I’ll say this as many times as I must to get us to see the point – R’s and D’s are part of the same illness, and acting against one and not the other is like trying to excise only half a tumor.

Their actions over the past eight years, like the symptoms a life-threatening illness, have been life’s call for us to start truly living.

I’m not so sure we can blame the Republicans for this! I just looked over the count again.

Seems Harry Reid voted NO. So if we count his vote as #53, then add the Democrats who didn’t vote, Kerry, Biden, Wyden, and Kennedy we now have 57 votes. Add to that a little arm-twisting on Baucus and Lincoln, two dems who voted Nay, the count is now 59! Chuck Hagel? One vote? Maybe the president could have helped with one vote.

Reid didn’t keep count. Is he useful at all?

This failed bailout vote in the Senate could all be a Rovian set-up designed specifically to save the image of his client, GW Bush. If Rove instructs the GOP to take a strong stand against the bridge loan in the Senate, with the promise that the President will in fact come to the rescue (as though it were his money) with funding from the TARP to accomplish the same goal, Bush gets a big “attaboy!” from his detractors and a bump in the popularity polls.

Would Rove intentionally manipulate the system to that extent just to put some lipstick on that pig?

Does the Pope wear a funny hat?

Bill Haywood?

You should link some of U. Utah Phillips (Bruce Phillips) treatsies about Bill Haywood to this post . . . Utah was a fine friend of Old Bill Haywood . . . *G* Bless them both for their love of labor.

Hoss, or hossette, I don’t know ya . . . so pardon the intro.

The ReThugs are bound and determined to break this country financially, and any other way they can. That includes breaking unions, the middle class and anything else that stands in their way of moving wealth from the labor of our efforts into the hands of the few.

So it’s no WONDER they repulsed this plan.

What the dem’s have, is the ability to LET the Rethugs do it, and then we bury them for a generation or two.

Of course, that depends on Obama and the Dem’s burying the ReThugs on every issue they can, while they scale incredible obstacles to so so.

Time will tell. I’m willin at this point, with a new president elect, to let the dice roll.

I meant, it’s not like we had much to cling to to begin with, ya know?

*G*

The Guardian reports, from insignificant nuts (crazed ignoramuses) large failures grow:

World markets slump as US car industry bail-out fails

Stockmarkets tumbled around the world after a $14bn (£10bn) bail-out package for the struggling US car industry collapsed last night.

The London market followed Asian shares into the red. The FTSE 100 index fell nearly 180 points in early trading, a drop of 4%, and later traded down 140 points at 4248.

Dow Jones futures were down more than 250 points, pointing to a fall on Wall Street when it opens later today. There could be more bad news for the US economy when official figures are released this afternoon, which are expected to show a sharp fall in retail sales in November.

Republicans in the US Senate refused to support a bill endorsed by the White House and congressional Democrats. Republican demands for union wage cuts derailed a last-ditch effort to revive the emergency aid for US carmakers before the end of the year. The breakdown left the car industry – which employs 3 million people – in limbo. General Motors and Chrysler have warned that they will go bankrupt this month if they do not receive $14bn in taxpayer funds.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/busi…..-useconomy

The question is: Is it the end of the beginning? or Is it the beginning of the end? just reporting, you decide.

8 really, really scary predictions…
Dow 4,000. Food shortages. A bubble in Treasury notes. Fortune spoke to eight of the market’s sharpest thinkers and what they had to say about the future is frightening.

Speaking as an expatriated citizen, something will have to be done to curtail the political/economic madness, whether it is to raise a “cognitive civics” barrier, a test for higher mental capabilities, or some-such, that disallows emotional or belief based “reasoning” from putting political charlatans and demagogues into national office. By all means allow those the vote for local and state offices.

For a democratic republic to survive, it must have a population educated and knowledgeable to the same degree as any sovereign. If this is not done and maintained, the state is assured failure. When over 50% of the population does NOT know or accept evolution, that becomes the signal that those holding other views should not be allowed the national vote. This will either be corrected or the finish of the democracy is at hand. It will be your choice, a viable democratic republic, a oligarchy (plutocracy), or the dustbin of history.

FEDERAL RESERVE = CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE

The FED is a private institution. They bamboozled us into providing them with the apparent authority to print our “money” by bribing a couple “representatives” to vote for it while most of their peers were home for the holidays. The US (we the people) have the capability to print our own “money,” without creating the burden of interest upon ourselves. The FED benefits the more we the people go into debt to this private institution masquerading as an arm of our government. Goldman Sachs is installed at Treasury for Christ sakes!

Congress has within its power, the legal authority to abolish the Federal Reserve any time it chooses. Since all of the “representatives” in Congress were placed there by the banksters who own the Central Bank(s), it’s just not every going to happen.

They are taking the system down on purpose. The Central Bank will never collapse, unless we the people demand that it be abolished and/or simply refuse to cooperate…or else.

Listen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1465ygw5HU

The news media is blaming it on the unions who would not deal. The unions were willing to deal but not with a firm date. If health reform was passed obviously the unions could cut health benefits. Local Atlanta media interviewed a few folks who were up late and the feeling was let them go bankrupt is they don’t want to cut their wages.
Harry Reid has to take responsibility for this mess. Why are the republicans allowed to frame the issue?

JoeScar starts the day by defending waterboarding and all things practiced by the CIA.

In general, ole Joe is positively giddy this morning.

fuck off Joe – you gotta go. {poof}

much better now.

He’s such a fucking asshole and people here bitch about Imus.

FWIW the dollar is tanking, last week it was ca $1.26 – $1.27 per Euro, Today it is $1.33. Price of OIL is unchanged at this moment. That will change as dollar falls, guaranteed.

The Republicans are allowed to frame the issue, and the media is reporting it as such, because they own and control the media.

David Rockefeller controls JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Exxon Mobil, half the “think tanks in existence in including The CFR, The Federal Reserve, The IMF, The World Bank, The United Nations and GE/NBC just to name a few – and his family’s office is in the same building with NBC, otherwise known as “Rockefeller Center.”

One man has influence over foreign policy, domestic policy, the price of oil, interest rates, and which banks and industries are saved and which shall perish – yet no one wants to admit it, or talk about it.

Who do you think Tim Geithener works for…really? Study his past and the nexus with Rockefeller.

“Whatever the price of the Chinese Revolution, it has obviously succeeded not only in producing more efficient and dedicated administration, but also in fostering high morale and community of purpose. The social experiment in China under Chairman Mao’s leadership is one of the most important and successful in human history.”

David Rockefeller, statement in 1973 about Mao Tse-tung in the New York Times, August 10, 1973

“We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promise of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march toward a world government. The super-national sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.”

David Rockefeller, speaking to his fellow global socialists at a meeting in Baden-Baden, Germany, June 1991.

“For more than a century, ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents such as my encounter with Castro to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – one world, if you will. If that is the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”

- From Rockefeller’s “Memoirs”, (p.405).

He continues with an even more revealing passage:

“The anti-Rockefeller focus of these otherwise incompatible political positions owes much to Populism. ‘Populists’ believe in conspiracies, and one of the most enduring is that a secret group of international bankers and capitalists, and their minions, control the world’s economy. Because of my name and prominence as the head of the Chase for many years, I have earned the distinction of ‘conspirator in chief’ from some of these people.

“Populists and isolationists ignore the tangible benefits that have resulted from our active international role during the past half-century. Not only was the very real threat posed by Soviet Communism overcome, but there have been fundamental improvements in societies around the world, particularly in the United States, as a result of global trade, improved communications, and the heightened interaction of people from different cultures. Populists rarely mention these positive consequences, nor can they cogently explain how they would have sustained American economic growth and the expansion of our political power without them.”

You will notice that he does not deny it. If anything he has confirmed that their is a “secret group of international bankers and capitalists, and their minions, [who] control the world’s economy”.

What more is there to say? Conspiracy confirmed. He openly admits to Treason, knowing no one can touch him. And what is the name of his office building in Manhattan? “The Tower Of Power.”

If it’s happening in America, it’s because David Rockefeller wants it to.

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I just went to Bloomberg and oil is down 5.9%. Will Bush blink and have Paulson use the TARP money?

Good morning, pups. Prof. Krugman is still off doing Nobel things, so we’re burdened with a solo Bobo Boob today. He got out his crayons and scribbled, a la MoDo, a piece of fiction he’s calling “The Ambassador’s Report,” in which he loftily declares that something has been revealed about the psychology of the nation’s capital. When investors in New York become gripped by fear, they pull inward. When Washingtonians are gripped by fear, they rush outward with daring plans.

It’s here, if you must. Don’t say I didn’t warn you…

The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and I’ve got banana pancakes with bacon on the side today. I’m still trying to wrap my head around what happened in the Senate, and that’s going to take another cup of tea. Have a great day.

Senate Report – RUMSFELD GUILTY OF WAR CRIMES

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/….._1211.html

Gosh, glad the senate got that one over with. Phew. Now we can move one. /s

UPS says your package should arrive today.

Looking forward to it. Did you get yours yet?

Not yet, but mail has been slow it seems.

I guess so. I forget what day it was mailed, but I think Tuesday, so it should arrive soon.

If it arrives today it will help improve my mood after an afternoon of enforced frivolity at the office Christmas party… Wheee! We’re going to play games!!! [snarl]

President-elect Barack Obama intends to offer Israel a “nuclear umbrella” in the event of a nuclear strike by Iran, according to a defense source close to the administration quoted by an Israeli newspaper.

What is the matter with these people? Why is anyone talking about an Iranian nuke program? They have hot & cold running inspectors, does anyone think this is remotely possible? Obama picks up the shock doctrine mantle.

You’ll need something stronger that Marion’s apple butter to recover from the party you describe. *g*

CNBC reveals some FL social butterfly’s enormous Ponzi scheme. Bernard Madoff, $50 billion, the biggest Ponzi scheme in history. I think the Feds have arrested him today.

Uh, a mere $50 billion? No, that’s not the biggest ponzi scheme in history. The FED’s got it all over Bernie.

CNBC sez it’s like cockroaches. If you see one, there’s always more around.

Dya think?

Heh. Everyone loves Madoff. He’s a great guy, etc. etc.

A lawyer once told me that is the essential characteristic of that kind of thief.

Double heh.

Auto retailer lobbiest on CNBC sez W will provide leadership, as he has done thruout the negotiations, and provide funds from TARP for the car cos.

I’m holding my breath.

I’m holding my breath.

Don’t do that! We need you around here…

Off to the salt mines for half a day, to be followed by an afternoon of “fun.”

I’m so disgusted with DC today, that seems like a good alternative right now.

Reid clip on TV so looking like a man who loves taking it in the rear. I couldn’t bear to look at it last night.

They *did* arrest his miserable @ss. *G*

eCAHN -

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/…..13639.html

(Madoff = ExNasdaq-chair)

Actually I did hear it last night on CNBS – but it didn’t click that this guy used to be the Chairman of the NASDAQ until just now.

The image of him hauling wheelbarrows of cash out the back door of the building in Times Square is priceless (at least that’s how john q. investor will perceive it).

Thanks. That’s pretty much what CNBC is reporting. Here’s a money quote.

Defense lawyer Dan Horwitz called Madoff “a person of integrity” and said he intends to fight the charge.

Morning everyone. It’s a snow day here for the kids. Alas, not for me, I’ll have to drudge through the slush. I’m encouraged by the TARP fund news.
As far a Reid voting ‘nay’, I think that’s some procedural thing so that he can bring it up again.

A real prince.

Cacioppi said two senior Madoff employees told him that Madoff said during the Wednesday meeting that he planned to surrender to authorities in a week but first wanted to distribute $200 million to $300 million he had left to certain selected employees, family and friends.

I blame the unions.

I blame the poor for the housing implosion.

Chutzpah of similar strength as that of the IL gov. :-(

McCaffrey on WJ denying he shilled for long war for personal gain.

I report. You decide.

Sickening take on last night’s events in the local Ganett rag:

Auto bailout talks collapse
Union’s refusal of immediate wage cuts kills the bipartisan bill

The word “Republican” does not appear in the story.

You might both want to put all the blame at the feet of Alan Greenspan, the crack dealer and enabler.

None of it could have happened without his purposefully evil actions and encouragement.

Anyone who has ever heard a conspiracy theory regarding world domination by bankers knows the name Rothschild. Whenever I bring it up I see people roll their eyes as if I’m speaking of some mythical creature.

Well, yesterday, Maria Bartiromo had Sit Evan Rothschild on after the market closed. I needed to call at least one person I know so i could tell him, “Turn on your TV in the office. See that gent on the TV? He’s one of those unicorn-like Rothschilds I speak of.”

The House of Rothschild owns the Bank of England. Paul Warburg, the Rothschild’s representative in the US, was one of the founders of the Federal Reserve when a tight little group of financiers met on Jekyll Island back in 1910.

I saw it too. He’s here to let us know who’s really in charge, and check in with his co-conspirator on the Americas project, David Rockefeller.

Thank you for the link, plunger.
Found there are evaluations and forecasts of 8 of our sharpest economists, among them Roubini (who saw this coming a year ago); Jim Rogers (predicted 2 years ago that the WS bubble would burst); Sheila Bair; and others.

Rogers: “Inventories of food levels world wide are already at lowest levels in 50 years….Farmers can’t get loans for fertilizer….”

Time to plant food in plots or pots and learn how to preserve it (can, freeze, dry). Stock up on non-perishables while there is a sufficient supply.

Depression Kid

I actually saw it all coming in 2003 and warned everyone who would listen. None did.

Say bye-bye to #7 on Time’s list of 50 Best Inventions of 2008.

Chevy Volt