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Caught On Tape: HSBC Bankers Recreate ISIS Beheading Execution

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HSBC just can't seem to help itself. As The Sun reports, as part of a "team-building" exercise, six bankers filmed the fake ISIS-style beheading of an Asian colleague - while yelling 'Allahu Akbar'. However, given that these were not C-level executives, there has been some consequences - the six bankers have been fired with HSBC noting "this is an abhorrent video and HSBC would like to apologize for any offense."

 

Caught On Tape...

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HSBC said:

“We do not tolerate inappropriate behaviour.

 

“As soon as The Sun brought this video to our attention we took the decision to sack the individuals involved.

 

“This is an abhorrent video and HSBC would like to apologise for any offence.”

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But rigging FX markets and money laundering for drug dealers is 'cost of doing business'?

 

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Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:11 | 6281486 williambanzai7
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HSBC has no head...

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:18 | 6281526 thunderchief
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Should have put him  in a silver and gold jumpsuit.

They would all have promotions now.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:20 | 6281540 PrayingMantis
Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:49 | 6281724 Boris Alatovkrap
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In Arabic, say:

"Alah Alah Alah alas mahed!"

Translation

Eventually all bankster must lose head in bloody revolution.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:53 | 6281752 IRC162
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Those funny guys, what humor.

Pretending that poor banker is a depositor.....  abhorrent indeed.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 16:15 | 6281865 Normalcy Bias
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Well, it's pretty well known that these banks are FULL of Sociopaths, right?

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 17:40 | 6282210 TahoeBilly2012
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Can't anyone have any good clean fun anymore? 

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 18:03 | 6282303 Handful of Dust
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I prefer the gitmo photos of leading them tear-ists around by leashes. Just a bunch of guys letting off steam after an arduous day of ripping off clients ... so what's the problem?

There's more outrage with this stuff then the actual beheadings by eye-sys, or the 9 shooting murders in Chicago every weekend.

Hey, how about the girl murdered by the repeat felon, illegal there in San Francisco's Sanctuary Safe Zone?

Screwed up priorities in this "politically correct" environment.

 

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:49 | 6281725 Richard Chesler
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Damned banksters have no respect for the CIA.

 

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 16:43 | 6281989 BorisTheBlade
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They got some stones offending some of the biggest money laundering clients.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 19:13 | 6282600 Tarshatha
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"Damned banksters have no respect for the CIA.""

 

Don't leave out our terrorist friends in the Mossad.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 19:20 | 6282627 Slomotrainwreck
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I think that HSBC just apologized to ISIS.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 20:21 | 6282840 Shaznardickleze...
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This must be why the CIAsis is turning towards Israel now. They need to squash the silly charade since they've lost credibility and their bullshit is less effective since everyone knows the US is behind it in some manner. Even the bankers are mocking the CIA... 

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:21 | 6281548 KnuckleDragger-X
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Merely a training video on customer relations......

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:41 | 6281659 Dubaibanker
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The video is apt....the guys in the orange jump suits are THE CLIENTS.

This is what we do when clients don't pay up....

Wed, 07/08/2015 - 06:29 | 6284083 nosam
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Speaking of orange jumpsuits, Gitmo has the same type of suits.

Does USG and ISIS have the same supplier? (rhetorical question)

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:39 | 6281664 kaiserhoff
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WTF?

This is why you should be careful who is running Human Services (personnel flacks).

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:44 | 6281684 813kml
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Looks like some sort of employee review process.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 16:09 | 6281825 Freddie
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.....or possibly loan review and the guy being beheded is borrower who is current on his loan.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 17:10 | 6282081 Pyrrhus
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What would have been funny is if they had actually done it.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:26 | 6281528 Element
Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:25 | 6281570 BoPeople
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Full of asses and dicks and no head.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:28 | 6281571 BoPeople
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ZH Dupe error

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:29 | 6281572 BoPeople
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ZH Dupe error 2

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:29 | 6281574 BoPeople
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ZH Dupe error 3 ... a new record

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:41 | 6281671 kaiserhoff
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Now you know how the e-trade baby went broke.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:46 | 6281700 ebear
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"ZH Dupe error 3 ... a new record"

For you maybe.  I've seen them go seven or eight deep.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:53 | 6281748 One of these is...
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Could this be an error in the .gov survellance windows security patches that most of us must have by now?

Maybe the number of repetitions corresponds to the number of departments that your every keystrokes are sent to...

 

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:46 | 6281701 LoneStarHog
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HSBC, why don't you apologize FOR YOUR MERE EXISTENCE!

 

It Is Time, Texas!...Operation Texas> www.OpTexas.org

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 16:02 | 6281790 Goldman-Sucks
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I'm stupified...

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:12 | 6281490 i_call_you_my_base
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This is how bankers relax after a long day of thievery.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:18 | 6281524 Kaervek
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Yea, now you realize what kind of people work there.

They are so fucked up they think this is funny and manipulation is just part of the game.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:12 | 6281494 quasimodo
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Apologize for any offense? To whom? The fuckers that beheaded folks? Fuck you HSBC.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:14 | 6281505 i_call_you_my_base
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"The fuckers that beheaded folks?"

Yes, those are potential HSBC customers.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:28 | 6281586 Citxmech
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How about the families of the deceased?

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 17:54 | 6282272 jwoop66
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Isis should apologize to them.

 

These depraved fucks...?  I don't know?   They'll create their own downfall(again) I'm sure.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 18:05 | 6282323 Handful of Dust
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read the small print at the end of th efilm:

 

"No animals were hurt or harmed in the making of this film."

 

So, what's the problem?

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:13 | 6281498 venturen
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so what! some other evil bank will hire the vile filth....won't be funny...when these aren't mock for bankers!

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:29 | 6281587 Freddie
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Rita Katz will sue for copyright infringement. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi2-J8DI92Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M5BSCMVhRQ

I think Rita got an Academy Award for the ISIS drowning video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC35VhjfJq0

A number of people on YouTube have posted that if you post info on these fake green screen ISIS videos - Google/YouTube will take down your pages on youTube.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:14 | 6281503 Implied Violins
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And Jesus said: "Do unto others as you would have done unto you..."

Amen. And please pass the guillotine.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:15 | 6281504 Dr. Engali
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Looks more like an orientation video for new bankers to me.

 

 

This is how we deal with people who don't pay.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:49 | 6281717 Freddie
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It is a shame they did not faux behead Linda Green robosigner in a Rita Katz phony ISIS green screen production.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZc0q7ha3qE

Rita Katz, Operation Mockingbird with Sen. Frank Church grilling See Eye Aye William Colby.  The family eventually dealt with Colby because he was not an effective liar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mZqY2G2810

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:19 | 6281518 NoDebt
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Having bankers pretend to be ISIS members, who are actually CIA, who are funded by selling drugs, who have their money laundered by bankers is deliciously ironic.

All I want to know is whether they cut the guy's head off or not.  I'll take one less banker any way I can get it.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 18:58 | 6282548 Trucker Glock
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Heard a blurb on the radio today about the increase in heroine use over the last ten years.  "Experts" attributed the increase to people hooked on prescription meds switching to cheaper heroine.  They conveniently neglected to mention why heroine is cheaper now.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:18 | 6281525 Racer
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Well banksters are psychopaths, so where's the surprise?

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:18 | 6281527 Lumberjack
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Maybe it was just a banker initiation without having to ride a goat.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:42 | 6281680 Paveway IV
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I thought banker initiation was 'Riding the Muppet' - or is that just at GS?

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 18:07 | 6282332 Lumberjack
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They were just bragging like these guys...

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/enron-traders-caught-on-tape/

 

...Both the Justice Department and Enron tried to prevent the release of these tapes. Enron's lawyers argued they merely prove "that people at Enron sometimes talked like Barnacle Bill the Sailor."

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:19 | 6281532 fast and furious
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Im trying to understand just WHO is supposed to be offended.  ISIS members?  Depositors?  Clients?  This is is a nonsense story.  Just trying to make "head" or "tail" out of it....

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:30 | 6281599 Citxmech
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Families of the deceased perhaps?  Just making a wild guess.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 17:51 | 6282261 Squid Viscous
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hah... good one

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:19 | 6281534 ZeroPoint
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What the fuck.......

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:19 | 6281536 El Vaquero
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Yet HSBC will launder money for the fuckers that do this shit to people:

 

http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/12/two-men-brutally-dismembered-in.html

 

Fucking hypocrites. 

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:24 | 6281556 Dr. Engali
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I will never understand people. It does not register with me how a person could do that to another person.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:33 | 6281604 NoDebt
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Once you don't see them as people any more, it's easy.  Example: When a banker offs himself with a nail gun, tell me you don't crack a wry smile.  I do.  If I knew the guy personally, I'd probably feel very differently.  But I don't so I don't.

Just remember the last think you do before you string a banker up on a light pole is whisper in his ear:  "It's nothing personal."

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:31 | 6281610 BoPeople
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Maybe the employees had an issue with HSBC being ISIS's banker.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 16:12 | 6281829 PleasedToMeatYou
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Better to be a smart gangster in private than a clueless buffoon in public. 

Greater job security. 

 

Honey, I got fired today. 

Oh, no! What for? 

Well, it's kindof a long story.  Ya see, me and the guys got this great idea....

 

Man, I'd love to be a fly on that wall. 

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 18:15 | 6282368 Implied Violins
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There's probably a lot of flies on that wall. And even more in the basement.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:19 | 6281538 22winmag
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Not bad for a bunch of rank amateurs.

 

Now back to robbin' and stealin'.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:20 | 6281539 aliki
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id love to know how something like this comes up ...

"hey, hey ... i gotta GREAT idea thats gonna help get us our fast-track, promotions!!!"

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 16:07 | 6281815 PleasedToMeatYou
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zzzzactly!

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:20 | 6281542 replaceme
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The real crime is that the one guy couldn't take the time to get a proper mask - orange? Is he going deer hunting after this? Phoning. It. In. 

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:57 | 6281721 Volkodav
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central casting out of black cos ME demand, all could issue was left over Pussy Riot gear

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:23 | 6281557 Racer
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“We do not tolerate inappropriate behaviour."

So rigging markets is not seen as inappropriate..

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 17:08 | 6282072 Bastiat
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. . . and money laundering?

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:29 | 6281589 loregnum
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They were just audtioning for the CIA to be the new actors in the next fake beheading video. Nothing wrong with that.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:31 | 6281612 LawsofPhysics
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The next Monty Python troupe emerges...

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:36 | 6281634 large_wooden_badger
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It was just an innocent haircut gotten out of hand

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:37 | 6281640 Spungo
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Someone actually thought this was a good idea?

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:38 | 6281650 fowlerja
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Damn..don't they let bankers have fun..they were just playing war games and a hostage taking exercise. What are they going to ban next...fire drills...

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:41 | 6281673 Sophist Economicus
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Yup, we've become so sensitive that everything is now offensive to somebody and must be censored. WTF

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:41 | 6281675 MASTER OF UNIVERSE
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One would figure that in this day, and age, so-called 'educated' people would not be caught dead participating in such a specticle if they ever intended on working in the banking industry ever again. In brief, these bankers in the video must have been pinned to the wall stoned, or drunk.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:45 | 6281692 mastersnark
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An apology from a corporation? The Overly Sensitive Generation(tm) strikes again. 

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:51 | 6281738 IndianaJohn
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Some schoolkids were doing a similar skit in the next pasture. Except they were hollering; "allah cadaver"

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:52 | 6281743 gcjohns1971
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But the fuckers who are funding ISIS?

Nope.

THEY can keep THEIR jobs.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:52 | 6281745 Da Nut Job
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I heard they all got hired at ISIS

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:55 | 6281755 Volkodav
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"No matter how stupid you think the average American is,

half of them are dumber than that"

                    -George Carlin-

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:59 | 6281774 nakki
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Well the biggest baddest threat the world has ever, ever seen, hasn't been in the news lately, so thanks drug money laundering cartel crony's for giving the media something to talk about. 

OT whatever happened to that guy that caused the flash crash? You know the guy trading from a basement in London. What passes as "scripture" in this world is comical. Its almost as if everyone has given up!!

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 16:04 | 6281803 SMC
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Not smart, but funny on many levels!  ROFL!

Nice to see someone giving the middle finger to the PC "sensitive wussy" idiocy.

 

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 16:04 | 6281805 PleasedToMeatYou
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The fact that HSBC had rockheads like that on the payroll warrants more than simply firing them.  Something is fundamentally wrong with the culture of that company, or at least the area where they worked, for these folks to collectively think that they could get away with such a outrageously stupid public stunt. 

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 16:20 | 6281885 WTFUD
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It's a shame that the folks we need to fight this revolution are mostly incarcerated, all around the globe. Can't trust a sheep when the going gets tough. The spooks are always ready and willing to kill for their overlords. Maybe we can do an Al CiaD'uh breakout like the one they masterminded in Libya.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 16:26 | 6281908 RealityCheque
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More real than the "real" one.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 16:45 | 6281988 stiler
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must keep up appearances with the sheeple, while they do the same old dishonest practices as always. The culture seems to be changing at these institutions for the worst. "Suicide" in the highest ranks.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 16:46 | 6282001 Redart
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Now that they were fired, it's time to buy HSBC and BNS. stupid video anyways

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 16:53 | 6282018 Panic Mode
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How many bags of cocaine they have sniffed up their arses??

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 17:25 | 6282149 Rastadamus
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THAT'S FUNNY......... 

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 17:45 | 6282236 MauritiusGold
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Abhorrent. At least a video doesn't bankrupt nations, people, cause suicides etc etc. that's what their core banking policies do....

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 17:48 | 6282247 Turdy Brown
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Very disrespectful to families of those murdered by ISIS thugs!  Not funny at all.  Don't understan who exactly were they trying to impress?

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 18:02 | 6282312 Fractal Parasite
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Auditioning before the casting director who does the "real" ones for the sheeple to believe on the nightly news, so the overlords can go bomb Syria and lay their Qatar-Europe gas pipeline and bankrupt the hegemon's biggest obstacle. Got it?

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 18:21 | 6282404 Fijiaaron
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Here's the thing:  They were fired for offending Islamic Terrorists.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 18:55 | 6282542 The 22nd Prime
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Mock? Make it realz. HSBC is a great place to start. 

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 19:02 | 6282563 Bunga Bunga
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Calm down, this is how a completely normal depositor haircut will look like in a few years.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 19:22 | 6282631 robertocarlos
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"Coke adds life, where there isn't any".

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 22:05 | 6283238 ken
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Why do stupid people get all the jobs?

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 22:06 | 6283247 newworldorder
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There is no protection for the little employees as these dummies found out. It will also be a while before they will find other jobs.

Once branded with the brand of intollerance and stupidity, few banking institutions will be taking their phone calls.

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