r/conspiracy: Look at the people. Corporations are a false construct of law used to confuse you. Individuals make decisions. You can not hold a corporation accountable because they do not exist.

Just pointing out that above the fiction of a corporation are institutions like the Federal Reserve, which you show acts like cartels and trusts and even 'legitimate' industry associations, and allows yet another layer of plausible deniability.

And even though these things are fictions, it does give them a structure with which to work as a group to control things . . . like monetary policy.

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Damn dude. Keep up the awesome work!

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4 oelsen 2013-11-13

Where does the BIS have assets? They were the only international Institution warning of the meltdown.

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2 Grandest_Inquisitor 2013-11-13

What do you think that means? What will happen?

The capital requirements are not that much of a change and it all depends on how capital is marked, and it doesn't look like they will require the to mark these assets accurately.

William Dudley argued this concerns about costs were "exaggerated."

http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2010/10/feds-dudley-costs-of-higher-capital.html

Also, I don't think Switzerland giving each citizen a guaranteed income has anything to do with the BIS. Switzerland is sovereign in its own currency and can do things like this and it actually benefits real people rather than the bankers. Bankers hate these types of proposals.

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3 doubleherpes 2013-11-13

what we need is ongoing donations to support activists being outside their houses 24/7, livestreaming their locations.

that way, when it's time for more "vigorous protest", we know exactly where these motherfuckers can be found. no fleeing to switzerland for you!

3 cm18 2013-11-13

The beast that is, yet is not.

3 danxmason 2013-11-13

Unless you run Silk road, Megaupload, or Wikileaks. Then somehow you are personally accountable.

3 platinum_peter 2013-11-13

This is awesome. Thank you.

3 Grandest_Inquisitor 2013-11-13

In an effort to track individuals rather than corporate ownership, here's an interesting name:

Gogo Ashkenazi

Goga has the face and body of a fashion model, the brain of a City entrepreneur and buckets of personal charm. . . . Appropriately enough, her real name, Gaukhar, means diamond (Goga is a childhood nickname) . . . . The family moved to Moscow after [Gogo's father] was recruited to the Central Committee under Mikhail Gorbachev, and Goga was born into a life of Communist Party privilege. 'We had everything: nannies, cooks, drivers, dachas, holidays by the sea. My mother always wanted me to have every opportunity,' she says. . . . Her parents intended her to go to the Moscow State University of International Affairs. 'But in 1991, everything broke down. My father quickly got disillusioned with politics, bought a bunch of factories and moved to Kazakhstan.' In order to enhance their daughter's career prospects, they sent her to school in England. She left Stowe in disgrace after being rusticated for kissing her boyfriend in her room . . . .

From there, she won a place at Somerville College, Oxford, to study history and economics. Her glittering academic career veered slightly off the rails when she fell for Dino Lalvani, now boss of the Binatone telecoms company, then a 'real jet-setting boy'. . . .

Fortunately, she'd already attracted the roving eye of Formula 1's Flavio Briatore at a party, since when he'd been sending daily bouquets to the flat she shared with Lalvani. So once her finals were finished, Goga simply packed her bags and moved onto his yacht for three months. . . . Maybe it's just instinct that you want to be with the leader of the pack. We'd be in his nightclub, Billionaire, in Sardinia, and he'd say, "Goga, this VIP area istoo crowded", so we'd move to the other VIP area and suddenly everybody else – all these billionaires, people who were much richer and more powerful – would move to be with us. People just follow him, he's got that quality.'

Then, aged 23, she met her husband, Stefan Ashkenazi (whose father Severyn founded the L'Ermitage hotel chain). 'He was amazing. Too good for me, for sure. The best man on earth, really. His previous girlfriend was Angelina Jolie . . . Goga married him and moved to LA.

'Then I got so bored of the sunshine and the beautiful life, so I started working. Kazakhstan, here I come.' She set up in business with her sister, who is several years older, constructing compressor stations to service Kazakhstan's booming oil industry. Where did she get the money to start the business? 'We didn't have to invest,' she says. 'We just hired ten engineers and won a contract to build a gas turbine compressor station for the government.' She giggles. 'I'm nouveau, nouveau, nouveau riche!'

Building her empire was a struggle, especially in Kazakhstan's highly traditional and sexist society. . . . No prizes for guessing who had the last laugh: these days Goga owns gold mines, is chairman of the MunaiGaz Engineering Group and is on the board of the Ivanhoe Mining Group.

It hasn't hurt her career that she also captivated Timur Kulibayev, the Kazakh oil billionaire, who is still married to the President's second daughter, Dinara. What was initially a business relationship became a love affair and he is the father of her adorable two-and-a-half-year-old son Adam. Her marriage to Ashkenazi crumbled and they were separated by 2006 and divorced a year later. . . .

Which brings us neatly on to the topic of Prince Andrew, one of the very few bachelors out there who might just fit her exacting criteria. On her phone is a striking picture of herself with 'Air Miles Andy', both wrapped in towels and looking very cosy outside a sauna in the Kazakh countryside. . . . She introduced Andrew to Kulibayev, who in 2008 bought Sunninghill Park from him for £3 million above the asking price. And at her 30th birthday extravaganza this year, held at Anton and Lisa Bilton's Buckinghamshire house Tyringham Hall, he sat next to her(multimillionaire Robert Hanson was on the other side).

'Money is not my ambition,' she says. 'What I want is to become more powerful and overtake some of the men I'm bothered about in Kazakhstan.

http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/high-flyer--goga-ashkenazi-takes-over-the-world-6476649.html

3 joseph177 2013-11-13

This is the same pattern used everywhere.