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Video Of The Day: Regulators Squirm When Asked About "Too Big to Jail"
Via Michael Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
This video has been going around for a few days, but wow. Very powerful and could be effective in knocking some sense into more sheeple if it gets spread widely enough. It’s an absolute joke that these people being questioned by Senator Elizabeth Warren are supposed hold the banks to task. I mean this Tom Curry character. I could probably go up to him, take his glasses off his face and walk away and he wouldn’t even notice. Furthermore, those little placards in front of them that state “honorable.” These people have zero honor. The joke’s on us.
She also makes the key point how ordinary citizens are constantly harassed by the “authorities” for what are in many cases petty and victimless crimes, while the bankers who have unleashed more destruction than anyone else, get slaps on the wrist. Every single American should watch this short clip.
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Great.So when the officials come to reposses my house if I can't pay mortgage because I can't find work, after paying it for years-you'll be there for us right? With guns?
So, being unable to contribute something useful, you enjoy insulting those who try?
Not at all. I was just making sure he understood the ramifications of sticking together. Kind of tongue and cheek but being serious at the same time. When the shit hits the fan a lot of people are going to need their friends..kind of like a NATO alliance thing.
I upvoted him by the way.
Some Things Are Worth Fighting For!!!
"The battle,Sir,is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides,Sir,we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable; and let it come! I repeat, Sir, let it come!"
...Patrick Henry
"We need to take this country back"
Who is "We?"
And, to what point/era is the way-back machine to be dialed?
Listen, the problems are systemic because the system is based on perpetual growth on a finite planet and we're hitting the wall on what Mother Nature will give up.
Are you really going to take back the System such that it would be fair for all, including the "pussies?"
Kabuki theatre.
+100
Washington DC is a farce.... No corruption here... Move along!
Lieawetha pointing fingers? Please...
Rain dance for the tourists.
It's far too late to seek accountability from the system.
She's not seeking accountability - she's fundraising. "If your insider information makes me no money, your future will consist in sitting through hundreds of these hearings. If it turns a handsome profit, I'll find some other war drum to beat."
And how would we ever know it was any different?
If Ron Paul was asking these questions would it be considered fundraising as well? Or, would he even ask them (if not, why)?
By starting every politician off at 0, then adding points for good behavior, and subtracting them for bad.
That should answer your Ron Paul questions too.
Who were her biggest donors.... nuff said
Do you even know who her biggest donors were? You can check for yourself:
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00033492&newmem=Y
Not that I think she's going to do anything with this but at least she got one thing right.
edit: I changed my comment here because I don't know what you were implying and didn't want to insult you blindly. You didn't make it clear who you suggest were her biggest donors but you can see above that it's retirees then lawyers and law firms and not Wall St./Finance.
Open secrets doesn't break it down by living vs. dead donors, or any other metric that matters, so I'd be mighty careful about making any conclusions based on their data.
Fucking lame. You blew it out your ass and now you're trying to distract from your fuck-up. Cowardly... the kind of games that Party Pussies play.
97% individual contributions. Just beats Ron Paul's 93%. Likely not too many congress-critters in this strata...
Me - I gave her $25 and have the T-shirt to prove it.
I hope she can actually make a difference, naive as that may be.
I'm with you count, and yes we are being naive...But you have to be,..To have hope. ..But there's is more to this than just hope.
Yes, the administration has been pointing out how bad the bankers are for four years now and still keeps handing them money. Obama knows the system is broke and that the government facilitated its demise. He is building this disaster into a world wide Fukashima that will wipe everything away while lining up everyone to blame. The bankers, the insurance companies, the oil companies and anyone that he can define as rich (which will ultimately be a pretty low bar). This is the only way he can take absolute control. Complete financial collapse and the evil perps that caused it all to take the blame. Give the guy credit, he is no hypocrite. He knows exactly what he is doing. Warren is just one more pointing out what they have gone to great efforts to present.
Obama is a liar. If you say one thing and do another thing, entirely different from what you say - your a hypocrite !!
So Barry o is a HYPOCRITE <-- in caps as he is a hypocrite in spades - parden the pun !
Wow! News Flash right here, folks! Politicians lie!
The throne-sitter is, by default, a fucking puppet.
I suspect that you couldn't wait to unleash your astute observations, as is typical Party Pussies.
Great. So, if I understand you correctly, Obama must destroy the world before he can save it, and remake it in his own image... which is a 9 layer digital photoshopped birth certificate signed by U. Kelelee.
"It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from here" -- Claire Voyant
Obama ain't trying to save anything. He's trying to burn it to the ground. It's same way every tyrant has done it. They can't take America with just force alone. They have to create demons that they can blame for the crash, so they can save us from the devils. They don't want to go up against our guns, they want us to do the dirty work, then put an end to us as the devil. How many posts do we see every day wanting to hang the bankers? No doubt they are morally flawed but those are who the tryants always use. And we always see the tyrants culling from their own ranks as the process progresses. No one is safe in this take down as everyone will be used against the other.
Fucking JUMP!
You will forever chase your tail.
No one in power is trying to destabilize power! What fucking good could come of it?
"They don't want to go up against our guns"
Ha ha... they have fucking laser-guided munitions, acoustic and chemical weapons, all directed by satellites, and you think that TPTB are afraid of our silly little guns?
I have silly little guns in order to protect myself from others who have silly little guns.
Of course there are different groups of power that seek to uproot each other (East vs. West etc.), but this is nothing new.
"America," which is full of debt-ridden people, public AND private debts, isn't being hijacked. Well, it is already "gone" in that that which had been can no longer be. Reason being that there are insufficient resources to fuel any growth (which EVERYTHING is predicated on), let alone pay off the debts.
Bankers aren't being hung because they've been doing EXACTLY what their role has always been: to facilitate growth. Yeah, they seek profits as they do so, but that's always been the case (whether the US or elsewhere); I believe that's the objective for every FOR PROFIT organization.
It's pretty silly to blame the players for the faults of the game.
Look around Seer. Everything is about destabilization. Why do you think the world's economy is acting as it is? Nobody knows whats coming next. You think that is an accident? You think they can "fundamentally change America" with everything just moving along swimingly? Crisis is a required component of change. If you want change you have to shake things up. Bankers are the pawns in this and have played a role just like everyone who bought a house on a subprime loan or spent their credit card to oblivian. This about power. the art of war. No, they don't want to face our weapons. Why else would they be trying to take them? Why else would they be trying to pit one group against another? They don't want the finger pointed at them with blood in the streets. They don't want another "four dead in Ohio" song on the top forty. They want domestic extremists with their "automatic" weapons on TV. They want blood on our hands, not theirs. And as this thing goes through it's death rattles your going to be seeing more and more bankers and "terrorists" in the news.
There are 500 + PTB making the laws that are pissing off the 300 million.
Laser guided munitions aint going to save the 500+PTB. -- There is no green zone they can retreat to. They have homes and families and everyone knows where they live and work.
They are afraid of an ARMED POPULATION. Why in the hell is there a gun control debate at all when everyone knows it wont stop criminals. The answer is simple - take the weapons so they can do whatever they want with no reprisal from an armed population.
Seer - Try a little critical thinking. Not sure your capable - but try !!
There are 500 + PTB making the laws that are pissing off the 300 million.
Laser guided munitions aint going to save the 500+PTB. -- There is no green zone they can retreat to. They have homes and families and everyone knows where they live and work.
They are afraid of an ARMED POPULATION. Why in the hell is there a gun control debate at all when everyone knows it wont stop criminals. The answer is simple - take the weapons so they can do whatever they want with no reprisal from an armed population.
Seer - Try a little critical thinking. Not sure your capable - but try !!
It's so completely fucked, that this woman, and fuck all of you, this beautiful woman, is the only person, standing up to the oligarchs of the world....
Warren's Massachusetts has one of the worst bureaucratic PC useless health plan systems. Yet health care is supposed to be her party's very special interest. Come and see it for yourself.
Yep, a very special interest for those who profit from it including bull$hit talking career politicians and their staff...at the expense of the ordinary taxpayer and patient.
These politicians are expert at grandstanding for the national stage, and failing their states. Party on dudes and dudettes.
Hey, I think it was Mitt who came up with that one, and it just goes to show you, left,right, whatever, these politicians will fucking knife you whenever they like...Lizzy, right now, she stands for the working class, and you know what? She's fine till she's not.. Funny, she hasn't been bought off already,All you so called fucking producers, your production, doesn't mean shit, if you can't get people to buy.Yea, we all are in this together, and if you want war , you'll get war, if you want peace, fine, but you'll never win, because no one will put up with slavery...Not forever, not once the people realize they are being stolen from on a daily basis..FUCK YOU!
nick howdy,
Your showgirl Warren profits from the status woe more than you or most people, but you do seem to like her. Enjoy the show.
She's a seducer, not a producer. She's a talker, not a doer. Like most of CONgress in this modern corrupt baby boomer dystopia.
Record low voting numbers reveals people's growing disgust with the fake fight between career politicians who profit most, and do least to assist anyone but themselves and their bureaucracy.
You know,what, maybe she is full of shit, but even if it's just a show, the people are seeing the show, just because its Liz Warren. She's asking the right questions it's embarrassing to the stooges for sure. But is it too late, to really fix things? Not for the empire, but for this value, once cherished. Freedom..
It's never too late nick howdy. We agree on that. However, actions speak louder than words. Ms Warren had best back up her words with action or be dismissed as just another political brat.
On a provincial note, she displaced the man who ousted the Kennedy fiefdom in MA, so the Democrats have every incentive to give her center stage and talk big. Pity they have done little to hold gangsta bankstas to account for pillaging the U.S.A.
Talk is cheap, and career politicians are cheapest, imo. Collaborators.
Yes, it's too late to fix things. Have you learned NOTHING here? I've said it before and I'll say it again: the debt of this nation is mathematically impossible to repay.
Fixing freedom? Ha. I don't know if you've noticed this, but with each rescinding of a freedom, the successive president and congress builds on it. Shrub brought us the Patriot Act. Did Obummer do anything to reverse the effects of that liberty killer? Nope, he signed the NDAA 2012 into heinous being. So now not only can the government sniff your dirty shorts without penalty, they can jail you and kill you without trial if they don't like the smell.
She is the one who started all the, "You didn't build that" bullshit. And she wasn't talking to the banks when she said it, she was talking (down) to you.
That is exactly correct...from Big Slick's above post...and my comments in bold.
"There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. ... This is the statist-academic strawman setup line, for all that follows.
"You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for; Implying they did not pay any taxes for infrastructure.
"you hired workers the rest of us paid to educate; Again, implying they paid nothing. We won't even discuss the quality or utility of the education.
"you were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory, and hire someone to protect against this, because of the work the rest of us did. At this point in her stage act, the assembled masses were to leap to their feet and tuck dollar bills into her garter before running out into the streets and hunt down any successful large business owner and string them up. Time to reel them back in before someone calls the cops ON THEM.
"Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea. God bless. Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is, you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along." - Elizabeth Warren
I don't know what a "big hunk of it" means. But I do know where she wants a big hunk of it to go...to government central planners...large & small. She just said so.
Yeah, yeah... politicians are fucked (except the one's that "we" like- right?). But what about the MESSAGE?
I'm so sick of ad hominem attacks (the games of children and Party Pussies).
Are you more sick of ad hominem attacks than you are of repeatedly calling people "party pussies"?
It's such a God damned shame, we all are hanging on to much to this corrupt system. Everyone is waiting for some sort of savior, the savior is you, the time is now, and it just doesn't matter what everyone else thinks..Fight god Damn it..We need too, because these bastards will kill us all.
The kid down the street who goes to work on time every day at the body shop gets caught with an ounce of pot and is sent to the county work farm for 6 months. Corzine "misplaces" $1.2B of customer money and walks free. It's all good.
Free Jon Corzine!
Ummm...what were we talking about? Oh yea, cruise ships and Fergie is preggo!
thank you.
The system works exactly as intended. It punishes the proles and rewards the ass-kissing, nut-sucking parasites.
The problem is, the kid down the street can't afford a six-figure campaign contribution and has no influence whatsoever. The problem is money in politics. If they would end private campaign contributions and everyone got the same amount of HUGELY limited public funds this wouldn't be an issue.
"If they would end private campaign contributions and everyone got the same amount of HUGELY limited public funds this wouldn't be an issue. "
Couple of problems:
1) Money is "free speech" according to the highest court in the land;
2) Only the wealthy oligarchs could afford to hang out in office.
And, sometimes it's not that a politician takes any contributions, but they cannot muster the power to battle a titan (go ahead and tell me how one could take down GS; I assure you that behind GS is all the other Big Boys since they're all doing the same thing- honor among thieves). They'd put an end to you, either from direct threats on your life or by major smear campaigns (if there's anything that Party Pussies are good for its being called out as attack dogs).
She'll be sitting at the "uncool kids" table with Dennis Kucinich, Alan Greyson and Ron Paul before long if she keeps this up.
.... and where's marcy kaptor when you need her ? but nnnnoooo....we get penny p. instead-
http://www.gregpalast.com/billionaire-burglar-breaks-into-obamas-cabinet...
Greyson - sure, Kucinich - perhaps, Paul - nope.
Are you suggesting Ron Paul wasn't treated like an ugly stepchild by his party and Congress in general?
And I should add Jim Traficant to that list.
No. If someone like Ron Paul had to sit down with statists like Kucinich and Greyson, he had better bring a long spoon. I agree with you that if you don't go along to get along you get crushed in our wonderful political system.
She isn't fit to sit in the same building as Dr. Paul, let alone the same table.
And why would that be?
Was Ron Paul somehow born special? I'd always thought that the big selling point was that he had a background of consistency behind him- kind of hard to achieve it if you aren't given the chance.
I'd also have to ask the question of when Dr. Paul managed to hang any bankers. We ALL know that he hates the Fed.
P.S. "Dr." is applied as though it's supposed to give more respect. Seems that most here tend to frown on the "intellectual" tags. Just sayin...
Jail 'em. Don't bail 'em.
Ms Warren is part of the status woe. Until she does something to change the system rather than profit from it with fancy words she is just another overpaid do-little, talk a lot show girl.
She's profiting how?
And you are doing what about it all?
Nothing but childish derogatory remarks. I smell a Party Pussy.
Hey Seer
What are you doing about it all ?
Talk about childish derogotory remarks - You smell a party pussy all right - take a shower and see if it helps !!
Elizabeth Warren will be granted a new immigration card due to her native American status. Elizabeth should seek dual citizenship status with Kenya Government to waiver new US policies.
And when Warren was a regulator, what did she accomplish?
Perhaps she has woken up or is playacting again. Time will tell.
"what did she accomplish?"
She was on Jon Stewart! Jeez isn't that enough? He's the hero of the unwashed yutes.
you keep saying that.... what I'm dying to know is exactly what you think she "regulated"...? after she busted her ass putting together "Consumer Protection" O'Barry picked his own boy to run it, not her
What did Ron Paul "accomplish?" Remember, Paul was pretty visible in his attack on the Fed, yet nothing happened.
From Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Paul
Committee assignmentsPaul served on the following committee and subcommittees.[57]
With the election of the 112th Congress, and a resulting GOP majority in the House, Paul became the chairman of the Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology starting in January 2011.[58]
Paul's congressional career ended on January 3, 2013 with the swearing in of the 113th Congress.
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I'm NOT beating on Ron Paul. Nor am I defending Warren. I'm just applying the same metrics as being applied here to Warren to show the bias (which seem to be pretty Party Pussy-ish to me). I support sound MESSAGES, I defend logic and reason.
This is exactly why no one wanted Ms. Warren on the Senate Finance Committee. She is unafraid of TBTF. There's a new sheriff in town, and she wants some answers from you dishonorable schmucks.
Move along. Nothing to see. Li'l Chuckie Todd has declare she is a wingnut just like Ted Cruz of Texas. No one is allow to question authorit-ay.
F. Chuck Todd and MSNBC cracks me up. Chuck's wife worked for John Edwards' campaign during the whole sleazy scandal and he knew all about it, they all knew, but covered it up for a year until the election was over. Angry Larry O'Donnell even admitted on his show it was common knowledge among the entire (liberal) press corp.
David Gregory's wife was General Counsel for Fannie Mae when they were known to be cooking the subprime books couple of years prior to the collapse. think they could offer the public any real insight as to what is really going on? Hell no.... their job is to get paid millions to drive the fucking get-away car.
MSM are all inbred Latter Day Socialists. Lauer and Brian Williams are both college drop outs, but did internships with Jimmy Carter.
At the least, she could have thrown cream pies in faces of Tom Curry and the other criminal enablers on the panel.
See the thing is, that when the banks bought and paid for your government 100 times over through fraud, you really have no leverage to legally take them to court or punish them when they do wrong (which is often), and more or less when they DO get caught doing something wrong, they usually pay to have the law changed or to have the case thrown out so that no legal precedent is formed.
Its like the mafia took over town, the mafia owns the courts, the police, the banks and the local governments (especially in democratic states like New York).
You can't go appeal to the mafia to throw itself out of power and in - jail.
All that ends-up happening is, everyone in the mafia wants a share of "the take" which is where "settlements" come into play.
"hey JpMorgan, you guys made a killing on that MF Global job, give me my share, otherwise we are gona have problems"
;)
See the stupid public thinks that they have a "democracy", really what you have is a form of corporate gang-warfare, the different gangs (wall-street financial "institutions") are all in it for power.
They get a kick outa kicking grandma out of her house.
Also, you have to factor in that the UK / England in general are EMPIRES, you can't really have an EMPIRE as an ally , these people are monetarists (they perform acts of war through monetary policy between nations...... they weaken industrialized nations by manipulating the currency (through banks they own) (ALL THE TOP WALLSTREET BANKS ARE FOREIGN POWERS BRITISH OWNED); they are using the AMERICAN BANKING SYSTEM against the american people, to weaken the USA so that they present less of a threat to their empire later on.
You can never have a Monarchy as an ally , its just not the way Empires work, the entire point of an Empire is to position yourself as best as possible to "win" the next World War.
Britain is best positioned to win the next world war.
The problem is 98% of the world is playing checkers, while the British royalty/Banking cartels are playing chess in 5 dimensions.
"the entire point of an Empire is to position yourself as best as possible to "win" the next World War.
Britain is best positioned to win the next world war."
The entire point of an empire is to STAY AN EMPIRE. Wars are utilized in order to "acquire" additional resources necessary to feed the perpetual growth of the empire.
So, yes, wars occur, but no, the empire isn't basing its existence on winning the next "World War."
As for Britain being positioned to win the next world war- are you serious? Britain is energy-deficient; as such it's a total non-starter. That London is a den of vipers doesn't assure that the vipers would stay there should things really ratchet up.
Everyone is afraid of getting "Kennedy'd" by taking on any of the big boys on Fraud Street. Starting with the head...THE FED!
And Elisse Walter, another upstanding member of the tribe.
The Fed is far from the head, they are more like a Bishop or a rook in chess.
The Executive Branch is a pawn.
The Judicial Branch is Knight
Congress is on the level of expendable pawns (scapegoats)
The Media is there to alter the playing field (public) (strings of the puppet people).
The public aren't even at the level of pawns, the public is litterally the "playing field" to be exploited and positioned upon (shaping public perception to create a fog of war so no one sees the pieces moving).
The stock market is there to make it easy to transfer wealth from the 80% to the 0.01% and their minions (2%).
Good point of correction. Thanks!
If the owners are only bishops, what in your opinion is the king?
The stakeholders, whoever owns all the central banks and has the most shares and gets the most proceeds from their counterfeiting monopoly.
The Federal Reserve and other "central banks" do not disclose who their shareholders are, most think that they are the Rothschilds and such defending the monetarist British empire they formed in the victorian era.
You can't be too sure anymore who the "king" is, but if you were to "wage war" against them, your best bet is to take them down by taking down the most valuable pieces.
-Taking over the Fed, Other Central banks (gold standard) would be a silver bullet so long as they are not put in charge of managing the gold (they would steal it and cause a crash to force people back on paper fiat).
The gold standard was working GREAT until the Federal Reserve came in in the early 1900s (The major foothold the "king/kings" took in America), they stole the gold and printed more gold certificates than there was gold (fractional fraud banking); causing the system to fail.
They hate gold standards because its hard for them to create market bubbles when they can't print money and stuff it into assets to cause bubble frenzies, they use FIAT FRAUD and INSIDER DEALS to make themselves rich, its hard to do that with a rigid currency supply that they do not control.
honestly, if the Kings lose the game and their world falls apart, we will probably never arrest the "kings", because typically these kind of people can't take defeat and they would probably kill themselves before being discovered.
In order to take these people down... you would have to learn to play their chess.... and attack them where it hurts ..... their pockets.
Is there anyone out there smart enough to track these guys down and bankrupt them logistically?
I'm not sure who the king is, but I'm certain the banking queen is Bawney Fwank!
well said, but when the tide turns unexpected things happen even at the top.
Thank you for being here!
Logic and reason are hard to come by...
I like her act. But I do believe it is just an act. She had to look down every 30 seconds to follow her script. Hope I am wrong.
I think she actually cares, but she is playing her part to earn her cut of the fraud (pay me off or I will stir up a shit-storm), thats what happens with most of these people, hope shes and exception, if not ... o well not like it would change anything anyway, its like 1 honest person for every 20,000 evil people in govt.
Whether it is an act or not is of secondary importance to WHAT will follow her act?
Is it just fighting words or will she land a punch as well?
Unlikely, they will just dump a billion Fiat dollars in an off-shore account, and the last you will hear of her is from a post-card with a picture of the rising sunset on a beach.
So, if you get a shot at the Big Boys you're just going to ad-lib?
Filing a lawsuit generally requires a list of accusations. So, yes, I suppose that one COULD call it operating from script.
Problem again is that I sense this as a drive-by attack. Tossing shit out the window at Warren and then making it look like you're not.
What of the fucking MESSAGE?
Wow. She's really on the war path there. You could see the piglets circling the wagons. She was unwilling to smoke the peace pipe with them. She was out for scalps, so to speak. She turned their smoke and mirrors into very clear smoke signals.
This woman is a lying scum bag who used blatant artifice to advance her career. Simple as that.
And, frankly, I'm not sure how to feel when scum attacks scum.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend...
The only way to deal with the Too Big To Fail crowd is to reverse the onus of proof. In other words, banks and executives will be presumed guilty and 90% of their personal assets frozen until they satisfy a JURY (not some paid off judge) that they in fact did not break any laws.
Yeah, what the hell, since we're disregarding the Constitution anyway.
Idiot.
The only way to deal with the TBTF crowd is to actually prosecute them in big, noisy, and yes, expensive trials. When the Joe Sixpacks on the jury (who are probably completely unaware at this time of the extent of the fraud) get wind of what has been done to them, they will be eager to impose ginormous punitive damages, which will be far larger than any pitiful 1% fine that is imposed by the supposed regulators. Our system of justice does actually work when it is not corrupted.
This is the only reason I would be happy to pay "my fair share" of the tax burden placed upon those of us who work: To see the authors of this misery properly tried, found guilty, and placed in a 6x8 cell to be assraped every time they bend down to tie their shoes.
Marilyn Manson - The Beautiful People
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ypkv0HeUvTc (3:47)
In the world of standing up to elite power,
Matt Taibbi = Hero
Bill Black = Hero
Ron Paul = Hero
Mark Pittman = Hero
Elizabeth Warren = Hero
Marci Kaptur = Hero
Alan Grayson = Hero
ZH=Hero
Old Hickory
glenn greenwald, jeremey scahill, chris hedges = heros
dr. micheal hudson = hero
dennis kucinich= hero
private manning, John Kiriakou, William Binney = heros
I've got one Ron
The use of "hero" is unnecessary, and it leads people into the land of confusion. ALL of the TPTB's programming tells of heroes. The reason why this is necessary? To maintain an order of control by recognizing some as being above (all) others.
The folks on your list do do some good work.
Seriously, I started to fall in love with with this woman at 4:00 when she started talking about how DA's go after the little guy and making an example of them yet leaving the TBTF banksters to carry on as before.
This, ladies and germs, is what our lawmakers should be doing: what Ms. Warren is doing in this video. Kudos.
She is saying things that sound good.
Dubious Maximus? Is that supposed to be irony?
She is one ugly Bitch. I have a lot of respect for women, and the women I know think Janet is abhorrent.
I like the video, glad she did it, but hate the woman. I hope she did not do this for grandstanding and populist street cred. If not, look for major contributions from GS, JPM, et.al, to pour in to make her shut up and go away. Fauxcahontas cannot be trusted with people's wampum.
Recall, Warren is the one who instigated the CFPB, run by the FED, for the FED. CFPB is the FED's money police who want complete surveillance on where every dime of every citizen is located at all times. they will stop private lending between individuals and smash S&Ls, forcing everyone to the big banks.
She lost her bid to head up the CFPB by creating a complete shit storm trying to strongarm 36 State's Attorney Generals into giving up individuals private financial information -- before the CFPB was even open for business and she had any standing, or authority, to head it up! CFPB is run out of the FED without congressional oversight.
Also -- Alert: Ann Barnhardt, by way of Jim Sinclair's jsmineset says FDIC will now only consider 'aggregate' losses of $250,000 (as of Dec. 31, 2012) so won't help you if you have a million $USD in multiple accounts. FDIC has $5 billion and there are $10 trillion in accounts. Recall, BAC moved a trillion dollars worth of commercial trash onto the retail side of the ledger last year as Bernanke forced it over Sheila Bair's objections. Bair left FDIC after that.
"It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from here." -- Claire Voyant
Yep. Warren is in it to win it...for her and her group whatever that may be; another egotist; typical career CONgress fodder; play fighting among themselves for public approval. Look at the bureaucratic mess of the health care system in Massachusetts to see how easily these carpet bagger politicos move on from one grand speech to the next - always declaring their goodness while leaving everyone else to cope with the mess.
James Sinclair: great guy; the real deal.
Sinclair has been awesome. Without ZH and him these past few years I would not be able to keep my eye focused on the ball. Btw, ZH commenters are the best and just as informative. Nothing gets past fight club, Bitchez!
Party Pussy.
Here is my view... I have lots of guns..... I live in another world than these assholes.............. I trade oil......... I was fuked big time by not only the big banks but also big insurance companies that cost me more money than I can imagine....... I am conservative in my views.............
If she runs for president........... she has my vote........ she is the only thing between us ordinary folk and surfdom............... it is true............ obama a farce....... bush a farce....... as you recal mcain was busted in the 80's for fuking the little guy...................
I cannot even find primers to build my own 9mm bullets............... they are scared and like it or not she is the only extablishment person out there that is trying...............
WTF?????????????????????????????
Well, some have called me liberal, and some have called me conservative. So, whatever... Anyway, I've never lost money to insurance companies or banks (other than utilizing their services); this fact doesn't affect my dislike of them. My point is that I don't require a feeling of revenge as the basis of my actions/opinions.
It's the System! And the System is failing not because of some recent set of activities. It's failing because of its flawed design: reliant upon perpetual growth on a finite planet- this is why empires collapse, it's because they eventually fail to acquire sufficient resources in which to grow (end up resorting to tricks to make it look like they're still growing- the simple trick of devaluing currencies is one of the most popular ones).
Too bad you have to be a socialist at your core to come up with:
"You didn't build that"
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=i-P-CoSNYaI&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Di-...
Time for Liz to start neutering Lloyd, Jamie, Ben Timmay ect.
I will be contact the Senator Warren to jail those CEO's of the tbtf and cast them down w/ the sodomites
And crawl back of course.
Time to get draconian, medieval on the chosen ones.
I would rather eat dirt than know they are living in high style.
Bunch of Traitors.
She's one of them .... she's just playing a role .... as dragon lady ! The banks are untouchable because they take orders from the Elizabeth Warrens .... take the banks to court .... they'll start naming names .... and explain the system and how it works .... would you take yourself to court ?
she looks like Madonna when she sang "like a virigin!"...she hasn't met the other rats...yet.
She is now surfing on that other wave; the return of state and the upcoming trials of the Templar Barons, if they don't play ball, which they won't.
These politicians now have the opportunity of clawing back some of that wealth into the collective pot that has been robbed and they have every interest, some of them, to do it.
The banks take orders from folks like Warren? That's hilarious!
"take the banks to court .... they'll start naming names .... and explain the system and how it works"
At least you got That right!
if you took the 6 biggest banks to court for every offense you could charge relating to the collapse you might get 100 convictions. maybe. if you convicted every mortgage structuring team, risk officer, and rubber-stamp analyst that worked at the center of the crisis you'd still be short all of the politicians, central bankers, currency manipulators, CDS writers, mortgage brokers, appraisers, realtors, spivvy home buyers, speculating builders, and baby-boom-asset-manager yield jocks that drove this crisis. I’d love to hear a plan for taking that list of assclowns, plus the 100 fore mentioned bankers, to court.
Here's the plan - Maxiprocesso. Because of the huge backlog of cases as well as the RICO violations in many cases, the prosecution and the courtroom should be modified to process the mass trials in style of the Maxiprocesso (Maxi Trials) of the Mafia in Sicily during the 1980s that resulted in hundreds of defendants convicted.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nPEgV1oqX0&feature=related
that is a great clip. did the lawyers on the case have to use maxi legal pads? but seriously, in this case--if we are holistic and grab up everyone that contributed to the mess through fraud, negligence, or incompetence--we are talking about a list of 10s or 100s of thousands. guess my point was as long as we are focusing exclusively on bankers we are allowing the other perps to sow the seeds of the next disaster.
I agree that prosecution should include the full range of perps, not just the bankers. It's just that the bankers are a good place to start prosecutions because some bankers will be more than willing to give up the perps above them (Congress, regulartors, public officials, etc.) and the perps below them (mortgage companies, Countrywides, etc.).
The party that is in power .... is the party that is most in bed with the banks and wallstreet and the unions .... that would be the Democrat Party .... you can't have it both ways !
the party that WAS in power started the bank ball rolling; the party that came after, aka Clinton, couldn't stop it and played along.
From then on the "game" became two party supported; Greenspan survived all those party kings and "partied" on with his buddies from the Squid; now total owners of the "party"; Kim Basinger Novak nor Rita Julia Roberts Hayworth withstanding.
In fact Rita was never better than when directed by Orson and Kim by Hitchcock, who apparently didn't "uncock" her bottle!
Fucking Party Pussy!
In Obama's home town it's normal to do fraudulent business. Criminal activity is encouraged. Illinois
has 2 former governors sitting in jail. Obama is having her do a dog and pony show for the Muppets.
She's a phony .... just like Dodd and Frank being indignant with the housing bubble collapse that they created .... she's trying to score some points for being tough on the banks .... she'll be tough on any bank that doesn't play ball .... that's all ! All my vast experience and a life of observing people .... screams at me .... she is a phony .... a pig with lipstick .... and Socialist to the core of the place she used to put her tampons !
Warren won back Massachusetts for the Democrats who lost the Kennedy fiefdom to a new boy, so the Dems have every incentive to give her center stage. However, she's simply the latest career politician to schmooze the masses...for the profit of CONgress and its lobbyists. She's another seducer, not a producer, and most certainly not a representative of the people, although some naiive people continue to fall for the show.
Consider this:
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/09/you-vs-corporations/
If you can't identify grandstanding, you're a complete moron. She's not going after TBTF. Her real question is why banks' book value is less than 1:1. How's that possible? It's an outrage I tell'ya!
Uh, they might be trading below book value because there's more regulatory action to come against them. Or legal problems ahead. Purhaps they're getting discounted by the markets BECAUSE people who trade them know they don't have enough cash on hand to cover.
She doesn't understand banking or finance. She's a legal professor specializing borrower victimhood. Get a clue.
This is getting Funny when lesbians junk truth. Janet is a lesbian and it's all good. She. missed the boat on Foreign Affaires.
Factually Janet is a control freik http://www.dhs.gov/secretary-janet-napolitano Don't get me started BitcheZ
They shut down your link ! Kim Novak turned out to be a lesbian .... that hurt .... I liked her in Pal Joey .... but Rita Hayworth was stunning .... I'll send you one of my home made pirated copies !
Modenas you can do better than that! I'm just a poor white boy.
You're a poor white boy with just a little bit of dislexia .... Modenas ?
I'm "left handed" Monedas. I'm not trying to pick a fight with you. Matter of factly (I) respect you.
I'm not sore about it .... just amused .... it's obvious you have no malice in your bones !
I give more $ to charity then you will ever see in 10 lifetimes! You bore me.
Monedas , people like you make me laugh. You manipulate situations to serve your sordid gains!
Obama is the criminal in chief .... the banks are co-conspirators under duress .... Corzine and the whole rotten bunch know too much ! Ask tough bitch Elizabeth Warren if she can get the US gold hoard audited .... I rest the rest of my case against the bitch with two cunts .... her face cunt and her crotch cunt !
Earn my trust " Monedas" use that IQ
IQ ? On the outside .... I look like what Hemingway would have looked like if he had driven a truck for 40 years .... on the inside .... I'm a mediocre phone installer !
Hemming-way is a fantastic Author. Now you have my attention, "Catcher in The Rye"
That was Salinger .... it was a fun read .... "The old man and the sea" .... was a good Hemingway story .... I can send you a pirated copy of that .... made on my Zipspin machine ! Great performance by Spencer Tracy, beautiful score by Dmitri Tompkin, filmed in pre Castro Cuba !
I'm not into dogmas Monedas. Moby Dick comes to mind?
That Cuban CHE thing . Now I'm starting to understand you.
Your drinking becomes you ! Castro is CIA (his father was the head of the Cuban Mafia) .... Che was a useful Argentine idiot who helped tend the wounded .... he had some things going against him: 1. He wasn't Cuban ! 2. He really believed in Communism ! 3. He was better looking and had more charisma that Fidel ! 4. Raul got to run the army ! 5. Castro, cleverly sent the Argentine idiot to a sure death in Bolivia .... and the Argentine idiot thought it was a promotion ! 6. Che has been canonized by the stupid left .... but he's dead .... and Fidel and Raul still run Cuba ! 7. Bay of Pigs .... a farce to legitimize Castro with Russia .... the Missle Crisis .... another farce where we played the Russkies for fools ! We .... CIA .... Castro .... Guantanamo ! Capiche ?
The passive aggressive game. Modenas you are a rookie!
You just don't know when to "tap out" I'll entertain your comment.
Che was a useless Castro douche that ran into the hills of South America and bought a FEW "RPG's" and corrupted a few governments before he went native on Fidel.
You're insulting your own intelligence!
Every cent I have was self earned Monedas. I value wealth because I know what it's like to have nothing! I'm not a trust fund baby. I earned every damn cent I have!
Whom do you recommend?
I recommend that the village get's shut down! in 2 weeks! [bitchez]
The "village" I think that I have an idea of... 2 weeks I don't understand
Perhaps you should open a "Senate Pamphlet" on the sequester in 2 weeks.
this sounds serious..good night
Good Night...
It was the same in the early 1930's until a government agency finally had to take out a major bank CEO. After that things straightened up real quick.
The settlements negotiated by regulatory authorities with the banksters who've committed fraud and God-knows what else, always looks to me like it's nothing more than the govt demanding its cut of the stolen loot.
You have to be fucking joking with this grandstanding bullshit. This reminds me of the hearing in 2008 where Maxine Waters and the other House committee members were grilling Dimon, Pandit, Blankfein, and 5 other banking CEOs about their bonuses and stock options. The CEOs were lambasted and hung their heads for the cameras like scolded puppies only to go shit on the carpet again and get a snausage.
They're just setting up the scapegoats for when the SHTF. Until I see bankers being perp-walked I'm not buying any of this crap.
+100 - Excellent response dude.
Dude? That Gentleman should be Addressed (Sir)
Who fkg cares? Another fkg question at this late in the game is a waste of youtube disk space.
Warren and the rest of her politician friends are headed into a deflationary market no matter what they say or do.
It's too late. Debts are too big and won't get repaid.
This is such baloney.
This is all about giving the *appearance* of being tough - wake me up when someone actually goes to jail.
She'll be reined in the minute she actually starts interfering with fundraising.
dont throw the baby with the bath water; she is the first to go public on a HEAD TO HEAD BASIS.
She is NOT dodging the bullet; she is biting it in all our names!