Things that are legal today can become illegal tomorrow - but only if the general public (the people) ferociously object and protest such obvious scams.
Things that are legal today can become illegal tomorrow - but only if the general public (the people) ferociously object and protest such obvious scams.
Banks in Lebanon and other nations were implicated and discovered to have done it too. HSBC, however, is British.
Even then, it was another case of incompetence rather than actively aiding the terrorist groups. HSBC was also one of the institutions who sat squarely at ground zero of the subprime crisis.
Frankly I can't think of a better example of Hanlon's Razor.
Besides all that, they WERE fined $1.9 billion.
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The safeguards weren't the problem. It was the implementation (or lack thereof) that was the problem.
That said, HSBC and Bank of America were both catastrophically incompetent back in the mid-2000s.
Frankly I'm not sure how the people at HSBC were able to overlook $800 million in unidentified transactions. If I overdraft my account by a penny, you bet your ass they notice and try to charge me that fee.
I mean HONESTLY. The most effective safeguard is to just demand a pedigree for the cash that's being transferred when it's over a certain limit. Many banks did this before Congress decided it needed to be a law. Hilariously, as simple as that safeguard is... HSBC STILL found itself coming up short compared to every other bank in the nation.
How are these morons still in business?
Alright, Corporate Avenger. Do your thing. Oh, sorry, what's that? Nothing you can do? Well, shit, then the rest of us are in the same boat.
By the way, there's really nothing you can do to stop a serial killer, either. Like this, you can alert the proper authorities and hope for the best, but unless you're willing to get your hands real dirty, you're shit out of luck.
Surprisingly, HSBC didn't actually receive bailouts and never went insolvent. Apparently the US subsidiary is staffed by slack-jawed yokels who need constant reminders to breathe, forget about verifying money sources. Meanwhile the non-US operations seem top notch.
So I'm not really sure who they would have paid/bribed to be kept afloat... since it was never an issue.
When the US subsidiary cost the company $2 billion in fines, I can guarantee you that heads rolled. I don't know whose but I'm sure the names aren't hard to find.
don't worry, all will be well as soon as Obama is elected President... oh wait
4 years ago a random poster on Reddit went off on a diatribe about how America had made a catastrophically bad choice in voting for Obama. He pointed out (100% correctly) that Obama was a younger, blacker version of McCain.
Oh sure the parties were different, but their stances on key issues as told by their voting records were so similar that they may as well have been John Jackson and Jack Johnson from Futurama.
Someone dug it up today and it's now on the front page. Read it for yourself. It hasn't been edited (There would be an '*').
While Americans thought they were voting for Obama instead of McCain, they were simply voting for a Giant Douche instead of the Turd Sandwich.
Who would've thought that Obama would have been able to mask his horrible principles better than Romney?
I can't believe I'm going to say this but it seems that with every new development, Obama is trying to be remembered WORSE than Dubya.
Hilarious semi-related note. Remember how enhanced protection for whistleblowers was on Obama's campaign platform? Yeah... it's not there anymore.
Looks like Obama is trying to pull a Beyonce or a Bieber and remove embarassing data from the internet. I don't care who you are, it ain't happening.
Nothing new there, all politicians do that, it's pretty disgusting. We have 2 big parties in Hungary, the socialist party that was in government last time tried increasing higher education tuition fee's that the other big party, the liberals campaigned against, they made it a major part of their campaign to win the parliamentary elections. The liberals get 2/3 majority in the parliament and then implement what they were campaigning against but even worse.
Now the socialist party is doing the exact same thing as the liberals were before the last elections.
Politicians just change their stance on issues whenever it suits them the most. You really can only vote for the lesser evil in a lot of countries...
Throwing out unethical representatives isn't going to ensure the new ones are any better despite their track records/promises. Also it's not going to change the government's unethical practices.
I will say though that we really put too much weight on the Presidency. When push comes to shove Bush was not to blame for the wars besides having to announce it and Obama is not to blame for the NSA bs or anything. Contrary to what we are told, there are higher-ups than the President and they're the ones making these calls and no matter who we elect, it's never going to change any of it.
/tinfoil hat but I'm being serious.
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I think the truly sad part, given that this is all true as presented, is that my reaction to it is. "Eh. Pretty much expected such."
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I swear people have forgotten why bush was so awful or something.
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http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-me.../promise-kept/
Senator John McCain is nothing if not consistent. From his vociferous and unyielding support of the Iraq war, to subsequent calls for military intervention in Iran, Georgia, Libya, and now Syria, Senator McCain is arguably the most pro-war politician in Washington.
http://www.policymic.com/articles/48...e-to-go-to-war
http://www.dailypaul.com/178779/the-...-started-a-warThe last time Iran started a war......So after much research I believe that the answer is: 1826 during the 4th Russo-Persian War. If anyone finds an error in this or a more recent war that Iran started please post.
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