http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/greed/ en-us Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:18:32 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2131847/posts ATLANTA (AP) — Zealous guardians of his words and his likeness, the family of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is demanding a share of the proceeds from the sudden wave of T-shirts, posters and other merchandise depicting the civil rights leader alongside Barack Obama. Isaac Newton Farris Jr., King's nephew and head of the nonprofit King Center in Atlanta, said the estate is entitled to hundreds of thousands of dollars in licensing fees — maybe even millions. "Some of this is probably putting food on people's plates. We're not trying to stop anybody from legitimately supporting themselves," he said,... The Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2131847/posts#comment Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:18:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2130596/posts Woman out $400K to 'Nigerian scam' con artists  Story Updated: Nov 11, 2008 at 9:07 PM PST By Anna Song KATU News and KATU.com Web Staff SWEET HOME, Ore. – Janella Spears doesn’t think she’s a sucker or an easy mark. Besides her work as a nursing administrator, Spears – no relation to the well-known pop star – also teaches CPR and is a reverend who has married many couples. She also communicates with lightning-fast sign language with her hearing-impaired husband.So how did this otherwise lucid, intelligent woman end up sending nearly half a million dollars to a bunch... KATU-TV (Oregon) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2130596/posts#comment Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:21:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2130502/posts Michael Lewis, the brilliant author of "Liar's Poker" and "Moneyball" pens a lengthy story for Portfolio where he looks at: [T]he willingness of a Wall Street investment bank to pay me hundreds of thousands of dollars to dispense investment advice to grownups remains a mystery to me. I was 24 years old, with no experience of, or particular interest in, guessing which stocks and bonds would rise and which would fall. The essential function of Wall Street is to allocate capital—to decide who should get it and who should not. Believe me when I tell you that I hadn’t the... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2130502/posts#comment Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:49:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2130132/posts The Federal Election Commission is unlikely to conduct a potentially embarrassing audit of how Barack Obama raised and spent his presidential campaign’s record-shattering windfall, despite allegations of questionable donations and accounting that had the McCain campaign crying foul. Adding insult to injury for Republicans: The FEC is obligated to complete a rigorous audit of McCain’s campaign coffers, which will take months, if not years, and cost McCain millions of dollars to defend. Obama is expected to escape that level of scrutiny mostly because he declined an $84 million public grant for his campaign that automatically triggers an audit and because... Politico.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2130132/posts#comment Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:29:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2128866/posts So, with the stroke of a pen human embryos would become property, capable of being “manufactured” like a commodity, and available to be used as spare parts in experimentation which has produced no discernible scientific results. It is all even more troubling because adult stem cell research and fetal chord blood research have actually shown significant promise but have received little or no attention or research support. Most importantly, the use of these stem cells is never deadly. Every so called “extraction” of embryonic stem cells kills a living human embryo. I write as a Catholic Christian who warned of... Catholic Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2128866/posts#comment Sun, 9 Nov 2008 18:26:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2128559/posts Though the campaign is over, President-elect Barack Obama is still soliciting contributions to help fund his move into the Oval Office, Politico reports. The Obama team has created the Obama-Biden Transition Project, a non-profit corporation set up under section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Service code, to help supplement the $6.3 million he will receive in taxpayer funds. Contributions of up to $5,000-per-person can be made to the non-profit, and a source close to the situation told Politico Obama will not accept contributions from lobbyists or corporations. Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2128559/posts#comment Sat, 8 Nov 2008 11:46:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2122105/posts Beijing - When Yang Xianghong, a middle-ranking Chinese Communist Party official, slipped away from a government delegation trip to Paris three weeks ago, he said he was visiting his daughter. When he didn't come back, though, his disappearance sparked much speculation on state-run media that Mr. Yang was the latest escapee in a growing exodus of officials fleeing corruption probes. If true, he joins as many as 10,000 corrupt Chinese officials who have fled the country over the past decade, taking as much as $100 billion of public funds with them, according to an estimate by Li Chengyan, head of... csmonitor http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2122105/posts#comment Sat, 1 Nov 2008 23:55:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2113671/posts As companies look at their prospects for the final quarter of the year and begin to see increasingly grim outlooks for 2009, they are cutting jobs from many different parts of their businesses. They are also slashing capital spending and, in some cases, dividends and even wages. reuteurs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2113671/posts#comment Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:11:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2109281/posts LONDON (UPI) -- U.S. pop star Madonna has agreed to give her husband, director Guy Ritchie, nearly $104 million in cash and property as part of their divorce, a source says. The unidentified source said both sides quickly agreed to the financial settlement that will help end the couple's eight-year marriage, The Times of London reported Friday. upi http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2109281/posts#comment Sun, 19 Oct 2008 04:13:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2108911/posts A handful of city and state officials jumped at the chance to meet with Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov, a dictator so brutal that he reportedly boils his detractors to death. Fortunately for Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and a host of others who neglected to do their homework, the invitation was a prank. NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2108911/posts#comment Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:04:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2107286/posts The global economic crisis is a result of the "comprehensive failure of extreme capitalism," Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Wednesday as he took aim at bulging executive pay packets. The centre-left Labor Party leader named greed and fear as the "twin evils" at the root of the financial sector collapse, which began in the United States and swept the world. "What we have seen is the comprehensive failure of extreme capitalism -- extreme capitalism which now turns to government to prevent systemic failure," Rudd told the National Press Club in Canberra. breitbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2107286/posts#comment Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:50:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2106133/posts by Edward Hudgins Important truths about human nature and morality have been on display in the 2008 presidential campaign. Voters are angry as they watch the stock market and their retirement accounts collapse. They are angry as they see CEOs of collapsed financial institutions walking away with huge compensation packages, seeming rewards for their failures. And they are angry at Congress and the Bush administration further rewarding them with a $700 billion bailout. Voters are venting their anger principally on Republicans who they see as responsible for the current financial mess. Republicans deserve what they get, but not because they... The Atlas Society - The Center for Objectivism http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2106133/posts#comment Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:00:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2102209/posts Obama then went on to run a voter registration project with ACORN Project VOTE in 1992 that made it possible for Carol Moseley Braun to win the Senate that year. Project VOTE delivered 50,000 newly registered voters in that campaign (ACORN delivered about 5,000 of them). http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=aMFaYUwQEYc Right Side News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2102209/posts#comment Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:16:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2099750/posts Great fears floating through the internet threads that we are in "end times" because of the worldwide financial crises. Not so. At least not according to everything I've read about the "end times." That won't happen until the temple in Jerusalem is (again) rebuilt. Worldwide financial collapse is also predicted as a portent of advancing the end times, but what is this current crises all about then? Well, in my own opinion, this current financial mess is a big fat warning to take a good look at ourselves and what we believe. If you've had thoughts running around in the... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2099750/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 18:26:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2095358/posts A Stanford Law School graduate who is married to the co-founder of Ask.com has been charged in federal court with tax evasion for allegedly running an escort service to help pay her bills and student loans, court records show. Cristina Warthen, 35, maintained a Web site called "Touchofbrazil.net," on which she advertised her services as "Brazil," discussed pricing - up to $1,300 for two hours and $15,000 for three days - and posted erotic pictures of herself, according to documents filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in San Jose. The San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2095358/posts#comment Thu, 2 Oct 2008 00:19:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094958/posts DETROIT - Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama yesterday said he was outraged at being asked by the Bush Administration to bail out Wall Street for the financial crisis, but said it was a necessary measure that should be passed soon. Saying he supports the $700 billion bailout that was agreed to early yesterday, Mr. Obama nonetheless said the financial ruin threatening Wall Street was "the final verdict" on an era of greed that he laid at the feet of the current administration in the White House. And he attacked his Republican opponent, Arizona Sen. John McCain, for backing deregulation policies... toledoblade.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094958/posts#comment Wed, 1 Oct 2008 16:32:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2094516/posts The following is an expanded copy of a letter I emailed to President Bush earlier today. If you want voters to support a bailout you should change it so general taxpayers don't have to pay for it. Taxpayers didn't cause the problem. Greedy executives did. Greedy bankers were so anxious to get richer that they made loans they shouldn't have made. Any bailout payment should take the form of negotiable federal securities rather than cash. The bailout program should be separate from the general budget. Securities would be paid off by mortgage payments, sale of foreclosed homes etc. plus special... Town Hall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2094516/posts#comment Wed, 1 Oct 2008 01:57:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2093782/posts The financial crisis has boiled over. The Democrats who tried to hid it took a beating in yesterday’s vote on the 700 billion dollar bailout of the mortgage industry. They have no one but other Democrats to blame. This whole crisis was created, lock stock and barrel by greedy arrogant Democrats in and around the Clinton administration. They created Fannie Mae, the quasi public corporation, to deliver mortgage money to many poor White and minority voters. They gave our money away to insure mortgages for far too many clients who could not pay for their new homes. Nevertheless, this meant... The Collins Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2093782/posts#comment Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:49:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2092662/posts I've been watching the news the last few days. It seems that every time this is discussed somebody mentions that it could impede our governments ability to borrow. Could this be the REAL reason why they're working so hard to pass this bill? Has the United States been essentially blackmailed by foreign investors who have told us that without this the United States itself is not going to be credit worthy? That would explain why Democrats are for it. If borrowing is curtailed, then cuts in government spending, real cuts, must be made and that threatens liberal social programs. How... Here http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2092662/posts#comment Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:53:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2091060/posts Slavery still stalks the American consciousness, its wounds yet festering in many hearts. If Barack Obama were to set his mind to it, he could heal much of the damage this peculiar institution wrought on our national soul. This great and tragic error that must be given justice. Obama is the best person in the world who can recognize, remember and honor the deaths of 125 million and the enslavement of tens of millions of people. His unique qualifications can be found in his names. Until he was 20 years old, he went by the first name Barry. Then he... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2091060/posts#comment Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:09:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2089605/posts Vanity Fair editors estimated that McCain's fierce saffron shirt dress with the popped collar, diamond earrings, four-strand pearl necklace, white Chanel watch and strappy shoes totaled up to $313,100. _______________________________________________________ I say do not watse your time reading the lie at the link just provided for verification of the original lie. cbsnews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2089605/posts#comment Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:53:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088098/posts It’s funny how greed only afflicts the other guy. With John McCain jumping on the anti-avarice bandwagon, the consensus that the greed of rich Wall Street CEOs, analysts, and investors is to blame for the financial market turmoil now spans the New York Times editorial page, the Democratic punditocracy, and the highest reaches of the Republican ticket. Liberal columnists, university professors, and crusading politicians railing against market selfishness are all supremely confident that their own salaries reflect exactly their worth and not a penny more—because they would never seek to make a profit from their labor, right? It’s also axiomatic... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088098/posts#comment Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:14:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087763/posts Nearly 53,000 children in China have been sickened by milk powder contaminated by an industrial chemical, the government said Monday, dramatically ramping up its previous figures. Earlier the health ministry said 12,892 infants were in hospital with 104 babies in serious condition, according to the official Xinhua news agency. As the World Health Organization questioned Beijing's handling of the crisis, premier Wen Jiabao appeared on state television promising to head off further incidents. But a Hong Kong toddler also became the first child affected outside the mainland and more countries moved to bar Chinese milk products. The scandal stems from... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087763/posts#comment Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:43:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2084149/posts Lehman Brothers staff are trying to make some money out of the dramatic collapse of the bank by auctioning off company memorabilia on eBay. * * * Goods up for grabs on the internet auction site include "Lehman Brothers messenger bag and notepad" and a white Lehman coffee mug that bears the slogan "Where vision gets built". Beneath the photo of the satchel is the comment from the seller: "I worked here for half of my career. Bought most of my stock at a weighted average price of $45 (£26). Enough said. "I guess all you employed people could use... Telegraph.UK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2084149/posts#comment Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:39:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2083977/posts Wall Street is a financial Head-Smashed-In, where ego carries the hordes over the precipice Carl Mortished: World business briefing Head-Smashed-In is a buffalo jump in Alberta, Canada, a communal kill site where the Plains Indians drove herds of North American bison off the edge of a cliff. Over thousands of years, the Plains tribes developed the skill of goading buffalo towards a precipice. As the animals thundered towards the drop, those in front would try to stop but the sheer weight of the stampeding herd pressing from behind would force the buffalo over the edge. Unesco has designated the buffalo... Times of London http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2083977/posts#comment Wed, 17 Sep 2008 02:06:14 GMT