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Senate Passes The Cromnibus: Here Is Who Voted "No" And What It Actually Contains
Following the passage of the Crominbus on Thursday night in a last minute "nailbiter" when the Federal spending bill got just one vote more than the required majority, it was off to the Senate. And late last night, proving that the Senate can work on weekends when a piece of Citigroup-penned legislation is on the table, in a 56-40 vote (21 democrats, 18 republicans, 1 independent voting No), the Senate joined the House in voting itself $1.1 trillion for the next 9 months, with the bill now heading for the final signature: Obama's. There is some argument whether the executive will join the legislative in confirming the US government is now (and always has been) merely a pupet of Wall Street, although we expect all it will take Jamie Dimon is just one more phone call of "encouragement" to Obama to make sure Wall Street's will is done in the White House.
Regardless, here is a roll coll of those 40 Senators who voted "No" - as CBS' Mark Knoller points out: "interesting combination of Dems and GOPs voting against the bill. Franken, Warren, McCain, Cruz, Klobuchar et al." As we showed yesterday when it became clear that Republicans and especially Democrats voting for the Crominibus and its swaps pushout provision had received far greater bribes money from Wall Street than their "No" voting peers, one can predict with laser-like accuracy that the same story will hold in the Senate, and that Senators voting for the Cromnibus will have received substantially greater "lobby" funds from Wall Street than "Nay"-sayers.
Senators voting No on final passage: 40
21 Democrats and 1 Independent voted against the Omnibus.
18 Republicans voted against the Omnibus.
Voting No: (40)
BLUMENTHAL, D-CT
BOOKER, D-NJ
BOXER, D-CA
BROWN, D-OH
CANTWELL, D-WA
CORKER, R-TN
CRAPO, R-ID
CRUZ, R-TX
FLAKE, R-AZ
FRANKEN, D-MN
GILLIBRAND, D-NY
GRASSLEY, R-IA
HARKIN, D-IA
HELLER, R-NV
HIRONO, D-HI
RON JOHNSON, R-WI
KLOBUCHAR, D-MN
LEE, R-UT
LEVIN, D-MI
MANCHIN, D-WVA
MARKEY, D-MA
MCCAIN, R-AZ
MCCASKILL, D-MO
MENENDEZ, D-NJ
MERKLEY, D-OR
MORAN, R-KS
PAUL, R-KY
PORTMAN, R-OH
REED, D-RI
RISCH, R-ID
RUBIO, R-FL
SANDERS, I-VT
SCOTT, R-SC
SESSIONS, R-AL
SHELBY, R-AL
TESTER, D-MT
VITTER, R-LA
WARREN, D-MA
WHITEHOUSE, D-RI
WYDEN, D-OR
Not Voting: (4)
Chambliss, R-GA
Coburn, R-OK
Feinstein, D-CA
Inhofe, R-OK
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So, in addition to the now infamous Derivatives provision, what else does the Spending Bill contain? Here courtesy of The Hill is a breakdown of its main spending components:
The bill includes language repealing part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law that will allow banks covered by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to directly engage in derivatives trading. This set off the biggest political storm for the legislation, as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) led a liberal insurrection against the White House, which decided not to fight Republicans over the measure.
Wall Street lobbied for the change, and the bill will be sent to Obama with the language in it.
Campaign finance
The bill also raises the limits on what people can give to political committees each year, greatly increasing the money wealthy people can donate. The provision would allow a wealthy donor to contribute a total of more than $1.55 million to a national party.
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) lambasted the change in a floor speech in which she broke with the White House over the bill.
DC marijuana
The bill prevents Washington, D.C., from implementing a new referendum that legalizes recreational use of marijuana.
D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton complained that it was another example of Congress stepping on local rule, but she won few allies for her position in Congress.
Sage grouse
The bill would prevent the government for one year from listing the sage grouse as an endangered species in an effort to protect oil-drilling projects.
School lunches
The legislation relaxes school nutrition standards championed by first lady Michelle Obama.
One change would allow schools the flexibility to implement whole grain nutrition standards, while another prevents new standards to reduce sodium from taking effect until additional scientific studies are conducted.
The White House said it could live with the changes.
Pensions
The bill permits trustees of underfunded pension plans to adjust benefits, saving troubled plans without a federal bailout.
But the language crafted by House Education and Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-Minn.) and ranking member George Miller (D-Calif.) could lead to cuts in the pensions of people covered by the plans.
ISIS
In a victory for the White House, the bill contains $64 billion for the Pentagon to use for its overseas contingy operations, including the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
It allocates $5 billion from that fund for the administration to fight the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria — slightly less than what the White House had requested.
Ebola
The bill meets another administration demand by including $5.4 billion in emergency funding to fight Ebola. While that’s not as much as the $6.2 billion requested by the White House, the inclusion of the funds bolstered Obama’s support for the measure.
Body cameras
The bill doesn’t contain funding for body cameras for police, which Obama had requested after the outcry over police killings of two black men, and grand jury decisions not to indict the officers involved. The spending package does provide funding for other related community policing programs.
The bill also doesn’t include funding for high-speed rail, for the Obama administration’s “Race to the Top” education program and for the International Monetary Fund.
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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God?...
http://www.philiacband.com/propaganda.html
where does that leave God?... screwing MisterX and his silly blog pimping into the ground!
Go over to HuffPo, you might find a more admiring crowd.
DaddyO
where does that leave God?
This is the issue?
Just as imaginary as before, and his representatives just as corrupt as before.
As for the Cromnibus, bill it is not the smoking gun I had expected, but folks could always read None Dare Call it Conspiracy to learn what is really going on. Then ponder how it was written in 1971 ...
Fuck off with your stupid blog.
And what a bunch of treasonous scum.
The Executive Branch's Office of Ethics had its budget appropriation slashed to a mere $3,645,000.
I guess it has gotten too expensive to even pretend anymore.
"Showing the text of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015"
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CPRT-113HPRT91668/pdf/CPRT-113HPRT91668.pdf
$64 billion for its overseas operations of the pentagon? $5 billion for ISIS? Where does the rest go? Payoffs for all the heads of state throughout Europe and ME?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI6tBwVjyOY
fuck it
Regarding the Cromnibus bill, here are my insights.
Could this end up being another form of QE, less traceable to some back door through Belgium?
Consider theoretically when the first bank tries to put America on the hook for some hundreds of billions of some derivative due bill. Will that be a signal to Russia, China, or any other treasuries holder to start cashing out?
I wouldn't be surprised to see foreign T-Bill holders pressuring the congress to eliminate that clause ASAP.
One of the worst parts of this situation is that prior monies held by banks and investors were more honest money and not connected to some dubious derivative claiims on wealth Older monies were more structurally tied to some real work and real resources that were used to generate real profit. But these derivative claims on wealth seem to be some side bets that were never really structurally tied to real work done, real risk, and real economies. Rather, many of these derivatives seem to be conjured bets between parties that were acting in irresponsible ways. A lot of these derivative side bets were done at the over the top level in the economy, where the business model doesn't seem to have been tied to prosperity and constructive work performed.
I'm expecting some bank to be quickly trying to ramrod through some derivatives relief, before others banks can get in line ahead of them. Once the scale of derivative claims starts heading north, there will be blowback, and changes will be sought.
Vegan guy.
So there is nothing to see here? We just need everyone to start going to church? We just need a few tweaks to the system? we just need to vote Republican next time?
Perhaps you could direct us to your writing? What about a link to the author you admire most?
You know ... It's never too late to become the person you want to be ...
I don't care.
Just came here to say that.
It's all coming to an end and the minutia of DC theater is just entertainment for the ignoramus.
Are you talking about the Rapture? Is God going to bring it to an end? Maybe you should just stand down then ...
Do you think a long term catastrophic man made collapse is imminent? Maybe you should just stand down then ...
TPTB cannot be defeated or even exposed? Maybe you should just stand down then ...
They're ready if you try anything, so maybe you should just stand down then ...
Who has the nukes there big guy? Go defeat them all you want.
Save me, Lord! We can no longer trust anyone! All the good, loyal people are gone.
People lie to their neighbors. They say whatever they think people want to hear.
The Lord should cut off their lying lips and cut out their bragging tongues.
Those people think they can win any argument. They say, “We are so good with words, no one will be our master.”
They took advantage of the poor and stole what little they had. But the Lord knows what they did, and he says, “I will rescue those who are poor and helpless, and I will punish those who hurt them.”
The Lord’s words are true and pure, like silver purified by fire, like silver melted seven times to make it perfectly pure.
Lord, take care of the helpless. Protect them forever from the wicked people in this world.
The wicked are all around us, and everyone thinks evil is something to be praised!
Well my book says " You will Never know how I put the baby in the Womb "
Yea, people understood sex so I guess there is more meaning than you understand. By the way can anyone create a living cell?
When the Scriptures state that God created evil, it is properly translated that He allows it to exist, since evil is a behavioral pattern. He allows it to exist in order to bring judgement on those who voluntarily remain ignorant but should know better.
9 years of traitors running the show
That's been going on a hell of a lot longer than 9 years, my friend.
Indeed and what about giving King Obama legislative authority to spy on us with this POS bill?
The House took it out, then stuffed it back in before sending it over to the Senate, I see Feinstein abstained so I guess that answers my own question.
I know. I was all for voting against that supposed 'NSA reform bill' a couple weeks back because it was basically a lie and didn't reform jack shit, and it included an extension of the patriot act. So not only have they done NOTHING to roll back the police state, but they have extended it even further to allow local agencies to get in on the fun. Every single one of them that voted for this is treasonous scum. As is every one of them who hasn't sacked up and spoken out about it. I can't stand Elizabeth warren, but kudos to her for at least speaking out about this shit Citigroup managed to sneak in there That's more than nearly the entire R branch of war party has done. Not sure how putting the taxpayer on the hook for all those derivative bets jives with being 'fiscally conservative'.
"I can't stand Elizabeth Warren, but kudos to her for at least speaking out about this shit Citigroup managed to sneak in there."
Exactly right, I feel the same way.
And my attack on Feinstein is not limited to her, anyone who abstained on this is gutless, a damned coward. Take a stand...good, bad or indifferent but take a fucking stand, its what they're paid to do.
Ya I can't believe those spineless shits that didn't even vote. Either stand for something and vote against an obviously unconstitutional travesty, or just go along with the rest of your cheap, paid whore colleagues and at least be consistent. Not voting, are they trying to emulate That great statesman senator Obama and all his 'present' votes?
"If there is a God, may he strike this audience dead......You see, nothing happened". - George Carlin.
Wow that is brilliant, like George Carlin could command God's power. I bet he got a lot of converts that day, assuming everyone in the audience was absolutely retarded.
Some people need to blame something they claim doesn't even exist so that their tortured and wholly irrational contructs of this world can continue to be used as guiding principles.
Be aware, all lovers of liberty, that religion is the old/new front of attack for collectivists. Although the book review referenced below is pretty critical, it is enlightening just the same of the strategy we will see gaining ground in the culture wars, namely, while liberal atheists attack all forms of religion, their peers will be busy constructing a new, better secular religion to foment their collectivist vision.
http://www.booksandideas.net/Religion-and-the-Revolution-to.html
I'll look in the manual he left. I think we are at somewhere around the last chapters
Anyone who let's their kid join a military that favors illegal invaders of American citizens is a fool. Anyone who wants to die or serve these criminals is a fool.
Be careful there. The "manual" is not what he left. It is a book compiled of other books. Many were left out but are still referenced in the remaining texts. Who knows exactly how much of what was included was "edited" such as "Thou shall not murder" being changed to "Thou shall not kill" and be a sheep ripe for shearing.
With a little brain power we can take the ten commandments and the golden rule and validate them by comparing to natural law. The bits that don't match can then be investigated to determine who benefits. If a central earthly power benefits via control mechanisms then you can be sure those provisions are not authentic.
He would be the exception to the rule
where does that leave God?...
-lol abscent, as always...
The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous. Is it, perchance, cherished by persons who should know better? Then their folly should be brought out into the light of day, and exhibited there in all its hideousness until they flee from it, hiding their heads in shame.
~ h l mencken
best way to listen to god is with the aid of sister mary juana... -lmao
The problems with (masses mass) ignorance and (education) indoctrination are their intellectual weakness and lack of humility of understanding nature and our own beings.
indeed.....
All great religions, in order to escape absurdity, have to admit a dilution of agnosticism. It is only the savage, whether of the African bush or the American gospel tent, who pretends to know the will and intent of God exactly and completely. (*)
- H.L. Mencken, Damn! A Book of Calumny, (1918)
(*) including [under the divine directive] which countries to invade, and which banksters to bail-out
3 'g's' at play....
gold, god, and gullible....
~lmao
Belief in nothing is still an act of faith, hence, a religion in its own right. What are you going to do about that, kill everyone?
MisterX- If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God?..
God is left in heaven to judge you and wether or not you burn in hell.
Where's "Heaven"?? Same physical location as many other Religions' equivalent (e.g. Valhalla, and the religions of Rome, Egypt, Greece) - namely "Up There".
Choice of religion aside (as we all are entitled to our individual choice of Religion), we now understand that "Up There" is Space, and it's a VERY big Galaxy, let alone Universe (which may be infinite).
With reports (and records) of UFO activity dating back millennia, there may well be Gods - but maybe not as we think they are since any significantly advanced civilisation (certainly a space-faring civilisation) would CERTANILY appear as gods to our ancestors from way back when.
So, was "God" really one of many? Was "God" an Astonaut? Erich von Daniken makes some very valid points.
As always, on such very deeply-emotive issues, "Your Mileage May Vary"
I find those kinds of arguments fairly ignorant of the bigger picture. Where did the universe come from? One theory has a bunch of gas and dusk compressing to cause a big bang that deposited everything we see today. Of course, nobody will ever, EVER, address the questions of where did the gas and dust come from and if there was nothing there before then where was there?
MisterX,
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God?
Fuckin A. Thank you. Very astute. Although infinitely and eternally opaque, it's pleasant to contemplate the Creator. Your novel comment engenders novel thoughts.
By definition, the Christian God is not corrupt. However, other Gods are. In fact, other Gods are downright evil. So, which God is the universal paradigm?
We can answer that question indirectly, referencing ourselves. Since we are finite and temporal, and since we can do evil as well as good, the evil/good dichotomy might exist only in the non-infinite and non-eternal realms; ie, the infinite and eternal realms might be 100% good or 100% bad.
Can we make a case for only one of these possibilities? Probably not.
"Onward christian treason..."
Sing with me.
An American, not US subject.
Christian rhetoric: Forgive, but avenge. Love, but hate. Don't kill, send others. Israel über alles.
Just turn to Islam or become a Jew where God is still accepted... God is only dying in the Christian Religion....
is that right?
Belief is belief. Religion is ideology.
Ideologies require your money and power, compliance. Government, the state, requires your money and compliance.
An American, not US subject.
"Connect the dots from treason to tyranny."
If money is the Root of All Evil, Why are churches always begging for it?
CALL YOUR CONGRESSMAN
throw the bums out!
You still believe in this crap?
Yes, I do.
We got to do something about it.
Yeah, like stop supporting the facade of evil dba as "government." All you're doing is legitimizing mafia rule.
Ahhhh yes...
The Religion of Government
The Religion of Glabal Warming
The Religion of HATE THE JEWS
The Religion of They are Freedom Fighters...
all Kinds of New Religions" these days....
UGH........
Then go kill K Street. They'll just buy the new bums voted in.
America has always had the best government you can buy.
You've got to pay to play.
Ante up bitchez!
"America has always had the best government you can buy.
You've got to pay to play.
Ante up bitchez!"
That's why voting and calling congressmen is useless. As long as the eternal adversaries have their hands on the legal counterfeiting machine, there's no amount of "honest" money that can combat them. The Church once stood as a bulwark against their machinations - often executing them when necessary. But, the pious long ago caved in to their malevolant temptations.
Only a full-blown revolution and total elimination of the usurers and their "fount" will bring about a new and better world.
YOU are MORE of the problem than they are if you still believe that calling anyone fixes a damn thing. I suppose you still vote too? lol.
CALL YOUR CONGRESSMAN
hmmmm... would that be after talking to dog ?
these 'cons' have done their job once again...
"Thank you for calling the Zionist banksters' CONgressman from your district. Press 1 for lies. Press 2 for bullshit. Press 3 to leave a message we can laugh at later. If you wish to make a donation, press 0 to discuss that with our bribe, I mean, donation specialist."
An American, not US subject.
"Treason is the reason for the guillotine."
Yep. DOW up at least 300 tomorrow.
We'll probably be back near 18,000 by Wednesday.
You really don't think this bill passage was already priced in. Oh yee of little faith. How dare you even question the power of Citibank.
Taking bets on that?
That sounds about right. May take a few days of phone calls and rerouting of the financial (fiat) pipelines and switch boards to funnel the backstop.
"Yep. DOW up at least 300 tomorrow."
It could be this legislation will allow them to exit the market en masse and leave the muppets holding the bag.
Textbook case of legislative corruption and living proof why it will continue indefinitely until overthrown by force.
The factions hate & lust after schemes to block each other, BUT all they have to do is open up bills for loading with each member's re-election spending bribes paid by the treasury, and then they can cooperate enough to pass ANYTHING.
They are ALL vampires and the blood they are sucking is yours.
I wonder how much of that overseas billions to fight terrorism is distributed to return channels that come back for re-election campaigns? Why else would Congress increase the contribution limits? And on top of that, giving the rich more leverage, even if their money is clean? WTF?
Folks, you can not take the vote at face value, they know the outcome ahead of time and some vote no as a cover. My reps are definitely acting different on this one. Keep watching what they do, not what they say. I expect it will be back to the old patterns soon enough, but who knows, I am frequently wrong. It's a miracle! ;-)
there is no doubt Nancy Pelosi voted no for controlled opposition when she knew there was enough votes to pass.
I am sure that 'opposition' votes are done for effect, are carefully calculated, and are in fact the 'loyal opposition' trying to hide in plain sight: historians will record that the process had become a despicable charade over many years.
That's a pretty optimistic outlook on how historians will record this. Remember, 150 years later, Lincoln is hailed as one of our greatest presidents who freed the slaves and saved the union. Wilson and FDR are also considered among the greats , despite doing more to destroy this country than nearly every other presidents combined. And lest you forget, there was a very vocal and large opposition to them during their reigns of power as well. Have you ever heard of any of these opposition leaders? Probably not, unless you read a lot of 'revisionist' history. I'm gonna go the other way- this congress and this president will be remember 75 years from now in ushering America through troubled times, saving us from hordes of terrorists and financial calamities through their patriotism, willingness to work together, and undying loyalty to the principles that make America great. (I almost threw up in my mouth typing that, but, like it or not, that's probably what will be taught to future generations)
+1. Your writing sounds a lot like mine ... but ... you said my writing is stupid and that I am treasonous scum ... It seems like you might be an agent provocateur.
Was not talking about you, I'm just sick of that guy and a couple others posting nonsense with a link to their blog on every article. Not saying you were treasonous scum either , sorry for the confusion.
... AND also for having made major "progress" towards achieving a "morally just society with equal REdistribution of earnings".
MUCH sooner than 75 years from now, USA will be characterized as 100% coercive collectivist socialism, there will be NO individualism, entrepreneurism will be impossible, and whites will be the oppressed minority.
Buy a Senator for a few million and you get to "legally" steal a trillion from your depositors. A hell of a return on investment for our banking criminals.
Obama selling out the interests of the average American to Wall Street as usual - if not for selling-out, Obama would have no accomplishments.
$64 billion for more deaths and wars - has the Nobel Prize Winner ever turned down a war?
It's a collaboration of many,not just one.
Syria? Iran? Soon Russia... (if he's got any brain cells left)
Obie and the MIC had better hope they can contain Ukraine as a proxy war. Marginalizing Russia is even stupider than invading Iraq on the pretext of imaginary WMD.
Is the USD mightier than oil ? We shall soon find out.
WMD was the rational for Iraq. It was more about Russia than saddam. 9/11 had Russia written all over it.
No troll.it has israel written on it.
Since when has it been just O'bama? Im no fan of any presidentt, all have sold out to the bankers, at least in my lifetime.
>>>has the Nobel Prize Winner ever turned down a war?
That would not be his decision to make.
FWIW the current adminsitration's foreign policy of disorganized, incoherent evil is at least a small step up from the Rethuglican's policy of organized, coherent evil.
Nice bill your overlords have concocted there, my dear American cousins. I think the Sausage Principle applies here: people who love sausages and respect the law should never watch either being made.
$64 billion for its overseas operations of the pentagon? $5 billion for ISIS? Where does the rest go? Payoffs for all the heads of state throughout Europe and ME?
I'm going to guess that the Sunday news shows will not utter a peep about the changes to pensions.
Suddenly... RE-defined benefit plans!
Some provision for clawing back pension benefits is needed.
No doubt deserving widows and orphans will get screwed to benefit banksters and pols, but the 50 y.o. "disabled" cops on their jet skis, and >$100K/year full-medical retirements, have to be reined in.
We corrupted some folks.
Such contrived hope when Obama was elected. Now the Criminal Bankers got him to chug the whole bottle of corruption.
Democracy in action in the land of the free:
Attached to the funding bill are hundreds of policy measures, many of them added at the last minute with no public discussion and, in many cases, without most congressmen or senators even being aware of what was being proposed before they rubber-stamped the bill. These include, most notoriously, the repeal of a major section of the Dodd-Frank legislation that sought to place some restrictions on the speculative activities of the banks following the 2008 financial crash.
The language in this section, permitting banks to use federally insured deposits to gamble in the swaps and derivative markets, was literally drafted by the banks. According to an analysis by the New York Times, 70 of the 85 lines in that section of the bill come directly from Citibank, which spearheaded the lobbying by Wall Street on this issue.
The four largest Wall Street banks conduct 93 percent of all US derivatives trading, so the measure is a brazen demonstration of the subservience of Congress to the big banks. According to the Washington Post, Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase, another of the big four banks, personally telephoned individual congressmen to urge them to vote for the amendment to Dodd-Frank.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/us-budget-resolution-funds-war-and-repressi...
"Brazen?" Kind of like when Rumsfeld admitted that the Pentagon lost track of a couple trillion dollars?
Wonder who's gonna pay the price this time?
Let's be honest here. This is way, way past civilized debate, or any kind of polite discourse. Now the question is how to proceed, as every fuckin' thing we say or do is recorded and given to Israel.
This is Not. Going. To End. Well.
Is it me or has anyone else noticed these votes are always "close",,, except of course when it comes to bombing some nation. I think they have conferences before the vote to see who is going to be the bad or good guys.
That's so each team can blame the other team for fucking people over as usual.
Not only do they take the Bankster money, but they appeal to their "constituents" for money too.
"If you send us some moar money, next time we'll be able to beat the other team"
By extension, it's all "our" fault because we didn't pitch in enough.
LOL!
Arrest Feinstein, D-CA for treason and constitutional rights violations.
Inhofe is worse.
"The bill permits trustees of underfunded pension plans to adjust benefits, saving troubled plans without a federal bailout."
I wonder what the police unions think about this?
Sorry, no bailouts for retired police and firefighters since Jamie Dimon needs a new jet after his gambling loss. I don't have an inherent problem with reducing pensions, but it makes no sense to say - in the same bill no loess - that you won't bail out Main Street whose pensioners through no fault of their own are under threat, but you'll bail out Wall Street for their voluntary gambles.
Who cares who voted no? The guillotine wants to know who voted "yes".
Be certain to dull that blade well before being put into use. Our politicians deserve the best!
My Minnesota Senators actually voted against the Crimebus? Not that it did any good. I'll give a slight bit of credit to Stuart Smalley because he does not seem to like Fall street. For legislature, I like that CONgressman Grayson guy from Florida. He really did ask some tough questions in the following all time classic. I would have loved to been at this hearing because Grayson has this woman by the short hairs and she knows it. I give credit where credit is due.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJqM2tFOxLQ
I do not care what party you are from. I am surprised the guy has not had some unfortunate "accident" yet.
Rest in Peace Senator Paul Wellstone.
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2002/10/well-o29.html
Citi is just Rubin it in our faces now !!
A trillion here, a trillion there... pretty soon you're talking about real money. We just keep adding to the deficit, the largest debt bubble in history.
http://www.globaldeflationnews.com/anatomy-of-a-bubble-how-the-federal-r...
I just keep wondering why this is no news at all:
Found in South Africa … Libya’s trillions in physical gold and diamondshttp://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/found-in-sa-libya-s-trillions-1.17918...
I am shocked that my "wonderful" NJ Senators actually voted NO on this!
Did hell just freeze over???!!!!
1600 pages of bullshit. Why didn't one elected official say the obvious in front of every camera they could find: "We don't know what's in this fucking bill. We have no clue and neither do you. The banks wrote half and the staff and lobbyists wrote the other half. To my colleagues: You are all treasonous bastard. I hate the lot of you."
If I heard that out of one of them, I would be happy.
I was correct in my initial assessment.
It's a big steaming pile of...
The votes are not for Americans, whether they are yes or no. The Rubios and the Cruzes voted no because they are running for president and they need the support of the base that is incensed about immigration; the no votes from the Boxers and Corkers are to appeal to their political base, pretending that they are anti-Wall Street.
And the most precious thing of all was that Feinstein "wasn't able" to vote.
But, the bottom line is, the leadershp of both parties is for the bankers, for amnesty and for Obamacare, and the final vote was manipulated accordingly.
If these cheap political shysters can't represent the people of the United States, we the people need to run them out of DC along with their rubber-stamping “US” Supreme Court. According to The Nationalist Times, “The securities and investment industry, e.g., bankers and hedge fund vultures, poured $169 million into the election, about two-thirds of it going to the system’s Republican wing. House Speaker John Boehner, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, and Minority Whip John Cornyn each received more than $1 million from the industry from the beginning of last year through October 15…
Says the Times, Boehner and McConnell “worked together with establishment Republicans to purge as many genuinely conservative candidates as possible from the party, with the result that not a single challenger with ties to the (long ago co-opted and emasculated) Tea Party movement won a GOP primary…”
Apparently kickback is the accepted system in DC and deals cannot continue without it. And, then, our Congressmen depart DC with lucrative Establishment jobs and pocketing fortunes for themselves, out of sight - a widespread practice in banana republics.
Last US Senator I respected was that guy who opposed Cheney Rumsfeld on the Iraq War.
You know the guy, died in a small plane crash. Wellstone
As if any further proof was needed my friends,
Your entire life is a lie, governmental, judicial, law, justice, the whole fucking lot.
Now fucking eat your peas bitchez, its what the bosses expect.
;-)
The law no longer delivers justice. The victim mostly loses.
Correct JR my friend.
The premise is, what are we going to do about it then?
There is no justice, no lawful redress, no nothing. Who speaks for us my friend? Who SERVES us my friend? Just us here?
There is a storm coming. An unstopable storm, and it will cleanse the lot.
;-)
They’ve boxed us into a canyon with no exits, ITM96. The only choice left is to fight; like rats when they’re cornered. And the criminal “riggers” know what they’ve done and are preparing:
“Perhaps the logical endgame of the neo-feudal psychopaths who run the Washington/New York/Hollywood Axis was displayed when U.S. Senator Steve Cohen, a rabid liberal Democrat from Tennessee, suggested that a moat should be erected around the White House. Yes, a moat, to protect the sock puppet emperor of the High-Tech Banana Republic,should the peasants ever decide to take up ‘pitchforks’ and descend upon the rulers who have subverted their republic and sold them out. Cohen believes that a moat roughly six-foot wide would be ‘attractive’ and ‘effective.’ James Clancy, the acting director of the scandal-plagued Secret Serve, didn’t dismiss Cohen’s idea out of hand. ‘Sir, it may be,' said Clancy at a House Judiciary Committee hearing after Cohen made his neo-Dark Ages suggestion…” – Don Wassall
They have once again JR, over estimated themselves my friend. You are only boxed in if you let them do it to you mate.
They never thought about the web, or folk like us. people like you and I dont go quietly into the night do we? I have said this many times, but fair play, I was unaware some years ago to the goings on of the financial and political elite and I knew nothing, my fault of course, but you should never have involved my kids.
If you are a parent and you think like me, i would die for my kids, and if need be, I will.
And you never reckoned on that did you?
Now once again fuckers, lets get the party started.
:-) You may have ruined Mixy, you aint doing it to his kids. The debt is yours, not mine, and certainly not my kids.
Cunts
;-)
The only reason I give 2 shits is for my son I'm old enuf not to give a fuck otherwise ... If it were'nt for the boy I'd just as soon watch it all burn ...sounds selfish to only care about my sons future but not so much if others would feel the same anger instead of crying about their own sorry asses...time to be a "parent" and fight for something other than your own self worthless interests. most parents I know would throw their kid under a bus for a little bling and those are first in my sights then its on to the vermin ruining the world
Many dont care Sub MOA, more than most.
Some of care too much mate. They could have stopped with us, they didnt.
And some folk were born for this stuff. Or fucking forced into it. You punch folk like me? I will hit you back. With a fucking claw hammer.
;-)
I once felt all that kind of anger, which a man ought to feel, against the mean principles that are held by the Tories: a noted one, who kept a tavern at Amboy, was standing at his door, with as pretty a child in his hand, about eight or nine years old, as I ever saw, and after speaking his mind as freely as he thought was prudent, finished with this unfatherly expression, "Well! give me peace in my day." Not a man lives on the continent but fully believes that a separation must some time or other finally take place, and a generous parent should have said, "If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace;" and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty. Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she has nothing to do but to trade with them. A man can distinguish himself between temper and principle, and I am as confident, as I am that God governs the world, that America will never be happy till she gets clear of foreign dominion. Wars, without ceasing, will break out till that period arrives, and the continent must in the end be conqueror; for though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
Thomas Paine "The American Crises"
http://libertyonline.hypermall.com/Paine/Crisis/Crisis-TOC.html
The love and devotion of parents for their children is a characteristic of a culture that provides for its future: parents, the family, community, and justice and liberty for coming generations.
I am ready and waiting for the call, my friend, to go to fight for your kids and my, and your and their future.
I do think like you, ITM96 and I, like you, will die if need be.
We are unstopable JR, we are legion, if only we knew it.
Lets give these utter fucking child molesting cunts exactly what they deserve.
Us, in fucking real life, in droves, and hang the cunts.
The horrible, unenviable, end point, but retribution will be just that.
Just-Us.
I didnt always smile about this shit, and type like a cunt, I do it to get folks riled, and Dog himself can see, it works. Perhaps sometime in the future you and I can share a beer and talk over what happened on our watch, perhaps not. You take care mate, you and yours.
96
It’s gotten worse really fast, 96, and I think this spending bill is the worse indictment ever perpetrated on the system. When you actually vote money for the bankers and cut money to the pensioners, you are choosing to oppose the people. And the amnesty is just more punishment for the American people looking for a job. It seems to me, 96, that the government’s slip into totalitarian control is more obvious than ever. The rulers just became public about their intentions.
Fighting is going to be forced upon us, 96, either fight or be slaves. There is not going to be a choice. There will be no socialism like France has; the people are going to get Maoist China.
On our watch, 96. You, too, take care...
The fights on JR, they wanted this, we are bystanders, in law. No more friend, no fucking more.
It ends when we say it does.
96
Well how many risk fiddlers does Citi have in the wings to start messing with the numbers to make everything look ok? You know that's the next move to ensure trust with the public with quants creating something false that shows good faith, the dog and pony show.
Maybe the next stop for Senator Warren is the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency? She's well aware of the party that goes on over there too and has spoken about it as well. Their quants over there who are suposed to work with banks on their models to verify accuracy were just as bad. MIT is trying to help out a bit with getting better quants on board to work in the math modeling department actually have them build models from the ground up to simulate what the banks are doing versus just checking on a data platform on a platform. Who knows, maybe the folks at MIT have their hands out too.
Don't change the portfolio as Paul Wilmott says, just change the math.
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2014/05/government-is-finally-hiring-some-data.html
When the OCC is not buying military survival kits for banks, what else are they doing over there?
Fuck you Bernanke!
$1.1 trillion in discretionary spending...
$3.4 trillion in non-discretionary.
On auto-pilot to default.
so, the The US Treasury will cover gambling losses banks have exposure to.
The US Treasury DOES NOT issue currency, the banks do.
So, how exactly is this supposed to work when the US Treasury can't service IT'S existing debt without acquiring more?
no really, how?
it's not suppossed to work. there is no fixing this ponzi. the best you can do is divest yourself as much as possible, and keep your escape routes unblocked. the entire ponzi is nothing more than a social construct that is enforced by military power. that won't work forever, it will collapse under it's own weight or when enough of us disagree with the social paradigm.
I would agree, and add it's not supposed to work for the average ordinary taxpayer. I'm sure that's what you meant, but it sure works for the 1%.
A $300 trillion coin should just about cover it
Was going to link a clip from the movie "Johnny Dangerously" to go with this article but it doesn't exist on YouTube.
It was the clip were Johnny's brother who is the DA who goes to his bosses house to plan on how to get johnny dangerously, his brother,
The scene with Danny devito and the pay to play was fucking hillarious but it kills the mood of my post to describe it rather than post it.
Which reminds me that I have to go order that movie. It's a classic.
CAPTURED ....................bitchez !
The BETRAYAL of the GOP base aka White America by Boehner and the other RINOs in the pockets of people like Sheldon Addelson and Chaim Saban and in servitude to groups like the ADL are on TEAM ENEMY, not ours. Banksters get even more benefits of our taxes....
Illegals flock to amnesty workshops...
MERRY CHRISTMAS: GOVT GOODIES FOR ALL!
Republican accuses leadership of breaking promise to kill bill...
Even First Lady's Lunch Program Funded!
Boehner-Obama Deals Have Increased Debt $3.8 TRILLION...
When you give your trust to people and they betray you you’d have to be a a true slave to the media to continue to trust and support them in the future.
“The long-time Jewish publication The Forward proudly detailed in an article in early October how Beto O-Rourke, a young freshman Democrat Congressman from Texas was ‘set right’ by the Israel Lobby (The Nationalist Times).”
Here are excerpts from an article by Nathan Guttman (“How the Israel Lobby Set Beto O’Rourke Right”):
“It took only one wrong vote to teach a freshman Democrat from Texas how sensitive, and even wrathful, the Jewish community can be when it comes to Israel. But the real story of what happened to Rep. Beto O’Rourke did not stop with the angry reaction he got when he cast one of only eight votes in Congress against special funding for Israel’s Iron Dome rocket defense system during the recent Gaza war. What is notable is how quickly the carrot followed the stick.
“It was almost a textbook case of how the establishment pro-Israel lobby works its magic and a story not yet completed in early September, when The New Yorker magazine took note of what had happened to O’Rourke.
“In an in-depth report on the work of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the large Washington-based lobby, during the Gaza war, New Yorker writer Connie Bruck recounted the blasts that rained down on the El Paso congressman following his vote.
“The reactions, as Bruck reported, included a mass email blast labeling O’Rourke as ‘an anti-Israel congressman’ and denouncing his vote as ‘shameful.’
“Critical local press coverage included a public comment by one of his own Jewish donors to the El Paso Times that in voting as he did, O’Rourke ‘chooses to side with the rocket launchers and terror tunnel builders’ of Hamas. But since then, behind the scenes, what has followed is a long process of mutual outreach and hours of hashing out differences, until the final act, which is now in the works: an El Al flight to Tel Aviv on the pro-Israel lobby’s dime. ‘He’s a good guy, but he didn’t know how the Jewish community would react,’ said Daniel Cheifec, executive director of the Jewish Federation of El Paso. ‘Now he knows that his community is not going to be very happy if he screws up again.’”
Where do the funds come from for the Israel Lobby to have such power in every local district throughout the United States? It comes from Jewish donors and bankers where the privileges are cleared through the Federal Reserve Bank. To end this tyranny, end the source of its funding.
This will have to do.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6GVCgTFw2Qk
And this
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9c_awug8EeA
Enjoy
I'm so numb to legislative actions these days.
"When you give your trust to people and they betray you you’d have to be a a true slave to the media to continue to trust and support them in the future."
These sentiments were even reflected by U.S. President Richard Nixon himself. In declassified White House tapes that were recently released to the public, the former President was recorded expressing disdain for Jews and speaking ominously about the Jewish grip over the American mass media and government. In White House tapes from February and March 1973, Nixon is heard saying that “the Jews are just a very aggressive and abrasive and obnoxious personality… [they are] born spies.” (“Nixon’s Jewish Problem,” Slate Magazine, Dec. 13, 2010.) In a candid conversation, Richard Nixon and the Rev. Billy Graham had the following exchange regarding the Jewish stranglehold over the mass media:
What is broken in the US is the 'ramming through' of these bills which no one reads, and which are filled with provisions like CitiGate that would be voted down in a stand alone roll call vote. Let the 'ney' voters prove the depth of their convictions by bringing CitiGate up for a separate vote - and see who really stands in their way.
the entire system is captured stop buying the propoganda the vote show is just that a show what ever they want will always pass ALWAYS they only parade shit out on teevee for show .... voting as said if it truly worked they wouldn't let us / them do it ... stop fooling yourself and others
The only cure is as myself and some others have said and truly believe is blood in the streets hard line action ...no constitution or other shit written on paper will protect you principles live and grow within real men not via inked papers.. until the fight is truly taken to their doorstep nothing changes nothing
Ooops I did it again. Two more 1964D's were given to children by me already this morning. These children are Korean and they seem to be hanging out here with my kids. Well there you go. Two more small cuts in the arm of the central bankers. The boy seems especially interested and wants to take it out of the 2X2. I told him not to do that but I gave it away so he can do what he wants with it. Males are something else than females are. How much shit can males possibly ruin when they are young? I was no different. I smell bad and I don't like to shave. Anyways, those were BU coins which any coin collector knows is not a grade. They were MS-62 at least. I have my scrap pile but I am not going to give that to the kids. No, I will give them something decent to work with.
Those kids do not even know my name but that is the beauty of it. One day one of these kids is going to start asking questions. It is just like planting seeds.
where does the money come from? Obama has one trillion deficit each year and the fed prints hundreds of trillions of money. Where does the money come from?
How did this banker influence in the United States translate into Wall Street and Israeli control and banker-controlled politicians? Answer: It costs money, and that money was provided by the conversion of America’s banking system to a cartel system initially involving the world’s wealthiest families, largely Jewish*.
Perhaps there is no better explanation of what this money created out of nothing and owned by the Federal Reserve is buying than is provided by G. Edward Griffin, author of the famous Federal Reserve revelation, The Creature from Jekyll Island.
On the Fed money:
“You are led to the question of where is this river flowing? Where's it going? … They're not accumulating it at all. What are they spending it for? The answer may surprise you. They're not buying more yachts and mansions with this money; they've already got all of those they possibly want. … That's not it. When a person has all the wealth that you could possibly want for the material pleasures of life, what is left? Power. They are using this river of wealth to acquire power over you and me and our children.
They are spending it to acquire control over the power centers of society. The power centers are those groups and institutions through which individuals live and act and rely on for their information. They are literally buying up the world but not the real estate and the hardware, they're buying control over the organizations, the groups and institutions that control people. In other words, to be specific, they are buying control over politicians, political parties, television networks, cable networks, newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, wire services, motion picture studios, universities, labor unions, church organizations, trade associations, tax-exempt foundations, multi-national corporations, boy scouts, girl scouts, you name it…this is where those people have been for many decades spending this river of wealth to acquire operational control particularly over those institutions and individuals, those organizations that represent opposition to themselves….”
http://www.bigeye.com/griffin.htm
*HERE THEN, according to Eustace Mullins, ARE THOSE FOR WHOM GREENSPAN, BERNANKE, YELLEN, FISCHER and LEW and DC WORK:
“The shareholders of these banks which own the stock of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (which sets the interest rates and directs open market operations, thus controlling the daily supply and price of money whose stockholders are the real directors of the entire system) are the people who have controlled our political and economic destinies since 1914.
“They are the Rothschilds, of Europe, Lazard Freres (Eugene Meyer), Kuhn Loeb Company, Warburg Company, Lehman Brothers, GoldmanSachs, the Rockefeller family, and the J.P. Morgan interests, (Rothschild).” -- Eustace Mullins, The Secrets of the Federal Reserve, p. 34. Copyright 1983
I have just read halfway through None Dare Call it conspiracy. I am pretty impressed with it so far. What is your take on it?
A good book, I’ve heard, Jim, along the lines of John Stormer’s None Dare Call It Treason, which I have. Thanks for introducing it here; I believe I’ll get a copy and check it out.
If you’d like to read a great definition of “conspiracy,” G. Edward Griffin gave one in a 2009 speech. Here’s an excerpt:
Now we’re going to travel through some strange and rough territory tonight, and the real title of my talk tonight is “The Quigley Formula,” and the subtitle rather explains it, which is “the Conspiratorial View of History as Explained by the Conspirators Themselves.” That’s my topic. …
Professor Quigley taught the conspiratorial view of history as explained by the conspirators themselves. Quigley was rather close to it if not a part of it. In his books which I’ll be describing in just a few moments, he said that he was very close to this group, he had studied their private papers for several years, he knew these people first hand — at least the ones that were living today — and he admired what they were doing. He said that his only objection to this conspiracy, as he described it, was that he felt that they should be public. He felt that it should not remain secret. He felt it was time now for them to come out in the open and take credit for all the great things that they had done. So Quigley was the rather official historian of the conspiracy and very proud to be that. …
So what is this all about? First of all, we need to define this horrible word, conspiracy. A lot of people have a knee-jerk reaction to that. They talk about conspiracy theorists as though conspiracies weren’t real, and I feel sorry for these people because I know they have never read a history book because history is full of conspiracies. In fact, it’s hard to come up with a major event in history that wasn’t created to some large and significant extent by a conspiracy or more of them. Conspiracies are very real in history. They’re very real in our present day. If you doubt that just go to any courtroom and sit there and listen to the cases that come before the judge and before the jury, and a good percentage of them involve conspiracies of one kind or another. So when people talk about conspiracy theories, I have to laugh. It’s too bad they don’t know anything about history.
Nevertheless, the word does have some emotional overload to it, so let’s talk about it. What is a conspiracy? Most of the dictionaries define it rather straight forwardly. To be a conspiracy, there must be three elements present. First, there must be two or more people involved. The second element is that they are using deceit or force. And the third element is to accomplish an illegal or immoral objective. That’s a conspiracy. So the group that we’re going to be talking about today, as you’ve probably already guessed — you’re thinking ahead — they certainly involve two or more people, so that one is easy to check off. The second category, using deceit or force, is real easy to check off because these peoples are masters at deceit and certainly masters of coercion. It is part of the style that they have adopted and nobody challenges that. It’s the third element where we have somewhat of a debate. Is their goal illegal or immoral? Well, sometimes they engage in illegal activities because they really don’t care much about that, but for the most part — their major operations are done entirely legally because, you see, many of these people write the laws. They contour the laws to force you and me to do what they want us to do, and if we resist we’re the ones that are acting in an illegal fashion.
Almost everything that this group is accomplishing is done entirely in accordance with the law. I can’t think of a better example than The Federal Reserve System. Sometimes I hear people say, “Well, they audit The Federal Reserve. Do you know that The Federal Reserve has never been officially audited by an independent agency?” I don’t care if it’s audited. I don’t want to audit The Federal Reserve. I want to abolish it. {applause} Because I know that if they were to audit it, they’d find that The Federal Reserve was doing exactly what it’s supposed to be doing according to the law. Everything is legal. They’re stealing your money and mine legally. So, you see, we’re coming back to this question of legality. So we cannot say that this group is doing things essentially illegal either, so that is a fact. …
So if we rely on the traditional definition of a conspiracy, in their minds they are not involved in a conspiracy. However, in the minds of the rest of the people on this planet who have to live under the results of what they’re trying to do, I think the word conspiracy is a very adequate and appropriate word and that is the definition or the context in which I will be using it tonight.
http://www.republicmagazine.com/bonus-articles/griffin.html
A recent article examines how the Chinese are studying how Jews control the US, so they can use the same tactics...
"“Do the Jews Really Control America?” asked one Chinese newsweekly headline in 2009. The factoids doled out in such articles and in books about Jews in China—for example: “The world’s wealth is in Americans’ pockets; Americans are in Jews’ pockets”—would rightly be seen to be alarming in other contexts. But in China, where Jews are widely perceived as clever and accomplished, they are meant as compliments. Scan the shelves in any bookstore in China and you are likely to find best-selling self-help books based on Jewish knowledge. Most focus on how to make cash. Titles range from 101 Money Earning Secrets From Jews’ Notebooks to Learn To Make Money With the Jews.
The Chinese recognize, and embrace, common characteristics between their culture and Jewish culture. Both races have a large diaspora spread across the globe. Both place emphasis on family, tradition, and education. Both boast civilizations that date back thousands of years. In Shanghai, I am often told with nods of approval that I must be intelligent, savvy, and quick-witted, simply because of my ethnicity. While it is true that the Chinese I’ve met are fascinated by—rather than fear—the Jews, these assertions make me deeply uncomfortable.
So, it was with a degree of apprehension that I recently traveled to the former imperial capital of Nanjing to spend the day with Prof. Xu Xin, director of the Diane and Guilford Glazer Institute of Jewish and Israel Studies at Nanjing University. The first thing Xu did was suggest lunch. As we sat down to a steaming tofu hot pot, he woefully conceded that many Chinese believe the Jews to be “smart, rich, and very cunning.” Just before my visit to Nanjing, the Chinese tycoon Chen Guangbiao made international headlines by publicly announcing his ambitions to buy the New York Times and later the Wall Street Journal. In a TV interview he explained that he would be an ideal newspaper magnate because “I am very good at working with Jews”—who, he said, controlled the media."
Continues here:
http://tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/167289/nanjing-jewish...
I’m not sure America could withstand double exploitation. Perhaps the Chinese can use their newly learned Jewish tricks on a people other than Americans since Americans are already taken.
wizards......
350 million citizens -
How much paid in
How much subsidized
Years living with USA
= Enough to make you and your offspring slaves for eternity.
They don't call it predatory lending for nothin'. Retaining both the contract payments before default and the collateral is why predatory lending was once illegal.
Shame on all you US politicians for selling out your country you made an oath to protect. You should hang your heads in shame. You are worthless and a disgrace. Damn you all to hell and a pox on your children.
There are too many small men/women trapped in self-perceived big peoples' bodies. "Small," see also craven, turncoat, pusillanimous, or cowardly.
They seek the allure of the blood money.
Old crew pushing the 1 trillion. New crew doesn’t take effect until January 3, 2015 to 2021. Great job in trying to snow job people who don’t effectively have power. Keep trying to dumb the despondent. Stupid liberal cunts..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections,_2014
Isn't the term..cunt...(as an adjective, not a noun) a term of endearment, used primarily when referring pretty much exclusively to Ms. Pelosi or Ms. Clinton?
Actually this is "What It Actually Contains"
Retiring Rep. Jim Moran (D), northern Virginia, on the Cromnibus:
“In 20 years of being on the appropriations bill, I haven’t seen a better compromise in terms of Democratic priorities. Implementing the Affordable Care Act, there’s a lot more money for early-childhood development — the only priority that got cut was the EPA but we gave them more money than the administration asked for….There were 26 riders that were extreme and would have devastated the Environmental Protection Agency in terms of the Clean Water and Clean Air Act administration; all of those were dropped. There were only two that were kept and they wouldn’t have been implemented this fiscal year. So, we got virtually everything that the Democrats tried to get.”
And which included:
*relaxed campaign finance rules designed to “basically eliminate [the Tea Party] as a viable threat,” and “how corporate America is going to defeat the Tea Party.” Limbaugh.
*$3.06 billion has been provided, $1.01 billion above the President’s request for Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons. (P. 52 Democrat summary). Recall that in September Simon Henshaw, deputy assistant secretary of State’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, announced: “Next year, you will see thousands [of Syrians] entering the US. We are committed to a large program on a par with other large [refugee resettlement] programs in the past… Our commitment is to do thousands a year over many years,” he said. There are over 1 million Syrian refugees in Turkey who have fled Syria’s civil war. “Our resettlement program from Turkey is one of our largest in the world, and it will continue to grow,”.
*Clever language that says “no new funding” for Obamacare. But Obamacare was fully funded in the CR passed in September to keep the government open until December 11, including the contentious abortion funding and other issues. Now funding will be provided for the full fiscal year.
*Cromnibus withholds funding for 451 separate activities, but none for executive amnesty.
*appropriations committee chairman will have authority to write in changes to any of the appropriations bills after the bill is passed. Usually this is done by a conference committee before the vote and indicates how and where they would like to see monies spent. This provision could allow the chairman to sneak in something or make other changes after the vote!
*$250 million more than Obama requested for the Environmental Protection Agency and no policy rider to stop the destruction of America’s coal industry and restrain the resulting increase in consumer electricity costs.
*Provisions supporting gun rights in Cromnibus were removed.
*Cromnibus affirmatively appropriates at least $948 million in support of illegal aliens.
*Cromnibus included an unauthorized appropriation that extends the Trade Adjustment Assistance program (special unemployment insurance for labor unions).
* Cromnibus busts the spending caps that Republicans already broke in the Ryan – Murray budget deal.
* Cromnibus enables the president to unilaterally grant quasi-legal status, work permits and Social Security numbers to 5 million illegal immigrants allowing Obama to change the enforcement of immigration laws.
*And the controversial provision to transfer an unknown quantity of derivatives risk to the full faith and credit of the United States.
When it gets this rotten it blows up. It’s indefensible. And when it’s indefensible, then the people win back their country. The tyrants can’t protect their position. When there’s no defense, they lose. It’s like a football team that can’t defend itself - a handful of international bankers vs. America's vast middle class. The bankers are the loser.
It's physics.
But a majority reelected Obama ... and Bush .. and Clinton
A majority of Americans voting voted for their favorite of two losing sides -- and millions of these Americans are quite aware of the losers that masquerade as the "winners."
Endeavor to persevere..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsL6mKxtOlQ
pension plan senanigans http://www.ibtimes.com/pension-fund-run-wall-street-cited-push-cut-retir...