F430murci

He is only a troll claiming to be Chinese and we all know it.

Could be from NK

Could be from Uranus.

People have offshore account, cool. People have lots of money not previously made known, very cool. People have money no one knew they had, amazingly cool. People were trying to hide they had money, criminally cool

I would rather have my money in Caymans account than Thai account as Thai banks seem to have some serious troubled asset and debt issues. Maybe criminal, perhaps just smart.

People have offshore account, cool. People have lots of money not previously made known, very cool. People have money no one knew they had, amazingly cool. People were trying to hide they had money, criminally cool

I would rather have my money in Caymans account than Thai account as Thai banks seem to have some serious troubled asset and debt issues. Maybe criminal, perhaps just smart.

It appears that all these lovely people in the article with offshore bank accounts and companies have the Sgt. Schultz syndrome. "I know nothing".

Liked for Sgt Shultz. Awesome.

Poor baby. People don't understand how horrible this can be. Aweful way to die a slow painful death. Poor children who have absolutely no idea what is happening to them.

I'm all for the forum rules against [too much] religion & nationality bashing, but let's do a wee count on who the World's most numerous terrorists are. Anybody care to take a wild guess.

Who was it said: One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter....

No, ture freedom fighters with an ounce of integrity or humanity do not indiscriminately target civilians, women, children or whatever they can to make a point. Cannot even clump them in same category and only a community or nation with severely warped values would or could see terroists as freedom fighters. There are some truly messed up twisted people in this world.

Obviously I don't know, but I doubt very seriously that the US would get involved much in Bangkok or elsewhere beyond what they do now. Now they supply arms and some training.

The people of the US are war weary. I think the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have cost more than 8,000 US lives Link and about $1.5 trillion dollars Link and of course there have been many other huge expenses such as patrolling the Straits of Hormuz and the Gulf. There are also patrols to protect ships near Somalia, there was the attack on Libya, the current massive buildup of assets in the Asian waters and in Guam and The Philippines... There is China vs The Philippines and others, and N. Korea and...

The US military budget is $700 bil a year, about half of the world's total military spending. A lot of people are questioning it, wondering why.

I think the US would ramp up support in intelligence and supplies and maybe some special ops people, but another war to stop terrorism wouldn't go over well IMHO.

I certainly agree with everything you say concerning the people of the United States and another war (excepting N Korea should the North attack one or more of our treaty allies, such as Japan or S Korea). So you can understand I'm not talking about tens of thousands of U.S. troops into Thailand's South, or U.S. troops doing Baghdad again in Bangkok.

I speak instead of the assistance Washington would provide to Bangkok in respect to counter terrorism training and equipment, not large numbers of boots on the ground. Thailand is a non-Nato ally of the U.S. so we'd be obliged - more importantly, willing - to assist the Thai government to counter southern terrorism in the "north" of Thailand should the southern terrorists come north, which I'm highly confident they would not do. We recently concluded a successful effort of this nature in the Philippines, another formally allied country, using only some special forces in jungle counter terrorism warfare in conjunction with Filipino troops we helped to train.

No war in Thailand, simply assistance to a formal ally of the United States.

Thailand later lost the provinces it annexed from the former Sultanate or some such of Pattani, which extended well south of the present province's geography. So the Thais were pleased to get them back as a gift from Japan during WW2 for the Thai's good behavior while occupied. Now the people there want the border line moved yet again, but are going about it in the entirely dead wrong ways, i.e., terrorism. Either way, borderlines moved a lot during the past 200 years due to the colonial presence of the European powers. In present times, however, border lines are more difficult to move than the lines at KFC.

Maybe the US Operation Enduring Freedom in the Philippines contributed to the current cessation of hostilities in Mindanao. However what strikes me is after 30+ years of insurgency warfare and an estimated 120,000+ deaths, the insurgents have obtained a framework agreement for an autonomous province, planned to be finalised by 2015, exactly what they wanted all those years ago.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2012/12/peace-plan-philippines?zid=306&ah=1b164dbd43b0cb27ba0d4c3b12a5e227

Hopefully their will not be a repeat of previously autonomy agreements being broken, by both sides. One was over ruled by the Supreme Court of the Philippines (2000?) that lead to resurgence of conflict.

I guess it boils down what lessons can be learned by all sides of the conflict in the deep South, a faster turn around time for achieving a mutually agreeable peace process and it will not take 15 years of on & off negotiations as happened in the Philippines.

So give in to terrorists demands or reward terrorist tactics by giving them what they want? Where does it stop if that approach is taken?

Nor sure that aiming to be like Detroit is a very lofty aspiration.

Apart from commanding the best news resources, you seem to be a man with a keen sense of political developments. Would you agree that the events in Cyprus are part of Obama's masterplan to install a communist world government that's going to take away your guns and bibles?

No I don't - do you?

I was just probing how far your odd ideas go, since you produced quite some nonsense in this thread. You are Tea Party, you cried blue murder when first Bush and then Obama bailed out banks, car manufacturers, whatever. That's what you called 'socialism' back then. Good point, privatizing profits but socialising losses is corporate socialism, not the socialism that spreads wealth more evenly, though. You demanded that enterprises must go bust if the business goes bad.

That's what happens on Cyprus. A bank went broke, and the investors/creditors pay most of the price, not the taxpayer. But now you call this socialism, even though the circumstances are reversed. I really like to see your definition of socialism.

Anyway, congratulations that the American bank sector is far more regulated now than in Europe, and the government actually knows who has which assets where. They even told the secretive Swiss Banks which are big in America to either play along, or to bugger off. A Cyprus event can't happen in the US anymore, and tax evasion, laundering money, hide it in tax oases is far more tricky and risky than it used to be. The American people told the banks to run their business in a lawful way.

For sure. US Banks have to do SARs on just about anything or everything that fits certains very broad suspicious categories or everyone from the teller, the head teller, branch manager to regional operator is in trouble. Very little discretion on the part of bank employees here and they will literally get fired over this stuff quickly if no SAR generated.

.I cannot see Obama having the nerve to retaliate with nukes and there really is no need.

Classic. Can't help yourself, can you?

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Obama is a smart, strong and calculated man . . . unlike Bush Jr. Silence is stength on these types of issues. Look at NK's conduct and Oabam's conduct up until now. Junior would be on TV stumbling over his words making his axis of evil speeches, putting our country on high alert and placing airports at level orange. Midget leader would surely like to see disruption and alarm. That is the entire purpose for his lunacy.

Not sure why you are quoting me and responding as you have. I'm mostly an Obama supporter and have never had any regard for Bush even from when he was still a governor.

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Not disagreeing with you. I was agreeing with your response to the other post and just did not bother to try and dig the original up . . . Sorry for any confussion.

How many missiles are stationed along the border facing North Korea?

All we hear is this NK missile here and this NK missile there . . . why don't they report the hundreds of missiles pointed at NK?

Honestly, this is getting ridiculous - the wonderful free press

Googling this: 'US missiles aimed at North Korea' comes back with this:

https://www.google.com.my/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&ie=UTF-8#hl=en&safe=off&sclient=psy-ab&q=US%20missiles%20aimed%20at%20north%20korea&oq=&gs_l=&pbx=1&fp=c2264356cc05774&ion=1&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.44770516,d.bmk&biw=1241&bih=606

Every single link is about one of the two NK missiles moving somewhere . . . nothing else

Why . . . because bad <deleted> don't need to announce to the world how bad arse they are.

NK has to know they will be decimated. They apparently just do not believe US or anyone will do anything and they can get sanctions lifted this way if they act bad enough. Problem is, their tactic is backfiring, but they are committed and cannot back down. I am sure the US millitray is scratching their heads, but very greatful for the targets if such becomes a necessity.

.I cannot see Obama having the nerve to retaliate with nukes and there really is no need.

Classic. Can't help yourself, can you?

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Obama is a smart, strong and calculated man . . . unlike Bush Jr. Silence is stength on these types of issues. Look at NK's conduct and Oabam's conduct up until now. Junior would be on TV stumbling over his words making his axis of evil speeches, putting our country on high alert and placing airports at level orange. Midget leader would surely like to see disruption and alarm. That is the entire purpose for his lunacy.

I don't know regulations in the US, but in Europe some large 'healthy' banks are finding creative ways to make money and appearing to be in good shape at the same time. A bank needs to leverage its loans against deposits at a certain ratio. So as a bank you can't go and loan money out, if you don't have enough deposits. Reports are now coming in that companies who apply for large loans are getting these without the necessary collateral, under the condition that the loan amount is 10% higher than requested, and this extra 10% is deposited straight back into a fixed deposit account at the bank. A solid way to keep the bank's leverage! And also good business for the bank as it can loan at nearly 0% interest from the ECB or national reserve bank, and then pass it on for up to 10% interest or higher. (High interest as there is no collateral). If it all comes crumbling down, the taxpayer will be there to bail them out (again)!

the fifth

" If it all comes crumbling down, the taxpayer will be there to bail them out (again)!"

I will bet all my gold bullion with you that it is when not if

I am just glad I don't have any children and to have to explain to them this conduct and to worry about the kind of life they are going to have to endure in the future as a result of these unbelievably selfish policies. It will be extremely tough on them.

Gold prices are cyclical and on way back down. Smart investors on allocate part of their portfolio to gold funds to hedge against equity losses, not go 100 percent gold. I have made much more money off equities than precious metals over the years. Not even close.

You guys that purchase Gold obviously do so on hope belief or hope that fiat system fails and that world will return to gold standard making you incredibly rich. Nothing new about strategy or mentality except your about lose 1/3 to perhaps of your value very shortly when gold retreats to 800 to 1,100 range in next two years.

RE: Cyprus

What do you guys propose then. The banks have failed in many Euro areas largely because of regulation and largely due to economic issues such as high unemployment, poor bond performance in certain Euro zone areas and a high rate of consumer and commercial defaults.

Again, the question is what to do?

The proposals so far have been very transparent and are focused on long term recovery and keeping certain small banks with large ratios of troubled assets out of failure. Do you propose just letting them fail wheren large depositors get a lower percentage on amounts above insured deposits?

There is no good solution to bank situations such as Cyprus. No Fed or large GDP government TARP them. Options are pretty limited, but the doom and gloom all banks will fail is paranoia and over reaction and fails to account for transparency of these proposals.

I do agree that having large wealth in troubled Euro zone banks such as Italy, Greece, Spain and etc., would be a major concern. Those areas are plagued with severe economic issues that are impacting banking and financial system, not other way around though.

You are quite wrong! I am not a goldbug because I only have a percentage of my assets in gold and quite frankly I don't realistically expect to make any money on it because it's purely as an insurance policy for when the whole system implodes and paper money is worth nothing. If gold is worth anything above paper then it has to be better?

Well you defend you gold arguments, but you don't adress the crux of the issue dealing with solutions for Cyprus or other banks. You just want to condemn and spread fear that the fiat system is doomed for failure and the whole syetm will implode leaving you all the better. Haha, sriously, I have heard this for years and know many people with tons of gold in their vaults, safe deposit boxes and etc. Again, your gold with be worth about a $ 1,000 if your lucky in two years. If economy turns around and the Euro sorts through these loss issues, you gold could easily go back down to $ 500 levels.

If you want to hedge or make money on a system imploding, you purchase commodities that people will need and have to buy regardless of inflation or lack of money. The Russian billionaires are prime example here. Gold is not a necessity like gas, oil and food resources. When people are poor and hungry, they will stand in line and pay what ever money they have to eat or get to work to pay for food and shelter. Ambramovich et al. are prime examples how to prosper when a country implodes.

Sitting around wating for the end of the world is a sad and lonely way to live . . . If US can survive financial crisis of 2008, I have pretty good confidence in the civilized world to working out the remaining problems. I saw first hand what happened and how it was repaired. I honestly believed the only solution was to allow the big banks and AIG fail and to let maters work themselves out naturally. I worked with the Feds and state regulators for two of my large bank clients on rerating, stress test and TARP application process. I have zero worries about keeping my money in these banks.

If North Korea had oil, an American tank would already be in Pyongyang pulling down a statue of Kim Jong-un.

Perhaps, but Libya has oil. Not many US tanks rolling around Tripoli pulling over statutes. Although I have no real idea of what will happen and what US policy is at this time, Obama is a smart guy and hopefully learned from Bush's brilliant decision in Iraq et al. Hopefully, things will be handled differently in NK if force becomes a necessity. I also think we should raid the coffers if countries forcing us to use force like NK. Caveat, I do not believe Iraq forced us to use force in 2002/3 blunder. Kuwait conflict yes, second no.

@f430murci: Currently N. Korea has a relatively low both rate, ranked at 137th in the world. For N. Korea to eventually recover if will need a decent birth rate to re-build it's economy & infrastructure. Regards your increasingly strident comments concerning international obligations to rebuild a country at the end of hostilities, you may like to remind yourself of the lessons of the Marshall Plan and the rebuilding of Japan. A lot better way to go rather that generating an increasingly hostile population and possibly the deaths of hundreds of thousands due to starvation.

During Gulf war 1, the coalition destroyed a great deal of the Iraqi civil infrastructure (in my humble opinion completely unnecessary) e.g. 92 percent of installed capacity destroyed, refineries 80 percent of production capacity such as power stations. After Gulf War 1 the UN spent billions is assisting with the rebuilding program. Also the coalition did not destroy the Iraqi military capability as a result of Gulf war 1, it still had the largest armed forces in the region, albeit mostly conscripts. A very interesting analysis from 2001 that proved to be partially correct at: http://mail.a-ipi.net/IMG/pdf/csis-iraqmilcap.pdf

Your opinion and citing a post 9/11 article from 2001 when Bysh starts trying to build a case for war to save face isn't very persuasive. Yep, all those weapons of mass destruction we found was alarming. Iraq posed no serious threat to anyone, except perhaps to its own people, after first conflict. The second war was completely unnecessary and just another poor decision by a poor president.

Iraq is also a bit different. The cold hard fact is US and world needs stability in Iraq due to oil. The unfortunately truth is that creating inner stability in NK is perhaps not a large world priority once NK is no longer a threat.

Haha, yeah have more babies and get the US to pay for them. Brilliant idea. Something like one third of their children gave some form of dwarfism due to resources . . . Or perhaps whacked inbred gene pool if looking at midget leader.

Stop having kids you cannot pay for is logic of intelligent people not looking to be a leach on the butt of society.

Do I understand you believe N. Koreans are having children in the hope the US/UN will provide for them? You have to be flaming again. However, an interesting side note from a western businessman who set up a pharmaceutical company in N.Korea "it urges families to have more children, and discourages abortions and even contraceptives even though they are legal"

http://a-capitalist-in-north-korea.com/news/20121217102942-excerpt.html

Haha, great source. A pharmaceutical guy trying to get a permit to seek his viagra and cillias in North Korea arguing Koreans need to have more sex and have more kids.

He has lots of pearls of wisom and entertainment on his blog including:

"My company also looked into selling Viagra and Cialis, products also popular with Korean men. The government wouldn’t mind, I thought, as these aphrodisiacs would get couples heated up and create more kids. I was quickly proven wrong when denied the permit. Ms. Thak, a pharmacist, revealed the reasons to me: “The result of the higher sexual appetite of men would not have led to more children but to more abortions,” she claimed."

So is it any wonder he syas this in same blog where he is talking about trying to get a permit to sell Viagra and Cillias:

"Unlike most so-called developing countries, North Korea is home to an aging population, because women are having on average 2.02 babies—barely enough to sustain the population numbers, according to a 2010 report by Statistics Korea. The demographic is in part because most young couples bear one child. The government, in response, has taken a pragmatic response to population growth rather than a Leninist one: it urges families to have more children, and discourages abortions and even contraceptives even though they are legal."

I don't know regulations in the US, but in Europe some large 'healthy' banks are finding creative ways to make money and appearing to be in good shape at the same time. A bank needs to leverage its loans against deposits at a certain ratio. So as a bank you can't go and loan money out, if you don't have enough deposits. Reports are now coming in that companies who apply for large loans are getting these without the necessary collateral, under the condition that the loan amount is 10% higher than requested, and this extra 10% is deposited straight back into a fixed deposit account at the bank. A solid way to keep the bank's leverage! And also good business for the bank as it can loan at nearly 0% interest from the ECB or national reserve bank, and then pass it on for up to 10% interest or higher. (High interest as there is no collateral). If it all comes crumbling down, the taxpayer will be there to bail them out (again)!

Pretty heavily regulated here, especially after Dodd Frank. Class action lawyers also keep things honest by hawking in on improper fee issues.

Is US, most wealthy people do not keep large sums of deposit only money above $ 250k or FDIC insured amount in banks. The $250k is sufficient to cover most and many people in cash just buy blocks of $250k CDs and spread them around for different rates and lengths.

The Euro zone is and has been a mess and apparently banks are looking for solutions to remain viable and deal with troubled assets and debt so they can turn the corner. Consumer and commercial default put them here as well as poor bond performance.

If you guys have better solutions to fix large scale economic problems, you guys could perhaps become wealthy individuals. The Euro zone proposals are very transparent so I believe they are honestly searching for the best solutions for everyone.

I don't know regulations in the US, but in Europe some large 'healthy' banks are finding creative ways to make money and appearing to be in good shape at the same time. A bank needs to leverage its loans against deposits at a certain ratio. So as a bank you can't go and loan money out, if you don't have enough deposits. Reports are now coming in that companies who apply for large loans are getting these without the necessary collateral, under the condition that the loan amount is 10% higher than requested, and this extra 10% is deposited straight back into a fixed deposit account at the bank. A solid way to keep the bank's leverage! And also good business for the bank as it can loan at nearly 0% interest from the ECB or national reserve bank, and then pass it on for up to 10% interest or higher. (High interest as there is no collateral). If it all comes crumbling down, the taxpayer will be there to bail them out (again)!

the fifth

" If it all comes crumbling down, the taxpayer will be there to bail them out (again)!"

I will bet all my gold bullion with you that it is when not if

I am just glad I don't have any children and to have to explain to them this conduct and to worry about the kind of life they are going to have to endure in the future as a result of these unbelievably selfish policies. It will be extremely tough on them.

You guys that purchase Gold obviously do so on hope belief or hope that fiat system fails and that world will return to gold standard making you incredibly rich. Nothing new about strategy or mentality except your about lose 1/3 to perhaps of your value very shortly when gold retreats to 800 to 1,100 range in next two years.

RE: Cyprus

What do you guys propose then. The banks have failed in many Euro areas largely because of regulation and largely due to economic issues such as high unemployment, poor bond performance in certain Euro zone areas and a high rate of consumer and commercial defaults.

Again, the question is what to do?

The proposals so far have been very transparent and are focused on long term recovery and keeping certain small banks with large ratios of troubled assets out of failure. Do you propose just letting them fail wheren large depositors get a lower percentage on amounts above insured deposits?

There is no good solution to bank situations such as Cyprus. No Fed or large GDP government TARP them. Options are pretty limited, but the doom and gloom all banks will fail is paranoia and over reaction and fails to account for transparency of these proposals.

I do agree that having large wealth in troubled Euro zone banks such as Italy, Greece, Spain and etc., would be a major concern. Those areas are plagued with severe economic issues that are impacting banking and financial system, not other way around though.

Really, that guy or his web site is trying to sell precious metals so he has an agenda. You can find anything you want on the web. Obviously, someone trying to sell you on gold will be anti banking, fed, fiat backed money and etc.

The reality is this, I am a securities lawyers and my firm handles civil, criminal and regulatory sides of banking and securities firms. SEC, fed, state and etc. are getting much more agrresive. I see it every day, but obviously there will be examples of big wigs and investment bankers here and there everyone says should be prosecuted and are not being prosecuted. That does not mean they are not actively pursuing these cases now and the public many times is not privy to full informaiton and what is goin on behind the scenes. Some of these investigations are very lengthy.

But you can't apply that argument against everybody just because they warn about the criminality of the financial system? For example somebody like former congressman Ron Paul isn't trying to sell gold? Yes he believes in the Gold standard and his argument as to why he was anti Fed and anti fiat back money makes total sense. But his only agenda is to TELL THE TRUTH!

The likes of Gerald Celente isn't selling gold either? He only runs the Trends

Institute and he says the same thing about the criminality of the financial

system having recently lost quite a lot of money himself in the M.F. global failure. And Jon Corzine wasnt prosecuted - how come ?

Uhm, I said there are scattered examples of guys not being prosecuted (yet), but I doubt you have the facts or know what investigations are underway. Nevertheless, as I indicated these guys are generally getting prosecuted and the feds are really getting aggressive.

The gold standard v fed crap has been going on longer than I have been alive. I have read the books on this subject and etc. Fed is not going anywhere and we will not go back to a gold standard, ever. Lots of paranoid conspiracies out there on this subject.

Truth is large bank are as healthy as they have ever been. BofA was able to reserve 100 billion in 16 months to deal with CMO and Countrywide issues. They did not need entire reserve and the amazing part is BofA could reserve that much money for lawsuit liability in such a short period of time. Merrill Lynch is generating huge liquidity.

All banks, Regions finally included, paid back TARP plus interst rather quickly and effortlessly. Troubled asset, trouble debt and stress testing all looks great.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/halahtouryalai/2013/03/07/stress-test-success-all-but-one-big-bank-pass-feds-health-check/

Sorry to break it to you doom and gloom guys, but US banking system is as strong as it has been in a long time.

There are many Euro banks up shit creek and with 12.1 % unemoyment in Euro zone there are going to be problems. Sounds like some of Thailand's banks are in bad shape based in some articles I saw recently.

@f430murci: Currently N. Korea has a relatively low both rate, ranked at 137th in the world. For N. Korea to eventually recover if will need a decent birth rate to re-build it's economy & infrastructure. Regards your increasingly strident comments concerning international obligations to rebuild a country at the end of hostilities, you may like to remind yourself of the lessons of the Marshall Plan and the rebuilding of Japan. A lot better way to go rather that generating an increasingly hostile population and possibly the deaths of hundreds of thousands due to starvation.

During Gulf war 1, the coalition destroyed a great deal of the Iraqi civil infrastructure (in my humble opinion completely unnecessary) e.g. 92 percent of installed capacity destroyed, refineries 80 percent of production capacity such as power stations. After Gulf War 1 the UN spent billions is assisting with the rebuilding program. Also the coalition did not destroy the Iraqi military capability as a result of Gulf war 1, it still had the largest armed forces in the region, albeit mostly conscripts. A very interesting analysis from 2001 that proved to be partially correct at: http://mail.a-ipi.net/IMG/pdf/csis-iraqmilcap.pdf

Iraq is also a bit different. The cold hard fact is US and world needs stability in Iraq due to oil. The unfortunately truth is that creating inner stability in NK is perhaps not a large world priority once NK is no longer a threat.

Haha, yeah have more babies and get the US to pay for them. Brilliant idea. Something like one third of their children gave some form of dwarfism due to resources . . . Or perhaps whacked inbred gene pool if looking at midget leader.

Stop having kids you cannot pay for is logic of intelligent people not looking to be a leach on the butt of society.

There is no good reason to use nuclear weapons on NK. Conventional weapons will suffice just fine. If somebody has a cannon, you can still shoot him with a pistol, you do not need a cannon.

Ah but with a cannon you can send this kid to his room with a good spanking and still get to watch the 2nd half of the footy game in peace.

For sure I am using the cannon. I may miss with a pistol and give him time to shoot at me. Just bunker buster the hell out if where ever he is at and boy will be crying for his momma. I dint think he can imagine how bad it could be.

F430murci, on 04 Apr 2013 - 19:41, said:

Pakboong, on 04 Apr 2013 - 07:58, said:

Pakboong, on 04 Apr 2013 - 05:37, said:

I am talking about his net worth. It is huge and of course he is not going to let the world know what he controls. Of course, I am exagerating. He has all the wealth he needs and then some. The point I am trying to make is whatever he gets paid, we do not need what he does. His efforts do not help the public good and he has no downside for his own wealth.

I expect the Cyprus bankers lived pretty well for the 20 years since the failure of the Soviet Union.They were some wealthy people and likely still are. You can bet they moved their fortunes out of Cyprus ahead of the fall. Are they going to report how much, I hardly think so.

Christine Lagarde, managing director of the I.M.F., said the bailout plan will require "great efforts from the Cypriot population."

Lagarde puts the problem back on the people for decisions the bankers made. Why would she not point the finger at the bankers club who all got wealthy in the run up but now are asking for the people to save them. None of the banker club members ever consider that it is the bankers of the world who have to fix the problem and they have to fix it with their own money. The top tiers are wealthy beyond imagination.

A growing number of federal judges have had about as much as they can take with Wall Street firms paying

hefty fines to settle probes into serious wrongdoing without admitting any guilt or any executive taking the fall.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/as_mad_as_hell_gtmFI4WWgFlI2dsHMLB7AL

Not just judges, a lot of the SEC and government taint is nor gone as Bush era boys are phasing out and SEC and Feds are getting pretty aggressive in these areas now without a doubt. I am not on criminal or regulatory side per se, but I see this daily in my firm's clients both new and old. Very active right now and a few 2011/2012 convictions emboldened the gorvernment to spend time and resources to prosecutethese guys.

“SEC and Feds are getting pretty aggressive in these areas now without a doubt. “

this guy doesnt agree with you on that ?

How Your Bank Account Could Disappear

“ The pretend-regulators (notably the SEC and CFTC) on a daily basis rubber-stamp the banksters’ acts of fraud (where they are caught red-handed) – handing out totally trivial fines, and not even requiring these thieves to admit their guilt.. “

http://www.wealthwire.com/news/finance/3999

Really, that guy or his web site is trying to sell precious metals so he has an agenda. You can find anything you want on the web. Obviously, someone trying to sell you on gold will be anti banking, fed, fiat backed money and etc.

The reality is this, I am a securities lawyers and my firm handles civil, criminal and regulatory sides of banking and securities firms. SEC, fed, state and etc. are getting much more agrresive. I see it every day, but obviously there will be examples of big wigs and investment bankers here and there everyone says should be prosecuted and are not being prosecuted. That does not mean they are not actively pursuing these cases now and the public many times is not privy to full informaiton and what is goin on behind the scenes. Some of these investigations are very lengthy.

See below as whack system.

I think the scariest part about all this is how insignificant the media/world is portraying Kim Jong-un. People joke about him.

Scariest part is after our 10 minute missile destruction of key government areas, the world will now have to support the 50+ million people of North Korea. These people have been led to believe that they are the best and everybody else is evil. We will have to setup a new government for them, introduce them to modern things, and send them a lot of food and money. This will take many years. That is the scary part.

The world is not responsible for these people. NK is responsible for itself and it's own actions.