Video Round-Up: Rove, Shiller, CC Reform, Kaufman, Gregg (The Apologist), Code Pink @ BP, Spain, Rand Paul, Russian Mafia, Biden & Obama
Notice the finger. A loving gesture for Hillary Clinton in Campaign 2008.
- Sixteen clips.
- No particular order.
The newest attempt at a citizen's arrest of Karl Rove is classic.
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VIDEO: Karl Rove Mocks as CODEPINK Attempts to Arrest Him AGAIN -- May 24
This time it's a Wisconsin family. Watching Rove get harassed never gets old.
- "You know those are plastic?"
Related Link: Hot Air Pundit
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Animated Video: Credit Card Reform In Action
Outstanding work.
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VIDEO: Shiller Sees `Extraordinary Uncertainty' in Home Prices
May 25 (Bloomberg) -- Robert Shiller, an economics professor at Yale University and chief economist at MacroMarkets LLC, talks with Bloomberg's Margaret Brennan about the outlook for the U.S. housing market. The S&P/Case-Shiller index of property values in 20 cities rose 2.3 percent in March from a year earlier. Shiller also discusses the BP Plc oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the stock market.
Source: Greg White
Robert Shiller: BP Oil Spill Could Hammer Consumer Confidence
* 0:33 -- This is a time of extraordinary uncertainty about home prices, particularly because stimulus measures are being withdrawn
* 1:25 -- The government's measures brought sales forward, and its going to have an impact on the summer buying season
* 2:10 -- The double dip worry is on people's minds and it could happen, with worries over Greece and the BP oil spill
* 2:55 -- BP oil spill damages our sense of confidence in our government and corporations; unpredictable how that will impact the market
* 3:50 -- The stock market rally has been amazing, volatility suggests higher risk going forward
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VIDEO: Sen. Ted Kaufman -- Financial Regulation Bill Not Tough Enough -- May 21
Excellent interview.
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VIDEO: Sen. Judd 'Bailout' Gregg -- Financial Reform Bill Is A ‘Disaster’ -- May 24
DB Here. Judd Gregg is an undeniably captured Wall Street apologist who never met a bank bailout that he didn't immediately grope lovingly.
Related CNBC Link:
Financial Reform Bill Is A ‘Disaster’: Sen. Gregg
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VIDEO: Oily CODEPINK Protesters Go Nearly Naked at BP Headquarters
- “BP, what do you say? How many fish did you kill today? BP, what do you say? How many millions did you make today?”
Related Link: Houston Chronicle
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VIDEO: BP Oil Spill: Jindal Asks for Permission to Build New Barrier Islands
- "We've been frustrated with the disjointed effort to date that has too often meant too little, too late for the oil hitting our coast."
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CNBC VIDEO: Spanish Banking Crisis Explained -- May 25, 2010
Source: Greg White
# 0:10 -- Spanish problem is serious and it will need to be fixed, but the big banks are solid
# 0:44 -- Needed reforms will lead to even lower growth for a few years, but they have to be taken
# 1:15 -- Diversification and lending policy protect BBVA and Santander, not as exposed to Spain's real estate problem
# 2:50 -- Cajas, or regional banks, are the financial arms of the country's political parties; not 100% professional risk decisions being made by them
# 4:00 -- €320 billion lent to Spain's developers, €90 billion enough to back them up
# 5:15 -- Private sector debt problem in Spain is largely due to the developers
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VIDEO: Journalists Under Attack in Russia
- "His fingers were bashed, and three later had to be amputated, as if his assailants had sought to make sure that he would never write another word."
New York Times -- May 18, 2010 -- A wave of unsolved attacks and official harassment against independent journalists in the Moscow suburbs, is a stark symbol of the culture of impunity that pervades Russian society.
Related Article: NYT
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VIDEO: Rand Paul -- This Is What Happens When You Cancel on Meet the Press
Everyone takes a cheap shot.
- TV Newser: The headline is from a tweet by New York Times media reporter Brian Stelter. He is referring to Kentucky Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul's decision to cancel his scheduled appearance on NBC's long-running Sunday morning public affairs show. What happened? Host David Gregory looked at the week that was for Paul, and it was not pretty.
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VIDEO: Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz Tells Michael Arrington to ‘F*ck Off’ -- May 25
Short clip. Very funny.
- "You are involved in a very tiny company."
Related Link: Tech Crunch
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VIDEO: Joe Biden -- Brussels Has Legitimate Claim to Title ‘Capital of the Free World’
- “As you probably know, some American politicians and American journalists refer to Washington, DC as the 'capital of the free world...'"
Related Link: The Blast
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VIDEO: Future Gay Terrorist -- Soldier Taunts Iraqi Children, Puts Video on Facebook
Abhorrent.
- WRAL: An Alaska-based soldier is under investigation for a video on his Facebook page that taunts smiling Iraqi children by asking if they're gay, if they engage in certain sex acts and if they would grow up to be terrorists. The two young boys did not appear to understand the questions, which were in English, but smiled at the camera and at times flashed the "thumbs up" gestures during the 30-second clip.
Related Link: WRAL Baltimore
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VIDEO: Drag Racer Survives When Car Blows Up
Related Link: Daily Mail
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VIDEO: A Touchdown for Sanctioned High School Girls' Flag Football
It's apparently huge in Florida. This is awesome. The more sports for girls and guys in high school, the better. I would go watch. Just leave out the hazing, like we've seen recently in Carmel, Indiana.
- "We do take it very seriously."
Related Story: New York Times
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VIDEO: Bonus Clip -- Obama gestures with his middle finger as he discusses Hillary Clinton -- Campaign 2008
The fun starts the 6-second mark.
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May 25, 2010 at 5:29 PM
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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/24/arizona-sheriff-calls-apology-threatening-mexican-tourism-ad/
The AD is shown in the link...
By Wu Zhong, China Editor
HONG KONG - Prostitution is illegal in China, but the police crackdowns recently launched across the country indicate that the "world's oldest profession" is doing as well as ever. In Beijing, there are reportedly so many xiaojie (mistresses) that state media claim their numbers have driven up housing prices.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/LE26Ad01.html
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/05/insanity-down-under-ing-says-thanks-to.html
Obama's sharpest accuser was Bob Corker of Tennessee, a first-term senator who feels the administration undermined his efforts to craft a bipartisan financial regulation bill.
"I told him I thought there was a degree of audacity in him even showing up today after what happened with financial regulation," Corker told reporters. "I just wanted him to tell me how, when he wakes up in the morning, comes over to a luncheon like ours today, how does he reconcile that duplicity?"
Four people who were in the room said Obama bristled and defended his administration's handling of negotiations. On the way out, Corker said, Obama approached him and both men repeated their main points.
"I told him there was a tremendous disconnect from his words and the actions of his administration," Corker said.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9FU48200&show_article=1
U.S. Selective Service in Obama cover-up?
Mysterious Social Security Number now wreaks havoc in online search
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Zara posted this earlier...thought it was interesting...
Of course, the cooler temperatures have an upside, delaying Sierra snowmelt. On Friday the state Department of Water Resources boosted the delivery forecast for its customers to 45 percent of contract amounts, reflecting a snowpack that's at 167 percent of normal.
http://www.sacbee.com/2010/05/24/2771679/persistent-cold-wet-weather-stunts.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq4A1uCQ1w0&feature=player_embedded#!
Researchers Achieve Quantum Teleportation Over 10 Miles of Empty Space
Deep thoughts by Carol Bartz...
Cursing is part of the job. Everybody has this funny reaction to it. I don't know what the big deal is.
We'll go through the whole interview, and I'll say, "I have one last question. I don't work with assholes. Are you one?"
I always do my firing in the morning because that's when I'm fresh. I mean, why sit there all day thinking: I'm going to fire Joe at 4:59?
Are women better listeners than men? I don't know. I mean, I've never been one of you, so I don't have a clue. I think we conveniently fall into these little traps. My husband doesn't listen because his mother didn't make him listen. What am I going to do, beat him? I mean: firstborn of a southern family? Firstborn boy? Please. I mean, I love him to death, but is he going to take the garbage out? No.
http://www.esquire.com/women/women-issue/carol-bartz-bio-0510
HEY CAROL...
EVEN THE TIDE WON'T TAKE YOU OUT.
I thought of you all day today. I was at the zoo.
Someone said that you are not fit to sleep with pigs. I stuck up for the pigs.
You have a lot of well-wishers. They would all like to throw you down one.
Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
Friedrich Nietzsche
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq4A1uCQ1w0&feature=player_embedded#!
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zara...the bartz clip was already in the story...i guess you skimmed the videos pretty quickly...
May 25 (Bloomberg) -- Bond investors aren’t waiting for ratings companies to act before downgrading BNP Paribas SA, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and the rest of the world’s biggest financial institutions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBagYWSWZlY
JIM ROGERS IN 2009, a good reminder for you and the rest.
"This approach has never worked!!!" Jim Rogers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rERtAx-hDJo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzSwwf86qto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HQuU5Gt1O0
I would post that video again and again and again. It should be on your front page for any needed reminders as we go along.
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Hey Zara...that exact Jim Rogers pick is posted ON EVERY SINGLE PAGE of my site and has been for 10 months...look at the sidebar...the caption is:
'Gentle Jim Rogers Annihilates Geithner'
http://dailybail.com/home/bailout-news-video-gentle-jim-rogers-brings-the-asian-pain-i.html
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As for Rachel Maddow...she's not really even in the rand paul clip...it's mostly david gregory on meet the press...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny9nfrrucNg&feature=player_embedded
SO, what is the WH response...
Attack....
http://mediamatters.org/research/201005250081
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/05/sestak-dodges-question-on-the-wh-and-quid-pro-quo-.html
Besides, said Sestak, he did not act inappropriately because, “I said no.
If this were even an old story about Sarah Palin as Gov of Alaska...well, you know the rest of that story. Hint...Jon Leibowitz clip mocking Tea Party, McCain and the entire Palin family.
Tell that to Bill Clinton.
but the videos will get posted in a round-up tomorrow...
here .But i like it thats what i do on the weekends .well when my shit stays together. :)
http://washingtonscene.thehill.com/in-the-know/36-news/4309-barney-frank-wants-to-see-rep-djous-birth-certificate
Tongue firmly in cheek, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) on Tuesday afternoon called on reporters to demand to see the birth certificate of new Rep. Charles Djou (R-Hawaii).
Yes...one of the least disgusting things Bawny has done with his tongue. The Constitution has been spit on again, gross.
Here's hoping Carville will run Hillary's 2012 campaign.
Hillary 2012 Plug That Hole