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Leprechaun (Irish: leipreachán) is a type of fairy in Irish folklore, usually taking the form of an old man, clad in a red or green coat, who enjoys partaking in mischief. Like other fairy creatures, leprechauns have been linked to the Tuatha Dé Danann of Irish mythology.[1] The Leprechauns spend all their time busily making shoes, and store away all their coins in a hidden pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. If ever captured by a human, the Leprechaun has the magical power to grant three wishes in exchange for their release. Popular depiction shows the Leprechaun as being no taller than a small child,[2] with a beard and hat, although they may originally have been perceived as the tallest of the mound-dwellers (the Tuatha Dé Danann).
The leprechaun originally had a different appearance depending on where in Ireland he was found.[13] Prior to the 20th century, it was generally held that the leprechaun wore red, not green. Samuel Lover, writing in 1831, describes the leprechaun as,
... quite a beau in his dress, notwithstanding, for he wears a red square-cut coat, richly laced with gold, and inexpressible of the same, cocked hat, shoes and buckles.
According to Yeats, the solitary fairies, like the leprechaun, wear red jackets, whereas the "trooping fairies" wear green. The leprechaun's jacket has seven rows of buttons with seven buttons to each row. On the western coast, he writes, the red jacket is covered by a frieze one, and in Ulster the creature wears a cocked hat, and when he is up to anything unusually mischievous, he leaps on to a wall and spins, balancing himself on the point of the hat with his heels in the air."
The Philadelphia Experiment is the name of an alleged naval military experiment said to have been carried out at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA sometime around October 28, 1943. It is alleged that the U.S. Navy destroyer escort USS Eldridge was to be rendered invisible (or "cloaked") to enemy devices. The experiment is also referred to as Project Rainbow.
Rep. Alan Grayson asks the Federal Reserve Inspector General about the trillions of dollars lent or spent by the Federal Reserve and where it went, and the trillions of off balance sheet obligations. Inspector General Elizabeth Coleman responds that the IG does not know and is not tracking where this money is.
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) was established by Congress as an independent oversight authority within the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board), the government agency component of the broader Federal Reserve System. In addition, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act) established the OIG as the independent oversight authority for the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (Bureau). Within this framework, the OIG conducts audits, investigations, and other reviews of the Board's and the Bureau's program functions. By law, the OIG is not authorized to perform program functions.
Effective July 25, 2011, Mark Bialek assumed the position of Inspector General for the Board and the Bureau.
The treasurers office lost it, a small army of private accountants are hunting for it,
and a former state cashier says she cant remember a thing about it
Originally posted by supine
Do leprechauns steel all those missing socks out of the dryer, too?
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Hundreds of millions of dollars might have gone missing from customer accounts at MF Global Holdings Ltd. as far back as four days before the securities firm filed for bankruptcy protection, people familiar with the situation said Monday.
James Giddens, a trustee of Jon Corzine's now bankrupt MF Global, says the company the total of missing customer money may be $1.2 billion -- double the roughly $600 million previously estimated by some regulators. "That would mean customer accounts are missing about 22 percent of their total of $5.4 billion. A shortfall of 11 percent had been previously estimated by a person with knowledge of probes into the firm's collapse," writes Bloomberg, adding that Giddens hopes to recover all of the money. (They're currently just short of 60 percent.) Adding to the murkiness of MF Global's financial dealings that are finally coming to light: regulators don't want to commit to a shortfall total. "From the very beginning we have tried as much as possible to never use a figure, out of fear that it's not right," Jill Sommers, commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission investigating the company, told Reuters.
leprechauns are the shoemakers for the Fairies. Their gold is fairy gold.
Gnomes are a dwarflike creatures who live underground and guard treasure hoards they dig in their mines *
Originally posted by zorgon
Timing Questions Emerge on MF Global Cash
Hundreds of millions of dollars might have gone missing from customer accounts at MF Global Holdings Ltd. as far back as four days before the securities firm filed for bankruptcy protection, people familiar with the situation said Monday.
Wall Street Journal
Originally posted by PhoenixOD
I'm thinking we should start up a petition to the White House demanding a freedom of information request regarding the infiltration of leprechauns into the government.
The Irish community is one of New York's major and important ethnic groups, and has been a significant proportion of the city's population since the waves of immigration in the late 19th century.
As a result of the Great Famine in Ireland, many Irish families were forced to emigrate from the country. By 1854, between 1.5 and 2 million Irish had left their country. In the United States, most Irish became city-dwellers. With little money, many had to settle in the cities that the ships landed in. By 1850, the Irish made up a quarter of the population in Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, and Baltimore.
New York City today has the largest number of Irish-Americans of any city in America. During the Celtic Tiger years, when the Irish economy was booming, a buying spree of homes and apartments by native Irish in New York City as second homes, or as investment property was seen.
Irish-Americans play a significant role in New York city and state politics, media, Wall Street, the Roman Catholic church, and the major sports leagues. They have been highly active in the Fire Department of New York, New York Police Department, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
The basement of 4 World Trade Center housed vaults used to store gold and silver bullion. Published articles about precious metals recovered from the World Trade Center ruins in the aftermath of the attack mention less than $300 million worth of gold. All such reports appear to refer to a removal operation conducted in late October of 2001. On Nov. 1, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani announced that "more than $230 million" worth of gold and silver bars that had been stored in a bomb-proof vault had been recovered.
Tons of gold vanished out of the World Trade Center after 9/11, who took it? Even the most brain-washed person can not answer what happened to tons of gold and silver that was stored in the lower vaults of the World Trade Center after the 9/11 disaster. Everyone has to know that bin Laden didn't take it. Who ever took the gold is totally responsible of the events of 9/11 and they are not Arabs, they are Americans. I first heard about the missing gold on a news report on 9/14, when rescue workers looking for survivors found all the vault doors open and empty. I knew then that this was an inside job, because common sense says that terrorists couldn't move that much gold prior to the buildings collapse. With more people talking about the missing gold, Giuliani reported on 11/1, that some of the gold was recovered. Still over a billion dollars worth was still unaccounted for. Those who still believe that bin Laden did it, how did he get away with the gold unseen? Those who laugh at conspiracies find the gold.
Originally posted by burntheships
I know its not funny, but I cant resist.