28-01-2009, 01:24 PM
Quote:He only said Austria was not on the top of his list.
Snigger.
A few years ago, the City of London, with over 400 banks, was listed as number 8 on the money laundering list - whereas the Vatican that has just one bank, the IOR was listed in seventh place. :dontknow:
But, of course, if you were to bring into this equation all the Brit off-shore places and protectorates like the Channel Islands, Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Isle of Man and many others that "do" for the City, then the UK would be at the top of the list by a country mile, I suspect.
Laundering drug money is a fact of banking life and has been for decades now and is understood and accepted to be "business as usual" at every level of government and finance.
That is why, I think, crooks have the run of the banking system as has been amply demonstrated in the naked short selling that has brought disaster to the markets in the last year. And now those same crooks are getting our tax dollars for the next 20 years as part of the global banking system bail out.
What was it Lord Rothschild said about government and banking (well over 100 years ago too):
Quote:"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes the laws."
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14