Let's start with the state of business in this country which has been stealing everything not nailed down for the past forty years and some of you yokels out there are fighting for that. WTF? Workers in Tennessee voted down a union because as some brain powers put it, "we never had one before, why need one now?" Because companies are using you as slave labor and paying you peanuts while they get rich beyond words that's why, moron. The fact that many of you out there can't see it does not bode well for out future.
We pay our workers nothing allegedly to get the best and brightest to run these Fortune 500 companies. The odd fact is, most of these people couldn't work the drive through at McDonalds without help and are subsequently running these same companies into the ground. Take Ron Johnson, former CEO of JC Penny. His bone headed decision to eliminate sales and coupons while trying to market to young affluent hipsters, who barely register as an economic force anyway, drove JC Penny to near bankruptcy. Yet, he still walked away with a sizable golden parachute while the company itself hovers over insolvency.
And then there is Sears CEO Eddie Lambert who believes in Ayn Rand to such an extent, he based his company's philosophy on it and guess what? It failed miserably like all "free market" approaches have. His attempt to pit managers against one another in some weird Hunger Games like scenario did not build loyalty, a direct nod to Rand's ideal worker as a selfish bastard. Like typical vulture capitalists he has milked the company of all funds, most likely divesting himself of Sears stock before driving it into the ground, making himself a fortune in the process. This is the modern model which is to grab as much cash as possible while caring less what happens to all the workers you are putting out of business. Lambert has been called one of the worst CEO's in the US right now and as his hedge fund has also dropped 40% over the last five years, you can tell this guy is treading water right now. When he goes down however, he'll swim to shore leaving thousands without a job. Awesome.
And how many of these workers are storming his office to throw him from the roof? Zero. What a bunch of pussies. we have become. I risk my life writing this stuff and the best I get from America is a shrug and a "what am I going to do" attitude. For starters, get off your fat ass and start telling EVERYONE what is going on. Link this site and others like it. Cannonfire.com is quite good. Check it out.
In a widely unreported story, five bankers have died under mysterious circumstances over the past month. One died from a nail gun to his head (Ouch!) while another, first said to have jumped off a building witnessed by dozens, now turns out to have died on the roof of undisclosed causes. Nice bit of journalism there. Even odder, the story didn't appear in ANY news story until ten days after his death and they still got the facts wrong. There are two interesting ideas why this is happening. Here's a list of the dead bankers from the Daily Sheeple:
January 11, 2014
MISSING: David Bird, 55, long-time reporter for the Wall Street Journal working at the Dow Jones news room, went for a walk on Saturday, January 11, 2014 near his New Jersey home and disappeared without a trace. Mr. Bird was a reporter of the oil and commodity markets which happened to be under investigation by the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations for price manipulation.
January 26, 2014
DECEASED: Tim Dickenson, a U.K.-based communications director at Swiss Re AG, was reportedly found dead under undisclosed circumstances.
DECEASED: William Broeksmit, 58, former senior manager for Deutsche Bank, was found hanging in his home from an apparent suicide. It is important to note that Deutsche Bank is under investigation for reportedly hiding $12 billion in losses during the financial crisis and for potentially rigging the foreign exchange markets. The allegations are similar to the claims the institution settled in 2013 over involvement in rigging the Libor interest rates.
January 27, 2014
DECEASED: Karl Slym, 51, Managing director of Tata Motors was found dead on the fourth floor of the Shangri-La hotel in Bangkok. Police said he “could” have committed suicide. He was staying on the 22nd floor with his wife, and was attending a board meeting in the Thai capital.
January 28, 2014
DECEASED: Gabriel Magee, 39, a JP Morgan employee, died after reportedly “falling” from the roof of its European headquarters in London in the Canary Wharf area. Magee was vice president at JPMorgan Chase & Co’s (JPM) London headquarters.
Gabriel Magee, a Vice President at JPMorgan in London, plunged to his death from the roof of the 33-story European headquarters of JPMorgan in Canary Wharf. Magee was involved in “Technical architecture oversight for planning, development, and operation of systems for fixed income securities and interest rate derivatives” based on his online Linkedin profile.
It’s important to note that JPMorgan, like Deutsche Bank, is under investigation for its potential involvement in rigging foreign exchange rates. JPMorgan is also reportedly under investigation by the same U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations for its alleged involvement in rigging the physical commodities markets in the U.S. and London.
Regarding the initial reports of his death, journalist Pam Martens of Wall Street on Parade astutely exposed the controlled, scripted details of the media accounts surrounding Magee’s death in an article written on February 9, 2014. Ms. Martens writes:
“According to numerous sources close to the investigation of Gabriel Magee’s death, almost nothing thus far reported about his death has been accurate. This appears to stem from an initial poorly worded press release issued by the Metropolitan Police in London which may have been a result of bad communications between it and JPMorgan or something more deliberate on someone’s part.” [Emphasis added].Ms. Martens also notes:
No solid evidence exists currently to suggest that the death was a suicide. In fact, there is a strong piece of evidence pointing in the opposite direction. Magee had emailed his girlfriend, Veronica, on the evening of January 27 to say that he was about to leave the office and would see her shortly. [Emphasis added].Based on information she developed, it appears likely that Magee did not meet his fate on the morning his body was discovered, but hours earlier. Considering the possibility that Magee might now have died in the manner publicized, Ms. Martens offers speculation, and notes it as such:
If Magee became aware that incriminating emails, instant messages, or video teleconferences were not turned over in their entirety to Senate investigators or Justice Department prosecutors, that might be reason enough for his untimely death.
Looking at the death of Magee in the context of a larger conspiracy, it is difficult not to suspect foul play and media manipulation.
January 29, 2014
DECEASED: Mike Dueker, 50, who had worked for Russell Investment for five years, was found dead close to the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington State. Dueker was reported missing on January 29, 2014. Police stated that he “could have” jumped over a fence and fallen 15 meters to his death, and are treating the case as a suicide.
Before joining Russell Investments, Dueker was an assistant vice president and research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis from 1991 to 2008. There he served as an associate editor of the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics and was editor of Monetary Trends, a monthly publication of the St. Louis Federal Reserve.
In November 2013, the New York Times reported that Russell Investments was one of several investment companies that were under subpoena from New York State regulators investigating potential “pay-to-play” schemes involving New York pension funds.
February 3, 2014
DECEASED: Ryan Henry Crane, 37, was the Executive Director in JPMorgan’s Global Equities Group. Of particular relevance is that Crane oversaw all of the trade platforms and had close working ties with the now deceased Gabriel Magee of JPMorgan’s London desk. The ties between Mr. Crane and Mr. Magee are undeniable and outright troublesome. The cause of death has not yet been determined, pending the results of a toxicology report.
February 6, 2014
DECEASED: Richard Talley, 57, was the founder and CEO of American Title, a company he founded in 2001. Talley and his company were under investigation by state insurance regulators at the time of his death. He was found in the garage of his Colorado home by a family member who called authorities. Talley reportedly died from seven or eight “self-inflicted” wounds from a nail gun fired into his torso and head.
Here's a link to the rest of the story which goes into an alleged connection between the CIA, JP Morgan and the NYPD. http://www.thedailysheeple.com/exposing-what-lies-beneath-the-bodies-of-dead-bankers-and-what-lies-ahead-for-us_022014. The article concludes that these bankers were killed because they knew too much and had to go, lest they whistleblower the truth about this dangerous connection. Is it true? Hard to say, but it is worth reading.
And then there is this idea that was the basis for an unfinished screenplay I wrote some time back: companies are taking life insurance polices out on workers in case of untimely death. What if these same companies started killing these same people to collect on the policies, especially if the institutions were possibly going to fail? JP Morgan enters the fray again, this time being accused of offing these bankers for big paydays. Recent studies done in house in the banking world show people are living longer than expected, making these policies even more expensive. If corporations are truly psychotic, and they are, killing their employees for money is not such a huge stretch. JP Morgan has $12 billion in unfunded liabilities with this issue. AIG has $971 million. Much like credit default swaps, which are still going on, if this bubble bursts, these banks are going to need a huge influx of cash or they will go under and I don't know if we have the political will or even ability to bail them out again. If we don't, the world economy may go belly up. Hell.
Foreclosures are still a massive problem, regardless of what the news tells you, and banks are sitting on perhaps millions of empty homes with no way to get rid of them. The only reason they are holding on to them is that if they flood the market, the housing market crashes again. If they hold on to them indefinitely, they hemorrhage money as well. Either way, it is a disaster waiting to happen.
In all of this comes news that inflation is rising, regardless of what the government is telling us. Chicken, beef and bacon have all risen double digits this past year, but as the Inflation Index doesn't contain food or energy, it sees inflation as a measly 2-3% which is bull. True inflation is somewhere between 11-20% PER YEAR if we add in health care, food, tuition and energy which the government ignores in their stat analysis.
As salaries have not risen an iota in over forty years, thanks to idiots like those in TN who say unions are not needed then wonder why their paycheck is getting smaller and smaller, people are starting to really feel the pinch. Even worse, we may see huge spikes in things like cable, due to the end of net neutrality and monopoly mergers; energy, due to the fact we are spending no money on trying to get off fossil fuels, and new regulations may spike energy costs 80% as well; and water which is becoming unsafe to drink in one of the richest countries in the world and may rise in costs to clean it. Everything above is part of the GOP agenda so vote for republicans at your own risk, knowing full well you are killing yourself, your children, and your country. Are the democrats much better? Hell no. But the republicans are actively trying to kill me and the rest of us so I think getting rid of them first is paramount. Once those idiots are gone, we can focus on the democrats and get rid of most of them next. The alternative is to sit in front of the TV, drink our polluted water, eat out tainted food, watch crap TV and wait to die. Or we can start fighting back and demanding more from our society. Our time is almost up and if we do not do something about it soon it will be far too late. What are you doing to change the world?
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