HOLY SHIT: Barclays Got Punked
How to crash the International Investment Banking Awards Show.
Stellar work here. Don't skip the final minute. The audience clapping for Barclays winning the award is pure genius.
Banker Awards Show Hijacked By The Intruders - Oct. 8, 2012
This meets every definition of ballsy. They manage to get through security, maintain composure, walk up to the stage, deliver the statement in a professional manner without sounding scared, and they kept themselves in a 'non-menacing power stand' that forced the staff and MC to be cautious in approaching them.
The Intruders, as stated on their website, "crash the parties of the wealthy elite that caused the financial crisis." Their latest intrusion occurred at the Investment Banking Awards in Mayfair, an event in which awards are given to banks for their "innovation", aka, creation of new products to endlessly rip off their clients. The Intruders crashed the stage to present an award to Barclays for their "Innovation in Interest Rate Manipulation."
Here's how they describe it:
The Investment Banking Awards are the Oscars of the financial world. Dished out for so-called 'innovation', some of the world's richest bankers gather together to congratulate each other on devising ever more creative ways to make obscene sums of money.
One of 2012's most profitable scams was the bankers' 'innovative' approach to a key interest rate called LIBOR. Virtually every bank at the event was involved in illegally colluding to rig LIBOR, ensuring that they would always be the winners in the multi-million pound bets they were making on the markets.
When we noticed that this money-spinner had been overlooked in the ceremony, we decided to show up and make sure the LIBOR-riggers got the recognition they deserve.
Feb 1, 2013 at 4:09 PM
Reader Comments (20)
These people are showing what it takes to send the message straight to the top of the whole pile of steaming banker shit: "You don't own me, you don't own me, and every chance I get, I'm going to let you and the world know how full of shit you are!! Fuckers!!!!!!!"
http://www.facebook.com/WeAreTheIntruders
http://www.theintruders.org/
Truth is truth,
To the end of reckoning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gIcqb9hHQ3E#!
I don't think I've ever heard Gigot on a rant.
I think that's what DR was about. He was simply pointing out from his pulpit that we have lost our way, yet many don't realize it because, IMHO, it has not smacked us in the face...yet. When it does, it will be a punch much harder than that of Sullivan, Johnson, Louis, Dempsey, Ali, Foreman, Frazier, and a young Tyson, combined. That's gonna hurt...lots...Hope we can get off the mat.
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Nice catch. I had to rewatch it and yes it looked like someone sent her up to the stage to snag the champagne. Fucking brilliant.
Very well stated, Josie.
http://www.onlinesentinel.com/news/colby-trustees-leader-targetedduring-protest_2012-10-20.html
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Diamond, a 1973 Colby graduate, was at the center of an interest rate-fixing scandal this summer for his role as chief executive officer of the British bank Barclays. Diamond has since resigned his post, but he remains chairman of the board at Colby.
Some people want that to change, however.
For more than an hour Saturday morning, 10 student protesters and about 15 members of Occupy Augusta stood in light rain, clutching handwritten signs, hoping to confront Diamond after a scheduled board meeting.
The encounter never materialized, but two student organizers were invited inside to make their case to two trustees, including Vice Chairman Richard Uchida. After the private meeting, the students emerged and addressed a jubilant crowd.
Sophomore Shelby O'Neill and senior Gordon Fischer said the trustees were receptive to the group's concerns and encouraged them to host a schoolwide forum to discuss Diamond's role at the private, liberal arts college of 1,800 students.