‘Anonymous’ targets Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke

By Business Insider
Monday, June 13th, 2011 -- 8:49 am

Anonymous has set its sights on Ben Bernanke.

The group also provided a Google Map guide to a series of protests, aimed to "* End the campaign finance and lobbying racket* Break up the Fed & Too Big to Fail banks* Enforce RICO laws against organized criminal class* Order Ben Bernanke to step down."

She did it.

Kind of hard to see from the nosebeleed section, but she now has a BS degree.

Dude, I thought she was born with one of those, lol.

I started to cry, but then I yelled instead, you know, kinda the opposite of what actually worked with her, lol. Anyway, since I never graduated from high school, and neither my husband or I graduated from a four year college, this was kind of a big deal.

Her words?

"Sort of anticlimactic Mom, but cool."

Her aunts and I marveled at how well the kids turned out, especially since uh...we didn't have a clue as to how to do this thing called parenting.

E coli vs. terrorism

100% Scared
How the National Security Complex Grows on Terrorism Fears
By Tom Engelhardt

"...In other words, in terms of damage since 9/11, terror attacks have ranked above shark attacks but below just about anything else that could possibly be dangerous to Americans, including car crashes which have racked up between 33,800 and 43,500 deaths a year since 2001...

...The National Security Complex has, in fact, grown fat by relentlessly pursuing the promise of making the country totally secure from terrorism, even as life grows ever less secure for so many Americans when it comes to jobs, homes, finances, and other crucial matters. It is on this pledge of protection that the Complex has managed to extort the tidal flow of funds that have allowed it to bloat to monumental proportions, end up with a yearly national security budget of more than $1.2 trillion, find itself encased in a cocoon of self-protective secrecy, and be 100% assured that its officials will never be brought to justice for any potential crimes they may commit in their “war” on terrorism...."

Asia Times Online :: This crisis has an exit

Asia Times Online :: This crisis has an exit
By Ellen Brown

"...Governments usually get the blame for excessive spending, but governments did not initiate the crisis..."


The Foreign Exchange Market’s Reaction to a Debt Ceiling Increase


As America inches towards a deal raising the debt ceiling, one wonders about the impending reaction of the foreign exchange market. While domestic bond holders would see selling opportunities in the likely event that the Treasury drops its yields, foreign holders of U.S. debt would only see the downside – a weaker dollar.

White House Taking 'Seriously' Al Qaeda's Eying Of America's Gun Show Loophole

“I knew there would be knuckle dragging Obama bashers flapping that one right wing so hard that they (lke their hatred) spin in circles.

Thanks for not disappoint ing y'all!
roflamo”

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How are comments like this even remotely relevant?
I've been watching the thread, I've seen a lot of comments offering personal experience s in regards to gun shows, many stating that purchasing a full auto is not simple, others stating that full auto conversion s are not easy, simple or reliable.
There have been a few that have been ridiculous talking points, a few that have been standard loon comments, but most seem to be calm, rational and significan tly less condescend ingly arrogant than the above.

My response?
It's hard to be calm and reasonable when a country that is less than an hour away from me has lost tens of thousands of people in a ridiculous war on drugs that my country funds both sides of --

"Mexico updates four years of drug war deaths to 34,612"

http://www­.bbc.co.uk­/news/worl­d-latin-am­erica-1217­7875

"U.S. Flailing as American Guns Fuel Mexico’s Drug War"
By Adam Rawnsley November 10, 2010

http://www­.wired.com­/dangerroo­m/2010/11/­u-s-flaili­ng-as-amer­ican-guns-­fuel-mexic­os-drug-wa­r/

"NRA and Some of Its Board Members Have Direct Financial Interests in Stopping Ban on High-Capac­ity Ammunition Magazines" http://www­.commondre­ams.org/ne­wswire/201­1/01/19-3

Is that arrogant enough for you?
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Weiner is not the most compelling reason to elect more women

Dan CollinsNew York Editor-At-Large of The Huffington Post
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Anthony Weiner Gives Us Another Reason to Vote for Women
Posted: 06/ 6/11 04:59 PM ET

Just before Anthony Weiner went before the cameras to announce his Twittering problem, he confessed all to Nancy Pelosi.

"She was not happy," he reported.

"....The rest of us might want to confine ourselves to electing women."


This is:

Facts on Women in Congress 2011
Summary
Women hold 89, or 16.5%, of the 535 seats in the 112th US Congress — 17, or 17.0%, of the 100 seats in the Senate and 72, or 16.5%, of the 435 seats in the House of Representatives. In addition, three women serve as Delegates to the House from Guam, the Virgin Islands and Washington, DC.

We are over 50% of the population and a measly 17% of Congress.

So, how do we get the fucking banksters out of our way?

Greece Austerity Protests Grow

Grotesque Global Financial System: Greece. Economic Theft on an Unpreceden­ted Scale

Greece is a microcosm of a modern class war rarely reported as such.

by John Pilger



"...In Greece, as in America and Britain, the ordinary people have been told they must repay the debts of the rich and powerful who incurred them. Jobs, pensions and public services are to be slashed and burned, with privateers put in charge. For the EU and the IMF, the opportunit­y presents to "change the culture" and to dismantle the social welfare of Greece, just as the IMF and the World Bank have "structura­lly adjusted" (impoveris­hed and controlled­) countries across the developing world...

http://tin­yurl.com/3­oobnts
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The Federal Reserve Cartel: The Eight Families

The Federal Reserve Cartel: The Eight Families
by Dean Henderson
Global Research
June 1, 2011

The Four Horsemen of Banking (Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup and Wells Fargo) own the Four Horsemen of Oil (Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch/Shell, BP and Chevron Texaco); in tandem with Deutsche Bank, BNP, Barclays and other European old money behemoths. But their monopoly over the global economy does not end at the edge of the oil patch.

According to company 10K filings to the SEC, the Four Horsemen of Banking are among the top ten stock holders of virtually every Fortune 500 corporation.[1]

So who then are the stockholders in these money center banks?

This information is guarded much more closely. My queries to bank regulatory agencies regarding stock ownership in the top 25 US bank holding companies were given Freedom of Information Act status, before being denied on “national security” grounds. This is rather ironic, since many of the bank’s stockholders reside in Europe....


So, by now I'm familiar with most of the historical family names because this series of articles is supplemental to the third book I'm reading on the Federal Reserve Banking system that supplies our money...and our debt to international banksters. I've read Secrets of the Temple (c) 1987 , and I've also read The Creature from Jekyll Island.

Anybody else remember that stupid Rothschild candy ad from the 70's?

Wheeeeeeee, fun stuff.

The Professional Left

These two are the only way I can stand to read the crapola that the corporate media shovels at me on a daily basis.

Wal-Mart to be scrutinized by shareholders

Friday, June 3, 2011
By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO
Retail AP Writer

"FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) - Investors gathering at Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s shareholders' meeting Friday are likely to be a little restless given a two-year sales slump in its namesake business that shows no clear signs of turning around yet..."

If I hear one more time that we don't know if humans are affecting climate change...

I'm going to ask them cui bono?

Seriously, who benefits when we don't believe that human activities have anything to do with it?

THINK.

Oil Group's 'Citizen' Rally Memo Stirs Debate
By David A. Fahrenthold
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, August 16, 2009

This is how (they) do it.

↓ ↓

Journal of Management Studies 40:4

June 2003 0022-2380
A Neo-Gramscian Approach to Corporate Political Strategy: Conflict and Accommodation in the Climate Change Negotiations*
David L. Levy and Daniel Egan
University of Massachusetts, Boston; University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Thursday, June 2, 2011

DARRELL ISSA: IT ISN’T BP’S FAULT

Tomgram: Bill McKibben, Obama Strikes Out on Global Warming
Posted by Bill McKibben at 8:28am, June 2, 2011.



Global Warming
NYT global warming index
Updated: Jan. 13, 2011

Scientific American Global warming articles

EPA - Climate Change

Duke University Study Connects Water Contamination to Fracking Natural Gas Wells
May 10th, 2011 | By admin | Category: Lead Articles, Regulation

Euro Endgame

05/13/2011
"..Yesterd­ay Eurostat disclosed that in order to hide its debt over the past decade, Greece had entered into not one, not two, but a total of 13 different currency swap contracts with Goldman Sachs, all based on the exchange of assorted currencies against the euro as well as one involving a dollar-CHF swap..."

http://tin­yurl.com/6­4qvm85

The US Federal Reserve board is investigat­ing the role of Goldman Sachs, which gambled on the bankruptcy of Greece as public assets were sold off and its tax-evadin­g rich deposited €360bn in Swiss

http://tin­yurl.com/3­oobnts
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Inside The Cult Of Elizabeth Warren

A cult? A bunch of us supporting someone who came from our ranks to defend us from greedy banksters who have been allowed to run wild in the name of unholy profits is a cult?



"The word cult pejorative­ly refers to a group whose beliefs or practices are considered abnormal or bizarre.[1­] The word originally denoted a system of ritual practices.

http://en.­wikipedia.­org/wiki/C­ult



One word: Whatever.
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Doctors Abandoning The Republican Party In Favor Of The Democrats

The NYT article totally tip-toed around the problem of insurance companies. The reason doctors no longer want to own their own practices is because they need too many people fighting the insurance companies to get what the patients need.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Memorial Day 2011

This post isn't about the dead veterans. This is about some of the ones who survived with major injuries.

Numbers?

Miscommunication hinders vets' care, study finds
By Gregg Zoroya, USA TODAY

Updated 03/24/2011 12:17:34 AM

Eligible veterans are not easily identified because the Pentagon and VA have no specific classification for "severely wounded, ill or injured" servicemembers, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) study says...

Everyone claims to “Support Our Troops.” But as Andrew J. Bacevich explains, telling the military it can do whatever it wants works for everyone—except for the soldiers themselves

American Soldiers Are WAKING UP!! SUPPORT OF TAKING AMERICA BACK!!! (StopTheRobbery2) (not new, but I like it)


California home to more wounded and killed veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan wars than any other state
By Thomas Himes, Staff Writer
Posted: 05/29/2011 07:07:24 PM PDT

Wednesday, August 25, 2010 3:00 pm | Updated: 4:51 pm, Wed Aug 25, 2010.
Because of good weather and a high cost of living, San Diego has a lot of homeless people. There are 8,500 homeless people in the county and 35 percent of them (3,000) are veterans. The relatively high proportion of veterans among San Diego's homeless is probably due to our proximity to military bases.
Nationwide, 20-25 percent of the homeless are veterans.

Homeless veterans on rise in San Diego
BY JEANETTE STEELE, UNION-TRIBUNE
SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2011 AT 3 P.M.

(Note the most popular comments on the above local fishwrap article. Welcome to San Diego, home of some of the most asinine "compassionate conservative" dickheads on the planet. Probably because there are a shitload of defense contractors here.)

These are the dead from these latest of our wars. The lucky ones. The war is over for them.

6,013
Operation Iraqi Freedom: 4,442
Operation Enduring Freedom: 1,571
(Updated May 29, 2011)

Heroic Sacrifices for Foolish Causes: Memorial Days Past and Present
by Doug Bandow, May 31, 2008

The government borrows their money from a group of private banksters called the Federal Reserve. I certainly don't agree with everything the author of this book wrote, and I'm no rocket scientist but I managed to glean this from the book:
C) War makes these greedy assholes richer. Edwin Starr - War Live (2001)

Glencore: Taking over the world? - Counting the Cost - Al Jazeera English

Glencore: Taking over the world? - Counting the Cost - Al Jazeera English

Just. Watch. It.

'The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo' Movie Trailer: Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara Teaser Revealed (VIDEO)

Rooney Mara, Noomi Rapace, most Murikans won't know the difernce, they just won't havta strain their eyes tryin ta read them durn subtitles.­. Punk rock, Led Zeppelin, whassa difernce?

*sigh*
About Movies

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Swedish film trailer


Upcoming American version trailer

GOP presidential hopefuls shift on global warming

Friday, May 27, 2011
By DINA CAPPIELLO Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - For Republican presidential contenders who once supported combatting global warming, the race is heating up.

Most of the GOP White House hopefuls have stepped back from their previous positions on global warming. They're catering to an activist right wing that questions the science of climate change and disdains big government.

When they were governors, Tim Pawlenty, Jon Huntsman and Mitt Romney all supported regional plans to curb greenhouse gases. Romney changed his position in 2005. Pawlenty has apologized for it. Huntsman has said the time isn't right because of the economy.

Newt Gingrich once called for action on climate change. Now, conservatives are demanding an apology from him.

On Thursday, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said he's pulling his state out of a regional plan to reduce greenhouse gases.
2011-05-27 07:41:34 GMT

Don't these assholes know that they can't hide their bullshit anymore? Don't they know that somebody, somewhere has archived evidence of their previous positions on issues? That even the even the most squirrel brained retards will eventually be aware of their flip-flopping?

Defense bill

I was reading Howie Klein's latest post War! War! War! More War! But All But One Republican Vote To Defeat Measure To Increase Combat Pay where he mentions that our service members couldn't get a $100 combat pay increase and I started wondering if they got any pay increase?

UPDATE: House passes military spending bill with funding for buildup, Andersen intact
5:31 PM, May. 26, 2011

"...The bill would also bring a 1.6 percent pay increase for all military servicemembers, if it becomes law as is..."

US economic forecast lowered, interest rate unchanged
By Mike McCarthy Apr 27, 2011, 19:54 GMT

"...The US inflation rate is 2.7 per cent, putting the federal funds rate in negative territory in real terms."

After Promising to End Earmarks, Tea Party Fresmen Hog Defense Pork

This has been on my mind after getting into a fight with a right wing fucktard in HuffPo comments yesterday regarding women in the military not being able to get abortions in the military medical system even if they've been raped and Rep. Susan Davis' effort to change that getting shut down by some asinine Rethug who's district is mostly fucking national forest land instead of Ms. Davis' which actually has military personell and veterans living in it. Anyway, I quit responding to the r-wing fucktard, but it bothered me for a while and then I figured out why. Because he asked a question that I never would have asked and that's because I have an inherent understanding of the issue I was commenting on, and fucktard didn't. I'll let Rachel expain:

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Tomgram: Ira Chernus, Ass-Backwards in the Middle East

Israel and the Palestinians Through the Looking Glass
Posted by Ira Chernus at 8:00am, May 26, 2011.

The Myths That Underpin the Failure of American Policy in the Middle East

"...Israeli political life suffers from “a real obsession,” according to the editors of Israel’s most respected newspaper, Haaretz, “a sense that we are constantly under attack.. an insanity of persecution.”

Yeah, and its worse if they live in LA and only read the LA times.

Update: See, this is the kind of BS I'm talking about, although I would not characterize the LA Times as "right-wing" I do see signs that some mainstream media sources are occasionally influenced by the right-wing --

Right-Wing Media Attack American Jews For Not Turning On Obama
May 27, 2011 4:51 pm ET by Adam Shah

A Psychopath Walks Into A Room. Can You Tell?

Some psychologists have a theory that many of the world's ills can be blamed on psychopaths in high places.

"Robert Hare, the eminent Canadian psychologist who invented the psychopath checklist, ... recently announced that you're four times more likely to find a psychopath at the top of the corporate ladder than you are walking around in the janitor's office," journalist Jon Ronson tells Guy Raz, host of weekends on All Things Considered.

Hmm, I've come across this information before....

Ahh, The Corporation. The documentary called The Corporation.

Robo-Signing Continues On Key Land Records In North Carolina

ARRRRRRGH! If you and I are caught forging signatures we go to jail.
If the banksters do it they make a profit!

Taibbi's Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail? (and the a$$-poundi­ng quote) --not to be missed

http://www­.rollingst­one.com/po­litics/new­s/why-isnt­-wall-stre­et-in-jail­-20110216
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The Real Cost of Prisons

May 22, 2011

Defense Contractors Using Prison Labor to Build High-Tech Weapons Systems

Wow, what a boon for defense contractors, and a way to screw the taxpayer twice, and make big money!

What could've been

"Thin thread" - $3 million and ready to go 9 months before 9/11/01.

Trailblazer" - $1.2 billion, and years to develop, and a failure (well, unless you were on the defense contractor gravy train)

Government corruption and ridiculous boondoggles exposed and who do they try to throw in jail?

The whistelblower of course!

*sigh*

Track Palin Marries Britta Hanson, High School Sweetheart

You know, I finally figured out why the McMoosetur­d family can't sneeze without it being reported on: Sitcom writers are always looking for great one-liners­! Keep them coming folks :)
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Web of Debt

EXPLODING THE MYTHS ABOUT MONEY

Our money system is not what we have been led to believe.

Borrowed the book from Dad and I finally got him to raid my bookshelf. Heh.

Fearguth cracks me up

Oh, Aaallo Guvna Sperminator

Floods, Droughts Are 'New Normal' Of Extreme U.S. Weather Fueled By Climate Change, Scientists Say

Oh lookee, this map shows that China finally spews more carbon dioxide than the US, wheeeeeeee­ee

http://www­.guardian.­co.uk/news­/datablog/­2011/jan/3­1/world-ca­rbon-dioxi­de-emissio­ns-country­-data-co2?­intcmp=239­#zoomed-pi­cture
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Free College on Wall Street's Tab? 5 Reasons the Finance Sector Should Pay for Full Tuition at Public Universities

We are the richest country in the world, and we have the means to create employment for the 20 million who are without work.
May 17, 2011 |

"...At the close of WWII...Overall, 7.8 million veterans went to school on the GI Bill...

Was it worth it? In 1988, the Joint Economic Committee analyzed the impact of the GI Bill on the economy. The program cost taxpayers approximately $70 billion (in 2010 dollars). However, the committee estimated that the GI Bill generated an extra $120 billion in federal tax revenues and $350 billion in extra national output. Overall, for every one dollar invested in this massive educational program, $6.90 was returned to the economy..."

Yeah. At that time this country produced and sold more than military material , movies and crops.

It didn't make a sound