Until tomorrow...
15 July 2012 Last updated at 19:46 ET
15 July 2012 Last updated at 19:46 ET
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Turn them loose again? Who are you going to trust?
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — An unidentified employee of U.K. bank Barclays PLC told the New York Federal Reserve Bank more than four years ago that the bank was filing false reports on a key interest rate , according to documents released by the regional bank on Friday.
The documents show that a summary of this admission was quickly circulated throughout the U.S. government, including the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department, in 2008. The London rate for interbank lending, known as Libor, is now at the center of a sweeping industry-wide, cross-border investigation into the setting of interbank-lending rates....
Within in two days after our first troops were killed, Halliburton was at work in the Iraqi oil fields.
Romney is shady, secretive and manipulative.
Hello?
Romney has a character and credibility problem and that isn't going to change.
Let's add, ruthlessness to the adjectives while I'm at it.
...Given all the taxpayer money (click title to entry - thank you) involved, you might think the process for awarding those contracts would be open and competitive.
But, as 60 Minutes reported last spring, the earliest contracts were given to a few favored companies. And some of the biggest winners in
One is Halliburton, the Houston-based energy services and construction giant whose former CEO, Dick Cheney, is now vice president of the United States.
Even before the first shots were fired in Iraq, the Pentagon had secretly awarded Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown & Root a two-year, no-bid contract to put out oil well fires and to handle other unspecified duties involving war damage to the country's petroleum industry. It is worth up to $7 billion....
It is too late after they are in office to investigate the truth. All he wanted was to be out of the company, too.
"...it would be difficult to establish that..."
That means the SEC didn't have enough EVIDENCE to prosecute. It doesn't mean he wasn't guilty.
"W" was known to have consulted with officers inside the company and people outside the company when he sold the stock, but, it didn't add up to enough for prosecution.
GST Steel in Kansas City knew less than nothing about Bain Capital.
As CEO of GST Steel receiving an offer for the company I would take all that to the Board of Trustees, owners, etc. in order to provide as much information as possible to make decisions.
I'd look at past records of Bain Capital, whom its leadership was and what could be the possible outcomes for everyone including labor, their pensions and the unions. It would be my duty to report as accurately as possible what I believed would be the result of any sale of the company to Bain Capital.
I would turn to financial records and SEC records to assist in that knowledge base. Remember, GST Steel knows nothing except there is an offer from Bain. It doesn't even know the viability of such an offer. We are talking about a company with employees with years of employment and plans for retirement. GST Steel had to formulate a knowledge base and outcome scenarios. GST Steel was NOT worthless. It had not declared bankruptcy until Bain Capital took over the company. GST Steel had a client base. It had value. So the company did not have to accept any offer, it was not at The Sheriff's Sale, if you will?
In my reading I run across a disclosure statement saying the sole owner, CEO and President is not engaging in management. SO WHAT?
Romney misrepresented the activities and standing of Bain Capital, pushed for substantial amounts of money to close the deal on leaving and never bothered to come to terms with the 'final deal' until he was ready to take the Massachusetts Governor seat.
He was just as responsible for what occurred with GST Steel as any of the management committee HE PUT IN PLACE to do his dirty work and get all the money he could squeeze out of the deal.
End of discussion and the SEC needs to examine the brevity of these activities.
I'd look at past records of Bain Capital, whom its leadership was and what could be the possible outcomes for everyone including labor, their pensions and the unions. It would be my duty to report as accurately as possible what I believed would be the result of any sale of the company to Bain Capital.
I would turn to financial records and SEC records to assist in that knowledge base. Remember, GST Steel knows nothing except there is an offer from Bain. It doesn't even know the viability of such an offer. We are talking about a company with employees with years of employment and plans for retirement. GST Steel had to formulate a knowledge base and outcome scenarios. GST Steel was NOT worthless. It had not declared bankruptcy until Bain Capital took over the company. GST Steel had a client base. It had value. So the company did not have to accept any offer, it was not at The Sheriff's Sale, if you will?
In my reading I run across a disclosure statement saying the sole owner, CEO and President is not engaging in management. SO WHAT?
Romney misrepresented the activities and standing of Bain Capital, pushed for substantial amounts of money to close the deal on leaving and never bothered to come to terms with the 'final deal' until he was ready to take the Massachusetts Governor seat.
He was just as responsible for what occurred with GST Steel as any of the management committee HE PUT IN PLACE to do his dirty work and get all the money he could squeeze out of the deal.
End of discussion and the SEC needs to examine the brevity of these activities.
Romeny did and does profit from a company he built that put Americans out of work and cheated them out of pensions
Were these people ever told Willard Mitt Romney was CEO, owner and President in name only?
Were they?
No. They weren't.
How much of the treasury and bailout went to the 'payoff' of Romeny the Greed Merchant?
The documents with the SEC never clarified the entity they were dealing with it. People have a right to know whom they were dealing with and they did not. That is FRAUD, plain and simple. The documents of the SEC are suppose to uphold the dignity of the market and they failed.
Romney is a fraud. He signed documents indicating he was CEO and President of Bain Capital.
The Cinderella Syndrome.
He deceived the SEC while holding the ultimate control of the company hostage for the wealth he wanted. He could have changed his mind completely from any of that status and told the Olympic Committee to find another CEO. He wasn't about to give up control. The election for Governor turned the corner for those at Bain that would take over the company.
He has been lying about this for so long all those close to him are willing to play along. Romney pointing to a committee making day to day decisions is like saying, "But little sister did it."
As sole owner, CEO and President of Bain Capital he wasn't about to take his finger off the pulse of that company and to believe for one minute all activities and employees were ostracized out of his life is outrageous. He needs to stop trying to blame anyone else but himself.
The SEC needs to investigate the brevity of these activities. I haven't changed my mind about anything and the discussion is closed. More than ever.
...Conard contended that, despite Romney’s legal status as CEO and sole owner of Bain Capital on federal regulatory documents filed with the SEC, a “management committee” oversaw the company’s day-to-day operations after Romney left in 1999. According to former Securities and Exchange Commission officials, however, representing Romney as the CEO of the company when he was no longer in charge would have been misleading to both federal regulators and investors.
“If the information is not correct then investors are potentially being materially misled,” Edward Siedle, a securities lawyer formerly with the SEC’s Division of Investment Management, said in a telephone interview Saturday. “The filings are supposed to require material disclosure. I mean, these aren’t pointless forms.”
Siedle added that both investors and federal regulators rely on timely and accurate filings for up-to-date information about a financial company’s operations, and that the officers listed on the filings should be considered responsible for the company’s actions. “All those designations indicate that he had significant responsibility at the firm,” Siedle said of Romney. “There’s a reason he was listed as president and CEO all those years.”
The USA military needs to back off the adrenalin.
There are brain chemical imbalances at work. Adrenalin is an enemy to the psychi. We know that from PTSD from soldiers as well as rape victims.
Adrenalin is fight or flight, it comes into play with rape victims trying to save their lives through escape and it effects soldiers fighting to keep their lives. Adrenalin is extremely powerful and permanently. The word was PERMANENTLY imprints on the psychi. We know that for a fact. It is part of the mysterious 'animous' of the human being.
Those committing suicide are not NECESSARILY seeing battle. They are not specifically deployed to any specific site or from any specific base. I don't know what the Basic Training is like these days, but, there were not these issues before 2001. The Urban Warfare model is hideously insidious on the psychi. It is as though shadows are stalking soldiers resulting in hyper-vigilance and adrenalin imprinting on emotions. Once the emotions are that imprinted on the 'survival mechanisms' that are body chemistry there is no removing them, there is disability and medication to keep them in the world.
ARE THESE SOLDIERS ALSO EXPERIENCING PAIN? If the neural system is over loaded with chemicals pain can result. If these folks are not getting rest/sleep/REMs they should be observed on a unit somewhere, heck even sleep centers properly staffed, to find out what helps them sleep. REMs are necessary, I don't care what anyone says otherwise. REMs are necessary to reset those neuro-receptors.
If it were me, I would throw a major tranquilizer KNOWN TO WORK, like Thorazine at them. Give them enough by BODY WEIGHT to sit them on their butts and then through therapy and repeated visits to MD and psychiatrists start to reduce their amounts of medication to find out what works. Sometimes a major dose of valium can disorient enough through sedation to bring a new reality to the mind, but, the 'rest' from the emotional strain should reset the neuro-respectors with valium. It relieves the nervous system for a period of time and might very well allow sanity to grow.
There was that medication recently, Paxil I think it was, that is being used successfully with some coma victims. It uses DIFFERENT pathways to reignite cognition and awareness and finally a conscious state. That is always a possibility, but, that is a drug research study.
You gotta keep them alive in order to make it better. They have to understand that. They have to have hope for tomorrow. Certainly, the lethargy of an overworked patient load at the VA does not provide hope until a human voice is at the other end of the phone, but, families can provide hope through offering comfort in whatever manner it occurs. Keep trying to reach professionals that can help. Don't give up. Everyone needs to believe these people and DON'T TRY SUGAR PILLS, okay? These folks are our veterans, our soldiers, they aren't lying; they want help. They should get it without question. The details can be sorted out later, but, ya gotta keep 'em alive.
Adrenalin is like a psychological scar. Most of the time it is a good thing and creates long term skills for survival, but, there are those times when it simply imprints survival on the mind and it sticks like glue. Neural glue.
Ya know the idea that a 'temporary disability for our soldiers' is a great idea that needs to be floated here. The AFLAC commericals with the duck filling that gap to help a family through needs to be available while soldiers are being triaged. By triage I mean evaluated for permanent disability.
In years gone by it was not unusual to have soldiers with existing mental problems become part of the corp. There is that percentage of people that make it through and are in the ranks. They usually show up under stress of Base Training and are discharged, but, they were soldiers for a short time and they are treated by the VA. The military is not exclusive in the idea there are people with mental health problems within the ranks. Mental illness manifests the way it manifests and there is no rhythm or reason to the events sparking it or the outcomes. But, these people are important. They need our help and they need to receive it.
Perhaps, General Shinseki can ask for a special fund for providing emergency psychological services on base and off for soldiers and veterans. Recruit professionals to staff the emergency centers if the VA doesn't have any to spare. Bring them in. They served our country and we need to accept that responsibility and give them hope. If the households where they live are considered to be problematic, then treat the household in therapy with the soldier manifesting symptoms. Get the facts, sort out the details, apply permanent disability where it applies, provide long term therapy and/or support groups to increase opportunity for work and a life they are proud of and save lives.
There also needs to be an ORIENTATION process to mental health with the soldiers. Seeking help is not a disease, it prevents it. The people in our military needs to appreciate that reality. They are no good to us, their families or to our work force if they can't function. Mental health is a part of health. Soldiers need to appreciate they are human beings and not simply an extension of a gun.
When researchers asked 72 soldiers at Fort Carson, Colo., (click title to entry - thank you) why they tried to kill themselves, out of the 33 reasons they had to choose from, all of the soldiers included one in particular — a desire to end intense....
Adrenalin is fight or flight, it comes into play with rape victims trying to save their lives through escape and it effects soldiers fighting to keep their lives. Adrenalin is extremely powerful and permanently. The word was PERMANENTLY imprints on the psychi. We know that for a fact. It is part of the mysterious 'animous' of the human being.Those committing suicide are not NECESSARILY seeing battle. They are not specifically deployed to any specific site or from any specific base. I don't know what the Basic Training is like these days, but, there were not these issues before 2001. The Urban Warfare model is hideously insidious on the psychi. It is as though shadows are stalking soldiers resulting in hyper-vigilance and adrenalin imprinting on emotions. Once the emotions are that imprinted on the 'survival mechanisms' that are body chemistry there is no removing them, there is disability and medication to keep them in the world.
ARE THESE SOLDIERS ALSO EXPERIENCING PAIN? If the neural system is over loaded with chemicals pain can result. If these folks are not getting rest/sleep/REMs they should be observed on a unit somewhere, heck even sleep centers properly staffed, to find out what helps them sleep. REMs are necessary, I don't care what anyone says otherwise. REMs are necessary to reset those neuro-receptors.
If it were me, I would throw a major tranquilizer KNOWN TO WORK, like Thorazine at them. Give them enough by BODY WEIGHT to sit them on their butts and then through therapy and repeated visits to MD and psychiatrists start to reduce their amounts of medication to find out what works. Sometimes a major dose of valium can disorient enough through sedation to bring a new reality to the mind, but, the 'rest' from the emotional strain should reset the neuro-respectors with valium. It relieves the nervous system for a period of time and might very well allow sanity to grow.
There was that medication recently, Paxil I think it was, that is being used successfully with some coma victims. It uses DIFFERENT pathways to reignite cognition and awareness and finally a conscious state. That is always a possibility, but, that is a drug research study.
You gotta keep them alive in order to make it better. They have to understand that. They have to have hope for tomorrow. Certainly, the lethargy of an overworked patient load at the VA does not provide hope until a human voice is at the other end of the phone, but, families can provide hope through offering comfort in whatever manner it occurs. Keep trying to reach professionals that can help. Don't give up. Everyone needs to believe these people and DON'T TRY SUGAR PILLS, okay? These folks are our veterans, our soldiers, they aren't lying; they want help. They should get it without question. The details can be sorted out later, but, ya gotta keep 'em alive.
Adrenalin is like a psychological scar. Most of the time it is a good thing and creates long term skills for survival, but, there are those times when it simply imprints survival on the mind and it sticks like glue. Neural glue.
Ya know the idea that a 'temporary disability for our soldiers' is a great idea that needs to be floated here. The AFLAC commericals with the duck filling that gap to help a family through needs to be available while soldiers are being triaged. By triage I mean evaluated for permanent disability.
In years gone by it was not unusual to have soldiers with existing mental problems become part of the corp. There is that percentage of people that make it through and are in the ranks. They usually show up under stress of Base Training and are discharged, but, they were soldiers for a short time and they are treated by the VA. The military is not exclusive in the idea there are people with mental health problems within the ranks. Mental illness manifests the way it manifests and there is no rhythm or reason to the events sparking it or the outcomes. But, these people are important. They need our help and they need to receive it.
Perhaps, General Shinseki can ask for a special fund for providing emergency psychological services on base and off for soldiers and veterans. Recruit professionals to staff the emergency centers if the VA doesn't have any to spare. Bring them in. They served our country and we need to accept that responsibility and give them hope. If the households where they live are considered to be problematic, then treat the household in therapy with the soldier manifesting symptoms. Get the facts, sort out the details, apply permanent disability where it applies, provide long term therapy and/or support groups to increase opportunity for work and a life they are proud of and save lives.
There also needs to be an ORIENTATION process to mental health with the soldiers. Seeking help is not a disease, it prevents it. The people in our military needs to appreciate that reality. They are no good to us, their families or to our work force if they can't function. Mental health is a part of health. Soldiers need to appreciate they are human beings and not simply an extension of a gun.
When researchers asked 72 soldiers at Fort Carson, Colo., (click title to entry - thank you) why they tried to kill themselves, out of the 33 reasons they had to choose from, all of the soldiers included one in particular — a desire to end intense....
Weather defeats ambition. Check flight path before launch and use more balloons.
Weather stops tandem lawn chair balloon flight (click title to entry - thank you)
Published: Sunday, July 15, 2012 at 4:55 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, July 15, 2012 at 4:55 a.m.
...Kent Couch and Fareed Lafta were about seven hours into their flight Saturday when they descended, coming down near the community of Post, about 30 miles east of their starting point. But after they scrambled out of the contraption, it floated away, flight organizer Mark Knowles said....
Saturday, July 14, 2012
Video First: Snow Leopard Mother and Cubs in Den (click here for Snow Leopard Trust - thank you)
...The dens of two snow leopard mothers and their cubs (click here) have been located in Mongolia for the first time, with new, unprecedented video showing the mothers and their young inside the den, a conservation organization announced yesterday (July 12)....
Really, Republicans? Really? I am trying to figure out whom is more dependent on government supplements the wealthy or the poor.
My youngest son has six children, two are his step children. He is a very ambitious man. He has a taxi service. Family own and operated, small business. He has his time schedule full.
He is a smart business man, but, I doubt he would be accepted to Harvard. He put his NEEDS to work when he decided to bring LOCAL farmers into his weekly business activities. It isn't simple feeding six children and two adults. One of the children has allergies and needs a special diet. That has been since she was born. So, her diet is without any additives or artificial stuff. As a result the household is generally healthier.
NO SODA.
What he decided to do with his very busy week is to set aside one day to market local produce. He works with a statewide network and receives deliveries of produce, spices, bread products, all sorts of stuff depending on the season. He first went around to the neighborhoods he services with his taxi and promoted the idea of 'produce boxes.' When he received orders he became part of the network to receive the produce products his customers requested. I don't know how many boxes he sells per week but he makes $2.50 per box and he clusters his delivery.
He provides a valuable service to the community and to himself. He considers himself lucky to have the businesses he has because otherwise he would be dependent. He has customized his life and his enterprises to fit his needs and abilities. He is a very smart man. Considering how challenged he was at one time in his life, I considered the fact he would always be dependent. He isn't, but, he could be and if his marginal existence ever fails him and it could; he and his children will need Food Stamps.
I certainly don't consider a government benevolent or 'ready' to take care of its citizens if it is not ready for failure of the private sector to protect their interests. The Republicans are always seeking to increase the danger to the marginal citizens in our country. They are our citizens, they deserve the lives they were born into and they deserve the right to opportunity. When a citizen works as hard as they can to achieve a good and happy life and the private sector fails, it is not their fault. I know that for a fact. I have the personal stories.
The government has to be ready to step up and provide support to its citizens when the private sector fails and it fails royally, especially when Republicans deregulate with promises of jobs. It is a joke. Deregulation that will ultimately lead to private sector failure, bubble and bust, is the most hideous ideology an elected official could have. So, the Farm Bill is 70 to 80 percent about Food Stamps/SNAP. So cuts to these programs are outrageous because the private sector is constantly deregulated by Republicans whom scoff at the very people they should be PLEDGING to protect from failure.
One last thought. My son. The one with six children. He tried working for the private sector. Yep. The jobs he worked told him he wasn't productive enough. Joke. I mean a joke! I don't know a more ambitious man, including his brother.
Friday, July 13, 2012
West meets East. It is a very different story than Russians usually read. Nice.
Miratorg Agribusiness Holding via Bloomberg
Rancher Anthony Stidham, seen here, said, “There’s no place in the U.S., Australia or anywhere in the world that will have cattle as good as what they are putting together here.”
A three year contract that ends in 2014 to make Russian beef the best in the world. I'll be darn. Medvedev.
I sincerely hope this program is very successful for Russians. They deserve to have good food products within their country. It is a sovereign issue. A fresh start for healthy beef and no chance of prions. In three years there should be two new generations on the ground. It should be easy to tell the success of the program by then.
...In Russia’s southern republic of Bryansk, (click title to entry - thank you) which borders Ukraine and Belarus some 200 miles to the southwest of Moscow, the country’s biggest meat importer, Miratorg Agribusiness Holding,has so far launched 16 open range cattle ranches. By the end of 2014, the company plans to expand the number of ranches to 33 with an overall stock of 250,000 Aberdeen Angus, which is considered by many to be the best beef breed....
Harry Reid won his objections. Lauren is going to seek manufacturing in the USA for uniforms in the future.
Cool beans.
I hope this will lead Ralph Lauren to bring more fashion to the USA then just Olympic uniforms.
The USA can use the help. I like the uniforms. They have class. Ralph Lauren did a good job. They look like summer in the USA. We want it back.
...Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (click here) said he had to choose his words carefully because he was so angry.
"The Olympic committee should be ashamed of themselves," said Sen. Reid. "I think they should take all the uniforms, put them in a big pile and burn them and start all over again.
House Speaker John Boehner says simply of the USOC, "You'd think they'd know better."
"We have people in America in the textile industry," continued Reid. "We have people in the textile industry who are desperate for jobs and I think what the Olympic committee has done is absolutely wrong."
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi says she's proud of the nation's Olympic athletes, but "they should be wearing uniforms that are made in America."
The uniforms in question are red, white and blue slacks and skirts with blazers and berets designed by Ralph Lauren.
In a statement, the U.S. Olympic Committee defended it's choice....
Lies. Romney was 100% stockholder and listed as CEO. I don't need to know anything else.
LACONIA, N.H.—Republican (click title to entry - thank you) presidential candidate Mitt Romney says he retained ownership of Bain Capital for a time after 1999 but had no management role....
His business model was immoral. Lying is a part of it. He expects citizens of the USA to blindly believe his words over obvious evidence otherwise. Those alone are dishonest dealings. Either I can trust what I read in news articles and on official documents or I can't. They don't mesh.
I do not believe "The Lame Stream Media" is that irresponsible or that inconsistent. If I were to say I never believe the press over candidates, then I have to be a very stupid person, because, I have read newspapers for information from the headlines to the notices in the back pages all my life. From the time I was young and in grade school. I am now suppose to believe a politician over my understanding of the reliability of the media. No.
I read newspapers in duplicity when facts don't seem to mesh. I read international newspapers and news services to achieve an understanding of cultural differences that might taint the truth. I know what I know. I don't doubt what I know when I know it.'
Romney is a liar.
I don't trust him.
I suppose he never spoke to Ted Kennedy about the Massachusetts health care law either. Where do the lies stop? They don't seem to stop anywhere. Ted Kennedy was as much a part of The Affordable Care Act as the Massachusetts law. He will repeal it. He'll sign a repeal. He doesn't care about people.
End of discussion.
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EUCLID, Ohio — At a town hall here today, (click here) Mitt Romney was confronted by a questioner about foreign taxes he reported on his income tax returns, a charge Mitt Romney appeared to deny.
"I don’t think I paid any foreign income taxes, but I’ll look at it," Romney replied over the boos of the audience for the hostile questioner.
But in fact, Romney has paid over $1.2 million in foreign taxes for "passive category income" since 2000, according to his 2010 income tax return.
Additionally he has paid over $800,000 in foreign taxes for "general category income" according to the same filing.
Romney's wealth has dogged him since this campaign began, with a series of gaffes about his wealth seemingly serving as easy fodder for late night comedians. His refusal to release more than two years of tax returns has also drawn charges that he is hiding information from the public.
What is going on in Europe with religious freedoms?
European Jewish (click title to entry - thank you) leaders furiously condemned a German court's ruling outlawing circumcision as the "worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust" yesterday and demanded that Chancellor Angela Merkel's government intervene to protect the practice as a religious rite.
The damning remarks came amid growing European Jewish and Muslim outrage over a ruling by a Cologne court last month declaring that the circumcision of young boys could be considered a criminal offence because it caused bodily harm and infringed a child's right to integrity.
Yesterday, Moscow's Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, the president of the Conference of European Rabbis who made the Holocaust comments, added: "I see no future for Jews in Germany if the ruling is upheld"....
...Of course, it is not just a British problem: (click here) the poison of Islamophobia has infected Europe's political mainstream. According to a Pew Research Center survey , nearly six out of 10 Europeans believe that Muslims were "fanatical", and half believed they were "violent". As here, the European far-right aims fire at Muslims above all other groups. In the Netherlands, an anti-Muslim party led by Geert Wilders is the third largest in parliament. Wilders compares the Koran to Mein Kampf, calls Islam a "Trojan Horse" in Europe and demands that the country's 850,000 Muslims be paid to leave the country. Wilders doesn't languish on the fringes: the current Dutch cabinet depended for two years on his party's support....
In some ways these were the mad ranting of Anders Breivik....The attacks (click here) “were a pre-emptive strike,” the 33-year-old said in a final statement. “I acted on the principle of necessity on behalf of my culture, my people and my country. I ask to be acquitted of the charge....
The concession Norway has to build a new facility to house Breivik is interesting. He is not the usual in Norway. He is dangerous. Breivik is a problem for Europe's youth culture. He is a scary guy. He was never sorry for what he did.
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Posted Wednesday, June 27, 2012, at 2:24 PM ET
...The Associated Press reports that Norway’s Health Directorate (click here) on Wednesday signed off on a plan to build a new psychiatric ward inside the prison specifically to house the right-wing extremist in the event he is found to be insane, as they hope he will be....
Peace isn't good enough? The triggers to violence had to be pulled. There was no attempted murder.
The allegations of murder are inflammatory and intended to restart fear, anger to escalate violence again.
It seems early, but, Tony Blair needs to get involved. The residents were not absent of materials to defend their neighborhoods. This is a measure of defense of the neighborhood. There is no allegations of attempted murder. This is an act of self-defense by all those involved. There must be reasons the people still hold these fears.
No doubt there is religious bias at the very least involved.
It seems early, but, Tony Blair needs to get involved. The residents were not absent of materials to defend their neighborhoods. This is a measure of defense of the neighborhood. There is no allegations of attempted murder. This is an act of self-defense by all those involved. There must be reasons the people still hold these fears.
No doubt there is religious bias at the very least involved.
...The chairman of the Northern Ireland Parades Commission (click title to entry - thank you) today defended the decision to allow to loyalist and republican parades to go ahead within two hours of each other. They culminated with serious public disorder and dissident republican gunmen opening fire on police.
More than 20 police officers were injured during the trouble which flared in the nationalist Ardoyne district. None of the injuries are thought to be serious....
This is a joke, right? Apology? Over suspicion of a felony? No! Quite frankly I think it was fraud.
If I am to believe as Romney's peers state, he was too busy with the Olympics to participate at Bain, then the SEC filings are fraud. That is a felony or worse. It is not only fraud on federal documents, it was done to misrepresent the leadership of Bain in fear of loss of investor confidence in the firm. All that is serious. If Bain worried about losing investor confidence it should have sought marketing help, not lies to the SEC.
Romney was obviously involved in the Olympics, that is why it is very difficult to set this aside. He has claimed for years, there was ONLY interest in the Olympics from 1999. Lying to the pubic for political purposes is not prosecuted, but, on a rare occasion. It is up to the other candidate to speak the truth and hopefully be heard. This is different.
This also requires an investigation, which can take time, cost and can be set aside of Romney were to be elected as in the Massachusetts Governor race. Romney relies on what the electorate 'believes' rather than truth. This is not about being believable, this is about the sincere credibility of his activities beginning in 1999. He has filed to run for very high political office including the Massachusetts Governorship. If Romney has been living a lie since 1999, there is a lot wrong, not just a little wrong.
Romney has a problem, he is a liar. Proven. It may be he has no credibility as a candidate at all. That reality cannot wait for an SEC investigation.
Romney was obviously involved in the Olympics, that is why it is very difficult to set this aside. He has claimed for years, there was ONLY interest in the Olympics from 1999. Lying to the pubic for political purposes is not prosecuted, but, on a rare occasion. It is up to the other candidate to speak the truth and hopefully be heard. This is different.
This also requires an investigation, which can take time, cost and can be set aside of Romney were to be elected as in the Massachusetts Governor race. Romney relies on what the electorate 'believes' rather than truth. This is not about being believable, this is about the sincere credibility of his activities beginning in 1999. He has filed to run for very high political office including the Massachusetts Governorship. If Romney has been living a lie since 1999, there is a lot wrong, not just a little wrong.
Romney has a problem, he is a liar. Proven. It may be he has no credibility as a candidate at all. That reality cannot wait for an SEC investigation.
Presidential rivals trade charges of lying, Romeny calls for apology over 'felony' remark
Published July 13, 2012
FoxNews.com
...Obama official Stephanie Cutter (click title to entry - thank you) made the claim a Boston Globe article that said documents show Romney was in charge at Bain for three years longer than he had claimed. Cutter said Romney was either misrepresenting his position at Bain to the Securities and Exchange Commission, "which is a felony," or misrepresenting to the American people.
Romney campaign manager Matt Rhoades issued a blistering statement in response.
"President Obama's campaign hit a new low today when one of its senior advisers made a reckless and unsubstantiated charge to reporters about Mitt Romney that was so over the top that it calls into question the integrity of their entire campaign," Rhoades said. "President Obama ought to apologize for the out-of-control behavior of his staff, which demeans the office he holds. Campaigns are supposed to be hard fought, but statements like those made by Stephanie Cutter belittle the process and the candidate on whose behalf she works." ...
If the Obama Campaign doesn't carry these inconsistencies to the electorate who then will bring the truth forward? No one. The Obama Campaign knows there are people in the electorate that base their votes on the truth and the ability of a candidate to live up to the truth. It matters. They are doing their job, not making frivolous 'mind speak' rants to win votes. They know better than that. The people voting for President Obama rely on the truth as a basis of morality. This is not frivolous. Not at all. Where would the people voting based on that value system be without accurate facts coming from the Obama Campaign? I trust them. They know that. There are no apologies here. They have not inflated any aspect of this.
I don't want another Richard Cheney. I don't want another Halliburton. This is not a distraction.
The Washington Post article is not accurate, if anything it implicates him further and raises more questions.
...The SEC documents, (click here) especially the ones Romney signed, do raise some questions. One can certainly argue that because Romney did not fully extricate himself from Bain till after his Olympic sojourn ended, he should bear some responsibility for what happened in that period. But that is an entirely different matter than suggesting that he is a potential criminal. It is more of a PR problem, which the Obama campaign is trying to exploit to build a larger case that Romney is secretive....
To begin with Romney ended his activities with the Olympics before the job was done. It is written in another article Romney left the Olympic clean up to others. So, let's get that much straight. He left for more political ambitions on the coattails of the Olympics.
Then the Washington Post states there is no possibility of felony because Romney signed some kind of statement about his former employment. He was 100% stockholder. He was making decisions for the company. He had to be. Just because he stated he was a former employee doesn't absolve him from lying to the electorate he was then interested in and further more he stated HE stated; he himself stated; he left Utah to participate at Board Meetings at Bain.
He misrepresented himself to the SEC on documents he signed.
A state commission ten years ago stated he left Bain in 1999. Based on what? The document he submitted to the SEC? That is inaccurate, by his own statements that is inaccurate.
Bain then used that statement to provide a disclosure to clients as to his interest in the management of the company. You've got to be joking and here we go again!
He was 100% stockholder and he held absolutely no power or interest in the operations at Bain. "W"rong. I don't care what statement he made to the SEC, he is lying and his peers are culpable. What everyone wants the electorate to believe is that Romney is above it all. He picked up his Regatta Boat, his blonde wife and went to Utah to be noble.
LIES!
They overlook the fact, he took his Regatta Boat and his Blonde wife to Utah to be CEO of the Olympics, to make a political footprint, while being 100% stockholder in a firm in Boston in case none of it worked out for his political aspirations. He was listed on the SEC forms as CEO of Bain. That is not being employed? Right.
This is not about understanding the private sector. This is the fact Romney wore the glass slipper until midnight. He was worried about everything political turning into a pumpkin and he would not have all the money he needed to tow his Regatta Boat and all the trampings for the rest of his life.
THREE YEARS. That isn't enough for a Board of Trustees to change ownership of Bain Capital?
They sure the heck did a job on every other company they bought and it sure didn't take three years.
Ohio manufacturing is not only growing, but, challenged by the DOD to bring their needs home.
President Barack Obama talks with Edward Ruscitti, right, during his tour of Summer Garden Food Manufacturing in Boardman, Ohio, on Friday, July 6, 2012. Obama is on a two-day bus trip through Ohio and Pennsylvania.
As if it isn't enough to point to the Brotherhood of Liars within the GOP, the fact is President Obama is transparent about his administration. He has successes and now the DOD is realizing their needs can be better met in the USA.
Published: Friday, July 13, 2012, 5:06 AM
...So now Portman and Romney are trying to distort the president's record. (click here) The truth is that Ohio is back on track, thanks in large part to the president's policies. For example, because of his commitment to bringing back manufacturing, Ohio has added 44,700 manufacturing jobs in the last two years -- the first time the state has added manufacturing jobs since the 1990s. And the president ignored Romney and the other naysayers to make the bold decision to rescue the American auto industry, saving the hundreds of thousands of Ohio jobs that depend on it.
The president's policies have created more than 4.4 million private-sector jobs nationwide and 28 consecutive months of job gains through June 2012. Since the economic recovery began, Ohio has added 148,300 jobs....
The lying of Republicans is a reality that needs to be recognized, but, the real story is how the Department of Defense wants to bring manufacturing of their needs home.
The DOD has needs currently met in other countries. I don't believe any DOD needs should be outside the USA. Now, they are challenging states like Ohio to manufacture their needs in small operations not usually considered to be important.
Now, the DOD can brag about "Made in America" adding a real sense of security to our nation. Thank you, DOD. Well done.
DOD wants to use Ohio companies; Plan to address Defense needs in manufacturing would create jobs.; LOCAL COMPANIES (click title to entry - thank you)
07/12/2012
A new initiative to match unmet Department of Defense manufacturing needs with Ohio companies will create jobs and reduce costs and dependence on foreign manufacturers, officials said.
"It would be a huge impact to the region," said Dayton Defense President Dale J. Kirby.
Many U.S. companies are deterred from applying for Defense Department business because they aren't aware of the opportunities, don't know how to apply or find navigating through the bidding process too difficult and time-consuming, officials said.
"It's a very cumbersome process to do business with the government, and it's costly," Kirby said. "A lot of manufacturers that could work with the government won't because they can't afford it."
American manufacturers number about 360,000, but fewer than 10 percent sell products to the Defense Department, officials said....
Another liar.
By Glen Johnson/Globe Staff
July 13, 2012
First, it was kings and queens. (click title to entry - thank you) Now, it is heads of state — and the secretary of state....
...“I can name a litany of Democratic-sponsored bills that I’ve done that never would have passed hadn’t it been for me,” Brown told CNN. “And the president had called me, and vice president calls me, and Secretary [of State Hillary Rodham] Clinton calls asking for my vote all the time.”
In reality, Brown’s staff says he has spoken by phone with Clinton just twice during his Senate career — most recently over a year ago, on July 5, 2011.
The other call occurred in December 2010, when the Obama administration was seeking votes to pass the New START Treaty....
Thursday, July 12, 2012
It is appropriate Romney is with Cheney tonight. They lie equally as well. They can lie us into our next war together.
Cheney: Romney 'only' man for foreign policy (click title to entry - thank you)
How apropos.
Iraq's independence-minded Kurds have reportedly escalated their feud with Baghdad by shipping oil to neighboring Turkey, defying the central government, which insists it alone can export energy.
ERBIL, Iraq, July 12 (UPI) -- Iraq's independence-minded Kurds have reportedly escalated their feud with Baghdad by shipping oil to neighboring Turkey, defying the central government, which insists it alone can export energy....
There are now three provinces that was Iraq. I told you so. Who is getting the oil in Turkey, Halliburton? Just curious.
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