When a few CODEPINK women and I heard the CEO of Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein, would be speaking at an Institutional Investors Conference in DC today, we ran over to say hello.
A few minutes into his talk, my colleague Desiree Fairooz and I calmly walked on the stage with our banner saying "We want our $$$ back." Goldman Sachs, after all, has been slurping from the public trough....
Full article at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/medea-benjamin/codepink-behind-blankfein_b_184227.html
My comment:
The US is under increasing pressure from its own people because big business is being bailed out with their money (or printed money with the taxpayers taking the debts.)
With civil disquiet increasing, though being hidden by the mainstream US media and quantitative easing meaning printing money is out of control, one hopes it is only a matter of time before the paper gold manipulators naked short selling gold get overwhelmed by physical demand for gold by investors.
