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Their way of creating jobs here at home is via China?.
I wish everyone of these publicly traded companies would move there, or Russia, India, South Korea, better yet North Korea. Capitalism could have worked in this country if inflation could have stayed in check, and the people and govt disallowed the kind of gorging we've seen based on the greed of those at the top, and if our Congress had created the kind of regulations that would have given us a fair system that everyone would have benefited from, like growing with the company, and shareholders were the governing body as opposed to board members. But our government is corrupted, and in many ways we see the same kind of crime the Kremlin allows in Moscow an throughout the major, and even small cities in Russia.
Stiff penalties, and harsh jail terms for those who would choose, or have chosen to flaunt the laws. Categorizing their crimes to be the lesser evils, and creating laws that cover "white collar" crime is ludicrous. Plain and simple, you steal, and you go to jail or prison. If a person steals from Kmart they go to jail, and not a special jail, if an employee would embezzle they wouldn't go to a country club. The bigger the crime, the more the time, and none should be protected under some white collar crime bill, its insane. Over the last 4 decades the "avg" Ceo's comp increased from 40 to 1 in contrast to those who labored for these publicly traded companies to 550 to 1 today. Some way way more. Just look at Larry Ellison for example who gave himself approx half (1/2) billion dollars this last year. Salary, bonuses, stock, stock options. What would this come out to be 10,000 to 1 if Oracles bottom earner is making $50k a year?, but unlikely.
As an example those who could afford it could buy a car like a 396 Camaro for around $3500 in the late 60's, and a modest home for $25k to 35k. Today that same home can cost $200k, and more, there is no reason for homes to accellerate in price like this, most homes deteriorate over time regardless of the maintenace, an old home is not the same as a new one, and a similar auto $40 to $50k, and still not get as much a car as then. There needs to be some equilibrium for prosperity, and runaway inflation, and with this the need for cost of living raises, as opposed to just earning a good balanced salary where a mortgage or rent doesn't on average eat more than a quarter of a persons avg earnings nationally.
Its indicative of how out control the greed is, what causes the recessions, or depressions, these are the big red flags that its not worked, nor will it if we're to have a country, and be able to keep its sovereignty, the American people first have to love, posses, or own something, or can work to own something worth protecting, like their families security.
Its hits us all and across every spectrum of our lives. If its not this its the cost of a hospital stay, or the cost of a burial, or the high cost of insurance premiums, health, dental, auto, and home insurance, taxes go up with everything else, the rise in property assessments comes higher home or property taxes. The higher cost of autos comes higher fuel cost, and outrageous repair cost, a 30 part may cost $300 after installation which may be a weekly salary for some. It just goes on an on.
It looks to continue until the entire system collapses in on itself, and it will if things don't change, imo its way to late after forty years of it, and with it all the lies, and most of Americans are not a whole lot better off and some worse, it may appear on the surface that many are doing okay, but underneath it all most are buried in debt, and obligations, a few months of rations stashed away to stave off the flood if the dike breaks, like the phony economies, like the phony market, like the phony dollar, like this phony govt. A balanced system that could have worked for a long time after WW2 if the focus would have been on this country, and its people, protecting its infrastructure, and our communities, and warred against sophisticated crime, and theres enough to go around, especially on the street corners.
Our former presidents, and the last four decades of Congress have sold the country and its people down the river to corporations, foreign govts, their people and their countries, who were proclaimed at one time to be our enemy because they primarily stood in the way for the exploitation of capitalism?, in reality capitalism based on pure and simple greed, and when there's no give, war may be on the horizon. When wars were being raged against other countries, the war should have been raged here at home on many fronts, and not the least to remove every gang in every city who are the real terrorist, and disease.
It should have been raged against illegals, and refugees who come here and who are welcomed with open arms from countries like Haiti, Cuba, and everywhere else, and many arrive, and shortly after set up house and then create their own gangs and drug dealers, and have possession illegally of every kind of gun made.
Instead of this government spends its time printing money, and there isn't enough gold "in the world" to cover it, and like the Ceo's in these companies who dilute and dilute, and dilute by selling worthless paper to unsuspecting shareholders for their gain, and for raising capital in every probable way don't second guess to lay people off, or terminate as they continue to rake in tens if not hundreds of millions for themselves. Wall St loves it.
Eventually they reach a share price that becomes stagnate, and can remain that way for years until they decide to do a r/s, something the treasury isn't privy to. When 1% of the population posses more money, and assets than 90% of the US population combined attempting such a scheme would bring about a Depression of a 3rd world country. The rich would get richer, and like a flock of geese can move or yacht their way to some tropical paradise, or a stronghold to escape the mire they worked to create.
Right now its only a small percentage at the top to include politicians who reap a really good living, security for those who are given careers who benefits come with under the table payouts, campaign funds like Biden who took $2 million plus from his contributions to payoff family who he said helped him during his "short" campaign, money that should have been returned to the committee, or their perks paid for by taxpayers in the way of new lease cars, health benefits, dental benefits, and retirement even if their careers are short lived they can give paid speeches, or sell books based on what they "choose" to disclose on their inside information real or unreal?.
Unlike most Americans who have to work decades and do without alot to have retirement funds that are taxed either before or after.
We have a system that caters to the rich, approx 10% of the overall population, as we get nearer the top of this percentage is the super mega rich who wield it as power, who have Washington at the seat of their pants, who in turn make the rules, and creates the laws, and the IRS who are the enforcers for the rest of us, money used as they see fit, like the bailouts, and gifts to the like of Goldman Sachs to cover their bets, and "Citibank", AIG, etc., etc., etc., tax dollars at work, but not for this country, and not for its people, money talks, and this kind of money can buy and sell these politicians all day everyday, and the result is the exploitation of the working class in every aspect of their lives, the people who make this country work, who builds the roads, and teaches the children, and picks up the garbage, and fights the wars they often create.
We cannot escape experiencing these things, we see it, we hear it, we live it, and acknowledge that people first came to this country to escape the tyranny of suffering in their own country, poverty, and sickness, and were given a bright future with hope, a people who first welcomed them, until the tyranny of greed encapsulated those who wanted to form colonies, then armies, and a new government to control its assets, a government formed by those who had position, status, and the right insiders who could exploit its resources, and in time its people, in many ways its come full circle, and just as in England whose government is made up of a monarchy long dead except for its wealth and status, the ignorance of its people, in particular its parliment still wishes to keep it alive, and is as corrupt as our own caters to those of wealth who are themselves wealthy, especially it upper house, and the countries working class strive to survive.
There's a huge Muslim population that they've allowed into their country from the Middle East, would not like anything more than for it to fall so they could take over internally, a population so large its become a real threat, and it appears that their govt has little power to do anything about. Sounds familiar, the question is what might it look like 20 years from now, and for that matter what will we?. In Oakland there were over a 120 murders last year, all gang related, but not all its victims, like Chicago, like Little Rock, like Salt Lake, like Miami, its an out of control problem in every US city, and its growing worse. It can be matter of just sitting on your porch, walking the dog, a ride in the car, just being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
What if this same kind of attention and force was used to crack down on this stuff over the last 8 years instead of Iraq, and the money used for the deployments, and all, would have been spent dealing with our home grown problems our streets and communities might be just a little safer today. The gangs like those in Oakland have openly told the police they will war with them, and have the guns to do it with if it comes to this. There not afraid of them, and its their turf. Chicago is no better.
By popular request this one goes out to Pres.Obama this morning. :)
Sounds like the same game, only a different week like the blackjack table and its dealer. The casino who houses it, with all the lights, and its marvels, its flashy and pulls people in, the prior week was bad for those who came into play only to lose their paychecks. The first few rounds they were allowed to win, maybe even for a few days, just to keep them playing, and as the stakes grow bigger, only to lose it again, and now some savings. Like addictive narcotics. Now they're hooked.
When we hear about the wealth so many individuals lost with Madoff, many with profound wealth, old money, real old money that belonged to some who lived in Palm Beach, and whose children were born with the proverbial golden spoon, who is just one in this club of crooks and who caused losses like a hundred million to one, or a hundred an ninety-five million to another, etc., some with much more, and who wasn't satisified and needed much more, and others who thought they were building a retirement that would financially at least make them worry free when they needed or wanted to stop working.
http://thedeflationtimes.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/recession-or-depression/
Social Security is something the mega rich, the republicans with some democrats have attacked again, and again, along with Medicare since the meltdown, everytime there is a meltdown, its a great diversion tactic. Its always this each and every-time the market crashes, like they tried blaming most of this on the American working class. It becomes the forefront in all their discussions, this and the devaluation of the dollar as the leading causes, its only to divert the attention away from the darkest pits of their corruption, and as good a game as Madoff played.
If we stop for a moment and ask why?. There has to be a real reason?. Why is it talked about more often than not when we witness these crashes?. What is it?. Are we to believe that they are the real Patriarchs, first to serve?, first to ask what they can do for their government, or their off-springs?, not what the government can do for them?.
Do they want to preserve this government more than any American, and those who have been called for war?. What is it that they are really wanting to convey, convince and to who?. Is it the American people?, the politicians?, foreign governments who the US borrows from?, Hedge Funds Mgrs?, the go getter's of Wall Street????????, who?.
The cry for smaller government, as if at one time those who created it came out of Sainthood. It all started from Europe, and with it came all its ills. Just where had its people been prior, and during the creation of forming it?, and how did it impact the peoples who land this was, and in my opinion still is, and in many ways with all its natural assets has been led to much of its demise.
The size of government is important, the bigger the more out of control it becomes, "if this is more possible than what is?", but what kind of government?. More the emphasis right now should be made into an honorable government. Ya know benz if they had as many regulatory agencies as the bureaucracies with the kind of real oversight to get these crooks it would be one thing, but how can it be when the corruption is made legal?. It should be a government who serves of its people, and its well being, like their protection, we the people, for the people are today just words that lack meaining, if this is what many in the media are eluding to, not Wall Street, and the stock market, this so called corrupted "Free Market", and who it was creating for, and for what?, and not for corporate greed, and "theirs", or publicly traded companies.
In my opinion the least of all are our great grandparents, grandparents, who stood witness to a World War, "and for who?", the Great Depression, and who caused it?, and then another World War, the wars that proceeded them, and endured alot of suffering, who never had the kind of loose money they could gamble with in the market, or to the rest of us who have to work for a living?, and in an uncertain job market, and the days of working for a company for 20 to 30 years is practically over, a thing of the past.
We have seen what has occurred to the National Debt since the Reagan administration, for that matter just since the Bush Administration(s), and it had nothing to do with the issues these Wall Street Tycoons bitch about the most.
What it has to do with most is the protection of "their wealth", and the value a strong dollar adds, and how it could serve their off springs who they will leave it all to, and future generations like those who have helped them obtain it. Corruption made legal, the kind of power only the mob could envy.
When the Social Security Act was passed under FDR it contained 64 pages.
GATT was 20 or 22 thousand pages if my memory serves me.
This Heath Care Bill is a staggering 2000 pages.
The Declaration of Independence was 1 page.
By contrast there are 62,000+ tax codes (amendments) created by the IRS. The party who "Heads" the IRS is non other than the US Treasury Secretary. We have seen, and still see the power, the control and misuse, and abuse he, and the Congress wield over the US taxpayers has misapproprated to the publicly traded corporations of Wall Street. Who were the big fall guys this time?, looks like Madoff and Stanford. With all the unadulterad fraud thats taken place among the Credit rating agencies, and all these financial institutions including Goldman Sachs who should have been brought down to its knees Congress, and our president former, and the one seated with Congress places them at the alter of worship. Its all gonna be swept under the rug, and the greatest diversion of all has been this "Health Care Bill".
The US Constitution 4 pages.
The Civil Rights Bill 8 pages.
Away with coal, and China can't get enough. Just like with the dot coms., just like every "next big thing", having lost nearly 4 decades of research to appease the oil industries.
During the great depression era this country produced 70% of its oil, we now produce about 1/3 of this.
Its better to be held hostage to countries like Iran, and maybe even Venezuela who would like nothing more than to be able to divert its oil sales to other countries, and allow them to become a real threat to the Middle-East, and the rest of the world to prevent skyrocketing oil prices.
Whats worse?. The threat of global warming, or radio active fallout?. With al qaeda threatening every country whose involved in combating them with something like a dirty bomb or worse if we, and they don't pull out it serves everything that Iran wants to accomplish, its been a great diversion, and George Bush walked us right into it by not pursuing our might in Afghanistan, and his father had a golden opportunity during Desert Storm that he blew, there was a real build up of insurgents after we pulled out, but it didn't happen overnight it took years. Iran had a decade to plot and plan, and so Ahmadinejad will probably succeed unless Israel decides it can't live under such a threat.
We had choices and alot of weaponry and forces we could have used in Afghanistan at the onset, instead we got bogged down in Iraq, a country whose leader was not a threat to the US. But yet they had oil, and 911 was as great a excuse.
Now it appears that Obama doesn't know what to do?
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/politics/2009/September/Does-Cap--Trade-Really-Mean-Cap--Tax/
http://ezinearticles.com/?What-Does-Cap-and-Trade-Mean-to-the-Common-Man?&id=2662499
http://www.rmmag.org/MGTemplate.cfm?Section=RMMagazine&NavMenuID=128&template=/Magazine/DisplayMagazines.cfm&IssueID=339&AID=3992&Volume=56&ShowArticle=1
Break-Time:
Nick Danger
Hitting the HQ button can help to break up the downloads.
http://www.gatasi.com/video/q5XfXECpU6w/nick-danger-part-1.html
http://www.gatasi.com/video/Dscm0BaL_Ts/firesign-theatre-the-further-adventures-of-nick-danger-p-2.html
Something I guess most of us have paid little attention to is the fact that the money shoveled out in these bailouts to the biggest manipulators of stock have used this money not only to run up stocks since the meltdown, but for their lobbying purposes as well. GS is one of the largest HedgeFunds, and just one of the many institutions who use the Caymans for offshore trading activities like shortselling, and without question used for this purpose as well.
Dillon turns the light on Goldman Sachs/JP Morgan's Dark Pools, just 2 of the worlds biggest crooks, and their derivative markets. A Dark Pool has zero transparency and was created for their wealthy clients. A lit pool would be that of the NYSE, Nasdaq etc. Its a market of manipulation where they buy large blocks of stock for these clients, then sell them to the unsuspecting then dump them.
The kicker is that not one, "no not one", of our elected officials know where the money went or how it was used. Whats more ironic was to give it over to Paulson just as he was leaving that position. This is one of the biggest scams of all, bigger than Madoff's, and the govt informed the American people of the intent, money they never requested that the American people vote on, and agree to, but money they took never the same. The American people at the point in time the money was getting shoveled out faster than hot potato's were not only hooked but speared thru the gut as well.
The more and more we learn about GS and JP Morgan, the superbanks as Dillon puts it, the more we find that they are dirtier than dirt. "Dark Pools" is just one of things that he discussed this morning with one Congressman, the video can be seen by clicking on morning meeting.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32841310/ns/msnbc_tv-morning_meeting/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33224880/ns/msnbc_tv/
Unfortunately, they use our wealth and laws not only to benefit their outdated, failed companies, but also spend a small pittance of their ill-gotten gains lobbying and favor-trading with politicians so the government will continue to protect them from competition and their well-deserved failure.
The massive spike in unemployment, the utter destruction of retirement wealth, the collapse in the value of our homes, the worst recession since the Great Depression have all resulted directly from the abdication of proper government.
Lieberman: His buddies are the insurance companies in his State, just some who have bought and paid for him, and the office he represents. A poster boy, who is just one of many who believes that voters play a minor, or insignificant role in his re-election, all they need is campaign contributions, and the envelopes to keep coming their way. It may be true, considering the career he's had. Joe Biden's another. What will it take to get this corruption once an for all out of govt?, the layers of it is so thick, not one can be trusted. This is his only real reason for he rejecting a public option. He then lies about his reasoning, stating its good for the country, and for the govt. In reality what would be good for both is for he to step down, then go home ,and take a swim, "to the bottom of his pool".
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/10/27/lieberman-filibuster-health-care/
Whether its been the Wall Street Bailouts, or this, its more than obvious who runs our govt. Maybe its taken all this for the American people to see whats really there, and its these very same people who call us to war.
Break Time:
Enjoy!!
Death and pending litigation when huge sums of money are at stake seem to go hand in hand in some of these cases. This was an older article. This guy must have a few screws loose to believe Madoff not be the biggest beneficiary. This guy may have taken more than $7b according to some the latest articles, but Madoff had his hands on approx $65 minus this $7b still leaves $58b unaccounted for, and its not to be found within his known assets.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31510209/ns/business-small_business
"Greed Is Still Good on Wall St.":
Andrew Ross Sorkin on the Lessons of the Crisis
Posted Oct 23, 2009 07:35am EDT by Aaron Task in Newsmakers, Banking
Related: JPM, MS, GS, AIG, BAC, C, XLF
In "Too Big to Fail," NY Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin provides behind-the-scenes details on the scramble of Wall Street during the great credit crisis of 2008.
What's interesting is how much of that scramble occurred before Lehman Brothers' mid-September bankruptcy vs. after, when the world was fixated on systemic risk.
Recalling the market's sharp rally in the spring of 2008 after the Fed engineered JPMorgan's takeover of Bear Stearns, "we all thought the world was going to be a better, safer place," Sorkin says. "But throughout that period, behind the scenes, the government was involved in all sort of intervention efforts. They saw the train coming down the track, and everybody sorta tried to get out of the way but obviously don't get out of the way on time."
While much of the focus was on saving Lehman Brothers, Sorkin also reports on the following:
Goldman Sachs held a board meeting in June 2008 in which they discussed becoming a bank holding company and potentially buying AIG. (Goldman executives also met with Hank Paulson in Moscow during that trip, Sorkin reveals.)
AIG petitioned then NY Fed president Tim Geithner about the possibility of becoming a bank holding company, which would give them access to the Fed's discount window.
Attempts by Hank Paulson, Tim Geithner and other officials to spur mergers between Wachovia and Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan, Goldman and Citigroup, and more!
Efforts by regulators to get various investors - including Warren Buffett and China's sovereign wealth funds - to put capital in any number of financial institutions.
"Almost everyone who's still in office or power thinks of themselves today as a survivor," Sorkin says. "I'm not sure they appreciate that they're only survivors to the extent we the American public helped bail them out and what the responsibility they now have is to the community."
So we asked Sorkin if any of the CEOs who attended his book launch party in NYC this week have expressed a sense of humility, or just learned any lessons from their collective near-death experience.
You'll have to watch the accompanying video to get the details, but you can probably guess the answer.
Ms. Schapiro has spent her career protecting brokerage firms from investors, and thwarting efforts to reform a thoroughly corrupt securities industry.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-solin/sec-overhaul----dump-mary_b_207027.html
They lie before they serve their first day in elected office, most don't know the difference between a lie or the truth because all they've ever done is lie.
Sorry, I agree with your points.
Now lets rebuild Iraq. To start with how about a 5-Star Hotel for traveling business leaders, corporate big wigs I suppose who they mean so they can decide how to carve it all up, and get rich from the countries oil profits since the large oil corporations are now getting involved for oil production.
A Green Zone protected by American soldiers, and tax payer dollars, and the price seems to be about right, and the govt of Iraqs contribution other than given them a tax free contract is still not clear?
http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/checkpointbaghdad/archive/2008/07/22/new-5-star-hotel-for-baghdad.aspx
http://baghdadtreasure.blogspot.com/2005/09/new-five-star-hotel-in-baghdad.html
I thought I saw one in Huckabee, but didn't that opportunity to vote for him, but until I see one whose actions are louder than words, and all the American people are on board with, and he on board with the American people little will change. Something we just don't see, nor with any of our Legislatures.
We lost a Congressman some years ago who did alot for Veterans, and was one of Milwaukee's very own. Clement Zablocki. He came from the old Polish neighborhood, and the people here love him, and gave him a 30 year career. In his honor his office was moved from Washington to the Milwaukee VA, and everything is positioned as it was, and can be seen behind a glass partition, a tribute for all he did, and the hospital was named after him. Has to be one of the Best in the country. This is indicative of what our country could have been and if not to late could be with honorable men and women who want to serve in this capacity.
People like him who served honorably during his terms the people wanted to keep in, but today I think that the best for the American people are term limits. The people wanted term limits and the Congress voted it down.........Imagine this?. The voice of the people is only heard when it fits in with their agendas. 2 terms for president, 1 term for a Senator, and 6 years needs to be reduced to 4, and 2 terms for a Congressman. I would think this would shake up that bureaucratic webs they've all spun. Their more concerned once their in about their campaign contributions, and money they get from lobbyist, and who ever else can pad their pockets other than the individuals who vote for them, odd isn't it?. Illustrates the kind of fixes they spin once elected.
Yep!, and if we choose to continue to listen to their rhetoric they would have us believe that we truly need India, because of what they do or don't effects all of us here at home. Like not getting the thread counts we all come to expect from Martha baby.
India doesn't have enough oil to support their own people, and I can't remember when I ate a banana that was grown in Calcutta. In some regions they worship cows, and rats, and disease is running rampant in their cities, in particular HIV and Aides. Maybe its our future needs to import Steel from them so we can build more prisons we need, who knows?........a country whose population is 1.5b needs jobs. China doesn't care, heck they don't even send in military to get back their ships captured and held in Somalia, they just keep on keeping on, and will wait for the US to do it.
Its obvious your a Bush fan, and you do make some valid points, but none in reference to Bush. He did come before the American people with a face almost tearful, but spoke boldly about the need for the taxpayer to bail out the corruption of Wall Street, according to his Treasury Sec, the new Fed Chair, and Ron Cox former SEC Chair his old man nominated for that position. Not in those terms, he openly admitted he knew little about what was going on in the economy. "The economy!", the economy thats been sold to foreign countries thru concessions.
I agree that rising oil prices do have a negative impact on all of us, unless your one of mega rich, and drive a Bentley, or a Ferrari, or you can own a Yacht the size of Cruise ship, or a Jet, the cost may get into the millions of more dollars, they'll just up their comp packages, and sell a few more stocks, or their hedge fund mgr can short enough in a day to take care of the additional cost, but for most working Americans it shows up on the credit cards. Today when every other vehicle is a Pick-up or SUV some the size of a house people don't need but want to drive to and from work for show or bully with because they have one even bigger draws little sympathy. The impression the people give is that they can afford them, and the gas, in spite of rising oil prices. $35K-$60k+ and a vehicle that can be traded in every 2 years. There's a common sense way to combat rising fuel prices at the pump, but just what will happen to higher energy prices for our homes that are tied to the Cap an Trade is an area I haven't researched?, but from what I gather it will compound.
It didn't start nor finish with out of control fuel cost, but with all thats going on in the world and "our" govt having done little since the oil embargo in the 70's knew it was just a matter of time before our sacks would be in the ringer, a commodity that can be used for black mail should have been enough for steady changes, research, and technology, and our modes of transportation if they would have been working with our car manufacturers. Instead we wind up with $4+ at the pump and the Hummer. The real reasons we went into Iraq, and the real reasons why we don't go after Iran, nor will they, and the reasons for their fear of what Israel may decide to do, and the primary reason why Afghanistan has been left in state of stalemate is due to them not having any resources, other than they supply 90% of the heroin throughout the world. There's not alot to gain from them is there?, except the reason we were supposedly there in the first place, to end al qaeda in that region and Bin Laden. But 8 years of diversion, and the American people are fed up with all of it, they don't want to rebuild Afghanistan with trillions of their tax dollars, when our own shores are sick.
But with the States adopting new marijuana laws, who knows?, maybe they can find a legal market for it.
Our govt has been completely out of control since the end of Eisenhower, and we can contribute half this time to the Republicans, and the other half to the Democrats, and they fight continually with one another. The Republicans want to give little to the American people, but have bent over with their pants down for the rich. The Democrats have proven to be not a whole lot better whose primary political agenda is to support special interest groups who are constantly crying for more at the expense of the rest of the country, and both are responsible for getting us into unjustified wars, and getting this country into things that we're not only dirty on the surface but the undersides to. Just think of where our country would be today if we had a righteous govt with righteous leaders who would have not sold their offices out, and would have worked together to strengthen us, kinda like all for one, and one for all, perhaps today we wouldn't be crumbling like our infrastructure is.
Wall Street owns Washington.
The money that could be made, the money that was made off the US govt, or rather the American taxpayers, and all the money to be made, and will be made is the big picture, and it was for all the desire to make the Iraqi people a free people?, when the responsible party for 911 is still sending msgs 8 years later, and who launched his attack from Afghanistan, our then President missed that entire country and sent all most of its military might into Iraq to go after Saddam who had nothing to do with 911.
Made as much sense to most Americans as it did when Clinton gave Janet Reno the Okay to storm that farm house in Waco, so they could save the 28 or so children, and as we all know died in that fire. Like Desert Storm, David Koresh had been seen any number of times in town prior to all that, and could have been taken down then, instead they chose to involve people who could not defend themselves placing all their lives in jeopardy. And we all know, the govt never wants to admit their wrongs, just like Ruby Ridge, and how they tried to justify those actions.
Crime is running rampant in our American streets, and school kids can't even attend class without running into gang bangers, and many murdered, from American home grown "terrorist", our real concerns should be every dictator, every tyrant, of every country in the world..........maybe we should set our sights a little higher, like Russia, Cuba, or Venezuela, maybe all 3 at once?.
Ironic is the fact that our bright minded govt officials made the wise decisions to close military bases nation wide because it just didn't see the need for that kind of manpower so it could open up all these countries unjustifiably, and free them from dictators, unlike the ones we have in DC.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Iraq-approves-oil-deal-with-apf-2026948589.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=main&asset=&ccode=
The Secret History Of Gold:
Aired at 6PM. You can go back by click on the the arrow at the top of the page. Interesting, for any who want to watch it, its very insightful for what we don't know.
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/tv-schedule
Bush deserved respect. My friend you need to learn a little more about Bush/and the entire Bush family, and then follow all of their footprints.
The biggest of all lies was he telling the American people he had the ability to be a President, when he didn't even have the ability to be Governor, nor an oilman, nor a soldier in the Air National Guard. Its even more unbelievable that he graduated from an Ivy league University, but when your father is in such a high place, it does do wonders. The 2nd was his reasoning for going into Iraq, and if for just a moment your inclined to believe that he or the world thought Iraq was a threat to the US, Israel, or even Kuwait again, you need to go outside and get some fresh air, well maybe not fresh, but some air :). Just look at the ruin he's left behind, and isn't kind of a coincidence that it all occurred prior to his departure?, kinda like it did with Clinton and his departure, then give a closer look at the individuals who made up his cabinet, and to follow the trail in detail you would need to go back a few decades and follow it up from the Reagan administration.
You can say that again!!!!, and then some!
There may never be another FDR, and so much of what he accomplished and worked to accomplish has literally been trampled upon. He and others during that time made their share of mistakes, but the American people were always at its center.
He won WW2, and for the battles and equipment that couldn't compare to the Germans, and even some that Japan had, for all the countries our soldiers crossed fighting battle after battle, ground, sea, and air our country fought over was done in half the time we've now been in Iraq and Afghanistan.
From the election of Kennedy to the present in waiting, we have witnessed the fall, and its failures to be "a government of the people, for the people".
The American people, whose voices remain silent in the Halls of Congress, if the elected officials would have listened, no bailouts would have ever occurred, the only time they do is when their very office is under attack by their constituents, the media, when their caught up in something, and or their positions feel threatened by civil war in the streets.
The only voices they notably listen to, the only voices they choose to hear are those of special interest groups, and the thousands of lobbyist who are willing to spend for all those willing to sell their office, and those of real wealth regardless of how its obtained, and unlike them wanting enforcement for laws and rules other than those that will protect them, are given full reign to have none for pure, and unadulterated corruption.
Those who wield both money and power, who they hope will help get them elected, and re-elected, so they may build a self serving career. Its beyond belief how may years so many of them have been in office, and are able to keep getting elected, and the results have been years and years of the same betrayal's, Biden is just one of a perfect example. They have no code of ethics, the very ones they expect our military to have they fall way short of.
If it even means they'll bend over for these rats at the cost of peoples livelihoods, or homes, or families investments for the future. We have all seen what this kind of greed and control can do, and few will ever stand accountable, Maybe Madoff who scammed for decades when NY has the largest FBI office in the country is mind blowing, but who was funded by private money, in fact they get rewarded, not billions but trillions before its over, and if this is not enough, they've spent some of it on high end resorts for parties, and are given multi-million dollar bonuses and salaries, the media reported that approx $140,000,000,000 in toll was to get paid out, and some individuals into the tens of millions for having run such frauds here and abroad.
If we just take 2 of these institutions, AIG, and GS who received 21-23 "Billion Dollars", and in lock step the CEO rewarded himself with a $70+ "Million Dollar comp package", all in the same breath is beyond comprehension because of the INSANITY. These are the people running the "Govt". The House and the Senate, and the former and present President has his links as well because he signed on to it with little oversight. Much of what he told the American people prior to getting elected so far looks to be a little speculative?
Retirement, or having the funds for it may be just a dream for many due to this collapse, and more and more companies move abroad, and the insourcing, and outsourcing of jobs are given away at the American peoples expense, not to mention illegal immigrants who are on the verge of receiving amnesty in some form, and we have yet to see what may be coming down the road?
Americans who by all measure built and grew these publicly traded corporations, and institutions, based on the belief that their hard work, and financial risk would bring future returns from the money they allowed them to use and thus would help to grow our economy with production and job growth, along with stability, has proven to be little more than one big scam to use our countries people, even at the cost of war, and its obvious who becomes the beneficiaries from American spilled blood............
The reasons behind so much of it was for what?......aha, to combat Communism!!. Guess this is the reason the French were the first in Vietnam, and the reasons we fought, and today we support South Korea militarily, so capitalism can flourish there, and it wouldn't be surprising to see the same in Iraq for future decades. American corporations having opened those doors for them, and in no small way, and then its on to the rest of the world.
8 years of Iraq brings about the curiosity of what it will eventually be all about?. Afghanistan is an entirely different story, it will cost trillions to build up that country after the war concludes?. It being a country of no resources, other than opium fields, wonder what future plans could be on the drawing board?. It would be foolish to think that this hasn't all been discussed, and why that war has dragged on like it has with little to no results.
Today we're partners, friends, pals with governments we supposedly don't trust, we may even begin to get chummy with the Castro regime since Russia, and China are in their inner circle. American corporations are just foaming at the mouth.
Everything, and anything, car parts, home appliances, tools, clothes, if its not from South Korea, its India, or Pakistan, or Vietnam, or Thailand once produced by American labor is now coming from overseas.
If any of us could describe what our country builds anymore,"other than debt?" from foreign, and communist countries, a big part of it thats been given or contracted to publicly traded corporations, other than for its defense, and for all the cost that goes into the fear creation, has been unable to win a quick unjustified war, and air travel, pharmaceuticals, oil and gas refinement, wood and paper, liquor, cigarettes what would it be?. Fast food restaurants, and "Healthcare?".
It was $34 million, but whats another $2m?
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He will.
Like uncle Bernie, its been reported that most of his investors never withdrew their money, but yet continued to contribute to what they thought was their future nest eggs. Like most who have 401k's, mutual funds, and various other vehicles used for their children's college funds, and pensions, are to a larger degree are left untouched. $50b to $65b, his assets, with all he burned thru couldn't add up to $5b let alone that amount.
To the contrary of what we hear about regarding ponzi's, we would be left to accept the notion that the money from new investors is used to payout old investors is a myth, in actuality they know that the money in most will just never be found. The only reason any of the old investors would get money would be if they cashed out, or are to receive dividend checks, and which would be comparatively small to what would be taken in from new investors. When the money flow stops coming in from new investors, divvy's stop getting paid, and when this happens the schemer buys time with excuses, and when several months have elapsed, ALL the money is gone.
When Made-off was asked about his friend, the one who cut his wrist, and bled out having learned of he, and his friends losses that were a billion +, his responsive remark was, "he could not pick a stock if his life depended on it". Bernies wife blames the gentiles for what has happened to him. Ya can see just how dark, and evil these people truly are. It was someone elses fault, not theirs. The truth is Madoff couldn't pick a stock either, he had not made a trade in 13 years, but yet no one on Wall Street, not one firm, not even the SEC picked up on it, the only rational reasoning would be that most of the other firms were just as guilty of their own corruption, and it would be hard for GS or the others to call the kettle black.
Anyone who is sophisticated enough to pull off such a con, like Bernie, knows all the in's and out's on how to hide money. The Cayman's alone have 241 banks, and their own currency, secret accounts, secret safety deposit boxes, as well as Austria, and Switzerland. In addition to them there's approx 40 more countries if the money is a staggering amount, gold can be purchased, platinum bars then be transferred from a mint for the bank of that destination then sold to the client, and kept within their vault, and no one is the wiser.
In Bermans case he may use a family member, like his mother as the owner, but he given access to her box. They will always find a means to hide it, even if its to pay off their home, car, or fund their retirement. As we can see by example, a tiny little pink can produce tens of millions for these cons, like Usxp if I remember raked in $36m for all involved, but they got caught, like the ceo and his shister atty prior to this, its a never ending saga. It should have been shut down intially because it was an enterprise built on fraud.
Holism?, Holistic, Holy?, yeah something Berman needs to learn about when he attends Sunday church........the same firm that must represent the Methodist Church he was "CFO" at.
Where he learned to handle other peoples money.
Guess Uncle Bernie is also trying to reinvent himself as he tries to get his sins washed away, as he continues to agressively sin everyday to his last breath by not returning the money he has stolen. Guess he will indirectly take it with him unless its already buried in his plot. He has billions to spend in the commissary. This is what his ill gotten gains got him, and he will die in dark place no matter where it will be since he has no conscience he believes in nothing more than himself, just like Berman.
Agree!. Sounds like the PR firm itself huh?.
Oh yeah! lets all buy into this one, sounds great!:( NOT!
The only algae we see is what we have all thrown up, indeed it does look green, and the faint lettering reads the United States Of America, and down deep into the porcelain bowl, and fed to the "sewer" that we know as Rick Berman. Russel Industries, "A Holding Company!", which holds investors money and never lets go.
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The Road to Riches Is Called K Street
Lobbying Firms Hire More, Pay More, Charge More to Influence Government
Former representative Robert L. Livingston is a top lobbyist. (Linda Spillers - Bloomberg News)
By Jeffrey H. Birnbaum
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
To the great growth industries of America such as "health care and home building" add one more: "influence peddling".
The number of registered lobbyists in Washington has more than doubled since 2000 to more than 34,750 while the amount that lobbyists charge their new clients has increased by as much as 100 percent. Only a few other businesses have enjoyed greater prosperity in an otherwise fitful economy.
Russell Industries Engages Business Consulting Firm
Russell Industries, Inc. (Pink Sheets:RIND) is pleased to announce that it has begun transitioning from its simple exploration/pre-development business stage company into an operating "development stage" company. To accomplish this new goal, Company Management has formulated a new and directed business plan to leverage assets gathered by the Company in its exploration/pre-development stage into two distinct but related alternative energy businesses – mining and sustainable feedstock for bio-fuel purposes.
THEY'RE CAREFUL IN SELECTING THE WORDING TO MAKE IT SOUND LIKE MORE IS HAPPENING HERE THAN ACTUALLY IS. ITS A TWIST OF WORDS THAT STIPULATES A NEW APPROACH OF GETTING INVESTORS INTERESTED FROM A PRE-DEVELOPMENT TO A DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE, WHICH IN FACT MEANS THE SAME BULLSHIT WITH BERMAN TAKING HIMSELF OUT OF THE HOTSEAT. HE KNOWS EVERY PRIOR INVESTOR WOULD LIKE NOTHING MORE THAN TO GET HIM INTO A LOCKED 5X8 ROOM.
The Company believes that, if it is successful in implementing its new business plan, that the Company will begin the process necessary to unleash the value of the assets amassed by the Company in its exploration/pre-development stage. In creating this new business plan, the Company retained and worked with a corporate consulting firm, Holism Consulting, Ltd.
Holism Consulting, a boutique consulting firm with footprints in the United States and throughout Asia, has special expertise in natural resources and energy projects including alternative "green" projects. Holism is committed to its belief that "greener" energy is not only much needed but also very possible even within the confines of today's economy and without the need for government subsidies.
In commenting on today’s news, Richard Berman, CEO of Russell Industries, stated, “I have been working diligently to enhance shareholder value and now that we have reached this new plateau, and despite the many challenges and potential pitfalls ahead, I remain more positive than ever in the vision of Russell Industries.” Berman went on to say that, “while no one can make any guarantees, I believe that over time and with Holism’s guidance and advice, that the Company will be able to unleash the potential value of its assets and IP for the benefit of all its shareholders.”
"THE ONLY WAY BERMAN CAN ENHANCE ANY SHAREHOLDERS VALUE IS TO RETURN TO ONE AN ALL WHAT HE HAS STOLEN Even then the shareholders would only break even, less he would pay out interest on the money everyone has not been privy to, and in addition to all of this everyone has lost all stock holdings they once owned, so the idea of such a remark is totally absurd, without any merit, and a bold face lie".
As part of the new business plan that Holism Consulting created with the Company, Holism agreed to assume the responsibility of managing the Companies’ web sites. The Companies’ new sites will become information “portals” as to all aspects of Russell’s businesses increasing Russell's transparency and improving investor's access to information and significant events by implementing, among other things, an online Investor Relations FAQ Page and a Q & A forum.
About Russell Industries
Russell Industries is an alternative energy company. The Company is the majority owner of more than 255 unpatented Uranium mining claims in San Juan County, Southern Utah. The Company is also pursuing development of commercial scale algae production facilities through its wholly owned subsidiary, Algae Farm, LLC.
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About Holism Consulting, Ltd
Holism Consulting, Ltd., is a business consulting firm serving companies in the environmental, natural resources, and green-energy industries. Holism has an exclusive network of consultants and advisors throughout Asia and the United States, each with specialized expertise in the various areas that Holism concentrates. Holism draws on this pool of experts to create an optimal team to “get the job done” for the companies it serves.
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We can not give you any investment advice. Russell is a pre-exploration, development stage company with no history of earnings and, therefore, any investment in Russell Industries is an investment that is highly speculative and offers a high degree of risk
No history of earnings, nor ever will be, ya can't take what money any investors have entrusted ya with, and have it wired from a brokerage account to a beater account, then withdrawn for personal use, and into the hundreds of thousands, and overtime perhaps a few million, there is no company account, and then expect that the money will keep flowing in the hope that any one project will get completed. First ya gotta have real employee's, real equipment, and real capital "for the business itself", and then be on the sites to oversee the work.............this has never happened over years, nor will it. Berman is con, and any so called business is nothing more than a hypothetical model that he pumps as being something real when its nothing more than idea he pumps to lead someone like yourself into a delusion of make believe that one day you'll see a profit.
Johnny who you trying to kid?. There is nothing honorable about Berman, his associates, or the company. The fact is that Berman doesn't have one red cent invested in this, only its shareholders who technically own this symbol, and the mining claims. Berman is doing nothing more than riding on their coat tails. He jumps onto any new trend thats occurring within the market with the hope of enticing new investors.
If you knew his history, you would know he's been here before. For a stock deal he's hired some PR firm who has no vested interest, and will sell their position when its most profitable, and in the interim will be his go between for people like yourself seeking answers to questions.
Berman is a racketeer, and anyone who would associate their firm with him should come under the same scrutiny. If you can find no better place to put your money then I guess this is the stock to buy. Other than this all I can say is that you would be just as well off to have bought into one of those Canadian Lotteries where you send off your money to pay the taxes on your winnings prior to receiving the money, Canadian taxes mind you. Kinda like paying taxes to the IRS prior to filing your tax earnings.
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