As Goldman Sachs prepared to announce its fourth quarter earnings and employee compensation levels yesterday, the bank had bomb-sniffing dogs and police barricades on hand at its New York City headquarters, the New York Post reports.
The decision to boost security as its offices was apparently driven by growing fervor over the bank's huge profits and bonuses. Yesterday, the bank announced that it earned $13.4 billion for the year, and set aside $16 billion for employee compensation. Goldman was widely expected to set aside approximately $20 billion for employee pay, but CFO David Viniar suggested yesterday in a call with reporters that the bank wasn't blind to the "pain and suffering in the world" and "wasn't deaf to the calls for restraint."
Viniar's remarks indicate an abrupt change in tone among Goldman Sachs execs. In November, CEO Lloyd Blankfein -- who had previously bragged that the bank was doing "God's work" -- said the following at an industry conference:
I often hear references to higher compensation at Goldman. What people fail to mention is that net income generated per head is a multiple of our peer average. The people of Goldman Sachs are among the most productive in the world."
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America was born in blood. America suckled on blood. America gorged on blood and grew into a giant, and America will drown in blood. This is the spectre that is haunting America,the spectre of an Uncivil War, a second civil war that will shatter America into several new ethnically-based nations. Rather, it is the result of an objective examination of the historic,demographic,political, economic, and military developments that are relentlessly propelling America towards a second civil war. Simply and directly put, America will explode in tribal warfare in our lifetime and shatter into several new ethnically-based nations. And as America breaksup the very concept of multiethnic democracy will likewise be forever shattered. The bureaucratic elites have planned to destroy our economy for 70 years. When the shtf we will have a multi factional uncivil war. When you have a nation filled with weapons, racial resentment,angry patriots,gang members and banks in need of heavy protection we as a nation are heading into chaos. The elites have sucessfully have done divide and conquer by making us fighting against each other over stupid things(abortion,gay marriage,healthcare reform,illegal immigration, etc).When the shtf we will really fight in bloody uncivil wars because our nation is not ready for a collapse from 1st world to third world and we are divided. a divided house cannot stand. even preppers are divided.
ReplyDeleteNot much I can add to that. Well said Mark, though sometimes being right really sucks.
ReplyDeleteLook at your young men fighting
ReplyDeleteLook at your women crying
Look at your young men dying
The way they've always done before
Look at the hate we're breeding
Look at the fear we're feeding
Look at the lives we're leading
The way we've always done before
My hands are tied
The billions shift from side to side
And the wars go on with brainwashed pride
For the love of God and our human rights
And all these things are swept aside
By bloody hands time can't deny
And are washed away by your genocide
And history hides the lies of our civil wars
D'you wear a black armband
When they shot the man
Who said "Peace could last forever"
And in my first memories
They shot Kennedy
I went numb when I learned to see
So I never fell for Vietnam
We got the wall of D.C. to remind us all
That you can't trust freedom
When it's not in your hands
When everybody's fightin'
For their promised land
And
I don't need your civil war
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
Your power hungry sellin' soldiers
In a human grocery store
Ain't that fresh
I don't need your civil war
Look at the shoes your filling
Look at the blood we're spilling
Look at the world we're killing
The way we've always done before
Look in the doubt we've wallowed
Look at the leaders we've followed
Look at the lies we've swallowed
And I don't want to hear no more
My hands are tied
For all I've seen has changed my mind
But still the wars go on as the years go by
With no love of God or human rights
'Cause all these dreams are swept aside
By bloody hands of the hypnotized
Who carry the cross of homicide
And history bears the scars of our civil wars
"We practice selective annihilation of mayors
And government officials
For example to create a vacuum
Then we fill that vacuum
As popular war advances
Peace is closer" **
I don't need your civil war
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
Your power hungry sellin' soldiers
In a human grocery store
Ain't that fresh
And I don't need your civil war
I don't need your civil war
I don't need your civil war
Your power hungry sellin' soldiers
In a human grocery store
Ain't that fresh
I don't need your civil war
I don't need one more war
I don't need one more war
Whaz so civil 'bout war anyway
The WASP has carried this country as far as it can.
ReplyDeleteThe ethnic minorities in this country are so busy initiating their own agendas and spreading this agenda back home to mommy and junior that they too have forgotten to take care of the caregiver.
I have said more than once on this blog - it is impossible to have one country with 10 ethnicities -- all vying for the common resources
it simply won't work.
Mark doesn't come up with a victor in our little bloodbath - but I will.
All you have to do is look around you and ask - who built it; who has the knowledge base ( and I'm not talking about political)
There is your answer 'cause the same people that built it and mainatained it are the people that are now prepared to carry on - I disagree with the elitest comments - when push comes to shove
they are just a body along with the rest of the trash - it'[ll be taken to the landfill
They are not productive they have raped the middle clasas and are now making billions due to getting money at zero rates - a 6 year old child could do that with the current fed policy and they should be in prison for crashing the economy with their criminal fraud.
ReplyDelete11:06 I think that was Axle Rose that sang that song. Slash played the guitar. FYI.
ReplyDeleteI suppose they will need more protection than that in the future.
ReplyDeleteI read that the GS banksters were getting gun permits for their own protection. Criminals always hire guns or carry them, GS is doing both.
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