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DID LEHMAN BROTHERS FALL OR WAS IT PUSHED?
Web of Debt ^ | Sep 7th 2009 | Ellen Brown

Posted on 09/09/2009 8:55:23 AM PDT by bethybabes69

A year after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers on September 15, 2008, questions still swirl around its collapse. Lawrence MacDonald, whose book A Colossal Failure of Common Sense came out in July 2009, maintains that the bank was not in substantially worse shape than other major Wall Street banks. He says Lehman was just “put to sleep. They put the pillow over the face of Lehman Brothers and they put her to sleep.” The question is, why?

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: goldman; lehman; nwo; soros
I put this in the news category, as I think the issues with the Federal Reserve and the actions of Ron Paul will make the article relative, even though it was technically news from a year ago.


1 posted on 09/09/2009 8:55:24 AM PDT by bethybabes69
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To: bethybabes69

PUSHED

That said, Lehmann is alive and well and hiring.


2 posted on 09/09/2009 8:59:11 AM PDT by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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To: Carley

Political season. October surprise to influence an election. The aftermath has gotten out of the ‘control’ of the ‘Progressives’. Barbarians inside the gate busy looting the treasury.
Did they underestimate the amount of debt in this country?


3 posted on 09/09/2009 9:04:07 AM PDT by griswold3 (You think health care is expensive now? Just wait till it's FREE!)
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To: bethybabes69

Pushed, putting wall street in a state of fear at that time made it a lot easier to bring them together for the cure. Someone had to be the example, Lehman Bros. was chosen as the sacrificial goat.


4 posted on 09/09/2009 9:05:00 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: bethybabes69

I recall that they were banned from trading oil futures based on a deteriorating credit rating. Their end came soon after that.


5 posted on 09/09/2009 9:05:21 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten per cent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: griswold3

The so called October surprise began in August for the messiah.

We can’t let up. Keep calling your congress critters and let them know we are not to be ignored.


6 posted on 09/09/2009 9:09:45 AM PDT by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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