27 Apr 2013
Mr Tepper - The Bankster
Meet The Idiot Selling Gold - Jamie Dimon Has Issues
MARK MCHUGH: Somebody should explain to the blathering numbskulls at CNBS that when just one firm accounts for 99.3% of the physical gold sales at the COMEX in the last three months
it’s not what most of us on this side of the rainbow would consider
“broad-based” selling. Of course discovering this kind of relevant
information requires an internet connection, 2nd grade math and reading
skills, and the desire to do a teeny-weeny bit of reporting. Sadly
they’ve wandered so far down the rabbit hole that the concept of
“physical demand” (i.e. people actually wanting to take possession of
the stuff) is puzzling to them because the vast majority of the world’s
so-called “gold-trading” takes place in the realm of make believe (which
is their natural habitat). It’s all fun and games until somebody loses
their metal and “somebody” has lost one hell of a lot of metal in the
last 90 days.Apartheid: 'Israel seeking Palestinian expulsion'
Luxembourg Is Not The Next Cyprus, Not Yet, But....
By Wolf Richter: The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, with a population of just over half a
million, smaller even than the other speck in the Eurozone, the Republic
of Cyprus, ranks in the top three worldwide in per-capita GDP. In a Eurozone wealth survey,
it had the highest average household wealth – €710,100. Only Cyprus, a
former off-shore banking center in the Eurozone, came close. Yet
Luxembourg is threatened with ruin.
It has 141 banks – bank companies, not ATMs. One bank per 3,808 people. Most of them do private banking. The financial sector added 38%
to GDP in 2010 and contributed 30% to the country’s tax revenues,
according to the Luxembourg Bankers’ Association (ABBL). All due to bank
secrecy and tax laws. But suddenly, after Cyprus had been massacred,
Luxembourg buckled.
GDP Boosters "Doctors incentive to murder!" - Max and Stacy with Mark Melin
The Pirate Bay relocates to Iceland after fascist Greenland rejection
RT: Under pressure from international copyright fascists, The Pirate Bay
has relocated to Iceland. The world’s largest file-sharing site moved
its servers to Greenland last month but now employs an Icelandic .is
domain, which will be harder to take offline. The Pirate Bay’s operators first moved from Sweden to Greenland
after anticipating that their domain would be seized by
authorities. That fear became a reality after the move to Greenland
earlier this month when, just days after making the switch,
Tele-Post, the company responsible for domain registrations in
Greenland, revoked The Pirate Bay’s rights citing “illegal”
use.
“The short answer is no. Such an action would require a formal order from Icelandic court,” said ISNIC’s Marius Olafsson. “ISNIC is not responsible for a registrant’s usage of their domains. This policy applies equally to any .is domain.”
Condoleezza Rice defends torture, confirms Bush’s role in the program in new video clip
The fact that Bush authorized waterboarding is not just now being revealed. Indeed, it has been known since he published his memoir.
However, as the ACLU points out, “What comes as a bit of a shock, perhaps, is how candid Rice is about the role of President Bush himself in authorizing torture.”
“Now Rice has confirmed that President Bush himself was involved in vetting the CIA’s request for approval to torture,” Alexander Abdo, staff attorney for the ACLU’s National Security Project writes.
“The president asked two very important questions in the decision to use these techniques,” Rice says. “He asked the CIA if it was necessary and he asked the Justice Department if it was legal. Both departments answered yes.”
“Only when he was satisfied that we could protect both our liberties and our security did he signal that we could go ahead,” former Secretary of State Rice says in the clip.
In the clip originally obtained by Foreign Policy, which is only 49 seconds long, Rice also claims that torture actually kept Americans safe after September 11, 2001.
“The fact that we have not had a successful attack on our territory traces directly to those difficult decisions,” Rice says in the brief portion of the five-minute video presentation.
“We couldn’t disagree more,” Abdo wrote.
The Good Guys Are NOT Coming To Save Us
There are several problems with this. I’ll start with the small issues:
- It doesn’t happen. A lot of good people have latched on to one grand possibility after another, waiting for a good guy to save the day, and it just doesn’t happen. Thousands of hours of reading, writing and waiting are burned with each new “great light” who comes along with a promise to run the system in the “right” way, and give us liberty and truth. (Or whatever.) Lots of decent folks grab on to one pleasant dream after another, only to end up right back where they started… but poorer in time, energy and finances.
- Hope is a scam. It’s a dream of someday, somehow, getting something for nothing. People who hope do not act – they wait for other people to act. Hope is a tool to neuter a natural opposition: they sit and hope, and never act against you. Even the biblical meaning of hope is something more like expectation (or sometimes waiting) than the modern use of hope.
- Petitioning an abuser for compassion.
