03-18-2008, 05:57 AM
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#154 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by roachboy
yeah--see at the moment, with the financial crisis unfolding, the fed in panic mode, in which you find even the head of the imf issuing alarmed statements about the alarming situation that is overtaking the american speculative-economic infrastructure, THIS is what is understood as an important political issue?
jesus, comrades.
perhaps it is time to remove our collective heads from their rectal carrying-cases----brought to you by all the major television networks---and get a bit of perspective.
get some air.
look around.
this is not even trivial.
it is straight up idiocy.
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Hey roach....fuck you! You are posting identically to the way lebell has been posting "at" me.
But, yer doin' a heck of a job!
The volk who are posting all of the nonsense on this thread, voted for the following at least once, and some even twice. You want them to focus on this. Bashing Obama and Jeremiah Wright is a much sweeter, escapist pasttime, vs. discussing the consequences of their politics, dontcha think?
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...Ze3Jg&refer=us
SEC Failure to Grasp Plight of Bear Exposes Cracks in Vigilance
By Jesse Westbrook
March 18 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox was asked on March 11 if he was concerned about the financial condition of Bear Stearns Cos.
<h3>``We have a good deal of comfort about the capital cushions at these firms at the moment,'' Cox told reporters.</h3>
Three days later, the Federal Reserve said it was pumping emergency funds into the 85-year-old securities firm through JPMorgan Chase & Co., the third-biggest U.S. bank by assets. On March 16, JPMorgan announced it was buying Bear Stearns for $2 a share, or $240 million in stock, 90 percent less than the company's market value last week.
Bear Stearns's forced sale days after the SEC chief's reassurances is raising questions about the vigilance of the top U.S. securities regulator, which is charged with making sure Wall Street firms have enough cash to survive a crisis....
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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/17BUSH.html
Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W. Bush
By RON SUSKIND
Published: October 17, 2004
....In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn't like about Bush's former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He expressed the White House's displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time I didn't fully comprehend -- but which I now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency.
The aide said that guys like me were ''in what we call the reality-based community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ''That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' he continued. <h3>''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.'' ......</h3>
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Last edited by host; 03-18-2008 at 06:01 AM..
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