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Originally posted by scwizard
The article is satirical in nature:
www.huffingtonpost.com...
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.
Originally posted by Asktheanimals
"Fab" Torre deserves to be drowned in oil and dead ocean life.
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.
Originally posted by TheFinalTruth14
Interesting article with an interview from Bob Chapman.
Bob Chapman - theinternationalforecaster.com...
radiopatriot.wordpress.com...
“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.”
I'm starting to think there was definitely prior knowledge, and I'm wondering aloud if perhaps the oil leak actually took place before it was reported to the public? You throw in Haliburton's presence and it is a wide open debate.
Originally posted by Sphota
reply to post by OuttaTime
Naomi Klein wrote Shock Doctrine. Though they're both good.
Originally posted by SpaceMonkeys
Originally posted by scwizard
The article is satirical in nature:
www.huffingtonpost.com...
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.
Yes there is something odd about that article from the huffington post, I don't think it was meant to be serious, if thats the case then thats a highly irresponsible article. I'm confused now, does this mean that this was just a joke that was missunderstood? or is this based on fact?