Ron Paul WINS Cali GOP Straw Poll, Soros Says Prepare For Euro Break-Up, GOP Hypocrisy On Medicare, War Machine In Panic Mode, Romney Wants War Criminal As VP (LINKS)

• Obama to propose "Buffett Tax" on millionaires
• UBS details rogue trades that lost bank $2.3 billion
• Ron Paul WINS California GOP straw poll
• GOP Hypocrisy On Medicare's Costly Prescription Drug Benefit
• Mitt Romney would like to have a war criminal as his VP
• George Soros - Prepare For Greece, Portugal & Ireland To Leave Eurozone
• Finland puts its foot down - Demands collateral for more euro-zone bailouts
• European leaders still divided on debt crisis - Geithner advice 'brushed off'
• PHOTOS - Mans Sets Himself On Fire In Greece Protest
• Class Action Lawsuit Against JP Morgan Over Silver Price Manipulation
• Panetta's War Machine In PANIC Mode Over Possible Cuts To Military
• 12,000 tax cheats come clean under IRS program
• U.S. tax-evasion probe turns to Israeli banks - Reuters
• Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Resigns Over Global Warming 'Farce'
• Europe's Response To Geithner's Advice: "I'd Like To Hear How The United States Will Reduce Its Deficits ... And Its Debts"

Additional links are in comments below.

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[DailyBail]

“Wedding Crashers” star Vince Vaughn introduced Republican presidential hopeful Rep. Ron Paul (Texas) Friday night at the Liberty Political Action Conference (LPAC) in Reno, Nevada.

Vaughn and Paul are “friends,” according to Paul’s campaign. Pictures from the conference posted at Paul’s campaign website show the two chatting along with Paul’s son, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.).

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-presidential-primary/182153-vince-vaughn-introduces-ron-paul-at-libertarian-event

[DailyBail]

European treasury needed to avoid Depression: Soros

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/15/us-eurozone-soros-idUSTRE78E0II20110915?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

[DailyBail]

China charms Europe, but Beijing has own agenda

http://news.yahoo.com/china-charms-europe-beijing-own-agenda-063837797.html

[DailyBail]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Consumer groups will try to convince the Federal Reserve this week that rubber stamping the Capital One Financial Corp takeover of ING Groep NV's online banking unit would prove that "too big to fail" is alive and well.

http://news.yahoo.com/fed-tested-too-big-fail-merger-review-131837233.html

[DailyBail]

WROCLAW, Poland (Reuters) - EU finance ministers broke no new ground in dealing with the euro zone debt crisis in discussions over the weekend, instead absorbing some ideas and rejecting others and taking stock of progress on agreed steps.

http://news.yahoo.com/eu-finance-ministers-stock-progress-debt-crisis-005201936.html

[DailyBail]

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou chairs a cabinet meeting on Sunday to decide on more austerity measures to secure continued funding under an international bailout.

EU and IMF inspectors are holding a conference call with Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos on Monday to hear what measures Greece will take to plug this year's shortfall in the budget before they release an 8 billion euro ($11 billion) loan tranche it needs by October before it runs out of money.

http://news.yahoo.com/greek-cabinet-meets-decide-more-austerity-steps-143159676.html

[DailyBail]

No right to protest in America: Occupation of Wall Street thwarted thanks to ignorant police

http://www.activistpost.com/2011/09/no-right-to-protest-in-america.html

[DailyBail]

On November 22, 1910, Senator Nelson Aldrich, head of the National Monetary Commission, who had studied the European Rothschild and Warburg banks in order to help ‘stabilize’ the U.S. banking system, took a group of international banking representatives by sealed train to a secret meeting on secluded Jekyll Island in Georgia to strategize as to how a U.S. central bank could be created.

http://www.activistpost.com/2011/09/global-bankers-fdr-us-federal-reserve.html

[DailyBail]

Cost of War to the United States

http://costofwar.com/en/

[DailyBail]

Greece's debt woes have Merkel pleading for patience

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/europe/in-europe-a-crisis-teeters-toward-cataclysm/article2162098/

[DailyBail]

Credit Crisis: The Result of Greatest Financial Crime in World History. Where are the Convictions?

by Prof. William K Black and James J Puplava

http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=26602

[DailyBail]

David Eisenhower Reissues His Grandfather’s Famous Warning

http://theintelhub.com/2011/09/16/david-eisenhower-reissues-his-grandfathers-famous-warning/

[TR]

GOP Hypocrisy On Medicare's Costly Prescription Drug Benefit

"It's a massive health care entitlement with unfunded future costs over $7 trillion. Many conservatives are still upset at the way it was rammed through Congress."

"Texas Rep. Ron Paul noted that he'd voted against the prescription benefit, but said repeal "sure wouldn't be on my high list."

Who doesn't understand $7 TRILLION? UNFUNDED? Must be eliminated NOW.

WTF or To HELL with the SOCIALIST REPUBLICAN & TEA BAG LEECHES. Get the GOVT out of health care & let them DIE

Paul should DEMAND the immediate elimination of the program & DENOUNCE anyone for the program.

Paul is just another member of the BIG CLUB ( 24 yrs.) & now he wants a promotion. While I'm at it FUCK the DEMS too!!!

I'm all BETTER now.

[TR]

Them there Eisenhowers must be members of that Socialist-Communist bunch.
Panetta is a PATROIT because he is in favor of our great MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX. LOL

DAMN! I'm FIRED UP!! @(#*$&%^+>"?!

Has science found an OUTRAGE GENE yet?

[Radman]

Do you REALLY believe that people in the bluest-of-blue, most-unionized, in-debt-up-to-their-noses states are going to select the Republican candidate that is MOST likely to beat their only chance at a federal bailout? GET SERIOUS!

[Cheyenne]

Hmmm. Here it is 9:15 p.m. EST on 9/18/11--just for purposes of laying a record--and as far as from what I can gather, there is no one--not a single solitary soul--purporting to occupy Wall Street.

Except there are people doing exactly that, exactly now, and by the thousands.

Not even a headline, a photo, a video?

Really? Not even here's a good shot for the home team?

What gives?

Seriously.

[TR]

@Cheyenne

The "OWNERS" are afraid of the possible future. Trying to keep everything on the QT?

[Cheyenne]

No, TR, at least I don't think so.

I just was in Vietnam, Indiana for 2 full days with Johnny Lira, cruising around in a Winnebago. Lira was a fighter, and had incredible insight into the Mayweather-Ortiz fight.

He told me he felt like most of his career consisted of getting his ass kicked, and yet somehow getting to the top.

The one thing Johnny Lira impressed upon me, for all the ass-kickings he endured, is this: if you're gonna bet, bet on yourself. He took the title that way.

For me, betting on myself means pulverizing Wall Street into fine white dust and living to see it.

And here there are, tons of protesters on Wall Street, and the so-called scribes against Wall Street have neither word nor opinion?

I find that astonishing enough to re-visit my assumptions, and to re-read waivers.

[TR]

Cheyenne
"pulverizing Wall Street into fine white dust and living to see it".

They may not need help doing it to themselves.

I've not found - "even a headline, a photo, a video?" This is a puzzle.

Any info would be nice even if WALL STREET is empty. MSM :bought & paid for???

[Cheyenne]

"They may not need help doing it to themselves."

My interests lie not in "may." Seems like I've been reading about that horseshit for far too long.

"Will" is a better word, but I have no control over the future.

"Oh, yes, you do," says the voice, "and you know it, for a fact, but you don't got the balls to get your own hands dirty."

[john]

Wall Street Protest pix.

http://cryptome.org/info/occupy-wall-st/occupy-wall-st.htm

[TR]

@Cheyenne

May is for them. Will is for us. I should comment as TR WILLPOWER. Stopped smoking & drinking COLD TURKEY. Changed my diet.
Sold my house. Sold 75% of our personnel property. Moved 2900 mi. across country. Will buy a house at a 50% or greater discount. Research all my purchases & sometimes the seller gets to keep their junk. Never have an emotional attachment to material things it skews my critical thinking.

"FREE YOUR MIND,AND THE REST WILL FOLLOW"

[TR]

This is a good way to end my OUTRAGED weekend.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkAhQBbK-oM

[DailyBail]

Cheyenne...I have a story coming on the protests with video and photos.

[Cheyenne]

Good stuff, DB.

The thing I liked most about the Wall Street protestors is their youth. As I'm sure you know far better than I, the demographic on econ blogs is massively slanted at the 35+ demographic; hell, I'd bet the median age of readers is 50.

It pisses me off about six ways from Sunday when blog commenters get down on the protesters for not knowing what they're protesting. First, much of the invective is directed to the "left-wing" tilt of the protestors--as if the left/right puppet show has any utility remaining whatsoever.

Second, many blog commenters have this smug fatalism about them, you know, life's a shithole and the People are doomed.

Third, I know I and others were about 35 before we had a clue about what a menace Greenspan might be; and yet these smug asshole commenters, many of whom I guarantee you need to change their own diapers twice a day, sit upon their shit-encrusted perches and pretend they were financially literate at 17 or 23? Yeah, RIIIIIIGHT.

At least the protestors are taking real risks, not wiping their asses a thousand times a week.

We need more risk and less ass-wiping in this country.