How the Establishment Cheated Ron Paul
And then there’s the issue of algorithmic vote flipping. See, for example, the NH Primary vote:
I’m no statistician, but that looks awfully suspicious. There are many other examples:
Arguably the most blatant of all:
Read the 192 page study and see the data citations here.
If they did rig the vote, why? Because the risk of getting caught would be negligible compared to the cost of a President Ron Paul. A dismantling of the military industrial complex, no more interventionism, banksters behind bars, and a beginning to the end of the Federal Reserve. We’re talking about trillions of dollars here, as well as an unprecedented shakeup of the status quo. That, along with the sketchy data are why I don’t find the theory unrealistic.
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Citigroup’s Man Goes to the Treasury Department
Rubin Connection
Lew was director of the Office of Management and Budget during President Bill Clinton’s administration, after which he worked at New York University as an executive and a professor. He joined Citigroup in 2006 as chief operating officer of its global wealth-management division. Lew was recommended by former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, who at the time was chairman of Citigroup’s executive committee. (There seems to be an unwritten rule that every Treasury secretary must have deep ties to Rubin.) He became chief operating officer of the bank’s alternative-investments unit in January 2008.
Lew’s employment agreement with Citigroup said his “guaranteed incentive and retention award” wouldn’t be paid if he quit his job, with limited exceptions. One was if he left Citigroup “as a result of your acceptance of a full-time high level position with the United States government or regulatory body.” This applied if he left “prior to the payment of any incentive and retention award for performance year 2008 or thereafter.” Such an award wasn’t guaranteed but would be consistent with the company’s practice, the document said.
A similar provision concerned his stock-based compensation. If Lew left in 2008 or afterward to accept a high-level U.S. government position, all of his outstanding equity awards, including restricted stock, would vest immediately, the document said. Alternatively, Citigroup had the option of paying Lew the cash equivalent of any shares he forfeited upon leaving. The terms didn’t mention other kinds of public-service work, such as a midlevel U.S. government job, a position in municipal or state government, or working at a nonprofit organization such as a university.
Lew stood to receive $250,001 to $500,000 worth of accelerated restricted Citigroup stock when he left the company, according to a disclosure report he filed in January 2009. The same document listed $1.1 million of “salary and discretionary cash comp” from Citigroup. Lew said at last week’s hearing that his salary for 2008 was $350,000.
Lew was named a deputy secretary of State in 2009, Office of Management and Budget director again in 2010, and then became President Barack Obama’s chief of staff in 2012. Now he’s up for Treasury secretary, where he would play a critical role in overseeing the U.S.’s financial industry and rescuing it should another crisis ensue. Citigroup couldn’t have planned this better if it tried, which raises the natural question: Did it try?
We don’t know the whole story, except that Lew’s agreement clearly attached unique value to the possibility that he might get a top U.S. government position someday. Should that be of concern to the public? It ought to be.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-21/citigroup-s-man-goes-to-the-treasury-department.html
The Establishment of the Status Quo got a win/win in 2012. If Romney wins, they win. If Obama wins, they win. A Ron Paul victory would have had far to wide an influence with the real people interested in genuine change for the best in this nation. We are not alone. We are not afraid. We are not going away.
Goldman, Banking, Washington, and Business Ethics: Cultural Observations from Two Smiths
Corruption, facilitated by the credibility trap, is the biggest problem facing us today. That is the real entitlement. It is the belief of the elite that the power of their office is an achievement that gives them the right to lie, cheat and steal both for themselves and their friends.
Although it is important to understand that they would be shocked and insulted if you used those words to describe what they are doing.
Through a long indoctrination that starts sometimes in their families, but is most often affirmed in their schools and with their circle of friends, they learn to rationalize this sort of selective moral behaviour not as immoral but as ‘the entitlement of success.’ There are one set of rules for themselves and their friends, and another set of rules for the rest.
The problem which the modern world has not yet grappled is how to react to the rise of a global elite, which considers itself the children of a power above national restraints, and a law unto themselves.
Their success has been propelled by the dominance of Anglo-American financialization, and the rise of oligarchies in Russia, China, Latin America, and India. Countervailing power has been co-opted and subsumed.
They are all supported by their fiat currencies and the ability to define and allocate value at will. They have a penchant towards globalization and deregulation, to the extreme detriment of local rule, and individual choice and freedom.
http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2013/02/greg-smith-speaking-at-stanford-goldman.html
I told everyone that the elections are rigged from the word go.
Forex Kong – at Forexkong.com has got this currency war nailed down. I can’t believe the real time trades and market calls. He’s up 28% in 2013 alone.