Stacy Summary:   While the MSM headlines are of the dangerous peasant protestors, in the FT, more evidence emerges of weaponized financial products being deployed against nations.  There is one sliver of good news to emerge from the bankers’ derivative and credit crime wave in the reduced carbon emissions as we see car sales and miles driven continue to plunge in the United States.

• Derivatives and attempted state capture in Kazakhstan
  

• US auto sales down 34%

• Munger says ‘venal’ financial oligarchs will use political power to block reform

• Will the financial crisis chickens come home to roost? (h/t Youri)

• The ‘Fatal Attraction’ method of debt collection (must read!!)