UPDATE: Take the Money and Run

(Priceless: A creative and entertaining protest at a Halliburton shareholders meeting, the year Halliburton moved it’s headquarters to Dubai. Great soundtrack!)

UPDATE!!! The military activity may have been no more than dickwaving during a highly tense day when the Bush/Cheney/Clinton crime family was caught raiding the cookie jar (at a bank in Ireland), and subsequently forced to give up their Bad Man Ways. Whatever happened that day appears to have triggered the massive international settlement process that’s been dragging ass for decades. From World Reports:

SETTLEMENT PROCESS TRIGGERED BY LAST WEEK’S EVENTS
BRUSSELS, 24th June: The ‘happenings’ that took place during the week ending 20th June 2008 finally triggered the Settlements payment process. They also reconfirmed that Bush, Cheney and the other criminalist operatives never had the slightest intention of paying out a single cent, while at the same time raiding the funds as often as they could for self-enrichment purposes, to restore the Bush Crime Family’s decimated finances, and to sustain the spigot that is used to finance the World Revolution, and the secret financing of the world governance structures, and to finance the secret projects of the US Intelligence and Military Power apparats, as well as covert operations in Iraq and elsewhere by the oil corporations and their associates.The most senior tier of payments, to the 160 countries, was completed on Saturday 21st June 2008. On Tuesday 24th June, a certain ‘licensed’ US information source mentioned that money was being pulled out of banks in New York City. Specifically, Wayne Madsen reported:

‘[Our] United Nations sources report that there has been a sudden rush in requests for foreign exchange wire transfer requests from the New York City banks’.'The sudden demand for transferring funds abroad has resulted in a 24-hour to 48-hour processing delay due to the sheer volume of requests’.

‘Foreign employees at the United Nations are transferring their money from accounts at the United Nations Federal Credit Union (UNFCU) and other New York City banks, both domestic and foreign-owned, and the move has been sudden’.

‘There has been no explanation for the sudden wire transfer activity, although the [US] rumor mill suggests fears of a sudden economic collapse and/or a US and Israeli military attack on Iran, which could touch off a wider regional conflict’.

The rumour mill was talking rubbish, illustrating how crass and inaccurate it usually is. The reason for the sudden surge in requests for foreign exchange wire transfer requests was that the country payees had at long last received their payments and were now transferring their funds out to their respective governments and central banks.

Is this GOOD news? Well, it is good for people in 160 countries! Other payments to the aggrieved are being paid out of these 160 new accounts, so the U.S. will also be effected. Some of these settlements go back to the U.S. Farm Claims lawsuits, back in the 80’s. I know nothing about the matter I was just a kid back then . . .

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Well! I guess I need to start a new category, since there seems to be a lot of this going on: From behind the Wayne Madsen Report subscription wall, United Nations sources are reporting a sudden rush in requests for foreign exchange wire transfers out of New York City banks. The move is sudden and without explanation.

Are mass transatlantic flights out of the U.S. next? What’s about to hit the fan?

Things that make you go HMMMMMMMM. Last year I moved Bunny’s college fund into gold and silver, and my own retirement account into international stocks, because I knew “it” – whatever “it” was – was going to hit the fan eventually. It’s a wonder our Corporatist Overlords managed to kick-the-can down the road for this long.

Bets, anyone? Stock market crash, false flag terrorist attack on “Das Homeland,” (wince) war, or both? For what it’s worth, Wall Street has been buzzing ALL DAY about an Israeli attack on Iran, which IMHO would be a colossally STUPID thing to do. Why? Because Russia will come to Iran’s defense, and then the U.S. will come to Israel’s defense, and then – BLAMMO! Bye bye Tel Aviv, bye bye Fifth Fleet, bye bye American soldiers in Iraq, bye bye what’s left of our civil liberties and our prosperity.

UPDATE: Ham radio operators worldwide were picking up extremely high level encrypted military transmissions from the U.S. and Soviet controlled territories last Friday. Reportedly things have settled down, so . . . ? Why the U.N. bank run now?

Sitting ducks. All of us, everywhere in the world, but what can we do? Let us pray that it’s a false alarm, get drunk, screw, and listen to the Steve Miller Band. Hit it!

(Steve Miller, “Take the Money and Run”)