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Yemen Rebels Spotted Outside The Local Central Bank (Carrying Welding Equipment)
Five days ago, we documented the incursion of the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels into the heart of the Yemeni port city of Aden, which has some ~800,000 residents and where holdouts loyal to President Hadi (who fled for Saudi Arabi in the face of the rebel advance) are battling in the streets in a desperate attempt to repel the rebels from the central Crater district where more than 75,000 people reside. The fight for the city has quickly deteriorated into a humanitarian crisis with the first shipments of aid arriving on Wednesday. Here’s Reuters describing the scene:
Residents saw a dozen bodies strewn on the streets and said several buildings were burnt or demolished by rocket fire. Mosques broadcast appeals for jihad against the Houthis, Iran-allied fighters who have taken over large areas of Yemen.
The Houthi attack in the central Crater neighborhood, backed by tanks and armored vehicles, was at least partially repelled, residents said, and Houthi gunmen had also been driven from some northern neighborhoods.
In our coverage of the unfolding events, we also made the important observation that the Aden branch of Yemen’s central bank is located right where the fiercest fighting is taking place:
This of course sets the stage for a repeat of what is becoming a familiar occurrence in a world where Washington’s haphazard attempts at conducting what somehow still passes for foreign policy end up having the most absurd, yet by now very predictable, of consequences:
The local branch of Yemen's central bank is located in the area, which suggests the Houthis (and, as you'll see below, Al Qaeda) may be playing for a repeat of what occurred just 9 months ago when jihadis seized $400 million from the Mosul central bank in Iraq making ISIS the best funded islamic fundamentalist force in the world. Of course the tragically ridiculous part of the whole story is that the Houthi advance is very likely being aided by some of the $500 million worth of weapons the US "misplaced" in the country so in short, US-armed, Iranian-backed rebels have now overthrown a US puppet government, fought their way (using US weapons) into the last important city still loosely under coalition control, and are now operating a few blocks from a branch of the Yemeni central bank.
Well, sure enough, just 5 short (or "long" if you live in Aden) days later, locals are reporting that Houthi militia are gathering outside the central bank — carrying welding equipment. Here’s more from Aden Alghad (via Google translate):
Witnesses and local residents said the pro- Houthi forces deployed in the vicinity of the Central Bank of Yemen, Aden branch building...
He said citizens living neighborhood herd Pkritr for " Eden tomorrow ," said the number of cars arrived on the scene , carrying soldiers where they have access to the bank's headquarters .
A witness said he saw some soldiers carrying gas cylinders ( welding ) used in the iron cutting but did not allow for Aden tomorrow confirm these partial from a trusted source.
And so the Houthis who, thanks to a few hundred million worth of “lost” US weapons are already well armed, and thanks to Iran are also well trained, are now set to get a capital injection courtesy of the Yemen central bank much as AQAP did just last week when militants raided banks to the east in Mukalla and very much like ISIS did last year in Mosul when the group also captured US arms.
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Meanwhile, as reported earlier today, Iran has just sent two warships into the Bab al-Mandab. We'll close with two terms we think may be relevant here: "powder keg" and "tail risk."
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Imagine their surprise when they crack the vault to find cobwebs.
Borrowed fake gold props from Ukraine.
I'm making over $7k a month working part time. I kept hearing other people tell me how much money they can make online so I decided to look into it. Well, it was all true and has totally changed my life. Here's what I did. I took a welding course.
The Fed can teach them how to do it without welding equipment.
Tell them to keep that welding torch set on low (there's only paper inside).
Is it a welding torch or cutting torch???
Doesn't matter, most 'Mericans don't know the difference. Nor do they know about central banks or what money really is. All they need to know is who the new bogeyman is.
Most muricans just want to know how this impacts gay weddings
"Tail risk"...sounds like every chick I ever dated.
How times have changed. In the old days, regime changers would head first for the government admin build9ngs and TV/radio stations to secure control. Now it seems the first priority is to head for the central bank and 'protect' the contents. It's almost as if banksters were in charge.
If they canmake out a sitting president who has done a pretty good job being as he started with the entire banking system in complete collapse.
To be a bogeyman I guess anything will work.
I figure it is the same kind of people who shoot 50 year olds in the back 8 times.
and that there is a "pill for that".
Yeah they gonna weld the vaults shut ? If they gonna break in surely they want some cutting tools ?
Alright, for those who don't know (no "duh" here, there's no reason for most people to know), the connection is acetylene:
http://www.esabna.com/euweb/oxy_handbook/589oxy2_1.htm
Both modern welding and cutting utilize the same critical gas. The suit guys and their open-collar heirs shouldn't be expected to know this.
FWIW, plasma cutters are my thing, but I'm thinking amps can be hard to get in war zones.
Air-Arc.....
Carbon rod(+)high amps(+)air-pressure stream = cuts steel like butter ...
A nice big steel vault door is only supposed to slow a thief down long enough to be captured. No security people and it's as good as a "kryptonite" bike lock against an angle grinder.
funny how that barbarous relic seems to keep popping up in these situations.......i wonder why that is........
Tradition.
Find Hoffa?
I'm making over $7k a nanosecond working part time. I kept hearing other people tell me how much money they can make programming HFT algorithms so I decided to look into it. Well, it was all true and has totally changed my life. That's how I did it! - There fixed it for yah..
They're going to find Geraldo Rivera sitting on a chair and smoking a cigar.
Fuck Geraldo. I still remember his false reporting from Iraq during GW1. Him and Charles Jako, another purveyor of false "news".
Please keep in mind "Al Capone's Vault" show in Chicago. Contained an empty beer bottle. Classic
And I think you mean fuk Gerry Rivers a/ka Geraldo Rivera
Oh, I remember that well. When he was firing the Tommy gun, Mrs K and I were praying for a ricochet in his nads so we could watch him bleed out. We cannot stand the little prick. Waste of space.
Is Gerry the guy that down votes you just for showing up
Gerry should do a Brain Williams interview on truth and ethics in journalism.
I think it would be entertaining.
Ditto Knukles, Geraldo is a cunt...
Probably more of a narcisist than Obama...
An Hispanic Jew. Strange combination.
Cuban? Hence the embargo as the tribe was miffed at Fidel.
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US I.O.U's?
The rebels in Yemen are pikers compared to former NYC Mayor Bloomberg and his Wall Street cronies, who ripped off city employee pension funds for billions and no one said a word until now.
The New York Times just reported that the over $2 billion in gains made by New York City public employee pension funds over the past 10 years were gobbled up by fees the city's investment advisors charged for their services. Now we know why Bloomberg did not want to stop being Mayor, even getting himself elected for an illegal 3rd term with the help of bought off and terminally ill federal district judge Charles Sifton, who overturned the term limit referendum illegally.
Wall Street Wipes Out $2.5 Billion In New York City Pension Gains
By PATRICK McGEEHANAPRIL 8, 2015
The Lenape tribe got a better deal on the sale of Manhattan island than New York City’s pension funds have been getting from Wall Street, according to a new analysis by the city comptroller’s office.
The analysis concluded that, over the past 10 years, the five pension funds have paid more than $2 billion in fees to money managers and have received virtually nothing in return, Comptroller Scott M. Stringer said in an interview on Wednesday.
“We asked a simple question: Are we getting value for the fees we’re paying to Wall Street?” Mr. Stringer said. “The answer, based on this 10-year analysis, is no.”
Until now, Mr. Stringer said, the pension funds have reported the performance of many of their investments before taking the fees paid to money managers into account. After factoring in those fees, his staff found that they had dragged the overall returns $2.5 billion below expectations over the last 10 years.
“When you do the math on what we pay Wall Street to actively manage our funds, it’s shocking to realize that fees have not only wiped out any benefit to the funds, but have in fact cost taxpayers billions of dollars in lost returns,” Mr. Stringer said.
Why the trustees of the funds — Mr. Stringer included — would not have performed those calculations in the past is not clear.
Mr. Stringer, who was a trustee of one of the funds when he was Manhattan borough president before being elected comptroller, said the returns on investments in privately traded assets, such as real estate, have traditionally been reported without taking fees into account. The fees have been disclosed only in footnotes to the funds’ quarterly statements, he said.
The stakes in this arena are huge. The city’s pension system is the fourth largest in the country, with total assets of nearly $160 billion. It holds retirement funds for about 715,000 city employees, including teachers, police officers and firefighters.
Most of the funds’ money — more than 80 percent — is invested in plain vanilla assets like domestic and foreign stocks and bonds. The returns on those investments are generally reported after the fees, which are usually paid as a percent of the assets each firm manages.
Over the last 10 years, the return on those “public asset classes” has surpassed expectations by more than $2 billion, according to the comptroller’s analysis. But nearly all of that extra gain — about 97 percent — has been eaten up by management fees, leaving just $40 million for the retirees, it found.
Scott Evans, the comptroller’s chief investment officer, had to work backward from the footnotes in the reports to estimate just how much had been paid to a long list of firms that invested in real estate, shares of private companies and other assets whose value is more opaque. He calculated that the net value of those managers had been a whopping negative — a drag of more than $2.5 billion — since the end of 2004.
Whodathunk?
Torch open vault
Transport to Iranian ships for safekeeping.
Looking for that barbarous relic, I'm sure.
Just make sure it's not tungsten.
Get the serial numbers too.
tel aviv based
rothschild agents
rest assured goy
nat, jacob and edwyne
only want the gold
the dollars the locals can use them
for finishing off after shittings
local jews where told not to turn up today
2 local mule teams full of kerosene will slammed into the computer rooms of each central structure
the building
soon will be silversteined into its own footprint at freefall speeds
I'm 100% sure the jews were evacuated several days before any of this started and the insurance policy on this place is fully paid and current.
I believe Larry 'Pull It' Silverstein acted as consultant on the buiding insurance issue.
What, no comment about Jewish lightning yet?
There was one but Silverstein pulled it. Whodathunk comments could be insured?
This whole US armed thing about this particular group is absolute bullshit. They seized some equipment from a spec ops base - not even much. I guess the conspiracy theorists are going to thrash me for this but I couldn't care less.
If you call half a billion in equipment, "not much", then maybe your not a complete idiot
I think you are referring to the $500 million reported here: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-03-23/us-loses-500-million-weapons-given-yemen-now-al-qaeda-hands This was aid given the the then Yemeni government. Later weapons were seized from the embassy but they were disabled prior to that - small arms and not that many so hardly dramatic.
Guess highlighting who the weapons were orignially given to and that as far as I know we are not currently arming the Iranian-backed militia is just out-of-line around here. This place is really in the toilet.
Lazy Yemenis... only the HollyHoax version of breaking into a bank vault involves WELDING EQUIPMENT.
Then again TPTB probably have a vested interest in not disseminating that information.
Dude, those chains that hold the pens on the counter are tough!
Any decent vault will sacrifice all flammable contents before yielding to an oxy-acetylene torch.
Maybe the Germans are about to get some of their gold back.
#goodluckwiththatfatfuckingchance
Hopefully, Oceans 11 or 12 or 13 (or however many crooks he assembled in his latest movie) have already hit the joint and emptied all the gold. Na na you terrorists! Hollywood wins again!
/s
This is to bring down the House of Saud, the "Pentagone" is pissed and now the Iranians will agree to sell oil in USD till they don't. The House of Saud falls via back-door mechanism; the only thing the LangleyInc or MurderInc has planned and seems to be executing quite well...those Saudi's fell hook-line-and sinker...of course it is not over till it is over...wait and see.
Nothing, and I mean nothing, would give me greater satisfaction than seeing the House of Saud fall and all its bloated parasites strung up on lamposts for miles on end. Just like the slaves after the Spartacus revolt. May I live long enough to see it.
And still Paper Gold goes nowhere !!!!
Umm,... they're digital fellas. Electronic. Hello.
Simple.
Own the central bank, own the country.
Rebels sponsored by Rothschild & Associates ZWO
Boy are they going to be bummed out when they discovery that the money is all imaginary.
Just grab the printer, it's easier. Fuck You Bernanke
I'm thinkin the prez already bailed out with it looking for greener pastures ;-)
Just like Americans will be with their 401K and Social Security.
Wait, let me see if my program is up to date and I have a good grasp on the players involved as far as the starting line up.
The Shia Houthi militia (the opponent?) is at homeplate outside the Yemeni central bank with blow torch bats, we've got a couple Iranian war ships off the coast at third & second trying to steal home and Obama the umpire is calling everything as a ball.
Who's pitching again? ;-)
I get a little lost in the allegories (style points for that word) but I'm pretty sure Obama is a catcher.
A Sunni huh, I knew it ;-)
Who's on first. Tomorrow's the pitcher.
Every country must have a Rothschilde central bank. Ask Col. Ghadaffy. Oh wait, he's dead.
Ask Saddam, too.
Ask Poroshenko?
http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/5403/33018055.44/0_9f47b_1c564477_orig.jpg
Oxy-acetylene Torch - for those days when you just couldn't find that safe deposit box key....
( safe ) deposit box, never did understand that concept, I was always taught to be ( self ) reliant
"Iranian-backed Houthi rebels" ???
Fuck off MSM!
Yeah, 'cause no one in the M.E. does any shooting on their own initiative! :>D
the black chap in the ebola psy op green t shirt that was shot today.
it was fake as big foot shite
big news story it got long legs yes sir
not quite ebola rockn rolla
but long legs great for google advert anal let ticks
question is goy
what crimes will this fake killer cop episode
this mother fucking james holmes temporal illusion be covering,
yemen
ukrainia
syria
goy something is afoot
watson
Who needs cutting gear when you have a tank and armor piercing ammo?
Yeah, safe-deposit box...the only thing I put in a bank is contempt....
Oceans 15? --- I lost fucking count.
One of the "welders" looked a lot like Janet Yellen.
GGD Special Forces: Goldman Gold Diggers. HOT DAMN!!! Another Foreign Central Bank Gold Stash to Plunder!!!! Yamashita's gotta be turning over in his grave!!!!
If they lift up the vault and expose to sunlight I'm sure they'll see Goldman Sachs employees running in all directions.
I hope the Huti rebel steal the gold ! If the Yanks can do it Ukraine why vcant; the Huti do it in Yemen !
This is a US-inspired action... the only place any stolen gold from Yemen will end up is at the New York Fed... why do you REALLY think there's a 'revolution' going on there????
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csv1wXOr5tY