UBS - Swiss bankster hub of NATO/Israel terror financing

[TonyGosling]

At last, the real story nexus between defense contractors, the UBS-Clinton-Brad Birkenfeld-Terrorist finance connection to Swiss Banks, and Congressional cover up of Booz Allen Hamilton, is revealed with great clarity and professionalism.

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http://www.presstv.com/Video/2015/08/14/424643/US-private-military-con tractors

The US government has over 200,000 soldiers in over 120 countries around the world; yet, it has an insatiable appetite to use private military contractors.

The total amount that the US spends on defense is $771 billion dollars. Estimates vary, but up to a quarter of all defense spending goes to these private contractors.

One example which goes beyond this amount is a spy agency dubbed "Booz Allen" which has revealed that 70 percent of the US intelligence budget goes to private contractors, especially on drone surveillance.

In this episode of Economic Divide, we are going to look at these contractors and the ways some US politicians and senators are making money through awarding lucrative contracts to these contractors.



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[TonyGosling]

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[TonyGosling]

UBS Faces a New Tax-Evasion Probe
Authorities Investigate Whether Swiss Bank’s Clients Used ‘Bearer Securities’ to Hide Cash
The criminals at the heart of the 1988 movie “Die Hard” sought to steal a stash of bearer bonds. Authorities in the U.S. are now probing whether a Swiss bank helped Americans evade taxes through the use of similar assets.
By CHRISTOPHER M. MATTHEWS and DEVLIN BARRETT
Updated Feb. 4, 2015 5:56 p.m. ET

http://www.wsj.com/articles/ubs-faces-a-new-tax-evasion-probe-14230885 87

Federal prosecutors have launched a new probe into whether Swiss bank UBS AG helped Americans evade taxes through investments largely banned in the U.S., according to people familiar with the investigation.

UBS, which paid $780 million in 2009 to settle a separate Justice Department tax-evasion probe, is in the cross hairs again for allegedly helping wealthy clients hide assets, this time through so-called bearer securities. These securities, which were largely phased out of the U.S. financial system beginning in 1982 because of their potential use in tax evasion and money laundering, function essentially like cash, allowing whoever holds the certificate to anonymously claim its value.

Prosecutors in the U.S. attorney’s office in Brooklyn are weighing evidence gathered with the Federal Bureau of Investigation to determine whether employees of the bank helped facilitate tax evasion or engaged in securities fraud, people familiar with the investigation said. Authorities are also trying to determine whether anyone at the bank engaged in criminal efforts to cover up the alleged conduct once it became more widely known about within the bank.

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Bearer Bonds: From ‘The Great Gatsby’ to ‘Beverly Hills Cop’
UBS was recently served with a subpoena from authorities related to the matter, according to people familiar with the case. Prosecutors and FBI agents recently traveled to London to interview potential witnesses, the people said.

A Justice Department spokeswoman declined to comment.

A spokesman for UBS declined to comment. UBS recently hired attorney John F. Savarese, a partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, to conduct an internal investigation, according to the people familiar with the case. Such probes can cost banks millions of dollars in legal fees. Mr. Savarese didn’t respond to requests for comment.

The alleged practices under scrutiny at UBS hark back to an old-fashioned type of tax evasion. At issue is the marketing of bearer securities as an investment to American clients, a financial tool whose use U.S. authorities largely ended because of its potential for abuse. Bearer securities were once popular because they were preferable to bulk cash payments, but a 1982 law imposed a variety of sanctions and tax penalties that made it very difficult to use or deposit such a certificate at a U.S. bank.

Traditionally, bearer securities were issued in one of two ways. Bearer bonds, also known as coupon bonds, can be issued by banks as debt certificates in large denominations, sometimes millions of dollars each, that can be redeemed at certain banks by whoever possesses them. Some banks and other companies issue bearer shares, an equity share in a company, which is similarly owned by whoever holds it. Companies issuing bearer securities typically don’t register the securities’ owners or track transfers of ownership.

Bearer securities can be a risky investment, because they are easily transferable and nearly anonymous, which means they can be stolen and cashed. For that reason, they have been used to cheat on taxes. By keeping an interest-bearing account or document with no ownership trail, and no forms filed to the IRS, the holder of such a certificate can hide assets and income from tax authorities. Today, bearer bonds can also be maintained strictly as an electronic account, generating a set rate of interest.

It isn’t clear when the alleged conduct in the UBS matter is purported to have begun. Investigators believe some potential misdeeds occurred after the expiration of bank’s 2009 agreement with the Justice Department, which resolved its previous tax-evasion case and put off any related prosecution as long as the bank didn’t get into additional trouble in the following 18 months. The people familiar with the current probe said authorities don’t believe the new issues constitute a violation of the terms of that settlement.

UBS’s woes stem from more than simply potentially marketing such investments to American clients or managing them, according to people familiar with the investigation. At one point, these people said, bank employees allegedly discussed how to deal with the potential legal problems of such transactions, and how they might hide them from authorities. For that reason, investigators are trying to determine the exact nature of those alleged discussions and whether they amounted to a criminal effort to conceal what had allegedly already been done.

UBS is in authorities’ cross hairs for allegedly helping wealthy clients hide assets. ENLARGE
UBS is in authorities’ cross hairs for allegedly helping wealthy clients hide assets. PHOTO: REUTERS
Separately, the bank is one of several global firms probed by U.S. and European authorities for its alleged role in the manipulation of foreign-exchange markets. In November, the bank paid about $800 million to settle that case with European agencies and one American regulator. The bank didn’t dispute the regulators’ findings. The U.S. Justice Department has said it is still investigating the matter.

The new UBS investigation is part of a long-running effort by the U.S. to crack down both on wealthy Americans who use offshore means to evade the Internal Revenue Service and the banks that facilitate the evasion. Last year, Credit Suisse Group AG agreed to pay $2.6 billion and pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge over having helped Americans evade taxes.

Amid the U.S. crackdown, dozens of Americans were convicted of crimes related to hiding money from tax authorities. Thousands of other Americans who held such accounts negotiated with the IRS to pay fines in order to avoid larger penalties or jail time.

UBS played a central role in kicking off a U.S. crackdown that has caused significant upheaval in the Swiss financial sector. As a result of its 2009 settlement, which required the bank to disclose names of U.S. clients, the Swiss Parliament passed a measure enabling the country’s biggest bank to hand over clients’ identities to American authorities without violating Switzerland’s bank-secrecy laws.

About a dozen Swiss banks remain under Justice Department investigation, according to people familiar with those cases. Dozens of others have signed on for a program letting banks report secret accounts held by Americans, an effort widely seen in Switzerland as a signal that the yearslong legal dragnet is drawing to a close. Now, the fresh probe of UBS threatens to upend that notion.

Even as the bearer securities were phased out of U.S. banking, they continued to capture the American imagination, appearing in fiction, movies and con-artist schemes. The protagonist in the 1925 novel “The Great Gatsby’’ schemes to sell bearer bonds. In the 1984 film “Beverly Hills Cop,’’ bearer bonds are a central plot point, and in the 1988 movie “Die Hard,’’ criminals take over an office building in order to steal bearer bonds.

[TonyGosling]

Trial of former UBS executive dredges up Swiss banks' shady past
FORT LAUDERDALE FLA./ZURICH | BY FRANCISCO ALVARADO, ZACHARY FAGENSON AND JOSHUA FRANKLIN
Former UBS banker Raoul Weil, who is out on bail, arrives at federal court with his wife Susan in Fort Lauderdale, Florida October 22, 2014.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/31/us-ubs-banker-weil-idUSKBN0I K14520141031

From bundles of cash inside scraps of newspaper to setting up shell companies, the trial in Florida of a former UBS executive is a reminder of the extreme methods some Swiss bankers used to hide clients' cash.

Raoul Weil, 54, is the highest ranking Swiss banker to be arrested in the United States and prosecutors are seeking to paint him as a facilitator of efforts that helped conceal up to $20 billion in taxpayers' assets in secret offshore accounts.

Weil's main defense has been that these efforts were done by people below him and that the U.S. cross border business was a tiny fraction of his overall responsibilities. If convicted, Weil faces up to five years in prison for conspiracy to commit tax fraud. Weil and his attorneys declined comment on the trial.

At the trial, which pits Weil against several former UBS colleagues who have chosen to cooperate with U.S. authorities in exchange for favorable sentencing, Swiss bankers have testified about using an arsenal of James Bond-like tactics to avoid detection while in the United States, and to help U.S. clients keep their accounts hidden from tax authorities.

Bankers were given laptops with two hard drives, Hansruedi Schumacher, who formerly ran UBS' cross-border business, told the trial, which began on Oct. 14 and is expected to run for about four weeks.

One hard drive was filled with anything from family photos and personal emails while another contained a password-protected database with the U.S. citizens' code-named bank records. Another witness said the drive with the bank details could be wiped simply by typing in a short password.

"It was known all those account holders were not paying their taxes, and for the Swiss bank it was a very profitable business," Schumacher said during testimony at the trial.

Eskander Ensafi, who banked with UBS, told the court about a clandestine meeting in 2005 at a Los Angeles hotel with bank adviser Claude Ullman. The adviser handed him roughly $50,000 in U.S. bills wrapped in newspaper, Ensafi testified, tax-free interest from a Swiss bank account in the name of Ensafi's father, who had just suffered a debilitating stroke.

Ullman was sued by a number of U.S. individuals -- who were jailed for not paying U.S. taxes by hiding their money in Swiss bank accounts -- for alleged racketeering, along with UBS and a number of high ranking bankers, including Weil, in a 2009 lawsuit in the Eastern District of California. The case was dismissed with prejudice in September 2014. An attorney for Ullman did not respond to a request for an update on the case.

German businessman Juergen Homann, 72, who pleaded guilty to a U.S. charge of failing to report a foreign account to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in 2009, told the court one UBS client adviser, Hans Thomann, helped him set up a Hong Kong-based shell company. The company, the Prodon Foundation, was then used to funnel income Homann made from his raw minerals business venture in China.

Attempts to reach Thomann for comment were unsuccessful.

In 2012, he was charged in the Southern District of New York with conspiracy to defraud the United States and conducting an unlicensed money transmitting business.



SHADOW OF SECRECY

Switzerland's biggest banks have paid a heavy price to settle their U.S. tax evasion cases. UBS admitted to helping U.S. taxpayers hide money and paid a $780 million fine in 2009, while Credit Suisse pleaded guilty in May to a U.S. criminal charge and will pay more than $2.5 billion in penalties.

Since U.S. authorities began to chip away at the wall of Swiss banking secrecy in 2008, details have trickled out of the extraordinary lengths bankers would go to in order to smuggle assets in and out of the United States.

A U.S. Senate report published earlier this year described how a customer at Swiss bank Credit Suisse was given statements tucked into the pages of an issue of Sports Illustrated magazine at a hotel meeting. Former UBS financial adviser Bradley Birkenfeld admitted in 2008 to smuggling diamonds in a tube of toothpaste for a client.

Birkenfeld was a whistleblower in the tax fraud case against UBS and won a record-setting $104 million reward from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.

On top of the fines forked out by Switzerland's two biggest banks, about a dozen smaller Swiss players are still under U.S. criminal investigation and face serious penalties, while many more have joined a government-brokered program allowing them to make amends if they aided tax evasion by wealthy Americans.

The United States is not the only jurisdiction that has cracked down on tax evasion by its wealthiest citizens.

UBS is under investigation in France over whether it helped wealthy individuals there dodge taxes. Investigating magistrates have proposed that UBS pay a fine of 4.88 billion euros ($6.2 billion), according to a judicial source.

The bank also booked a near-$300 million charge in the second quarter of this year, mainly to settle claims it helped wealthy Germans evade taxes.

The bankers who helped move clients' money around undetected are themselves faced with a legal bind that goes beyond financial penalties.

Since 2009, the U.S. Justice Department has charged more than 30 bankers and advisers in the offshore investigation, including several Swiss bankers set to testify at Weil's trial, while others have been arrested by European authorities.

In some cases, the accused can cooperate with foreign authorities in exchange for lighter penalties. However, such a move could put them at risk of violating Swiss banking secrecy laws, an offence punishable by up to three years in prison and a fine of up to 250,000 Swiss francs ($262,000).

Failure to cooperate, though, can expose the bankers to the danger of being detained by foreign authorities whenever they leave Switzerland.

[TonyGosling]

TERROR FINANCING BY SWISS BANKS W/ LT. Scott Bennettcovertreport | Dec 27, 2014
http://truthfrequencyradio.com/the-covert-report-w-susan-lindauer-4787 3/
America needs a few more good men like today’s guest, 2nd Lt. Scott Bennett, a whistleblower more significant and potent than Edward Snowden. Without violating classified rules, Bennett has exposed a nexxus of terrorism financing and stolen CIA accounts at the elite Swiss Bank, UBS in Zurich. Part of an elite unit at Fort MacDill tasked to hunt out terror financing overseas, he was stunned to find himself in prison and cell-mate to Brad Birkenfeld, himself a whistleblower whose disclosures led to a massive fraud investigation against the Swiss bank UBS that had enabled tax evasion by American citizens. But there’s more to what Bennett discovered in his contact with Birkenfeld. Bennett ran headlong into a thicket of terror financing by the same Swiss Bank UBS– much of it comprised of Stolen CIA accounts, in which UBS staffers have assisted criminals in changing the master codes on CIA accounts. Umpteen times, UBS bankers demur that funds numbering in the tens of billions of dollars now belong to the crooks! When the CIA demands cooperation, UBS cites Swiss banking laws that prohibit assisting the United States in recovery of our moneys. It’s a dirty, dirty game, and Swiss bankers have become very good at playing it.
You must listen to Scott Bennett every chance you get! He gave this country so much… and the greatest contribution of all is what he’s doing right now. Scott deserves all of our respect!
Check out his book, “SHELL GAME”
A Military Whistleblowing Report to Congress that exposes THE BETRAYAL AND COVER-UP BY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT OF THE UNION BANK OF SWITZERLAND-TERRORIST THREAT FINANCE CONNECTION TO EDWARD SNOWDEN’S REPORT ON THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY, CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON AND U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND.

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[TonyGosling]

At a smaller conference that afternoon, Bosse of the German armaments Ministry pointed out that the Nazi government would make huge sums available to industrialists to help secure bases in foreign countries.

Bosse advised the industrialists use two main banks for the export of capital: Schweizerische Kreditanstalt of Zurich and the Basler Handelsbank. He also told the industrialists about Swiss cloaks that would buy Swiss property for a five percent commission. A month later Bormann countermanded Hitler's 'scorched earth' policy, to preserve Germany's industrial base.

[TonyGosling]

Is it just me?
Can anybody actually watch this Press TV show?

[TonyGosling]

This video finally working now
http://www.presstv.ir/Video/2015/08/14/424643/US-private-military-cont ractors

[TonyGosling]

Banking: A Crack In the Swiss Vault

Link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l312_qj6quQ

[Life]

Governments today finance the domestic system with credit issued by the Bank for International Settlements. That is what Incorporation of a nation means.

You are paying tax, not to your nation, but to the International banking cabal.

Why would you want to decry sensible people who have determined not to fund the House of Rothschild and its emissaries?

[TonyGosling]

Swiss bank giant accused of laundering timber money
A Truck loaded with tropical timber in the Malaysian state Sabah Trucks loaded with illegally logged tropical timber, photographic evidence from Sabah (© BMF)
https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/886/swiss-bank-giant-accus ed-of-laundering-timber-money#more

End of campaign: Aug 12, 2014

In the Malaysian state of Sabah, the Chief Minister and his ruling family are systematically lining their pockets with the spoils of tropical deforestation. The money from the illegal trade was laundered through the accounts of UBS, a major Swiss bank. Urge UBS to put an end to its unsavory business relationship with the timber mafia.
Call to action

To: Sergio P. Ermotti, CEO UBS Group

UBS must refrain from money laundering for illegal logging operations.

Read letter

Sabah is a state in Malaysian Borneo covered by an extensive network of protected areas. Its tropical forests are home to rare species such as Borneo pygmy elephants, Sumatran rhinos and orangutans. But its natural environment is in jeopardy. Sabah has been governed by Musa Aman since 2003. According to research by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), Chief Minister Musa Aman and his family are systematically lining their pockets with the spoils of deforestation in Borneo.

As MACC discovered, Chief Minister Aman collected millions in bribes for allowing logging companies to cut down rainforest plots. As early as 2007, the commission came across 5,000 illegally felled logs from protected areas. Its investigation determined that senior members of the government are involved in the scandal. Musa’s brother is the Malaysian foreign minister, while the attorney general is a close family friend. Although the evidence is overwhelming, no charges have been brought to date and MACC’s work has been obstructed repeatedly. The investigations have also been impeded by the Swiss bank UBS.

According to the Swiss Newspaper „Handelszeitung“, the UBS AG branch office in Singapur accepted cash cheques of 15 million Dollars from a close associate of Musa Aman. “With this transaction, UBS violated internationally recognized standards intended to combat money laundering”, as the Swiss Bruno Manser Fund noted in a statement. “We have therefore prompted the finance police and banking supervisory authorities in Singapore and Switzerland to initiate investigations against the two banks.”

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Please urge the UBS board to cooperate with the authorities and put an end to its unsavory business relationship with the tropical-timber mafia.
Back­ground

Since 2007 the MACC (Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission) has been investigating Musa Aman on allegations of illegal trade in tropical timber, corruption and money laundering. Documents handed in as evidence to the Zurich Public Prosecutor's Office, proved Micheal Chia of being the central figure in the affair. Chia is a close associate of Musa and his family. The cunning Chia acted as a middle man, giving grants for illegal tropical hardwood logging concessions and paying kickbacks onto the accounts of Musa and his family.

Also strongly suspected of playing a leading role in the affair is Richard Christopher Barnes, a Sabah lawyer, who acted as a "shaker and mover" for Musa Aman. Chia and Barnes were interrogated in 2010 and both made extensive confessions. Because of these confessions, enough proof was secured, that 40 different charges could be held against Musa Aman. However, any effort from the side of the MACC to bring Musa and his family to court were blocked by Attorney General Abdul Gani biin Patail. He is a relative of Musa and a close family friend.
Bruno Manser Fund files a criminal complaint against UBS

Musa Aman´s UBS Swiss bank account plays the key role in the affair. Altogether more than 70 million Euro kickbacks from the illegal trade of tropical timber have supposedly been laundered over this bank account. According to the findings of the Swiss Bruno-Manser-Fonds (BMF) there are more bank accounts involved that exist for the purpose of legalizing money from the tropical timber Mafia. Because of this, the BMF demands the UBS to freeze the bank accounts of further 46 Malaysian politically exposed persons (PEP).

In spring 2011, the Swiss Federal Office of Justice already gave legal assistance to the Hongkong authorities whilst they were investigating against Musa Aman. The documents handed in as evidence to the Zurich Public Prosecutor's Office prove that Michael Chia, managed large cash payments from timber companies with logging interests in Sabah to Musas lawyer (Barnes), his two sons living in Australia and to forestry officials in Sabah. For that reason the BMF filed a criminal complaint against the UBS over the laundering of proceeds of corruption.
Deforestation in biodiverse ecosystems

On the basis of the existing documents and pieces of evidence, proof is given that because of Musa Amans´ illegal logging concessions, 15.000 hectares of primal rainforest has been clear cut. This includes forests in areas of conservation in the National Park. After deforestation Musa gave his approval for the partial cultivation of palm oil plantations on the clear cut areas. The rainforests of Borneo are especially biodiverse and give home to many endemic species. Extensive forest clearance in these sensitive ecosystems causes severe damage to the environment.

The trade with illegally logged timber in Sabah is less an exception and rather a system. In the neighboring state Sarawak the governor Taib Mahmud has been ruling for nearly 30 years. He is known as being primarily responsible for the rapid logging of the rainforests in Sarawak. Also Taibs ruling family is involved in the global network of corporations and offshore financial centers, that help laundering the kickbacks from illegal tropical timber trade.
Just because it´s legal it´s not environmentally friendly

In the attempt to set boundaries to the tropical timber Mafia, the USA has introduced an interdiction of commerce on illegal wood imports, the EU has set itself this goal for 2013. However, the practical experience will show whether the prohibition will work or not. The successful implementation depends on many variables. “Currently nothing is known to us about confiscation and investigation in Germany and the EU, although according to the data of EU, Worldbank, Interpol and others, a considerable amount of timber traded with – millions of tonnes per year – , is the result of illegal logging”, says forest campaigner Klaus Schenck from Rainforest Rescue.

The interdiction of commerce is only the very first step towards saving the forests of our earth. Because making deforestation legal doesn´t mean it is environmentally friendly or without impact on social communities. The best example are huge timber concessions given to the logging industry by governments, e.g., European logging companies in the rainforests of the Congo or the logging in Russia for Ikea.

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Meet Brad Birkenfeld: "Lucifer's Banker"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-17/meet-brad-birkenfeld-lucifers -banker

Tyler Durden
Apr 18, 2017 7:57 PM
Authored by Adam Taggart via PeakProsperity.com,

Just how bad is the ongoing fraud in the banking system? Get ready for a mind-bowing expose by a former insider at UBS.

Brad Birkenfield, author of Lucifer's Banker: The Untold Story of How I Destroyed Swiss Bank Secrecy, recounts the efforts he uncovered by his employer to help its clients cheat the US government out of tens of $billions in taxes.

But despite his working with the government closely to expose the gigantic conspiracy between US-based tax cheats and the giant Swiss bank, UBS, the so-called Justice Department went after Mr. Birkenfeld for abetting tax evasion by one of his clients. After spending thirty months in Federal prison, he was released and three weeks later, received a whistle-blower check for $104 million, the largest such check ever from the IRS Whistle-blower Office.

Once again, 300,000,000 Americans-plus got screwed by the corrupt Department of Justice. They’re not about justice, they’re about protecting themselves, trying to take credit, and making everyone else listen to what they say the story is.

We remember the financial crisis of 2008. It was devastating and so many people lost their jobs, lost their homes and so forth. In the entire financial crisis, there was not one banker to go to jail. The only banker to go to jail was the UBS whistleblower who exposed the largest and longest running tax fraud in the world.

Here’s the problem with the system. When you fine UBS you must realize UBS is a Swiss bank, so that means they write off the fine on their taxes. So then, that means the Swiss taxpayers carry the burden. That’s the first thing.

The second thing is go look at the millions and millions of dollars in legal fees spent to defend their conduct. The UBS shareholders pick up that tab.

So you have UBS shareholders and Swiss citizens picking up the tab for bankers who just keep doing their business, and walk away untouched. How is this possible?

And third, the US government has set an incredibly bad precedent and zero deterrence. Because what they’re saying is, “Oh, if you get caught again, you just write a check. Yes, you might have to add $5 million or $10 million to that check, but just keep doing the business you’re doing.”

And the pathetic prosecutors at the Department of Justice say, “Oh, see? We’ve got a check and we can put it on our resume saying, ‘We got $200 million from this bank for doing illegal conduct.’”

Yeah, but you screwed the American people. It’s outrageous.

Click the play button below to listen to Chris' interview with Brad Birkenfeld (45m:31s).



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money badger Apr 18, 2017 5:03 AM
Destroyed Swiss banking secrecy? Must be real popular down at the club.

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BennyBoy money badger Apr 18, 2017 5:27 AM


"Lucifer's Banker"!?

I thought this book was about Dimon or Blankfein.

Still, a good book like Economic Hit Man.

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Déjà view BennyBoy Apr 18, 2017 6:07 AM
Fierce battle for worldwide capital...all 5 EYES have negative current account balances...4/5 ranked 194-197 DEAD LAST!

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/ 21...

IRONIC they offer options for Swiss Bank Accounts...in order to maintain a standard of living beyond their means...

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VinceFostersGhost Déjà view Apr 18, 2017 7:00 AM




Pleased to meet you......hope you've guessed my name.

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A Man of Wealth... VinceFostersGhost Apr 18, 2017 8:34 AM
Been around for long long year

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11b40 A Man of Wealth and Taste Apr 18, 2017 6:02 PM
And laid many a man's soul to waste.

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WillyGroper 11b40 Apr 18, 2017 6:39 PM
what's confusing you is the nature of my game...whoot whoot.

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eatthebanksters WillyGroper Apr 18, 2017 8:38 PM
Yes, but if the corrupt Obozo prosecuted his corrupt banker buddies and put them in jail then he and his corrupt party would no longer get the gravy train of cash coming from those corrupt bankers. In fact, Barry the liar had his administration allow the TBTF banks to continue their corrupt behavior and run criminal money making schemes as long as they paid fat fines. The bankers were happy about that...who wouldn't be as long as they were making $10b in profit and paid only $1b in fines with only a slap on the wrist and no admssion of guilt? And we the peasants were taking it up the ass to pay for all this corruption. * these guys...bring back the guillotine.

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janus WillyGroper Apr 18, 2017 8:37 PM
https://vimeo.com/212237317

Pizzagate is real.

Please take the time to watch the pasted video. This guy was a businessman, financeer and finally selected for elite PIT (Psycho In Training) from Holland...the child sacrifice was too much for him.

All bankers are lucifer's bankers.

janus

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WillyGroper janus Apr 18, 2017 11:56 PM
my cuz lives in the hague 1/2 the year. married to a diplomat. don't think either have a clue.

look up joris demink the marc dutreux of the netherlands. he's over both the police & the magistrates. it's all sown up. they sell their souls to the devil for fictitious paper called money. makes you wonder how many banksters really did jump as opposed to being pushed.

janus, i could send you down so many rabbit holes right now connecting this nonsense. have you tried chat again yet?

a particular flavor litergy references lucifer aka the morning star (familiar) aka planet venus...5 pointed star.

have a gander at the ecliptic. https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2014/01/04/the-pentagram-of-venus  /

you can really have some fun with the freedom statue on the capital dome & st. peter (jupiter) in the vatiCON.

tomorrow is a pagan blood/fire sacrifice holiday. both okc & waco happened on this date. their schedule...

https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/cienciareal/cienciareal20.htm

numerology figures big into their sick rituals too although i'm just dipping my toe into that one.

i have no idea if it's true. rumor has it dt is being blackmailed for a ritual kill of a 12yr old girl. Robert David Steel echoed that rumor. i found it funny CAF said in her latest interview that the viral pedo awakening is a real wild card & they're scared *.

it's being revealed.



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HedgeJunkie janus Apr 19, 2017 3:20 AM
Holy *!

People, click the Janus link above and watch that video the end.

Kudos, Janus, for finding that gem.

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Lets Buy The Dip Déjà view Apr 18, 2017 9:45 PM
i listen to your comments, are the swiss up to something?

remember. the market is in trouble here.

I have joined a accuate newsletter here => http://www.bit.ly/1fMcakI and they called the 2008 crash very accurately, they are saying a sell off is probably coming soon. Go have a look. http://www.bit.ly/1fMcakI

we are for some big shocks with the DONALD with finger on TWEET button and NUKE button. *LOOK OUT*

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Paul Kersey BennyBoy Apr 18, 2017 6:46 AM
And how was Goldman Sachs President Gary Cohn, a main architect in the U.S. subprime economic collapse, punished? Trump put him in charge of the U.S. economy, and he promptly lifted the corrective restrictions on the too big to fail banks. How's that for justice (for just us)?

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Consuelo Paul Kersey Apr 18, 2017 6:51 PM




But-but-but...



He's surrounding himself with the best & all that... Plus, he's going to bring them around to his side because - you know, deal making & stuff... Isn't that what we've been $sold...?

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BullyBearish Consuelo Apr 18, 2017 8:45 PM
cohn...the new cheney:



Cohn’s smartest move has been to position himself inside the Trump administration as the anti-Bannon. Bannon has embraced his image as Darth Vader and Satan and others who possess carbuncled souls, creating the niche for a lighter, more conventional hero. And into it Cohn steps. In persuading the president to flip-flop on China, government subsidies, his views on Federal Reserve boss Janet Yellen, and moving him closer to the Wall Street mainstream of many Republicans and Democrats—essentially restoring the status quo ante—Cohn has already convinced willing scribes that he’s an effective power broker.

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Giant Meteor BennyBoy Apr 18, 2017 7:00 AM
UBS

Ultimate Bull * or Uber Big Satan

Phil Gramm still on the payroll roasting weenies ?

His partial rap sheet can be found here ..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Gramm

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Leveraged Algorithm Giant Meteor Apr 18, 2017 10:09 AM
UBS = U Been Screwed.

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pitz Leveraged Algorithm Apr 18, 2017 6:01 PM
U Bull Sh*t.

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11b40 Giant Meteor Apr 18, 2017 6:04 PM
Good old Phil......the driving force behind the elimination of Glass-Stegall Ast, laying the foundation for the crash of 2008/09.

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knukles 11b40 Apr 18, 2017 8:34 PM
And in the end, even the rich and powerful stare at a TV screen of snow attended to by people who don't care in their last days.
All alone
Wondering if God, whom they never believed in all their lives, looks upon them favourably.
Just like the rest of us.
Must make screwing people seem worth it, no?

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thunderchief money badger Apr 18, 2017 6:29 AM
Citizens in the USA are so numbed and dumbed down by this kind of broad daylight robery, shakedown, and bold face lies, they are now to scared and paralysed to respond.



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Gazooks thunderchief Apr 18, 2017 6:40 AM
Scared and paralysed like deer in headlights that literally have no clue where to turn.





But, just suggest a bit of AU/AG to them for protection to elicit hysterical giggles.

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G-R-U-N-T Gazooks Apr 18, 2017 8:22 PM
Where can the people turn, when the very government's (worldwide) we supposedly elected and appointed turns on you like a tyrannosaurus rex???



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Giant Meteor thunderchief Apr 18, 2017 8:20 AM
Well sure numbed, scared, all that ...

Under the heading of enslaved by the money system of systemic fraud ...

It's in the open, has been in the open, and I do not expect a downturn in that trendline ..

I believe, ultimately, there is a tipping point, a point not of diminishing returns, but of NO return ..

Some believe we are at that point NOW ..

I read the news today, oh boy ..

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silver4me thunderchief Apr 18, 2017 7:34 PM
I agree with U.S.A being dumbed down. I just want to add that so many citizens depend on government assistance they don't want to be red pilled. Let tv, facebook keep the masses hypnotized while the country is robbed and polluted till nothing is left.

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TheGardener money badger Apr 18, 2017 9:06 AM
That spineless gay sounding prick gives whistleblowing a bad name.

He had no good intentions and just felt cornered after a long comfortable life based on lies and deceit only , maybe a true banker in the worst sense of the word but sorry , lucifer accepts fallen angels only.

Just trying to justify his all evil actions of betrayal to all sides he gets sheered up by the interviewer

because large scale government – bank collusion gets partly named and some politics get thrown

in aimed at a presumed audience. Listened through the whole thing and listen :



He has no set of morals or sense of wrongdoing whatsoever, neither on his part or the people he finally threw under the bus. Just absolute disgustingly trying to save his own little ass.

Pardon him for what he exposed about the collusion of big government and big business.

For the treason on his employer and peer group give him credit and leniance because of the above and choose a honorable method of execution.

For the 19000 clients he served up to be slaughtered by the authorities for good measure, there are about 19000 seats reserved for him in hell.



P.S. For the 104 million bounty he received straight from Hades, this is a satanic message we can believe in.

Be as evil as it gets, get reimbursed 10 times over because the old god is far from dead yet just because the devil has far more leverage...

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WillyGroper TheGardener Apr 18, 2017 6:47 PM
compartmentalization.

he had to dig for that info.

so what you condemn him for exposing the pricks getting away with it? athletes, movie stars, govreps, etc.

* them along with the jagovs robbing us.

fwiw, i listened to it yesterday & did not come away with your view.

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kochevnik TheGardener Apr 18, 2017 8:33 PM
UBS exposure was not about banking secrecy. It was about USA taking custody (stealing) Saudi gold

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cliccami money badger Apr 18, 2017 9:09 AM
Outlook: April 17– April 21
https://sasafuturestrading.wordpress.com/

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whitedragon Apr 18, 2017 5:16 AM
1.) Bankers engage in voluntary contracts.

2.) It is the State which uses coercion.

3.) THe banker hate is misdirected. Bankers can't do anything to you. It's the politicians and the people who vote for them who initiate aggression against you. Bankers are among the people who are smart enough to protect themselves from and use the system that the stupid people voted for.

4.) Evading taxes saves lives. That money would have been used to drop more bombs on civillians.

5.) Why do all these people feel entitled to stealing others peoples' money? THis is something of which we need more.

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Colonel whitedragon Apr 18, 2017 5:42 AM
Wrong liar banksters "finance" the state and its murderous oppression.

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Praeda2 Colonel Apr 18, 2017 7:32 AM
You sound like a nigger. Probably just a millennial who wasted their parents money though.

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Colonel Praeda2 Apr 18, 2017 9:04 AM
And you sound like your typical bankster slurping *.

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HedgeJunkie Praeda2 Apr 19, 2017 3:37 AM
And you, sir or Ma'am, or misfit, sound like some sort of idiot or, worse, goobermint shill.

You apparently weren't paying too much attention over the last forty years. And you certainly have no concept of the fraud involved in the 2008 'Financial Crisis' and it's lingering effects through today.

I doubt you know who John Corzine is and what he got away with. Or what happened in Cyprus and Greece as the banks actively stole from the average citizen.

I used to be really intimidated when the old crew were still on Zero Hedge, believe me, they'd have torn your ass to shreds and this would have been your last post on the site, forever.

It's because of people like you that we need to bring back the math captcha. Too many morons and government agents (one and the same) are gaining access to this site.

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prymythirdeye whitedragon Apr 18, 2017 5:54 AM
"The banker hate is misdirected."

Bwahahahahaha, that's a good one. Whatever helps you sleep at night

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Praeda2 whitedragon Apr 18, 2017 7:33 AM
5) because they're life failures who're poor and jealous.

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Giant Meteor Praeda2 Apr 18, 2017 7:46 AM
LoL, listening oh mighty bling bling ...

Regail us with epic stories of the good life and grandeur ..

I love good stories





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TheReplacement whitedragon Apr 18, 2017 8:19 AM
Totally spot on until #5.

To the downvoters, if the politicians you, your parents, and your grandparents elected had been held accountable (implying an intelligent, informed, and active electorate for which we are obviously asking far, far too much) then the bankers would not have the power they have. The bankers did not take their power over your lives. It was given.

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Giant Meteor TheReplacement Apr 18, 2017 8:36 AM
The sell out to the bankers, was a development that transpired well before my birth. I do not say this as excuse, merely as a statement of fact. The PEOPLE, by various means of deception, had little notice, let alone say in the matter. Revisionist history and the great dumbing down, has taken care of the rest. The money men, changers, shape shifters rule the joint, have perpetually ruled the joint, and merely consolidate power, to the extent of the open air theft that we have today.

There is no longer pretense even. The theft and corruption is "in your face."

Now yes, yes of course, there are on a personal level, ways to withdraw one's consent and participation. Actually this is occurring. Many I believe have exercised the option. Refuse, refusal.

On the other hand, most are also aware that this "leviathan" , backed up with force of "law" and the force of arms, makes open air resistance somewhat problematic.

The game, allthough revealed to most here, in spades, will need the wider attentions and captive audience, wherein all doubt shall be at once removed. Obviously that should have occured in 2008 ..

Now all the effort is to keeping the plates spinning in mid air, just a bit longer, until such time that all doubts shall be removed.

I am beginning to really believe, I may well live to see it ...

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Northern Flicker Giant Meteor Apr 18, 2017 6:43 PM
Seeing the global banking situation from a Russian's point of view is really enlightening.

http://lit.md/files/nstarikov/rouble_nationalization-the_way_to_russia %27s_freedom.pdf

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Giant Meteor Northern Flicker Apr 18, 2017 7:10 PM
Excellent, looks like great bedtime reading, and I thank you.

Unrestrained issuing of money backed by nothing has been the dream of bankers and moneylenders for centuries. This is the shortest way to world domination. Today this dream has become reality. All the world’s money stocks are tied to the dollar, which can be issued without restrictions. As a result of defeat in the Cold War Russia was deprived of a significant part of its sovereignty.

The Russian rouble does not belong to the people anymore. The only way out of the dead end is to change the current form of the system of money-issuing. By reading this book you will find out the answers to the following questions:

What are the gold and currency reserves of Russia and why do they not belong to the Russian Government? Who was Stalin’s “Chubais” and how did the leader of the USSR treat him? How are the deaths of American presidents connected to various types of identical American dollars? How did Benito Mussolini cooperate with the British intelligence service and what did it lead to?

Why did the USSR refuse to enter the IMF and sign the Bretton Woods agreement? Who was knighted upon Stalin’s death and why?

What constitution did Sakharov offer to his country?

The story of the Bank of England, the reasons for Joseph Stalin’s death, unknown snipers on the rooftops of Moscow in October 1993, the Central Bank of Russia independent from Russia – these are parts of one thing; the roots of one tree.

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silver4me Northern Flicker Apr 18, 2017 8:32 PM
Thanks for the link. Interesting read.

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WillyGroper Giant Meteor Apr 18, 2017 6:51 PM
"a development that transpired well before my birth."

likely your parents & grandparents too.



it's the boomers fault.

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shovelhead TheReplacement Apr 18, 2017 9:15 AM
Yep.

Long post unnecessary. Congressional criminal collusion is the greater crime because it adds betrayal by the hired help.

You expect a thief to steal, that's his job. Having your employee hand over the keys to your house for a few coins is a far worse crime.

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Giant Meteor whitedragon Apr 18, 2017 8:22 AM
Bankers my friend, ARE the state. The STATE are the bankers ..

Perhaps you missed this development ?

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Yukon Cornholius Giant Meteor Apr 18, 2017 7:01 PM
Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes the laws.
- (((Red Shield)))

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11b40 whitedragon Apr 18, 2017 6:07 PM
While your post is largely bs, I do want to keep # 4 in my back pocket, just in case

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Blankenstein whitedragon Apr 18, 2017 7:04 PM
Instead of the banking crowd and rich trying to evade taxes, why not have a small government that doesn't require trillions of dollars to run and doesn't have the money to support continuous war.

Most of the 99% can't evade taxes meaningfully, but there are a few that can/do. Nothing more nauseating in the whole 100% than an idiot who brags about cheating on their taxes and then votes for and supports big government.

[TonyGosling]

Whistleblower Christoph Meili: Swiss banks stole from Nazi victims, now fund Al Qaeda & ISIS

Link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvmiAsSK3rc

Former UBS security guard Christoph Meili on UBS & Eidgenössische Bank theft, fraud and terror financing
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/92093

Whistleblower Christoph Meili joins us to discuss his 1997 discovery of documents proving the Swiss UBS bank forerunner, Eidgenoessische Bank (Eidgenössische Bank), had been stealing from WWII victims, falsely claiming that relatives had to provide death certificates in order to claim money of dead and murdered relatives. Knowing all the time that due to Nazi methods of extermination no death certificates were issued for millions of WWII victims. Christoph believes Swiss banks are part of a wider fraud, or conspitacy, to create ward so they can make money and that today they secretly fund terrorist groups like Al Qaeda and ISIS to the same ends.
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Holocaust/swiss-shredding.html