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17 Citi-Bank Customers Arrested for Closing Their Accounts (Video)
Post Date: 2011-10-16 02:20:11 by Murron
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17 Citi-Bank Customers Arrested for Closing Their Accounts Was just watching Global Revolution live stream where they were live at a Citibank in LaGuardia watching the police holding 30 customers in a Citibank branch where they were in line to close their bank accounts. There was a large group of protesters outside chanting various rejoinders to the bank officals and the police, who seemed to be their in force. The livestream chat is still buzzing about the arrests and you can see various Citibank numbers passing by to call in protest, especially the Citibank customer relations number. I must say this is strange considering the number of people outside with video recorders and this live ...
AIPAC Acquits Koch on Iran
Post Date: 2011-10-15 19:07:45 by Brian S
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In a memo it circulated in connection of hearings in the Senate and House on Iran and Syria, the heavyweight pro-Israel group AIPAC is defending Koch Industries after a report that a Koch subsidiary did business in Iran until 2007 in spite of U.S. efforts to isolate the Islamic Republic. The memo is composed of "suggested questions" for legislators to ask top State and Treasury department officials testifying today before the House of Representatives, and one suggested question -- they're phrased as actual questions legislators could ask -- deals specifically with the Koch issue: Subsidiaries of American Companies Last week, the Bloomberg Markets Magazine ran a story ...
Solargate Update: Obama wants a government bank to fund more Solyndras
Post Date: 2011-10-15 05:59:26 by Happy Quanzaa
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Now that Sens. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., Jon Tester, D-Mont., Jim Webb, D-Va., Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., have either voted against President Obama's American Jobs Act, or said they would if it came up for final passage, it is safe to say that the chief executive's second stimulus program is dead. Unfortunately, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is trying to revive one of its worst big-spending provisions, creation of a national infrastructure bank to throw more billions of tax dollars at special interests favored by Democrats. It's a terrible idea that should be rejected, along with the rest of Obama's failed stimulus policies. First, it should be noted that ...
Suspicious petitions got a stamped signature
Post Date: 2011-10-14 20:51:57 by CZ82
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Suspicious petitions got a stamped signature Former Gov. Kernan, 12 others come forward to say they didn't sign Staff writer Erin Blasko: eblasko@sbtinfo.com 574-235-6187 SOUTH BEND - Suspected fake petition pages to place Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the ballot during the 2008 Indiana primary passed through the county voter registration office on days when the Republican head of the office was absent, The Tribune has learned. The pages in question bear the stamped signature of Republican Linda Silcott, indicating Silcott was not in the office at the time to sign the documents by hand. By comparison, most of the other, non-suspicious pages examined by The Tribune ...
Project "Grenade Walker": Obama & Holder sent grenades to Mexican cartels too
Post Date: 2011-10-14 19:08:14 by Happy Quanzaa
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"Grenade-walking" part of "Gunwalker" scandal (CBS News) There's a new twist in the government's "gunwalking" scandal involving an even more dangerous weapon: grenades. "Gunwalking" subpoena for AG Holder imminent CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson, who has reported on this story from the beginning, said on "The Early Show" that the investigation into the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)'s so-called "Fast and Furious" operation branches out to a case involving grenades. Sources tell her a suspect was left to traffic and manufacture them for Mexican drug cartels. Police ...
No One Is Buying Iranian Terror Allegations
Post Date: 2011-10-14 13:41:51 by Capitalist Eric
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Iran Terror Plot: No Evidence The day before Attorney General was subpoenaed about what he knew about the Department of Justice and Drug Enforcement Agency's "Fast and Furious" operation to get weapons to Mexico's largest drug cartel, the U.S. government announced that the Iranians planned to kill a Saudi ambassador on U.S. soil. And they said - you guessed it - that it was DOJ and DEA who broke up the plot. But no one is buying it ... not even the pro-war mainstream media. The New York Times notes in a post entitled "U.S. Challenged to Explain Accusations of Iran Plot in the Face of Skepticism": The Obama administration on Wednesday sought to reconcile what ...
Pelosi’s disclosure belated in husband’s land deal
Post Date: 2011-10-11 11:16:38 by Sebastian
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s husband, a real estate developer and investment banker, stands to make millions of dollars in a previously undisclosed residential real estate project in California as a partner with the father of a woman Mrs. Pelosi helped become ambassador to Hungary, records show. Paul F. Pelosi’s investment in Russell Ranch is worth at least $5 million and possibly as much as $25 million in a deal put together by his friend and longtime business associate, Angelo Tsakopoulos, patriarch of a multimillion-dollar real estate development firm, according to Mrs. Pelosi’s latest personal-disclosure statement. Mr. Pelosi said in an email from his ...
Romney Advisors Met with Obama White House during Debate over ObamaCare
Post Date: 2011-10-11 11:11:03 by Happy Quanzaa
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From MSNBC: Newly obtained White House records provide fresh details on how senior Obama administration officials used Mitt Romney’s landmark health-care law in Massachusetts as a model for the new federal law, including recruiting some of Romney’s own health care advisers and experts to help craft the act now derided by Republicans as “Obamacare.” The records, gleaned from White House visitor logs reviewed by NBC News, show that senior White House officials had a dozen meetings in 2009 with three health-care advisers and experts who helped shape the health care reform law signed by Romney in 2006, when the Republican presidential candidate was governor of ...
Bloody Hands Barry Obama's guns found in Mexican cartel hitman's hacienda
Post Date: 2011-10-09 19:13:25 by Happy Quanzaa
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Fast and Furious weapons were found in Mexico cartel enforcer's home Guns illegally purchased under the ATF operation were found in April hidden in violence-plagued Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, court records show. This arsenal uncovered by police in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, in April turned out to include weapons from the ATF's ill-fated Fast and Furious operation. (Associated Press) Reporting from Washington— High-powered assault weapons illegally purchased under the ATF's Fast and Furious program in Phoenix ended up in a home belonging to the purported top Sinaloa cartel enforcer in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, whose organization was terrorizing that city with the worst violence in ...
Solargate Update: Obama Fundraiser Pushed Solyndra Deal From Inside
Post Date: 2011-10-08 06:34:01 by Happy Quanzaa
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video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player By MATTHEW MOSK and RONNIE GREENE ABC NEWS and iWATCH NEWS An elite Obama fundraiser hired to help oversee the administration's energy loan program pushed and prodded career Department of Energy officials to move faster in approving a loan guarantee for Solyndra, even as his wife's law firm was representing the California solar company, according to internal emails made public late Friday. "How hard is this? What is he waiting for?" wrote Steven J. Spinner, a high-tech consultant and energy investor who raised at least $500,000 for the candidate before being appointed to a key job helping oversee the energy loan ...
The Fascist Threat
Post Date: 2011-10-06 17:40:42 by Capitalist Eric
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Everyone knows that the term fascist is a pejorative, often used to describe any political position a speaker doesn’t like. There isn’t anyone around who is willing to stand up and say: "I’m a fascist; I think fascism is a great social and economic system." But I submit that if they were honest, the vast majority of politicians, intellectuals, and political activists would have to say just that. Fascism is the system of government that cartelizes the private sector, centrally plans the economy to subsidize producers, exalts the police State as the source of order, denies fundamental rights and liberties to individuals, and makes the executive State the unlimited ...
Secret panel can put Americans on "kill list' [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-10-06 12:16:04 by A K A Stone
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(Reuters) - American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of senior government officials, which then informs the president of its decisions, according to officials. There is no public record of the operations or decisions of the panel, which is a subset of the White House's National Security Council, several current and former officials said. Neither is there any law establishing its existence or setting out the rules by which it is supposed to operate. The panel was behind the decision to add Awlaki, a U.S.-born militant preacher with alleged al Qaeda connections, to the target list. He was killed by a CIA drone strike in Yemen late ...
Solargate Update: Barry Obama wanted kickback $469 mil more to Solyndra
Post Date: 2011-10-05 19:38:51 by Happy Quanzaa
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Solyndra e-mails: Dept. of Energy was poised to approve $469 million for firm The Obama administration’s Department of Energy was poised last summer to give Solyndra a second major taxpayer loan of $469 million, even as the company’s financial situation was growing more dire. The Energy Department was actively pushing to provide the second loan guarantee to the troubled solar-panel manufacturer in April and May 2010, when Solyndra’s auditors warned the company was in danger of closing due to its rapidly mounting debts and expenses, according to complete e-mails just released by a House committee investigating the original loan. White House career staffers, who had first ...
Queen Manchelle's African Adventure Cost $424K+, Malia & Sasha Obama hired on as "Senior Staff"
Post Date: 2011-10-04 16:09:26 by Happy Quanzaa
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Michelle Obama's Africa Vacation Cost More Than $432,142 First lady Michelle Obama's family trip to South Africa and Botswana in June cost taxpayers well over $424,000, according to new accounting based on Air Force manifests obtained by Judicial Watch, a taxpayer watchdog group. The use of Air Force aircraft alone for the June 21-27 trip cost $424,142, said the group, and that doesn't include the food, lodging, and ground transportation for the 21 family and staff members. [See photos of the Obamas abroad.] Judicial Watch said it based the jet costs on the Pentagon's hourly rates for the C-32A aircraft used for the trip. The documents don't give exact cost ...
AP Sources: Bush-Era Probe Involved Guns 'Walking'
Post Date: 2011-10-04 15:43:18 by Brian S
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(10-04) 12:36 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- The federal government under the Bush administration ran an operation that allowed hundreds of guns to be transferred to suspected arms traffickers — the same tactic that congressional Republicans have criticized President Barack Obama's administration for using, two federal law enforcement officials said Tuesday. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and other Republicans have been hammering the Obama Justice Department over the practice known as "letting guns walk," or leave law enforcement custody to trace their sales. Their target has been Operation Fast and Furious, which was designed to track small-time gun ...
NY Times: Foreign Aid Slashed To All But israel
Post Date: 2011-10-04 15:35:31 by Brian S
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By M.J. Rosenberg - October 4, 2011, 9:27AM On Tuesday, the New York Times reported on page one that deficit and debt hawks in both parties are planning massive foreign aid cuts for the coming year. Although foreign aid constitutes 1% of federal spending, it has long been a whipping boy for xenophobes and other pre-Pearl Harbor type isolationists. Besides starving and abused women and kids in Africa don't exactly have a domestic constituency fighting on their behalf here in Washington. So, it's cut and slash and let 'em die. In the words of the Times: "The proposals have raised the specter of deep cuts in food and medicine for Africa, in relief for disaster-affected ...
House GOP to Request Special Counsel to Probe Holder on 'Fast & Furious'
Post Date: 2011-10-04 13:10:52 by Happy Quanzaa
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EXCLUSIVE: House Republicans are going to call for a special counsel to determine whether Attorney General Holder perjured himself during his testimony to the House Judiciary Committee on Operation Fast and Furious, Fox News has learned. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, R-Texas, is sending a letter to President Obama arguing that Holder cannot investigate himself and will request a probe by a special counsel. The question is whether Holder committed perjury during a Judiciary Committee hearing in May. At the time, Holder indicated he was not familiar with with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives program known as Fast and Furious. However, a newly ...
Solargate Update: ‘Green jobs’ farm in CO sheds jobs after receiving $200M in stimulus funds
Post Date: 2011-10-04 11:53:50 by Happy Quanzaa
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President Barack Obama’s “green jobs” initiatives suffered another major blow late Monday, as the nonprofit National Renewable Energy Lab in Golden, Colorado, announced a plan to lay off roughly 10 percent of its staff through a voluntary buy-out plan. According to the Denver Post, the lab plans to eliminate between 100 and 150 of its 1,350 jobs. The Obama administration supported the NREL in 2009 with roughly $200 million in stimulus grants. Energy Secretary Stephen Chu visited Golden in May 2009 to promote the NREL as a beneficiary of those funds. At the time, the Associated Press reported that the stimulus grants included $68 million to build demonstration model of an ...
ATF Fast and Furious: New documents show AG Eric Holder was briefed in July 2010
Post Date: 2011-10-04 11:13:39 by Happy Quanzaa
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WASHINGTON - New documents obtained by CBS News show Attorney General Eric Holder was sent briefings on the controversial Fast and Furious operation as far back as July 2010. That directly contradicts his statement to Congress. On May 3, 2011, Holder told a Judiciary Committee hearing, "I'm not sure of the exact date, but I probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks." Yet internal Justice Department documents show that at least ten months before that hearing, Holder began receiving frequent memos discussing Fast and Furious. Read the new documents Read the July 5, 2010 memo Read the "It's a tricky case" email Read the ...
Obama Gun Runnergate Update: Emails show top Justice Department officials knew of ATF gun program
Post Date: 2011-10-04 09:03:31 by Happy Quanzaa
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Emails show top Justice Department officials knew of ATF gun program Memos from 2010 show some in senior positions were aware of tactics used in a surveillance operation in which firearms were allowed into Mexico in a failed effort to catch drug cartel leaders. Congressional investigators say memos suggest that Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. has hedged what he knew about gun-trafficking surveillance programs. (Jacquelyn Martin, Associated Press / October 4, 2011) Reporting from Washington— Senior Justice Department officials were aware that ATF agents allowed firearms to be "walked" into Mexico, according to a series of emails last year in which they discussed two ...
Solargate Update: Obama knew Solyndra would crash but gave them our money anyway
Post Date: 2011-10-04 08:20:13 by Happy Quanzaa
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White House dismissed Solyndra warnings White House officials were repeatedly warned by government accountants and a private investor about the financial troubles of the now-bankrupt solar panel maker Solyndra, which received a $535 million "green energy" government-guaranteed loan, newly released emails reveal. The emails, released Monday by House Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats, show that President Obama was told not to visit Solyndra in May 2010 by an adviser who feared the firm would default on its loan before the 2012 election, embarrassing the president. But those warnings were overruled by White House advisers who said backing Solyndra was a risk worth taking, the ...
Perry’s Gamble On Mortgage Giants Cost Texas Tens Of Millions
Post Date: 2011-10-03 17:00:09 by Brian S
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Just when Gov. Rick Perry had to deal with one negative story, another one comes right his way. According to the Associated Press, in 2004 the Texas executive invited several big mortgage companies into his state to help increase jobs, but they all went out of business in four short years due to risky practices better known as sub-prime lending. Sub-prime lending has often been blamed for helping launch the financial crisis of 2008, which still drags on the economy today. Many Americans who accepted sub-prime loans have since lost their homes to foreclosure. The debts driven by these loans were largely repackaged into what’s called “derivatives,” then resold on the stock ...
The Day America Died [Paul Craig Roberts]
Post Date: 2011-10-03 12:50:02 by Capitalist Eric
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September 30, 2011 was the day America was assassinated. Some of us have watched this day approach and have warned of its coming, only to be greeted with boos and hisses from "patriots" who have come to regard the US Constitution as a device that coddles criminals and terrorists and gets in the way of the President who needs to act to keep us safe. In our book, The Tyranny of Good Intentions, Lawrence Stratton and I showed that long before 9/11 US law had ceased to be a shield of the people and had been turned into a weapon in the hands of the government. The event known as 9/11 was used to raise the executive branch above the law. As long as the President sanctions an illegal ...
The Secret Memo That Explains Why Obama Can Kill Americans
Post Date: 2011-10-03 11:05:19 by Capitalist Eric
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The Department of Justice produced it prior to the assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki. But they won't release it. Outside the U.S. government, President Obama's order to kill American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki without due process has proved controversial, with experts in law and war reaching different conclusions. Inside the Obama Administration, however, disagreement was apparently absent, or so say anonymous sources quoted by the Washington Post. "The Justice Department wrote a secret memorandum authorizing the lethal targeting of Anwar al-Aulaqi, the American-born radical cleric who was killed by a U.S. drone strike Friday, according to administration officials," the ...
Solargate Update: Obama crony company got special help on loan
Post Date: 2011-10-03 06:00:23 by Happy Quanzaa
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President Obama has learned nothing from the widening scandal surrounding the Department of Energy's loan guarantee program. Even as Energy Secretary Steven Chu admitted last week that he personally intervened to give the now bankrupt solar panel manufacturing firm Solyndra even more money -- after they had defaulted on their federal loan -- the Energy Department approved two new similar loans, worth more than $1 billion, to solar firms which, like Solyndra, have strong ties to Democratic Party fundraisers. In the fall of 2010, Solyndra executives told Chu that their firm was dangerously low on cash and might not make a Dec. 1 payment to a $30 million cash reserve fund as required by ...
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