Submitted by Tyler Durden: Until now, the terrible trail of dead banksters has been only among US and European 'financial executives'. However, as Caixin reports, the increasing pressures on the Chinese bankster system appear to have take their first toll. Li
Jianhua, director of China's Bankster Regulatory Commission (CBRC), died
this morning due to a "sudden heart attack" - he was less than 49 years
old. Li was among the main drafters on new "caveat emptor"
market-based rules on China's shadowy banking system and recently said
in an interview that "now is not only a time to control risk, but to transform the trust industry.. if it's too loose, it's a big problem." Li was found by his wife.
Via Caixin,
Li Jianhua, director of the CBRC AfDB died due to heart attack, still less than 49 years old. As planned, Li Jianhua this morning to attend a major industry conference.
According to several sources close to the CBRC said, Li Jianhua was revising to 12 o'clock at night.
Unexpectedly around 6:00 this morning, his wife found him passed away, due to sudden heart attack.
Sargon of Akkad: This is important. I am not attempting to offend anyone. The world has changed and you must change your perspectives.
By Paul Elam: Does
a wife who may have driven a husband to suicide with the assistance of
our corrupt family court system, then have a legal right to claim
copyright of his suicide note?
According to attorney Rachelle E. Hill, of Bean, Kinney and Korman,
and a judge, that is precisely the claim. They lawyer has written the
offices of A Voice for Men to demand that we remove a post from the
forums containing the note.
It is not going to happen.
The text of the note was posted to our forums months ago. We
considered doing a feature story on it at the time, but opted not to
because we had no credible corroboration that the story was factual.
Attorney Hill, her law firm, and the suicide victim’s former wife
have now resolved that matter to our satisfaction. The demand letter
itself is sufficient for us to believe that the following note is
genuine.
The love that my daughter and I shared was
truly special. She is a such a sweet, kind and gentle spirit. I am so
sorry that I will not be there to see her grow into a beautiful woman.
It absolutely crushed me to not be in her life over the last three
years.
By Charles Hugh Smith: This is how empires collapse: one complicit participant at a time.
Before an empire collapses, it first erodes from within. The collapse may appear sudden, but the processes of internal rot hollowed out the resilience, resolve, purpose and vitality of the empire long before its final implosion. What are these processes of internal rot? Here are a few of the most pervasive and destructive forces of internal corrosion:
1. Each institution within the system loses sight of its original purpose of serving the populace and becomes self-serving. This erosion of common purpose serving the common good is so gradual that participants forget there was a time when the focus wasn't on gaming the system to avoid work and accountability but serving the common good.
2. The corrupt Status Quo corrupts every individual who works within the system. Once an institution loses its original purpose and becomes self-serving, everyone within either seeks to maximize their own personal share of the swag and minimize their accountability, or they are forced out as a potentially dangerous uncorrupted insider.
Greg Hunter: Can bankster bail-ins happen in America? Ellen Brown of the Web-of-Debt blog
says, "It could, and I think it will." Brown, who has written two books
on the advantages of public banking, contends, "They don't have any
alternative if they are going to keep these banks alive. This is the
solution: They just knock down the liabilities, and they will be
solvent again, but what that means is they'll be taking the depositors'
money. . . . They are making it legal. This is what will be done in the
event they are not solvent. They are too big to fail. They can't
allow these banks to fail, so what will they do? They will take the
deposits and case solved."
By Joseph Kerr
What do you do when a girl hits you?
I was sitting across the desk from the child protective services supervisor, who spoke with confidence of things he didn’t know.
“You’ve been to Iraq, we know all the guys who come back are fucked
up in the head… If you need medication to stay focused or to see someone
for mental issues — we know the military just sends you to war and
spits you back out on the streets — we can help you with that.”
That’s one hell of a worm in the water. I had steady hands on my gear
as the bullets were flying. My voice was confident when addressing
senior leaders no matter the circumstance. Now I wore a nice-guy smile
and kept cool as the guy who was going to decide if I was fit to see my
daughter again belittled my Marine Corps career and used my stack of
medals to weigh the scales against me to prove my psychosis.
My hands lay gently on the table; the identification tabs from jail
and the hospital were stacked on my left wrist. I turned my head
slightly. He’d have to continue to insult my manhood and military
service into a baseball-sized lump enveloping my eye.
“What do you do when a girl hits you? … You wouldn’t just stand
there, right? I mean you’re a big guy, you’re a Marine, you’re trained
to fight, the Marines wouldn’t teach you to get beat up….”
Clever.
By Michael Snyder: For most of Canada's existence, it has been regarded as the weak
neighbor to the north by most Americans. Well, that has changed
dramatically over the past decade or so. Back in the year 2000, middle
class Canadians were earning much less than middle class Americans, but
since then there has been a dramatic shift. At this point, middle class
Canadians are actually earning more than middle class Americans are.
The Canadian economy has been booming thanks to a rapidly growing oil
industry, and meanwhile the U.S. middle class has been steadily shrinking.
If current trends continue, a whole bunch of other countries are going
to start passing us too. The era of the "great U.S. middle class" is
rapidly coming to a bitter end.
In recent years, I have been up to Canada frequently, and I am always
amazed at how much nicer things are up there. The stores and streets
are cleaner, the people are more polite and it seems like almost
everyone that wants to work has a job.
But despite knowing all this, I was still surprised when the New York Times reported this week that middle class incomes in Canada have now surpassed middle class incomes in the United States...
After-tax middle-class incomes in Canada — substantially behind in 2000 — now appear to be higher than in the United States. The poor in much of Europe earn more than poor Americans.
And things are particularly dire for those in the U.S. on the low end of the scale...
Stefan Molyneux: Banning Bitcoin, the morality of casual sex, a lifetime of bad choices, talking to your son about his inherited dysfunction and a conversation with a pick-up artist.
6oodfella: If you are going to comment, please leave a bear pun in honour of Mr Grylls :)
He is making a show about survival, and all the contestants are male, which isn't a problem for the rest of us, but for a select few, it is a terrible thing, and rather sexist, for some reason.
By John Hembling (JtO): What
do you call the opposite of justice? Many people would say the answer
is injustice. However, what if you subscribed to a particular ideal
which had goals that when attained would advantage you but would be
sharply destructive to just about everyone else – and to achieve these
goals, you needed widespread public adoption of your goals as if they
were something positive for everyone.
It wouldn’t be effective to speak about such destructive intentions
in plain language. It would make more sense in such a case to use a
different word than injustice to describe what was the opposite of
justice. In fact, if the social standing of individuals, or their social
demographic could be used to selectively suppress their basic freedoms,
such as freedom to speak – and for individuals of another social
demographic to have their demands elevated above anyone else – you’d
need some pretty manipulative rhetoric to accomplish this.
How about altering the term justice, by placing a positive sounding
adjective in front of it. Like social justice. It’s a pretty neat trick,
and it convinces nearly everyone who hears it that selectively
suppressing or elevating people’s fundamental human freedoms based on
which demographic they belong to is a good, positive practice, and
convincing them it’s not the practice of what not so long ago, we would
have called apartheid.
The RSA: In this RSA Animate, renowned experimental psychologist Steven
Pinker shows us how the mind turns the finite building blocks of
language into infinite meanings.
