Bank of America: Holding Depositors Hostage. Is It Time To Close Down Bank of America? This is precisely the sort of arbitrage that ought to lead people straight to a nice date with Bubba: Bank of America Corp. (BAC), hit by a credit downgrade last month, has moved derivatives from its Merrill Lynch unit to a subsidiary flush with insured deposits, according to people with direct knowledge of the situation.The Federal Reserve and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. disagree over the transfers, which are being requested by counterparties, said the people, who asked to remain anonymous because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly.
The Fed has signaled that it favors moving the derivatives to give relief to the bank holding company, while the FDIC, which would have to pay off depositors in the event of a bank failure, is objecting, said the people. The bank doesn’t believe regulatory approval is needed, said people with knowledge of its position. So let’s see what we have here. Bank customer initiates a swap position with Bank. Nonprofit leaders: Don’t roll back tax incentives for charitable giving. Gallagher and Dallin Oaks, a top official in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, signaled that it was especially wrong-headed to consider changing incentives for charitable giving during a sluggish economy.
“The charitable deduction should remain unimpaired, not just for religions and their unique role but for the benefit of the entire private sector of our nation,” Oaks said in his opening statement. The Senate Finance hearing came just weeks after the Obama administration once again proposed capping the itemized deductions that higher-earning taxpayers can take. As it stands, only the roughly one-third of taxpayers who itemize their deductions receive the incentive for charitable giving, generally obtaining a tax break equal to their tax rate. But under President Obama’s proposal, deductions would be capped at 28 percent for taxpayers who pay the current top rate of 35 percent. Google, Samsung unveil Ice Cream Sandwich-powered Galaxy Nexus | Wireless.
Samsung Electronics and Google took the wraps off the Galaxy Nexus, the latest Android handset to carry the flagship smartphone moniker. The smartphone, unveiled at a Samsung event in Hong Kong today, marks the debut of the latest version of Android, known as Ice Cream Sandwich (each iteration of Android is named after a dessert). For Samsung, the introduction of another flagship Google phone underscores its growing influence as an Android vendor. While the company was slow to shift away from basic phones and move into the smartphone game, it has more than made up for lost time with the success of its Galaxy line of Android mobile devices, particularly with its recent line of Galaxy S II phones in the U.S.
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That’s what we are about to find out. I understand the importance of the new WikiLeaks documents. However, we must not let them distract us from the new information the Federal Reserve was forced to release. I’ve written many reports detailing the crimes of Wall Street during this crisis. Just when I thought the banksters couldn’t possibly shock me anymore… they did. We were finally granted the honor and privilege of finding out the specifics, a limited one-time Federal Reserve view, of a secret taxpayer funded “backdoor bailout” by a small group of unelected bankers.
Wait, what? Yes. The Federal Reserve was secretly throwing around our money in unprecedented fashion, and it wasn’t just to the usual suspects like Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Citigroup, Bank of America, etc.; it was to the entire Global Banking Cartel. Mr. Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates. OccupyLSX. The Occupy Party | We Are The 99% | OccupyParty.org. US bankers stole billions' 'US bankers stole billions' Sun Oct 16, 2011 4:18PM Interview with financial journalist and broadcaster, Max Keiser from Paris After nearly one month of “Occupy Wall Street” protests the campaign against corporate greed, social inequality and the banking industry has gone global.
Press TV has interviewed financial journalist and broadcaster, Max Keiser from Paris to discuss the issue. What follows is an approximate transcription of the interview: Press TV: Max Keiser, first give us your impression; and I remember listening to a couple of things that I think maybe you could expand more on it, you said people should take capitalism in their own hands as a tangible way and in terms of targeting the stocks of certain companies in one of the coverages that I was watching you on. Keiser: Well I think what's really captured people's imagination is the scale of the fraud.
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Opposing Organizations Children of Vietnam Veterans Health Alliance 9,569 Facebook fans 323 Twitter followers H.J.Res. 17: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual. The Bill that SHOULD be written is one to LIMIT the terms of ALL Politicians! Read full position statement. American Conservative Party 1,410 Facebook fans 1,388 Twitter followers This is nothing short of an assault on limited government and core checks and balances on the Executive Branch. Read full position statement.
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Written by two journalists at the newspaper The Guardian, based in London, the book revealed the decryption key for a computer file containing all the US state department cables leaked to WikiLeaks. The Guardian team say they believed the key had expired – but it had not. "That is not how file decryption works," Assange says.
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"It turned out, as we discovered later, that a lot of sources that had been attested to by the intelligence community were wrong," Powell said in Washington, DC. "I understood the consequences of that failure and, as I said, I deeply regret that the information - some of the information, not all of it - was wrong," said the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "It has blotted my record, but - you know - there's nothing I can do to change that blot. All I can say is that I gave it the best analysis that I could. " Foundation for Critical Thinking: Books, Conferences and Academic Resources for Educators and Students. Critical Thinking Model 1. Tough Love and Free Speech.
Sue Scheff has some serious chutzpah. Portrayed by ABC News, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and Forbes as a beleaguered mom running a small business to help parents find treatment for troubled teens, Scheff's been telling reporters about a service called Reputation Defender, which she says allowed her to triumph over a bunch of rage-filled Internet cranks. Scheff says these vengeance-seeking wackos nearly destroyed her, an innocent businesswoman, with a series of libelous comments posted on online discussion boards. They had called her a “fraud” and “con artist,” she says, and claimed that she was referring teens to tough love programs that then abused them.
What none of this media coverage mentions is that a few years back, Scheff was sued for the same types of comments now directed at her—highlighting the abuses of a "tough love" rehab center (in this case, one of Scheff's rivals). While this sort of practice isn't illegal, it's widely considered unethical. GOING ROGUE: NATO’s War Crimes in Libya. By Susan Lindauer, former US Asset covering Libya at the United Nations It’s a story CNN won’t report. Late at night there’s a pounding on the door in Misurata.
Armed soldiers force young Libyan women out of their beds at gun-point. Hustling the women and teenagers into trucks, the soldiers rush the women to gang bang parties for NATO rebels—or else rape them in front of their husbands or fathers. When NATO rebels finish their rape sport, the soldiers cut the women’s throats. Rapes are now ongoing acts of war in rebel-held cities, like an organized military strategy, according to refugees. These are daily occurrences, not isolated events. Flashback to Serbia The events are eerily reminiscent of Serbia’s conflict in the Balkans with its notorious rape camps— Except today NATO itself is perpetrating these War Crimes—as if they have learned the worst terror tactics from their enemies. NATO is wrong. And they do see. “Rape parties” are the most graphic examples of NATO’s loss of moral control.
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‘Top Secret America’: A look at the military’s Joint Special Operations Command. Since 9/11, this secretive group of men (and a few women) has grown tenfold while sustaining a level of obscurity that not even the CIA has managed. “We’re the dark matter. We’re the force that orders the universe but can’t be seen,” a strapping Navy SEAL, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said in describing his unit. The SEALs are just part of the U.S. military’s Joint Special Operations Command, known by the acronym JSOC, which has grown from a rarely used hostage rescue team into America’s secret army. When members of this elite force killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in May, JSOC leaders celebrated not just the success of the mission but also how few people knew their command, based in Fayetteville, N.C., even existed.
This article, adapted from a chapter of the newly released “Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State,” by Washington Post reporters Dana Priest and William M. Obscurity has been one of the unit’s hallmarks. Under President George W. "BLOOD MONEY" - BRANDON CARTER (official video + Lyrics ) Black The Ripper - Words Of Wisdom (THE EDMONTON DREAM OUT NOW) The End of America" Full Length HQ Film. The Home of the New Glenn Beck Program. Documentary on how the media lies to manipulate us. General Wesley Clark on 9/11 n Libya, Libya was already planned, Iran next.. Ytcracker - #antisec. Die Antwoord - Evil Boy (Explicit Version) Independent Police Complaints Commission. HAITI : Mystic 703: Pa fè yo abi. Mobile Prison Guard Towers Coming to a Walmart near You! Unbelievable.