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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tinpot, post: 1804948, member: 35836&quot;]Every market is manipulated, the only questions are to what extent and by whom and why. </p><p><br /></p><p>Anyone ever heard of the plunge protection team? Or the libor scandal?</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libor_scandal" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libor_scandal" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libor_scandal</a></p><p><br /></p><p>On 27 June 2012, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barclays_Bank" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barclays_Bank" rel="nofollow">Barclays Bank</a> was fined $200 million by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity_Futures_Trading_Commission" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity_Futures_Trading_Commission" rel="nofollow">Commodity Futures Trading Commission</a>,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libor_scandal#cite_note-cftc-5" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libor_scandal#cite_note-cftc-5" rel="nofollow">[5]</a> $160 million by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Justice" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Justice" rel="nofollow">United States Department of Justice</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libor_scandal#cite_note-usdoj-6" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libor_scandal#cite_note-usdoj-6" rel="nofollow">[6]</a> and £59.5 million by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_Services_Authority" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_Services_Authority" rel="nofollow">Financial Services Authority</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libor_scandal#cite_note-fsa-7" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libor_scandal#cite_note-fsa-7" rel="nofollow">[7]</a> for attempted manipulation of the Libor and Euribor rates.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libor_scandal#cite_note-45" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libor_scandal#cite_note-45" rel="nofollow">[45]</a> The United States Department of Justice and Barclays officially agreed that &quot;the manipulation of the submissions affected the fixed rates on some occasions&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>If there is money to be made by manipulation, then it will be manipulated. </p><p><br /></p><p>United States Of America Attorney general Eric Holder already admitted he can&#039;t prosecute the mega-banks. So why wouldn&#039;t they manipulate the markets for profit?</p><p><br /></p><p>Even if they are caught like was the case in Libor, they just have to pay a fine that is a fraction of what they made with their manipulation.</p><p><br /></p><p>A lot of people can&#039;t connect the dots or don&#039;t want to admit the truth that they are getting conned. It&#039;s just human nature, and unfortunately that is why con artists have always existed throughout history, the public is always stupid enough or uninformed enough to believe them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately the most successful con artists are now running the mega banks and central banks of nearly every country in this world. There are whistleblowers out there but they are ignored by the mainstream media because they are owned by the people doing the manipulation. </p><p><br /></p><p>Andrew Jackson referring to the central bank of the United States:</p><p>Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that <b>you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank.</b> You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter, I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves. –<i>Andrew Jackson</i></p><p><br /></p><p><b> &quot;The few who understand the system, will either be so interested from it&#039;s profits or so dependant on it&#039;s favors, that there will be no opposition from that class.&quot; — <u>Rothschild Brothers of London, 1863</u></b></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><b>&nbsp; &quot;Give me control of a nation&#039;s money and I care not who makes it&#039;s laws&quot; — <u>Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild</u> </b></i></p><p><i></i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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