Bankers: "Cluster Bombs 'r Us"

Vatic Note:   This video makes many excellent points about Major international banks working together to promote and continue the crimes against humanity with these cluster bombs.   Its not just the manufacturers, its their financing arms and in many cases, the banks involved are also shareholdiers in those military industrial complex companies. Eisenhower tried to warn us about this very issue of the military industrial complex and the danger of their increasing power and influence.   We need to change it now, before its too  late.   Is this part of the international bankers "depopulation" agenda???  Remember who is running the US Government now, and who runs the international banking criminal cabal,  the Zionists.   Thus Israel is one of those who refuses to sign the agreement to end it.   They make wealth off of death and they are not about to give  it up. 

Cluster Bombs 'r Us

Brass Check TV
Provided to Vatic by Graham Jukes,  Great Britian

What do our banks do when they are not ripping us off, receiving taxpayer bailouts to cover their gambling losses and laundering drug money? They subsidize mayhem of course.

By the way, three countries refuse to even discuss a ban of cluster bombs: Russia, Israel and the good old USA.  (VN:  as well as India, and china.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHA-NJjT6io





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(VN:  So lets see how these international brokerage/banking houses are doing with this great business they have with the cluster bombs in financing them, notice how they managed to steal from the US and give to their own banks.  Too bad they can't "compete" legitimately, but then, what is new with Great Britian and Rothshild)

HSBC sees profits DOUBLE to $11 Billion

The UK's biggest bank HSBC has reported pre-tax profits of $11.1bn (£7bn) for the first six months of 2010 - more than double its profits for the same time last year
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-10834902

The bank said it was profitable in every region, except for North America where it saw losses of $80m.

In the UK, profits totalled $2.1bn - a rise of 26%.

The UK's other major banks Lloyds, Barclays and RBS are due to report their results later this week.

HSBC shareholders will receive a second dividend this year, totalling $1.4bn, in addition to the one announced earlier this year.

In a sign of the improving conditions in the banking sector, it said the amount of money set aside to cover bad loans had fallen to $7.5bn - the lowest level since the financial crisis began in 2008.

HSBC's Tier 1 ratio - which shows how much cash the bank is keeping in reserve and is an indication of its financial stability - was also up to 11.5%, well above its target range.

Investment banking delivered just over half the $11.1bn profits.

Business lending

Unlike Lloyds and RBS, HSBC survived the financial crisis without receiving direct government support.

But the Chancellor George Osborne yesterday added to calls for banks to lend more to businesses in order to sustain the economic recovery.

HSBC chief executive Michael Geoghegan said his bank had seen the appetite for credit grow steadily over the first half of the year, especially among business customers.

"This is now feeding through into lending growth, a trend we expect to continue," he said.

Globally, the bank said it increased lending by 4% compared with the second half of 2009, with Asia seeing a 15% growth in lending.

Banking analysts broadly welcomed the results, with the headline profit figure ahead of expectations.

But some warned that the recovery in the US business would still depend on the continued recovery in the US housing market.

"The headline numbers look good, with a doubling of profits, but that's because last year was just a terrible year for everyone," said Francis Lun, from Fulbright Securities in Hong Kong.

"The numbers are not even back to 2008 or even 2005 levels yet."
HSBC shares in London rose as much as 5% following the profits announcement.

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