Comments On: Saturday Morning News: North Korean Lock-Up, Beer Monopoly, Hugo Chavez by Al Jacobs http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/12/15/saturday-morning-news-north-korean-lock-up-beer-monopoly-hugo-chavez Comments On: Saturday Morning News: North Korean Lock-Up, Beer Monopoly, Hugo Chavez by Al Jacobs en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:00:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss <![CDATA[Re: Saturday Morning News: North Korean Lock-Up, Beer Monopoly, Hugo Chavez]]> @21 - How troll....
Posted by sgt_doom]]> Sun, 16 Dec 2012 12:45:04 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Saturday Morning News: North Korean Lock-Up, Beer Monopoly, Hugo Chavez]]> Posted by Christampa]]> Sat, 15 Dec 2012 16:32:23 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Saturday Morning News: North Korean Lock-Up, Beer Monopoly, Hugo Chavez]]> Posted by kittenalarm]]> Sat, 15 Dec 2012 14:04:52 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Saturday Morning News: North Korean Lock-Up, Beer Monopoly, Hugo Chavez]]> Posted by Phoebe in Wallingford]]> Sat, 15 Dec 2012 13:52:06 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Saturday Morning News: North Korean Lock-Up, Beer Monopoly, Hugo Chavez]]> Candlelight Vigil
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Posted by P-Dub]]> Sat, 15 Dec 2012 13:48:18 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Saturday Morning News: North Korean Lock-Up, Beer Monopoly, Hugo Chavez]]>
A former school board official in Newtown called into question earlier reports that Nancy Lanza had been connected to Sandy Hook Elementary School, possibly as part of the teaching staff.

“No one has heard of her,” said Lillian Bittman, who served on the local school board until 2011. “Teachers don’t know her.”


http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2012/12/…

The mystery deepens.

What's the connection between the Lanzas and the school?


Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe]]> Sat, 15 Dec 2012 12:38:24 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Saturday Morning News: North Korean Lock-Up, Beer Monopoly, Hugo Chavez]]> Posted by treepot]]> Sat, 15 Dec 2012 12:26:46 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Saturday Morning News: North Korean Lock-Up, Beer Monopoly, Hugo Chavez]]>
Posted by DisorganizedReligion]]> Sat, 15 Dec 2012 12:22:58 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Saturday Morning News: North Korean Lock-Up, Beer Monopoly, Hugo Chavez]]> Posted by nra master plan]]> Sat, 15 Dec 2012 12:22:08 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Saturday Morning News: North Korean Lock-Up, Beer Monopoly, Hugo Chavez]]> Posted by care bear]]> Sat, 15 Dec 2012 11:59:22 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Saturday Morning News: North Korean Lock-Up, Beer Monopoly, Hugo Chavez]]>
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/police-gu…
Posted by Fnarf]]> Sat, 15 Dec 2012 11:06:18 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Saturday Morning News: North Korean Lock-Up, Beer Monopoly, Hugo Chavez]]> Sweet Déjà Vu

From the Wall Street Seventeen to the LIBOR Sixteen, the history of the banking cartel

(It's called a criminal conspiracy, stoopid! And yes, Virginia, conspiracies do exist!)

LIBOR 16

The LIBOR rate fixing, which has finally received a bit of publicity, is truly mind-boggling enormous in the extent of the global thievery involved. An outstanding explanation can be found at this link below:

http://www.nomiprins.com/thoughts/2012/7…

but suffice to say, the effects cover everything from structured finance loans favoring private equity leveraged buyout firms (the private banksters), to mortgage rates and ARMs, interest rate swaps and an extraordinary gamut of financial products too extensive to list here.

Even the Queen of England has made mention of it:

The Queen Of England Asks Economists – ‘Why Did Nobody Notice?’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pla…

The "official" authorities in London are finally acting, as some are also in the USA. Some analysts are now mentioning that this rate fixing not only goes back some years in the past decades but may go back to the early 1990s.

But does it really just begin there? Was it simply one discrete event, as those clueless pundits, who can never locate their own genitals, would have us believe once again, along with those weapons of mass destruction in Iraq?

The Wall Street Seventeen

In the aftermath of the Great Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression, a number of intensive congressional investigations took place. Some would later explain how Rockefeller secretly shipped oil to the Nazis, the financial connections between the Mellons, du Ponts and I.G. Farben and the Third Reich, Morgan's financing of the fascist Mussolini's invasion of Libya (oil resources), etc., but one would be most important, the TNEC study (The National Economic Committee study), which would uncover the extreme concentration of corporate control by a select number of banks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporary_N…

This study eventually led to an antitrust lawsuit against 17 Wall Street banks (U.S. v. Morgan et al.), alleging a criminal conspiracy among those banks dating back to 1915.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Stat….

This is a most interesting date, as that was the year when the super-rich in American really began moving their wealth and ownership and investment instruments over to foundations and trusts which had been accorded tax-exempt status (to effectively hide their wealth and owernship, and for tax evasion and avoidance), along with other financial changes, in legislation passed in 1913, along with the Federal Reserve Act, the 16th Amendment (allowing for collection of taxes to repay interest from private loans to gov't due to the Federal Reserve Act), and the oil depletion allowance.

The antitrust suit was dismissed, thanks to the Eisenhower administration coming to power and replacing the antitrust team with others who would perform in a most lackadaisical manner.

Now, please don't assume that the 17 banks were owned by 17 separate entities; there was quite a bit of concentration there as well.

While the names of the banks have changed, and consolidation has taken place, the overall ownership remains essentially the same, and it's called a "cartel" --- and a criminal conspiracy.

The Debt Creators

In response to the global mega-rigging of financial markets, the debt creators, erroneously referred to as highly productive "wealth creators" ad nauseum (by those aforementioned pundits), have amassed their wealth by the gargantuan creation of debt and debt instruments, which they sold, and then socialized said debt --- moving it into the public sector, and claiming the masses must experience never-ending austerity to pay off their debt.

An excellent article by Mijin Sha at Demos partially illustrates this point:

http://www.demos.org/publication/why-was…

Some interesting links:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/11…

http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/03/wright…


Posted by sgt_doom]]> Sat, 15 Dec 2012 10:51:31 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Saturday Morning News: North Korean Lock-Up, Beer Monopoly, Hugo Chavez]]> Posted by Brooklyn Reader]]> Sat, 15 Dec 2012 10:47:35 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Saturday Morning News: North Korean Lock-Up, Beer Monopoly, Hugo Chavez]]> Posted by dbgill56]]> Sat, 15 Dec 2012 10:43:27 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Saturday Morning News: North Korean Lock-Up, Beer Monopoly, Hugo Chavez]]>
In short, it had all of the elements lacking from the four licensed television broadcast stations who produced yesterday's rumor-fest here in New York.

Posted by Brooklyn Reader]]> Sat, 15 Dec 2012 10:41:38 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Saturday Morning News: North Korean Lock-Up, Beer Monopoly, Hugo Chavez]]>
The mother apparently had no active connection with the school and was never a teacher there. Adam Lanza reportedly was a genius who did high school in one year (and then spent his life at home, as a goth...). So why target a school and a class of students that had nothing to do with his own life?

And no one is talking about the new breed of early 20s shooter. What trauma could possibly be happening to a person living only 2 decades to make them behave as if there is no tomorrow and everyone from a 1st grader on up is a 2 dimensional target on an LCD?
Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe]]> Sat, 15 Dec 2012 10:38:56 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Saturday Morning News: North Korean Lock-Up, Beer Monopoly, Hugo Chavez]]> Posted by Gern Blanston]]> Sat, 15 Dec 2012 10:21:48 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Saturday Morning News: North Korean Lock-Up, Beer Monopoly, Hugo Chavez]]> Posted by Tacoma Traveler]]> Sat, 15 Dec 2012 10:03:35 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Saturday Morning News: North Korean Lock-Up, Beer Monopoly, Hugo Chavez]]>
Looking over yesterday's Slogorrhea, one person's reaction was super shiny to me - Cienna Madrid's. Not just as a writer but as a person navigating her response and trying to shed a little light rather than just add heat, even from way over here in the corner.

Those posts talking to local NRA members and interviewing her schoolteacher friend - they were an unforgettable part of how that day unfolded, at least to me, and represent the best of what Slog can still offer sometimes.
Posted by gloomy gus]]> Sat, 15 Dec 2012 10:02:58 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Saturday Morning News: North Korean Lock-Up, Beer Monopoly, Hugo Chavez]]>
Another part of me tries to charitably understand our ravenous hunger for DETAILS! as 1) a way to learn from experience, to make choices in our own lives that will prevent getting into similar situations, and 2) a wish to internalize as much of the event as possible in order to feel empathy for those involved and thus figure out what we could do to help.

But maybe we're just horrible, insatiable voyeurs.
Posted by rob!]]> Sat, 15 Dec 2012 09:40:41 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Saturday Morning News: North Korean Lock-Up, Beer Monopoly, Hugo Chavez]]> Posted by my glock, our violence]]> Sat, 15 Dec 2012 09:39:20 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Saturday Morning News: North Korean Lock-Up, Beer Monopoly, Hugo Chavez]]>

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger]]> Sat, 15 Dec 2012 09:15:52 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Saturday Morning News: North Korean Lock-Up, Beer Monopoly, Hugo Chavez]]>
Do we have to wait for the New Yorker or Rolling Stone to do a properly-researched in-depth article on this story? What the fuck is wrong with daily journalism today?

This was a horrible event of local and national significance. The public deserves a clear, factually-correct account of it. Sourcing unofficial speculation from unnamed "law enforcement sources" does no one a service, especially when it's wrong. After spending a couple hours yesterday flipping local news channels here in New York, all of which covered the aftermath through the entire day, my head was spinning with all the conflicting "information" and bullshit.

Today we read that shooter's (who was originally named as his brother) mother was not, in fact, a teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary at all. Yesterday, every channel was echoing each other in reporting that not only was she, but she was shot in "her classroom" at the school.

Local television news has always been a septic tank of pretty "communications majors," but the print media has usually been better. As of today, I'm convinced that there aren't many professionals worthy of the name "journalist" working in the business anymore.

Important, tragic story. For God's sake, somebody, get it fucking right!
Posted by Brooklyn Reader]]> Sat, 15 Dec 2012 08:59:30 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Saturday Morning News: North Korean Lock-Up, Beer Monopoly, Hugo Chavez]]>
SNOWPOCOLYSE!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Cato the Younger Younger]]> Sat, 15 Dec 2012 08:50:59 -0800 The Stranger