Live Catch22 - Goldman SUX, Gaza Wall, Finkelstein

[mgt23]

Ok done a lot of work rewiring my computer with some extra sound gear.
 I will be doing a show tommorrow going live from:
 http://www.theinfounderground.net SUNDAY 17th 9pm GMT

feel free to skype in or join me as a guest to discuss said topics.
will post mp3 and sources list afterwards........
I will also be taking any suggestions for a TiU radio official playlist. So for instance Catch22 and TiU shows, but are there any other audio files TiU radio should be supporting?

[LordLindsey]

I'll try to get in-touch with you as soon as I can.  I am working very long hours, and the saddest example of this is when I am a guest on The Piper Report while driving around town in my fucking car avoiding trafic and shifting gears!  We are set for next week, so either way you and I will be on-air together, and frankly I can't wait!

LINDSEY

[mgt23]

[mp3:pyd95ac3]http://www.deathflag.com/download/catch22170110.mp3[/mp3:pyd95ac3]
http://www.deathflag.com/download/catch22170110.mp3
enjoy.......


US supports Egypt's steel wall with Gaza - PressTV 100114
[youtube:pyd95ac3]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj9AG8unmvw[/youtube]pyd95ac3]

Why Zionists are Destabilizing Pakistan
[youtube:pyd95ac3]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf6NvgmH9n4[/youtube]pyd95ac3]

Norman Finkelstein - Defeating The Palestinian Peace Offensive
[youtube:pyd95ac3]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-btnux3R3jM[/youtube]pyd95ac3]
[youtube:pyd95ac3]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQic5TATuaU[/youtube]pyd95ac3]

Goldman Sachs and Others Investigated for Betting Against Securities They Created
http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-6816-0-24-24--.html

Bankers Get $4 Trillion Gift From Barney Frank
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=a48c8UpUMxKQ

Geithner's Fed Told AIG to Limit Swaps Disclosure
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aXIvW4igKV38

Goldman Sachs Sued by Shareholders for Breaking Own Rules
http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-6989-0-13-13--.html

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/w ... 991056.ece

The US army is training a crack unit to seal off and snatch back Pakistani nuclear weapons in the event that militants, possibly from inside the country's security apparatus, get their hands on a nuclear device or materials that could make one.

The specialised unit would be charged with recovering the nuclear materials and securing them.

The move follows growing anti-Americanism in Pakistan's military, a series of attacks on sensitive installations over the past two years, several of which housed nuclear facilities, and rising tension that has seen a series of official complaints by US authorities to Islamabad in the past fortnight.

"What you have in Pakistan is nuclear weapons mixed with the highest density of extremists in the world, so we have a right to be concerned," said Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, a former CIA officer who used to run the US energy department's intelligence unit. "There have been attacks on army bases which stored nuclear weapons and there have been breaches and infiltrations by terrorists into military facilities."
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Professor Shaun Gregory, director of the Pakistan security research unit at Bradford University, has tracked a number of attempted security breaches since 2007. "The terrorists are at the gates," he warned.

In a counterterrorism journal, published by America's West Point military academy, he documented three incidents. The first was an attack in November 2007 at Sargodha in Punjab, where nuclearcapable F-16 jet aircraft are thought to be stationed. The following month a suicide bomber struck at Pakistan's nuclear airbase at Kamra in Attock district. In August 2008 a group of suicide bombers blew up the gates to a weapons complex at the Wah cantonment in Punjab, believed to be one of Pakistan's nuclear warhead assembly plants. The attack left 63 people dead.

A further attack followed at Kamra last October. Pakistan denies that the base still has a nuclear role, but Gregory believes it does. A six-man suicide team was arrested in Sargodha last August.

Fears that militants could penetrate a nuclear facility intensified after a brazen attack on army headquarters in Rawalpindi in October when 10 gunmen wearing army uniforms got inside and laid siege for 22 hours. Last month there was an attack on the naval command centre in Islamabad.

Pakistani police said five Americans from Washington who were arrested in Pakistan last month after trying to join the Taliban were carrying a map of Chashma Barrage, a complex in Punjab that includes a nuclear power facility.

The Al-Qaeda leadership has made no secret of its desire to get its hands on weapons for a "nuclear 9/11".

"I have no doubt they are hell-bent on acquiring this," said Mowatt-Larssen. "These guys are thinking of nuclear at the highest level and are approaching it in increasingly professional ways."

Nuclear experts and US officials say the biggest fear is of an inside job amid growing anti-American feeling in Pakistan. Last year 3,021 Pakistanis were killed in terrorist attacks, more than in Afghanistan, yet polls suggest Pakistanis consider the United States to be a greater threat than the Taliban.

"You have 8,000-12,000 [people] in Pakistan with some type of role in nuclear missiles — whether as part of an assembly team or security," said Gregory. "It's a very large number and there is a real possibility that among those people are sympathisers of terrorist or jihadist groups who may facilitate some kind of attack."

Pakistan is thought to possess about 80 nuclear warheads. Although the weapons are well guarded, the fear is that materials or processes to enrich uranium could fall into the wrong hands.

"All it needs is someone in Pakistan within the nuclear establishment and in a position of key access to become radicalised," said MowattLarssen. "This is not just theoretical. It did happen — Pakistan has had inside problems before."

Bashir Mahmood, the former head of Pakistan's plutonium reactor, formed the Islamic charity Ummah Tameer-e-Nau in March 2000 after resigning from the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission. He was arrested in Islamabad on October 23, 2001, with his associate Abdul Majeed for alleged links to Osama Bin Laden.

Pakistan's military leadership, which controls the nuclear programme, has always bristled at the suggestion that its nuclear facilities are at risk. The generals insist that storing components in different sites keeps them secure.

US officials refused to speak on the record about American safety plans, well aware of how this would be seen in Islamabad. However, one official admitted that the United States does not know where all of Pakistan's storage sites are located. "Don't assume the US knows everything," he said.

Although Washington has provided $100m worth of technical assistance to Islamabad under its nuclear protection programme, US personnel have been denied access to most Pakistani nuclear sites.

In the past fortnight the US has made unprecedented formal protests to Pakistan's national security apparatus, warning it about fanning virulent anti-American sentiment in the media.

Concerns about hostility towards America within elements of the Pakistani armed forces first surfaced in 2007. At a meeting of military commanders staged at Kurram, on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, a Pakistani major drew his pistol and shot an American. The incident was hushed up as a gunfight.

[memory hole]

cracking show MGT23, nice analysis of Finkelstien.

Always though provoking and critical.

Keep it up man. 8-)

[ehpg]

"The Holocaust Industry" Chapter 2 HOAXERS, HUCKSTERS AND HISTORY

"Holocaust awareness," the respected Israeli writer Boas Evron observes, is actually "an official, propagandistic indoctrination, a churning out of slogans and a false view of the world, the real aim of which is not at all an understanding of the past, but a manipulation of the present." In and of itself, the Nazi holocaust does not serve any particular political agenda. It can just as easily motivate dissent from as support for Israeli policy. Refracted through an ideological prism, however, "the memory of the Nazi extermination" came to serve — in Evron's words — "as a powerful tool in the hands of the Israeli leadership and Jews abroad.1 The Nazi holocaust became The Holocaust.

Two central dogmas underpin the Holocaust framework: (1) The Holocaust marks a categorically unique historical event; (2) The Holocaust marks the climax of an irrational, eternal Gentile hatred of Jews. Neither of these dogmas figured at all in public discourse before the June 1967 war; and, although they became the centerpieces of Holocaust literature, neither figures at all in genuine scholarship on the Nazi holocaust.2 On the other hand, both dogmas draw on important strands in Judaism and Zionism. In the aftermath of World War II, the Nazi holocaust was not cast as a uniquely Jewish — let alone a historically unique — event. Organized American Jewry in particular was at pains to place it in a universalist context.

http://800poundgorilla.100webspace.net/ ... dustry.pdf (ONLINE EDITION)

AMERICAN RADICAL: THE TRIALS OF NORMAN FINKELSTEIN The first clip you used was from this movie.

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General Reinsurance Corporation Enters into Agreement Resolving Its Role in Fraudulent Reinsurance Transaction with AIG

http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2010/Janu ... m-053.html

WASHINGTON – General Reinsurance Corporation (General Re), a Connecticut–based corporation, has entered into an agreement with the Department of Justice related to its role in a fraudulent scheme from 2000 through 2004 to manipulate AIG's financial statements, the Justice Department announced. General Re is a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., a company incorporated in Delaware with its principal place of business in Omaha, Neb.

Also as part of the agreement announced today, General Re has agreed to pay $19.5 million to the U.S. Postal Inspection Service Consumer Fraud Fund. General Re previously contributed $5 million to the fund as forfeiture of the illicit $5 million accommodation fee it received from AIG. General Re has agreed to pay $60.5 million through a civil class action settlement to AIG's injured shareholders. In addition, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced today that General Re has agreed to pay $12.2 million to settle the SEC's charges related in part to this scheme

As part of its resolution with the Justice Department, General Re has admitted that its most senior management engaged in a scheme to falsely inflate AIG's reported loss reserves, a key indicator of financial health to insurance industry analysts and investors. According to the statement of facts, the fraud was carried out through the use of two sham reinsurance transactions between subsidiaries of AIG and General Re in response to analysts' criticism of a $59 million decrease in AIG's loss reserves for the third quarter of 2000.

According to the statement of facts, the two sham transactions increased AIG's loss reserves by $250 million in the fourth quarter of 2000 and $250 million in the first quarter of 2001, masking a declining trend in loss reserves in the face of premium growth. AIG restated the transactions in filings with the SEC in May 2005. Evidence presented at the related federal criminal trial of four former General Re officers and one former AIG officer established that when the investigation was disclosed to investors by AIG and through various media outlets between Feb. 14 and March 14, 2005, shares of AIG stock dropped from $73.12 to $61.92. Subsequently, on Oct. 31, 2008, the U.S. District Court presiding over the trial found that AIG's shareholders lost between $544 million and $597 million as a consequence of the fraudulent scheme.

General Re has admitted that its senior management who were involved in the scheme knew that the true purpose of the transactions was to permit AIG to falsely report increasing loss reserves in its statements to analysts, investors and in its SEC filings. As part of the agreement, General Re admitted its senior management participated in structuring a sham reinsurance transaction and creating a phony paper trail to make it appear as though General Re's subsidiary, Cologne Re Dublin, had solicited reinsurance from AIG when the evidence demonstrated that the parties knew AIG wanted the transaction to manipulate its financial statements. Additionally, General Re entered into a secret side deal whereby AIG would never have to pay any losses under the contracts; AIG would return to General Re's subsidiary the $10 million in premiums General Re's subsidiary paid to AIG and AIG paid General Re an illicit accommodation $5 million fee for entering into the transaction.

The agreement announced today requires General Re, for a term of three years, to maintain significant internal corporate remediation provisions it has already implemented, including: (1) appointment of an independent member to General Re's Board of Directors, who will also be a member of the Audit Committee; (2) the attendance of General Re's Audit Committee meetings by representatives of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.; (3) the creation of a Complex Transaction Committee, consisting of senior managers that, among other responsibilities, will review relevant actuarial protocols for reinsurance contracts and will review on a quarterly basis certain reinsurance transactions to ensure that they are not designed to assist other parties in falsifying, manipulating and/or window-dressing its financial statements; (4) to enhance the review and reporting roles of its Internal Audit Group; (5) to establish a Risk Committee charged with examining risk exposure in underwriting transactions; (6) to implement enhanced underwriting rules for reinsurance and deposit transactions; (7) to ensure proper training and ethical compliance in risk-transfer protocols applicable to reinsurance contracts; and ( to dissolve its subsidiary, Cologne Re Dublin, that had helped to structure the sham transaction.

In addition, the agreement requires General Re to acknowledge its obligation toward restitution to AIG's shareholders who were injured as a consequence of General Re's and AIG's conduct. As part of the agreement, the Justice Department acknowledged that General Re has agreed to contribute $60.5 million, exclusive of attorneys' fees and expenses, toward a civil settlement with AIG's injured shareholders, which, when combined with payments contributed or agreed to be contributed by other third-parties involved in the fraudulent scheme, will satisfy the loss amount determined by the U.S. District Court in the related criminal proceedings.

The agreement recognizes General Re's willingness to conduct an internal investigation; its ongoing cooperation with the Justice Department and the SEC; its disclosure to the Justice Department and the SEC of other unrelated finite reinsurance transactions of concern; its willingness to accept responsibility for the conduct of its senior officers; its agreement to undertake remedial measures; and its demonstration of future compliance with the federal securities laws and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. These factors contributed to the Department's agreement not to prosecute General Re for this conduct, provided that General Re satisfies its ongoing obligations under the agreement.

The prosecution of General Re was conducted by Principal Deputy Chief Paul E. Pelletier and Assistant Chief Adam Safwat of the Criminal Division's Fraud Section. The U.S. Postal Inspection Service participated in the investigation with the Justice Department. The prosecution of the individuals from General Re and AIG was conducted jointly by the Fraud Section, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Connecticut. The Justice Department also acknowledges and expresses its appreciation for the significant assistance provided by the SEC's Enforcement Division.