U.S. government paid $18,000 to assess whether news stories about the Gulf oil spill were positive or negative for the Obama administration (18 Links, Essential Reading)

Pathetic.  Taxpayers pay for Obama's narcissism.

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• White House paid an expert $18,000 to assess whether news stories about the Gulf oil spill were positive or negative for Obama (Plus Other Gulf Spending Details)

• Why is AIG Being Permitted to Retrade Its Deal With Taxpayers Yet Again? (MUST READ -- Yves Smith)

• John Mack: We Haven't Even Gotten Through The Volcker Rule Yet - It's 2200 Pages Too Long

• JPMorgan Analyst: No Housing Recovery Until At Least 2014

• NOT AGAIN!: Fannie Mae Sponsoring No Money Down Mortgages

• Fannie, Freddie Head Regulator Questions Government Guarantee

• Bank Repossession of Homes Sets New Record in August

• Homebuyer tax credit: 950,000 must repay

• Tax credits for homebuyers: the downside of stimulus

• San Francisco Fed Warns Of Sluggish Growth, Weak Wages, And Falling Inflation

• Roubini's Speech At Google's Conference Must Have Been The Most Terrifying Thing Ever (PHOTO)

• Koran burner Derek Fenton fired from his job at NJ Transit

• Exclusive: Petraeus Concedes War in Afghanistan Could Take Another 10 Years

• Senate rejects amendment to strip out IRS reporting requirement in new health care law

• Where's the oil?  On the Gulf floor, scientists say

• The Bankruptcy of The United States

• So much for Oprah's generosity! Fury as Australian taxpayers foot $2.3m bill for audience's trip Down Under

• Swimming in chlorinated pools can lead to cancer: study

Check out Monday's links:

• National Debt to Rise to $20 Trillion by 2015 (17 Links)

Comments

[DailyBail]

Tea Party favorite wins Delaware GOP Senate primary

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/09/14/primary.elections/index.html

[DailyBail]

Bank of America warns of new fees after financial reforms

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.bb54d137200b27d4f18a20472252604a.10b1&show_article=1

You knew this was coming...

[DailyBail]

Reid adds controversial immigration measure to defense bill

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/14/reid-adds-controversial-immigration-measure-to-defense-bill/

[DailyBail]

Gold prices touch another record high

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100914/ap_on_bi_ge/us_commodities_review

[DailyBail]

Chile's trapped miners have a thousand job offers

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100915/ap_on_bi_ge/lt_chile_mine_collapse

[DailyBail]

JPMorgan CEO Dimon Sees Lending Costs Rising

http://www.cnbc.com/id/39176509

[DailyBail]

A Tale of Two Wall Streets: Recession vs. Recovery

http://www.cnbc.com/id/39179331

[S. Gompers]

"The Bankruptcy of The United States"

Thanks for posting this, the most importyant part in this in my opinion is;

"The Federal Reserve Act stipulated that the interest on the debt was to be paid in gold. There was no stipulation in the Federal Reserve Act for ever paying the principle."

Or more appropriately stated as, create the fake (fiat), circulate the fiat at terms of usuary, and be rewarded in Gold for your trouble.

[DailyBail]

Very revealing gomp...

I actually posted the traficant speech in this story...had forgotten about it...

U.S. Default Flashback: Rep. James Traficant Discusses The Federal Reserve, Prison, And Running For Congress Again

http://dailybail.com/live-beat/us-default-flashback-rep-james-traficant-discusses-the-feder.html

[Mark @ Israel]

The US government debt is ballooning yet it continues to spend millions of dollars in unnecessary spending. Keeping track of negative, positive or neutral publicity is such a useless expense. I wonder if Obama is thinking of solutions to all these or he'll just continue to aggravate the problem. Does he really want America's total downfall?

[DailyBail]

mark...he's a believer in the power of government...