Posted by benjamin, October 24, 2016
There is serious fighting going on as 43 different national
militaries begin a coordinated take-down of the Khazarian mafia,
Pentagon sources say. Meanwhile, a source in one of the families that
owns the Federal Reserve Board says that all fund “blockages we are
experiencing in the USA are due to the Bush/Clinton & Rothchilds
& Rockefeller crime families. We were told that they issued a firm
threat that the ‘entire family’ would be killed of ANYONE who releases
or receives any of the RV, redemption bonds or currency exchanges
funds.”
The fight is also getting personal for this writer. This morning 9 goons
from the Tokyo Tax office burst into my home and began seizing
property. They work for Yuriko Koike, the Tokyo Governor and Khazarian
mafia stooge who was fraudulently elected recently. All the money in my
bank accounts, including that earned from this blog, has also been
seized. Anybody with even a remote connection to me is being subjected
to similar harassment including whistleblowing lawyers having their law
licenses revoked. Gangsters from both factions of the Yamaguchi Gumi
yakuza syndicate have also informed me that Rothschild Japan agent
Michael Greenberg is trying to hire hitmen to have me killed. My
webmaster has also been hit with a cancer causing poison by these same
murderous gangsters.
The reason for this is because this blog has exposed the Khazarian
mafia’s crimes, especially their privately owned central bank fraud
scheme.
There have also been at least 3 honey traps (beautiful women who
unnaturally try to make themselves available to me) sent my way in the
past week. Other honest journalists and whistleblowers are experiencing
similar things and the best advice is to avoid regular hang outs and new
friends until this all blows over, presumably by November 8th.
The battle is expected to intensify over the coming two weeks as the
US Presidential election approaches. Here NSA and other agency
whistleblowers have revealed that Hillary Clinton (or whatever
look-alike or clone who is pretending to be her) reports to Evelyn de
Rothschild. Donald Trump, for his part, reports to Israeli gangster Roy
Cohen, according to CIA and NSA sources. “I would rather have the
Israeli Mafia in power than the Bush/Clinton/Rockefeller crime family,”
was how one (Jewish) CIA source described the Presidential election
battle.
In either case, the fact the US government is threatening to arrest
Russian diplomats if they try to verify the upcoming election is free
and fair is a clear indication the whole election campaign is a giant
fraud.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3861504/U-S-government-denies-Russia-s-request-monitor-American-polling-places-Election-Day-Oklahoma-Louisiana-Texas.html
In any case, Pentagon sources keep saying it will be none of the
above. Head of US Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford met with
Korean and Japanese top military brass on October 14th and the military
chiefs of 43 nations on October 17th to discuss “the final takedown of
the cabal on all continents,” Pentagon sources says. This is how
Pentagon sources describe the situation: “The Cabal sealed their fate
with multiple assassination attempts on Dunford, which in turn sped up
mass arrests, extrajudicials, GCR [Global Currency Reset] and a new
financial system based on gold priced in Shanghai.”
Now that the Chinese Yuan is in the IMF’s Special Drawing Rights
(SDR) currency basket, the next step will be to incorporate the Iran
Rial as a part of the SDR and as currency for the Middle-East while the
Zimbabwe Dollar will join the SDR as a currency for Africa, the Pentagon
sources say.
Once the Khazarian mafia loses their magic money machine, the last of
the mercenary armies and assassins still in their employ will have no
choice [but] to surrender or retire.
There are now moves afoot as well to take away the Khazarian mafia’s
control of the corporate media, especially in the United States. That is
why AT&T is being allowed to buy Time Warner after Comcast was
blocked from buying it, the Pentagon sources say. The US Khazarian mafia
is using both Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate Tim Kaine and
Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump to try to block the
merger, the sources say. However, “The merger might still get approved
because what is not good for the Jewish mafia is good for America,” the
Pentagon source said. Certainly the corporate media in the United States
is now so degenerate and full of lies that new ownership, and
anti-trust action, is definitely needed if people are to once again hear
the truth on so-called mainstream media.
There is also a huge information war raging around Wikileaks and
Julian Assange these days that is probably part of a sophisticated
take-down of Khazarian cabal disinformation. Wikileaks and Assange have
always been part of a Khazarian mob disinformation scam as can be seen
by their shady track record and widespread positive coverage in
corporate media propaganda rags like Time Magazine. For a good
background on this, please read the article at this link:
http://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-liberal/2016/10/what-is-going-on-with-wikileaks-assange-mia-macfadyen-dead-and-the-cia-honeypot-trying-to-tank-the-clinton-campaign-what-gives-2539955.html?currentSplittedPage=0Q
What is very clear though is that the recent data dumps blamed on
Wikileaks are now appear the real deal but they are not coming from
either Assange or Wikileaks but instead from insiders at the NSA and the
agencies. Now the “death” of Juliane Assange (real or fake) and of
Wikileaks Director Gaven MacFaden is being linked to the Hillary Clinton
campaign. This seems to be a clever two birds with one stone strategy
to get rid of fake whistleblowers and place the blame on the
Bush/Clinton mob at the same time.
There are also continued moves being made against the Khazarian mafia
occupied state of Israel. This is how the Pentagon describes the
situation: “Israel has lost so many submarines since 2013 it is trying
to buy 3 more from Germany, but it is being put back into its sandbox
with Russian bases not just in Syria but Cyprus and Egypt.” The source
continues by saying “Israeli subs make good anti-sub warfare (asw)
training and no matter how many it buys they will not be allowed to
launch nukes.”
In Khazarian mafia occupied Japan too, a takedown is continuing. One
source close to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said that 300 Khazarian
mobsters in Japan have been rounded up and taken to a US military base.
This may be disinformation but we can confirm that Mark Schwartz,
Chairman of Goldman Sachs’ Asia Pacific region, announced his
resignation last week. Goldman Sachs has led the looting of Japan’s
government pension funds, postal savings, agricultural bank etc. under
the regime of their slave Shinzo Abe.
Japanese rightwing sources, for their part say that Abe’s Liberal
Democratic Party is now “waving the surrender flag,” and has given up
resistance. They say Tokyo Governor Koike is actually one of the good
guys and that the raid on my house took place without her knowledge or
consent.
However, it is clear there are still many bad guys who need to be rounded up in Japan. CIA sources in Asia say:
“The Japanese government is illegally detaining 15 US Military
operatives who were stationed in Afghanistan and, are now being held in
prison in Japan. They are not on a US military base, but at a black
site. This was done at the request of the cabal, because these 15
soldiers were going to tell the world about the US government’s
involvement and control of the opium trade In Afghanistan for the past
13 plus years.”
For Japan to do this violates the Geneva Convention as well as UN
rules. The UN of course, is still a Khazarian mafia tool but, hopefully,
not for much longer.
The latest Afghan opium crop is up 43% from a year ago, according to
the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime so clearly the Bush drug
dealing branch of the Khazarian mafia is trying hard to make up for lost
oil revenue and lost cocaine and marijuana (thanks to legalization)
revenue by selling more opium and heroin.
https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/frontpage/2016/October/afghan-opium-production-up-43-percent_-survey.html?ref=fs1
It is also clear from the information about the arrests of US
military officers that some of that money is going into pay-offs to
elements of the Japanese government. Presumably this is the Abe-linked
North Korean Unification Church faction that has long been supplying the
Bush mob with amphetamines.
In Thailand meanwhile, the playboy Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn
is “too close to Bush agent Thaksin [Shinawatra], too distant from the
people, and may be honey trapped by the Chinese, so even if he ascends,
lese majeste may not be enforced and he would be living in a gilded cage
and could be terminated at any time with blood transfusions.” In other
words, the Khazarians are not going to get their hands on the Thai royal
gold via the Crown Prince.
In closing this week, we ask anybody who is in a position to take
action against the Khazarian mafia cabal to do so. This will be
especially important during the next two weeks as they try to impose yet
another fake government on the American people and continue their
efforts to start World War 3. On that front the White Dragon Society has
given Abe and his henchmen until October 31st to resign if they wish to
avoid life-long prison sentences.
Via:
https://kauilapele.wordpress.com/2016/10/27/full-article-benjamin-fulford-10-24-16-mass-arrests-and-extrajudicial-killings-going-on-as-part-of-cabal-takedown/#more-54506
Source:
http://benjaminfulford.net/2016/10/24/mass-arrests-and-extrajudicial-killings-going-on-as-part-of-cabal-takedown/
(Updates fourth paragraph to include reference to ProPublica article containing Carmen Segarra's allegations.)
Probably most people would agree that the people paid by the U.S. government to regulate Wall Street have had their difficulties. Most people would probably also agree on two reasons those difficulties seem only to be growing: an ever-more complex financial system that regulators must have explained to them by the financiers who create it, and the ever-more common practice among regulators of leaving their government jobs for much higher paying jobs at the very banks they were once meant to regulate. Wall Street's regulators are people who are paid by Wall Street to accept Wall Street's explanations of itself, and who have little ability to defend themselves from those explanations.
Our financial regulatory system is obviously dysfunctional. But because the subject is so tedious, and the details so complicated, the public doesn't pay it much attention.
That may very well change today, for today -- Friday, Sept. 26 --- the radio program "This American Life" will air a jaw-dropping story about Wall Street regulation, and the public will have no trouble at all understanding it.
The reporter, Jake Bernstein, has obtained 46 hours of tape recordings, made secretly by a Federal Reserve employee, of conversations within the Fed, and between the Fed and Goldman Sachs. The Ray Rice video for the financial sector has arrived.
First, a bit of background -- which you might get equally well from today's broadcast as well as from this article by ProPublica. After the 2008 financial crisis, the New York Fed, now the chief U.S. bank regulator, commissioned a study of itself. This study, which the Fed also intended to keep to itself, set out to understand why the Fed hadn't spotted the insane and destructive behavior inside the big banks, and stopped it before it got out of control. The "discussion draft" of the Fed's internal study, led by a Columbia Business School professor and former banker named David Beim, was sent to the Fed on Aug. 18, 2009.
It's an extraordinary document. There is not space here to do it justice, but the gist is this: The Fed failed to regulate the banks because it did not encourage its employees to ask questions, to speak their minds or to point out problems.
Just the opposite: The Fed encourages its employees to keep their heads down, to obey their managers and to appease the banks. That is, bank regulators failed to do their jobs properly not because they lacked the tools but because they were discouraged from using them.
The report quotes Fed employees saying things like, "until I know what my boss thinks I don't want to tell you," and "no one feels individually accountable for financial crisis mistakes because management is through consensus." Beim was himself surprised that what he thought was going to be an investigation of financial failure was actually a story of cultural failure.
Read more: Michael Lewis on the occupational hazards of working on Wall Street
Any Fed manager who read the Beim report, and who wanted to fix his institution, or merely cover his ass, would instantly have set out to hire strong-willed, independent-minded people who were willing to speak their minds, and set them loose on our financial sector. The Fed does not appear to have done this, at least not intentionally. But in late 2011, as those managers staffed up to take on the greater bank regulatory role given to them by the Dodd-Frank legislation, they hired a bunch of new people and one of them was a strong-willed, independent-minded woman named Carmen Segarra.
I've never met Segarra, but she comes across on the broadcast as a likable combination of good-humored and principled. "This American Life" also interviewed people who had worked with her, before she arrived at the Fed, who describe her as smart and occasionally blunt, but never unprofessional. She is obviously bright and inquisitive: speaks four languages, holds degrees from Harvard, Cornell and Columbia. She is also obviously knowledgeable: Before going to work at the Fed, she worked directly, and successfully, for the legal and compliance departments of big banks. She went to work for the Fed after the financial crisis, she says, only because she thought she had the ability to help the Fed to fix the system.
In early 2012, Segarra was assigned to regulate Goldman Sachs, and so was installed inside Goldman. (The people who regulate banks for the Fed are physically stationed inside the banks.)
The job right from the start seems to have been different from what she had imagined: In meetings, Fed employees would defer to the Goldman people; if one of the Goldman people said something revealing or even alarming, the other Fed employees in the meeting would either ignore or downplay it. For instance, in one meeting a Goldman employee expressed the view that "once clients are wealthy enough certain consumer laws don't apply to them." After that meeting, Segarra turned to a fellow Fed regulator and said how surprised she was by that statement -- to which the regulator replied, "You didn't hear that."
This sort of thing occurred often enough -- Fed regulators denying what had been said in meetings, Fed managers asking her to alter minutes of meetings after the fact -- that Segarra decided she needed to record what actually had been said. So she went to the Spy Store and bought a tiny tape recorder, then began to record her meetings at Goldman Sachs, until she was fired.
(How Segarra got herself fired by the Fed is interesting. In 2012, Goldman was rebuked by a Delaware judge for its behavior during a corporate acquisition. Goldman had advised one energy company, El Paso Corp., as it sold itself to another energy company, Kinder Morgan, in which Goldman actually owned a $4 billion stake, and a Goldman banker had a big personal investment. The incident forced the Fed to ask Goldman to see its conflict of interest policy. It turned out that Goldman had no conflict of interest policy -- but when Segarra insisted on saying as much in her report, her bosses tried to get her to change her report. Under pressure, she finally agreed to change the language in her report, but she couldn't resist telling her boss that she wouldn't be changing her mind. Shortly after that encounter, she was fired.)
Read More: Michael Lewis on Deeb the Conquerer baring his soul before Mama
I don't want to spoil the revelations of "This American Life": It's far better to hear the actual sounds on the radio, as so much of the meaning of the piece is in the tones of the voices -- and, especially, in the breathtaking wussiness of the people at the Fed charged with regulating Goldman Sachs. But once you have listened to it -- as when you were faced with the newly unignorable truth of what actually happened to that NFL running back's fiancee in that elevator -- consider the following:
1. You sort of knew that the regulators were more or less controlled by the banks. Now you know.
2. The only reason you know is that one woman, Carmen Segarra, has been brave enough to fight the system. She has paid a great price to inform us all of the obvious. She has lost her job, undermined her career, and will no doubt also endure a lifetime of lawsuits and slander.
So what are you going to do about it? At this moment the Fed is probably telling itself that, like the financial crisis, this, too, will blow over. It shouldn't.
To contact the writer of this article: Michael Lewis at mlewis1@bloomberg.net.
To contact the editor responsible for this article: Marty Schenker at mschenker@bloomberg.net.
Michael Lewis is a Bloomberg View columnist. He is the
author of the best-sellers "Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt," "The
Blind Side: Evolution of a Game," "Moneyball: The Art of Winning an
Unfair Game" and "Liar's Poker," among other books.
After graduating from Princeton University and the London School of
Economics, Lewis worked on the bond desk at Salomon Brothers, an
experience he recounted in "Liar's Poker," his first book. He left the
financial world to become a journalist, writing on politics, finance and
more for the New Republic, the New York Times Magazine, Slate and other
publications. He is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Lewis is also
the author of "The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine," "Home Game:
An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood" and "The New New Thing." He lives in
Berkeley, California.
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Probably most people would agree that the people paid by the U.S. government to regulate Wall Street have had their difficulties. Most people would probably also agree on two reasons those difficulties seem only to be growing: an ever-more complex financial system that regulators must have explained to them by the financiers who create it, and the ever-more common practice among regulators of leaving their government jobs for much higher paying jobs at the very banks they were once meant to regulate. Wall Street's regulators are people who are paid by Wall Street to accept Wall Street's explanations of itself, and who have little ability to defend themselves from those explanations.
Our financial regulatory system is obviously dysfunctional. But because the subject is so tedious, and the details so complicated, the public doesn't pay it much attention.
That may very well change today, for today -- Friday, Sept. 26 --- the radio program "This American Life" will air a jaw-dropping story about Wall Street regulation, and the public will have no trouble at all understanding it.
The reporter, Jake Bernstein, has obtained 46 hours of tape recordings, made secretly by a Federal Reserve employee, of conversations within the Fed, and between the Fed and Goldman Sachs. The Ray Rice video for the financial sector has arrived.
First, a bit of background -- which you might get equally well from today's broadcast as well as from this article by ProPublica. After the 2008 financial crisis, the New York Fed, now the chief U.S. bank regulator, commissioned a study of itself. This study, which the Fed also intended to keep to itself, set out to understand why the Fed hadn't spotted the insane and destructive behavior inside the big banks, and stopped it before it got out of control. The "discussion draft" of the Fed's internal study, led by a Columbia Business School professor and former banker named David Beim, was sent to the Fed on Aug. 18, 2009.
It's an extraordinary document. There is not space here to do it justice, but the gist is this: The Fed failed to regulate the banks because it did not encourage its employees to ask questions, to speak their minds or to point out problems.
Just the opposite: The Fed encourages its employees to keep their heads down, to obey their managers and to appease the banks. That is, bank regulators failed to do their jobs properly not because they lacked the tools but because they were discouraged from using them.
The report quotes Fed employees saying things like, "until I know what my boss thinks I don't want to tell you," and "no one feels individually accountable for financial crisis mistakes because management is through consensus." Beim was himself surprised that what he thought was going to be an investigation of financial failure was actually a story of cultural failure.
Read more: Michael Lewis on the occupational hazards of working on Wall Street
Any Fed manager who read the Beim report, and who wanted to fix his institution, or merely cover his ass, would instantly have set out to hire strong-willed, independent-minded people who were willing to speak their minds, and set them loose on our financial sector. The Fed does not appear to have done this, at least not intentionally. But in late 2011, as those managers staffed up to take on the greater bank regulatory role given to them by the Dodd-Frank legislation, they hired a bunch of new people and one of them was a strong-willed, independent-minded woman named Carmen Segarra.
I've never met Segarra, but she comes across on the broadcast as a likable combination of good-humored and principled. "This American Life" also interviewed people who had worked with her, before she arrived at the Fed, who describe her as smart and occasionally blunt, but never unprofessional. She is obviously bright and inquisitive: speaks four languages, holds degrees from Harvard, Cornell and Columbia. She is also obviously knowledgeable: Before going to work at the Fed, she worked directly, and successfully, for the legal and compliance departments of big banks. She went to work for the Fed after the financial crisis, she says, only because she thought she had the ability to help the Fed to fix the system.
In early 2012, Segarra was assigned to regulate Goldman Sachs, and so was installed inside Goldman. (The people who regulate banks for the Fed are physically stationed inside the banks.)
The job right from the start seems to have been different from what she had imagined: In meetings, Fed employees would defer to the Goldman people; if one of the Goldman people said something revealing or even alarming, the other Fed employees in the meeting would either ignore or downplay it. For instance, in one meeting a Goldman employee expressed the view that "once clients are wealthy enough certain consumer laws don't apply to them." After that meeting, Segarra turned to a fellow Fed regulator and said how surprised she was by that statement -- to which the regulator replied, "You didn't hear that."
This sort of thing occurred often enough -- Fed regulators denying what had been said in meetings, Fed managers asking her to alter minutes of meetings after the fact -- that Segarra decided she needed to record what actually had been said. So she went to the Spy Store and bought a tiny tape recorder, then began to record her meetings at Goldman Sachs, until she was fired.
(How Segarra got herself fired by the Fed is interesting. In 2012, Goldman was rebuked by a Delaware judge for its behavior during a corporate acquisition. Goldman had advised one energy company, El Paso Corp., as it sold itself to another energy company, Kinder Morgan, in which Goldman actually owned a $4 billion stake, and a Goldman banker had a big personal investment. The incident forced the Fed to ask Goldman to see its conflict of interest policy. It turned out that Goldman had no conflict of interest policy -- but when Segarra insisted on saying as much in her report, her bosses tried to get her to change her report. Under pressure, she finally agreed to change the language in her report, but she couldn't resist telling her boss that she wouldn't be changing her mind. Shortly after that encounter, she was fired.)
Read More: Michael Lewis on Deeb the Conquerer baring his soul before Mama
I don't want to spoil the revelations of "This American Life": It's far better to hear the actual sounds on the radio, as so much of the meaning of the piece is in the tones of the voices -- and, especially, in the breathtaking wussiness of the people at the Fed charged with regulating Goldman Sachs. But once you have listened to it -- as when you were faced with the newly unignorable truth of what actually happened to that NFL running back's fiancee in that elevator -- consider the following:
1. You sort of knew that the regulators were more or less controlled by the banks. Now you know.
2. The only reason you know is that one woman, Carmen Segarra, has been brave enough to fight the system. She has paid a great price to inform us all of the obvious. She has lost her job, undermined her career, and will no doubt also endure a lifetime of lawsuits and slander.
So what are you going to do about it? At this moment the Fed is probably telling itself that, like the financial crisis, this, too, will blow over. It shouldn't.
To contact the editor responsible for this article: Marty Schenker at mschenker@bloomberg.net.
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Michael Lewis is a Bloomberg View columnist. He is the
author of the best-sellers "Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt," "The
Blind Side: Evolution of a Game," "Moneyball: The Art of Winning an
Unfair Game" and "Liar's Poker," among other books.
After graduating from Princeton University and the London School of
Economics, Lewis worked on the bond desk at Salomon Brothers, an
experience he recounted in "Liar's Poker," his first book. He left the
financial world to become a journalist, writing on politics, finance and
more for the New Republic, the New York Times Magazine, Slate and other
publications. He is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Lewis is also
the author of "The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine," "Home Game:
An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood" and "The New New Thing." He lives in
Berkeley, California.
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