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Posted By pc25 10 months, 1 week ago in NewsPennsylvania Democrat reveals the financial crisis was deliberate, planned, staged:
Catastrophic Financial Attack On 9-11 Caused Economic Meltdown!
Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D-PA) told CSPAN: "It would have been the end of our economic and political system."
On Thursday Sept 11th, 2008 at roughly 11 AM The Federal Reserve noticed a tremendous draw down of money market accounts in the USA to the tune of $550 Billion dollars in a matter of an hour or two. Money was being removed electronically.
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pc2510 months, 1 week ago
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Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D-PA) is the Capital Markets Subcommittee Chairman
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At 2 minutes, 20 seconds into this C-SPAN video clip, Rep. Paul Kanjorski of Pennsylvania explains how the Federal Reserve told Congress members about a "tremendous draw-down of money market accounts in the United States, to the tune of $550 billion dollars." According to Kanjorski, this electronic transfer occured over the period of an hour or two.-
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RedRiverJ10 months, 1 week ago
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I have many, many times wondered if this entire thing, Fannie and Freddie, the drop in money markets was planned.
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George Soros almost caused Britain to collapse in almost the same manner. I put nothing past this evil old coot. He is more deeply involved than we know.-
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pc2510 months, 1 week ago
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there has been more and more coming out about this.......all too perfect, all too timely, all too suspect, as the line in City Hall goes "uhhh the virgin looks pregnant to me."
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http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUI...
A standard “action alert” has provided a rare glimpse inside the mind of the Shadow Party.
In a December 9th e-mail signed by “Eli Pariser, Justin Ruben, and the whole MoveOn PAC team,” the Soros front group stated: “In the last year, grassroots contributors like us gave more than $300 million to the Kerry campaign and the DNC, and proved that the Party doesn't need corporate cash to be competitive. Now it's our Party: we bought it, we own it, and we're going to take it back.”
To clarify, the hysterical Left believes not only that America’s oldest political party is for sale, but that George Soros has already made the down payment.-
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nostalgia10 months, 1 week ago
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Here is an interesting article on Soros
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It includes the meetings Soros had with Obama - BEFORE Obama announced he was running for the presidency
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2008/3542soros_ob...-
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nostalgia10 months, 1 week ago
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Another article on Soros from Pittsburgh Tribune
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http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_1...
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GLee10 months, 1 week ago
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I will continue to stand by the notion that the entire economic 'meltdown' was strategically planned to go along with this past Presidential election. Not paranoid, just too many things have happened too timely for a bunch of libs. I brought this up months ago and now it seems as if some proof is starting to pop up.
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Now you watch Pelosi & Gang run Washington and it is apparent that they are in it to 'win' 'THE Game'..... Only to 'win'. Nothing to do with what is good for America and it's citizens but who can get 'something' over on the other group. Sick 'people'........ alot like you 'dude.
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mesodude10 months, 1 week ago
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Hmmm...So this means cons have been totally wrong, misguided and/or lying (I know...I'm shocked, too...LOL) that Bush kept us safe which proves once and for all that their investment in Bush was a complete and total waste. They got NOTHING in return for their votes, campaign donations, getting hosed at the gas pumps. Wow. I guess cons' judgement is worst than anyone could have imagined. OMG
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pc2510 months, 1 week ago
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http://townhall.com/columnists/DianaWest/2009/02/1...
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Diana West :: Townhall.com Columnist
Who Attacked Our Economy? Why Does No One Care?
I want you to read something. It's a snatch of transcript from a Jan. 27 C-SPAN interview with Rep. Paul Kanjorski, D-Pa., that has received zero coverage in what we think of as the mainstream media.
To set the C-SPAN scene, Kanjorski is harkening back to the middle of last September, when, as it happens, John McCain was enjoying his brief lead in the presidential polls and the economy as we knew it was imploding. Here's what Kanjorski said:
"I was there when the Secretary (of the Treasury Hank Paulson) and the Chairman of the Federal Reserve (Ben Bernanke) came those days and talked to members of Congress about what was going on. It was about Sept. 15. Here's the facts, we don't even talk about these things.
"On Thursday at about 11 o'clock in the morning, the Federal Reserve noticed a tremendous drawdown of money market accounts in the United States to the tune of $550 billion, as being drawn out in the matter of an hour or two.
"The Treasury opened up its window to help. It pumped $105 billion into the system and quickly realized that they could not stem the tide. We were having an electronic run on the banks.......-
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nostalgia10 months, 1 week ago
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I can't help but believe the Feds have to know where this money was going
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They track all large transfers which are done electronically
That $550 billion went somewhere.
Wonder if this is connected??
January 9, 2009
Swiss Bank UBS Rats Out US Account Holders
This is a shocking, shocking development. On the other hand, maybe it's not a surprise at all.
Swiss Bank UBS is closing down accounts held by US citizens and sending them checks. And it's telling the IRS the amounts and who is receiving them. Accountholders have the option of moving the money to other offshore accounts -- but the IRS will still be informed of who has what amount of money.
So much for the whole concept of a Swiss Bank Account! Anonymity. Freedom from confiscatory taxes!
One can only imagine the pressure the US government brought to bear on Switzerland. After all, through thick and thin, Switzerland has remained forever and always Neutral. Even the Nazi war machine left them alone. They were able to withstand all demands to identify account holders. That's what the Swiss Bank Account was all about! And numbered swiss bank accounts. And bearer bonds. The stuff of exotic international intrigue. No more!
http://dashxdr.blogspot.com/2009/01/swiss-bank-ubs...-
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barbb3710 months, 1 week ago
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Read this:
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic...
"The indictment by a grand jury in Florida, which was unsealed this week, accused executive Raoul Weil of conspiring with a host of others at the bank to market Swiss bank secrecy to American clients and help them dodge taxes. A lawyer for Weil denied the charges and said he would seek vindication. Meanwhile, UBS has given U.S. authorities the names of about 70 clients who wired money from UBS accounts in the United States to UBS accounts in Switzerland.
UBS announced in July that it was getting out of the business of offering Swiss accounts to American clients.
Some clients feel hung out to dry. "They're not happy," said lawyer Bryan C. Skarlatos of the firm Kostelanetz & Fink. "They feel like UBS is taking steps to protect itself.""
It only sounds like the wealthy won't be hiding their assets at that bank overseas. It might not be that pressure was brought to bear, it may be a bit of payback for the US screwing up the world economy.
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pc2510 months, 1 week ago
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The question is who was doing this? Who was withdrawing all this money? And the next question is why? That's where my mind starts exploding, and this is dangerous to have these explosions going this way. Could it have been George Soros? Could it have been a consortium of countries -- Russia, China, Venezuela -- countries that are eager to have Barack Obama elected because they know that will make it easier for them to continue their own foreign policies in the world?
Michelle Obama the FIX IS IN
http://www.propeller.com/story/2008/10/15/accordin...-
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hyperbola10 months, 1 week ago
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The most likely candidates for that kind of movement are US financiers worried that the US will be forced to nationalize banks and will clean up the Wall Street corruption. It is, for example, no accident that the Bush administration was crucial in blocking the cleaning up of corruption (drugs, weapons, mafia and financial) by the introduction of new international rules regarding "tax havens".
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By the way, if foreigners own that money in US banks, they have every right to withdraw it and transfer it wherever they like. Given the corruption and weakness of the US financial system, it would not be surprising that many foreigners begin to do so.
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Beeboppin7110 months, 1 week ago
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lovemylibs: "For those keeping score, mesodude's "for as long as I can remember", equates to 3 minutes."
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Which is of course, slightly longer than yours. You clocked in at a minute and a half. An improvement on your last score of thirty seconds. CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Gee! Being childish sure is fun!!! Can we stop now?
By the way Lovemylibs, I love you too. Happy Belated Valentines Day.
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y_soitenly10 months, 1 week ago
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Beeboppin71,
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re: "holding out for a more credible source."
Um, it was mentioned by Congressman Kanjorski and shown on C-SPAN. You heard of that TV program (C-SPAN) before, haven't you??
Capitol Hill, the White House & National Politics
It's broadcast M-F every week for about 8hrs. per day.
http://www.c-span.org/
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pc2510 months, 1 week ago
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of course it's a Bush failure......he is the firewall isn't he.....he is sitting at his computer 24 hours a day monitoring all electronic money transfers isn't he Geitner who was NY Fed Chairman at the time and all his cronies are absolved aren't they? that in itself is suspicious. And now after all your belly aching about loosing freedoms these past several years you now want the government to monitor draw downs of peoples or corporations personal money to the point that they can't access it......in case you haven;t read the whole article or VIEWED the video THE SAFE GUARDS WORKED and they prevented a catastrophic meltdown of the financial system.....of course it's not possible that people such as Soros, (after all he already broke the Bank of England), or countries or special interest groups leveraged money against this country and waited for the appropriate time to act . My God you are as dumb as your comments indicate.....by the way genius have you any idea of what happened on Sept 10.....do you......have you any idea, probably not.......that was the day the crap hit the fan with Lehman Bros.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic...
Lehman Retools In Bid for Recovery
Investment Bank Loses $3.9 Billion In Third Quarter
NEW YORK, Sept. 10 -- Lehman Brothers, anxious to show it can weather a credit crisis that contributed to the firm's $3.9 billion third-quarter loss, said Wednesday that it would sell a majority stake in its investment-management division, slash its dividend and spin off about $30 billion of real estate assets.
The announcement did little to calm investors' concerns that Lehman, the smallest of the four major Wall Street investment banks, might suffer the same fate as former rival Bear Stearns, which was acquired by J.P. Morgan Chase in a deal regulators brokered in March after a bank run that shook the securities industry.
The question is who and why in a FREE MARKET SOCIETY (and the key word here is FREE) would individuals or organizations position themselves and wait for this opportune time to move against this country's economy (after all it is their money isn't it D or don't you understand that?). Is it politically motivated? is it internationally motivated?. and the other question is why wasn't this covered by the MSM and who are they trying to protect, after all this is apparently the singular event that has effected every person in this country yet we haven't heard one word about this until now. Strange.
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jordan1110 months, 1 week ago
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"Was the system hacked?"
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http://www.crime-research.org/news/19.10.2004/727/
The hacking of computer systems could cause devastation beyond imagination. If what Kanjorski says is true, (& I'll assume it is by virtue of his position), the least we have to worry about is financial downfall. It isn't as though government hasn't known about the threat to our national security by hackers. The Pentagon and the FBI have been hacked. I suppose the obvious question is what has been done about it?
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k9kssr10 months, 1 week ago
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We know who benefited from the meltdown.
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And if Kanjorski has this info, there are other congressional members who also know and we should demand they be open and truthful about it.
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I have wondered what actually precipitated this latest recession...just at the end of Pres. Bushs' final term...and before the elections. The timing couldn't have been better. A "perfect storm." Who would benefit from an economic crisis at that time? The population historically votes pocketbook issues in tough times and ideology takes a back seat. "We are in a crisis...we need change!" Could someone, or some Country, attempt the ultimate radical move to insure a change of command?
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I have never considered myself a big proponent of conspiracy theories. This story however,- this live, on air, tape of a Congressman from Penn... is worthy of a movie. The fact that a run on the banks could happen electronically, in such a short period of time, demonstrates a lack of Government oversight that is beyond careless..it is incompetent. This story, if true, could also demonstrate a successful attempt to circumvent national political will of the people by influencing an election. That is a crime that is worthy of the consequences of treason.
I will write my Senators tonight and demand that those responsible be "hanged by the neck until dead." (...and trust me,we already know who they are.) It is the only just punishment for the misery caused by such actions.-
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mesodude10 months, 1 week ago
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"It is worth noting that McCain went ahead of Obama in the polls on September 7th."
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--I think I see where you're going with this, lml. September 7. BUILDING 7. SEVEN days in a week. 7-UP. 7-11. OMG. Obamaaaaaaaa! How *could* youuuu?!!! ;-( -
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hyperbola10 months, 1 week ago
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It seems more likely that this was corruption benefited by the Bush administration trying to get their "gains" beyond the control of the American taxpayer before the sshhiitt hit the fan. Remember that this was a time when only government insiders (and Wall Street) really knew how decrepit the US economy and financial affairs were. Remember that this was the time when companies like Halliburton began moving to Kuwait.
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Grrr10 months, 1 week ago
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One thing is for sure: something like that should never have been able to happen, and if it really did, something is rotten in the Federal Reserve and the electronic banking system. Something more than we were already aware of, I mean.
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barbb3710 months, 1 week ago
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Was the blogspot referring to President Obama when they said "President Hussien"? If you listen to the entire YouTube, you would hear that it was a run on the bank. Money markets were pulling out their money, not a terrorist attack.
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nostalgia10 months, 1 week ago
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There is some interesting information out there about this
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Hedge Funds, Politics, and the Market Crash
There are several culprits in the recent market crash, but one key source of the problem has hitherto escaped attention: an economic index that can be easily manipulated by hedge funds and whose gyrations have shaken the foundation of Wall Street: the ABX index, launched in 2007 by the Markit Group, a London-based company that specializes in credit derivative pricing and that administers the index.
The heart of the mortgage mess is uncertainty regarding the value of subprime securities. The ABX Index is used to determine the value of these securities: it is a benchmark of the market for all the home loans issued to borrowers with weak credit . A collapse of this index leads to these home loans being marked down in value. The advent of the so-called mark-to-market accounting rule requires firms to slash the value of their holdings.
The problem is that it looks like the ABX can be manipulated. The Wall Street Journal has noted that there is criticism "that the ABX is manipulated by hedge funds, or fails to represent the overall subprime or housing market"
Some investors benefited handsomely. Hedge fund manager John Paulson personally has made billions of dollars over the last two years from the collapse of the subprime mortgage market. How he did this can be found in this superb Wall Street Journal article.-
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nostalgia10 months, 1 week ago
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Who else may have benefited? Indeed, who may have helped precipitate the crisis by taking actions that would weaken the ABX Index? We don't know, but there are some obvious suspects.
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George Soros for one.
Word of Paulson's early success got "around in the world of hedge funds" and Soros invited Paulson for lunch, "asking for details of how he laid his bets, with instruments that didn't exist a few years ago"
Paulson made billions betting against the ABX Index. When you bet against the value of an index it exerts pressure on it -- hastening a decline and thus a decline in the value of the products that are priced using this index.
Did George Soros profit from such machinations, too? A relative, Peter Soros, directly invested with Paulson. Others also listened to Paulson and went off on their own to independently follow the same strategy and have reaped vast fortunes in doing so. Soros has refused to answer questions from the Wall Street Journal about his now infamous lunch with Paulson .
Democratic Senators of New York have been in the forefront of protecting hedge funds. Senator Schumer was among the Senate Democrats who recently led the fight against taxing hedge funds at a higher rate.
Senator Chris Dodd (D-Connecticut)) is a "beloved advocate of many of the hedge funds housed in his state" and has benefited mightily from donations from these hedge fund managers.
Barack Obama has now eclipsed Dodd's fundraising record from hedge fund titans. Indeed, Barack Obama-after an initial promising stance regarding taxing hedge funds-backed away from the issue after briefly raising it last year
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/hedge_funds...-
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nostalgia10 months, 1 week ago
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Soros faces Congress over hedge funds' role in meltdown
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Five of the world's richest hedge fund managers, including George Soros, the man who the broke the Bank of England, have been called to account by US politicians for their role in the collapse of the global financial system.
The quintet – including John Paulson, who made $3.7bn (£2.49bn) last year betting against the US mortgage market – were grilled over their roles in buying unregulated derivatives products, which some politicians believe contributed to the financial markets' meltdown.
The men, who each earned more than $1bn each last year, were called to account by Democratic Congressman Henry Waxman, who chairs the House committee on oversight and government reform.
The committee, which is investigating whether hedge funds should be more heavily regulated, is concerned that the funds were able to profit from the collapse of some of the US's largest financial institutions.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/ba...-
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nostalgia10 months, 1 week ago
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Queens-born John Paulson makes fortune on home foreclosures
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John Paulson made billions betting that you could lose your home.
The Queens-born hedge fund titan scored big by making complex investments that would reap huge profits if housing prices drop and mortgage foreclosures rise.
As the housing market tanked, Paulson made $2.7 billion in the first nine months of 2007 to lead all hedge fund bosses.
Things are looking even better for him in '08 as real estate prices crumble and millions of Americans struggle to stay in their homes.
"I've never been involved in a trade with such unlimited upside," Paulson, 52, boasted to The Wall Street Journal.
http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2008/01/16/2008-0...-
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Dionys10 months, 1 week ago
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ABSOLUTELY! Because we all know that the majority of hedge fund managers, and the richest investors in the country are ALL LIBERALS!
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nostalgia10 months, 1 week ago
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WAKE UP
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Political parties are of no concern to these people
They buy both parties
When you try to make this fiasco political you are only fooling yourself
You've been programmed to see everything through a narrow political prism
That is exactly what the politicians want you to do
Stop being a doormat for these idiots in Washington
See any legislation come out of DC regulating hedge funds??
Why don't you ask "why haven't they done anything?"
Easy answer as one analyst said on TV: Congress is the only wh*rehouse in the country that loses money
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jordan1110 months, 1 week ago
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I wouldn't be surprised at all that some choreographed this mess. Our financial system is, after all, linked to the world. But to deflect the information with partisan clap trap ('they' did it so Obama would win) forces me to give 'sink' the article.
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Wolfie200710 months, 1 week ago
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Jordon aren't you one of those Truthers who believe George Bush and the Israelis were responsible for the attack on th World Trade Center on 09/11? The attack on the financial markets orchestrated by George Soros 09/11/08 seems more plausible. It played out to Obama's benefit and it was to his benefit that it was kept quiet. Also, it was most likely easier, took less planning and preparation and involved far less people than the attack in 2001.
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DenCuddy10 months, 1 week ago
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What's more plausible is that the Bear Sterns LBrothers mess spooked the world to pull their money from the ponzi scheme wall street banks and get it to a safe haven as opposed to Soro's coordinating the whole thing.
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Smart money runs from a bad investment.
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annk1-9510 months, 1 week ago
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Doesn't anyone remember a movie called "Rollover", with Kris Kristofferson?
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sd2010 months, 1 week ago
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It appears to me some knew if our markets dropped seriously it would turn the crowds to the liberail candinate who promise the most. This does not mean he can produce any lasting results. But the news media can make a cow paddy into a hamburger. It is like a person going to a maul or school to shoot people. The gunner than shoote theirself. Like serhan serhan and Bobby kennedy. Who gete all the press coverage; the antigun mob. Loosing God, Christ,and the second amendment will put we the people into the U.N. All you loose is the Constitution; Bill of Rights; and Personal Freedom. Some one ellected him now we the people will for it. Think about it!
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