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Bill Moyers talks with George Soros about the Financial Crises

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 06:18:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Listen to the podcast or go to Bill Moyers Journal and watch the video.

Excellent interview with surprising assessments of current policy and market ideology.

Clip Source: www.pbs.org

October 10, 2008

Bill Moyers talks with one of the world's most successful investors George Soros about the global capital meltdown, how he saw it coming, and what can be done now.

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Tags: money, economy, credit, finance, politics

McCain & the S&L Financial Scandal

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:21:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: John McCain was THE principle beneficiary of Charles Keating, the man behind the S&L Crises.

Clip Source: my.barackobama.com

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Tags: crime, politics, president

Money as Debt: Why Ron Paul is Right

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:26:23 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Why Ron Paul is Right.... Be prepared to learn something. This is 47 min.

Clip Source: video.google.com

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Tags: money.banks, government, law

Privatize Profits and Socialize Failure - REPUBLICANISM

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:39:43 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I'm gonna put this guy under my Nietzschean friend category of RABBLE ROUSER.

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Tags: friends, myspace, frank factor, republicans

S.E.C. Concedes Oversight Flaws Fueled Collapse

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:15:24 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The announcement was the latest illustration of how the market turmoil was rapidly changing the regulatory landscape. In the coming months, Congress will consider overhauls to the regulatory structure, but the markets and the regulators are already transforming it in response to events.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

S.E.C. Concedes Oversight Flaws Fueled Collapse

Because it is a relatively small agency, the S.E.C. tries to extend its reach over the vast financial services industry by relying heavily on self-regulation by stock exchanges, mutual funds, brokerage firms and publicly traded corporations.

The investment banks favored the S.E.C. as their umbrella regulator because that let them avoid regulation of their fast-growing European operations by the European Union.

The Fed had already begun regulating Wall Street firms that borrowed money under a new Fed lending program, and the S.E.C. had entered into an agreement under which its examiners worked jointly with Fed examiners, an arrangement that is expected to continue.

Tags: crime, wall street, money, congress, fed

Need a Job? $17,000 an Hour. No Success Required.

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:00:05 GMT

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clipper's remarks: John Kenneth Galbraith, the great economist, once explained: “The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.”

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Need a Job? $17,000 an Hour. No Success Required.

Last year, Mr. Fuld earned about $45 million, according to the calculations of Equilar, an executive pay research company. That amounts to roughly $17,000 an hour to obliterate a firm. If you’re willing to drive a company into the ground for less, apply by calling Lehman Brothers at (212) 526-7000.

But one of our broad national problems is rising inequality, and it is exacerbated by corporate executives helping themselves to shareholders’ cash. Three decades ago, C.E.O.’s typically earned 30 to 40 times the income of ordinary workers. Last year, C.E.O.’s of large public companies averaged 344 times the average pay of workers.

Tags: money, wall street, crime

Let's Play "WALLSTREET BAILOUT" The Rules Are... Rep Kaptur

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:19:53 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Should the thieves be rewarded for their crimes?

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Tags: wall street, congress, money, crime

Slavery didn't End In The U.S. Until 1945

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:24:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks: US Steel was one of the main beneficiaries..

Clip Source: www.brasschecktv.com

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Tags: race, slavery, united states, crime

Ron Paul, Stop V.A.W.A. & Title IV d

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:45:44 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Rather than lecture fathers as to their responsibilities, politicians would do better to advance laws that give fathers the same consideration as mothers.

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Tags: sexism, law, men, justice, children, divorce

McCain/Palin Health Insurance Plan

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:53:50 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide
competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would
provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst
excesses of state-based regulation."

John McCain

Clip Source: www.johnmccain.com

Straight Talk on
Health System Reform

Tags: mccain, politics, government, healthcare

A Con Game In Pinstripes

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:27:42 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Americans used to think the road to serfdom was socialism. Now we know it's unbridled speculation and debt.

Clip Source: www.washingtonpost.com

A Con Game In Pinstripes

We're entering that exciting phase of any financial crisis when the lawsuits come fast and furious, criminal charges are lodged, and Wall Street firms agree to pay hundreds of millions of dollars for having snookered their customers once again.

In recent weeks, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Citigroup, J.P. Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, UBS and Wachovia have reached settlements with state regulators under which they agreed to pay more than $500 million in fines and penalties. They have also agreed to buy back more than $50 billion in so-called auction-rate securities from retail investors who had been misled into believing that those securities were as safe as shares in money-market funds.

Tags: capitalism, money, debt, wall street

Eat Me, Joe Biden

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:48:36 GMT

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clipper's remarks: As a life long independent, I think Obama could have done better.

Clip Source: www.rollingstone.com

Put a mythical six chimpanzees to work on a mythical six typewriters and one of them might eventually type out Hamlet, but I feel fairly confident that a billion years could pass before any healthy primate would make it even halfway through the unlikely sentence Donald Rumsfeld impeded the Iraq war effort. Yet there was Joe Biden, saying it on live television last week.

Tags: politics

Drug War Bloating Police And Prison "Industries."

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:33:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: What ever happened to the days of Andy of Mayberry? Today's law enforcement officers are dressing up like paramilitary thugs in some futuristic sci-fi where "if you ain't cop, you're little people."

Clip Source: www.enterstageright.com

Drug war very effective -- at bloating police, prison 'industries'

Seeing a new source of funds for local police equipment, staff and operations, "Every congressman has raised their hand and said, 'I need relief from this problem, too,' " explains UCLA public policy professor Mark A.R. Kleiman.

Tags: police, drugs, law, justice, politics, corruption

Teenage Sex Offenders? Ten Year Old Sex Offenders?

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:01:11 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Kids don't get in trouble, they're put in trouble. Adolescent sex offender treatment and registration laws become a modern witch hunt. Bad laws win elections, destroy lives.

Clip Source: www.ethicaltreatment.org

He is looking at being put on the public registry when he turns 18, along with his picture...Because of the registry and the stigma which accompanies it, we have had suicides, attempted suicides and youths who are ready to give up.

Tags: sex, laws, politics, justice, psychology

Cuckoo's Nest Revisited

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:46:38 GMT

Clip Source: www.ethicaltreatment.org

EXCERPTS FROM
“DON'T SHOOT, WE'RE YOUR CHILDREN:
HAVE WE GONE TOO FAR IN OUR RESPONSE TO ADOLESCENT SEXUAL ABUSERS AND CHILDREN WITH SEXUAL BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS?”

...we have been concerned to see children as young as 10 or 12 subject to sex-offender registration laws and neighborhood notification; to have seen a 10-year-old coercively interrogated by police without parents or attorneys present, shackled and chained, and then placed in lock-up facitilies where he was beaten and sexually assaulted by older inmates until becoming suicidal; or to see parents told that their 7-year-old child could never return home again after two incidents of genital fondling of a 5-year-old sibling--all in the name of controlling sex offenders...

Tags: sex, law, justice, human rights