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Originally posted by TheFinalTruth14
Go back inside, folks. Absolutely nothing to see here. Did you hear Tom Cruise dressed up as his character from Tropic Thunder during the MTV Movie Awards? And he even danced! I'm serious. There's also a lively debate as to who that girl from Twilight will be dating in the third movie.
Say, is Hannah Montana old enough to have a drug scandal yet? Don't these things interest you people? Did you watch the World Cup? America and England tied! What do yall think of the NBA Finals? The referees are under suspicion for bad calls, ya know?
Go back inside, please. The NWO will take care of you.
This is disaster capitalism in action, in its purest form. If you're not acquainted with the term yet, get to it quickly, this is the philosophy that the major global players all live by now and will continue to do so until there's a total overhaul.
“They also (Goldman Sachs) also sold 43 percent of their position in BP and I suspect — although we’ll not know probably ever — that they probably used derivatives to short the other part of their position. And they probably — if they didn’t do that, they shorted against the box, which freezes your position. And so they knew something was going down. And so didn’t Halliburton. And Halliburton bought — about three weeks or so before the event… they bought out a company that specializes in taking care of problem wells, although Halliburton’s perfectly capable of doing that. And so there’s a lot of question for complicity.
Freezing a position?
“They go to a market maker, like an insurance company, or another bank or a brokerage house and they say ‘look, we want to buy some derivative puts to freeze our position in British Petroleum, so what kind of a deal can you give us?’ And so the party comes back and says ‘well, we can give you this kind of a deal’, and they accept it and it freezes the position. And it’s done over the counter so nobody ever sees it. …It gives you the advantage of not being exposed to any gain or any loss. And you can also do it with stock. You can short an equal amount of shares that you’re long and freeze the position. And that’s what I think they did.
“And Goldman, back in October along with JP Morgan Chase and HSBC and Citibank and Deutche Bank, they all went long the dollar, and they went short the Euro. So they knew what was going on.
And it’s the same case here. They knew ahead of time. Halliburton knew as well. I mean, this was a planned event. This didn’t just happen.
Asked upon what he based that, he replied,
“A chain of events, and backing into a conclusion. I mean these things aren’t coincidence. There is no such thing as coincidence.”
Originally posted by serbsta
According to regulatory filings, RawStory.com has found that Goldman Sachs sold 4,680,822 shares of BP in the first quarter of 2010. Goldman's sales were the largest of any firm during that time. Goldman would have pocketed slightly more than $266 million if their holdings were sold at the average price of BP's stock during the quarter.
www.globalresearch.ca...
*Go to link for more sources.
Yes, it's true. You can't say for certain that this is suspicious behavior on Goldman's part but knowing their recent history you are almost inclined to believe that they had some knowledge of the impending disaster. Go figure... they're all in the same bed after all.
This is disaster capitalism in action, in its purest form. If you're not acquainted with the term yet, get to it quickly, this is the philosophy that the major global players all live by now and will continue to do so until there's a total overhaul.
Originally posted by serbsta
reply to post by DangerDeath
Indeed. The disaster capitalism philosophy was applied to everything from Hurricane Katrina and the Indonesian Tsunami of '06 to the Iraq War.
1.Arrive.
2.Raise Hell.
3.Leave.
Insert 'Make money along the way' in between points 2 and 3.
Originally posted by lagnar
If this had been ANY of us, we'd be behind bars this very moment, awaiting a hearing.
Just one more thing to be livid about that nothing will be done about. How much more obvious does it need to get? This is BLATANT FRAUD!
Test, after test, after test, they see we fail every one...so they're getting more blatant by the day because they KNOW they'll receive NO consequence for their treasonous actions.
Like some kind of sado-masochistic serial killer, they're praying we stop them, as they're unable to stop even if they wanted to.
[edit on 12-6-2010 by lagnar]
The news about Goldman's bet against the Gulf comes on the heels of embarrassing revelations that the firm had taken a short position on Lindsay Lohan's acting career. More here.