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Goldman Sachs, the bank that manages ... the world!




by Christophe » 05/09/12, 13:42

Spent yesterday on Arte and to see again on Arte +7 ... Sensitive souls abstain ... : Evil: : Evil:

Goldman Sachs - The bank that rules the world

For the past five years, Goldman Sachs has embodied the excesses and excesses of financial speculation. Anatomy of a power that knows no boundaries or limits and directly threatens democracies.

Goldman Sachs embodies the excesses and excesses of financial speculation. Anatomy of a power without any limit.

Directors: Jérôme Fritel, Marc Roche

(France, 2012, 75mn) ARTE F


http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xtbf86 ... e-monde_tv

More than a bank, Goldman Sachs is an invisible empire with 700 billion euros in assets, twice the budget of France. It is called "the Firm", as in the spy novels of the 1980s. After having enriched herself during the subprime crisis by betting on the bankruptcy of American households, she was one of the instigators of the crisis of the euro by disguising Greece's accounts and then betting against the single currency. An empire of money the sun never sets on, which has turned the planet into a vast casino. Thanks to its unique network of influence, and its army of 30 banker monks, Goldman Sachs was able to take advantage of the crisis to increase its financial power, increase its hold on governments and benefit from the impunity of the American justice system. and European.


http://videos.arte.tv/fr/videos/goldman ... 94428.html

Mirror: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wdsAKJW1mI
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by Obamot » 05/09/12, 13:46

I wonder what Barack Obama, Hu Jintao, Poutine, and closer to us think: Angela Merkel or François Hollande ...?
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by Christophe » 05/09/12, 14:03

The answer is in the report ... I think we call this, make allegiance (secretly of course) ... :| :|
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by Ahmed » 05/09/12, 15:07

I watched this documentary and my initial apprehension was fully justified: embryonic analyzes, sensationalism, sinking open doors: I waited impatiently for the end ...

As if, for example, the sale of "junk bonds" were a new practice!
The makeup of the Greek accounts preceding their entry into the euro was known to all the rulers who, today, play the scared virgins ...
These same rulers who were elected (or brought to power) by the banks, make grandiloquent and laughable remarks (but that is their role) on the necessary restoration (sic!) Of financial ethics.

I suggest you meditate on these few lines, written by E. Dupreel, philosopher et Belgian (but yes!) about the technique, but it also works wonderfully in our case:
It was said, the king is good, the king wants our good, but the courtiers are the cause of our misery, the advisers are corrupt, the ministers are incapable, etc ... He had thus created a system of loopholes in the by means of a distinction between the fundamentally excellent monarchical system and the fundamentally good dynasty on the one hand, and on the other this deplorable accident which happened, alas, always: the dreadful perversity of court people or the insufficiency of intermediaries between the monarch and his beloved subjects.
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by Obamot » 05/09/12, 15:40

It's so true.

There are many of these "monarchs" Nowadays...

Almost invisible, but yet so present since they "lead" the world in iron gloves!

So present in the lived reality of good people.

I continue to conclude, however, that the inaction of the powerful is only equaled .... their powerlessness, to see the advance of the events of everyday life, and which rush without them having actually the time to face, facing a world and the data relating to it, which almost completely exceeds them ... (and which also exceeds us, let alone)

It seems to me that politicians are reduced to just accompanying the movement, now ...

For those who have seen the report on the police in the suburbs and the capital (TF1), this shows how much this situation of pre-civil war - where the population shoots with improvised mortars taken from the pyrotechnic arsenal against the police - reflects a situation in the process of being "out of control»... And a war that promises to be endless, to see who will radicalize in the long term, possibly with real weapons (as it is already happening ...)

It will continue, as long as there is no prospect of tangible change on the horizon ... As long as young people do not have the feeling of a perspective "without future" ... Where all the dice are loaded.

Everyone believed at one time that the Internet would allow this change! Otherwise it was not for different reasons! The "real politik" seems to have prevailed over the ideal of society ... At least for a while, alas!

After infiltrating the emerging "Civil Society" movements, spheres of influence may come to realize that they might need it!

It's a little late! For there to be a resurgence of the hope carried by a "New Civil Society", it would still be necessary:
- that it should not be recovered again by the ruling class;
- that it is mobilized in the long term;
- that it be structured and organized so as to survive a hostile environment (a bit like Anonymous, who know only a very limited number of members among themselves ...);
- that its staff be renewed, once the age limit has been reached;
- that the ideals carried go beyond the "merchant paradigm" of ubiquitous money (even if I have nothing against money ...);
etc

The state debt should also be declared unconstitutional (or at least beyond a certain interest rate threshold, or to cap it, whatever the situation on the ground ...). And also review the mechanism of monetary creation via debt ...

And for that, we would have to campaign for "intelligence in power", and not politicians interested in touching attendance fees in the Boards of Directors ... :)
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by plasmanu » 05/09/12, 16:25

I sat there to watch it.
Because standing it should make you dizzy.
I don't even know what to say ...
to sum up: to burn everything.
Selling drugs and the white slave trade next door is low-level mafia.
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by Ahmed » 05/09/12, 19:38

I will have to make an effort to be clearer: for several posts I feel that misunderstandings are taking hold. Image
However, I like the slightly allusive style. 8)

I do not believe, Obamot, let the policies be outdated and they en (Be) reduced to just accompanying the movement, now ...
They are the interface between economic power and public opinion and are very aware of it.
I think they are much more intelligent and cynical than you do: you are not doing them justice!
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by Christophe » 05/09/12, 19:45

+1 and to paraphrase Coluche: "The politicians only pretend to be stupid ..." (except for some ... : Mrgreen:)
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by Ahmed » 05/09/12, 20:18

When I speak of intelligence, it is to be "fast", it would be better to say well trained (politicians are professionals, alas!), For the rest, I doubt that they are less "primitive" (in the that loves Sen-no-sen et Laborit *) than ordinary people.
Intelligence would anyway be very difficult to assess and especially not based on some of their statements! :P

*About Laborit, he wrote something remarkable (I know it's HS!): if the school fulfilled the task which is theoretically its own, it would only establish the real conditions of equal opportunity allowing the development of inequalities.
To reread gently ... there is no hurry ... 8)
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by plasmanu » 05/09/12, 20:45

Ahmed wrote:*About Laborit, he wrote something remarkable (I know it's HS!): if the school fulfilled the task which is theoretically its own, it would only establish the real conditions of equal opportunity allowing the development of inequalities.
To reread gently ... there is no hurry ... 8)


What school is it : Mrgreen: HEC or ENA :?:
It is sadly well said.
But in what world we live : Shock:
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