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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy said after talks in Berlin on Sunday evening that their goal was to come up with a sustainable answer for Greece's woes, agree how to recapitalise European banks and present a plan for accelerating economic coordination in the euro zone by a G20 summit in Cannes on November 3-4.
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Other French banks have also come under intense pressure because of their exposure to Greece.
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Sarkozy made clear, however, that Europe needed to "take decisions now," rather than announce long-term plans that would take time to implement. Changing the treaty could take several years.
"Comprehensive, sustainable and rapid responses before the end of the month. That is the result of this Franco-German meeting," he said.
German news agency DPA, citing financial sources, reported on Sunday that euro zone finance ministers were working on scenarios involving a 60 percent reduction in Greece's debt.
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All those who value free speech, art, public protests, internet blogs and due process should be waging an all-out information war right now to defend the Second Amendment. Why? Because if the Second Amendment is lost due to unconstitutional legislative and executive actions pursued by the government, then there are no limits to what civil liberties and individual freedoms the government can declare null and void.
All those who are arguing for infringements of Second Amendment liberties (universal registration, banning AR-15s, criminalizing high-capacity magazines, etc.) are effectively arguing to hand the federal government the precedent it needs to criminalize free speech, religion, public protests, internet blogs, Youtube videos and more.
In effect, gun grabbers are arguing for the government to have the power to overturn the Bill of Rights when it is popular to do so. But such power will inevitably end up being used in circumstances never envisioned by the gun grabbers… and often in the hands of someone they hoped would never hold the office of President such as a third member of the Bush regime.
The Bill of Rights isn't optional
You can't have a half-way Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights either means what it says and strictly limits the reach of the federal government, or it means nothing and all the individual rights and liberties enumerated in the Bill of Rights are null and void.
Those include the right to exercise whatever religion you choose and not have the state mandate what church you must attend; the right to speak your mind and even criticize the government without fear of being prosecuted for your opinions; the right to due process and a trial of your peers if charged with a crime; and the right to be safe in your person and effects (your home) without being subjected to illegal searches and seizures.
If the Second Amendment is nullified, then so is your right to remain silent. Without the Fifth Amendment, the government can (and will) torture you until you "admit guilt" for whatever crimes they claim you have committed. This is already being planned for Aurora Colorado shooter James Holmes, who prosecutors now say will be subjected to injections of a "truth serum" so that he will confess to his crimes.
Folks, there is no such thing as a truth serum. It's a science fiction fantasy. What Holmes is being subjected to is torture until he "confesses" to the crime. This is precisely what awaits all Americans if the government is not held to the limits of the Bill of Rights.
If the Second Amendment goes, the First Amendment will soon follow
Once the dismantling of the Bill of Rights is tolerated, there will be no stopping the government's planned destruction of all its provisions, including the First Amendment. With freedom of speech destroyed, all websites, blogs and online videos will be deleted or shut down unless they are approved by the government. All art must be government approved before being published or publicly displayed (First Amendment). Anyone charged with a crime can be held indefinitely, without charge, while the government waits for them to "rot in prison" for the rest of their lives (Sixth Amendment).
Gun control advocates are, almost by definition, ignorant of history. They foolishly believe that the more power government is granted, the more compassionate, fair and just that government will behave. History has shown exactly the opposite: power corrupts, and when power is centralized in the hands of the few, it is almost always exploited in a manner that brings great harm to the People.
America's founders understood this, which is why the Bill of Rights was written and ratified. Power must necessarily be distributed (decentralized) for freedom to flourish, and the primary purpose of the Bill of Rights was to enumerate lines in the sand that the government cannot cross.
Those who are arguing for gun restrictions today are hopeless fools who seem oblivious to the tyranny they are bringing down upon themselves. In order to achieve one limited political goal, they will surrender all rights and freedoms to a government that will then recognize no limits whatsoever to its power. When gun control laws pass, they think they are "winning," but what they're actually doing is constructing unintentional prisons that will enslave their children and grandchildren.
Fortunately, many of us do understand history, and we will not allow the ignorant masses to destroy our fundamental rights and freedoms. We will fight these efforts with every means available, beginning with information and judicial strategies, but progressing to fighting enemies of America with physical force if necessary to defend the Republic.
Curiously, every U.S. Senator, Congressperson, President, police officer, district attorney and other "official" takes a sworn oath of office to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Yet in their actions, many of these people prove that they are themselves the very enemies cited in that oath of office. It is the job of the People to force our representatives to keep their oaths of office, first at the ballot box if effective, but then using incrementally more forceful means as necessary to keep government in check. The People are the commanders of their government, but if they refuse to remind government who is in charge, it is they who are soon commanded by government tyrants.
All laws that violate the Bill of Rights are null and void
Any law passed by either state government or the federal government is immediately null and void if it violates the Bill of Rights. This is why the U.S. Supreme Court declared in its landmark 1803 decision of Marbury vs. Madison:
"All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution are null and void."
But this truth does not require a Supreme Court to make it so… it is self-evident under common law. Thus, any member of government who attempts to enforce an unconstitutional law is acting in violation of civil rights and the legal protections guaranteed under the Bill of Rights. Importantly, no citizen is obliged to follow unlawful orders even if directed by an apparent "law enforcement" authority.
If a police officer, for example, tells you to "go murder that woman standing on the street corner," you have no obligation to follow such an order because it describes a criminal act. Similarly, a police officer or lawmaker commanding you to surrender your rifle is also an unlawful request, and no citizen has any obligation to follow it.
This is even true if local laws have been passed that violate the Bill of Rights. For example, if the police chief of New York City says you must surrender your rifle because New York has passed a law criminalizing the possession of such a rifle, you are under no legitimate legal obligation to do so because such laws are unconstitutional and illegal. That doesn't mean you still won't be arrested and thrown in prison while your case eventually makes its way to the Supreme Court, of course. Tyrants do not abide by laws unless they are forced to do so by the People… which is precisely the point of having a Second Amendment in the first place. No government can be trusted to remain honest and representative of the People unless the People possess the means of force to overthrow a corrupt, criminal government and replace it with legitimate, constitutional government.
Why gun grabbers are the true "anti-government" extremists
The mainstream media and the White House attempt to twist these ideas by branding anyone who disagrees with the government as an "anti-government" extremist. But that's not the case at all: Most patriots aren't anti-government at all. They are simply anti-corrupt government while being pro Constitutional government.
People who advocate gun control today are actually "anti-constitutional government" extremists because their ideas extremely diverge from the laws of the land (the Constitution and Bill of Rights). What could be more extreme than suggesting the People have no rights and that the government has total power to decide which rights in the Bill of Rights it wishes to recognize?
Gun grabbers are the true anti-government people because they are enemies of the legitimate and lawful government of America. Rather than constitutional government, they wish to see an illegitimate, unlawful government usurp power and run the country as a police state that respects no limits to its power. That's the type of government desired by foolishly dangerous people like Rachel Maddow, Michael Moore, Michael Bloomberg, Joe Biden and others.
Imagine if Bloomberg were given the power to rewrite the Constitution…
Think about it: If people like Bloomberg had their way, there would be no Constitution, no Bill of Rights, no due process, no trial by jury and no free market choices whatsoever. The people would have no rights and freedoms, and the government would simply dictate to them what they could buy, eat, drink, think, speak, write and more. All forms of expression would be tightly regulated by the government, and anyone who was labeled "guilty" by the government would be immediately sentenced without trial or even a requirement of any evidence being presented.
This is the world being created by gun control advocates. Yet, in the end, they owe gun owners a huge debt because it is gun owners who will halt the march of tyranny in America. We will protect the rights and liberties of all Americans — including those who are seeking to take away our rights. The purpose of the Second Amendment has always been to protect the integrity of all the other amendments, including the First. The only reason people like Jim Carrey can attack gun rights in America is because the Second Amendment has put enough guns in the hands of enough Americans to dissuade the government from destroying the First Amendment.
Finally, I know there are a few readers, mostly younger people, who cannot imagine government ever becoming "evil" or "tyrannical," and they think this talk of the Second Amendment being needed to protect the rights and freedoms of Americans sounds outlandish. To those people I say you are uninformed. You are ignorant of history, and you would be wise to learn history now, lest you inadvertently become part of it in the very near future.
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On NBC's Today, co-host Matt Lauer proclaimed: "You're not happy, it seems, with the course of the Republican Party right now. You blasted some Republicans in Congress last week after their inaction over Hurricane Sandy. You said they showed 'callous indifference, selfishness, duplicity,' they were, 'practicing toxic politics.' Strong letter to follow. Those aren't the words of a guy who's happy with his party."
On ABC's Good Morning America, co-host George Stephanopoulos similarly declared: "...you were very tough on the House Speaker John Boehner, on the issue of Sandy aid. And you took on what you called the toxic and internal politics of House Republicans. What specifically do you want your party in Washington to learn?"
On CBS's This Morning, co-host Norah O'Donnell got a little more colorful when she observed: "...you really spanked the Republicans in Congress, and said it was disgraceful that they didn't pass the whole relief bill. There are some Republicans who said you went a little bit overboard criticizing fellow Republicans. Was that the right thing to do?"
All three networks also pressed the Governor on upcoming debt ceiling negotiations and fretted over congressional Republicans demanding spending cuts:
> Lauer on Today: "Do you want to see the Republican Party stand firm and refuse to raise the debt ceiling until there are severe, dramatic and severe spending cuts? Keeping in mind the last time we debated this, the credit rating of the United States was lower. Are you willing to risk that again?"
> Stephanopoulos on GMA: "Now you have a lot in your party, many members of your party now, as the country continues to face this budget crisis coming up. The possibility of default in late February or March. You say, maybe the country should go into default even a partial government shutdown. Is that smart politics? Or are they playing with fire?"
> Charlie Rose on This Morning: "You are now saying that New Jersey is the model for reconciliation, compromise, and bipartisanship....you're inviting congressional leaders in Washington to come to New Jersey for a seminar....But it's interesting, because a lot of what you recommend sounds like what has been part of the Democratic message. I mean, you're asking for spending some money. You're asking – you're saying to people, I'll raise taxes, if necessary, for the people of New Jersey."
In addition to using Christie to attack the Republican Party, all three network broadcasts also urged him to sign on to gun control legislation:
> Lauer: "Let me take you back to 1995, you were running for the general assembly in your state and you went out and you distributed campaign flyers supporting a ban on assault weapons....And you said of your opponent's pledge to repeal that ban, that it was, 'dangerous, crazy and radical.' Would you take the next step now, in the wake of all these shootings, and say that it's dangerous, crazy and radical for the federal government not to step up and create a ban on assault weapons?"
> Stephanopoulos: "You've said, you've raised questions about the idea from the NRA about having an armed guard in every school. But what do you think should happen right now in the wake of this tragedy in Newtown?...Assault weapons ban. Should the whole country have one?"
> Rose: "You know there's a focus on gun control. You know that [New York] Governor [Andrew] Cuomo is out front saying what he wants to do. What does the governor of New Jersey want to do in New Jersey, and what does he want the country to do?" Christie replies: "Well, in New Jersey – first off, we have the second toughest gun laws in America already-" Rose: "Is that enough?"
Here is a full transcript of Lauer's January 9 interview with Christie:
LAUER: President Obama not the only one having a difficult time with Congress, New Jersey's Republican Governor Chris Christie made some headlines recently when he called out GOP Republicans for posting – or postponing a vote on disaster aid for Sandy victims. Governor Christie, good morning, it's good to have you here.
CHRIS CHRISTIE: Hey, good morning, Matt.
LAUER: Good timing also. Time magazine last night bumped someone off the cover of their magazine, they put this face on the cover of this week's issue, with the headline, "The Boss." Now, you know, with all due respect to the guy we both like, Bruce Springsteen, that's not what they're referring to. They're referring to the fact that this is your time to take the reins of the Republican Party. Are you gonna do it?
CHRIS CHRISTIE: I'm going to be the Governor of New Jersey. That's my job. And the only reason you get this attention is if you're doing your job well and you're being an advocate for the people that elected you. And that's all this is about. It's not about me trying to take control of anything, other than take care of the people who elected me.
LAUER: But you're not happy, it seems, with the course of the Republican Party right now. You blasted some Republicans in Congress last week after their inaction over Hurricane Sandy. You said they showed "callous indifference, selfishness, duplicity," they were, "practicing toxic politics." Strong letter to follow. Those aren't the words of a guy who's happy with his party.
CHRISTIE: No, because Sandy is and was above politics in every other element except for what happened in the Congress a week ago. And so what I was trying to point out very clearly was there are people suffering in New Jersey, there are people suffering in New York, and they need to be taken care of. And remember this, Matt, we've now waited seven times longer than the victims of Katrina waited for federal aid. Not right.
LAUER: But are you happy with the course of the Republican Party right now? Do you think it's headed in the right direction?
CHRISTIE: Matt, we've lost two elections in a row. I'd say the answer is no.
LAUER: Okay, good, so-
CHRISTIE: You know, you're in politics to win, to get your ideas forward, and we've lost two national elections in a row. We need to be thinking about doing something different.
LAUER: Republicans are going to have to deal with the issue of guns, as are all Americans, and Democrats included. You've called for a national discussion on guns and mental health. Let me take you back to 1995, you were running for the general assembly in your state and you went out and you distributed campaign flyers supporting a ban on assault weapons. Were you supporting the state ban on assault weapons or a federal ban on assault weapons?
CHRISTIE: State, state.
LAUER: And you said of your opponent's pledge to repeal that ban, that it was, "dangerous, crazy and radical." Would you take the next step now, in the wake of all these shootings, and say that it's dangerous, crazy and radical for the federal government not to step up and create a ban on assault weapons?
CHRISTIE: What I say is that states need to make some of these decisions like we've made in New Jersey. They're the second toughest gun laws in America, only behind the State of New York. But I think if all you talk about is that, Matt, you're short changing this conversation. This young man in Connecticut was obviously seriously mentally ill. Why do we have such a stigma about mental illness treatment? Why aren't we dealing with substance abuse treatment, Matt?
LAUER: But if the President proposes a federal ban on assault weapons, would you support him?
CHRISTIE: If that's all he proposes-
LAUER: If it's part of his plan?
CHRISTIE: Well, but you've got to tell me what the other parts of the plan are. I mean, you can't tell me one sliver of the plan.
LAUER: Stricter background checks and things like that...
CHRISTIE: Listen, I need-
LAUER: ...smaller magazines for weapons.
CHRISTIE: I need – again, all you're focusing on right now is gun control. What about the violence in our video games? You know, you and I both have children. We don't allow those games into our house. We've made that decision because we think it desensitizes our children to the real effects of violence. I mean the fact is, we need to have a conversation about all these things. We had a woman, Matt, in Camden, who decapitated her child and then killed herself, high on crack. If we don't deal with the substance abuse issues and the mental illness issues that lead to violence, we're short changing this conversation.
LAUER: I'll go back one time, if they deal with those issues as well, would you support a federal ban on assault weapons?
CHRISTIE: It depends on what they do, Matt. My point is this-
LAUER: Why not just say yes or no?
CHRISTIE: Well, because it's not that easy. I mean, I know in a short interview like this, you'd like me to give you pithy answers, but you know, the fact is, these are complicated issues. And my point is I'm willing to have that conversation. Now that's a lot more than a lot of other people are willing to say. I'm willing to have the conversation, but you've got to deal with these other issues.
LAUER: In your state-
CHRISTIE: Otherwise you're just being political.
LAUER: In your state of the state address yesterday, you cast New Jersey as the alternative to what you term, "the dysfunctional, dispirited, and distrustful government in Washington." You know, I follow New Jersey pretty closely, we're right across the border from you guys, and yet I watch you guys in the legislature there. And they're dealing with the same gridlock, over issues like taxes, that we're seeing in – in Washington. Why is New Jersey a better example?
CHRISTIE: Well, because in divided government in the last three years, we've passed a cap on property taxes. We've done meaningful pension and health benefit reform. We've done a new drug rehabilitation program where for first-time offenders you don't get sentenced to jail, you get sentenced to rehabilitation. We've done a lot of things in this state. I vetoed three income tax increases when I had to, so we've had our confrontations when we've had to, but we've done a lot of things cooperatively.
LAUER: There's plenty of dysfunction in New Jersey in politics as well.
CHRISTIE: A lot less than there used to be, Matt. A lot less than there used to be. Because what we're doing is we're finding areas to compromise and work together. And we've done more together than we've had fights in the last three years.
LAUER: Let's talk about compromise. We are barreling towards fiscal cliff part two, alright? The sequel to what we've just have seen. Some people say that the debate coming up could be worse over the debt ceiling and spending. Do you want to see the Republican Party stand firm and refuse to raise the debt ceiling until there are severe, dramatic and severe spending cuts? Keeping in mind the last time we debated this, the credit rating of the United States was lower. Are you willing to risk that again?
CHRISTIE: Listen, what I think we need to do is stand firm on getting some real significant spending reductions. We've now done what the President wanted to do. He wanted to raise taxes on the highest earning Americans and Republicans have now acquiesced to that. Now it's time for the President to stand up and say, "Here's what I'm going to do on spending." He hasn't done it, he needs to do it. And if he's going to be a credible partner and compromiser, then he's going to have to step up and do those things, too.
LAUER: And do Republicans refuse to raise the debt limit if those spending are not deep enough?
CHRISTIE: I tell you, we've got a bunch of different options at our – at our disposal. You have the continuing resolution coming up in March. You have a number of other things that you can do that includes the debt ceiling. But my point is, you've got to get to the table and start working now. If we wait until the week or so before to actually start talking to each other, we're not going to get it done.
LAUER: You've forged a nice relationship with the President in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. You guys hit it off. There was that bromance that everyone talked about. Do you have a continuing relationship? Do you have his ear? Might you be of some use as he approaches congressional Republicans over this debate?
CHRISTIE: Hey listen, I don't offer my advice to the President in that way. I mean, I – what I've dealt with the President on is Hurricane Sandy, and that's what the nature of our relationship is. He's not calling me, Matt, like at 11:00 at night and going, "Hey, Chris, what do you think about this?" That's not the way the relationship works, okay?
So the fact is, I'll continue to speak out publicly about the things that I think are important. And anybody in Washington, D.C. who wants to come to New Jersey and see some of the stuff we're doing, how I'm working with the Democratic legislature to try to bring compromise and consensus. I mean the things that are happening in New Jersey, the fact that 61% of New Jerseyans think their state is moving in the right direction, is testimony to the fact that they think their government is working. And that's what we're doing and anybody who wants advice in Washington on that, I think myself and Steve Sweeney and Sheila Oliver, the Democrats who run the legislature, we're happy to run a seminar for them.
LAUER: You end with a pithy answer. I like it.
CHRISTIE: Yeah.
LAUER: Governor Christie, always good to see you.
CHRISTIE: Great to see you, Matt.
LAUER: Thank you very much.
CHRISTIE: Thank you.


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As a nation we are sliding inexorably down a slippery moral slope to a place where integrity, honesty, human decency and just plain, simple ethical conduct will have no meaning and no identity!
Last week, it was announced that U.S. regulators have fined Royal Bank of Scotland $100 million for breaches of U.S. sanctions against Iran, Sudan, and elsewhere.
According to orders filed by the Federal Reserve and New York's banking regulators, going back as far as 2002, RBS put in place a system to transfer dollars from the U.S. in a way that hid from regulators and other banks where that money was headed.
The system, which was in place until 2011, ended up processing over 3,500 transactions, sending $523 million to Sudanese and Iranian customers. Some of the money went to individuals specifically barred by the Treasury Department from doing transactions with U.S. entities. The Treasury Department's list of barred individuals includes U.S.-designated terrorists and drug dealers.
According to New York regulators, RBS provided written instructions to its payment processors in the United Kingdom explaining that it was "important" to strip out any information that revealed the destination "for all U.S. dollar payments to a country subject to U.S. sanctions."
I have been looking hard but I cannot find any report or any evidence which shows any sense of concern being evinced by the Government, the Treasury or Government Ministers over this matter.
No doubt there will be some in the City, perhaps in Government, possibly among those who surround Boris Johnson who will say, '...Oh well, this is an old matter and things have changed since then...' but reflect, the fine has only just been announced, and what is more, this fine is going to be paid with British tax-payers' money. I haven't heard any outcry about that issue either.
What in God's name has happened to us as a country? How is it that we can have become so inured to scandals of this magnitude, that we can just blithely wipe off $100 million of taxpayers' money, at a time of great austerity, and no-one raises a word of objection?
Well I bloody well object, and this fine should be made to come straight out of the bonus pot that this pariah bank will have set aside for its overpaid and grossly indulged staffers.
Of course, it is too much to expect that anyone would be prosecuted for this money laundering activity.
Cameron, Osborne, Bo-Jo and their clique don't seem to feel it necessary to prosecute City fat-cats for crimes like money laundering, and foreign sanctions breaking.
They daren't!
They are too fearful that if they were to raise a finger against these criminals, that it would send a lot of difficult messages to those international, so-called 'businessmen', the foreign billionaires whom they want to encourage to relocate their money to this country. The men and women in Russia, China, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Pakistan, Dubai, Saudi and elsewhere in the Far East who are suddenly in possession of huge amounts of money they would rather hide from their own politicians, prosecutors and regulators, for all sorts of dubious reasons, and relocate it to a sound banking environment, with a Government with sound appreciation of business methods and a liberal view of taxation!
A country where the banking and commercial sector is very much left alone to do its own thing without too much interference from Government, and where the regulators and prosecutors do what they are told and keep their noses out of all kinds of dirty dealings, if the Government tells them to!
A country with wide access to the offshore banking industry which understands the imperative of paying bankers well, and keeping them onside.
For secondary reasons they are also very concerned that the big banks would activate their threats and possibly relocate their centres of operation, and cease paying the annual 'Danegeld', (approximately 11% of GDP), they shell out annually for the privilege of operating in one of the least regulated jurisdictions in the banking world.
Mind you, it's not just the Tories who doff their hats to the City, Gordon Brown was a serial Square Mile arse-licker and brown noser when Labour were last in power, and he regularly made the trip down to the Mansion House to laud the banksters for their much supposed brilliance in financial wizardry.
There is and never has been any excuse for this kind of behaviour. We have lived through a banking crisis during which billions of tax-payers' pounds have been squandered propping up dysfunctional banking institutions, and being used to continue to pay unjustified bonuses to the very men and women who screwed up the financial system in the first place, while ordinary, decent, and honourable men and women have been forced into a seemingly endless period of financial austerity.
Those of us who lived our lives frugally and did not engage in an orgy of spending on leveraged credit cards; those who bought houses to live in, not to speculate with; those who brought up their children properly and honestly, and who educated them well, in the certain belief that a good education is the only way forward for intelligent children from ordinary families; those of us who saved as much as possible for the future, who paid our way and did not rely on State handouts and welfare benefits, we have seen everything we believed in and worked for trashed, devalued, undermined and debased.
Our savings are being whittled away by inflation and rock-bottom interest rates; our pension funds have been raped by greedy intermediaries and brokers; our children are told that education is not necessary and that all a young person needs is to 'get lucky' and win the Lottery or the X Factor.
Take this into consideration with any of the other trash programmes where kids of dubious abilities queue up to become the latest celebrity, or alternatively where football players get paid £200,000 a week (how can any person justify that kind of salary?), and you a looking into a whole new paradigm of distorted values, where ethics, honesty and integrity count for nothing any more, a dog-eat-dog world, where young girls are subjected to a level of sexualisation at criminally-early ages, and then trafficked for the gratification of perverts, paedophiles and panderers on the Internet.
We are subjected to constant exposure of the infamous and distorted value sets of wealthy people like Nigella Lawson and her former husband, Charles Saatchi, who will trade insults and expose the personal dirty laundry of their dysfunctional relationship with each other to a waiting world, while the criminal trial of their former employees goes, almost disregarded, while the press reports every last ounce of scandal and shame dredged up from the wreckage of their tawdry marriage.
What I am describing is a world where all attempts at maintaining ordinary integrity and basic morality, have been set at naught; where the lunatics have taken over the asylum; and where there are no standards of honesty and decency left.
Recent years in the financial sector have demonstrated how this absence of ethical morality and commercial integrity has been allowed to permeate throughout the entire body politic, right up to the very top floors.
Every conceivable financial crime has been perpetrated against the clients and customers, starting with theft and downright fraud, moving through conspiracy to rig markets, front running, insider dealing, and market manipulation; to vast numbers of cases of money laundering and terrorist financing.
Major global banks like HSBC have openly run money laundering operations for Mexican drug cartels, and when confronted, have called out noble members of the House of Lords to seek to mislead the public claiming that the UK regulators had no jurisdiction over the case because the bank concerned was in Mexico!
Other banks have been forced to set aside billions of pounds to reimburse their clients for wholesale fraudulent business practices in PPI sales; Barclays Bank led a grubby group of spivs and wideboys in the deliberate manipulation of the LIBOR market, from which more payments are expected next year as a whole raft of civil actions descends upon them in the US and other civil jurisdictions.
There hardly seems to have been a business sector from which the banks could have earned a turn, where they have not turned loose their army of crooks, hucksters, fraudsters, loblolly men and other purveyors of snake oil, or dodgy deals!
U.K. bank Standard Chartered paid a $340 million fine for violations of US law last year. Other banks caught up in activities which grossly flouted US Sanctions laws have said they believed they were following rules when they were omitting certain information when processing payments, rules that may have been allowed by the U.K. government but not the U.S. Not so, fraud and sanctions busting is the same wherever it is committed.
As well as paying the fine, RBS has been forced to put in place new measures to make sure it doesn't break the rules again. It also "terminated" the head of its "Money Laundering Prevention Unit" for corporate markets, which seems justified. Also out is RBS's head of banking in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.
In my view, this is nowhere near enough.
When those Sanctions violations were undertaken, employees of RBS at very senior levels sat down and deliberately worked out the plan they adopted for ensuing that they hid the payments to interdicted jurisdictions from US regulators. This was not just some bit of off-hand skulduggery thought up by a couple of floor traders, this was a concerted and deliberate policy issue carried though by identifiable employees, and they should all have stood in the dock, in the US, and faced the likelihood of serious periods of incarceration.
We live in an era when all pretence at the maintenance of anything resembling morality, decency or integrity has been extinguished, and anything goes in the financial market as long as there is a profit in it.
Banks can launder money, steal, cheat, lie, or defraud outright and absolutely nothing will be done about it. Their executives will never grip the rails at the Old Bailey, their employees will continue to be paid salaries and bonuses beyond the dreams of avarice, and when it all goes tits up, they will demand that the supine politicians prop them up with our money for fear they will collapse.
And the craven bastards will comply!
This is the UK now, and this is the environment in which we venture at our peril. It will continue to get worse as Cameron,. Osborne and Bo-Jo and their galere of shiny-faced toffs and millionaires continue to set out their stall to encourage every foreign crook and oligarch to come here to evade the consequences of their crimes at home.
Remember, as Balzac reminds us,
"...Behind every great fortune there is a great crime..."!
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Rabbi Albert E. Gabbai
Few rabbis lead congregations that rank as "must-see" stops on tourists' agendas. Fewer still can count Benjamin Franklin among the contributors to their synagogue's original building fund.
For Rabbi Albert E. Gabbai, serving as spiritual leader of Congregation Mikveh Israel, one of the oldest synagogues in the United States and the oldest formal congregation in Philadelphia, is both blessing and challenge.
"It's a very big responsibility to be part of a synagogue that's also part of history," says Gabbai. "It's a burden we carry with pride, but it's still a burden. Everything that we say or do will go into the annals of history; every piece of correspondence I send out of my office will go into the archives of the congregation."
Those archives date from the first half of the 18th century, when the Sephardic congregation's earliest members included the revolutionary patriot Haym Solomon and the philanthropist Rebecca Gratz. Original minyanim took place in private homes; later, during the Revolutionary War, the congregation's population swelled as Jews from New York and other metropolitan areas sought refuge from the British.
When Gabbai arrived on the scene in 1988, most members were elderly and attendance was poor. He quickly identified two goals: emphasizing the importance of his synagogue's 250 years in the community; and building a community emphasizing Torah study and shared meals.
"We cared about every single individual who came through our doors, and even those who didn't," Gabbai says. "What attracted a lot of young people — and older ones — was our Sephardi outlook on life. It's a fierce commitment to observance, with a very open-minded, nonjudgmental attitude of inclusiveness and joie de vivre."
As befits a clergyman raised in Egypt, son of a mother born in Italy and a father born in Baghdad, Gabbai leads a diverse community whose members run the spectrum of Judaism's various branches.
"Even though we're a Sephardi congregation in minhag [custom], a majority of our members have always been of Ashkenazi ancestry," Gabbai observes. "They feel at home here, and they've adopted the Sephardi customs when they're in the synagogue."
Gabbai believes the arc of history will find Mikveh Israel flourishing.
"If, after a long life, I'm no longer on the scene, this congregation will continue on the same path that started in 1740," he predicts. "No doubt it will still be alive and thriving when Moshiach comes and takes us back to our homeland."


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Did I say 1980s? I meant 2011sies, sorry. I bet the sweaty Daft Punk guys are looking at DJ Kid Chameleon's Macintosh Plus and iPad helmet in envy - especially if there's a fan component squeezed in there.
You can see him spinning tracks while wearing his iPad helmet after the 45-second mark in the video below, where his helmet is hooked up to his A/V system so the custom graphics (and LEDs below) are in tune with his music.
I've no comment on his music-spinning abilities, however, because I watched the video with the sound off, having guessed it would "not be my cup of tea". Anyone care to confirm whether that was the right idea? [AfterglowVP via Hack A Day via SlashGear]


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The Arecibo Observatory
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After Hurricane Maria, the Arecibo Observatory and its staff worked to rebuild its facility––home to the most powerful astronomical radar and one of the largest radio telescopes on Earth––and aid the neighboring community.
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Colorado Business Hall of Fame marks its 25th year
For its 25th year, the Colorado Business Hall of Fame did not select any new inductees. Instead, it celebrated those who've been honored in years past.
And it did so in two ways. First, by introducing them once again, and second by commissioning Curious Theatre Company to produce a play that spoke to the contributions each inductee has made.
The Colorado Business Hall of Fame is a production of, and benefit for, Junior Achievement Rocky Mountain and the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce. The Hall of Fame itself is located in the south entrance of the Daniels College of Business on the University of Denver campus.
There are 130 laureates in the Hall of Fame.
The first Hall of Fame dinner was held in 1990, when Clifford E. Baldridge, Claude K. Boettcher, Adolph Coors, Charles Cassius Gates, Carl A. Norgren and General William Jackson Palmer were the first inductees.
Subsequent inductees include Spencer Penrose, Jesse Shwayder, D.R.C. "Darcy" Brown, Jr., Elrey Jeppesen, Anna C. Petteys, Helen Bonfils, Ken Monfort, Bill Daniels, Emily Griffith, Phil Anschutz, Dan Ritchie, Walter Cheesman, Mary Elitch Long, Sam Gary, Del Hock, Bob Magness, John Malone, Alan and Gerald Phipps, Horace Tabor, Dean Singleton, Harry Frampton, Bruce Benson, Jordon Perlmutter, Merle Chambers, Micky Miller, Jake Jabs, Temple Hoyne Buell and Glenn Jones.
"Through great risk and ingenuity, the Colorado Business Hall of Fame laureates have conquered new frontiers and forged Colorado into a remarkable place to live and do business," write Kelly Brough and Robin Wise in the anniversary dinner's commemorative program. Brough is president/CEO of the Denver Metro Chamber; Wise holds the same titles at Junior Achievement.
"Through their actions and accomplishments, the laureates provide inspiration for the next generation as they take the reins of leadership in the years to come."
The keynote address was by Arthur Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute and the author of 10 books on topics ranging from philanthropy to the economics of happiness.
UMB Bank Colorado was the underwriting sponsor of the 25th anniversary dinner, and chief executive officer Jon Robinson was there with his wife, Cathy. Gov. John Hickenlooper was there, too, along with Delta Dental president Kate Paul and her husband, Mike Passmore; Steve Coffin and Patti Shwayder Coffin; attorney Ned Minor; Andy Love and Virginia Morrison Love; John and Ginny Freyer; Roger Ogden; Luella Chavez D'Angelo; Neal Groff; Mike Pritchard; Maureen McDonald; Donna Evans; Zee Ferrufino; Debbie Welle-Powell; Toti Cadavid; and Kaiser Permanente Colorado president Donna Lynn.
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Legislative Assembly Unveils Artwork by Alex Janvier
Date: Mar 15, 2019
Two new artworks by renowned Indigenous artist Alex Janvier have been installed in the Legislature Chamber.
Special Gift from Portage College Students
Date: Mar 15, 2019
The Portage College Museum of Aboriginal Peoples' Art and Artifacts has received a special painting funded by Students' Association.
Cultural Leaders Legacy Artist Awards
Date: Mar 13, 2019
The recipients of Calgary's Culture Leaders Legacy Artist Awards have been handed out and the winners are....
Alberta photographer in running for national award
Date: Mar 1, 2019
Andrew Godsalve from Hinton is one of 23 emerging Canadian photographers longlisted for the Scotiabank New Generation Photography Award.
Alberta's 1st Artist in Residence revealed
Date: Jan 31, 2019
Edmonton's Lauren Crazybull has been named the Government of Alberta's first Artist in Residence.
Friends of University Hospitals' New Executive Director
Date: Jan 31, 2019
The Board of Directors of the Friends of University Hospitals is pleased to announce the appointment of Tyler Sherard as Executive Director.
Contemporary Calgary appoints Interim Chief Curator, Ryan Doherty
Date: Jan 17, 2019
Contemporary Calgary today announced the appointment of Ryan Doherty as Interim Chief Curator.
Alberta announces Month of the Artist and new Artist in Residence program
Date: Nov 15, 2018
Alberta is making history by becoming the first province in Canada to dedicate an entire month to the celebration of artists.
Alexis Marie Chute receives 2018 Alumni Horizon Award
Date: Sep 14, 2018
Community invited to celebrate as artist and author receives UAlberta Alumni Award on September 24.
First Canadian Culture Track Report released
Date: Aug 20, 2018
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Carson not in Mint condition, just yet
For the Nevada Appeal
About the author: Rusty Goe, a professional coin dealer for more than three decades, spends much of his time researching and writing about the Carson City Mint and the coins it produced. From his business at Southgate Coins in Reno he has published two full-length books: "The Mint on Carson Street" (2004), and "James Crawford: Master of the Mint at Carson City" (2007). He founded the Carson City Coin Collectors of America in 2005, a non-profit educational club (www.carsoncitycoinclub.com), which publishes a journal called Curry's Chronicle. Rusty is working on his next book, "The Confident Carson City Coin Collector."
This is the third part in a six-part series about the history of the Carson Mint.
The following words in the preamble as set forth by the 37th Congress in its Nevada Mint Act, sounded like powerful lines from a victory anthem to the residents in the territory: "That a branch of the mint of the United States be located and established at Carson City, in the Territory of Nevada, for the coinage of gold and silver." Virginia City's leaders approved of every word in the decree except two: Carson City.
Four and a half months after the mint bill's enactment, Treasury Secretary Chase commissioned Colorado's territorial delegate to Congress, Hiram Pitt Bennet, to visit Carson City, survey the area, and select grounds on which to build a mint. Bennet arrived in Nevada's capital on Sept. 3, 1863, where he received a royal welcome. Abraham Curry, Carson City's architect and its most enthusiastic publicist, escorted Bennet around town, selling him on Carson City as the perfect site for Nevada's mint. In Bennet's report to Secretary Chase he strongly endorsed Carson City, adding the people there were "a very wide awake, enterprising and patriotic class of citizens." All the while, dwellers in Virginia City viewed Bennet's visit to Carson City, from a distance, with scorn.
When local newspapers in the region reported Bennet had chosen a site in Carson City on which the government would build a mint, Virginia City's Territorial Enterprise expressed discontent.
In a mid-September 1863 editorial, the newspaper urged Nevada Territory's legislators to petition Congress to have the mint law amended to substitute Virginia City for Carson City as the location for the building, "no matter what Commissioner Bennet may do now in the selection of a site for the proposed Branch Mint."
Moving forward, Nevada's mint project would encounter numerous obstacles before commissioners could turn over the first shovelfuls of dirt to launch construction.
Mark Twain, on assignment in Jan., 1864 at Nevada's territorial legislative sessions in Carson City as a reporter for Virginia City's Territorial Enterprise, wrote, "Speaking of the mint, I have an item of news relating to that subject."
Twain reported his source had revealed Treasury Secretary Chase told Hiram P. Bennet "that no further steps will be taken toward building a mint" in Nevada until it became a state and its U.S. senators and House representative arrived in Washington, D.C. to clear up the controversy surrounding Virginia City's objection to the mint's location.
When in late March, 1864, residents in Carson City feared the government had changed course and instead of a mint would build an assay office, the local paper issued an appeal for territorial delegate Gordon Newell Mott to do something. The Carson Daily Independent of March 25, 1864, wrote, concerning hearsay about such a plan, "We suppose our delegate (Mott) is all right in regard to this matter, and it is to be hoped he will exercise all the vigilance necessary" to prevent the government from demoting the Carson City Mint to an assay office. Two days later, on March 27, 1864, the Daily Independent reported the encouraging news that "We are to have a Branch Mint in Carson. No assay office, or anything of that sort; but a real bona fide Mint, with its Superintendent, melter and refiner, and all the other (supporting cast)."
Meanwhile in Congress, Senator William P. Fessenden and other senators lost their patience when James W. Nesmith from Oregon introduced a bill to establish a mint somewhere near Portland.
Senator Fessenden fumed if Congress went ahead with the mint in Nevada, and built a new one in Oregon, "we must then make another (one) by-and-by in Montana, and wherever else gold or silver may be discovered." Because once such precedents were established, said Fessenden, the government would set up shop "to coin those metals on the spot," near the mining regions, "we shall be compelled to follow it up." He asked, "Do we mean to go on and establish mints in every state west of the Rocky Mountains, (which) may be organized, where the precious metals are found?"
At this session of the Senate, at the end of April 1864, senators heard comments from Treasury Secretary Chase read in which the secretary said "the inexpediency of multiplying mints for coinage … would justify a recommendation that so much of (the) existing acts (that) authorize coinage, except at great commercial centers, (should) be repealed." Word of the senatorial proceedings sent shock waves back to Nevada.
The Carson City Mint project remained on hold throughout the remainder of 1864. After President Lincoln signed the act that welcomed Nevada as the 36th state in the Union, on Oct. 31, 1864, the state now had the representatives authorities in Washington, D.C. had said it needed, to directly convey the wishes of their constituents.
In the next session of Congress, in Feb., 1865, Nevada's Senator James Nye made a motion to confirm the U.S. government had title to the plot of land in Carson City where the mint would stand.
The lone procrastinator, Moses Job, who with his wife owned the south half of the lot in question, finally followed through on the transaction, and by May, 1865, the Treasury Department marched into the next phase of the Carson City Mint project, which entailed putting design ideas on paper, forming a local commission, and selecting a building contractor.
In the meantime, the northern California press launched a "One Mint for the Pacific Coast" editorial campaign. In articles in newspapers such as the Daily Alta, opponents of a mint claimed it was "a waste of money." In their collective opinion, "One mint is enough on the Atlantic side of the continent, and one on the Pacific."
Treasury Secretary Hugh McCulloch established a Carson City Mint commission in late Dec., 1865. In early 1866, McCulloch appointed Alfred B. Mullett, a 32-year-old native of England, as supervising architect for the Carson City Mint. Abraham Curry, one of the three commissioners McCulloch had selected for the project, won the job of building contractor for the mint.
Before work began, Nevada's Senator William M. Stewart introduced an appropriation bill in the Senate in April, 1866, for the purchase of machinery for the Carson City Mint, which set a precedent for what would ensue over the course of the next three and a half years, as Curry operated on a shoestring budget.
Rusty Goe, of Southgate Coins, 5032 S. Virginia St. in Reno, can be reached at number is (775) 322-4455. For more information visit http://www.southgatecoins.com. In 2012, Rusty collaborated with the California-based rare coin auction firm Stack's Bowers to bring to market a complete (111-piece) set of Carson City coins in history. Rusty served as the chief architect , which he christened the Battle Born Collection, in honor of Nevada. It sold at auction in August 2012 for nearly $10 million.


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Weather Window | A winter to remember: 1952, Part 2
Special to the Sun
TAHOE/TRUCKEE, Calif. and#8212; Sixty years ago Truckee-Tahoe residents were enduring one of the worst winters ever recorded in the Sierra Nevada. During the winter of 1951-52, vicious snowstorms pummeled the region for months on end. The relentless storms pounded hard-working transportation and railroad crews into submission, and ultimately closed down all travel over Donner Summit for weeks. Winter weather began before Halloween that year, and by Jan. 1, 1952, nearly 23 feet of snow had buried Donner Pass. Locals and travelers were overwhelmed, but the Storm King was just getting started.
On Jan. 10, a huge Pacific system loaded with moisture barreled into the Sierra. The storm slammed the mountains and then stalled. The blizzard it spawned raged for seven days. By the second day, nearly three feet of new snow in Tahoe City had boosted the snowpack there to 9 feet. U.S. Route 40, the only year-round trans-Sierra highway, was closed for 30 days when an avalanche buried several vehicles just west of Donner Lake. Despite the violent weather, Southern Pacific trains continued to run through the wooden snowsheds and long granite tunnels that made safe passage possible. The heroic fight was lost on Sunday, Jan. 13, when SP's finest and most powerful streamliner train rammed a deep snowslide east of Yuba Gap. Pride of the fleet, this beautiful passenger train was known as the City of San Francisco. Three 2,250-horsepower engines powered the 15-car train, but engineers could not back out of the slide. Even so, passengers and crew didn't expect to be there very long.
The marooned passengers' laissez-faire attitude turned angry when they were still snowbound on Monday. Later that day the diesel fuel ran out and the passenger compartments were pitched into a cold eerie darkness. Howling wind and furious snowfall hampered the extensive relief efforts, dubbed, and#8220;Operation Rescue,and#8221; now underway. On Monday night, a dozen Sierra Club volunteers arrived in two snow-cats laden with 400 pounds of canned food. Four critically ill passengers were evacuated by snowcat. By now the wire services were aware of the situation and the stranded streamliner was national news. The media wondered if the passengers on board were suffering the same grisly fate as the victims of the Donner Party.
On Tuesday, 27 passengers became seriously ill when butane-fueled space heaters fouled the air. The only physician on the train was Dr. Walter Roehill of Middleton, Ohio. Although he was assisted by several army nurses, heart attacks, frostbite and other ailments kept them all busy. More help arrived that same day when Dr. Lawrence Nelson of Truckee managed to reach the train by dogsled. Unfortunately, the deadly weather prevented any passenger evacuation.
Even as the blizzard raged, rescue efforts were inching their way toward the stranded train. One train carried dogsled teams while the Sixth Army sent in trained arctic rescue squads from San Francisco. A rotary snowplow manned by Engineer Roland Raymond of Sacramento finally broke through to within a quarter mile of the buried train. Raymond had climbed down from the plow to survey the hazardous conditions when suddenly an avalanche roared down the mountainside, killing him. Another rescuer died of a heart attack.
When the deadly storm finally broke on Jan. 16, relief parties rushed in. The cold weary passengers hobbled to safety along the tracks while the sick and weak were tobogganed or carried in stretchers. The rescue was staged during one of the worst storms in Sierra history and#8212; nearly 13 feet of snow fell on Donner Summit that week. The critical mission had taken three days and two lives, but 226 passengers and crew members survived to tell the story.
Stay tuned for the conclusion.
and#8212; Tahoe historian Mark McLaughlin is a nationally published author and professional speaker. His award-winning books are available at local stores or at http://www.thestormking.com. You can reach him at email@example.com