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Post by Entendance on Oct 3, 2024 8:34:56 GMT -5
Investigation reveals Israeli troops committing first ever 'live streamed genocide'
The new documentary compiles footage of war crimes committed and posted online by Israeli soldiers in Gaza Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit exposes Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip through the medium of photos and videos posted online by Israeli soldiers themselves during the year long conflict.
The I-Unit has built up a database of thousands of videos, photos and social media posts. Where possible it has identified the posters and those who appear.
The material reveals a range of illegal activities, from wanton destruction and looting to the demolition of entire neighbourhoods and murder.
The film also tells the story of the war through the eyes of Palestinian journalists, human rights workers and ordinary residents of the Gaza Strip. And it exposes the complicity of Western governments – in particular the use of RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus as a base for British surveillance flights over Gaza. Investigating war crimes in Gaza ➡️Gaza
This feature length investigation by Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit exposes Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip through the medium of photos and videos posted online by Israeli soldiers themselves during the year long conflict.
The I-Unit has built up a database of thousands of videos, photos and social media posts. Where possible it has identified the posters and those who appear.
The material reveals a range of illegal activities, from wanton destruction and looting to the demolition of entire neighbourhoods and murder.
The film also tells the story of the war through the eyes of Palestinian journalists, human rights workers and ordinary residents of the Gaza Strip. And it exposes the complicity of Western governments – in particular the use of RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus as a base for British surveillance flights over Gaza.
“The west cannot hide, they cannot claim ignorance. Nobody can say they didn’t know,” says Palestinian writer, Susan Abulhawa.This is “the first livestream genocide in history … If people are ignorant they are wilfully ignorant,” she says.
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Post by Entendance on Oct 4, 2024 3:36:35 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Oct 7, 2024 13:31:04 GMT -5
'...JPMorgan Chase Bank NA also appears to have a stranglehold on trading gold and silver contracts inside its bank. Table 21 in the latest OCC report shows that all commercial banks, savings associations and trust companies with derivatives account for $483 billion in precious metals contracts. Of that sum, JPMorgan Chase Bank NA holds $281.7 billion, or 58 percent. That concentration of activity by one bank in precious metals is being tolerated by federal regulators despite the fact that the U.S. Justice Department criminally charged JPMorgan Chase just four years ago with engaging in “tens of thousands of episodes of unlawful trading in the markets for precious metals futures contracts….” The bank admitted to the charges.
According to the Justice Department, the rigging occurred for more than eight years, from March of 2008 to August of 2016. The Justice Department wrote that traders at JPMorgan Chase:
“…knowingly and intentionally placed orders to buy and sell precious metals futures contracts with the intent to cancel those orders before execution (‘Deceptive PM [Precious Metals] Orders’), including in an attempt to profit by deceiving other market participants through false and fraudulent pretenses and representations concerning the existence of genuine supply and demand for precious metals futures contracts. By placing Deceptive PM Orders, the Subject PM Traders intended to inject false and misleading information about the genuine supply and demand for precious metals futures contracts into the markets, and to deceive other participants in those markets into believing something untrue, namely that the visible order book accurately reflected market-based forces of supply and demand. This false and misleading information was intended to, and at times did, trick other market participants, including competitor financial institutions and proprietary traders, into reacting to the apparent change and imbalance in supply and demand by buying and selling precious metals futures contracts at quantities, prices, and times that they otherwise likely would not have traded.”... 
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Post by Entendance on Oct 13, 2024 3:14:34 GMT -5
Aren't there LAWS against this? For a presidential candidate seeking funds outside the election? In crypto no less? -Tom from Florida
'...we have a recipe for global recession in which inflation and interest rates rise, The Everything Bubble pops, possibly violently, the wealth effect vanishes into thin air, consumption plummets and job losses soar. Central banks and central states will not be able to push the credit cycle (i.e. recession) forward any longer, and if they try to do so, they will only make the decline more severe and painful....'
A Hard Rain Is Going to Fall
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Post by Entendance on Oct 16, 2024 1:49:23 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Oct 19, 2024 4:11:41 GMT -5
Total Global Debt to Surpass $100 Trillion by Year's End, Warns IMF
'...the average westner on the street is not even interested in terms of Silver as an investment, so they have absolutely no clue of what is currently building for Silver below the record Gold price surface...'  
 Russia declaring Silver as an asset has changed the game!
London metals trader Andrew Maguire, appearing on Kinesis Money's "Live from the Vault" program with Shane Morand, says physical demand now is overwhelming derivatives trading in Silver, just as it has done in Gold, and he expects a similarly explosive rise in Silver's price soon.
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Post by Entendance on Oct 21, 2024 13:44:37 GMT -5
  
On private credit, this was an interesting Q&A in the Fifth Third Bank conference call on Friday, "are you seeing any competition from non-bank, direct lenders, private credit that looks different today than it would have 3, 4, 5 years ago? The answer from the CEO, "we do see it at the margins, principally in the leveraged lending space. What I would tell you has happened is their focus on less structure, faster execution that has a little bit of a bleed over in other areas. And there is no question that things that some of the private lenders are willing to do are not in line with the way that we want to run our portfolio. I think it was the Financial Times, the Journal, but there was a piece about a week ago in the paper that talked about 'payment in kind' or where I come from, negative amortization lending, was between a quarter and a third of the portfolios at most of the major private credit shops. That is definitely not something you would ever see at Fifth Third in an environment where the economic backdrop is benign and where you don't have a large percentage of your companies operating at distressed levels. It's just odd to see that amount of PIK lending going on. So if they're willing to do those things and we're not, by definition, they're going to scrape the most indebted companies out of the banking sector." -@pboockvar
H/T Tom from Florida
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Post by Entendance on Oct 22, 2024 3:48:41 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Oct 24, 2024 13:34:18 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Oct 28, 2024 1:16:55 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Oct 29, 2024 4:30:11 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Oct 30, 2024 7:56:24 GMT -5
Banksters can mean greedy, reckless bankers as well as corrupt and dishonest financial people performing illegal activities. The term is a play on the words ‘bankers’ and ‘gangsters.’ In other words, it is a portmanteau of the two terms.
Put simply; banksters are bankers who make money by unethical, dishonest, or fraudulent means.
‘Banksters’ first used in the 1930s
The term ‘banksters’ emerged in the 1930s. Sicilian-born lawyer Ferdinand Pecora, chief counsel to the US Senate Committee on Banking, first coined the term. Pecora first used it while he was investigating the origins of the 1929 Wall Street Crash.
Harvard Prof. William Z. Ripley had condemned many reckless and illegal practices. Pecora subsequently exposed many of those practices.
While Prof. Ripley used several colorful terms to describe the illegal activities, Pecora simply described them as ‘banksters.’
Prof. Ripley included such terms as “prestidigitation, double-shuffling, honey-fugling, and hornswoggling.” He also used the word ‘skullduggery’ in his descriptions.
Banksters refers not only to greedy and reckless bankers, but also those who act dishonestly.
According to Oxford Dictionaries, a bankster is:
“A member of the banking industry seen as profiteering or dishonest.”
After the 2007/2008 global financial crisis had hit, the term became popular again in the media. Journalists used the term to describe bankers, such as those involved in the US subprime loan scandal, who exploited people.
Not only are banksters people who work in finance today, but also in industry.
Full statement so you know I'm not taking it out of context: "I know that the people in the crowd are. Uh, controlling basically 24, 25 trillion of a 30 trillion economy. So good on you for doing that and, you may or may not quite realize it. I know people thank all of us in uniform, uh, for our service, but I want to thank you and your service because the two key components of national security and the international scene, uh, is a strong military and a strong economy."
H/T Tom from Florida
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Post by Entendance on Oct 31, 2024 4:15:17 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Nov 4, 2024 12:46:50 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Nov 10, 2024 3:41:06 GMT -5
GATA commentary on gold price suppression
More recent trends in U.S. government deficits
Debt problems in China and other countries
Historical context of the gold swaps
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Post by Entendance on Nov 13, 2024 17:50:27 GMT -5
'...Stop buying into the performance. Stop screaming for your favorite political pro wrestler and notice that the blows aren’t connecting and the whole match is just a show.
If you want to fight the power, focus your opposition where the real power is. The war machine. Imperial power structures. Intelligence agencies. Plutocracy. Capitalism. Fully unplug your emotional energy from the illusion of electoral politics and dedicate your attention instead to the concrete movements of weapons, resources, and wealth.
As long as they can keep us clapping along with the puppet show, we’re never going to pay attention to the forces pulling the strings. We’re never going to bring enough awareness to the real problems to find actual solutions and carry them out. We’re never going to be able to bring real opposition to real power...' More here
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The Beach &➡️ 
It's So, So Bad, 
The Beach & 
BIS gold swaps fell 17% in October 