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| Lang has revived Dr. Mabuse (played again by Rudolf Klein-Rogge), the master criminal and hypnotist from his 1922 hit Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler. |
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| He has been housed in an insane asylum since his capture where he has remained in a semi-catatonic state, silently scribbling notes day after day. |
These notes are collected and consumed by Dr. Baum, Mabuse’s psychiatrist. Obsessed with the notes, Baum (Oscar Beregi) uses them to initiate his own empire of crime by assembling a team of thieves and murderers to execute Mabuse’s vision. >> Slowly the point, if we can call it that, becomes horribly clear. Mabuse’s notes constitute a plan to usher in a “Reign of Crime” by subverting confidence in the government’s ability to protect, undermining the economy, and fostering a general epidemic of crime and anarchy. >> Dr. Mabuse’s “testament” only works in an already corrupt and unstable society and was clearly a metaphor for the rise of Nazism, which matured under those conditions in the Weimar. In one of his first acts Propaganda Minister Josef Goebbels banned the film, claiming that it undermined confidence in Germany’s leaders. Baum’s tirade about the state of their (PHOTO REPOSITIONED) degenerate society sounds suspiciously like a speech Hitler might have delivered, in effect putting Hitler’s words in the mouth of a madman. But what the movie’s bigger offense, which Goebbels no doubt recognized, was to expose the tactics of a regime that politically profited off of fear. The arsonist who burned down the Reichstag would prove to be a prime example of how Nazis exploited fear for their own power. Whether the arsonist was a Communist, a Nazi, or disgruntled sausage stuffer is irrelevant: Nazis used the fire to stoke fear in German voters of a Communist revolution and push the government to strip civil rights away from citizens, creating the basis for a police state. Lang would have been close to wrapping up production when the results of the Reichstag fire confirmed many fears that he addressed in Testament but it would be too late. The upbeat ending, that told its audience that good will always overcome the forces of evil, that Baum could not succeed because decent people like Lohmann and Kent will always be there to stop them, looked less likely. Nazis stormed into power sending Lang into exile with no Detective Lohmann to check them. >>https://moviesovermatter.wordpress.com/tag/dr-mabuse-the-gambler/
S. Vitali, J.B. Glattfelder, and S. Battiston: The network of global corporate control <8> Network Control Concentration <8.1> Control of Financial Institutions One meaning of control in the corporate finance literature is the frequency by which a shareholder is able to influence the firm’ strategic decision during the official voting [12]. Differently, in this work, by control we mean how much economic value of companies a shareholder is able to influence. Moreover, we did not limit our focus on the control of a shareholder of a single firm. Instead, we look at the control each shareholder has over its whole portfolio of directly and indirectly owned firms. As a result, the shareholders with a high level of control are those potentially able to impose their decision on many high-value firms. The higher a shareholder’s control is, the higher its power to influence the final decision. In this sense, our notion of control can be related to Weber’s definition of “power”, i.e. the probability of an individual to be able to impose their will despite the opposition of the others [13] >> https://www.facebook.com/karen.hudes.9@KarenHudes · It didn't take ZeroHedge long to disable this link: https://s3.amazonaws.com/khudes/Twitter10.7.14.pdf … in this comment: SWIFT's announcement is just one more sign that the "Network of Global Corporate Control" first reported here >> http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1107/1107.5728v2.pdf has lost its grip. There are going to be many other surprises as hidden truth finally sees the light of day. >> https://s3.amazonaws.com/khudes/Twitter10.7.14.pdf SWIFT Announces It "Regrets The Pressure" To Disconnect Russia | Zero Hedge .. With ever louder chatter that the west will force Russia to exit the global currency messaging and... zerohedge.com >> http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1107/1107.5728v2.pdf >> <8.2> Relation to the Rich Club Phenomenon The so-called rich club phenomenon [20, 21] refers to the fact that in some complex networks the nodes with the highest degree tend to be connected among each other. Being based solely on node degree, rich club indices are not suitable for ownership networks, in which indirect and weighted paths matter. Moreover, in order to benchmark the resulting value of rich club indices, it is usually necessary to reshuffle the links in the network. This would be a problem in our network because it would lead to economically unviable ownership networks. Notice, however, that the core of the TNC network could be seen as a generalization of the rich club phenomenon with control in the role of degree. Thus, future work should look into this issue more in depth. <8.3> Top Control-Holders Ranking This is the first time a ranking of economic actors by global control is presented. Notice that many actors belong to the financial sector (NACE codes starting with 65,66,67) and many of the names are well-known global players. The interest of this ranking is not that it exposes unsuspected powerful players. Instead, it shows that many of the top actors belong to the core. This means that they do not carry out their business in isolation but, on the contrary, they are tied together in an extremely entangled web of control. This finding is extremely important since there was no prior economic theory or empirical evidence regarding whether and how top players are connected. Finally, it should be noted that governments and natural persons are only featured further down in the list. >>
In the literature on corporate control there is a debate on whether financial institutions really exert the control associated with their ownership shares. On the one hand, they are not supposed to seek an active involvement in the companies’ strategies. However, some works argue that institutional investors, including banks and mutual funds, do exert control to some extent [14, 15, 16, 17]. In particular, the outcome of votes can be influenced by means of informal discussions, in which pro-management votes are used as a bargaining chip (e.g., in exchange of business related “favors” or in negotiating the extension of credit) x . On the contrary, [18] and [19] find that mutual funds, which typically hold large blocks of shares, vote against the management (i.e., in favor of corporate governance proposals) only 33% of the times (in the case of Fidelity Fund). However, they do so in more than 60%, on average, in other 11 cases analysed. These results are suggested to originate mainly from a conflict of interest, where the benefits of providing pension plan management to client corporations outweighs the possible benefits gained from increased shareholder value. However, while some mutual funds are reticent to exercise their power during voting mainly in the US, an activist stance is observed for some smaller funds and when operating outside the US [19]. In any case, in our study US mutual funds represent only a small fraction of all global financial institutions. In general, 49 mutual funds, identified by the NACE code 6714, are among the 737 top power-holders (see main text, Sec. Concentration of Control) >> Table S1: Top 50 control-holders. Shareholders are ranked by network control (according to the threshold model, TM). Column indicate country, NACE industrial sector code, actor’s position in the bow-tie sections, cumulative network control. Notice that NACE code starting with 65,66,67 belong to the financial sector. Rank Economic actor name Country NACE code Network Cumul. network position control (TM, %)
1 BARCLAYS PLC GB 6512 SCC 4.05
2 CAPITAL GROUP COMPANIES INC, THE US 6713 IN 6.66
3 FMR CORP US 6713 IN 8.94
4 AXA FR 6712 SCC 11.21
5 STATE STREET CORPORATION US 6713 SCC 13.02
6 JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. US 6512 SCC 14.55
7 LEGAL & GENERAL GROUP PLC GB 6603 SCC 16.02
8 VANGUARD GROUP, INC., THE US 7415 IN 17.25
9 UBS AG CH 6512 SCC 18.46
10 MERRILL LYNCH & CO., INC. US 6712 SCC 19.45
11 WELLINGTON MANAGEMENT CO. L.L.P. US 6713 IN 20.33
12 DEUTSCHE BANK AG DE 6512 SCC 21.17
13 FRANKLIN RESOURCES, INC. US 6512 SCC 21.99
14 CREDIT SUISSE GROUP CH 6512 SCC 22.81
15 WALTON ENTERPRISES LLC US 2923 T&T 23.56
16 BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON CORP. US 6512 IN 24.28
17 NATIXIS FR 6512 SCC 24.98
18 GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC., THE US 6712 SCC 25.64
19 T. ROWE PRICE GROUP, INC. US 6713 SCC 26.29
20 LEGG MASON, INC. US 6712 SCC 26.92
21 MORGAN STANLEY US 6712 SCC 27.56
22 MITSUBISHI UFJ FINANCIAL GROUP, INC. JP 6512 SCC 28.16
23 NORTHERN TRUST CORPORATION US 6512 SCC 28.72
24 SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE FR 6512 SCC 29.26
25 BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION US 6512 SCC 29.79
26 LLOYDS TSB GROUP PLC GB 6512 SCC 30.30
27 INVESCO PLC GB 6523 SCC 30.82
28 ALLIANZ SE DE 7415 SCC 31.32
29 TIAA US 6601 IN 32.24
30 OLD MUTUAL PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY GB 6601 SCC 32.69
31 AVIVA PLC GB 6601 SCC 33.14
32 SCHRODERS PLC GB 6712 SCC 33.57
33 DODGE & COX US 7415 IN 34.00
34 LEHMAN BROTHERS HOLDINGS, INC. US 6712 SCC 34.43
35 SUN LIFE FINANCIAL, INC. CA 6601 SCC 34.82
36 STANDARD LIFE PLC GB 6601 SCC 35.2
37 CNCE FR 6512 SCC 35.57
38 NOMURA HOLDINGS, INC. JP 6512 SCC 35.92
39 THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY US 6512 IN 36.28
40 MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL LIFE INSUR. US 6601 IN 36.63
41 ING GROEP N.V. NL 6603 SCC 36.96
42 BRANDES INVESTMENT PARTNERS, L.P. US 6713 IN 37.29
43 UNICREDITO ITALIANO SPA IT 6512 SCC 37.61
44 DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION OF JP JP 6511 IN 37.93
45 VERENIGING AEGON NL 6512 IN 38.25
46 BNP PARIBAS FR 6512 SCC 38.56
47 AFFILIATED MANAGERS GROUP, INC. US 6713 SCC 38.88
48 RESONA HOLDINGS, INC. JP 6512 SCC 39.18
49 CAPITAL GROUP INTERNATIONAL, INC. US 7414 IN 39.48
50 CHINA PETROCHEMICAL GROUP CO. CN 6511 T&T 39.78
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1. Blobfish
Blobfish
Well
that’s all for the Top 10 Worlds Ugliest Creatures, i hope you had a
bucket or sick bag with you before you started reading, i warned you
didn’t i? http://www.itsnature.org/what-on-earth/top-10-worlds-ugliest-creatures/
The Gambler$ $lob$ Blob$ Et Al Et Cetera
Sigmund Freud
labeled "Dr. of Psychiatry"
human beings, Vienna in that time,
SLOBS, Freud said about those that cannibalized our own Homo Sapiens, pretending
cultured in predatory, torturing and killing, criminally insane, own species, please can't be real reality!
extincting multitudes manufacturing vacuuousness
growing crop-herd BLOBS' FISH
and all game in gaming the ignorant
innocence be damned
Public Relations USA Bernays' PROPAGANDA
fear of the "Bewildered Herd"
EDWARD BERNAYS nephew of Sigmund Freud labeled
REMBRANDT named new slave owners New Amsterdam NewYorkNY, the pilgrims spread
diseases shore-to-shore killing family of Rembrandt, too
EBOLA?!
diseases shore-to-shore killing family of Rembrandt, too
EBOLA?!
FED-Fed managing herds of stocks to trade-exchange, controlled
BLUBBERING PILES OF PROTOPLASM and the market jubilees!
/rk~biloxImarx
/rk~biloxImarx
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Changing the Imagery is mandatory!
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