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Is The Fate Of Mitt Romney's Presidential Campaign In The Hands Of A Reuters FOIA Request?
It appears the GOP candidates are dropping like flies: first that one crazy guy, then Cain, and now... Mitt Romney? According to a Boston Globe article, paraphrased by Reuters, the GOP frontrunner (or is that second after Gingrich now: nobody really knows any more), spent $100,000, not of his own money but state funds, to "replace computers in his office at the end of his term as governor of Massachusetts in 2007 as part of an unprecedented effort to keep his records secret. When Romney left the governorship of Massachusetts, 11 of his aides bought the hard drives of their state-issued computers to keep for themselves. Also before he left office, the governor's staff had emails and other electronic communications by Romney's administration wiped from state servers, state officials say. Those actions erased much of the internal documentation of Romney's four-year tenure as governor, which ended in January 2007. Precisely what information was erased is unclear." Odd: almost as if he had something to hide... Yet something tells us the other side of those emailed correspondences will still be there: alive and kicking, somewhere on the archived servers of Bain Capital, and a few prominent health insurance companies (and of course Goldman Sachs, because Goldman Sachs is everywhere). Naturally, one would need a subpoena to get those. And for that one would need a reason to assume something is illegal. Luckily, wiping your hard disks while a servant of the people is perfectly normal in a banana republic. Now just who does Ron Paul have to murder in broad daylight while having sex with Snooki before the general media finally decides he is worthy of a shot at this whole farce?
Reuters with more:
Republican and Democratic opponents of Romney say the scrubbing of emails - and a claim by Romney that paper records of his governorship are not subject to public disclosure - hinder efforts to assess his performance as a politician and elected official.
As Massachusetts governor, Romney worked with a Democrat-led state house to close a budget shortfall and signed a healthcare overhaul that required nearly all state residents to buy insurance or face penalties.
Massachusetts' healthcare law became a model for Obama's nationwide healthcare program, enacted into law in 2010. As a presidential candidate, however, Romney has criticized Obama's plan as an overreach by the federal government.
Massachusetts officials say they have no basis to believe that Romney's staff violated any state laws or policies in removing his administration's records.
As for the "cleansing" apparently Romney was smart enough to do what not even 27-year old Goldman Sachs wunderkind and the man who singlehandedly (because the SEC has yet to name a second perpetrator at Goldman) concocted the MBS mortgage fraud scheme, Fab Tourre, thought of doing when he left his hard disk "just lying around."
Romney's spokesmen emphasize that he followed the law and precedent in deleting the emails, installing new computers in the governor's office and buying up hard drives.
However, Theresa Dolan, former director of administration for the governor's office, told Reuters that Romney's efforts to control or wipe out records from his governorship were unprecedented.
Dolan said that in her 23 years as an aide to successive governors "no one had ever inquired about, or expressed the desire" to purchase their computer hard drives before Romney's tenure.
The cleanup of records by Romney's staff before his term ended included spending $205,000 for a three-year lease on new computers for the governor's office, according to official documents and state officials.
In signing the lease, Romney aides broke an earlier three-year lease that provided the same number of computers for about half the cost - $108,000. Lease documents obtained by Reuters under the state's freedom of information law indicate that the broken lease still had 18 months to run.
As a result of the change in leases, the cost to the state for computers in the governor's office was an additional $97,000.
The 'shredding' was not just electronic:
State officials and a longtime Romney adviser have acknowledged that before leaving office, Romney asked state archives officials for permission to destroy certain paper records. It is unclear whether his office notified anyone from the state before destroying electronic records.
In other words, the US taxpayers paid to make sure nobody could ever build a civil or, heaven forbid, criminal case against Romney.
We can't wait for the next GOP debate, or whatever that ex-"999" circus is called nowadays, something tells us the topic of tampering with evidence, always a sensitive one for politicians as they all have done it at some point, will be rather prominent.
As for Romney, his fate may soon be sealed, or unsealed as the case may be, by a Reuters FOIA:
Officials have said the details of Romney's request to remove paper records, such as what specific documents he wanted to destroy, could be made public only in response to a request under the state's freedom of information law. Reuters has filed such a request.
One wonders how fast the turnaround on such a request is, and just how extensive the black out redactions will be.
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It didn't rouse anyone last time. What's different now?
One of RP's strongest bases is military, and that was not true for the last victim. I think there would be a considerably larger shitstorm triggerred by an assasination, though you wouldn't see it covered on TV.
If RP gets the nod, he should pick his running mate very carefully. And definitely not allow it to be anyone the party suggests to him.
There are plenty of new candidates that could come in if Newt and Mitt fail. Palin, Buchanan...hell, even Dan Quayle could test the waters. All of them would be infinitely more electable by the sheeple than Ron Paul.
Too late in the cycle. Not possible to get on the ballots me thinks.
huntsman still has to make his push to the front of the line
Agree. Although lately they (MSM) have been fluffing Santorum, so he is probably going to get his bump first.
spreadingsantorum.com/
Santorum 1. The frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex. 2. Senator Rick Santorum.
Just spewed hot coffee all over my new monitor...thanks for the laugh
There never was any "last guy" who challenged the Fed --- that tripe about Kennedy, silver certificates and US Notes is nothing but an absurd urban legend of recent invention that has only spread due to the internet, and has NO basis in any real monetary history whatsoever; this idea that Kennedy "took on the Fed" simply reflects a gross misunderstanding and ignorance of mundane monetary policies and formalities of the 1960s, and has no foundation in fact. Please look into the subject further.
Also, I think Ron Pauls discussion of the gold standard is not because he disagrees with the actions taken Nixon shock, just the profligate spending that was the debilatating side effect of amputating the limb such that the foriegn dollar holders could not gangreen the USAs gold.
it is an excellent metaphor for the current Nixon shock which is Europe (1st world) using US dollars (IMF) to recapitalize their banks.
I first voted for RP for president in 1988 when he ran as a Libertarian. I wrote him in in 2008 when I couldn't stomach the candidate that the Libertarians ran... but I'm not so sure I want him as president now... and if he ends ups there, I think it will only be BECAUSE that's what the TPTB want. The crash will "happen on his watch", I fear.
I've heard that tripe before and you know what...he's prepared for it. He's been speaking out against the oligarchy for his whole career if you think it matters now you're mistaken.
And if you're going to say they'll blame it on him in two years...well Obama's gotten a pass for 3 already and things are still getting worse.
Anyone that supports him has already put up with the megapropaganda machine so what will more years mean to them? Nothing.
I too have read him, 'wrote him in' in 2008, But It doesn't matter now if he wins. We(and everybody) is going to crash. Peak Oil Kids Nothing is going to stop that. But It would be REALLLLL important for him to run now though. What Ron Paul has done is education. His speeches, his articles, has had a big effect on the people that will be in whatever gov comes along next.
His campaign would be one of Forcing The Topics. They would HAVE to be carried by the MSM (however slanted they will be presented with). His words is effecting people.
That is what Ron Paul has become. Not that he can solve 'IT" But he is informing millions of what 'IT' is. And people are listening to different voices for the first time in over a decade.
The crash is going to happen no matter what. The only thing of any significance at this point is who is at the helm during the crash to formulate the way forward. You are either going to enjoy the freedom from the death of corrupt and parasitical financial system, resulting in decentralization of money and power, and return of the Constitution from Exhile.
Or a One world currency, forever centralizing and cementing the power of the financial elite in a New World Order of hellish proportions far worse than the corrupt system that collapsed.
The system is going to collaspe. The system SHOULD collaspe.
And the only President of any significance in the next 100 years is the one who is in office during that collaspe and gets to decide what replaces it.
I hope we have someone like Ron Paul in the Presidency to show the people the way forward when the inevitable collapse happens.
I agree with you... and I figured my post might be misunderstood. I know we are going to collapse. And I agree... we SHOULD. there is NO SOLUTION short of collapse. My fear (and my point)... RP being elected president could be nothing other than him being set up as the Fall guy. Of course our banking oligarchs know what the end game of our monetary system is. Our credit/debt monetary system requires debt to increase until such a point when the economy can no longer support the interest on the debt... then we get collapse. But they will work tirelessly to propagandize against this reality as they want to control what comes next. We can't know the truth. The Kyle Bass video from a couple fo days ago... he basically says that if we do what need to do, the person who is at the helm becomes a persona non grata.
If the President does what we need to do before the collapse, yes for a time he will become a persona non grata. The banking oligarch’s impressive propaganda machine will assault him 24/7. It will be painful transition and the people wouldn’t understand why we are switching when things doesn’t s seem that bad or bad enough.
If he does what's needed to be done to prevent going through another 100 year cycle of credit explosion based on a debt monetary system during or after the collapse, he will be fine.
Because the whole thing dies. The propaganda, the media control apparatus is dead on the vine. They don't pay the apparatus in silver, gold Pmetals. The huge corporations that are apart aren't going to be able to ween themselves off of short/long-term debt financing and switch entirely cash/gold reserves. Even if CNN had large amounts of cash on their balance sheets they require debt based finance for their day to day operations they are too big and dependent at this point to change.
Paul today is like Volker was -- the medicine this country needs!
the medicine here, however, isn't a rough recession... the medicine here will result in a deflationary depression.... which is coming either way... but Paul can't "solve" anything.
I agree - deflation is the bad tasting medicine -- it might suck ... but oh well
I hear ya... I just don't know if everyone is prepared for the thing for which they are advocating. There is more deleveraging to do this time around... and we currently have 46 million on foodstamps. This deflationary depression is going to suck a lot worse than the last one. Oh... and WWIII.
Volcker was a Rockefellar frontman.
Good Lord, the anti-MCB.
the Amerikan way
My links got screwed up
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Nevermind the furthermore, the plea is self-defense.
And then there was two..... and the Newt is a criminal, so Paul will be the man
Because criminals never get elected to public office? Wha?
Morally criminal for sure. If cheating on a cancer-stricken spouse was more than Dems could handle in John Edwards, it will only take a slight nudge for the former Moral Majority to bounce out that amphibian. I, frankly, and shocked his legs have carried him this far in the campaign. Unless he has a real solid team, I see him having a "team-building" problem like Bachmann, and just being forced out due to logistics. I mean, who's donating to this guy? Oh well, I've been wrong before.
TO: Mon, 12/05/2011 - 22:51 | 1949665 Vlad Tepid
"Unless he has a real solid team, I see him having a "team-building" problem like Bachmann, and just being forced out due to logistics. I mean, who's donating to this guy? Oh well, I've been wrong before."
to be a legitimate candidate a strong showing or victory is need in either IA or NH. the real race for the gop nomination, though, is run in south carolina, georgia and florida. the original gangster primed to make that move was rick perry. he proved, however, to be even more dyslexic than dubya and failed the basic promo/branding test of the debates....the newter is a georgian who understands the republican base, will tell them what they want to hear and enthusiastically call out the magic underwear of that damn yankee mitt
GINGRICH: But let me make a deeper point. There's a core thing that's wrong with this whole city. You said earlier that it would take too long to open up American oil. We defeated Nazi Germany, fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan in three years and eight months because we thought we were serious.
If we were serious, we would open up enough oil fields in the next year that the price of oil worldwide would collapse. Now, that's what we would do if we were a serious country. If we were serious...
//If we were serious, we would open up enough oil fields in the next year that the price of oil worldwide would collapse.//
The people who think this guy is smart confuse me.
[The U.S. would have to increase field production by more than double current production to become oil independent by increasing domestic production to 14.8 Mbopd. Even peak production in 1970 of 10,000 bopd would only meet 68% of current crude oil consumption. To bring about a collapse in world oil prices, as Mr. Gingrich suggests, would mean increasing U.S. production by substantially more than this.
Maximum daily production from Prudhoe Bay Field, the largest in the United States, was 2.0 million bopd in 1988 (http://www.aspo-usa.com/archives/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&…). Mr. Gingrich suggests that we can find more than six additional Prudhoe Bay-sized fields in one year. Prudhoe Bay was discovered in 1968, did not begin production for 11 years, and did not reach peak production until 20 years after its discovery. But Mr. Gingrich thinks that there are many Prudhoe Bay fields waiting to be found that can be at explored, developed and brought to peak production in one year.
It is difficult to imagine that Mr. Gingrich could be unaware of these fundamental facts and probabilities. If so, he must be placed in a lower category than Rick Perry and Herman Cain, who simply could not remember what they presumably knew. The only other possibility is that he knows the reality of oil supply and is misleading to the American people in order to gain support for a positive “can do” message. Either way, it is clear that Mr. Gingrich does not have a realistic understanding of the oil exploration and production business.]
Yup. You say those things when you want the backing of the oil-industrial complex. All we ever do is burn it faster if the price even drops a penny, feeding the vicious cycle. And we are totally foreign oil-dependant despite having had two presidents who made their money in big oil (Bush family values). But we tax-subsidize them to drill so that we can pay taxes again at the pump.
Well, taxes are put there by politicians not oil companies. May I remind you oil is bid for on the COMEX like other commodities. Just so you know, as of 2 Dec. there are 1,993 rigs drilling in the US. I run one of them. Can't say which one or for whom because I'll get fired. But, it's like this. Average cost to drill and complete one of our wells on land is +/- $20 million. This does not include the infrastructure necessary for production. Currently we are at almost 100% rig utlization. Imports remain the same. So, tell me how the hell you think we're going to reduce them that quickly? You don't know jack shit about this business.
i think paul krugman said something along the line of..."newt is what smart people look/sound like to stupid people." well, krugman sure got that one right!
Exactly. The people who fail to understand this amaze me. If you want to crash the price, slap a massive tarrif on imports and incentivize car companies to build NG and electric cars. A price crash will not come from expanding the supply of OIL, there's way too much demand.
You wouldn't expect a slick guy like Romney to willingly leave any emails lying around, would you?
Rule number one: NEVER LEAVE A PAPER TRAIL.
I hate Romney because he is bought and paid for by the bankers. But they take care of their own, so they (and the news media that they control) will do their best to shield him from any damage that embarassing emails might cause.
i think you mean never leave a paper trail and get busted removing the paper trail that you left
What comes after depression? I hope it's anger because this is garbage!!
The GOP is in the process of total extinction. HW Bush, Dole, George W, McCain, Gingrich, Romney? Come on now, If Ron Paul doesn't get the nomination not only will the GOP fail as a political party (peaking during the Goldwater era) but the economy will collapse into complete ruin where the country will be forced into discussion of what the role of government should be going forward. You really want a fascist like Obama, Romney, Gingrich or Hillary in charge during this pivatol turning point in this Constitutional Republic's most trying financial crisis? Didn't think so. Ron Paul 2012 or bust, bitchez!
The GOP wouldn't save the economy. Ron Paul might, but it won't have anything to do with the GOP.
They are all shape shifting reptiles except Ron Paul ... unless he's just the sneakiest ?!
Ron Paul 2012!! (unless he's the sneakiest reptile)
Don't worry, he's not. I know we are all so jaded with the political process but Ron Paul is the real deal, you have 30yrs of him saying the same things, he hasn't changed his message, we have.
Can you state the obvious please. I missed it the first time.
ah, great comedic timing.
I try
This "Ron Paul is the second coming of Jesus" stuff needs to stop. Nothing will save the Titanic.
Headed for the lifeboats, bitchez!
Sure, but I rather have an ex-mil medical doctor (Cottle) in charge of the galatica fleet than the secretary of education.
Taxachussetts has no "Sunshine" law?
Every time Mittnochio speaks, I could swear I see the strings moving. Maybe we'll get to see who pulls them.
He reminds me of an aged "Ken" doll, minus the tan. The strings are a nice addition to my mental image.
Your Ken doll/Romney analogy is further bolstered by the fact that neither one has balls ... or a soul ... or a brain.
Come to think of it, both are just playthings of much larger forces, as well.
And both have perfect plastic hair.
Creepy.
IT will never happen. Paul is waaay to busy to bang Snooki.
Lies, corruption, destruction of evidence....so what distinguishes him from the others?
3 Cheers for Reuters! Seems as if there is an iota of investigative spirit left in the MSM.
Sure...except Reuters has an agenda. They treated Obama with kid gloves. Let's keep the fightclub standards here.
Reuters is Rothschild. There's no investigative spirit there ... just an agenda.
One of the finest quotes I have read today...I pray for the day that the DNC & RNC are added to the list of terrorist organizations...
Isn't there a waste paper basket the banksters can paint "GOP-Presidential Candidate" on?
And we all know Newt's got a skeleton in the closet somewhere. So who else does that leave besides Ron Paul? At the end of the day, I think Paul will be laughing all the way to the nomination. All he has to do is outlast the rest of the crowd at this pace.
Newt's skeleton would help Ron Paul if it pops out before the nomination. The news media might just wait till after the nomination before they reveal it.
On the other hand, perhaps they might pop it out before the nomination in hopes of helping Romney.
I'm rooting for Ron Paul, but I think he still has an uphill battle.
I think if we see the top runners in the GOP field get taken out, then others not currently announced just may jump in... Palin... Rubio...
I was having a good night until you mentioned the name Palin. Hell, I'd almost forgotten her name. I think I just threw up on my mouth a little bit.
I wouldn't want to see her as President or even VP. But, hey, she's hot. It's those glasses.
It's too late. The deadline for candidates to file for the first primaries was Oct. 28.
No new candidates.
Hope and change Bitcheezzzzzz!!!!!!!!
Anything can happen in a deadlocked convention!
Ron Paul, great 5 min vid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiDZKf74IR0
The only two things I have ever agreed with Glenn Beck are in that video.
Yeah, Mr. Give-em-just-enough-truth-to-make-people-think-you're-reliable sure does twist things up and speak out of both ends enough:
http://werocknetwork.com/Default.aspx?id=87
And, if you could stomach that, a blast-from-the-past:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg8M2JBIoqo
I hope Schwarzman didn't pre-pay for the catering... perhaps his only loss will be costs for printing invitations. Oh... and his shamelessness on display for trying to actually PUT a banker in the White House rather than just paying usual bribes for future favors.
When the missing information shows up, they will find Romney in bed with Bwarney Fwank, 2 goats, a sheep and 3 gerbils at the Four Seasons!
That is no reason to disqualify Romney!
Asia is selling mad, buying up USDs. This is getting out of hand
*Nomura says it revises its forecast for China's 2012 GDP growth to 7.9% from 8.6%, due to risks from weakening external demand and the domestic property market.
7%, lock in a 5% negative. China is rolling over very quickly...
With the increase in campaign funds comes a shadow increase in attack capabilities. These are hits, researched and financed by one or more of the other douchebags' backers. These sorts of tactics become a possibility only when they have tremendous resources at their command. Increasingly, campaigns end not at the polls, but at ad hoc media conferences gathered to hear a tearful admission from former candidates. They go down in flames.
I believe this campaign is one battlefield among many that the elites are using now to fight out the endgame, like dogs. They're not necessarily fighting for the election in Nov 2012 as much as the "hearts and minds," so to speak.
I use war terminology advisedly.
Hey, if fuckin nobama can hide his life so can romney. And anyone else running for office for that matter. GO RON PAUL!
What's Vegas laying for odds that Newt-onium will also self-destruct with an implosion before it's over?
Ron Paul will be the ONLY one left.... How funny would THAT be?
Now just who does Ron Paul have to murder in broad daylight while having sex with Snooki before the general media finally decides he is worthy of a shot at this whole farce?
Amazing for RON PAUL!
libertarian86.blogspot.com
Romney is no good. But if you're hoping for a legit response from Mass, think again. The Gov is a in Obamas back pocket. The AG thinks she is Elliott Spitzer and is making a name for herself by destroying everyone around her. Politicians are bought and sold daily. FOIA request will get a response but don't expect any truth to come out. People in glass houses..
Tyler: (Reuters) - BP Plc accused Halliburton Co of destroying evidence that the oilfield services company did inadequate cement work on the Gulf of Mexico oil well that blew out last year, and asked a federal judge to punish Halliburton. The accusation, in a BP court filing, raises the stakes ahead of a trial, expected in late February
http://www.theoildrum.com/
Been sayin this from day #1. It blew right after the cement plug was placed.
weren't they using a new type (experimental) of cement?
"Hey, Bubba, just pump more mud in there! Here, add this bubblegum, it'll hold!"
The well was flowing after the cement job. BP could have killed it then but wanted to get that high dollar simi-submersible rig off location. Bad cement jobs are not uncommon and there are ways to deal with them. BP took an unnecessary risk and got bit in the ass. It's their fault. Not Halliburton, not Transocean or anybody else.
"President Perry." Go ahead and get used to saying it. He's just stupid enough to get elected. It's what America wants, and what America deserves.
President Santorum sounded, well, real impressive
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/end-of-nations/
End of Nations: EU Takeover and The Lisbon Treaty
Quick question to the crowd, many of whom I know have been around at least 3 years.
Are you more skeptical, or less skeptical, of the official 9/11 report than you were 38 months ago?
What does the answer to that question tell you?
wrong website, no one has been around here for at least 3 years
I just turned two a little bit ago and I am a fogey. According to Wikipedia (!LOL!).....drum roll please...
"Zero Hedge was founded in January 2009"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Hedge
The idiocracy will literally bomb Paul out of the running if they have to. I'm sorry to say. The idiocracy right sees Paul as "isolationist" and weak on Iran. If they have to, they'll go to war with Iran just as Pauls chances look good.
Check out paragraph three of this article.
It’s safe to say the Israelis are very active,” the official said, adding about U.S. efforts: “Everything that [GOP presidential candidate] Mitt Romney said we should be doing—tough sanctions, covert action and pressuring the international community -- are all of the things we are actually doing.”
http://www.nationaljournal.com/has-the-war-with-iran-already-begun--2011...
As someone else said-
If Benji Netenyahu woke up tomorrow to find himself as an Iranian in Tehran, don't you think the first thing he would say is- everyone else on our borders has the bomb, why can't we? -just sayin-
First rule of honorable politics -put yourself in the other guy's shoes.
Mitts Skeleton...and people wonder how I manage to find ideas.
"Part of me's MISSING!!!"
--The Invisible Man
I'm going to vote for Ron Paul, but not because of this. Romney is a smart guy and makes sure to keep his nose clean enough. He probably knew he was going to run since he was 12. It comes down to philosophy and consistency.
Ron Paul 2012
End the FED
Ending the FED is great.
But look at all of his other ideas. He's well rounded and on point with just about everything he says. What's even better is that his track record backs it up. No other candidate compares in my mind.
I wonder if we will hear something shady that Ron Paul has done... doubt it.
The three little kittens,
They washed their mittens,
And hung them out to dry.
Oh, mother, dear,
Do you not hear,
Our mittens we have washed?
What! Washed your mittens?
Then you're good kittens!
But I smell a rat close by.
Meow, meow,
I smell a rat close by...
Well, what could a former boss of one of the most corrupt, machine-driven states (sorry, commonwealths) in the Union possibly need to keep secret?
The mind boggles.
In Massachusetts even your goddamn dog is on the take. Seriously, make with the Milk Bones or its bitesville.
For Mitt, no doubt the biggest mistake will turn out to be that he DIDN'T have a boring, old fashioned scandal while in office just to get it over with.
Looks like Obamanites and Newtonites cannot find anything against Romney; so they are really getting pathetically desperate.
This smells fishy. Looks like the elites may want an Obama - Newt matchup to get Obama back in office.
Dude, if Elmer Fudd against the Bamster, he'd win:)
Stick a fork in the Bam, he's done:)))
Ron Paul + Snooki = brain stroke
http://vegasxau.blogspot.com
If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.... Right?
TOKYO, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) -- The operator of Japan's quake damaged Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant on Monday confirmed that radioactive water from the plant may have leaked into the ocean, sparking fresh concerns about the nation's ongoing nuclear crisis.
Asia's largest utility firm Tokyo Electric Power Company, also known as Tepco, said that around 45 tons of water contaminated with radioactive substances caesium and iodine had likely run into the ocean from a gutter system into which water had leaked from a condensation unit.
Junichi Matsumoto, a general manager at Tepco, said the leaked water contained 16,000 becquerels per liter of radioactive cesium 134 and 29,000 becquerels of cesium 137, surpassing government safety limits by 267 and 322 times respectively.
Call and raise
TEPCO admits reactor not only suffered full meltdown, but molten fuel burned through protective structures
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/01/fukushima-meltdown-was-more-severe-than-thought-study-says/
Fukushima City still backpedalling as more areas in major, unevacuated city found highly contaminated
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20111205_30.html
Nice. I fold. For tonight.
I'm singin in the rain, just singin in the rain,
Such a glorious feeling, I'm happy again--- (west coast edition)
Milestones
all to deflect the attention from looking for obama's skeletons in his closet, or mosque, or whereever the hell he keeps 'em.....romney is the best "political" candidate and most electable....so of course he will garner the most scrutiny....cain's votes will not go to obama.....ron paul is the most honest, which is why he will NOT get elected, too many lobbies against his politics, but he may get nominated as a sacrficial lamb to ensure the current status quo
Did Tyler advise "another debate". No, no, no more, please, I beg you. No more debates.
Juicy stuff. Really shows intent on Mitt's staff. I thought with legislative HIPAA related traffic it was illegal to sell the drives without at least formatting them.
The upstream ISP for the state might have the mail traffic as well as the NSA. The upstream ISP for email routing was AT&T, if I recall correctly.
Someone needs to do an FOIA on Newt's email traffic (as well as all of his assistants) for when he was in the house. They have to have that traffic in the .gov vault. Ditto for Ron Paul, although I suspect he'll be pretty clean.
oh come on tyler. need you ask? you know the drill. paul has to report to jerusalem and kiss bibi's ass and then put on the beenie hat and go to the waling wall and act really contrite and shit and then say a prayer to the jewish god and kiss the wall...........
Once he gets 'The Briefing' in which they explain the Israeli suitcase nukes in the US (AKA insurance) he will just say 'OH OK' and that will be that.
Tyler - Lets face factds - the left wing facxsists have destroyed Perry (N-head), destroyed Cain (bimbos w/o a fraction of evidence of Clinton), Pelosi going after Gingrich...and now they are attacking Romney.
If Barry the Kenyan had 1/10 of the Media scrutiny (and I am all for Media scrutiny DEM or REP) he would have not made it to the Illinois Senate.
Indeed, can we have the same exposay (sic) with on all things w/ ObamaSan? Cheers...keep up the great work.
what is the left wing? these two idiots did most of the damage themselves. first off, if you are going to run for president, it might be a good idea to keep your dickie in pants at all times ...........also , when you are in debates , it might be a good idea to prepare your material in advance and shit........
HDP - for starters the "left wing" is Big Media. I mean is that a secret?
ok fine. you want to go there. that is ok with me. so tell me. who are the owners of the big media?
hey...good question. But rather than go through the ownership (gets involved as they are public companies) I simply observe their douible standard in reporting (most is not reporting but opinion presented as reporting).
I am all for getting the real story....but ...again...if Obama had 1/10 of the investigative "reporting" he would not made it to the IL Senate.
The big questin in the US is not DEM or REP it is the Big media's destructive bias. And the bias slanted 90% to left wing (DEM party).
It uis what they do (or don't do) that I am concerned with. not who owns them. Cheers.
And here we see the double standard at work. Question to you HPD, wasn't the medias fascination with Bubba due to him not keeping his dickie in his pants:) I think it was.
"...if you are going to run for president, it might be a good idea to keep your dickie in pants at all times..."
Exactly what Larry told Barry. Barry found him too cute to control himself.
"Don't take the brown acid man!" Do you seriously think the Dems went after Perry or Cain instead of Mittens?
Yes. They go one at a time. Esay ones first. Romney is going to be difficult.
Again....where is the call for equal "investigation" of Obama? That is the most overriding question.
oh come on dude. the whole damn bunch up there are culpable except maybe ron paul and that is about it. the whole damn system is corrupt and out of control. this left right democrat republican game just doesn't cut it anymore ......
: Call the dude who chaired the 9/11 committee for suggestions. Milestones
Left wing? What is left wing? All party turned fascist, which is right wing. Left wing is as extinct as the dodo.
The whole legislative body has only gone more and more right for decades. Right now Ronald Reagan, the fascist fucktard idiot, would be the leftest most liberal in town if he was alive and in washington. Well aside from maybe Bernie Sanders and Kucinich.
But even then left-right is idiotic, as it doesn't really mean anything. Are we enacting fascist corporate policies or not?
Here's a clue
We have a fascist Judicial
We have a fascist Legislative
We have a fascist Executive
...and they're only gaining speed towards deeper fascism, on both 'sides'.
Thus we are RIGHT WING CONTROLLED, even if it is a democrat in name only in charge of the executive. Which of course is only 1 of the 3 sections.
You can be a democrat or a republican and be both a fascist and a socialist. Fascist against the people, socialist with the banksters...except for food stamps, and a couple of other pathetic giveaways that don't amount to shit.
Both parties are doing this on a regular basis. So what if the democrats are using the republican playbook now, it's now the playbook of both.
Here's another clue, every candidate on the right for president is a complete fucktard, not worthy of a single vote, except Ron Paul, who is also a fucktard, but less of one. The rest are traitors, but somehow you missed that.
Sure so is Obama, but with all your fingerpointing at NerObama, you forgot to check your own house was full of maggots.
Plus the combined IQ of those idiot candidates you mentioned is two.
You seriously think it's the fault of others for ones own actions?
Good luck finding the truth, you're still about 99 percent away from it, but you seem to have the will.
Glass-Steagall
jmc -Ummm...of course it does depend on one's definition...however...fascism has ALWAYS been a left wing concept. Just because there was violence associated with the 30's/40's fasiscm of Germany and Italy does not mean that it was "right wing". Although the Big Media has always associated European facsism with "right wing". Indeed it was not....well maybe to the right of communism ...whicxh was prevalent and vying for power in Italy at that time.
Since the 60s that has been the assumption, and taught in Universities etc.... Indeed if one defines facsism as "governemnt = business"...parastals etc...then that is exactly the definition of left wing.
The Left has alweays marketed themselves as "for the people" ....but of course it ahs always been "for the fascsists and friends of facsists".
Europe today = perfect example. Fannie and Freddie, which can be said to have encouraged and indeed facilitated the credit bubble (housing...which of course leads to greater bubbles ....Equites...illeagal immigration, etc..)...not to mention the CRA Act (on steroids under Billary)....these programs are clearly left wing policies...indeed facsist policies.
Right on Clowns.
Never ceases to amaze me that the Asswipes that yell the word Fascists the loudest, are the same one who advocate BIG governement:)
Total ignorance on display for all to see:))))
there is no way in hell, anyone, or anything, can clean up the fraud, the corrupt, the manipulation before us, other than God! we mortals would never be able to filter away, scrape off the greed, the.... well, you know what i mean!
What ever happened to records retention laws? Did they get lost?
Couldn't of happened to a better jobs destroyer. Hey Mitt, if you double up on the magical underwear, perhaps it'll all go away. Remember though, don't make the shit hole bigger, that's blasphemy.
I still can't believe after all these fucktards, the republicans still can't even try Ron Paul. Yes he's an idiot like the rest, but in a different way. Because of this, and some key positions he holds, he is heads and tails better than the rest...even if he is incompetent about economics, and confuses oligarchy with founding fathers on a regular basis...guess what so do the rest, but in a Keynesian or other way.
But there's still time for the republicans to for once not be a complete collective bunch of dipshits. Just once. (and remember Ron Paul isn't a democrat, thus that is why I'm not skewering them, because only republicans control Ron's fate.)
Ron Paul just needs a few more fucktards out, and then he can swoon us with oligarchical Austrian monetary ideology and try to convince us it's what the founding fathers wanted. WRONG. But at least we know he'd do a few good things before completely screwing the pooch emanating from his own sophistry induced failings.
Glass-Steagall
American Credit System (Not Keynesian nor Austrian fantasyland imperial monetarism)
I filed a municipal FOIA request last year looking for police, fire and municipal worker disability settlement information. They told me that I could see the injury claims with the job title and settlements, but the names would be redacted. I discovered that by zooming the picture to 400% I could read all the names.
The mother of all backhanded compliments.
Good stuff...for a Monday.
The ONLY person that was/IS going to get the republican nomination was Newt, All these debates are to just to entertain the sheeple. More than likely you will see Newt/Paul nomination in the end. And they will start more END THE FED campain, because thats what they want to do in the first place. End/kill the dollar as reserve currency and switch more money power to IMF. The Euro will fail first then drag the US dollar down, of course they gonna claim they tring to save the Euro.
What, no 'Draft Jeb Bush/James Baker at the convention' scenario? You lack imagination.
Mitt Romney will be the next president of the United States - get used to it!
WOO-HOO! All hail President I-was-born-on-third-base-and-told-I-hit-a-triple!
Oklahoma official GOP Straw Poll from November 21 till December 5, cost $5 to vote RESULTS:
Paul 46%
Cain 25%
Gingrich 17%
How bout them apples?!!!
Romney is just slicked-up-mothers-basement-Sunday-Televangelist-creepy.
Mr. Romney seems uniquely qualified to be a usa president.
but, dont forget, it is the voting machines that will decide who is the next president.
If they take down Romney, then maybe someone new will jump into the race...Bobby Jindal, Gov. of Louisiana ?
He could beat Obama with two hands tied behind his back, so the late start shouldn't pose too much a problem.
Afterall, they used to draft Presidents at conventions, didn't they?
Jindal would be a good one but there's another guy from Louisiana that should be heard. The ex Lt. Gov. Buddy Roemer. Although I think he doesn't want any part of the cluster fuck that is the Republican party anymore.
Dude, the "CRAZY GUY" is in the White House:)
Ethics Committee Extends Investigation into Jesse Jackson Jr.
http://chasvoice.blogspot.com/2011/12/ethics-committee-extends-investiga...
Elvis and Helen of Troy, on the kitchen table for $1 trillion quatloos Alex.
Jesus H christ you guys need to tighten up, this is old news from weeks ago.
You guys have a lot to learn about the Massachusetts political game and what the fuck happens on Beacon Hill on the daily.
LMFAO!!!
Weak ass shit.
The president is just a shoe shiner for TPTB. Mitt, the country club republican Romney, does not stand a chance to the American people anyway. I hate to say it, but Obama will get a second term and really-does anybody think the world would be different if another candidate were elected.
I think Charlie Sheen could beat Obummer.
Setting the stage for another term-- America where presidencies are more like figure heads for central planners to continue the reign of idiocy.
As Massachusetts governor, Romney worked with a Democrat-led state house to close a budget shortfall and signed a healthcare overhaul that required nearly all state residents to buy insurance or face penalties.
Supporting a law requiring Mass citizens to buy health insurance should have been enough to keep him out of the GOP race.
SOoo... you're saying bullish on Iron Mountain and other paper shredding/archiving companies? Maybe bullish on neodynium magnets? Bullish on multi-formatting hard drive software?
What are the ticker symbols I need to buy?
I would expect other politicians out there will try to haul ass and do the samething before this "loophole" is blocked.
I won't be surprised if things surface a few weeks from now.
Romney is about as corrupt as they get. If this guy makes President, you can GUARANTEE a war with Iran, so they can use it as a cover for the final takeover. He is a tool of pure corporate evil.
Read:
http://www.amazon.com/Simple-Wealth-Mr-Andrew-Costello/dp/1463523017/ref
Its gotta be for all the porn that was downloaded. In four freaking years one can obtain quite a collection.