"I regret to tell you that the recovery is liable to run out of steam and may even be followed by a 'double dip,' although I am not sure whether it will occur in 2010 or 2011," Soros said./CIT also announced an agreement with Goldman Sachs Group that would reduce a $3 billion credit line to $2.125 billion but, critically, keep the line open during a bankruptcy./Regulators Friday seized nine U.S. banks -- a record number of failures in a single day during the 2008-2009 banking crisis.Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. had been quietly soliciting bids for FBOP's subisidiary banks for several weeks. After state and federal regulators acted on Friday, the FDIC sold the nine banks' $15.4 billion in deposits and $18.2 billion of their assets to U.S. Bank N.A. Although the FDIC did not announce what U.S. Bank N.A. actually paid for the acquisitions, the agency agreed to share in losses on $14.4 billion/non-interest revenue growth at U.S. Bancorp was organic, particularly from strong mortgage loan volume and commercial products, the bank's recent acquisitions are starting to add up. The company is clearly positioning itself for growth as opposed to Citigroup (C Quote), which is divesting many assets, even profitable ones such as energy trading unit Phibro, as it works to claw its way out of the precarious position it's found itself in as a result of the financial crisis.The company has received $45 billion in government bailout funds since the start of the financial crisis, and completed a $58 billion preferred-to-common stock deal this summer, which made the U.S. government its largest investor. Last Thursday Citi posted a third-quarter per share loss of 27 cents, despite making a small profit of $101 million//rebutted the US claim that the Assembly had no role in questioning the use of such drones in armed conflicts. Alston said he was concerned by the killings which might be increasingly perceived as in-discriminatory. Philip Alston is a law professor at New York University. He is also the UN Human Rights Council's investigator./
In a district of Baghlan province, Baghlan-e-Markazi, residents witnessed a battle last month in which they insisted that two foreign helicopters had delivered the Taleban fighters who then attacked their district centre.
“I saw the helicopters with my own eyes,” said Sayed Rafiq from Baghlan-e-Markazi.
“They landed near the foothills and offloaded dozens of Taleban with turbans, and wrapped in patus (a blanket-type shawl).”/experts expect that for every 1 million pregnant women who get the swine flu shot, 397 will have a spontaneous abortion within a day."We're not saying we don't need to look at vaccine safety, but let's do it judiciously."/
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owse_thread/thread/7f42eddbfbc9f1f7//103009//should be against the law for members of Congress to lie and give misleading information when explaining their reasons for opposing or supporting any bill on the table. He is using the same garbage fed to the republicans and blue dogs by their owners, the private insurance industry barons. They are being fiscal concervatives, but not in the sens you think! They are working hard to preserve the bloated bottom line of the private insurance industry, NOT to preserve a healthy U.S. budget.
If indeed they were 'fiscal conservatives' then they would have opposed the invasion of Iraq and every single bloated defense bill after that. These same "fiscal conservatives" happily voted YES on this current defense bill of $638 Billion dollars, and I never heard anyone ask "who is going to pay for this" or have them declare "we can't expect the tax payers to foot this bill". If indeed they were 'fiscal conservatives' then they would be jumping up and down for a single payer health care system that would significanly reduce the overall cost of health care.
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/29/jon-stewart-takes-on-medi_n_338113.html#commentsshould be against the law for members of Congress to lie and give misleading information when explaining their reasons for opposing or supporting any bill on the table. He is using the same garbage fed to the republicans and blue dogs by their owners, the private insurance industry barons. They are being fiscal concervatives, but not in the sens you think! They are working hard to preserve the bloated bottom line of the private insurance industry, NOT to preserve a healthy U.S. budget.
If indeed they were 'fiscal conservatives' then they would have opposed the invasion of Iraq and every single bloated defense bill after that. These same "fiscal conservatives" happily voted YES on this current defense bill of $638 Billion dollars, and I never heard anyone ask "who is going to pay for this" or have them declare "we can't expect the tax payers to foot this bill". If indeed they were 'fiscal conservatives' then they would be jumping up and down for a single payer health care system that would significanly reduce the overall cost of health care.
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/29/jon-stewart-takes-on-medi_n_338113.html#comments/UN General Assembly, Moamar Al-Gaddafi said that 65 wars
and battles have taken place since the formation of the United Nations but UN
has not played any role to thwart them—rather its role has been very negative/Child abuse is just one of many frightening realities that it
would be more comfortable to ignore. There is overwhelming proof of its
pervasiveness, but many people work very hard at denying the seriousness of the
problem. In this context, it is not surprising that few people would want to
believe young children's bizarre stories of cannibalism and ritual murder.
In looking at the documented cases of child exploitation that surround us,
in observing the images of violence and dehumanized sexuality that are part
of our everyday cultural landscape, it is not hard to believe that,
conspiracy or no conspiracy, the Satanists' goal could easily be achieved
without
much effort on their part." Seal Books, McClelland-Bantam Inc., Toronto.
1988 ISBN: 0-7704-2250-0 _http://kevinmarron.com/book.html_/FBI rescues 52 kids from prostitution (AFP) WASHINGTON — US authorities
rescued 52 children, including one as young as 10, from prostitution rings
and arrested nearly 700 people during a nationwide sting operation over the
weekend, the FBI said Monday./not really that simple. The wealthy ones have generally acquired that
wealth by deception and scams. One little voice crying out has, and still can
make a diffence. Truth usually does prevail in the end against the Goliath,
even if it takes 1000 years. People are the problem. They are too easily
influenced by lies bought and paid for by the rich ones/The "golden ratio" may dominate in
> nature and art, however; "golden rule, #1" applies in the
> running of human affairs. He who has the gold makes the
> rules. So follow where the money comes from and you'll
> find who is in charge of everything. Politics is just
> that, political. Power comes from wealth. It also comes
> from the barrel of a gun, but somebody has to buy that gun.
> And in a democracy, somebody has to buy those votes.
> It's really that simple. /
* 29 Oct 2009 The Taliban and al-Qaeda have said they did not explode the
bombs that caused 105 deaths in Peshawar on Wednesday. Pakistani paper The
News has quoted an al-Qaeda source as saying *the group was not involved in
the killing of innocent women and children*. The sources instead placed the
blame on "elements who want to defame jihad." The banned Taliban group,
Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, in an e-mail sent to the media, also denied its
involvement in the blast. [*Right, it was likely the terrorist group
Blackwater/Xe, which *is* involved in the killing of innocent women and
children.* See: *Blackwater running covert recruitment drive in Pak through
its website
controversial US private security company, Blackwater, is reportedly running
a covert recruitment drive through its website in Pakistan. See:* Blackwater
Recruiting Agents Fluent In Urdu and Punjabi For
Pakistan/American scientist charged with spying for
Israel had asked for $2 million for his secrets, federal prosecutors has
revealed. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested Stewart D. Nozette
on Oct. 19 as he attempted to deliver state secrets to an undercover FBI
agent, disguised as an Israeli intelligence operativ/20 Oct 2009 Col. Christopher Ayres, the former 91st Missile Wing commander
at Minot Air Force Base
N.D., who was fired on Oct. 14, will accept an assignment to Air Force Space
Command headquarters at Peterson Air Force Base, Col., and not retire. The
24-year missile officer was fired after 20th Air Force Commander Maj. Gen.
Roger Burg "lost confidence in his ability to command." Burg also fired two
maintenance commanders formerly under Ayres’ command -- Col. Lyman Faith,
91st Maintenance Group commander, and Lt. Col. Andrew Healy, 91st Missile
Maintenance Squadron commander. *The firings followed the Oct. 9 release of
an investigative report that blamed a "large insect" for an Aug. 31 crash
involving a truck carrying rocket engine parts for intercontinental
ballistic missiles*./Obama signed legislation authorizing the largest ever military budget, a
gargantuan $680 billion for the Pentagon, including $130 billion for the
wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. On Thursday, he signed a spending bill
funneling another $44 billion into the Department of Homeland Security/
* 29 Oct 2009 A furious Ohio mother says her 7-year-old son, who has had
problems with medications, was vaccinated for swine flu at school against
her wishes. Kim Lutheran works as a nurse and says her son, Matthew, has had
bad reactions to medicine. So, she says she signed for "no consent" on a
vaccination form and then circled her intentions with a black marker to make
things clear/Brother of Afghan President Is on C.I.A. Payroll, Officials
Say*
2009 Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a
suspected player in the country's booming illegal opium trade, gets regular
payments from the Central Intelligence Agency/Hunting Clandestine Burials
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Loved the reminder of K.’s opening remark on ‘the Self./Another victim of false dichotomy. Past the scientific-religious ideas of flesh-spirit, self-other, depression-despair, is the primate struggling with consciousness. The error is in the notion of categories, in the act of differentiation itself. The act may be inescapable, but should not be confused with the thing itself. Despair is as provisional a concept as depression. They are useful analytical tools, but as intangible as any other mental construct.
Here is the conundrum: A person who is clinically depressed cannot distinguish between his or her own despair and depression, nor can one who is in despair isolate despair from depression. And what philosopher who is not a diagnostician, what diagnostician who is not a philosopher, can accurately map the interdependencies, the cause and effect relationships?
Such ideas are culturally driven, are in some world views artifical, even false, and taken seriously, in another conundrum, only by those in depression or despair, or by those who love them, analyze them, minister to them, prescribe medication for them; which, admittedly, is just about everyone.What we must not allow, in any event, is the notion that Kierkegaard is any more or less valuable than Zoloft in the primate’s exploration of consciousness./One spreadsheet was year-by-year global temperature changes from 1880 to 2009, adjusted through most of this year from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's ground measurements. The other was year-to-year temperature changes from 1979-2009 gathered by scientists at the University of Alabama in Huntsville from atmospheric measurements by satellite.None of the experts detected a downward, or cooling, trend in the numbers. All saw a distinct upward trend./Bennie Hinn Bernanke is collapsing the currency and the United States.(www.usdebtclock.org) $140,000,000,000,000.00 Trillion Dollars divided by 153,000,000 million working american citizens gives us all a bill of $911,000.00 Thousand dollars................./Not too surprising to me that humans are the only animals that commit suicide. We are also the only animals who are aware we will one day die, and who grapple with the concept of happiness and struggle so mightily to attain it, often failing, not for lack of trying but for lack of understanding of how to best go about it. And as for the reason humans are so often unspeakably cruel to one another,/Sister Marie Albert Alderman, 84 and blind in one eye from a stroke. She sees a kidney specialist, who, she says, “is trying to keep me off the machine by staying on top of things.” By that she means dialysis, which she would not refuse. “If they want to try it, fine,” she said. “But I don’t want it to go on and on and on.”/Sister Mary Jane Mitchell, 65, chose radical surgery and radiation for a grave form of brain cancer. She now lives on the Alzheimer’s unit, unable to speak and squeezing shut her lips when aides try to feed her./Gravely ill with heart disease, tethered to an oxygen tank, her feet swollen and her appetite gone, Sister Dorothy Quinn, 87, readied herself to die in the nursing wing of the Sisters of St. Joseph convent where she has been a member since she was a teenager./Sister Bernadine Frieda, 91, spry and sharp, spends her days visiting the infirm with Sister Marie Kellner, 77, both of them onetime science teachers. Sister Marie, who left the classroom because of multiple sclerosis, reminds an astounded sister with Alzheimer’s that she was once a high school principal (“I was?!”) and sings “Peace Is Like a River” to the dying./Supreme Court's unanimous decision overturned lower courts' rulings and is one of the first decisions by a state appellate court on whether a public records law applies to so-called "metadata" - data about data./S.C. - A deputy assistant attorney general who said he was on his lunch break when an officer found him with a stripper and sex toys in his sport utility vehicle has been fired, his boss said Wednesday.
Roland Corning, 66, a former state legislator, was in a secluded part of a downtown cemetery when an officer spotted him Monday, according to a police report obtained by The Associated Press under the Freedom of Information Act.
As the officer approached, Corning sped off, then pulled over a few blocks away. He and the 18-year-old woman with him, an employee of the Platinum Plus Gentleman's Club, gave Wines a badge showing he worked for the state Attorney General's Office. Wines, whose wife also works there, called her to make sure Corning was telling the truth.searched the SUV, where he found a Viagra pill and several sex toys, items Corning said he always kept with him, "just in case,"/ Ky. (AP) - An audit
finds a government group in Kentucky spent millions on booze, sports tickets, strippers and other questionable expenses over three years. state auditor Crit Luallen outlines a "self-serving" culture where board members, management and top-level staff spent association funds on lavish dinners, parties, and even personal escorts./Mr. Ould-Abdallah said.“Committing suicide goes against all religious teachings,” he added, citing a verse from the Koran: “Do not kill yourselves, for truly Allah has been to you most merciful. If any do that in rancour and injustice, soon shall we cast him into the fire.” //one more thing, which has to do with their genesis, specifically as to the type of broken liquor bottles that were used to carve them out of the bung hole of the New World Order, that being gin and dark rum respectively!!>//“Once the dollar stops falling, you have a sudden reversal of the dollar, you have to close your shorts, you have to dump assets, and you could have a market crash all over the world,” he says./ Israeli government officials are strongly disputing a new Amnesty International (Amnesty) report which has accused Israel of denying sufficient water resources to the Palestinian territories, according to news outlets in Israel. // House of Zion to steal more wealth - SOON! They took all your TARP tax money your grandkids will be paying for the next few decades and threw a party - scoring triple digit gains almost across the board from the bottom. Now they will cash out, take their profits and RUN IT BACK DOWN INTO THE GROUND - MERRILY NAKED SHORTING AWAY with lapdog corrupt SEC giving a wink and a smile.they will have helicopters, boats, island retreats, and they never coulda done it without YOU working so hard to pay taxes.//102709/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4QLFVrZ-fw&feature=youtube_gdata u2/the problem of banks being too big to fail "is even bigger than before and we've done nothing to resolve it," Roubini/chimpanzees evolved from creationists. That chimps are more culturally advanced than creationists is overwhelming evidence evolution is non-directed. They use rocks to crack open nut shells and twigs to dig termites and grubworms out of rotting logs. Creationists would never develop that much class and sophistication on purpose.//Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign that Changed America, author Craig Shirley reveals for the first time that it was Democratic operative Paul Corbin who stole a briefing book President Jimmy Carter was using to prepare for a debate with Ronald Reagan. The material was turned over to the Reagan campaign.
President Carter is still said to be deeply upset about the incident and is quoted saying, "I don't think there's any doubt that it made some difference."/same Old Testament prophets that said "i srael will never disappear". In fact, Old Testament i srael was conquered and subjugated by the Babylonians, Assyrians, and Romans. The present incarnation of i srael is the stepchild of rich European zionists who had contempt for the First and Second Commandments and for we goyim in general. I can remember hearing Pat Robertson say that Gulf War One was the "start of Armageddon". Both he and Hagee have grown rich from their i sraeli patrons for they say the "right things". Their preaching is errant and ill-informed. They both cheered for the invasion of Iraq. The Iraqi Chaldean Christian community (which numbered 600k, and whom Saddam protected) has now been halved. Most of those who escaped slaughter are living in refugee camps in Syria. The widows of the Iraqi casualties slaughtered by the Shia, Sunni, and American assaults have had to prostitute themselves to support their fatherless kids. This is the fruit of the present day i srael. Population demographics will insure its disappearance too. I'll give i srael 20 years./ Rev. Thomas L. Are. Are is a Presbyterian pastor who used to tell his Atlanta, Georgia, congregation: "I am a Zionist." Like most Americans, Rev. Are had been seduced by Israeli propaganda and helped to spread the propaganda among his congregation. /Nazi propagandist, Joseph Goebbels, said, it is easy to deceive a people. You just tell them they have been attacked and wave the flag.America will never recover from the shame and dishonor heaped upon her by the neoconned Bush Regime.Bush Regime to its puppet in Georgia to ethnically cleanse South Ossetia of Russians in order to defuse the separatist movement. The American media, aka, the Ministry of Lies and Deceit, again accommodated the criminal Bush Regime and proclaimed "Russian invasion" to cover up the ethnic cleansing of Russians in South Ossetia by the Georgian military assault.Unless enough Americans can overcome their brainwashed state and the rigged Diebold voting machines, turn out the imbecilic Republicans and hold the neoconservatives accountable for their crimes against humanity, a crazed neocon US government will provoke nuclear war with Russia.
The neoconservatives represent the greatest danger ever faced by the United States and the world. Humanity has no greater enemy.
by Paul Craig Roberts http://antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=13309 Obama needs a reality check and an escape from Washington hubris. If the United States cannot finance its monster deficits except by printing money, it will mean the end of the dollar as reserve currency and the end of American power.
Mr. President, as you said in your first press conference on Feb. 9, the party really is over. Shades of "weapons of mass destruction" and "al-Qaeda connections"! The Bush regime and the complicit U.S. media persisted in accusing Saddam Hussein of possessing weapons of mass destruction – weapons that the prime minister of Britain, Tony Blair, otherwise known as Bush's poodle, said could be employed in "45 minutes." National Security Adviser Condi Rice and VP Cheney warned of "mushroom clouds" going up over American cities./the Bishop bill would create a registry that would track all of the exposed troops, and that measure did not make it into the final legislation. Meanwhile, there is a massive class action lawsuit against KBR, for which soldiers are blaming for their illnesses, and other pending legislation, like the one proposed by Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., most recently. He wants automatic priority health care and benefits for veterans suffering from toxic exposures on the battlefield. We’ll see how that goes over at the DoD.//conspiracy theorists are people who can not except that all other people are just bumbling through their lifes just as they are./
"Did you ever feel the need that ants would show you obedience?"
Yes. Yes I have. Our yard is full of fire ants and they swarm anyone who bothers their nests attacking with a sting that feels like tiny cigarettes being put out on you...Even now I wish that these ants would leave when I scream in pain for them to "GET OUT OF MY YARD"... :)
Seriously though, I would like to suggest a book to you that will answer your questions much better than what I am able to do. It is
Desiring God. http://www.desiringgod.org/dg/id1.htm
May God fill you with joy in inexplicable! :) Namely Himself,
mikeWhy does an almighty entity need this constant assurance of obedience by his followers?"
As alluded to above, He doesnt need any assurance from us(if He did then He couldnt be God)./http://friendlyatheist.com/2009/10/16/cherrypicking-illustrated/CHICAGO (AFP) – Thousands of protesters chanted "the banks got bailed out we got sold out" as they marched through the streets of Chicago on their way to a meeting of US bankerssix top banks have spent 35 million dollars fighting financial reforms after accepting 17.8 trillion dollars in taxpayer bailouts and backstops.//102509/MEXICO—Scholars of the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar warned Monday that, according to ancient Mayan calculations, a devastating film by German director Roland Emmerich is set to occur on Nov. 13, 2009. "On this date, near the end of the 13th baktun cycle, when the sun will converge with the centerline of the Milky Way//faux snooze and their newest brain washer ready for all sheep/Arkansas (ChattahBox) - A man has been fired after he chased a knife wielding shoplifter who had stuffed some golf balls down his pants./Nebraska (ChattahyBox) - A man who was wanted in the Czech Republic has been captured after it was found that he had gotten a job in a Nebraska prison as a guard./Irving Picard labeled the Florida philanthropist as the biggest beneficiary of Madoff's multibillion-dollar fraud and demanded he return more than $7 billion in bogus profits.Picower was the former New York lawyer and accountant alleged to have extracted billions of dollars from the Bernard Madoff investment scheme.
In a statement, the Palm Beach Police Department said Picower was found at the bottom of his Palm Beach home's pool Sunday afternoon/The Windows 7 Whopper consist of seven stacked beef patties that measure over 5 inches in height, and the whole thing costs an appropriate ¥777 (or $8.55). //Rivera blamed Dobbs for his anti-immigrant rhetoric, as the reason for the negative views held by many Americans towards young Latinos, claiming that he received assurances from his boss that Dobbs and his bigotry would not be coming to Fox News.Well apparently, Rivera is not aware of his own network’s propensity for racial animus and anti-immigration bigotry, because many believe Fox News is exactly where Lou Dobbs belongs./Tenn. (ChattahBox) - James Tait, the man who filmed his friend being mounted by a horse in what was a fatal sexual act, is in the news yet again. This time, he has been the one having sex with stud horses.//geraldo nose..../ Corpies wanted Obama elected BECAUSE the Repo policies were so damaging for America. /
Bottom line: We’re not going back to the good old days without fixing our schools as well as our banks. //
The whole thing was nothing more than a satirical post on a humor blog. But Rush Limbaugh, who quoted from the supposed thesis on his radio show, sure wasn't laughing. Here's how it went down.An unknown blogger picked up on a made-up post meant as a joke, which claimed that Joe Klein had gotten his hands on 10 pages of student Obama's college thesis. Rush Limbaugh jumped on it, which immediately sparked Web searches on "obama thesis."Supposedly titled "Aristocracy Revisited," the excerpt revealed the president had "doubts" about the "so-called founders." Juicy. Except not true. Limbaugh discovered halfway through his show that he'd been had, but defended himself by saying basically the thesis felt true. Listen in to Rush's mea sorta culpa./Even with their own television network, their own newspapers and their own radio dominance , Americans just dont like them or trust them as far as they can spit.Keep heading off that cliff, Republicans. Its so satisfying to watch them squander despite owning all of tv media, radio and newsprint./ email was sent by Richard A. Correa Sr., a member of the extreme right-wing group, the Tea Party Patriots, in response to another teabagger’s call for a “revolution.”
Correa’s email read: “civil disobedience is the next logical step.” He was responding to fellow crazed teabagger Carol Dietz’s email, which compared teabagger activists to Jews during Nazi Germany, suggesting that President Obama was Hitler:“The jews KNEW that they were the target of Hitler–this didn’t happen over night, they had PLENTY of warning–and they didn’t DO anything,” Dietz wrote. “They went like sheep quietly to their slaughter–they did not fight. WE NEED A REVOLUTION,” ranted teabagger Dietz in an email blast to other members.According to TPM, Dietz and Correa’s calls for a revolution against the Obama administration, encouraged another unhinged teabagger to join the dangerous rhetoric.Teabagger Brian Bertha wrote: “I will not go quietly into the night I will stand and I will fight.”/http://chattahbox.com/entertainment/2009/10/14/glenn-beck-compares-obama-to-hitler-and-fox-news-to-jews///This is a joke on you cunt. The niggers and spics got your boy elected. How pathetic is that? The country REALLY hates you cocksucker. Look what you have brought on this country you fucking piece of shit.//AP - Israeli forces stormed Jerusalem's holiest shrine Sunday, firing stun grenades to disperse hundreds of stone-throwing Palestinian protesters in a fresh eruption of violence at the most volatile spot in the country.//102309///Mary Beth Buchanan, Western Pennsylvania. Buchanan held multiple Bush Justice Department leadership positions in Washington, D.C., while simultaneously serving as the U.S. Attorney in Pittsburgh since 2001. She headed the Executive Office of United States Attorneys from 2004 to 2005, drawing her into the House Judiciary Committee investigation of the U.S. Attorney firings. A member of the conservative Federalist Society, she is overseeing a sensitive corruption investigation into a group of lobbyists who were close to Democratic Rep. John Murtha. Buchanan told local reporters last November she would not voluntarily step down, according to The Washington Post. In July, former Attorney General Richard Thornburgh asked Attorney General Eric Holder to discipline Buchanan for “vindictively” suggesting at a news conference that a high-profile Democratic defendant was guilty. Her office dismissed all charges against former Allegheny County medical examiner Cyril Wecht after a federal judge threw out evidence that was ruled improperly obtained. Wecht was indicted on fraud and theft charges in January 2006.
Leura Canary, Middle District of Alabama. Canary, who has been U.S. Attorney since 2001, successfully prosecuted former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman (D) on corruption charges, in a case that Democrats have alleged was political. Canary is married to GOP activist Bill Canary, who reportedly had close ties to Rove. Canary recused herself from the Siegelman case, which was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Louis Franklin. But Siegelman and congressional Democrats have said evidence provided by a whistle-blower in the office shows that Canary stayed involved in the case after her recusal. A Montgomery criminal defense lawyer, Joe Van Heest, has been vetted to replace Canary. But his nomination has been held up by objections from Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), who supports a daughter of a political supporter and friend for the job.
Bill Mercer, District of Montana Mercer, who has been U.S. Attorney since 2001, came under fire for simultaneously serving as Montana U.S. Attorney and as the Justice Department’s Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General and Associate Attorney General in Washington for almost two years. Emails obtained by congressional investigators showed he was involved in the internal Bush administration deliberations that led up to the 2006 U.S. Attorney firings. Obama last week nominated Helena lawyer Michael Cotter to replace Mercer.
Also, George E. B. Holding in North Carolina’s Eastern District remains in office while he oversees cases against two prominent Democrats, former presidential candidate John Edwards and former Gov. Mike Easley. The potential political repercussions of removing the Republican prosecutor from the Edwards and Easley probes has complicated moves to name a successor. Read our previous report on Holding here. // faith and education:The relationship is linear. Belief that God created humans in their present form decreases as education increases, ranging from 58% of those with high school education or less who believe in the biblical explanation to only 25% of those with postgraduate education//pathetic is that by lobbying to keep Gitmo open, Liz Cheney's group is helping keep alive one of the greatest recruiting posters that al Qaeda ever had, yet they dare call themselves "Keep America Safe." They might as well call it "Keep al Qaeda Recruiting."/mind-boggling to believe that with such a vast operation, banking giants like JP Morgan Chase were not the least bit aware of the wrongful subprime lending practices being undertaken. /a $400-a-seat crowd in Montreal, Bush told the roughly 1,000 attendees that his presidential decisionmaking was principled and moral.
"I am confident that I made decisions based on principle, that I made calls as best I could, and I did not sell my soul," Bush said. Effigies of the Shrubber were constantly burned outside the hotel and hundreds of shoes were throeb at Shrub's likeness. God Blrss the Canadians for smartness/Today scumbag Lying Shrub is a remarkably feeble figure on the American scene with a disgusting record and legacy. He is even speaking at a dreadful, cringe-worthy October 26th "business seminar" in Ft. Worth, Texas called "Get Motivated!" Other speakers include former NFL quarterback Terry Bradshaw, and "America's #1 Motivator Zig Ziglar! But the headliner at this craptastic event will be the 43rd President. Going to the Scumbag for business motivation is like asking Jon and Kate how to raise your kids./(AP) - China is building its cyberwarfare capabilities and appears to be using the growing technical abilities to collect U.S. intelligence through a sophisticated and long-term computer attack campaign, according to an independent.../
MANAMA — An American warship on anti-piracy patrol has seized four tons (3,600 kilos) of hashish from a wooden boat in a part of the Gulf of Aden known as the "Hash Highway," the US Fifth Fleet said on Tuesday.
It said the USS Anzio's seizure of the drugs with an estimated street value of 28 million dollars took place on October 15 off the southern Omani coastal city of Salalah.
The skiff was "spotted travelling at a high speed by Anzio's crew," the Bahrain-based Fifth Fleet said in a statement. "Following a brief chase, the skiff was boarded."
"Yesterday these sailors were hunting pirates. Today they have sent a message to all would-be smugglers that we won't tolerate pirates or drug traffickers in these waters," a US military commander said in the statement.
It said the drugs were thrown overboard and destroyed, without reporting arrests. More than 22 tons of drugs have been seized in the region so far this year, the Fifth Fleet said. / I support US sovereignty over banksters but not neocon world war. 8 minutes ago
Neocons want more than sovereignty, they want world domination. They are uncivilized beasts, from Cheney, to Kristol, to Jeb Bush, to Rove. They are literally criminal minds run amok. /
I am not a huge fan of technical analysis, but it is a useful tool for navigating a trader-heavy, liquidity driven, manipulated market such as today’s. On that note, I want to point out that the dollar began forming a falling bullish wedge pattern starting in June (see above chart). This pattern entails an ever-tightening range of lower highs and lower lows and typically precedes major breakouts to the upside.
Americans just got 15% poorer on the world stage thanks to Ben Bernanke
A currency crisis is in the works (and perhaps already starting)
Regarding #1: When the financial crisis hit, the Fed realized it would need to keep interest rates low while it attempted to bail out the banks (80% of the $200+ trillion in derivatives sitting on commercial banks’ balance sheets are related to interest rates).
The problem with this is that it makes Treasuries very unattractive to foreign investors (China & Japan) who want a higher yield. Consequently, the Fed decided to pick up the slack by buying $300 billion worth of Treasuries through the now famous Quantitative Easing program./Was a member of 4 unions in my working life. Steelworker. municipal worker, iron worker. and finally Teamster. I have no opinion on them either way because I always knew I was their product and they would sell me down the river in a heartbeat. The Teamsters jumped in bed with the company YRCW and are currently doing managements bidding by coercing the rank and file to take pay cuts. 54 yrs old with a nice pension though so it wasnt bad until the end./rules always change if you're a conservative....Family values...yeah I was banging my lobbyist but...whoops is this microphone on? or I thought it was my own ankle I was fondling in that bathroom stall....such hypocrites/Another thing that libs do; demean the physical charecteristics of their conservative enemies. They can't argue fact because they lose. They take solace in winning nonsensical issues like the baloney hate crime laws-who cares? Vapid and infantile./"We didn't truly know the dangers of the market, because it was a dark market," says Brooksley Born, the head of an obscure federal regulatory agency -- the Commodity Futures Trading Commission [CFTC] -- who not only warned of the potential for economic meltdown in the late 1990s, but also tried to convince the country's key economic powerbrokers to take actions that could have helped avert the crisis. "They were totally opposed to it," Born says. "That puzzled me. What was it that was in this market that had to be hidden?"/Brooksley's office one day; the blood has drained from her face," says Michael Greenberger, a former top official at the CFTC who worked closely with Born. "She's hanging up the telephone; she says to me: 'That was [former Assistant Treasury Secretary] Larry Summers. He says, "You're going to cause the worst financial crisis since the end of World War II."... [He says he has] 13 bankers in his office who informed him of this. Stop, right away. No more.'"/Why blame Greenspan for the housing bust? Yes, he was associated with Ayn Rand. But he also testified strongly for regulating Fannie and Freddie, while Democrats defeated the attempt. Fannie paid a civil fine of 400 million. Former CEO and Clinton Budget Director, Frank Raines, wound up settling his civil case for $24 million. Even the New York Times predicted, in 1999, that Clinton's pressure to greatly increase subprime mortgage was VERY risky, and could cause a mortgage catastrophe like the 1980s, in the event of a general downturn -- which is precisely what happened. Actual C-Span videos leave no doubt that the collapse was caused by Democrats -- and even show them verbally assaulting the regulator who blew the whistle on Fannie and Raines. Hard evidence. Undeniable evidence. http://politicallyhomeless.net/?p=283
"Those of us -- left, right and center -- who hold principle over partisanship."Mike Hihn /Let's talk about HOW they make illegal profits not how MUCH they make. Goldman makes $40BIL a year just from Investment Bank Groups TRADES. Here's a start - bring back the uptick rule, expose rampant naked short selling, eliminate the secretive nature of DTCC and let's have on demand audit capacity of the Federal Reserves books!/Some progressives such as myself felt betrayed when Obama appointed Summers and Geithner to head his economic team. This piece by Frontline helps to demonstrate why. Here's an idea: lets hire drug lords to win the war on drugs. "Oh, but they've had a change of heart"...right.../I find it eerie and to be frank, quite scary how a reasonable, rational and well educated society can be pushed into subscription to irrational behavior such as "the best government is no government" (Quoting Ronald Regan here, who I would put in the same sentence as Adolf Hitler.)/huge naked shorting of comodities, especially gold and silver. The bad boys have not suddenly "seen the light" - they beleive the control the light! The question is not why aren't they in jail - a better question is why aren't Americans in the streets with pitchforks taking back what has been stolen?//102209/infinity between 0-1////NASA scientist who has been arrested in the US for alleged espionage was one of the main investigators of an American scientific instrument that flew aboard India's lunar craft Chandrayaan-1.for 'attempted espionage'. criminal complaint unsealed in the District of Columbia charged Nozette with attempted espionage for knowingly and wilfully attempting to communicate, deliver and transmit classified information relating to the national defence of the US to an individual he believed to be an Israeli intelligence officer./foreclosures and short sales are lined up to keep coming and coming and coming. The WSJ publishes a quarterly survey of real estate fundamentals for 28 metropolitan areas across the country. The news going forward is bleak. In Miami, almost 27% of all first lien mortgages are delinquent, which means they are 30 days or more past due./should let everyone who is not delinquent refinance with a 30 year mortgage at 4% interest. Importantly, no credit check and no appraisal should be applied to borrowers who are current on their mortgages. The existing title policy and survey should be kept in force. The loans should be made with no closing costs. This will lower mortgage payments for borrowers currently unable to refinance because their homes are underwater, or they have become unemployed, or their credit is now subprime. Lowering mortgage payments will decrease future delinquencies and raise disposable income for millions of Americans putting people back to work. The federal government already is backing over 80% of all mortgages in America. Anything they can do to stabilize home prices will save the taxpayers a lot of money down the line."/police have tentatively identified a child's body found in a landfill as that of a 7-year-old girl who vanished while walking home from school on Monday./Police in a Phoenix suburb are looking for a father suspected of running down his daughter because she was becoming too "Westernized" and was not living according to their traditional Iraqi values./Pastor Marc Grizzard claims the King James version of the Bible is the only true word of God, and that all other versions are "satanic" and "perversions" of God's word./60-year-old man plied young girls with ice cream and soda spiked with sedatives and made seminude videos of them that he stored in a computer file named "Consuming the Date Rape Drug,""he doesn't believe that what he has done is wrong," /Obama administration plans to order companies that received the most money from the $700 billion Wall Street bailout to slash pay to top executives, a government source told Fox Business Network.
Under the plan, the seven companies that received the most government aid will have to cut annual salaries by about 90 percent from last year for the 25 highest-paid executives. /
DeltaV: “There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos, and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz, and swing, result from marijuana use. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers, and any others.” - Harry J. Anslinger, Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 1930/Targeting Fox News Is a Profound Political Mistake
October 14, 2009Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:00:00 GMT11:10 PM EST
To believe that you can reach Democrats and some of the nation's independents through the rest of the mainstream media and write off an audience of between two and four million people is just plain illogical.//Pelosi just now and asked her what she thought of former Vice-President Dick Cheney's comments that President Obama's Afghanistan decision-making process was weak, indecisive and "dithering."
She didn't like it, needless to say, walloping Cheney as an undignified selective amnesiac:
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