41113/individuals may have as much as $32tn

41113/ Parachute creek contamination spreads, spurs calls for more regulations, fines, One month after workers first observed a hydrocarbon leak in groundwater beneath a gas treatment facility here, concerned residents and state investigators are still perplexed Denver/J*O*Os believe the world was created for them 1978- US Starts Paying Egypt $1.3 Billion Annually In Exchange For Maintaining Good Relations With Israel- John McCain admitted in a CNN interview that US-Egyptian aid was essentially a bribe to maintain good relations with Israel. The aid was pledged during a US-brokered peace negotiation between Egypt and Israel, and began to be distributed just after the signing of the Egypt-Israel peace accord. 1980-1990- Israel Steals American Technology and Equipment at Unprecedented Levels- According to the Israeli newspaper Hareetz, “It is worth mentioning that in the 1980s, regardless of Jonathan Pollards’ espionage activities for Israel, Israeli companies and individuals were involved many cases of technological espionage, steeling U.S. secrets, technology and equipment. The most outstanding case involved Milco, a U.S. based company owned by Israeli tycoon Arnon Milchan, which bought and shipped equipment with which could have also been used as triggers for nuclear weapons.” Recently released FBI documents revealed that current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was integrally involved in the Milco incident yc/That’s just not even close to true. Rand’s Fibbing a Bit, I’ve never wavered in my support for civil rights or the Civil RIghts Act-shielded from ethics query, bachmann hustled out of press conference-imagecomix an image of a man with a TV set for a head, and a picture on that TV set of a man giving a blow job, hopefully been clear from the first page of our first issue, Saga is a series for the proverbial ‘mature reader’. Unfortunately, because of two postage stamp-sized images of gay sex, Apple is banning tomorrow’s Saga #12 from being sold through any iOS apps,” a drag, especially because our book has featured what I would consider much more graphic imagery in the past, but there you go. Fiona [Staples, the comic’s artist] and I could always edit the images in question, but everything we put into the book is there to advance our story, not (just) to shock or titillate, so we’re not changing shit.”, this microscopic image of a dude giving a blow? Apple ain’t having it. And they’ve decided you aren’t either-Tenn. Lawmaker Allegedly Drove 90 MPH While Masturbating Out Window-Thieves Make Off With Five Tons Of Nutella In Germany-Bobby Jindal’s Political Collapse Is Dangerous News For GOP?- Four Year Old Shoots, Kills Deputy’s Wife At Tennessee Cookout-Reid Threatens Filibuster Reform With Nuclear Option, with Sen. Schumer & Obama to review their options, and then issued his ultimatum to Republicans: stop your relentless filibusters or the Democratic majority will strip away your power to do so-Left Furious With Obama For Backing Social Security Cuts-tpm/oberman with king-Unlike FOX the hate network? When has FOX ever given a crap about the old, vets and workers? Fox good hat hacking private cell phone and God knows what else!-MSNBC dropped the ball when they let Olbermann leave! Keith, Ed. and Maddow truly missed!-couldn't be worse than Bill Maher, who sadly still has a handful of hatred-loving fans-or fans that like facts, truth, history, logic, reason etc with a touch of comedy-A disgusting hate filled liar, a disgrace to the species-His inner demons have ruined him ever since though watching him fail has been a joy-He looks and talks like a pedophile-I MISS KEITH OLBERMANN ON MSNBC, YES, HE CREATED MSNBC!! THEY NEED HIM BACK AND HE IS A GENIUS REPORTER WHO TRULY CARES!! PLEASE COME BACK!-PUNK AND GUTLESS COWARD ...FAR TOO NICE-He looks like a child molester left over from the MSNBC series. What a pompous self centered jerk-Olbermann was spot on hitting you gutless cowards with FACTS and that's what chaps your pathetic hide. We love it!Opinions are not the same as facts, and even facts taken out of context are no better than outright lies. If you want facts, you need to look at public records and published scientific studies, and have a basic understanding of statistical measures and social sciences to make meaningful observations from the raw data . "News" stations only report "exciting" stories, not relevant stories, and they rarely attempt to put such stories into perspective-the usual mindless liberal sheep are dutifully bleating their hate toward any media that is not a solid component of the DNC agit prop machine. There is no episode of "olberman" than contains less that 100 times the number of factually incorrect statements than have been broadcast by FOX in their entire broadcast history-This old kike and his narcissistic guest are both delusional- oratv/Federal Reserve snafoo drew fresh attention the way the government handles sensitive economic information when it accidentally released minutes of its March meetinga day early to congressional staff and some trade group wsj/ Parts of the federal government are finally showing the effects of the furloughs prescribed by sequestration - one month and four days after the law went into effect. The Northern Division of Maryland's Federal Public Defender's office was closed all day today, with only one assistant federal public defender on hand. Upon calling the office, a message attributed the closure to "furloughs," most furloughs don't go into effect until April 15, 150 employees waived that delay and have already begun taking their unpaid time off, as well.one lawyer on duty, confirmed were because of sequestration. At the Department of Labor, where Several government agencies made doomsday predictions ahead of the onset of sequestration. They warned the budget cuts would lead to furloughs that would cripple the offices they rely on to maintain order and safety in America. But most agencies have yet to actually implement How to Open a Pot Dispensary Blocks From the US Capitol- After two years of preparations and fighting through red tape, and hundreds of thousands of dollars in investment, the Metropolitan Wellness Center is scheduled to open its doors this spring to licensed medical pot users in the District of Columbia. Located above a Popeye's chicken in the Eastern Market neighborhood, the District's first legal marijuana store will sell pot, pipes and THC infused baked goods seven blocks from the U.S. Capitol-Carville believes sooner is better than later. In an email blast from the Ready to pledge Hillary super PAC abc/Taibbi: Growing Sentiment for Ending 'Too Big to Fail rs/cyber fears-"The more human processes, the more room for error." Okay, let's carry it to the extreme. Get rid of the overpaid executives (mid level or otherwise) since all a bank really needs is a handful of geeks to service the computers and write code to fend off malware. IMHO, today's thinking is to push tellers out of a job, replace them with machines and move the cost savings into the paychecks of the people at the top, like they need more money. cnbc/The Pentagon is looking to reduce the size of its nearly 800,000 civilian workforce by 40,000 to 50,000 employees over the next five years, mainly through attrition as it closes bases and consolidates healthcare facilities R/4913/Stars ask to help Obama change drug, jail policy-basically all celebs that do drugs dont want to go to jail?-private jail owners and all the guards that they had to hire to keep them in a cell, and all the local police departments that get thousands of dollars for taking their cars and possessions sure do appreciate the fact that we in America like to keep most of our americans locked up in jail with dismal futures just so they can keep their jobs. Boy do I feel safe-At a cost of $50,000 a year per prisoner (or more), perhaps it's time to let these people go-Its going to be tough battle to go against the “war on drugs” as you’re up against Pharmaceutical companies and the Mexican Cartels. Both who lobby hard to keep drugs like marijuana illegal--Beck Eviscerates MSNBC. Makes Some Scary Connections Promo Claiming Your Kids Belong to the ‘Whole Community, implemented here in Texas with CSCOPE. You don't have a right to see as a parent what your children are learning. You go to a Texas school and say, "Let me see the curriculum." You can't. "Let me see that test that you are teaching through CSCOPE." You can't. You're a parent. You don't have a right to know.--Reuters, Jane Holl Lute, the sole deputy secretary at Homeland Security, said she was leaving with the department on a strong footing in Internet matters, with its central role cemented by an executive order on cybersecurity issued by President Barack Obama, to steer improvements in protections for private industry, instead of giving the lead to the military's National Security Agency. The national narrative on cyber has evolved, It's not a war zone, and we certainly cannot manage it as if were a war zone. We're not going to manage it as if it were an intelligence program or one big law enforcement operation.-armed resistance will be nearly impossible. Non cooperation may indeed be the only effective resistance left to us-villification of the peaceful Occupy movement and the violent agression by authorities to it indicate other means may be required-Why is DHS buying 1.6 billion rounds of ammo and why do they need 5 million caskets stored in a field in Georgia?-just a CONSPIRACY THEORY right? That is what they brand every inconvenient truth since the drone story broke. those don't exist either. And NO children are being blown to bits by them in Pakistan either. Pretty sorry government when it gets to the point where the conspiracy theorists are the only ones telling the truth-sad state of affairs, has gotten exponentially worse since 2009- yn/Murdoch, Chief Operating Officer Chase Carey threatened to take Fox from network TV to cable csm/ Offshore financial industry leak exposes identities of 1,000s of holders of anonymous wealth from around the world David Leigh The Guardian Millions of internal records have leaked from Britain's offshore financial industry, exposing for the first time the identities of thousands of holders of anonymous wealth from around the world, from presidents to plutocrats, the daughter of a notorious dictator and a British millionaire accused of concealing assets from his ex-wife. The leak of 2m emails and other documents, mainly from the offshore haven of the British Virgin Islands (BVI), has the potential to cause a seismic shock worldwide to the booming offshore trade, with a former chief economist at McKinsey estimating that wealthy individuals may have as much as $32tn (£21tn) stashed in overseas havens. In France, Jean-Jacques Augier, President François Hollande's campaign co-treasurer and close friend, has been forced to publicly identify his Chinese business partner. It emerges as Hollande is mired in financial scandal because his former budget minister concealed a Swiss bank account for 20 years and repeatedly lied about it. In Mongolia, the country's former finance minister and deputy speaker of its parliament says he may have to resign from politics as a result of this investigation. The Caribbean micro-state has incorporated more than a million such offshore entities since it began marketing itself worldwide in the 1980s. Owners' true identities are never revealed. Even the island's official financial regulators normally have no idea who is behind them. The British Foreign Office depends on the BVI's company licensing revenue to subsidise this residual outpost of empire, while lawyers and accountants in the City of London benefit from a lucrative trade as intermediaries. They claim the tax-free offshore companies provide legitimate privacy. Neil Smith, the financial secretary of the autonomous local administration in the BVI's capital Tortola, told the Guardian it was very inaccurate to claim the island "harbours the ethically challenged"./paisley and ljkewl make history on the view/dick makes 39b in iraq- sons, daughters, fathers, brothers, sisters died or were mangled physically and most assuredly emotionally, they banked this money!! Never forget!-i bet it was more than that!-Anyone who kills anyone of that family will be a hero around the world...except to really stupid brainwashed dickheads who believe the perpetual crap spouted by the Rupert Murdochs Faux Noise Network-just the mention of his name makes me cringe. DIRTY, ROTTEN S.O.B. He and a lot of others from that Administration should've gone to Gitmo for war crimes and treason. That evil smirk of his is nauseous-Sick to my stomach-why else would've dick cheney started the war in the first place-disgusting-People who complain about certain jobs ending because the war is ending don't realize that young men and women have to die so they can have that job. Cheney's corporation made billions while our servicemen and women were dying there-americans were living on the streets and going hungry without any government to help them out......thumbs down for dickie boy and his rogues-Cheney is a piece of shit-W Bush was Cheney's puppet. Weapons of mass destruction was invented by Cheney and sold to Bush and the American people in order to line his pockets-U mean stole $39billion-why Cheney and his cronies are not in jail is a crime-haliburton was in bankruptcy before the war. Very convenient don't you think?-BLOOD MONEY!Gotta be more than that. I'm also sure they had something to do with the american currency that went missing-look forward to protesting at Cheney's funeral-time for heads on sticks no?-Isn't this common knowledge? The man should be in jail-Too bad no one shot him in the face!-north of 700 million dollars-Why else would we have gone to war? It sure wasn't for any political or moral reason!-People will forget. Just like they forgot about the Vietnam fiasco--Conservatives Are Destroying Our Future-thinking of something like Gun Confiscation Surveillance Tactical Response Team 1-Renamed my guest wifi FBI surveillance van #6 and one of my neighbors about had a heart attack-as they cry about their guns-- 6.3 magnitude quake strikes near Iran's Bushehr nuke facility, deaths RT-March Against agent orange Monsanto,25th of May! pastebin.com/XAMduCdV - fb/whistleblowing group WikiLeaks caused a storm of controversy in 2010 when it was able to download almost two gigabytes of leaked US military and diplomatic files. The new BVI data, by contrast, contains more than 200 gigabytes, covering more than a decade of financial information about the global transactions of BVI private incorporation agencies. It also includes data on their offshoots in Singapore, Hong Kong and the Cook Islands in the Pacific-My guess is a lot of them are left wing extremist hollywood types, that want to hide from their sins!-They want to hide from their responsibilities. They brag about their sins. But they also pretend to care about the "little people" who buy tickets to their shows, people like liberty and stark. There's a special place in hell for the recruiters of useful idiots. They are the wannabe slavemasters. Those poor useful idiot fools would follow anybody who can tug on their emotional sleeves, a fool and his money, as the saying goes. And they believe so surely that they are right, despite history proving,without exception, just how naive they really are-Ya gotta love the wealthy! Those rich who are the successful got rich by being smart. Thats why they are rich! The deadbeats will always be struggling for pennies from welfare & food stamps. That's why they will always be looking for handouts. The wealthy (successful) pay 85% of the Federal taxes even after all of their "tax breaks"!. The not so rich will always be whining about those with some money. That's why the are complaining about the achievers (rich)- ycont/how to stop anti-semitism, stop doing things that create anti-semitic reactions-lets go get concentration camp number tattoos this afternoon, I sure could use the extra money this year...See norman Finklestein the holocaust industry.-word on the street is * already has one, the shekels are rolling in-GOLDMAN TRADING DESK PUSHING HIS OWN STOCK UP THE OLD CHINESE TRICK ybac/At least 14 hurt in stabbing spree on Texas college campus, nbcnews, At least 14 people were hurt in a stabbing spree at a Texas community college, At least two victims were in critical condition. It was not immediately clear how severe the other injuries were-God Bless the President of the United States. A tragic mass stabbing on a college campus. However, since the suspect didn't have a gun, NOBODY was killed. Guns do kill people, sorry, the old adage doesn't play. This was a tragedy, but nothing like the mass shootings--Russian Intelligence Chief: "Damascus is Moscow, and we will not accept the fall of Syria even if it costs us a global War." fb// Conservatives love, for example, to quote from a stirring speech Reagan gave in 1961, in which he warned of a grim future unless patriots took a stand. (Liz Cheney used it in a Wall Street Journal op ed article just a few days ago.) “If you and I don’t do this,” Reagan declared, “then you and I may well spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it once was like in America when men were free.” What you might not guess from the lofty language is that “this”, the heroic act Reagan was calling on his listeners to perform, was a concerted effort to block the enactment of Medicare. These days, conservatives make very similar arguments against Obamacare. For example, Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin has called it the “greatest assault on freedom in our lifetime.” And this kind of rhetoric matters, because when it comes to the main obstacle now remaining to more or less universal health coverage, the reluctance of Republican governors to allow the Medicaid expansion that is a key part of reform, it’s pretty much all the right has, the old trick of blaming the needy for their need doesn’t seem to play the way it used to, and especially not on health care: perhaps because the experience of losing insurance is so common, Medicaid enjoys remarkably strong public support. For all our talk of being the land of liberty, those holding one of the dwindling number of jobs that carry decent health benefits often feel anything but free, knowing that if they leave or lose their job, for whatever reason, they may not be able to regain the coverage they need. Over time, as people come to realize that affordable coverage is now guaranteed, it will have a powerful liberating effect, what we still don’t know is how many Americans will be denied that kind of liberation, a denial all the crueler because it will be imposed in the name of freedom pknyt/Repugs hold him up to be a hero. There's no doubt that Repug policies damage the country. "The nominal national debt rose from $900 billion to $2.8 trillion during Reagan's tenure wiki Reaganomics aibafs/after the Glass-Steagall Act was implemented in 1933, a bank could not gamble with depositor funds for its own account; but in 1999, that barrier was removed. Recent congressional investigations have revealed that in the biggest derivative banks, JPMorgan and Bank of America, massive commingling has occurred between their depository arms and their unregulated and highly vulnerable derivatives arms. Under both the Dodd Frank Act and the 2005 Bankruptcy Act, derivative claims have super-priority over all other claims, secured and unsecured, insured and uninsured. In a major derivatives fiasco, derivative claimants could well grab all the collateral, leaving other claimants, public and private, holding the bag, North Dakota, the only state to completely escape the 2008 banking crisis. North Dakota does not keep its revenues in Wall Street banks but deposits them in the state-owned Bank of North Dakota by law. The bank has a mandate to serve the public, and it does not gamble in derivatives. rbn/National Science Foundation has given $384,949 to Yale University to do a study on “Sexual Conflict, Social Behavior and the Evolution of Waterfowl Genitalia”. This "research" involves examining and measuring the reproductive organs of male ducks BUT...Obama cuts funding for Grade School kids to tour The White House for THIS NONSENSE rbg/-Last month they were attacking my wife’s ethnicity, and then apparently unbeknownst to us at the time they were bugging our headquarters, a quite Nixonian move. This is what you get from the political left in America these days,” McConnell told reporters at a Capitol Hill press conference, discussing how to use potential Democratic challenger Ashley Judd's religious beliefs and history of depression against her in a campaign, announced March 27 that she would not be a candidate for the Senate-McConnell campaign was fundraising off the incident. "Liberals and their media allies have hit a new low in their smears against our campaign, wiretapping our field office to spy on us ... I need your help to fight back against these illegal and underhanded tactics," Benton wrote in a fundraising email. Mother Jones said it gave McConnell's office a chance to respond to the tape before it was published but didn't hear back. We are still waiting for Sen. Mitch McConnell to comment on the substance of the story," Mother Jones' statement read. "It is our understanding that the tape was not the product of a Watergate-style bugging operation, During gop discussion of Judd's mental health on the tape, one individual remarked that "she's clearly, this sounds extreme, but she is emotionally unbalanced. I mean it's been documented. Jesse can go in chapter and verse from her autobiography about, you know, she's suffered some suicidal tendencies. She was hospitalized for 42 days when she had a mental breakdown in the '90s." McConnell and his aides on the tape also poked fun at a reference Judd made about St. Francis, a revered Catholic saint, and other religious statements. "This is yet another example of the politics of personal destruction that embody Mitch McConnell and are pervasive in Washington -Isn't this the dude who approved of Homeland Security tapping phones, stating "You shouldn't worry if you've got nothing to hide?"-Isn't this the dude who approved of Homeland Security tapping phones, stating "You shouldn't worry if you've got nothing to hide?-doesn't want to hide what he said, he just wants to have said it in the privacy of a carefully controlled environment with no one to hear except his hand-picked cronies-love the sarcasm!-Republican Motto ......"what is good for the goose is NOT GOOD for the gander-They didn't deny their comments, but they are furious they got caught. I suspect it was one of their own who tattled.-McConnell wants to ABUSE HIS POWER by having the FBI, not the POLICE, but the FBI, investigate this matter....and in the very next breath he'll be screaming about how the "Federal Government is OVERREACHING ITS AUTHORITY- Obviously it was an insider. No one not vetted by security and known to them could have turned the recorder to "On". Apparently someone there has a conscience. Just not ol' Mitch-obviously a rightwing addict, he's been voting republican out of habit no matter how bad it hurts him or how rediculous his behavoir becomes, he stills does it.The rightwing dope is so addictive to people like *, it's sad to see the stupidity level he falls to. Some day rightwing rehabs will open to help these poor addict-Republican staffer with a conscience, no wonder they need to rout him out! -ASHLEY JUDD is a nitwit, myself!!! not a very good actress and don't know which state she is running for senator in yn/!-TOMS RIVER, N.J. Police Authorities are deciding whether to charge anyone after police say 4yr old shot and killed 6 year old in New Jersey-Blame the moron parents for letting a 4 year have access to it, not the gun. If the kid had set fire to his house would you be blaming all packs of matches?-the lie that the semiautomatic weapon was in his car-i never said it does make you evil i said it just meaks you stupid and no i am not on my high horse if i was i would say, in britain we got rid of our gusn as soon as a man shot and killed a dozen school kids in america it has happend a few times but you are all following what the NRA pay your loal faux news channel to tell you/A 14-year-old boy shot and nearly killed an intruder who broke into his Phoenix home and pulled a gun on him while he was babysitting usatoday/ Jindal's plan to off-load the states tax burden from corporations and the rich disproportionally to the poor and lower income families. Last night he withdrew his plan to end state income tax by replacing the state's taxation need with a higher sales tax. His approval rating has plummeted since he started moving that direction-we are NOT in agreement when you go off the deep end suggesting that you can trash the environment in order to help industry or the "economy". It is a FALACY to beleive you can play fast and loose with the environment that you are entrusted to pass onto future generations. You are flippantly ignorant of ecological principles. rbg/City of New York will pay more than $365,000 to settle a lawsuit for NYPD's destruction of The People's Library during the eviction from Zuccotti Park. fb/