http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=fargo Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:51:10 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=fargo Wed, 12 Jun 2013 06:34:07 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=089_1371032857 BloodyPeasant This is a LIVE event which is scheduled to start at 6pm Eastern Standard Time (that is, 6pm in Washington, DC). Prior to the start of the event the video will likely just show a countdown clock or nothing at all. After the event the recording of the event is usually shown. More LIVE events as they become available at: http://live.liveleak.com http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=089_1371032857 BloodyPeasant (Live) Fall Out Boy Live at Red Bull Sound Space 6pm EST live, feed, fallout boy, fallout, wasteland, rpg, Bryan Fargo, Sat, 15 Jun 2013 22:23:08 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a2e_1371349284 USMC_SRT From his wheelchair, retired Navy SEAL Elliott Miller raised the American flag at his new house Thursday. His house - all his and his wife's - mortgage-free. It lets him know, he said, that the United States remembers his sacrifice. Miller and his wife, April, received a free home in El Cajon thanks to a partnership between Wells Fargo and Military Warriors Support Foundation, a Texas-based charity that takes foreclosed houses and gives them to veterans wounded in combat. The injured SEAL was a particularly tough case; it took a year to find a house that could accommodate his wheelchair. Miller was gravely wounded in 2006 in Ramadi, Iraq, when his sniper position was hit by grenade, then he got caught in the blast of an improvised bomb. He lost part of a leg. Brain injury claimed his ability to speak. Now he communicates by typing, quickly with one thumb, on an iPad, which then voices his words. "It just means the world to me. It gives me and my family a sense of security, secure in the knowledge that I was not forgotten," Miller, 34, said Thursday. "My family is safe in secure housing forever, a home that we will not have to think about selling and moving every two to three years." More than 180 houses have been delivered to Iraq and Afghanistan veterans over the past two years, including 44 in California, foundation officials said. Banks transfer the deed to the charity, which holds it for three years. After demonstrating good stewardship, the veteran receives the property free and clear. Wells Fargo has donated 10 houses for veterans since 2009. Military Warriors Support Foundation also works with Bank of America, Chase and GMAC. Retired Army Lt. Gen. Leroy Sisco, who founded the charity in 2007, said seriously wounded veterans often don't have the fiscal wherewithal to buy a home. "They get their retirement pay, but some of them just don't have the finances to live," said Sisco, in El Cajon Thursday to hand the Millers a ceremonial key. "If we can take that worry and pain off the hero, because they are wounded and can't get a job, we want to make sure that's a part they don't have to worry about." The Millers, who had been living in military housing, tried to buy on their own. But the San Diego real estate market made it impossible, the retired SEAL said. Now they have what can only be described as quite a spread. The two-bedroom hillside house overlooking El Cajon was constructed 64 years ago, according to Wells Fargo property records. It was last sold in 2004 for $565,000. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a2e_1371349284 USMC_SRT Not forgotten: Navy SEAL gets free house USN, Navy, SEAL, Vet Sat, 15 Jun 2013 04:55:26 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0ee_1371286423 absu69 Nearly six years since massive financial fraud and speculative market manipulation drove the global capitalist economy off the rails, congressional grifters in both benighted political parties have turned over the legislative process to bankster lobbyists. Talk about technocratic efficiency! Last week, The New York Times revealed that "Bank lobbyists are not leaving it to lawmakers to draft legislation that softens financial regulations. Instead, the lobbyists are helping to write it themselves." According to emails leaked to the Times, a bill that "sailed through the House Financial Services Committee this month--over the objections of the Treasury Department--was essentially Citigroup's." Despite huge losses during the capitalist economic meltdown, which included heavy exposure to toxic collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) which cost shareholders some 85 percent of asset value by early 2009, by 2012 the bank had built up an enormous cash horde to the tune of $420 billion (lb277.7bn), derived from selling some $500 billion (lb330.6bn) of "special assets" placed in Citi holdings that were guaranteed from losses by the US Treasury Department; this included untaxed overseas profits of some $35.9 billion (lb23.74bn) according to Bloomberg . As I reported last month, Citigroup was handed some $45 billion (lb29.78bn) in TARP funds while the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve secretly backstopped more than $300 billion (lb197.31bn) in toxic assets on their books. In addition to receiving "$2.5 trillion of support from the American taxpayer through capital infusions, asset guarantees and low-cost loans," as Wall Street on Parade analyst Pam Martens pointed out, like other too-big-to-jail banks such as Wachovia and HSBC, the Citi brand has long been associated with washing dirty cash for drug cartels. Hit with a toothless Consent Order by the Federal Reserve in March over "deficiencies in the Banks' BSA/AML compliance programs," federal regulators charged that Citigroup and their affiliate Banamex "lacked effective systems of governance and internal controls to adequately oversee the activities of the Banks with respect to legal, compliance, and reputational risk related to the Banks' respective BSA/AML compliance programs." The Federal Reserve "action" followed an anemic Consent Order last year by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) which also cited Citi's failure to "adopt and implement a compliance program that adequately covers the required BSA/AML program elements due to an inadequate system of internal controls." Additionally, the OCC charged that the "Bank did not develop adequate due diligence on foreign correspondent bank customers and failed to file Suspicious Activity Reports ('SARs') related to its remote deposit capture/international cash letter instrument activity in a timely manner." Nevertheless, as with other criminogenic banks such as JPMorgan Chase, similarly hit with an equally toothless Consent Order by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in January, in their infinite wisdom the Federal Reserve averred that their Citigroup action was issued "without this Order constituting an admission or denial by Citigroup of any allegation made or implied by the Board of Governors in connection with this matter, and solely for the purpose of settling this matter without a formal proceeding being filed and without the necessity for protracted or extended hearings or testimony." In other words, let's sweep this under the rug as quickly as possible and move on. But before we do, let's step back for a moment and wrap our heads around a few salient facts. Here's a bank with a documented history as the GAO revealed in 1998, of laundering drug money for well-placed Ju'arez and Gulf Cartel crony Ra'ul Salinas de Gortari, the brother of former Mexican president Carlos Salinas, charged with amassing a multimillion dollar fortune from narcotics rackets and then squirreling it away in London, Switzerland and the Cayman Islands. Does this evoke any memories? According to GAO investigators, "Mr. Salinas was able to transfer $90 million to $100 million between 1992 and 1994 by using a private banking relationship formed by Citibank New York in 1992. The funds were transferred through Citibank Mexico and Citibank New York to private banking investment accounts in Citibank London and Citibank Switzerland." Beginning in 1992, Citibank "assisted Mr. Salinas with these transfers and effectively disguised the funds' source and destination, thus breaking the funds' paper trail." And they did so by creating "an offshore private investment company named Trocca, to hold Mr. Salinas's assets, through Cititrust (Cayman) and investment accounts in Citibank London and Citibank Switzerland," and then failed to "prepare a financial profile on him or request a waiver for the profile, as required by then Citibank know your customer policy." Keep in mind that when Swiss prosecutors completed their money laundering investigation, The New York Times disclosed that "Swiss police investigators have concluded that a brother of former President Carlos Salinas de Gortari played a central role in Mexico's cocaine trade, raking in huge bribes to protect the flow of drugs into the United States." That Swiss report stated, "When Carlos Salinas de Gortari became President of Mexico in 1988, Ra'ul Salinas de Gortari assumed control over practically all drug shipments through Mexico. Through his influence and bribes paid with drug money, officials of the army and the police supported and protected the flourishing drug business." Does the name of former Banamex CEO Roberto Hern'andez ring any bells? Described as "the single biggest winner" of Mexican bank privatizations engineered by the Bush and Clinton regimes during the 1990s as Narco News disclosed, a subsequent investigation revealed that "Hern'andez had been accused--publicly and via a criminal complaint--by the daily newspaper Por Esto! of trafficking tons of Colombian cocaine through his Caribbean costa properties on that peninsula since 1997." And when Citigroup acquired Banamex in 2001 for the then-princely sum of $12.5 billion (lb8.27bn), it was described as the largest US-Mexican corporate merger in history. Should it surprise us that this Citi subsidiary was named alongside parent Citigroup by the OCC and Federal Reserve for repeated failures to adequately police dirty money flowing into their coffers? Members of the House Financial Services Committee should examine why they would turn over the legislative process to a criminal financial cartel! As Times' journalists Eric Lipton and Ben Protess reported, "Citigroup's recommendations were reflected in more than 70 lines of the House committee's 85-line bill. Two crucial paragraphs, prepared by Citigroup in conjunction with other Wall Street banks, were copied nearly word for word. (Lawmakers changed two words to make them plural.)" Proving yet again, that Washington lawmakers are beholden to their Wall Street masters, MapLight , a nonpartisan research group that "reveals money's influence on politics in the US Congress," disclosed that legislators "serving" on the House Financial Services Committee "approved six bills that would roll back pieces of the Dodd-Frank Act designed to improve regulation of the derivatives market." Lawmakers who voted "yes" on HR 992 , the Orwellian-named Swaps Regulatory Improvement Act, "received, on average, 2.6 times more money from top banks than committee members" who voted "no." MapLight further disclosed that lawmakers who voted "yes" on this pernicious piece of legislative detritus "received, on average, 3 times more money from the Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate (FIRE) sector," than committee members who voted "no." The $700 trillion derivatives market, 93.2 percent of which is controlled by the four largest too-big-to-fail-and-jail US banks, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup, is a cash cow and shadow market for crooked financial insiders. HR 992, which rolled-back a key provision of 2010's anemic Dodd-Frank financial "reform" legislation, Sec. 716, would have required banks to spin off their derivatives activities into separate units that would not have access to federal bank subsidies, i.e., taxpayer bailouts. "In recent weeks, the Times reported, "Wall Street groups also held fund-raisers for lawmakers who co-sponsored the bills. At one dinner Wednesday night, corporate executives and lobbyists paid up to $2,500 to dine in a private room of a Greek restaurant just blocks from the Capitol with Representative Sean Patrick Maloney, Democrat of New York, a co-sponsor of the bill championed by Citigroup." Responding to questions, Financial Services Committee member Jim Himes, a former Goldman Sachs banker, third-term Connecticut Democrat and one of the top recipients of Wall Street largess to the tune of $194,500 according to OpenSecrets told the Times: "It's appalling, it's disgusting, it's wasteful and it opens the possibility of conflicts of interest and corruption. It's unfortunately the world we live in." No Mr. Himes, it's the world you live in. While your colleague across the aisle, Stephen Fincher (R-TN), cites Bible verses to justify gutting federal nutritional assistance to 47 million hungry Americans while being the "the second largest recipient of farm subsidies in the United States Congress" according to Forbes , and received some $3.48 million (lb2.3m) since 1999 in USDA farm subsidies while doing the "Lord's work" according to the Environmental Working Group , the US Congress, including "liberal" Obama Democrats have promoted every filthy piece of legislation that facilitates Wall Street's plundering of the American people. Referencing the recent vote on HR 992, the Center for Responsive Politics reported that in the first quarter of 2013, members of the Financial Services Committee "received more than $1.3 million in donations to their campaigns and leadership PACs from the securities and investment industry and commercial banks." According to OpenSecrets, "By far the largest source of cash from the two industries was the Investment Company Institute , a trade association representing Wall Street firms. The ICI gave at least $129,000 to members of the House Financial Services Committee. Other trade groups representing banks and investment firms, including the American Bankers Association and the Independent Community Bankers of America , were also major contributors." OpenSecrets reported that "Banking industry companies increased their contributions in 2013 to $640,286, from $497,169 in early 2011. Citigroup, in particular, jumped from $19,500 in donations to committee members to $39,500. UBS went from $64,250 to $88,000. Wells Fargo also opened its checkbook a little wider this year, giving $80,000, compared with $31,250 in 2011." Commenting on this latest gift to Wall Street criminals, the World Socialist Web Site observed: "Flush with the $85 billion in cash printed up and handed to the banks every month by the Federal Reserve, business at the Wall Street casino is booming. Stock values are at record levels and so are bank profits, amidst declining wages and mass poverty." "Under these conditions," Marxist critic Andre Damon averred, "the banks have been pushing to rip up even the very modest restrictions on financial speculation, while broadening the scope of government bailout laws. The aim is simple: to give banks the maximum ability to speculate without constraint, while getting the maximum possible government assistance if and when the bubble collapses." None of this should surprise anyone who has paid the least attention to the cronyism and financial parasitism of the Obama regime. From get-out-of-jail-free-cards passed out to drug money laundering banks by Eric Holder's Justice Department, to the appointments of Citigroup alumnus and Cayman Islands tax-dodger Jacob Lew as Treasury Secretary, Debevoise &amp; Plimpton partner Mary Jo White over at the Securities and Exchange Commission to the nomination of billionaire Hyatt Hotel heiress, subprime mortgage "pioneer" and union-buster Penny Pritzker to lead the Commerce Department, it's a bankster world, all the time. How's that for Hope and ChangeTM! http://antifascist-calling.blogspot.com/ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0ee_1371286423 absu69 Bankster Lobbyists Writing Regulatory 'Reform' Legislation banks,writing,regulation Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:20:27 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=88b_1370836995 dcdirectactionnews On the 8th of June, conflict between tradtionalists and assimilationists in the GLBT community came to a head with a showdown at Capitol Pride. The Booty Bragidiers staged a pirate-themed parade out of Logan Circle, and marched to intercept the Pride Parade. Once there, they blockaded the Wells Fargo and Citbank's parade floats from passing. Signs carried by the pirate march explictly condemned the corporatization of Pride, with slogans like "Stonewall wasn't sponsored by Bud Light." One of the targets, Wells Fargo, was hit for the second year in a row. Last year, there was a disruption of their booth at the Festival protesting Well's Fargo's investments in the GEO Group. GEO owns private prisons, some of which have been abusing transgender inmates. That being so, Wells Fargo has no more right to march in Pride than the so-called "Family Research Council" does! The police were slow to push the Booth Brigadiers out of the streets on both occasions, but were also heavily outnumbered by Occupiers and Radical Cheeerleaders. The thought of another mouthful of "wrestling with bacon on the bottom" clearly did not appeal to the cops. When they did clear the streets, they relied only on pushing and shoving, avoiding arrests or wrestling on asphalt. On the other hand, some of the folks the banks had manning their floats were quite aggressive. The driver of the Citibank truck was the worst, trying to use his engine to slowly push a bicycle blackade with his bumper. He was not directly sucessful, but eventually the combination of the few cops and hordes of bank float marchers pushed a path through. The final act was yet to come. One of the progressive contingents in the parade was a Bradely Manning support contingent, When it passed, the Booty Bragadiers pushed through the cops and joined them, marching the rest of the parade route with the Bradley Manning support contingent. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=88b_1370836995 dcdirectactionnews &quot;Booty Bucanners&quot; block Wells <span class="highlight">Fargo</span>, Citi floats at Gay Pride dcdirectactionnews, Gay Pride, Capitol Pride, Wells Fargo, Citibank Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:02:24 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b19_1370970807 wmansue President Obama visits Santa Monica and so does a shooter killing people and turning sunny Santa Monica into a scene out of "Demolition Man". And, the shooter looks like Sage Stallone who died mysteriously in LA about a year ago and Stallone's sister was killed in Santa Monica where she died of cancer(the Klan poisons people here and also gives people AIDS, HIV, and Syphillus, etc... Evil Martian Hives). SAMO police say they gunned down the shooter but we all know the shooter is back in Langley, VA depositing a cool billion in his Wells Fargo bank account. Internet Publisher and TV-Radio Producer Wayne E. Manzo, PhD has developed another money making machine in the form of "Talk Radio". What makes this talk radio show unique and marketable is that it focuses on the "Alien Invasion" and the "Alien Agenda" in America. This is the second DEMO and is about 80 minutes long including the 2 minute video montage from the first DEMO of "Alien Invasion Talk Radio". There is a book review segment that includes books by Bill Shatner and a book about Area 51. Also a listener call-in segment where the toll free number is 1 800 N HELL and human people discuss the problems they are having living with a Martian telepathic psycho race. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b19_1370970807 wmansue Obama and Shooter in Santa Monica June 7 2013, DEMO-2 80min, Alien Invasion Talk Radio with Wayne Manzo, PhD Obama, Alien Invasion, Alien Invasion Talk Radio, Talk Radio, Santa Monica Shooter, Bob Ieger, Disney, Saban, Wayne Manzo, NASA, NASA Conspiracy,Bush, Clinton, UFO, UFO Conspiracy, 911 Conspiracy, Attack on America Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:40:48 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=af9_1370838699 dcdirectactionnews The Pride Festival on the 9th of June had many inappropriate participants, including the FBI, CIA, Department of Homeland Security (!) as well as Lockheed Martin and Wells Fargo. The Wells Fargo display had two bank security guards ln duty, no doubt because they have now been confronted twice at Pride by protesters. Wells Fargo is especially inappropriate due to the mistreatment of transgender prisoners in private porsions owned by the GEO Group. The largest investor in the GEO Group is Wells Fargo. In other words, transgender sex workers could be sent to and abused in a Wells Fargo-owned prison, yet Wells Fargo is allowed to participate in Pride! On the other hand, the scantily clad young men who for generations were the symbol of Pride parades were present, though not in large numbers. I removed my own shirt to contribute to that atmosphere. The first mention of Stonewall I saw was at the end of the parade opposite where I entered, where "Stonewall Kickball" had a booth. Pride is our 4th of July, intended to celebrate the defeat of an attempt by NYC cops to raid a Gay bar, the Stonewall Inn, on June 28, 1969. In the three days of fighting that followed, first the BATF and NYC Vice Squad, than the "TPF" NYC riot squad were clobbered under furious counterattack by first hundreds, then thousands of young "street queens." They got little to no support from organized groups of that time, just as transgender and traditional GLBT culture activists get little to no suppport from groups like the HRC today. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=af9_1370838699 dcdirectactionnews Capitol Pride: Assimilationists vs traditionalists dcdirectactionnews, Capitol Pride Sun, 26 May 2013 14:09:07 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=80b_1369591521 plokiju WASHINGTON - Bank lobbyists are not leaving it to lawmakers to draft legislation that softens financial regulations. Instead, the lobbyists are helping to write it themselves. One bill that sailed through the House Financial Services Committee this month - over the objections of the Treasury Department - was essentially Citigroup's, according to e-mails reviewed by The New York Times. The bill would exempt broad swathes of trades from new regulation. In a sign of Wall Street's resurgent influence in Washington, Citigroup's recommendations were reflected in more than 70 lines of the House committee's 85-line bill. Two crucial paragraphs, prepared by Citigroup in conjunction with other Wall Street banks, were copied nearly word for word. (Lawmakers changed two words to make them plural.) The lobbying campaign shows how, three years after Congress passed the most comprehensive overhaul of regulation since the Depression, Wall Street is finding Washington a friendlier place. The cordial relations now include a growing number of Democrats in both the House and the Senate, whose support the banks need if they want to roll back parts of the 2010 financial overhaul, known as Dodd-Frank. This legislative push is a second front, with Wall Street's other battle being waged against regulators who are drafting detailed rules allowing them to enforce the law. And as its lobbying campaign steps up, the financial industry has doubled its already considerable giving to political causes. The lawmakers who this month supported the bills championed by Wall Street received twice as much in contributions from financial institutions compared with those who opposed them, according to an analysis of campaign finance records performed by MapLight, a nonprofit group. In recent weeks, Wall Street groups also held fund-raisers for lawmakers who co-sponsored the bills. At one dinner Wednesday night, corporate executives and lobbyists paid up to $2,500 to dine in a private room of a Greek restaurant just blocks from the Capitol with Representative Sean Patrick Maloney, Democrat of New York, a co-sponsor of the bill championed by Citigroup. Industry officials acknowledged that they played a role in drafting the legislation, but argued that the practice was common in Washington. Some of the changes, they say, have gained wide support, including from Ben S. Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman. The changes, they added, were in an effort to reach a compromise over the bills, not to undermine Dodd-Frank. "We will provide input if we see a bill and it is something we have interest in," said Kenneth E. Bentsen Jr., a former lawmaker turned Wall Street lobbyist, who now serves as president of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, or Sifma. The close ties hardly surprise Wall Street critics, who have long warned that the banks - whose small armies of lobbyists include dozens of former Capitol Hill aides - possess outsize influence in Washington. "The huge machinery of Wall Street information and analysis skews the thinking of Congress," said Jeff Connaughton, who has been both a lobbyist and Congressional staff member. Lawmakers who supported the industry-backed bills said they did so because the effort was in the public interest. Yet some agreed that the relationship with corporate groups was at times uncomfortable. "I won't dispute for one second the problems of a system that demands immense amount of fund-raisers by its legislators," said Representative Jim Himes, a third-term Democrat of Connecticut, who supported the recent industry-backed bills and leads the party's fund-raising effort in the House. A member of the Financial Services Committee and a former banker at Goldman Sachs, he is one of the top recipients of Wall Street donations. "It's appalling, it's disgusting, it's wasteful and it opens the possibility of conflicts of interest and corruption. It's unfortunately the world we live in." The passage of the Dodd-Frank Act, which took aim at culprits of the financial crisis like lax mortgage lending and the $700 trillion derivatives market, ushered in a new phase of Wall Street lobbying. Over the last three years, bank lobbyists have blitzed the regulatory agencies writing rules under Dodd-Frank, chipping away at some regulations. But the industry lobbyists also realized that Congress can play a critical role in the campaign to mute Dodd-Frank. The House Financial Services Committee has been a natural target. Not only is it controlled by Republicans, who had opposed Dodd-Frank, but freshmen lawmakers are often appointed to the unusually large committee because it is seen as a helpful base from which they can raise campaign funds. For Wall Street, the committee is a place to push back against Dodd-Frank. When banks and other corporations, for example, feared that regulators would demand new scrutiny of derivatives trades, they appealed to the committee. At the time, regulators were completing Dodd-Frank's overhaul of derivatives, contracts that allow companies to either speculate in the markets or protect against risk. Derivatives had pushed the insurance giant American International Group to the brink of collapse in 2008. The question was whether regulators would exempt certain in-house derivatives trades between affiliates of big banks. As the House committee was drafting a bill that would force regulators to exempt many such trades, corporate lawyers like Michael Bopp weighed in with their suggested changes, according to e-mails reviewed by The Times. At one point, when a House aide sent a potential compromise to Mr. Bopp, he replied with additional tweaks. In an interview, Mr. Bopp explained that he drafted the proposal at the request of Congressional aides, who expressed broad support for the change. The proposal, he explained, was a "compromise" that was actually designed to "limit the scope" of the exemption. "Everyone on the Hill wanted this bill, but they wanted to make sure it wasn't subject to abuse," said Mr. Bopp, a partner at the law firm Gibson, Dunn who was representing a coalition of nonfinancial corporations that use derivatives to hedge their risk. Ultimately, the committee inserted every word of Mr. Bopp's suggestion into a 2012 version of the bill that passed the House, save for a slight change in phrasing. A later iteration of the bill, passed by the House committee earlier this month, also included some of the same wording. And when federal regulators in April released a rule governing such trades, it was significantly less demanding than the industry had feared, a decision that the industry partly attributed to pressure stemming from Capitol Hill. Citigroup and other major banks used a similar approach on another derivatives bill. Under Dodd-Frank, banks must push some derivatives trading into separate units that are not backed by the government's insurance fund. The goal was to isolate this risky trading. The provision exempted many derivatives from the requirement, but some Republicans proposed striking the so-called push out provision altogether. After objections were raised about the Republican plan, Citigroup lobbyists sent around the bank's own compromise proposal that simply exempted a wider array of derivatives. That recommendation, put forth in late 2011, was largely part of the bill approved by the House committee on May 7 and is now pending before both the Senate and the House. Citigroup executives said the change they advocated was good for the financial system, not just the bank. "This view is shared not just by the industry but from leaders such as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke," said Molly Millerwise Meiners, a Citigroup spokeswoman. Industry executives said that the changes - which were drafted in consultation with other major industry banks - will make the financial system more secure, as the derivatives trading that takes place inside the bank is subject to much greater scrutiny. Representative Maxine Waters, the ranking Democrat on the Financial Services Committee, was among the few Democrats opposing the change, echoing the concerns of consumer groups. "The bill restores the public subsidy to exotic Wall Street activities," said Marcus Stanley, the policy director of Americans for Financial Reform, a nonprofit group. But most of the Democrats on the committee, along with 31 Republicans, came to the industry's defense, including the seven freshmen Democrats - most of whom have started to receive donations this year from political action committees of Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo and other financial institutions, records show. Six days after the vote, several freshmen Democrats were in New York to meet with bank executives, a tour organized by Representative Joe Crowley, who helps lead the House Democrats' fund-raising committee. The trip was planned before the votes, and was not a fund-raiser, but it gave the lawmakers a chance to meet with Wall Street's elite. In addition to a tour of Goldman's Lower Manhattan headquarters, and a meeting with Lloyd C. Blankfein, the bank's chief executive, the lawmakers went to JPMorgan's Park Avenue office. There, they chatted with Jamie Dimon, the bank's chief, about Dodd-Frank and immigration reform. The bank chief also delivered something of a pep talk. "America has the widest, deepest and most transparent capital markets in the world," he said. "Washington has been dealt a good hand." http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/05/23/banks-lobbyists-help-in-drafting-financial-bills/?smid=tw-share&amp;ncid=edlinkusaolp00000008 Kenneth E. Bentsen Jr., left, a Wall Street lobbyist, at a House financial services panel meeting. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=80b_1369591521 plokiju Wall Street Just Writing Their Own Regulations Word For Word At This Point Wall, Street, Just, Writing, Their, Own, Regulations, Word, For, Word, At, This, Point Wed, 22 May 2013 22:00:58 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=036_1369271521 dcdirectactionnews On the 22nd of May, the same protesters who have been hammering Eric Holder and the Department of Justice all week over "too big to fail" banks stormed the DC office of Holder's former law firm, Covington and Burling LLP. Reuters reports that Holder and many top DOJ officials were connected to major mortage banks by their prior work art Convington, which has represented many or most of the major banks involved in questionable foreclosures. Bank of America, Citibank, JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo are all clients of Convington and Burling LLP. In short, Convington symbolizes the "revolving door" between government and Wall St. interests. The theme of the protest was to "stop the revolving door" and the civil disobediance element of the protest did exactly that, sitting in and blocking both of the revolving doors. When the larger group that had invaded the lobby withdrew after police warnings, the revolving door blockades remained in place. According to one report 7 people were arrested in the revolving doors, and police took risks with the safety of the blockaders in the process of trying to move the doors to access some of the protesters. Revolving doors can be folded up as well as rotated, so both ways of getting past the doors had to be secured to block the police. In response, police attempted to rotate or otherwise move the doors even when there was the risk of body parts being trapped. For some reason, Taser-wielding Homeland Security cops were summoned to the scene by MPD when it was time to move arrestees out of the building. This time around, the Tasers were not fired. All Tasers I've seen in the last three says in the hands of the FPS/Homeland Security goons were loaded with "extra penetration," 25 foot range cartridges with the green blast doors. All recent Taser incidents I've seen or heard about involving protesters appeared to have been at or near contact range. A 25 foot shot with the requirement that both probes land on target with a Taser is not easy to make. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=036_1369271521 dcdirectactionnews Foreclosure protesters storm Covington and Burling dcdirectactionnews, Covington and Burling, Occupy Our Homes, foreclosures, civil disobediance Tue, 21 May 2013 16:31:28 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=65d_1369168059 omniradar Some people have started realizing that there are large financial groups that dominate the world. Forget the political intrigues, conflicts, revolutions and wars. It is not pure chance. Everything has been planned for a long time. Some call it "conspiracy theories" or New World Order. Anyway, the key to understanding the current political and economic events is a restricted core of families who have accumulated more wealth and power. We are speaking of 6, 8 or maybe 12 families who truly dominate the world. Know that it is a mystery difficult to unravel. We will not be far from the truth by citing Goldman Sachs, Rockefellers, Loebs Kuh and Lehmans in New York, the Rothschilds of Paris and London, the Warburgs of Hamburg, Paris and Lazards Israel Moses Seifs Rome. Many people have heard of the Bilderberg Group, Illuminati or the Trilateral Commission. But what are the names of the families who run the world and have control of states and international organizations like the UN, NATO or the IMF? To try to answer this question, we can start with the easiest: inventory, the world's largest banks, and see who the shareholders are and who make the decisions. The world's largest companies are now: Bank of America, JP Morgan, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. Let us now review who their shareholders are. Bank of America: State Street Corporation, Vanguard Group, BlackRock, FMR (Fidelity), Paulson, JP Morgan, T. Rowe, Capital World Investors, AXA, Bank of NY, Mellon. JP Morgan: State Street Corp., Vanguard Group, FMR, BlackRock, T. Rowe, AXA, Capital World Investor, Capital Research Global Investor, Northern Trust Corp. and Bank of Mellon. Citigroup: State Street Corporation, Vanguard Group, BlackRock, Paulson, FMR, Capital World Investor, JP Morgan, Northern Trust Corporation, Fairhome Capital Mgmt and Bank of NY Mellon. Wells Fargo: Berkshire Hathaway, FMR, State Street, Vanguard Group, Capital World Investors, BlackRock, Wellington Mgmt, AXA, T. Rowe and Davis Selected Advisers. We can see that now there appears to be a nucleus present in all banks: State Street Corporation, Vanguard Group, BlackRock and FMR (Fidelity). To avoid repeating them, we will now call them the "big four" Goldman Sachs: "The big four," Wellington, Capital World Investors, AXA, Massachusetts Financial Service and T. Rowe. Morgan Stanley: "The big four," Mitsubishi UFJ, Franklin Resources, AXA, T. Rowe, Bank of NY Mellon e Jennison Associates. Rowe, Bank of NY Mellon and Jennison Associates. We can just about always verify the names of major shareholders. To go further, we can now try to find out the shareholders of these companies and shareholders of major banks worldwide. Bank of NY Mellon: Davis Selected, Massachusetts Financial Services, Capital Research Global Investor, Dodge, Cox, Southeatern Asset Mgmt. and ... "The big four." State Street Corporation (one of the "big four"): Massachusetts Financial Services, Capital Research Global Investor, Barrow Hanley, GE, Putnam Investment and ... The "big four" (shareholders themselves!). BlackRock (another of the "big four"): PNC, Barclays e CIC. Who is behind the PNC? FMR (Fidelity), BlackRock, State Street, etc. And behind Barclays? BlackRock And we could go on for hours, passing by tax havens in the Cayman Islands, Monaco or the legal domicile of Shell companies in Liechtenstein. A network where companies are always the same, but never a name of a family. In short: the eight largest U.S. financial companies (JP Morgan, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, U.S. Bancorp, Bank of New York Mellon and Morgan Stanley) are 100% controlled by ten shareholders and we have four companies always present in all decisions: BlackRock, State Street, Vanguard and Fidelity. In addition, the Federal Reserve is comprised of 12 banks, represented by a board of seven people, which comprises representatives of the "big four," which in turn are present in all other entities. In short, the Federal Reserve is controlled by four large private companies: BlackRock, State Street, Vanguard and Fidelity. These companies control U.S. monetary policy (and world) without any control or "democratic" choice. These companies launched and participated in the current worldwide economic crisis and managed to become even more enriched. To finish, a look at some of the companies controlled by this "big four" group Alcoa Inc. Altria Group Inc. American International Group Inc. AT&amp;T Inc. Boeing Co. Caterpillar Inc. Coca-Cola Co. DuPont &amp; Co. Exxon Mobil Corp. General Electric Co. General Motors Corporation Hewlett-Packard Co. Home Depot Inc. Honeywell International Inc. Intel Corp. International Business Machines Corp Johnson &amp; Johnson JP Morgan Chase &amp; Co. McDonald's Corp. Merck &amp; Co. Inc. Microsoft Corp. 3M Co. Pfizer Inc. Procter &amp; Gamble Co. United Technologies Corp. Verizon Communications Inc. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Time Warner Walt Disney Viacom Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation., CBS Corporation NBC Universal The same "big four" control the vast majority of European companies counted on the stock exchange. In addition, all these people run the large financial institutions, such as the IMF, the European Central Bank or the World Bank, and were "trained" and remain "employees" of the "big four" that formed them. The names of the families that control the "big four", never appear. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=65d_1369168059 omniradar The Large Families that rule the world Media Sun, 12 May 2013 02:10:08 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=31e_1368337919 youareright The smallest bank in the world??? Could be! The bathroom must be tiny http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=31e_1368337919 youareright Wells <span class="highlight">Fargo</span> The smallest Bank in the World bank, money,small,tiny,little,lol,ha ha,got ya,dont,be, mad,have,a,sense,of,humor Tue, 07 May 2013 18:15:52 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9c4_1367963998 Flashovr A pathetic, anemic attempt at internet hacking was tried today against major US Banks. It failed so hard the only reason why we knew it was an attack is because the 'attackers' told us about it two weeks ago. (April 21st) Rated G for such an adorable effort. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9c4_1367963998 Flashovr Script Kiddies 'attack' US Banks on May 7, 2013 fail, failed, ffffailed, anonymous, attack, us, usa, banks, bank, america, wells, fargo Thu, 02 May 2013 14:22:35 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=87b_1367518764 HeyMaker69 Ashley Hunter-pictured above, 33, stabbed Orlando Dewitt, 37, during a threesome because he refused to change positions. Hunter and Dewitt (who met in prison) were partying in Fargo, North Dakota when they decided to continue the party at Hunter's home. The two men began to have a threesome with a women identified as Leticia. While Leticia was performing oral sex on Hunter, Dewitt asked him to change positions with him. When Hunter refused, the two men started to argue. The argument turned into violence when Hunter pulled a 12 inch knife from under his sofa. Leticia and Dewitt ran into the bathroom. Dewitt decided to make a run for the door, but was stabbed in his left arm. Dewitt grabbed Leticia's phone off of the table and called 911 in the alley, naked. According to Newsone, police found a trail of blood that lead from Hunters home. Hunter is in jail on a $5,000 bond. He will make a court appearance on March 13th. Link: http://www.theafrolounge.com/2013/02/14/man-stabs-friend-during-threesome-for-not-changing-positions/ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=87b_1367518764 HeyMaker69 Man Stabs Friend During Threesome For Not Changing Positions threesome, stab, ban knives, ban threesomes