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Warpy

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8. While I agree that it had started offshore, especially in the UK, Germany, Hong Kong, and
Mon Sep 21, 2020, 10:21 PM
Sep 2020

especially Switzerland, with minor activity in the Caribbean it hadn't infected the big banks here as yet. Now they're all dependent on all that easy cash derived from human misery.

I remember hearing about major shananigans with the Vatican and Barclay's and one other bank in the 80s, mostly in the Boston press.

Banking deregulation was why I had no use for Clinton and have little for Biden, but both have been extremely fortunate in their enemies, who are far worse.

So yes, this garbage is longstanding, but the hoariest part is outside the US. We caught up quickly.

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