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Are You Really Ready For The World To Be Ruled By Bankers?
Martin Armstrong via Armstrong Economics, has some strong opinions...
Believe it or not, Citigroup announced on Friday that it would move its headquarters from New York to the actual U.S. Capitol Building, in Washington, D.C., in early 2015. Yes! They might as well had since they got everything they wanted... Could you imagine.
Citi outbid JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs to lease thirty thousand square feet of prime real estate on the floor of the House of Representatives.
This is just jumping off the cliff. Not only did these people grease enough palms to repeal Dodd Frank, they are now virtually leasing space right in the Capital Building and managed to increase the donation limitation from $32,400 to $324,000. They own Congress.
Well as they say – there goes the neighborhood. The real problem we face is when you take polls on the job performance on Capitol Hill, we will have to ask which group? Looks like the clouds are starting to gather for 2015.75 in a very dramatic way. Maybe it is just time to leave. Oh ya.
This is fulfilling the lyrics of the Eagle’s song Hotel California – where you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
The banking giant Citigroup announced on Friday that it would move its headquarters from New York to the U.S. Capitol Building, in Washington, D.C., in early 2015.
Tracy Klugian, a spokesperson for Citi, said that the company had leased thirty thousand square feet of prime real estate on the floor of the House of Representatives and would be interviewing “world-class architects” to redesign the space to suit its needs.
According to sources, Citi successfully outbid other firms, including JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs, for the right to move its headquarters to the House floor.
The Citi spokesperson acknowledged that the extensive makeover of the House is expected to cost “in the millions,” but added, “It’s always expensive to open a new branch.”
Explaining the rationale behind the move, Klugian told reporters, “Instead of constantly flying out from New York to give members of Congress their marching orders, Citigroup executives can be right on the floor with them, handing them legislation and telling them how to vote. This is going to result in tremendous cost savings going forward.”
Klugian said that Citi’s chairman, Michael E. O’Neill, will not occupy a corner office on the House floor, preferring instead an “open plan” that will allow him to mingle freely with members of Congress.
“He doesn’t want to come off like he’s their boss,” the spokesperson said. “Basically, he wants to send the message, ‘We’re all on the same team. Let’s roll up our sleeves and get stuff done.’ ”
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Citi. That's fucking Saudi.
Not if Russia and China wins. Humanity's last hope.
I wouldn't put too many eggs in that basket if I were you boo boo.
.gov is imploding because .gov is just like all the TBTF banks: 100% insolvent. Except, we have a Feral Reserve that so far has been able to get away with ponzinomics.
Don't really care where banks situate their buildings. I hope the fraud, corruption, and white-collar-crime intensifies. We need it to so that the awakening grows and the lamp posts get properly decorated.
fraud, corruption, and white-collar-crime
There's yer bubble.
What kind of a stupid headline is that?!
The world has been ruled by banksters for at least the past 300 years!
I'm ready for a world NOT ruled by them.
"...at least the past 300 years!"
I would go back to burning of Constandinople and starting of western europe ... how did it started? it was the knowledge from Constandinople that put the basements ... then you go the crusaders to steal all gold of Byzantium ...
Basically you have two worlds: the greek and the bankers world, the first was out in the open, this one run from beyond the curtain, but in country after country, revolution after revolution you see the same methods and hand really ...
Btw, dont underestimate Martin ... it is not stupid it is misleading ... Martin knows better than that
bankers are parasites. they feed on our weakness. every convenience in our lives is a weakness. cars, restaurant food, lights, electricity, leaf blowers, etc. become self sufficient and strong again and they will disappear.
I like electricity. It allows me to read profound comments, unlike yours, here on ZH.
while you were reading your profound comments at the hedge, i was out helping milk a cow for my daily constitution. warm raw milk makes my teeth strong and allows me to suffer fools like yourself.
I'm ready for a world NOT ruled by them.
you must be a vampire... assuming you have hopes of seeing some sort of change in the not too distant future... say 500 years or so...
not saying your hopes are worthy of pursuing (more like wshing for) but reality is reality.....
btw... i am only the messenger....
:^)
Sorry to disagree, Sir, but change can occur instantly if the right ideas are implemented. Honest debt-free money is not merely a "wishful hope worthy of pursuit"... it should be our ultimate goal. Reality is what we make of it. In the brief instances that debt-free currency has been tried throughout history (before the vampire squid re-ensnared its prey), it has worked brilliantly. Pre-Revolutionary America (Colonial Scrip) and most recently, The Third Reich (I know people hate reading that), are perfect examples. In both cases, TPTB sent their treasonous minions to eliminate these "rebel" nations and pull them back into their fold. It IS very possible.
well..... i am looking forward to the day that.... "instantly"... will happen....
[but i won't be holding my breath]
Then Andrew Jackson was wrong when he wrote "I killed the bank" on his grave ? I think the bank has been fighting, and got more and more power during the centuries. Now they are even coming out of the woods, it's the last phase, they hide less and less what they do thanks to the general apathy. I think this is what he means.
he didnt know he was going up against an undead zombie
QE & ZIRP are the Bubble for sure along with Fraud, Corruption, White Collar Crime, and the US Congress abdicating it's Powers of the Budget provided by the Highest Law of the Land (along with it's powers of Legislation & War to both Obama & Lobbyists).
The source cited is ...
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/citigroup-move-headquarters-u-s-capitol-building
Regards,
Cooter
Are you kidding me? This is the best news in years. If only they would least space to ALL the big banks and move the owning families to the Whitehouse too.
Can you think of a better way to reduce collateral damage when this thing with Russia goes hot?
I came into this world screaming covered in someone elses blood. I have no issue with leaving this world the same way fighting the bankers.
Bankers to pussy and weak to fight...going back millenia...nah you will fight the bankers proxy..who in turn wont realize who or what they are fighting for.lol
I came into this world screaming...
Best phrase I've seen all month.
Perfect.
I've watched the movie, Lone Survivor, 6-7 times in the last month. Although I am not in favor of the war we took to Afghanistan, I do like the mentality of those Seals who fought on, covered in blood, against tremendous odds.
what mentality?
Getting killed by a crony system they don't have the mental skills to see?
The mentality which - if pointed in the right direction - can destroy anything - no matter how strong it looks.
Breathlessly incredible lack of even a basic knowledge of history or comparative political systems.
From the link: "Andy Borowitz is a New York Times best-selling author and a comedian..."
Apparently, someone doesn't understand satire.
No, that is what the jews want you to think...they love misdirection,opacity,trojan horse et. al
it is fake news.
The post is a satire
The post is a satire
Satire -- wasn't he some French philosopher?
No it's something half human, half beast, with a goat's tail, flanks and hooves.
Satire - pronounced satyr.
http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101112033948/monster/images/thumb/1...
This one isn't:
"When a world government is first formally proposed, the advocates of world government will make promises. They will talk about protections of rights. They will talk about check and balances. They will wax poetically on the amazing “system” they have designed to ensure that their creation will never go off the rails. They will be very confident that they are playing a central role in the salvation of mankind. We must see through their deceptions, deliberate or not, and challenge them. Rest assured, that once power is centralized into a singular body, all of humankind will be enslaved. There will be no Russia for American dissident Edward Snowden to run to. There will be no Equador for Julian Assange. There will be only one refuge for those willing to resist that monolithic state: death.
When our current unstable world order begins degrades, we should be prepared for the attempt to construct a world government. Every thinking person has an obligation to do what he or she can to prevent this from happening. It would be the end of humankind as we know it.
Fortunately, we do not need to attempt to “beat something with nothing.” We have an alternate solution to the world’s problems. Our solution is informed by our correct understanding of the nature of the coercive state. Our solution is for people to organize and begin the long process of breaking states into smaller pieces. Our eventual goal will be the privatization of all property and the elimination of the coercive state entirely. Our solution will also eliminate war. For a war could not be conducted without concentrations of political power, and coercive taxation..."
http://www.unitedliberty.org/articles/18852-world-anarch-or-a-world-stat...
Good idea, but a bit late.
I thought Satyr was a horny Greek.
I admit, it took a double take for me to see the satire though.
I guess I've been reading ZH too long
Anyone else remember Madhedgefundtrader?
That didn't work as humor either. The problem is, exaggeration falls short, when tomorrow's headline could be almost any damn thing, and common sense has been insulted out of existence.
"exaggeration falls short, when tomorrow's headline could be"
Precisely. It will be peak satire that signals the end.
Every news story is fake unless it is published in The Onion.
Think of the savings in transportation costs. Eliminates the hazard of talking over the airwaves and emails too.
Too late...........
bob rubi[e]n and sweet willy,...
what moar[?] but to crown hillary queen of the monarchy
Crowd Funding! If only some cunt could plant a bomba in that fucking Den of Thievery and do away with the lot in 10, 9, 8 . . . .
If money from Citigroup goes back into the Treasury General Fund... Isn't that Technically Money Laundering??
US Code Title 18, RICO Violations, racketeering. And probably Treason.
- War in Iraq was Corporate Subsidy and Treason
- Contracts for DHS & Pentagon continue to Loot the Taxpayers and Federal Budget
- while TBTF uses RICO & Monopoly to Create Money(Fiat) in Sedition to Sack the USA. along with Usury, Rate Fixing, and Fraudulent Derivatives
Yeah, Nationalize TBTF, use NSA to freeze TBTF Bank & Executive Funds to stop the Looting.
Shout out to Mark Armstrong, Jim Richards, And Paul Craig Roberts for assistance.
In before people actually believing this lol
Poe's Law
It's looking like the old china with open door bribery policy.
Ready to be ruled?
Since 1913.
Its not already so??
Satire
I don't know why USA & Russia don't Nationalize the Banks.
And Nationalize the Central banks if they are owned by Goldman Sachs.
But that would take honest Politicians or very concerned Citizens of Course. But We are at war with Russia:
- Currency War
- Embargo & Trade Sanctions
- Economic & Financial War
- Proxy War in Ukraine
- Proxy War with Syria
- Weapons are getting Funded by USA, Russia is about to Seize $20 in US Investments in Russia & Ukraine along with Coca Cola's Secret Formula
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- Special Forces Conducts Urban Training in North Texas...
- Low-flying black helicopters alarm residents...
- OBAMA WINS AGAIN: Senate may confirm up to 88 federal judges...
- Layoffs begin at NYT...
- CLAIM: Radiation levels spike across North America...
- 13,500,000 Millennials Live in Poverty...
- 46,000,000 Americans on Food Stamps...
- 65% of Children Live in Households on Federal Aid Programs...
Why would you assume a "nationalized" banking system would be an improvement in the slightest?
I think we can safely assume that if we ever got to a point where a government nationalized the banks as a punitive measure against the banking mafia (as opposed to a disguised bail out) then at least the top three tiers of banking mafia management would be heading to jail where they belong.
I agree a "nationalized" banking industry run by the same banking mafia would make no difference.
It's might be worth Putin doing it though - if he replaces the top tiers - as the banking mafia with Russian passports are probably colluding with the banking mafia with US passports in the current economic warfare against Russia.
Some good points here. Any group that takes back the US Government against the Bankers would have to be Tough. They would have to act like Auditors and Grab the Books immediately.
I'm thinking the US Military knows how to do this and therefore could help the Civilians out in front of the Cameras. Probably lots of talented Bank Examiners, Accountants, Regulators, Academics, Lawyers (yick!) in the USA. Resolution Trust Corporation times 50.
Lots of Turmoil and it has to show progress quickly for public confidence.
A Fair Question.
- Bill Still, Ellen Brown, Public Banking versus Crony Capitalism
- No reason to pay interest to Private banks when clearly they don't prevent Moral Hazard or Excess Federal Spending or even Prevent War when there was no War Chest & $6 Trillion in Federal Debt by 2002 & $11 Trillion by 2009
I assume that:
- FED, US Presidents, & Congress are All Corrupt & lying about Economic Statistics
- US Private Banks Dominate Money Creation, Especially through Fraud & Derivatives
- US Private Banks are Corrupt & Dominate US Capitalism, Corporate Cronyism, and US Socialism
- War is Corporate Socialism or Corporate Subsidies
- Bailouts & Bail ins for Private Banks & Corporations are Corporate Subsidies
- US Corporate Culture Trend is to cut Costs no matter the solution, the damage to US Jobs, US Middle Class, US Consumers, and the End of the USA & the American Idea
- US Private Banks Loot US & Transnational Corporations Damaging Investors, the Financial System, and US Households & Pensions
- US Private Banks are not Patriots & will take their money and leave at anytime
At least the cocksuckers are all in the same place, so they're easy to find.
Guy Fawkes much?
Where is nmewn anyways? Did you give him the night off?
As long as the coffee and toasters are free. You get fleeced but can have a continental breakfast if you bring your own bread.
Satire or real do you really think anybody would be able to tell the difference between the psycho politicians and the psycho bankers?
It's a good point, though - the whole governing process will be a lot more efficient now.
that assumes there is a whole governing process ... somehow it seems to me it might be somewhat optimistic :)
Dodd Frank wasn't but in the slightest altered. It is a mind numbing 1200 pages and that's just the statute. More legislation begetting more regulation is hardly the path to a free society. It only begets a rigged system of the corrupt power hungry plutocracy at which so many rail against.
I thought the theme on Dodd Frank was the fact that it empowered the government to basically nationalize ANY business, here or abroad that supposedly threatened our economic stability. Basically putting the power to take YOUR property with nothing more than an "economist's" whim. Of course this would NEVER be used to eliminate some corporation's competition...NEVER.
What do you mean "to be ruled". It's been ruled by the boys since 1913.
"Are You Really Ready For The World To Be Ruled By Bankers?"
My guillotine and I are right and ready.
An American, not US subject.
"God*, gold, guns, grub, ground, guillotine."
* Not an endorsement or inducement.
Is that Ground as in:
- Legal Grounds, Feet on Ground, Clear Head
- Ground and Pound
- Stand My Ground
- My Property, My Country, My Government, My Banking System
"Ground" is a place, places, to ride out the storm. Bugout place, etc.
A friend of mine bought a run down place out in the country and is improving it. His current home is to be the bugout place for city friend of his.
Another already has a country place, and is sort of creating a "bugout coop" with a few friends.
I'm planning on going to my dad's rural place, though I am supposedly welcome at the "coop."
Regardless, have a plan of where to go, and what to do.
An American, not US subject.
thanks.
And I thought "ground" was a type of beef.
Never happen. They will continue to make the politicians come to them.
Citigroup executives can be right on the floor with them, handing them legislation and telling them how to vote.
And, let us not forget, handing them money, as in "campaign contributions." That's the key link in the power/money flow chart. If we were talking about any other country but our own, we wouldn't be so squeamish about calling this what it is: influence peddling. Totally shameless, and now built into the system.
This must be an article from 1912.
Pumpkin:This must be an article from 1912.
My thoughts exactly. Gotta laugh, like this is some fucking revelation. Does anyone actually think the ASSHOLES in DC represent you?
Can we all please get past this Democrat / Republican bullshit once and for all?
Patriot Act
Tarp(s)
Twist
QE's
NDAA's
yea, they're lookin' out for "us" ok.
LOL.
If you like your debt slavery, you can keep your debt slavery.
Dodd-Frank and related regulations and all other regulations for that matter are the way corporations avoid competition. The corporate CONgress just votes their friends at the FED another multi-trillion pre-bailout. Why is it not apparent that the agency controls congress, potus and scrotus?
Two wolves and a sheep debating what to have for dinner.
Sad that you people think Russia, or China will save you.
The best you'd hope for is that Russia and China remove the problem of the corporation of united states of america.
But, then, you see... after the US problem is gone, you have a major RUSSIAN and CHINESE problem.
I hope you guys are ready to fight to re-establish a true United States that's wrested from banksters, ruskies, and chinamen.
There will be blood. Interesting decade ahead. Much respect to the vets. They're going to be needed in whatever fight comes this way. And it's going to be one fucking hell of a fight.
We've got to get beyond the "social" networking, as if virtual electrons would ever save us, and form some teams of true friends.
<--- Dec 16th = new April Fool's Day
<--- Dec 16th = new 9/11
we have already been in the world run by bankers for quite some time. is this a joke ?
Satire is 1/2 true. We're a long way past satire. We're in the 90% true, desperately deflect from reality phase.
The thing is you can't be completely ruled by the banking mafia because the banking mafia are a the societal equivalent of a deadly parasitic virus. You can be 1/3 ruled by them, 1/2 ruled and even 3/4 ruled but as soon as they take over completely (which they only finally achieved in the early 1990s imo) a society is doomed.
As a society cannot survive if the banking mafia take over completely (as has been proved time and time again over the last 3000 years) the actual options are:
1) close down the banking mafia's parasitic niche
2) be 1/2 ruled by them for a long time (a bit like having a tapeworm)
3) be destroyed
South and East Asia should learn the lesson while they still have time.
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"The thing is you can't be completely ruled by the banking mafia because the banking mafia are a the societal equivalent of a deadly parasitic virus."
The banking mafia feed off debt. The debt is fuelled by and multiplies disposable income -> booms. However as debt increases it reduces the disposable income it was built on through the debt repayments -> busts. Pushing debt for consumption is *inherently* parasitic and over time gradually transfers all wealth from the productive economy to the parasite banks. Hence you can't be totally ruled by the parasitic banking mafia - well you can but not for long.
Oy Va the Continuum is right on.
And I'm not even Jewish.
Ready? what the fuk you mean ready?! filthy whitey goyim loves his Talmudic Overlord how else would that lilly white bunghole be stretched as far as eyes can see if it werent for their babylonian rapists? These filthy whitey goyim are simple animals they need Chosenite cock it is a staple in their diet saw it on that animal channel CNBC!
Congress is clueless. How dumb can they be? Democrats are tyrants. Republicans are cowards. Can you say United Socialist States of America. The Bill of Rights went out with the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.
Owned