Stacy Summary: At least for today, sterling is tumbling. I wouldn’t get too excited @Mike/Liverpool, as tomorrow it will no doubt be the euro, or the dollar, or the rouble, or the real, or the baht, or the yen, or gold. (This is a jibber jabber thread, too.)
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Unos gettin bored of being first
Hic
Stacey hit ta history books ya really in a downer mood
Oks nity nite nap time really
Hic
Tis so sureal te times we live in Espesally ta last 10 years
oks I am gone fer 5 hrs
Hic
Canada due for “boring is beautiful” budget
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/100228/business/cbusiness_us_column_canada_markets
TORONTO (Reuters) – Global investors ravaged by rising sovereign risk will find welcome respite in Canada’s March 4 federal budget, with controlled leaks and relatively healthy finances making it a refreshingly low-key event for markets.
In stark contrast to the Greek budget tragedy unfolding in Europe, Canada is expected to forecast a deficit of less than 3 percent of gross domestic product, the lowest of any Group of Seven nation.
And Finance Minister Jim Flaherty and his officials have spent weeks diligently stealing their own thunder, pre-releasing major news like mortgage rule changes and stressing there will be no significant new spending or tax measures.
“It doesn’t make for a great exciting story. But, guess what? For investors, boring is beautiful. That’s the new beautiful,” said Stewart Hall, an economist with HSBC Securities in Toronto.
“Boring is certainly beautiful against the backdrop of what we’re seeing in some of the other sovereign names.”
A Reuters survey found analysts expect the Conservative government to forecast a deficit of C$45 billion ($43 billion) for 2010-11, down from the record C$56 billion shortfall Ottawa anticipates for the current fiscal year.
Analysts see the deficit shrinking further to C$27.2 billion in 2011-12.
The government said in September it expects Canada’s federal debt-to-GDP ratio will rise to 35.5 percent in March 2011 from 29 percent in March 2009. While not a welcome trend for bond investors, it’s nowhere near the triple digit debt-to-GDP ratios of Italy and Japan.
Warren Buffett once noted that creditworthiness is like oxygen: you don’t notice it when it’s around. With sovereign default fears on the rise, Canada’s superior fiscal position is paying off handsomely for holders of its currency and bonds.
The Canadian government now pays less than the United States to borrow money for 10 years or more in local currency. And the Canadian dollar, up 15.9 percent last year against the greenback, recently hit a two-year high against the euro.
“Canada’s generally viewed as having a reasonably sound fiscal backdrop relative to other G10 currencies. The incremental details on the budget aren’t likely to change that,” said Dan Katzive, foreign exchange strategist at Credit Suisse in New York.
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more peak-a-boo accounting
the losses are being moved around behind the scenes as a way to extract more fee income before another blow up. this deal is outright fraud, but who’s looking or cares any more. it’s all fraud.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE61R3C320100301
Soros commenting to German FT :
Eine Lösung für die Euro-Zone
Kommentar Um mit Problemen wie der griechischen Schuldenkrise fertig zu werden, braucht der Euro-Raum ein gemeinsames Finanzministerium und muss gemeinsame Anleihen ausgeben. von George Soros
A solution for the Eurozone to get over problems like the Greek debt crisis , is that the Eurozone needs a common Treasury with common Bonds .
http://www.ftd.de/politik/deutschland/:zukunft-des-euro-eine-loesung-fuer-die-euro-zone/50082031.html
Currencies seem to be taking it in turns to “be weaker than the others”.
Is this a slow winding down of fiat currencies as John suggests…?
http://www.youtube.com/user/stellaconcepts#p/u/0/PJU84wjd2Ok
Well the “Bruttish” jackasses want to reelect Gordo Browshirt Brownie. The second Greece in Europe is “Gross Bruttain”. You Brutishitters are indeed runned by con men. Trust me you loved Greece you will adore ”Grease Bruttend”,
Parsing 200 years of gold trades http://tinyurl.com/ygzcg3b
Three reasons the euro could fall more in March http://tinyurl.com/ygzcg3b
Now the Government wants competence tests before you can be a dog owner
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1254356/Now-Government-want-competence-test-dog-owner.html
How about a competence test before you can run an economy?
China’s manufacturing growth slows in February http://tinyurl.com/ycjaugl
Caterpillar reportedly to stop trade with Iran http://tinyurl.com/yhhufys
Question is who will it hurt more Caterpillar thus the U.S. or Iran?
@Youri
Ceasar beware the Ides of March. Bank holidays on march 15th ? Citigroup puts a 7 days delay for having access to your money. It time to get your money out of the banking system. A little bit to late in Greece.
@Bonn
…of course the best thing is not to be competitive! Trying to be N°1 all the time got us into this mess!!
Morning
Bank wants to raise retirement age to 68 as pension deficit hits €1.5bn
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/retirement-age-new-plan-to-keep-us-working-beyond-65-2084121.html
It’s a beautiful pay day as U2 rake in €80m
http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/its-a-beautiful-pay-day-as-u2-rake-in-euro80m-2084124.html
Judge prefers pigs to bankers
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/courts/judge-prefers-pigs-to-bankers-2084131.html
You have to check this out !
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=7n2m-X7OIuY
Vega Man
US political prisoner update essay :
http://www.martinarmstrong.org/files/Behind-the-Curtain-Part-II.pdf
Pigs are good to eat. Try to eat Lloyd Blankfien ? Beurk ! Stinking rat man doing God’s work. It’s true pigs are much more tastier and nutricious than rats.
I’m not sure if the problem with the £ is because of Brown’s resurgence, or the humanoid Cameron’s much lauded but limp-wristed speech yesterday.
(perhaps we should be looking at suppository sales as a proxy for the £).
ABB
Not so much with the doggies, but the cars…
Hutterites may flout driving law
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/cbc/100228/canada/canada_calgary_calgary_hutterites_three_hills_drivers_licences
CALGARY (CBC) – Members of a Hutterite colony near Three Hills, Alta., say they will drive without being licensed if the government mandates photos on driving licences.
In July, after a lengthy legal battle, the Supreme Court sided with the Alberta government in a 4-3 decision, saying pictures on driving licences are required for security purposes.
The Hutterites have argued their religious beliefs prohibit them from having pictures taken of their faces. The religious group says requiring Alberta drivers to have pictures on their licences is a violation of their freedom of religion.
Interim licences without pictures, which the province issued while the dispute was before the courts, are beginning to expire.
Sam Wurz, the Three Hills Colony manager, said Hutterite members need the licences to carry on their farming businesses and to provide for their families.
He said members of the colony face a tough choice.
“What are you going to do? You’re at the mercy of a government which will not reason with us and we have to obey the government,” he said.
“We even pray for our government every evening in our church, but if the government puts a yoke on your neck and wants more than our religion will allow us to do, then we have to obey God more than man, and if they lock us up in jail I guess we’ll be locked up in jail.”
Wurz said the government has rejected all attempts at a compromise.
He said Hutterites have a long history of disobeying laws that violate their beliefs, regardless of penalties.
@Danny
Breaking News. Banks want to raise retirement age at 168 years.
SPELLING
often incorrectly spelled:
to; too; loose; lose; your; you’re; there; their; they’re;
sorry, I know for a lot of people English is the second language, and that’s fine, but for those of us for whom English is our first language, we owe it to others to get it right – we should not accelerate the destruction of language, we should revel in the beauty of the intricacies of linguistic expression: otherwise we really will end up with a vocabulary of 500 words à la 1984!
…or maybe you don’t agree?
Jack Cafferty Interviews Ron Paul 2/27/10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wwI0694iJs&feature=player_embedded#
Do they grow cotton in United Kingdumb ?
Dreaded currency symbols…
I have always preferred UKP over GBP.
However, due to historical reasons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2
was not implemented as one would have thought.
Note that
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2
does not give
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.uk
preference but instead makes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.gb
formal.
Ergo, the impact on the currency code
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217
is that GB is used.
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Bretton Woods artefact?
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== Explanation of USD/USS/USN ==
The US dollar actually has three codes assigned: USD, USS (same day) and USN (next day).
According to UN/CEFACT recommendation 9, paragraphs 8-9 (ECE/TRADE/203, 1996) :
8. In applications where monetary resources associated with a currency (i.e. funds) need not be specified and where a field identifier indicating currency is used, the first two (leftmost) characters are sufficient to identify a currency–example: US for United States dollars for general, unspecified purposes where a field identifier indicating currency is present. (A field identifier can be a preprinted field heading in an aligned document or a similarly-agreed application in electronic transmission of data.)
9. In applications where there is a need to distinguish between different types of currencies, or where funds are required as in the banking environment, or where there is no field identifier, the third (rightmost) character of the alphabetic code is an indicator, preferably mnemonic, derived from the name of the major currency unit or fund – example: USD for general, unspecified purposes; USN for United States dollar next-day funds, and USS for funds which are immediately available for Federal Reserve transfer, withdrawal in cash or transfer in like funds (same-day funds). Since there is no need for such a distinction in international trade applications, the funds codes have not been included in the Annex to the present Recommendation.
funny Im gonna be growin cotton soon
“Pound tumbles as prospect of hung parliament looms.”
You mean they are going to hang the members of parliament ? Hummm. I love these little double edge phrases. Audacious indeed. So they will be hanging all of them ? Will it be televized ?
Can silver please go down to $14…
@Danny, raising the retirement ? Why bother, we’ll all be unemployed by that time.
Stacy was there a specific reason why you mentioned the baht, or were you simply just listing currencies?
Re: previous comment, should have read raising the age of retirement.
Its coming
Mike
I think we be looking at a series of crashes rather than one, a sort of “staircase downward” thing.
@Marc Authier
Yeah tnx, I know about the 7 day before getting money and the Doc. (Dr. Brenninger) also talked about it regarding Germany.
I was just thinking about the analyses made by the Rabobank (=Dutch) Jan Lambregts in the article “Three reasons the euro could fall more in March”.
I know about the analyses of formal CEO Heemskerk regarding the Dutch market were quiet accurate but I have my doubt about this one for several reasons.
First of all, like Max pointed out, are the hidden debts through the peak-a-boo (I thought Kiekeboe which is more Dutch I guess) in the banking system. Also the commercial real estate has to deleverage round 25%. Also in the mortgage field everything has not been settled yet and home sales declined 7.2%. An estimated 800 – 1000 banks will go belly up this year. Fannie needs another $15.3 billion and AIG posts $8.9 billion loss. I think I heard that Dubai still has a $80 billion problem.
Oil will stay low cause China’s economy is slowing down. A lot of companies had taken drastic measures maybe some drastic which may leave room to some growth but it all won’t be that spectacular. Over all the picture still looks grim with States and countries on the balance of falling from a cliff.
So from which direction has this dollar strengthening suppose to be coming from? Probably the same ol save haven story but the U.S. debt is still hanging a big shadow over the markets so the money could go elsewhere in stocks for the short term and gold for both the short and long term.
Speculating makes the markets unpleasant for long term investors and savers.
Susan
您是否是一名沮喪的英語老師？
@susan
Yeah these are indeedy the common misspellings. My English isn’t that fluent today cause I am bit tired and than I simply think I’ve written some words in between which later turns out I haven’t written at all. Too lazy to double check today I am afraid. I don’t make the mistake with “Too” as synonym for “Also”. Have to watch the other cases.
@Youri
Buying 5$ shares in Pirate My Film will be more lucrative than investing in this complerely fucked up racket. If you can’t trust the accounting and the bookies, you know that the Ides of March are already upon us.
“Peak-a-boo” “Peak-a-pooo-pooo, a booo-booo and a coooo-cooo”. You start understanding that the financial universe is completely imploded. It’s a black hole. Worldwide Bank holidays ? You bet.
@ Max
How long can this merry go round of fraud continue before it brakes. I guess no one knows but it cant go on forever?
I cant believe how bad it is, it never ends. The worst case scenario being, Its almost as bad as what you can imagine. Every time I look and learn something new of this site and others, im pushed more and more towards this conclusion.
How will they put all the bits back after it smashes?
I thing the finance is going to be like..
Humpty Dumpty sate on a wall,
Humpti Dumpti had a great fall;
Threescore men and threescore more,
Cannot place Humpty dumpty as he was before…
@susan: +1, hi5 and hugg!
@fibon
They will just change the accounting rules. From market-to-market rule to market-to-racket rule, to racket-to-racket rule. You will see. These bastards will soon be changing the accounting rules. You have to see the whole process as type of criminal business dictatorship. Complete scam. I don’t why you are saying things are still holding Fibon ? It’s not the case on main street. The shit is hitting the fan everywhere.
Well done Max and Stacy
Your prediction about Japan needing new buyers for their government bonds has come true. Thats right the J government is running out of suckers in Japan willing to buy the j-bonds, so they are now looking for suckers in Europe.
Japan seeks to boost overseas sales of gov’t bonds
http://www.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/01_08.html
@ Fibon 你是中国人吗？
lifted from hpc,
I have now started to get information that very, very wealthy people have started to want to invest in gold, having left it really a bit late. They are scared, and are taking huge amounts of gold out of the system to get the physical metal in their possession (remember, the idea of the unallocated accounts and ETFs of the LBMA is that the gold stays in the same vault all the time and just gets shifted around from shelf to shelf or gets a marker pen scribble on it as to who owns it). It is getting to the stage, I am told, that the amount of physical gold in the vault is getting so low that the public may find out what we already know, that the physical gold which is supposed to back ETFs and the like does not exist, having been sold long ago. So the COMEX has started to force settlement in paper rather than gold (or silver).
From this, we are close to a physical default, i.e. said billionaire wants his gold, gets truculent when he doesn’t get it, and the fraud will come to light in a way that can’t be covered up. This would not happen in any other futures market (such as wheat, or tumeric, say) but is “normal” for the manipulated gold and silver markets. When the default finally occurs, the price of gold, and especially silver, will justify all our interest in the metals.
Bring it on.
@Max, All
the debt game is like musical chairs
I love how the UK government has revised the GDP growth to 0.3%. We all know this is bs, but with regards to the point Max always makes about unemployment figures being a true indicator on the state of the economy. My father works for a large global engineering firm. The firm is getting rid of 600 employees in the UK office. He told me that after he’s done firing them all, he’s probably going to be fired lol. Anyway cause of the UK laws in firing people they are not going to be let go at least till May so expect the unemployment figure to increase.
I thought I would share that with you all, not sure if anyone actually cares or how insightful that really was. Just a reflection on the real state of the economy.
Soros Signals Gold Bubble as Goldman Predicts Record http://tinyurl.com/ygsotrg
@W11:11AM – “大家”可以写，可以理解中只要有一个是在互联网上。
@Susan – I fully agree with you.
http://mpettis.com/2010/02/what-the-pboc-cannot-do-with-its-reserves/
Regards
Yeah, TnX noticed that in the U.S. too: http://tinyurl.com/create.php
sacking just contentious.
@W11:11AM- -> Post Above
@Palantíri
What is that? Chinese?
Lord Ashcroft in non-dom shocker
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/mar/01/lord-ashcroft-reveals-non-dom
Too cold for cotton, good for hemp
ABB
@W11:11AM This is the right link – bit tired I guess: http://tinyurl.com/ye6fsrz
Max
Hope this helps with the movie your making Max.
Kind regards,
Danny
http://books.google.ie/books?id=ezyLJrAu1SIC&pg=PA372&dq=google+books+crossing+the+rubicon&client=firefox-a&cd=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false
Latest blog re: project no. 60 on PMF
http://www.piratemyfilm.com/blogs/14
Oil stored at sea could mean bigger problems and prices in future
… The use of temporary floating tankers became so popular that even the investment banks had begun to charter ships, leaving the market with a shortage of vessels for transporting other commodities. At one point, Citigroup’s trading arm was sitting on a huge repository of crude in the North Sea. …
…
… In February, Goldman Sachs calculated that total stored hydrocarbons at sea, including barrels in transit, fell 24m barrels to 636m in January versus 660m the previous month.
Simpson, Spence & Young reckons the number of tankers used as floating storage for crude oil fell by 20pc in January.
Meanwhile, figures presented by Gibson showed 112 ships were storing crude oil and clean products globally by February, down from a high of 149 ships at the end of November.
…
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/markets/marketreport/7338826/Oil-stored-at-sea-could-mean-bigger-problems-and-prices-in-future.html
page 238 Max.
Greece Now, U.K. Next as Scots Ready for Pound Plunge http://tinyurl.com/yz69w29
Private-Equity entering “the silly” zone http://tinyurl.com/yk7to7l
@Youri Carma – yes it is Chinese.
heheh, great news from finland too
2009 GDP went 7.8% down , record high break down since 1917/ 1918 .
another interesting case was Marko Sihvonen ..
“Marko “hunger” Sihvonen has started a hunger strike on 1st February 2010 to peacefully protest the corrupt government of Finland and privatization of water. A small number of trailers are now parked outside the Finnish parliament house with a permission from the city. More are expected to arrive later.
Themes are ground water, freedom of speech and corruption”
case was totally censored in all main news.
There was people camping in vans in front of parliament house and sending live podcast ..until cops mash camp down 24.2.
http://www.supportmarkosihvonen.com/english
doc is splitting the scene. http://www.youtube.com/user/jberni1
counterproductive or criminal? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvdt7Qev6Dk
Iceland: NL GB want to make make profits out off the Icesave loans (Google trans Dutch) http://tinyurl.com/yc5tg86
Icland says split the burden or everybody goes his own way.
@ronron … counterproductive or criminal?
Yeah ..was about to ask the same , but see you “caught” it too !
don. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3lgPj2gSkc
@P/G. what is your thoughts on doc leaving the euro zone?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oavMtUWDBTM some late era pre perestroika Soviet style entertainment performed by unknown Russian performer, though likely famous ?, with a tasteful yet haunting rendition of ‘lolololololo lolo lo lo lo…..ha ha ha ha ha, ‘ max , i think maybe this is your kind of song ?.
Tax time again
Albert Einstein quote:
“The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.”
@Larry
Brilliant, reminds me of playmobil..He may dethrone Rick Astley..He must have gotten a lot of (plastic) poontang
With regards to water , you know we are screwed when gov’t starts confiscating , selling, and taxing it. Essentially they are deciding who lives and dies. SLAVES UNITE.
“Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.” Albert Einstein
@ronron
Saw the vid before but totally mist that. He said it a bit fast short at the beginning. Sharp!
Wonder were the Doc will go to? Maybe he tells the nxt time.
@ronron .. Berninger leaving Eurozone ?
Yes, I watched yesterday … wasn’t sure , but seems he means “physically” leaving.
Where to ? … is the question !
… and I presume he means longer term as in emigration.
Considering he’s from Hamburg, it makes me wonder somewhat.
The Hamburgers are nice people, many speak English…. much more “flexibly minded” than the avg. German further south.
Where to ? … I suppose a nice cottage in Ireland or France where there is a river near by , or by the sea.
Sell Fish ?
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheModernMystic#p/u/38/pRsLqMr9Log
PS:
Nick reckons he’s got it all worked out … has made his home as independent as possible from the corporate system .. it seems.
We want Rick Astley to make new material..Songs like “On second thought, I will give you up” and “Maybe turn it off” create a true void in out cultural landscape.
Join the petition here http://www.gopetition.com/online/18458.html
I predict a genre of Banker gothic massacre fantasies to hit the internet soon. We are after all entering the middle ages..
@Mother of Earth ,..correction: .’ trololololol .lol, lol ,lol ,lol ,.la ,la ,la, ….ha ,ha ,ha, ha ha.”
@namarama. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMZaN2Dy_To
@Larry,..I’m thinking it’s a test to see how retarded the masses are, gauged on viewing figures!
The USSR, must be on par with the UK, me thinks!
545 people. http://www.apfn.org/apfn/woes.htm
Been in HK for almost 2 months now…I’m slowly dumping the dollar.
@Paul – the HK dollar? Or US dollar? Or Singapore dollar? How is HK doing these days? Any sign of bubble? Or pending popping of bubble?
“We could easily go back to a gold standard today, but we would have to revalue the gold price to something like a million dollars an ounce.” Marc Faber
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAJeZaFdbJA&feature=fvst
@ronron,..I think Carlin had it right!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcCPlkw6dO0
@ Stacy or Max
Can ya post a Graph as to how much traffic has increased to your sites or is tat confiential Info.
Just trying to figure out how many peeps wakin up
;On the other hand I think it should remain confedential
;On the other hand the peeps monitoring tis site will already have ta Data ;on the other hand …..;on the other hand……pffft Smoke comming outta me ears
Hic
Squatting laws anyone?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VbtpsRdbKw
Here’s another goody, from the National Press Club,..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKftRlzh2RM
Oh found a safe method
Don’t post actual hard figures
Post it via % tat should be enough
Hic
Max,
I’ve been in the market since 1984. Being duplicitous is part of being a successful market maker/trader. The British bullion was sold at all time lows because the trade was arranged . The question is who bought it The paper dummies know better then anybody what gold is really worth
Cracks appearing in euro currency union
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/cracks-appearing-in-euro-currency-union/article1484698/
@HenryRusty
Parsing 200 years of gold trades http://tinyurl.com/ygzcg3b
@HenryRusty
Sorry wrong link.
This is the one: Parsing 200 years of gold trades http://tinyurl.com/ycpq6kj
“One idea on the table has been to issue common bonds backed by all 16 members that would cover the first 40 percent of the region’s total government debt.
The idea for such a market has been floated in the past, but has always met with fierce opposition from Germany and other “core” countries. They say their disciplined fiscal stance will be diluted by weak members, while their funding cost — lowest in the bloc — will rise to accommodate indebted colleagues.
However, the scheme could bring benefits for all members. The sheer liquidity the unified market would bring has potential to lower yields for fiscally sound countries.
According to some estimates, the market could develop into a highly liquid bond class of some 4 trillion euros, four times the size of German bunds, the region’s safest, and a true contender to the estimated $6-7 trillion U.S. Treasury market.”
http://www.forexpros.com/news/forex-news/rpt-analysis-common-euro-zone-bond-could-bring-wide-benefits-122743
http://www.euractiv.com/en/financial-services/france-joins-eu-bonds-plea/article-179536
“”If Europe wants to grab the chance offered by the crisis to attract more capital, it has to increase the size and the liquidity of its government bond markets by issuing common bonds,” said Jacques Delpla, speaking before financial experts yesterday (17 February) at Bruegel, a Brussels-based think-tank.
Delpla, a member of the Council for Economic Analysis, an advisory body to French Prime Minister François Fillon, said joint EU bonds would also enhance the role of the euro as a reserve currency, challenging the dollar’s supremacy.”
Looks Like Bonus time fer someone
UK’s Pru to buy AIG Asia for US$35.5B
http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/calgary/Asia/2626832/story.html
Hic
@Stacy and Max
A DISTRICT court judge with a reputation for being outspoken has made clear his feelings for bankers, saying he would rather lie in a gutter with a pig than meet one of them.
“The geniuses running the banks are no different to the geniuses who ran us into the ground in the first place,” Judge John Neilan said.
The judge didn’t hold back when dealing with a case last week in which a couple owed a bank money from a loan. He remarked that if he ever met one of the banking executives, he would walk away, adding: “I would sooner lie in the gutter with a pig.”
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/judge-prefers-pigs-to-bankers-2084131.html
@Max
We talk about gold a lot and there are charts that show inflation corrected data for gold. However, this is never with gold in an equal role, as fiat money has been quite stabile. I wondered whether we are missing an important aspect about the difference between fiat money and gold, and that is that fiat money can keep up with population growth without if being noticable in the gold trades. Only when everybody suddenly wants to own gold there must be anenormous effect of the risen population size, making gold much more valuable than inflation correctd graphs show. What do you think?
A Cow dont care about Gold it just does’nt wanna go to ta slaughter house
lolololololololol
Hic
Naked Australians. That’s a whole lotta flesh!
@ ronron
Great post “Ring of power”
First version of a Document which puts everything in order chronologically as well
Tees guys owe Jordon maxwell & Zecharia sitchin and countless others a big tank ya
Hic
charlie. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i3W7GPVYK0
probably got this link from here but anyway it was good
Broken Us Government with Ron Paul ( withjack cafferty)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wwI0694iJs&feature=player_embedded#
wonder how the dynamic duo made it through the big storm in france,
@Mike/Liverpool’s and all other fellow Brits!
I read alot of Zero Hedge, Mish etc but I can’t find a single blog that covers everything that’s happening in the UK… any suggestions??
@Mother Earth
Yourright gold should be much higher but is lower trough manipulation and because there was no need for gold as money. Actually if the central banks could do that like to destroy gold (See James Bond: Goldfinger – be it for other reasons) cause it constantly spoils there fiat game and they have extra work keeping it under wraps.
The idea was already in 1968 Gold Telegram http://www.scribd.com/doc/20215562/Gold-Telegram to replace gold by SDRs which would take over the role of gold as underlying asset for the money system but somehow they never fully succeeded in banning gold completely out of their system also because first trust had to be e gained in the new SDR system. So in fact the Central banks themselves have been walking on two legs in the underlying backup assets.
The Central banks do lie about the gold reserves and keep more gold on the balance sheet than they actually have by double counting gold which was already sold. This for Monetary reasons cause central bankers are control freaks which comes with the nature of the job to keep the balance.
But during times of stress and war it’s the only currency on which you can rely on. That’s of cause the reason why gold is back in the picture. If the monetary system was all oki doki nobody would even talk about gold.
The only problem with gold is, and that’s exactly the reason why the left the gold standard, there is only so much. That’s also the reason why it can be easily manipulated but that also will be the reason why gold bullion will skyrocket when this system comes tumbling down.
Gold isn’t corrosive unlike silver so can be kept for thousands of years without losing it’s luster. This seems just a technical detail but that’s exactly the reason why people trust in gold, they know it won’t decay.
So whatever people are telling, that gold is only a shiny metal for jewelry, that it isn’t money, gold bubble. It’s all BS and these people are either incredibly stupid or tell you these fairy tells for their own beneficial reasons. Central bankers always like to down play the significance of gold and traders like Soros do it for selfish reasons.
So buy Gold: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdlOnpAwo_Y
Whats up with ya guys getting butt naked in front of ta opera house
Whats wrong wit ya caucasians what ya guys smokin up again
lololololol
Hic
that would be a cool shirt. max and stacy as batman and robin.
Sorry for the ragged, rickety, wobbly, ramshackle, wonky English but I am a bit tired and than I start making more errors.
@Y’All
http://www.montrealgazette.com/travel/Boozy+chimp+sent+rehab+Russia/2616639/story.html
now if they can just wean it away from posting on maxkeiser.com… all day and night!!!
@ dedo , yes i think there is a touch of madness to the music & performance in the video ?, true madness is contagious , i guess that is why mad people are best avoided ? tee vee & media also, don’t want to end up wearing our shoes upon the wrong feet ? still , a devastating performance . hem.
from 1996 :On Soros, the good ol fuedalists and the Quantum Fund NV
“Soros is the visible side of a vast and nasty secret network of private financial interests, controlled by the leading aristocratic and royal families of Europe, centered in the British House of Windsor. This network, called by its members the Club of Isles, was built upon the wreckage of the British Empire after World War II…..His hedge fund reportedly manages some $11-14 billion of funds on behalf of its clients, or investors—one of the most prominent of whom is, according to Soros, Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, the wealthiest person in Europe.”
http://www.questionsquestions.net/docs04/engdahl-soros.html
Never heard of the “Club of Isles” before or after I read this article, anybody who did?
@Larry
top quality mate, what a find.
UK to kill off Internet cafes
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1594048/uk-kill-internet-cafes
Tungsten stories are real!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKczs-7BFRI
@ youri
tired and than I start making more errors
tired and then I start making more errors
Simple start Using my name ten Youri
lolololololol
Hic
I’ll also appear to know stuff about SDR’s and shit
lolololololol Hic
btw Because there is so much gold and if you want to use it as backup asset for the money system gold has to increase in value dramatically like Faber said. Now you understand why.
Filesharing becomes the latest French hobby
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1594045/filesharing-french-hobby
Mike sings to The Thing of Beauty
Come my lady!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdyv4YG3Sfo
Mike
while on the topic of aristocrats, long live the queen and fuedalism!
http://www.whoownstheworld.com/about-the-book/largest-landowner/
@Martijen. good find.
@ Bondibhoy, Thankyou , received that this morning, inbox email, touch of madness there ,genius also.
@Bonn
Cannot come up with any question about SDRs right now but will think of it later. tnx.
@aksel
I think that there are a lot of Uber rich in Europe that are glad that the Queen of England is mentions as being the richest that takes them of the hook cause usually these people like to keep a low profile. Especially the old rich.
Amen Amun Omen Om
Ring of Power – World Superstate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVSrwFaI-EI&feature=response_watch
Hic
Other tungsten story : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0-hGHJSgNA
brzinski. http://clownpartyusa.blogspot.com/
@Larry,..It’s not unlike the Tate Gallery exhibits,.just takes someone of higher standing to declare it a piece of art,..and,..well you know the rest,..bahhh : )
Monkey see monkey do,…(refer to sg’s link)
@Marc Authier
Yes I totally agree with you, which is nice lol
The reason I was saying such things is for therapeutic reasons. Its just awful to see the whole world slide deeper into a criminal pit … take that UK WiFi story that its going to be closed down.
Our leaders of the UK and media are just criminal scum and have no moral authority what so ever we just live in a blatant racket.
Personally I think ill just move somewhere warm and sit it out on a beach..
@ronron: cheers
@Youri Carma
My guess is the criminal rackets are using every scare story to shake week hands. lol desperation or what ! They have a sick collective personality these propaganda types..
Insanity from the Bush No Child Left Behind act and Duncan/Obama:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/28/AR2010022802815.html?hpid=sec-education
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/01/AR2010030100588.html?hpid=topnews
The process is one of reducing teacher salary, privatizing under charters, including military recruitment, data-tagging students, peer-review for teachers, tied tests to teacher pay, video-taping classrooms, shutting down schools, firing staff, and paying exorbitant salaries to consultants and cronies from the Congressional tap.
Mish disappoints in his analysis today: ignoring these factors in the Chicago schools which were decimated by Duncan before he left for greener pastures in Washington. Try teaching for three weeks in Chicago schools. The teachers deserve pay and pensions commensurate with consultants and test-design corporation/school siphons. Jeb Bush loved no-child-left-behind.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/1/8/125556/7027
The children will suffer; the Republicans in Florida love the plan.
Reminds one of Dickens: sparrows on the lunch menu?
mother earth is at it again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdi1832qeVA
@namarama. i really respect that guy.
@Mother,…you at those pork pies again,..(chins are piling up) : )
@Youri Carma
Sure. By the old rich you mean Rothschild, Warburg and Oppenheimer ?
At the same time, they all, including the Windsors, seem to be rowing in the same boat and same diretion and living pretty damn good materialy as a consequence of it, though at times somebody gets pushed overboard.
So what I think is, we get some information there, some here and then we’ll have a nice overall view. and of course it is insane that we still have all these blood monarchs around, but until relativly recently I had no idea that the queen in fact was the owner of more or less all the land of Canada + +.
nice link Bonn, I’ll be sure to watch it.
off topic..but i had to share this..
http://www.lulu.com/items/volume_64/5802000/5802522/1/print/5802522.pdf
it all sounds like a fantasy..but some of the stuff here answers basic questions about
1. why is the west so keen on oil? there are so many alternative resources available..surely this could be used..but No.
2. Annunaki…the whole thing about Nibiru and stuff…looks like its a fake…while the annunaki exist…they are nothing as what has been said in the popluar conspiracy sites..
3. Earth twin..
“Based on what the foundation has learned so far, we have refined our strategy. We will continue to invest in replicating the school models that worked the best. Almost all of these schools are charter schools. Many states have limits on charter schools, including giving them less funding than other schools. Educational innovation and overall improvement will go a lot faster if the charter school limits and funding rules are changed.”
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/annual-letter/Pages/2009-united-states-education.aspx
Gates even has his own charter program ready-to-go! And he gets the capital from Obama! And he supports killing (er closing) off the competition: public schools.
The Race-to-the-Top program is a consulting fee grant from Gates to states to coerce the willing to CHANGE THEIR STATE LAWS to allow more KIPP schools! Nice, huh?
“Since Obama secured the money as part of the economic stimulus to spur schools that are failing their students, the Gates Foundation has offered grants of $250,000 apiece to help states apply for the money – ” so long as they agree with the foundation’s approach.” The administration and foundation share common goals: Paying schoolteachers based on the performance of their students, and that means testing, encouraging charter schools that operate independently of local school boards; and establishing a common academic standards adopted by every state.”
http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2009/10/race_to_the_top_teachers_left.html
http://www.edweek.org/media/criteria_and_support_for_states_for_rttp_applications.pdf
@Snoot
“Mish disappoints in his analysis today: ignoring these factors in the Chicago schools which were decimated by Duncan before he left for greener pastures in Washington. Try teaching for three weeks in Chicago schools. The teachers deserve pay and pensions commensurate with consultants and test-design corporation/school siphons.”
Mish will figure it out. Maybe in a decade or so. Plenty of time to screw over a generation.
His blind faith in markets and incentives etc etc will not work in the field of education.
@fsnoot–No child left behind act — including military recruitment, data-tagging students,
Have boys in high school. The military consistently hounds them about joining, fuckin guidance counselor told my ninth grader to join. I wanted to go and and mentally torture that fuck, but my lovely wife brought me back to earth.
@Fibon11235
Average gold bullion buyers won’t meet these big gold bars. Usually coins and small pieces but even than, fraud is everywhere not only at the central banksters side. I mean if you heard somebody who bought a bad car your not gonna buy a car anymore? Of cause not so the same with gold you gotto check it or know the one you buy it from.
The program is not limited to the US:
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=17459&URL_DO=DO_PRINTPAGE&URL_SECTION=201.html
@Snoot
Gates even has his own charter program ready-to-go! And he gets the capital from Obama! And he supports killing (er closing) off the competition: public schools.
The Race-to-the-Top program is a consulting fee grant from Gates to states to coerce the willing to CHANGE THEIR STATE LAWS to allow more KIPP schools! Nice, huh?
Another genius that should stick to something that he knows (building monopoly’s ) it would be much less damaging to American children in the long run.
There are serious issues with the data collection. The state of Florida is used to consensual agreement with the Feds for profit of crony capital: so the issue is not covered by the press here. The stimulus is including money for the data collection:
http://www.edutopia.org/economic-stimulus-education-data-systems
@fsnoot–Paying schoolteachers based on the performance of their students,
C’mon … the most of the teachers are a fuckin joke. They are in a system witha union whom protects the weak. Christ, my daughter come home from school spouting about what a jerk her math teacher is. The public school system is so far up the governments ass, it will never see any changes in my life time. Gate or no gates, the union will stifle any changes to the money machine.
Greek workers refuse to pay for crisis Vid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlBGDyZFu7I
The Greeks want the 60 to 70 billion of gold the fuckin Nazis stole from them. They will go down fighting, go Greece!! I hope the never give the fuck in the thieves in German government.
Save your computer parts…
See how the Gold, Silver and Copper are salvaged…
(soon you’ll probably see these guys recycling REEs from them as well)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdu5yS5q2so
@HD:
Who isn’t a fucking joke in this country. The capital flows continue unabated to the school districts; the teachers are cut out of the loop. The state of Florida has had a cap on teacher’s salaries for six years: the amount on consultants?
http://www.floridatoday.com/content/blogs/opinion/2010/02/race-to-trough.shtml
From what I observe, it is the soccer moms and the teachers that are the backbone of the community round here. Thank the Lord for unions: Gates should be flushed repeatedly.
Has anyone been driving on the roads lately? Im thinking it could be one of the most accurate economic indicators out there.
Many holes everywhere.
An interesting Democracy Now! headline:
Documents Reveal Pentagon Spied on Planned Parenthood
Newly released Pentagon documents reveal the US military monitored Planned Parenthood and a white supremacist group as part of the government’s security preparations for the 2002 Olympics in Utah. The documents also reveal that military intelligence spied on the antiwar group Alaskans for Peace and Justice in 2005. Other documents disclose that the military illegally intercepted civilian cellphone conversations in April 2007 during an exercise at Fort Polk in Louisiana. The documents were obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
How do WE go about spying on the Pentagon? I, for one, still want to know where that $2.1 trillion that went “missing” from the Pentagon went.
@fsnoot— HA! Who are the consultants?? Guessing some form of government regulation arm. It never stops … when are the taxpayers gonna stand the fuck up an pound the table??
OH YA DAN … I have NEVER seen the roads this bad!
@ Dan – Yeah, they are a lot worse around here than I remember them ever being. Lots of deep, foot-plus-wide potholes around. Every time I hit one, I bitch about should-be stimulus projects.
Think that Max & Stacy are on the road somewhere cause haven’t seen the blog change like normally.
New program maybe.
Sound maybe strange but if you are a country in debt or default you actually have a change to fight these bankers cause now they want something from you and you can say fuck off.
Here’s a video (with crappy editing) showing how YOU can strip the gold and silver from your CPUs and RAM at home…
(NOTE: AR is Aqua Regia … )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtpnMxThnXk
@HappyHose:
The taxpayers will be paying global tax for the Gates’ Initiatives soon enough. Squacking will only result in a defeathering process applied by the state machine. I doubt we will have local school boards in future. The school board here myopically voted themselves out-of-existence by voting to support the Race-to-the-Top application.
You should make your daughter do her homework: teenagers often bring spurious tales.
@Youri,…Don’t fall into the mind trap,..The “Bankers” aren’t owed anything, it’s a big fkin’ lie…..
Bankers and their ilk are “Sophists”,…or as some would say sophisticated!
Ask Max and Stacy,..: )
ca. 100 Million Sharks slaughtered EACH YEAR …
… just for Shark-Fin Soup ….. a status symbol !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da0a4JbuEDg&feature=sub
Why We Don’t Have Hyperinflation Even Though The Fed Has Printed $1 Trillion
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-we-dont-have-hyperinflation-even-though-the-fed-has-printed-1-trillion-2010-2
@Dedo
That’s were the “fuck off” stood for.
Bangkok banks hit with explosions
http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20100228-201388.html
@Danny:
The basel capital adequacy mandates are stifling lending: it’s global.
@Danny
Good article but said that a year ago and he forgets to mention the huge debts, which are still there btw in the economy, which suck a lot of money out of the system. Max has been issuing this with Mish on. But still a good written article to explain to people with graphs and all.
Light ring over Chile prior to 8.8 Earthquake
The night before the Haiti Earthquake 2010 HAARP ??
EARTHQUAKE LIGHTS by PROJECT HAARP? CHINA QUAKE 7.8
1997 DoD Briefing: ‘Others’ can set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely using electromagnetic waves
http://www.parenting-healthy-children.com/Parenting.xml
@Phil /Germany
Did you know that these Icelandic people actually eat the hole shark while it’s an uneatable animal cause of the anti freeze in it’s body.
Eating Rotten Shark: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbYqznD0R5M
pics. http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/Wiadomosci/5,80292,7248845,Obamao_robi_furore_w_Chinach.html?i=0
Chile Quake Eyewitness “I saw the Sky Changing Colors!” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j_c_U1X5vM
I agree, they’ve actually got the banksters on the ropes. The big problem in the banksters cronies that are in office that only view the populace as debt cows and serve only their mastas the banksters. People have to get rid of the banksters govenrment cronies to make real head way here. Any way they can.
@g7glenn
I don’t have the link from you tube, but there is a video that was shot in China 30 minutes before the huge earthquake there. The object of the video were “northern lights” in the sky during the daytime. Very unusual. You could hear the people speaking who were doing the shooting. Then all hell breaks loose.
Light displays like this are a sign that they have been using this technology.
Yes, of course Haiti was HAARP.
@Youri,…I think Stacy had some of that (or rotten whale meat) in the Faroe isles,…if my mamory serves me well,…..: )
If you ever look up and see these kinds of lights and color changes in the sky…….run for cover.
It seems that HAARP is debunked here cause also in the past when HAARP didn’t exist this phenomenon was spotted.
Glowing lights around an earthquake’s epicentre (The Times) http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/weather/article3556127.ece
Further investigation is still needed. See if HAARP was detected working on these dates.
I have to apologize. I still have hockey on my brain!
To my fellow Anglo-Canadians…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TncdhLGjFTE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1CwZgb_iAI
To my fellow Quebecers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRI-A3vakVg
TEAM CANADA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyway, I am slowly coming back to earth. Could someone fill me in on the Rothchilds. I see that term everywhere. Peace out.
a fucking moat? http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7038550.ece
@fsnoot—You should make your daughter do her homework: teenagers often bring spurious tales.
Happy hose was my grandfather, lucky fuck …
Ya snoot, I do sit down and go over the math problems, the teacher shows the student how to think through a problem. OK, but he gives the wrong answers in class to the students. WTF!!!
Daughter show me the methodology, and I sit there biting my lip. It’s ludicrous, the way he teaches!! The public school system is a failure … simple as that .
The system is in fiscal danger with cuts from the top down, just a matter of time. Our school board is a group of self serving whores, spend spend spend.
@Dedo – good memory; yes, it was moldy whale meat; tasted like blue cheese to me
@Ingrid–roththieves
Found this is an interesting read http://www.iamthewitness.com/DarylBradfordSmith_Rothschild.htm
quite a mess in france. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8544002.stm
Saw changing colors in the sky …
She probably saw the electrical transformers exploding across the city, I saw some video and it looked like a war was taking place with explosions abound.
For climate scepticals http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjILZWW6Ko0
@Happy Dick – it would have been the transformers exploding; I saw the same thing in LA after Northridge; I was out of our apartment building within seconds of that earthquake and I remember, I was the only person out in the street that fast at 4am and a car was stopped in the middle of the intersection and there was a guy standing outside his car in total shock, he turned almost frozen to me and asked, “Our we being bombed?” Apparently, he hadn’t felt the earthquake in the car?
Hi Happy Dick,
Is that for real? My Jewish husband of 20 years isn’t really Jewish. He’s been faken it all along? And if this is true, how come we don’t have a piece of the action. Hell, I don’t want to work anymore. Worry about my children. Having my daughter come home crying from school because a boy pushed her up against a locker calling her a fat Jew and that she needs to go to a concentration camp to loose weight. My son loosing friends because some parents don’t want their kids hanging out with Jews.
My dear God in heaven, I pray that people don’t believe in this shit.
just ordered one of these. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HJVV9rrHjM
@sherbert—ya, exploding transformers are scary … like a bomb in a way
@Ingrid—yes it is the truth … it is really sad. Here ya go, our neighbors girl, in 5 th grade, walked home from school 5 miles. She was afraid of another student on the bus because of bullying. Her parents will have a meeting with some one at the school shortly about this. Can you imagine your child walking home in 5th grade, by herself, with all the sickos on the roads for 5 long lonely miles!!!!!
I calculate that if we had the same amount of gold in 1950 as we had in 2005 then we can say that then there was 58 gram of gold per world citizen, while now ther is only 15 gram. In reality ther was less gold above ground in 1950 so we need to lower the number a bit, but still it is a factor 3,8 between teh two numbers. That could mean that inflation corrected gold prices should be about 4 times higher than they are presented to be. Anyone agree or care to correct my statistics?
The recent boom could definitely not have happened if people believed in gold, they would have felt very insecure and not spend as much..
How could a week Pound Sterling affect the election in England? or to put it in a different way, who benefits from a week currency in the upcoming British election? “The markets have reacted and are giving a vote of no confidence in Gordon Brown” says the article will the average person react in the same way?
@Happy Dick
See that’s why I want to keep positive and not let people bring me down. I am not giving my power to anyone. Remember living in fear produces hate and intolerance. That’s why in my world Love rules the way. And I am so much happier because of it.
Anyway, I better get back to work. I’ll check in with ya’ll later. That Rothchild thingy was definitely a buzz kill.
@rron
here is a competitor … just keep’m dry
http://www.fotosearch.com/CRT001/78362-308mv/
@SG
Since you were on the capitalistic Ape issue who was send to a Gulag to rehabilitate.
Monkey babysitter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsaEvyHNZGs
@Ingrid—ya, it is a buzz kill for sure. God Bless ya with the Love, your Families most important nutrient. Catch Ya’ll later!
funny. not. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WeeYGAWlzQ
@Happy2:
I asked because I taught in public high school and found that the parents relied upon their children’s information, but these same students were messing around in class.
Charter schools have a worse record for performance: and one can’t categorically eliminate all public schools as failing. There are many many good teachers who sacrifice there own personal time and financial rewards to help society.
The plan to continue stakes-based testing and to eliminate local accountability will only lead to poor results. It is a proven that state testing tied to teacher pay hurts minorities whom are taught ‘to the test’.
Obama’s plan for education only indicates a lowering of standards: not a strengthening. The only imagination being developed is the diablolically-inspired Gate’s scion-fund for world domination.
This is the biggest story and the biggest fraud case in World History. Trillions of dollars stolen by the FED and CMKX has the proof.
Max, Please take a look at this letter by attorney Al Hodges to Andrew Cuomo for insight. I will fill you in on the rest. I would love it if you broke this story. This story if made public would end the FED.
Attorney General of the State of New York
120 Broadway, 23rd Floor
New York, NY 10001
Dear Ms. Brown:
Thank you for speaking with me earlier today and explaining that Mr. Markowitz was out for the rest of the day. We discussed briefly the nature of my request and you suggested that I forward the appropriate information to your attention via e-mail for Mr. Markowitz’s review on his return Monday, March 1, 2010. The information is as follows:
. I am a California trial attorney with some 40 years experience in State and Federal Court, as well as other jurisdictions.
. In January of this year I filed a Bivens Class Action against the five sitting SEC Commissions and five past SEC Commissioners seeking some 3.87 Trillion Dollars in damages for the taking of property by unconstitutionally withholding consent to distribute such sums as had previously been collected for the benefit of 50,000 + shareholders of CMKM Diamonds, Inc.; a conformed copy of the complaint is attached.
. The SEC Office of General Counsel has agreed to accept service on behalf of the sitting Commissioners; the other commissioners are currently being served.
. The weight of opinion is that this litigation will not be allowed to proceed into the discovery stages and/or to trial; there is mounting evidence that a distribution of funds to the shareholders is on the near horizon.
. I am advised that a portion of trust funds previously ear-marked for distribution to support the U.S. Domestic Settlement Fund Program currently in process were distributed to the United States Treasury facility in New York City on December 31, 2009 through and with the assistance of the New York Federal Reserve Bank in New York City.
. I am advised that these trust funds totaled 4.2 Trillion Dollars and were paid into the U.S. Treasury as and for taxes due to be paid from the trust(s) upon distribution of the trust assets.
. I am further advised that pursuant to Federal Banking Regulations, New York State Banking Regulations, and the Martin Act, inter alia, the transferred funds could be held without return for a maximum period of time under any circumstances for forty-five days or until midnight February 14, 2010.
. I am further advised that the U.S. Treasury has not remitted these funds, is still possessed of these funds and more importantly the trust(s) assets have not been distributed.
. The above circumstances, upon proof, demonstrate serious criminal violations of the statutes referred to above.
. I represent, at least as the Class Counsel, a number of New York residents who are beneficiaries of these trust(s) and are among the 50,000 + shareholders. I know many of these people on a personal basis in addition to being their counsel of record and can attest to their severe and continuing damage suffered and being suffered as a result of the non-distribution and non-receipt of the afore mentioned trust assets; some of them are also anxious to visit you in person and describe their continuing outrage.
Demand is hereby made that your office initiate, at the earliest possible time, an investigation into the criminal activities of those persons within your jurisdiction whom have contributed to and otherwise facilitated these criminal acts. I would be happy to discuss these facts with you at your early convenience. Please feel free to contact me directly at: (626) 564-9797. Thank you in advance for your prompt attention to this matter.
A. Clifton Hodges (CSBN 046803)
HODGES AND ASSOCIATES
4 East Holly Street, Suite 202
Pasadena, CA 91103-3900
@Snoot..
“From what I observe, it is the soccer moms and the teachers that are the backbone of the community round here. Thank the Lord for unions”
Frances, darling, you are so right. You are now on my list of favorite lady cats.
Scapegoating, as Max says in the latest radio show, is the way the bankers will respond. Attacking the workers, of course, is typically fascist. The bankers haven’t learned a new trick (socially) in a couple hundred years. And they haven’t learned any technology either, as Max also points out. They don’t know what their front running programs are doing. I’ve experienced this too. The managerial class has absolutely no idea what their systems are doing. They are utterly clueless.
“Frances, darling, you are so right. You are now on my list of favorite lady cats.”
Heh, Studs: It isn’t enclosed in a ‘little black book’ I hope.
i think max is wright when he talk about wall street gang. here is what mike norman say on youtube according to this matterhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i3XARHHDps&feature=channel
Max & Stacy:
The BBC got pissed because the Oracle predicted a run on the Pound at the end of 2009. Looks like you were only 2 months off! The jerks at the BBC should have listened to you.
Obama is a fucking idiot. Today, he publicly sided with the board of trustees in Rhode Island that fired teachers and administrators for not going along with an increased workload and longer days (and no compensation for all of the new responsibilities).
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20100301/us-entire-school-fired/
Seems like he is TRYING to lose the support of educators.
@Mep:
Obama said he was willing to close schools last year:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2009-05-11-duncan-schools_N.htm
The whole procedure will be lucrative for the state and a way to shaft the unions back/side. Teacher salaries will be slashed and a lower grade pool of worker employed:
http://www.epc.msu.edu/publications/REPORT/report17.pdf
@snoot
Well said. Charter schools are just another public to private transfer of wealth. We all know public schools are a mess, but how many of us can afford private school, with or without vouchers. If our teachers were paid more than our cops, perhaps we would see better results.
The problematic is that there are areas of the country where it is virtually impossible for a school to pass the no-child-left-behind annual-yearly-progress provision. An area with a high percentage of minority or immigrant students is virtually assured a fail. Even areas without a percentage of failing students on the ayp find that students are bussed in to the area schools through a diversification accord provided by Title 1 funding. Three years of no-pass and the school passes into State Board of Education hands. The fact is that the entire public school system is in a tremendous upheaval in the US and the funds are not getting to the students but are siphoned off according to a political hiearchy of ‘needs’.
Florida passed HB 991, a law voluntarily putting the entire state under Title 1 mandates without the funding appropriated to Title 1 schools. The teachers have no safety net, no respect, and no autonomy in the classroom.
We are only just entering the chaos.
@Mep:
How can Obama talk about “accountability”? What’s his attorney general Holder done to convict anyone since taking office?
With Obama the criminals sleep soundly.
No child’s behind left.
http://www.gregpalast.com/no-childs-behind-left/
@fibon 11235
是的，並希望在中國工作即將！
Eric Holder?
“Well, Chiquita claimed that it was merely paying protection money to the paramilitaries in Colombia. But the victims of the paramilitary violence in Colombia claim otherwise. They say that Chiquita was engaged in this systematic campaign to control banana production in Colombia and terrorize the population. And Chiquita was the only company in US history to be found guilty of paying bribes to a terrorist organization, as defined by the United States.
Eric Holder was the lead counsel defending Chiquita. He’s the top justice official in the United States with ties to this fruit company that was complicit in right-wing paramilitary violence.” Corporate sponsored terrorism? Or just business as usual in the banana republics? Eric knows to whom the patriot act applies.
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/7/21/from_arbenz_to_zelaya_chiquita_in
@Snoot. whatched this series a while back. hope you like it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZvYR81a1Nc
@palantiri
我想拼寫無關緊要的人，只要我們溝通，這是，畢竟目標。我只是想使我們不懶！
@susan
你說得對，我想我們大多數人不懂得整體的信息，即使它包含拼寫錯誤或錯誤使用的話。但是對我來說，英語不是我的第一語言，使閱讀拼寫錯誤的單詞可以使它有點難以了解和罕見的情況下我可能誤解整個事情。這是一個公開的國際網站與人來自世界各地，讓我接受拼寫錯誤，但正如你所指出，那些以英語為主要語言，應該沒有努力在考慮到我們外國人。
Don’t forget susan; it deosnt mttaer waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, olny taht the frist and lsat leettr be in the rghit pclae.
But it makes it sooo much easier when it is correct
@ snoot @ underfunded – I didn’t realize when the firings happened that the “reforms” being proposed were being proposed so that the school was eligible for funding under Obama/duncan’s “race to the top” educational reform program. Can’t help but hate Obama’s guts today. Nice reform: fire all of the teachers.
@mep
We are witnessing what Klein documents in her book the Shock Doctrine.
After each shock is applied, another flank of society is attacked by the doctrine makers. It is a premeditated attack on what is left of the commons.
@ underfunded – Sure seems that way, doesn’t it? Have to admit that it’s ironic that teachers are made to be “accountable” for the consequences of poverty, but at the same time, the Obama administration is backing up Goldman, JPMorgan, and all of the other manufacturers of poverty.
Too bad the unions are sitting on their asses like a bunch of sheep. I think they were promised an EFCA vote if they stayed off of the streets and didn’t engage any more in the health care or banking debates. They’re all a bunch of idiots if they really think that the White House will keep ANY promises it made to them.
@Y’All
as usual I don’t have time to reply to my fanmail this week… but please continue sending me your comments, pictures and video clips… even though you know I don’t look at them…. I know it helps brighten up your little lives…. I wonder if SIGNING will help… damn, I’m starting to feel like the woman from ‘Vision On!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FXcI9DThQ4
@mep
The unions here in the states have be decimated, and, what’s left was long ago co-opted by management. The most concessions ever gained by the working class was durring the late 1930′s, when spontaneous sit-downs ran rampant across the country from factory to retail stores. In contrast to organized walk-outs, the sit-downs made strike breaking more difficult because the shop was occupied by the strikers themselves. Once the unions were recognized by law and fdr set up mediation boards and courts ruled sit-downs to be illegal, the people lost a great weapon in direct action. Now, after half a century of corporate propaganda, the freedom to assmble and organize is demonized most by those who fancy themselves the true torch bearers of liberty, meanwhile, our true patriots are on russian television.
@happy Dick
excellent link on the rothchilds.
Alot of that info makes alot of sense.
Thanks M8
@ the underfundedmentalist
AMEN…America decimated unions, first they Red baited the strongest, vibrant and member driven unions even before 1917….all the IWW top dogs were imprisoned and “died” in prison effectively destroying it…CIO was absorbed and its leadership decapitated….Labor was sold out by it’s top leadership….and as the saying goes in America’s Penthouse they can “always buy half the workforce to kill the other half.” but none of America’s Labor History is allowed to be spoken about aloud…
watching Glenn Beck the voice of America now….telling me that conservatives pushed to the extreme right isn’t Fascism but Anarchy and only a crazy person would be called an Anarchist and of course the President is Marxist
great piece by Whitney in Counterpunch today about whether or not Bernie and Greenspan are criminally responsible for our tumble
http://www.counterpunch.org/whitney03012010.html
Uncut dollar bills used as wrapping paper !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdNFj_Inl9o
@Dustin—hey man, to good to hear you find that intriguing. We are here to help each other learn, accept SG, the dudes just out there.
Jibber Jabber – Iceland, Icesave – Democracy.
Oh my… what a thriller this turns out to be, Today the Icelandic Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurdardóttir said to a group of journalists after cabinet meeting, indicated that she would not exclude the possibility of referendum being postponed for a week or two. (from e24.no)
ruv.is reports a result from the icesave negotiations with the Brits and the Dutch will come in the next day or two and the Prime Minister still thinks it is a chance for success (from her point of view).
The battle of not having a referendum continues, what is democracy? I’ve been told I have it, living in one though a referendum is not mentioned once in the constitution. In my nations short age of 105 years only six referendums have been done, one about breaking free from the Union with Sweden, one about reinstall monarchy, two about alcohol prohibition and two about European Union and that it. Yeah, we vote every four year on who within a party gets to represent the party in the parliament, It is also said that that person represents the people from the district they come from. In other words I have to give away my vote to a few people who then take all decisions for me. representative democracy it is called. So look at Iceland where the politicians fight tooth and nail to prevent a referendum when they instead should be relieved by it, what is democracy?