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Sep212011

Geithner Ignores Obama Citigroup Order, Jamie Dimon The Wall Street Lobbying Machine, More Corruption From Sen. Feinstein & Husband, Defense Dept. Fear Mongering, Paul Volcker Inflation Op-Ed (LINKS)

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Key Context on Obama’s Vague Proposed Millionaires’ Tax

http://www.propublica.org/blog/item/the-basics-on-obamas-vague-proposed-millionaires-tax
Sep 20, 2011 at 10:18 PM | Registered CommenterDailyBail
EL PASO, Texas, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- Two former law enforcement officers say their allegations of Mexican cartels corrupting U.S. law officers and politicians have brought no investigations.

The El Paso Times reports Greg Gonzales, a retired Dona Ana County sheriff's deputy, and Wesley Dutton, a rancher and former New Mexico state livestock investigator, said their whistle-blowing led to threats against them and retaliation.

The Times said both had been confidential sources for the FBI in El Paso and assisted with an 18-month investigation.

They said the FBI dropped them after "big names" on the U.S. side of the border were revealed in drug investigations. Dutton said an FBI official who had worked in El Paso sent a memo to area law enforcement agencies urging them not to talk to or have anything to do with him or Gonzales.

Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/09/20/Texas-whistle-blowers-allege-corruption/UPI-96951316525563/#ixzz1YY89GGBM
Sep 20, 2011 at 10:19 PM | Registered CommenterDailyBail
The inspector general reviewed a sample of 10 Justice Department conferences held between October 2007 and September 2009 at a cost of $4.4 million, a period that included the administrations of Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Barack Obama. The Justice Department spent $73.3 million on conferences in fiscal 2009, compared with $47.8 million a year earlier, according to the report.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-20/-extravagant-spending-16-muffins-found-at-justice-conferences.html
Sep 20, 2011 at 10:19 PM | Registered CommenterDailyBail
Sep 20, 2011 at 10:20 PM | Registered CommenterDailyBail
How Orabrush Got National Walmart Deal with YouTube Videos, $28 in Facebook Ads

http://adage.com/article/news/orabrush-national-walmart-deal-youtube-videos/229914/
Sep 20, 2011 at 10:25 PM | Registered CommenterDailyBail
Sep 20, 2011 at 10:42 PM | Unregistered CommenterTR
Gear up for another lost decade in real estate. Housing will remain stagnate from 2010 to 2020. Demographic shifts, higher mortgage rates, and shifting consumer taste in real estate.

http://www.mybudget360.com/lost-decade-housing-real-estate-2010-to-2020-higher-mortgage-rates-baby-boomers-retiring/
Sep 20, 2011 at 11:08 PM | Registered CommenterDailyBail
DB,
Monday I withdrew an offer on a foreclosure home. Freddie Mac wanted me to sign an addendum that "purchaser understands that seller does not have title to manufactured home". My research found that title to home had transferred to property. This would not be a title problem. This property is being sold "AS IS" but this title situation should have been disclosed in the beginning,not a week+ after I made an offer.
TR don't play that!!!
Sep 21, 2011 at 12:01 AM | Unregistered CommenterTR
I've read about those situations, TR. You made the right choice as some buyers in those instances have ended up losing the home after the purchase. It's a fucking mess. Housing market will not recover with issues like this floating out there.
Sep 21, 2011 at 12:30 AM | Registered CommenterDailyBail
If you ever wondered who plays Batman in the Geithner-Obama duo, that Geithner-Citi story is your answer.

In other news, there's another financial crisis movie making the rounds. "The Flaw" premiered at Sundance and has worked its way all the way to a Milwaukee screening this weekend.

http://theflawmovie.com/trailerandclipstrailer1.html

"THE FLAW makes one thing clear from the outset—there was nothing simple about the U.S. financial collapse of 2007. Within minutes, experts had identified plenty of culprits: market failure, a credit culture, a wage crisis, a debt crisis, and upward redistribution of income. That’s economic shorthand for fasten your seatbelt."

http://whatnottodoc.com/2011/01/10/2011-sundance-docs-in-focus-the-flaw/

What a load of shit. First off, the financial collapse happened in September 2008, not a year earlier. Second, the Flaw utterly fails to identify FRAUD as the root cause of the crisis, instead focusing on an egghead's wet dream--the redistribution of income. Well, no shit. I guess fucking incomes would get redistributed if the top 0.1% of people were allowed to steal at every turn, now, wouldn't they?
Sep 21, 2011 at 8:06 AM | Unregistered CommenterCheyenne
Interview with Lupe Fiasco at Wall St. protest. Unfortunately, it starts off about Building 7. Interestingly, turns out Lupe isn't a 911 Truther after all, just willing to ask questions and demand transparency.

Very interesting discussion of people's complicity in the system (pensions, 401K's, etc.).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWhxvXcDJU0

LOL money quote (about avoiding societal breakdown): "I don't wanna be living in a bunker for 15 years eating dried food and you know shooting at people to keep them away from my house and shit."
Sep 21, 2011 at 11:34 AM | Registered CommenterDr. Pitchfork
Obviously, with all the old posts I put up, I'm bored and just waiting for Bernanke's announcement.
Sep 21, 2011 at 1:05 PM | Registered CommenterDailyBail
Dr. P--

I enjoyed the Lupe Fiasco interview too. Frankly I was stunned by how articulate and knowledgeable the guy is. I have only a vague idea of what a "Truther" is and for that reason avoid using the term. However, I've been asking the same basic question for a few years: how do 2 planes take down 3 buildings? Nine times out of ten I've found that merely posing the question will immediately brand you a "conspiracy theorist" or some such other non-responsive remark. Sign of the times, I guess.
Sep 21, 2011 at 1:48 PM | Unregistered CommenterCheyenne

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