Standoff in Texas Park!
Friday, well dressed men in suits and ties set up an encampment at a city owned park in Houston and said they weren't going to leave until the CFTC stops its "tyranny."
It just got weirder from there.
The group's spokesman is "Little John" Cornhole, the son of Texas Senator "Big John" Cornhole. The father made national news when he led the huge TARP bailout for the banks in 2008, for which both he and his fellow Texas senator voted. The bailout took on shades of class warfare when the elder Cornhole wondered aloud to a New York Times reporter whether tax payers would be better off enslaved.
That is the backdrop against which a very complicated, confusing, and tense situation continues today with "Little John" Cornhole and dozens of bankers who have answered his call on social media to join him at the the park in front of City Hall, directly across the street from Golden Sacks, Bank of Jew York, Wells Notice Bank, The Elite of Houston Club, and the United States Attorney's office.
In a press conference in which a few followers rambled for a long time about the of the value of debt and against auditing the Federal Reserve Bank, Cornhole said the group had decided to call themselves #bankerlivesmatter.
Who is "Little John" Cornhole?
Cornhole won't say how many Chamber of Commerce members are at the city park. CNBS's Steve Liesmuch is near the City Hall -- an imposing building in downtown Houston, about a half-mile from the Federal Reserve Bank, and has interviewed Cornhole. He has seen mostly men, but said there were at least two women -- one of them the wife of Texas Senator Juan Crude, and is a Golden Sacks banker.
The Houstonian has reported that Cornhole's brother Ryan Cornhole is there. The two participated in their father's fight to socialize bank losses in 2008 when Big John voted for the taxpayer to bail out the banks. Back then the Cornholes encouraged like-minded pro-banker folks to join them and many responded. The ordeal ended when the government passed a law under which the U.S. Treasury would issue debt for the Federal Reserve to acquire up to $700 billion of worthless mortgage-backed securities from the banks, and the Cornholes declared themselves victorious.
Who is with him?
Little John Cornhole, who has lived in River Oaks with his wife, sent an appeal for supporters to join him downtown.
The Texas Republic reported that three from the Country Club have answered the call.
One of them, the newspaper said, is Ben Shalom Ritzheimer, an avowed anti-Islamist and dual citizen who served in Israel. In 2014 he organized a protest outside a Houston Islamic community center during which he wore a T-shirt that said, "Bomb Palestine!" He said his goal was to promote peace. "I'm trying to achieve a Greater Zion," he told CNBS's Andy Vanderbilt at the time, and compared himself to King David.
Ritzheimer appears to have posted a video of himself at the park on Friday. It is difficult to follow because of abrupt editing, but in it he says, "We went there. It was completely open...We just rolled right in and the caterers had already set up the tents."
Texan LaBoy Fulovcum is also with Cornhole. He spoke at the press conference, standing in the sunshine, flanked by at least a dozen supporters. He repeatedly said he was interested in defending his bank's right to donate unlimited money to directly advocate for the election or defeat of political candidates under Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.
Fulovcum is a banker who lives in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, during the hot Houston summers, and keeps a mansion in Montrose area of Houston, and has publicly stated he donates to the campaigns of both Republicans and Democrats, which he argues is clearly not "bribery," the Republic reports.
Mike White is also there, the Montrose-Fun Times reports. The attorney from Texas worked on the TARP bill to defend bank shareholders in 2008, and told the Southern Poverty Law Center that he was in charge of whipping up support in the Bar Association when the standoff came to a head.
The Southern Poverty Law Center does not investigate bribery of public officials, Dual Citizen RICO crimes, or the FBI's release of the Five Dancing Israelis.
What do they want?
Though the group's goals have so far seemed hazy, Little John Cornhole has said that they essentially want two things.
First, they want the federal government to relinquish all claim to an audit of the Federal Reserve Bank, in perpetuity, so "bankers can socialize any losses via the US Treasury without fear of any recourse," he told CNBS early Friday. And second, they want eternal immunity for Jon Corzine, former CEO of Golden Sacks and New Jersey Senator who was not prosecuted by the Department of Justice for the vaporization of hundreds of millions of dollars of MF Global's client accounts in 2011.
The group's unarmed action came after they broke off from a group protesting to "FREE JON CORZINE!".


Corzine was a huge donor for both Clintons and Obama, allegedly to protect himself and reduce the chance of being prosecuted, Zerohedge speculated. DOJ prosecutors said they received instructions to set fires to cover up evidence, similar to Lois Learner's and Hillary Clinton's email scandals, and to never ever mention the fact that the NSA has copies of everything.
The U.S. Department of Justice issued a statement Friday: "The Attorney General declined to prosecute The Honorable Jon Corzine based on his sworn testimony," it said.
"Obviously on the forefront of everyone’s mind – including mine – are the varying reports that customer accounts have not been reconciled. I was stunned when I was told on Sunday, October 30, 2011, that MF Global could not account for many hundreds of millions of dollars of client money. I remain deeply concerned about the impact that the unreconciled and frozen funds have had on MF Global’s customers and others. As the chief executive officer of MF Global, I ultimately had overall responsibility for the firm. It is extremely difficult for me to reconstruct the events that occurred during the chaotic days and the last hours leading up to the bankruptcy filing....I simply do not know where the money is."
Federal law apparently does not mandate that the Attorney General's office do their jobs. The prosecutor to oversee the case thought the political wind against prosecuting the case was too harsh. She gave up on the investigation. Corzine has served no time.
Cornhole has said the Corzine case illustrates the close relationship between politicians and Wall Street banks that is the cornerstone of power in America.
What does Corzine want?
According to the Wall Street Journal,
Jon S. Corzine, the embattled former MF Global Holdings Ltd. chief executive and ex-chairman of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., has discussed plans to start his own hedge fund in recent months, according to people familiar with the matter.
The fund would start with cash from Mr. Corzine’s personal wealth and a handful of outside investors. Mr. Corzine said he had been speaking with about a half-dozen potential investors, and projected around $150 million in assets under management, one of the people said.
Mr. Corzine most likely wouldn’t be able to launch a fund until legal proceedings against him over MF Global have been resolved. Pretrial motions are expected to go at least until February of next year. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission in June 2013 filed civil charges against him and is still collecting evidence for a possible trial.
However, the CFTC's progress and slow pace do not seem to hold much sway with Cornhole and the others.
"At the heart of this is a complaint that bankers have a natural right to lose client money...to privatize profits and socialize losses," said Mindy Goldstein, a lead researcher with the Southern Poverty Law Center. "After all, the banks create the money out of thin air to begin with, it doesn't really belong to the client. It belongs to the banking cartel, and the government is working to preserve that."
"And I don't know where the CFTC gets off thinking that the money doesn't belong to those who originally created it," she quipped.
CNBS's Steve Liesmuch asked Cornhole and other supporters what they think about the argument, widely made in The Hamptons and Davos, that if they wanted the MF Global money to be returned, it should go back to the private shareholders of the Federal Reserve Bank.
The men paused for a moment and told Liesmuch that they'd welcome anyone to join them, including the foreign shareholders of the Federal Reserve Bank.
Where is law enforcement?
The short answer: Right across the street from the occupied City Park. Liesmuch and his crew were logistically able to look across Hermann Square to the Wells Notice Bank building where the US Attorney's offices are co-located. The building looks like a place you'd expect to find banks and law offices, he said. It's downtown, very nice, and in every direction there's tremendous wealth! If law enforcement showed up and wanted to be seen, they would be, he said.
The DOJ has said it is taking the lead on the situation and is working with state and local authorities toward "a peaceful resolution" to the situation, the agency's Houston office said in a statement.
Citing "safety considerations for both those inside the refuge as well as the law enforcement officers involved," the DOJ declined to comment further.
How and when could this end?
Some have criticized law enforcement for this approach, especially on Twitter, where the most strident comments have been posted. Many are using the hashtag #HANGTHEBANKERS to say there's a double standard applied to Cornhole and his supporters. If they weren't politicians, lawyers, and bankers, many say, there would be a harsher and swifter response.
Many have said the Black Lives Matter movement has been supported far less than what's happening in Houston. If they were Muslims, the law enforcement response would be different, others argued.
But several in law enforcement have said there are circumstances to consider. This is a pleasant area in Houston in a park where no one -- except maybe those who voluntarily deposit money with Corzine -- are in danger.
"What's going to happen hopefully [is] ... we don't go out there with a big force, because that's what they're looking for," said CNBS analyst Duke Nukem, a retired SEC investigator who surfed porn on the internet for years while getting paid to investigate Wall Street banks. "The last thing we need is some type of confrontation."
Cornhole has said he and others are prepared to stay in the park until 4:00 pm, if necessary. They have enough caviar and Bollinger, he said, to see them through until that time.
Cornhole has repeatedly warned that the unarmed occupiers don't intend to harm anyone, but if law enforcement or others try to force them from the park, their lawyers will sue.
CORRECTION: A previous version of this story incorrectly reported Corzine's original investigation was for, "misremembering."
This is a parody of http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/04/us/oregon-wildlife-refuge-what-bundy-wants...
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What are the advantages of not auditing the FED?
please tell me that this is a fucking joke . . . else I've lost all faith in ZH in perpetuity . . .
I stopped reading at, "Cornhole."
I've gotta admit it, I've read the entire article, and most of the comments and I have no idea what it is about.
This issue is ground zero in the failure of the United States of America.
This and decimation of personal freedoms.
HH and everyone else,
I love all of you because I can see that you have good hearts. I don't know everything in the world but I do know a few things. Brain time here.
http://www.uspresidentialelectionnews.com/2016-presidential-primary-schedule-calendar/
Some of you folks are going to have access to a caucus or open primary. Show up. No one else knows what they are doing either at this level but the straw poll counts for both parties. That is is a big deal. Did everyone here that? The STRAW POLL is what matters most at entry level caucus. Second is to become a delegate. Do not waste time with foolish resolutions to amend the party platform. Resolutions are a waste of time.
Two goals:
1: Straw Poll
2: Become delegate.
At these early proceedings you find almost no resistance in either party. You will not have to have a big speach prepared or speak in front of large crowds in most cases. If you have to stand up then say something party boilerplate like "I believe in whatever party platform bullshit and I will fight to do this". Yeah right you will because you won't but that is not the point. Never be specific OK or you will be pegged. Blah blah blah with resolutions and then the caucus is adjourned. You can question the current platform later on your convention call.
It is very easy to do and yet no one does it. It is different in every state and some states won't even let you participate. That is a problem right there. Who are the electorates? Those are typically primary states who close the process.
Invariably, if you are elected as a delegate you will be noticed. That is a promise. If you move on from there as a delegate, that is when you start meeting your federal politcos. That is also when you start meeting the real pricks and then you have acquired your targets. One more step and you are at some fancy parties and meeting either your Governor or Congressman. That is where you want to be. You might not have a lot of money but you have a some power in a vote that actually matters. That is how it works no matter what state. Once your guy is elected you are dirt. I still do have one CONgressman who I can talk to. Yippee skippee.
I would do it all over again and I will. If I have to do it alone then so be it. I can't take Hillary so I have to run interference here. This is a republican district so I will not challenge here. Didn't you folks notice how big of a Bernie Sanders guy I was this whole time. I will split that straw poll in this precinct. That is my only way to actually weaken Hillary politically on a local scale. Tiny I know.
A death of thousand cuts my friends.
If nothing else I will do my best but I won't win if I am alone. I know that. The Ron Paul Revolution is not over by any means.
Sounds to me like a great strategy to aquire targeting data, i.e., persons, addresses, habits, etc.
Roll the Guillitenes (apologies to KchrisX)
Are you lazy? Fine, stay home then. I don't give a fuck.LOL
Free Hat! (and Corzine, oh he isn't isn't in prison yet)
I was delighted as my initial bewilderment changed to appreciate an entertaining parody ... Except, of course, to the degree that things which are funny because they are true are also terrible because they are true!
Truth is a bitch.
Check outhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpkm6iSd--c some stuff,
Join some dots together. this might be helpfull.
Howard Hughes died on a Lear jet, his helpers were on the jet, Who were his helpers? what happened to Las Vegas after Howard Hughes died? Family oriented ex-mafia.
Harry Reid, smacked in the eye by a rubber band.
Natural gas on the Bundy ranch (Bundy =Mormon.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Horse_Prophecy
The mormons are the Fed out in the west, they are also the ranchers, the mormons./
Join the dots.
I suspected at the begining of this article, being from the very Honorable Mr H.H. that it was regarding that Corzine entity, but if it is not the agenda of ZH to inform people of what is really afoot........
It confused me,altough I suspected that it was about that creature Corzine, but if a fellow showed up in Texas named Cornhole, I kind of thought there was a douchebag in Texas named Cornhole, I guess it is just me.
I thought the Corzine dude would be hiding on his island or something, i assumed he would be in Barbados, screwing wiry octoons, are you shitting me?
He is walking around in Texas unshot?
Well there goes the whole Texas mythology.
Remember the Alamo,crying for Texas, you just got de-nutted.
He is walking around in Texas unshot?
Well there goes the whole Texas mythology.
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Awesome article HH! Should be a beverage warning like WilliamBanzi7 does though!
Down with the Government run Psyop's and False flag attacks!
If the local sheriff had a set of balls he would deputize a bunch of locals and arrest the government sponsored agent provocateur's!
provocateurs
1. a person who provokes trouble, causes dissension, or the like; agitator:The delusion is that are honest courts wherein to seek redress. I cannot speak for Texas, but can speak for the Second Federal Circuit (NY, CT, VT) to have no ethical judges. The Attorney General and all the second circuit's district prosecutors are approved by Schumer, leaving us with a most venal system. There are over 143,000 complaints against corrupt NY courts alone. http://exposecorruptcourts.blogspot.com/
If only 1% are valid, is there any justice?
All right, HH...never before has there been a circumstance necessitating enmity betwixt you and Janus. Up till now, I've held you in high regard, been at times inspired by your passion, insights and your living according to the philosophy you espouse.
I'll go so far as to say that you represent my ideal neighbor in a future world of honor-based libritarianism; not only because you're the kind of guy who has all the tools I need to borrow when undertaking projects, also because you'd insist on helping (and I'd couteously get out of your way as you showed how best to join, plane and dovetail woodwork and whatnot), and you really seem to believe in that cornball shit like morals and ethics and dignity...moreover, you strike me as a good drinking companion.
But now all those fuzzy sentiments of fraternity have been by you smashed and cast to the four winds. How dare you lift my satirical motif before I had a chance to breath life into it? Shame on you, HH. You had to've known Janus was hatching an hilarious pastich about these pugnacious privateers and their seizure of a bird watching outpost.
Sorry to say 'sorry' won't cut it.
Granted, I haven't yet read your piece...the pain of betrayal still stings with crippling pangs. But if, after ubering around Boston for the whole of this night I still have energyenough, I'm going to include my own and then read yours and see to what extent you've theived my thoughts.
Reconciliation is a long and agonizing process, HH...but It's worth it when it come to the ones we love.
(As an aside, and to leave off sarcasm for a second, God's blessings on the whole Hedgeless household. May 2016 be one of grace, prosperity and growth for you and yours).
Again, save your sorrys for someone else...Janus is out for satirical vengance, to settle a satirical score and so long as i don't zonk out, you can count on reprisals! I'm so satirically serious that you'll never even think of stealing my ideas before I have a chance to share them.
Do not consider this a warning; it is very much a threat.
Satirically yours,
Janus
I gave up hunting years ago. However, it is kind of a shame that there is no open season on elitist non-human entities living on earth.
It sure would give the good ole boys something to look forward to... and they aren't really human after all. They just look it.
I'm selling everything. Jumping in my 50 year old(heavily stickered) Suburu, and hitch hiking down there!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xm3VMrKqJSA
FREE JOHN CORNHOLE!!!!!!!!
(Hard to believe no one else made this comment yet.)
Ill come back in a couple hours when I get done laughing at "Little John Cornhole".... LOL TOO FUCKING MUCH! GO JOHN CORNHOLE! HEY LITTLE JOHN, CORNHOLE THOSE FUCKERS! AND BEWARE OF BIG JOHN CORNHOLE!
Images of Smokey and the Bandit characters Little Enos and Big Enos sprung immediately to my mind.
Nice of you to paint a big target on yourself, Cornass.
Cozine was separated from John Williams (conductor not the classical guitarist) at birth. but more interesting is now every god damned idiot wants to jump into the spotlight created by the BLM (Bureau of Limitless Management) including parody chimps of all stripes... also of some interest is the video and open letter to the county sheriff in question, made by an Alaskan judge (letter) and a constitutional lawyer (video) http://farmwars.info/?p=14358 in the open letter check out the third paragraph from the end and see if you blood doesn't run cold.
pity the Hammonds for daring to defy the BLM and its backers-creators. The occupying cowpokes have a case to make even if they are a bunch of bigoted right wing fanatical ideologues...hopefully it all ends peacefully without to many black beans on rice...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPIP9KXdmO0
ZH is reposting the Onion now?
Things are so bizarre that The Onion is now The News Before Its Is The News.
Amen to that, HowdyDoody!
One gets more accurate news from The Onion than from MSM these days.
That is no joke! Did you read the original propaganda laden CNN article?
that's a bullshit article. they didn't include how much they hate gays and jews and women and midgets.
IMHO, it's safe to say that a Jewish Lesbian Midget is not on everyones fav list, no?
.............or a Carpet Munching Hebrew Dwarf?.....................
..................or a Princess Camel Toe'd Fairy?...........................:)
Why doesn't someone run a car into that bunch? LOL
They should go light a votive candle to Our Lady of Perpetual Quantitative Easing.
Iwantitative Queasing.
When tax time comes on April 15th, I'm not going to know where the fuck my money went.
http://dealbreaker.com/2015/12/not-everything-is-jon-corzines-fault-you-know/
Its so sickening I could barely read it.
Since the rancher's basic demand is public assets converted to private use, and the banker's premise is public money converted to private use, I could see these groups getting together. The only obstacle is the hat thing.
http://www.businessinsider.com/meet-the-goldman-executive-who-became-a-c...
About a year ago, Jon Winkelried quit Goldman Sachs and became a cowboy.
Apparently it really pissed off the bank's CEO, Lloyd Blankfein.
"You really want to get Lloyd going? Ask him about Winks' departure," a Goldman partnertold Fortune writer William Cohan.
Winkelried, the former co-COO and Co-President (alongside Gary Cohn) of Goldman Sachs, had owned his Colorado ranch for a few years already when he decided to leave Goldman last February.
Now he's 100% gentleman cowboy. He's a near-professional-level "cutter," a sport in which horseback riders separate one calf from the cattle herd. He owns a $460,000 stallion named "I Sho Spensive."
And his son is following in his footsteps: he's a "roper," one of two riders who work together to lasso a calf in a rodeo.
It wasn't that Blankfein didn't support his partner's rodeo dreams, it was his timing that bothered the CEO.
"It really pissed Lloyd off because the buyout happened in the midst of a complete disaster and he had to spend three weeks explaining this every day, and it's hugely embarrassing that he's got to bail these guys out," a partner told Cohan.
"And his son is following in his footsteps: he's a "roper," one of two riders who work together to lasso a calf in a rodeo."
Jeesh! Crap reporting - inaccurate as hell.
In this description he would be a "Team Roper", and must be designated as a "header" or "heeler". What is so hard about doing just a little bit of research?
That was an interestng read
The Neil Kashkari story is also a hoot. His place looks almost like Ted Kaczinski's...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/04/AR200912...
He wants to be lost in these woods.
"Come on, you bums," Neel Kashkari calls to his dogs, two giant Newfoundlands. "Boys, let's go."
He is walking through the smoke of a controlled burn in the Sierra Nevadas. He is talking about the people and the life he left behind in Washington.
Thanks for the link.
The bit that stands out for me is that Paulson ordered Kashkari to write up a detailed plan to implement in the event of a financial collapse months before it happened. On the one hand, thank you, Hank, for the massive kick you gave the can so we could party on for another decade. On the other hand, you've got to conclude that Hank and all of his buddies were well-positioned before the markets collapsed.
Oh, I forgot....... John Coryn is a real piece of shit too !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dehewrst, Perry, and Tom"ConvectedFelonGot His Shit Overturned" DeLay, the heads of the Texas Country Prison Industrial Complex Mafia don't be fooled by the Gov going to Cuba, or Texas bringin gold to Austin, some evil mutherfuckers run this shit !!!!!!!!!!!!
Old city hall ??????????? I saw Dr. De Bakey in state there when he died 08 i think.
And in other news:
The 101st Chairborne gets its own Special Snowflake Award.
Maybe because there is little honor in our 14+ years of occupying Afghanistan, or in drone strikes on wedding parties?
Right out of the pages of this book...
Mentally destroying because when you get it wrong and in 90%+ you are not killing combatants you are killing innocent civilians.
Is a solution to the morality connundrum turn it into an online game then add one off missions for the best people. They will not know if it is real or not and no employee to worry about. Use CGI to override a load of it.
Could even offer nice shiny trophy for whoever does best in a year.
Didn't Russia close their airspace to the U.S. Military right at the end of Summer of 2015?? How will the U.S. Air Force get the Heroin shipments into Dover now?
I recall Medvedev giving Obama the airspace to sucker and goad Obama into launching the Surge in 2009 during a meeting when Russia invaded Georgia and damn near surrounded Tbilisi and the Georgian President, with the big mouth, was shitting his breeches trying to get the hell out of dodge.
The Entitlist in Chief took the bait and put an additional 40,000 troops in Afghanistan.....now the only supply route is over land??
I can't imagine how they are supplying the troops in Afghanistan now?????
Those guys must be freezing their nuts off right about now?????? I don't believe in the wars of aggression by the USA but, I certainly don't think that our military should have to suffer for Washington's crimes!
http://www.jamestown.org/single/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=35227&no_cache=1...
He giveth:
July 7, 2009 11:07 AM Age: 7 yrs By: Roger McDermottUS President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in the Kremlin on July 7, 2009.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a significant military transit agreement with Barack Obama during the summit in Moscow on July 6.
And he taketh away:
May 18th, 2015
http://sputniknews.com/military/20150518/1022264395.html
I would love to hear the troops talking smack about Obama. I bet they hate his guts. Saw a clip of one guy that was there for 3 years. Sad! When I read the news that the dipshit was stupid enough to take the bait from Medvedev, in 2009, I was speechless. I mean what a fucking amatuer! Afghanistan ultimately broke the Soviets and it will break the USA as well! Obama walked right into the trap and committed 40,000, flesh and blood, soldiers to the meat grinder that are now being dissected by the Taliban. The Taliban never really did anything to warrant an invasion in 2002! Just shows you how clueless Obama really is!
No one talks about it! Completely shameless century so far! Just gonna get worse!
One of our Hellfires has gone missing (really, not metaphorically)
The Pentagon fears Cuba will hand Hellfire missile secret technology to Russia, after Hellfire missile is accidentally sent to Cuba.
https://z5h64q92x9.net/proxy_u/ru-en.en/news-front.info/2016/01/08/penta...