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Let’s hope President Trump will keep us out of it.
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Criminal conviction
In 1999, Japanese fraud investigators accused Armstrong of collecting money from Japanese investors, improperly commingling these funds with funds from other investors, and using the fresh money to cover losses he had incurred while trading.[13] United States prosecutors called it a three-billion-dollar Ponzi scheme.[14] Allegedly assisting Armstrong in his scheme was the Republic New York Corporation, which produced false account statements to reassure Armstrong’s investors. In 2001, the bank agreed to pay US$606 million as restitution for its part in the scandal.[14]
Armstrong was indicted in 1999 and ordered by Judge Richard Owen to turn over fifteen million dollars in gold bars and antiquities bought with the fund’s money; the list included bronze helmets and a bust of Julius Caesar.[15][16] Armstrong produced some of the items but claimed the others were not in his possession; this led to several contempt of court charges brought by the SEC and the CFTC, for which he served seven years in jail until he reached a plea bargain with federal prosecutors.[17][18][19] Under the terms of the agreement, Armstrong admitted to deceiving corporate investors and improperly commingling client funds—actions that according to prosecutors resulted in commodities losses of more than seven hundred million dollars—and was sentenced to five years in prison.[20][15]
He was released from federal custody on 2 September 2011 after serving a total of eleven years behind bars.[21][22]
The case against Armstrong was finally closed in 2017, with the distribution of about $80 million to claim holders by the receiver, according to court filings.[23] Armstrong appealed the refusal of the receiver to transport his remaining possessions from storage lockers in New York and Pennsylvania to him in Florida, but the appeal failed in 2019. Concerning his felony conviction, Armstrong is “unrepentant”, according to Bloomberg.[1]
Hidden rare coins cache
In 2014, a day laborer sold a box of 58 rare coins to a Philadelphia thrift shop for $6,000, which he said he had found while clearing out the basement of a house in New Jersey. Three years later, in 2017, when the thrift shop announced they were to auction the coins—actually valued at $2.5 million, Armstrong came forward to declare himself the rightful owner. He claimed that he had hidden the coins in his mother’s old house to take them “off the books” in anticipation of the public offering of his firm. The thrift shop sued Armstrong, asking the court to declare the thrift shop as rightful owners while Armstrong counter-sued, also seeking ownership. In 2019, the US government learned about the coins and claimed them as part of the treasure hoard Armstrong had refused to hand over in 1999, and for which he had served seven years in jail for contempt. In addition to rare coins, the treasure hoard, valued at $12.9 million, included 102 gold bars, 699 gold coins, and an ancient bust of Julius Caesar.[24][25]
Armstrong was deposed and, according to Receiver Alan M. Cohen, Armstrong admitted hiding the coins. However, Armstrong’s attorneys said in a court filing that Armstrong did not make this admission. The auction house now possesses the coins and the US government has filed suit to take possession.[24][25]
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I have been talking about Kaliningrad for months, with no reply. Here we are.
“In fact, his Socrates is projecting the EU break up and collapses by 2030.”
There is no Socrates. Just a senile scammer.
Fake Socrates predicted a US civil war would start in Jan 2025 with the US breaking upmintomfour new countries in 2026.
You don’t need a computer to predict the EU will lose a war with Russia.
Hell, they would lose a war against Moldava.
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Looks like the TxGator clown is back from his FR “ vacation”….question is, was he suspended from FR like last time? Even his “ second” has been noticeably absent for two weeks.
They missed a lot of Socrates alerts….good to see the clowns are back.
Looks like he got told to lose the Martin Armstrong picture posting.
Wonder how much it costs him in donations to buy his way back on FR after a suspension?
Any estimate regarding when they head into Poland?
Most EU countries don’t have a serious military. But France and Poland do. I can’t see how Russia could beat them while still being bogged down in Ukraine.
Anyway, any escalation would obviously be very reckless. Because the “Law of Unintended Consequences” would certainly apply.
As a side point, I wonder if all this war talk from the EU is just meant to distract the masses from the region’s many economic and social problems. I hope they can keep it to just talk.
1) Russia is weak and is losing the war in Ukraine, AND Russia is strong and will invade Western Europe because it is so strong.Many other such doublethink is ongoing. One recalls:2) The European Union is a peace-oriented political entity promoting democracy, AND the EU is de-legitimizing opposition parties in many European nations based on "Russia! Russia! Russia! ( Alternatively, fascism! Fascism! Fascism! This includes Britain, under Labour, which wants to rejoin the EU. )
3) The EU will stop buying Russian oil and energy products by the end of 2027, because buying supports the war, AND the EU is not supporting the war, by buying Russian energy and other products.
4) The EU and NATO ( other than the US ) are strong militarily, AND The EU won't ally formally with Ukraine unless the United States goes with them.
5) The EU as well as China, India and other nations all have used the previous lack of tariff controls under US Democrats to profit from the United States, AND the EU is our ally, not our global competitor.
6) These United States, which continues imports of Russia materials to this day. is not supporting Russia by buying Russian products, AND is supporting Russia by buying Russian products.
7) Attacking Russia with nuclear weapons is appropriate ( Speedy and Adorno as examples ) AND attacking Russia with nuclear weapons is folly.
“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself -- that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink.”
Since the Brussels-Davos folks are so obsessed with Ukraine, they'll have to send their troops to Ukraine. Russia isn't going to Poland and certainly not France. Didn't the faggot and hypocrite Macron already say France will send troops there? People like him can not be taken seriously. His popularly is at 16%, and it won't go up either.
The Janus positions are result of loud, non-donating neocon spammers and freeploaders.
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Nice summary! And you can usually tell on which side of each “AND” the article will be - all you’ve got to do is look at the name of the original poster.
Not too many neutral original posters around here.
Meanwhile, Christians are butchering each other in great numbers in Ukraine. Year after year, with no end in sight. Just like the folly of WW1.
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“ This will include the limits on freedom of speech, the press, assembly, and travel.”
Just like the good old days!
> Russia isn’t going to Poland and certainly not France. <
Right. If there is an escalation, it will almost certainly come from the EU side. And almost certainly from a false flag incident.
The only bright spot here is that Trump is in office. He will be a strong moderating force behind the scenes. If Kamala had won, I wouldn’t be typing this.
I’d be in my backyard installing a fallout shelter.
The "modern" world remains brutal and primitive.
“You don’t need a computer to predict the EU will lose a war with Russia.
Hell, they would lose a war against Moldava.”
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Russia can’t win the war Putin started in Ukraine. The NATO countries bordering Russia will be supported by those nations that don’t.
It’s wise to remember the UK and France are also nuclear powers.
“-— “Christians are butchering each other in great numbers in great numbers in Ukraine....” And Christians are being butchered by Muslims in the Middle East, Africa and more, and individual attacks and both Christians and Jews are occurring all across the world.
The “modern” world remains brutal and primitive.”
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So much for religious faith guiding moral action.
How many millions have died because “my god is better than yours”?
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