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MassMutual Senior Vice President Found Dead, Stabbed In Chest In Apparent Homicide

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A week after stunned Tribeca woke up to news of a grizzly death in which a Citigroup managing director living on Greenwich Street was found dead in his bathtub with a slashed throat and the lack of a suicide weapon on the scene suggesting there was foul play involved, another banking executive was killed over the weekend, when 54-year-old Melissa Millian, a senior vice president at MassMutual, was found lying in a road in Simsbury, Connecticut, having been stabbed in the chest.

As CBS reports, initially there was speculation Millian may have been in a bicycle accident, or may have been the victim of a hit-and-run.  However on Saturday, the office of the Chief State Medical examiner said the cause of her death was a stab wound to the chest, and the manner was homicide.

According to WCVB, Millan, a mother of two, was a senior vice president at MassMutual in Springfield. A spokesman for the company said she was a tremendous leader and deeply caring and that she would be missed.

Passing motorists found Millan lying on the ground Thursday at 8:04 p.m., according to Simsbury police. 

Police said she could have been out jogging but that they did not yet know what happened and are investigating. Millan was taken to St. Francis Hospital where she died, according to police.

Police announced Saturday they were investigating the incident as a homicide.

As Breaking911 further adds, MassMutual was shocked by the news, with a company spokesperson saying that "Melissa’s tremendous leadership qualities, business acumen and deeply caring nature will be missed by those who had the opportunity to work with her."

Friends, who gathered to pay their respects, said Millan was a dedicated athlete and an incredible mother.

 

“Devastated…shocked and angry. That a woman, such a woman’s life, could have been ended so senselessly and so cruelly,” said friend Lynne Tapper.

According to MassLive, people using the popular bike path that runs through the town said they were shocked to hear someone as stabbed to death along the trail which they consider safe.

The path is connected to a series of linked bikeways that start in Westfield and head south, running though most of Connecticut. It is popular with Western Massachusetts residents.

 

 

Sunday several people stopped at the memorial to mourn the death of the woman who was known as a triathlete as well as a parent and a skilled professional. They declined to talk to the media. A vigil was held earlier on Sunday in Farmington sponsored by Team Training New England.

 

The organization's website called Millan an "an extraordinary human being" and set up a memorial page for her.

 

"Melissa has been a pillar of the TTNE community since she first trained with us in 2006. Regardless of her formidable responsibilities at home and at work, she made every effort to mentor 'newbie' triathletes and provide moral and other support to her team members year in and year out, without fail!" the website said.

 

People who use the path said it is well-lit and there are always people walking or driving by.

 

"I was very surprised," said Donna Morris, of Simsbury, who was walking her four-month-old mixed breed dog at dusk Sunday. "I walk here sometimes and I haven't had a problem."

 

The path runs along Iron Horse Boulevard, a divided roadway with plenty of traffic. The memorial was set up less than 20 feet from a popular playground which was filled with children and their parents Sunday afternoon. Behind the playground is a dog park that is also popular. Across the street from the playground is a group of shops.

 

"It looks like someone would have seen something," Morris said. Tonia Kagan, of West Hartford, reacted with shock when she learned the bouquets had been placed there to remember Millan.

 

"I love this path," she said. "My husband is in the dog park now. It is a lovely place." She likened Simsbury to West Hartford, saying it is usually peaceful and violence is rare.

 

"I use this path a lot and I'm shocked and surprised...I always feel very safe," said Lucinda, who declined to give her last name.

Was this another targeted murder in an otherwise sleepy neighborhood, and if so, what was the motivation to take out a mother of two and active member of the local community? The police investigation is ongoing.

 

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Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:22 | 5482041 Cognitive Dissonance
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Call the CDC. It appears we have an epidemic on our hands.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:24 | 5482047 Pladizow
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Should have presented a better argument as to why they were not a SIFI.

Or was that Met Life?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:23 | 5482056 Momauguin Joe
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Victim of ebonics.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:28 | 5482072 Arius
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probably a ZH reader ... its okay if you are commenting from your basement ... but not so, if you are in a poisition of authority ... just sayin'

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:32 | 5482096 Bangalore Equit...
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Listen Zero's.

Be careful out there. Ok?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:36 | 5482127 outamyeffinway
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Memo: Slay all whistleblowers. End.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:39 | 5482144 Vampyroteuthis ...
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Call the CDC. It appears we have an epidemic on our hands.

Honest Banksters Syndrome. Terminal when infected.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:56 | 5482200 Timmay
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I actually knew this woman, met her when she worked at Sun Life of Canada's U.S. office in Wellesley Mass. She was a good person. I honeslty hope this was not a "class" killing, if so I think it bodes poorly for the .01%

 

RIP

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:59 | 5482220 SWRichmond
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Knives are personal.  Just saying.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:09 | 5482270 Headbanger
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That's right Arius!

 

The next one is YOU asshole!

Ta ta now..

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:22 | 5482322 TheAnalOG
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Don't get all slashed up over a correction!

Buy Bitcoin!

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:25 | 5482339 SMG
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It's pretty obvious here all these murders are being used to destroy eveidence that could incriminate the Oligarchs these people worked for.  This is one of the reasons why you will never overthrow the Oligarchs using the system.   It's going to take a revolution and destruction of the system they use to control everyone.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:26 | 5482342 Headbanger
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Fonestar STFU you mook!

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:33 | 5482372 Miffed Microbio...
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It's like a painful, endless virtual whacamole experience. Some things just never die.

Miffed

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:38 | 5482386 TheAnalOG
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Go mainline some filovirus.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 16:28 | 5482798 Miffed Microbio...
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Actually, if you had said freebase some filovirus I would have given you an up vote having a partiality to alliteration and creativity. At least it wasn't the standard " fuck you".

Miffed

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 16:53 | 5482913 tenpanhandle
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Not trying to be a moderator here at "Fight Club" but I think anal log's comment was meant for head banger, who commented, as well - one place removed, to anal log's (Fonestar's?) comment. 

 

Who would say such nasty comment to you Miffed?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 19:47 | 5483694 Miffed Microbio...
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Filovirus and me really seem to go together by association ( hopefully never in reality). As for the nasty comment, there was a feeding frenzy fuck you thread a while back led by headbanger where I got one squarely planted between my eyes. Uproariously funny and most deserved.

Miffed

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 19:57 | 5483736 espirit
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Wonder if the LEO's are taking a hard look at her life insurance beneficiary?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:35 | 5482379 TheAnalOG
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We heard you talking shit about how fonestar couldn't take the piss from some gold bugs.  Bullshit, Tylers hacked the fonestar account.  Doesn't matter, we just fork a new process.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 15:01 | 5482476 Bollixed
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Now we know where Bunga Dim is getting those greenies...

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 15:15 | 5482517 European American
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Homocide or Suicide? They can get the malleable minds of the masses to believe anything...probably a Suicide. 

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 15:10 | 5482496 Excursionist
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The victim's LinkedIn profile summary states, "Specialties:Portfolio management of all life and health insurance products, including product development and maintenance, financial performance, underwriting, claims, and medical staff."

If there were a Vegas book for wagering on the homocide's intent, I'd cover two bets:  (i) a disgruntled insurance beneficiary exacting Old Testament style retribution and (ii) personal or professional vendetta.

As far as this being some sort of coverup / conspiracy, I'd actually wager against that being the case.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 16:10 | 5482704 SMG
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You could be correct about this particular murder, but there have been too many banker/financial exec murders/nail gun suicides in such a short time to dismiss all of them as retribution or vendetta.

This current outbreak of financial murders points to the Oligarchs trying to destroy evidence which would incriminate them.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 17:39 | 5483006 New World Chaos
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Would have to agree.  Despite her not being a banker, her death fits with the previously established pattern of these victims generally being good people, and Goyim as well, with their murders going unsolved.  I predict this one will also not be solved, despite cameras everywhere.  That alone should tell you something.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 15:51 | 5482649 JRobby
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I can tell the holidays are upon us

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:10 | 5482228 hedgeless_horseman
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"I love this path," she said. "My husband is in the dog park now. It is a lovely place." She likened Simsbury to West Hartford, saying it is usually peaceful and violence is rare.

When you are suddenly surrounded by violence and killing, it’s too late to train.

Complete the following courses in this order:

1. One half-day tactical folding knife class; $150.

2. 2-3 weekends of Tactical Pistol Courses; $1,000.

3. 2-3 weekends of Tactical Rifle Courses; $1,000.

4. One day of Self and Family Emergency Medical Aid/Trauma Kit Course; $150.

5. A series of several two-hour self-defense classes (not martial arts classes); $200.

6. Fulfillment of requirements for concealed handgun permit; $250.

You should learn in these classes how to safely conduct dry-fire training with your firearms and a dummy knife. Do this on a regular basis, such as once per week for at least 5 minutes.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:14 | 5482285 Consuelo
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Why is it that when I 'thumbs-up' - as I did here with your comment, that a thumbs-down tags along with it...?   Is there some sort of 'fairness-doctrine' algo at work here...?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:26 | 5482294 hedgeless_horseman
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Of course statists, rapists, and murderers do
not think it is fair for citizens to be armed and know how to defend
one's own life.

If one doesn't like weapons, or they are illegal where you live despite our Constitutional rights and Natural Law, then consider getting a big protection-trained dog as a jogging partner and take some self-defense courses.

Don't be a victim.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:33 | 5482369 Big Brother
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I recommend a Caine Corso.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:48 | 5482374 hedgeless_horseman
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If you want to run any decent mileage, it is hard to beat a protection-trained Dalmatian.

The roles of this ancient breed are as varied as their reputed ancestors. They were used as dogs of war, guarding the borders of Dalmatia. To this day, the breed retains a high guarding instinct; although friendly and loyal to those the dog knows and trusts, it is often aloof with strangers and unknown dogs. Dalmatians have a strong hunting instinct and are an excellent exterminator of rats and vermin. In sporting, they have been used as bird dogs, trail hounds, retrievers, or in packs for boar or stag hunting. Their dramatic markings and intelligence have made them successful circus dogs throughout the years. Dalmatians are perhaps best known for their role as fire-fighting apparatus escorts and firehouse mascots. Since Dalmatians and horses are very compatible, the dogs were easily trained to run in front of the carriages to help clear a path and quickly guide the horses and firefighters to the fires.[34] Dalmatians are often considered to make good watchdogs, and they may have been useful to fire brigades as guard dogs to protect a firehouse and its equipment. Fire engines used to be drawn by fast and powerful horses, a tempting target for thieves, so Dalmatians were kept in the firehouse as deterrence to theft.[34]

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalmatian_%28dog%29#Duties

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 15:03 | 5482481 disabledvet
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At least it was labelled a homicide.

Will there be an investigation? A press conference? No mention of what she was even working on?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 15:18 | 5482519 exi1ed0ne
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Shepherd

Mine learned the basic commands in a weekend as a puppy.  It was a toss between that and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Wolfhound

However, most dogs when trained and socialized properly will be hell on anyone harming their "pack".

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 16:55 | 5482942 EINSILVERGUY
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Have had german shepherds for 35 years. Best dogs in the world for protecting the home. 

I take them with me on trips. Lost my gold and silver in a boating accident but the dogs managed to survive with life jackets

 

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 17:02 | 5482979 tenpanhandle
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My experience wih Dalmations is they are psycho dogs.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 20:17 | 5483813 pippi68
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Unfortuately dalmations also tend to be super high-strung and dumb as logs.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 15:44 | 5482614 scrappy
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The Men Who Stare At Goats - The Predator Scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epU6Vq0_l9Q&html5=1

Shit's real, I got one here. (cheaper than those courses for the frugal - read poor)

http://pdws.biz/

http://pdws.biz/Simple_Weapons_Disarms.html

http://pdws.biz/Online_University.php

Hope it helps someone.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:27 | 5482347 ebear
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No, but there is an update algo.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:17 | 5482298 Consuelo
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'Reaction' must become 2nd nature.   Takes work to be aware at all times and to unlearn the state of being momentarily frozen in disbelief. 

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:26 | 5482340 Miffed Microbio...
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Sometimes you can just be surprised HH. Though I believe as you that everyone should have gun and knife training, there is no way to be 100% diligent and fully aware at every moment of your life.

I was caught off guard once while at a service station by myself at 4AM and was in a position where having a gun or knife would not have helped. Evaluating my position ( holding a nozzle of gas flowing into my car) and a quick decision may have saved my life but I realized after the incident I was damn fucking lucky and if my assailant had a partner I probably wouldn't have had a good outcome.

Miffed

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:33 | 5482351 hedgeless_horseman
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I was caught off guard once while at a service station by myself at 4AM...

One's situational awareness can always be improved, and is one of the primary skills (it is not a genetic trait) that is always taught in any good self-defense course.  I can assure you that mrs_horseman is never going to be, "caught off guard at a service station by herself at 4AM."

 A series of several two-hour self-defense classes (not martial arts classes); $200.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:50 | 5482435 Miffed Microbio...
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This may be true but me alone against numerous people no matter how well my training would not have been in my favor. The solution to my personal event was Mr Miffed he should have never left my car completely out of gas to where I had to make my choice. My other mistake was I should have taken another car to work so not to have placed myself in a dangerous situation. We have now changed our approach to make this specific event less likely. Frankly, I look back at this now as a blessing. I learned a lot with out paying a horrible price as so many in the ER I have seen.

Miffed

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:58 | 5482445 hedgeless_horseman
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I learned a lot with out paying a horrible price...

...which is exactly the point of training.

Quod erat demonstrandum.

Peace.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 16:12 | 5482666 Tall Tom
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You had a flowing Gas Nozzle in your hand?

 

Now that guy was an idiot.

 

Hmmm...Did you have a lighter?

 

What a wonderful weapon...at the most opportune time.

 

You probably have inferred that I carry a lighter with me as I have previously wrote that I smoke cigarettes.

 

Do you smoke? Even if you do not it is always a handy utility to have a lighter. They can be transformed into FIRE so fast.

 

I am sure that the eyes of any assailant would appreciate the sensation of BURNING.

 

I usually fidget and have my lighter in my hand...even when filling my gas tank. Or I will have my POUND OF KEYS. (Yes. My keyring weighs One Pound and it does not tear out ignitions. But it shreds flesh if necessary.)

 

But that is just me. Most people do not. But most people should...especially women whom pump gas at 4AM.

 

BTW...For those of you whom think that ISIS is behind every corner planning their next terrorist strike.

 

Ask, "May I have  $20 on Pump #1 and a book of matches, please." (I have done this...countless times...for the laugh.)

 

Ninety Nine Times out of One Hundred they will give you the matches...without a question.

 

THE TERRORIST THREAT IS A HOAX.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 17:05 | 5483003 Miffed Microbio...
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When I realized I wasn't going to make it to work, I pulled into a station in not so savory part of town. I first made a sweep of the station's environs before pulling next to a pump. No one at the station. In the car, I pulled out 2 knives ( I had no gun with me, they are illegal on my work property though I have violated this at times) I placed one knife on the seat compartment the other I held.

I was having difficulty gassing up holding the knife. Looking around I saw no one and tossed it on my seat. At this moment the individual came around my pump where I didn't see and demanded cash. I refused and told him to fuck off. The gas nozzle was between us and we were facing each other. I had to turn my back to him to get my knife ( big mistake). He started toward me but saw me tighten my grip on the nozzle. When we locked eyes and I could tell he knew what I was going to do and after a flurry of bad words he figured I wasn't worth the effort and backed off. Had he approached me from behind, the situation could have been a lot worse.

I,to this day, do not know if he had any intent to rob me or was just an aggressive panhandler. His modus operandi made me convinced he had done this in the past. I think he was casing the station from one of the side streets.

I think I would have been scared shitless to have lit that gas hose on fire. I've seen enough guys in the ER after adventures with fire and homemade explosives to not risk the honor of the first female Darwin Award in this category.

Miffed

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 17:18 | 5483066 boattrash
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Those gas pumps will shoot a lot better than one might think. About 4 hrs after an old school double hernia repair, a couple rednecks pulled up and wanted to play, not being up to it, I gassed the truck, their legs, and the ground, before flipping my cig into it. It did not ignite, but I guess they decided I was crazier than them. I was dry enough I would only have felt the heat wave.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 20:02 | 5483751 espirit
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Expandable batons + applicable training are usually goto items in the LibTard States.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 15:13 | 5482501 boattrash
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Miffed, don't cut yourself short! Having the quick thinking reaction to realize that the flowing gas nozzle was your best tool at that time, sets you apart from many, if not most.

While you may have freaked out after the fact, when it really mattered, you reacted in survival mode. Kudos

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 15:43 | 5482609 InjectTheVenom
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knife training for women ?  nah...i'd say a small can of mace/bear spray instead...gives the victim more range than a knife.   self-defense : krav maga classes.   i agree with firearms familiarity and/or training, especially for the home.   the women i know wouldn't be too keen on having to carry a glock or a knife while out jogging, but could be convinced to carry a small light can of mace instead...people, especially women, need to learn situational awareness too, and know how to NOT look weak or like possible 'prey' to the predators who roam amongst us daily.  you must make a predator THINK that you are both aware of his presence and capable of at least putting up a good fight...that alone will deter many (but not all) predators, make them go look for different prey.   

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 16:10 | 5482663 hedgeless_horseman
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knife training for women ?  nah...i'd say a small can of mace/bear spray instead

You could not be more wrong on either account.

The number of men that have raped then killed a woman after she sprayed him with mace is at least 100 times greater than the number of men that have raped then killed a woman after she opened up an artery with her knife.

Many fucks can still get it up with a face full of pepper spray, and some actually like it.  I have yet to hear of, or meet, the fuck that can rape a woman after his bowels have fallen out all over the floor.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 16:21 | 5482743 Tall Tom
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Gasoline with an ignition source works one hell of a lot better than a knife.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 16:53 | 5482932 hedgeless_horseman
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A woman can always carry her knife, not so much gasoline and an ignition source.  Have fun training with a lighter at the gas station.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:24 | 5482333 Skateboarder
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Nice to know she's a "good person," but the reality of the world is that "good" people work at bad places, for bad people, doing things that are bad for everyone, thinking everything is hunky dory and they're doing "good" work, and bad things happen to everyone.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 15:37 | 5482593 Ass Burger
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They might not know what they're doing; but they're nonetheless doing it. 

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:58 | 5482214 Silky Johnson
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Fuck! They need a Nailgun Tzar. Maybe they should get the same shyster that wrapped up the Ebola deal.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:01 | 5482219 Tall Tom
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Are you delivering a veiled threat to the professionals here, Arius?

 

Are you attempting to incite fear, Arius?

 

Are you attempting to dissuade the reporting of inconvenient truth, Arius?

 

I know...I know. What some call expedience I call thugerry.

 

So you are a common thug, Arius?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:02 | 5482236 ebear
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He's just trying to be clever.  Aren't you?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:09 | 5482273 Tall Tom
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No.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 16:13 | 5482719 RafterManFMJ
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Success!

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:51 | 5482189 Syrin
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She caught the suicide virus that seems to affect middle aged bankers

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:06 | 5482192 Dubaibanker
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You want some inside scoop on banking, you got some inside scoop on banking. There is trouble brewing all over the globe with a focus on Switzerland from where money is leaving faster than you can say Jack Robinson...! Expect more banks to shut or close....Coutts and BSI are on sale (wanna buy?) while HSBC is in some grave trouble!

3 countries which are USA, Belgium and France are suing HSBC, Geneva while India is about to do the same in the future. I wonder how long can this bank last like this when 3 top Governments are suing them? 

In June 2014, HSBC sold about USD 10bn of their client assets to LGT Bank.

HSBC to halve countries served by private bank, sells assets 

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/24/us-hsbc-lgt-bank-switzerland-idUSKBN0EZ0SY20140624

In 2014 alone, the following private banks have closed in Switzerland that includes some marquee names:

 1. Lloyds Private Bank

2. ABN AMRO Private Bank

3. Merrill Lynch Private Bank

4. Morgan Stanley Private Bank

5. Standard Chartered Private Bank

 RBC from Canada has just announced that they too are looking to shut down their Swiss banking operations along with Caribbean and shrinking their international private banking division. Over 300 staff are expected to be impacted.

RBC to Shut Caribbean Wealth-Management Business, Cut Jobs 

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-21/rbc-to-shut-caribbean-wealth-management-business-cutting-jobs.html? 

 2.

Within the last 1 week, Belgium and France both have charged HSBC Private Bank, Geneva in their courts for running a 'criminal organization'.

Under French law, a judge will only allow a case to proceed when a crime has been committed which can be prosecuted. A 'formal investigation' of HSBC refers that charges shall be laid.

 Over 1,000 diamond merchants of Belgium previously have been accused of fraud and of avoiding billions of dollars in taxes since 2003 in which HSBC Geneva facilitated the tax evasion.

This will have a wider impact on diamond businessmen whose accounts are being currently investigated going back a decade.

 Anyone who has an account with HSBC Geneva should assume that their account is being investigated and is undergoing thorough checks by the bank as well as tax authorities of various countries.

 17 Nov 2014

 HSBC's private banking arm accused of tax fraud by Belgium

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-30078275 

21 Nov 2014

HSBC Swiss unit in French tax evasion probe

 http://www.thelocal.ch/20141121/hsbc-swiss-unit-in-french-tax-evasion-probe

Even UBS is in some trouble and they have closed operations in the last few months in countries such as India, Bahamas and Belgium.

3.

 After US arrested a few bankers and clients, now other countries have followed through.

 Israel arrested a UBS banker in Nov 2014:

 Israel arrested UBS adviser, 13 others, in tax evasion investigation

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/05/ubs-ag-israel-arrests-idUSL6N0SV53420141105

After that Poland arrested a Swiss banker on Germany's request.

Vontobel Banker arrested in Hoeness tax evasion case

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/banker-arrested-in-hoeness-tax-evasion-case/41076974

Finally, India has also released names of HSBC, Geneva clients and provided names to their Supreme Court and a tax investigation panel formed by the Govt. for further investigation.

NDTV has interviewed the banker who used to work for HSBC Geneva on Nov 21, 2014 and published this report. This banker has released the names of all HSBC clients worldwide and acted as a whistleblower.

 21 Nov 2014

Info on Blood Diamonds Could Help India, Says Whistle-blower to NDTV

http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/info-on-blood-diamonds-could-help-india-says-whistle-blower-to-ndtv-624104

26 Oct 2014

Black money in India: HSBC list has 628 names, top amount $18 mn 

http://archive.financialexpress.com/news/black-money-in-india-hsbc-list-has-628-names-top-amount-18-mn/1301633

Rest of the world has become smarter and are just following the template set by US authorities. Arrest the bankers, scare everyone using the media, collect back taxes and penalties, put a few clients in jail, let Swiss banks shut down....Rinse...Repeat....

Governments of the WORLD: Are you listening? Just follow the US template! and send me my cheque for this simple advice!

Finally, for the first time EVER in Swiss history, 2 banks have gone bankrupt in Switzerland:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-14/swiss-banking-refuge-brings-no-...

http://online.wsj.com/articles/switzerlands-eurofin-in-process-of-largel...

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:06 | 5482249 maskone909
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i want to agree with you i really really do.  however, how many times has b of a and jpm been sued?  its in the double digit billions im sure. 

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:48 | 5482429 Dubaibanker
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You are right that most American banks have been ok.

There are two reasons for that:

1. There is no evidence for mass tax evasion (since most US banks did not help US citizens do tax evasion). They helped keep assets of foreign countries inside US which foreign countries are unable to prosecute due to their small sizes or capabilities. In any court, evidence is required and there is no evidence that US based banks broke the laws. Wherever they have done i.e. in foreclosures, NINJA loans, subprime sold worldwide, they have paid the fines. But do remember, all of this was legitimate and usually they followed the laws. Wherever they did not, they have been prosecuted and the biggest of them all Lehman paid a big price.

2. Practically speaking, only foreign banks i.e. outside of US have been caught in US entrapment which is because of their US centric client based illegal activities and evading US laws. If any foreign jurisdiction has the capacity and evidence that a US bank assisted that country with tax evasion or any illegal tactic then they have the right to sue or penalise a US bank. However, US Govt does not have much authority to enforce laws of a foreign jurisdiction especially when there may not be any 'evidence' for any court.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:52 | 5482441 maskone909
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ok with that in mind wouldnt be in tptb best interest to keep the ball rolling?  i mean, they are all intertwined.  one goes they all go type of deal?  this is all very interesting to me because it shows who has alliances with who

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 16:10 | 5482532 Dubaibanker
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No, the banks are not intertwined any more, as much as they were until 2008. Things have changed a LOT since then....

1. All banks are closing operations in all 'foreign' countries.

2. All banks are going onshore so no more expansion

3. All banks have 'country limits' i.e. how much they can lend to banks in other countries, these are literally down to zero or much lower than they were in 2008.

4. Thanks to allegations of tax evasion by US, France, Belgium, Germany, UK, India etc. most money has already left 'foreign countries' like London, NY or Switzerland or will leave within the next year or two because risks and penalties are too high.

5. Capital ratios are higher today than they were in 2008.

6. Rules have not only been tightened but very strictly enforced. Bankers have been 'suicided' or laid off and continue to get fired for their past misdeeds. This reduces future risks.

7. Countries like India, China, Russia, most of Middle East, most of Latin America are now insulated from global banks (since foreign banks have exited or stopped their activities) if they were to collapse because interbank lending is low, credit limits have been reduced dramatically and local banks have become stronger than ever before.

8. To assume that Central bankers and Govt in each country does not have a Plan B when and if a TBTF bank would collapse is quite naive for anyone who thinks the same.

9. Corporate lending to any sort of corporates is at its lowest in history. This is why every Tom Dick and Harry corporate is busy issuing bonds. This helps everyone but the biggest losers of interest income are the banks because banks make money without adding any value to anyone just because money passes through them from depositor to a borrower.

There are many other reasons but if Citibank or JPM or Barclays were to collapse tonight, the impact will be limited to 'foreign' banks and nations because they have plans in place and have reduced exposures to each other. The impact will only be felt locally like we saw in Cyprus when a bank went bust in March 2013. Even in Portugal when their largest bank went bust it was bailed out by the 'local' Govt but they let the Swiss and Dubai bank 'subsidiary' to go belly up. 

Each nation and each bank is on their own, that is the new game of banking which is why millions of bankers worldwide will never find a job again and shall have massively reduced incomes. Individuals shall pay the price for the wrong doings of the corporations, their owners and the Govts who allowed all this to fester on.

All those MBA's and accounting degress will be useless in the years to come. The price shall be paid by the students who are 15 to 22 years old now or new graduates who are 22 to 30 years now who will never have a chance to work and grow within a bank anywhere and no training or high salaries or career growth for young bankers who somehow may find a banking job!

Unfortunately, just like the world works, 99% of the bankers did not gain nor had anything to do to precipitate the crisis, however, they are all paying the price for the sins of 1% of the bankers / Govts based in global cities of Geneva, London and NY who exported the crisis around the world and allowed the risk to grow for so long...!

Therefore, all alliances have changed FOREVER and they mostly do not exist any more which is why Portuguese, Cypriot and Swiss banks are going bankrupt while the British and Dutch banks are now state owned ala the Chinese or Russian model. And, the American banks are QE owned!

Definition of QE ownership: When the money flows to the bank owners yet the ownership remains with the same private shareholders. This is the nirvana stage in the world, where no matter what wrong a US bank does, the owners do not pay any price whatsoever (well, except for the share price plunging) but the Govt coffers/tax payers money is open to them like a loose tap! The tax payers get hosed and QE attains nirvana for the owners!

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 17:31 | 5483117 maskone909
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very informative. 

 

+1

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:07 | 5482260 Tall Tom
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They are becoming desparate. The veiled homicides, previously written off as suicides, have now ceased.

 

Now they are demonstrating outright, unabashed murder.

 

Be careful. If you are not armed then arm yourself. Remember that explosives are more affective than guns for perimeter defense.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:51 | 5482128 TeamDepends
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Probably one of the local Luciferians up to some woodsy hijinx.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:28 | 5482076 Pladizow
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With all these banker "suicides", someone truely is doing God's work!

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:30 | 5482093 maskone909
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i will take a STAB at this one and call it a suicide. 

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:36 | 5482113 clade7
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A Grizzly killed her...Right there in Connecticut!  These goddamn bears are getting out of hand!

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:37 | 5482125 maskone909
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you really slashed your way to the culprits there.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 17:16 | 5483053 tenpanhandle
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Elementary my dear Watson, it was a grizzly murder.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:07 | 5482262 clade7
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Somebody call up Timothy Treadwell to negotiate peace with these damn Grizzly bears...Oh wait...

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:28 | 5482344 maskone909
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let me get my ouija board brb

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:37 | 5482123 alrightee_then
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Wait till you see what thier replacements can do!!

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:01 | 5482231 Salah
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"Black Power...a Done Deal" Great [erudite] Essay!

http://www.unz.com/freed/black-power/

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:26 | 5482063 kaiserhoff
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Suicide by steak knife.

Are you suggesting that's unnatural?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:03 | 5482243 SHEEPFUKKER
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Was a t-bone found near the jog path? 

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:58 | 5482210 KnuckleDragger-X
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That's what happens when you don't own a nailgun....

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:58 | 5482216 stant
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This nail gun ammo shortage is getting serious

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:19 | 5482305 Jumbotron
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"Call the CDC. It appears we have an epidemic on our hands."

 

FOR GOD'S SAKE, DON"T LET THIS NEWS GET OUT !!   It will just give Obama an excuse to bring in even MORE bankers from overseas !!!

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:25 | 5482338 FightingtheFed
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Buy buy buy and fuck the other 95%!!!!!! lol

 

That's how we roll.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:37 | 5482387 ZH Snob
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banking appears to be a very risky occupation.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 15:30 | 5482548 Berspankme
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natives are getting restless?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:23 | 5482048 homiegot
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So many bankers and insurance professionals, so little time.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:27 | 5482073 Bastiat
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I have no information that would lead me to think ill of this woman.  Mass Mutual is not a bank, btw.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:44 | 5482155 El Vaquero
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I have no clue about this woman or Mass Mutual, but in general, insurance companies can be treat people just as poorly as banks do.  Fuck the insurance companies.  They can burn with the bankers.  Remember, AIG is an insurance company, and it was into the bullshit balls deep with the banks. 

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:57 | 5482215 walküre
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Insurers and banksters are joined at the hip like Siamese twins on the financial playground.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:14 | 5482282 Skateboarder
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All insurance is a scam.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:16 | 5482289 Tall Tom
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Just how much Life Insurance do they stand to collect upon her death?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 17:26 | 5483089 tenpanhandle
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"Insurers and banksters are joined at the hip like Siamese twins on the financial playground."

 

Don't you mean "like Slime-eze twins"?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 15:10 | 5482498 Bastiat
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Yeah well I generally don't like insurance companies but I don't hate everyone who works for them.  Whether this has anything to do with the rash of banker "suicides" is unclear; to know if there is even a reason to sniff that way, you'd have to know what her work was, what decisions she could make and what information she was in a position to have.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 17:55 | 5483220 Max Cynical
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Perhaps she was the one managing the payouts for the employee life insurance policies and started asking some questions.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:43 | 5482158 RaceToTheBottom
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Good point about the lady.

All of the following are now banks:

  • Banks,
  • CU,
  • IBanks,
  • Insurance companies
  • Politicians
Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:58 | 5482213 ebear
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Exactly.  What's this article even doing here besides pandering to the lowest common denominator?

 

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 15:30 | 5482562 Tall Tom
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It exposes an inconvenient truth...one which you, for some reason, do not want exposed.

 

Why is that? Please continue.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:24 | 5482050 FeralSerf
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It's necessary to make some examples occasionally to keep control of the livestock.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:54 | 5482197 Bangalore Equit...
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Listen.

I have a feeling it's racially motivated. With Ferguson right around the corner blackishes are out for "WHITE" blood in America.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:22 | 5482320 LFMayor
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Listen.

Your god Brahm, he's speaking to me!

Something like "sizzle"?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:23 | 5482052 QQQBall
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maybe someone is doing god's work

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:27 | 5482068 kaiserhoff
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Anyone seen Dexter lately?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:24 | 5482061 SickDollar
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hmmm someone should check her work ??????

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:26 | 5482062 himaroid
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Top earner going down before social security benefits.

System will soon be solvent at this rate.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:26 | 5482065 falak pema
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Obama should name a banker protection Czar.

Fed/Sec protection per se does not seem to be enuff! 

 

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:07 | 5482258 SeattleBruce
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"banker protection Czar"

You'll have to be a member of the inner circle - of 'the club' - to buy into the protection scam (all that's required is your soul/integrity).  This is all on the hush/hush with our socialist friends at the WH who could not stomach being accused of discrimination and 'bank-ism.'

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:25 | 5482066 bankonzhongguo
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Santa comes early?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:26 | 5482069 Fast Eddie
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Much safer to sit in a lazy boy and drink beer

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:28 | 5482075 Gamma735
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Do you think she was a gun control advocate?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:27 | 5482077 suteibu
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An inside job or vigilantes?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:28 | 5482078 RaceToTheBottom
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Bankster violence getting close to dog parks....

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:41 | 5482081 ebworthen
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Serial banker killer on the loose?

Quick, notify the Hamptons!

On second thought...

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:28 | 5482085 richiebaby
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They've pulled out all the stops. Now they are killing women

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:45 | 5482170 GeezerGeek
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Pelosi said it was part of the Republicans' war on women.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:30 | 5482088 falconflight
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The fiat printing presses must go on, otherwise the pols lose their power of the purse.  Take note of the error of your ways.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:19 | 5482089 Jonathan Equine...
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Dear ZHers -

 

No, there is no trend, no uptick, and most of these people are relatively low tier.

 

Availability heuristic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

somewhat relatedly, if you don't know anything about tech [as most people don't] and decide you're sick of Apple, say, and focus only on ostensible bad news.

http://heuristics.behaviouralfinance.net/availability/

Your judgment as to whether or not there's money to be made in a stock, for example, might become warped.

 

There's no epidemic, and this poor woman was miles away from the Blankfeins and Dimons. 


Junk away, bitches.  But you ignore cognitive science at your financial peril, ya herd?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:30 | 5482094 SpanishGoop
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"According to MassLive, people using the popular bike path that runs through the town said they were shocked to hear someone as stabbed to death along the trail which they consider safe."

 

Don't worry, still save, as long as you don't work at a bank.

 

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:31 | 5482095 where_is the_nuke
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Bullish!

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:33 | 5482098 Conax
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A banker henchman was standing in her path peeling an apple and she ran into his knife.  I heard she was very depressed about the plight of the middle class, and went running hither and yon looking for a way out. 

yeah, that's the ticket.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:34 | 5482101 RealityCheque
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Boohooo!!!

NEXT!!

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:33 | 5482102 williambanzai7
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She is not a bankster. But she is mother and I feel sorry for her kids.

Its time for the Big Bankster kahunas to do some nailin.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:53 | 5482194 maskone909
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everyone now has a fucking heart cuz she had kids and was a broad.  well there were pleanty of mothers who were forced to live on the streets after they wrecked the economy.  plenty of mothers whos marriages were destroyed over financial problems.  plenty of mothers...

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:59 | 5482224 suteibu
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Indeed.  MassMutual is a major player in global investments through subsidiaries.  One was involved in the Madoff Ponzi.  This is no hometown insurance company by any means.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 15:13 | 5482507 Bastiat
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Well of course they are a major player -- they have a huge amount of money to invest. 

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 15:43 | 5482608 Tall Tom
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It just makes you wonder what she knew? Perhaps there may be some Books a' cooking?

 

Maybe there might be some ledgers out of whack.

 

Maybe they may have insured all o' those other suicide banksters and she put it together.

 

But as the pirates of lore say, "Dead men tell no tales." (In this case a woman but she ain't gonna be talking to anyone but Jesus.)

 

Ye Employees of the Banksters...

 

Ye better talk now before they come and bag ya. Even if they fear it and you haven't a plan to do it...They will kill you to make sure that ye don't have 'un change o' mind anyway.

 

Maybe you stand a better chance with the Witness Protection Program. I would not guarantee that but it sure seems better than to be a sitting duck.

 

I HOPE THAT YOU ARE READING THIS. Talk now before you have not a chance to talk.

 

Just click on this link...

 

Make sure to read our "How To [Read/Tip Off] Zero Hedge Without Attracting The Interest Of [Human Resources/The Treasury/Black Helicopters]" Guide

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 15:14 | 5482512 Stay Frosty
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No doubt WB, the pain of children is most real.  Yet peel away the profession and consider: how many hours remained, after 'executive', 'triathelete trainer' and other me, myself and fucking I pusuits, to achieve "incredible mother" status.  At best they received crumbs covered in vacuous materialism.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 15:32 | 5482569 suteibu
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Yes, the kids are on the resume but not their nanny.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 17:07 | 5483001 Otto Zitte
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Given her age her children are probably adults, maybe in college. Got to pay that extortuition, x 3.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:34 | 5482103 perelmanfan
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Killed by a bear? Grizzly deaths can indeed be grisly.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:37 | 5482110 falak pema
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Question to RM now back on the Hedge : 

Are there any roving Bitcoins on the loose trying "too hard" to convince bankers about their indisputable marginal utility function

What a signal that would be.

Bitcoins to the Bankers : we are making you an offer you can't refuse. Margin call ! 

Cyber wars and cyber money love affairs gone sour! 

I'd love to write a novel about a Btcoin turned serial killer! 

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:36 | 5482117 Elliptico
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Black The Knife  strikes again.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:35 | 5482120 Squid Viscous
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Hope hubby has a good policy...

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:56 | 5482199 MsCreant
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I assume MassMutual did...

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:36 | 5482121 Viglud Nov Simse
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Assuming there is a real connection between these homocides as ZH is suggesting, why are they happening?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:37 | 5482122 observiate
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say Durden, aren't you keeping a running tab on this stuff? how many is that now?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:04 | 5482244 Dre4dwolf
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We need some kind of charts on these murder suicides and a probability curve showing how at risk an individual is of "death by nail-gun suicide" happening to them based on their position in a given institution.

 

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:37 | 5482124 orangegeek
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Yellen did it.  Fucking bitch.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:36 | 5482126 Quinvarius
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It was probably Bill Cosby.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:18 | 5482303 LFMayor
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"Dr Rufus Huxtable" used some generic alternative pills and she came to, would have been able to finger him.  Had to shut that bitch up.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:40 | 5482143 Dre4dwolf
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At this point its either some vigilante ex-navy seal offing all these bankers , or they are trying to whistle-blow and the banks are offing their own employees to keep the lid tight.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:48 | 5482175 suteibu
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If either of these is true, this case will never be solved...publicly.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:01 | 5482227 Dre4dwolf
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I mean has to be, who else would run around killing bankers?

 

The fact that no high profile targets have had their clocks cleaned makes me think its the banks offing their own employees, because a vigilante would probably target higher profile bankers, instead of these upper middle management types.

 

Who else would be killing bankers? some random nobody with nothing left to lose??? whats the agenda?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:43 | 5482153 giorgioorwell
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Good lord Tyler, I respect much of what is written on ZH by it's contributors, but the comment board here is such a collection of redneck loonies it's unreal.  

 

 

 

 

 

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:48 | 5482180 williambanzai7
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Given the pervasive klepto globalist plutofraudtopolist bullshit that qualifies as mainstream these days, calling someone a read neck looney is actually a sort of civic compliment.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:50 | 5482183 himaroid
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Agreed. I also find it to be a refreshing change from huffpost. 

Thanks for noticing.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:17 | 5482288 LFMayor
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Now that you've expressed your shared distaste of unwashed redneck yokels,  you two can go put on your flannel man-jammies and curl up in a super sized beanbag with some cocoa in front of a nice roaring fire.

Hey, I'm not hatin... if that's how metroseckshul mating rituals go down then tongue-cluck and finger wag on. 

Do I get thanked for noticing, too?  

Twinks.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:59 | 5482218 NotApplicable
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You better shut yer whore mouth afore I sick my goats on you!

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:21 | 5482309 ebear
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Not redneck loonies so much as internet junkies.  Like those people you see walking around poking at their cell phones.  Same thing.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 16:30 | 5482803 Tall Tom
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Hmmm...You mean...a Zerohead junkie like yoursel?

 

Look in the mirror you pompous, hypocritical, arrogant twat.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:48 | 5482173 kchrisc
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What, no nail-guns?

My guillotine is bereft.

An American, not US subject.

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