Amazon BLOCKED From Filming Union Voting
3 years ago
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Occupy Wall Street Protesters Maced / Pepper Sprayed by NYPD Police
media pretty much ignored wall street protests til now. of course, blatent police over use of force is good boost for press
S&P investigated for mortgage securities ratings | PRI.ORG
S&P investigated for mortgage securities ratings | PRI.ORG
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report.
The decisions of one rating agency can cause a lot of economic volatility. But according to an exclusive piece from The New York Times Thursday morning, the Justice Department is opening an investigation into Standard & Poor's to see if the agency improperly rated dozens of mortgage securities leading up to the financial crisis.
The ratings being investigated came long before the downgrade of the U.S. credit rating, but the probe does raise new questions about the credibility of the nation's largest credit agency and their secretive rating process.
Louise Story, Wall Street and finance reporter for The New York Times, broke the story.
"What the [Department of Justic] is looking at is whether the ratings process had some kind of fraud or wrongdoing in which the ratings analysts got bossed around by the business people at S&P,' she told The Takeaway.
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report.
The decisions of one rating agency can cause a lot of economic volatility. But according to an exclusive piece from The New York Times Thursday morning, the Justice Department is opening an investigation into Standard & Poor's to see if the agency improperly rated dozens of mortgage securities leading up to the financial crisis.
The ratings being investigated came long before the downgrade of the U.S. credit rating, but the probe does raise new questions about the credibility of the nation's largest credit agency and their secretive rating process.
Louise Story, Wall Street and finance reporter for The New York Times, broke the story.
"What the [Department of Justic] is looking at is whether the ratings process had some kind of fraud or wrongdoing in which the ratings analysts got bossed around by the business people at S&P,' she told The Takeaway.
standard and poor sec info
standard and poor should be out of business--not for downgrading US credit; but housing mess
Monday, September 26, 2011
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Forbes Top 10 Richest People In the World 2011
from earlier this year. outsourcing works, ask these folks as you go thru the soupline
Forbes 400: The Richest 20 People In America
I know most of you are on the list
bailout worked, ask these folks
Paul Ryan "Townhall" Arrests
pretty standard gop rally. arrest anyone who disagrees with teabagger gets the boot and this rarely shows up on television.
ask mr Akin in Missouri, others
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Mitt Romney: Obama Is Not A Socialist
yes, Obama is not a socialist; he is not even a liberal much less a progressive
Tea Partier: 'John Boehner Is A Socialist'
love it. John boy is a socialist
I knew he was fifth column. where do I send the money?
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Monday, September 19, 2011
Speaker Steven Tilley explains his opposition to the eco devo bill.wmv
be honest speaker: screw saint louis is the state house policy under your teabag times
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Saturday, September 17, 2011
child labor classic 1912 "Cry of the children
The Cry of the Children (1912) from Ned Thanhouser on Vimeo.
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glad some in Missouri wish to return to
"good old days"
Friday, September 16, 2011
Hillary Clinton's State Department Oil Services and Keystone XL Tar Sand...
this is the other end of the pipeline, the same pipeline Jeff pointed out is using tremendous amounts of imported Indian steel
Thursday, September 15, 2011
09-15-11 6 - Palintology, with Katie Halper - Countdown with Keith Olber...
drugs, sex, rock and roll? knew some reason I liked her
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
09-14-11 4 - What Went Wrong, with Bob Cavnar - Countdown with Keith Olb...
sad, most media did not cover this today.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Republican Electorate Applaud Death Panels At CNN Tea Party Debate
what a wonderful response. "Let em die"
Monday, September 12, 2011
Tea Party Republican Debate Question #8: What Is Your Plan To Reduce Hea...
alas, they wish insurance companies to totally run the show. these companies will do their "usual" job, which means Americans pay twice the rate for healthcare than most of the rest of the world.
Rick Perry and Mitt Romney Go At It at CNN - Tea Party Debate
yes, these folks intend to take away social security. not the word "security"
GOP: Raise Taxes On Elderly, Disabled & Cut Corporate Rates
more Missouri teabag news. let's give more to corporations in this state
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Tar Sands Oil Extraction - The Dirty Truth
some of this oil gets to wood river. remember the Jeff Rains pipe story?
Indian steel to pipe dirty oil with a real potential for disaster is how some folks feel
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Are cosmic rays causing global warming?
it does not matter some super force causing global warming, the question: is man and his activities causing things to get worse? It does indeed and science is conclusive.
How much damage and how soon is what our politicos must decide. Military has concluded a national security threat
Friday, September 9, 2011
Obama's job speech - pretty, pretty please
Russian tv sometimes does good job of news analysis
so does BBC. I listen to shortwave radio from time to time. alas, they put some of ours to shame
Thursday, September 8, 2011
The death of labor leader I. W. Abel
very sad. this appears to be the only vid on a great man on the internet.
Akin: Freedom's Solutions
Akin is fool. if you watched GOP debate last evening you would note the "buzz words" usage
one wonders about St. Charles and why old folks would keep reelecting a guy whom wished to do away with medicare and privatize social security. something in the water?
Ronald Regan raised taxes by the way Mr .Akin
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Reagan Scholar Says 2012 Candidates Don't Measure Up
Regan could not not run in this teabagger event. Regan raised taxes a number of times.
Rick Perry And Mitt Romney Debate Social Security
privatization or do away with social security, what a choice
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
The Century Of The Self-Full Length Documentary
most excellent series. youtube breaks this into four parts. all episodes in this posting
Paul Krugman: Eric and Irene
Paul Krugman: Eric and Irene
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Have you left no sense of decency?" That's the question Joseph Welch famously asked Joseph McCarthy, as the red-baiting demagogue tried to ruin yet another innocent citizen. And these days, it's the question I find myself wanting to ask Eric Cantor, the House majority leader, who has done more than anyone else to make policy blackmail — using innocent Americans as hostages — standard operating procedure for the GOP.
A few weeks ago, Mr. Cantor was the hard man in the confrontation over the debt ceiling; he was willing to endanger America's financial credibility, putting our whole economy at risk, in order to extract budget concessions from President Obama. Now he's doing it again, this time over disaster relief, making headlines by insisting that any federal aid to the victims of Hurricane Irene be offset by cuts in other spending. In effect, he is threatening to take Irene's victims hostage.
Mr. Cantor's critics have been quick to accuse him of hypocrisy, and with good reason. After all, he and his Republican colleagues showed no comparable interest in paying for the Bush administration's huge unfunded initiatives. In particular, they did nothing to offset the cost of the Iraq war, which now stands at $800 billion and counting.
And it turns out that in 2004, when his home state of Virginia was struck by Tropical Storm Gaston, Mr. Cantor voted against a bill that would have required the same pay-as-you-go rule that he now advocates.
But, as I see it, hypocrisy is a secondary issue here. The primary issue should be the extraordinary nihilism now on display by Mr. Cantor and his colleagues — their willingness to flout all the usual conventions of fair play and, well, decency in order to get what they want.
Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/columns/paul-krugman/article_4fdbd7c1-4e28-59fd-9470-e6ba450129c7.html#ixzz1XB4EPTHS
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from article
Have you left no sense of decency?" That's the question Joseph Welch famously asked Joseph McCarthy, as the red-baiting demagogue tried to ruin yet another innocent citizen. And these days, it's the question I find myself wanting to ask Eric Cantor, the House majority leader, who has done more than anyone else to make policy blackmail — using innocent Americans as hostages — standard operating procedure for the GOP.
A few weeks ago, Mr. Cantor was the hard man in the confrontation over the debt ceiling; he was willing to endanger America's financial credibility, putting our whole economy at risk, in order to extract budget concessions from President Obama. Now he's doing it again, this time over disaster relief, making headlines by insisting that any federal aid to the victims of Hurricane Irene be offset by cuts in other spending. In effect, he is threatening to take Irene's victims hostage.
Mr. Cantor's critics have been quick to accuse him of hypocrisy, and with good reason. After all, he and his Republican colleagues showed no comparable interest in paying for the Bush administration's huge unfunded initiatives. In particular, they did nothing to offset the cost of the Iraq war, which now stands at $800 billion and counting.
And it turns out that in 2004, when his home state of Virginia was struck by Tropical Storm Gaston, Mr. Cantor voted against a bill that would have required the same pay-as-you-go rule that he now advocates.
But, as I see it, hypocrisy is a secondary issue here. The primary issue should be the extraordinary nihilism now on display by Mr. Cantor and his colleagues — their willingness to flout all the usual conventions of fair play and, well, decency in order to get what they want.
Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/columns/paul-krugman/article_4fdbd7c1-4e28-59fd-9470-e6ba450129c7.html#ixzz1XB4EPTHS
Workers rally at St. Louis Labor Day parade amidst economic gloom
Workers rally at St. Louis Labor Day parade amidst economic gloom
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The parade comes on the heels of a federal report showing employers overall added no new jobs in August. The unemployment rate remains at 9.1 percent. This summer's partisan debate over the debt ceiling and the first-ever downgrade in the United States credit rating has the public losing faith in the government's ability to right the ship, some paradegoers said Monday.
"People are frustrated because both parties are at loggerheads in getting things done," said Marvin Kropp, president of Teamsters Joint Council 13. "No one wants to put their best foot forward."
Thousands of union members and their families came downtown for the parade, with this year's theme being "We are one" — a message that Congress and the White House should also take to heart, said Cornelia Lockhart-Levels, a Rockwood School District teacher who marched with the Missouri National Education Association.
Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/article_bd68325b-c49e-5641-b00a-ac0bbd1afb6c.html#ixzz1XB3KY1hy
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The parade comes on the heels of a federal report showing employers overall added no new jobs in August. The unemployment rate remains at 9.1 percent. This summer's partisan debate over the debt ceiling and the first-ever downgrade in the United States credit rating has the public losing faith in the government's ability to right the ship, some paradegoers said Monday.
"People are frustrated because both parties are at loggerheads in getting things done," said Marvin Kropp, president of Teamsters Joint Council 13. "No one wants to put their best foot forward."
Thousands of union members and their families came downtown for the parade, with this year's theme being "We are one" — a message that Congress and the White House should also take to heart, said Cornelia Lockhart-Levels, a Rockwood School District teacher who marched with the Missouri National Education Association.
Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/article_bd68325b-c49e-5641-b00a-ac0bbd1afb6c.html#ixzz1XB3KY1hy
Oh, The Pain of The Believer: Barack’s Betrayals Offer Lessons We Can’t Deny | Common Dreams
Oh, The Pain of The Believer: Barack’s Betrayals Offer Lessons We Can’t Deny | Common Dreams
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snip from article
He couldn’t dump his most passionate and issue-oriented followers fast enough.
While his backers were still hot to trot, he became cooler toward them, and, in effect, repudiated them with few progressive appointments. He put on his flag pin and relished the symbolism of the “office.” He became the master of the uplifting speech disguising a quite different policy agenda.
He spoke for the people but served the power. His wanted the other side to love him too, even as his stabs at “bi-partisanship” proved non-starters.
When you lie down with those “lambs,” (or is it snakes?) you betray not only supporters, but their hopes. FDR was soon spinning in his grave.
I am not surprised that knowledgeable critics of his economic policies not only consider him bull-headed and wrong, but actually corrupt, aligned and complicit, with the banksters who are still ripping us off. No wonder he’s "bundled” more donations from the greedsters and financiers this year than in 2008! No wonder he turned his back on consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren and is trying to kill prosecutions of bank fraud in high places.
Christopher Whalen who writes for Reuters say there will be a cost for his doing nothing: “The path of least resistance politically has been to temporize and talk. But by following the advice of Rubin and Summers, and avoiding tough decisions about banks and solvency, President Obama has only made the crisis more serious and steadily eroded public confidence. In political terms, Obama is morphing into Herbert Hoover.”
Yet, at the same time, many of us who now know how we have been used, will vote for him again, because, as he rightly calculates, there is no one else, and the alternative is even worse. Watch and weep as today’s rebels become next year’s rationalizers.
It reminds me of when activists were asked to vote for Lyndon Johnson in 1964 with the slogan “Part of the Way with LBJ.” That way ended with an endless escalation of war in Vietnam, and guns trumping butter. Sound familiar?
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snip from article
He couldn’t dump his most passionate and issue-oriented followers fast enough.
While his backers were still hot to trot, he became cooler toward them, and, in effect, repudiated them with few progressive appointments. He put on his flag pin and relished the symbolism of the “office.” He became the master of the uplifting speech disguising a quite different policy agenda.
He spoke for the people but served the power. His wanted the other side to love him too, even as his stabs at “bi-partisanship” proved non-starters.
When you lie down with those “lambs,” (or is it snakes?) you betray not only supporters, but their hopes. FDR was soon spinning in his grave.
I am not surprised that knowledgeable critics of his economic policies not only consider him bull-headed and wrong, but actually corrupt, aligned and complicit, with the banksters who are still ripping us off. No wonder he’s "bundled” more donations from the greedsters and financiers this year than in 2008! No wonder he turned his back on consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren and is trying to kill prosecutions of bank fraud in high places.
Christopher Whalen who writes for Reuters say there will be a cost for his doing nothing: “The path of least resistance politically has been to temporize and talk. But by following the advice of Rubin and Summers, and avoiding tough decisions about banks and solvency, President Obama has only made the crisis more serious and steadily eroded public confidence. In political terms, Obama is morphing into Herbert Hoover.”
Yet, at the same time, many of us who now know how we have been used, will vote for him again, because, as he rightly calculates, there is no one else, and the alternative is even worse. Watch and weep as today’s rebels become next year’s rationalizers.
It reminds me of when activists were asked to vote for Lyndon Johnson in 1964 with the slogan “Part of the Way with LBJ.” That way ended with an endless escalation of war in Vietnam, and guns trumping butter. Sound familiar?
Monday, September 5, 2011
Obama/ Hoffa In Mich. On Labor Day 2011 ,14 Million Out Of Work, Ken & B...
teabaggers are at war with many Americans, including organized labor
Thursday, September 1, 2011
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