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      <title>&lt;span class=&quot;highlight&quot;&gt;Morgan&lt;/span&gt; Freeman Falls Asleep On TV</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 18:04:58 -0400</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>mloschiavo</dc:creator>
      <description>Like a BOSS.

Jump to 00:30</description>
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      <title>&lt;span class=&quot;highlight&quot;&gt;Morgan&lt;/span&gt; Freeman falls asleep on live TV</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 14:20:25 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>I think that was him puffing at 2:19 as he dozed off.</description>
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      <title>Drunk Riding a Scooter Meets Karma</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 19:37:17 -0400</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>landsolo</dc:creator>
      <description>A swift lesson in the dangers of drinking and driving.

Just found out its a repost, so don't get your panties in a wad, just enjoy the music.

Music by Morgan Grace - Mean Drunk</description>
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      <title>Piers &lt;span class=&quot;highlight&quot;&gt;Morgan&lt;/span&gt; finally admits this administration is tyrannical.</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 12:54:11 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>Boom !</description>
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      <title>Even CNN's  Piers &lt;span class=&quot;highlight&quot;&gt;Morgan&lt;/span&gt; Goes Sour on Obama Regime</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 19:34:10 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>The thrill is gone</description>
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      <title>My vey first Yoursay</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 17:34:37 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>My first Yoursay. Time to pop that cherry. Enjoy or don't. Do your worst people. You can't hurt me Trolls.</description>
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      <title>Foreclosure protesters storm Covington and Burling</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 22:00:58 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>On the 22nd of May, the same protesters who have been hammering Eric Holder and the Department of Justice all week over &quot;too big to fail&quot; 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 &quot;revolving door&quot; between government and Wall St. interests.

The theme of the protest was to &quot;stop the revolving door&quot; 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 &quot;extra penetration,&quot; 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.</description>
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      <title>Zimbabwe's Mugabe signs new constitution </title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 17:53:12 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>President Robert Mugabe has signed Zimbabwe's new constitution into law, clearing the path to crucial elections later this year.

A beaming Mugabe - flanked by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, his main political rival, and Deputy President Joice
Mujuru - signed multiple copies of the charter on Wednesday at State House in the capital, Harare, to cheers and applause from aides.

Approved overwhelmingly in a referendum in March this year, the constitution clips the powers of the president, limits presidential tenures to two five-year terms and does away with the post of prime minister.

However, it does not apply retroactively so the 89-year-old Mugabe could technically extend his three decades in office by another 10 years.

&quot;This day is an historic day, it's about the future,&quot;  Eric Matinenga, the Constitutional Affairs Minister said at the signing ceremony.

&quot;I can assure you that this document which is before us is a good document.&quot;

A new constitution is one of the pre-conditions for elections to pick a successor to the shaky compromise government Mugabe formed four years ago with  Tsvangirai.

Mugabe has ruled Zimbabwe since the country gained independence from Britain in 1980, tainted by allegations of rights abuses against his opponents and critics.

'New path'

The constitution was unopposed through both houses of parliament.

Tsvangirai said the charter had set the southern African country &quot;on a new path&quot; after nearly a decade of economic decline and political violence that started in 2000 with the seizure of white-owned commercial farms by Mugabe supporters.

Mugabe and Tsvangirai formed a power-sharing government four years ago to avoid a descent into full-scale conflict in the aftermath of a bloody presidential run-off election in 2008.

The power-sharing government faced frequent difficulties over the allocations of key government posts, the implementation of key reforms and over charges of violence.

The five-year coalition parliament, formed under the same agreement, expires on June 29, and parliamentary and presidential elections should follow within 90 days of that date.

The date for the elections is yet to be announced. 

Mugabe and his allies want the polls as soon as possible, while Tsvangirai insists on the application of reforms first to ensure a free and fair vote.

Many obstacles remain, not least finding the estimated $130m needed to pay for the election, and reaching agreement on outside monitors. Harare has turned down offers of United Nations or donor assistance.</description>
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      <title>Police 'investigating 54 child grooming gangs'</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 16:39:25 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>Police are investigating 54 alleged gangs in a crackdown on child grooming in England and Wales, peers have heard.

The figure was cited by former Labour Attorney General Lord Morris of Aberavon at question time in the Lords.

He said inquiries involved 27 police forces as he urged greater co-operation between agencies after the convictions of a sex abuse ring in the Oxford area.

Home Office minister Lord Taylor of Holbeach said the problem was a focus for the government.

Seven men are awaiting sentencing at the Old Bailey for their roles in the Oxford case which followed trials dealing with similar gangs in Telford, Rochdale and Derby.

While those cases involved mainly defendants of British Pakistani origin and white British female victims, a report from the Children's Commissioner for England has stated that abusers &quot;come from all ethnic groups and so do their victims&quot;.

Raising the spate of recent convictions, Lord Morris said: &quot;Is it collective amnesia that has blinded us to the underlying circumstances, whereby at least 27 police forces are investigating 54 alleged child grooming gangs?

&quot;Why has investigating and prosecuting in so many different parts of the country taken so much time?

&quot;Is it the fear of racialism, or is it the fact that many of these vulnerable girls come from care homes?&quot;

Lord Taylor said there had been a &quot;failure to recognise the reality that many of these young people have experienced&quot;.

He said: &quot;The government is determined the system should work, the system needs to work, to protect these vulnerable children.&quot;

He said safeguarding children boards were working in local authorities and police must &quot;lend a positive ear&quot; to complaints from children.

&quot;This has been perhaps the point of failure in the system that these allegations have not been listened to or taken seriously by the authorities in the past,&quot; he said.

Lord Taylor said inquiries into how the Crown Prosecution Service and police handled past investigations were also taking place.

&quot;We expect that all agencies learn lessons from the horrendous cases we have seen recently,&quot; he said.

Lord Taylor said 2,409 children and young people had been confirmed as victims of sexual exploitation by gangs or groups between August 2010 and October 2011.

&quot;Those figures speak for themselves the scale of what has to be dealt with,&quot; he said.

Former deputy high court judge and independent crossbencher Lord Elystan-Morgan suggested law enforcement agencies should be &quot;prepared to adopt more robust tactics, including infiltration and surveillance&quot;.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22617339</description>
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      <title>The Large Families that rule the world</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 16:31:28 -0400</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>omniradar</dc:creator>
      <description>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 &quot;conspiracy theories&quot; 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  &quot;big four&quot;  




 Goldman Sachs: 


&quot;The big four,&quot; Wellington, Capital World Investors, AXA, Massachusetts Financial Service and T. Rowe. 


 Morgan Stanley:  
&quot;The
 big four,&quot; 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 ... &quot;The big four.&quot; 


 State Street Corporation  (one of the &quot;big four&quot;): 
Massachusetts
 Financial Services, Capital Research Global Investor, Barrow Hanley, 
GE, Putnam Investment and ... The &quot;big four&quot; (shareholders themselves!).
 

 BlackRock  (another of the &quot;big four&quot;): 
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 &quot;big 
four,&quot; 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 &quot;democratic&quot; 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 &quot;big four&quot; group


 


Alcoa Inc.


Altria Group Inc.


American International Group Inc.


AT&amp;amp;T Inc.


Boeing Co.


Caterpillar Inc.


Coca-Cola Co.


DuPont &amp;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;amp; Johnson


JP Morgan Chase &amp;amp; Co.


McDonald's Corp.


Merck &amp;amp; Co. Inc.


Microsoft Corp.


3M Co.


Pfizer Inc.


Procter &amp;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 &quot;big four&quot; 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 &quot;trained&quot; and remain &quot;employees&quot; of the 
&quot;big four&quot; that formed them.
The names of the families that control the &quot;big four&quot;, never appear.</description>
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      <title>Sen. Warren demands to know why criminal bankers aren't being locked up</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 13:53:01 -0400</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>plokiju</dc:creator>
      <description>In a letter (PDF) sent to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, Attorney General Eric Holder and SEC Chair Mary Jo White on Tuesday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) demanded to know why the government keeps accepting financial settlements from criminal bankers when they could instead be taken to trial, convicted and locked up.

In six short paragraphs, Warren requested that each institution turn over copies of any internal research &quot;on the trade-offs to the public&quot; between letting big financial firms pay a fine and walk &quot;without admission of guilt&quot; versus moving forward with full-scale prosecutions.

The letter was sent as a follow-up to a similar question she asked of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) on Feb. 14. Warren noted that the OCC replied last week denying the existence of any such research. In her letter sent Tuesday, she went on to add:

 ...I believe very strongly that if a regulator reveals itself to be unwilling to take large financial institutions all the way to trial - either because it is too timid or because it lacks resources - the regulator has a lot less leverage in settlement negotiations and will be forced to settle on terms that are much more favorable to the wrongdoer. 

 The consequence can be insufficient compensation to those who are harmed by illegal activity and inadequate deterrence of future violations. If large financial institutions can break the law and accumulate millions in profits and, if they get caught, settle by paying out of those profits, they do not have much incentive to follow the law. 

There's been a rash of mega-settlements between the government and the nation's largest banks in recent years over allegations of foreclosing on people without just cause, knowingly making bad loans and reselling the debt, making false statements to rob from retired pensioners, laundering money for drug cartels, repressive regimes and terrorists, and agreeing to settlements and then ignoring them, to name a few.

&quot;The problem is the banks have overwhelming confidence that law enforcement is not taking this seriously,&quot; New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman said last Monday, appearing on MSNBC. &quot;They have overwhelming confidence that whatever the rules are, they won't be followed up on.&quot;

Five years on from a financial crisis that nearly froze the flow of credit in the United States and sparked a multi-trillion dollar bailing-out of the global financial industry, few American bankers and big finance executives have faced criminal charges.

There is, however, one notable exception: Ponzi-schemer Bernard Madoff, who defrauded mainly wealthy clients to the tune of $64.8 billion. He said from jail in 2011 that many of his former colleagues on Wall Street engage in criminal insider trading on a regular basis, much like he did.

&quot;It's unbelievable, Goldman ... no one has any criminal convictions,&quot; Madoff told New York Magazine earlier that year. &quot;The whole new regulatory reform is a joke. The whole government is a Ponzi scheme.&quot;

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/15/sen-warren-demands-to-know-why-criminal-bankers-arent-being-locked-up/


 Audit: Fed gave $16 trillion in emergency loans 

Of the $16.1 trillion loaned out, $3.08 trillion went to financial institutions in the U.K., Germany, Switzerland, France and Belgium, the Government Accountability Office's (GAO) analysis shows.

Additionally, asset swap arrangements were opened with banks in the U.K., Canada, Brazil, Japan, South Korea, Norway, Mexico, Singapore and Switzerland. Twelve of those arrangements are still ongoing, having been extended through August 2012.

Out of all borrowers, Citigroup received the most financial assistance from the Fed, at $2.5 trillion. Morgan Stanley came in second with $2.04 trillion, followed by Merill Lynch at $1.9 trillion and Bank of America at $1.3 trillion.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/07/21/audit-fed-gave-16-trillion-in-emergency-loans/


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