MinM wrote:Ellen Brown: Economic 9-11: Did Lehman Brothers Fall or Was It Pushed?
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?...
If Lehman was indeed sacrificed, who pushed it and to what end? Some critics point to
Henry Paulson and his cronies at Goldman Sachs, Lehman's arch rival...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ellen-bro ... 78202.html
Excellent question, questionable article.
She says people logically point to Paulson and Goldman Sachs, but then stops right there and says nothing more about it. She doesn't mention GS
a) were all over the crime scene as players and former GS "regulators," including Paulson;
b) were at the same time playing the oil market into a bubble;
c) have a long track record of inside manipulation and crash generation;
d) gained more than any other player in the crash so far, as usual;
e) were caught doing dirt 1,000 other ways, all without consequence (as with the recent software "theft"); and
f) are thought of as the prime suspects by most other players.
No, instead she skips off GS altogether, and turns instead to the old game of finding quotes about the need for a new world order, attempting to parlay these into a clumsy, illogical, incomplete argument that it must be the work of David Rockefeller and unspecified "global" bankers. Since it always is! (Isn't GS & co. global enough?!)
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