RIGGED: Denninger On Stock Market Manipulation (CLIP)

Video:  Denninger on phantom NANEX Bid-Ask Charts

Karl Denninger writes the widely-read Market Ticker.

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Town Hall Constitution -- Rep. Pete Stark: "The Federal Government Can Do Most Anything In This Country" (CLIP)

Video:  Seventeen-term Congressman Pete Stark battles a constituent over Constitutional interpretation of federal government powers.

A 2nd clip inside from Stark arguing over immigration.  You probably don't want to miss that one -- pretty solid live confrontation.

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Monday Quick Hits (15 Stories, TARP Holiday Card)

• Bernanke's Monday Speech: State Governments In A Bind

• Budget 2011: Past Deficits vs. Obama’s Deficits in Pictures

• Wall Street blame game (latest from James Howard Kunstler)

• Why criminal investigations for BP, but NOT for Wall Street?

• Maxine Watters wants trial over bank bailouts ethics charges

• Profile of Pete Peterson -- Big Spending Deficit Hawk

• Will Washington's Failures Lead To Second American Revolution?

• Russian Oligarch tells the truth about Moscow corruption

• Elite Team of Patriotic Cyber Hackers Revealed

• Why drug dealers & the mafia LOVE the Euro

• Walk away from your mortgage, then splurge on iPads

• Poor little multi-millionaire Gary Crittenden

• Very Heavy Dispersant Use in Gulf

• Backing Al Gore into a corner ... with kid gloves

• Groups rally against Fox News bid for WH briefing seat

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I Have Looked For Our Rights (HBO's John Adams Part 2)

Stirring clip.  John Dickinson (PA) and John Adams (MA) clash over the Colonies' response to the British at Lexington and Concord.

Adams gets going at the 2:40 mark:

• "Powder and artillery are the surest and most infallible concilliatory measures that we can adopt."

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UPDATE: Insurance Companies Profit From Dead American Soldiers -- NY AG Cuomo To Investigate (CBS CLIP)

In case the youtube version gets pulled for copyright infringement, here's the link to the CBS video:

• CBS Story & Clip

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Story background:

• DEATH PROFIT: Soldiers' Families Denied Cash as Prudential, MetLife Gain

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UPDATE: Robert Rizzo's Pension Being 'Withheld' By California Attorney General, $100k Council Members Get HUGE Salary Haircut

I can't say it any louder -- No state bailouts! 

Details on new developments inside.  Plus an awesome protest clip.

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UPDATE: NYT Infographic Tracking TARP Money Flows

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Bank bailouts seemingly never end.

• Check out all the details and transactions at the NYT

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Amazing Grace By 7 Year Old Rhema Marvanne

Song:  Rhema Marvanne -- Amazing Grace

Texas D. posted this clip the other day in comments and I was astounded by this young girl's voice.  Give the video 30 seconds or so to get going.

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Thursday Night Reading -- Including National Debt Projection For 2018 (19 Stories, July 29, 2010)

Stories are inside to save space on the front page.

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HILARIOUS: White House Budget Director Peter Orszag Heckled During Brookings Institution Speech (VIDEO)

The heckler breaks into a song.  No, I'm not kidding.  Heres the first verse:

• "Peter Orszag & Larry Summers, they're fascist pigs! Fascist pigs!"

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Quick Hits (July 29, 2010)

• Citigroup May Move Prop Traders to Hedge Funds to Avoid Volcker Rule

• FinReg has racial hiring quotas for Wall Street

• Max Keiser: NSA & CIA: The Secret America – Alex Jones TV

• Five minutes with Andrew Breitbart

• Illinois Stops Paying Its Bills, but Can’t Stop Digging Hole

• Glenn Greenwald -- The Real U.S. government (must read)

• Netanyahu: US Easily Manipulated (Unseen VIDEO)

• Matt Taibbi -- Financial Reform Vote-Buying, Chapter 1

• Feinberg: Indirect BP Damage Claims Will Be Tougher to Resolve (PBS Video)

• Wednesday's Quick Hits

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HILARIOUS: Jim Rogers Calls CNBC A Public Relations Agency For Stocks While On CNBC (WATCH)

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Video Of Paul McCartney Bashing George Bush Cut Out By PBS In Tonight's Presidential Concert (WATCH)

Video:  What PBS didn't want you to see

McCartney takes a swing at GW.  Runs 20 seconds.  The concert itself, broadcast tonight by PBS, was excellent.  Three clips of the musical performances are inside.

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Jailed Tyco Exec Dennis Kozlowski Sends Neil Cavuto A Hand-Scribbled Diatribe From Prison (VIDEO)

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