Monday, December 17, 2012
Too Big To Follow the Rules.
HSBC
No I haven't hit a pile of random letters. HSBC is a bank. A really big bank. So big, they got a bag full of 3.5 Billion dollars in the storm of bank bail outs a little while ago. That's no pocket change.
Now you're probably asking yourself, Rory (I assume that when you're talking to yourself you address me) what has done it? What risky business practise is HSBC involved in that would drive you so mad? Is it something that will cause them to go broke again?
No. Actually it's quite the opposite. They're involved in a "risky" venture that will make them rich. Like, crazy drug lord rich.
What is it? Laundering money.............for drug lords...........and terrorists.
That's right. I'm not making it up. It's not exageration. HSBC was just fined 1.9 Billion dollars for laundering massive amounts of money for the worst of the worst on the planet.
Now don't get me wrong, 1.9 Billion is a lot of billions, but I want the juicy stuff. Jail time. The real deal. Who's getting what and for how long?
Nobody. Nothing. None time, none long.
So again, to re-iterate: Money Laundering - A crime. Aiding terrorist organizations - A crime. Aiding drug cartels - A crime.
The penalty for these crimes, some of the money you made from their proceeds. Not all of it, we may never know how much all of it was. But hey, the government wants a cut of that money you've got for helping out the guys shooting at our soldiers around the world and turning the mexico/us border into a scene out of Mad Max.
Now for the personal breakdown.
I launder a bit of money, I go to jail. I mule some drugs across the border or even cash, I go to jail. I donate money to a terrorist organization or throw a fund raiser for them......I probably disappear into a hole under a mine under Ontario never to be seen again until the government determines that I'm weak and old and no longer a threat.
HOWEVER....
If I run a bank and do all of the above, no sweat, skim a little of the action off the top and mail it to the feds and you're all good. If that's not punishment I don't know what is...
give us your wrist.......prepare for the slap on it........oooh wait, we forgot to put on our bank wrist slapping silken gloves covered in fluff and sheeps wool.....baby sheeps wool.......wrapped in cotton balls.
Plus, the crime is not the worst part. The reaction. That's the real gem.
In discussing the fine and lack of prison terms for anyone involved, a U.S. "Justice" departement official said something along the lines of the following. "HSBC may be too big to prosecute", "An in depth investigation into the behaviour of HSBC may result in involvement of many other financial industries in the investigation and damage to the international banking industry."
My mother would slap me in the face if all I could come up with for an excuse was something as lame and stupid as "all the other kids are doing it". And it's not even a kid coming up with that weak ass pile of B.S. It's the government charged with keeping them under wraps. It's like if you went to a parent of a bastard kid and they told you "all the other kids are bastards too so we've decided to let them loot and burn the town to the ground because we don't want to make them angry."
Let me translate. "They make a pile of money, donate a pile (more than likely), and while we know what they're doing is illegal, immoral, dangerous, and harmfull to our country, we can't do anything about it........because then you'd all realize that the banks holding your money are for the most part, helping, aiding, abetting, consorting with etc.........the same kind of people we deem to be enemies of the people and place on the fbi's 10 most wanted."
There is no good and evil anymore folks, just bought and paid for. Fuck 'em, each and every one.
Merry Christmas.
Friday, January 13, 2012
Terrible, vicious hateful, subhuman animals.
No folks, I'm afraid it's not that simple. Get a load of this story.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/brazil/9005835/Loggers-burned-Amazon-tribe-girl-alive.html
That's correct. You read the address and the headline properly. Brazilian loggers, who've been having run ins with the Brazilian government over encroaching on the lands of some of the last uncontacted tribes on the planet, contacted one of them!
An eight year old girl, allow me to add a picture for clarification.
That, ladies and gents, is an 8 year old girl. Now on to the story.
After finding......no finding is the wrong word.....capturing fits better. After capturing an 8 year old girl, who had no experience with the modern world, modern man, or the terrible shit we do to each other, the loggers put their thinking caps on and tried to figure out the best thing to do.
Their answer? BURN HER ALIVE AS A WARNING TO THE REST OF HER PEOPLE TO GET THE HELL OUT.
Not a word of a lie. She's dead. Burned alive. The most terrible way you could die. And why? Because they want her people to get the hell out. Do you think she understood for a second what was happening to her or why? Not a chance.
Ah the things we'll do for money. How's this for a test, I'll give any of you who read this one million dollars, that's right, one million. Now I'm not rich, so it may take some time but over the next 60 years of my life I should be able to get close to a million. There's only one catch. You need to burn an 8 year old girl alive and watch it until it's done. Who's up for the money? Any takers? I didn't think so.
That's it. That's all I've got. I'm not going to offer solutions, because I shouldn't have to. If we need people with blogs or fuck that...if we need anyone at all to tell us how wrong it is to burn an 8 year old girl alive for money, fuck us. We deserve what we get. Global warming, bring it, we deserve to be flooded out of every city withing 100kms of the coast. Plagues and pestilence, yep, we should have that on tap too.
Whatever the worst the world can dish out is.....I say sign us up, we're a bunch of god damned animals who deserve most of the terrible shit that happens to us....this story is just the proof I needed.
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Not a Whole Hell of a Lot.
Friday, February 19, 2010
Hibernation, "Sex Addiction", and the long crawl out of the den.
Friday, October 23, 2009
Oh sweet Jesus.
Some days in the last 2 weeks there was baseball on from 2:00 pm until sometimes as late as 11, there is great and intense competition on the big league fields. It's great and I love it.
The other night I was watching the Philadelphia Phillies trying to punch their ticket to the World Series. They did win and are now going to face either the Anaheim Angels or the New York Yankees. New York had a 3 games to 1 lead at the time.
I didn't think much about the possible match up I just enjoyed the end of the game. Then something happened. Toward the end of the game, the Phillies had a fairly comfortable lead and the crowd in Philly knew it. Out of the cheap seats it started to spill, until it flooded the whole stadium.
"Yankees Suck! Yankees Suck! Yankees Suck!"
At first I just chuckled, because I too, think the Yankees suck. Then something occured to me. I just kind of mumbled it to myself.
"Oh sweet Jesus."
This is Philadelphia. A city baptized by the american revolution. A city of rabid, foaming, drunk sports fans. Opposing outfielders being targeted by groups of fans with laser pointers, language that would turn you white. In fact, a man was killed outside the stadium at one point this year....at least one point.
J.D. Drew was drafted with the #1 pick by the Phillies a while ago. After Drew demanded a rookie salary record 10 million bucks, the Phillies said no thanks and Drew went back into the draft the following year to be chosen and paid by the St. Louis Cardinals.
When the Cardinals went to Philadelphia the first time that year, Drew took his spot in right field. Fans from the town he had spurned greeted him by.......throwing D batteries at him.
This is the terrible storm the American League Champion will walk in to. I'm personally rooting for the Angels, but if it is indeed the Yankees........consider the possibilities.
Animosity is already building. It could be as long as a week before the first pitch of the World Series and already they're chanting for blood. Two major metropolitan centers on the east coast with nearly a century of sporting history.
One group, possibly the largest team fan base in north america and one of the few globaly recognized baseball brands. The other group........throw batteries and kill people.
There will be strikes and balls, great hits and greater catches and there just may be bloodshed. God damn I love playoff baseball.
Friday, August 21, 2009
"By the very definition." and "Hang the Politicians."
Now maybe it's because I'm a bitter, angry, dick who can hold a hell of a grudge......but I don't think so. Look around you, watch the news, read a paper. Things are going to hell in a shitty looking, knock-off hand bag. And the people who are supposed to realize it, and stop it are pushing us along the path, singing, and stuffing their pockets with our money.
I understand, not all of you are as paranoid, bile filled and generally cranky as I am, but let me give you two examples. If these don't make you angry as a porn star at a eunuchs house, there is something seriously wrong.
THE VERY DEFINITION.
Terrorism -
1. The use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes.
Now get a load of this.....well.....load.
http://www.rollingstone.com/nationalaffairs/index.php/2009/08/20/tom-ridge-comes-clean/
Tom Ridge, former head of Homeland Security (sounds a bit like Fatherland to me), has recently come out and said that some changes in the colour coded terror warning system were POLITICALLY MOTIVATED. That means no threat, or at least no change in threat level. That means, let's tweak these fuckers where it hurts and scare the shit out of them, because you and I both know, scared people vote Republican.
Now read the definition above one more time. What kind of country terrorizes its own citizens? How about the kind directly south of us. How about the kind of gov't our own Conservative folks are modelling themselves after.
I don't know how much more plainly I can put it. A nation that would terrify it's own people for political gains is not one I want having any dealings with my own gov't. This is petty, stong arm bullshit and it fills me with rageahol even though I don't live there.
Hang the Politicians.
Some of you, those who have seen my Facebook page anyway, might remember a little screed I ran off in May of last year. The Alberta conservatives had just voted themselves a whopping pay raise and I was......shall we say.....super fuckin' pissed. On the job less than a year and Ed Stelmach made himself the highest paid Premier in the country.
Now get this, there's no money in the province anymore. Ed and his little general Ron Liepert have been closing hospitals and long term care facilities around the province. His buddy Ron was at least nice enough to let everyone know what was wrong with Ralph Kleins idea to cripple public healthcare. He told people he was going to do it.
Close enough hospitals and people will start paying to have themselves fixed. I only praise the fact that Liepert was dumb enought to say it to a reporter as opposed to in a closed door meeting.
So lets keep count. Ed Stelmach can balance the books when it comes to grossly overpaying himself, but not to provide healthcare to his constituents. He also doesn't give two shits if we like it or not. He's closing them, and you're gonna pay through the nose to get any medical care. They've said this both with their actions and in plain old english.
Now the fun part, warning though, I'm gonna swear like a sailor at the end of this sentence, I don't like it, it makes me sound inarticulate (but the word inarticulate helps).
Fuck this fuckin' bullshit. They're gonna steal my money to line their own pockets, then tell me that, by the way, that publicly paid health care that everyone in the country is given (except us, citizens of the richest province in the land, we had to pay for it).....uh....you don't get it anymore.
Well, maybe you can have it, but you've gotta drive 6 days to get to the nearest public hospital......and that could be tough with a broken leg and lacerated spleen....oh well, thanks for voting conservative and go fuck yourselves. We'll be swimming in piles of your money, like the homo-hating, straw chewing, healthcare killing Scrooge McFucks we are.
Go to hell Alberta Conservatives, or just wait a few years.......maybe you'll bring it to all of us.