And the American CEO of the bank is under some pressure, but Bob Diamond is hanging on, like a good American-born banking executive, as he casts aside others to take the blame for his leaking ship.
Marcus Agius, the chairman of Barclays, is resigning in a move intended to take some of the pressure off the embattled bank’s chief executive Bob Diamond, who has faced calls to quit in the wake of the interest rate fixing scandal.
But Bob Diamond is still doing well — look who is coming to London next month with his hands-out?
…the former Massachusetts governor will attend a private fund-raising dinner in London next month.
The price of invitations dwarfs the amounts paid for such fund-raisers in British politics. Each guest must pay between $25,000 (£17,000) and $75,0000 (£50,000) for a seat at the dinner, which will be hosted by Bob Diamond, the chief executive of Barclays.
Mitt Romney is nothing if not a man with impeccably odious timing.



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“Odious timing” Unbelievable…not really…considering who it is!
Being a member of the one percent means being able to be just as criminal as possible while blaming everybody but yourself for your behavior.
Good morning, pups. Today we’ve got Keller and Krugman. Mr. Keller says we should all just STFU and comply when someone says “Show Me Your Papers,” and that Americans should get over their anxieties about a national identification card. Prof. Krugman addresses “Europe’s Great Delusion” and says one scenario says that European leaders will, in the end, do whatever it takes to prevent disaster. But that’s been said before.
Here they are.
The coffee and tea are ready, the cold drinks are in the fridge, and the biscuits are out of the oven. We had thunderstorms last night so it’s not quite as hot as it was over the weekend, thank heaven. But it’ll still be in the mid 90s. Gotta go and figure out what lunch is going to be. Have a great day.
Negroes are inferior…..
People are property…..
Corporations are people…..
Money is Speech…….
Mitt Romney represents that which, guy names Jefferson and Madison would have fought a revolutionary war against. Madison and Jefferson where fighting against a “CORPORATION,” created by Parliament, which had a King’s Army to protect the business model of the Corporate Aristocrats of England. Mitt Romney…. GO fuck yourself!
Good morning all,
So willard is acting like a rat is he ?
Not surprising.
http://www.thomhartmann.com/blog/2009/04/real-boston-tea-party-was-against-wal-mart-1770s
Happy fourth of July folks. A celebratory event for our new found servitude to the state based health insurance corporations of America…. Go fuck yourself Romney…….
BTW Congress could have protected the American people at any point form the abuses of state based health insurers, under contractual law. Instead Congress and the courts protected the “monied interests,” because the monied interests own Congress, as Jefferson and Madison both feared. Congress protected the slaveholders, America. Wake up and smell that coffee! Who needs tea!!!!
Willard can’t help himself. The most frustrating job in the world must be PR person for the Romney campaign.
Yup, where you don’t answer any questions. But give me your vote!
Go for it America. Vote for corporatism. Vote for the ideology which essentially enslaves you, now using the color of law not to protect the republic and the governed, but to protect the profits of corporations which adapt like viruses finding ways to, decimate life and liberty in the name of, profit?
Let US celebrate that 4th of July? There is nothing to celebrate here, as the trade-off made on our behalf as citizens by our elected officials, is servitude. Servitude to specific and state based powerful corporations.
Considering the harm done to this Republic by Wall Street, Energy, Banks, futures traders maybe the government should hold these scumbags responsible instead of allowing corporate to “brownshirt” America and Americans into blaming other Americans, immigrants, illegal immigrants, gays, for the economic conditions of the republic today when those responsible, bought the law to screw USA! TAX WALL STREET!!! TAX OIL!!! TAX Public Charities who act as for profit corporations, and are health insurers making billions off of the illnesses of Americans caused by corporate scum buggery???? The same type of corporate scum-buggery which gave cause to Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence from a King and his corrupt cohorts on crime?
Truth hurts……
So Mitt is in London, and everybody going to his party has to show an American passport to avoid the appearence foreign financing.
I’d suggest that Obama would have a campaign issue there, if he wasn’t doing the same thing himself. At least Mitt had the decency to show up in person.
Boxturtle (Hmmm…Mitt…Diamond…resign…VP?)
I don’t have a problem with a national ID card. I have a problem with all the circumstances that the police/government can demand to see it without a warrant.
Boxturtle (ESPECIALLY if I’m protesting!)
The PR person for Obama would beg to differ.
Boxturtle (How do those soulless bastards sleep at night?)
It’s called Fascism, corporate style….
As I recall it was not Rep. John Lewis, who was using billy clubs, German Shepards and water Cannon, to exercise a constitutional right, his right to vote as he had his head cut wide open exercising his right to free speech and to assemble, protesting state sponsored discrimination, denying him his right to vote?????
We are dealing with corporate fascism, as Lewis was dealing with parasitic racism……..
And we should never forget….
Krugman begins today with some 1910 writing by one Norman Angell on the new obsolescence of war. I tracked down where I’d recently seen the same lumberjack breakfast of words quoted and came up with Liaquat Ahamed’s Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World. Anyone wanting a very readable, if sickening, account of just how much largely pointless history we seem determined even more pointlessly to repeat will find it here. It’s my summer reading.
Lively today!
I would characterize our government as speeding headlong into a Crypto-Fascist Oligarchy that is, along with most of the Western ‘Democracies’, shifting under the control of a worldwide Plutocracy. Those in the sovereign ranks desire to make the big-time, i.e. the Global Plutocracy.
Too Life……….