Larry Summers solicited Senator Warren to stop saying he wanted to deregulate banks. Amazing.

"Please Elizabeth, this is my next great ambition and you must not get in the way." The man that believes women can't do math actually solicited a US woman Senator on the Senate Banking Committee. What a creep he is.

By Ylan Q. Mui

Friday, September 13, 6:16 PM

 Lawrence H. Summers (click here) recently reached out to a key Democrat on the Senate banking committee as the controversy intensified over his potential nomination to lead the Federal Reserve, people familiar with the matter said.
Summers requested a meeting with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) when both were in Massachusetts this summer, the people said. Warren has been a vocal critic of Summers’ s effort to deregulate the financial sector when he was Treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton. As a member of the committee that will vote first on the White House’s pick for Fed chairman, she could be a roadblock in advancing a possible Summers nomination....

 

Could you imagine having to put up with that? Poor, Elizabeth. He is out to destroy her career. There is absolutely no other reason for Larry Summers to want to see Senator Warren. Her focus is consistent and obvious and it is not in alignment with his. 

Maybe Larry Summers doesn't believe Yellen can do math.  Larry Summers just has an ichy character issue. Like. Who really wants to stand next to him? He is just a jerk.

Mark Karlin
Editor of Buzzfeed at Truthout
08 August 2013

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D - Massachusetts) (click here) is publicly supporting Janet Yellen, current vice chairwoman of the Federal Reserve, to head the agency.  This puts her at odds with those within the White House, including allegedly President Obama, who back Larry Summers to chair the Fed, although she has not officially opposed Summers.
Thus far, there has been no nomination, just mainstream media rumors of the White House tilting in favor of Summers.
According to an article in the Boston Globe on August 8, Warren openly mocked Summers in 2009 at Reagan National Airport:...

Oxfam International has something to say, 'Peace is the only way.'

Sign the Petition (click here) 

Chemical weapons and the killing of civilians (click here)

Oxfam condemns any use of chemical weapons in Syria, along with the continued indiscriminate killing of civilians in the country.  All parties to the conflict in Syria should respect international humanitarian law and at all times facilitate the work of UN teams investigating alleged chemical weapons attacks.
Ultimately, there needs to be a political solution to this crisis. The humanitarian suffering caused by the crisis is already staggering. More than 100,000 lives have been lost and nearly two million people have fled to neighboring countries. There is a clear risk that Western governments ratcheting up the rhetoric and preparing for military intervention will make the situation worse.
Instead of focusing on military options and arming parties to the conflict, President Obama, President Putin and other world leaders should put aside their differences and intensify peaceful efforts to stop the bloodshed, before Syria is destroyed and the region further destabilized.

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The Shi'ites have a very impressive leader.

6 August 2013 

Last updated at 17:25 BST 

  
Iran's new president Hassan Rouhani (click here) has called for "serious and substantive" negotiations with the international community about its nuclear programme.
At the first news conference since his inauguration on Sunday, Mr Rouhani said he was confident both sides' concerns could be resolved in a short time.
But a solution could be reached solely through "talks, not threats", he added.

Prime Minister Lavrov is a very powerful man, don't underestimate him. He can make or break a peace process. He deserves The West's respect. He smiled widely when Secretary Clinton put forward a Reset Button. He has a vision of peace.

New Iran president on first foreign trip (click here) 
43 minutes ago  
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has made his first foreign trip since taking office.
He joined leaders from Russia, China and Central Asian states in Kyrgyzstan's capital Bishkek. 
James Reynolds reports.

You see, how terrible the world was under extremists. It takes two to tango. The Axis of Evil speech was the worst thing that ever happened to the USA's reputation. It pegged the USA as an extremist and one that other nations had to protect from. 

This is huge. I think President Rouhani will move the Shi'tie nation eons toward peace and progress for their children to compete in the real world. I have great hope for his presidency.

And yes, I am willing to believe in this change in leadership. How can on reciprocate good will unless it is first extended in great anticipation of peace.

By Carol J. Williams

September 13, 2013, 11:46 a.m.

Iran has recently converted more than 40% (click here) of its stockpile of enriched uranium to fuel rods for use in a civilian reactor and is in the process of converting the rest, the country's nuclear chief has announced on state television.
The claim aired by Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, was the latest signal from newly inaugurated President Hassan Rouhani's government that Tehran is working to allay Western fears about its nuclear programs.
Rouhani last week moved to transfer authority from Iran's religious hierarchy to his elected government for nuclear programs and international negotiations on their scope and transparency. The move was hailed by both the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna and the six world powers that have been at work for the last two years trying to ensure that Iran isn't preparing to build nuclear weapons.
“Although we know the nuclear case against us is fabricated, we are ready to relieve the other side’s concern,” Salehi said in the televised Thursday night interview, reported by the semiofficial Fars News Agency on Friday....

The First Lady is a winner. Don't underestimate her. It started with a garden.

By Associated Press

CREATED Sep. 12, 2013

UPDATED: Sep. 12, 2013

WATERTOWN - It was all about water in Watertown on Thursday. (click here) The first lady paid a special visit to the high school to launch her new Drink Up campaign.
Michelle Obama is trying to sell a generation hooked on soda or energy drinks that water is not only cool - it's the original energy drink.

"I just want us to make a little toast," said Mrs.Obama as she addressed a huge crowd of students. "I know you guys have been practicing this. We've got our Drink Up water bottles." 
The first lady was the toast of the town as she kicked off her nationwide Drink Up campaign to get kids and everyone else to drink more water. 
"You can choose anything in the world to drink, but when you choose water, you truly are choosing the best thing you can for yourself," said Mrs. Obama. 
Mrs. Obama picked Watertown, also home to a couple of companies that produce soft drinks, to promote the healthier H-2-O choice....

Coca-cola is missing the boat on water preference. There are flavor options without artificial sweetening or sugar. 

There is no reason why Coca-Cola can't market their 'alternative' choices in the form pocket sized flavors.

The First Lady gets incredible results. The obesity epidemic is starting to be reversed and she is directly responsible for that. If I were a beverage marketer I would not miss out on "The Healthy Water Craze" in the country.



By Monica Matheny

Say goodbye to soda, juice, and bottled water (click here) with these refreshing, healthy flavors! I'm keeping 2-3 flavors of this "spa water" in my fridge now, so I have a variety to motivate me to drink more water....

...Subtle flavor without sweetness
These aren't sweet waters, so they'll be disappointing if that's what you're expecting. This is water with subtle flavors infused into it. Water with a little something extra. A touch of flavor--not an explosion of flavor--with little or no sweetness. You've probably had pitchers of ice water with lemon served at restaurants. This is the same idea, but with more variety. Many spas serve fancy waters like these, and it turns out that they couldn't be simpler to make. And, they are oh-so-refreshing....

Coca-Cola is a good partner with Americans, but, they have to move up in morality and bring along a good, healthy flavor for water that comes along in a lunch box. For the investment Coca-Cola makes in the people of the USA I would think they would put their 'full moral game' on and not just go halfway.

In this June 7, 2012 file photo, Steve Cahillane, president of Coca-Cola Americas, makes a point during an interview with the Associated Press while attending the Clinton Global Initiative America gathering in Chicago. Cahillane is scheduled to be at at the Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie in Wilmington, Ill., on Friday, Sept. 13, 2013, to sign a five-year partnership with U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to restore watersheds that have been damaged or altered by development, wildfires and agriculture. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)

By Associated Press, Updated: Friday, September 13, 3:20 PM
 

CHICAGO — The U.S. Department of Agriculture (click here) and Coca-Cola signed a five-year agreement Friday to restore watersheds that have been damaged or altered by development, wildfires and agriculture as part of an initiative to slow runoff and replenish groundwater on federal lands.Such efforts are increasingly important to corporations and farmers who rely on water and to tens of millions of people whose drinking water originates in the national forest system, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said. But federal budget cuts and the wide scope of the problem have the USDA turning to partnerships with nonprofit groups and corporations for help....

What Judd Gregg does not understand is that actions speak far louder than words

Paulson left with the goods. He took his wad of cash and went to China. And like a cursed idol he then saw devaluing economic trends in China. Now he wants to make Goldman Sachs 2 - China an American liability when he does the same stupid stuff he did before, but, without Chinese regulation. Then China will have to bail him out, but, what he forgets is that the Chinese sentenced the "Baby Formula" and "Dog Chow" manufacturers to death.

If he is relying on the same compassion from the Chinese as from Americans he is barking up the wrong tree. He won't be met with anything, but, distain; unless George "W"'s brother has influence, then he might receive an exist visa and be grateful for it.

Quantitative Easing was to put 'liquid capital' in the hands of a recovering financial systems since it was believed the banks had no residual cash to lend Americans.

There was a cap on QE1 and QE2. There is still no cap on QE3 since it was designed to meet stubborn unemployment figures. The banks are simply feeding at the trough and have no intention of doing anything else with an infinite timeline. 

It has to end and stop the ideologies being toyed with by the financial sector. Americans need to build their OWN local economies, enjoy and make it their future and that of their children. 

"Wrap you mind around the idea that a well educated society rich with diversity and value of all that is possible is a great America. Economic growth comes out of ideas and not population. The greatest sin in pursing that path is the desire to be full of goodness and possibility. That is never a bad thing. Economies can be what a society makes it and not just based on fulfilling a need. Does the carnival ride fulfill a need? No, but, it sure is fun. AND SAFE." 

America's greatest need is disposable income. It builds rainy day funds, a down payment on a home and QUALITY OF LIFE. Where do Americans find disposable income? Unions and vibrant local economies. What happens with disposable income? Spending, a larger economy, more opportunity and a larger tax base leading to more police, firefighters, teachers and better educational opportunity infrastructure.

Judd Gregg is actually stating TARP was the savior of the Middle Class and the American economy?

Let's start with this. This is a joke. The Global Economic COLLAPSE was actually a collapse. I reality Paulson never felt it, but, it did destroy the global economy. It just didn't destroy the FEW banks left standing. And the truth is, the ONLY major bank still standing that should be still standing is JP Morgan.

By Michael O'Brien - 04/26/10 10:47 AM ET

Republicans went "too far" (click here) when they spearheaded the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act in 1999, a top GOP lawmaker said Monday. 

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said that many of his current colleagues erred when they voted to repeal the 1932 act that mandated, among other things, the separation of commercial and investment banking.

"There's no question that, in 1999, when they 'deregulated' by getting rid of Glass-Steagall — something that was done with a Republican Congress and a Democratic president — I think we really went too far in saying there are banks and there are non-banks and they can own each other," Issa said Monday during an appearance on "Imus in the Morning" on the Fox Business Network....

This bears the DEMAND that banks are not only best regulated, but, small enough to actually manage.

The reason Paulson is screaming there is going to be another collapse is because he is a Wealth Junkie and he has spent all the liquidity he gained with Quantitative Easing. The 'start up' in China was not cheap and I guarantee his creature comforts were and are plenty.

That is the huge folly and "Good Ole Boy's Club" of Bernanke. He kept padding the pockets of the wealthy because, "Well, we just aren't there yet, Ben." And of course, Gentle Ben wanted to create a more bearish economy that was stable and unshakable.  

What Bernanke created instead was so much liquidity it INHERITED disaster along with it. Why? Because all the same old players are in place STILL and no one learned anything, except, how to capitalize on failure. 

All the regulations have to go back in place, "Bank Fitness Tests" have to be chronic and Quantitative Easing has to stop, it is destroying the monetary systems of countries.

Paulson is a parasite, he needs to take his whining elsewhere. "It is for the record." Like hell, it is for the propaganda.

Sept. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Judd Gregg, CEO at Securities Industry & Financial Market Association, recalls his personal experience in meetings with former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson about the TARP program and the public perception of the program. He speaks on Bloomberg Television's "Bloomberg Surveillance."

No more cheap construction along the Jersey Shore.

Slate roofs and fire walls with sprinkler systems. Redundancy is a good thing. The reason construction is never that expensive is because of the possibility of hurricanes. The fire danger has to be mitigated to build better structures. The other possibility are concrete block walls. Whatever.

I can't believe how lame this is.

There are no 'gotcha questions' in diplomacy. It is about RELIABLE partners. A Top Secret mission to move munitions to undermine the diplomatic process and 'go to guns' is pure stupidity. People on the ground on both sides of the negotiations will be pulling all kinds of nonsense in order to undermine the diplomatic process. Some can be mitigated and some can't. But, this is similar to the end of a war. It is where the national leaders have signed the peace treaty, but, there are 'DEAD ENDERS' that just don't get it yet.

Evidently, The West's press 'just don't get it.' The media dead enders are everywhere.

Those are outrageous demands by the rebels. They aren't interested in keeping people alive so much as prosecute Assad.

These levels of resistance to progress of peace are unhelpful. They don't want to save their own people's lives? I doubt the top level movement of Syria's weapons are the Assad forces, so much as WHOM is moving what. 

Do I think the Wall Street journal has top secret attachments that the United Nations don't? No. Murdoch's empire is known to be liars and propagandists. Just because the USA is stuck with the Wall Street journal on this issue, it has to be validated in duplicity outside of the USA. There is too much political baggage in the USA to consider the media honest and forthright, especially when it comes to Murdoch.

Where is the OFFICIAL assessment? 

Murdoch is not a reliable source of anything. His media outlets only seek to inflame the circumstances. His organizations are Wall Street and support that point of view. In my opinion, their corporate model is so tainted it is completely invaluable. The only reason they are still in business is because Murdoch has created a local media monopoly. Most, if not all other news agencies in the USA are dependent on the local information and cover FOX provides. If 'citizen journalists' really want 'a place in it,' they need to provide the local coverage now provided by the national fleet of FOX media wagons.

CBS News/ September 12, 2013, 5:04 AM

...Late Wednesday, Gen. Salim Idriss, (click here) the head of the SNC's military council, said in a video posted online that he and his fellow rebel commanders "announce our definitive rejection of the Russian initiative to place chemical weapons under international custody."

"We ask that the international community not be content with withdrawing chemical weapons, which are a criminal instrument, but to hold the perpetrator accountable and prosecute him at the International Criminal Court," Idriss said, blaming Assad for an Aug. 21 chemical weapons attack on the Damascus suburbs which the Obama administration says left at least 1,400 people dead....

There used to be a CHEMICAL FOAM TRUCK at Dow in Bound Brook

DOW is still there. They have state of the art fire equipment. They have to for the operation they have. I don't know how the Plant Manager will view sending it to Seaside Heights and leave the plant without it's foam truck, but, he might be able to shutter some of the operation there to provide help.

1 River Rd  Bound Brook, NJ 08805

(732) 537-1601

New Jersey has a lot of interesting companies with interesting equipment. The Governor needs to send out a request for EXPERTISE. There are few PhD Emergency Managers in the country, but, it would be worth a try. There used to be some large companies along Route 1.

The Casinos. They have to have some kind of fire equipment. They are multi-story. 

There are tired firefighters besides. And the Governor might want to move the journalists a safe distance from danger. I realize he has no fear, but, there are limits.

A lot of these towns have volunteer firefighters, too. Not that they aren't trained well, but, they could be overwhelmed by the enormity of it.

Asbury Park (N.J.) Press 11:02 p.m. EDT September 12, 2013

SEASIDE PARK, N.J. — A fire (click here) that started at a New Jersey frozen custard shop in Seaside Park, N.J., and spread to other boardwalk businesses, including FunTown Pier, destroyed much of an iconic boardwalk just rebuilt after Superstorm Sandy.
Emergency personnel arrived at the boardwalk in Seaside Park for a report of smoke about 2:30 p.m. A plume of gray smoke stretches as far north as Ortley Beach, N.J., as fire crews fight to douse the blaze. The cause of the fire is still unclear.
The fire that started at Kohr's Frozen Custard quickly compromised buildings on the west side, including what was left of FunTown Pier — the site of the roller coaster that was pushed into the ocean during Superstorm Sandy. A strong wind has worsened the firefighters' attempts, Police Chief Francis Larkin said...

It started as a inferno. The fire may be too hot for water. Water evaporates and this might be wood, but, the fire will sizzle the water off the fire and it won't smother it.

I think foam is the only thing that will finally stop it. It has to be smothered and robbed of oxygen. 

Maybe several water drops from the ocean. They just have to make sure there aren't divers or small boats at the water pick up point.

 

I don't know that there is much to say about Helms. He was in the Senate a long time, arguably incompetently.

Gadsden Times, May 26, 1983, "Jesse Helms and the Voting Rights Act" (click here) 

He is the South when the South was Post Civil War and North Carolina had a viable Sons of the Confederacy. The CSA (Confedeate States of America).

Everyone thinks of the Rebel Flag as being the flag of the Confederacy, but, that is not the case. The Rebel Flag was a battle flag, not the sovereign flag.

Helm's North Carolina was tobacco fields, cigarette producers and military bases. Textile mills and the difference between that and the tobacco slaves was the color of their skin. The Poor White Trash that were owned by the mills. They were white, but, they were as slaves as any of any black man after the Civil War.

Very ugly history. History Helms never visited so much as implied. The right to fire anyone at any time, basically "The Right to Work" laws are all based in impoverishment and keeping people 'in their place' and manageable. The Southerns became masters of enslavement Post-Civil War.

So, I am not surprised his name made it's way to the surface. It has been a short period of time since Helm died and yet North Carolina is still sifting through it's bigotry and oppression. Oppression is long lasting. One can say that Helms is responsible of the lack of work to North Carolinians today. The economy of Helms is gone. The mills are closed and outsourced. The tobacco industry can't poison people's lungs anymore. 

The military towns are still intact. Helms built a mini-USA in North Carolina. Every branch of the military, except, NASA. Helms could not wrench the space program from Houston. But, in actuality where would he put it? He had the nukes already at Cherry Point, he was just missing the ICBMs. But, in a pinch I am sure he could convince Pope Air Force Base to act in emergence if necessary.

He was a mean man that enjoyed being mean. He was the poster child for Dirty Harry and "Make my day." He is indefensible. He was a horrible human being that was loved by the people of North Carolina for all the federal monies he could skim from the treasury. Basically, that's it. He is not glamorous. He was a horrible person in every aspect of the word. Why discuss Helms? Makes no sense to me. Someone whats to emulate him and bring his politics back to life? Then Senator Cruz is best thought of as a foreign born Senator as he'll have to go to China to find Helm's economy.

The good news is...?????...there is no good news.

September 12, 2013
2230:19z
UNISYS Water Vapor North and West Satellite (click here for 12 hour loop - thank you)

California is getting some unexpected water vapor, that is good news considering the Rim Fire is still only 80% contained.

There are three deaths in Colorado.

Torrential rainfall in Colorado (click here) has caused three deaths, destroyed a dam, and prompted massive road closures. The Colorado National Guard has been activated.

By Katherine Jacobsen, Contributor / September 12, 2013 

Torrential flooding in northern Colorado has resulted in at least three deaths, mudslides, multiple road closures, and the destruction of one dam. The resulting high water levels are impeding search and rescue teams from reaching stranded residents and motorists in the Boulder area northwest of Denver....

The heat island from last week that occupied it's own tropospheric vortex with aerosoled sea spray has attracted it's own tropical storm.

HAMILTON, Bermuda September 11, 2013 (AP)

By JOSH BALL Associated Press 

Tropical Storm Gabrielle (click here) hit at Bermuda with wind, rain and rough surf early Wednesday as its center passed near the wealthy British territory, a day after reforming over the Atlantic.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said the storm's center was about 40 miles (65 kilometers) west-southwest of Bermuda early Wednesday and moving northward with maximum sustained winds of 60 mph (95 kph).

Government authorities had urged people in the storm-hardened Atlantic territory to finish last-minute preparations, and some residents left work early. Customers crowded into supermarkets to buy candles, batteries and other emergency supplies.

"Gabrielle has proven somewhat unpredictable and so I caution everyone to take this storm seriously and to prepare for the forecast conditions," Public Safety Minister Michael Dunkley said....

See, it takes water vapor to catch heat and develop a circulation center that then gains velocity to become a huge storm or even a smaller tropical depression. Earth is so dry it takes aerosoled water vapor to get the dynamics going. Then when the storm has delivered water into the troposphere is larger dynamics than the aerosoled sea spray it spawns larger storms with higher velocity like the one off Africa headed this way. Sort of where Sandy landed last year but perhaps a little more north.

Actual High Temperatures 
September 11, 2013
0100 

Swelting temperatures throughout most of the nation is making work by road crews and outdoor workmen and women nearly impossible and certainly threatening. 

Their employers need to hand out cooling collars to be worn about the neck, sunscreen, salt tablets and water WITH instructions as well as descriptions of heat cramps, heat exhaustion and heat stroke. The best instruction, "If you don't feel well, call 911." PLEASE.

And Tropical Depression 10  at the Yucatan Peninsula was assisted to circulation by the Florida air mass that gathered there a few days ago heading west across the state. This area has already been hard hit by a previous Tropical Depression Fernand killing 14 people.

27 August 2013 Last updated at 05:55 ET

More than a dozen people (click here) have died in eastern Mexico, in landslides triggered by heavy rain caused by tropical depression Fernand.

Thirteen people were killed when mud engulfed their homes on hillsides in Veracruz state.

Another man drowned after being swept away by fast-flowing floodwaters in neighbouring Oaxaca.

Fernand made landfall near the Atlantic port city of Veracruz on Monday and weakened as it moved north-west.

Veracruz Governor Javier Duarte has asked the federal government to declare an emergency in 92 municipalities, so they can receive recovery funds....

Could immigration reform be more than an American humanitarian effort, but, an actual boom for our economy?

With such a great American movement to bring home our immigrants, how is it Republicans simply ignore the legacy of providing rewards for the most ambitious among us?

by Charles Bradley
Published - 09/12/13 - 01:05 PM

..."The Davis Chamber (click here) has taken a position in support of immigration reform and we embrace the concepts set forth in the Utah Compact,” said Jim Smith, President and CEO of the Davis Chamber of Commerce. “The economic benefits of meaningful immigration reform are significant, while the downside risks of ignoring the problem only get worse over time. Our message to our Washington, D.C. delegation has been consistent for years - this issue is important to all Americans and needs to be addressed NOW. We encourage all involved to set aside partisan politics and work together to find a meaningful solution in this congress"...

Welcome to the Davis Chamber! (click here)

The Chamber was originally formed in 1905 by a few local businessmen, in order to attract the University Farm School (now known as UC Davis) to this agricultural community. The “town-gown” relationship has been a strong and vital one ever since....

I am in agreement with the US House in shutting down the government.

DEFUND THE MILITARY!

By David Lawder and Richard Cowan

WASHINGTON | Wed Sep 11, 2013 8:02pm EDT

...The move in the House of Representatives (click here) is the latest indication that a revolt by conservative Republicans is complicating Congress' efforts to deal with looming fiscal deadlines over government funding and the federal debt limit.
The delay pushes Congress closer to the September 30 deadline for approving new government funding. With conservatives demanding a tougher stance on defunding and delaying President Barack Obama's signature healthcare legislation, known as "Obamacare," the chances of a shutdown appear greater.
The conflict is part of what is being called by some analysts a "civil war" within the Republican Party, energized in part by rallies and Tea Party gatherings during the August recess and the organizing efforts of the conservative Heritage Action, a sister to the conservative Heritage Foundation....

Think I am joking? Check out Secretary Lew's letter. (click here)

...The government makes approximately 80 million payments a month, including Social Security checks, military salaries, Medicare reimbursements and many others...

The main objection to the Vocker Rule is that it will tie up liquidity. Really?

Do you know how much easily accessible money (click here) you have in the form of cash and equivalents? This is a measure of your liquidity.

So, liquidity is money people use to pay for lunch. Sometimes they don't use liquidity, they use credit as in credit cards.

The banks are complaining that a rule to live by will drain them of their lunch money. Not their INVESTMENT money, but, the kind of money that can purchase small operations to drain off middle management, consolidate debt, maybe even eliminate debt if the debt is owed to the bank that is buying them out, reduce labor forces while reducing a tax base.

That liquidity? 

You mean instead of buying off and crashing an entire economy the banks might have to use their liquidity for loans to the businesses short on liquidity.

Excuse me, but, the accounting firms for the CEOs complaining about liquidity problems if RULES go into effect need to be audited. Why? That's an easy one. 

"What is Quantitative Easing?" (click here)

See, I know the banks and all those greed merchants like Goldman Sachs and Citibank are pulling in huge amounts of LIQUIDITY from QE1, QE2 and the ongoing QE3.

There are no liquidity problems anywhere and if the CEOs and Greed Merchants are stating there is, then they are grossly misinformed or simply lying. Imagine that the Great Wall Street companies of the DOW lying. 

There is absolutely no reason to postpone the Volcker Rule or any other rule. The politics are dense, I am quite sure, but the Peasants and an entire generation of their children await.

This is "Stericycle." Their incinerator is a threat to clean air.

There is no reason for this level of air pollution in the USA. Their emissions endangers neighborhoods. This is similar to the soot covered elementary schools near coal plants.

Updated: 9/11 6:03 pm | Published: 9/11 5:25 pm

Reported by: Kimberly Nelson

 

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 Utah) - Stericycle claims (click here) emergency bypass events like the one caught on camera Friday only happen a couple of times a year, but nearby residents say even then it's way too often. During a press conference Wednesday concerned citizens, Utah Moms for Clean Air, HEAL Utah, Greenaction and Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment asked Governor Gary Herbert to use his executive power to shut Stericycle down....

Greater problems await all of us.

Wall Street has been running a campaign and strategy against the Volcker Rule since it was written. It is the tail waging the dog. Somewhere Wall Street got the idea they don't have to answer to anyone. They have the idea the world is their oyster. I don't think so.

Goldman Sachs has decided to stop hiding among the little people and just list with the DOW

By Jia Lynn Yang, Published: September 10

The closely watched Dow Jones industrial average (click here) got a tuneup Tuesday, with Bank of America, Hewlett-Packard and aluminum producer Alcoa dropping from the benchmark group. The companies will be replaced by the financial firm Goldman Sachs, athletic apparel maker Nike and payment processor Visa. 

S&P Dow Jones Indices, which decides what companies are in the 30-firm index, said Bank of America, HP and Alcoa were let go in part because their stock prices were too low....

There is nothing like being among the elite and out of reach of average investors. Above it all. They don't need rules, they know what is best, they even pick and choose who is the best. They don't need rules, they just need money and competition to drive the money into sequestered holdings to protect from the little people. They have to watch out for those peasants after all, they might actually think and not follow in million-billionaire obedience. It is best for the peasants to have guns to make them feel powerful.

The Huffington Post
 By Maxwell Strachan Posted: 09/11/2013 11:28 am EDT Updated: 09/11/2013 4:21 pm EDT 
...The rule, named after former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker, (click here) in theory restricts the types of speculative bets banks can make for their own benefit and with their money, as opposed to their customers' money. Technical term alert: This is called “proprietary trading."

But as the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, Wall Street pressure and intense political infighting among regulators have delayed the rule's completion. One meeting between regulators and bank representatives involved a (presumably excruciating) “two-hour discussion of a single phrase relating to ‘market making,’” according to the WSJ. The final version of the Volcker Rule could be more than 900 pages by the time it's done. 

To Smith, the idea often pushed by Wall Street types, that the rule would hurt liquidity -- or the ease with which assets can be bought and sold on the market --- is a “false argument to stifle the Volcker rule,” according to a five-point agenda provided before the meeting and documented in the memo.

Elizabeth Warren introduced a new Glass-Steagall bill to stop Wall Street banks from gambling with the life savings of regular families.

It will also help prevent future bailouts. (click here)

Elizabeth Warren joined the PCCC to push for this during her campaign -- and she's delivering! Watch her on MSNBC and sign the petition, which we'll deliver to Congress.

Thank you, President Putin. Your words should not be taken lightly.

I first have to apologize for the ignorance of the USA Congress. They did not appreciate your delegation to bring the Russian message to conduct peace talks. The USA Congress is to say the least shameful these days and it is more than the issue than Syria. They only think about politics. 

5 September 
...The unwillingness of US Congressmen (click here) to meet with a Russian parliamentary delegation in Washington, DC to discuss Syria displays US uncertainty about the availability of sufficient grounds to justify beginning a military campaign against Syria, State Duma heads said. 

"By rejecting this dialogue the U.S. Congress shows that it is afraid of demonstrating the illegitimacy of its position towards Syria," said State Duma Vice-Speaker Sergei Zheleznyak (United Russia) on Thursday....

This is not the first time Great Russian Presidents have tried to appeal to the better side of foreign relations to prevent direct conflict.

By David Hoffman Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, March 25, 1999; Page A31

MOSCOW, March 24 – President Boris Yeltsin (click here) suspended Russian cooperation with NATO tonight and recalled his chief military representative to the alliance to protest the airstrikes on Yugoslavia, the Kremlin said.
The decision came after NATO military operations began and after Yeltsin made a televised appeal against the use of force. Yeltsin, described in a statement as "deeply angered" by the bombing, called for a session of the U.N. Security Council to stop it. Such a session was convened last night, but Russian arguments failed to sway the 15-member group.

The Kremlin statement offered few details, but Yeltsin appeared to be ordering a suspension of key aspects of cooperation between Russia and the Western alliance that were put in place at the end of the Cold War and followed NATO's decision to admit former Soviet allies Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic.

Yeltsin said he was suspending Russian participation in the Partnership for Peace, a military cooperation program involving 27 non-NATO countries. He said he was also suspending the Russian-NATO cooperation program that was established in the aftermath of alliance expansion. In both cases, the efforts at cooperation had gotten off to a slow start, diplomats have said...

It is a matter of respect by the USA to carry out diplomatic meetings with a country we value as a partner in a secure and stable world. Sometimes the demands for respect are not enough and the USA plows ahead instead. We have witnessed that before in recent times with Iraq. Russia was of the first at our side 13 years ago and that loyalty to global stability and peace was cast off as a malady less two years later. 

We know the greatness of Russian peacekeepers when 1000 innocent people were killed by a renegade Polish President, yet today the rants out of NATO and the USA still don't recognize the strength of the Russian resolve in forming two new countries for the safety of human life. 

The relationship between the USA and Russia has been hideous in the way victimization of a once great ally is forgotten for Cold War rhetoric still lingering in USA's dysfunctional political system.

It is more than sad. Two great nations cannot find their way out of a maze of faux hate facilitating war. Unbelievable, actually.

By VLADIMIR V. PUTIN 
Published: September 11, 2013

...The potential strike by the United States against Syria, (click here) despite strong opposition from many countries and major political and religious leaders, including the pope, will result in more innocent victims and escalation, potentially spreading the conflict far beyond Syria’s borders. A strike would increase violence and unleash a new wave of terrorism. It could undermine multilateral efforts to resolve the Iranian nuclear problem and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and further destabilize the Middle East and North Africa. It could throw the entire system of international law and order out of balance....

I agree. There is too much at stake to risk this. Syria is in a precarious place in the Middle East for the USA to seek greater instability. It makes no sense. I realize we have Congressmen like Keith Ellison that have heart wrenching witness accounts of the brutality that currently exists in Syria, but, in the balance there is nothing that requires rockets and missiles. Quite the contrary there is every reason for peace talks and resolutions for power sharing relationships to insure stability and not dissolve it. This entire idea is counter to the best outcomes.

...Syria is not witnessing a battle for democracy, but an armed conflict between government and opposition in a multireligious country. There are few champions of democracy in Syria. But there are more than enough Qaeda fighters and extremists of all stripes battling the government. The United States State Department has designated Al Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, fighting with the opposition, as terrorist organizations. This internal conflict, fueled by foreign weapons supplied to the opposition, is one of the bloodiest in the world...

Exactly. The USA is disregarding it's own rules and demonstrates great emotional distress over the death of children. No one denies the death of any child is tragic and Russia understands that, but, this? What will ultimately be the outcome to the children of Syria with terrorist linked heads of state. It didn't go over well in Egypt and then there will be instability among the nations at Syria's borders.

And quite correct, this is hardly about democracy in Syria. It is ethnic. It is religious. The history of this conflict reeks of ethnic tensions. Sympathy is a good tool for these rebels. But, sympathy without sound policy and governance only leads to faux fronts for illegal and deadly regimes.

...From the outset, Russia has advocated peaceful dialogue enabling Syrians to develop a compromise plan for their own future. We are not protecting the Syrian government, but international law. We need to use the United Nations Security Council and believe that preserving law and order in today’s complex and turbulent world is one of the few ways to keep international relations from sliding into chaos. The law is still the law, and we must follow it whether we like it or not. Under current international law, force is permitted only in self-defense or by the decision of the Security Council. Anything else is unacceptable under the United Nations Charter and would constitute an act of aggression...

The loss of civility. The assumption of the Powell Doctrine that all power is forever the power that will rule all of the world without harm to USA soil. It has a great deal of folly in that assumption. The USA has lost it's rudder and the American military is a danger to all, including citizens.

Today, President Obama signed for another year an emergency measure that takes away citizen's rights. We criticized Pakistan's Musharraf for the same exact oppression of the rights of people for the sake of national security, but, the USA is exempt from ignoring the rights of it's people since bin Laden flew commercial airliners into tall buildings. 

It would seem as though the USA once a victim is always a victim. Shame on the Japanese.

...No one doubts that poison gas was used in Syria. But there is every reason to believe it was used not by the Syrian Army, but by opposition forces, to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patrons, who would be siding with the fundamentalists. Reports that militants are preparing another attack — this time against Israel — cannot be ignored....

There is information Germany has come forward with regarding President Assad's transmissions about the use of chemical weapons. Yet, Germany is not one of the five permanent member nations at the Security Council. It leaves a huge gap in the protestations of the USA against the Syrian President. The peace table is where all this belongs.

...But force has proved ineffective and pointless. Afghanistan is reeling, and no one can say what will happen after international forces withdraw. Libya is divided into tribes and clans. In Iraq the civil war continues, with dozens killed each day. In the United States, many draw an analogy between Iraq and Syria, and ask why their government would want to repeat recent mistakes....

I believe Iraq started this slippery slope, even the borders of Turkey have not been the same since.

...We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement....

...I welcome the president’s interest in continuing the dialogue with Russia on Syria. We must work together to keep this hope alive, as we agreed to at the Group of 8 meeting in Lough Erne in Northern Ireland in June, and steer the discussion back toward negotiations.

If we can avoid force against Syria, this will improve the atmosphere in international affairs and strengthen mutual trust. It will be our shared success and open the door to cooperation on other critical issues. 

My working and personal relationship with President Obama is marked by growing trust. I appreciate this. I carefully studied his address to the nation on Tuesday. And I would rather disagree with a case he made on American exceptionalism, stating that the United States’ policy is “what makes America different. It’s what makes us exceptional.” It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation. There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy. Their policies differ, too. We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord’s blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal. 

Exactly. What good is touting exceptionalism at the end of a missile. That was the nationalism theme of nations once engaged when Russia and the USA were allies in arms. I don't find comfort in being the world's last superpower. It has proven a burden to this country and to the world. It is time to return to simpler times when countries found common ground rather than one nation rampaging over the sovereign rights of others in a moment's notice.

Vladimir V. Putin is the president of Russia.

Let's hope this terrible chapter between our two countries ends on a happy note and better settled in victories at Sochi. I thank you again. This is the second time Russia has called on Americans to be reasonable in a measured way other nations can respect. I can only hope the USA returns to a posture of deserving of respect, rather than fear.

Wish you and your family well.