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you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

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Yeah. Let's hear it. More. More. More.

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More. More. More. More.

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It's all about the love.

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It's a campaign of love.

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Shalom. It's all fantastic. We are at

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the kickoff point of 11 months of

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excitement as George Galloway launches

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his campaign and rolls over London,

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rolls over this country with some a

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message that I think needs to be heard.

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There's a message that I'm particularly

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interested in and that message is to

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clean up the city of London. Great

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now. First of all, how many of you here

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are came this evening actually because

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you thought you would see Stacy?

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Yes, I know that's the truth. I'm just

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uh she's the brains of the operation.

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She says to say hello. She's working on

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our next episode that we Monday is our

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very busy day for us. Let me get into um

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what I think are some of the interesting

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and salient points that we need to keep

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in mind as you decide who to put as your

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mayor in this fine town. I want to draw

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your attention to a quote from Warren

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Buffett. Warren Buffett, one of the

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richest guys in the world. He's either

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the second or third richest guy in the

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world. He said, quote, "There's class

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warfare, all right, but it's my class,

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the rich class, that's making war, and

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we're winning.

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That's right. It's no secret, is it?

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It's no secret that the rich are at war

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with everybody else. That's no secret

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who's standing up, who's fighting, who's

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putting in the time, the effort, the

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policies. Let's continue. By the way, if

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I just if I go too far off on a tangent,

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just reel me in.

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Just let's talk about what Bill Black

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said. It was a guy back in the 1980s who

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put 1,500 bankers in jail as part of the

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savings and loan crisis. Let me tell you

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what he said. He said, "The city of

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London became the most crimeogenic

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environment in the world for financial

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fraud, which is why so many UK banks and

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units of foreign banks located in the

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city have caused the major scandals in

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the UK and globally. All of these major

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global scandals run through the city of

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London. Bernie Maidoff, AIG, the London

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Whale, Lehman Brothers, Liebore scandal,

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Forex scandal. They outsource their

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fraud to the city of London because City

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of London is where you can get away with

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the most egregious financial crimes of

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anywhere in the world. Now, this has got

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to end. I would think to restore some

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balance, to restore some equitable

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distribution of wealth, you need to go

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after where all that wealth is

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being concentrated in ways that

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according to one of the top regulators

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in the world signifies one of the most

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crimeogenic environments in the world. I

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mean, look at this HSBC scandals for a

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second, just to give you five of the

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latest highlights of

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HSBC liebore rigging. Uh, 100,000 fake

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Swiss accounts for tax evasion, violated

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word Iran from wire

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transfers. US sent a cease and desist

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letter to stop funding of

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al-Qaeda. and they

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continued. Number five, HSBC worked

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directly with the Sola drug cartel,

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directly responsible for huge massive

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crime wave and death waves, tens of

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thousands of people due to the uh drug

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wars that HSBC openly and gladly funds.

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fine which is maybe five or 10% of the

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money that they stole.

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Uh let's let's ask uh our friend Mark

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Carney who runs the Bank of England what

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he has to say about these corrupt

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bankers. I know that he says on some

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occasions that they should be punished,

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but he also has said that putting

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bankers in jail will not fix the bad

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behavior. By the way, in Iceland they

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put bankers in jail

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and they prosecuted the bad bankers and

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now they've got the first and fastest

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growing economy in Europe. Yes. Because

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they got rid of the problem. The problem

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was the bankers. So here's Mark Carney

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who says, "Oh, you can't put these

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bankers in jail." Meanwhile, Bank of

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England has opened a probe into whether

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the staff of the Bank of England has

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rigged auctions uh before quantitative

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easing. Uh Bank of England caught in

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rigging and now caught in collusion with

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Treasury and trying to hide 48 billion

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pound black hole of debt as part of the

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37 billion stolen uh by Osborne from

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various pensioners and insurers.

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are killing themselves. A lot of that is

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due because they're being forced to

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commit acts of criminal behavior. A

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stress Bank of England official stabbed

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himself to death. He's 52 years old,

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found in his car after stabbing himself

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to death.

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behavior that you find in the banking

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community when you force people to

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misbehave and commit crimes to support a

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system that's sucking the wealth out of

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the economy as a whole and depositing it

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into the accounts of the worst amongst

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us, the kleptocrats, the it's a cacosti,

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cacistocracy.

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Cacistocracy. Here's a interesting

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tidbit from Lloyd's

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bank. The pressure was such that in one

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case an advisor misssold insurance to

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himself, his wife and a colleague to

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make his quota, needing to missell a

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certain volume of fake insurance each

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month to keep his

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job. JP Morgan associate wife found dead

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in an apparent murder suicide inside

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their New Jersey home.

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wife, killed her, then to make more

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money, killed

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himself. It drives people to act

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insanely. When you give people unlimited

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amounts of money at 0% interest rate to

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make speculative bets and if they go

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bust, the government bails them out.

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people. Uh in this country, of course,

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the debt under Osborne has doubled. It's

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1.4 trillion pounds. to his 700 billion

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pounds when he took over. And to make

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the debt look smaller, they're decided

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to figure out ways to make the GDP look

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bigger. And one of the ways that they

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decided to do that is that sex and drugs

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Britain's

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GDP. This will add 10 billion pounds to

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the accounts. So, according to the

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Office of National Statistics, each of

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the UK's 60,000 prostitutes took 25

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clients a week at an average price of 67

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each. 38,000 heroin users at 7 added 754

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million pounds at 37 grams per

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heroin. This is the Office of National

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Statistics. This is your tax dollars at

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work, ladies and gentlemen, figuring out

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how to boost the GDP so that the debt

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looks smaller. I mean, I can imagine

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George Osborne at number 11 downing

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string saying, "Does my debt look bad in

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jeans? Uh, but it gets even more

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uh because this this is a scandal that

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was not adequately covered in my view.

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Osborne's aid crack

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shame. A top adviser to George Osborne

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has been caught in a videotape smoking

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crack. Tory economics policy forecaster

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professor Douglas Mcameus took the

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illegal drug during a late night binge

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in a squalled London flat. A source said

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regular. This is a guy who's writing the

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campaign and the policy to add crack

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cocaine to the

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GDP. Think about it. He's monetizing his

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addiction. What about the legal

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environment? Here's a judge in the UK,

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Pulle. She took refuge on two RBS

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bankers who have walked away from three

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million pound property fraud without

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jail time because the judge, Rebecca

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Maria Pulle, believes they've already

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suffered as they were embarrassed by the

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see where we're going here. There's

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there's a city of London where there's

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no legal standards. uh fraud is

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permitted. There's no rule of law. The

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government keeps interest rates near 0%

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so that that these four major insolvent

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banks, HSBC, Lloyds, RBS, Barkclays, can

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continue to roll over massive amounts of

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debt on their books that they claim is

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worth 100 cents on the dollar but is

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actually worth zero. And the only way

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that this will ever come to light is if

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there's some kind of u a rule of law

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imposed or b a global bond market crash.

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this is a global problem. Uh US attorney

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general Eric Holder mentioned as I'm

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sure you heard this quote some banks are

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too big to prosecute.

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committee they're too big to jail

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for banks for for banks will spread from

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fraud cases to terrorist financing and

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moneyaundering as we've seen with

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HSBC. So now you have banks that are not

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only too big to fail but too big to

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jail. So I will leave you with one ray

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of hope. There was somebody who did make

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The headline is, "That's the wrong kind

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deposit. Barklay's bank customer poos

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floor." The middle-aged man described as

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well to do walked calmly into a branch

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and started leaving non-monetary

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deposits on the

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floor from the bottom of his

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shorts in front of horrified

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customers. One eyewitness said the man

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looked calm but angry.

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uh couple of visuals here. I guess this

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is this hall is such that you will be

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able to grasp this. This is actually a

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succinct photo. I use my very advanced

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audiovisisual technology.

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But I think even in the back you can see

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we've got a line that goes up quite

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dramatically here and a line that stays

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relatively flat and uninteresting down

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here. This is the growth of the global

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derivatives market is unsecured

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bets concantenated by bankers out of

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thin air to roll over bad debts and pay

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themselves huge bonuses. Here's the GDP

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down here of the world going absolutely

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nowhere. And yet when you listen to the

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policy makers and George Osborne and

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others, they'll say that we need more of

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this to create some growth down here.

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And yet, and nowhere over these past

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years has it ever been

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true. The debt in the last seven years

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in the globe has gone from it's been

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increased by 60 trillion dollars. It's

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gone from 140 trillion to almost 200

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trillion dollars in debt. The total

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global GDP is 60

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trillion. And yet uh there hasn't been

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any growth. So this is uh clearly I

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think when you want to look at

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the cause and effect and dig down into

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what's going on here and why I'm excited

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to be supporting George Galloway in part

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of this campaign is that he's already

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made statements and said that he wants

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to go after uh city of London bring

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about some rule of law but I think

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that's at a very minimum something we

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should all be supporting of the

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consequences of this I will tell you

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quite Quite honestly, if you look at

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Iceland when they did bring in the rule

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of law, when they did reorganize the

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banking system, they went

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through they went through a two years of

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hell. Let's be let's be quite honest.

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But on the other side of that, they

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remained they kept their sovereignty.

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They kept their

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dignity. And um at this rate, the UK is

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at risk of losing

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both sovereignty and dignity. So with

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that, I will turn it back to the MC.

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Thank you very much and uh go to court.

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