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YouTube -- RussiaRoday: London Falling: Like a man eating his own leg
'Across the Atlantic, the global financial troubles have reached the UK, as it becomes the latest nation to feel the pinch. Rating's giant Moody's has downgraded 12 of Britain's financial firms and banks, including the Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds TSB. That comes after the Bank of England chief said the country's economy is at its lowest point since the 1930s if not ever. RT gets more on this from British Euro MP, Godfrey Bloom.' -- "If [money-printing] was successful, why doesn't he give money-printing machines to every family in the United Kingdom, that they could put in their attic and print money whenever they wanted to go buy something?"
economics  greatestdepression  debt  collapse  centralbanking  statism  socialism  keynesianism  QE  inflation  theft  fraud  counterfeiting  uk 
october 2011 by adamcrowe
Wikipedia -- Police of The Wire: Lester Freamon
"You'd rather sit in a surveillance van for days on end waiting to catch Tator handing Pee-Wee a vial? This, Detective, is what you're telling me?? A case like this here, where you show who gets paid behind all the tragedy and the fraud, where you show how the money routes itself – how we're all, all of us vested, all of us complicit... Baby, I could die happy."
systems  statism  mercantilism  fraud  ethics  TheWire  quotes  sleuthing  from delicious
june 2011 by adamcrowe
Infowars -- Government Orders You Tube To Censor Protest Videos
'Hayes has embarked on an effort to legally prove that the enforced collection of council tax by government is unlawful because no contract has been agreed between the individual and the state. His argument is based on the sound legal principle that just like the council, Hayes can represent himself as a third party in court and that "Roger Hayes" is a corporation and must be treated as one in the eyes of the law. The British government doesn't want this kind of information going viral in the public domain because it is scared stiff of a repeat of the infamous poll tax riots of 1990, a massive tax revolt in the UK that forced the Thatcher government to scrap the poll tax altogether because of mass civil disobedience and refusal to pay. When viewers in the UK attempt to watch videos of the protest, they are met with the message, "This content is not available in your country due to a government removal request."' -- It is a fraud to conceal a fraud. (Maxims of Law)
law  fraud  legalese  government  google  censorship  uk  from delicious
may 2011 by adamcrowe
Get Out Of Debt Free
'7 Reasons why Credit Card/Loan agreements are unlawful or why you don't owe your bank/credit card company anything: #Your Credit Card Agreement is an unlawful contract as it is ONLY signed by you – constituting a unilateral agreement. (Contract Law) #All contracts, in order to be valid, must be signed by someone able to bind the corporation in contract. (Contract Law) #You do not have to pay statements, only invoices. (Bills of Exchange Act 1882) #You are not lawfully bound to pay anything which is unsigned. (Bills of Exchange Act 1882) #The uppercase name on the credit card is not your name, but a 'corporate entity'. (Blacks Law Dictionary) #The governments are so desperate to keep this racket going, that they will bail out ANY bank that gets into trouble! Being in debt is one of the consequences of playing the game #There is not enough Money in circulation for everyone to pay off ALL the debts! #The whole system is totally fraudulent...' -- Prove it to yourself.
law  legalese  banking  debt  fraud  hologram  thematrix 
january 2011 by adamcrowe
The Daily Bell -- Retiring CFTC Judge: We Covered Up Market Manipulation
'Dominant Social Theme: Please don't look at the man behind the curtain. -- The entire mechanism has been reborn as a public enterprise beholden to the elite. Teacher, lawyer, educator, accountant, doctor or military person – all are entangled in a quasi-public system beholden to government at almost every level (and many are aware of their unwitting complicity, even if they can't verbalize it). For those who seek to survive outside of the system, there are various intelligence agencies and other adversarial governmental institutions manufactured to make life difficult. -- The "silver lining" to all of this, if there is one, is that the truth-telling of the Internet has thoroughly upset the artificial construct – the all-encompassing monetary and professional matrix – that the elite created through money power in the 21st century. As we have written before, there is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.'
economics  legalese  statism  mercantilsm  centralbanking  oligarchy  oligarchicalcollectivism  fraud  metastasis  thematrix  internet  cognitivesurplus  mercantilism  from delicious
october 2010 by adamcrowe
What You Didn't Know About Taxes & The 'Crown' by Mark Owen
'The Inner Temple holds the legal system franchise by license that bleeds Canada and Great Britain white, while the Middle Temple has license to steal from America. To have the Declaration of Independence recognized internationally, Middle Templar King George III agreed in the Treaty of Paris of 1783 to establish the legal Crown entity of the incorporated United States, referred to internally as the Crown Temple States (Colonies). States spelled with a capital letter 'S,' denotes a legal entity of the Crown. At least five Templar Bar Attorneys under solemn oath to the Crown, signed the American Declaration of Independence. This means that both parties were agents of the Crown. There is no lawful effect when a party signs as both the first and second parties. The Declaration was simply an internal memo circulating among private members of the Crown. Colonials rebelled at the usurious Crown taxes, and thus the Declaration of Independence was created to pacify the populace.'
history  TheCrown  america  constitution  legalese  fraud  oligarchicalcollectivism  from delicious
october 2010 by adamcrowe
Freedom Rebels Network -- What Is A Freeman?
'In the year 1215 the first of our constitutional rights were set down on paper, it was called the Magna Carta, this was basically an oath from the crown (King or Queen) to uphold the rights of the people... Now our ancestors were not daft, they knew there could be a problem one day if the crown became unjust, or turned into some sort of dictatorship, or parliament was acting against the people, or was full of corruption, or was not allowing the crown to keep its oath. So in article 61 of the Magna Carta it was written that if this ever happened you could petition the crown to sort out the crowns problem (or parliaments if it was them), the crown had 40 days to fix it or dissolve parliament. If in the 40 days nothing was fixed the petitioner could go into rebellion against the crown and parliament lawfully until the problem was resolved. Because our constitution cannot be repealed it is still valid law. ...none of us have ever sworn an oath to be in the navy and obey admiralty law...'
uk  law  constitution  admiralty  commerce  legalese  fraud  from delicious
october 2010 by adamcrowe
Vimeo -- English Freemen Standing In Court - Council Tax Hearing - The Takedown Begins!
'Here we see Englsih Freemen standing in court as Lay Advisors to another Freemen. This is for a Council Tax Liability Order hearing in Cwmbran Magistrates Court in South Wales, There were 14 Freemen in attendance. The court was never convened as the Freemen never handed juridiction to magistrates or the clerk by standing up when ordered to do so and the magistrates never sat down. The magistrates twice abandoned the court (the ship) and it was the Freemen who called the Police and at one point the Lay advisor can clearly be heard calling attending Police Constables to arrest the magistrates for impersonating judges. There were many criminal acts committed this day by the company personnel (Magistrates, solictors, security and the clerk) and Police complaints are under way pending prosecutions for Fraud among other things. But for the real shocker of how these people think they are above the law ... Watch until the end!' -- Haha! WHO IS LIABLE FOR THE NAME?!
*  legalese  fraud  backlash  persons  countermeasures  commonlaw  law  from delicious
october 2010 by adamcrowe
zero hedge -- Gonzalo Lira On The Coming Middle-Class Anarchy
'Ilsa is quietly, constantly insisting that they stop paying the mortgage altogether: “Everybody else is doing it—so why shouldn’t we?” A terrible sentence when a law-abiding citizen speaks it: Everybody else is doing it—so why don’t we? Fuck the rules. Fuck playing the game the banksters want you to play. Fuck being the good citizen. Fuck filling out every form, fuck paying every tax. Fuck the government, fuck the banks who own them. Fuck the free-loaders, living rent-free while we pay. Fuck the legal process, a game which only works if you’ve got the money to pay for the parasite lawyers. Fuck being a chump. Fuck being a stooge. Fuck trying to do the right thing—what good does that get you? What good is coming your way? Fuckit. When the backbone of a country starts thinking that laws and rules are not worth following, it’s just a hop, skip and a jump to anarchy. Once enough of these J. Crew Anarchists decide they no longer give a fuck, it’s over for America—because they are America.'
america  government  mercantilism  realestate  fraud  backlash  middleclass  collapse  greatestdepression  foreclosuregate  from delicious
october 2010 by adamcrowe
Molinari Institute -- No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority by Lysander Spooner
'The constitution not only binds nobody now, but it never did bind anybody. It never bound anybody, because it was never agreed to by anybody in such a manner as to make it, on general principles of law and reason, binding upon him. -- It is a general principle of law and reason, that a written instrument binds no one until he has signed it. The laws holds, and reason declares, that if a written instrument is not signed, the presumption must be that the party to be bound by it, did not choose to sign it, or to bind himself by it. And law and reason both give him until the last moment, in which to decide whether he will sign it, or not. The fact that the instrument was written for him to sign, or with the hope that he would sign it, goes for nothing. Where would be the end of fraud and litigation, if one party could bring into court a written instrument, without any signature, and claim to have it enforced, upon the ground that it was written for another man to sign?'
america  constitution  delusion  socialcontract  legalese  contracts  law  fraud  *  government  democracy  LysanderSpooner  from delicious
september 2010 by adamcrowe
Molinari Institute -- Lysander Spooner: A Second Letter to Thomas F. Bayard
Dear America, -- 'Yet again and again, throughout your speech, you repeat the idea, that this so-called constitution, which nobody ever signed, which few people ever read, which the great body of the people never saw, and about whose meaning no two persons ever agreed, is “The Supreme Law of this Land!” Sir, where did this wonderful constitution come from, that you should describe it as “The Supreme Law of this Land?” Did it originate with any body who had any rightful authority to impose it upon the people of this country? Sir, this declaration of yours, that the constitution (so-called) is “the Supreme Law of this Land,” is utterly, flagrantly, shamefully false. Justice alone is the Supreme Law of this land, and of all other lands. And it is not because your “Supreme Law of the Land,” the constitution – but because the supreme law of justice is “neglected,” “forgotten,” “disregarded,” and “disobeyed,” that our liberty is lost; or, rather, never had an existence.'
*  2+2=4  law  contracts  legalese  america  constitution  delusion  lies  fraud  slavery  socialcontract  LysanderSpooner  from delicious
september 2010 by adamcrowe
Maxims of Law
#Fraud lies hid in general expressions. #It is a fraud to conceal a fraud. #Once a fraud, always a fraud. #What otherwise is good and just, if it be sought by force and fraud, becomes bad and unjust. #He is not deceived who knows himself to be deceived. #Let him who wishes to be deceived, be deceived. #The propriety of words is the safety of property.
fraud  words  legalese  law  truth  property  contracts  voluntaryism  freedom  estoppel  from delicious
august 2010 by adamcrowe
Johann Hari -- How Goldman Sachs gambled on starving the world's poor - and won
"If we don't re-regulate..." and then re-re-regulate and then re-re-re-regulate and then re-re-re-re-regulate and then re-re-re-re-re-regulate and then re-re-re-re-re-re-regulate and then re-re-re-re-re-re-re-regulate and then re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-regulate and then re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-regulate and then re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-regulate and then re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-regulate and then re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-regulate and then re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-regulate and then re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-regulate and then re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-regulate and then?
agriculture  markets  manipulation  fraud  regulatorycapture  regulation  government  pricefixing  delusion  2+2=5  from delicious
july 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Renaissance 2.0: Lesson 6 1/3: Brightening the Future
'Introduces the concept of the monetary vortex, how it's driven by debt, how it controls everything in our system, including inflation and deflation. It also covers the role derivatives play and addresses how sovereign money breaks the power of the vortex.' -- Two problems: Central banks create the reserves to back bank-created credit money and banks wouldn't/couldn't create that credit (well, *they* don't, of course – we do with our signatures) without the surety of the backing – thus government with its public/private mercantilist central banks 'create' the conditions for credit inflation and are ultimately responsible for continued inflation. Next, if government and its 'sovereign' money system can be taken over by banksters – as it has been, time and time again – why will such a system be immune to predation next time? Why is government the right answer this time when it has been proven to be the wrong answer time and time again? -- Still, great explanation of inflation/deflation.
economics  statism  government  centralbanking  mercantilism  debt  credit  inflation  fraud  oligarchy  from delicious
june 2010 by adamcrowe
REALITY BLOG -- The Biggest Game In Town: Walter Burien And Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports
'...that profit is no longer considered tax-payer (public) owned money, since it was earned by investment or by accrued interest. That “extra money” goes elsewhere… mainly into other investments or funds which grease the pockets of the “in the know” politicians and corporations and other people and groups involved. Some open what are called “self insurance funds” and then draw dividends for themselves and their fellow conspirators... Corporations are the government are the corporations are the government… Another way of looking at this conundrum is this: When a major corporation donates money to a political campaign, this is actually a loophole around campaign finance laws, as this is really just the government donating money to its own candidate or party through its collective-investment-owned “private” corporations. This is hard to swallow, but true as the nose on your face! The country has for the most part been sold off to private corporations and public-private partnerships (PPP)'
government  accounting  fraud  corporation  corporatism  racketeering  PPP  mercantilism 
june 2010 by adamcrowe
CAFR1 -- 1940's Secret "Corporate" Tactic By Which Government Took All!
'Government started out as a "pay as you go" structure. By transforming into a corporate liability company over the decades, this gave them the ability to use "advance projections" to strip annual operating funds and create advance forward liability accounts whereby in doing so they were able to by stealth build numerous "wealth bases" of equity in many designated fund balances separate from the budget reports that were exclusively presented for public viewing. When looking at the "whole picture" through the CAFR and sub investment fund reports noted per gross income, only 1/3rd is tax income whereas when you look at a budget report for the year it gives the impression per gross income that nearly 100% is tax income. Budget reports are presented giving the false impression that it "is" the true financial picture and it is far from it. What is shown is primarily tax income for a "selective grouping" of accounts where tax income is collected and expended.'
government  accounting  fraud  corporation  corporatism  racketeering  PPP  mercantilism 
june 2010 by adamcrowe
Google Video -- "The Biggest Game In Town" about the Government CAFR wealth shell game
'Government promotes annual "Budget Reports" and at the same time virtually not a peep as to their Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) ...final ownership of our country by the corporate government syndicate or by the people is at stake here. The BLACK-OUT continues from our government, the syndicated media, controlled education, and both primary political parties.. DUE TO THE MONEY AND CONTROL INVOLVED! -- http://cafr1.com: ONLY 1/3rd OF GOVERNMENT'S GROSS INCOME WAS TAX INCOME... Could it be that our own Government over the last several decades has been promoting to those fortune 500 companies, of which Government owns most through Bond - Loan investment / stock ownership [EXAMPLES: 82% stock ownership of Microsoft Corporation, Disney 61%, AOLTime Warner 58%, EXXON 72%] to manufacture abroad so that Government would realize greater returns on their investments at the Peoples of the USA's expense in jobs and wealth retention.' -- Government, the only corporation that can tax.
america  government  accounting  fraud  corporation  corporatism  racketeering  PPP  mercantilism 
june 2010 by adamcrowe
Scribd -- Secret Banker's Manual (PDF)
'TOP SECRET BANKER'S MANUAL - FOR BANKERS ONLY - This manual is designed for Bank Presidents and Vice Presidents only. *Do not allow lower level bank employees to review.* -- (This manual is for educational purposes only and is not intended as legal advice.)' -- More info: http://www.bankdebt.org / http://www.bankdebt.org/ts2002.mp3
*  law  legalese  banking  debt  counterfeit  accounting  scams  fraud  pdf 
june 2010 by adamcrowe
Get Out of Debt Free -- Forum: more bull
Draft reply/rant to a bank explaining the loan/credit card fraud: '...providing you had actually 'lent' this money from your own funds and had not taken my cheque [signed loan/credit application] cashed it with the treasury who took the money from my [treasury] account gave it back to you and you then gave it back to me as an alleged loan and asked for the principal back and charged enormous amounts of interest on it to boot...'
law  legalese  bankruptcy  banking  creditcards  loans  debt  scams  fraud 
june 2010 by adamcrowe
The Daily Bell -- Internet Erodes Faith in Western Economies
'Like a rock thrown into a pond, the electronic ripples widen. The process is quiet and personal. The promotions aren't working anymore, or not nearly as well as they did in the 20th century. Read about the Greek protests: The rhetoric that the Greeks protest-leaders are using is not merely socialist or communist. They're not blaming capitalists—they're blaming their own leaders and the European banking system. They're putting the blame where, to a degree, it actually belongs. The Greeks in aggregate (like most Western populations) may not fully understand that the current system is based on fraud—from merely creating money at the touch of a button. But people aren't idiots. And many have seen the trillions disbursed to the banking community while their own lives are correspondingly reduced and even ruined. They wonder why their pensions, their jobs, their lives have to be so dramatically constrained while the elites spend trillions to prop up a system that doesn't work.'
economics  centralbanking  fiat  fraud  kleptocracy  internet  cognitivesurplus 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
The Daily Bell -- Is Fed Independence Good?
'What the Fed does in setting interest rates is price-fixing. When the Fed "prints" money, it is fixing the volume of money as well. Price-fixing NEVER works. It always distorts the markets, results in a queue or scarcity, etc. This is a fundamental difficulty for those justifying central banks. It is the reason that we can say with some certainty that central banking is a power elite promotion – because when looked at logically it makes no sense. Those involved in central banking are fixing the price of money itself, and guaranteeing that the larger society suffers from terrible booms and busts in the process. ...the Big Lie of central banking is a pervasive one and shows, in its ongoing presence the extent of the power elite's ability to perpetuate within the larger populace a kind of cognitive dissonance. People believed, and still believe, that the West is oriented around a market economy, yet its central money functions are entirely controlled by a small handful of people.'
economics  centralbanking  pricefixing  fraud  oligarchy  oligarchicalcollectivism 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
New York Press -- Fraudonomics: Mark Ames [talks to a Private Equity guy about the SEC fraud case]
PE guy: “Open that can of worms labeled ‘Fraud’ and the whole fucking economy collapses. And here’s what I’m trying to get you to understand: people don’t give a fuck about Jefferson and ‘free and fair markets,’ they just want their savings to be worth something ...the point is [whoever pops this fraud bubble and] destroys this economy because it’s ‘the right thing to do’ will have to flee for his life, and whatever president or political party was in power when that decision was made will be out of power for the next 200 years. That’s why Washington panicked and passed ‘the bailout,’ they didn’t want to be the fools whom all the Ponzi victims blame for tanking the Ponzi scheme, so they broke the glass and pumped up a newer, bigger Ponzi scheme. You distract the dumbshits with free-market B.S. because hey, for whatever reason, that’s what the public likes to hear, it doesn’t really matter what lie you feed them so long as it’s the lie that puts them in a trance."
economics  america  ponzi  fraud  truebelieversyndrome 
april 2010 by adamcrowe
The Daily Bell -- In Defense of Goldman
'The power elite that organized the current Western monetary system was successful back in the 1930s in creating a narrative that blamed the financial industry (Wall Street, etc.) for the crash and subsequent Depression. As books like the Creature From Jekyll Island have shown us, it was the formation of a modern central bank, in tandem with modern regulatory democracy that caused the monetary failures that led to the Great Depression. It was inevitable that the elite would again try to shape the narrative of the modern money crisis, and in the largest sense, we think the Goldman lawsuit is part of the process. We are not necessarily implying, by the way, that the powers-that-be sat down in a conference room and decided to blame Goldman for everything. But just as the Western mercantilist money system itself eventually yields up chaos, so the system, with its farcical and dysfunctional regulatory apparatus, eventually yields up culprits. And it has been designed that way.'
economics  mercantilism  centralbanking  businesscycle  malinvestment  bubble  fraud  GoldmanSachs  "capitalism"  populism  metanarratives  forcedmemes  misdirection 
april 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Warren Pollock: Goldman Fraud Charge Spiral Reaction
'After reading the SEC Goldman complaint I came to the conclusion that the "overview" fraud has not been addressed. Instead we have implications based on the "verbiage" of representations instead of the very structure of instruments which are no more than schemes. These pieces of paper are so toxic they cannot be netted without exposing fraud, and the loss of money. I then go over something I call a "spiral reaction" which is the process of compounding mistakes to cover up fraud and lies. My question is what event will trigger the next spiral.'
economics  finance  CDO  junkbonds  pumpanddump  fraud  GoldmanSachs 
april 2010 by adamcrowe
zero hedge -- Ratigan Presents Financial Fraud For Dummies (Literally)
'Dylan Ratigan and the Story Pirates have dumbed down the biggest generational theft in US history to the level where a Sesame Street fan can get it... Or is that a master ES trader with laser precision liquidity withdrawal reflexes? Anyway, it is somewhat sad to witness the transition of America from at least a passably respectable nation to one in which it is made plainly obvious to children, that to succeed in life one must cheat, lie and steal with the best of the the bankers.' -- Video inside.
economics  finance  fraud  america  corruption  cronyism  mercantilism  regulatorycapture  kleptocracy  satire 
april 2010 by adamcrowe
The Daily Bell -- Five More Years of Hard Times
'...this latest Great Unraveling when combined with the power of the truth to flourish on the Internet – which has educated people about the reality of this sick system – may spell the end of 20th century-style fiat-capitalism – a system that has been draining the wealth and productivity of the American people, as well as those in other nations, for far too long now. The power elite no doubt means for the current fiat collapse and crisis to give rise to a more seamless global financial regime supervising regional currencies along with an ever-increasing authoritarian state to keep dissidents in check. -- We are not so sure the elite will achieve its goal this time around, not even if it is successful in starting a war with Iran. The elite's dominant social themes are colliding with the relentless education, reporting and truth-telling of the Internet. The longer this state of affairs persists, the more tenuous the elite's fear-based promotions become.'
economics  businesscycle  centralbanking  fiat  fraud  oligarchy  internet  cognitivesurplus 
april 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- RussiaToday: Keiser Report: Special Greenspan Bubble Edition
"The man is a charlatan, he's a witch!" -- 'Alan Greenspan, tells the show trial commissioners that the financial world is far too complex for mere mortals.' -- Price-fixing leads to all sorts of unintended consequences, malinvestments and moral hazards. Who knew??
economics  centralbanking  pricefixing  fraud  federalreserve  AlanGreenspan 
april 2010 by adamcrowe
The Daily Bell -- What Taxes Are Necessary?
'Bernanke and others probably think that most people in America and the rest of the world are still convinced that the "financial industry" is "a necessity to the functioning of Western economies. Everybody did seem to think so in the pre-Internet 20th century. But we would bet that at least some people (more and more), having seen the bailouts, read about money on the Internet, and observed the result of two-years of Keynesian stimulation, are concluding otherwise. We read the Internet quite a bit. People, especially young people, really do "get it." When you have quasi-government central banking entities (as opposed to fully private entities which would be far less powerful and abusive as they would not wield the authority of government) you have what cannot be described otherwise than as dubious mercantilist mechanism. That's what they "get." And the frustration rises.'
economics  fiat  fraud  tax  theft  mercantilism  parasitism  oligarchy 
april 2010 by adamcrowe
The Market Ticker -- The Federal Con Job w/Dylan Ratigan
'Here 'ya go... in  about 15 minutes...' -- Video: "Think of the Fed as the Godfather in this con." -- Forced land speculation, basically. (Forced because real jobs were shipped overseas.) -- "Your money." It's neither "money": it's casino chips loaned at interest, nor is it "yours": it's theirs, the casino house: the banks that own the Fed.
economics  america  fraud  federalreserve  casinogulag  mercantilism 
april 2010 by adamcrowe
zero hedge -- Former Goldman Commodities Research Analyst Confirms LMBA OTC Gold Market Is "Paper Gold" Ponzi
'Christian [CPM] confirms that the gold market is basically a ponzi: "in the “physical market” as the market uses that term, there is much more metal than that…there is a hundred times what there is." And there you have it: as Douglas [GATA] eloquently summarizes: "LBMA trades over 100 times the amount of gold it actually has to back the trades. [T]he giant Ponzi trading of gold ledger entries can be sustained only if there is never a liquidity crisis in the REAL physical market. If someone asks for gold and there isn’t any the default would trigger the biggest “bank run” and default in history. [Those] who have purchased gold in good faith in “unallocated accounts”, are going to demand delivery of their metal. They will then discover that there is only one ounce for every one hundred ounces claimed. They will find out they are “unsecured creditors”. As long as everyone is prepared to buy and sell “ledger entries” for imaginary gold in the vault no one will ever discover the fraud."'
economics  gold  manipulation  fraud  ponzi 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
The Daily Bell -- Central Banks Buy Gold
'So now the West's central banks are buying gold. They couldn't sell enough of it when the yellow metal was priced around US$250 just about a decade ago. But now that it is well over US$1,000 they can't buy enough. This alone should disabuse people of the notion that central bankers are wise and efficient utilizers of the vast money power that they have control over. Central bankers are probably loath to leave so much of this important stuff in people's hands. -- Precious metals standards do not, in fact, need elaborate governmental interventions to be installed (just another meme in our opinion). Honest money becomes the standard of the land by evolution, as people turn to gold and silver while paper currency collapses. One need make no complex prognostications about how to "reintegrate" a precious metals standard into society. If paper money loses enough credibility, it will simply happen. It already is, according to Gartman. We are not surprised, and neither are you.'
economics  gold  centralbanking  fiat  fraud 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
Telegraph Blogs -- Climategate: the parliamentary cover-up
'Turns out, that there’s this well-funded SPECTRE-like advocacy group called GLOBE (Global Legislators for a Balanced Environment) International which has co-opted leading parliamentarians from the main parties in both the Commons and the Lords into advancing the AGW agenda. -- And where does [its] money come from? Its 2008 accounts note: "The Directors acknowledge the support of International Organisations, Governments, Parliamentary Bodies and Industry, both financially and politically, with paticular acknowledgement to United Nations, The Global Environment Facility, The World Bank, European Commission, the Governments of Canada and Great Britain, the Senate of Brazil and Globe Japan."'
climategate  environmentalism  fabianism  puppetry  fraud 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
zero hedge -- Did Gordon Brown Sell UKs Gold To Keep AIG And Rothschild Solvent
'In front of 3 witnesses, Bank of England Governor Eddie George spoke to Nicholas J. Morrell (CEO of Lonmin Plc) after the Washington Agreement gold price explosion in Sept/Oct 1999. Mr. George said: "We looked into the abyss if the gold price rose further. A further rise would have taken down one or several trading houses, which might have taken down all the rest in their wake. Therefore at any price, at any cost, the central banks had to quell the gold price, manage it. It was very difficult to get the gold price under control but we have now succeeded. The US Fed was very active in getting the gold price down. So was the U.K." -- There is also a credible speculation that the sale was designed to benefit a few of the London based bullion banks which were heavily short... The unlikely names mentioned were AIG and the House of Rothschild. The terms of the bailout was that once their positions were covered, they were to leave the LBMA, the largest physical bullion market in the world.'
economics  gold  manipulation  fraud  GordonBrown 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
Telegraph -- Explain why you sold Britain's gold, Gordon Brown told
'Following a series of freedom of information requests from The Daily Telegraph over the past four years, the Information Commissioner has ordered the Treasury to release some details. The Treasury must publish the information demanded within 35 calendar days – by the end of April. The sale is expected to be become a major election issue, casting light on Mr Brown's decisions while at the Treasury.'
economics  uk  gold  fraud  GordonBrown 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
zero hedge -- How The Government Pressured The Fed To Bail Out Italy In 1974, And How The Same Is Likely Happening Right Now With Greece
'If you ever wondered just how independent the Federal Reserve is, wonder no more. A recently declassified transcript of a July 16, 1974 phone conversation between Henry Kissinger and then-Fed Chairman Arthur Burns, demonstrates just how very involved in global financial bailouts the Federal Reserve gets under duress of the administration. In the span of about a minute Kissinger advises Burns to do whatever he must to "not let Italy go down the drain." The facility with which the Federal Reserve throws around US taxpayer capital to bail out the "chosen ones" is simply beyond reproach. We are confident that the Fed is currently preparing a comparable bail out package for Greece as a measure of last resort. There is no way that Ben Bernanke will allow Greece to fail, killing the euro and sending the dollar into the stratosphere, destroying all hope of inflating the trillions in bad debt saddling America's banks and the Federal Reserve ... Full memo below, here selection presented: ...'
economics  federalreserve  fraud  bailout  currencyswaps 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Warren Pollock: The Racketeering Sector
'What is the largest sector of the US Economy? it has to be the "Racketeering Sector!" We see regulations PLAYING INTO widespread racketeering in the delivery of healthcare and insurance. We see regulations WORKING AROUND legalized loopholes in the provisioning of endless (and useless) financial products. As long as racketeering remains pervasive we will draw down on our future prospects in terms of freedom as well as wealth. We need to design our society-culture-systems so they are free from the forces of racketeering.'
america  economics  statism  mercantilism  parasitism  fraud 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- RussiaToday: Keiser Report #26: Markets! Finance! Scandal!
'Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert look at the scandals behind *rigged market capitalism* from intellectual property rights to cooked books. They also expose how "shenanigans" and "gimmicks" are the new words for fraud.'
economics  "capitalism"  corporatism  mercantilism  fraud 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
The Market Ticker -- Now The Truth On Greece Comes Out
'And surprise-surprise, it has nothing to do with the Euro - it is, once again, to bail out bad speculative bets made by banks: "If the country is not stabilised, the next problem will be the banks," Ackermann [Deutsche, CEO] adding that German banks had "billions in the fire." So once again we have banksters literally putting a gun to government heads and threatening them. When does this stop? It's not like Deutsche Bank (and the rest) didn't know Greece was cooking their books and holding debt off balance sheet! They sold them the swaps to enable the deception! These banksters knew damn well that the nation was in trouble long before there was any public notice of it. So why were they buying Greece's debt? Why didn't they sell it? Why are they stuck with it? Is it because their intention was to shove a gun up the nose of the governments in the Euro Zone - just as our banks did here - and threaten to shoot unless they get bailed out?' -- Classic Tiger Kidnapping scheme.
economics  finance  fraud  tigerkidnapping  extortion  grifting  KarlDenninger 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
The Market Ticker -- Bombshell: We Now Know What Set It Off (2008)
'As early as July 31st it appears Citibank knew that Lehman in fact had no cash - nor any liquid collateral to post for repo transactions. Lehman was functionally bankrupt at that particular instant in time. It was trying to post less than $4 billion in collateral and couldn't come up with anything acceptable. Would you press a short bet knowing this? You damn sure would. Indeed, you'd be insane not to. -- By allowing this trash to remain on balance sheets with fantasy marks FASB and our government has set up a potential Lehman in every one of our large financial institutions. How long will it be before the next large financial institution goes to post a repo and has no good collateral? I have no idea. If we have another Lehman, we won't be able to cover it. The cost of a disorderly event will easily exceed $1.5 trillion for depositor claims alone, and we simply don't have the money and won't be able to raise it.'
economics  finance  accounting  fraud  insidertrading  nakedshortselling  LehmanBrothers  KarlDenninger 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
Telegraph Blogs -- Green pressure groups get €66 million from the EU
'Have you ever wondered why the eco-lobby is so pro-EU? Now you have your answer. Green pressure groups are becoming financially dependent on Brussels. Ten years ago, they received €2,337,924 from the European Commission; last year, it was €8,749,940. A study by the International Policy Network reveals the extent to which Green lobbyists look to the EU for their income: Climate Action Network, Friends of the Earth, WWF, they’re all at it. Much of this money, the paper shows, is then recycled into lobbying the EU. You see how the system works? The EU pays eco-lobbyists to tell it what it wants to hear. Its clients, naturally enough, tell it that the EU ought to increase its powers. A similar racket goes on between Brussels and the mega-charities.'
environmentalism  cronyism  parasitism  lobbying  goodthink  astroturfing  fraud  europe  totalitarianism 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- RussiaToday: Keiser Report #23: Markets! Finance! Scandal!
'Keiser speaks to investigative journalist, Greg Palast, about the RICO case against US bankers and politicians and about vulture funds preying on the Third and First world economies.' -- Palast: "It's a perfect racketeering case, but who's going to bring it? Are they going to bust themselves?"
economics  fraud  predation  racketeering 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
Telegraph -- Our world balances on a sea of debt
'Convicted fraudster Darius Guppy offers a provocative personal view: "Governments do not control the single most important mechanism when it comes to their economies: the production and distribution of money. That role has been diverted to the banks, which manufacture money out of nothing and charge interest on that conjured-up money. ...while money is indeed created and destroyed in vast amounts every second of the day, the interest on that money remains un-destroyed and accumulates within the system – and at a compounded rate, moreover. It is a simple and devastatingly effective swindle, but largely invisible because it has become so deeply embedded in our culture. The consequences of that swindle – the desperate need for economic growth; the environmental and cultural despoliation it engenders – require some radical thinking one encounters nowhere in any of today’s political parties."'
economics  money  fiat  fraud  debt  predation  ponzi  grifting 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
Rolling Stone -- Wall Street's Bailout Hustle by Matt Taibbi
'It's "Greenspan times 10," jokes one hedge-fund trader. -- ...they took a short position [on toxic junk]. One month passed, and they lost money. Another month passed — same thing. Finally, the trader just shrugged and decided to change course and buy. "I said, 'Fuck it, let's make some money,'" he recalls. This is the very definition of bubble economics — betting on crowd behavior instead of on fundamentals. -- To sum up, this is what Lloyd Blankfein meant by "performance": Take massive sums of money from the government, sit on it until the government starts printing trillions of dollars in a desperate attempt to restart the economy, buy even more toxic assets to sell back to the government at inflated prices — and then, when all else fails, start driving us all toward the cliff again with a frank and open endorsement of bubble economics. -- Con artists have a word for the inability of their victims to accept that they've been scammed. They call it the "True Believer Syndrome."'
economics  america  mercantilism  finance  QE  ZIRP  fraud  extortion  bailout  grifting  truebelieversyndrome  AIG  JPMorgan  GoldmanSachs  MattTaibbi 
february 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- RussiaToday: Max Keiser: One Billion Dollar Toilet Paper Lesson for Barack Obama
"Are you freakin' stupid?!" -- Err... CHANGE???
economics  derivatives  fraud 
february 2010 by adamcrowe
The Market Ticker -- What The Hell Is Wrong With People?
'This sort of [fraudulent] conduct has become literally embedded in virtually all forms of our lifestyle, and I would allege that a big part of "why" is that it is almost never punished. It is one thing to place a bet in a casino knowing that the "rake" guarantees the casino will make money over time, but it is quite another to wonder whether the dice are loaded, the cards marked or the railbird behind you is secretly communicating your hole cards to the guy on the other side of the table. We cannot have a strong economy that is, at its core, all about trying to screw people. If that's the premise on which your business rests, whether you're a commercial bank, Wall Street investment house or any other business then YOU SHOULD BE CLOSED DOWN. -- REFUSE to do business not only with any firm that pulls this crap, but any firm that does business with those that do! We the people can stop this - if we care to - it starts and ends with us.'
fraud  KarlDenninger 
february 2010 by adamcrowe
Times Online -- I thought of killing myself, says climate scandal professor Phil Jones
'THE scientist at the centre of the “climategate” email scandal has revealed that he was so traumatised by the global backlash against him that he contemplated suicide. Jones, 57, said he was unprepared for the scandal: “I am just a scientist. I have no training in PR or dealing with crises.”' -- You mean you didn't think you'd ever get caught. Have some dignity and hide your decline.
climate  scams  climategate  fraud  hubris  anhero 
february 2010 by adamcrowe
JoNova -- CLIMATEGATE: 30 YEARS IN THE MAKING - Revised and Edited ClimateGate Timeline (1.1)
'This is One Spectacular Poster of ClimateGate Covering 3 Decades. You have to see this up close to believe it. Look up close and admire the detail while you despair at how long science has been going off the rails. To better appreciate the past and what was exposed by the CRU emails, the Timeline chart consolidates and chronologically organizes the information uncovered and published about the CRU emails by many researchers along with some related contextual events. That the chart exists at all is yet another example of how skilled experts are flocking in to the skeptics’ position and dedicating hours of time pro bono because they are passionately motivated to fight against those who try to deceive us.'
climate  globalwarming  AGW  scams  fraud  corruption  disinformation  manipulation  consensus  consensusreality  realityprogramming  propaganda  IPCC  climategate  timeline  pdf 
february 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- RussiaToday: Vatican bank accused of laundering
'A scandal is enveloping around the Vatican Bank's financial transactions. They are accused of involvement in massive money laundering through Italy's biggest bank. And it is not the first such controversy, the centre of Catholicism has found itself in.'
economics  fraud  moneylaundering  oligarchy  TheCrown 
january 2010 by adamcrowe
The Market Ticker -- Financial Terrorism? You Decide
OBVIOUS FRAUD IS OBVIOUS
economics  fraud  markets  manipulation  extortion  federalreserve  BenBernanke  KarlDenninger 
january 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Warren Pollock: Fear Itself - Blocking Symbols - Center of Gravity
'Fear itself; we have a major symbol of corruption standing in front of us. In a working system this symbol would be torn down. Instead the corrupt are defining this symbol at all costs, even in light of public outrage. This points to the importance of this symbol as the center of gravity. Pull down the symbol and the center of gravity, the corruption on the center, will fall. Do we have the ability to force this reform? Will the sacrifice be in the blood of our children.'
economics  fraud  america  corporatism  parasitism  cronyism  corruption  kleptocracy  GoldmanSachs  mercantilism 
january 2010 by adamcrowe
The Daily Bell -- "We do believe that Obama is fully manipulated..."
'Obama's profligacy has been stunning, his "change" proved to be every expansion of state power that he could get away with, and his policies, as a result, have further extended the American depression and doomed more of the hitherto middle class to ruin and misery. We do believe that Obama is fully manipulated by those who helped behind the scenes to assure his victory - and these individuals seek nothing more than the endless, miserable expansion of state power for their own purposes. Meanwhile Obama's teleprompter goes everywhere he does, and when he is without it, he makes gaffe after gaffe. In fact, he appears in many ways to be spectacularly uneducated and insular. He believes in the power of the state, the necessity of waging multiple international wars and despite his reputation as a constitutional scholar, seems to know little about America and less about its legal history. Alternatively, he knows and understands exactly what he is about - but does not care.'
america  politics  statism  oligarchy  puppetry  fraud 
january 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- RussiaToday: Keiser Report #9 with Janet Tavakoli
Controlled demolition LOL -- Tavakoli on Geithner's defence: "That's like saying, 'I was there but there was no there there.'"
economics  derivatives  fraud  GoldmanSachs 
january 2010 by adamcrowe
NYTimes.com -- Year in Ideas: The Counterfeit Self
'"When one feels like a fake, he or she is likely to behave like a fake." It was notable that the participants were oblivious to this and other similar effects the researchers discovered: the psychological costs of cheap knockoffs are hidden. "... we're not true to ourselves, and we might not realize there might be unintended consequences."'
counterfeit  fake  fraud  selfdeception  reflexivity 
january 2010 by adamcrowe
BBC5.TV -- John Harris: It's An Illusion
'John Harris gives us his perspective on what's going on. He describes how we are economic slaves to a debt dependant system, notably achieved through the deception of the birth certificate and the creation of a legal fiction known as your 'PERSON'. It is this PERSON that the government then wields it's control upon. John points out that this arrangement only works when we consent. Unfortunately inaction is taken as consent, hence we have unwittingly surrendered our inalienable rights through identifying with the PERSON. Remember you are a human being with god given rights, all you have to do is claim them.' -- http://www.tpuc.org
legalese  fraud  government  oligarchy  serfdom  debt  slavery  law  commonlaw  rights  liberty  freedom  JohnHarris  TPUC  documentaries 
december 2009 by adamcrowe
Telegraph -- Climategate: peak oil, the CRU and the Oman connection
'The Climate Research Unit (CRU) in the UK was set up in 1971 with funding from Shell and BP... The CRU was still being funded in 2008 by Shell, BP, the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate and UK Nirex LTD (the nuclear waste people in the UK) This is important to know, for two reasons. Firstly, the key institution providing support for Global Warming theories and the basis for the IPCC findings receives funding from “Big Oil” and the nuclear power industry. Secondly, the research from the institution which is perceived to be independent publicly funded research, is actually beholden to soft money, CRU is in fact a business. -- The IEA put a date on peak oil production THIS WEEK, so if the CO2 scare does not pan out they are already starting to put the ‘Peak Oil’ story into play. It is also the 2020 date -- Since there was not enough money in coal it would not be financially rewarding to simply try to promote coal as a replacement for oil. ...connect the dots and follow the money.'
climate  climategate  fraud  scams  energy  coal  nuclear  oil  peakoil 
december 2009 by adamcrowe
Telegraph -- Now the Russians confirm that UK climate scientists manipulated data to exaggerate global warming
'Climategate just got much, much bigger. And all thanks to the Russians who, with perfect timing, dropped this bombshell just as the world’s leaders are gathering in Copenhagen to discuss ways of carbon-taxing us all back to the dark ages. What the Russians are suggesting here, in other words, is that the entire global temperature record used by the IPCC to inform world government policy is a crock.'
climate  scams  climategate  fraud  memoryhole  JamesDelingpole 
december 2009 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- RussiaToday: Another 'Climategate'? Russian data 'cherry picked by CRU' to fit theory
'A leading Russian think-tank claims the British meteorological office has been misrepresenting Russian weather data to manupulate the results and suggest rising temperature trends. The Moscow Institute of Economic Analysis alleges the Hadley Center for Climate Change used only a quarter of the data provided by Russia. Analysts for the agency imply that climate experts selectively used incomplete reporting that emphasized a warming effect.'
climate  scams  climategate  fraud  memoryhole 
december 2009 by adamcrowe
Watts Up With That? -- Russian IEA claims CRU tampered with climate data – cherrypicked warmest stations
'CRU [used] the highest warming stations only: "...the Moscow-based Institute of Economic Analysis (IEA) issued a report claiming that the Hadley Center for Climate Change based at the headquarters of the British Meteorological Office in Exeter (Devon, England) had probably tampered with Russian-climate data. The IEA believes that Russian meteorological-station data did not substantiate the anthropogenic global-warming theory. Analysts say Russian meteorological stations cover most of the country’s territory, and that the Hadley Center had used data submitted by only 25% of such stations in its reports. Over 40% of Russian territory was not included in global-temperature calculations for some other reasons, rather than the lack of meteorological stations and observations. The data of stations located in areas not listed in the Hadley Climate Research Unit Temperature UK (HadCRUT) survey often does not show any substantial warming in the late 20th century and the early 21st century.'
climate  scams  climategate  fraud  memoryhole 
december 2009 by adamcrowe
The Market Ticker -- The Architecture Of The Scam (Goldman .et.al.)
'Effectively, what the financial system has done is siphon off an increasing portion of the rents charged for various activities while justifying the increasing prices (that is, lower risk and therefore less reserve against "adverse events") through concealment via bogus "risk-shifting" and "risk-management" that in fact never really occurred. -- ...all the financial system has done is find ways to increase the amount of rent that lands in the financial system itself - instead of being distributed to the actual owners of the capital that is being lent out! -- The only way that one can "deal in" CDS and make a profit, as the banks have done, is if someone is willing to sell you protection at less than the true risk-adjusted cost, or you can manage to sell it at higher than the risk-adjusted price. Both require that someone be deceived - that is, that someone intentionally misrepresent either by commission or by intentional concealment of material facts. This is the definition of fraud!'
economics  rent  financialization  risk  arbitrage  insurance  fraud  regulatorycapture  moralhazard  bailout  KarlDenninger  rentseeking 
december 2009 by adamcrowe
Times Online -- 'Sometimes I think, was it real?' The American bailout nightmare
'Mr Kashkari, who piled on 23 pounds as he comfort-ate family-sized bags of Doritos through the height of the credit crisis, described the panicked period between October 2008 and May 2009 as “like a dream”. -- He told The Washington Post that he used his BlackBerry to calculate the bailout figures: “We have $11 trillion residential mortgages, $3 trillion commercial mortgages. Total $14 trillion. Five per cent of that is $700 billion. A nice round number.” Recalling a conversation with Mr Paulson, he said: “It was a political calculus. I said, ‘We don't know how much is enough. We need as much as we can get. What about a trillion?' 'No way,' Hank shook his head. I said, 'Okay, what about 700 billion?' We didn't know if it would work. We had to project confidence, hold up the world. We couldn't admit how scared we were, or how uncertain.”'
economics  america  bailout  fraud  theft 
december 2009 by adamcrowe
zero hedge -- Matt Taibbi Exposes Obama's Wall Street's Inner Circle, Pays Particular Homage To Robert Rubin
Video: 'Matt Taibbi gives an in-depth presentation unmasking the Wall Street crony advisors that whisper in the President's ear daily, the political push-pull that ended up gifting Tim Geithner his current job, as well as an analysis of the brains behind it all - former Goldmanite, Robert Rubin.' -- CHANGE!!!
economics  fraud  government  parasitism  cronyism  regulatorycapture  bailout  moralhazard  feudalism  oligarchy  pathocracy  MattTaibbi  video 
december 2009 by adamcrowe
The Daily Bell -- Fed: From Blowing Bubbles to Popping Them?
Bumped for the clearest explanation of the fraud of central banking yet -- 'Central banks create inflation. That's what they've been put in place to do. Inflation supercharges economies, leading to all sorts of beneficial effects for those at the very top. Stock markets boom. Valuations rise sky high. And when the inevitable bust comes, those who are the most powerfully solvent are in the position to pick up the pieces, thus leading to ever-greater consolidation and control.'
economics  centralbanking  businesscycle  inflation  fraud  theft 
december 2009 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- RussiaToday: Keiser Report #3 with Matt Taibbi
@Baudrillard The map is the territory: Dubai World as a theme park dedicated to Dubai that grew to swallow up the whole country into a 'wealth' miraged debt hole -- On the moral hazard of continuous 'bank' bailouts... Max: "...instead of giving American's foodstamps, they should be giving them Goldman stock."
economics  debt  dubai  themepark  simulacra  hologram  MattTaibbi  shortselling  GoldmanSachs  moralhazard  fraud 
december 2009 by adamcrowe
UEA -- Phil Jones will stand aside as Director of the Climatic Research Unit until completion of independent Review
Off with you to the NAUGHTY STEP until you learn how to play honest science like the other children.
climate  fraud 
december 2009 by adamcrowe
The Ornery American -- Civilization Watch: All in a Good Cause
'Science isn't done by consensus. It's done by rigorous testing. -- What matters right here and now is that it is time for the world's scientists to apostatize from the Church of Global Warming. It is a false religion. It is based on lies, and its leading prophets know that it is because they're the ones faking the data or stretching it to ridiculous lengths to pretend that the real world hasn't already ruled against their claims. It is time for us to laugh at the ideologues who try to pretend that any criticism of Global Warming alarmism is idiotic and unscientific. They are the ones who ignore the data; they are the ones who believe on faith alone, without evidence; and, most important, they are the ones who are trying to stifle the opposition without answering it. The Global Warming alarmists are the anti-science religion that is trying to forcibly indoctrinate and convert everyone while suppressing dissent. And the news media are their patsies, their stooges, their puppets.'
climate  scams  fraud  propaganda  consensusreality  religon  cults  religion 
november 2009 by adamcrowe
JoNova -- ClimateGate – the toxic bomb hidden in plain view
'Would anyone expect the public to vote the same way after they hear the news that the IPCC science is based on collusion, falsification of data and outright, undenied criminal behaviour? There are not many facets of human personalities that are near universal across cultures, genders, and ages, but a sense of injustice is hard-wired. There will be no forgiveness for those who tricked them, and ignorance will be no excuse. As the news spreads, the ETS will “Go Toxic”. Voters will not just abandon the politicians who sacrificed us to JP Morgan and co, they will set land-speed records moving in the other direction. The fire is lit.' -- I'd hate to be standing on the wrong side of this issue without the facts to support my 'view'. Tread carefully, people. Very carefully indeed.
climate  politics  activism  fraud  deception 
november 2009 by adamcrowe
The Daily Bell -- UK Treasury Reveals Huge Secret Loans to Biggest Banks
'Central banking—and the subsequent mopping up efforts that occur cyclically—is a good example of one of the elite's most important dominant social themes. Without money, other promotions are rendered moot. Why is central banking obviously a power elite promotion? Because it is unworkable, destructive, a contradiction in terms, and yet a program when implemented that creates enormous wealth for a handful of people along with bestowing tremendous control on the same players. You cannot put a few fairly elderly people in a room together, ask them to fix the price and quantity of paper money using unworkable econometric projects and have anything good come of it. It is what it is: price fixing. Central banking is a PROMOTION. It exists despite all its contradictions. It is taught in schools, despite the economic illiteracy of the concept, and commented on in the media. It is institutionalized in government. Central banking is a contradiction in terms. It is a Big Lie.' -- READ THIS
economics  BoE  federalreserve  centralbanking  money  pricefixing  fraud  mercantilism  parasitism  oligarchy 
november 2009 by adamcrowe
Telegraph -- Climategate: what Gore’s useful idiot Ed Begley Jr doesn’t get about the ‘peer review’ process
'What the CRU’s hacked emails convincingly demonstrate is that climate scientists in the AGW camp have corrupted the peer-review process. In true Gramscian style they marched on the institutions – capturing the magazines (Science, Scientific American, Nature, etc), the seats of learning (Climate Research Institute; Hadley Centre), the NGO’s (Greenpeace, WWF, etc), the political bases (especially the EU), the newspapers (pretty much the whole of the MSM I’m ashamed, as a print journalist, to say) – and made sure that the only point of view deemed academically and intellectually acceptable was their one. Neutral observers in this war sometimes ask how it can be that the vast majority of the world’s scientists seem to be in favour of AGW theory. “Peer-review” is why. Only a handful of scientists – 53 to be precise, not the much-touted 2,500 – were actually responsible for the doom-laden global-warming sections of the IPCC’s reports.' -- SCUM *spits*
climate  science  consensus  groupthink  fraud 
november 2009 by adamcrowe
CEI -- Govt-Funded Research Unit Destroyed Original Climate Data
'In mid-August the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (CRU) disclosed that it had destroyed the raw data for its global surface temperature data set because of an alleged lack of storage space. The CRU data have been the basis for several of the major international studies that claim we face a global warming crisis. CRU’s destruction of data, however, severely undercuts the credibility of those studies.' -- They deleted data that took them 25 years to collect because of a lack of storage space. ---- They were restricting access to it in June: http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZTBiMTRlMDQxNzEyMmRhZjU3ZmYzODI5MGY4ZWI5OWM=&w=MA==
climate  scams  fraud  obsfucation  memoryhole 
november 2009 by adamcrowe
Asian Correspondent -- So you think you can do climate science? - the quiz
#1120593115.txt -- Phil Jones: "What an idiot. The scientific community would come down on me in no uncertain terms if I said the world had cooled from 1998. OK it has but it is only 7 years of data and it isn't statistically significant." -- #933255789.txt: Adam Markham: "...[WWF Austrailia] would like to see the section on variability and extreme events beefed up if possible. They regard an increased likelihood of even 50% of drought or extreme weather as a significant risk. Drought is also a particularly importnat issue for Australia, as are tropical storms. I guess the bottom line is that if they are going to go with a big public splash on this they need something that will get good support from CSIRO scientists (who will certainly be asked to comment by the press)." -- #1237496573.txt: Ben Santer: "If the RMS is going to require authors to make ALL data available - raw data PLUS results from all intermediate calculations - I will not submit any further papers to RMS journals."
climate  obsfuction  data  manipulation  fraud 
november 2009 by adamcrowe
Telegraph -- Climategate: why it matters
'What seems to have lulled ... many ... clever people ... into their dangerous complacency is the belief that given the majority of world scientific opinion is backing AGW theory, it would be irresponsible for us non-scientists to disagree. What the Climategate scandal does is prove just how murky and unreliable this supposed scientific “consensus” really is. “Peer-reviewed”: it’s the magic phrase which – in their eyes – guarantees the reliability and credibility of their favoured scientists... -- Dr Tim Ball: "..he identified 42 people who were publishing together and also peer-reviewing each other’s literature."' -- 42. The answer to the universe and everything! I really wonder how people can have such disrespect for science. It is the ultimate philosophic 'crime against humanity'. No, never in my name. If science is a thought crime then I choose thoughtcrime!
climate  science  fraud  thoughtcrime  consensusreality  skepticism  philosophy 
november 2009 by adamcrowe
Watts Up With That? -- Bishop Hill’s compendium of CRU email issues
#Michael Mann discusses how to destroy a journal that has published sceptic papers.(1047388489) #Phil Jones encourages colleagues to delete information subject to FoI request.(1212063122) #Phil Jones says he has use Mann’s “Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series”…to hide the decline”. Real Climate says “hiding” was an unfortunate turn of phrase.(0942777075) #Mann thinks he will contact BBC’s Richard Black to find out why another BBC journalist was allowed to publish a vaguely sceptical article.(1255352257) #Mann tells Jones that it would be nice to ‘”contain” the putative Medieval Warm Period’. (1054736277) #Tom Wigley discusses how to deal with the advent of FoI law in UK. Jones says use IPR argument to hold onto code. Says data is covered by agreements with outsiders and that CRU will be “hiding behind them”.(1106338806) -- OBVIOUS FRAUD IS OBVIOUS
climate  scams  fraud 
november 2009 by adamcrowe
The Market Ticker -- "Global Warming" SCAM - A Further Look
'... since we have emails now apparently documenting an attempt to "paper over" temperature decreases in recent years, and we also have claims of "lost" data, one wonders - was the data really lost, or was it intentionally deleted or withheld from other researchers who asked for it, as providing it would show that measurement uncertainties were not carried through computationally - and if they were, the claimed results in the so-called "peer reviewed" paper would be impossible to validate? Without hard proof of whatever answer is propounded to that question we as the people of this planet must insist on a full stop for all purported "climate amelioration" efforts, as there is every possibility that the entirety of this so-called science in fact proves exactly nothing ... Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, and from the released set of data that proof is, quite simply, not present and accounted for.' -- Ruining the good name of science. Back to the dark ages we go.
climate  scams  fraud  science  KarlDenninger 
november 2009 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Catherine Austin Fitts on Alex Jones TV 3/4: The Solari Report
Great interview. "We're talking about a point of view and a way of being that is unbelievably black. People are fundamentally healthy and people are fundamentally grounded—and they just do not go along with this blackness. You can't run a world government on force. It has to have some kind of moral authority. Force is not enough. The elite is a pretty big group but many of these people are prisoners of the [central banking warfare] system. We have 57% of households in America dependant on government money. I call this the 'tapeworm economy'. Right now the majority of us are practicing a philosophy of follow the tapeworm. If we turn off our TVs so we withdraw our time; if we withdraw our money from the big financial institutions and big banks, and start what I call demonetizing... let's withdraw from the tapeworm system in a way that protects our wealth and stops us from getting drained financially."
economics  fraud  parasitism  pathocracy  CatherineAustinFitts 
november 2009 by adamcrowe
Dr. Michael Hudson -- The New Road to Serfdom: An Illustrated Guide to the Coming Real Estate Collapse (PDF)
'Never before have so many Americans gone so deeply into debt so willingly. Most members of the rentier class are very rich. One might like to join that class. And so our paradox (seemingly) is resolved. With the real estate boom, the great mass of Americans can take on colossal debt today and realize colossal capital gains—and the concomitant rentier life of leisure—tomorrow. If you have the wherewithal to fill out a mortgage application, then you need never work again. What could be more inviting—or, for that matter, more egalitarian? -- The bubble will burst, and when it does, the people who thought they would be living the easy life of a landlord will soon find that what they really signed up for was the hard servitude of debt serfdom.' -- '...commercial real estate investors hide most of their economic rent in “depreciation” write-offs for their buildings, even as those buildings gainmarket value.'
economics  land  rent  banking  debt  fraud  financialization  interest  ponzi  mortgage  predation  parasitism  feudalism  serfdom  MichaelHudson  pdf 
november 2009 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Max Keiser & Stacy Herbet: CalPERS is managed by idiots!
LOLZ
economics  fraud 
november 2009 by adamcrowe
Times Online -- I'm doing 'God's work'. Meet Mr Goldman Sachs
Weeding out the sociopaths from the pack of pure blood psychopaths: 'Insecurity is hard-wired into the system. You feel it even before you are hired. Most applicants are interviewed at least 20 times before they are made an offer and some more than 30 times. Once hired, each staff member is constantly and confidentially reviewed by those they work with. There’s a metric for every aspect of performance and each staffer is measured against their department and the firm as a whole. Every year, staff are put into one of four quartiles by the Human Capital Management department. Note the "Capital". At Goldman, people are money. The top are richly rewarded, while the fourth quartilers? Who cares? They won’t be around much longer. It’s up, or out. "We say goodbye to the bottom 3-5% every year [about 1,500 people]."' -- Legalised larceny.
economics  fraud  finance  racketeering  larceny  GoldmanSachs  psychopathy  pathocracy 
november 2009 by adamcrowe
blip.tv -- Cooler Heads Event with Dr. Richard Lindzen on Cap and Trade
'Dr. Lindzen disputes some of the claims made by global warming alarmists, presents real climate facts, and questions the purpose of the bill.' -- Quoting Mike Hume: "The idea of climate change should be seen as an intellectual resource around which our collective and personal identities and projects can form and take shape. We need to ask not what we can do for climate change, but to ask what climate change can do for us. Because the idea of climate change is so plastic, it can be deployed across many of our human projects and can serve many of our psychological, ethical, and spiritual needs. We will continue to create and tell new stories about climate change and mobilize them in support of our projects. These myths transcend the scientific categories of ‘true' and ‘false'"
climate  scams  fraud  propaganda  science  skepticism  environmentalism  consensusreality  groupthink  cults  metanarratives  RichardLindzen 
november 2009 by adamcrowe
Newsweek.com -- The Evolution Of An Eco-Prophet [Fraud]
'Al Gore's views on climate change are advancing as rapidly as the phenomenon itself. [Because the science is running up after him and kicking his ass.] Gore hopes laypeople [middle class useful idiots who've been given the chance to make their numbed lives 'meaningful' by contributing to 'something larger'] will exert political pressure for what he calls "large solutions." [Rents] Our Choice reflects the experience of someone who knows that it is lawmakers and business leaders who can implement the "laws and policies we really need, including getting a global climate treaty." [We? Psychopaths always invoke the royal 'we'.] "Despite suffering one of history's worst political fates..." [What do you think fueled this latest psychopathic campaign for world capture and adultation? Power by any means, even your end if necessary.] Gore imagines a future generation asking how we averted catastrophic climate change "...we lifted our eyes to the Heavens and saw what we had to do."' -- Nutjob
climate  scams  fraud  consensusreality  usefulidiot  cults  environmentalism  religion  psychopathy  pathocracy 
november 2009 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Renegade Economist US Special with Dr. Michael Hudson
'The Renegade Economist goes to New York to hear Dr. Michael Hudson's views on the state of the US Economy.' -- Explained.
economics  debt  fraud  saversvsspeculators  land  rent  deindustrialization  feudalism  MichaelHudson  rentseeking 
october 2009 by adamcrowe
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