Posted on 03/04/2010 8:19:10 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March
While most of the world is recovering economically, the US continues to flounder. Greece is highly unionized. Result? Chaos.
Is that our trial canary? We know that tax cuts work. Please feel to help with informative / shocking links regarding economics, government budgeting, what triggered the meltdown, Obama-nomics, and/or Greece.
Also note that Canada free Press reports that Soros backs Obama’s latest finance reform. [reg. post 100 of this thread]
“Where’s the money? Hand over the cash!”
http://biggovernment.com/publius/2010/04/22/chicago-teacher-on-tax-hike-give-up-the-bucks
Before you go any further, stop to watch this quick video of a teacher’s union protest in Illinois. These teachers are protesting to increase taxes. Note the teacher in the video, Unbelievable. [Remark by Boortz. I say “Ditto”.]
Bachus Asks Geithner…Again…To Explain Administration’s Plan For Bailout Authority
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2500080/posts?page=2
[thank you for link. Filing it here.]
Mexico’s Draconian Immigration Policy [to protect their economy]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2499154/posts?page=162#162
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/gaffney/060403
Dems may rush immigration reform effort in Congress...
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2319585520100423
* foxnews Gloating Goldman: E-mails show execs boasting as meltdown unfolds
http://bit.ly/aw9qaq
Obama threatens Arizona with Justice Department investigation
http://justpiper.com/2010/04/obama-threatens-arizona-with-justice-department-investigation/
Palin: ‘Only a limited government can provide the best path’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2499989/posts
Snowe may give Dems financial regulation vote...
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2415678120100424
Appraiser in Rezko/Obama deal says it was a payoff
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=83760
OBAMA’S ‘MOB-TIE’ $IDEKICK ( Giannoulias and ... )
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2499983/posts
The Global Warming Scare Industry Suppresses Benefits of CO2 (More Food, Fuel, Feed, and Fodder)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2499949/posts
The Problem Will Never Fix the Problem
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2499695/posts
Saturday, April 24, 2010 9:38:13 AM · by all the best · 7+ views
Tenth Amendment Center ^ | April 22, 2010 | Shane Musgrove
Census hiring blitz of 750,000 to cut jobless rate, offer boost to Obama (Big Lie Coming)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2499451/posts
Government Motors Repayment Fraud
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2499434/posts
U.S. Says Florida Can’t Opt Out of Federal Healthcare
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2499187/posts
[Sheriff of Nottingham: “Join us, or die.”]
O’s Wall St. Rx: This ‘fix’ won’t fly
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2498847/posts
GOP ramps up attacks on SEC over porn surfing (Same “Independent” SEC that takes orders from Obama)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2498856/posts
FRAUD! ON TAXPAYER COMPUTERS...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/22/AR2010042205783_pf.html
BARNEY FRANK BLAMES GOP...
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/04/23/barney_frank_blames_sec_porn_scandal_on_republicans.html
One-Fourth of Nonprofits Are to Lose Tax Breaks
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2498855/posts
GM Lies in New Ad on Its Repayment of Bailout Money
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2498845/posts
$338.3 Billion Paid to Service America’s Illegal Aliens
http://www.infowars.com/338-3-billion-paid-to-service-americas-illegal-aliens
Warner Todd Huston | Free schools, free medial care, free Medicaid, free food, free social services, it’s a veritable cornucopia of freebies streaming out of our various government’s coffers to these people who broke our laws to get here and are breaking our laws to stay.
Dodd Bill Would Allow Fed To Hide Its Spending
http://www.infowars.com/dodd-bill-would-allow-fed-to-hide-its-spending
Ryan Grim | The Wall Street reform bill headed for a test vote on the Senate floor Monday night will allow the Federal Reserve to continue to pump trillions of dollars into major banks largely in secrecy.
Alex Jones: Global Bank Conspiracy
http://www.infowars.com/alex-jones-global-bank-conspiracy
RTAmerica | What is being proposed, and has been falling into place for some time, is the framework for an unelected global authority with powers above and beyond those of sovereign governments.
TEAM OBAMA READY TO PUSH ‘GLOBAL RULES’
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/28959166-5082-11df-bc86-00144feab49a.html
The USA is preparing to lead in a new tough international economic regulatory reform effort
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2500530/posts
Dodd Bill Would Allow Fed To Hide Its Spending
http://www.infowars.com/dodd-bill-would-allow-fed-to-hide-its-spending
Ryan Grim | The Wall Street reform bill headed for a test vote on the Senate floor Monday night will allow the Federal Reserve to continue to pump trillions of dollars into major banks largely in secrecy.
Alex Jones: Global Bank Conspiracy
http://www.infowars.com/alex-jones-global-bank-conspiracy
RTAmerica | What is being proposed, and has been falling into place for some time, is the framework for an unelected global authority with powers above and beyond those of sovereign governments.
Kissinger in 2008: There will be “Bipartisan” Push for New World Order, Whoever Is Elected President
http://www.infowars.com/kissinger-in-2008-there-will-be-bipartisan-push-for-new-world-order-whoever-is-elected-president
... sovereignty is a thing of the past and all efforts should now be concentrated on ceding it on the altar of globalism. Moreover, he admitted to the fact that there is a like-minded cabal pushing the destruction of nation-states worldwide. [snip w. ‘grain-of-salt hmmm’ but also note Soros ...]
Soros: Republic Enemy #1
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/14700
“The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.”—George Soros
Soros also told “The Australian” that the world financial crisis was”stimulating” and “in a way, the culmination of my life’s work.”
Growing number of overseas Americans renouncing citizenship over taxation...
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/26/us/26expat.html?hp
Tent City In New York Set Up In Hopes For Elevator Job [three day line]
http://wcbstv.com/local/jobs.employment.queens.2.1657008.html
Nationally, 60% Favor Letting Local Police Stop and Verify Immigration Status
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2500811/posts
Greedy, Evil and Green
LibertyPen | Professor Williams looks at some of the incentives driving the “global warming crisis.”
Bankers Said ‘Anything’ to Get High Rating, S&P Ex-Analyst Says
Bloomberg | On May 3, 2005, Standard & Poor’s analyst Chui Ng e-mailed co-workers to broker a solution to demands by
Goldman Sachs bankers that he said violated two or more of the ratings company’s internal guidelines.
Megabanks: The Banking Oligarchy That Controls Assets Equivalent To 60 Percent Of America’s GNP
The Economic Collapse | Megabanks have assets equivalent to 60 percent of our gross national product.
Greek meltdown in danger of spreading
Times Online | Property prices across the eurozone could slump as a result of the bailout deal.
Obama Care Horrors
OBAMA-CARE SCANDAL: What Lies Beneath (Sebellius withheld report...)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2500960/posts?page=15
american spectator: Sebelius’s staff refused to review the document before the vote was taken.
Powerful Rationing Panel (Not Doctors) will Control the Amount of Health Care Seniors Can Get
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2501248/posts
Sarah Palin Was Right… Obama Budget Director Orszag Admits Government Panels Will Decide Who Gets Health Care (Video)
http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/04/sarah-palin-was-right-obama-budget-director-orszag-admits-government-panels-will-decide-who-gets-health-care
SENATE PANEL SEES ‘INTERNET DOCTOR VISITS’...
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/64663
‘Pills to Be Electronically Outfitted w. Transmitters’...
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/64663
Government health care a 4-letter word: W-a-i-t
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=145341
Report: Lines stretch months, twice as long as physicians call ‘reasonable’
‘Companies better off discontinuing health care’
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=146389
Inquiry finds justification for claims of negative impact on earnings
Obama-care Horrors History [mega-thread 3000 posts]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2437390/posts
Economists: The stimulus didn’t help [feel safe to say it now?]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2500860/posts
Finance Bill Fails to Move Forward in Key Test Vote [Thank God!]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2500994/posts
Rush on the Arizona [immigration] law
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_042610/content/01125108.guest.html
“ ... there is an effort to criminalize enforcing the law ...”
MamaDearest Has some Interesting Info about Immigration
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2462221/posts?page=1635#1635
43 out of the 84 AZ companies screened in audits have been sent violation notices about suspected illegal employees.
US Stocks Tumble After S&P Cuts Greece, Portugal; DJIA Off 128
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2501577/posts
[Copied your post here.]
http://www.rollye.net/BlogArchivesCapTrade709.html
The Money behind cap and trade.
Rather long piece, but worthwhile....
excerpt...
Fox: A ten trillion dollar market, for emissions trading?
Sandor: “We are also trading in the United States—its very important for the listener to understand that this is not a market of tomorrow: it’s a market of yesterday and today. In August, we began trading the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, which is a mandatory carbon market that stretches from Maine to Maryland. And since January, we’ve been trading 440,000 tons a day, 743, 16 a day—
Fox: Explain, how does this market get created in the first place? Is this government created in terms of credits, or is this an association where the actual amount of carbon emissions is traded in contracts?
Sandor: No. The way it works is, the government sets a cap. Let’s say you’re a utility, and the cap is 1 million tons. And each year, you have to reduce by a certain amount, to 900,000 to 800,000 to 700,000. If you’re particularly good at it, and you have a 1 million base, and a requirement to go to 900,000, but you go to 500,000, you can sell those. Suppose I’m not so good because I can’t switch easily from coal to natural gas. It takes me three years to build a new technology, then I can buy your emissions, and the systemic emissions will be lower, but you as the low-cost driver, can allow me to buy your credits temporarily to hedge myself. So its mandated by the government. The emissions are capped. The cap goes down every year. And then those people who get below their cap are incentivized to do so, because they can sell them to people who can’t put the technology in very quickly [snip]
Dr. R L Sandor (Chairman) 8,410,614 shares
N D Eckert (CEO)
1,084,124 shares
C Brookins
16,252 shares
K Gierstner
37,000 shares
L Magnus
3,093 shares
B Williamson
500 shares
As for the major individual shareholders listed above, these people are disclosed because they are also on the board of directors, either as executive or non-executive members. Dr Sandor, of course, is the majority holder, with his 8,410,614 shares representing a more than 17.7% stake of Climate Exchange PLC.
Climate Exchange PLC News, Stock Quotes, Discussion | Alt Energy ...
Climate Exchange PLC News, Stock Quotes, Discussion.
www.altenergystocks.com/comm/content/climate-excha
[in the London Stock Exchange]
— Missing 421.8 billion —
Apparently the money was mysteriously lent out last month:
The week of March 24-31 was different, however, as the Federal Reserve made $421.8 billion in new loans, more than it made in the week following ...
news.goldseek.com/GoldSeek/1271269998.php
Fed Moves $421.8 Billion Without Warning, Is the Fed Bailing out Greece?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2493204/posts
Did The Fed Just (Surreptitiously) Bail Out Europe? - The ...
No, not just Greece - all of Europe. ... line is a gain of $421.8 billion dollars of outstanding loans and leases ...
market-ticker.denninger.net/archives/2186-Did-The-...
THE U.S. FEDERAL RESERVE BALANCE SHEET EXPANDS DRAMATICALLY
http://jsmineset.com/2010/04/17/market-commentary-from-monty-guild-59/
Our friend, Larry Jeddeloh of The Institutional Strategist, in his Market Intelligence Report of April 14, 2010 brought an important point to our attention. He points out a large increase of $421 billion in the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet in the same week that the Greek Bailout took place.
The bailout for Greece was only $41 billion and the Fed balance sheet expanded by $421 billion in loans. What is going on? Obviously the Fed is lending a lot of money. Was some of it lent abroad? We do not know.
One other explanation is that the loans, the U.S. banks had kept off of their books in offshore SIV’s [Special Investment Vehicles] are coming back onto their banks’ books, and the Fed is lending against them to provide liquidity for U.S. banks. This brings us to a major question that all investors and U.S. taxpayers should consider. How did the accounting profession allow this SIV type of activity, where banks were allowed to keep liabilities off their U.S. books in the first place?
Greece in trouble, now junk status but what happened to that $421.8 billion the Fed loaned out?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2501828/posts?page=1
Barack Obama’s Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac Connection (08, Obama’s connection to the housing collapse)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2501282/posts
Barbara Hollingsworth: Fannie Mae owns patent on residential ‘cap and trade’ exchange
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2498020/posts
European shares drop again, Portuguese stocks skid (Euro markets getting hammered!)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2502024/posts
U.S. Prepares to Push for Global Capital Rules
Financial Times ^ | Sunday April 25, 2010 | Tom Braithwaite
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/28959166-5082-11df-bc86-00144feab49a.html
The US is preparing to pivot from domestic regulatory reform to a push for a tough new international capital regime after the weekend’s G20 and International Monetary Fund meetings glossed over differences between leading economies.
[found in InvestigatingObama.Blogspot.com]
http://investigatingobama.blogspot.com/2010/04/greatest-scandal-in-modern-history.html
[Several hot links on key words at the page — and easier to read than this mess — great page]
Once again, of course, Barack Obama is front and center, along with the Chicago Climate Exchange, the Joyce Foundation, George Soros, Maurice Strong, Edmund de Rothschild, the Federal Reserve, Goldman Sachs, George W. Bush’s Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, and many others. It entails global Marxofascism / global kleptocracy, with Americans being the chief victims, while a few overlords rule at, and their financiers skim off, the top. And as for Americans willingly instigating this, it is treason. [snip]
IPCC’s River Of Lies [Climategate]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2501869/posts
Organized Crime in Charge of EU Carbon Trade, Europol Says
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2501890/posts
An illegal bank is the second-largest holder of U.S. treasury securities ?
Exposing Faux Capitalism | Japan isn’t the second-largest holder of U.S. treasury securities — the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank of New York is.
Bankers Said ‘Anything’ to Get High Rating, S&P Ex-Analyst Says
Bloomberg | On May 3, 2005, Standard & Poor’s analyst Chui Ng e-mailed co-workers to broker a solution to demands by Goldman Sachs bankers that he said violated two or more of the ratings company’s internal guidelines.
DRUDGE — April 28, 2010
‘GOLDMAN’ SHARES RISE AS DEMS PLAY ‘SH**TY’...
GOLDMAN SACHS CEO endorses Dem Banking Bill: ‘Wall Street will benefit’...
FLASHBACK: GOLDMAN rallies for Obama reform...
Gore lashes out at reporters: ‘Bad job covering climate crisis’...
HEATED UP: Climategate Scientist Threatens Lawsuit Over Satirical YOUTUBE Video...
[February] Soros swoops in, takes another bank
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=126555
Accusations of favoritism swirl in deals for institutions seized by government
Further in Soros article:
Recent YouTube videos posted by financial bloggers have been hurling a slew of accusations at the FDIC regarding its deals with companies like OneWest, drawing a rare response from the FDIC. The central accusation that drew the response, notes eCreditDaily.com, was the federal agency’s so-called “loss-sharing agreement” with OneWest, which critics claim makes it a much more profitable incentive for the bank to move forward with short sales or foreclosures instead of working with homeowners on mortgage modifications.
Obama’s No. 2 Iran man on Soros-funded council
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=115445
Expected to negotiate with radical regime while serving group opposing sanctions
George Soros bets against America
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=114759
Billionaire attacks capitalism, makes billions on global recession
Understanding Soros [A FReeper’s take of Corsi’s Research]
Soros’ intellectual framework-— London School of Economics, deeply influenced by Karl Popper. Deep passion for questioning any claim of truth, moral relativism. “Open Society.” [Citizen of the world.]
“When I heard President Bush say, ‘Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists,’ I was reminded of Nazi propaganda.” [Wired to presume that patriotism is facism — selfish and evil.]
” ... too focused on pursuing narrowly defined U.S. nation-state interests”. [Corsi’s take of Soros-think about Bush]
That’s the thinking that funneled hundreds of millions of dollars to pollute U.S. patriotism via the Open Society Institute [founded in 1979].
The Open Society Institute is the root that sprouted Moveon.org, Center for American Progress, and Red Alert reports.
Soros admitted that he spent “several hundred million dollars” to have GW. Bush defeated in ‘04. Even though he failed, he poisoned the waters of “national loyalty”, the very patriotism that binds our nation’s unity.
Soros held a fundraiser at Obama’s home. He maxed his donations to Obama before Barrack even won his senate seat [but that pales compared to the peripheral support]. “In 2006, Soros urged Obama to run for president.”
When Barrack made his bid, Soros held a meeting with his big money allies in his Wall St. office.
While Obama ran, Soros positioned himself to profit from our economic meltdown. He bet against the US greenback and made billions. In March of ‘09, Soros gloated to London’s Daily Mail, “I’m having a very good crisis.” His Quantum Investment Fund reaped $2.9 billion in ‘09, and a cool $1 billion in ‘08.
Soros authored a book in ‘08, “The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means.”
Soros: “We are in the midst of the worst financial crisis since the 1930s ... [the meltdown] “marks the end of an era of credit expansion based on the dollar as the international reserve currency” [and was “the culmination of a super-boom that has lasted for more than twenty-five years.”
He anticipated the panic, he was prepared for the panic, and he tossed gasoline on it to profit from it.
FROM JEROME CORSI’S RED ALERT
George Soros bets against America
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=114759
Billionaire attacks capitalism, makes billions on global recession
Pretty much describes Soros......bottom feeder from top to bottom.
no surprise....Money, oh-ooo sugar sugar, give it up give it up.......itchy fingers never cease......and I am not a racist person....but I do have culture differences with some.
“While Obama ran, Soros positioned himself to profit from our economic meltdown. He bet against the US greenback and made billions. In March of ‘09, Soros gloated to London’s Daily Mail, “I’m having a very good crisis.” His Quantum Investment Fund reaped $2.9 billion in ‘09, and a cool $1 billion in ‘08.
Soros authored a book in ‘08, “The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means.”
Soros: “We are in the midst of the worst financial crisis since the 1930s ... [the meltdown] “marks the end of an era of credit expansion based on the dollar as the international reserve currency” [and was “the culmination of a super-boom that has lasted for more than twenty-five years.”
He anticipated the panic, he was prepared for the panic, and he tossed gasoline on it to profit from it.:
We will never know hom much money Soros REALLY made.
He controls companies in Bermuda, Burma, and elsewhere, which do not disclose balance sheets or financial statements.
Thank you, FRiend. I’ve heard others say that too — Soros has a network of secret investors.
Ann Coulter: D.C. takes break from porn surfing to bail out Wall Street
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=146981
Who’s worried about sea level rise? Gore buys $8.8 million ocean-view villa
http://www.latimes.com/features/home/la-hm-hotprop-gore-20100428,0,4103538.story
[Wants to watch polar bears down?]
German MPs claim Greece needs $150+ BILLION!
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a7a9c604-5297-11df-a192-00144feab49a.html
NEW WORLD ORDER: Obama concerned about Greek debt, monitoring closely
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2812312720100428?type=hotStocksNews
Citizens Against Government Waste point at pork
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2502918/posts
A Government of Know-it-Alls [O’Rourke]
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/27/tech/main6436511.shtml
[The “A Student” Flops that Rush talked about Earlier]
Backhoe did some research on the electronic run that triggered the meltdown:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2128550/posts?page=2794#2794
Financial Meltdown Reprise
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2502787/posts
US financial meltdown on 9-11-08.
Is the date of the financial meltdown just a coincidence? I don’t think so. From the short video in the article:
On 9/11/08 at 11:00 am in the morning, $550 Billion was withdrawn from US money markets in about 1 hour starting an electronic run on the banks.
The Treasury pumped $105 Billion into the system, but quickly realized they could not stem the tide.
They then decided to close down the money accounts and announce a $250,000 guarantee per account to avoid further panic.
They believed that if they had not done that, then by 2:00 pm that afternoon (9/11/08) $5.5 Trillion would have been withdrawn from US money market accounts collapsing the US economy and within 24 hours the world economy.
This was a deliberate attack on the US. [End quote — I agree]
U.S. starts criminal probe into Goldman
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2503638/posts
Obama’s Payoff To Brazilian Cotton Growers [Washington Times]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2503554/posts?page=1
Want to get rich? Work for feds...
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/Want-to-get-rich_-Work-for-feds-92316619.html
Burning oil rig aside — note it is British Petroleum. Why is it that there is any space left for a BP oil rig in the gulf?
All this BS about “Big Oil”. It’s CRAP! We aren’t aggressive enough. Why? Enviro-wackos. I wonder if British Patroleum had contributed to Sierra Club, etc? A way foreign oil interests can meddle with US politics.
Obama Officials Sat On Damning Obamacare Info Until After Congressional Vote
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2503764/posts
[Powerful headline]
European Countries Have Defaulted 73 Times Since 1800
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2503799/posts
VIDEO: Obama: We’ve “Seen The Dangers Of Too Little Government”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2504609/posts
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