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Here Comes FIATtackWatch: Ben "Big Brother" Bernanke Goes Watergate, Prepares To Eavesdrop On Everything Mentioning The Fed
Two weeks ago, the media's heart went aflutter when it learned that the president had borrowed a page right out of ole' Joe McCarthy's communist witch hunt book with the launch of Attack Watch. The response by everyone, even fans of Obama, was immediate and brutal. Yet where Obama took about 24 hours to crash and burn, someone else has stepped in with a far stealthier method of ferreting out the traitors amongst us: none other than our old friends, the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States, which in a Request for Proposals filed to companies that are Fed vendors, is requesting the creation of a "Social Listening Platform" whose function is to "gather data from various social media outlets and news sources." It will "monitor billions of conversations and generate text analytics based on predefined criteria." The Fed's desired product should be able to "determine the sentiment [ED:LOL] of a speaker or writer with respect to some topic or document"... "The solution must be able to gather data from the primary social media platforms – Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, Forums and YouTube. It should also be able to aggregate data from various media outlets such as: CNN, WSJ, Factiva etc." Most importantly, the "Listening Platform" should be able to "Handle crisis situations, Continuously monitor conversations, and Identify and reach out to key bloggers and influencers." Said otherwise, the Fed has just entered the counterespionage era and will be monitoring everything written about it anywhere in the world. After all, why ask others to snitch for you and anger everyone as Obama found out the hard way, when you can pay others to create the supreme FIATtack WatchTM using money you yourself can print in unlimited amounts. And once the Internet is completely "transparent", the Fed will next focus on telephone conversations, and finally will simply bug each and every otherwise "private" location in the world. Because very soon saying that "printing money is treason" will be treason, and such terrorist thoughts must be pre-crimed before they even occur.
All we can say is we welcome our new Chairsatan Voldemort overlord. For it is truly he who must not be named henceforth.
From the key section of the RFP, presented in its entirety below:
I. Introduction
Social media platforms are changing the way organizations are communicating to the public Conversations are happening all the time and everywhere.
There is need for the Communications Group to be timely and proactively aware of the reactions and opinions expressed by the general public as it relates to the Federal Reserve and its actions on a variety of subjects.
II. Social Listening Platforms
Social media listening platforms are solutions that gather data from various social media outlets and news sources. They monitor billions of conversations and generate text analytics based on predefined criteria. They can also determine the sentiment of a speaker or writer with respect to some topic or document.
The information gathered can guide the organizations public relations group in assessing the effectiveness of communication strategies.
Here are some of the services it can offer:
o Track reach and spread of your messages and press releases
o Handle crisis situations
o Continuously monitor conversations
o Identify and reach out to key bloggers and influencers
o Spot emerging trends, discussions themes and topics
A. Geographic scope of social media sites
The solution must support content coming from different countries and geographical regions. It should also support multiple languages.
B. Content and Data Types
The solution must be able to gather data from the primary social media platforms –Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, Forums and YouTube. It should also be able to aggregate data from various media outlets such as: CNN, WSJ, Factiva etc.
C. Reports and Metrics
The solution must provide real-time monitoring of relevant conversations. It should provide sentiment analysis (positive, negative or neutral) around key conversational topics.
It must be able to provide summaries or high level overviews of a specific set of topics. It should have a configurable dashboard that can easily be accessed by internal analysts or management. The dashboard must support customization by user or group access.
The solution should provide an alerting mechanism that automatically sends out reports or notifications based a predefined trigger.
D. FRBNY Technology Integration
The solution must be able to integrate with existing FRBNY technologies such as: Google Search appliance, Lotus notes suite and web trends.It must have support for single sign on or windows integrated authentication.
E. Cost Structure
The solution should offer a flexible pricing structure that can support multiple user licensing. It should also have the option to base pricing on content volume and usage. Supplier acknowledges an understanding of and agrees to comply with the above minimum solutions requirements.
Full RFP:
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cops/military are only as good as their last pay stub...once usd is worthless lets see how organized they will be...
JUNGLE LAW BITCHEZ
Wasn't that like a Jethro tull song or something...?
I love that song.
What the hell would the Fed have done with Thomas Paine.......monitored his "sentiment" on the taxpayers' dime?????
Can we get FiatWatch to monitor AttackWatch? #DIV/0
There are dozens of firms creating fake profiles by the thousands and using them in targeted socket puppetry and astroturfing. In addition to BAC and other corporate pustules, the US military industrial complex are the biggest contractors.
The funny thing is that the Bernank's spying will be flooded with fake happy feedback data generated by other arms of the Leviathan, and he will probably feel vindicated in his ZIRP 4EVA, QEs, TARPs etc. Confirmation bias much?
More realistically, this may be just an expedient to generate some business to cousins Cass Sunstein, Chertoff, Deutch, Zellikow and their Israeli security firms.
FIRST COMES FRAUD
THEN COMES FORCE
FIRST COMES FRAUD
THEN COMES FORCE
FIRST COMES FRAUD
THEN COMES FORCE
I think you mean FARCE. There are many millions both inside and outside the usa that hate those SOBs with a vengeance.
The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers...
Princess Leia
I once went to a DoD presentation where the speaker talked aboutr how they were going to know everything about everything. She called the proposal "Total Information Domination". It was a pile of crap. Technically illiterate, bogus tosh. They probably should have called it "My Big Swinging Dick will knock you to the ground, muthafucka". They'd have gotten a bigger grant.
Allahu Akbar
<<< Joe McCarthy's communist witch hunt book >>>>
With the release of the Vinona papers from the Dept of Defense, and Kruschev's memiors, which independently verity each other, Senator McCarthy's allegations have been proven true. His only problem was he didn't accuse enough people. There were in fact Jewish American communists permeated throughout the Roosevelt administration. Eythl and Julius Rosenberg were just the tip of the iceberg.
You know a man was on the right track when jews continue the slander decades after the've gone. It's a badge of honor really.
We're entering the stage where those who got rich off "Greed is Good" will no longer try to support the economy. They don't need to care anymore and their priority is to protect their wealth and power.
I expect the Fed and DC to only propose very tepid programs from here going forward: no more big LSAP and QE programs, no more huge fiscal stimulus.
And at some point it will even reverse under the "austerity" flag: cutting back on all programs including disaster relief, unemployment, prisons, hospitals, welfare, road maintenance, and finally border security.
Any issues? Please write your letters to your representatives who are now living in Singapore and Hong Kong. Happy trails.
Yep, they will spend billions on this. Simple solution to get around it:
http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq61-2.htm
entrepreneur tip #1: make an app for it.
Felix uses cryptic keys to harass explicitly Felonious Evil Doers.
Ultimately, all of the STASI and KGB's bidding, technology and interference could not save them from their destiny, the Fed will be no different.
This is bullshit!! The Federal govt. has much more important things to worry about than a farmer with a 12-gauge and a roll of Eagles!! The banksters or now 'big brother' is looking for revolutionary/violent/saboteurs not Zher's who blog to let off some steam here and there...Come on!! ZH is one of 1000's of blogs which I might add have a demographic of 'above average' just about everything except stupidity...So use it!!!
Hate to break it to you, but fiat paper doesn't get dumped because too many people have guns. Gold is what threatens fiat paper.
The Fed will use their gold and control the sheeple that way as well...The Fiat game is coming to an end...They won't lose control... Psych analysis of a control freak!!
not gold, trust...hence the RFP.
gold is the symptom, not the disease.
Wrong! We are the new terrorists! Have you not noticed how Homeland Security is targeting people just like us here at zero hedge!? It used to brown men in caves but we have been the real targets all along. Homeland Security was set up to be used against the American people. Unless you are boot-licking operative of the New World Order you are the enemy of the state!
Oh my, Financial Dcitatorship is here, I am so scaaaaared!
Did I tell you how much I admire and love the work the FED does for on a daily basis?
Use /sarc.
I am a loyal sycophant of the NWO.
Our Corporate Masters are to be obeyed.
The Financial Elite are all knowing.
Buying and selling politicians creates new markets for our Masters to exploit for profit.
As for the rest of you, you, truth tellers, you're all on the FED's list now!
Pack for a FEMA "camp" near you.
Cutting your internet access in 3, 2, 1....
Dear Fed, when I mentioned deFault in my post, I was only talking about earthquakes; not BAC, BNP or crappy Euro Trash periphery. When I said Black Soul Vampire Squid, I was not referring to Goldman or Baby Boomers, but rather a great SciFy Saturday Movie. When I said inept, it may appear I was thinking about Trichet, Merkel, or Sarkozy, but I was really using it like sick is cool and bad is good. When I say Gold Bitchezzz, I am only referring to the question "what shall I get my lady for her birthday?"
And when I say go fuck yourself you money printing 1950s battle fighting ancient textbook reading status quo propping anti-free market engineering paranoid delusional corporate shill lender of last-first-and middle resort stink stain, well...
I heart that ^ post.
^ epic!
the cake is a lie.
there is no cake
they don't need cake. they can eat ipads.
Burn Motherfucker burn!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adgx9wt63NY
I'll save you the trouble Benny. You're a clown, fraud and a joke. Your policies are a failure and you must be a shitty poker player because you stutter like a machine gun and sweat bullets at the first sign of pressure in public. Got all that? Now repeat one hundred million times, take the resources you were going to use towards this program and get yourself a personality and a speech trainer.
I wanted to print out the RFP but Scribd required that I give them access to my Facebook account including the power to pretend to be me and make posts in my name on my Facebook account.
Now there's an irony for you.
The Fed's next step may be to follow Argentina's example and impose a $120,000 fine on any economist who states that inflation is higher than government statistics claim.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870351870457625928169769775...
++++++++++++++++ i missed that one! Thanks!!
x
Good! Maybe they'll listen.
"Police kept busy overnight in Basel and Chur Police clashed with rioters in Basel and Chur overnight, but Zurich was calm, despite fears that violence could break out at an illegal rave announced for Saturday.
Basel police said on Sunday they had received a stream of calls complaining about the noise being made by about 100 people who had gathered in one of the outlying squares. The rioters had set building materials on fire, and when the fire brigade arrived, some masked rioters had started smashing the windows of nearby shops. As soon as they police came, they had run off."
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/news_digest/Police_kept_busy_overnight_in_Ba...
..and in other MSM we read of yet another bear attack......lmao!
Over 8,000 reads now. That must mean its a combo of Fed staffers and the WH.
the Fed Understands Certain Knowledgeable Errors Regarding (vs.) the American people's perceptions that must be eradicated.
It would seem to me that in an allegorical sense, the Fed is playing the part of King George- sitting on his throne, only aware that something strange is brewing in that part of his kingdom across the Atlantic, and he is only now beginning to send out his Red Shirts to investigate...
The Blogosphere is, meanwhile, playing the part of Paul Revere.
Why did we defeat the British Army (the most powerful in the world at the time)...? Simple- We knew WHY they were coming for us, even before THEY knew why they were coming for us.
From your lips to Thomas Paine's and God's ears......ya got that right!
About monitoring social media...
99% of content on youtube/facebook/etc content is verbal diarrhea. Filtering it should prove interesting. Like the brits say... you can't polish a turd.
OK ZeroHeads - time to email this Miroslav asshole and get yourselves on the list of people who officially think the Fed should be disbanded and its officials jailed for life.
miroslav.katava@ny.frb.org
Let's let Miroslav know exactly what we think of this little "Social Listening Platform". And by the way, in your email please cc Ron Paul, the ACLU, and everybody else you think should hear what we have to say.
Hey ZHers, just want to clear something up - Y’all are aware that all of my previous posts here were meant in a spirit of ironic sarcasm. I don’t want anyone to get the the impression that I am in anyway critical of The Fed or Chairman Bernanke or any of his wise policies. That would be a totally wrong interpretation of anything I have posted here. Let me repeat I support the wise and enlightened monetary policies of The Federal Reserve Bank and the Oligarchy which those policies seek to preserve.
(Sorry about the oligarchy remark but disillusionment is thing I have fight every day - I’m winning though)
Here's my message:
Hey Miroslav – no need for a Social Listening Platform. I’ll be happy to let you know exactly what I think. I think the Fed should be dissolved and its top officials all put in jail for life.
By the way, aren’t you the bastard son of Joseph Goebbels? Seems I heard that somewhere.
Pig!
Man I love the fed. My gold was bought in appreciation of tradition. Just like Ben's answer to Ron Paul's question on why CBs hold gold. Tradition Ben said.
I'm VERY traditional Ben. Nothing to worry 'bout here.
Hey ZeroHeads - this guy Miroslav Katava is on Facebook. Why not do a little social networking right now?
Dear reader,
Do not fall into this trap. ZH is a website operated by the CIA and provokes innocent readers and let them comment on unpatriotic articles to determine (potential) terroristic elements.
Long live the FED!
JB
Let me guess your last name is comprised of four letters ending in hit?:)
Ahem! You forgot /sarc.
FRBNY Hotline
The FRBNY Hotline has been established for the purpose of reporting unethical or illegal behaviors,
http://newyorkfed.org/banking/frauds_scams.html
That Attack Watch add looked like it was designed to attract the jackass crowd or maybe Bevis and Butthead.
Can there be any clearer proof that they have no idea what they have been doing for the last twenty years?
They can't read the markets and rely on common sense, so they would like to know other people are thinking and saying?
And this is the premier financial institution of the free world?
Don't question authority, ignore it!
Don't question authority, ignore it!
Question: The Fed is not part of the federal government. It's a private entity. How is it they are able to monitor private citizens, gain access to their information, as a private entity? There may be an interesting lawsuit here.
Big Ben knows his days are numbered.
I've been thinking the same thing about me. It's like my timeline had a margin call.
The quickening is at hand
Eat less meat
Tell more truth
Love more people
Renounce vengeance
Think for yourself, question authority
The black iron prison is shaking to it's foundation
I have read the end of this book
The good guys win.
well said, except that isn't constantly referring to ourselves as "The Good Guys" part of the problem?
"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you."
Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 146 (1886)
My favorite Nietzche. I think it's what happened to the Jews and Israel.
Good point, Good-evil rather dualistic. We are all in this together.
That was why I made that point to say renounce vengeance. That could help people not to become monsters. I still think that even the people I consider most "evil" the bankers can make a contribution to a better world. I have not given up on anyone.
http://firemagick.blogspot.com/
Why it took so long? Or are they legalizing existing procedures?
So if you ever mention The Creature From Jekyll Island......you're already going to be spied upon by the govt? So if you ever say that Greenspan/Bernanke are tratiors....you're on this list. Nice. Guess everybody here is on that list.
Hi Ben.
Fuck you Ben Bernanke. Fuck the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States. Fuck the FRBNY. I propose Social Listening Platform immediately and permanently whither on the vine (that's code).
Over 10,000 reads now and rising.
I'm at a loss for words. This kind of stuff is just sickening and what it amounts to is tyranny. I knew the financial system was staggering but this just confirms it.
Can I say the FED is a criminal bankster operation? That the Bernank should be brought to the Hague for financial terrorism? I must use code words, as to not tip-off or leak any secret information.
1. the Federal Reserve Bank that is OWNED by its Share Holders.. which are! Wall Street Brand Name Banks! are looking to gauge how much further they can push before the breaking point. And as dumb as the Populace is! I say they could bend things around Pluto and back more than once, without fear of upsetting the napping "Sheepish Consumers".
2. Wall Street communicated or transferred or moved ATLEAST! 11 Million manufacturing Jobs to China.
3. Wall Street which owns the Federal Reserve not only allows but promotes China's buying of America's debt with a Yaun or Renminbi that is Leveraged at over 1,200%.
4. The U.S. Dollar is Leveraged ATLEAST to 120%.. So China is picking up a 1,000% at par pricing plus, PLUS!!! Interest! FUCK YOU!
Now if this shit ain't Treason against the Sheepish Consumers of America! I don't know what the FUCK YOU COULD CALL TREASON THEN!
How many of you are just hoping the shit doesn't hit the fan before you die? how many of you paid your dues and just want to enjoy all you hard work? letting these fuckers crush the entire nation? YOU DONT DESERVE PEACE IN YOUR GOLDNE YEARS YOU FUCKING COWARDS!!
Fuck over the Poor? Sure, No Problem!
Fuck over the Old? Sure, No Problem!
how about when Wall Street figures out how much MORE MONEY YOU ARE WORTH than the OLD POOR???
maybe they won't notice if you keep a real low profile?
maybe they won't notice if you move your money offshore?
maybe they won't notice if you are smart enough to pile into tangibles?
The FIRES UNDER YOUR ASSES WILL NOT START SOON ENUGH FOR ME, BITCHEZ!!
Austerity is coming for you too, you dumb blind fucking bottom feeders in one form or another!
Gold and silver today.. stocks and absolute funds tomorrow!
http://www.scribd.com/doc/66299520/JP-Morgan-Saxo-Consolidated-Silver-Class-Action-Complaint-09-12-2011
1. 1. Unlawful conduct. “Defendants combined, conspired and agreed to restrain trade in, fix, and manipulate prices of silver futures and options contracts traded in this District on the Commodity Exchange Inc. (“COMEX”) division of the New York Mercantile Exchange (“NYMEX”). Defendants thereby have violated Section 1 of the Sherman Act.
Also during the Class Period, certain of the Defendants, including JP Morgan, have intentionally acted to manipulate prices of COMEX silver futures and options contracts.
2.2. Purpose and Means. Defendants have effected their foregoing restraint of trade and manipulations in order to profit themselves. Defendants have caused declines in the price of COMEX silver, and COMEX options, and also stabilized such prices through diverse means. These means include (a) a dominant and manipulative short positions and market power manipulation; (b) repeated manipulative and uneconomic trades and trade manipulation; (c) false trades made to facilitate a trade manipulation; and (d) other acts.
3.3. Market Power Manipulation. (a) JP Morgan, gradually acquired control, between March 17, 2008 and August 2008, of an enormously large ounce short position in COMEX silver futures and silver that previously was held by Bear Stearns. This short position and JP Morgan’s existing COMEX short silver positions gave JP Morgan substantial market power in COMEX silver futures contracts.
4.4.Manipulative and Uneconomic Trades (a) During the Class Period, JP Morgan also made large manipulative trades that repeatedly caused sudden, unreasonable and artificial fluctuations in COMEX silver prices which profited JP Morgan. (b) One of these episodes occurred on August 14 and 15, 2008. JP Morgan’s trades caused a very large decline of almost $1.41 per ounce, or approximately 12%, in COMEX silver futures. This represented an approximately $220,000,000 increase in the value of JP Morgan’s COMEX silver short positions.
7.7. CFTC Commissioner Comment (a) Such depressions of the prices of COMEX silver futures through large uneconomic trades created benefitted JP Morgan’s extraordinarily large COMEX short position. (c) Also, these types of trades were reported to the CFTC by other persons. Plaintiffs further specifically allege that Commissioner Bart Chilton made public statements, including on October 26, 2010, to the effect that he believed there had been manipulation or related unlawful conduct in the COMEX silver futures market. “I believe that there have been repeated attempts to influence prices in the silver markets. There have been fraudulent efforts to persuade and deviously control that price. Based on what I have been told by member of the public, and reviewed in publicly available documents, I believe violations to the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) have taken place in silver markets and that any such violation of the law in this regard should be prosecuted.” Bart Chilton
58. 58. JP Morgan executed its trades on this day through, at least, a futures floor broker named Marcus Elias. Marcus Elias was a former classmate and wrestling teammate of Chris Jordan, a senior silver trader at JP Morgan. After the close of floor trading on June 26, 2007, Marcus Elias acknowledged that he had executed purchase trades for JP Morgan at or near the lows of the market. Marcus Elias also executed sell orders on behalf of JP Morgan in the morning, which contributed to the price declines, and then purchased futures on behalf of JP Morgan subsequently as the market bottomed.
65. 65. Through its trading conduct on this day, JP Morgan intended to force traders who were short out of the money puts to cover their positions. As options on July futures approached expiration, JP Morgan had no fundamental reason to believe there would be a price move downward. Yet JP Morgan maintained its put positions until the last available day to trade these options - an economically unjustifiable action because at expiration the options would expire out of the money and worthless. However, by virtue of this large put options position, JP Morgan knew that a large and less capitalized segment of the market was conversely short options. So, rather than simply liquidate its out of the money positions at a loss, JP Morgan sold futures into the market and placed “spoof” orders to generate widespread panic. This selling forced panicked traders to systematically sell silver futures. As discussed below, this conduct was repeated again in August 2008.
100. c. JP Morgan’s Communications with HSBC
88. 88. Between 1996 and 2000, Robert Gottlieb, Christopher Jordan and Michael Connolly worked together at the Precious Metals Trading Desk of HSBC and at Republic National Bank of New York, prior to its acquisition by HSBC. 89. In 2006, Jordan began his employment at JP Morgan where, until 2010, he was one of JP Morgan’s principal COMEX silver futures and options traders. 90. After a brief stint at Bank of America as a commodities trader, Mike Connolly returned to HSBC in 2007, where he served as Senior Vice President of HSBC’s Precious Metals Desk. 91. In March 2008, Robert Gottlieb began his employment at JP Morgan Chase where he presently serves as a Managing Director/Trader. 92. Prior to JP Morgan’s acquisition of Bear Stearns in 2008, Mr. Gottlieb had worked for Bear Stearns from January 2006 forward. 93. Bear Stearns, through Robert Gottlieb and others, had developed the previously alleged large Bear Stearns short position in COMEX silver futures prior to March 17, 2008. 94. Contrary to standard antitrust compliance manuals, Mr. Gottlieb regularly spoke to, and communicated and met with HSBC silver trader Mike Connolly from the time that Mr. Gottlieb joined JP Morgan until at least October 2010.
500. d. JP Morgan’s Motive and Financial Incentive to Cause Lower COMEX Silver Futures Prices From The Second Quarter Of 2008 Forward.
95. 95. By the second quarter of 2008 and continuing thereafter through the end of the Class Period, JP Morgan possessed a large financial incentive to cause lower COMEX silver futures prices. Lower COMEX silver prices caused the mark to market value of JP Morgan’s short COMEX silver positions to increase. The amount of the increase in the value of JP Morgan’s short COMEX silver short positions was at least $100,000,000 and was as much in excess of $150,000,000 for each $1 decline in COMEX silver prices.
116. 116. According to other witnesses as well, on or before August 15, 2008, brokers who often executed trades for JP Morgan accumulated a significant number of September puts that were well out of the money. 117. As prices decreased, these September puts became much closer to being in the money. Accordingly, those who had been selling these puts had to close out their positions by buying back the September puts on August 15, 2008. 118. Chris Jordan at JP Morgan was selling back large amounts of September puts on August 15 at an enormous profit.
124. 124. In his communications with the CFTC, the whistleblower described how JP Morgan signaled its co-conspirators in advance of the manipulation, so that JP Morgan along with its co-conspirators, could reap enormous profits by artificially and unlawfully suppressing and manipulating the price of COMEX silver futures and options contracts.
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):
An updated complaint in the class-action lawsuit against JPMorganChase alleging manipulation of the silver futures market, filed this week in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, details the mechanisms of the manipulation and some of the traders executing it.
According to the updated complaint:
-- MorganChase already had a large short position in silver when it acquired another large short position upon the investment house's acquisition of the failed New York brokerage Bear Stearns in 2008. This, the complaint says, gave MorganChase hugely disproportionate influence in the silver market.
-- MorganChase used "fake" and "spoof" trades to manipulate prices downward, particularly in advance of contract expiration dates, when MorganChase held put options, which became more valuable as the price of silver was driven down.
-- MorganChase reduced its short position following the May 25, 2010, hearing of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, in which complaints of gold and silver market manipulation figured heavily. (GATA Chairman Bill Murphy and board member Adrian Douglas testified at that hearing and presented a statement by a London silver futures trader, Andrew Maguire, detailing market manipulation he had witnessed.)
-- MorganChase regularly engaged in uneconomic trading activity in silver whose only purpose was price manipulation.
-- The CFTC received a detailed complaint about silver market manipulation from a "whistleblower" (this is presumably Maguire).
--Market circumstances during the period of manipulation alleged by the lawsuit were much different from the circumstances previously investigated by the CFTC when it concluded that there had been no manipulation.
While these are all only allegations, the silver price manipulation case against MorganChase is now extensively detailed with names of participants, specific actions and their dates, and identities of participants. Market experts no doubt will find much more of signifance in the consolidated complaint.
King World News has just published a summary of the consolidated complaint here:
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2011/9/16_Id...
The full complaint can be found at GATA's Internet site here:
http://www.gata.org/files/ConsolidatedSilverClassActionComplaint-09-12-2...
CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
Join GATA here:
The Silver Summit
Thursday-Friday, October 20-21, 2011
Davenport Hotel, Spokane, Washington
http://news.silverseek.com/SilverSeek/1316196109.php
Uploaded by RussiaToday on Sep 25, 2011
This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss cultural fragging and financial flashbacks. They also discuss Papandreou's high frequency austerity measures for Greece. In the second half of the show Max talks to Ned Naylor-Leyland of Cheviot Asset Management about the latest developments in the silver manipulation case against JP Morgan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZ5-tW5uFc&list=FLbRZZAixeFXZfqszvKisEdQ&index=2
~H. L. Mencken
And still, yet, another act of treason.
By what theory does the Federal Reserve have police powers?
What color of authority authorizes a domestic espionage operation, clearly designed to harass and intimidate, the better to destroy free speech?
Arrest Bernanke. Audit the Fed.
you're right of course - that's what's so galling about it - ad matters not a whit. Just like all the asshole banksters the past 2+ years, just slide on up to the next brazenly obvious and damn-near-illegal (if not in fact illegal) move. Why? simply because they can. And all the financial "police" and the real "police", too? All on the take. What a fuckin' deal
I see you are dissatisfied with something... What is it about Federal Reserve notes that you do not like?
Folks, the talk of bernays/freud has to lead to carl jung, who was a baller/shotcaller, agreed?
Agree.
Watch this (and their other film free on this site)
http://metanoia-films.org/hr_watchonline.php
I just have to test the new system. Will it be as effective as say, failed UARS tracking? TPTB couldn't even tell when and where a fucking 12 ton sat. came down. Good thing it wasn't an ICBM. But, just in case, FUCK YOU Ben! And Ben, when you're old, and a syphilis wreck, may your backbone fall out your asshole, and break your fucking neck. Sincerely, Boattrash
US tax authorities target bank deals
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/cba26cf2-e515-11e0-9aa8-00144feabdc0.html...
This is good news...
They're behaving as rabid animals backed into a corner, and their little minds are grossly miscalculating.
Such is the downfall of the Sociopath.
But do they not see the signs?
Do you not see the signs?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIQPh6lz89g&feature=player_embedded
The Federal Reserve is not authorized by any US law OR regulation to monitor the internet or the American public, let alone global. It's a PRIVATE, LONDON-BASED, non-American company and its DUTY within the US is defined by mandate by the US Constitution.
So what the hell is THIS and WHERE IS OUR CONGRESS?
Good bye!! Signing off!
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Hoarding of federal reserve notes is OK. Hoarding of anything else is not OK.
No lie. Just this week I had the cops at my door doing a "missing person investigation". No missing person came up on google search either.
I had some weird stuff going on a few months back when I was posting some very contentious articles about CIA and the rest of the "security" apparatus. One night, about 1 am, I was still up and heard something outside. I went outside, keeping the lights off. I then heard a car coming down the alley. They stopped at my gate, had an overhead light on and was keying on something. I couldn't see it all. Then they drove off. Maybe i'm just paranoid.
Probably "painting" your residence for future drone attack. They are the ones that are paranoid. They know if the people rise up in mass these traitors will be dangling from a rope.
How harrowing.
Did you pee yourself a little?
Seriously, folks- WTF are some of you thinking? The CIA does not dispatch agents to your house at 1AM because you wrote "Ben Bernanke is a dumbass" on teh interwebs. It was probably some kid text messaging his girlfriend- just be glad he stopped, and didn't run into your fence trying to do it while driving.
Look, you're either in it, or you're not. If you are really going to shit your drawers because someone drove down the street after you wrote an article that was likely nearly identical to any number of thousands of others, then you do not have what it takes to change anything- forget the FED and the CIA, there's little hope that you'd be able to change the zoning laws in a small town with that kind of fear in you.
We need lions for this, and all that seem to be around are yippy little dogs. If you are that scared, then go into lurker mode, and just stack your PMs and stockpile food. When "they" come- if "they" come at all, they will come for your city- not for you alone.
not sure if this article is satire but i interpret it as non-fictional news....and to think poor old tricky dick was impeached over such matters....i am sure he will receive a posthumous congressional medal of honor...
as noted elsewhere the 4th reich is powerfully in charge....who can make war against the beast? jesse ventura where are you?
anyone who thinks that the cia or one of the outsourced nazi organizations does not monitor his calls, he is a total and absolute fucktard.....
Add this to your database Benny boy: The dollar is finished and NONE of your levers can stop it. It's a good thing too because the people are tired of this phony system which enriches the few and impoverishes the rest.
I don't think that is why they are doing it. It likely has to do with the coming collapse, sure, but they want to know EXACTLY who the "influencers" are...as was noted in their proposal. They are building databases with names, addresses, personality profiles, etc. THIS IS NOT GOOD.
And they will have the taxpayer pay for it.
They make a weak toss of saying they want to be able to see what people are thinking. That is their explanation. It is bull shit.
The way a constitutional republic like the U.S. listens to determine what people think, is through represented government....NOT BY A PRIVATE BANKING OUTFIT LISTENING IN TO CONVERSATION IN A DEVIOUS and SNEAKY WAY.
In their RFP they keep talking about the "Solution". Sounds kind of like hitler's final solution.
I think a bet should be started on who will win the contract. I would bet silver that it will be a "security" company out of Israel.
They already have the software to spy like this. And if you go to Yahoo news and read something that is hot, about wars or the one they had up recently about Ahmadinajad...or something like that....you will see a pattern in their comment section. It is continual short comments with a definite theme. One time the theme was anti-liberals, everything was a slur on them. Then you might get the other way around.
The Net won't even be the same in a few years. They are moving so much into the cloud technology, which will obviously be monitored. Heck, anything can be monitored now.
Where are the software developers that can create a Counter Attack program?
All I know, is I'm glad I will be dead when this full blown "utopian" orwellian nightmare rules the planet.
we are the counter attack program amigo. remember, no matter what level of sophistication the platform, at the core, it's always all about content, content, content.
This is less of a big deal than you might think. What it would do is attempt to determine a sort of aggregate public opinion of all posts relating to the the fed, the government, or whatever the target is. It wouldn't do much to monitor individuals.
It's also stupid. Three bored hackers on facebook on a weekend could probably inject enough false data to subvert the results and make the US chamber of commerce look like a hotbed of liberalism.
Not to worry. Just make your own fake facebook page and be happy!
It is a big deal. They don't need to use taxpayer money (most likely) to determine public opinion. This is determined by fair represented government, town hall meetings, and other means.
As a private individual can I hire someone to go listen in on them?
HOW CAN YOU EVEN TRUST THESE PEOPLE with spy programs? After all they do?
I can't believe people like you!! Yet, there are plenty of ya in the U.S.
This is part of the authoritarian dictatorship that is squeezing the West. These people have been exposed, they've admitted what they are up to, and they continue doing it right in front of our faces. That is HOW CONFIDENT THEY ARE IN THEMSELVES.
The economy blows up, don't count on these people suffering. You and I will, but not them.
From the document:
"Does the Proposed Solution offer engagement functionality, a built in tool for the fed analysts reading the reports to respond to blog posts, twitter comments, news article comments?"
(Question E14, p.20)
Doesn't sound like aggregate-only tracking to me.
Chairman Bernanke is the red, red sun in all of our hearts. /NOT
We will sail the seas by the course set by our Great Helmsman, Chairman Bernanke. /YEAH RIGHT
Mercilessly crush the anti-Fed black elements, bombard the headquarters of the anti-Keynesian rightist deviationists!/SARC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-auIrWct9c
LOL 1
"However, as excess reserves decline, financial conditions normalize, and banks adapt to the new regime, we expect the interest rate paid on reserves to become an effective instrument for controlling the federal funds rate." - BERNANK 2009
Y U NO DECLINE?
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/EXCRESNS
LOL 2
The Congressional Budget Office estimated that payment of interest on reserve balances would cost the American taxpayers about one tenth of the present 0.25% interest rate on $800 billion in deposits
(there are 1.6 trillion in deposits now, excellent assumptions)
LOL 3
Money multiplier is now less than .8
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/MULT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushing_on_a_string
Everybody loves Chairman Bernanke! /LOL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlvYGqi3Dbc
Get two rubber stamps and stamp your mail "End the Fed" and "Ben Sux." Design a post card that's inexpensive, send the same message to your friends, wedding invitees, people you do business with. Send yourself email to you many different email addys with the same message in the subject line.
There should be an inexpensive post card designed that will have one message on one part, then, when you receive it, you refold, restaple so the other messages shows. Get the darn US Post Office involved. If Ben wants something to watch, give him something to watch.
Now, let's see. Ben, you cannot design a Klingon Cloaking Device for Wall St. No one on Main St who has lost a job gives a sh4t about Wall St. You can't design a Klingon Cloaking Device for the Eccles Building in DC. We know where both are already.
09-24 HUI chart (The big picture)
Buy, Buy, Buy...
http://silverismoney.yuku.com/topic/637/09-24-HUI-chart-The-big-picture#...
Check that chart..
Attention: Ron Paul
Topic of conversation for the next debate attached.
What do you think is happening with your posts?
IBM is advertising a "Social Media Analytics" toolkit.
Twitter and Facebook are providing bulk feeds to "search engine" companies and have for years.
Whoever responds to this RFP is someone already scanning and analyzing social media because it is unlikely that the Fed would be willing to pay the cost of the necessary infrastructure. The successful bidder will just add another alternate filter to an existing system.
Maybe Bernanke wants to scan for more "I need a miracle" Facebook posts by bankers.
Americans keep letting these people get away with this stuff. They even let TSA deviants touch their children so the parents do not have to be inconvenienced and maybe drive instead of fly. It is really getting sick!!
I wanna move, but don't know where to go. I'm thinking Philippines. Live a simple life in a hut on the beach, and fish.
Welcome to the NEW WORLD ORDER, bitchez!
Question: Is this even legal? The FED is a private corporation. Since when can they start monitoring all conversations around the world? If they can do it, why can't any private citizen do it? I realize that the GOVERNMENT can do it, but is the FED now claiming that they are part of the US Government?
They do whatever they want. They don't care if it is legal or not.
More important than them doing whatever they want..
is.. drum roll...
"We the People" not caring what they do.. the majority doesnt care.. and they NEVER! WILL!!
So who is to blame? the helpless majority of Sheepish Consumers? or the motivated psycho's? who want more just to have more that some other idiot? Quality of life be damned for the majority! the few shall enjoy shit they dont need and would more than likely (if they are healthy human beings and not animals) be happier if they would have went without.
Letting the dumb poor people kill each other off might not be such a bad idea.. they dont care enough to want the truth.. they dont care enough to want a better life..
SO! who's fault is it?
we can blame the Lazy people or the people who we think are more evil.. and even that is a split.. by the awake people. some want austerity against the poor and some want austerity against the working psycho rich.
some think the lazy idiots are more evil than the motivated psycho's with a work ethic??
and some think the motivated psycho's are the bad guys that should be kicked off the planet..
but who are you or i to judge the stupid or psycho's?
or do we do the right thing and get rid of them both?
Hey Bernank, monitor this!
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This is good news. It means that Ben and the Fed have realised they are behind the curve and need to learn. They have realised that listening to FOX news etc has dulled their brains and not given them any new ideas.
Instead of listening to my phone calls he can call me directly. I can then give him an uncensored version of my thoughtd.
Whats left of Amerika....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6ymVaq3Fqk
Run to the tall grass!! All is done and over...Good luck to all in the wilderness
This is good news. It means that Ben and the Fed have realised they are behind the curve and need to learn. They have realised that listening to FOX news etc has dulled their brains and not given them any new ideas.
Instead of listening to my phone calls he can call me directly. I can then give him an uncensored version of my thoughts
Obama is a lawn jockey on the federal reserve's lawn.
ha! that should be Cornel West's campaign poster.
Hell, this is nothing new. All of our communications are combed through by the traitors in the U. S. government. That's why all my e-mails have this at the bottom. My way of saying hello traitors!
"Any NSA, government employee or contractor reading this e-mail must decide which side of history he or she wishes to be on. Do you want your ancestors to know that when tyranny came to America you were part of it?! I think not! Please reconsider what you are doing. Please read the Bill of Rights and understand that what you are doing is unconstitutional, illegal and treasonous! Tuco"
Fuck you....Federal Reserve....
You are NOT Federal...
And you have NO fucking Reserves.
You are a lying sack of corrupt scum.
And the United Snakes of America Govt......
Fuck you TOO.
You's ALLOW,these lying .thieving ,mother fuckers to STEAL,peoples money,and allow them immunity,from theft....!!!
'FUCK YOU"S
Ps....
In case I forgot to say it,or was Mis interpreted.....
FUCK YOU'S....Federal Reserve system.
Nice fucking scam you got going....
Can I BUY shares..........????
Thought so....
Ps....
In case I forgot to say it,or was Mis interpreted.....
FUCK YOU'S....Federal Reserve system.
Nice fucking scam you got going....
Can I BUY shares..........????
Thought so....
Invisible and Bullet Proof H&S line
Still fighting with the H&S neckline, wonder why I am the only one in the world to see this neckline, what up with that? Bears too scared to even utter H&S anymores?
With the highest moving average of CBOE total put call since 2008, looks like bears are going to take it up the whazzoo, ramp-a-mania.
http://oahutrading.blogspot.com/
When you hear something naughty that's said
Or read bloggers that fill you with dread
Please don't feel queasy
It's really quite easy
Just pick up your phone and dial F-E-D
"If you see tyranny, say something."
When you find yourself low on your cash,
And your tweetmates are just talkin trash,
They're dancing in gold,
While you already sold,
Call the FED and squeal on their stash!
Sieg Heil America! A fascist corporate kleptocracy.
Now tell us something we don't know.
While I am unable, by reason of geography, to directly fuck the Fed, I shall contribute to the cause by fucking the Bank of England instead. Hopefully, I have an undiagnosed STD that can be passed on by the BoE during the next Central Bankster bunga-bunga party.
Sit back little children as I tell the tale
Of how democracy and freedom bit the dust.
They were sold while we were sleeping,
Something evil came a creepin',
Now it's hard to know exactly who to trust.
It was 1913 on a Christmas day,
Congress gave away it's right to create cash.
Now your money's only worth just what the bankers say,
And you can lose your only shirt in just a flash.
You see the Federal Reserve is not a government thang,
It's a bunch of private bankers we obey.
And they don't answer to the people 'cause THEY pull the strings,
And that's precisely why we have to say...
Hey, hey, hey, hey,
Fuck the Fed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiTikduJ15Y
Conrad. Off, coxcomb!
Dogberry. God’s my life! where’s the sexton? let him write down the prince’s officer coxcomb. Come, bind them. Thou naughty varlet! Conrad. Away! you are an ass; you are an ass.Dogberry: Dost thou not suspect my place? Dost thou not suspect my years? O that he were here to write me down an ass! but, masters, remember that I am an ass; though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass.
Act IV, Scene II, Much Ado about Nothing
Hey Bernanke monitor this...FUCK YOU YOU BALD HEADED CROOK!
so are they going to hire a bunch of Pro-fed bloggers, how much do they pay, and where can I sign up? (hint I'll be right here the next day calling myself a zionist asshole, but if this is what post modern theatre of the absurd looks like, so be it)
Gee, maybe we won't see any transparency or fair play from this global cartel, this unconstitutional and illegal combination of the Fed and the big banks, who are ONE AND THE SAME PEOPLE.
All these nice folks ask is that we consent to slavery under their fascist monopoly, forfeiting all rights granted in 1783 and as subsequently amended. Is that too much to ask?
It becomes increasingly clear that these motherfuckers have created a malevolent monstrosity that far surpasses the wildest dreams of Gilded Age robber barons.
Remember the Last Poets, was it? "Wake up nigga, with yo mind tied to yo behind. Wake up nigga or we ALL through."
I think Bernanke is a decent person. He seemed to get wrapped up in the Save the Banker program and forgot the average American.
He paid too much attention to the Russel 2000 index increasing and thought that was prosperity. As, Credit tightened Companies cut expenses by letting Employees go. Although, the Companies profits were stabel the little guy lost his job. Unfortunatly, Bernanke was not watching the Unemployment numbers climbing, the amount of Houses in Foreclosure and the increase in the Food Stamps being issued. The latter told the tale of the Economy not the Russel 2000.
I thought that the operation Twist was geared toward the average American and not the Bankers. So we have to give him credit there. He is trying to stimulate the Housing Market. Which in turn will turn around the Economy.
Although, I do not agree with the premis of the Fed in that they create Money from 0 and then charge the American People interest on Money they did not have before the creation from 0.
I think the interest on created Money should be 0. That way the Country would not be in so much Debt. As almost all of the Debt is Interest and not Principal.
Troll or Pollyanna? Waterfallsparkles sounds Pollyanna-ish.
Dementor
Your line of vision is apparently obstructed it might have something to do with the bankster cock in your mouth.
That is some crazy shit!
"A stitch in time saves nine," they always say.
BREAKING OUT OF THE VICIOUS CYCLE OF COST
http://investmentwatchblog.com/breaking-out-of-the-vicious-cycle-of-cost/
I dabble in this kind of technology. Though not exactly the same as what the Fed is using, I'm certainly going to be checking the accuracy of the results when I get to work on Monday.
Oh, and FUCK THE FEDERAL RESERVE! FUCK YOU BERNANKE!
Just in case this comment ends up in your validation sample, this is NEGATIVE sentiment, ASSHOLES!
Not sure why this one, out of four pages of comments, me chuckle the most- but I just got this vision of Bernanke and his yes men excitedly seated in a boardroom somewhere, with the lights dimmed, waiting in breathless anticipation for the first sentiment word cloud to appear on the big screen, and seeing "FUCK" in letters two feet high right in the middle.
They'll probably have to recalibrate the software after that, kind of like they do with CPI.
That is funny, made me laugh too :-)
UNRECONSTRUCTED REBEL
Oh, I'm a good old Rebel,
Now that's just what I am;
For this "fair land of Freedom"
I do not care a damn.
I'm glad I fit against it-
I only wish we'd won.
And I don't want no pardon
For anything I've done.
I hates the Constitution,
This great Republic too;
I hates the Freedmen's Buro,
In uniforms of blue.
I hates the nasty eagle,
With all his brag and fuss;
But the lyin', thievin' Yankees
I hates' em wuss and wuss.
We got three hundred thousand
Befo' they conquered us.
They died of Southern fever
And Southern steel and shot;
And I wish it was three million
Instead of what we got.
.
I can't take up my musket
And fight' em now no mo',
But I ain't a-goin'to love' em,
Now that is sartin sho';
And I don't want no pardon
For what I was and am;
And I won't be reconstructed,
And I do not give a damn.
Bonnie Blue Flag
We are a band of brothers And native to the soil,
Fighting for the property We gained by honest toil;
And when our rights were threatened, The cry rose near and far-- "Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag That bears a single star!"
CHORUS:
Hurrah! Hurrah! For Southern rights hurrah!
Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag That bears a single star.
As long as the Union Was faithful to her trust,
Like friends and like brothers Both kind were we and just;
But now, when Northern treachery Attempts our rights to mar,
We hoist on high the Bonnie Blue Flag That bears a single star.
First gallant South Carolina Nobly made the stand,
Then came Alabama, Who took her by the hand.
Next quickly Mississippi, Georgia and Florida
All raised on high the Bonnie Blue Flag That bears a single star.
Ye men of valor, gather round The banner of the right;
Texas and fair Louisiana Join us in the fight.
Davis, our loved president, And Stephens statesman are;
Now rally round the Bonnie Blue Flag That bears a single star.
And here's to old Virginia-- The Old Dominion State--
Who with the young Confederacy At length has linked her fate; Impelled by her example, Now other states prepare
To hoist on high the Bonnie Blue Flag That bears a single star.
Then cheer, boys, cheer; Raise the joyous shout,
For Arkansas and North Carolina Now have both gone out;
And let another rousing cheer For Tennessee be given,
The single star of the Bonnie Blue Flag Has grown to be eleven.
Then here's to our Confederacy, Strong are we and brave;
Like patriots of old we'll fight Our heritage to save.
And rather than submit to shame, To die we would prefer;
So cheer for the Bonnie Blue Flag That bears a single star.
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Exactly right. Two weeks ago APMEX had a sale on their one ounce silver bars at 99 cents over spot, so I nibbled a bit and picked up 500 of 'em. Today premiums are up. $4 over spot for eagles in quantities of 500 or more. They don't want to sell. Premiums elsewhere tonight are higher than normal too.
For whatever reason they aren't believing this price drop and are risking hanging on to some inventory. Something tells me that they will be taken out too and will be eager to sell when silver hits $25.
This is quite bizzarre, but certainly not unexpected.
"Exterminate all rational thought. That is the conclusion I have come to. " WS Burroughs
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