar and it is time to move away from a dollar-based reserve currency (how that jives with concurrent French demands for a lower EUR is a different, incomprehensible matter entirely).
It appears that having pushed France forcefully into the Russia-China Eurasian, and anti-US camp, the US will now do the same with Germany. Because after infuriating the German population by first refusing to return their gold contained (the legend goes) at the New York Fed, and then with scandal after spying scandal, most recently involving the CIA directly soliciting a German double agent, now the time has come to "punish" Germany's largest banks for the same kind of money laundering that BNP was engaged in. As the NYT and Reuters report, the time has come to shift away from the BNP scandal and focus on what will soon be the Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank fallout.
According to the NYT, the money laundering crackdown is "bound for another European financial center: Germany. State and federal authorities have begun settlement talks with Commerzbank, Germany’s second-largest lender, over the bank’s dealings with Iran and other countries blacklisted by the United States, according to people briefed on the matter. The bank, which is suspected of transferring money through its American operations on behalf of companies in Iran and Sudan, could strike a settlement deal with the state and federal authorities as soon as this summer, said the people briefed on the matter, who were not authorized to speak publicly.
The contours of a settlement, which the authorities have only begun to sketch out, are expected to include at least $500 million in penalties for Commerzbank, the people added. Although prosecutors were still weighing punishments, the people briefed on the matter said that the bank would most likely face a so-called deferred prosecution agreement, which would suspend criminal charges in exchange for the financial penalty and other concessions.
It's not just Commerzbank - a settlement with the smaller bank will merely pave the way for the punishment of the biggest bank of all (in terms of groiss derivative notional held): Deutsche Bank.
A potential deal with Commerzbank — which is expected to pave the way for a separate settlement with Deutsche Bank, Germany’s largest bank — would pale in comparison to the case announced last week against France’s biggest bank, BNP Paribas. The French bank agreed to pay a record $8.9 billion penalty and plead guilty to criminal charges for processing transactions on behalf of Sudan and other countries that America has hit with sanctions, a rare criminal action against a financial giant.
As NYT adds, correctly, "The Commerzbank investigation features an added twist: The bank is 17 percent owned by the German government. It is unclear whether — as in the BNP case, which led French authorities to intervene on the bank’s behalf — the settlement talks could inflame diplomatic tensions between Washington and Berlin."
Of course, since this is the ridiculous "scorched earth" diplomatic policy, if one may call it that, of the Obama administration, nobody is surprised any more that the US president is alienating one former ally after another.
As we first observed a few weeks ago when we revealed JPM's involvement in all of this money laundering, "some critics have questioned why American authorities have set their eye on European banks. The answer, authorities say, is that American banks by and large avoided processing transactions for Iran and Sudan. But American banks are not immune from touching dirty money. Citigroup’s Banamex unit is under investigation for processing money linked to a drug cartel. And in January, JPMorgan Chase reached a roughly $2 billion deal with the authorities over ignoring signs of the Ponzi scheme orchestrated by Bernard L. Madoff, who held accounts at the bank for over two decades."
Not only that but as we wrote over the weekend, the bank that was instrumental in facilitating BNP's money laundering for nearly a decade was none other than JPM. One wonders if JPM also "unwittingly" was the bank that made German money laundering around the globe possible. Did we mention unwittingly?
Still, while one can debate the idiocy of US foreign policy, eager to push European allies into the willing hands of Russia and China at the worst possible moment, when regional and civil wars and conflicts are suddenly breaking out across all key geopolitical hotspots, one wonders: in the case of BNP, the "fine" was as a result of French unwillingness to halt the Russian amphibious warship deal despite US demands. So it would be curious just what the US blackmail against German banks is for: one really does wonder just what punishment Angela Merkel deserves behind the scenes in the eyes of John Kerry et clueless al, to punish her and Germany so blatantly for the entire world to see.
One thing is clear: if the US thinks that Germany will continue to consider America its BFF and make zero contingency plans for when the alliance with the US finally crashes and burns, it will be truly surprised when the Eurasian alliance of Russia and China finally announces its final, all-important, missing link member: the manufacturing and export powerhouse that is Germany itself.
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I really hope that Germany finally grows some balls and tells the U.S to go F... themseves !
Long overdue.
This is hilarious, we really do have a bunch of imbeciles running our govt, they are buying their own exceptionalism BS and acting like the playground bully
Studies have repeatedly shown lesser chimps will gang up on a bully alpha male. If you act like a bully chump expect to get treated like one USA!!!
Schäuble once said (the cenile old man had a moment of clairity)
"Germany has not been sovereign since May 1945."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhvjq_4v3Ng
The paper itself is behind a paywall, but the abstract is fascinating:
Germany will keep siding with the US as long as the US keeps the Petrodollar afloat and can exert pressure on the Bund. When this goes away, and the US cannot either pay for its military presence there, nor exert economic pressure on Germany, is the point when Germany (and all her "client" states) will go Eurasian and quickly.
At this point it will be interesting to see if Poland learns from history, or makes the same mistake again.
The Poles like their dollar masters, they will never say no to the toilet paper currency.
Bullshit. the Pols will go where Germany goes.
We can only hope--
However history tells us otherwise. Time will tell.
Trust me, Poland knows which side their chleb is buttered.
I agree. Poland hated Stalin and the Russians more than it did Hitler and Germans from what I've been told by children of Polish parents who were there during WW II.
And Merkel is very chummy with Putin and is probably fed up with Obozo and his gay politics fucking up NATO.
The winters get very cold in Germany and Poland too.
OT, but while they are alienating Germany and France, this should help to further infuriate Russia.
http://rt.com/news/171188-russian-hacker-kidnapped-america/
Holy fucking shit. Who the hell is calling the foreign policy shots in D.C.? They really have gone insane.
Do as I say, not as I do.
http://biopower.cleantechnology-business-review.com/news/world-eco-energ...
I guess rules only apply to certain people.
Time for Russia to start arresting US banksters on fraud charges.
The US has far more juicy targets abroad than Russia.
Actually history doesn't. It does seem rather odd that in the 90's we were never going after Japanese banks when they had their back against the wall.
I get the feeling the EU isn't going to be around for much longer. They're more beholden to the petro dollar with that currency than anyone.
Given that the USA has the bulk of all their oil...plus is wiping out there refinery complex...plus has Tesla's, plus has energy costs that are in fact falling, plus have private energy companies that are scaled, plus a Federal Government that is all about the drilling, plus a war effort where we're barely containing the extremist horde...plus we really don't care anymore, plus...
"energy costs that are in fact falling"
LOL, so are PMs ...
P.S. " USA has the bulk of all their oil..."
Where are they keeping "all this oil" the middleast?
That is a confused mess disabledvet, really abstruse. Where you get your info. on the EU eludes me, it cannot be MSM in the US which couldn't find Berlaymont on a clear day. The EU might not be around but then neither will NATO and the US will be able to roll up its bases and that building site in Clay Kaserne in Mainz-Kastel can be repatriated to the NSA, and the $30 million shopping centre being built in WI-Hainerberg can be mothballed.
This is not a game the US can win. It simply does not have the ability to hold together its postwar order any longer. It is insolvent and top-heavy with institutional ignorance embodied in John McCain on one hand and Kerry and Nuland on the other. It is Amateur Hour and we thought Jimmy Carter and Andrew Young were hick........
The fact is the EU will probably survive because there is nowhere else to go. Britain is hardly relevant as it is a giant colony of the US run by puppets in London much as the Norman Overlords ran the place after 1066. Germany is tired of being occupied ....the Soviets left and went home.
With GPS being so deviant nowadays and some areas not even showing up maybe we should switch to GLONASS now that Russia and China are merging their GPS systems ?
still seems to be all by design to me. These events may be part of the plan to instigate WWIII between us and our European ex-allies.
The traitors in our government, the puppets of the globalists, may be thinking the sheeple are so retarded by now that they will believe the government story that we need to go to war against Europe because Russian, Germany, France, China, etc. are all waging monetary war against the American dollar which is causing all of the sheeples hardship, loss of jobs, lower wages, higher prices/inflation, etc.
The globalists, in their sick and twisted way, would love to see a war between us. The formula has always worked in their favor before. They pitted England and France against each other...the examples go on and on throughout history.
And only very few people know and understand how the .01% ruling banksters are always the ones behind the wars (Remember: All Wars Are Banker Wars), and they always win and prosper and gain more power and wealth no matter who wins or loses the wars, right? They have always survived behind the scenes to live on generation after generation in hidden rule and power over the rest of the world...no matter what.
So maybe they grow bored of the current world set up and finally want to see America implode and lose a major war. Maybe they just want to put us to the test after so many years since WWII to see how we would do against Europe, China and Russia all at once? Who knows? They win no matter the outcome and even if they want us to win and we lose or the other way around it matters not to them. It's all part of the world-wide game to them. We're just pawns in it. Entire continents are pawns in their game, so what do they care?
I mean, it's blatantly obvious America is being squeezed in the vice now from every single angle imaginable, are we not? They're deliberately cornering us, and they know what happens to a trapped, cornered, desperate animal. So maybe they want to see what our D.C. sociopaths will eventually do or what the American people will do when finally pushed too far.
And it's obvious that this same plan is being enacted against Europe and the Middle East as well.
Maybe they know that they've created a fat, bloated, spoiled, ignorant, diseased society and they feel we need a kick in the ass and a punch in the face to wake us up and get us back on course again? Who knows? Maybe there are some good globalists who want to see us lean, mean and strong again? There might actually be certain globalists in power who are on our side against the evil globalists who want to see us lose. It's their game and maybe that's how they play it. No hard feelings between them in the end no matter who wins or loses. They reset the global playing board and start over again for the next 100 to 200 years.
Maybe they want to make sure this all happens. Hegelian Dialectic style. They want a certain outcome for America or the rest of the world; so they scheme to destroy it and bring us to our knees, take away what's left of our Constitutional rights, etc.
So they seem to be purposely creating the economic collapse to create the chaos and the implosion of society, to mandate martial law, to then act as our saviors and protectors while rounding up all us non-Marxist patriot "folks" who stand in their way, and then to recreate the society and enact their form of socialist/fascist, tyrannical state controlled government worse than anything from 1984.
Or you can just go on thinking they're these bumbling fools like the 3 Stooges and "don't know what they're doing" and are "incompetent" and "idiotic", etc. etc. But I wish that none of you would think that anymore in case you still do.
They've been planning this for well over a 100 years. Hell, they've been planning this since the Constitution and Bill of Rights was created! Luckily, the genius of the Framers and their words were such a solid obstacle to those who would try to conquer the republic that it has taken well over 200 years to bring us to this lowly point.
Here's a final word from none other than George Orwell: 2min video. One final warning.
Pass it on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox-shlDXKO4
Great post.
I forget where I read/heard this -- but the United States would start a war in Europe between NATO and Russia before it loses Western Europe to solidify their support.
I always kinda wondered if this was the reason for the Ukraine cluster fuck, and the reason why Putin won't intervene anymore.
I wouldn't say it's a plan as that would imply some intelligence which is obviously extinct in U.S. leadership.
It's moar like sheer stupidity and desperation that will cause the U.S. Government to start a major war while it can still afford to before the dollar is worthless in the vain attempt to uphold American "exceptionalism"
But I think a military coup is moar likely to happen in the U.S. before it goes to far in starting a major war that it will only lose.
Interesting: Except for Gen Anderson and a few other political generals, most officers really take their oath to uphold the constitution seriously.
@Haus Targaryen
thanks! And it's ironic that you would write back and have the user ID that you do, because as I was writing my post I was starting to see that the situation I was depicting was similar to Game of Thrones.
7 kingdoms - 7 continents; the geography of the kingdoms is basically the geography of the Earth. And each kingdom's culture depicts similar cultures that in habit the Earth's regions and continents.
Rulers in power and those who want power all conspiring to take power and land from each other. Killing each other and using armies to fight their battles, etc.
Game of Thrones is an allegory for the game the globalists are playing with our world, don't you think?
And it's a pretty damn good show too.
Great posts SA. I have to admit though that I am not entirely convinced that the globalists have so much power. Statistically there is just too much noise... too many players, too many variables. Rather, I think it is more likely the order of chaos.
Just add to this...
Within the chaos, there definately are plans. The current US actions are no coincidence. There is a deliberate plan in motion to accomplish something significant. Given that this is a pretty big game being played, it is hard to say what is really going on.
thanks man...and let's all not forget Agenda 21 to steal our land and resources using the lie of so-called "environmentalism".
Let's not forget the Common Core dis-educational curriculum being Federally indoctrinated into every level of our educational system. Totally designed to create more ignorant, dependent, dumbed down little sheeple.
Let's not forget this massive illegal immigration invasion being perpetrated against us to flood our country with millions of sick, poor, uneducated people who will flood the social welfare system and speed up the economic implosion. Not to mention instantly creating and racial crisis to compete against Americans. Not to mention so many millions who will be coerced by the scum, sociopaths in D.C. to vote for them while voting away our Constitutional rights.
Let's not forget that while they may try to blame Europe and Asia for our own curreny crisis, that it's actually the NON-Federal Reserve who has printed Trillions of worthless dollars and along with the government and banksters helped allow Quadrillions in other debt and derivatives that can never been covered...thus imploding the currnet world economic and governing structures.
Let's not forget the crisis of law going on where lifetime "Supreme" court judges rule against our Constitution and allow all this shit to go on, such as the un-Constitutional "obamacare" law.
Let's not forget the MIC and the militarization of our local city and state police and sheriff's offices with weapons of war and military vehicles that can only be used against the internal populace of America, especially when the system creates enough chaose and instability due to the things I mentioned above which will them give them the "authority" to use all that shit against us and suspend our Constitutional rights and rule of law.
We have a judicial crisis, and Constiutional crisis, a governmental crisis, and humanitarian crisis, an economic crisis, and quite frankly to top it all off they have and are deliberately creating a massive racial crisis in America.
I can go on and on, but I think it's evident what has and is being perpetrated against us.
A coup d'état has been perpetrated against the United States and it's citizens. It happened long ago in small steps over a period of decades. And it's finally starting to manifest itself overtly as these traitors are actually kind of starting to lose control. They're still in control at all the highest levels, but this is getting very big and probably enough out of their control where yes, I will say that some of them are stupid and they do make mistakes along the way. The globalists and certainly their political puppets certainly aren't perfect in their plans and they certainly don't win all the battles that are going on in this grand global game. But up until the last several years they have been seriously kicking our fucking asses!
I think we've seen a big change in this war game since the end of Bush and the beginning of the obama regime. For one, I believe thanks to the internet we've been able to reach many more millions of people than we ever could have previously. The "info war" momentum has definitely swung to our side especially over the past 5 years or so and that has been astoundingly critical for us.
I believe this development has set the globalists back as far as a decade in their plans. But they know how to regroup because they're the masters at this game and we have a lot of catching up to do. Plus we just don't have the power they do. We mainly have the sheer size of population on our side and a fair amount of guts and guns as well!
A quote I've been sending out to people for about 5 or 6 years now and it's sticks in my mind every damn day:
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague." Marcus Tullius Cicero circa 58 B.C.
There was a guy named Norman Thomas who ran for president 6 freakin' times in a row for the Socialist Party of America up until 1948. He finally quit running after all those years and this is what he said about it:
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of “liberalism”, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.”
“I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democratic Party has adopted our platform.”
And the link below is from the Congressional Record of 1963: The Goals of Communism in America
http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm
You can pretty much check nearly everything off from their list at this point.
So yea...a coup has occurred and has been happening for over a century. Go back to the Fabain Socialists and the creation of "Porgressivism" which is actually regressivism compared to what America truly stands for.
We've got a very big fight coming in this country. It very well could be the next civil war. I hope people are ready for it, because it's very apparent that the powers that be are gearing up for it one way or another. They may have to nuke us before it's all over because I highly doubt that once most American wake up that we're going to go down without a helluva fucking fight.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. ~ Ronald Reagan
I used to think Alex Jones was nuts a few years ago. However, after reading ZH and the DT I began to realize how cooked our financial system really is -- and then I began to remember advice given to me by various people over the years.
Then, in December of last year I was studingy for the bar exam and going to a breakup with a girl friend. One night -- I couldn't sleep and found a few week old YouTube upload of the Alex Jones show. I watched it to help me fall asleep -- and the next night, I watched that days episode, and the episode the next night, and the night thereafter.
Come to find out the guy is actually a genius, and is a prophet. He connected the financial crisis with the militirization of the police, the erosion of our civil liberties, ammo purchases, 9-11, etc., etc., and now I listen to his show daily. Now, in heinsight, I can see how the advice I had been given by various people over the years is the same stuff that Alex Jones is talking about now.
I say this because your post reminds me of his show day before yesterday.
breakup with a girl friend. One night -- I couldn't sleep and found a few week old YouTube
I read this so many times because I thought you found a KY tube
What about you?
The US owns Germany or at least they have the same controllers;
http://rt.com/op-edge/170948-germany-gold-us-sovereignty/
Actually Merkel has been in China the last few days and has signed different trade agreements with them, including VW factories there. Reading it carefully the Euro is mentioned not the dollar. China just signed trade agreements in yuan with France and Luxembourg too. All of it from the horses mouths.
http://sherriequestioningall.blogspot.com/2014/07/germany-upset-with-us-...
Check this out:
Black's (Pan troglodytes) are capable of extreme violence. They engage in inter-group, sometimes lethal, aggression that provides the winners with an opportunity to enlarge their territory, increase their food supply and, potentially, attract more mates. Lethal violence between adult males also occurs within groups but this is rare; to date, only four cases (three observed and one inferred) have been recorded despite decades of observation. In consequence, the reasons for within-group lethal violence in chimpanzees remain unclear. Such aggression may be rare due to the importance of coalitions between males during inter-group encounters; cooperation between males is also thought to be key in the defense or advancement of social rank within the group. Previous accounts of within-group lethal violence concern victims who were low-ranking males; here we provide the first account of the killing of an incumbent alpha male by a coalition of adult males from the same community. We found no clear evidence that the alpha male's position was under threat during the months before the lethal attack: the male dominance hierarchy was highly stable, with low rates of male–male aggression, and there were no significant changes in social interactions (i.e. grooming and aggression) between the alpha male and the other adult males. Two of the four attackers were former alpha males and were the individuals with whom the victim appeared, in the period preceding his death, to be most strongly affiliated: his most frequent grooming partners and those with whom he spent most time in proximity. The lethal attack triggered a period of instability in the male hierarchy and was likely an opportunistic attempt to seize alpha status by the third-ranking male.
They did a Julius Caesar number on the alpha.
Et tu, Bonzo?
Et tu, Obonzo?
There, FIFY
Why would the Rothschild banks
want to make it appear
as if the US Government
is extracting "penalties"
from these Rothschild banks?
All part of the plan to remove the USD as the world's reserve currency... Everything is going according to plan... By the end of Obama's term, the damage will be irreversible...
fingers crossed that russia & china throw a stick or two in the spokes
edit: and that war doesn't prove to be the only alternative
Paranoid as this concept is, it does fit the data set better than most explanations.
It appears that this is the goal at this time. However, we really need to ask what the net effect is on other countries from the USD getting funky. Everything may not be as it seems on the surface.
Weird and creepy enough...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYmViPTndxw
...to see Christine Lagarde spouting numerology in an address to The National Press Club. Really, just bizarro world, but, the interpretation is interesting as well.
Freakin' strange days
DB handled the money transfers and many bank accounts for the 9/11 operatives. Nuff said.
500 mil? My guess is they fined them and when Commerz went to pay they said "ah forget it, just keep it".
"This is hilarious, we really do have a bunch of imbeciles running our govt, they are buying their own exceptionalism BS and acting like the playground bully"
No, something else is going on here. "Exceptionalism" has nothing to do with this. We know that the Justice dept is taking its marching orders either from the Fed or from the big US banks directly. If the former, then the Iran/Sudan angle is simply a smokescreen for some major liquidity problem. If the latter, then this is just a spat between onshore and offshore banks that is getting out of control.
If The EU Commssion had half a testicle between them they would retaliate and hit Goldman Sachs for fraud over the Greece Euro entry criteria.
A $300 Billion fine and we'll call it quits shall we?
I personally think the trashing of the dollar is to facilitate the migration to the world currency.
Careful, the the "Chimp" can be considered to be racist in this context. You could be sent to retraining for further indoctrination!
Oh, the drama.
Careful, the the "Chimp" can be considered to be racist in this context. You could be sent to retraining for further indoctrination!
"we really do have a bunch of imbeciles running our govt,"
These banking decisions (France / Gernany) are based on something more fundemental - they are extreme to include ALL the Russian directed decisions - more is going on - much more serious - there are many alternative approaches NOT being considered -
France / Germany / Italy / et al dont belong in NATO there is no win for them and a lot of downside -Russia has been a very good supplier and partner for 60 years - why create a problem? - plus there is natural affinity between all these countries and Russia and NOT the USA
I suspect that Obama already knows thru NSA - they all want to go with Russia on the Ukraine - and this is late inning retaliation to demonstrate how bad USA can exact penalties - Ukraine can be managed by Russia the best - USA would be a stranglehold on Europe once they have ownership of the pipeline
alll downside to include nuclear exposure
is it months or years?
why don't these countries each take a small naval vessel and park it off Manhattan insisting on their gold. If 100 German VIPs show up demanding their gold deposits back, that would make for some really good news. Stage a sit in...
That might not be a bad idea. It would be interesting to watch unfold if nothing else.
Not necessarily imbecils. Consider the idea that US as a biggest financial power in the world. And it doesn't know any other instruments than blackmail and strongarming to put their "allies" in line with Washington. Of course in the world with no alternatives that might be a sound tactic, but right now when there is an option to deiversify to Asia, this tactic fails. Basically DC imbecils don't know any other way to play.
Go GBRICS, I'm counting on you after losing hope of a DC bound asteroid.
might want to add France to that, FGBRICS
Germany is too busy gargling US balls to grow any of their own... I'm surprised they've come up for air long enough to complain
The biggest violator of Iran sanctions was the United States, with Colonel Oliver North leading the way during the Iran Contra affair. Back in the 80s, the amount of any monetary transfers paled in comparison to the literally tons of narcotics that the CIA had their employee Barry Seal fly into the Mena, Arkansas airport, with the tacit consent of then Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton. America is now really like 1920s Chicago under the control of organized crime, with crime families operating with impunity outside the law. Obama is using these violations of sanctions by BNP bank in a manner no different than Al Capone's protection rackets to extort money from Chicago businesses and forcing bars only to sell Capones' rotgut liquor.
The USA needs to shut all the German military bases down, and bring all the shit home.. Would save us billions, and Germany does not need us, or probably does not want us there either anymore..
Guess that why we nuked the prince eugen. They don't have anything bigger than a frigate to send to ny for thier gold. And the bilge is toxic on those
Sorry but I don't see how the fine is any worse than the money grabs made by the EU and France in so-called anti-trust suits. For example the contrived charges against Microsoft's so-called monopoly, or France's suit against Google Maps claiming they shouldn't offer a "free" service (which is paid for with ads). The modern French basically just mimick and whine when it comes to innovation.
Besides, European banks were made whole through money funneled through AIG care of US taxpayers. The US is basically just getting back some money they already gave these banks. Protesting this is just ludicrous.
Fortunately no US banks doing anything untoward such as money laundering. May the farce be with you.
we only launder drug money, didn't you get the memo?
How much longer to the election?
It's OK...you've still got a couple months to sneak in through the southern border.
I'd do even if you are already a citizen....you'll get a lot better heathcare deal. Plus a free air flight to anywhere you want to go.
Just make sure your shots are up to date before you do it.
An election?...you're kidding, that's a fairy story they tell the sheeple
No worries....we've got seal team 7 working on stealing the Diebold codes. No more details....I've probably said too much as it is.
Dave Brat says otherwise...
I think you meant 'selection'.
No one gonna find out about this, they said.
Hahaha. The policies of the incompetent corrupt arrogant narcissistic illegal indonesian kenyan alien muslim liar in chief and its corruot democrap minions are a roaring success!
You forgot salami smoker.
This shit is deliberate and treason.
Yeah, but there's nothing we can do about it......in case you haven't noticed.....the President is black.
Wudda ya gonna do? Cat's got a get out of jail free card.
Unless you see Nancy Pelosi pressing charges....and I just don't see that happening.
driving a wedge between germany and the usa is one of the best things that could happen from a patriotic point of view
Yes ! Petrodollar dead, and German Russian Axis ! Bring it on !
move our troops from stuttgart, germany (et al) to juarez mexico i say. fuck germany.
I agree ! move all U.S. troops and installations out of Germany now !
i find it mildly amusing that people on both sides (you and i for instance) of this issue agree so readily yet the maggots just stay and stay and stay. i know they want to screw everyone over by not doing what needs to be done and doing what does not need to be done but jebus h farging christ these people are god damned retarded or something.
edit: btw - were it up to me i would give germany's gold back even if it cost the usa a trillion dollars to do it.
i would give germany's gold back even if it cost the usa a trillion dollars to do it.
Dude, do you have any idea what that would do to the price of gold?
i would think for someone (such as yourself) that would be viewed as a good thing. :)
That's why he said if it even cost a Trillion $'sto do it. It already over, the show is the only thing left.
The alienator will soon be the alienated
I think the people who were running the WWF in the mid 80s are running the US government now. They might as well just bring out Rowdy Roddy Piper, Nikolai Volkoff and the Iron Sheik at this point because it they would at least be more realistic.
Correct. It's all just another show.
Mrs. WWF tried to run for Senator in Connecticut a few years ago.
I moved out of the state (and the country) just after that. America has turned into Bizarro Land.
Might as well resurrect SGT Slaughter too...
Obama's new book:
"How to Loose Friends and Totally Piss-Off Whole Nations", written between rounds of golf at the new US home for the criminally insane....The White House.
I hope his golf game is better than this shit. But somehow I highly doubt it. You get what you get with affirmative action, and its sure not the cream of the black community. P Diddy would make a heck of a better president than obumma
RZA as president would be a big improvement to what the US has now.
"I hope his golf game is better than this shit" ...it'd have to be but I'm lead to believe his deeper passion is being a real "sucker" for some serious Mich(elle) "punishment"
I wonder why Germany does not agree to pick up the tab on both banks fines and just ask the U.S to sell some of their gold off and use the proceeds to pay the fines since it's never getting repatriated anyway and the U.S clearly does not have it.
Actually, German gold purchasing will be something to watch - if they have any sense!
i prefer ...ahem, ah, tight friends. keep your loose friends.
A house where Lincoln's wife used to haunt the corridors in her sleep after her son's death, during the civil war, guiltily murmuring : when will this killing end?
Looks like Macbeth had many sons and they all lived at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
We can alienate the Euros.
We got the Japanese & their 102 tractor.
With Oliver Takahashi driving it with his big smile.
I am a little confused. The banks, our banks and their banks, break every law that is possible, fixing markets (too many to name), money laundering and fraud and it is ok in your eyes. The government tries to reign them in and the banks get senators and their governments to stop any actions and our government is wrong. What should we do with the banks? Not try to stop them? Let them run rampant over the world economy. What planet are you people talking about?
you went off the tracks when you put forth the possibility that the government is trying to reign them in. Fining them is just asking for their cut of the pie.
You are a little confused. You got that part right.
It all smells fishy. Why would they all start throwing around billion dollar fines all of the sudden and banks are happily bending over and wiring the money to the US?
What is really behind this?
Maybe these "fines" are in reality bribes to keep the system alive with its dodgy accounting rules ("mark to unicorn"), ridiculous stress tests rules etc., "netting" rules to mark down derivative risks, past and future bailout insurance ("hey guys, we're gonna bail you out, but you have to wire some cash now... we'll just disguise them as "fines" for the sheep and the media"). Governments, Central banks, authorities and banks all teaming up together against pension funds, insurances, taxpayers?
Hmmm....
pay tribute bitchez. that's exactly what it is
No such thing as a free swap
"if you agree to a delay the repatriation of your gold, we will forgive 90% of the fine"
At least all the cards are on the table now: They've been taking our $$ for years and two-timing us all the way.
Dimon is not concerned as he is above the law...
FED wars! When will the twelve districts fight each other?
Putin must think he's died and gone to the Winter Palace. The US gives a finger to the whole world.
My oh my, Oligarchy financi al thieves are really falling out!
friends of the fed jpm and goldman sachs and the rothshild family.
let me be perfectly clear now hear hare now.
GERMANY NEVER HAD ANY GOLD ON US SOIL.
IT WAS A GERMANIC CLERICAL ERROR.
WE HAVE PROVIDED HELGA AND HELMUT WITH ALL THE PAPER WORK THEY NEED.
WE HAVE EXPLAINED TO THEM THAT ANDERS BREVIK AND THE ISIS WILL PAY THEM A VISIT UNLESS THEY SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT THAT POINTLESS MATERIAL THAT BARBAROUS RELIC GOLD.
The point is moot......cause we sure as hell don't have it now.
You can check Fort Knox....but we have troops there to keep people from looking inside.
Guarding nerve gas.
Merkel was just in western China sealing some trade deals. China wants to develop better infrastructure in that area - and those are the of high value exports and engineering projects that German companies like Siemens excel at. Merkel is already ahead of Obama.
America:
Load gun, shoot foot.
Reload gun, shoot other foot.
Reload gun, shoot dick off, no longer alpha male....
didn't I say that the French needed to keep their heads down and their mouths shut or they'd pull everyone else down with them?
you lie down with dogs, you get fleas... you lie down with the French, you get their fleas and the fleas of everyone else they've lain down with...
the true purpose happening in the background is to weaken and eventually take down the ICE trading cartel, no more fake ass Brent Oil trades fucking up the spot prices with the amplifying effect of North Sea going peak, we're gonna go back to the dollar and WTI running the world the way Jesus intended lol... it's all there in front of you and y'all are too dumb to see it, this is a Big Oil War... ICE is Enron on steroids (physical stocking anyone?) with even fewer morals and should have been put down a long time ago, looks like they're finally getting around to it... if you're a trader or hedge fund associate for ICE I strongly suggest you check your six at all times, you have a target painted on your back lol... just do like the big boys are doing and start selling out everyone around you to save your sorry ass, it'll all be over soon... if you're a hedgie you can start by putting everything in your wife's name, assuming you can trust your wife lol
Really, the French had the fleas all along?
I thought we were the parasitized country, all this time.
I think we have been giving our killer fleas to every country around the world. Those fleas are called dollars.
fuck off cosmos... you and your europhile ilk make me sick... anyone with a brain in their head knows that ICE has been *the* cause of global energy price spikes and instability since its inception in 2000, it's well known that it's heavily backed by French concerns who are more than happy to end-run around any attempts to prevent trade to terrorist sponsors, and you have the nerve to call the US a parasitized country... the French in particular and the EU in general have given up all claim to moral pretense a long time ago... y'all are just mad that 'MURICA has showed up on their doorstep to bring the dogs to heel... look at all this whining, crying, pathetic wailing and mewlings about the oh so bad US... that alone tells me the US is on the right track...
no one here appears to be willing or able to take the time to research the true purpose behind these efforts... it's to take down a criminal oil cartel that's been fixing prices based on phony data for over 12 years... we finally get enough layers peeled back to get to the center of the onion and people are mad that the US is actually doing the right thing for a change... the only conclusion I can draw from this is that the average RThedge denizen can't tell shit from shinola, and your comment does nothing but prove that...
recall that, when ICE was formed, the OPEC price band was around $25 US per barrel... that was cracked when ICE took advantage of peak conditions for Brent Oil and started pushing the whole Peak Oil agenda through the EU... the shit that took place at Davos in particular was pure unconcentrated evil... the US knew it was bullshit, the Saudis knew it was bullshit, but nevertheless here we are... peak oil = price fixing by continental euro banks, a fucking lie all along... but skimming $50B US a month on round trip trades using a phony Brent Oil index wasn't enough, oh no, those clowns had to launder money for do-not-trade nations *through US exchanges* - talk about greedy and stupid, of course they were going to get caught... giving the US the excuse needed to go after them once and for all, and not a shot fired...
so of course all the eurotrash caught with their hand in the cookie jar is going to whine, cry, bluster, and ultimately speak boldly but *do nothing* because when push comes to shove they don't have the balls to take on the US for real... the petrodollar is going to end up stronger than ever and all their plotting & scheming will be for naught... wail and gnash your teeth some more, eurobitchez, you get to feel another 50 years of US bootheel on your faces... and if you want to blame someone for *that*, look in a goddamned mirror, you're the ones that decided to poke the giant until it woke up... stupid fuckers
Very hypocritical because:
US company signs billion-dollar energy deal with Iran
6 July 2014, (RT)
http://rt.com/news/170768-iran-energy-deal-usa/
I think all these headlines can be placed under the umbrella of; U.S. pissed off the French/The Financial War:
- French stock market watchdog frustrates acquisition by GE, Alstom (google trans from Dutch) http://tinyurl.com/kfh4tn6
- Total CEO calls for bigger euro role in oil payments http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/05/idUSL6N0PG0E720140705
- France’s Noyer Says BNP May Prompt Shift Away From Dollar http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2014-06-11/ecb-s-noyer-says-bnp-may-prompt-shift-away-from-dollar.html
Thanks to NSA spying on foreign politicians to US can and has blackmailed every single one of them.
A loan mailer sent the Anthrax letters back in 2001.
Charming way to treat your friends/allies.
Try it out for yourself, fine your wife or girlfriend and see how your relationship develops in the future.
CLOWARD-PIVEN Bitchezzzz!
It really is funny when one thinks about it.
The Russians have gas and the threat of not supplying gas and the DC US has only the threat of stealing more of their "printed" lucre back in a mad effort to prop up their free-falling empire.
Did we piss off the Saudis too? http://cleantechnica.com/2014/07/08/saudi-aramco-pulls-rug-out-from-under-us-gas-industry/
As the worm, Petro$, turns.
That's funny. We do what we're told by the Saudis when it comes to oil and gas. We'll never export that stuff in any quantity.
The hypocrisy of the USA is so abundant particularly when one considers that there are no questions asked about where the money came from if that money is headed for real estate in the USA.
That is so true. Without money laundering propping up US real-estate, our depression would be even clearer...
Anybody any idea what could happen here once the foreign laundering buyers are no longer needed?
You just have to be crazy to have any exposure to these guys.
I fail to see why anyone else should really give a fuck about the little enemy lists that the US crafts out of wholecloth. Much less, why they should give a fuck about "fines". Just ditch the American operations and make up the difference by specifically focusing more on the members of that enemy list.
I guess you describe what's happening.
Tell them they'll consider the validity of their claim as soon as the rest of their gold is repatriated.
The US bully is so arrogant it thinks it can do what it likes.
F%ck OFF you ignorant warmonger.
Obvious. The blackmail goes like this: you Germans drop the case of the spying by the USA (along with your friggin' gold), or you pay lots of huuuuuuge biiiiig money. Geddit?
Your soft comfortable lives are not going to be preserved by doing nothing , the excuses for doing nothing are being destroyed .
The German Gov and banks are whore bitches just like those in the US. Everything done is by agreement and to refocus the blame for a crisis on the selected villain(s).
Bad news is sometimes good news. I do not want to see war between US and Russia over Ukraine and if 'our' NATO allies won't support it, we (hopefully) won't get war. So on with the alienation between US and our (hopefully former) allies.
UN Oil for Food in Iraq was run by the french banks and Petro Fina - Paris oil company - started in the 1990s.
Bush invaded Iraq and shut this shit down. Canada sucked hole and sided with Europe (did no go into Iraq) because Canada was run by Paris at the time - Demarais and Dussault families in Montreal.
Now Barry is doing the same with regards to Germany's games.
Follow the bouncing dollar bill folks.
finally, someone who gets what's going on... +1
Yeah, because "settlement talks" are so damn punishing!
Yank their charter, prosecute the criminals... nah, that means one less record bonus for fraud factories.
The USA is so f-ing corrupt and spineless....
This is great - the German banks have mostly recovered from slipping on the "Fettnäpfchen" that was the toxic CDOs and MBSs from the USBanksters (formerly highly rated by the formerly highly rated rating agencies), and now:
the US wants to shock their (former) ally's financial heartbeat because of a failure to salute the US regs on international finance - i.e. dealing with folks formerly known as naughty. Not to mention that at the same time the US is supporting only the nice but not naughty yahoos in MENA, causing endless consternation and handwringing in .DE, and not to mention all the Spy vs Merkel drama.
Hey bring it on. It is all endlessly entertaining. Where is Marc Rich when you need him. Oh yeah, he died...
Sometimes some of us are really thick. Between all the daily squabbles and "gotta do now" hurry-ups, we fail to think of the absurdity of some of the events going on. Who the heck is the US that they can assess such penalties against foreign banks doing business as they please, a trait very common to the US and its banks I would note? Further, what kind of chains (I know, but still) does the US have on these people to hold them to a decree of the US? It is like the silliness of the FATCA penalties... if everyone were, no not everyone but most were to say "bugger off" and take your penalties with you, there would be nothing done for the bully is toothless. The US cannot afford to have everyone turn their backs on them so, they would back down as all bullies do when confronts by forces larger than they.
Is all the leadership of Europe in the midst of a personal sex change so that they'd all back down to this bully?
it astounds me how many people, ( understandably ) blame, and are outraged at o'bama actions, ( or non actions ), and of his adminisration, and have had over 6 yrs to come to the realization he was picked, and place as americas leader, for being anti-american.
the fed., and the few that sit around the bildenburg table, ( the same ones responsible for the eu ), have placed o'bama in power to set in motion the americas,( s., n.america, and canada.
the fed. will sooner than later have the majority control of the money in the world, the people around the table, it's their job to make the 3 or so billion extra people they proclaim the world has in it.
as were seing money can buy the disappearing of many, many of those extra billions of humans, when applied at the right time, in the right place.
"Honey, what bank are you going to punish today?"
"I don't know just yet, Reggie, but these Germans do not look gay-friendly."
So how did they set the size of the fine? Maybe it went like this
"Say guys how much do we import from France every month?"
"About $4billion boss"
"How about we get a couple of months for free?"
"Brilliant, $8billion it is then"
This looks like more evidence of my theory that there are multiple factions vying for primacy. It would appear the western (US) banksters are using the US gov't to inflict pain on rival crime families (Euro Banksters). The opposite perspective could be that those who have effectively taken over the US gov't by the quiet coup of electronic elections and FSA bribery are using the banksters to accomplish the diminishment and isolation of the USA.
Germany has been setting up banking arrangements with Russia and China to trade in Rubles and Yuan (who needs the US dollar anymore?). German businesses have been warning Merkel not to sanction Russia, since Russia is one of their biggest customers and German businesses have huge investments and high hopes for more in Russia. Germany recently tapered its demand for return of its gold, effectively writing it off as unrecoverable. Merkel is reported to have told the EU to give lip service to US demands to act hostile to Russia, but to avoid any real action.
When President Xi of China made his royal tour of Europe recently, the European government leaders were falling all over themselves to ingratiate themselves with China and sign up trade and banking agreements.
At the same time, the collapsing demand in austerity-plagued Europe and the failing US is cutting into German exports. Germany is already shifting its focus to Eurasia, the US is trying to grab as much as it can before Germany is gone.
Germany & France & Switzerland should ALL just tell the USA to go & FUCK themselves!
Cowtowing to the Worlds biggest Bully is the Worst thing to Do. They should bite the bullet & be prepared to take some pain - - AND then give it back in spades!
Confiscate ALL USA holdings & assets to match whatever is taken by USA. Stick it up them ! GO GO !