[snakeoil]

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102677740" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

This impresses on me how little power we really have. These guys got caught; how many didn't?

For most people, pleading guilty to a felony means they will very likely land in prison, lose their job and forfeit their right to vote.

But when five of the world's biggest banks plead guilty to an array of antitrust and fraud charges as soon as next week, life will go on, probably without much of a hiccup.

The Justice Department is preparing to announce that Barclays, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and the Royal Bank of Scotland will collectively pay several billion dollars and plead guilty to criminal antitrust violations for rigging the price of foreign currencies, according to people briefed on the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

[Clownkicker]

This kind of thing by itself should prove to fools that corporations are not "people".

People go to jail and suffer actual life-altering consequences.
Corporations pay a fine and go about their business.

[RealJustme]

People go to jail and suffer actual life-altering consequences.
Corporations pay a fine and go about their business.

Government workers who break the laws and abuse their authority are rewarded if it forwards the agenda. If the media finds out and bothers to report it, the public employee is moved to another public department as punishment.

[sillydaddy]

Interesting to note that some of those same corporations are owners of our nation's railroads and as such responsible for upgrading and maintaining the railway systems.......

Hence the reason the GOP objects to giving these assholes taxpayer money.

[Benny]

Government workers who break the laws and abuse their authority are rewarded if it forwards the agenda. If the media finds out and bothers to report it, the public employee is moved to another public department as punishment.

And that is also wrong. But remember the media is just the propaganda machine for the politicians who are owned by the wealthy and business classes. You were raised as a little rich boy and you don't realize this? :lol:

[elklindo69]

Interesting to note that some of those same corporations are owners of our nation's railroads and as such responsible for upgrading and maintaining the railway systems.......

Hence the reason the GOP objects to giving these assholes taxpayer money.

The GOP rakes in a fortune from the banking industry.

Guess who's trying to roll back financial regulations.

[johnforbes]

Probably nobody here believes that lobbyists should control as much of D.C. as they do.

I'd be among the first to criticize Boehner and McConnell for being in the back pocket of the US Chamber of Commerce on amnesty for illegals.

Democrats want illegals to vote Democrat and turn America into a total welfare state.

[Malcolm]

Those who manipulate the unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. In almost every act of our lives whether in the sphere of politics or business in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind." - Edward L. Bernays, the father of American propaganda

http://www.nndb.com/people/802/000113463/

[Malcolm]

Orson Welles talks about the conspiracy to suppress ‘Citizen Kane’ in 1960 interview.....

http://tinyurl.com/meor3b9

[Malcolm]

How can a country running $700 billion deficits give $5.7 billion per year to other countries so they can blow shit up?

http://tinyurl.com/mttz6gm
http://tinyurl.com/lwbj2l4
http://tinyurl.com/mljptsu

[Intrepid]

Grog, you aren't a citizen, you don't pay taxes here, you don't vote here and so you don't have a say in anything here.
And for certain, nobody clicks on the dozens of links you post here or on your now defunct humiliation and surrender thread.
So why don't you crack open another few Molson's and dream dreams of Can-uh-DUH, eh?

[Malcolm]

^^^^

[Intrepid]

Nobody cares Grog. Not Tori, not anyone here. Nobody.
There is only one solution.
Do it soon, eh?

Mazel tov!

[johnforbes]

Grog's hairline is lagging more than Jack's.

[Malcolm]

Oh huh! Tori cares....you're still in love with her....I'm right, aren't I?...... :lol:

[johnforbes]

Grog's postings have the same fresh, natural look as Tori Spelling.

They are as natural as Joan Rivers' face.

[Malcolm]

all joking aside....

[Malcolm]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen is balking at turning over some of the documents ordered by a key House lawmaker in his investigation of a possible leak of market-sensitive information.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/ ... 5-16-00-43
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/s ... ml?hp=t2_r
http://tinyurl.com/pqd5mob
http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/marylease.html
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Fischer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Yellen

oy vey

[RealJustme]

The big question is why are all members of Congress, the President and his staff exempt from inside trader laws? It does explain how they all become millionaires on their investments and it also explains why they approve some items that make no sense. Most people would agree that politicians should not be exempt from inside trader laws.

[Malcolm]

"Laws for the little people, but not for us".......

Not to mention rabbi chertoff...

^^^^^^^^^^
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tsa ... ts-n371601
https://www.oig.dhs.gov/assets/Mgmt/201 ... _Jun15.pdf

[Malcolm]

.....So precisely what does a central bank do?

You would be surprised at how few people can actually answer that question accurately. The following is how Wikipedia describes what a central bank does…

A central bank, reserve bank, or monetary authority is an institution that manages a state’s currency, money supply, and interest rates. Central banks also usually oversee the commercial banking system of their respective countries. In contrast to a commercial bank, a central bank possesses a monopoly on increasing the monetary base in the state, and usually also prints the national currency, which usually serves as the state’s legal tender. Examples include the European Central Bank (ECB), the Bank of England, the Federal Reserve of the United States and the People’s Bank of China......

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/arch ... ntral-bank

[RealJustme]

So precisely what does a central bank do?

Don't know but I'm guessing it's located in Lebanon, Kansas for the United States.

[Malcolm]

In a decision that may have long-lasting repercussions for the university's reputation, a leading university group on Saturday voted to censure the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) for firing Professor Steven Salaita after he made comments critical of Israel's attack on Gaza last summer.

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/0 ... ita-firing

[RealJustme]

...a leading university group on Saturday voted to censure the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) for firing Professor Steven Salaita after he made comments critical of Israel's attack on Gaza last summer.

Hold on there pilgrim, he never worked for the University of Illinois so how can they fire him? The dude went on a social media blitz about his hatred for Jews so the University withdrew a job offer which was "contingent" on a background check among other things. They discovered he was all over social media calling for the destruction of Israel calling Jews baby killers. They didn't try and silence him, or fire him, they just didn't want to hire him.

[Malcolm]

Maine Leading the Way on Government of, for and by the People....

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/benjamin- ... 88332.html

btw...Just....http://tinyurl.com/p2yond6 :idea:

[Malcolm]

Only in America!

http://www.ziombieland.net/2015/06/memb ... -dual.html

[Malcolm]

June 15, 2015, marks an astonishing, almost inconceivable anniversary: 800 years since the signing of Magna Carta, at Runnymede, and with it the foundational idea that there are limits upon the power of the sovereign. That our rulers must not be above the law.....

http://tinyurl.com/qxwysng......

[Benny]

You are wasting your time Malcolm. They cannot and will not understand who owns them and is forcing genocide upon their people. They are too stupid to see.

[Malcolm]

Ben, I don't quit...ya with me?

[Clownkicker]

^^^^^He's the Energizer Goyim!

[Intrepid]

The Energized Hebe is more like it Loser Lucky.

[Malcolm]

How the Trans-Pacific Partnership Gives Corporations Special Legal Rights

http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commenta ... gal-rights

Kicker, there's no time to lose... :lol:

[johnforbes]

The NY TImes merely wants dolts such as Ruth Bader Ginsburg to rewrite the Constitution.

When she can spare a second from sleeping, drinking, and doing gay marriages.

[Clownkicker]

While the nation sleeps, johnforbes is just heavily medicated.

[johnforbes]

Well, I did take one enteric 81 mg aspirin a few months ago when one of my tan, taut, muscled arms experience a minor strain lifting weights.

[Clownkicker]

Your wife will be reassured to know you haven't noticed anything different about your morning orange juice.

[johnforbes]

Oddly, the title of Clowntoker's autobiog is:

"While Clownhicker Bleats"

[Clownkicker]

Not surprisingly, johnforbes' autobiography is titled "I Take Another Steaming Dump, My Life As A Useless Turd"

[johnforbes]

We all feel sheepish when glancing at Clownbabbler's bleating tweeting.

[sillydaddy]

What Clown is saying is that he is a ...Useful Turd.

Worthy of the dung beetle's attention.