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If all these tourists and officials are coming back from Mexico with the flu, what do you think the true infection rate is amongst Mexicans?
Two words: Crowd Control.
The White House is issuing a health advisory outlining "protective measures" to anyone who traveled on President Barack Obama’s trip to Mexico, after a member of the U.S. delegation is suspected of contracting the swine flu strain on the trip.
The individual – an advance security staffer for Energy Secretary Steven Chu – fell ill with flu-like symptoms while there and appears to have spread the flu to three members of his family. All three have tested probable for swine flu, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.
The Republican Party will never, ever win another national election, and it will wither away.
I think it's pretty evident that George Bush and Dick Cheney killed it. But they had plenty of help too, as they rotted from the inside.
The remnants of the dead party will eventually splinter, with the far right wing Sarah Palin ignorant fundamentalist wing nuts going one way, and the Ron Paul limited government low taxes pro-business pro-constitution libertarians going another way.
America will become a three-party nation. The death of the GOP will shake up the political landscape. And in 2016, it'll be game-on.
But rest assured, the party of George Bush, Dick Cheney, Sarah Palin, Phil Graham, Newt Gingrich, Karl Rove, Fox News, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Alberto Gonzales, Bill O'Reilly, John Boehner, Elizabeth Dole, Mark Foley, Ted Stevens, Pat Robertson and Mike Huckabee is now dead.
Just give digital cameras and youtube to students and bloggers.
Doing the job that incompetent, corrupt and cowardly paid MSM reporters no longer do.
(btw, notice how defensive and nervous Condi and Barney were when questioned by students, and not the cream-puff MSM?)
Here's Rice, doing her best Frost/Nixon, perhaps getting her testimony points in line before the Torture Hearings this Fall:
"The United States was told, we were told, nothing that violates our obligations under the Convention Against Torture, and so by definition, if it was authorized by the president, it did not violate our obligations under the Convention Against Torture."
I hope when you watch this you will come to understand how frankly dumb George W. Bush was.
It's nice to have someone cerebral in the White House again.
Regardless of your disagreements with Obama on policy, and I have many, I think in the future we should have a basic IQ qualification for Presidents. No more dumb guys.
GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization warned on Wednesday that a global flu pandemic was imminent, raising its threat level as the swine flu virus spread and killed the first person outside of Mexico, a toddler in Texas.
"Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world," WHO Director General Margaret Chan told a news conference in Geneva.
"The biggest question is this: how severe will the pandemic be, especially now at the start"
Here he was in 2006, saying some pretty nasty stuff about you all:
"To lurk among the BubbleBloggers and their seething commentariat is to acquire an education in a slice of America invisible from this side of the sewer gratings. Notwithstanding the idiotic economic analysis, which is really no worse than the static-market fallacies paraded as profundities in the pages of the Arizona Republic, these sites — and not just HousingPanic — are infested with a cult-like fever to inflict suffering — at second hand, to be sure — on people who are in fact guilty of nothing except failing to have drunk the BubbleBlogger KoolAde."
"The BubbleBloggers will someday bawl balefully in private, but they will never, ever admit that they have been very publicly very foolish. You will know and I will know and in the secret chambers of their hearts they will know they were wrong all along. But as long as you don’t hold your breath waiting for that contrite admission of error, you should be fine."
Here he is in the NY Times today:
Greg Swann, a Phoenix real estate agent, took a moment to marvel at the news. “What happened here will some day be a new chapter in ‘Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds,’ ” the classic survey of investing mania, he said. “We were living during the boom like there was no tomorrow. And guess what? Now it’s tomorrow.”
And oh, don't wait for that apology you evil sewer-dwelling kool-aid drinking nazi brown shirts. Only a person with class would do that.
Let's go with Dick, and say from now on, any government-identified 'terrorist' we catch, we gouge their eyes out. Slowly. We castrate them. Slowly. We crucify them. Slowly. We waterboard them. Slowly. Hundreds of times. All in the hopes that they'll tell us what we want to hear.
All cool, says Dick Cheney, Halliburton's CEO. All cool, says his defenders in the now-dead GOP.
After all, the ends justify the means. Dick Cheney says so.
I'm not sure if Dick Cheney is a stupid man. I'm not sure if Dick Cheney is a morally bankrupt man. But one thing I know is that what he did is not in MY name.
I am ashamed of Dick Cheney. I am ashamed of the few Americans who defend him. And I am ashamed of what the now-dead GOP did to America.
Here we have a clear-cut and documented case of securities fraud committed by Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke, aided by Ken Lewis. NY Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has them dead in the water.
So where are the indictments?
Where is the frog march?
WHERE IS THE INDEPENDENT SPECIAL PROSECUTOR OBAMA?
F*cked over BofA shareholders, having this information now available to them, should be filing civil lawsuits left and right. And pressing for the arrest of the perpetrators.
Busting Bank of America A case study in how to spread systemic financial risk. Wall Street Journal
The cavalier use of brute government force has become routine, but the emerging story of how Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke forced CEO Ken Lewis to blow up Bank of America is still shocking. It's a case study in the ways that panicky regulators have so often botched the bailout and made the financial crisis worse.
In the name of containing "systemic risk," our regulators spread it. In order to keep Mr. Lewis quiet, they all but ordered him to deceive his own shareholders. And in the name of restoring financial confidence, they have so mistreated Bank of America that bank executives everywhere have concluded that neither Treasury nor the Federal Reserve can be trusted.
I blame the corporations who bought the media, and our Congress who let them.
I blame bad schools, who obviously are not training reporters how to investigate and report.
I blame society, one which discourages courage and rewards conformity.
I blame newspaper editors, for hiring people with zero critical thinking skills. Or "reporters" like Rolodex-of-Realtors Reagor, who think they have to buddy up to the people they should be tearing down.
But sure is nice to see a student stand up, and do the job that reporters used to do.
"After meeting with Mr. Obama, Sen. Collins expressed concern about a number of spending provisions, including $780 million for pandemic-flu preparedness. "I have no doubt that the president is willing to negotiate in good faith, that he wants to have a bipartisan bill," Sen. Collins said."
I guess she's in the Bobby Jindahl we don't need to monitor volcanoes or prepare for a pandemic school. Or hell, we don't need to worry about a big ol' hurricanes either.
PEOPLE OF AMERICA - VOTE THE INCOMPETENTS AND SHORT-SIGHTED OUT. REPLACE THEM WITH PEOPLE WITH BRAINS. YOU WERE WARNED.
Here's the message from RP, on how to stop this "monstrous fraud". His bill now has 91 co-sponsors.
One problem. If this passes, you better have your money out of US dollars and US markets. Because even though we need to know the truth, me thinks the truth will be UGLY.
Capitol Switchboard: (202) 224-3121
HR 1207 is now in the House Committee on Financial Services. This is THE MOST IMPORTANT STEP in this legislation! If it doesn’t get out of committee it will not come to a vote! There are 71 members on this committee and they are all listed below.
We need to let all members of the House Committee on Financial Services know that we want them to allow full House consideration of HR 1207 so it can move forward; we need them to support this. Now is the time.
Call their offices, write to them, email them, etc. Let them know they need to support HR 1207. If you live in their district, let them know. Go to their office.
Start with Barney Frank! His staff said that his office isn’t receiving a lot of calls about HR 1207… let’s change that!
House Committee on Financial Services
Chairman Barney Frank, MA
Republican Members
Rep. Michele Bachmann, MN [co-sponsor] Rep. Spencer Bachus, AL Rep. J. Gresham Barrett, SC Rep. Judy Biggert, IL Rep. John Campbell, CA Rep. Michael N. Castle, DE [co-sponsor] Rep. Scott Garrett, NJ [co-sponsor] Rep. Jim Gerlach, PA Rep. Jeb Hensarling, TX Rep. Lynn Jenkins, KS Rep. Walter B. Jones , NC [co-sponsor] Rep. Peter King, NY Rep. Christopher Lee, NY Rep. Leonard Lance, NJ Rep. Frank D. Lucas, OK [co-sponsor] Rep. Donald A. Manzullo, IL [co-sponsor] Rep. Kenny Marchant, TX [co-sponsor] Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, MI [co-sponsor] Rep. Kevin McCarthy, CA Rep. Patrick T. McHenry, NC Rep. Gary G. Miller, CA Rep. Randy Neugebauer, TX Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, WV [co-sponsor] Rep. Ron Paul, TX [sponsor] Rep. Erik Paulsen, MN [co-sponsor] Rep. Bill Posey, FL [co-sponsor] Rep. Tom Price, GA [co-sponsor] Rep. Adam Putnam, FL Rep. Edward R. Royce, CA
Democratic Members
Rep. Gary L. Ackerman, NY Rep. John Adler, NJ Rep. Joe Baca, CA Rep. Melissa L. Bean, IL Rep. Michael E. Capuano, MA Rep. Andre Carson, IN Rep. Travis Childers, MS Rep. William Lacy Clay, MO Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, MO Rep. Joe Donnelly, IN Rep. Steve Driehaus, OH Rep. Keith Ellison, MN Rep. Bill Foster, IL Rep. Alan Grayson, FL [co-sponsor] Rep. Al Green, TX Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez, IL Rep. Rubén Hinojosa, TX Rep. Jim Himes, CT Rep. Paul W. Hodes, NH Rep. Paul E. Kanjorski, PA Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, MA Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy, OH Rep. Ron Klein, FL Rep. Suzanne Kosmas, FL Rep. Dan Maffei, NY Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, NY Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, NY Rep. Gregory W. Meeks, NY Rep. Brad Miller, NC Rep. Walt Minnick, ID Rep. Dennis Moore, KS Rep. Gwen Moore, WI Rep. Ed Perlmutter, CO Rep. Gary Peters, MI Rep. David Scott, GA Rep. Brad Sherman, CA Rep. Jackie Speier, CA Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez, NY Rep. Maxine Waters, CA Rep. Melvin L. Watt, NC Rep. Charles Wilson, OH
Halliburton. Goldman Sachs. The Fed. The Military Industrial Complex. Skull and Bones.
They seem to have left some fingerprints this time. And they let it get out of control.
What do you think?
"For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence--on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.
Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed. It conducts the Cold War, in short, with a war-time discipline no democracy would ever hope or wish to match."
-President John F. Kennedy, before they killed him, April 27, 1961
And here of course is Eisenhower speaking from the grave, warning us about Dick Cheney, and Halliburton, and what was to come:
(and even though $500,000 now is $300,000, rent is still $900 at best, and after taxes, condo fees and expenses, we're still nowhere close... despite the year-round-golf and pro athletes)
* The World Bank estimated in 2008 that a flu pandemic could cost $3 trillion and result in a nearly 5 percent drop in world gross domestic product. The World Bank has estimated that more than 70 million people could die worldwide in a severe pandemic.
* Australian independent think-tank Lowy Institute for International Policy estimated in 2006 that in the worst-case scenario, a flu pandemic could wipe $4.4 trillion off global economic output.
* Two reports in the United States in 2005 estimated that a flu pandemic could cause a serious recession of the U.S. economy, with immediate costs of between $500 billion and $675 billion.
One report, from the Congressional Budget Office, said hospitals would have difficulty controlling infection and might become sources for spreading the illness.
A second report by New Jersey-based WBB Securities LLC predicted a one-year economic loss of $488 billion and a permanent economic loss of $1.4 trillion to the U.S. economy.
* SARS in 2003 disrupted travel, trade and the workplace and cost the Asia Pacific region $40 billion. It lasted for six months, killing 775 of the 8,000 people it infected in 25 countries.
"And here's the list of Republican obsessions since President Obama took office: that his birth certificate is supposedly fake, he uses a teleprompter too much, he bowed to a Saudi guy, Europeans like him, he gives inappropriate gifts, his wife shamelessly flaunts her upper arms, and he shook hands with Hugo Chavez and slipped him the nuclear launch codes. Do these sound like the concerns of a healthy, vibrant political party?"
- Bill Maher, April 2009, listing the anti-Obama talking points idiots use because they don't have the intelligence to come up with legitimate ones, or think for themselves
(now think how many times on this blog instead of legit criticism of Obama and intelligent debate on issues like government bank intervention, unwillingnesss to name a special prosecutor, wiretapping, overspending, etc, we suffer through the birth certificate stuff, or the teleprompter nonsense. Hint - if you're that guy, don't be an idiot. Everyone is laughing at you.)
But don't play it if you're easily offended, PC or a Wall Street banker.
Someone needs to do one for realtors. Here's the singer's youtube if you want to urge him to give us "realtors are not your friends", "Paulson stole the money" or "homedebtorship is not homeownership". I see a whole album. Put it on late-night TV.
I find it amazing that so many Americans are so, frankly, ignorant.
I find it amazing that so many who call themselves religious don't do everything they can to protect and nurture the one planet god gave them.
All because they hate Al Gore.
Destroy the planet, do nothing about climate change, all because they hate Al Gore.
The older ignorant generations will eventually die off. Goodbye WWII generation - you'll truly be missed. Goodbye baby boomers (sound of crickets chirping). Goodbye Gen X and Gen Y - you started the change, good for you, but you didn't do enough.
And in the not-too-distant-future, those too young to vote today will be stuck with the mess left by the self-centered, short-sighted and ignorant now destroying their world.
And history will not be kind.
In fact, history will be brutal.
Despite what Fox News and ignorant talk radio tells you, this isn't a Democrat vs. Republican issue. It isn't a left vs. right thing. Just look at John Warner's testimony. Even the now-dead GOP is starting to get it.
No, this issue is simply right vs. wrong. It is simply enlightened vs. ignorant.
B) Goldman Sachs and the big boys do fine. Bunch of other ones in a heap of sh*t
C) They all fail and get more government cheese
Now guess the market's reaction
A) Everyone passed! Party time! Buy buy buy!!!
B) Everyone passed? Are you kidding me? We're not THAT stupid. Sell sell sell!!!
C) Uh-oh, the banks are failing. Sell sell sell!!!
D) OK, some pass, some fail, it's not that bad. Kinda what we expected. Hold tight.
'Stress test' methodology could roil some banks
WASHINGTON – The Federal Reserve says the government is prepared to rescue any of the banks that underwent "stress tests" and were deemed vulnerable if the recession worsened sharply.
The Fed says the 19 companies that hold one-half of the loans in the U.S. banking system won't be allowed to fail — even if they fared poorly on the stress tests.
The tests are intended to measure whether banks have enough capital to withstand losses on mortgages and other assets if unemployment rises and home prices fall further.
Investors had feared the tests would highlight some banks' vulnerability to failure.
1) Ken Lewis has just admitted blatant and documented securities fraud, with no gray area. This is now a fact as a result of Lewis' testimony to New York Attorney General Cuomo.
2) Hank Paulson has implicated himself in this fraud, and has essentially plead guilty to Cuomo's office (i.e. he said he ordered the code red)
3) Ben Bernanke has been fingered by Lewis along with Paulson as coercing documented securities fraud at BofA
4) All three should be picked up in their offices today and frog marched. Nobody, NOBODY, is above the law in America. Right?
Here's today's bombshell. And seriously, how much more does Obama need to NAME AN INDEPENDENT SPECIAL PROSECUTOR NOW!!!!
N.Y. attorney general says feds threatened bank CEO
Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis reportedly testified that Henry Paulson and Ben Bernanke would oust him and top management if the bank backed out of buying Merrill Lynch.
By IEVA M. AUGSTUMS AND STEPHEN BERNARD Associated Press
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- New York's attorney general said Thursday that government officials pressured Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis to complete the bank's purchase of Merrill Lynch, threatening his job security.
A letter from New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's office sent to Congressional leaders and federal regulators said Lewis testified in February that former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke threatened to oust Bank of America's management if the bank tried to back out of buying Merrill Lynch.
The bank has repeatedly defended its acquisition amid revelations of huge losses at Merrill Lynch before completion of the deal.
''We believe we acted legally and appropriately with regard to the Merrill Lynch transaction,'' Bank of America spokesman Scott Silvestri told The Associated Press on Thursday.
Representatives from the Treasury Department had no immediate comment.
A spokeswoman for Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., chairman of the Banking Committee, said Dodd spoke with Cuomo about what he called ''troubling findings,'' and will ``decide on next steps soon.''
[UPDATE - HERE'S THE VIDEO OF PAULSON TELLING LEWIS HE HAD TO COMMIT SECURITIES FRAUD OR LOSE HIS JOB]
1) An immoral and unjustified war was launched at the urging of the Vice President, resulting in untold billions in profits for the Vice President's firm.
2) An epic and historic financial ponzi scheme was developed by Goldman Sachs' CEO (who would later become Treasury Secretary), which then of course implodes spectacularly, resulting in untold billions in bonuses, profits and direct transfers from the taxpayer for the Treasury Secretary and his firm.
3) They got an blistering idiot installed as President to do their bidding
4) They secured a news network in order to report falsehoods and propaganda as the truth, reported by hot women in short skirts, which was eagerly consumed by a dumbed down society
WASHINGTON POST. NEW YORK TIMES. FINANCIAL TIMES. ANY REAL NEWSPAPERS LEFT?
FOLLOW THE F*CKING MONEY.
INDEPENDENT SPECIAL PROSECUTOR NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YES, THIS ENTIRE HOUSING PONZI SCAM WAS THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY. BIGGER THAN WATERGATE. BIGGER THAN OJ. BIGGER THAN 9/11. BIGGER THAN ALL OF THEM COMBINED. TIMES 1000.
DAVID KELLERMAN WAS KILLED. OR HE WAS PUSHED INTO SUICIDE. I APOLOGIZE TO HIS FAMILY. BUT TRILLIONS AND TRILLIONS AND TRILLIONS ARE INVOLVED, AND JAIL TIME FOR THOUSANDS, INCLUDING THE MOST POWERFUL PEOPLE IN THE LAND.
FOLLOW THE F*CKING MONEY MSM.
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN YEARS, AFTER SCREWING AMERICA AND DESTROYING YOUR PROFESSION, DO YOUR F*CKING JOB FOR A CHANGE.
IT'S WOODWARD AND BERNSTEIN TIME. WE JUST NEED OUR DEEP THROAT.
Police probing death of Freddie Mac official
Kellermann’s death apparent suicide; company under investigation
WASHINGTON - The chief financial officer of money-losing mortgage giant Freddie Mac was found dead in his basement early Wednesday morning in what police said was an apparent suicide.
David Kellermann, 41, apparently hung himself, said a law enforcement official familiar with the investigation. He asked not to be identified because the investigation was ongoing.
Kellermann’s death is the latest in a string of blows to Freddie Mac since it was seized by the government last September. The company, which owns or guarantees about 13 million mortgages, has been criticized for financing risky loans that fueled the real estate bubble and are now defaulting at a record pace.
Some idiot realtors on commission would have had you believe that Phoenix home prices in 2005 and 2006 were justified, because there was year-round golf and pro athletes.
Price to rent?
Price to income?
Nah! Year round golf! Pro athletes!
Well, the truth is now out. Prices have crashed. The guilty are being arrested. The Big Scam is being exposed. It was just fraud. Pure and simple, obvious-as-could-be fraud. And it was rampant.
Here's just one story from the naked city. One of oh, so many.
A bunch of twenty-something conmen gamed the system, committed rampant and unchecked mortgage fraud, and the entire town went along for the ride.
Diane J. Humetewa, United States Attorney for the District of Arizona announced that on April 8, 2009, Dustin Michael Thompson, 30, and Sean Paul McLaughlin, 29, were indicted on four counts of Wire Fraud and one count of Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud as a result of their involvement in a cash back mortgage fraud scheme. Thompson was arrested on March 13, 2009 in Las Vegas on a criminal complaint and is detained pending trial. McLaughlin received a summons to appear in federal court on the charges.
Thompson ran a company called BHFC. McLaughlin was a loan officer at Alpine Lending and later Rapid One Mortgage.
Cash backs totalling over $2.6 million were received at the closing of 25 loans. The properties mentioned in the indictement are - along with the cash back from each:
41719 N Golf Crest Rd, Anthem - $39,685 4620 N 74th Place, Scottsdale - $91,484 41240 N Whistling Strait Ct, Phoenix - $65,526 4717 S. Star Canyon Dr, Gilbert - $50,000 2653 E Verbena Dr, Phoenix - $87,448 7301 E 3rd Ave #105, Scottsdale - $243,000 7301 E 3rd Ave #109, Scottsdale - $3,927 7301 E 3rd Ave #113, Scottsdale - $162,500 7301 E 3rd Ave #121, Scottsdale - $250,898 7301 E 3rd Ave #216, Scottsdale (x2) - $30,000 and later $25,236 7301 E 3rd Ave #221, Scottsdale - $9,294 7301 E 3rd Ave #317, Scottsdale - $155,000 7301 E 3rd Ave #320, Scottsdale - $226,541 7301 E 3rd Ave #408, Scottsdale - $148,213 4713 N 75th Way, Scottsdale - $88,472 7526 E Highland Ave, Scottsdale - $87,448 41717 N. Club Point Dr, Scottsdale - $100,000 41608 Congressional Dr, Phoenix - $6,500 4385 E Santa Fe Court, Gilbert - $54,507 14404 N Fountain Hills Blvd, Fountain Hills - $99,000 25067 S 190th Way, Queens Creek - $145,000 5640 E Shea Blvd, Scottsdale - $257,939 18496 E Swan Circle, Queens Creek - $91,043 18555 E Swan Circle, Queens Creek - $89,447 end
The case against the pair is based on an investigation which alleges that from October 19, 2005, through June 5, 2007, they conspired to commit mortgage fraud in the Phoenix area. Thompson and McLaughlin submitted mortgage loan applications on behalf of buyers, that included friends and family members, containing false information. Following the funding of the loans, Thompson and McLaughlin received cash back that they used for personal expenses and to perpetuate the scheme. Most of the homes purchased during the conspiracy have foreclosed.
Well, if you're in a communist country, you keep pumping it out, you pay the workers, and then you eventually starve and your nation eventually fails.
If you're in a capitalist country, your company goes away, new companies come along that make things people want, and life gets better and better overall.
If you're in America 2009, it's probably somewhere in between.
Over here, Gordon Brown, after destroying the UK, has just shocked the nation by raising the top tax rate to 50% on all income over 150k, up from 40% today.
Oh, and then you have to pay the 15% VAT on everything you buy, and your council tax, and your TV tax, and your road tax, and your MOT, ...
Frankly, once you do the math, it may get to a point soon here where you're better off not working at all.
Now THAT'S what they call socialism. And it's too bad the money isn't going to the common good. No, it's going to paying off the bad gambling debts of the British bankers.
Unreal.
Last educated highly skilled professional or entrepreneur out of Great Britain turn off the lights. Until Brown and his Labour party are thrown out on their incompetent asses in a few months, and this joke of a tax rate is quickly overturned by the victorious Conservatives.
Govt hikes top income tax rate to 50%
The government will increase its top rate of income tax to a higher than expected 50 percent from next year, Chancellor Alistair Darling said on Wednesday as he delivered the government's annual budget.
The tax band had originally been due to rise to 45 percent from 40 percent in April 2011 as Britain seeks to claw back lost tax revenue caused by a deep recession.
[UPDATE 4:33PM GMT 4/21 - KELLERMANN WAS FOUND HANGING IN HIS BASEMENT. SOUND FISHY ANYONE?]
[UPDATE 10:45PM GMT 4/23 - NOW MSM AND POLICE ARE REPORTING GUNSHOT. WHETHER HE WAS MURDERED OR SUICIDE, PLEASE BE RESPECTFUL HERE FOLKS. AND OBAMA - GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS ENTIRE SCAM - SPECIAL PROSECUTOR NOW!!!! FOLLOW THE MONEY - NO MATTER WHERE IT LEADS]
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Unfortunately, as the investigations proceed into the rampant fraud at Freddie, Fannie, Countrywide, Indymac, WaMu, First Federal and so many others, you'll see more of this.
Some people can adjust to the idea of spending their lives in jail. Others can't.
I truly feel sorry for his family, and be civil with your comments folks. Remember there is a chance this has nothing to do with the criminal activity at Freddie Mac.
But you wonder what he knew, if he was involved in the criminal activity, and why he decided to kill himself while destroying his name and family, instead of doing a plea and turning states evidence if he was.
And you wonder what exactly is going on in these organizations who have taken America and the world to the brink of ruin. They need to be raided, the documents seized, and their leaders interviewed under oath as soon as possible, before it's too late.
Acting CFO of Freddie Mac commits suicide
VIENNA, Va. -- The acting chief financial officer of Freddie Mac, David Kellermann, has apparently committed suicide, Fairfax County Police tell WTOP.
Fairfax County Police spokeswoman Mary Anne Jennings says Kellermann, 41, was found at his Hunter Mill Estates home Wednesday morning.
Jennings says police responded to the home after family members called police around 5 a.m.
"We were called from inside the house to come investigate an apparent suicide," Jennings says.
Because of legal ramifications, Jennings says she can't describe the nature of the suicide.
"We're not to give you details of the condition of the body, except to say it was an apparent suicide," Jennings says.
A final determination that his death was a suicide will come from a medical examiner.
Kellermann has been with Freddie Mac for more than 16 years.
He was named acting chief financial officer of the agency in September 2008. He took over after Anthony "Buddy" Piszel resigned.
As CFO, Kellermann is responsible for the company's financial controls, financial reporting and oversight of the company's budget and financial planning.
And this entire economic disaster could have been avoided. We spelled out what the problem was, who was gaming the system, what cities would be devastated, and what could be done to stop it.
If only they had listened. If only they had acted.
But they didn't. Because corrupt realtors wanted their commissions. Because greedy housing gamblers wanted to get rich without working. Because Congressmen wanted to stay in power. Because bankers wanted their bonuses. Because the MSM were using realtor and homebuilder ads to pay their bills. Because appraisers wanted more business. Because mortgage brokers wanted more cocaine.
And now we have this.
Nevada, Arizona, California post top state foreclosure rates
With one in every 70 housing units receiving a foreclosure filing in February, Nevada continued to document the nation’s top state foreclosure rate. Foreclosure filings were reported on 15,783 Nevada properties during the month, a 9 percent increase from the previous month and a 156 percent increase from February 2008.
Arizona posted the nation’s second highest state foreclosure rate in February, with one in every 147 housing units receiving a foreclosure filing during the month, and California posted the nation’s third highest state foreclosure rate, with one in every 165 housing units receiving a foreclosure filing.
Sunbelt cities post top metro foreclosure rates
One in every 60 Las Vegas housing units received a foreclosure filing in February, giving the city the nation’s highest foreclosure rate among metro areas with a population of at least 200,000. The city’s foreclosure rate was more than seven times higher than the national average. Another Nevada metro area posted a foreclosure rate in the top 10: Reno-Sparks ranked No. 8, with one in every 108 housing units receiving a foreclosure filing.
The Cape Coral-Fort Myers, Fla., metro area documented the second highest foreclosure rate in February, with one in every 65 housing units receiving a foreclosure filing during the month.
Six California cities registered foreclosure rates among the top 10: Stockton at No. 3 (one in 67 housing units), Modesto at No. 4 (one in 68), Merced at No. 5 (one in 74), Riverside-San Bernardino at No. 6 (one in 80), Bakersfield at No. 7 (one in 85), and Vallejo-Fairfield at No. 10 (one in 111).
With one in every 110 housing units receiving a foreclosure filing, the Phoenix metro area posted the ninth highest foreclosure rate in February.
President Obama on Tuesday left open the possibility of criminal prosecution for Bush administration officials who drew up the legal basis for interrogation techniques that many view as torture. Obama said it will be up to Attorney General Eric Holder to decide whether to prosecute the former officials.
The only way to stop the GOP and Fox from doing this again is to rise up against the GOP and Fox. Make them rue the day they tried to do an end-around, the ultimate re-direct.
The criminals and conmen who got us into this mess cannot get off scot-free. These grifters were good, real good. But come on America. How many times will you be played for fools?
Boy, Hannity really took it to him in this one. Crashing the world financial system. Launching stupid and indefensible wars. Torturing in America's name. Taking the country to ruin.
Oh, sorry, my bad, Hannity just pretty much has sex with Darth Vader Dick Cheney here.
But it is good TV. GOP Porn™ -it's nasty, it's alternative reality, but you just can't look away.
Spitzer screwed up baaaaad in his personal life (great timing when he got moved aside, eh?), but damn, he was a great prosecutor - and Attorney General for NY too. He and he alone could crack the case.
Patrick Fitzgerald is also one of the best. Put him on Mozilo and Dodd and O'Neal and Paulson, and see how long they take to squeal like pigs.
COME ON OBAMA. THIS WAS THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY, AND YOUR PARTY WAS/IS HEAVILY INVOLVED. NAME AN INDEPENDENT SPECIAL PROSECUTOR, DO IT NOW, OR THIS SUCKER IS GONNA BLOW. AND YOU WILL BE SEEN AS CORRUPT AS ALL THE REST. WHAT'S STOPPING YOU? AFRAID OF WHERE IT WILL LEAD?
PerpWalkWatch - # of Hours New AG Eric Holder Has Let Angelo Mozilo Run Free
Eric Holder and Barack Obama Failure to Arrest Angelo Mozilo 2862 Hours (countdown suspended 6/21/2009)
ERIC HOLDER - YOU ARE A COWARD
DO YOUR JOB
(UPDATE 6.4.09 - SEC CHARGES MOZILO WITH INSIDER TRADING. YET ERIC HOLDER STILL SITS ON HIS ASS AND DOES NOTHING)
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Summer of Rage World Tour™, Presented by Goldman Sachs
"The world is not going back to normal after the magnitude of what they have done."
- BulgariaPANIC - Riots but oddly quiet now: 2.0 - LithuaniaPANIC - Riots but oddly quiet now: 2.0 - LatviaPANIC - GOVERNMENT COLLAPSES: 3.0 - EstoniaPANIC - Pressure building: 2.0 - ThailandPANIC - Massive riots, soldiers open up with live fire, government about to collapse - 5.0 - UkrainePANIC - Economy tanking, protests building ahead of vote - 2.0 - IrelandPANIC - 100,000 protest, bank takeover, default possible, no violence: 3.0 -MoldovaPANIC - full scale riots, Parliament torched, government about to collapse: 5.0 - GeorgiaPANIC - full scale riots, government about to be forced out: 5.0 - IcelandPANIC - GOVERNMENT COLLAPSES: 3.0 - RomaniaPANIC - Tension: 2.0 - SpainPANIC - Credit rating cut, unemployment soaring, default rumors: 2.0 - FrancePANIC - Lots of protests, but nothing important, French have better things to do than overthrow their government: 1.0 - GreecePANIC - Scattered riots, chance of showers: 2.0 - HungaryPANIC - GOVERNMENT COLLAPSES: 4.0 - BelarusPANIC - Tension with censorship: 2.0 - UKPANIC: G20 riots quickly replaced by American Idol:1.0 - SouthKoreaPANIC - Violent protests demanding government resign: 3.0 - DubaiPANIC - Unease, soaring unemployment, crashing real estate: 3.0 - MexicoPANIC - Murders, remittances drop first time EVER, jobless illegals coming home to no jobs, troops to the borders: 3.0 - PakistanPANIC - Riots starting: 3.0 - VenezuelaPANIC - Protests: 2.0 - RussiaPANIC - Protests building but will be violently suppressed, another reporter murdered: 1.0 - ChinaPANIC - Protesters will be killed again, government in control of a weak people: 1.0 - IranPANIC - Despotic regime about to fall - Ayatollah disregarded and disrespected, streets aflame - 5.0 - AmericaPANIC - Idol on, McDonalds still open: 0.0 - BahrainPANIC - Riots break out, 10,000 Shiites rage against ruling Sunni elite: 3.0 - MadagascarPANIC - violent protests, GOVERNMENT COLLAPSES- 3.0
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