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Congress Loaned Banks $7.7 Trillion In Secret (Classified) Loans At No Interest AND Borrowed It Back At Interest!

9/1/2013

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Background:
Fox News's "Hypnosis" - Using "Echo-Chambers" To Spread Misinformation 5
Fox News's "Hypnosis" - Using "Echo-Chambers" To Spread Misinformation 6
Congress's "Hypnosis" - Making Insider Trading Legal For JUST Themselves 1
Congress's "Hypnosis" - Making Insider Trading Legal For JUST Themselves 2
A Bloomberg report reveals that the U.S. government loaned banks $7.7 trillion in secret bailout funds at no interest and then borrowed the money back at interest. 

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The Bloomberg Report:

Saved by the bailout, bankers lobbied against government regulations, a job made easier by the Fed, which never disclosed the details of the rescue to lawmakers even as Congress doled out more money and debated new rules aimed at preventing the next collapse.

A fresh narrative of the financial crisis of 2007 to 2009 emerges from 29,000 pages of Fed documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act and central bank records of more than 21,000 transactions. While Fed officials say that almost all of the loans were repaid and there have been no losses, details suggest taxpayers paid a price beyond dollars as the secret funding helped preserve a broken status quo and enabled the biggest banks to grow even bigger.

‘Change Their Votes’

“When you see the dollars the banks got, it’s hard to make the case these were successful institutions,” says Sherrod Brown, a Democratic Senator from Ohio who in 2010 introduced an unsuccessful bill to limit bank size. “This is an issue that can unite the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street. There are lawmakers in both parties who would change their votes now.”

The size of the bailout came to light after Bloomberg LP, the parent of Bloomberg News, won a court case against the Fed and a group of the biggest U.S. banks called Clearing House Association LLC to force lending details into the open.

The Fed, headed by Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, argued that revealing borrower details would create a stigma -- investors and counterparties would shun firms that used the central bank as lender of last resort -- and that needy institutions would be reluctant to borrow in the next crisis. Clearing House Association fought Bloomberg’s lawsuit up to the U.S. Supreme Court, which declined to hear the banks’ appeal in March 2011.

$7.77 Trillion

The amount of money the central bank parceled out was surprising even to Gary H. Stern, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis from 1985 to 2009, who says he “wasn’t aware of the magnitude.” It dwarfed the Treasury Department’s better-known $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP. Add up guarantees and lending limits, and the Fed had committed $7.77 trillion as of March 2009 to rescuing the financial system, more than half the value of everything produced in the U.S. that year.

Fortunately, Congress Solved That Problem...

Faced with the grim prospect of being held financially accountable, lawmakers come together and cripple a bill aimed at more transparent government...    

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Related?

From The Guardian
: When this financial crisis began nearly four years ago the story seemed simple. The banks were broke and they told our leaders that unless the taxpayers bailed them out and took their private debts on to the public account, then the world would end. Our politicians believed them. We took on huge debts and bailed out the banks. Right or wrong, at least the story seemed straightforward: they owed us huge sums of money. Then as the crisis continued, a new group most of us had never heard of appeared – the bond holders. It turned out the banks owed huge sums to the bond holders too, and so did we. The story of who owed whom began to change.

Gradually the story became less about the banks owing us money and more about owing the bond holders.

It seems to me that our governments and their financial advisers from the banks have a double standard when it comes to debt and its repayment; one which greatly benefits the financial world and punishes the taxpayer.

On the one hand, the debts of private banks and those who own that debt, the bond holders, are being protected from any losses by the publicly funded bailouts. Public debt, on the other hand, at the insistence of the same banks and bond holders we have bailed out, is being paid down at breakneck speed, no matter what the cost in unemployment and the destruction of social services.


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GOP's "Hypnosis" - Guilt By Association Is Thier Main Measure Of Guilt For Discrimination

9/1/2013

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Background:
Stephen Colbert Follows The Trayvon Martin Case From Shooting To Acquital
Glenn Beck's "Hypnosis" - Framing All Liberals As Nazis Using Fear & Authority For Perfect Mind Control
Related: What Is Hypnosis?
Kabulvision - The Florida Family Association believes that "All-American Muslim" is educationally harmful to America's belief structure.  (05:14) :

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The right makes it clear that Muslims ARE terrorists. If they are depicted in any other way they don't like it (or at least, Fox News & thier GOP leaders, don't like it as it will require a retraction). If most of the Muslim World turns out to be like these boring TLC Muslims then the GOP/Fox-News has a serious problem... and makes ALL of thier math fuzzy. The logic used, 'We don't want people to think all Muslims are peaceful' is like Muslims saying we 'Don't want people to think all Christians are peaceful' ... in some hypothetical future where the cycle of global influence swings back to the Muslims (would be about 50 years after China reachs full supper power status) ... based on thier encountering "Christian" violence in the past.
Kabulvision - A New Lowe Aasif Mandvi explains why, without Lowe's, the jihadist goal is unachievable.  (04:26):

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With all the strange precautions, such as 3 ounce shampoo etc. What the GOP is saying is that these terrorists can use anything. Even the petrol & fertilizer used by Timothy VcVeigh in OKC becomes 'sophisticated terror equipment' by comparison. Thus all home building stuff should be shut down as well! (or so Asif Mandvi argues)
The Elephant in the Room - Jason Jones heads to Florida to help Nezar Hamze, a Muslim Republican, gain the acceptance of the Broward County GOP. (05:21) :

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The guy admits he is judging on ASSUMED associations. Also, note that he, as a representative of the GOP, is also AGAINST gay marriage.

Apparently, being 'against hate' doesn't apply to assumed associations.
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sharia? - Peter King may have ties to the IRA, but he believes that Muslim Americans should be investigated for failing to denounce terrorist organizations.  (05:42) :

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Peter King had ties to the IRA, AN ACTUAL TERRORIST ORGANIZATION, and Fox News supports him. Especially Bill O Reilly.

Who is Peter King?

Article 1 on Peter King:
But according to experts in counterterrorism law, if the tough-on-terror policies King trumpets today had taken effect a few decades earlier, King himself might have been subject to prosecution. Over parts of three decades, from his days as an aspiring politician in Long Island through his early years in Congress, King was one of the nation's most outspoken supporters of the Irish Republican Army and a prolific fundraiser for the Irish Northern Aid Committee (NorAid), allegedly the IRA's American fundraising arm. The IRA waged a paramilitary campaign against the British presence in Northern Ireland for decades before peace accords were signed in 1998. Part of that effort included bombings and shootings that resulted in civilian deaths in England and Northern Ireland. During the period of King's involvement, the US government accused both NorAid and the IRA of links to terrorism.

Article 2 on Peter King: "The British government is a murder machine," King said. He described the IRA, which mastered the car bomb as an instrument of urban terror, as a "legitimate force." And he compared Gerry Adams, the leader of Sinn Fein, the IRA's political wing, to George Washington.
Wish You Weren't Here - Obama uses NASA to reach out to the Muslim world, while plans to build more mosques in America spark outrage.  (07:36) :

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Fox News immediately connects any attack to Muslims and begins to anchor it to them. The Boston Bomber turning out to be Muslim was their biggest propaganda success in recent days. The simple reality is that they will always blame Muslims. If you play the probabilities AND assume it's not a Muslim involved in a terror attack, then you'll be right more often than not.

Note: 'He looked Nordic'. 'Maybe it was a good disguise' as reports can be mistaken during the trauma of an attack. Calls Norway's terror attack. By focusing on death and terror on Muslims mass hysteria is created.


Memo: Containing Radical Islam: Now all over the world, extreme Muslims believe they're allowed to kill people with whom they disagree. They even kill each other. Thousands of people are dying and the world's response is largely silence. Remember, the Sudanese government is allowing killers to slaughter hundreds of thousands of civilians in Darfur. As China blocks action in the U.N., the world just stands by and watches.

There is no question that Muslim killers are a threat to the entire world. Iran is funding and arming Hezbollah, which may start a war in Lebanon any time. Pakistan is allowing the Taliban sanctuary so it can kill Afghans and Americans at will. And Al Qaeda is actively seeking ways to kill just about everybody. With Pakistan already having nukes and Iran on the way to getting them, you'd have to be a complete moron not to understand the danger here.

On Topic - Colbert Case Files - Tea Party Stephen tracks the rise of the Tea Party movement from Hannity and Beck to Palin and O'Donnell.  (03:57) :

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Fox News created the Tea Party and then distanced themselves. Why?
Exclusive - The Qu'osby Show - The Pilot Aasif Mandvi stars in "The Qu'osby Show," a sitcom about a NASCAR-loving family that eats pork and dances to Toby Keith.  (05:25):

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Note: Half my family is Christian & the other half is Muslim. I'm a Zen Buddhist with an interest the mystical philosophy of Sufism. I like some rap, less country music though if I'm sitting somewhere and people are playing music, unfamiliar country music may be more pleasant for me than unfamiliar rap. I'm mostly interested in Rock & Heavy Metal. That doesn't help, of course. Not to mention my long standing interest in Yoga, Hypnosis & Meditation.
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GOP's creating paranoia around rap music to the point where chick and lettuce in rap form become threats!...

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To put the violence of rap lyrics in perspective I thought I would just make a little list of songs with violent themes from a completely different music genre that hasn’t received any negative publicity from Fox News & Friends.

Pardon Me I've Got Someone To Kill
by Johnny Paycheck

Early one mornin' while makin' the rounds
I took a shot of cocaine and I shot my woman down
I went right home and I went to bed I stuck that lovin' 44 beneath my head

By Johnny Cash

Lord you should've seen their frantic faces
They screamed and cried please put away that knife
I guess I'll go to hell or I'll rot here in the cell

By Wagoner Porter

But I shot a man in Reno,
Just to watch him die

By Johnny Cash

I've killed the only man I love
He would not take me for his bride

By Olivia Newton

And if I could move I'd get my gun and put her in the ground
Oh Ruby, don't take your love to town

By Kenny Rogers

She runs back down the hallway
To the bedroom door
She reaches for the pistol
Kept in the dresser drawer
Tells the lady in the mirror
He won't do this again
Cause tonight will be the last time
She'll wonder where he's been

By Garth Brooks

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Violent Rhetoric In The US Is Common BUT Often STARTED By The War Party {2 Late 2 Stop It Now}

7/27/2013

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Background:

The Drug War Debate: An Introductory Overview 

The Tea Party & Majority of Libertarians Were Co-opted By The Koch Brothers In 2009 

GOP/Tea-Party Nonsense In A Nutshell: Outsiders are "Nazis"

Goldman Sachs Aluminum Scam Simplified For USA Business Media Folk

Congress Doesn't Care About The Constitution Or Any Citizen Rights, Or So It Seems, As This Proof Proves

James and the Giant Speech: After Jimmy Hoffa Jr. warms up the crowd at a Labor Day rally, the Tea Party and conservatives suddenly develop an allergic reaction to violent rhetoric.  (04:59): 

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1. Incitements to violence for motivating the political base; 2. Suppression of individuality and rationality in a large group (and the creation of an effective emotional political response irrespective of facts); 3. Both sides (the somewhat accurate and the almost completely inaccurate) use the same tactics as its necessary in American politics...
The ones promoting violence like the Nazis did are on Fox News but the peaceful folk are the ones they say are the  Nazis. As a comparison they ignore tons of pages of war crimes and focus on the drones strikes of Obama & other  GOP members of the CIA. I got hundreds to thousands of dead for Obama but 1.2 Million as a consequence of Bush, yet the GOP's  channel says nothing about this! And Fox News/Biz gives the GOP a million dollars so it's not like they are not connected, fox news doesn't talk about anything that interferes with it's mission of promoting oil company and war factory interests. Be it giving no-bid contracts to Halliburton, ignoring oil crimes for years, a Texas factory explosion that defies explanation in so many ways it's not funny. And of course, complete silence on the Invisible War in the Military (thus making it invisible to begin with AND FOR GOOD REASON!) - being the "war party" this actually makes sense. It's NOT moral in any way. It just makes sense. War is immoral and so isFox News & Fox Business.

It's what they are.
Related:

Democracy & Despotism: 1940s Encyclopedia Britannica Filmshttp://www.culturesocietyblog.com/2013/03/democracy-despotism-1940s-encyclopedia.html

Breaking Down Society & Social Structures Leads To Anarchy AND Violence http://www.culturesocietyblog.com/2013/03/breaking-down-society-social-structures.html

Rachel Maddow Video: Here is the GOP answering questions on abortion etc. during the general elections (and a challenge to the media, i.e. CNN, MSNBC & FoxNews, which they failed as they are all connected)  http://www.culturesocietyblog.com/2013/03/rachel-maddow-here-is-gop-answering.html

Megyn Kelly Lies & Says "I watch our programming everyday an you are wrong":

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BTW, Bill O Reilly then defends Megyn Kelly despite the fact that John Stewart wasn't talking to him... and he was speaking nonsense. Yet, Bill O Reilly felt compelled to speak and make a fool of himself. Why? - Possible answer is here.

2:30 "The segment was for Megyn Kelly to take offense to not you". Jon Stewart
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, The GUY RUNNING FOX NEWS WAS WITH NIXON DURING WATERGATE!!!!!!!!!!! He Says:
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Fox News IS The Channel That LOVES  To Demonize (it;s a standard War Party strategy). In fact, "wedge issues" are the very definition of demonization:
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"Michelle Obama orders a cheeseburger meal that's the caloric equivalent of eating a live raccoon."  

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Later, when Ann Romney became a part of the election cycle, Fox News said, unanimously, that women shouldn't be insulted. It's true. Fox News hypocrisy knows no bounds. Such as when they rebrand a section of thier corporation "Business" and everyone buys it. This brings me to another very serious problem. The dumbing down of the United States. Covered here in detail:

"The Dumbing Down of America" Example 1 - Cartoons

"The Dumbing Down of America" Example 2 - Sarah Palin

"The Dumbing Down of America" Example 3 - Michelle Bachman

The State of US Education and The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America


Violent rhetoric in the US is very common here are a few examples from Fox "Business": 


1. From John Stossel = "I think it will take visible riots to help people focus on this thing" (i.e. he is suggesting to his followers that 'we may have to riot'!)- example of violent rhetoric on the extreme right by its true believers - connects with tea party and ideological economics. http://video.foxnews.com/v/1042453656001/can-the-us-learn-from-greece/
What Stossel is promoting (such as with Iran here) is standard Fox-News/GOP's party line. To cause harm to US Citizens through violence.

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 Glenn Beck advocates violence... 

A look at Glenn Beck & his tendency to promote extreme forms of violence . [People like Glenn Beck having political and social power scare me the most - To understand why please watch this video.] . Instead of violent rhetoric I think the sources of the problems need to be rooted out as I explained here (i.e. aggressively and not the way outlined in GOP funded Liberal Think Tanks).


This will be the result of these violent promotions by Fox News if they achieve thier rioting goal:

1. "He says looting makes "powerless people suddenly feel powerful" and that is "very intoxicating"." -http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14463452 .

2. Simple opportunity for lawlessness by the breakdown of infrastructure -http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/07/dayintech_0713 

3. Normal behaviour motivated by greed or heartlessness or simply living by the law of the streets - an example of a complete breakdown of law http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14456065

4. DAILY SHOW LINK: Compared to discord in Pakistan or even other riots in the US, Britain is very tame - at 2mins and 40 secs, check out the looters standing in line to loot (there were also images of looters helping each other under glass windows etc. - took 2 days for 'batons' to be allowed... no one has guns etc.)

The many perspectives on the Britain riots: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14483149 - 
The LA riots were much more violent (there is literally no comparison): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-14501282 
The anger at the violent reaction created its own mass movement: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-14490167 
The problem of the rumor mill that leads to mass hysteria (at local, national or global levels) and is something that the US media does on a regular basis with its fear marketing (though that may have gone down?), Fox news has taken this fear mongering to criminal levels(IMO): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14490693 
Another look at the origin of the 2 reactions in England; "Are they rioters, which implies a political objection, looters, which doesn't, or vandals, etc? It's interesting too that a lot of the people cleaning up embraced the Sun's 'scum' so readily, a reflexive response of anger." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14506159 .

Side Note: The fall of the currency has been a major drumbeat amougnst the Koch Brother Libertarians. This hyperinflation result was predicted for 2001. Then 2012. Now 2013? We have to accept that the Fox Business Libertarians don't understand the economy anymore than a 10 year old. Who, besides the EXTREMELY old &  decrepit, are the only ones who believe their crap). But yes, in every outright lie there is a kernel of truth. For QE the kernel of truth is this: "As the Bank of England prepares to vote on quantitative easing, a report argues the extra cash 'exacerbates already extreme income inequality'". Which actually helps the Koch Brothers and any oil manipulations they may be up to. So Fox Business needs to re-think their incitement strategy. Maybe even get an education if the most recent news is any measure of their knowledge:

The new form of communist/fascist/socialist government is actually crony capitalism (i.e. people doing WHATEVER thier corporate bosses say) and it looks like this... 

Public Employee Union vs. Wall Street Bonus Contracts... 

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In this case you will notice that contract law is supported for Wall Street firms that have already gone bankrupt and only exist because of taxpayer money, while not supporting Public Unions who Ronald Reagan said enhanced freedom as if you don't have the freedom to form public unions then "freedom is lost".

An example of how Reagan is continuously saying the opposite of what the Tea Party/GOP wants: 

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Also,

Notice That Judge Napolitano has been following standard GOP policy when trying to incite violence. This violent approach to a possible drone (that could be just a remote controlled kids plane, a pizza delivery from Dominos or a bird - considering GOP follower obervation capabilities, backed by the Supreme Court I might add - is backed by a violent shock jock by the name of Alex Jones (who claims there is some GOP revolution rising but Adam Kokesh proves regularly that that's not the case, it's just some kids who know the truth of Government in this internet age and Alex Jones is trying to help herd them into the arms of the GOP through it's Koch Brother Libertarian outreach program led by Fox Biz Libertarians & people like Alex Jones): 



Judge Andrew Napolitano has warned Congress not to act “like potted plants” regarding the increased use of unmanned surveillance drones without warrants over US skies by military, government, and law enforcement agencies.

Echoing the recent comments of his Fox News colleague Charles Krauthammer, Napolitano also said that “The first American patriot that shoots down one of these drones that comes too close to his children in his backyard will be an American hero.”


VIDEO - From Bill Moyers David Stockman on Crony Capitalism - January 20, 2012-  http://billmoyers.com/segment/david-stockman-on-crony-capitalism/  Moyers & Company explores the tight connection between Wall Street and the White House with David Stockman, former budget director for President Reagan. Now a businessman who says he was “taken to the woodshed” for telling the truth about the administration’s tax policies, Stockman speaks candidly with Bill Moyers about how money dominates politics, distorting free markets and endangering democracy. “As a result,” Stockman says, “we have neither capitalism nor democracy. We have crony capitalism.” Stockman shares details on how the courtship of politics and high finance have turned our economy into a private club that rewards the super-rich and corporations, leaving average Americans wondering how it could happen and who’s really in charge. “We now have an entitled class of Wall Street financiers and of corporate CEOs who believe the government is there to do… whatever it takes in order to keep the game going and their stock price moving upward,” Stockman tells Moyers.


The problem here is powerful, privately owned enterprises, who finance such warmongers as above and who influence the nations wealth by having connections into the Government (which in the case of 2008 involved the biggest theft in history, which the Corporate Media Cronies is helping to cover up) i.e. Crony Capitalism – [Visualized] http://www.thevisualeverything.com/2011/12/crony-capitalism-visualized/

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Explanations: 

1. Socialism by Robert Heilbroner (Article From Library of Economics): "Socialism—defined as a centrally planned economy in which the government controls all means of production" http://www.culturesocietyblog.com/2009/05/socialism-by-robert-heilbroner.html

2. What Is Capitalism? http://www.culturesocietyblog.com/2009/04/what-is-capitalism.html

3. Summary of "Socialism", Keynesian Economics & "Road to Serfdom" (by F.A.Hayek)
i.e. USA has a market based healthcare approach (good) made by crony capitalists (bad)

Obamacare, brought to you by Johnson & Johnson: When push comes to shove, corporate interests will always have the upper hand in determining public policy  (i.e. it was made by a corporation - A CAPITALIST! )
     
 Obamacare architect heads to Big Pharma: Liz Fowler again exemplifies the blurred lines betweenthe healthcare industry and Washington           

Big Pharma Allies: Cigna, Aetna, Blue Cross -- they're allies, not competitors, when it comes to stopping a public plan                   

Lobbyists: Their influence on Washington dates back to the days of Lincoln -- and it only seems to be growing

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"Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened."-George Washington

Socialism is when ALL factors of production are provided by the State - basic econ 101 definition - (the healthcare bill is market based from Heritage Institute based on Romney care). The GOP & Fox News call anything that goes against Ayn Rand's business survival fiction "socialist". - But, logic doesn't work. The guy's running Fox News are being investigated for 9/11 phone hacking in England and close associates of Rupert Murdoch HAVE BEEN CHARGED - Also, 
  • Ayn Rand & The Beginning Of The End Of Objectivism...

FOX NEWS IS CONTROLLED BY AN OLIGARCH WHOSE ASSOCIATES ARE BEING INVESTIGATED AND BEING CHARGED WITH CRIMES...

Most recently Rupert Murdoch's close family friend was charged with perjury...

Rebekah Brooks...has an interesting history with Murdoch...

In March 2003 she courted controversy -- and hinted at the scandal to come -- when, appearing before a government committee, she admitted that her paper had paid police officers for information. Brooks held the Sun post until 2009 when she was handpicked for the role of News International chief executive by the paper's owner, media magnate Rupert Murdoch.

The pair had been close for many years: Murdoch is said to treat Brooks like a daughter.
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Congress Doesn't Care About The Constitution Or Any Citizen Rights, Or So It Seems, As This Proof Proves

7/26/2013

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Background:Nobody Likes Congress! :(
Overview: Insider Trading In Congress, Martha Stewart Scapegoated & Bankers Hypocrisy Exposed
Images & Links: Colbert Report Explains McDonald's Slave Wages

A**holes Wanted: Aasif Mandvi tries selling a promising congressional candidate on going to Washington DC, despite its 535 obvious flaws.  (04:34): 

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Related:

Once Again Congress Is Successful In Protecting It's Shady Insider Trading Deals

4 Videos Under 7 Minutes Illustrating Congress In Full 

7 Videos & 1 Image that Illustrates Capitalism & the GOP

Dick Cheney: The Ultimate Laissez-Faire Capitalist?
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Goldman Sachs Aluminum Scam Simplified For USA Business Media Folk

7/26/2013

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Background:
BREAKING NEWS: Goldman Sachs Pulls A Superman III Type Scam & US Media To Dumb To Get It

John Oliver's Arcane Details of Boron-Group Metals Pricing Update - Aluminum Hoarding
In a scheme so simple a child could understand it, Goldman Sachs gets around commodity-hoarding laws by shuttling aluminum from warehouse to warehouse.  (05:19):

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Even-though the actual embezzlement scheme involved a Superman III type strategy because of the type of market this is (commodity market, as opposed to the insider trading prone stock market and it's coke fueled musings), there are certain laws that exist. Fortunately, as there are no watchdogs (of "we the people"), and there is a profit to be made by a simple truck driving scam, what we have is if the newest form of cattle rustling known to man. 

The Rule:

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The corporation overcame the Law by driving metal they were hoarding round and round and round.

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Using this method they stole 3.6 billion dollars from other businesses. This isn't even a victim-less crime like the Superman III classic even-though it uses the same strategy

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BREAKING NEWS: Goldman Sachs Pulls A Superman III Type Scam & US Media To Dumb To Get It

7/26/2013

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Background:

"The Dumbing Down of America" Example 1 - Cartoons

"The Dumbing Down of America" Example 2 - Sarah Palin

"The Dumbing Down of America" Example 3 - Michelle Bachman

The State of US Education and The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America

Overview: Insider Trading In Congress, Martha Stewart Scapegoated & Bankers Hypocrisy Exposed

John Oliver's Arcane Details of Boron-Group Metals Pricing Update
Goldman Sachs bets on the future price of aluminum while simultaneously goosing the future price of aluminum by creating a supply bottleneck in its aluminum warehouse.  (05:13) : 

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Monopoly, designed to teach capitalism,has removed the "go to jail" part of the game. Presumable to reflect current situation of getting yelled by Congress and going straight to the Cayman Islands.


Related:
Has Barack Obama Been Bought By A Bank?
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"Goldman can bet on the future price of Aluminum while simultaneously having the ability to Goose the future price of Aluminum if that's something they find interesting and/or profitable. In the Stock Market that's what's known as Insider Trading in the commodity market thats - (a daily occurrence)" John Oliver

This scheme is costing firm 3,6 billion dollars each year (i.e. this is outright theft through non-transparent stcok manipulations)

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An Explanation For The Educated Dumb Of The US Financial Media Circuit From Superman III

Basically what Goldman Sachs are trying to pull is one of the oldest tricks in the book. Anyone born before 1980 will probably remember this movie with the simple embezzlement scheme that the Goldman Sachs people copied from (didn't I say somewhere that the GOP gets all it's is ideas from movie:

Superman III - 1983 - Official HD Trailer - Christopher Reeve 

Richard Pryor - Computer Hacker - Superman 3 

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Synopsis Of Relevant Section of Superman 3: 

Having now taken a job as a computer programmer at Webscoe Industries, Gus Gorman is extremely disappointed when he sees his first paycheck. "Where did it all go?" he asks. During lunch, Gus and a friend discuss all the percentages taken from a paycheck. When Gus tells him that there has to be fractions of cents left over, Gus's friend tells him that the checks are rounded down to the nearest "half-cent". "Where do those half-cents go?" asked Gus. Suddenly, another light bulb goes on above Gus's head. When everyone else is leaving, Gus is still busy programming.

It's another payday at Webscoe Industries. When Gus is handed his paycheck, he asks the courier if there isn't a second check for him. "I put in a voucherŠ for expenses," he says. "Right you are," says the courier and he hands Gus another envelope. Slowly breaking the seal, Gus pulls out a check for $87,789.90. Gus can barely contain his joy.

Ross Webster, head of Webscoe Industries is interrupted by his accountant who informs him that someone has shrewdly embezzled a large amount from the company coffers. "In the old days," says the accountant, "it was simple. We kept books. We knew what went in and what went out. If someone wanted to rob you, they walked in an said stick-em up. Now with computersŠ" "But, computers are the wave of the future," says Webster. Outraged that someone would dare steal money from them, Ross Webster's sister, Vera, insists that this person has to be caught. "He's bound to slip up," says the accountant. "No," says Ross Webster, "he'll not do a thing to call attention to himself, unless he's a complete and utter moron." Moving to the window Webster sees Gus squeal into the employee's parking lot with a bright shiny sports car.

Ross Webster calls Gus to his office, and he sheepishly enters the luxurious office. "Mr. August Gorman," says Webster, "you've been quite a naughty guy. You want to be rich. You're a genius. A naughty genius, but a genius none the less," he tells Gus. But rather than punish Gus, Webster realizes that someone smart enough to embezzle that kind of money right under his nose can be useful. "I've been searching for a long time for someone that can make computers do what they're not supposed to do. Under different company names, I control the price of coffee. In Venezuela, Brazil, Bolivia and Jamaica. Everywhere except Columbia. We're going to teach them a lesson; destroy their entire coffee crop down to the last bean. Gus, you are going to do that for me."

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Southern Strategy 2: Fox-News/GOP's Racism Against Blacks, Latinos & The Return Of The Anti-Christ

7/22/2013

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Background:
Southern Strategy 1: The Race War In The USA - The Daily Show 

To get an idea of how toxic the rhetoric in the US has gotten ...

Moment Of Zen: Notice what the members of the crowd are shouting, especially at approx 2 mins into the following video: "You are the Anti-Christ"  

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News Report: One in four Americans think Obama may be the antichrist, survey saysPoll asking voters about conspiracy theories reveals alarming beliefs – including 37% believing global warming to be a hoax

How can a large segment of a 21st Century population... IN A FIRST WORLD COUNTRY .. believe something like this (these aren't rational people)...

Psychological Background: The Average GOP/Fox-News Follower Is Easily Distracted


BTW, the global warming this is probably spread by the Koch Brother Libertarians as CATO (following video) & Heritage are founded by the Koch Brothers:
CATO: Is A Koch Brother Funded Institute. If you listen To Cato OR Heritage then you are a "Koch Brother Libertarian".


"The Koch Brothers"


"The Koch Brothers are worth $50 billion. They’ve bankrolled the Tea Party, the campaign against climate change science, and entire university departments to advance their right-wing agenda. The newest item on their shopping list: their own Center for American Progress."

Republicans Attempt to Ax Program Monitoring CarcinogensThe National Toxicology Program, part of the National Institutes of Health, publishes the biannual Report on Carcinogens, which is one of the primary sources of up-to-date public information about chemicals that are known or suspected causes of cancer. The report has been published since 1980, in response to a directive from Congress. But if Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-Mont.) gets his way, soon we might lose this detailed information about the chemicals putting us at risk.


Heritage is also a Koch created and funded institute:


Connections:1. "Before joining Heritage in June 2007, Loris was an associate at the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation, immersing himself for a year in a market-based management program."  ,2. "Total Koch foundation grants 1997-2009: $3,976,571"3. Sourcewatch: A list of Koch Funded Orgs

Then there are the lies about the Keystone pipeline. It doesn't create long term jobs. It will create fuel over 2 decades. It will cause earthquakes as well. The Koch Brothers have enough money to survive earthquakes and tsunamis. Most of the rest of the population doesn't. Amnesties/Tax-Breaks/help for the rich and death for common Citizens is another aspect of "Corporatism".

Koch company declared 'substantial interest' in Keystone XL pipeline: Document filed with Canada's Energy Board appears to cast doubt on claims by Koch Industries that it has no interest in the controversial pipeline.


BLOG POST: The Koch Brothers ARE Waging War On Obama & US Citizens!


GOP's radioactive anti-Obama rhetoric

(CNN) -- The debates this presidential primary season have been less like Lincoln-Douglas than former heavyweight champ Buster Douglas -- punch-drunk pugilism, providing entertainment and some great upsets along the way.
But for all the excitement of the fights, there is a civic cost to the radioactive rhetoric that gets thrown out to excite the conservative crowds.

It's not just that the most irresponsible candidates can play to the base and get a boost in the polls, while more sober-minded candidates like Jon Huntsman fail to get attention. The real damage is to the process of running for president itself. Because when low blows get rewarded, the incentive to try to emulate Lincoln -- holding yourself to a higher standard -- is diminished. And one barometer of this atmospheric shift is in the increasingly overheated rhetoric by candidates attacking the current president. This serial disrespect ends up unintentionally diminishing the office of president itself.

Look, I know that politics is a full-contact sport: Elbows get thrown and egos get bruised. But ask yourself if Ronald Reagan ever called Jimmy Carter a socialist or a communist on the stump. Sure, there were deep philosophical and policy disagreements between them, and Carter was called a failed president many times. But there was a lingering respect for the office that retained an essential bit of dignity. It was only the far-right fringe who indulged in the kind of rhetoric we now hear routinely from presidential candidates.

Magazine Article Extract: Covert Operations:The billionaire brothers who are waging a war against Obama.

Southern Strategy: "He's not one of us"


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Rick Perry Questions Legitimacy of Obama's Birth Certificate

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Birtherism Is Dead. Long Live Otherism.

TEST: Watch this talk, by a Southerner, Bill Clinton Watch President Clinton Deliver Nomination Address at the DNC and if you are a Southerner/Midwesterner... what do you notice?

To understand what kind of polices the South and thus The GOP-Republicans are going to implement, all you gotta do is see what GOP supporters are implementing now and how they are doing it (Note: Mexican-American's are 'Latinos')...

Tucson's Mexican-American Studies Ban:
Al Madrigal travels to Arizona, where the powerful evidence of hearsay convinced the Tucson school board to ban Mexican-American studies programs.

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To understand why Latino's have been attacked so hard by the GOP-Republicans, you have to understand their standard party political strategy, which all of them (except Ron Paul) use...

GOP-Republican: The Southern Strategy

The Southern Strategy is the policy of the Republican Party in the United States to gain political support in the Southern section of the country. Politically, the concept generally uses themes traditionally supported by residents of the Southern states to win election in those locations. Since segregation continued well into the late 20th century in the region, the Republican Party officially attempted to utilize this wedge issue as a way of garnering support for their political faction in these states. In addition to the issue of segregation between white residents and African Americans, the party also utilized Southern values of religion, gun control and a distrust of counterculture to win votes.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the Republican Party generally opposed desegregation and the Civil Rights Movement. This stance caused a major shift in the voting practices of the African American community to the support of the Democratic Party, the faction which helped legislate laws such as the Voting Rights Act. Party officials, specifically President Richard Nixon's political strategist Kevin Phillips, understood that in order for the Republicans to win the Southern states, they needed to focus their attention on the Caucasian population.

The implementation of the Southern Strategy by the Republican Party represented a major shift in political power in the region. Since the Civil War, the Democratic Party was the primary force in the South due to its support of the region during Reconstruction. In addition, the Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln was seen as the primary instigator of the war by most Southern residents. Between the 1950s and the early 1980s, the South shifted to major support for the Republicans. At the same time, much of the North and the West became a major supporter of Democrats.

In other words, the establishment Republicans (i.e Newt, Mitt, Santorum - those following standard party policy) are using the natural racism of the South (see background above) to get votes. This racism has been fanned by the GOP and Fox News to a point where it has become extremely toxic. 


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North-South Cultural 1 -  Division in The USA
North-South Cultural 2 - Division in The USA 
North-South Cultural 3 - Division in The USA  

Basically, the South sees black people like they did in the days when the Constitution was first written...


Warner Bros 1940 - Confederate Honey:
Moment Of Zen: The Kochs, Segregation, and Joseph Stalin
i.e. see the following video: 
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7/22/2013

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BREAKING FOX NEWS ALERT: 300 INNOCENT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN EXONERATED BY DNA EVIDENCE AFTER A JURY DECIDED THEY WERE GUILTY

On The Black Presidency: Larry Wilmore considers whether or not American democracy can survive with the same ethnicity dominating the White House over and over again for years on end. (03:58)... 
Learn about the Republican's "Southern Strategy":

  •  Southern strategy: In American politics, the Southern strategy refers to the Republican Party strategy of winning elections in Southern states by exploiting anti-African American racism and fears of lawlessness among Southern white voters and appealing to fears of growing federal power in social and economic matters (generally lumped under the concept of states' rights)

Republican Minority Outreach: Larry Wilmore advises Republicans not wanting to appear racist to not say racist things(they can't do that because they are in denial about their racism)...

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About The South...

Innocent killed for crimes, especially if they are of a minority person, is normal in the Southern United States of America. The top leadership has no shame and the same morality as feudal lords who rape their slaves for fun and profit(i.e. extra slave labor . Hell, they even made that thier party platform. Only a Southerner Feudal Lord Party (In this case Arizona, whoes Republican candidate turned out to be an actual Nazi!) could possibly have the balls, in today's modern world, to actually protect rapist babies before they are even conceived  AND literally put it on the Party Platform ... and then shut-up so the women wouldn't find out!


1. "Graves' brother, Arthur Curry Jr., has always insisted that Graves was home with him the night of the murders. "There is no justice, especially here in Texas. Had he done that and I knew it, I could not have hid the truth knowing that someone's family was in torture," says Curry. Graves has not been given an execution date. His lawyer is seeking a new trial."

2. "The Death Penalty Information Center keeps an "Innocence List" which names incarcerated people who have been exonerated since 1973. There are 119 to date. The criteria for inclusion on the list are: "In order to be included on the list, defendants must have been convicted and sentenced to death, and subsequently either: a) their conviction was overturned and they were acquitted at a re-trial, or all charges were dismissed; or b) they were given an absolute pardon by the governor based on new evidence of innocence." 
Famous Speeches From Movies: To Kill a Mockingbird.

Notice that To Kill A Mocking Bird is a fiction book ABOUT the South well AFTER the civil war. Notice where the black people are. In the deep South the fear of the black man (from old white women) STILL exists. Seeing blacks as lower than them to a point where there is no shame in calling people 'other black' and 'our blacks' ('our blacks', I think, was famously used by Ann Coulter). To Kill A Mocking Bird is a MUST READ to understand the South, for outsiders.

Excellent example of Southern "Justice" (NON-Fiction):

“Anatomy of Injustice”: Death in a small town
Note: In To Kill A Mocking Bird, at the end, the all-white jury ruled to have the black guy killed. Notice Mitt Romney's strategy is to blame everything on the black guy EXACTLY like To Kill A Mocking Bird... with an almost all white male election base which is so outdated they have resorted to election fraud rather than be compassionate.

There was even a book by John Grisham covering this Southern Tradition in his own way in A Time To Kill

Interesting fact: Many members of the Nazi's found a home in the confederate South. We know very little of their activities as many were weapons scientists in Germany and since WW2 the United States has something called a "National Security Act/Bill". Whose sole purpose seems to be to increase militarism.

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Barack Hussein Obama & Rand Paul Are Using The Same Strategy!

6/29/2013

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Above: George Bush increased the debt ceiling in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006. 2007 and twice in 2008 (Obama has used the same strategy, though ineffectually. Rand Paul is using this Obama strategy as well but more effectually possibly because he's white.  See? Ron Paul is STILL the ONLY consistent Politician.)

(BTW, is Rand Paul is referring to Bill O Reilly's beliefs when he was talking about bestiality. More about the GOP here. More about Bill O'Reilly here.)


BTW:

Important Republican Party Position: McConnel admits that making sure Barack Hussein Obama is a one term President is his primary political goal. This means that the worse the economy is the better chances are that Obama will be a one term president. i.e. Bad Economy = Good for GOP

Rather than defaulting on debts it makes more sense to raise the ceiling and solve the budget problem. THEN, over time, the debt will decrease if that is how the budget is balanced. 

Extract From:


[Case Study] Political Nonsense of the Debt Ceiling "Debate"

Here is the plan Mitch McConnel came up with...

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1. "I would advocate that we pass legislation giving the president the authority to REQUEST of us an increase in the debt ceiling that would take us past the end of his term" - "that [legislation] would be subject to disapproval. That resolution of disapproval, if passed, would then go to the president, he could sign it or he could veto it." - McConnell - Theme: Passing legislation to 'disapprove it later.

2. "The reason default is no better idea today than when Newt Gengrich tried it in 1995, is it destroys your brand [i.e. America's credit rating] and would give the president the opportunity to blame Republicans for bad economy" - Defaulting was seriously tried by Newt in 1995.

3. "Look, he owns the economy. He's been in office almost 3 years now and we refuse to let him entice us into co-ownership of a bad economy" McConnel - The co-ownership is referring to the United states economy. 


Notes:

  • Dick Cheney literally said Iraq would be a quagmire before invading

  • Amanpour On Iraq: Where were the journalists?

  • From Bill Moyers: How big money and big media have The US into Disneyland

  • Bush's Legacy: Massacres, War Crimes, Neo-Nazi's, ...

  • The Iraq Effect (2007): New Study Finds 600% Rise ...

  • CNN: The Most Busted Name In News

  • US TV News Media: Echo Chambers

  • US TV News Media: Fox News Echo Chambers 
  • {The "war party" side has taken it's demonization to new levels... well, they are the War Party. What did you expect? Help?}

On Gold:
Fear created by Debt Ceiling haggling in the US dropped the dollar and boosted the price of gold. As the BBC reports; "The price of gold has risen to a fresh all-time high of $1,594.16 an ounce, and the dollar has fallen, on concerns the US may default on its debts."

Moment of Zen On The Stock Market
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