I once knew a bartender -- now deceased -- who had two classy restaurants burned out from under him on early Sunday mornings, after closing. Each incident was within weeks of each other.
The owner of said restaurants was having "problems"
Richard Talley, 57, and the company he founded in 2001 were under investigation by state insurance regulators at the time of his death late Tuesday, an agency spokesman confirmed Thursday.
It was unclear how long the investigation had been ongoing or its primary focus.
A coroner's spokeswoman Thursday said Talley was found in his garage by a family member who called authorities. They said Talley died from seven or eight self-inflicted wounds from a nail gun fired into his torso and head.
Also unclear is whether Talley's suicide was related to the investigation by the Colorado Division of Insurance, which regulates title companies.
G it is said a man deserves what is seen in the mirror at 50 and his brain at 60. Psalm 90 covers the rest for us......
If we have any bias at all, it's that we're pro-American.
As hired hands of Schroder banker Victor Emanuel, Crowley and Markham, who were also employees of the U.S. Government, attempted to deal with the question of these I.G. Farben interests in the United States and Mexico. On April 13, 1943 James Markham sent a letter to Secretary of State Cordell Hull objecting to the proposed Cyanamid deal on the grounds it was contrary to the Atlantic Charter and would interfere with the aim of establishing independent firms in Latin America. The Markham position was supported by Henry A. Wallace and Attorney General Francis Biddle.
The forces aligned against the Cyanamid deal were Sterling Drug, Inc. and Winthrop. Both Sterling and Winthrop stood to lose their drug market in Mexico if the Cyanamid deal went through. Also hostile to the Cyanamid deal of course was I.G. Farben's General Aniline and General Dyestuffs, dominated by Victor Emanuel, banker Sehroder's former associate.
On the other hand, the State Department and the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American affairs — which happened to be Nelson Rockefeller's wartime baby — supported the proposed Cyanamid deal. The Rockefellers are, of course, also interested in the drug and chemical industries in Latin America. In brief, an American monopoly under influence of Rockefeller would have replaced a Nazi I.G. Farben monopoly.
I.G. Farben won this round in Washington, but more ominous questions are raised when we look at the bombing of Germany in wartime by the U.S.A.A.F. It has long been rumored, but never proven, that Farben received favored treatment — i.e., that it was not bombed. James Stewart Martin comments as follows on favored treatment received by I.G. Farben in the bombing of Germany:
Shortly after the armies reached the Rhine at Cologne, we were driving along the west bank within sight of the undamaged I.G. Farben plant at Leverkusen across the river. Without knowing anything about me or my business he (the jeep driver) began to give me a lecture about I.G. Farben and to point at the con. trast between the bombed-out city of Cologne and the trio of untouched plants on the fringe: the Ford works and the United Rayon works on the west bank, and the Farben works on the east bank..5
While this accusation is very much of an open question, requiring a great deal of skilled research into the U.S.A.A.F. bombing records, other aspects of favoritism for the Nazis are well recorded.
At the end of World War II, Wall Street moved into Germany through the Control Council to protect their old cartel friends and limit the extent to which the denazification fervor would damage old business relationships. General Lucius Clay, the deputy military governor for Germany, appointed businessmen who opposed denazification to positions of control over the denazification proceeds. William H. Draper of Dill. on, Read, the firm which financed the German cartels back in the 1920s, became General Clay's deputy.
Banker William Draper, as Brigadier General William Draper, put his control team together from businessmen who had represented American business in pre-war Germany. The General Motors representation in-eluded Louis Douglas, a former director of G.M., and Edward S. Zdunke, a pre-war head of General Motors in Antwerp, appointed to supervise the Engineering Section of the Control Council. Peter Hoglund, an expert on German auto industry, was given leave from General Motors. The personnel selection for the Council was undertaken by Colonel Graeme K. Howard — former G,M. representative in Germany and author of a book which "praises totalitarian practices [and] justifies German aggression .... "6
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau was deeply disturbed at the implications of this Wall Street monopoly of the fate of Nazi Germany and prepared a memorandum to present to President Roosevelt. The complete Morgenthau memorandum, dated May 29, 1945, reads as follows:
MEMORANDUM
May 29, 1945
Lieutenant-General Lucius D. Clay, as Deputy to General Eisenhower, actively runs the American element of the Control Council for Germany. General Clay's three principal advisers on the Control Council staff are.
1. Ambassador Robert D. Murphy, who is in charge of the Political Division.
2. Louis Douglas, whom General Clay describes as my personal adviser on economical, financial and governmental matters." Douglas resigned as Director of the Budget in 1934; and for the following eight years he attacked the government's fiscal policies. Since 1940, Douglas has been president of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, and since December 1944, he has been a director of the General Motors Corporation.
3. Brigadier-General William Draper, who is the director of the Economics Division of the Control Council. General Draper is a partner of the banking firm of Dillon, Read and Company,
Sunday's New York Times contained the announcement of key personnel who have been appointed by General Clay and General Draper to the Economic Division of the Control Council. The appointments include the following:
1. R.J. Wysor is to be in charge of the metallurgical matters. Wysor was president of the Republic Steel Corporation from 1937 until a recent date, and prior thereto, he was associated with the Bethlehem Steel, Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation and the Republic Steel Corporation.
2. Edward X. Zdunke is to supervise the engineering section. Prior to the war, Mr. Zdunke was head of General Motors at Antwerp.
3. Philip Gaethke is to be in charge of mining operations. Gaethke was formerly connected with Anaconda Copper and was manager of its smelters and mines in Upper Silesia before the war.
4. Philip P. Clover is to be in charge of handling oil matters. He was formerly a representative of the Socony Vacuum Oil Company in Germany.
5. Peter Hoglund is to deal with industrial production problems. Hoglund is on leave from General Motors and is said to be an expert on German production.
6. Calvin B. Hoover is to be in charge of the Intelligence Group on the Control Council and is also to be a special advisor to General Draper. In a letter to the Editor of the New York Times on October 9, 1944, Hoover wrote as follows:
The publication of Secretary Morgenthau's plan for dealing with Germany has disturbed me deeply ... such a Carthaginian peace would leave a legacy of hate to poison international relations for generations to come... the void in the economy of Europe which would exist through the destruction of all German industry is something which is difficult to contemplate.
7. Laird Bell is to be Chief Counsel of the Economic Division. He is a well-known Chicago lawyer and in May 1944, was elected the president of the Chicago Daily News, after the death of Frank Knox.
One of the men who helped General Draper in the selection of personnel for the Economics Division was Colonel Graeme Howard, a vice-president of General Motors, who was in charge of their overseas business and who was a leading representative of General Motors in Germany prior to the war. Howard is the author of a book in which he praises totalitarian practices, justifies German aggression and the Munich policy of appeasement, and blames Roosevelt for precipitating the war.
So when we examine the Control Council for Germany under General Lucius D. Clay we find that the head of the finance division was Louis Douglas, director of the Morgan-controlled General Motors and president of Mutual Life Insurance. (Opel, the General Motors German subsidiary, had been Hitler's biggest tank producer.) The head of the Control Council's Economics Division was William Draper, a partner in the Dillon, Read firm that had so much to do with building Nazi Germany in the first place. All three men were, not surprisingly in the light of more recent findings, members of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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vincecate wrote:We still seem to be following 1929. I think today makes the right shoulder on a head and shoulders thing (I guess a bit more up before the crash to finish the shoulder).
I think the black horizontal lines are the key to whether the pattern match proceeds. If the market probes up to the black horizontal line on the 2014 chart and falls quickly, then the market may crash. So far the pattern match from the high is nearly identical. These are my charts and numbering, not something I "borrowed" from another site. Updated them tonight.
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While the periphery breaks down rather slowly at first, the capital cities of the hegemon should collapse suddenly and violently.
Jan 14, 2014 we viewed this into the march window. No clue what a pragmatic market with scarce resources
will do. Last estimates was the burn rate was four times the resources as other zones destroy water, soil and air.
Did not want to sound callous with all the post constitutionalism running rampant these days some note.
Rickshaw passengers indeed are guests as we survey the landscape. Adopting the ideals of "truth, sincerity and integrity,
from Franklin and the radicals is still the basis to protect our observations on water, wheat, and weather.
Your right G we understand what ought and is should be so we take some liberty of each others and I think
from the diverse views we have done well.
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Yes, I have learned of some of this before. However it appears things seem to be getting "interesting" -- does this indicate that an "event" may occur?
Just wondering, I have recently, last few years, tried to stay out of the "activity", and just be an interested "observer", but I do understand that as an Earthling, I am involved.
As I watch this thing unfold, it looks almost unstoppable, like the human race is programmed to make this happen. The "beehive smash" of the shorts the past 2 days had absolutely no reason to occur - the employment number didn't warrant it; nothing did that I know of. Likewise, Monday's crash. No obvious reason for it besides...greed, fear, and generational dynamics - maybe it can't be stopped no matter what.
While the periphery breaks down rather slowly at first, the capital cities of the hegemon should collapse suddenly and violently.
Higgenbotham wrote:As I watch this thing unfold, it looks almost unstoppable, like the human race is programmed to make this happen. The "beehive smash" of the shorts the past 2 days had absolutely no reason to occur - the employment number didn't warrant it; nothing did that I know of. Likewise, Monday's crash. No obvious reason for it besides...greed, fear, and generational dynamics - maybe it can't be stopped no matter what.
Tin foil hat time ---
Over the years I have read "odd" things that indicate we are entering a "phase shift" not logical etc. ---- but on the other side things will be different -- better or worse -- not yet decided. hmmmm, interesting
Higgenbotham wrote:As I watch this thing unfold, it looks almost unstoppable, like the human race is programmed to make this happen.
As I bought some more S&P puts on Thursday, I had a ting of guilt, like I was taking candy from a baby. Will be very interesting to watch the coming weeks to see if we are right and make money. I think the coming crash will be unusually fast. Partly algorithmic trading, partly internet propagation of memes. But when the mood shifts I think it will be much more sudden and extreme than even 1929. I have mentioned to several people that I think the market is about to crash and they each laughed.
gerald wrote:
A coroner's spokeswoman Thursday said Talley was found in his garage by a family member who called authorities. They said Talley died from seven or eight self-inflicted wounds from a nail gun fired into his torso and head.
It's getting interesting.
That is an impressive degree of commitment!
You have to press quite hard to get them to fire unless you wire the safety trigger down. But that often leads to a misfire and jamming.
you don't suppose... nah!
I heard some rhetoric that nonsense is a mathematical predictable event. I will not disagree so I use different secular models to capture risk in percentages of change.
I consider myself vanilla with a topping to we got our ass handed to us once so now the 80:20 is the 60:40 reality as cash to equity and rising cash for some so why wonder
if the leveraged 20 percentage of rentier speculation capital has a problem? If we want to see it or not trading sardines are not eating sardines. We have been warned before in
Judges 17:6 and Proverbs 14:12 so why ignore facts which are the same thing. We already know the moral compass is damaged as some slowly walk out the door as
before. This could be translated as when the alpha secular monkeys screwed anything they wished and at will, of course in there good will. Later naturalist studied them
as they ate diseased meat and they clubbed the lower beta monkeys as they gorged on it and died. The latter claimed the troupe and lived in relative peace and communal
peace since the so called alpha geniuses killed them selves in the diseased old order of secular monkeydom. Meanwhile be such a threat to be so removed as be the threat and
love your enemies since scorn and pity takes to much energy as defined of not to be a social pariah they killed themselves in. We all know the anecdotal affects to fish heads
and aliens.
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