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Iran Escalates Again, Cuts Off Oil Shipments To Spain

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/10/2012 08:59 -0400

Those hoping for a quick and painless resolution to the Iranian question may have just seen their hopes dashed, following the breaking news from Iranian Press TV, according to which not only is Iran not seeking to appease its Western counterparts, but is, in fact escalating. From Press TV: "Tehran has cut oil supply to Spain after stopping crude export to Greece as part of its countersanctions, unnamed sources confirmed on Tuesday. Tehran also mulls cutting oil supply to Germany and Italy." "Countersactions" - lovely: another Swiss watch plan by the insolvent developed world. Said otherwise, one can hardly threaten to do something to a country, which is already doing so voluntarily, in the process hurting Europe's already crippled economies even more by removing the cheapest source of energy for both. Which however begs the question: just how much more Iranian crude are China and India importing despite promises to the contrary, and open warnings from the US not to do so?

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Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:00 | 2330766 Gully Foyle

I'm confused how calling " No soup for you" is an escalation?

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:22 | 2330824 SilverTree

"8 – I assume no international military conflict in Iran."

-Bob Janjuah

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:29 | 2330849 tmosley

But it's REALLY GOOD soup!

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:47 | 2330905 Seorse Gorog fr...

Seorse Gorog from that Quantum Entanglement Fund. alright_.-'s picture

Cosmo Kramer: A hot bowl of 'mulligatawny' would hit the spot.
Elaine: 'Mulligatawny'?
Cosmo Kramer: Yes, it's a delightful Persian concoction simmered to perfection by one of the great soup artisans in the modern era.
Elaine: Who, the Soup Nazi?
Cosmo Kramer: He's not a Nazi, Elaine. He just happens to be a little eccentric. Most geniuses are

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:01 | 2330951 LasVegasDave

Can we just bomb those evil motherfuckers back into the stone age already and take their oil as reperations for 1979

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:09 | 2330978 Urban Roman

You mean payback for the "October Surprise" and the Reagan administration?

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 11:40 | 2331327 prole

If he dreams of a nuclear holocaust to avenge a 1979 incident involving -0- deaths, imagine the vengeance he must want for the 35 murdered in 1967?

Las Vegas Dork, what oh what do you propose we do to avenge 1967?

Wed, 04/11/2012 - 05:37 | 2333879 barkingbill

i think las vegas dude would like a global thermal nuclear war...to avenge the 35......gad damn it freedom just aint free....ya know?

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:17 | 2331019 fightthepower

Someone should bomb you back to the stonage, bully. Its their oil, its their country, they can do what ever they want.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:13 | 2331458 blunderdog

"Stone Age" is a state of mind. LVD is a good indication that some folks never left it.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:41 | 2331559 General Decline

What does Iran have to gain by provoking the United States/Isreal to attack it?

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:59 | 2331654 blunderdog

I don't see any provocation. Could you clarify?

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 13:38 | 2331831 General Decline

I'm focusing on the phrase "counter sanctions". If sanctions are an act of war then so are counter sanctions. Albeit, defensive. This will be just another excuse by the military industrial complex to justify attack. "See! They arent sharing their oil with the world!" [the collective sheep gasp in horror]

Although I can't tell you what a better course of action would be for Iran. They're pretty much damned if they do - damned if they don't at this point.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 14:18 | 2331983 blunderdog

Wrong place, wrong time. We like to demonstrate our superiority every couple years by kicking small dogs, but it's really not a good time for us to do that with Iran.

I suspect the Iran stuff is misdirection, myself. Something else is going on and focus on Iran is an effort to keep it out of view.

Wed, 04/11/2012 - 05:45 | 2333883 barkingbill

look i think Iran has figured out that they have a better chance of survival with the north korean more belligerent strategy then the more western cooperative gaddafi strategy....

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:43 | 2331138 Seize Mars

Those evil mothers who took hostages, detained them and released them unharmed? Quite an outrage, that.

Those evil mothers who haven't started a war in, say, 2000 years?

Those evil mothers who have the nerve to try to reduce their dependence on oil by attempting to use nuclear electricity generation?

Those evil mothers who have the nerve to express the desire to trade their oil for currency that isn't US Dollars?

Those evil mothers?

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:10 | 2331450 Nobody For President

Yeah, those evil ones.

Also the ones that installed mullalhs after having the nerve to overthrow the Shah that we installed after overthrowing the democratically elected gubermint they once had.

Yep, those guys.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:34 | 2331526 Old Poor Richard

Wait a minute, you mean the guys whose democratically elected gubmint was overthrown because the democratically elected gubmint had the nerve to suggest that they owned their own oil, that it wasn't owned by British oil companies?

Sounds like an overthow offense to me.

Thank dawg we had neocons infiltrating the USG even back then to protect the interests of Big Oil. Sort of tarnishes the idea of the English Double-0's and CIA spooks being swave and deeboner anti-communist, anti-drug-lord heroes.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:48 | 2331156 TheFourthStooge-ing

LasVegasDave said:

Can we just bomb those evil motherfuckers back into the stone age already and take their oil as reperations for 1979

Can we just let them bomb Vichy DC back into the stone age and give them Las Vegas as reparations for 1953?

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 11:17 | 2331248 DaveyJones

Hard to believe, with open minded and unselfish people like LVD, that the rest of the world has an issue with us

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:36 | 2331538 AnAnonymous

Can we just bomb those evil motherfuckers back into the stone age already and take their oil as reperations for 1979
________________________________________________

No can do.

US citizens run an extortion of the weak, farming of the poor business.

In such scheme, one has to be carefull to keep the easiest possible people in the position of the extorted and the farmed.

Bombing Iranians to the stone age and taking their oil would put US citizens in ownership of said oil.

Higher prices of oil to come.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:51 | 2331612 TheFourthStooge-ing

AnAnonymous said:

US citizens run an extortion of the weak, farming of the poor business.

Speak for yourself, hop head.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 13:16 | 2331727 Sandmann

Name a country the Us has bombed into the stone age ? It has been singularly ineffectual - even North Vietnam survived B52 raids and emerged to take over Saigon as American helicopters fled the US Embassy compound. And in Iraq....super Stealth bombers did what ? Put Iran in control of Iraq. Maybe the US should bomb its own infrastructure and ask the Chinese to build some new stuff instead of the 1930s Interstates and tiled tunnels like the Midtown and Callaghan.....I mean bombing people bavk to the stone age so they have crappy infrastructure like much of the US East Coast ?

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:52 | 2330921 quintago

The world continued to revolve n Iran when crude was yielding $8/bbl and somehow sanctions are going to change their minds?

Any country with more than a thousand year history knows this type of crap will pass. When we take time to understand that mindset, we might get somewhere with that part of the world.

Until then all we have is our guns.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:13 | 2331459 Nobody For President

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y70vcs3oV14

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:44 | 2331137 rwe2late

How dare Iranians cease shipments to countries that are totally cutting off business dealings with them!

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:01 | 2330768 RyanW525

Oh yea, the industrial world has Iran right where they want them!!

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:03 | 2330773 GeneMarchbanks

On the verge of complete chaos?

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:30 | 2330850 Freeman-S-Stratos

I know everyone will hate me for this... but.... Freedom of speech n' all:

Source: americankabuki.blogspot.com

Banker Arrests:

10/06/11 (HONG KONG) Deutsche Bank Asia, senior banker Yan Shen, 43, who headed the North Asia institutional clients group escaped a prison sentence Thursday after he was found in possession of a gun at Hong Kong's international airport. Yan Shen, was discovered carrying the unlicensed pistol and ammunition during a search of his baggage in the departure lounge of Chek Lap Kok Airport. The offence carries a maximum jail sentence of 14 years, but Shen was spared jail after the court heard he suffered a personality disorder and liked to collect things. Sentencing him to 240 hours of community service and a fine of 50,000 Hong Kong dollars (6,400 US dollars), the judge said he did not accept Yan's excuse that he was unaware it was illegal to possess firearms. However, the judge said he had decided not to jail Yan because prison might interfere wih treatment for his disorder.
http://goo.gl/66aO4
10/11/11 (NIGERIA) Nigeria’s secret police (SSS) Tuesday confirmed the arrest of three persons including a Lagos banker it said facilitated the October 01, 2010, Independence Day bombing in Abuja that killed several persons and injured many others. Media reports had earlier identified the banker as Nonso Nnaemeka, while one of the suspects was identified as Jessica David, aka Segun.
http://goo.gl/ZXeWO
11/01/11 (IRAN) Bank Melli, Mr. Khavari, a dual Iranian-Canadian citizen, left Iran in September as prosecutors there announced they wanted to question him in connection with a $2.6-billion embezzlement scandal that has led to the arrest of several bankers. Tehran also wants an international warrant for Mr. Khavari’s arrest. Canada has no extradition treaty with Iran. Mr. Khavari could be stripped of his Canadian citizenship. The banker’s continuing freedom and apparent wealth – he and his family own several Toronto properties – have angered Iranian diaspora groups. It’s unclear how he could become a Canadian citizen while working in Iran as an elite banker. Khavari is indicative of a much larger wave of people who have slipped into Canada. The Globe and Mail reported Monday that one of several brothers whose family business is at the heart of the Iranian embezzlement scandal moved to Montreal this past summer.
http://goo.gl/otcvi
11/07/11 (UAE - DUBAI) HSBC Analyst, Toby Carroll, Arrested In Dubai With Two Girlfriends For Extramarital Sex
http://goo.gl/7MkTX
11/23/11 (LITHUANIA) Snoras Bank and Latvijas Krajbanka Bank, Lithuania issues Arrest warrant for Russian banker and Portsmouth Football Club (UK) Owner Vladimir Antonov. Antonov, 36, owned 68 percent of Snoras before it was nationalized and had controlled Latvijas Krajbanka through a 60 percent stake owned by Snoras. Antonov is believed to spend most of his time in England, while Baranauskas, who held just over 25 percent in Snoras, is also abroad.100 million lats ($200 million) siphoned from the bank were used to increase its charter capital and finance Antonov's investment projects — including the failed attempt to buy out Saab.
http://goo.gl/nu5p5
11/23/11 (RUSSIA) Bank of Moscow, Russian prosecutors asked Interpol to issue an international arrest warrant for Bank of Moscow’s former Chief Executive Officer Andrei Borodin. Wanted for fraud in the misappropriation of government funds.
http://goo.gl/znvhC
11/23/11 (RUSSIA) Bank of Moscow, Russian prosecutors asked Interpol to issue an international arrest warrant for Bank of Moscow’s former vice president Dmitry Akulinin, a former vice president at the lender. Wanted for fraud in the misappropriation of government funds.
http://goo.gl/znvhC
12/01/11 (ICELAND) Glitnir Bank, Iceland's special prosecutor has taken Larus Welding, the former head of the failed Glitnir Bank, into custody, Reuters reports.
http://goo.gl/KqUN9
2/08/12 (CHINA) Yantai Bank, Chinese police arrest runaway banker Liu Weining, for embezzlement. Liu Weining, a branch head of Yantai Bank, was caught by police near a railway station in eastern city of Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, police said. Liu fled Yantai city in east Shandong Province at the end of January. Liu allegedly stole 436 million yuan (69.76 million U.S. dollars) worth of bank notes between April 2011 and January 2012. He reportedly had 290,000 yuan cash on him when caught.
http://goo.gl/MRnlX
2/14/12 (USA FL) Credit Suisse, Banker Christos Bagios, under U.S. house arrest for 60 more days in the U.S. state of Florida, as the man tries to resolve allegations of aiding U.S. clients in evading taxes. He has to wear a tracking device. Bagios was arrested in New York in January 2011 and accused in a criminal complaint of helping about 150 U.S. clients hide as much as $500 million from the tax-collecting IRS when he worked at UBS. Bagios is a Greek citizen and Swiss resident, and is accused of helping 150 clients evade taxes on about $500 million. Credit Suisse acknowledged last July that it had received a target letter from the U.S. Department of Justice notifying it that it was formally under criminal investigation for selling tax-evasion services to wealthy Americans. The bank has said it is cooperating with the investigation. Bagios was arrested in New York in January of last year but moved to a Florida housing development on $650,000 bond. He has to wear a tracking device.
http://goo.gl/hRlAq
2/16/12 (UK) BTA bank, UK court issues arrest warrant for Mukhtar Ablyazov, Kazakh billionaire accused of massive fraud Britain's High Court has issued an arrest warrant for Mukhtar Ablyazov, the Kazakh billionaire and former BTA bank chairman accused of committing one of the world’s biggest ever frauds.
http://goo.gl/75o7E
2/29/12 (SWITZERLAND) Hyposwiss Privatbank AG, Prosecutors in Switzerland say a man has been arrested on suspicion of stealing confidential customer data from a Swiss private bank. The Federal Prosecutor's office in Bern says the former contractor of Hyposwiss Privatbank AG was arrested Feb. 16 and remains in custody. Prosecutors say a criminal investigation was launched Jan. 19 after the unidentified man approached a law firm and offered to sell the confidential data. They declined to provide further information. Swiss daily Tages-Anzeiger reported Wednesday that the data partly concerned the account of a wealthy Russian businessman. Recent cases of stolen Swiss bank data being bought by foreign tax authorities have added to pressure on Switzerland to give up its strict banking secrecy rules. NOTE: This arrest appears to be an attack on a whistleblower by Swiss authorities!
http://goo.gl/XzaES
3/05/12 (RUSSIA) Vnesheconombank, Moscow City’s Tverskoi district court placed Anatoly Ballo, the Deputy CEO of the Russian development and foreign economic transactions bank Vnesheconombank, under house arrest. He is suspected of embezzling $14 million, a spokeswoman for the court said.
http://goo.gl/czZC4
3/12/12 (USA CT) Morgan Stanley, co-head of fixed-income capital markets William Bryan Jennings, was arrested and charged with second-degree assault, larceny and intimidation by bias or bigotry .
http://goo.gl/6VHu8
3/14/12 (NIGERIA) First Bank Plc, An Abuja High Court on Tuesday issued a warrant for the arrest of the Head of Operations, First Bank Plc, Ikorodu branch, Lagos, Mrs. Ayodele Omolayo. The ICPC maintained that NPC had, in compliance with the directive of the late President Umaru Yar’Adua, issued a cheque of N60m to the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation as unspent funds for 2007. But upon the receipt of the cheque, the four accused persons paid it into a private account in Ikorodu, Lagos, and later withdrew the money at another bank in Victoria Island, Lagos. Others charged were officials of the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation; Mr. Johnson Kolawole and Mr. Kola Ajala, a dispatch rider with Finbank Plc, Victoria Garden City branch, Lagos.
http://goo.gl/p4kNY
3/16/12 (CHINA) Standard Charter Bank, China has arrested Wu Yidian Eden, an employee of Standard Chartered Bank, as a probe into one of her clients. On March 6, the police detained Ms Wu, yet the latter has not been accused for committing any crime. A client of Ms Wu has been accused of escaping from China after robbing almost $50m (£32m) from the bank. Standard Chartered Bank announced the detention of Ms Wu but said no investigation has taken place yet.
http://goo.gl/Hxqxs
3/24/12 (RUSSIA) Vladimir Putin issues arrest warrant for George Soros.
http://goo.gl/BP4Rr
3/26/12 (UK) UBS, Trader Kweku Adoboli, 31, arrested on suspicion of a staggering £1.3billion fraud at UBS is believed to have blown the whistle on himself about the unauthorised deals.
http://goo.gl/WSrPd
3/26/12 (CHINA) Agricultural Bank of China, China has launched an international hunt for a former bank chief accused of fleeing with more than 100 million yuan ($16 million) illegally raised from relatives and friends. The Ministry of Public Security has issued an arrest warrant for Sun Feng, the former head of the Yaosai branch of the Agricultural Bank of China in Jiangyin in East China's Jiangsu province.
http://goo.gl/imXmk
3/26/12 (SPAIN) Spanish Mortgage Broker Arrested
http://goo.gl/jASX9
3/26/12 (USA MO) Sun Security Bank, A former employee of Sun Security Bank in Ellington, Missouri, has been sentenced for embezzling $444,000 from a customer's bank account. Black pled guilty in December 2011 to two felony counts of bank embezzlement and was ordered to pay restitution of $451,000.
http://goo.gl/uHxpM
3/28/12 (PHILIPINES) Banker and Ponzi Scammer, Celso de los Angeles, under hospital arrest dies.
http://goo.gl/Vxala

Banker Resignations:

9/01/11 (USA NY) Bank of New York Mellon Chief Robert P. Kelly Resigns in a Shake-UP
http://goo.gl/NdW7q
9/06/11 (BELGIUM) Dexia confirmed that its CEO Stefaan Decraene had left the company. Its exposures to sovereign debt in the PIIGS nations are larger than its core Tier 1 capital.
http://goo.gl/vuhvd
9/09/11 (GERMANY) European Central Bank (ECB) governing board member Jürgen Stark, who has resigned
http://goo.gl/t83S4
9/09/11 (US OR) Chief investment officer for the Oregon State Treasury Ron Schmitz resigns.
http://goo.gl/nZ88q
9/12/11 (HONG KONG) HSBC Group Hang Seng Bank Non-Executive Director Mark McCombe resigns
http://goo.gl/mCTgi
9/12/11 (US PA) First Commonwealth Financial Corp, Exec. vice president/strategic resources Thaddeus J. Clements resigns
goo.gl/6ZMXF
9/14/11 (USA NJ) Columbia Bank CEO Raymond G. Hallock Announces Retirement
http://goo.gl/UjUZY
9/14/11 (NEW ZELAND) AMP NZ Office Limited (ANZO), Mark Verbiest has resigned as a director. His resignation arises due to his desire to devote the necessary time and energy to his prospective new role as Chairman of Telecom, assuming the Telecom demerger is sanctioned by Telecom shareholders.
http://goo.gl/LjSI0
9/15/11 (USA NY) Morgan Stanley, Chairman John Mack resigns
http://goo.gl/jWWv7
9/18/11 (JORDAN) Central Bank governor Faris Sharaf resigns over policy
http://goo.gl/8yU5N
9/19/11 (US MS) COO of Parkway Properties (REIT) William Flatt Resigns
goo.gl/Y3kr4
9/20/11 (SCOTLAND) SCOTTISH WIDOWS (RETIREMENT INVESTMENT SAVINGS FUND) There could be no Scottish representative on the board of Lloyds Banking Group, owner of Bank of Scotland, in future after it announced the departure of Lord Sandy Leitch, the chairman of Scottish Widows and group deputy chairman.
http://goo.gl/Dx8qs
9/20/11 (JAPAN) BLife Investment Corporation (Diawa House Asset Management) Director Masaomi Yamadaira resigns
goo.gl/EYOau
9/21/11 (AUSTRALIA & NZ) JP Morgan Australia and New Zealand Worldwide Securities Services CEO Jane Perry resigned
http://goo.gl/Qx0Va
9/23/11 (Singapore) Executive board director Rohit Bhagat has tendered his resignation to the board of BlackRock (Singapore) Limited and BlackRock Asset Management North Asia Limited.
http://goo.gl/Nksjb
9/25/11 (SWITZERLAND) UBS CEO Oswald Gruebel quits over £1.5bn rogue trader crisis
http://goo.gl/WCeqB
9/25/11 (USA CA) Douglas E. Tow, Executive Vice President and Chief Credit Officer, will retire from the Company http://goo.gl/24aAU
9/28/11 (SWITZERLAND) SNB Bank Council: Fritz Studer resigns as per end-April 2012
http://goo.gl/7dNiD
9/29/11 (UK) Barclays, Head of UK & European Retail Banking Deanna Oppenheimer resigned.
http://goo.gl/o63jO
9/29/11 (USA NM) New Mexico Pension Fund Director Terry Slattery Resigns
http://goo.gl/BzLn4
9/30/11 (SINGAPORE) AIMS AMP CAP INDUSTRIAL REIT, Ms Tang Buck Kiau resigned.
http://goo.gl/VGxjv
9/30/11 (ICELAND) Alternate board member of Iceland State Financial Investments Thórdís Bjarnadóttir resigns
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10/01/11 (USA MO) Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City President Thomas M. Hoenig retired on Oct. 1, 2011
http://goo.gl/B8WK7
10/03/11 (INDIA) The of Euram Bank Asia, president Arun Panchariya, has resigned after being implicated in a stock trading scandal in India.
http://goo.gl/yh2bF
10/03/11 (GHANA) Intercontinental Bank Ghana Limited, Managing Director and CEO Albert Mmegwa resigned.
http://goo.gl/Vc252
10/03/11 (USA FL) Quantek Opportunity Fund, portfolio manager Javier Guerra. Arbitration awarded $1 million damages to Aris Multi-Strategy Fund. Quantek Asset Management made false statements to Aris.
http://goo.gl/udpBA
10/05/11 (UK) UBS co-chief François Gouws of global equities had resigned after last month’s revelation of a $2.3 billion loss from unauthorized trading.
http://goo.gl/OuUjr
10/05/11 (UK) UBS co-chief Yassine Bouhara of global equities had resigned after last month’s revelation of a $2.3 billion loss from unauthorized trading.
http://goo.gl/OuUjr
10/10/11 (BELGIUM) Dexia (Franco-Belgian bank) its chairman Jean-Luc Dehaene will give up his role on the board of Dexia's Belgian division, which is being sold to the Belgian state as part of a rescue deal, the group said on Monday.
http://goo.gl/vyldE
10/11/11 (UK) BlackRock, head of sterling portfolios and manager of the Corporate Bond fund, Paul Shuttleworth, has resigned after 11 years at the firm.
http://goo.gl/FMBjw
10/11/11 (UK) Dynamic Funds, portfolio manager David Taylor has resigned.
http://goo.gl/GZCt5
10/11/11 (CHINA) China Construction Bank Non-Executive Direct Sue Yang resigns for personal reasons.
http://goo.gl/ip8Un
10/13/11 (UK) Cogent Partners co-head research department Katita Palamar resigned.
http://goo.gl/TVLWO
10/13/11 (UK) Cogent Partners co-head research department Bill Farrell resigned.
http://goo.gl/TVLWO
10/13/11 (US OR) MBank CEO Rex Brittle resigns
goo.gl/D48Vh
10/14/11 (USA TX) Deutsche Bank Investment Advisor Griffin Perry resigns, SEC regulations prevented him from campaigning for his father Rick Perry's Presidential campaign.
http://goo.gl/R0PgH
10/23/11 (USA) Fairholme Capital Management LLC, Director Charles Fernandez stepped down for personal reasons. Fairholme Fund has lost 26 percent of its net asset value due to bets that have backfired on AIG Inc, Bank of America Corp and Florida-based landowner and developer St Joe Co.
http://goo.gl/vzTbY
10/24/11 (ICELAND) Icelandic State Financial Investments board members of Icelandic State Financial Investments have resigned following “outside interference” with their Sept. 30 decision to hire Pall Magnusson, the former political adviser to the island’s industry minister, as chief executive officer. [names and positions have been requested from the reporter on 3/9/12]
http://goo.gl/lEpz2
10/24/11 (SINGAPORE) Keppel Corporation Limited, Teo Soon Hoe will resign from his role as group finance director Jan 1.
http://goo.gl/l90be
10/26/11 (INDIA) Beed District Bank (Coop Bank) CEO B S Deshmukh arrested for embezzling Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Ltd payment deposits.
http://goo.gl/CXL7Z
10/26/11 (INDIA) Beed District Bank (Coop Bank) former CEO A N Kulkarni arrested for embezzling Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Ltd payment deposits.
http://goo.gl/CXL7Z
10/26/11 (US VA) The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, CEO Charles E. Haldeman will retire in 2012
goo.gl/CF4SF
10/27/11 (USA NY) Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Inc (KBW) CEO John Duffy stepped aside. Duffy has prostate cancer.
http://goo.gl/i1s3E
10/27/11(US WA) Pacific International Bank CEO Woosung "Edward" Park abruptly resigns
goo.gl/nJgkI
10/29/11 (CHINA) China Construction Bank Corp Chairman Guo Shuqing resigns
http://goo.gl/fdd9v
10/29/11 (CHINA) Agricultural Bank of China Ltd Chairman Xiang Junbo resigns
http://goo.gl/yWX9R
10/31/11 (EUROPEAN COMMUNITY) European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet, resigns.
http://goo.gl/ygG59
11/01/11 (INDIA) Beed District Bank (Coop Bank More directors resign [research still being conducted on the names]
http://goo.gl/HD8BQ
11/02/11 (UK) Lloyds Banking Group chief executive, António Horta-Osório, is to take leave of absence on health grounds for six to eight weeks, the BBC has reported. (STILL OUT AS OF 2/24/12 - DEFACTO RESIGNATION)
http://goo.gl/3L9gE
11/03/11 (POLAND) Nordea Bank Poland, Wlodzimierz Kicinski resigned from as President of the Management Board of Nordea Bank Poland as of the 10th of November.
http://goo.gl/oKUVZ
11/04/11 (USA NY) MF Global, Jon Corzine, stepped down as chairman and CEO, hired criminal attorney to represent him.
http://goo.gl/tUaVY
11/04/11 (SWITZERLAND) Hyposwiss Private Bank Ltd., Director Hans Bodmer resigns from the Board
goo.gl/5ydhv
11/07/11 (SINGAPORE) Singapore Mercantile Exchange (SMX), CEO Framroze Pochara quits.
http://goo.gl/eum87
11/08/11 (SINGAPORE) The Singapore Fund, Inc, Austin C. Dowling has resigned as Director of the Fund
http://goo.gl/bCUhI
11/09/11 (USA NY) HSBC Israeli desk, managing director Issac Doueck resigned.
http://goo.gl/zuCJE
11/09/11 (ISRAEL) HSBC Israeli desk, senior representative Simon Hakim resigned.
http://goo.gl/zuCJE
11/09/11 (SWITZERLAND) HSBC Israeli desk, head of Israel Dan Sagi resigned.
http://goo.gl/zuCJE
11/09/11 (USA NY) HSBC Israeli desk, ????? resigned.
http://goo.gl/zuCJE
11/09/11 (USA NY) HSBC Israeli desk, ????? resigned.
http://goo.gl/zuCJE
11/10/11 (EUROPEAN COMMUNITY) European Central Bank Lorenzo Bini Smaghi resigned from the European Central Bank’s Executive Board.
http://goo.gl/Invjc
11/11/11 (HONG KONG) Goldman Sachs' Asia Pacific co-head Yusuf Alireza is retiring from the investment bank after 19 years
http://goo.gl/pejs3
11/10/11 (INDIA) UBS The head of India operations at UBS AG , Manisha Girotra, has resigned
http://goo.gl/3aTh2
11/15/11 (USA NY) Icahn Enterprises LP, senior managing director of health-care investing, Alex Denner, has resigned.
http://goo.gl/X1A4i
11/16/11 (EUROPEAN COMMUNITY) International Monetary Fund Europe, director Antonio Borges resigns for personal reasons.
http://goo.gl/55CqZ
11/17/11 (NETHERLANDS) Syntrus Achmea (pensions manager), CIO Marjolein Sol is resigning.
http://goo.gl/Xqxsr
11/17/11 (INDIA) Nomura India's investment banking head Nipun Goel resigns
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11/17/11 (INDIA) Nomura India's Capital market division head Indraneil Borkakoty resigns
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11/17/11 (INDIA) Nomura India's executive director Shubham Majumder resigns
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11/18/11 (US WA) President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle Steven R. Horton retires
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11/18/11 (US MD) Legendary mutual fund manager Bill Miller CIO of Legg Mason Capital Management and portfolio manager of LM Value Trust resigns
goo.gl/YO4CJ
11/18/11 (ICELAND) Horn Invest hf., Director of the Board of Guðrún Ragnarsdóttir resigned
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11/18/11 (ICELAND) CEO of Landsbankinn Steinthór Pálsson resigned from the Board of Horn Invest hf.
goo.gl/k54sv
11/18/11 (SCOTLAND) Scottish Widows Investment Partnership Limited (SWIP) Private Equity Fund, wish to announce the resignation of John Brett from the Board of Directors of the Company, for business reasons.
http://goo.gl/MLsp8
11/21/11 (JAPAN) UBS’s Japan Investment Banking Chairman Matsui to Resign
http://goo.gl/OiDiq
11/23/11 (GERMANY) CEO of Clearstream Banking AG, Frankfurt Andreas Wolf resigns and leaves the boards of Clearstream International S.A., Luxembourg and Deutsche Börse Group
goo.gl/FE2TB
11/23/12 (USA SC & NC) Bank of the Carolinas, CFO Eric Rhodes resigns for personal reasons. Bank of the Carolinas was delisted from the NASDAQ on 3/9/12
http://goo.gl/oytcD
11/24/12 (IRELAND) AXA Rosenberg Management Ireland Limited, director Simon Vanstone resigns.
http://goo.gl/x5Fl6
11/28/11 (LATVIA) Latvia’s chief banking regulator, Irena Krumane, said she resigned today, a week after the state took over Latvijas Krajbanka AS (LKB1R), the Baltic News Service reported. The bank regulator suspended operations at Krajbanka, a subsidiary of Lithuania’s Bankas Snoras AB, on Nov. 21 and said around 100 million lati ($191.8 million) was missing. The Lithuanian government seized Snoras on Nov. 16 saying assets reported on the lender’s balance sheet were missing.
http://goo.gl/mUvLF
11/29/11 (USA) R. David Land Submits Resignation from the Boards of Directors of Peoples Bancorp. and Seneca National Bank
http://goo.gl/XncOc
11/29/11 (NORWAY) Carnegie ASA’s co-head of investment banking in Norway, Cato Holmsen, has resigned
http://goo.gl/utIfy
11/29/11 (FRANCE) AXA Real Estate Investment Managers, Global head of business development, strategy and research for Kiran Patel, has handed in his resignation. Patel was with the firm for 11 years.
http://goo.gl/iGjB6
11/30/11 (LITHUANIA) Lithuania Central Bank, Governor Vitas Vasiliauskas fired Kazimieras Ramonas, head of the banking supervision department, after seizing Bankas Snoras AB, the country’s third-biggest deposit bank.
http://goo.gl/EiqUC
11/31/11 (AUSTRALIA) Commonwealth Bank CEO Sir Ralph Norris Australia's highest-paid banker, quits
goo.gl/UBSmh
12/01/11 (SRI LANKA) Sri Lanka's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) head Indrani Sugathadasa resigned.
http://goo.gl/6qzny
12/02/11 (PAKISTAN) NIB Bank, Singapore forced resignation of CEO Khawaja Iqbal Hassan, for mismanagement
http://goo.gl/ojDcu
12/03/11 (USA SC) South Carolina's $25 billion pension fund chief investor Robert Borden resigned. Borden's resignation comes as the SC Retirement System faces a $13 billion deficit, prompting state lawmakers to call for a massive overhaul of the system.
http://goo.gl/ypK2G
12/05/11 (BERMUDA) HSBC Bermuda Ltd, chairman of the board and director John Campbell resigns
http://goo.gl/peFGD
12/05/11 (BERMUDA) HSBC Bermuda Ltd, CEO Philip Butterfield retires
http://goo.gl/peFGD
12/06/11 (USA ) Western Liberty Bancorp CFO George Rosenbaum has resigned.
http://goo.gl/ozuwB
12/08/11 (USA) Fidelity Global Special Situations Fund, manager Jorma Korhonen resigned.
http://goo.gl/a7Rhw
12/08/11 (INDIA) Nomura's co-head of equity-linked solutions Neeraj Hora, resigns
http://goo.gl/WYcjR
12/09/11 (France) Executive board director of Kléline Abdallah Hitti resigned. Kléline is an electronic banking arm of the Group BNP PARIBAS .
http://goo.gl/NpLqc
12/12/11 (Papua New Guinea) Bank South Pacific (BSP) chairman Kostas Constantinou resigned as a director of the Board of Bank of South Pacific Limited and its subsidiaries.
http://goo.gl/6NiyY
12/14/11 (MAURITIUS) African Alliance Africa Pioneer Fund I (the "Fund"), Portfolio Manager Paul David Austin Clark resigned
http://goo.gl/YiagF
12/14/11 (USA NY) Goldman Sachs global head Milton R. Berlinski retiring at the end of the year
http://goo.gl/Xj0l4
12/14/11 (IRELAND) AfricanAlliance I's portfolio manager Paul David Austin Clark resigns
goo.gl/xhMkw
12/15/11 (UK) Coutts [private bank] Senior private banker James Fleming resigns
http://goo.gl/ANN5B
12/19/11 (CANADA) Holloway Lodging Real Estate Investment Trust (a REIT) CEO Glenn Squires has resigned
http://goo.gl/8rAKb
12/19/11 (JAPAN) Citibank Japan CEO, Darren Buckley, resigns after Citibank was punished by regulators for the third time in seven years.
http://goo.gl/ScT47
12/19/11 (DENMARK) Danske Bank Peter Straarup, who will retire February 15
http://goo.gl/06c2b
12/19/11 (DENMARK) Danske Bank Eivind Kolding has resigned as Chairman of the Board of Directors and from the three board committees on which he served, He continues as member of Danske Bank’s Board of Directors until he assumes the position of Chairman of the Executive Board on 15 February 2012. On the same day, at the latest, Eivind Kolding will resign from the A.P. Moller-Maersk Group.
http://goo.gl/06c2b
12/20/11 (UK) Prudential (UK) Chairman Harvey McGrath has informed the Board of his intention to retire from the Board in 2012 once a successor has been found.
http://goo.gl/IPOzf
12/20/11 (USA MA) Century Bancorp, Inc., Director Roger S. Berkowitz resigned.
http://goo.gl/bbdeT
12/21/11 (USA MN) Voyager Bank, fired CEO trade accusations, New details have emerged in Voyager Bank's firing of its CEO in a court filing that accuses him of defrauding the bank of $15 million. The former CEO, Timothy Owens, has sued the bank for wrongful termination and accused the bank of defaming him.
http://goo.gl/3Q1Vg
12/23/11 (USA VA) Virginia National Bank (VNB) Chairman Mark Giles quits
http://goo.gl/dFDpH
12/23/11 (USA VA) Virginia National Bank (VNB) Board Member Claire Gargalli quits
http://goo.gl/kowkW
12/23/11 (USA VA) Virginia National Bank (VNB) Board Member Leslie Disharoon quits
http://goo.gl/kstLp
12/23/11 (USA VA) Virginia National Bank (VNB) Board Member Neal Kassell quits
http://goo.gl/NrrPZ
12/23/11 (USA) Third Avenue Value Fund, co-manager Marty Whitman is leaving.
http://goo.gl/iMe99
12/23/11 (US NV) Chief financial officer of Western Liberty Bancorp George Rosenbaum resigns
goo.gl/R9vey
12/31/11 (US CA) Wells Fargo Senior EVP Mark Oman retires
goo.gl/T0OFC
1/01/12 (US FL) OptimumBank Larry Willis left the board shortly after he was re-elected at the company shareholder meeting.
goo.gl/GDcFX
1/01/12 (SINGAPORE) Keppel's group finance director Teo Soon Hoe resigns
goo.gl/nfPWd
1/01/12 (NIGERIA) United Bank for Africa Plc Victor Osadolor resigns
http://goo.gl/b6AoA
1/01/12 (ISRAEL) Israel's Bank Leumi CEO Galia Maor steps down after 16 years
http://goo.gl/xwlFt
1/03/12 (GREECE) Marfin Popular Bank Public Co Ltd, Mr Eleftherios Hiliadakis has resigned from the Board of Directors.
http://goo.gl/MuFa0
1/03/12 (USA VA) Suffolk Bancorp president and CEO J. Gordon Huszagh steps down
http://goo.gl/joExI
1/03/12 (USA WI) Michael Falbo, president and CEO of Southport Bank, has resigned just six months after accepting the position.
http://goo.gl/DP1uK
1/03/12 (UK) Arbuthnot Banking Group: Neil Kirton resigned from the Board
http://goo.gl/SKE7j
1/03/12 (UK) Arbuthnot Banking Group: Atholl Turrell left the Board.
http://goo.gl/bzZtQ
1/05/12 (UK) Saunderson House [Private Bank] CEO Nick Fletcher steps down
http://goo.gl/zvo1L
1/05/12 (USA NY) Blackstone/GSO Senior Floating Rate Term Fund and Blackstone/GSO Long-Short Credit Income Fund announced that John R. O’Neill has resigned.
http://goo.gl/ZiWGL
1/07/12 (UK) Arab Banking Corporation Intl. Bank (ABCIB) Manama, Bahrain: ABCIB announced retirement of CEO Nofal Barbar from its London office.
http://goo.gl/yF0Mm
1/09/12 (SWITZERLAND) SNB Chairman Philipp Hildebrand resigns
http://goo.gl/5qsUu
1/09/12 (USA WASHINGTON DC) Whitehouse former banker and Chief of Staff William M. Daley resigned
http://goo.gl/34F0B
1/09/12 (USA NY) Morgan Stanley Chief Legal Officer Frank Barron retires.
http://goo.gl/XYCwJ
1/09/12 (SWITZERLAND) Temenos Group AG, provider of core banking software announced the resignation of Mark Austen as a member of the Board of Directors.
http://goo.gl/l6QzM
1/10/12 (LIECHTENSTIEN) LLB CEO and chairman Josef Fehr resigned .
http://goo.gl/a4gTh
1/10/12 (US DC) Fannie Mae (The Federal National Mortgage Association) Chief Executive Michael J. Williams resigns
goo.gl/8dver
1/10/12 (USA IN) Security Bank of Springfield, president and CEO Steve Cour has announced plans to retire at the end of June.
http://goo.gl/jFbYA
1/11/12 (KAZAKHSTAN) BTA Bank, CEO Marat Zairov resigns for health reasons.
http://goo.gl/yAHgr
1/11/12 (SWITZERLAND) La Banque Privée Edmond de Rothschild, CEO Claude Messulam resigns, replaced by Christophe de Backer, Claude Messulam to become a director of the bank holding company.
http://goo.gl/vWr3i
1/12/12 (USA) Goldman Sachs, Co-Head Securities Trading Edward K. Eisler retires
http://goo.gl/i2TVk
1/12/12 (USA) Goldman Sachs, Co-Head Securities Trading David B. Heller retires
http://goo.gl/i2TVk
1/13/12 (IRELAND) National Asset Management Agency, head of lending Graham Emmett is resigning
http://goo.gl/GN3h3
1/13/12 (USA DC) World Bank, Vice President for Africa, Oby Ezekwesili will retire from her position at the World Bank in May.
http://goo.gl/fiUsU
1/16/12 (UAE) Ajman Bank CEO Mubashar Khokhar resigns
goo.gl/FJuYd
1/17/12 (CANADA) Cumberland Private Wealth Management CIO John Wilson quit to join another money manager.
http://goo.gl/3JuNJ
1/17/12 (HONG KONG) Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited (OCBC Bank) CEO David Conner retires.
http://goo.gl/83Z1i
1/17/12 (UK) Morgan Stanley Intl, chairman Walid Chammah is retiring. An inside source speculated that it could mean that the company had suffered exposure to European sovereign debt woes under Chammah's purview.
http://goo.gl/e7vS7
1/17/12 (KUWAIT) Commercial Bank of Kuwait S.A.K. Board Member Ali Yousef Al Awwadhy resigned.
http://goo.gl/0PoIM
1/17/12 (KUWAIT) Commercial Bank of Kuwait S.A.K. Board Member Miss Anoud Fadhel Al Hathran resigned.
http://goo.gl/0PoIM
1/17/12 (KUWAIT) Commercial Bank of Kuwait S.A.K. Board Member Mr. Tarek Farid Al Othman resigned.
http://goo.gl/0PoIM
1/17/12 (KUWAIT) Commercial Bank of Kuwait S.A.K. Board Member Mr. Salem Ali Hassan Al Ali resigned.
http://goo.gl/0PoIM
1/17/12 (KUWAIT) Commercial Bank of Kuwait S.A.K. Board Member Mr. Majed Ali Oweid Awadh resigned.
http://goo.gl/0PoIM
1/17/12 (KUWAIT) Commercial Bank of Kuwait S.A.K. Board Member Mr. Badr Suliman Al Ahmed resigned.
http://goo.gl/0PoIM
1/18/12 (USA) Goldman Sachs co-heads of Goldman's securities business David Heller resigns.
http://goo.gl/TMHvx
1/18/12 (USA) Goldman Sachs co-heads of Goldman's securities business Edward Eisler resigns.
http://goo.gl/TMHvx
1/18/12 (USA) Goldman Sachs co-head of its investment management division Ed Forst resigns.
http://goo.gl/TMHvx
1/19/12 (UK) Santander, senior director Americas division Francisco Luzón is retiring with a pension pot of about €56m, a package whose generous size is expected to reignite controversy over bankers’ remuneration.
http://goo.gl/XMRvP
1/19/12 (EGYPT) Beltone Financial Holding (BTFH) Alaa' Sabaa resigned from board of directors.
http://goo.gl/5Eze1
1/19/12 (EGYPT) Beltone Financial Holding (BTFH) Wael EL Mahgary resigned from board of directors.
http://goo.gl/5Eze1
1/20/12 (JAPAN) Normura's head of wholesale banking Jasjit Bhattai quits
http://goo.gl/6FuWe
1/20/12 (SOUTH AFRICA) First National Bank's sharia banking division is in a state of flux after it was hit by a corporate governance scandal in which its chief executive, Ebi Patel, was put on "special leave" for almost a month while an internal probe was conducted. Patel has been reinstated, but is facing disciplinary action. Islamic finance forbids the payment and receipt of interest (riba), and investment in some industries. Sharia law states that interest-bearing transactions result in economic ills such as unemployment and high inflation. Trading in derivatives and speculative investment are also forbidden. Sharia law requires all transactions to be backed by tangible assets.
http://goo.gl/NmGJP
1/20/12 (USA) TIAA-CREF executive vice president and president of Asset Management, Scott C. Evans resigned
http://goo.gl/f6qLs
1/20/12 (SOUTH AFRICA) South African deputy economic development minister Enoch Godongwana quit his post this week in the face of growing outrage in government circles about his involvement in a company that allegedly defrauded clothing factory workers of R100-million of their pension fund money.
http://goo.gl/ZADvn
1/21/12 (UK) Butterfield Private Bank head Danny Dixon Steps Down
http://goo.gl/sdY1p
1/21/12 (SINGAPORE) ANZ Asia's private banking head Nina Aguas resigns as managing director of Asia-Pacific private banking.
http://goo.gl/hlHvG
1/21/12 (USA CA) Nara Bancorp (Now called BBCN) President and CEO Min Kim Resigns
http://goo.gl/rcfJ3
1/22/12 (KENYA) National Bank of Kenya's (NBK) managing director, Mr Reuben Marambii, will resign before year end.
http://goo.gl/c2n7r
1/23/12 (SOUTH AFRICA) The South Africa Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (SAVCA) CEO JP Fourie resigned
http://goo.gl/dmxFI
1/24/12 (IRELAND) Deutsche International Corporate Services Limited fund, Paul Shevlin resigned as a director
http://goo.gl/OjZFF
1/24/12 (SWITZERLAND) Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Dr. Michel Kazatchkine, a French clinical immunologist and head of the $22.6 billion fund has abruptly resigned, since revelations about corruption and misspending severely rattled some of its biggest donors. The resignation came on the eve of the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, which played a role in its creation a decade ago. A dinner for the public-private fund is planned Thursday with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and major backers Bill Gates and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The shakeup resulted from an internal review to address problems highlighted in Associated Press stories last year about the loss of tens of millions of dollars in grant money because of mismanagement and alleged fraud. Its biggest private donor is the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has pledged $1.15 billion and provided it with $650 million so far.
http://goo.gl/bqXs8
1/25/12 (Papua New Guinea) Bank South Pacific (BSP) chairman Kostas Constantinou resigned as a director of the Board of Bank of South Pacific Limited and its subsidiaries.
http://goo.gl/vh3az
1/25/12 (UK) SOFIA PROPERTY FUND LIMITED, Gerry Williams has resigned as a Director, following his resignation from Ardel Holdings Limited ("Ardel") where he was CEO. Ardel is the holding company of Ardel Fund Services Limited which provides administration services in Guernsey to the Company.
http://goo.gl/kDfVv
1/25/12 (USA NY) Fortress Private Equity, CEO Daniel Madrid (aka Daniel Mudd) has resigned. Madrid was forced to leave in order to deal with SEC allegations. Prior to joining Fortress, Madrid served as Fannie Mae CEO and was forced to resign. SEC sued Madrid and former Freddie Mac CEO Richard West Long (aka Richard Syron) for hiding hundreds of billions of dollars in subprime loans. Madrid denied the SEC allegations saying the US govt. and investors were informed of Fannie Mae’s loan data.
http://goo.gl/u9IdB and http://goo.gl/v94ik and http://goo.gl/tXQwP
1/27/12 (SINGAPORE) AIMS AMP CAP INDUSTRIAL REIT, Mr Graham Sugden resigned.
http://goo.gl/VZYHY
1/27/12 (SOUTH AFRICA) ABSA Group COO Alfie Naidoo would be leaving to pursue personal interests
http://goo.gl/cVWnA
1/27/12 (SOUTH AFRICA) ABSA Group chief marketing and communication officer Happy Ntshingila, will be taking up an "exciting position" outside banking
http://goo.gl/cVWnA
1/27/12 (SOUTH AFRICA) ABSA Group CEO Daphne Motsepe retires at the end of April after a 10-year career at the bank.
http://goo.gl/cVWnA
1/29/12 (PORTUGAL) Banco Santander Totta SA executive chairman Nuno Manuel da Silva Amado has resigned
http://goo.gl/Glvdn
1/29/12 (NEW ZEALAND) New Zealand Reserve Bank Gov Alan Bollard to Step Down
http://goo.gl/BwUgv
1/29/12 (UAE) NBD, Emirates 's investment banking division CEO Suresh Kumar is leaving the bank
http://goo.gl/S1x0F
1/30/12 (UK) British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVCA) COO Andrew Graham steps down
http://goo.gl/4SDW8
1/31/12 (SCOTLAND) Royal Bank of Scotland former CEO Fred Goodwin Stripped of Knighthood
http://goo.gl/CoLVS
2/01/12 (US CT) President and CEO of the First National Bank of Suffield George W. Hermann resigns
goo.gl/JLlHz
2/01/12 (SYRIA) Arab Bank Syria Board member Basma Talal Zein resigns.
http://goo.gl/WXxzw
2/01/12 (SOUTH AFRICA) ABSA [Barclay's Bank] deputy CEO Louis von Zeuner resigns
http://goo.gl/IP8nH
2/01/12 (UK) Lloyds Bankging Group head of wholesaleTruett Tate quits
http://goo.gl/OqRVo
2/01/12 (UK) Llyods Banking Group Tim Tookey leaving end of February
http://goo.gl/vjO5M
2/02/12 (VENEZUELA) Banking Crisis Arne Chacon arrested for Banking Corruption
http://goo.gl/bb5sh
2/02/12 (USA) American Perspective Bank, President and CEO Thomas J. Beene resigned.
http://goo.gl/K66eb
2/02/12 (USA) NIR Group hedge funds, Corey Ribotsky was forced out of NIR by Pricewaterhouse-Coopers, the court-appointed liquidator, following allegations of fraud by the Securities and Exchange Commission. In September, the SEC sued Ribotsky and NIR for taking more than $1 million of investors’ money to buy cars and watches.
2/02/12 (IRELAND) AXA Rosenberg Management Ireland Limited, director Nathalie Savey resigned.
http://goo.gl/cXB8u
2/03/12 (VIETNAM) VinaCapital Vietnam Opportunity Fund Limited's director Horst Geicke resigns
goo.gl/vCQJU
2/03/12 (UK) VinaCapital Vietnam Opportunity Fund Ltd, Non-Executive Director Horst Geicke has resigned.
http://goo.gl/r955T
2/03/12 (UK) UBS London trader, Kweku M. Adoboli, was arrested and charged with fraud and false accounting, forcing UBS to announce a $2.3 billion trading loss.
http://goo.gl/ClTaq
2/05/12 (USA - NY) Morgan's investment banking chairman Joseph Perella quit
http://goo.gl/pG2jF
2/05/12 (USA - NY) Morgan Stanley investment banking Tarek Abdel-Meguid quit
http://goo.gl/bRv9K
2/06/12 (INDIA) Dhanlaxmi Bank CEO Amitabh Chaturvedi quits:
http://goo.gl/OhCEb
2/06/12 (USA NY) TD Ameritrade, head of retail distribution John Bunch resigns. Bunch is leaving to take the top job at a small investment advisory firmin Kansas City.
http://goo.gl/kgS7M
2/06/12 (CANADA) Director of Sprott Inc. Mark McCain resigns
goo.gl/ZUVp8
2/07/12 (USA) Bank Of America's Mortgage Business Chief Barbara Desoer Retires
http://goo.gl/i7AUY
2/07/12 (INDIA) Kotak Mahindra Bank Falguni Nayar quits
http://goo.gl/fP03J
2/07/12 (IRAN) Iran denies central bank resignation rumor (don't believe until its denied?)
http://goo.gl/PiQSy
2/07/12 (UK) Agneash Soft Commodities PLC, an investment company in mineral, announced resignation of its Chief Investment Officer Tom Winnifrith .
http://goo.gl/LDgl9
2/07/12 (US NY) BlackRock, General counsel Robert P. Connolly leaves
goo.gl/l7c9v
2/08/12 (SOUTH AFRICA) Standard Bank Group Ltd - Resignation of Group Secretary Loren Wulfsohn
http://goo.gl/K1pfn
2/08/12 (USA OH) Cleveland International Fund (CIF) private equity fund, A. Eddy Zai launched and led the Cleveland International Fund, an investment outfit that pairs wealthy foreign investors hoping for U.S. residency with job-creating projects. Zai resigned from his job this week, before being indicted in a bank-fraud scheme that, according to investigators, contributed to the collapse of a credit union in Eastlake.
http://goo.gl/tgamf
2/08/12 (UAE) Emirates NBD makes top-level changes Bank's deputy chief executive officer Abdul Wahed Al Fahim has resigned.
http://goo.gl/JUdNd
2/09/12 (VATICAN) Institute for Religious Works (IOR aka "Vatican Bank"), 62 year old Monsignor Emilio Messina, the Archdiocese of Camerino-San Severino Marche investigated on money laundering by Italian officials.
http://goo.gl/uztVU
2/09/12 (VATICAN) Institute for Religious Works (IOR aka "Vatican Bank"), 49 year old Father Don Salvatore Palumbo of the socially popular parish of San Gaetano
http://goo.gl/uztVU
2/09/12 (VATICAN) Institute for Religious Works (IOR aka "Vatican Bank"), 37 year old Father Horace Bonaccorsi of Catania, already tried and acquitted in Sicily for money laundering offenses recycling money through accounts at IOR
http://goo.gl/uztVU
2/09/12 (VATICAN) Institute for Religious Works (IOR aka "Vatican Bank"), 85 year old Father Don Evaldo Biasini of Rome. Father Don Evaldo Biasini is known as the "Don of Cash".
http://goo.gl/uztVU
2/09/12 (IRELAND) SPL Investment Funds's director John Davey discharged
goo.gl/h814P
2/09/12 (UKRAINE) National Bank of Ukraine deputy governor Volodymyr Krotiuk quits
http://goo.gl/8BuXy
2/09/12 (UK) JP Morgan Chinese Investment Trust PLC, non-executive Director Madam Yujiang Zhao resigned
http://goo.gl/CPO23
2/09/12 (UK) Alliance Trust Savings (ATS), Robert Burgess is stepping down as CEO.
http://goo.gl/ohHG3
2/10/12 (NIGERIA) Peace Capital Market Limited Managing Director Sabinus Iroanya Chukwu resigns
goo.gl/MlI5N
2/10/12 (KOREA) Korea Exchange Bank chief Larry Klane steps down
http://goo.gl/DBKdc
2/10/12 (INDIA) Tamilnad Mercantile Bank CEO A K Jagannathan resigns
http://goo.gl/wMl5g
2/13/12 (KUWAIT) Kuwait Central Bank CEO Sheikh Salem Abdulaziz Al Sabbah resigns
http://goo.gl/GFvIy
2/13/12 (UK) Goldman Sachs confirmed on Monday that George N. Mattson, one of the firm’s top deal makers in the industrial sector, will retire. He was a senior relationship banker with a client list that included General Motors, General Electric and Caterpillar.
http://goo.gl/vgnq2
2/13/12 (HONDURAS) Honduras finance minister William Chong Wong, resigned on Monday after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said the country did not reach its deficit and monetary targets for 2011.
http://goo.gl/drgHY
2/13/12 (US PA) AmerisourceBergen CFO Michael DiCandilo Abruptly Leaves.
http://goo.gl/ElyIk
2/14/12 (NICARAQUA) Nicaraqua Central Bank President Antenor Rosales resigns
http://goo.gl/iQ0n8
2/14/12 (UK) Social finance pioneer Malcolm Hayday quits Charity Bank
http://goo.gl/uHp6C
2/14/12 (PAKISTAN) National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) chairman Syed Ali Raza resigned
http://goo.gl/scexo
2/14/12 (USA NY) Goldman Sachs Jeffrey Moslow resigns, an investment banker to companies such as Tyco International Ltd, Nstar, the Boston-based utility, and defense contractor Dyncorp International Inc.
http://goo.gl/7h4O7
2/15/12 (SOUTH AFRICA) HPA - Hospitality Property Fund Limited, chairman Frank Berkeley resigned.
http://goo.gl/wJmpR
2/15/12 (USA) Boston Properties (REIT), Executive VP and COO E. Mitchell Norvilleto resigned
http://goo.gl/AW7X7
2/15/12 (WORLD) World Bank CEO Zoellick resigns
http://goo.gl/dHDSm
Did the White House tell the World Bank president that he's out?
http://goo.gl/wUOgb
2/15/12 (CHINA) Morgan non-executive chairman Stanley Stephen Roach will be retiring.
http://goo.gl/MQeGW
2/15/12 (SLOVENIA) Nova Kreditna Banka Maribor CEO Andrej Plos resigns
http://goo.gl/SNsVI
2/15/12 (SLOVENIA) Nova Ljubljanska Banka d.d. CEO Bozo Jasovic resigns
http://goo.gl/TyYiJ
2/16/12(CHINA) Goldman Sachs Vice Chairman in Asia Pacific excluding Japan Mark Machin steps down
goo.gl/mx4Hw
2/16/12 (USA IL) Deerfield Capital Management LLC, CEO Daniel Hattori and CEO of CIFC Corp resigned.
http://goo.gl/LLNnD
2/16/12 (USA IL) Deerfield Capital Management LLC, COO Luke Knecht and CEO of CIFC Corp, resigned both positions.
http://goo.gl/LLNnD
2/16/12 (UK) The Financial Services Authority Margaret Cole is to step down
http://goo.gl/yT6rS
2/16/12 (GHANA) Databank Group Executive Chair Ken Ofori-Atta steps down
http://goo.gl/c7PtU
2/16/12 (SAUDI ARABIA) Saudi Hollandi Banks Managing Director Geoffrey Calvert Quits
http://goo.gl/CtmOU
2/16/12 (AUSTRALIA) ANZ Bank Australia CFO Peter Marriott resigns
http://goo.gl/I7Alo
2/16/12 (UK) Royal Bank of Scotland Sr Equities Trader Jason Edinburgh Arrested
http://goo.gl/WczHh
2/16/12 (UK) Royal Bank of Scotland director equities bus. Vincent Walsh director Arrested
http://goo.gl/I7Alo
2/16/12 (UK) Marex Spectron senior trader Michael Elsom Arrested
http://goo.gl/I7Alo
2/16/12 (AUSTRALIA) Royal Bank of Scotland Austraila CEO Stephen Williams resigns
http://goo.gl/4r16D
2/17/12 (SOUTH AFRICA) Coronation Fund Managers CEO Hugo Nelson is stepping down at age of 40.
http://goo.gl/I3NY8
2/17/12 (PAKISTAN) PICIC Asset Management Company Limited CFO Ahmed Raza resigns
http://goo.gl/K8A2I
2/17/12 (USA NY) Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein out as by summer
http://goo.gl/UjpzD
2/17/12 (SWITZERLAND) SNB Council President Hansueli Raggenbass resigns
http://goo.gl/1n1Nr
2/17/12 (UK) Insight Investment, asset manager Mike Pinggera has resigned..
http://goo.gl/uDplK
2/17/12 (USA NY) Harbinger Group Inc. CFO Francis T. McCarron has advised the Company of his resignation effective April 30
http://goo.gl/6il4F
2/17/12 (BULGARIA) Bulgaria National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF), The managing director Neli Nesheva, resigned after a two-day row about end-of-year bonuses paid by NHIF to its employees.
http://goo.gl/7UQxv
2/18/12 (PAKISTAN) The Bank of Azad Jammu and Kashmir executive Zulfiqar Abbasi resigns
http://goo.gl/G0woP
2/19/12 (MALTA) Bank of Valletta, director of the Multi-Manager Fund John C. Ripard, has resigned being reprimanded by the MFSA for disposing of his holdings in the Fund whilst in possession of sensitive information which was not available to the public.
http://goo.gl/1li3r
2/20/12 (IRELAND) SPL Investment Funds's director Mike Kirby resigns
goo.gl/nDW2T
2/20/12 (RUSSIA) Head of Russian Bank Regulator Gennady Melikyan Steps Down
http://goo.gl/Unuez
2/20/12 (SWITZERLAND) Credit Suisse Chief Joseph Tan resigns
http://goo.gl/F5twL
2/20/12 (ISRAEL) Bank Leumi le-Israel Ltd: Zvi Itskovitch resigns
http://goo.gl/aA0RW
2/20/12 (USA WA) First Financial Northwest Director Spencer Schneider Quits
http://goo.gl/6Dj0i
2/21/12 (ARGENTINA) Central Bank of Argentina (BCRA) Gen Mgr Benigno Velez, resigns
http://goo.gl/DuMrm
2/21/12 (BANGLADESH) Nitol Insurance Co. Ltd director Abdul Matlub resigns
conflict of interest with director seat on unknown bank
http://goo.gl/aEmwB
2/21/12 (BANGLADESH) Nitol Insurance Co. Ltd director Selima Ahmad resigns
conflict of interest with director seat on unknown bank
http://goo.gl/aEmwB
2/21/12 (BANGLADESH) Nitol Insurance Co. Ltd director Abdul Musabbir Ahmad resigns
conflict of interest with director seat on unknown bank
http://goo.gl/aEmwB
2/21/12 (BANGLADESH) City General Insurance Co. Ltd director Geasuddin Ahmad resigns
conflict of interest with director seat on unknown bank
http://goo.gl/aEmwB
2/21/12 (BANGLADESH) Social Islami Bank Limited director Taslima Akter resigns
conflict of interest with director seat on Eastland Insurance Company Limited
http://goo.gl/aEmwB
2/21/12 (JAPAN) CITIBANK JAPAN: Bakhshi is taking over duties from Brian Mccappin, who the bank said in December would resign after the unit was banned for two weeks from trading tied to the London and Tokyo interbank offered rates.
http://goo.gl/Z1rnw
2/22/12 (US CA) PIMCO, Chairman of the board Vernon Wright resigned from the world's biggest bond fund.
goo.gl/UeQWm
2/22/12 (US CA) PIMCO board member Gregg Silver resigned from the world's biggest bond fund.
goo.gl/UeQWm
2/22/12 (HONG KONG) DZ BANK project finance head Tim Meaney quits
http://goo.gl/ppKno
2/22/12 (SINGAPORE) Macquarie International Infrastructure Fund's CEO John Stuart to resign
http://goo.gl/ji7Q4
2/22/12 (USA NY) Goldman Sachs Hedge Fund Group Chief Howard Wietschner to Retire
http://goo.gl/x4Zsr
2/22/12 (UK) UBS AG’s (UBSN) Doug McCutcheon, head of Healthcare Banking in Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific region, has left Switzerland’s biggest bank after 25 years at the firm.
http://goo.gl/Dnxqh
2/23/12 (UK) Goldman Sachs Nordic M&A banker Luca Ferrari has decided to retire from the firm, clients included the largest telecommunications operator in Spain the Spanish telecommunications.
http://goo.gl/qmCh3
2/23/12 (SOUTH AFRICA) Richard Gush resigns from Standard Bank
http://goo.gl/DTL5S
2/23/12 (SCOTLAND) Royal Bank of Scotland Group director John McFarlane resigns.
http://goo.gl/KoEUI
2/24/12 (GUERNSEY) Spearpoint Limited (SPL) Investment Funds, director Mike Kirby resigns for business reasons.
http://goo.gl/9stPB
2/24/12 (INDIA) Breaking: ICICI Bank GC Pramod Rao resigns
http://goo.gl/5eUqU
2/24/12 (HONG KONG) Citigroup Pvt Bank Global Real Estate Kwang Meng Quek Resigns
http://goo.gl/JIC9A
2/24/12 (NEW ZEALAND) FSF Executive Director Kirk Hope resigns
http://goo.gl/6UJau
2/24/12 (USA NY) Evercore Partners Head Eduardo Mestre steps down
http://goo.gl/n5RLY
2/25/12 (AUSTRALIA AND NZ) Goldman Sachs Chairman Stephen Fitzgerald quits
http://goo.gl/nMTLW
2/25/12 (DENMARK) European Investment Bank (EIB), Mr Sigmund Lubanski, of the Kingdom of Denmark tendered his resignation.
http://goo.gl/y4XXF
2/25/2012 (LUXEMBOURG) European Investment Bank, director of the Board Sigmund Lubanski resigns
goo.gl/hA9Vu
2/27/12 (GERMANY) Deutsche Bank Americas chief Seth Waugh steps down
http://goo.gl/8lxSw
2/27/12 (BAHRAIN) Khaleeji Commercial Bank CEO Ebrahim Ebrahim quits
http://goo.gl/yKjzL
2/27/12 (BAHRAIN) - Mumtalakat Holding [Sovereign Wealth Fund] CEO Al Zain resigns
http://goo.gl/hhHSm
2/27/12 (FRANCE) Societe Generale’s Investment Banking Chief Michel Péretié Steps Down
http://goo.gl/IJ5Lw
2/27/12 (MALAYSIA) Elaf Bank CEO Dr El Jaroudi resigns
http://goo.gl/eVCS5
2/27/12 (GERMANY) Equiduct chairman Artur Fischer steps down
http://goo.gl/Q0dWR
2/27/12 (IRAN) Bank Melli CEO Mahmoud Reza Khaavari Resigns - Flees to Canada!
http://goo.gl/DDEUk
2/27/12 (IRAN) Bank Saderat CEO Mohammad Jahromi resigns
http://goo.gl/ZD0mc
2/27/12 (UK) Lloyds Banking Group Glen Moreno steps down
http://goo.gl/dsXcE
2/27/12 (SINGAPORE) Standard Chartered Bank, global head of repo and collateralised financing Tanweer Khan resigned.
http://goo.gl/hgbuc
2/28/12 (HONG KONG) Hang Seng Bank CEO Margaret Leung Ko May-yee quits
http://goo.gl/Uo800
2/28/12 (CHINA) Bank of China International ECM global head Marshall Nicholson quits
http://goo.gl/26MYq
2/28/12 (SINGAPORE) DBS security head Jim Pasqurell quits, cites health reasons
http://goo.gl/NDJze
2/28/12 (HONG KONG) Bank of America's Asia-Pac. mrkts Brian Canniffe quits
http://goo.gl/cRkCP
2/28/12 (BELGIUM) KBC's CEO Jan Vanhevel is to retire after a career spanning 41 years.
http://goo.gl/1rCWd
2/28/12 (CANADA) Ontario Securities Commission chairwoman Peggy-Anne Brown quits
http://goo.gl/HIYXv
2/28/12 (AUSTRALIA) Bank manager Colin John Carleton jailed nine years for $3m theft
http://goo.gl/ggPvq
2/28/12 (SRI LANKA) Sri Lanka Com Bank CEO Amitha Gooneratne retires
http://goo.gl/YxvNA
2/28/12 (SOUTH AFRICA) REDEFINE INCOME FUND director Gerald Leissner resigns
http://goo.gl/F0UgN
2/28/12 (ITALY) UNICREDIT: Chairman Dieter Rampl not available for a new mandate
http://goo.gl/7aLRU
2/28/12 (UK) Bank of England Sir David Lees re-appointed Chair of Bank of England and gives notice of resignation at end of 2013
http://goo.gl/LkJhV
2/28/12 (IRELAND) State Street Global Advisors Cash Funds plc Director Keith Walsh resigns
http://goo.gl/n6uoM
2/29/12 (AUSTRALIA) Perpetual portfolio manager Matt Williams steps down
http://goo.gl/Jh9jd
2/29/12 (UK) Honister Capital CEO Richard Pearson steps down
http://goo.gl/014or
2/29/12 (GUYANA) National Investment and Commercial Investments Ltd. (NICIL), Executive Director Winston Brassington resigns, “We feel that (Winston) Brassington knows everything…A to Z about all the transactions,” said Chairman of the Alliance for Change (AFC), Khemraj Ramjattan, as he sounded a warning that controversial figure could be subpoenaed to appear before the Parliamentary Economic Sector Committee.
http:// goo.gl/L7I35
3/01/12 (MALAYSIA) RHB Bank Bhd deputy managing director Renzo Viegas quits
http://goo.gl/wACrI
3/01/12 (ITALY) Italian Banking Association Chairman Giuseppe Mussari talks to reporters in Rome after he and seven other executives offered to resign in protest over new banking-fee rules included in the government's legislation on boosting competition.
http://goo.gl/3llyT
3/01/12 (USA FL) Florida Venture Forum [Venture Capital] Exec Dir Robin Lester quits
http://goo.gl/nA8g9
3/01/12 (USA NY) PineBridge Investments said Win Neuger has resigned as chief executive. Neuger helped build AIG's third party asset management business, PineBridge still manages AIG assets
http://goo.gl/SI7kT
3/01/12 (SINGAPORE) UBS Singapore - James Tulley is leaving Switzerland’s largest bank, it is not clear where he is going.
http://goo.gl/BGugF
3/01/12 (USA NH) Piscataqua Savings Bank CEO Jay Gibson retires
http://goo.gl/uEqDV
3/01/12 (ICELAND) Iceland’s Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA) fired its director Gunnar Andersen
http://goo.gl/VG9q5
3/01/12 (USA OR) Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund (OPERF) senior RE officer Brad Child will retire
http://goo.gl/vcERz
3/02/12 (USA NC) North Carolina Retirement Systems, Chief investment officer Shawn Wischmeier resigned.
http://goo.gl/zx2tU
3/02/12 (CHINA) China Construction Bank Corp, assistant general manager and head of corporate banking Mickey Mehta quits
http://goo.gl/B9dR0
3/02/12 (USA NY) Deutsche Bank Student Loan CEOJohn Hupalo quits to start student loan counseling firm.
http://goo.gl/8kZuc
3/02/12 (UK) Bank of England Sir Mervin King resigns in June, Lord Sassoon tipped as replacement.
http://goo.gl/ZEUwf
3/02/12 (BOTSWANA) Barclays Bank Botswana managing director Wilfred Mpai forced to resign
http://goo.gl/npBe2
3/02/12 (HONG KONG) New Century Group Hong Kong Ltd [investment house and leisure group] Wilson Ng resigns
http://goo.gl/wFSV8
3/02/12 (USA NY) Citigroup Richard Parsons to step down as chairman
http://goo.gl/BhZ0F
3/03/12 (AUSTRIA) Volksbank AG (VBAG) The contract of CEO Gerald Wenzel will not be extended
http://goo.gl/w99tD
3/03/12 (ETHIOPIA) Dashen Bank’s board dismisses president Leulseged Teferi
http://goo.gl/Y801M
3/03/12 (RUSSIA) Enza Capital KK, Wealthy British banker Philip Townsend (Baron Townsend of Rathmore) and his wife killed at Estonia holiday home ?44541444?
http://goo.gl/GSOUN and http://goo.gl/x94ID and http://goo.gl/gGgLP
3/04/12 (KOREA) Hana Financial Group Inc, prominent figure in the history of South Korean finance Kim Seung-yu , resigns
http://goo.gl/fmNxY
3/04/12 (USA NY) JP Morgan prop trading chief Mike Stewart quits
http://goo.gl/gubPj
3/05/12 (SAUDI ARABIA) Al Rajhi Bank CEO Abdullah bin Sulaiman Al Rajhi has resigned
http://goo.gl/pNx0l
3/5/12 (UK) Jupiter fund co-manager Tony Nutt steps down
http://goo.gl/RPqOp
3/05/12 (UK) Jupiter fund co-manager John Hamilton steps down
http://goo.gl/RPqOp
3/05/12 (NEW ZEALAND) Insured Group Bill Jeffries has resigned as chairman and director
http://goo.gl/gX7wu
3/05/12 (USA) Reliance Bancshares chairman Patrick Gideon resigned
http://goo.gl/u6BT4
3/05/12 (UK) Charterhouse partner Gordon Bonnyman is stepping down.
http://goo.gl/iAEYB
3/05/12 (UK) HgCapital, partner Lindsay Dibden is leaving after 20 years.
http://goo.gl/iAEYB
3/06/12 (FRANCE) Blackstone Group's Paris office leader Jean-Michel Steg will step down
http://goo.gl/w3Ca5
3/06/12 (JAMAICA) Jamaica Money Market Brokers Limited, Patricia Sutherland has resigned as Executive Director
http://goo.gl/oMwv6
3/06/12 (JAMAICA) Jamaica’s Financial Services Commission (FSC), Executive director Rohan Barnett, has resigned the position, the Ministry of Finance, Planning and the Public Service announced this afternoon.
http://goo.gl/FBwFo
3/06/12 USA CT) Wells Fargo & Co. said that Mackey McDonald, one of the last remaining directors from Wachovia is retiring.
http://goo.gl/F1O4v
3/06/12 (USA PA) USA Technologies Inc Bradley M. Tirpak, a nominee of Shareholder Advocates for Value Enhancement,has resigned from its board subsequent to a settlement agreement with the investing group, according to an SEC filing. Provides a network of wireless non-cash transactions, associated financial/network services and energy management. It provides networked credit card and other non-cash systems in the vending, commercial laundry, hospitality and digital imaging industries.
http://goo.gl/8oi7C
3/06/12 (UK) Sterling Green Group has announced that Philip Kanas, a non-executive director, has decided to resign
Sterling Green Group PLC became a cash shell following the disposal of their subsidiaries Taxdebts Ltd, Sterling Green (Mortgages) Ltd and the back books of the clients of Sterling Green Ltd. during December 2011.
http://goo.gl/qc3jB
3/06/12 (UK) Aberdeen Asset Management, non-executive director Gerhard Fusenig has resigned from the board.
http://goo.gl/ZIkvQ
3/07/12 (GERMANY) Deutsche Bank AG's (DB) Chief Risk Officer Hugo Baenzigeri to resign
http://goo.gl/MWqsH
3/07/12 (GERMANY) Deutsche Bank AG's (DB) Chief Operating Officer Hermann-Josef Lamberti to resign
http://goo.gl/MWqsH
3/07/12 (UNITED ARAB EMIRATES) Dubai Mercantile Exchange announced Thomas Leaver will step down as CEO
http://goo.gl/rfhWN
3/07/12 (SCOTLAND) Macfarlane Group Chairman Archie Hunter to step down after 8 years of service
http://goo.gl/RHllr
3/07/12 (USA) BlackRock Emerging Markets Fund co-head Daniel Tubbs, has left the group to pursue other opportunities.
http://goo.gl/CpEzZ
3/07/12 (UK) Goldman Sachs (GSI) Christopher French resigns from board
http://goo.gl/3yQDS
3/07/12 (UK) Goldman Sachs (GSI) David Wildermuth resigns from board
http://goo.gl/3yQDS
3/07/12 (UK) Goldman Sachs (GSI) Matthew Westerman resigns from board
http://goo.gl/3yQDS
3/07/12 (UK) Goldman Sachs (GSI) co-head of global mergers and acquisitions Yoel Zaoui resigns
http://goo.gl/3yQDS
3/07/12 (UK) Goldman Sachs (GSI) Phil Beatty resigned as head of European power and natural-gas trading
http://goo.gl/jqbYY
3/07/12 (SINGAPORE) Nikko Asset Management Timothy McCarthy is retiring as chairman and CEO at the end of the month
http://goo.gl/v8tcT
3/07/12 (HONG KONG) UBS Senior Asia Economist Jonathan Anderson Departs
http://goo.gl/09VqT
3/07/12 (HAITI) FORMER DIRECTOR HAITI CENTRAL BANK SLAIN! ?44541444?
http://goo.gl/UtVz3
3/07/12 (FRANCE) Société Générale Private Banking, Daniel Truchi is to step down as head of Société Générale Private Banking
http://goo.gl/XhgJ9
3/07/12 (AUSTRALIA) Customers Ltd, Tim Wildash has cashed himself out as chief executive of Australia’s largest ATM operator
http://goo.gl/eZJMb
3/07/12 (USA CA) CALSTRS, Pascal Villiger, senior private equity portfolio manager at the $145 billion California State Teachers’ Retirement System resigns
http://goo.gl/ub0ke
3/07/12 (USA) Astaire quits Bank of America Merrill to dance to Barclays Capital’s tune
http://goo.gl/Zv6Ny
3/08/12 (UK) Schroders, Chairman Michael Miles depart as fees, inflows drop. UK's biggest fund management firm.
goo.gl/TgURM
3/08/12 (USA NY) Schroders, CIO Alan Brown is steps down
http://goo.gl/ZTtYo
3/08/12 (USA IL) CBOE Executive Patrick Fay Put on Leave Amid SEC Probe
http://goo.gl/x5snO
3/08/12 (USA NH & RI) Bristol County Savings Bank president E. Dennis Kelly retires after 35 years
http://goo.gl/8KVKn
3/08/12 (GERMANY) Clearstream Banking AG – Katja Rosenkranz To Leave Deutsche Börse Group [stockmarket]
http://goo.gl/RiVNi
3/08/12 (UK) B&CE CEO Brian Griffiths is to retire later this year
http://goo.gl/AV7Sk
3/08/12 (UK) Invesco Trimark Ltd, portfolio manager Dana Love has resigned.
http://goo.gl/MyQ90
3/08/12 (ISRAEL) Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer will hand in his shock resignation in the coming days and take up a new position as head of the Bank of Zambia. Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz is believed to be furious with Fischer's decision. Treasury officials said he even canceled his participation in the office's annual Purim party in order to convince Fischer to reverse his decision.
http://goo.gl/0DlSA
3/08/12 (SOUTH AFRICA) Standard Bank Group Limited (SBK), board member Sir Paul Judge retires.
http://goo.gl/SjSPg
3/08/12 (SOUTH AFRICA) Standard Bank Groupl Limited (SBK), board member Sir Sam Jonah retires.
http://goo.gl/SjSPg
3/09/12 (MONGOLIA) Mongol Bank President Alag Batsukh submitted his resignation letter to Speaker of Parliament D. Demberel at the end of last month. He described his reason for resigning as a lack of support by Parliament.
http://goo.gl/RDmNx
3/09/12 (MONGOLIA) Asia Pacific Securities, General Manager Narantuguldur Saijrakh recently resigned, to focus on his role as Director of Khan Investment Management, investment advisor to the Khan Mongolia Equity Fund - the first open-ended investment vehicle with monthly dealing that invests in Mongolia related equities listed both domestically and internationally.
http://goo.gl/2T4R6
3/09/12 (Côte d’Ivoire) Banque Central des Etats d’Afrique de l’Ouest (BCEAO) The Ivorian governor of the multi-billion dollar West Africa Francophone bank, Philippe-Henry Dacoury-Tabley, resigned his post.
http://goo.gl/CevLn
3/09/12 (UK) Lazard , co-head of investment banking Alexis de Rosnay quits. De Rosnay specialises in the healthcare sector, he has advised Teva Pharmaceutical and Novartis.
http://goo.gl/3gzbi
3/09/12 (UK) Deutsche Bank PWM, UK head of portfolio management Martyn Surguy resigned.
http://goo.gl/5Ti2p
3/09/12 (UK) Deutsche Bank PWM, head of discretionary management, Kypros Charalambous, having also stepped down.
http://goo.gl/5Ti2p
3/09/12 (HONG KONG) Bank of America Merrill Lynch, K.J. Kim, responsible for Southeast Asia, resigned
http://goo.gl/sE7xh
3/09/12 (HONG KONG) Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Jimmy Choi, who was in charge of high-yield debt, resigned.
http://goo.gl/sE7xh
3/09/12 (HONG KONG) Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Leonard Ng, a vice-president in Hong Kong resigned.
http://goo.gl/sE7xh
3/09/12 (AUSTRALIA) Bank of Queensland CFO Ram Kangatharan plans to leave the bank.
http://goo.gl/ieNea
3/09/12 (USA) Cerberus Capital Management LP, CEO Robert Nardelli resigns.
http://goo.gl/9uKVx
3/10/12 (AUSTRALIA) WESTPAC, Rob Chapman opted to quit running its regional subsidiary St George Bank.
http://goo.gl/G6MD
3/10/12 (TURKEY) Garanti Bank, The deputy CEO of Turkish lender Tolga Egemen, has decided to quit.
http://goo.gl/vAMzV
3/10/12 (CHINA) Korea Development Bank, Shanghai unit senior manager Stella Wen resigned.
http://goo.gl/55CqZ
3/10/12 (HONG KONG) Deutsche Bank, Johan Sudiman resigns as director.
http://goo.gl/6CYGP
3/12/12 (USA) John Lewis Partnership Pension Trust, head of investments Andrew Chapman, resigns
http://goo.gl/hevqh
3/12/12 (USA CA) California’s Department of Financial Institutions, commissioner William Haraf resigned. The DFI did not say why he is leaving.
http://goo.gl/zquTc
3/12/12 (KUWAIT) Gulf Bank, Chairman Ali Rashaid Al Bader quits
http://goo.gl/LDz9b
3/12/12 (UK and IRELAND) Allfunds Bank, head of UK and Ireland Alan Gadd is stepping down from his role at the end of April.
http://goo.gl/4DF6i
3/12/12 (USA) ICAP, CEO of the electronic broking business David Rutter step down following a restructuring of the business.
http://goo.gl/SUHqW
3/12/12 (UK) SVG Capital, chairman Nicholas Ferguson resigns. His departure left him well placed to succeed James Murdoch as chairman of BSkyB should the latter bow to investor pressure and step down. Other investors in the satellite broadcaster suggested Ferguson might be seen as too close to Murdoch to win the support of institutional shareholders.
http://goo.gl/z19wH
3/12/12 (UK) Park Hill Group - Blackstone Group’s fundraising advisory arm, Managing Partner of private equity and hedge fund distribution Chris Leach resigns
http://goo.gl/jnHax
3/12/12 (UK) Park Hill Group - Blackstone Group’s fundraising advisory arm, Managing Partner Justin Bower resigns
http://goo.gl/jnHax
3/12/12 (UK) The chief executive David Rutter of the electronic broking business at interdealer broker Icap stepping down.
http://goo.gl/sxk4y
3/12/12 (SOUTH AFRICA) The Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA), CEO Paul Baloyi resigns.
http://goo.gl/yX4xo
3/12/12 (USA) Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc, CEO Bryan Marsal Resigns Title, Remains on as Adviser
http://goo.gl/1K9zV
3/12/12 (USA IL) CME Group Inc, CEO Craig Donohues will step down at year end.
http://goo.gl/lvzgC
3/13/12 (USA) Eaton Vance Corp, Treasurer and CFO Robert J. Whelan has stepped down.
http://goo.gl/oxmbL
3/12/12 (USA IL) CBOE Holdings Inc. (CBOE), senior compliance executive Patrick Fay has resigned. The options exchange being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission, Fay had been placed on leave after the SEC began investigating the options-market operator’s oversight of traders.
http://goo.gl/gj4W6
3/13/12 (USA) Mithras Investment Trust, chairman Mike Wooderson will step down
http://goo.gl/UjO2e
3/13/12 (USA) PHH Mortgage, President Luke Hayden resigned from to pursue what the company calls "other interests." http://goo.gl/iaqQf
3/13/12 (USA) PHH Mortgage, Treasurer Mark Johnson.resigned
http://goo.gl/iaqQf
3/13/12 (AUSTRALIA) WESTPAC, head of corporate affairs after David Bell decided to step down from the role. Bell is the latest top executive to leave the bank.
http://goo.gl/FntUz
3/13/12 (UK) Capula’s Systemic Trading Head Qiang Dai to Leave Fund
http://goo.gl/zkrN2
3/13/12 (UAE) National Bank of Abu Dhabi, CEO Michael Tomalin, will retire from the post in a few months.
http://goo.gl/dzBW8
3/13/12 (ISRAEL) Osem Investments Ltd, CEO Gazi Kaplan has tendered his resignation, effective April 2, citing heath reasons. Nestlé SA owns 58.8% of Osem.
http://goo.gl/t032l
3/13/12 (USA) Paulson & Co.'s, partner and head of the global bank team Robert Lacoursiere has quit to form his own hedge fund
http://goo.gl/I8UNd
3/13/12 (AUSTRALIA) ASX Ltd, Chairman David Gonski will step down from his role at Australia’s main stock market operator after being appointed to oversee almost A$90 billion ($95 billion) in the nation’s sovereign-wealth funds.
http://goo.gl/gJN33
3/13/12 (UK) JP Morgan, Asset Management European chief Jamie Broderick is to step down more than 20 years at the firm.
http://goo.gl/MV65V
3/13/12 (UK) SVG Chairman Nicholas Ferguson retires.
http://goo.gl/hTDDY
3/13/12 (UK) SVG Director Edgar Koning retires.
http://goo.gl/hTDDY
3/13/12 (UK) SVG Director Denis Raeburn retires.
http://goo.gl/hTDDY
3/13/12 (UK) SVG Director Francis Finlay retires.
http://goo.gl/hTDDY
3/14/12 (UK) Goldmand Sachs, executive director and head of the firm’s United States equity derivatives business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Greg Smith, is resigning today.
http://americankabuki.blogspot.com/2012/03/why-i-am-leaving-goldman-sachs.html
3/14/12 (SOUTH AFRICA) ABSA chairman Garth Griffin to retire
http://goo.gl/Mhjb5
3/14/12 (UK) WorldSpreads, CEO Conor Foley resigns
http://goo.gl/GgT4z
3/15/12 (US WA) HomeStreet Bank, EVP and CFO David Hooston resigns
goo.gl/UUlc0
3/15/12 (DENMARK) Sparekassen Faaborg board member Steen Grønved Nielsen resigns
http://tinyurl.com/6rd3m74
3/15/12 (UK) RBC Capital Markets head of SSA syndicate desk Noel Williams resigns
http://tinyurl.com/7zcf4z8
3/15/12 (UK) Novia London sales manager Dave Chassell quits
http://tinyurl.com/7gx6sn2
3/15/12 (US CA) Prosper Finance (online venture captial services) CEO Chris Larsen steps down
http://tinyurl.com/6lhu8xx
3/15/12 (UK) The Royal British Legion’s (fund) director of corp. communications Stuart Gendall resigns
http://tinyurl.com/7bhtysl
3/15/12 (IRELAND) President of Sinn Fein USA (fund) Larry Downes steps down
http://tinyurl.com/7uqnwcg
3/16/12 (AUSTRALIA) Investorfirst CFO and company secretary Ariel Sivikofsky resigns
http://tinyurl.com/7jdshty
3/16/12 (MALAYSIA) Amanah Raya Bhd (trust) managing director Datuk Ahmad Rodzi Pawanteh steps down
http://tinyurl.com/7wbujpm
3/16/12 (UK) Towry (investment & fin. advice) Non-exec chairman Glyn Jones steps down
http://tinyurl.com/83g3y8b
3/16/12 (GERMANY) Deutsche Bank Chief risk officer (CRO)of Hugo Bänziger steps down
http://tinyurl.com/7pmal9k
3/16/12 (US IL) Henderson Global Investors Inc. head of the International Opportunities Fund Iain Clark steps down
http://tinyurl.com/7kfxz3j
3/16/12 (US CA) Executive VP and Chief Compliance Officer of Heritage Bank of Commerce Margaret Incandela resigns
http://tinyurl.com/6wcaqaz
3/16/12 (US VA) Genworth Financial board member J. Robert Kerrey resigns to campaign for senate seat
http://tinyurl.com/7566f74
3/16/12 (UK) CEO of the FSA (Financial Services Authority) Hector Sants to leave
http://tinyurl.com/7av7v5n>
3/19/12 (US IA) ISU Foundation (fund), President and CEO of the Dan Saftig to step down
http://tinyurl.com/7jvb24x
3/19/12 (BRAZIL) HSBC Brazil CEO Conrado Engel steps down
http://tinyurl.com/89uayoo
3/19/12 (UAE) Finance head at SNR Denton Islamic Sheikh Muddassir Siddiqui resignsto pursue advisory role
http://tinyurl.com/84avxch
3/19/12 (SWITZERLAND) Julius Baer bank’s chairman Raymond Baer steps down in a “surprise departure”
http://tinyurl.com/84gcl3z
3/19/12 (GERMANY) Deutsche Bank, asset management chief Kevin Parker to leave executive committee
http://goo.gl/ahZlJ
3/19/12 (GERMANY) Deutsche Bank, head of private wealth management Pierre de Weck resigns from executive committee
http://goo.gl/wRZkU
3/19/12 (HONG KONG) China Development Bank HK branch CEO Di Weiping retires
http://tinyurl.com/7xcskmp
3/19/12 (US ID) SunTrust Bank president and CEO Thomas Rueger to retire
http://tinyurl.com/7n2l6sr
3/19/12 (SWEDEN) AP6 (private equity) CEO Marianne Dicander Alexandersson steps down
http://tinyurl.com/7bnvygp
3/19/12 (SWITZERLAND) FINMA (Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority) Vice-chair Monica Mächler to step down
http://tinyurl.com/7r9akho
3/20/12 (KUWAIT) National Investments Co. chairman Yousef Al Majid resigns
http://tinyurl.com/7maw3xx
3/20/12 (UK) Bank of America, Co-head of distressed debt at Michael Guy resigns
http://tinyurl.com/75eml6v
3/20/12 (US PA) Penseco Financial Services Corp, Former state senator Robert J. Mellow resigns from board
http://tinyurl.com/6rxqeo9
3/20/12 (US TX) Acquisition chief Dan Magder quits Lone Star Investments
http://tinyurl.com/6qm2rj4
3/20/12 (NIGERIA) Chairman of House Committee on Capital Markets Hon. Herman Hembe resigns due to allegations of bribery
http://tinyurl.com/7r6dk54
3/20/12 (Hong Kong) Head of Deutsche Bank Asia-Pac Loh Boon Chye quits
http://tinyurl.com/6muckmq
3/20/12 (US NY) Deutsche Bank, head of asset management Kevin Parker steps down from executive committee
goo.gl/4NO66
3/20/12 (GERMANY) Deutsche Bank, Chairman and CEO Josef Ackermann exits with pension of €18.7 million
http://goo.gl/eiF39
3/20/12 (UK) Coller Capital, CEO Charles Hippsley has left to help lead a Christian organisation in London.
http://goo.gl/rVFz0
3/21/12 (GERMANY) Deutsche Bank AG, Co-head Wolfgang Hammes leaves
http://tinyurl.com/74ks8jk
3/21/12 (UK) Aviva Investor’s European equity head John Botham exits
http://tinyurl.com/7qwlc26
3/21/12 (CANADA) National Bank’s Ontaria, Atlantic region manager Mike Miller leaves
http://tinyurl.com/7kq4bdp
3/21/12 (UK) Royal Bank of Scotland Group’s global head of equity prime services Gregory Wagner resigns
http://tinyurl.com/6vz8f8k
3/21/12 (US DC) Liquidity Services Inc, Chief information officer Eric Dean resigns
http://tinyurl.com/7v2c4ku
3/22/12 (UK) Global equity head Neil Rogan resigns from Henderson Global Investors
http://tinyurl.com/7v2c4ku
3/22/12 (NETHERLANDS) CIO at Nedlloyd Pension Fund Bert Tibben step down
http://goo.gl/NHE94
3/22/12 (UK) Bank of America Corp, chairman of global banking and markets, Andrea Orcel steps down, goes to UBS
http://goo.gl/AVXL2
3/22/12 (UK) Bank of America Corp, Jonathan Moulds steps down, helped build the bank’s over-the-counter derivatives trading business and held positions including global head of rate derivatives trading, head of global derivatives and head of global rates and commodities.
http://goo.gl/AVXL2
3/25/12 (EGYPT) National Bank of Egypt, CEO Tarek Amer said that he will step down from his position at the end of 2012.
http://goo.gl/tC7Ma

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:32 | 2330858 GeneMarchbanks

Wow.

Thanks... I guess...

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:40 | 2330877 Race Car Driver

WTF? Perhaps a link would have been sufficient?

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:48 | 2330907 Freeman-S-Stratos

Agreed. But there are a lot of closed minds on here still and I know if I had just put a link a lot would have taken 1 look at the website and not bothered.

In yo' face! :)

Watch this: http://www.thrivemovement.com/the_movie

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:00 | 2330946 CrashisOptimistic

Ya, like anyone read more than 3 words of your disruptive post.

You really solved that link problem.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:00 | 2330949 Acet

So this way I can just scroll down your post without reading it, get pissed-off, scroll up and give you a downarrow and then scroll down again to read the other posts, done by people whose notion of making an argument is not a lazy info-dump and whose posts have a far better Sound to Noise ratio, even the likes of MDB?

Maybe you could've made a post with a well-though, cogent argument ending with a link to a site with that data, or is that too hard?

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:13 | 2331001 francis_sawyer

At least you got your exercise in for the day... From here on out, you can kick back and drink beer...

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:15 | 2331008 pods

You did that too?

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:22 | 2331045 Freeman-S-Stratos

Didn't need to make any argument. These facts speak for themselves. Plus I have work to do.

Thanks.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:21 | 2331486 Aquiloaster

Then why the fuck will no body in the universe publish raw data without interpretation/discussion. You just think your interpretation is soooo obvious that you don't need to explain yourself. I actually spent too much time looking at your e-book and still don't know exactly what you were trying to get across other than bankers suck. Its a good theory- I am on board, but you still need to explain.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:20 | 2331033 Iwanttoknow

Great job.Something is happening,unless they are heading for DUMB.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:22 | 2331052 Freeman-S-Stratos

DUMBs have been nuked apparently.

No way out!

The noose is tightening.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:27 | 2331079 Freeman-S-Stratos

http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=DUMBs+nuked

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 13:00 | 2331662 Race Car Driver

I junked ya for linking G**gle.

What a douchebag.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:23 | 2331034 i-dog

It's a total beat-up by Fulford and Wilcock (both 'controlled opposition' tools, BTW) of normal staff turnover in the banking industry across the whole planet.

I've been tracking all those "arrests" and "resignations" and, so far, only 9 of them have come from the 2,500 Bilderbergers -- and each of those explainable by old-age retirements, except for Corzine and Blankfein.

Indeed, I strongly suspect they're priming the sheeple for a mass disappearance of the 0.01% to the underground bunkers later this year.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:26 | 2331069 Freeman-S-Stratos

Also, not normal staff turnover: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread818860/pg1

Resignations are going parabolic.

04/09/2012 (USA) Johnson & Johnson Vice Chairman Sheri S. Mcoy steps downhttp://www.prnewswire.com/ news- releases/ johnson--johnson-announces-resignation-of-sheri-s-mccoy-146638275.html
04/09/2012 (S. Korea) Police chief Cho Hyun-oh resigns after investigation http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17655300
04/09/2012 (Mali) President Amadou Touman Toure resigns after coup http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/mali/9193819/Malis-president-submits-resignation-following-coup.html
04/08/2012 (India) AICC president Sonia Gandhi http://theshillongtimes.com/2012/04/08/sonia-accepts-fridays-resignation/

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:41 | 2331131 monkeys.pick.bottoms

I very much appreciate what you are doing.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:49 | 2331153 i-dog

Not normal turnover? Think again:

Sheri Mccoy has taken the position of CEO of Avon (http://www.sacbee.com/2012/04/09/4400323/avon-board-of-directors-announces.html)

Toure was ousted by a coup ... quite some "resignation"!

Sonia Gandhi is 66 years old!

Wake up! You're being manipulated like a performing seal. Arfff arfff.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:52 | 2331172 Freeman-S-Stratos

How old is Kissinger?

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 11:02 | 2331203 i-dog

Is that relevant? Kissinger has no official post ... he's a behind-the-scenes manipulator.

BTW, Sonia Gandhi isn't going anywhere ... she accepted the resignation of an "ailing" colleague:

"Sonia Gandhi has accepted the resignation of ailing Meghalaya Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) president" (http://theshillongtimes.com/2012/04/08/sonia-accepts-fridays-resignation/)

Anyway, I thought you had "work to do"? ... Give up spreading sensationalist disinformation!

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 11:04 | 2331214 Freeman-S-Stratos

I do what ever I want when ever I want as civily as possible. No arguments. But yes, you are right. I DO have work to do. let's go.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 14:04 | 2331920 smiler03

Statesman Eric Cartman on "I do whatever I want" 15 second clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZLVi4v7lSM

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:47 | 2330900 johnnymustardseed

Bankers are shit moths...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEvjV1jtvl4

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:10 | 2330986 Clamdigger

Way TL; really DR.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 11:00 | 2331201 Bartanist

Let's call it a "start". When the European technocrats PLUS Corzine, Dimon, Bernanke and Blankfein are wearing orange pajamas then we can call it a "good start".

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 11:34 | 2331313 stickyfingers

Insomnia?

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 11:58 | 2331394 Diet Coke and F...

That is GREAT news! JOB OPENINGS for future bankers like me!

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:47 | 2330902 CrashisOptimistic

"Which however begs the question: just how much more Iranian crude are China and India importing despite promises to the contrary, and open warnings from the US not to do so?"

Bingo.

Someone is delusional.

It's probably NOT the ones who have civilization's lifeblood.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:02 | 2330769 GeneMarchbanks

Hence this:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-09/israel-iran-history-holocaust-p...

and this:

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/ND11Ak02.html

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:17 | 2330816 Jason T

Let me see if I understand this correctly... A tidal wave knocked into nuclear facilities in Japan causing a nuclear meltdown and sending radiation god only knows where .. Isreal wants to BOMB nuclear facilities in Iran... I presume that would cause nuclear meltdowns and radiation would spill all over the Iranian people and perhaps even the Isreali people? Am I not understanding this insane logic?

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:30 | 2330852 francis_sawyer

Correct (you are not understanding this insane logic because it doesn't exist)...

Israel has been talking for over a decade about bombing Iran reactors... None of this has anything to do with reactors, it has everything to do with, once again, trying to get the US to fight its battles, bankrupt the economy, enrich the bankers (&, if lucky, topple the regime in Iran to get a Rothschild central bank in there)...

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:00 | 2330933 nonclaim

"Bombing the reactor" was a viable and efficient alternative *before* it was loaded with fuel. Browse the news from a while ago, around 2 years ago should be ok. Now it is just rhetoric used by all sides meaning different things... In reality now it would mean destroying the supporting facilities in a way that the reactor has to be stopped to avoid a meltdown "a few days later". If you buy my view, don't forget the grain of salt.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:15 | 2331010 TheFourthStooge-ing

US to Iran: Surrender Dorothy!

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/04/08/us-to-iran-surrender-dorothy/

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:05 | 2330955 BlueCollaredOne

Heres what I don't get. Why is Israel so afraid of a nuclear attack from Iran when the fallout would be picked up by the winds which move west to east only to dump all the radiation over Iran?

That would be policital/literal suicide for the mullahs and most of Iran, and once again absolutely contains no logic. There would be no way to stave off a retaliatory attack from NATO when Iran's entire army is stricken with radiation poison.

Middle East wind model

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:26 | 2331068 Max Hunter

Please stop trying to insert logic into the mainstream argument that we should be bombing and killing brown people by the millions..

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:27 | 2331081 john39

because its all bullshit. Iran is a different type of threat to Isreal, it threatens Israels legitimacy by exposing the truth about racist zionism. there is no nuclear threat, it is something far more powerful, an idea... the truth.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 11:11 | 2331224 BlueCollaredOne

I should have made myself clear in my post that I am awake to the fact that Israel really doesnt view Iran's nukes as a threat and believe that all of the Iran nuke hype is just Israel scratching the back of the Military Industrial Complex. They are scheduled to recieve 30$ billion in military aid from 2008-2019 so starting a war would simply be a "thank you." It would also be a way to insert the muhjahideen (sp?) which of course would bow down to the central bankers, same as was done to Libya.

However that view can be labeled as "tin foil" by people who don't know how to critically think or form patterns therefore I wanted to just point out a obvious fact that it makes no sense for Iran to nuke israel given the fallout risk.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 11:18 | 2331253 Element

The same silly logic could be applied to the USSA nukiing USSR, and having the fallout blow back over the USSA anyway.

You don't know what you're talking about.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 11:14 | 2331241 Element

Complete nonsense.

Any nukes they develop will be low yeilds, 5 to 10, or maybe 15 kt, tops.

The mushroom cloud and fallout plume from that size A-bomb does NOT go very high and the vast bulk tends to fallout within 50 miles of the detonation point, in a long fairly narrow ribbon like deposit.

Most of it falls within 25 miles, and the really dangerous stuff within 10 to 15 miles.

This is not guess work, there were hundreds of tests, globally, to determine the patterns of fallout from various types and yeilds or weapons and their delivery and airburst details.

And have you never heard of a fallout shelter?

Do you really think the Iranians would be so stupid as to not take basic and simple measures to limit their exposure anyway?

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 11:23 | 2331270 BlueCollaredOne

You're right

Thanks for the info, as I am here to learn.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:20 | 2331485 DosZap

Newsflash, Dirty bombs are passe', plus I see no way nukes will be used, no need the Bunker Busters will make short work of the underground facilities.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:42 | 2330885 Seorse Gorog fr...

Is this bullish?

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:03 | 2330771 Gully Foyle

By the way

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2012/0408/Home-again-in-Mexico-I...

Home again in Mexico: Illegal immigration hits net zero

Tiny Tamaula is the new face of rural Mexico: Villagers are home again as the illegal immigration boom drops to net zero

...

One million Mexicans said they returned from the US between 2005 and 2010, according to a new dem-ographic study of Mexican census data. That's three times the number who said they'd returned in the previous five-year period.

And they aren't just home for a visit: One prominent sociologist in the US has counted "net zero" migration for the first time since the 1960s.

Experts say the implications for both nations are enormous – from the draining of a labor pool in the US to the need for a radical shift in policies in Mexico, which has long depended on the billions of dollars in migrant remittances as a social welfare cornerstone.

"The massive return of migrants will have implications at the micro and macro economic levels and will have consequences for the social fabric ... especially for the structure of the Mexican family," says Rodolfo Casillas, a migration expert at the Latin American School of Social Sciences in Mexico City.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:08 | 2330785 Fantasy Planet

That's true. The prices for new Mexicans here in NJ has skyrocketed. I'm going to keep the one I have for now.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:12 | 2330794 Gully Foyle

Fantasy Planet

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377744/

A Day Without a Mexican

One day California wakes up and not a single Latino is left in the state. They have all inexplicably dissappeared, chaos, tragedy, and comedy quickly ensue.

Disclaimer: "No Mexicans were harmed in the making of this film"

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:26 | 2330836 Mercury

That would be a real knee-slapper if not for the fact that the space between Jobs Americans Won't Do and Jobs Americans Can't Do is getting smaller and smaller.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:32 | 2330855 Gully Foyle

Mercury

I wonder how many Mexican jobs Mike Rowe has done on all the seasons of Dirty Jobs?

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:23 | 2331495 blunderdog

I have no teevee so haven't seen many, but I did see him shovel shit in a stable (which I'd assume qualifies as a Mexican job) and shovel offal in a slaughterhouse (which I know for certain qualifies as a Mexican job).

So at least 2.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:38 | 2330874 Raymond Reason

There are now "handicapped seats" at American airport gates. I kid you not. They are painted blue with the logo. America has become a giant nursing home.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:30 | 2331091 AmericanFUPAcabra

Does the seat have an under layer on which to rest their FUPA? Where i am from the people with handicapped parking tags are generally just obese and moving long distances is more of an inconvenience than a health issue

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:27 | 2330835 Arnold Ziffel

People may not like the idea of paying $50 and hour to union workers instead of $8 for immigrants...it'll take some getting used to...adjustment....change is difficult sometimes........

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:15 | 2331469 DosZap

People may not like the idea of paying $50 and hour to union workers instead of $8 for immigrants...it'll take some getting used to...adjustment....change is difficult sometimes........

Somehow I do not beleieve the 89 million Americans out of the workforce are ALL Union members, in fact, just the opposite.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:03 | 2330772 tocointhephrase

Muwhaaahaha

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:05 | 2330780 johnnymustardseed

War, what is it good for????

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:11 | 2330792 JustObserving

Nobel prizes for US Presidents?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d8C4AIFgUg

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:10 | 2330787 cherry picker

One thing about the Iranians, they are not going out in full force threatening other countries or ordering them what to do.

They are the "underdog" in this war of words, oil and military prowess and they are doing to others what is being done to them. I don't see Iran as a country of people wishing to commit mass suicide.

Obama, I will not see my children or grandchildren go to this upcoming "war" because you and your useless State Department can't come to terms with these people. Using blockades and sanctions didn't change Cuba's political destiny did it? All it accomplishes are hungry people and more anger.

There ought to be a better way but this Nobel Peace Prize winner hasn't got a clue.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:20 | 2330821 AnAnonymous

US citizenism has its own ways und Obama as your typical US citizen president knows them.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:23 | 2330826 SheepDog-One

Obama, you mean the purple lipped guy from Kenya?

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:54 | 2330911 Dr. Engali

They won't be happy until Iran hase a compliant central bank, and they forget about this silly talk about gold.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:11 | 2330790 Watson

Cutting to Greece and Spain might just be because Iran would quite like to get paid for its oil.

A cut to Germany would require a different explanation.

Watson

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:14 | 2330800 johnnymustardseed

Just thinking that they might have stopped shipping oil to Spain because.........wait for it.......wait for it......yup Spain is broke!!

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:27 | 2330839 pilager

Yep broke... iou not cutting it anymore. Maybe a few more wind mill's. Think we are going to see a giant gladiators ring of fire in the coming months (Greece - Spain, italy's boot to Lapland.)

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:27 | 2330843 brooklynlou

Thinking the same thing. Hard to sell something to a deadbeat ...

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:56 | 2330932 scatterbrains

I'm assuming this news is not rated for the general tv viewership allthough I'm just guessing because I don't watch any. Has this news made it to CNN/CNBC do you know ?

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 13:01 | 2331664 Max Hunter

Hard to sell something to a deadbeat ...

Hmmm.. lots of goods being sold to the U.S. and UK..

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:17 | 2330803 Spartan

Nice sign of compromise ahead of the talks.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:19 | 2330807 Mercury

Which however begs the question: just how much more Iranian crude are China and India importing despite promises to the contrary, and open warnings from the US not to do so?

Ah...exactly the same amount that is being denied to Greece, Spain etc?

Just guessing.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:17 | 2330809 ZeroPoint

I thought Europe already made a resolution to not buy oil from Iran. How is this an escalation?

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:20 | 2330822 SheepDog-One

Sure but Europe/Nato didnt think they'd call their bluff, they thought Iran would drop to its knees and beg and plead, instead of throwing a trump card.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:26 | 2330841 GMadScientist

Unlike pathetic empty threats, this action will actually keep oil from going to Spain.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:18 | 2330813 Dr. Engali

Why in he world would Iran want to trade oil for worthless promisorry notes anyway?

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:18 | 2330817 SheepDog-One

Iran calling their bluff. Good for them!

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:18 | 2330818 Anticimex

Quite provocative headline there Tyler; another one could equally well be "Iran voluntarily implements sanctions selectively".

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:24 | 2330830 vmromk

Bring it on baby, you think you scare a COCKSUCKER with a printing press ?

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:25 | 2330831 GMadScientist

"how much more Iranian crude are China and India importing despite promises to the contrary, and open warnings from the US not to do so?"

How many more treasuries and what kind of dollar reserves would they unload if the US doesn't STFU?

Does the US really think the world is going to finance a war on itself?

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:28 | 2330845 Mitzibitzi

Why not? It's the usual method of paying for a war, historically.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:41 | 2330880 GMadScientist

Usually you get a 3rd party to finance a war on a 2nd, not the 2nd to fund their own destruction, for obvious reasons.

The US can continue hegemony only so long on someone else's dime.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:45 | 2330894 Acet

The US would hardly make any friends if they started a war with Iran causing oil priced to spike to $200. Sure, Russia and a couple of desert kingdoms would be happy, but the likes of China and India would not.

Given the US' precarious situation, pissing of major holders of US Treasuries is a great way to cause all that QE-generated Inflation to quickly make it's way into the US as foreign sovereigns reduce their positions. This would likelly cause the collapse of the US Economy which after decades of asset mispricing and capital misallocation doesn't have the robustness to survive a big enough inflation spike.

It's not by chance that many around here keep preaching the replacement of FRNs with physical PMs as store of wealth: the way US politics works at the moment, the country if going full steam towards the icebergs, maybe even starting to sink already.

As an European, I'm certainly not any less worried. The mental health cases that are our supposed leaders on this side of the pond are busy doing exactly the same thing, their lips firmly glued to Obama's ass, something very visible in the current situation with Iran.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:31 | 2330838 Monedas

Iran vows to satisfy North Korea's insatiable appetite for freeze dried, corn kernel enriched, pig shit for it's school lunch program ! Crude oil exports will be quadrupled to 4 bbls per diem ! Monedas 2012 Stay with the happy people ?

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:36 | 2330867 jplotinus

Monedas sez:

"North Korea's insatiable appetite freeze dried, corn kernel enhanced, pig shit for it's school lunch program"

Besides high fructose corn syrup, hgh, various antibiotics and chemicals whose names one can neither spell nor pronounce, what do you think is in food supplied to US schools?

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:43 | 2330890 Monedas

We won the Cold War with Junk Food and Corn Syrup ! If I could parachute into North Korea with a pallet of Cheetohs....I could be the new Dear Leader ! Monedas 2012 One man's junk food is another man's treasure !

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:20 | 2331036 TheFourthStooge-ing

We won the Cold War with Junk Food and Corn Syrup !

Nobody won the cold war except defense contractors and lobbyists.

The USSR lost the cold war in 1989.

The USSA is losing the cold war now.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:31 | 2331097 rwe2late

We ??? Won ???

"We", I presume, being the .001% and their associated drug lords, sheikhdoms, and petty dictators

and an uncontrollable global military machine and police state

as being the prizes "won".

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:27 | 2331510 blunderdog

The victory of capitalism over communism demonstrates its inherent superiority.

Heh.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:26 | 2330842 jplotinus

This is bullish for Appl, right?

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:32 | 2330857 Mitzibitzi

Probably. Most of those quad-rotor nano-drones I've seen seem to be driven around using an iPad, or something very similar and painted olive drab.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:29 | 2330847 ArrestBobRubin

So wait...... your take is that IRAN is escalating here? Isn't your head way up your ass on this?

Isn't it really the case that a brave, plucky, go-it-alone Iran is simply bitch-slapping a broken-down (if mouthy) whore from the 'hood? Isn't Iran simply reacting to this broken down Rothschild monkey-state for daring to get up in Iran's face, on orders from some money power piece of trash? A Spain who'll now be scrambling for their fuel suplies, at ever higher prices, all while their phony-baloney "economy" is in full meltdown? Way to go Spain! Way to act in your own interest!!!

Ya really shoulda just shut the fuck up Spain. Payback for devolving from a Nation-State to a sold-out, craven Rothschild Monkey-State is a real bitch. We already know. We're paying that price daily over here.

All hail the Money Power!

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:57 | 2330913 Not Too Important

A quick summary:

Greece and Spain cut off from oil. Germany and Italy next.

Half of the US East Coast oil refining capacity to be shut down. Always good for raising prices:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/256f583c-7a83-11e1-8ae6-00144feab49a.html#axzz...

Japan using the cover of peaceful nuclear power to develop nuclear weapons, including one of the world's largest stockpiles of plutonium, with the assistance of the US, in clear violation of every nuclear non-proliferation treaty we've ever signed:

http://enenews.com/report-secret-japan-nuclear-bomb-program-covered-up-b...

The same nuclear power that has now blanketed the earth and poisoned the oceans with extinction levels of lethal radiation, and more pumped daily.

Israel has "illegal" nukes. With the full assistance of the Western powers, in full violation of the same non-proliferation treaties.

And we're telling the Iranians that they can't develop "legal" nukes? That they can't sell "their" oil?

When was the last time Iran attacked anybody? Unlike some people we know, who are either under international indictment for war crimes or Nobel Peace Prize winners.

Am I missing something here?

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 13:10 | 2331711 chaartist

this is some serious shit. thnx

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:32 | 2330863 junkyardjack

What are they going to do with the other oil? It seems like they are just shooting themselves in the foot. How much of the world's oil do they even supply? I would assume not much so they are just setting themselves up for a revolt when they don't have enough funds to keep their citizens in check.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:41 | 2330875 SheepDog-One

Iranian citizens probably arent like European-American citizens, sitting around getting paid off with fake money to keep them quiet about getting raped, letting a bunch of tyrant pirates bitch slap them down, the Iranian Persians probably want a fight with the bankrupt cowards.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:43 | 2330892 ArrestBobRubin

Friend, when your clients are the biggest of the BRICS, you don't ever bother to sweat losing a bunch of broke Rothschildian PIIGS as customers.

Iran has just gone way upscale is all. If that's shooting themselves in the foot, so be it I guess.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 11:29 | 2331295 DaveyJones

well said

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:45 | 2330896 GMadScientist

I'm pretty sure China will buy every drop, even if its only to put in storage tanks.

How much do they supply....The world? Not much. Europe? A significant portion.

As for "keeping citizens in check", you're probably thinking of the great US "ally" Saudi Arabia.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:07 | 2330974 CrashisOptimistic

So if sanctions reduce Iranian oil exports by, say, 20%, and the price of oil goes up 20%, how is Iran hurt?

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:47 | 2330868 Monedas

Taiwanese stainless steel tweezers gain favor in North Korea over traditional chopsticks ! UNESCO nutritional experts are baffled ! Monedas 2012 Comedy Jihad World Cuisine Tour

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:58 | 2330941 Nukular Freedum

What a weak routine you must have!

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:23 | 2331053 TheFourthStooge-ing

He calls it comedy jihad because he struggles to be humorous.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 11:46 | 2331351 Acet

Certainly his latest attemp looked a lot more like an attempt at verbal suicide bombing than comedy ...

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:39 | 2330878 SheepDog-One

Headline could instead read- 'Iran complies with NATO oil embargo'.

Stop cryin, bankers!

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 11:49 | 2331359 Acet

'Iran complies with NATO oil embargo'

The irony! It's just too much ...

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:43 | 2330886 azzhatter

more discount oil for china and india

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:10 | 2330987 CrashisOptimistic

Sure. India and China get a 10% discount on an oil price that increased 30% (from Brent $95 to $123).

Iran is coming out ahead.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:44 | 2330888 Atomizer

Security Council Report - March 2012

http://www.securitycouncilreport.org/site/pp.aspx?c=glKWLeMTIsG&b=7996419&printmode=1

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:45 | 2330898 ArrestBobRubin

"Security Council" God that's funny.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 11:46 | 2331353 Atomizer

A manufactured cause and effect crisis is hilarious..

On 23 January, the 27 states of the EU decided to impose further sanctions on Iran, including a full ban on Iranian oil exports. (Under the agreement, EU members will not sign new oil contracts with Iran and will end existing contracts by 1 July.) On 19 February, Iran announced that it would stop exporting oil to the UK and France, saying it would sell the oil to “new customers.” Prior to these developments, the EU bought approximately 20 percent of Iran’s oil.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:45 | 2330897 caconhma

Since 1948, over a period of 64 years (including the 2013 budget request), the U.S. has given Israel more than $115 billion in military and foreign aid, which averages out to about $4.9 million a day.

American and Israeli officials are currently negotiating a new aid deal that would provide more money for a new missile defense program, Iron Dome. Previous funding requests approved $205 million for the project, and Israel is trying to secure at least that much if not more for future years.

Although some Republicans have tried to portray President Barack Obama as soft on Israel, his budget for Fiscal Year 2013 includes $3.1 billion in military aid for Israel, the most in 13 years. AllGov

FACTS & FIGURES

Israel receives an estimated $3 billion annually from the U.S. under a 10-year memorandum of understanding signed in 2007. jpost.com

Under a new request Israel is seeking about $1 billion in aid from the U.S. to speed up the procurement of additional Iron Dome batteries as well as the development of David’s Sling, the system that Israel plans to use to defend against medium-range rockets. jpost.com

In a March 27 statement, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak praised the Pentagon's announced commitment for additional funding support for Iron Dome. defensenews.com

Israel’s defense officials say that Israel’s talks with the Obama administration regarding the new funding would likely be completed within the coming months. jpost.com

The United States gives Israel access to intelligence that it denies its NATO allies and has turned a blind eye towards Israel's acquisition of nuclear weapons. The Guardian

There are no fucking money for Medicare or Social Security to name few. After all, who gives a shit about America and its people in the US government or Congress. No wonder, our presedential candidates go to Israel for an interview before applying for a job in America.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:19 | 2331035 Savvy

“In a telling exchange during a debate in December, Mr. Romney criticized Mr. Gingrich for making a disparaging remark about Palestinians, declaring: “Before I made a statement of that nature, I’d get on the phone to my friend Bibi Netanyahu and say: ‘Would it help if I say this? What would you like me to do?’ “

http://america-hijacked.com/2012/04/09/mitt-romney-and-benjamin-netanyahu-are-old-friends/

Wow.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 13:58 | 2331901 caconhma

I would rather stay at home rather to vote for either POS (obama or Romney).

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:56 | 2331180 Bartanist

JMHO, but Israel should be paying us and not the other way around.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:59 | 2330943 lolmao500

http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/the-axis-haaretz-iran-blog/small-window-of-...

Small window of opportunity for a strike on Iran If recent reports of a Netanyahu promise to postpone an attack on Iran until the fall are true, a possible strike would correspond with the pivotal weeks just before the American presidential election.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:10 | 2330985 Not Too Important

It isn't just a strike on Iran anymore. It's a strike on the BRICs.

A few carefully placed 'oilfield busters', and no one gets any ME oil.

If we can't have it, they can't have it. If they can't have it, we can't have it.

Strange how, after millions of years of evolution, or 2,000 years of creation, we can't get past the kindergarten behavior.

And millions, if not billions, of people will die because of it.

Sad.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:24 | 2331058 ArrestBobRubin

Yeah but the West is much more oil dependent. And much softer in almost everyway. Spoiled. Jaded. Fat. Entitled. So we lose that one too mate.

And who is this "we" that you refer to??? Did you fuck it up? Well, neither did I. Or anyone else I know.

But you know some folks did, and have been making lots of money on it, right?

So it's "they", NOT "we"

This is a huge point as soon it will be THEY gasping for breath at the end of a long, lovely rope. Not WE.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 11:52 | 2331368 Acet

Actually, it makes a lot of strategic sense for Iran to react to any attack by the US by blowing up as much of the oil infrastructure of America's allies as it can.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:06 | 2330969 Jake88

Since when is voluntary compliance an escalation.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:16 | 2331014 ArrestBobRubin

Great stuff all!

Tyler: get a new take babe. When you're wrong, you're REALLY wrong...

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:13 | 2331455 Moe Howard

Tyler forgot the /sarc. Or he thought everyone would "get it". I guess everyone did not.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:21 | 2331043 ItsDanger

Cut off Greece & Spain which are 2 countries struggling more than others although without much influence on Iran sanctions. Iran tips their hand on their political philosophy, ie. weaken non-muslim nations, go for the weakest first.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:26 | 2331066 ArrestBobRubin

You maybe noticed they're great Chess Masters?

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:34 | 2331102 Elvis is Alive

"As for "keeping citizens in check", you're probably thinking of the great US "ally" Saudi Arabia."

Yeah, it's not like Saudi Arabia is going to have nukes. Oh wait:

http://theenergycollective.com/ansorg/63481/saudi-arabia-s-nuclear-energ...

Saudi Arabia has plans to build 16 nuclear reactors!!

I forgot were the 9-11 hijackers Iranians or Iraqis or Saudis? It seems to change whenever the military-industrial complex needs a new enemy.

Instead of attacking Iran over 9-11, why don't we just go to war with Albania in true wag the dog style? The weather in Albania is nicer, and I support our troops having nicer weather.

So for those of you keeping score at home, Israel and Pakistan have the bomb, and Saudi Arabia will have it too, but the world will end if Iran gets it. I hope you all know better than to ask why.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:37 | 2331122 silverbullion

I am looking forward to the day when all the shit will end.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:54 | 2331622 ArrestBobRubin

Me too.

So when do the Rothchilds hand Palestine back to its rightful owners?

Iran Escalates Again, Cuts Off Oil Shipments To Spain

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