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"You haven't got the experience for it". Yes I do. I have had one of the biggest experiences in the laundering of terrorist money and funny money that anyone has had in the City. I have handled billions of pounds of terrorist money.
Baroness Hollis of Heigham: Where did it go to?
Lord James of Blackheath: Not into my pocket. My biggest terrorist client was the IRA and I am pleased to say that I managed to write off more than £1 billion of its money. I have also had extensive connections with north African terrorists, but that was of a far nastier nature, and I do not want to talk about that because it is still a security issue. I hasten to add that it is no good getting the police in, because I shall immediately call the Bank of England as my defence witness, given that it put me in to deal with these problems.
My noble friend Lord Strathclyde came up with a very different argument. He said that this cannot be right because these people said at the meeting with him that they were still effectively on the gold standard from back in the 1920s and that their entire currency holdings throughout the world, which were very large, were backed by bullion. My noble friend Lord Strathclyde came back and said to me that he had an analyst working on it and that this had to be stuff and nonsense. He said that they had come up with a figure for the amount of bullion that would be needed to cover their currency reserves, as claimed, which would be more than the entire value of bullion that had ever been mined in the history of the world.
Originally posted by ultrageek
Why does this seem so - obvious? I mean is it really that common for shadow organization to try and buy governments nowadays?
Originally posted by Smokersroom
The treasury has decided not to accept the money:
ZDNet
Originally posted by DISRAELI
reply to post by Exuberant1
I watched this clip when it was posted on another thread, and one detail struck me as interesting and perhaps telling;
"...help to convert power stations from coal to gas..."
Russia supplies gas.
Originally posted by thoughtsfull
Originally posted by DISRAELI
reply to post by Exuberant1
I watched this clip when it was posted on another thread, and one detail struck me as interesting and perhaps telling;
"...help to convert power stations from coal to gas..."
Russia supplies gas.
Equally the wealth acquisition time frame we have been given (Apx 100 years) not only matches Russia, but also the oil rich nations like the Arabian [Persian] Gulf States and even (this being ATS) Iran or Israel
(I was interested in the way he overstated this was NOT a terrorist group, OR money laundering, as tho if we knew who they where, we might think this was money laundering or that they where terrorists)
The thing is who would benefit from buying the goodwill of the British people.. be nice to know which other nation[s] this group is planning on investing in as that might help narrow down the culprits.
I lean more towards the Gulf region myself..edit on 7/11/10 by thoughtsfull because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by thoughtsfull
reply to post by FatherLukeDuke
Just to pick up up on one aspect, can I ask where you got the impression they claim to be over 100 years old... the closest I can come is their claims (how it reads to me) to follow on from an organisation that ran from 1945 to 1995. thanks
On the rest, I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on the competency of Lord James or his contacts ability to spot/investigate fraudulent dealings.
. He went on to say that neither Lord Sassoon nor Lord Strathclyde — who is the leader of the House of Lords — gave credence to the offer.
Tho I would be interested in knowing if you think Lord James was lying to the House of Lords and the nation that he set up a meeting between the parties involved (UK Gov/Foundation X)
If you think he is not lying about the meeting.. why do you feel the Government is not coming out and saying that the poor old codger got caught out by a scam?
Originally posted by thoughtsfull
reply to post by teapot
I wonder how much of the gold mined over the millennia has been tracked.. we simply have to much lore around gold.. perhaps these are the guys that sit at the end of every Rainbow..
Perhaps the UK Gov simply don't believe in leprechauns
The timeline of 100 years is interesting as that would tie in with black gold?? maybe where their wealth came from.. tho all we can conclude from what has been said is that they started to acquire their wealth at that time, not how old the actual organisation is.. It could be a lot older.
The only thing I can conclude pretty much for certain is given the crappy types of investment they are planning, they have no idea how to kick start the global economy.
Edit to add:
If these guys are so powerful then they are not going to be best pleased at being snubbed by the UK gov. but that is only if the deal has not already been made..
I still feel someone like Lord James who worked with MI6 etc is not going to spill the beans so to speak unless he is asked to by both parties,
The question I ask myself is.. Does he seem like the type of guy to breach the security of either Foundation X or UK Gov? and the answer I come up with is no..
Originally posted by FatherLukeDuke
And all this stuff on Russia? Russia is much poorer than the UK - many of it's schools and hospitals are 3rd world standard and much of it's infrastructure crumbling. Why would it start chucking money at rich countries without fixing it's own?? It also doesn't fit any of the description that James gave, as it's much more than 100 years old by any measure, and has shrinking gold reserves which are about the 3rd biggest in the world. Why would he refer to Russia as "foundation x