Still Hold A Grudge Against Geithner? Here's Your Last Opportunity To Piss Him Off Royally Before He Starts Taking Paychecks From Goldman
Rarely are we so lucky as to ascertain what our enemy fears most. Geithner opens his heart of darkness, and we now know how to make him very, very angry, and more than a little bit frightened.
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This is really getting good. I have a ton to throw at you in this post, so it'll be easiest to consume as links. First some background.
Elizabeth Warren is the literal inspiration for the CFPA, or as it is now called the CFPB (bureau replaces agency in the acronym). The entire idea came from an op-ed she wrote to the WSJ back in 2007. She has been fighting tirelessly on its behalf since that day. Wall Street and the banking industry are scared to death that she will be named chief enforcer. Tim Geithner and Larry Summers are owned by the banks and so they are fighting her nomination.
Now the good news. The pushback from advocay groups and voters has been off the charts. Pundits, members of Congress and academia are all coming to Warren's defense and demanding that Obama appoint her as soon as possible.
- "Make them vote against this hard-as-nails woman from Oklahoma who grew up poor, and who's tough on big banks," the advocate noted. "Force the vote."
There are 2 petitions up and flying (not just running) as we speak. The first originally had a goal of 100,000 total signatures by July 20 (started on July 16). And they passed that number after 2 days. So the goal has changed to 150,000, and that looks as though it will be passed this afternoon. And these signatures are being delivered directly to the White House and Obama.
Now please sign the 2nd petition:
Please sign both petitions and pass this story on to friends. This is perhaps your last and best opportunity to make a real difference in the life of Treasury Secretary Geithner. After the November elections, his paychecks will likely be coming from Goldman Sachs, so this is your chance to put Warren in charge of the CFPB, and make Turbo's post-government stroll through investment banking not as pleasant as he hopes.
Do this. Then pass it on. Share it with anyone who cares. Try to get your sheeple, clueless coworkers to sign. Tell them it's a petition for 24-hour broadcasting of every season of American Idol.
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Thank you for your help!
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Now all the links:
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On Monday, a coalition of groups fighting to reform the nation's financial system formally endorsed Harvard Law professor and bailout watchdog Elizabeth Warren to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Americans for Financial Reform, an alliance of more than 250 organizations that has spent the past year advocating for financial reform legislation, said that Warren is the "most experienced, effective and independent person" to serve as the critical first chief of the new agency.
The endorsement comes on the heels of Thursday's Huffington Post report that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner opposes Warren's nomination, and Friday's statements by a senior White House adviser and top Geithner lieutenants at Treasury that Warren was "well qualified" for the position, yet nonetheless was only one of three top candidates.
AFR includes top labor groups and progressive advocacy organizations with deep ties to the Obama administration, including AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union.
"[Elizabeth] Warren has shown a steadfast and tireless commitment to protecting consumers throughout her distinguished career and is without question the best candidate to run the new CFPB," Heather Booth, AFR's director, said in a statement.
"We join many others in encouraging the White House to quickly move to nominate Elizabeth Warren to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau," Booth added.
Some Democratic groups, like the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, announced their support for Warren on Friday. The PCCC even launched an online petition urging President Barack Obama to pick Warren as the chief of the new agency designed to protect consumers from predatory lenders. More than 100,000 people have signed it so far.
"There was some urgency to move forward" on the endorsement, an AFR spokesman said. The group drafted its statement over the weekend, intending to get it out before Monday.
The move may put increased pressure on the White House to select Warren to head the new entity. Consumer advocates and financial lobbyists agree that the first director will have a tremendous impact on the agency that will likely last beyond the director's term. A strong consumer protector will ensure tough consumer protections for years, as the agency's staff and the director's successors will take their cue from precedent; a weak chief nearly guarantees an ineffectual agency that will fall short of the promises advocated by the soon-to-be enacted financial reform legislation.
Sources say Geithner supports one of his top deputies, Michael Barr, for the position. Barr, a former law professor and Treasury Department official during the Clinton administration, has drawn raves from consumer groups for his role in ensuring the survival of the new agency as the financial reform bill made its way through Congress. Though reformers have clashed with Barr on other aspects of the bill, he's widely praised for his efforts on consumer protection.
But the agency is largely Warren's idea. A noted defender of the middle class, she's widely embraced by progressives and Democrats in Congress.
"Elizabeth Warren is a great, great champion for consumers and middle-class families across the country," White House senior adviser David Axelrod told reporters on a Friday conference call. "She has helped inform this effort greatly and what has been done here in many ways reflects something she's been advocating for years and years and years."
Warren introduced the idea for a consumer agency in a 2007 journal article. She's done extensive research on the debt-strapped middle class, bankruptcy and the working poor.
Geithner's spokesman, Andrew Williams, called Warren a "driving force" behind the new agency's creation.
Warren currently serves as chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel, a watchdog created to keep tabs on the federal bailout. Barr serves as Treasury's assistant secretary for financial institutions.
The third candidate, Eugene Kimmelman, is a former top official at consumer advocacy groups Consumers Union, the Consumer Federation of America, Public Citizen. He now works in the Justice Department's antitrust division.
Kimmelman's former employers are part of AFR.
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Reader Comments (84)
Tim Geithner Trying to Stop Elizabeth Warren from Heading Consumer Protection Bureau
http://news.firedoglake.com/2010/07/15/tim-geithner-trying-to-stop-elizabeth-warren-from-heading-consumer-protection-bureau/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/12/elizabeth-warren-to-head_n_643507.html
Ryan Grim
http://news.firedoglake.com/2010/07/19/warrencfpb-fight-about-bank-exposure/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/16/timothy-geithner-financial-reform_n_649907.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/simon-johnson/paul-volcker-elizabeth-wa_b_516719.html
by Glenn Greenwald
The Washington Post's Dana Priest demonstrates once again why she's easily one of the best investigative journalists in the nation -- if not the best -- with the publication of Part I of her series, co-written with William Arkin, detailing the sprawling, unaccountable, inexorably growing secret U.S. Government: what the article calls "Top Secret America." To the extent the series receives much substantive attention (and I doubt it will), the focus will likely be on the bureaucratic problems it documents: the massive redundancies, overlap, waste, and inefficiencies which plague this "hidden world, growing beyond control" -- as though everything would better if Top Secret America just functioned a bit more effectively. But the far more significant fact so compellingly illustrated by this first installment is the one I described last week when writing about the Obama administration's escalating war on whistle blowers:
Most of what the U.S. Government does of any significance -- literally -- occurs behind a vast wall of secrecy, completely unknown to the citizenry. . . . Secrecy is the religion of the political class, and the prime enabler of its corruption. That's why whistle blowers are among the most hated heretics. They're one of the very few classes of people able to shed a small amount of light on what actually takes place.
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/19-10
Netanyahu: US Easily Manipulated
Video too
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/18
The time for evasion is over.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/yes-period-consequences
We’ve allowed our universities to become politically correct, our media to become juvenile, and our entertainments to become ever-more adolescent—and then we wonder why we’re baffled by the difficulties we have as a society in being candid, serious, and grown up. As C.S. Lewis put it, “We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.” Now we are entering a period of consequences in which delaying the decay is no longer enough, and in which the counter-cultural and reconstructive cultural efforts that are underway will not only have to be intensified, but will have to make a difference quickly.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/here-are-the-11-us-states-most-likely-to-default-2010-7#ixzz0uBRipM1S
http://www.businessinsider.com/here-are-the-11-us-states-most-likely-to-default-2010-7
Submitted by Ron Paul on Mon, 19 Jul 2010
http://www.financialsense.com/contributors/ron-paul/when-there-is-no-rule-of-law
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20100716-707499.html
—Jim Puplava, The Perfect Financial Storm Part 3
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I wish I knew you then I could help beat some of the faggot out of you!!!!!!
Submitted by JoeDanger on Mon, 07/19/2010 - 23:40
in Videos
Good short monologue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix14qR5JpPc&feature=player_embedded#!
Delete Experts
nothing left to debate
ZILLION $ Q? Who can lead USA Zombies to REVOLT next?
WELFARE & WARFARE (Featured Article)
http://www.theburningplatform.com/
on October 19, 1953, when a young Californian named Ray Bradbury published a novel with the odd title of Fahrenheit 451.
In a gripping story at once disturbing and poetic, in which firemen burn books and the state suppresses learning. Meanwhile, the citizenry sits by watching big screens in a drug-induced and media-saturated indifference. More relevant than ever a half-century later, Fahrenheit 451 has achieved the rare distinction of being both a literary classic and a perennial bestseller.
nothing left to debate
ZILLION $ Q? Who can lead USA Zombies to REVOLT next?
WELFARE & WARFARE (Featured Article)
http://www.theburningplatform.com/
It's posts like THIS that prove you're an asshole. BTW, I bet Ken could kick the living CRAP out of you.
In America his post is called a hate crime, and Gobie calling Ken a spambot is hilarious. Anyone keeping count of the amount of postings of Gobias verses Ken? Gobie is blowing him away...
ALL eyes are on the American Republic!
http://www.michiganpep.org/
Videos being removed @youtube
Sensorship attack now in full force?SIGN OF TIMES
AMEN
WashPost & PBS Frontline Investigation: TOP SECRET America "Out of Control" 'Intelligence' Networks
Great work again: Please all support PBS and only watch PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/topsecretamerica/?utm_campaign=homepage&utm_medium=bigimage&utm_source=bigimage
Pot, meet kettle. Respect and restraint are clearly not in you vocabulary. At least Ken has the decency to cleanup after himself and not treat comment readers and the host as his personal latrines. Seems like not much ever changes, Tony.
"I wish I knew you ..."
I bet you do know each other without even realizing it. My money is on Ken 10:1. Way to represent your professed religion you clanging gong. By the way, your identity can be subpoenaed from your ISP and comments admitted as evidence against you in a hate crimes case.
Appreciate your judgmental comments
I never have and never had personal agenda here, I have concluded, our rants on WEB are becoming meaningless as it has no effect on Criminal Traitor Rulers anyway and why? Traitor rulers are now puppets of Walls Street and Corporate thugs. GOLDMAN SACHS Manipulation software stealing story and admitted in court by GODLMAN SACHS..Manipulation power .2008 Crash was well crafted and executed by Federal Reserve and Goldman Sachs to eliminate any Competition in WALL STREET SCAM CASINO and recent flash Crash was to Warn criminal Traitor Rulers not mess up with them via reform bill and dictated the scam bill.
Now 5 too big to fail wall street banker gangs are scamming us with flash trading profits by looting from USA working class pensions. It means our pensions are now going bust like our home values crash eliminated wealth effect.
(((trillion in unfunded Pension liabilities))) and corporate thugs become billionaires in a year and how?.
We are under “HOME GROWN FINANCIAL AL QAEDA “Total control and only a Revolt will Free USA republic Inhabitants now. No election can fix it as we are a One Party Nation and Media Shills puppets TV are too sickening to watch. Shut them out of my life. PBS and web OK for now.
I am not here to disrupt any debates as they are meaningless now. Only a Revolt will free USA middle class from the jaws of this HOME GROWN FINANCIAL AL QAEDA.
I have no idea why this “Z” has so much hate and grudges against me?
Action Center
Use the links below to take action now to reform the economy.
http://www.banksterusa.org/action
AND THIS NUKE THAT HAS DESTROYED US ALL:
Derivatives for Leading Domestic Financial/Bank Holding Companies
http://www.ibanknet.com/scripts/callreports/fiList.aspx?type=derivatives&sort=interestrate
So Dailybail is Listed here too
http://letthemfail.us/archives/4301
THIS IS GREAT SCAM TO TURN INTO HEADLINES HERE
Financial Reform Vote-Buying, Chapter 1
http://maplight.org/us-congress/bill/111-hr-4173/439074/contributions-by-vote
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/matt-taibbi/blogs/TaibbiData_May2010/181648/83512
Big Money controls Justice in USA too................Mercy My Lord
Judge approves $550 million Goldman settlement
Judge approves $550 million Goldman settlement, biggest vs. Wall Street firm in SEC history
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Judge-approves-550-million-apf-1073009864.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=4&asset=&ccode=
SO GOLDMAN SACHS RULES USA WITH IRON FIST
Their High Frequency Scam Machines can loot $550 million in few hours form USA working class Pensions
AMEN
Goldman Sach’s High Frequency Trading Scam
One of the biggest market newsmakers recently has been Goldman Sach’s high frequency trading program. The automated system is incredibly complex, using data obtained from the NASDAQ and NYSE markets to front run virtually every trade that happens on the exchange.
Front Running the Markets
Exchanges Selling Out
http://www.investingblog.org/archives/520/goldman-sachs-high-frequency-trading-scam/
Goldman Sachs program biggest scam of the century?
http://www.examiner.com/x-16500-Lake-County-Independent-Examiner~y2009m7d13-Goldman-Sachs-program-biggest-scam-of-the-century
@DB
The Matrix & Stock Market Manipulation - High Frequency Trading Programs Ripping Investors Off
Must watch........................
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cyJ-HiD0Oo
Inside Look - High Frequency Trading - Bloomberg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thq9Bqw_iuY&feature=related
Taibbi 1/2 : Bailout giant dictatorially administered program by Federal Reserve
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB69QxOcVFE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tQRrEUaHt0&feature=related
Obama Working for Goldman Sachs?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaIzrZg5cV8&feature=related
Shocked by past deals with Italy and Greece, governments are excluding the Wall Street bank from sovereign bond sales
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/jul/18/goldman-sachs-europe-sovereign-bond-sales?intcmp=239
Well, can I be any clearer than to say you are a stupid fuck who writes like a third grade computer programmer spammer dipshit. You don't comment ever, you just throw up on this site. You say the same fucking thing over and over as you advertise for your retarded site. Most of it is the same worn out jibberish that lacks basic sentence format.
You write jibberish shit like...
THIS IS GREAT SCAM TO TURN INTO HEADLINES HERE
Big Money controls Justice in USA too................Mercy My Lord
Sensorship attack now in full force?SIGN OF TIMES
It is all CRAP, you are CRAP.
Why don't you just log these guys IP addresses and permanently ban them from posting? I feel like I have stumbled into a real life One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and these guys aren't even pretending.
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i've done that several times in the past...i stepped away for the last 24 hours...and so i haven't read any of the comments...
Just Last laugh @WEB Rant revolution
too many web sites and too many rants .Traitor Rulers give a fuck.They laugh at you all Cowards.
Enjoy your revolution. I banned my self fro the WEB Rants.
CIvil Unrest time line in USA Nov 2010-2011
AMEN
@DB ...enjoy your revolution
GOOD BYE
DELETE ON?LOL
You don't have to after this rant
http://www.group30.org/pubs/pub_1460.htm
Have you read any of it?
Why didn't they just name is after Volcker?
http://blogs.reuters.com/financial-regulatory-forum//files/2010/01/cr_mega_784_obama%20volcker%20RTR299ZF_Comp.jpg
Like a Puppet on a String...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrs8CgpH980
A system with a more robust failure resolution regime, having the practical capacity to permit orderly closings of large financial institutions and the administration of safety net resources in a manner that reinforces discipline on managers, shareholders, and sophisticated creditors.
A system in which central bank responsibilities for promoting financial stability are supported by adequate authority and capacity.
Hmmm, looks familiar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQeNikp1Rj8
The ranting fit of some spoiled 14 year old brat as it appears to be, or what exactly?
Kennybot, you STUPID FUCK!!!!
Kennybot, you STUPID FUCK!!!!
Kennybot, you STUPID FUCK!!!!
Kennybot, you STUPID FUCK!!!!
Kennybot, you STUPID FUCK!!!!
Kennybot, you STUPID FUCK!!!!
Kennybot, you STUPID FUCK!!!!
Kennybot, you STUPID FUCK!!!!
I wish I knew you then I could help beat some of the faggot out of you!!!!!!
July 19, 2010 | Z
I like both of these guys, but "Enough-is-Enough"..........What ever happened to the good stuff we used to hash over. All it ever is is these two guys spittin in each others eyes.
I did like this thoe...... Kennybot, you STUPID FUCK!!!!
Kennybot, you STUPID FUCK!!!!
Kennybot, you STUPID FUCK!!!!
Kennybot, you STUPID FUCK!!!!
Kennybot, you STUPID FUCK!!!!
Kennybot, you STUPID FUCK!!!!
Kennybot, you STUPID FUCK!!!!
Kennybot, you STUPID FUCK!!!!
I wish I knew you then I could help beat some of the faggot out of you!!!!!!
Ol Kenny Boy, found the majic-botton on "Darth-ZaRa-Vader" ? That I found the mostest funny in a long time.
But realy, its always these 2 nuts trying to out do each other, every post I check into. Its getting "Ag-Ger-Vate-Ing....... DB, aint ya got some kind of a Dog Shock Collar you can put on these two.....? Then all we would see is
"Bark"............."Bark-Bark"............"Bark-Bark-Bark" That would be Ken !
Zara....................Kennybot, you STUPID FUCK!!!!
Kennybot, you STUPID FUCK!!!!
Kennybot, you STUPID FUCK!!!!
Kennybot, you STUPID FUCK!!!!
Kennybot, you STUPID FUCK!!!!
Kennybot, you STUPID FUCK!!!!
Kennybot, you STUPID FUCK!!!!
We could skip all the "Gobbely-Gook" and get back to saving this country. "OuT" !
REPOSTED...
Looks a bit like the Dodd-Frank regulation...
http://www.group30.org/pubs/pub_1460.htm
Have you read any of it?
Why didn't they just name is after Volcker?
July 21, 2010 | Z
Love this picture...
http://blogs.reuters.com/financial-regulatory-forum//files/2010/01/cr_mega_784_obama%20volcker%20RTR299ZF_Comp.jpg
Like a Puppet on a String...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrs8CgpH980
July 21, 2010 | Z
From Group of Thirty report...
A system with a more robust failure resolution regime, having the practical capacity to permit orderly closings of large financial institutions and the administration of safety net resources in a manner that reinforces discipline on managers, shareholders, and sophisticated creditors.
A system in which central bank responsibilities for promoting financial stability are supported by adequate authority and capacity.
Hmmm, looks familiar.
July 21, 2010 | Z
I wonder what Biden had to say (uhhhhmmmmm, closed microphones please)...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQeNikp1Rj8
July 21, 2010 | Z
I have already told DB that as soon as he doesn't want me around, all he has to do is ask me to leave and I will be gone.
p.s. make sure I see your wishes, i don't get to see every comment (tough to do)
Ken says things like...
@Z..............the filthy soul screams?lol
I am only human, he pissed me off.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FvB1UFOHWM
Really it is just a fun song...
Thanks TexasD for understanding.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/4623148/Barack-Obama-sends-bust-of-Winston-Churchill-on-its-way-back-to-Britain.html “A bust of the former prime minister once voted the greatest Briton in history, which was loaned to George W Bush from the Government's art collection after the September 11 attacks, has now been formally handed back. But when British officials offered to let Mr. Obama to hang onto the bust for a further four years, the White House said: "Thanks, but no thanks."”
President Bush…"He was a man of great courage. He knew what he believed. And he really kind of went after it in a way that seemed like a Texan to me," said the President Bush explaining why he would like the likeness of an Englishman placed inside the Oval Office. "He charged ahead, and the world is better for it."
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2001/07/images/20010716-3.jpg&imgrefurl=http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2001/07/images/20010716-3.html&usg=__qevgbPBBq9fa958cWT4eWpGeeHo=&h=428&w=600&sz=68&hl=en&start=10&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=XUKAvMjQZApwJM:&tbnh=96&tbnw=135&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbush%2Boval%2Boffice%2Bchurchill%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4TSHB_enUS309US325%26tbs%3Disch:1
What did it represent to Obama? Any guesses???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9tQt_1tj4g
So, what will Obama see when he meets David Cameron. What will David Cameron think of Obama? Are they just pawns in the continuing game of consolidating wealth and power with economic depressions?
lol
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here's my opinion...z...most of what you post has great value...you are around to discuss your comments and you write original stuff that is often really good and quite funny...my problem has always been your attacks...but we agreed to start fresh a few weeks back and you have been much better about being cool with everyone...and i appreciate it...
ken...you are doing better at being around to discuss your comments but you still post too much BS...i like that you post links but other times you post pure crap...
my advice for harmony is this...z...stop reading ken's posts...i will take care of deleting stuff that's worthless...
ken...keep improving your comments...don't bash us, laugh or post garbled nonsense...i'm tired of the all caps and push hamburger nonsense...
and z. you owe spidey an apology from long, long ago...for what it's worth, that's how i see things...
Reamber when "Z" couldent stand my shit....................... Hes come a "Long Way Baby" I think he Learn'et, thAre is a prankster behing every bush.
Hey, its not my fault that "Z" gets mad at Kenny-Boy, and loses his cool. Thats when Dar comes along and dose "Stand Up"...............Its the only Gig I got left !
& its gota be a tough job being the Poll-Lice-Man, in the middle of the Intre-Sect-Shon, with the sliver whistel when Kenny gets "ZaRa" all puffed up.........? How fun is that ?
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-57288.html