http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/45594.html
If Tom Delay can be convicted of money laundering, then it's time "WE" demand Wells Fargo is held to the same standards.
Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) was convicted late Wednesday in a state money laundering case, the latest stunning development in years-long battle over his role in the 2002 Lone Star State legislative races.
DeLay was found guilty on charges of money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering. DeLay, who was forced to step down as majority leader in 2005 after he was indicted on the state charges, has long denied any wrongdoing.
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Bobby Jindal: Make Congress part-time
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/45572.html
The reality of the United States federal deficit makes this idea one for serious consideration. Rather than pay them to stay out of Washington, lets just cut their pay as well as their benefits to a part time position, and the time they do need to be in session, should only be used for the most serious of considerations.
Lobbyist should be against the law period. The dominance of their bought positions, has ruined everything this nation stands for.
It's time for a change to put this nation back on an even footing, and Governor Jindal's proposal does just that.
Louisiana Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal wants members of Congress to stay home more often.
“We used to pay farmers not to grow crops, let's pay congressmen to stay out of Washington, D.C.,” Jindal said in an interview with Human Events. “Mark Twain said that our liberty, our wallets were safest when the legislature's not in session.”
Jindal, himself a former congressman, said once elected, many lawmakers become entrenched in Washington and become the very people they once campaigned against
The reality of the United States federal deficit makes this idea one for serious consideration. Rather than pay them to stay out of Washington, lets just cut their pay as well as their benefits to a part time position, and the time they do need to be in session, should only be used for the most serious of considerations.
Lobbyist should be against the law period. The dominance of their bought positions, has ruined everything this nation stands for.
It's time for a change to put this nation back on an even footing, and Governor Jindal's proposal does just that.
Louisiana Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal wants members of Congress to stay home more often.
“We used to pay farmers not to grow crops, let's pay congressmen to stay out of Washington, D.C.,” Jindal said in an interview with Human Events. “Mark Twain said that our liberty, our wallets were safest when the legislature's not in session.”
Jindal, himself a former congressman, said once elected, many lawmakers become entrenched in Washington and become the very people they once campaigned against
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Fear pays, Chertoff cashing in.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/23/fear_pays_chertoff_n_787711.html
Chertoff seems to have every angle covered that there can possibly be some money made from.
After last month's plot to send bombs from Yemen to the United States aboard a cargo plane, former U.S. Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff's whiskerless visage was ubiquitous on cable news. Solemnly warning that the nation needed stronger security procedures, Chertoff patiently repeated his talking points on ABC News's "World News Tonight", "Fox and Friends", CNBC's "Squawk Box" and Bloomberg TV.
Almost unmentioned in these appearances: Chertoff has a lot to gain financially if some of these measures are adopted. Between his private consulting firm, The Chertoff Group, and seats on the boards of giant defense and security firms, he sits at the heart of the giant security nexus created in the wake of 9/11, in effect creating a shadow homeland security agency. Chertoff launched his firm just days after President Barack Obama took office, eventually recruiting at least 11 top officials from the Department of Homeland Security
Chertoff seems to have every angle covered that there can possibly be some money made from.
After last month's plot to send bombs from Yemen to the United States aboard a cargo plane, former U.S. Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff's whiskerless visage was ubiquitous on cable news. Solemnly warning that the nation needed stronger security procedures, Chertoff patiently repeated his talking points on ABC News's "World News Tonight", "Fox and Friends", CNBC's "Squawk Box" and Bloomberg TV.
Almost unmentioned in these appearances: Chertoff has a lot to gain financially if some of these measures are adopted. Between his private consulting firm, The Chertoff Group, and seats on the boards of giant defense and security firms, he sits at the heart of the giant security nexus created in the wake of 9/11, in effect creating a shadow homeland security agency. Chertoff launched his firm just days after President Barack Obama took office, eventually recruiting at least 11 top officials from the Department of Homeland Security
US considers ending invasive airport security checks
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8151940/US-considers-ending-invasive-airport-security-checks.html
Don't accept what Pistole is saying. He doesn't know when or what will change only that they are reviewing it.
Do not give away your greatest opportunity to get rid of this invasive garbage all together.
Look what the cops say to the TSA about Matt Kernan.
He didn't have to get searched to come into the country.
Homeland Security's TSA has just been made a very expensive joke!
As well as a violation of your civil rights!
If you subject yourself to it, remember demand they change their gloves.
He urged travellers not to heed calls for a boycott tomorrow of the new Advanced Imaging Technology machines, which have so far been introduced at about 20 per cent of the country's 2,100 airport security lanes, arguing it would cause unnecessary disruption for other travellers.
The day before the annual Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday traditionally sees the highest volume of passengers in a single day, while 24 million people are expected to fly over the extended holiday period.
Mr Pistole however refused to indicate what changes would be made and when. He reminded Americans that the new measures had been introduced in response to the failed attack on a passenger jet bound for Detroit by the "underwear bomber" last Christmas Day.
Beating the TSA: How a determined passenger spent hours arguing his rights before being waved through the checks
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1332276/Beating-TSA-How-determined-passenger-spent-hours-arguing-rights-waved-checks.html
'We walk over to the staff entrance and he scans his badge to let me through. We walk down the long hallway that led back to the baggage claim area. We skip the escalators and moving walkways.'
He was then waved away by annoyed officers and said: 'In order to enter the US, I was never touched, I was never “Backscatted,” and I was never metal detected.
'In the end, it took 2.5 hours, but I proved that it is possible. I’m looking forward to my next flight on Wednesday.'
Don't accept what Pistole is saying. He doesn't know when or what will change only that they are reviewing it.
Do not give away your greatest opportunity to get rid of this invasive garbage all together.
Look what the cops say to the TSA about Matt Kernan.
He didn't have to get searched to come into the country.
Homeland Security's TSA has just been made a very expensive joke!
As well as a violation of your civil rights!
If you subject yourself to it, remember demand they change their gloves.
He urged travellers not to heed calls for a boycott tomorrow of the new Advanced Imaging Technology machines, which have so far been introduced at about 20 per cent of the country's 2,100 airport security lanes, arguing it would cause unnecessary disruption for other travellers.
The day before the annual Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday traditionally sees the highest volume of passengers in a single day, while 24 million people are expected to fly over the extended holiday period.
Mr Pistole however refused to indicate what changes would be made and when. He reminded Americans that the new measures had been introduced in response to the failed attack on a passenger jet bound for Detroit by the "underwear bomber" last Christmas Day.
Beating the TSA: How a determined passenger spent hours arguing his rights before being waved through the checks
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1332276/Beating-TSA-How-determined-passenger-spent-hours-arguing-rights-waved-checks.html
'We walk over to the staff entrance and he scans his badge to let me through. We walk down the long hallway that led back to the baggage claim area. We skip the escalators and moving walkways.'
He was then waved away by annoyed officers and said: 'In order to enter the US, I was never touched, I was never “Backscatted,” and I was never metal detected.
'In the end, it took 2.5 hours, but I proved that it is possible. I’m looking forward to my next flight on Wednesday.'
Foreclosure Detectives Hunt for Lies , look who's doing the looking!
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703559504575631110278708250.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTWhatsNewsCollection
URBANDALE, Iowa—In two squat, suburban office-park buildings here, Richard Barrent is digging through loan files that could help decide who pays for the mortgage-paperwork debacle.
The former Wells Fargo & Co. quality-assurance manager's two-year-old company is part of a cottage industry of loan detectives obsessed with detecting fraud, misrepresentations and violations of underwriting guidelines. Such discoveries can be used as ammunition to force banks and other lenders to buy back loans from bond insurers, holders of mortgage-backed securities and other customers of forensic loan-review firms.
"There is a growing interest across the board" for such reviews, says Charles Cacici, managing member of Risk Management Group, a Brooklyn, N.Y., company that also scours mortgage files for problems. Competitors include Digital Risk, Clayton Holdings and Allonhill.
URBANDALE, Iowa—In two squat, suburban office-park buildings here, Richard Barrent is digging through loan files that could help decide who pays for the mortgage-paperwork debacle.
The former Wells Fargo & Co. quality-assurance manager's two-year-old company is part of a cottage industry of loan detectives obsessed with detecting fraud, misrepresentations and violations of underwriting guidelines. Such discoveries can be used as ammunition to force banks and other lenders to buy back loans from bond insurers, holders of mortgage-backed securities and other customers of forensic loan-review firms.
"There is a growing interest across the board" for such reviews, says Charles Cacici, managing member of Risk Management Group, a Brooklyn, N.Y., company that also scours mortgage files for problems. Competitors include Digital Risk, Clayton Holdings and Allonhill.
Insider's Take on the Insider Trading Scandal
http://www.minyanville.com/businessmarkets/articles/insider-trading-todd-harrison-wall-street/11/23/2010/id/31300
I hear what Todd is saying, BUT and it's a big but to.
The world's taxpayers is continuously having to sign on the dotted line for the repayment responsibility for all the woes of Wall Street.
Do you know how you rid of termites?
You tent the house and fumigate it.
So we either shut the markets down and clean house properly in every nook and cranny or we deal with the riot.
I realise your profession of trade would be on hold, for as long as it takes to flush the fraud, but hey as far as an outsider can see regarding the picture that's come to light, there are no corners and no boundaries of borders, for the entire financial system.
As your so fond of saying, as well as a spiritual lesson of my own, learned long ago,
One must look at both sides of the coin.
Perspective is an interesting thing, as well the many degrees there are of it.
Have you yourself taken sustenance from the taxpayer's table, as an uninvited guest?
The easiest thing in the world to do is say "Wall Street
is evil" and throw every hedge fund under the bus.
I’ve read a lot of news reports overnight and virtually every one of them adopted the same populist cry. I even saw Inspector Kemp interviewed on this topic, where he said, and I quote, “A riot is an ungly thing... undt, I tink, that it is chust about time ve had vun!”
Earth to Matilda -- not all hedge funds are evil. The majority of the industry is comprised of good people making honest livings, or at least they were considered honest when free market capitalism had a positive connotation.
Don’t get me wrong; if someone crossed a legal line, throw the book at them and demand restitution but let's not try the industry in the court of public opinion and assume they’re all criminals. That's misplaced anger and endemic of a broader shift in social mood
I hear what Todd is saying, BUT and it's a big but to.
The world's taxpayers is continuously having to sign on the dotted line for the repayment responsibility for all the woes of Wall Street.
Do you know how you rid of termites?
You tent the house and fumigate it.
So we either shut the markets down and clean house properly in every nook and cranny or we deal with the riot.
I realise your profession of trade would be on hold, for as long as it takes to flush the fraud, but hey as far as an outsider can see regarding the picture that's come to light, there are no corners and no boundaries of borders, for the entire financial system.
As your so fond of saying, as well as a spiritual lesson of my own, learned long ago,
One must look at both sides of the coin.
Perspective is an interesting thing, as well the many degrees there are of it.
Have you yourself taken sustenance from the taxpayer's table, as an uninvited guest?
The easiest thing in the world to do is say "Wall Street
is evil" and throw every hedge fund under the bus.
I’ve read a lot of news reports overnight and virtually every one of them adopted the same populist cry. I even saw Inspector Kemp interviewed on this topic, where he said, and I quote, “A riot is an ungly thing... undt, I tink, that it is chust about time ve had vun!”
Earth to Matilda -- not all hedge funds are evil. The majority of the industry is comprised of good people making honest livings, or at least they were considered honest when free market capitalism had a positive connotation.
Don’t get me wrong; if someone crossed a legal line, throw the book at them and demand restitution but let's not try the industry in the court of public opinion and assume they’re all criminals. That's misplaced anger and endemic of a broader shift in social mood
German Deconstruction of Security Theatre
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=173084
What Karl forgot to tell you, was that this waste of crap and invasion of your civil rights is, a decision that the Department of Home Land Security is responsible for.
And if you're wondering if these "full-body scanners" will actually prevent someone from blowing up a plane, here's all the evidence you need that this technology is worthless to stop terrorists.
Oh yeah, he also demonstrates what you can do with the material he smuggles through. Good thing he's outside - and not in an airport. Remember in the last part of the demonstration that everything he used was brought through the so-called "security" and not detected.
What Karl forgot to tell you, was that this waste of crap and invasion of your civil rights is, a decision that the Department of Home Land Security is responsible for.
And if you're wondering if these "full-body scanners" will actually prevent someone from blowing up a plane, here's all the evidence you need that this technology is worthless to stop terrorists.
Oh yeah, he also demonstrates what you can do with the material he smuggles through. Good thing he's outside - and not in an airport. Remember in the last part of the demonstration that everything he used was brought through the so-called "security" and not detected.
PETITION TO STOP 'ENHANCED AIRPORT SCREENING TECHNIQUES NOW!
http://www.wnd.com/airportscreening
Kids you can't afford not to. The health effected may be your own or your families.
You don't have to fly to be effected.
The Health codes have been totally over looked.
Think school, Think Cholera!
The difference between Cholera symptoms and the Flu are minimal at best!
Do it now
To: Barack Obama, Janet Napolitano and all members of the U.S. Congress:
Kids you can't afford not to. The health effected may be your own or your families.
You don't have to fly to be effected.
The Health codes have been totally over looked.
Think school, Think Cholera!
The difference between Cholera symptoms and the Flu are minimal at best!
Do it now
To: Barack Obama, Janet Napolitano and all members of the U.S. Congress:
It's time to call the Health Dept on the TSA
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=231733
People, people, people, this is disgusting as well as unconscionable.
It can't be touted by more than one government agency and then just totally ignored by the TSA.
It's a god damned HEALTH violation! Not only is the crotch down there so is the anus.
Common sense says it's mandatory to change gloves have each individuals exposure.
I think I'm going to be absolutely sick from the stupidity!
Where the hell is the W.H.O. (World Health Organization) or the god damned Surgeon General?
We should have heard from them long ago on this infraction.
All these position that as taxpayer "WE" pay for and some how "THEY" forget to do the job "WE" pay them for.
And this is a WORLD WIDE occurrence!
Now, Think about it!
Haiti, CHOLERA!
Are they out of their FUCKIN MIND?
Martha Donahue in a commentary at Resistnet said she'd spent 30 years in the medical industry.
"For those of you who fly and opt for the 'pat down,' you need to demand the TSA thugs change their gloves. I've been watching on the news how they operate. People are being searched [with] dirty gloves ... gloves that have been in crotches, armpits, touching people who may be ill, people who pick their noses. Do you want those gloves touching you?
"These thugs are protecting themselves from you. You need to be protected from them," she wrote. "In a hospital, nursing home, in-home care, or even labs, that would never even be considered an option."
ABC reported one of its news employees documented how a TSA worker reached inside her underwear.
"The woman who checked me reached her hands inside my underwear and felt her way around," the ABC employee said in the network's report. "It was basically worse than going to the gynecologist. It was embarrassing. It was demeaning. It was inappropriate."
Asked today about the possibility of contamination being spread from one passenger to another on the gloves of TSA agents, a spokesman for the CDC bailed.
"Please contact the Dept of Homeland Security and/or TSA on this issue," the spokesman told WND.
But in its online writings, the CDC repeatedly makes clear the importance of maintaining clean hands to avoid such transmission of communicable and contagious afflictions.
People, people, people, this is disgusting as well as unconscionable.
It can't be touted by more than one government agency and then just totally ignored by the TSA.
It's a god damned HEALTH violation! Not only is the crotch down there so is the anus.
Common sense says it's mandatory to change gloves have each individuals exposure.
I think I'm going to be absolutely sick from the stupidity!
Where the hell is the W.H.O. (World Health Organization) or the god damned Surgeon General?
We should have heard from them long ago on this infraction.
All these position that as taxpayer "WE" pay for and some how "THEY" forget to do the job "WE" pay them for.
And this is a WORLD WIDE occurrence!
Now, Think about it!
Haiti, CHOLERA!
Are they out of their FUCKIN MIND?
Martha Donahue in a commentary at Resistnet said she'd spent 30 years in the medical industry.
"For those of you who fly and opt for the 'pat down,' you need to demand the TSA thugs change their gloves. I've been watching on the news how they operate. People are being searched [with] dirty gloves ... gloves that have been in crotches, armpits, touching people who may be ill, people who pick their noses. Do you want those gloves touching you?
"These thugs are protecting themselves from you. You need to be protected from them," she wrote. "In a hospital, nursing home, in-home care, or even labs, that would never even be considered an option."
ABC reported one of its news employees documented how a TSA worker reached inside her underwear.
"The woman who checked me reached her hands inside my underwear and felt her way around," the ABC employee said in the network's report. "It was basically worse than going to the gynecologist. It was embarrassing. It was demeaning. It was inappropriate."
Asked today about the possibility of contamination being spread from one passenger to another on the gloves of TSA agents, a spokesman for the CDC bailed.
"Please contact the Dept of Homeland Security and/or TSA on this issue," the spokesman told WND.
But in its online writings, the CDC repeatedly makes clear the importance of maintaining clean hands to avoid such transmission of communicable and contagious afflictions.
Monday, November 22, 2010
Goldman In Insider Trading Probe?
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/matt-taibbi/blogs/TaibbiData_May2010/236328/83512
Me thinks it's time to shut the market down and do a major anal probe.
Does the FBI mean it will be prison time instead of the customary charitable contribution to the SEC?
One can only hope so!
News leaked out today that the feds will soon be herding a whole pen full of Wall Street firms into court on insider trading charges, including, reportedly, our old friends Goldman, Sachs.
The basic charge here is that investment banks and other firms were leaking insider info about things like mergers to closely-allied hedge funds, who in turn placed the requisite bets on or against the companies in question.
The most interesting detail in the WSJ piece, to me, was a bit about an email sent by one John Kinnucan, a principal at an Oregon-based company called Broadband Research, to a number of his clients. The email reads, in part, as follows:
"Today two fresh faced eager beavers from the FBI
Me thinks it's time to shut the market down and do a major anal probe.
Does the FBI mean it will be prison time instead of the customary charitable contribution to the SEC?
One can only hope so!
News leaked out today that the feds will soon be herding a whole pen full of Wall Street firms into court on insider trading charges, including, reportedly, our old friends Goldman, Sachs.
The basic charge here is that investment banks and other firms were leaking insider info about things like mergers to closely-allied hedge funds, who in turn placed the requisite bets on or against the companies in question.
The most interesting detail in the WSJ piece, to me, was a bit about an email sent by one John Kinnucan, a principal at an Oregon-based company called Broadband Research, to a number of his clients. The email reads, in part, as follows:
"Today two fresh faced eager beavers from the FBI
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