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9 More Banks Subpoenaed Over Libor

9 More Banks Subpoenaed Over Libor

 

Nine more banks have received subpoenas in connection with a probe into alleged widespread interest-rate manipulation by banks, a person familiar with the investigation said.

The probe, a joint effort by the offices of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen, could lead to civil enforcement action related to breaches of antitrust and fraud laws.

The subpoenas, which were issued in August and September but haven't been previously reported, bring the total number of subpoenas in the case to 16. The banks involved in the probe include most members of the panel that helps set the dollar London interbank offered rate.

The investigation by the state prosecutors is part of a global probe, in which more than a dozen federal and other regulators across three continents are looking into allegations that several banks rigged Libor.

The nine banks that received subpoenas in August and September were: Bank of America Corp., Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ, Credit Suisse Group AG, Lloyds Banking Group PLC, Rabobank Groep NV, Royal Bank of Canada, Société Générale, Norinchukin Bank and West LB AG, according to the person familiar with the investigation.

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Darkness Descending in England

By Pamela Geller

The arrest of over 53 people in the United Kingdom is the beginning of the end for once-great Britain.  The leaders of the English Defence League (EDL), Tommy Robinson and Kevin Carroll, were among those arrested, as well as Paul Weston of the British Freedom Party (BFP).  I spoke with Kevin Carroll about his recent arrest and that of Robinson and Weston, and he told me the appalling details.

Carroll told me that British authorities tried everything in the book to stop him from running for police and crime commissioner (PCC) for the Bedfordshire Police Authority.  Nonetheless, he officially won the right to run for PCC last Friday.  But then, the very next day, British authorities carried out these mass arrests of EDL and BFP members, stripping them and forcing them to wear white paper overalls like those given to incarcerated terrorists.  They were allowed no phone calls.

Meanwhile, British police raided the homes of Carroll, Robinson, and three others who had been arrested.  "They absolutely ransacked mine," Carroll told me.  "They smashed the door off and wrecked my home.  They took my only vehicle, with all the tools of my trade inside, and impounded it, as well as Tommy's car."  The police, the bomb squad, forensics teams, and sniffer dogs spent seven and a half hours stripping Carroll's van to the bone.  "When they finished," he said, "they found nothing!  They loaded it up with bugs and GPS monitors and threw everything in the back; it looks like it's been in a blender."

After smashing the door to Carroll's home off its hinges, police officials repaired it, got a locksmith to put on a new lock, and left with the new keys, leaving Carroll locked out of his own home.  When Carroll was released, still wearing his white paper prison suit, it was dark and raining; true to form, police officials offered him no transportation, even though it was late at night on a Sunday.

Robinson is being held in Wandsworth prison, an old and antiquated structure with a large population of Muslim prisoners.  Weston was arrested and later released without charge for refusing to leave a reception area without information about Robinson.  And it is clear why officials would not want that information to get out: not only has Robinson been placed with the general prison population instead of segregated for his own protection, but prison officials have even put him in a cell with hostile Muslims.  He was allowed to call his wife Jenna, and he told her that he knew it was going to be "lively" in the cell.  That was an understatement: prison officials have deliberately put Robinson in physical danger and even imperiled his life.  Carroll contacted a high-ranking police official to request that Robinson be segregated, and she received a promise that he would be, but it hasn't happened yet -- and Robinson has even been denied bail.

"They are really coming at us with everything," Carroll told me.  "I'm even on police bail at the moment for 'conspiracy to cause a public nuisance.'"  This is a politically motivated and trumped up charge, but in Britain it can carry a life sentence.


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"The Birds" ~ Maybe Not Science Fiction?

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I had two unusual incidents this past week with birds.  Both times, a large amount of birds were on my roof.  I could see their shadows against the curtains, flying to and fro.  They were scuffling around, squawking their heads off.  The second incident, yesterday, was so loud that I went outside to see what the heck they were doing.  I opened the door and a large black crow was standing on the porch railing.  It just stood there and looked at me for a few seconds, then flew up into a tree.  I have a lot of trees around my house, most with leaves half gone.  I walked out and did a perimeter sweep.  I could see them (LOTS of them) in the trees.  As I walked around, I heard one caw behind me.  Then a crow in another tree parallel to me cawed.  Then another cawed in a tree ahead of me.  The birds were signaling each other.  It was creepy.  Remember the above scene?  That's what it felt like.  Maybe Alfred Hitchcock wasn't so far off base, after all.

So, then I received an email from one of our members today...

"I live in the Upper West Side of Manhattan next to Lincoln Center in an 8 story apartment complex with a small adjacent park. Was awakened this morning at about 6am by many birds, perhaps 500+ that arrived in the park who were making a loud ruckus chirping, squawking, and screaming. Opened my window to see what was going on as my unit faces the park, and observed the birds frantically harvesting small branches and twigs from the trees. Some birds were actually fighting over materials and were falling all over each other. Creeped me out a bit as I wondered what these birds sense, and/or know, that we don't?"

Something is definitely up with the birds.  Could they be agitated by HAARP?  By the Frankenstorm? Let us know if you are detecting abnormal behavior with the birds in your area.

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Tonight’s show will be so filled with important news, 2 hours will not be enough to cover it.  On October 25th, CNBC published the following article: 

Major Banks, Governmental Officials and Their Comrade Capitalists Targets of Spire Law Group, LLP’s Racketeering and Money Laundering Lawsuit Seeking Return of $43 Trillion to the United States Treasury

At approzimately 2pm PST, Pete Santilli received the following notice on The Pete Santilli Show website:

Stumbled upon something connecting two incidents over the last 24 hours :
Story A hits the CNBC website sometime Thursday morning

This story goes to air and not even a day later this happens?
Story B

The children’s father, CNBC digital media executive Kevin Krim, who is an Executive VP for CBNC Digital, the same entity who controls the content for the social media pages and the website.
Can you say, (elaborating here), that since he didn’t pull the story from the site nor probably order anyone fired The SCUM killed his kids?????

 

 

Story B:  http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/26/us/new-york-nanny-deaths/index.html

Police: Nanny stabbed herself upon mother's arrival

From Wayne Drash, CNN
updated 1:57 AM EDT, Sat October 27, 2012
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Nanny suspected in kids' deaths

STORY HIGHLIGHTS
  • NEW: Nothing appeared amiss between the nanny and children, a resident says
  • The mother returned home to find the crime scene in a bathroom
  • The family vacationed with Ortega in her native Dominican Republic
  • The slain children were 2 and 6 years old

New York (CNN) -- The New York nanny suspected in the killings of two children in her care began knifing herself when their mother entered the bathroom and saw the bodies in the bathtub, police said Friday.

"We believe now that the nanny began to stab herself as the woman entered the room," Police Commissioner Ray Kelly told reporters in a revised account of Thursday's events.

"We initially thought that had already been done but now information is coming out that she did it as the mother entered the bathroom."

Earlier, police had said that Marina Krim found nanny Yoselyn Ortega, 50, on the bathroom floor of the family's Upper West Side luxury apartment with self-inflicted wounds.

In the tub lay the clothed bodies of two of Krim's children: Leo, who had recently celebrated his second birthday with "Pinkalicious-inspired cupcakes;" and his 6-year-old sister, Lucia, who had performed "beautifully in her ballet recital" in May.

Both children had been repeatedly stabbed, police said.

Ortega started stabbing herself in the neck with a kitchen knife, police said. Her wrists were slit.

"The charge is still to be determined," Kelly said.

Krim had left the two children with the nanny, known as "Josie," to take her third child, 3-year-old Nessie, to a swim lesson at a nearby YMCA, Kelly said. She had expected to meet the nanny at a dance class for the 6-year-old around 5:30 p.m.

When the nanny and children didn't show up, Krim went up to the apartment, where she found the lights were off, police said. Krim then returned to the lobby and asked a doorman whether he had seen her two other children leave with the nanny; he had not.

"There comes a time when she goes looking for her children and enters the bathroom and finds her 6-year-old daughter and son stabbed to death in the tub," Kelly said.

Leo, left, and Lucia Krim were discovered dead in a bathtub by their mother.
Leo, left, and Lucia Krim were discovered dead in a bathtub by their mother.

That's when neighbors heard a scream.

The children's father, Kevin Krim, a senior vice president for CNBC Digital and former Yahoo executive, was en route back home from the West Coast. Police broke the news to him at John F. Kennedy International Airport.

"A member of the CNBC family has suffered an unimaginable loss," NBC Universal said in a statement. "The sadness that we all feel for Kevin, Marina and their family is without measure."

The nanny was taken to a hospital, where she was in critical but stable condition.

The bodies of the two children were removed from the building on a single stretcher and taken to a hospital where they were pronounced dead.

Ortega was heavily sedated and under police watch on Friday at Weill Cornell Medical Center, said Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Browne.

Kelly said she was breathing with the aid of a tube and unable to talk.

A native of the Dominican Republic, Ortega had been a naturalized U.S. citizen for 10 years.

Friends had introduced the family to Ortega, and she had worked for them since Leo's birth two years ago, police said.

She lives at another address on Manhattan's West Side with her son, her sister and her niece, Kelly said.

"We're just grieving. Worst nightmare anyone could ever imagine," said grandmother Karen Krim, who lives in California. "We don't have a clue what set her off."

Police on Thursday evening escorted from the apartment building the mother and her 3-year-old daughter, covering them with a white sheet to shield them from photographers and gawkers. The mother was treated at a hospital for trauma, police said.

Less than an hour before the killings, Charlotte Friedman rode in the elevator with the nanny and the youngsters.

"I told the little girl 'do you know how beautiful you are?' and she gave me the biggest smile I've ever seen and said 'thank you,'" Friedman said.

Nothing seemed amiss with the nanny or the children, she said.

Later, Friedman was back in the elevator -- heading out to run errands -- when she heard a "primal scream" from somewhere in the building.

"It was pure terror," she said. "...It was unlike anything I've ever heard before."

She isn't sure who she heard scream. But after she got off the elevator, Friedman saw the youngsters' mother screaming on the mezzanine.

News of the crime spread quickly. Some parents in the neighborhood said they rushed home to hug their own children.

Maryellen Conway, 39, a mother of two, said she called her children's nanny and they cried together. "She was in tears. I trust her, obviously, with my life and she's part of our family," Conway said. "There's no words to describe what they're going through."

On Friday morning, Jasmarin Rothbarb was pushing a stroller near the Krims' apartment building. She said she employs a nanny, but the killings have made her question whether to continue.

"It's a tough call," she said. "You trust these people with your most precious joys. I think I see more mothers out today than nannies. It's a horrible thing."

Outside the building, Kathleen Peters placed flowers at a makeshift memorial. Peters, a mother herself, also works as a nanny for children who live a few blocks away. "It makes me really, really sad," she said. "I can't understand why (the nanny) would do something like that."

The apartment is a block west of Central Park and four blocks south of the American Museum of Natural History, two locations popular with nannies.

It is not unusual for their employers to treat nannies as extended members of their own families. That was the case with the Krims. Marina Krim's blog, "Life with the Little Krim Kids," offered the loving mother's view of a family life that included Ortega as a member.

Last February, the Krims traveled to the Dominican Republic, where they met their nanny's family.

"We spent the past nine days in the Dominican Republic," Marina Krim wrote on February 18. "We spent half the time at our nanny, Josie's sisters home in Santiago and the rest at Balcones de Atlantico in Las Terrenas, a condo-style hotel where the 'Real Housewives of Dominican Republic' and their families hang on weekends. It was wonderful."

She added, "We met Josie's amazing familia!!! And the Dominican Republic is a wonderful country!!"

One photograph showed the families together, the nanny holding the girl who was learning how to swim at the time her siblings were killed.

The blog included hundreds of photographs and notes about picking blackberries, celebrating birthdays, going to a pumpkin patch.

On September 30, Marina Krim posted a photograph of her son after his second birthday. The boy had a mischievous look as he played at a toy kitchen set. "Leo 'Lito' Krim!!!!! Yes, the 2 year old boy," his mother wrote. "One of the best parts of my day is after I drop both girls off at school and have 3 precious hours with little Lito all to myself. Ok, I'm near getting cheesy I adore this boy so much!!!"

Weeks before his birthday, mom and son walked home, with the lad pointing at toy cars, trucks and fire engines, excited in anticipation of his birthday. "Mama, present, present," he said after spotting a toy helicopter.

"Lito, I must say, is a very clever little boy," she wrote. "He is super talkative and just has a million thoughts running through his brain and can express himself amazingly well for an almost-2 year old."

In April, 6-year-old Lucia, known as Lulu, accompanied her father on a take-your-child-to-work event. On the whiteboard in her father's office, she wrote: "I like your ofis Dada. Love LuLu."

Marina Krim logged her final entry at about 2:30 p.m. Thursday, three hours before the killings were discovered.

"Leo speaks in the most adorable way possible. Firstly, he speaks super clearly, so you can understand every word (he) is saying. And he does things like, 'I want a fresh bagel' and 'Dito (what he calls himself) wants cold milk' and most adorable of all, 'No thank you' -- he never uses 'No' alone, it's always paired with 'thank you.'"

Within hours of the killings, hundreds of people had left messages of condolences on the blog; by Friday morning, it had been taken down.

CNN's Deborah Feyerick, Ross Levitt, Erinn Cawthon, Logan Burruss and Brittany Brady reported from New York. Wayne Drash reported from Atlanta and wrote this article.

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Cobra News

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Stream of Positive Free Will
 
Although the critical mass of 144,000 people for the Day of Decision has not been reached, we were not far from that and our collective decision has created a powerful stream of positive free will that will never be extinguished, it will grow until the point when it will overflow the planet and the Event will  happen.
 
Right after our mass activation, a massive solar flare has erupted from the Sun:
 
 
A few days later, this promising announcement about new technologies has been released:
 
 
In the last few days, our decision for the Victory of the Light has been tested by the negative astral influences for many of us. But our collective positive free wil is now strong enough to counteract all those influences and our positive vector is stable and definitely felt in the planetary light grid.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2223047/Hurricane-Sandy-Forecasters-warn-pre-Halloween-perfect-storm-strike-East-Coast.html

http://news.yahoo.com/hurricane-sandy-menaces-u-slamming-cuba-035520293.html

Forecasters said Sandy, with an expanding wind field already 550 miles wide, had begun merging with a polar air mass over the eastern United States, potentially spawning a hybrid "super storm" that could wreak havoc along the East Coast.

"Its structure is evolving as we speak because it's interacting with this weather feature at higher levels of the atmosphere," said Todd Kimberlain, a forecaster at the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami.

"The models are suggesting that the storm could actually become better organized or intensify a little bit, not due to the normal processes than we would expect for a tropical cyclone but more related to this weather feature," Kimberlain said.

On its current projected track, government forecasters said Sandy could make landfall early next week anywhere between Virginia, Maryland or Delaware up through New York or southern New England.

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