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The Saturday Morning News
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I'm sort of excited about the pay-to-post feature, because anything that makes my posts even less visible is actually a good thing. I know, I know, privacy settings blah.
I wish everyone would stop reporting that Gallup poll as 60% say it won't change their vote. That was never asked. 40% said they would be "more" or "less" likely to vote for him. You think those "less likely" folks were voting for him in the first place? It just measured intensity - it's a bogus data point.
I wish everyone would stop reporting that Gallup poll as 60% say it won't change their vote. That was never asked. 40% said they would be "more" or "less" likely to vote for him. You think those "less likely" folks were voting for him in the first place? It just measured intensity - it's a bogus data point.
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J.P. Morgan lobbied for the loophole that lost them 2 billion. Are there still people giving them their money to invest? Greed is brainless.
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RE: Eduardo Savarin, the facebook soon-to-be billionaire renouncing American citizenship to avoid taxes...
It's a little more complex than the headline suggests. The guy's been living in Singapore for a long time now and I think was a dual Brazil/U.S. citizen. His ties to the U.S. weren't exactly long-standing. Plus, he'll be paying hefty exit taxes. Still....
That's libertarianism, eh? Take and take and take and take from everyone, until everyone suggests you should also give a little too. Then give them the finger and flee.
It's a little more complex than the headline suggests. The guy's been living in Singapore for a long time now and I think was a dual Brazil/U.S. citizen. His ties to the U.S. weren't exactly long-standing. Plus, he'll be paying hefty exit taxes. Still....
That's libertarianism, eh? Take and take and take and take from everyone, until everyone suggests you should also give a little too. Then give them the finger and flee.
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(Or, affirming Dan Savage and the Ultimate Fraud, reaffirming the wonderful Cate Jenkins, Steve Coll, JPMorgan Chase, and the Sesame Street connection.)
Back at the end of 2010, the US Senate held an overwhelmingly unanimous voice vote (so their individual votes wouldn't be recorded) in favor of blanket immunity for the banksters' fraudclosures --- their commission of millions AND millions of felonies.
President Obama, seemingly wisely, vetoed their immunity legislation, only to sneakily and underhandedly and unethically formulate a national committee of states' attorneys-general to do exactly what those corrupt whore scum of the Senate voted for --- granting blanket immunity to the super-crooked banksters!
Immediately prior to his donation-seeking trip to the West Coast, first Vice President Biden, then President Obama, affirmed, in a purely non-legal and non-binding context, same sex marriage.
Political donations to the Obama/Biden reelection campaign immediately spiked upwards, yet as Dan Savage sagely observed, President Obama really didn't take any valid action, in fact was his usual equivocating self, suggesting it was a state's rights issue!
State's rights issue? ? ? ?
The real news this week was that a federal court overturned the unlawful firing of deadly serious Dr. Cate Jenkins of the EPA (her warnings went ignored, and American workers at Ground Zero later died).
Turning whistle blower during the criminal Bush administration, Cate Jenkins was unlawfully fired under the criminal Obama administration.
Simon Johnson, so-called economist at MIT (a wholly-owned subsidiary of the DoD), claimed that proprietary trading was outlawed under the Dodd-Frank legislation, yet Jamie Dimon (supreme corporate welfare queen) just publicly admitted that JP Morgan Chase lost billions on proprietary trading! ? ! ? (The final total will probably be close to $5 billion; JPMC has an established record for sloppy bookkeeping.)
Steve Coll is on a national book tour talking about ExxonMobil --- yet appears both ignorant and oblivious to who owns ExxonMobil. Coll's foundation, the New America Foundation, is funded by the Peterson Foundation, created by Peter G. Peterson to hide his wealth and ownership and to peddle influence.
Peter G. Peterson was the original financial backer for his wife, who created and produces Sesame Street. There exists a strong correlation between the viewing of Sesame Street and a high quotient for gullibility as an adult.
That is, viewing Sesame Street as a child tends to make one susceptible as an adult to blindly obey authority.
WE MUST ALL OBEY! ! !
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/201…
EPA chemist Dr. Cate Jenkins, who had worked for the agency for more than 30 years, was the first official to sound the alarm on the dangers dust posed to firefighters and First Responders. But the EPA head at the time claimed there was no health hazard.
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More...
That Was The Week That Was
(Or, affirming Dan Savage and the Ultimate Fraud, reaffirming the wonderful Cate Jenkins, Steve Coll, JPMorgan Chase, and the Sesame Street connection.)
Back at the end of 2010, the US Senate held an overwhelmingly unanimous voice vote (so their individual votes wouldn't be recorded) in favor of blanket immunity for the banksters' fraudclosures --- their commission of millions AND millions of felonies.
President Obama, seemingly wisely, vetoed their immunity legislation, only to sneakily and underhandedly and unethically formulate a national committee of states' attorneys-general to do exactly what those corrupt whore scum of the Senate voted for --- granting blanket immunity to the super-crooked banksters!
Immediately prior to his donation-seeking trip to the West Coast, first Vice President Biden, then President Obama, affirmed, in a purely non-legal and non-binding context, same sex marriage.
Political donations to the Obama/Biden reelection campaign immediately spiked upwards, yet as Dan Savage sagely observed, President Obama really didn't take any valid action, in fact was his usual equivocating self, suggesting it was a state's rights issue!
State's rights issue? ? ? ?
Shades of neocon talking points for the past 30 years ! ! !
The real news this week was that a federal court overturned the unlawful firing of deadly serious Dr. Cate Jenkins of the EPA (her warnings went ignored, and American workers at Ground Zero later died).
Turning whistle blower during the criminal Bush administration, Cate Jenkins was unlawfully fired under the criminal Obama administration.
Simon Johnson, so-called economist at MIT (a wholly-owned subsidiary of the DoD), claimed that proprietary trading was outlawed under the Dodd-Frank legislation, yet Jamie Dimon (supreme corporate welfare queen) just publicly admitted that JP Morgan Chase lost billions on proprietary trading! ? ! ? (The final total will probably be close to $5 billion; JPMC has an established record for sloppy bookkeeping.)
Steve Coll is on a national book tour talking about ExxonMobil --- yet appears both ignorant and oblivious to who owns ExxonMobil. Coll's foundation, the New America Foundation, is funded by the Peterson Foundation, created by Peter G. Peterson to hide his wealth and ownership and to peddle influence.
Peter G. Peterson was the original financial backer for his wife, who created and produces Sesame Street. There exists a strong correlation between the viewing of Sesame Street and a high quotient for gullibility as an adult.
That is, viewing Sesame Street as a child tends to make one susceptible as an adult to blindly obey authority.
WE MUST ALL OBEY! ! !
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/201…
EPA chemist Dr. Cate Jenkins, who had worked for the agency for more than 30 years, was the first official to sound the alarm on the dangers dust posed to firefighters and First Responders. But the EPA head at the time claimed there was no health hazard.
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@1 That's also how I see it. Sixty percent don't care, and the great bulk of the 40% weren't going to vote for him, anyway. The majority of the polled don't care that their president endorsed marriage equality. Less than a decade ago, that would have been unthinkable.
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nice that the SEC will be looking into something beside porn during the operating (not that they really do anything any longer) hours.
I wonder what kind of impotent slap on the wrist they've already worked out...oooh...the suspense of it all...
buy silver, sink jp morgan chase (look it up if you don't know why)
I wonder what kind of impotent slap on the wrist they've already worked out...oooh...the suspense of it all...
buy silver, sink jp morgan chase (look it up if you don't know why)
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Don't Seattle schoolkids start at like 10:30 am after they've stopped off to have their lattes...just like every other working person around here...
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"Tax havens are not exotic, murky sideshows at the fringes of the world economy: they lie at its centre. Half of world trade flows, at least on paper, through tax havens. Every multinational corporation uses them routinely. The biggest users of tax havens by far are not terrorists, spivs, celebrities or Mafiosi – but banks.
Tax havens are the ultimate source of strength for our global elites. Just as European nobles once consolidated their unaccountable powers in fortified castles, to better subjugate and extract tribute from the surrounding peasantry, so financial capital has coalesced in their modern equivalent today: the tax havens. In these fortified nodes of secret, unaccountable political and economic power, financial and criminal interests have come together to capture local political systems and turn the havens into their own private law-making factories, protected against outside interference by the world’s most powerful countries"
http://treasureislands.org/the-book/
Tax havens are the ultimate source of strength for our global elites. Just as European nobles once consolidated their unaccountable powers in fortified castles, to better subjugate and extract tribute from the surrounding peasantry, so financial capital has coalesced in their modern equivalent today: the tax havens. In these fortified nodes of secret, unaccountable political and economic power, financial and criminal interests have come together to capture local political systems and turn the havens into their own private law-making factories, protected against outside interference by the world’s most powerful countries"
http://treasureislands.org/the-book/
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...and another 40% are lying.
And good luck with that tax strategy, Saverin. You better hope Facebook doesn't IPO in the next 10 years.
And good luck with that tax strategy, Saverin. You better hope Facebook doesn't IPO in the next 10 years.
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In response to one point of @5's diatribe: the Volcker Rule (forbidding proprietary trading) does not go into effect until July 21.
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@ 13, You don't!? He's like the Walter Cronkite of our generation!
No, I always expand them to see how long & crazy they are, then take in the first sentence of maybe every other paragraph to see if I can get a feel for which planet he's broadcasting from. It's pretty entertaining, actually.
No, I always expand them to see how long & crazy they are, then take in the first sentence of maybe every other paragraph to see if I can get a feel for which planet he's broadcasting from. It's pretty entertaining, actually.
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#15
It definitely seems like the people who run the school want to ruin Mark's prom.
No sure who will come out on top.
I'm thinking FB.
It definitely seems like the people who run the school want to ruin Mark's prom.
No sure who will come out on top.
I'm thinking FB.
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