"They want to Ruin You!"
Sean Penn as LA gov. candidate Willie Stark, stumping to Lousiana's rural poor. - "Hicks" economically subjugated and politically disenfranchised by New Orleans 1930s powerbrokers. Based on the populist rise and fall of Huey Long, derided as a "dictator" by his opponents, but the politician who may well have driven FDR to sponsor Social Security and other programs that saved America from the Depression.
This is a TEXTBOOK example of the AUTHORITARIAN, MISLEADING, DECEIVING, insider, INSTITUTIONAL headlines that the WHORE New York Times & COWARDLY Washington Post LOVE to use; when the object of their headlines is to INTENTIONALLY BORE and CONFUSE readers into NOT paying close attention to the story.
"Banks SWAY BILLS to Aid Consumers"?????
WHAT THE HELL does THAT mean??
Oh - it means "THE BIG BANKS are FEROCIOUSLY LOBBYING their GREEDY, DONATION-SUCKING WHORES in Congress, to CASTRATE any restraint of CREDIT CARD ABUSE bill, before it even gets written"!
We repeat for the n'th time: If these LYING editors and publishers aren't indicted and prosecuted for CRIMINAL DEFRAUDING and INTENTIONALLY DECEIVING their American public readers (by intense public pressure), then the STUPID American public DESERVES to be RIPPED OFF by LOAN SHARK big banks & their serial, outrageous, extortionate credit-card abuses and BILLIONS upon HUNDREDS-of-billions of dollars of _taxpayer_ BAILOUTS for those failed banks, while working-stiff Americans are foreclosed upon, evicted,lose their jobs, pensions, health-care, benefits, investments, and run out of their unemployment benefits... with NO assistance what-so-ever.
< ...the country’s largest banks still wield considerable influence in Washington.
The banks have made it difficult for Congressional Democrats and the White House to [help upside-down mortgage holders] and to _prevent_ CREDIT CARD COMPANIES from IMPOSING HIGHER FEES and INTEREST rates. [!!!]
Having won some early skirmishes by teaming with Republican allies, the [BAILED-OUT, TAXPAYER-SUBSIDIZED BIG-] BANKS NOW APPEAR to have THE UPPER HAND and may wind up KILLING — or at least substantially diluting — both PRO-CONSUMER MEASURES. >
WHICH would of course suit the LYING, IN-on-the-LARCENY editors and publisher (arthur sulzberger] of the WHORE new york times JUST FINE. (In league as they are with Goldman-Sachs, Citi, Chase, and the other usurious, extortionate, Big New York, Delaware, South Dakota, and other Big credit consumer abusing banks.)
Just to highlight out previous post - that the PULITZER PRIZE committee is COMPLICIT in the GARBAGE "reporting" that is being shoved down American 'news' consumers throats by the LYING, TREACHEROUS corporate media - along comes Arianna Huffington herself, of her own HuffingtonPost.com, outlining how the NEW YORK TIMES is __FULLY COMPLICIT__ in MISLEADING THEIR READERS about Goldman-Sachs' alleged "PROFITS" so thoroughly, that it can ONLY be concluded that the TIMES PUBLISHER ("arthur the chronic LIAR sulzberger"), EDITORS, and writers are INTENTIONALLY LYING to Times readers:
My Late Night Visits from the Ghosts of Financial Outrages Past, Present, and Future by Arianna Huffington Posted April 20, 2009 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/my-late-night-visits-from_b_189275.html ...In its report on the first quarter of 2009, Goldman CLAIMED A PROFIT of $1.8 billion. How did the banking giant do it? By MAGICALLY MAKING DECEMBER DISAPPEAR. In September, as the financial crisis worsened and pressure from the Fed mounted, Goldman SWITCHED from being an investment bank to a traditional bank holding company. As part of that, it had to change its fiscal year -- it used to end in November, now it ends at the close of the calendar year. THAT MEANT GOLDMAN's LATEST REPORT DIDN'T INCLUDE DECEMBER -- A MONTH IN WHICH THE BANK __LOST__ MORE THAN #1 BILLION. As reported by Floyd Norris, this billion-dollar tidbit WAS NOT MENTIONED in the text of the company's press release about its "profitable" first quarter -- it was BURIED deep inside the tables that accompanied the release.
The PRESS COVERAGE of the stunning turnaround was NOT much more edifying. For example, it was NOT noted until the _12th PARAGRAPH__ of the first New York Times story on Goldman's "profits" (on the jump page) that the bank had "also reported a loss of $1 billion in the month of December." A pretty relevant piece of information -- if you made it that far. The headline on the story read "Goldman Posts Profit and Plans Share Sale." No questioning, no shading. Just the facts -- as Goldman wanted them presented.
And the bank had good reason for promoting such a sunny (albeit completely manufactured) take. When you're readying to do a share sale, it helps to have the share price up, which is easier to pull off when you're able to hide $1 billion in losses.
Our thanks to Arianna - THE NEW YORK GODDAMNED LYING TIMES, CAUGHT IN THE ACT, of PIMPING fellow New York "establishment" institution GOLDMAN-SACHS FALSE and ILLUSORY PROFITS, WITH THE INTENTION of DEFRAUDING POTENTIAL investors. In the old days, they would hang those caught stealing horses. Today, the NEW YORK TIMES' & GOLDMAN SACHS's BLATANTLY FRAUDULENT "reporting" and "financial accounting," makes even confirmed death-penalty opponents consider the positive side of summary justice.
And PULITZER PRIZE COMMITTEE? CONGRATULATIONS on turning your award into a WHITEWASH RUBBER-STAMP for ATROCIOUS, CONSUMER- & TAXPAYER DEFRAUDING "reporting".
It is easy to demonstrate JUST HOW IN-CAHOOTS - COMPLICIT WITH CORRUPTION - the PULITZER Prize AWARDING COMMITTEE IS:
QUCK! Detail EXACTLY how much the US TAXPAYER __"BAILOUTS"__ of FAILED, BANKRUPT BANKS - have been over the past 12 months ?!
IT IS IMPOSSIBLE to assign a SINGLE, realistic number to the size of the US TAXPAYER ("socialized"!) BAILOUTS of FAILED, BANKRUPT, and almost certainly FRAUDULENT US big banks...
****** ...BECAUSE the NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, & other "major" corporate media "news" Organizations are "IN" on the LOOTING of the American public treasury, savings, investments, jobs, wages, and benefits; and DO NOT WANT American taxpayers, citizens, & 'news' readers TO KNOW what the REAL cost of those taxpayer-funded government bailouts have been! *******
THE PULITZER PRIZE CREW is PART of this CORPORATE, BACK-SCRATCHING, propaganda corruption world: SOMEONE PAYS THEM to hand out awards to "news" organizations, 'news' organizations that DO NOT report THE MOST VITAL and important news in America.
The PULITZER PRIZE team, like the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, AOL-Time-Warner, and other media organizations, have JOINED the RUPERT MURDOCH, SUN YUNG MOON, Richard Mellon Scaife (et al) RADICAL RIGHT-WING JIHAD on REAL news content - and informed readers - in America. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/business/media/21pulitzer.html
Is there ANY difference, between the Washington Post, NY Times, Murdoch (Fox, Wall St. Journal, NY Post, etc.) Moon (Washington Times), and other media barons WHITEWASHING the SERIAL LIES and FRAUD behind America's ECONOMIC CRISIS, and Germany's NAZI papers under Joseph Goebbels WHITEWASHING the Nazi SLAVE & DEATH CAMPS during WWII?
NO- there is NO difference. Indeed, with Germany in a FULL-BLOWN war (not America's "let's go shopping" off-the-front-pages "War on Terror" invasion of Mideast countries) - Goebbels & crew had a MORE LEGITIMATE excuse for NOT reporting the (real) news, than today's US corporate media whores & serial liars do.
(Indeed, the Pulitzer committee awarded one of their prizes to the NY Slimes "INVESTIGATION" of then NY Governor ELIOT SPITZER's affairs with prostitutes... a level of "INVESTIGATION" that is NOTABLY ABSENT from the Times' coverage of BAILOUTS and massive bailouts fraud. Like other "muckracking," "Yellow-journalism" institutions of old, the PULITZER COMMITTEE shows that it prefers SALACIOUS SCANDAL REPORTING, to investigating the DESTRUCTION of TRILLIONS of dollars of American taxpayer, investor, pensions, & workers' wages, salaries, benefits, investments, & savings over the past few years.)
Hat-tip to Yglesias for catching & posting(and DeLong for pointing out) former Republican Dictator-of-the-House Tom DeLay (former Republican Majority Whip of the US Congress, but actually the iron-fisted Republican "Hammer" ruler of that Congress) making his radical Right-Wing case that because "TEXAS WORKS HARDER" than other states (especially urban, northern, liberal-dominated "Blue states") it is "RICHER" than them.
OF COURSE _CHRIS MATHEWS_ gave a FREE PASS to all of DeLay's nonsensical economic claims... it was ALL the hapless Mathews could do to try to poke holes in DeLay's (and fellow Texas Republican, and current Texas GOVERNOR, RICK PERRY's) notions that TEXAS has STILL got a right to SECEDE from the United States!
American Right-Wingers - of exactly the sort that populate the Texas Right-Wing Republican Party - still assert an American "VETO" 'right' to CONDEMN, UNDERMINE, and DESTROY sovereign governments in South America - (CIA ATTEMPTED COUPS & SECESSION EFFORTS against (respectively) VENEZUELA and BOLIVIA come to mind) - but they will also assert THEIR 'right' to SECEDE from the UNITED STATES! Presumably (like the dissolution of the former Soviet Union) TAKING THEIR US NUCLEAR WARHEADS (stored on Texas military bases) WITH THEM ???!
Well, I suppose we have to give Mathews at least SOME credit for at least POKING FUN at DeLay's (and Perry's) SECESSIONIST talk...
...but clearly, EXPECTING Chris Mathews to actually know WHICH US STATES are NET FEDERAL TAX-DOLLAR RECIPIENTS (the majority of which are "RED" states, i.e. rural, conservative states are most likely to be "Welfare Queens"!) - much less by how much - is just a bridge-to-far for the "media commentator" who got his big break shilling "MONICA, MONICA! MONICA!!!" 24-7 for months at a time back in 1998.
============================================ Delay Claims Poorer-than-Average Texas is “Wealthy” Because Texans “Work Hard” A few bloggers have noted that Tom DeLay went on a strange neo-secessionist binge yesterday on Hardball with Chris Matthews. This segment of the interview in which he lays out his substantive rationale has gotten less attention. But DeLay’s conceit is that Texas is a “wealthy state” because of it’s right-wing business-friendly policies, a situation that he specifically contrasts with the environment in California, New York, and New Jersey which have allegedly impoverished themselves with high taxes and overregulation....
One problem here is that Texas isn’t a wealthy state. Its median household income of $47,548 made it 28th in the country. Below average, in other words. New Jersey is second, California is eighth, and New York is nineteenth. Indeed, of the top ten states in per capita income nine are “blue” states." (A great read, and insightful analysis, continued here.)
A TWO-FER of WASHINGTON whore POST LYING articles, in one day! Make that a "THREE-FER", because below we detail TWO SEPARATE instances of the Post editors LYING to their STUPID, CLUELESS, DELUDED, MISINFORMED readers.
As we have said before, CATCHING the WASHINGTON whore POST (& New York neo-con Lying Times) BEING ABJECT LIARS, is as easy as SHOOTING FISH in a barrel. However, "easy" as it may be, IT IS A BIG JOB... and, like trying to clean out a cesspit by bucket, the TOXIC FUMES MAY KILL YOU before you ever get to the bottom of their s*** "reporting."
In this case, DEAN BAKER gives us a DOUBLE: He reports on the LYING Post editors' use of LYING statistics, AND he also reports on the LYING Post editors' JIHAD vs SOCIAL SECURITY.
In a similar vein, Mr. Dean Bakers CATCHES the LYING, THIEVING, NEO-CON WARMONGERING & WAR-CRIMES WHITEWASHING Washington WHORE Post editors JIHAD against... SOCIAL SECURITY:
WHY do the ENTITLED editors of the WASHINGTON POST _despise_ GOOD WAGES for American workers, and continue their JIHAD against SOCIAL SECURITY, when their BIG BANKING FRIENDS at Goldamn-Sachs, JPMorgan-Chase, Citi, Bank-of-America, NY-Mellon, AIG, and other big financial companies have nearly WRECKED the American economy after nearly TWO DECADES of "DEREGULATION" Folly ??
answer: BECAUSE the WASHINGTON POST editors & publisher are TREACHEROUS, THIEVING, ENTITLED, ARROGANT LYING Neo-Con swine, and they would LOVE to be able to turn WASHINGTON D.C. BACK into a SLAVE city, if they could just help the Neo-Cons and Neo-Confederate Right-Wing authoritarians mask over their (combined) DESTRUCTION of the US Economy.
The Southern, racist, Bigoted Wing of the Republican Party - what author Michael Lind calls the "Neo-CONFEDERATE" agenda - http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-01-29/the-south-rises-again/ is upset and dismayed (and frankly, HATEFUL) that they are OUT OF POWER in Washington... while their FORMER ALLIES - the AIPAC, NEO-CON LIKUDNIK wing of that identical "more wars, police-state-powers, and TAX-CUTS FOR RICH" Right-Wing agenda (i.e. "the Wall Street Money Party") is not only STILL in power on the "Democrat" side of the isle... but indeed RULES THE ROOST!
President Obama's Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, could be conversing daily with Israel's MOSSAD and Defense Department for all we know; and Obama's two top "economics advisors" - Robert Rubins & Lawrence Summers - are straight out of Goldman-Sachs Neo-Con "pump & dump" "Short Squeeze" Banksters... (Rubin a former Goldman-Sachs CHAIRMAN... as was Bush's Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson) ...so not only are the Neo-Confederate Southern Republicans OUT of power and STEWING in ignominy at the moment, but their former, erstwhile Goldman-Sachs/AIPAC/Neo-Con Lukidnik "partners" are now FIRMLY ENSCONCED in BOTH the White House, AND Congress, AND "Democrat" Senate!
What is a poor Neo-Confed bigot & Dem-hater to do, but.. RUN TO FOX "news," and URGE the Confederate Militia to bring their guns, bayonets, & pitchforks to Washington, to STAGE A REBELLION! er, "Tea Party REVOLUTION!"
All of which makes uber-Washington Post NEO-CON LYING WHORE Howard "Howie" Kurtz's professed "SHOCK!" that Fox 'news' is BLATANTLY playing to the neo-Confederate BIGOTS and RACIST and HATE agenda so damn hilarious.
MR. KURTZ was ALL FOR that agenda of HATE and SUPPRESSED VOTES and SCORN for Democrat and "liberal" voters in Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004 (and Al Franken's being seated as Minnesota Senator as we speak)... ...He, Mr. Kurtz, has been "IN" on "LOOT THE PEONS to ENRICH THE WEALTHY" agenda of the past 8 years (i.e. TAX CUTS FOR RICH.. in time of EXPANDING WARS, _and_ huge INTEREST payments to be paid on the trillions of dollars BUSH DEFICITS as well) - ....he, Mr. Kurtz, has been "IN" on the WASHINGTON POST WHITEWASH of ALL of CHENEY and BUSH and MUKASEY's and GONZALES' and CHERTOFF's and "Heckuva Job, Brownie" (Michael Brown's) and Scooter LIBBY's and Paul WOLFOWITZ's _SERIAL CRIMES AND LIES_ these past 8 years... (sigh? do we HAVE to LIST them again?)
...But Mr. Kurtz is "SHOCKED! SHOCKED!" that Murdoch's FOX 'news' instigated TEA PROTESTERS would express hate and resentment over BAILOUTS FOR GOLDMAN-SACHS BANKSTERS, who now, would ya know it? RUN the OBAMA WHITE HOUSE _and_ PELOSI CONGRESS, TOO !! =======================================================
<< It's nice to know that at some point, you can cross a line with Washington [WHORE] Post media critic Howard Kurtz... [but] I have no idea why Kurtz is pretending that a sincere non-sponsorship of these Tea Party activities on the part of the Fox News Channel was in play. Fox billed yesterday's events on teevee as "FNC Tax Day Tea Parties." They ran seventy-three promotions on the Tea Parties in the eight days leading up to them. Their hosts were plugged in to the public address system, encouraging the protesters. For a guy so quick to discern examples of "Obama adulation," it seems bizarre that Kurtz cannot seem to figure out something so plainly obvious. >>
We here at MediaWHORESusa are, sadly, easily prepared to answer that rhetorical question: BECAUSE HOWARD KURTZ is a PROTO-TYPICAL Washington Post NEO-CON LYING WHORE, EVEYTHING he writes is designed to BUILD UP the NEO-CON, AIPAC/Likudnik STRANGLEHOLD on American business, media, politics, and war-policy, and when the WOLFOWITZ-KRISTOL-SAFIRE-SULZBERGER-FRIEDMAN-KRAUTHAMMER-POHDERETZ (et al, ad naseum) Neo-Con PNAC ALLIANCE with the Radical Right-Wing Neo-Confederates BREAKS DOWN - because BUSH & CHENEY & DeLAY and GINGRICH & LOTT and FRIST & THURMOND & HELMS are no longer in power - Mr. Kurtz reverts to his "I'm SO INNOCENT" act!
(note: Helms & Thurmond are out of power because they have both since passed away; but they were, beyond dispute, blatant NEO-CONFEDERATES, and ALLIES with the rest of their crowd, who were THE CORE of Bush & Cheney's 8-year STRANGLEHOLD on the US government following the 9-11 attacks (WHICH DICK CHENEY ROLLED OUT THE RED CARPET for), and NOT EVEN HOWARD KURTZ or the WHORE Post would try to pretend that THURMOND and HELMS were not OLD-SCHOOL, Neo-Confederate, White Supremacists - the very people the WHORE POST was ALLIED WITH all during the rise of DICK CHENEY and the PNAC/NEO-CON WARS in Iraq & Afghanistan.)
(Well, yeah... we're wrong.... During the ASCENSION of the WOLFOWITZ/KRISTOL/KAGAN/LIEBERMAN/PODHORETZ/EMANUEL/SCHUMER/FEINSTEIN/Mukasey/Bolton/Chertoff/Libby et al NEO-CON LIKUDNIK WAR-PARTY and their "MORE US WARS IN MIDEAST! agenda, the Washington Post DID try to WHITEWASH Strom Thurmond's and Jesse Helm's _BARELY DISGUSTED_ bigoted, White Supremacy, abortion-is-murder, Timmy McVeigh-lite agenda!)
Oh, Washington Post: How sad, pathetic, TREASONOUS, and TREACHEROUS thou are.
NOT ONLY do the Post's WHORE editors assign their WHORE reporters to LIE and CHEAT and DECIEVE on behalf of the Neo-Con/neo-Confederate agenda (more wars now, Gestapo police-state powers, tax-cuts for rich in time of expanding wars & deficits, DEREGULATION of ENTIRE SWATHS of US financial economy, a relentless, sustained JIHAD against high wages, benefits, public education, and affordable health-care, etc.) but when Mr. Bush blatantly says "it would be alot better if this were a DICTATORSHIP" - and repeats that theme saying "I'm going to put people in my place, so when the history of this administration is written at least there's an _authoritarian_ voice saying exactly what happened" the WHORE POST PRETENDS not to notice. (In this case, Bush probably meant "authoritative", but he is indeed a dictatorial, no-oversight authoritarian on issue after issue after issue after issue, and the WHORE Washington Post PRETENDS not to notice.)
Jackson Williams of HuffingtonPost.com catches the Post at their disgusting, pathetic, treacherous REAL job: WHITEWASHING and CHEERLEADING that "AUTHORITARIAN" agenda, in this case trying to help Mr. Bush WHITEWASH the past 8 years:
Jackson Williams Posted April 15, 2009 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jackson-williams/caught-in-the-act-the-was_b_187105.html Caught in the Act: The Washington Post Swallows Bush's Latest Spin The WASHINGTON POST is HELPING George Bush polish his flaccid legacy. Let's hope it's just a sympathetic one-off between ex-lovers. Last Saturday, they ran a front page article on Bush-in-retirement. Woven into the puff piece was this seemingly bland statement (italics mine): < Now he will try to explain his two terms by writing a book and building a presidential center at Dallas's Southern Methodist University so that history will have the means to judge him fairly. > Do you catch that? The Post's reporter, Eli Saslow, is telling us it's imperative that we have Bush's tome -- and Taj Mahal -- to fully assess the past eight years. Where does this view come from? The sentence isn't attributed; it's presented as fact, not opinion.
The bottom line is that the Post has bought the con job from the "commander guy." He insists history needs his opus to nail the real story, and the newspaper [the WHORE Post] has turned this shaky proposition into accepted wisdom. It's really his spin, nothing more.
(Mr. Williams goes on to explain that Americans have been able to judge PRESIDENT LINCOLN's legacy, WITHOUT Lincoln writing a post-presidential autobiography or setting up a presidential library, etc.)
Catching the New York Slimes, & Cowardly Washington Post, being the PROPAGANDA MEGAPHONES for the lying, medieval, imperial rulers of Washington DC, New York, & corporate America is as easy as shooting fish in a barre ll with a 12-gauge shotgun..... ...EXCEPT, that is, for the SHEER VOLUME, the OVERWHELMING MASS of Post & Times LIES & DECEIT & neo-con, war-mongering, plunder-the-Treasury & loot-the-peons propaganda.
Well here, ThinkProgress.org blogger Yglesias catches the Washington Post in all its arrogant, neo-con, entitled, lying, propaganda disgrace:
In England, newspapers LEAD the protest against elected officials' GRAFT, CORRUPTION, and abuse of powers.... whereas in America, even the "liberal" (not!) New York Times & Washington Post - ESPECIALLY the NY SLIMES and Washington WHORE Post - LEAD the Goebbels-esque effort to DISTORT the 'news,' MISINFORM citizens, MISLEAD voters, DUMB-DOWN consumers, & DECEIVE taxpayers - and in general do EVERYTHING THEY CAN to FOIST an agenda of MEDIEVAL FEUDAL RULE on dumbed-down Americans. Items #1 & #2 in that INTENTIONAL LYING of the US corporate media, & Washington COWARDLY Post & New York LYING Times in particular is, of course, that #1. not only do they REFUSE to report on the FULL EXTENT of the big-bank BAILOUTS thus far - whether those bailouts are 'just' the THREE TRILLION DOLLARS we have summarized here before, of the TWELVE TRILLION TAXPAYER DOLLARS that David Sirota mentions Bloomberg reporting... but, #2. STUPID AMERICAN led-by-nose, like-cattle, consumers, citizens, & Taxpayers DO NO GET a SINGLE, _NOT ONE lousy AUDIT_, of NOT ONE FAILED BANK, for all our HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of TAXPAYER dollar BAILOUTS, of the VERY BANKS & HEDGE FUNDS, who would help the oil-men CORNER THE MARKET on US gasoline production if they could, so they could charge us $5/gallon gas prices..... TWICE what it cost refiners & gas stations to sell that gallon of gas - back at the onset of this Economic Crisis, the moment the Bankster's HEDGE-FUND SPECULATIONS and insanely greedy, divorced-from-reality DERIVATIVE "financial instruments" finally burst!
THE NEW YORK TIMES and WASHINGTON NEO-CON WAR-MONGERING POST are at the ROOT of America's Economic Crisis - TRILLIONS of dollars of investor, worker, pensioner, and taxpayer dollars VANISHED into the ether - and their EVERY DAY's "reporting" is testimony to just how AWFUL, DISTORTED, MISINFORMATIVE, CORRUPT, and TREACHEROUS the editors, publishers, and writers of the Post & Times really are.
As an actual here-and-now, concrete example, note how the NEW YORK SLIMES implies that "top bankers" & "TOP TALENT" are leaving the banks just a step ahead of (hiss!) ONEROUS "regulations" -
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/business/12wall.html < Top bankers have been leaving Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup and others in rising numbers to join banks that DO NOT FACE TIGHTER REGULATION, including foreign banks, or start-up companies eager to build themselves into tomorrow’s financial powerhouses. Others are leaving because of culture clashes at merging companies, like Bank of America and Merrill Lynch, and still others are simply retiring early. >
"ONEROUS REGULATIONS" of course are a FAVORITE RIGHT-WING THEME, that, among other things, led DIRECTLY to TIMMMY McVEIGH's MURDEROUS DOMESTIC TERRORISM. One of the just 2 or 3 excuses McVeigh gave for bombing the Oklahoma City Govt. building was that "liberal & Democrat "EXCESSIVE REGULATIONS" had wrecked the Economy during the Bush-1 Recession... along with the other perennial Right-Wing demon, "TAX & SPEND BIG GOVERNMENT" - WHICH of course the NEW YORK SLIMES _FAVORS_, when the Government is HANDING OUT BETWEEN three TRILLION and _THIRTEEN TRILLION taxpayer dollars_ to BAIL OUT THEIR home-boy NEW YORK BANKSTER-Gangsters like BERNIE MADOFF victims, GOLDMAN-SACHS, and CITI bank!! (note: McVeigh's 3rd major excuse for launching America's deadliest home-grown TERROR ATTACK since the Civil War, was as revenge or retribution for the US government FBI & ATF siege of the wacky, gun-obsessed "Fundamentalist Christ-ian" cult of David Koresh outside of Wacko, Texas, after the ATF, in early 1993 under plans drawn up while Bush Sr. had been president in 1992, attempted to ARREST CULT MEMBERS AT THEIR fortress compound, instead of arresting them when they came in to town! - triggering a machine-gun battle between the Feds & cult-members that killed several of the poorly led ATF agents.) Note too how Times writers GRAHAM BOWLEY and LOUISE STORY spin this "bankers leaving big NY banks" story in the MOST FAVORABLE spin possible, even using the (Jewish) RELIGIOUS TERM, "EXODUS" for those poor, starving Banksters forced to flee their jobs without even having time to fix a grilled-cheese sandwich:
< There is an air of exodus on Wall Street — and not just among those being fired. As Washington cracks down on compensation and tightens regulation of banks, a brain drain is occurring at some of the biggest ones. They are some of the same banks blamed for setting off the worst downturn since the Depression. >
NOWHERE do the Times editors, or writers Story or Bowley, make an effort to point out that not only were the banks that "some of the same banks blamed for setting off the worst downturn since the Depression" - but they are ALSO BANKS that WOULD BE IN BANKRUPTCY but not for the Bush-PELOSI-PAULSON _HUNDREDS of BILLIONS of TAXPAYER dollars_!! THIS IS HYPER-TYPICAL NEW YORK TIMES and WASHINGTON POST _ENTITLED_ NY/DC ELITIST REPORTING: act ('report') as if the TRILLIONS of dollars of TAXPAYER BAILOUTS NEVER HAPPENED! The poor Banksters are leaving their jobs ONLY because of the looming threat of TOO MUCH GOVERNMENT REGULATION, and because, somewhere out there in miserable, hard-scrabble, insurgent-infested America-stan, the rabble brought a, you know, ECONOMIC CRISIS on their despicable selves !!!!!!
Nor does the Times Story & Graham bother to make the SIMPLE connection, that if some of these poor "BANKERS IN EXILE" have been working at banks like UBS that have been "TARNISHED BY THE FINANCIAL CRISIS" - then maybe, JUST MAYBE... some of those Bankers are GUILTY of MISMANAGING their banks (or departments in those banks) - sort of like RATS FLEEING A SHIP that THEY helped gnaw a hole through the hull of! < The turning point for ____ ____ came in February, around the time bonus checks were slashed. A veteran of UBS, one of many banks TARNISHED BY THE FINANCIAL CRISIS, Mr. ____ realized that the old Wall Street would not be bouncing back any time soon. It was time to head for the new. >
Does the NEW YORK SLIMES - who FAVOR _HUNDREDS of BILLIONS of TAXPAYER BAILOUTS_ for FAILED banks - make ANY effort to suggest that these poor, downtrodden, Exodus Bankers may, just might, have had ANYTHING to do with their FAILED BANKS, and the COLLAPSE of US economy????
HELL NO!!
Could you POSSIBLY ask for a better example of the Times' real "NY BANKSTERS ARE HOLY, Taxpayers are PEONS" agenda??!
Well, SINCE Mr. Sulzberger's ATROCIOUS, DECEITFUL, CHRONICALLY LYING, CORRUPTION-ENABLING Times has completely forgotten how to stoke genuine taxpayer outrage against SERIAL ABUSE by the MONIED CLASS (and NY & DC corrupt elites_ - we wrote the above screed, and connect it to this English paper's HEADLINE LEDE of TAX REVOLT vs entitled elected officials in England..... MISUSING - not TRILLIONS of taxpayer dollars - but their own government expense accounts for personal use:
How MPs Take Home 28 Times the Average Voter’s Pay By Simon Walters & Simon Mcgee 12th April 2009 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1169347/How-MPs-home-28-times-average-voter-8217-s-pay.html More than 23,000 expenses protests delivered to No 10 [Downing Street, the equivalent of the White House for the English Prime Minister] - Gordon Brown was under huge pressure this weekend to reform lavish Commons allowances after more than 23,000 Mail on Sunday readers demanded urgent action. This newspaper launched its Stop The MPs’ Gravy Train petition last month, following a string of revelations about how they have been using expenses loopholes for personal benefit.
As we have tried to make the case, EVEN America's "JOURNALISM" schools are SERIOUSLY DEFICIENT, because POKING HOLES in NY Slimes and Washington WHORE Post reporting is ridiculously EASY, the only problem is.... when ALMOST EVERY SENTENCE the Post & Times write in important, financial-government 'reporting' is SHEER PROPAGANDA; then deconstructing their elitist, entitled, deceitful reporting is easy, except for the SHEER VOLUME of their RELENTLESS LIES! -------------------------------------------------- To repeat for the 1,000th time, NEITHER the Post, nor the Times, will EVER EXPLAIN the TRUE EXTENT (amount thus far) TAXPAYER BAILOUTS for the FAILED, FRAUDULENT BANKING ELITES, nor will the Post & Times DEMAND RELENTLESS top-to-bottom AUDITS of those FAILED, FRAUDULENT BANKS (FRAUD in this case a CRIME - remember, the Post & Times were CHEERLEADERS for the Bush DoJ/SEC PROSECUTION of MARTHA STEWART) - that is, the POST & TIMES are COMPLICIT in CRIMINAL FRAUD in the abuse of first CONSUMER & INVESTOR billlions, and now in the abuse of BILLIONS of TAXPAYERS dollars vanished & directed towards a huge BLACK-HOLE of GRAFT and FINANCIAL CORRUPTION.
NEW YORK TIMES owned Boston Globe newspaper - the NY Times a relentless CHEERLEADER (in persons of publisher Arthur Sulzberbeger & his lying neo-con Minions Wllm. Safire, Thomas Friedman, David Brooks, James Risen, Jeff Gerth, etc., etc., etc., ad naseum) for the Right-Wing "DEREGULATION" loot, plunder, pillage, & BAIL-OUT policies that LED DIRECTLY to this economic crisis - reports that at a recent Job Fair in New Hampshire, SO MANY PEOPLE TURNED OUT - over 10,000! - that traffic was backed up, and the lines of job seekers stretched for blocks.
Demand for work causes gridlock at NH job fair By David Tirrell-Wysocki April 9, 2009 http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2009/04/09/nh_job_fair_attracts_more_than_10000_job_seekers/? MANCHESTER, N.H.—Three generations of job seekers -- more than 10,000 -- descended on a job fair at a New Hampshire college gymnasium Thursday, jamming traffic for miles and forcing organizers to cut off admission to the event after just two hours.
...Thousands of unemployed wait in lines for buses to a job fair at the Mall of New Hampshire parking lot in Manchester, N.H., Thursday, April 9, 2009. New jobless claims fell more than expected last week but are stuck at elevated levels, while the number of people continuing to receive unemployment insurance approached 6 million, setting a record for the 10th straight week.
As the TSUNAMI, the MOUNTAIN, the all-crushing glacier of evidence and stories points to Pres. Obama's own "economics team" as being at the VERY CORE of the TRILLIONS of dollars of investor, worker, pensioner, & taxpayer dollars that have VANISHED into the thin air over the past 3 years in the current economic crisis, former LA Times columnist _Robert Scheer_ puts it all in one nice, tidy commentary: LAWRENCE SUMMERS is indeed the HEDGE-FUND BILLIONAIRES' _point man_ for _both_ the DEREGULATION that has led DIRECTLY to world Economic Crisis 2008-2009, AND Mr. Summers is also at the center of the Bush-Paulson, and now __Obama-Geithner__, efforts, to use the Economic Crisis as AN EXCUSE to TRANSFER TRILLIONS _MORE_ TAXPAYER DOLLARS, to the VERY insanely greedy, entitled, corrupt, and Congress- & media-owning Banksters who created this economic crisis in the first place!
Mr. LAWRENCE SUMMERS, item #1. in the modern indictment for THE BANALITY OF EVIL: TRILLIONS of investor, worker, pensioner, & taxpayer dollars VANISHED into THIN AIR from uber-Right-Wing Republican PHIL GRAMM's two-decade "DEREGULATION" JIHAD... and "Democrat" (NOT!) bankster LAWRENCE SUMMERS COLLECTS his MILLIONS of dollars in pay... and now a seat at THE MOST POWERFUL "economics" position in America in the Obama "Change" (NOT!) White House - for BRINGING that very RIGHT-WING DEREGULATION NIGHTMARE to pass!!
In this same weekend's TruthDig.com, DAVID SIROTA reports: "By Bloomberg News’ account, $12.8 trillion worth of taxpayer loans, grants and guarantees" have been GIVEN TO Wall Street & the large Hedge Funds & banks since the bubble-busting Economic Crisis Mr. Summers WORKED SO HARD TO CREATE.
A nearly THIRTEEN TRILLION DOLLAR _TRANSFER OF WEALTH_ FROM working-stiff Taxpayers TO THE WEALTHY, of whom Mr. Summers is an arrogant, elitist, secretive, kleptocratic, entitled Golden-Boy icon, or text-book example.
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Living Large and in Charge - - LAWRENCE SUMMERS at the CENTER of the FINANCIAL SWINDLES that ENRICHED the TITANS OF FINANCE while IMPOVERISHING the REST OF THE WORLD.....
Not surprisingly, Lawrence Summers is convinced that he deserved every penny of the $8 million that Wall Street firms paid him last year. And why shouldn’t he be cut in on the loot from the loopholes in the toxic derivatives market that he pushed into law when he was Bill Clinton’s treasury secretary? No one has been more persistently effective in paving the way for the financial swindles that enriched the titans of finance while impoverishing the rest of the world than the man who is now the top economic adviser to President Obama.
The US military has now taken over much of where the SOVIET MILITARY (Red Army) left off: killing Afghan civilians relentlessly & remorselessly from un-opposed US air-attacks, and now, via KILLER ROBOTS, arial hunter-drones or remotely piloted UAVs firing 4th & 5th generation missiles & "anti-personnel" munitions, which can easily incinerate or turn into rubble a family home at the push of a button.
For a brief overview on the AIR ATTACKS that were the CORE of the Soviet attempt at OCCUPATION of Afghanistan, see the scenes of Soviet helicopter attacks in the movie "Charlie Wilson's War" - and realize that today, it is AMERICAN pilots & UAV operators who now have that license to KILL ANYTHING THAT MOVES, displacing hundreds of thousands of Afghan civilians fleeing the terror from the skies.
US/NATO bombs kill about ten times more Afghan civilians with a ton of our “precision” bombs than we killed Serbs in 1999. More than 80% of Afghan civilian deaths today caused by the US/NATO are due to close air support attacks. They (Afghans) are only worth one-tenth of an Alaskan sea otter rather than forty camels. We spend ten dollars on the military in Afghanistan to pursue our geo-strategic aims and less than $1 on reconstructing the everyday lives of Afghans devastated by thirty years of war.....
President Obama & his "economic leadership team" - Rahm Emanuel, Timmy Geither, Lawrence Summers, Robert Rubin, Gary Gensler, Mark Patterson, Neal Wolin ("investment" banksters all, et al, ad naseum) CENSOR _their own_ much-ballyhooed Big, bailed-out Banks "STRESS TEST"!
...and OF COURSE the "major media" WHORES PRETEND NOT TO NOTICE!
...Because HELPING THE FINANCIAL ROBBER-THIEVES _STEAL_ from the American public, consumers, taxpayers, & financial customers, IS WHAT the AMERICAN MEDIA whores ARE ALL ABOUT !!
(The INSANITY of Modern America's media whoredom is such that, NOT ONLY is the American public FORBIDDEN, !VERBOTTEN! from being told that so far, in the past twelve months, they have transferred THREE TRILLION DOLLARS in "bailouts" from working-stiff taxpayers to the insanely entitled "Masters of the Universe" (FAILED banksters), and even worse (as if CENSORING THREE TRILLION DOLLARS of Taxpayer money GIVEN to the fraudulent banksters who rob American consumers at every opportunity could get any worse) - FOR our THREE TRILLION DOLLARS in TAXPAYER SOCIALIZED BAILOUTS of the Banksters who would CORNER THE OIL MARKET and charge us FIVE DOLLARS A GALLON for gasoline if they could.... we Americans are NOT entitled to a SINGLE AUDIT of the failed banks... and now the Obama "Democrat" team CENSORS even the fake, faux, FRAUDULENT "STRESS TEST" _WHITEWASH cover-up of what REAL, GENUINE AUDITS would disclose!!!)
Fed Said to Order Banks to Stay Mum on ‘Stress Test’ Results
By Bradley Keoun and Scott Lanman http://bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aEX9sBcofMYY&refer=home April 10 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Federal Reserve has told Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Citigroup Inc. and other banks to keep mum on the results of “stress tests” that will gauge their ability to weather the recession, people familiar with the matter said.... (continued)
Well, there they go again! What is AMAZING about this EXCELLENT Buzzflash.com editor's editorial, is that Buzzflash & its editor are die-hard, 100% Obama supporters. Buzzflash written, edited, & published, in fact, in Chicago, then Senator Barack Obama's POWER-BASE, CHICAGO, Illinois; where Buzzflash writers were such unabashed Obama supporters that they went into a financial crisis of their own when Hillary Clinton's Neo-Con "Democratic" supporters stopped funding Buzzflash for a spell, as Buzz (and other "liberal" websites & columns) documented Hillary's increasingly erratic, increasingly duplicitous (lying), increasingly RACIST attacks on then Senator Obama's campaign.) Well, Buzzflash REMAINS vocal and ardent Obama supporters today, which is what makes this editorial so amazing: Mr. Karlin detailing JUST HOW ENTITLED, CORRUPT, and SELF-SERVING Mr. Obama's Economics advisor LAWRENCE SUMMERS is, but Karlin going after WASHINGTON POST op-ed columnist RICHARD COHEN as the prime focus of this particular column!
Washington Post Columnist Richard Cohen Hearts Larry Summers: Tales of the D.C. Elite "Village People" BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG http://buzzflash.com/articles/node/8168
Those who frequent the progressive sites know that the term "villager" has come to describe D.C. insiders who protect each other’s privileged status.
A risible case in point is the April 7th column of veteran WASHINGTON POST 'journalist' [sic] Richard Cohen, who makes the LUDICROUS argument that hedge fund multi-millionaire and Wall Street protector Larry Summers is a victim of harsh attacks. Cohen’s main contention is that Summers is serving us at great sacrifice to his personal fortune....
Now here is Buzzflash's MASTERPIECE paragraph that gets to THE ROOT of Economic crisis 2008-2009:
"Now, given that Summers is the fox in the hen house, along with Geithner, it’s a little hard to swallow Cohen’s impassioned defense of Summers as a "public servant." After all, Summers made millions from the same people that he is now helping to give billions to, even though they screwed up the economy – and he benefited like a bandit from their greed."
We would love to post the column in full to give it its due, but Buzzflash's editors & publisher probably would not approve of the "SHRILL" tone we have here at Media Whores USA. (And, just to repeat, KEEPING UP with the LIARS, TRAITORS, and HATE-MONGERS of the Radical Right & their "Mainstream Media" whores, is like WORKING IN A toxic, poisonous CESS-PIT and NEVER getting a break!) Oh... speaking of "SHRILL" and "HATE-MONGERS" !! -
Today's Buzzflash.com also contains an excellent link to our other favorite (despised) theme here at MEDIA WHORES USA, #1. the LINKS between the MEDIA WHORES and their abject, craven, lying, deceitful support for the FINANCIAL LOOTING of the entire US economy; and #2. the LINKS between the "MAINSTREAM MEDIA" and the RADICAL-RIGHT-WING HATE-INCITING talkers and TV & print media personalities... in this case, Buzzflash providing a book review and purchase-link to an excellent book on exactly that critical topic; The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right http://www.buzzflash.com/store/items/1552
WILL America SURVIVE the COMPLACENCY and COMPLICITY of the "Demcorat" administration & Congress, to the RIGHT-WING FINANCIAL LOOTING of the entire US Economy, and to RIGHT-WING HATE-MONGERS trying to _BLAME_ that SERIAL FRAUD & economic destruction on the Democrats and on "liberal" programs??
Well, you could say that Vietnam "survived" the Vietnam war... or that Japan "survived" WWII and the nuclear bombing of two of its cities, and firebombing of dozens of its other cities.... the word "survived" in those cases just glossing over rivers of destruction, despair, and disaster.
THE TRUE TEST of good reporting: In our previous post, on April 2nd, 2009, we CONNECTED-the-DOTS between the JEWISH owned NEO-CON (warmongers & loot-the-peons) NEW YORK TIMES _whitewash_ of Right-Wing hate-monger & (former CNN and current) FOX 'news' radio & TV host GLEN BECK, and Beck's very real, very fear-mongering & hate-mongering rhetoric...
and two days later, gunman RICHARD POPLAWSKI, WHO WAS A FAN of GLEN BECK's "The are going to take your guns!" fear-mongering rhetoric that Beck spews from his microphone daily, shot and killed three Pittsburgh police officers who were responding to a domestic complaint at the house where Poplawski was living with his grandmother. Here is (genuine investigative reporter) Max Blumenthal, reporting at the DailyBeast.com (good reporters must write & report from obscure web-sites like the DailyBeast.com and Alternet.org, because GOOD REPORTING is CENSORED from the "major media" WHORE 'news' papers like the NEW YORK TIMES and WASHINGTON POST and CNN much less Fox 'news'), CONNECTING THE VERY SIMPLE DOT that we here at MediaWhoresUSA connected last week, that a RIGHT-WING HATE-INSPIRED GUNMAN was INSPIRED TO MURDER by.... LISTENING to GLEN BECK!!
Here at MediaWHORES USA we can NOT keep up with all the ways, subtle and overt, that the NEO-CONS who DOMINATE New York Times and Washington Post PRETEND TO IGNORE the HATE-MONGERING RIGHT-WING neo-Nazi tendencies of their "MORE WAR IN MIDEAST" and "LOOT THE TREASURY" allies who provide the voting "base" or core of the Republican Party our in "Red State" rural America... But we do know that Right-Wing HATE-MONGERS are PLAYING TO the future, would-be TIMMMY McVEIGH's out in America, and those RIGHT-WING MURDER-INCITING HATE-MONGERS INCLUDE the editors & writers of the NEW YORK TIMES and WASHINGTON POST.
As we reported earlier (http://mediawhoresusa.blogspot.com/2009/02/bernard-goldberg-was-inspiration-for.html) Jewish HATE-MONGER & Neo-Con writer BERNARD GOLDBERG's writings were held up as _"INSPIRATION"_ by the murderous gunman who entered a "liberal" Knoxville Church (minority & gay welcoming... during a Sunday children's play, no less!) - with a shotgun, pistols, & tons of ammunition, WITH the MURDEROUS INTENTION of SHOOTING and KILLING _EVERYONE_ INSIDE the church - as PROXIES, because the murderous Jim David Adkisson COULD NOT manage to KILL any of the big names listed by Goldberg in his right-wing hate-mongering "TOP TEN WORST AMERICANS" book.
WELL, along comes the JEWISH-owned NEW YORK TIMES this week, in their chronic, treacherous, lying, and insanely greedy NEO-CONSERVATIVE ENTITLEMENT, once again MAKING NICE with the MERCHANTS OF RIGHT-WING HATE, in this case doing a PUFF-PIECE on Right-Wing Radio shill GLEN BECK, who not only uses similar "HATE LIBERALS" rhetoric as Bernard Goldberg does, but recently (long after it was documented & proven that Goldberg's book was _THE INSPIRATION FOR MURDER_, for SHOOTING UP that Knoxville Church) INVITED Goldberg on the Glen Beck show (on CNN "HATE-MONGERS ARE US" no less!) to commisserate about just HOW MUCH BETTER America would be, if, you know, the Nazi- & Jewish Right-Wings in America could just start DISPOSING of THEIR ENEMIES, Nazi style!!!
But don't take OUR word for it! - Here is Buzzflash.com's "Media Putz of the Week" filling in a few more details than we can, about the BLATANTLY HATE-BAITING agenda of GLEN BECK, and, by extension, how the JEWISH NEO-CON EDITORS and PUBLISHERS of the New York Times SUPPORT THAT AGENDA of HATE (and resulting MURDERS), BY DOING A PUFF-PIECE on Beck ! (And don't forget the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church shooting was NOT the only Right-Wing POLITICAL ASSASSINATION/murder of 2008: just two weeks later, ANOTHER Right-Wing gunman, also allegedly inspired by Right-Wing hate-mongers' "media personalities" with shows on "mainstream" TV, walked in to the Arkansas state Democratic Party Headquarters in Little Rock, the gunman walking into Chairman Bill Gwaltney's office, then shooting & murdering the UNARMED Mr. Gwaltney... - ANOTHER MURDER by RIGHT-WING ASSASSINATION in 2008!
As with the VAST TSUNAMI of FINANCIAL FRAUD which has destroyed MILLIONS of Americans savings, investments, home values (and jobs), the WHORE, CHRONICALLY LYING, murderously corrupt NEW YORK TIMES can NOT bother to CONNECT THE SIMPLE DOTS between RIGHT-WING HATE-MONGERS like Glenn Beck & Bernarnd Goldmberg, and the MURDERS committed by right-wing haters INSPIRED by those "major media" Right-WIng hate-mongering shills!
(Note: Buzzflash.com is also Jewish owned, & probably wouldn't appreciate our mentioning that the NEW YORK TIMES is Jewish-owned, and supports the ENTIRE RIGHT-WING, NEO-CON AGENDA of STOLEN ELECTIONS, LIES-to-WAR, WARS of AGGRESSION, DICTATORIAL executive war-powers, TORTURE, unlimited, no-oversight STASI-style SURVEILLANCE over Americans, Looting-the-Treasury (aka "Tax Cuts for Rich") and all the other atrocious policies that the NEW YORK TIMES has SUPPORTED over the past dozen-plus years... but we don't WRITE these awful stories, we simply CONNECT-THE-DOTS that Media Whores REFUSE to connect, just as our next point mentions:) (note #2: note too how Buzzflash does an EXCELLENT job of __CONTRASTING__ NY Times 'writer' Bill Carter's current puff-piece on Glen Beck, with Carter's earlier, more strident writing about "liberal" MSNBC Countdown host Keith Olbermann. THIS SIMPLE RESEARCH, "COMPARE & CONTRAST" quotations from the same writer about two different subjects, is something ENTIRELY BEYOND the capabilities of the NEO-CON WARMONGERING, CHRONICALLY LYING, & HATE-INCITING New York Times.... and is a TEXT-BOOK EXAMPLE of how the Times is NOT a "liberal" media organization, but a RIGHT-WING HATE-MONGERING organization playing right out of JOSEPH GOEBBEL's NAZI hate-mongering playbook.
http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/honors/149 < For writing a virtual press release without any context or any dimension of actually watching Glenn Beck's show, we proclaim that [NEW YORK TIMES 'reporters'] Brian Stelter and Bill Carter share this week's Media PUTZ of the Week award." >
Yep, caught in the Act: the Washington Post showing its COWARDLY, NAZI stripes: ONE STANDARD for 'evil, sub-human foreigners' who run torture prisons, KILL their prisoners (and, what the hell, throw in a few condemnations for running DEATH SQUADS, just for fun), and another standard, "ALL THE ABOVE ARE HOLY, GOD-ORDAINED cleansed & sanctified means to Assert the United States rule over the world," oops! "to fight the never-ending, always expanding 'War on Terror'!"
HuffingtonPost with today's grisly details of the NEO-CON, warmongering, TREASURY-LOOTING, ELECTION-THIEVING Washington Post's REAL "journalistic 'standards'" - Right out of Herr Goebbels' playbook! -
The prosecution described a chain of death operated by Duch. His victims -- most of whom were either disgraced members of the Khmer Rouge or their families -- were tortured with electric shocks, WATERBOARDING, or beating to extract a confession..."
HuffingtonPost writer Jason Linkins does an excellent job of _compiling_ some of the Post's many GOEBBELS-esqu Washington establishment/bureaucracy DOUBLE-SPEAK terms used for describing Waterboarding, NOT so much as torture, but as some form of government conduct entirely within legal bounds:
But unless you are in possession of whatever gland produces honesty, like Dan Froomkin, you never, never, ever just come right out and say that waterboarding is torture.
------------------------- The fact that ANYONE in America could think that EITHER the RIGHT-WING, NEO-CON,stolen-election-legitimizing, Warmongering, & TREASURY-LOOTING Washington Post _or_ New York Times were actually "LIBERAL" organizations (just because Drug Addict Demagogue Rush Limbaugh, demagogue blow-hard Bill O'Reilly, or hate-crimes-and-murder inciting BERNARD GOLBERG (etc., ad infinitum, ad naseum) declare they are) - is clear proof of just how Orwellian, how Goebbels-esque, how COMPLETELY PROPAGANDIZED the people of the United States have become.
As President Reagan once said, "THERE THEY GO AGAIN"!
This time, the NEW YORK TIMES - RELENTLESS in shilling the RIGHT-WING JEWISH PNAC & GOLDMAN-SACHS "we rule the WORLD, and have a right to ECONOMICALLY ENSLAVE anyone who gets in our way" agenda, publishes an... opinion article RATIONALIZING Bernie Maddof's MASSIVE FINANCIAL FRAUD !!
We have, of course, heard this meme before: "Bernie's victims were mostly Jewish... SO WHAT RIGHT do non-Jews have to cast judgement on one of OUR own, Bernie Madoff."
Well, we here at MediaWhoresUSA had to spend MONTHS, if not YEARS, defending Clinton & apologizing for his MARC RICH PARDON, which was BOUGHT & PAID FOR via Washington "super-lawyer" I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby - (Yes, he of War-Crimes perpetrator DICK CHENEY's CHIEF OF STAFF fame, or PERJURY & OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE in "CIA Outing scandal" infamy).
We are TIRED of having to DEFEND and APOLOGIZE for CORRUPT "ISRAEL FIRST" financiers and their Washington lawyers & K. St. fixers who OWN Washington DC, and THE ENTIRE US GOVERNMENT.. BOTH Bush's Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson (he of SEVEN HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS of TAXPAYER BAILOUTS for his own firm & other big NY banks), AND Clinton's Treasury Secretary ROBERT RUBIN, worked as CHAIRMEN of the GOLDMAN-SACHS HEDGE FUND, Rubin NOW OBAMA's TOP ECONOMICS advisor, despite having PRESIDED OVER the BANKRUPTCY at Citi-group last year. (Resecued from BANKRUPTCY, _ONLY_ by fellow Goldman-Sachs bankster Paulson's HUNDREDS of BILLIONS of dollars of bailouts.) Oh yeah - did we mention WHO OBAMA's #2 DONOR for 2008 was ?? http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?cycle=2008&cid=N00009638
Well, here's the NEW YORK TIMES, at their WHITEWASHING AIPAC CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR worst:
< Well, Daphne Merkin can think what she wishes, and her extraordinarily warped take on this tragedy would hardly merit reading past her third paragraph, let alone publishing a lengthy disputation. But the real story here is not one person's slant on the largest financial swindle in history. It is the decision of the New York Times to publish it at all. > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/roger-smith/the-incestuous-merkins-pr_b_180566.html
It is hard to add to, or amplify on, the great ConsortiumNews.com exposes a TYPICAL Washington Post SMEAR, SLIME, and HATCHET JOB against a Washington official who could possibly (had he been confirmed for office in the Obama administration), been a restraint or obstruction on the Neo-Con "EXPAND WARS IN THE MIDEAST!" agenda. ConsortiumNews.com, March 15, 2009: "The WASHINGTON POST is a NEO-CON PROPAGANDA SHEET." http://consortiumnews.com/2009/031509.html
As our own title asserts, the Washington Post gives up NOT ONE TRICK to German WWII Nazi Propaganda Minister JOSEF GOEBBELS, in LYING to their readers and to the American public.... ...For an agenda & ideology that is actually quite indistinguishable from the NAZI ideology, namely that in the name of "STATE SECURITY!" the United should should & must START WARS, EMPLOY DEATH-SQUADS, tax the public to support an ever larger & growing WAR-MACHINE; and that there are ALWAYS some "evil, sub-human 'untermensch'" enemies (today's code-word of course "Terrorists!") around who justify the Washington Post's ghoulish writers fomenting & encouraging ENDLESS WARS, DEATH SQUADS, TORTURE, & other GESTAPO ruthless war-time occupation & police state tactics. (And, don't forget... when the ABU GHRAIB photos showed just how DISGUSTING, BRUTAL, & _COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE_ those GESTAPO torture tactics truly are... the POST editors & writers (and their fellow Naziesque ghouls over at the NEW YORK TIMES) pimped, primped, primed, and cheer-led the US version of NAZI/Commissar KANGAROO COURT SHOW TRIALS, for FEMALE Volunteer PRIVATES accused __ONLY__ of "ABUSE" - ...WHILE the president (Bush) and Vice President (Cheney)of the United States OPENLY BRAGGED ON and asserted their "RIGHT" to _TORTURE PRISONERS, TO DEATH, at their SOUL DISCRETION, never answering to anyone, AT ANY TIME THEY CHOSE, to ANYONE hey so desired! That is, KANGAROO Gestapo/Commissar SHOW TRIALS for FEMALE PRIVATES accused ONLY of "abuse" - WHILE the Post & Times endorse the Vice President & President openly asserting "THEIR RIGHT" to TORTURE prisoners, TO DEATH!!
The United States might not today be running overt DEATH CAMPS just yet, but the US War in Iraq has killed ONE out of TWENTY FIVE Iraqis (reliable estimates on the Post-US invasion violent death toll in Iraq starts around a million killed, and go upwards from there), and of course the Neo-Cons at the WashPOST and NY TIMES STILL DREAM of _MORE_ DEATH-SQUAD WARS - in Venezuela, in Mexico (vs drug gangs), and THROUGHOUT South America. ....And of course the Neo-Con ghouls would LOVE to unleash a NUCLEAR WAR against Iran. (The closest their fervid, malevolent, & morbid imaginations can come to finding to a WWII-scale "enemy.") AND DON'T FORGET: The TREASONOUS Neo-Cons at the POST, TIMES, & AIPAC (and SATURATED THROUGH the US Congress & media) STILL IGNORE the SAUDI FUNDING for both 9-11 hijackers, AND the WAHABI "hate the infidel" Madrases throughout the world; in an EVIL alliance of the wealthy (Arab royals and their ostesnible 'enemies' the AIPAC bankers) vs. the unwashed masses!
<< Over the last three decades, the Post has evolved into a neoconservative propaganda sheet, especially its opinion section which fronted for George W. Bush’s FALSE Iraq-WMD claims, led the long-term BASHING of Iraq War critics, and defends whatever actions the Israeli government takes, including the recent war in Gaza and apparently its desire to preemptively bomb Iran. >>
------------------------------------------------- BLAMING THE VICTIM: Right out of WWII NAZI PROPAGANDA, which blamed millions of DEATH CAMP VICIMS for "being TERRORISTS!", the NEO-CONS at the POST & TIMES, SUPPORT the RELENTLESS ETHNIC CLEANSING of any and ALL Palestinian or Arab property, citizens, or enclaves from within the state of Israel - the EXACT PROCESS which the people of Israel have spent the last 2,000+ years COMPLAINING when other nations do same to them! Further, this simple graphic - which shows a concerted effort to "WIPE" Palestinian & Arab enclaves "OFF THE MAP" - illustrates how GROTESQUE is the Neo-Con rational for PRE-EMPTIVE WAR (aggression) against Iran - the Neo-Cons quoting Iranian officials as having demanded "the wiping of Israel off the map", even as THEY TRY TO DO THE SAME to PALESTINE areas within Israel!
Bonus: NEO-CON style "DEMOCRACY" and "FREEDOM" - Georgia democracy adocates, PROTESTING SUSPENDED ELECTIONS, are BEATEN, ARRESTED, and (in case of top leaders) KILLED, BY the US & ISRAEL SUPPORTED Saakashvili regime in Georgia - November 2007. Much of the PEACEFUL PROTESTS were spurred by Georgia's STANDARD OF LIVING _DECLINING_ under Saakashvili - classic "DISASTER CAPITALISM", as Saakashvili used Georgia taxpayer funds to PURCHASE EXPENSIVE US & Israeli WEAPONS, in anticipation of his scheduled August 2008 INVASION of South Ossetia!
America & Israel's favorite OPPOSITION-leader-KILLING, democracy-crushing, torture & police-state Puppet Dictator: Georgia Dictator Saakashvili in Israel, as the Israel war department rolls out the red carpet for Saakashvili to TRANSFER Georgia's hard-earned currency OVER TO ISRAEL to purchase expensive US & Israeli weapons for Saakashvili's pending war against South Ossetia - (TIME magazine story here - http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1834785,00.html LYNCH-MOB Gestapo/KGB kangaroo-court SHOW TRIAL PROSECUTIONS in AMERICA; ETHNIC CLEANSING of Palestians (while using alleged Iranian rhetoric of same regarding Israel to JUSTIFY desired PRE-EMPTIVE WAR against Iran); the RELENTLESS SMEARING of all critics opposed to the Neo-Con agenda here in America; and ASSASSINATIONS & CRUSHING of democracy protests in Georgia - the murderous Neo-Cons who DOMINATE the WASHINGTON POST and NEW YORK TIMES are at least consistent - CONSISTENTLY Nazi-esque Liars, war-mongers, and lusting for Death-Squads & torture ghouls. .
Catch this TEXTBOOK example of the NEW YORK WHORE TIMES Neo-Con "LOOT the Village, PLUNDER the Villagers, and RAPE their Pension fund" PROPAGANDA: - the NY Times SOFT-SELLING the FINANCIAL-REGULATIONS GUTTING _GRAMM-Leach-Bliley Act_ back in 1999.
This bill, along with then Senator Gramm's equally atrocious "COMMODITY FUTURES 'MODERNIZATION' Act of 2000" #2.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity_Futures_Modernization_Act_of_2000 - created the "ENRON LOOPHOLE" & other BULLY-BOY financial loopholes, PROHIBITING the SEC from REGULATING DERIVATIVES, and thus placing HUGE SWATHS of the ENTIRE US Financial Markets BEYOND the oversight of the SEC.
Basically, the "INVESTMENT BANKERS" & hedge-fund hoodlums could now make ANY financial transaction INTO a "DERIVATIVE security," or "instrument" - a "Derivative security" which would now be ENTIRELY beyond the supervision of the SEC. ("The SEC," that is, which the NYTimes, Republican & 'Democrat' DEREGULATION FANATICS in Congres & government turned in to a TOOTHLESS SHELL in the first place.)
We won't deconstruct the WHORE TIMES' THIEVING "DEREGULATION IS GOOD!" propaganda whitewash story (link here) line-by-line - the SOFT-SELL TITLE ALONE suffices - but we will note that just FOUR Wiki articles on the 2 Phil Gramm DEREGULATION ATROCITIES are FAR MORE INFORMATIVE than EVERYTHING the THIEVING New York Whore Times has EVER written on the subject of these DEREGULATION ATROCITIES and thus the rules making markets and unknowing investors subject to MASSIVE FRAUD & MANIPULATION - because helping their fellow NY big business (banking) institutions DEFRAUD tens of thousands, upon MILLIONS of American investors, IS WHAT THE NEW YORK TIMES is ALL about!
Here's a simple sentence from the Wiki entry for Bush's "BILLIONS of dollars TAXPAYER BAILOUTS for MY BANKER FRIENDS, FOREVER!" Treasury Secretary, HANK PAULSON, which the New York Times JUST CAN'T BOTHER to inform their reader:
< "The 1999 Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, however, put the parent holding company of each of the big American brokerages beyond SEC oversight." > #3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Paulson
BECAUSE ROBBING AMERICAN working families & taxpayers BLIND - in HEALTH CARE, in JOBS, in PAY & BENEFITS, and ESPECIALLY in PENSIONS and in the Financial Markets - IS the agenda of the evil, Dastardly, Neo-Con New York Slimes & their financial Loot & Plunder partners in crime.
Because during the Clinton years the NY Times & Washington Post were able to MAKE "Whitewater!" SEEM like THE BIGGEST SCANDAL of the S&L financial meltdown of the late 1980s & early 1990s, they were able to ENABLE Phil Gramm to RESUME HIS DEREGULATION Jihad even as President Clinton was _still_ paying down the BUSH-1 DEFICITS and dragging the US economy OUT of the BUSH-1 RECESSION....
- That is, EVEN after Gramm's FIRST round of DEREGULATIONS - the _Savings & Loan_ deregulations of the 1980s - COST AMERICAN TAXPAYERS ONE-TRILLION DOLLARS in 1980s money and put America smack into those Bush-1 Deficits (Bush-1 Deficits were the cost of paying off the S&L BAILOUTS) and Bush-1 RECESSION - ("$1 TRILLION in taxpayers losses in 1980's money NOT counting the money American investors, home-buyers, pensioners, & workers lost in the private side of the S&L meltdown) - leading DIRECTLY to the late 1980s US financial markets meltdown, the New YOrk Times AGAIN, in late 1990s _enabled_ Phil Gramm's __SECOND round of 1999 & 2000 DEREGULATION bills__ leading DIRECTLY to this current TEN-TRILLION-DOLLAR US financial & economic meltdown! ---------------------------------- The New York WHORE Times RELENTLESSLY WHITEWASHES the CONNECTION between _DEREGULATION_ and MARKET MELTDOWNS & economic collapse; both after the Savings & Loans were DEREGULATED in the 1980s, and AGAIN, in late 1990s, when PHIL GRAMM's SECOND ROUND of DEREGULATION INSANITY _paved the way_ for our CURRENT market meltdowns (nearly HALF of the market's theoretical value lost since October of 2007) & economic crisis: as the below NY Times SOFT SELL of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley bill story illustrates!
When the NEW YORK WHORES TIMES writes "EASING bank laws," they MEAN, "GUTTING ALL oversight & regulation or YOUR PENSION, SAVINGS, & MARKET INVESTMENTS" - because the NYT are PAID PROFESSIONAL LIARS & THIEVES!!
and Sorkin basically never once offered any refutation to Nobel-prize winning economist (and fellow NY Times writer) Mr. Krugman's assertion, that the BAILOUTS are a monstrosity - a WASTED OPPORTUNITY that has delivered BILLIONS upon HUNDREDS-of-billions of TAXPAYER DOLLARS TO the very Banksters who RUINED America's economy and finanical markets - and that instead of GETTING CREDIT FLOWING, and making sure the TAXPAYER (bailout) funds actual stimulate consumption and production, the Big Bailout Banks have used the money to "Bolster their balance sheets" - something that, had the US Congress known, they would NEVER have approved of either Mr. Paulson or Mr. Obama's BAILOUT requests (demands).
But today Mr. Sorkin pops up at the New York Times article http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/24/business/24sorkin.html in the FAR MORE TRADITIONAL NY Times role: PROPPING UP the NEO-CON TAKEOVER of the world, in this case, making the case that uber-Neo-Con "finanical institution" GOLDMAN-SACHS are the "GOOD GUYS", who are "TRYING TO PAY BACK TAXPAYER DOLLARS in advance of schedule."
Needless to say, Sorkin AND the Times miss YET ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY to delve into GOLDMAN-SACHS ROLE in the WIPING OUT of TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS of INVESTOR VALUE in this economic meltdown.
To repeat from our previous posts - HERE is the NEW YORK TIMES, JOINING Goldman-Sachs, in GLOATING about Goldman's BILLION DOLLAR BONUS CHRISTMAS - of 2006!! http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/12/business/12cnd-earn.html Back then the GHOULISH New York Times REFUSED to CONNECT-the-DOTS on Goldman-Sachs execs GLOATING about THEIR BONUSES - WHILE tens of thousands of American families were ALREADY STARTING TO FACE FORECLOSURE and EVICTION that December of 2006! Needless to say, NOT ONLY WAS THAT GHOULISH, but it was STUPID - for "MORTGAGES" were the core or base of a HUGE portion of Goldman-Sachs (and other financial firms) OVER-VALUED 'investments' and ASSETS - and when a family home was FORECLOSED on, it was a DOUBLE-WHAMMY against those "financial assets": first, a FAILED MORTGAGE sitting on a bank's books, and, second, ALL THE HOME VALUES in the neighborhood ARE DEPRESSED by the drop in value of the foreclosed home, duh!
THE NEW YORK TIMES was TOO GREEDY, COMPLICIT, and CORRUPT to make the above VERY SIMPLE CONNECTIONS between THE LOOMING FORECLOSURE CRISIS and GOLDMAN-SACHS' insanely greedy, GHOULISH "Billion-dollar" BONUSES of 2006!! (As if that wasn't bad enough, EVEN by 2006 MUCH of GoldmanSachs' "profits" WERE FAKE - dependent on "BACK-DOOR BAILOUTS" of the Fed __CREATING MONEY OUT OF THIN AIR__ and GIVING IT to their favorite banks, aka "LIQUIDITY INJECTIONS" that had, by March of 2008, deposited ONE TRILLION un-earned dollars in the vaults of those fortunate few banks. http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/7483/Fed-Heads-Back-to-the-Well-Will-It-Run-Dry? This process has NEVER been discussed or explained in detail! (Even though of course "LIQUIDITY INJECTIONS hit the news every so often - including BEN BERNANKE dishing out ANOTHER $630 BILLION to the large banks http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a9MTZEgukPLY the VERY WEEK that Hank Paulson DEMANDED of Speaker Pelosi and her 110th "Democratic" Congress the $700 BILLION dollars in "front-door" bailouts we are all more familiar with... That is, a total of OVER ONE TRILLION in Taxpayer BAILOUTS of the big banks, from the ONE WEEK of market meltdown in September 2008, alone!)
The above just the prelude or back-history to today's SNARKY NYT/Sorkin story, "If Goldman Returns Aid, Will Others?" http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/24/business/24sorkin.html Sorkin DOES mention some of the (mega!) concerns about Goldman-Sachs in the first place:
"Goldman’s sudden urgency to return the money stems, in part, from the uproar over A.I.G.’s bonuses last week, and the criticism of Goldman over revelations that the firm had been the largest recipient of government money as a counterparty of bets placed with A.I.G."
- but in the VERY NEXT SENTENCE, Sorkin careens at 100 mph AWAY from that teaser his has just waved in front of our noses! With the INSANELY irrational Obama "financial" camp REFUSING to provide Americans with A SINGLE major AUDIT of a SINGLE bailed-out bank, it is EASY to see why: THE NEW YORK TIMES and GOLDMAN SACHS __DO NOT WANT__ any GOOD financial reporting - MUCH LESS AUDITS!! WHEN Mr. Rahm Emanuel (President Obama's Head-Skull-Crusher and Gate-keeper, i.e. Chief of Staff) worked with "Chicago boutique INVESTMENT BANK" Wasserstein-Perrella http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/rahm-emanuel-former-investment-banker/ to help arrange a billion-dollar LBO ("LEVEREGED Buy Out" or "MERGER" or "ACQUISTION") of a target company, you may rest assured that Mr. Emanuel and his partners EXAMINED and DISSECTED and INSPECTED and _AUDITED_ -_EVERY DIME_ of that target's company's value and accounting. (duh!) BUT! Acting as agent for AMERICAN TAXPAYERS (in his role in the US GOVERNMENT as Chief of Staff to the President) - Mr. Emanuel DOES NOT BELIEVE that we, the taxpayers, ARE ENTITLED to those same top-to-bottom Accounting or disclosures!!
The OBAMA Administration is __ROBBING American taxpayers__ of TIMELY and ACCURATE AUDITS of this "TRILLIONS OF taxpayer & investor DOLLARS LOST into the ether" Economic wreckage - and THAT is how THE NEW YORK TIMES and GOLDMAN-SACHS WANT IT!
And of course Mr. Sorkin does FLIRT with part of the above "we love secrecy" problem:
< "Goldman would also like to put an end to the whisper campaigns about ties between it and Mr. Paulson (and Timothy F. Geithner, too, for that matter)." >
"WHISPER CAMPAIGN"?? Mr. Paulson was GOLDMAN-SACHS CHAIRMAN for FIVE YEARS, up to the moment just 2 years ago that he became President Bush's TREASURY SECRETARY!! We KNOW that Mr. Paulson's portfolio at Goldman-Sachs (comprised mostly of GS stock) was at one time valued OVER $430 million! (some estimates over half-a-BILLION dollars) amassed in his 15 years there as a trader before becoming Chairman, but we DO NOT know how thoroughly Mr. Pualson DIVESTED his portfolio from GoldmanSachs when he became Bush's Treasury Secretary, and we DO know (thought he insanely corrupt NY Times refuses to discuss it), that VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY _NEVER_ completely DIVESTED his HALLIBURTON stock, even through his entire term as VP Mr. Cheney continued to hold HALLIBURTON DEFERRED STOCK OPTIONS, and Mr. Cheney CONTINUED to HAND HALLIBURTON BILLION-DOLLAR NO BID, NO OVERSIGHT, NO STRINGS ATTACHED contracts to his "former" company!! (Including of course BILLIONS of dollars of post-Katrina "rebuilding" contracts on the Gulf Coast and in New Orleans - even though Mr. Cheney and Mr. Bush REFUSED to commission an ENVIRONMENTAL MASTER PLAN for the region that would minimize future disaster impacts, and maximize rediness, planning & infrastructure and infrastructure improvements - and even though the INSANELY CORRUPT NEW YORK TIMES _REFUSES_ to delve into THAT NEW round of government CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE, even after the New Orleans flooding exposed the Bush administration disaster response as incompetent, corrupt, bumbling, if not goulish!) By detouring into the NEW YORK TIMES (journalistic, if not) criminal COMPLICITY in the LACK OF ENVIRONMENTAL MASTER-PLANNING for post-Katrina New Orleans and Gulf Coast under the Bush administration, we have not even gotten to that OTHER Goldman-Sachs CHAIRMAN, ROBERT RUBINS, PUSHING President Clinton to sign BOTH the GRAMM-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) of 1999, AND the "Commodity Futures Modernization Act" of 2000 - both of which were the DEREGULATION MONSTROSITIES which, among other things, led DIRECTLY to the AIG and ENRON BANKKRUPTCIES, if not the Goldman-Sachs, Bear-Stearns, Fannie-Mae, Merrill-Lynch, and other MEGA-BANKRUPTCIES as well!
< "The 1999 Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, however, put the parent holding company of each of the big American brokerages BEYOND S.E.C. OVERSIGHT. In order for the agreement to go ahead, the investment banks lobbied for a decision that would allow "voluntary" inspection of their parent and subsidiary holdings by the SEC." > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Paulson
When you have "Democrat" Treasury Secretaris (Lawrence Summers followed Rubins as Clinton's Treasury Secretary, and ALSO supported GLBA, CFMA2000, and other "deregulation" & secrecy agenda items pushed by the big banks) SUPPORTING THE MOST RIGHT-WING of Republican Politicans, in drafting and passing THE MOST RIGHT-WING of "LOOT the village and PLUNDER the villagers" "DEREGULATION" legislation favored by the likes of uber-Right-Wing Republicans PHIL GRAMM, DICK ARMEY, TRENT LOTT, JESSE HELMS, JIM LEACH, Thomas BLILEY, and TOM DeLAY (etc, ad naseum), then those "Democrat" Treasury Secretaries ARE NOT SO "DEMOCRATIC" at all!
NO, Mr. Sorkin, the PROBLEM IS NOT, as you maintain, "that other banks would be FORCED to try to match Goldman-Sachs return of bonus billions" - the PROBLEM is that we STILL have NO IDEA of the FULL ROLE Goldman-Sachs had in creating America's ECONOMIC MELTDOWN, and, worse, THE NEW YORK TIMES has absolutely ZERO MOTIVATION to INFORM American citizens and taxpayers about HOW WE WERE SHOVED into this Crisis!
And "WHY?" would the New York Times be SO INTENTIONALLY DERELICT at explaining to their customers (readers) and America's citizens & leaders the FULL ROLE of GOLDMAN-SACHS and other "financial institutions" in LANDING AMERICA IN THIS CRISIS????
answer: The answer is neatly and tidly provided in the last sentence of Mr. Sorkin's article as it is posted on the New York Times website today:
< The latest news on mergers and acquisitions can be found at nytimes.com/dealbook. >
THE ONLY thing the New York Times cares about, is "MERGERS & ACQUISTIONS" - the ability of GOLDMAN SACHS to LEVERAGE _EVERY LITTLE ADVANTAGE_ they can possibly find - much less the advantage of having a DIRECT LINE to BILLIONS upon BILLIONS upon BILLION upon BILLIONS of government money, whether "FRONT DOOR BAILOUTS," "BACK-DOOR BAILOUTS," FAVORABLE government rulings & contracts, or just plain secret "insider" tips - To BUY UP and OWN _EVERYTHING_ of value in sight, that they can possibly get their hands on!
Even if DRIVING MILLIONS of Ameicans INTO FORECLOSURE, EVICTION,and BANKRUPTCY, and then using GOVERNMENT (taxpayer) BILLIONS to - NOT rescue the economy, but ONCE AGAIN INFLATE Goldman's balance sheet, and then BUY UP DISTRESSED PROPERTIES for PENNIS ON THE DOLLAR - is part of that ghoulish process!
Mr. Sorkin may be COMPLETELY UNAWARES of the ability of Big Banksters to "PROFIT" or take advantage of "BACK-DOOR BAILOUTS" - but his fellow (but NON-FINANCIAL) writer at the Times, Ms. Maureen Dowd, is certainly aware of them: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/opinion/22dowd.html
<< Goldman Sachs separately got $10 billion in bailout money last year, but recently asserted snootily that it’s doing well enough and doesn’t want our money because of the restrictions attached. Yet as Goldman sneers at the federal money at the front door, it’s taking delivery of billions in no-strings federal money through the back door. >>
(Note: Technically Mr. Sorkin does MENTION Goldman-Sachs getting an $11 BILLION dollar chunk of the AIG BAILOUT - but that, of course is only the TIP of the iceberg that Sorkin and the NEW YORK WHORE TIMES happily PRETEND not to notice. And NON-FINANICAL columnist Dowd says it FAR BETTER than anyone at the Times "news" or "financial" or (lol) "reporting" desks:
<< Virtually unnoticed amid the bonus imbroglio was A.I.G.’s grudging disclosure that it had funneled $93 billion — more than half its federal money to date — to its high-flying insurees, including Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and a group of European banks. >>
To Repeat, the ONLY thing the NEW YORK TIMES CARES ABOUT is "The OWNERSHIP Society" - the ELITE, TOP-1% "ownership" class. Not only have they (along with President Obama's own former GOLDMAN-SACHS "advisors") HOODWINKED President Obama into ROBBING Americans of a SINGLE FINANICAL AUDIT of so much as a SINGLE, FAILED, fraudulently run, bailed out bank - even of AIG, a company 80% OWNED by taxpayers! - but the Times and Mr. Obama's GOLDMAN-SACHS Bankster team has Mr. Obama thinking about "REFORMING" Social Security too!
IF Mr. Obama were not so misled and ALOOF - bordering on INSANELY ARROGANT, he might read those wiki stories on how the "Commodity Futures 'MODERNIZATION' Act" the "Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act," and even the JOE BIDEN sponsored "Credit REFORM Act of 2005" all.. CONTRIBUTED to ECONOMIC FAILURES and, regarding Biden's "MBNA Credit Card Extortion Act of 2005" in particular, led DIRECTLY to the FORECLOSURES that are at the very HEART of this economic crisis. http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2008/12/bankruptcy-refo.html
But of course this column is not about Mr. Obama - it is about ALAN SORKIN and the NEW YORK TIME's efforts to be PART OF THE LOOT, PLUNDER, PILLAGE and RAPE (pension plans) OLIGARCHY / KLEPTOCRACY, which 'real' agenda the NEW YORK TIMES can ONLY foist on their readers - by BEING INTENTIONALLY EVASIVE, DECEPTIVE, SECRETIVE, and CONSPIRATORIALLY LARCENOUS - that is, by being PAID PROFESSIONAL LIARS!
PS: in yet another example of the New York Times "reporters" NOT reading Mr. Krugman or some of the other NON-Neo-Con editorials right inside the NY Times, FRANK RICH lays out the GROTESQUE FRAUD and double-standards at the heart of the GOLDMAN-SACHS PREDATION of US financial markets - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/opinion/22rich.html And here is the fellow Neo-Con PROPAGANDA RAG WASHINGTON POST, admitting "RUBIN, PAULSON, and GEITHNER have a 'shared history' leading to the $300 billion BAILOUTS of CITI bank - the bank that Mr. Rubins went to work for after leaving first leaving Goldman-Sachs to go to Treasury, and then departing Treasury to go to Citi to try to TAKE ADVANTAGE of the VERY Phil Gramm DEREGULATION legislation HE HAD PUSHED so relentlessly for - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/24/AR2008112401118_pf.html THAT IS, PRESIDENT OBAMA's CURRENT lead Economics advisor, was DIRECTLY at the HEART of BOTH DEREGULATION bills, AND the FINANCIAL MELTDOWN of Citi-group - which HAD been "Citi-bank" until Mr. Rubin helped turn it into an OUT OF CONTROL, NO OVERSIGHT, no audits, DERIVATIVES-TRADING financial NIGHTMARE! ----------------------------------------------- Note: President Obama ADMITS that there is at least SOME _FINANCIAL FRAUD_ in the BAILOUT BILLIONS - but he can NOT be bothered to look for it, he treats FINANICAL COLLAPSE of MILLIONS of American's savings & pensions and investments and home-values as a THROW-AWAY LAUGH on the Jay Leno show! -
(at 2 minutes, Mr. Obama admits that "MOST of what happened is legal" - "MOST" does NOT mean "ALL", and he exhibits NO, Zero interest in PROTECTING AMERICANS from POTENTIAL (what everyone else in America but he knows is MASSIVE) fraud!
WHY does KEITH OLBERMANN, in a SEVEN MINUTE VIDEO, explain AMERICA's ECONONOMIC CRISIS _BETTER_ than 10,000 "financial" articles coming out of America's corporate press/media?
WHY do New York Times' columnists MAUREEN DOWD's _FOUR SENTENCES_ explain the BILLIONS of TAXPAYER DOLLARS that _GOLDMAN-SACHS_ has TAKEN from AMERICAN TAXPAYERS, better than ANYTHING you will read in the "FINANCIAL press"?
The answer is because GOLDMAN SACHS _OWNS_ BOTH political parties: PRESIDENT BUSH's TREASURY SECRETARY, HANK PAULSON, was from GOLDMAN SACHS, as was PRESIDENT CLINTON's _Treasury Secretary_, ROBERT RUBINS, who is also NOW PRESIDENT OBAMA's TOP eocnomic advisor!
ROBERT RUBIN, LAWRENCE SUMMERS, HANK PAULSON, and JIM CRAMER - ALL are either Goldman-Sachs alumni, or in Summers' case, a "consultant" to the firm that WOULD BE BANKRUPT were it not for BILLIONS upon BILLIONS upon BILLIONS of TAXPAYER BAILOUT dollars. And the above "Four Mousketeers of Goldman-Sachs ENTITLEMENT, BAILOUT FRAUD" doesn't even include MARK PATTERSON, the guy Obama's hapless & INCOMPETENT current "Treasury Secretary," TIM GEITHNER, selected to be his #2 man at Treasury: MARK PATTERSON, a _FORMER GOLDMAN SACHS LOBBYIST!" http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-01-27-lobbyist_N.htm (Dowd's commentary does mention Patterson - one of the rare few media mentions of his name, anywhere!)
And Maureen Dowd is THE FIRST commentator we have read, ANYWHERE, who mentions the __"BACK DOOR"__ methods the big banks use to SUCK UP TAXPAYER DOLLARS, while PRETENDING that they don't.
Because GIVING BILLIONS of TAXPAYER DOLLARS to FRAUDULENT BANKSTERS, is what BOTH DEMOCRATS and REPUBLICAN politicians do!
Maureen Dowd's FOUR SENTENCES, plus one addressing US TAXPAYER BAILOUT BILLIONS going to FOREIGN banks... including UBS, which has a SERIAL, CHRONIC reputation for DEFRAUDING American taxpayers by HARBORING American TAX CHEATS! http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/opinion/22dowd.html At the New York Fed, Geithner helped preside over the A.I.G. bailout in September. But in October, it was Andrew Cuomo, the New York attorney general, who had to threaten to sue unless A.I.G. canceled $160 million in planned expenses for conferences and a $600 million bonus pool.
Virtually unnoticed amid the bonus imbroglio was A.I.G.’s grudging disclosure that it had funneled $93 billion — more than half its federal money to date — to its high-flying insurees, including Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and a group of European banks.
Goldman Sachs separately got $10 billion in bailout money last year, but recently asserted snootily that it’s doing well enough and doesn’t want our money because of the restrictions attached. Yet as Goldman sneers at the federal money at the front door, it’s taking delivery of billions in no-strings federal money through the back door. Can we taxpayers deduct the difference?
Our gift to Goldman demonstrates why the government’s headless and heedless bailout of A.I.G. is so wrong.
And why are we bailing out foreign banks, including a couple of French ones and UBS, a Swiss bank currently tussling with the I.R.S. because it refuses to hand over the names of thousands of U.S. tax-dodgers?
Note how at today's Jewish-owned NEW YORK TIMES, both print-copy & web-site, they will mention "IRANIAN BLOGGER DIES IN PRISON" but they will NOT mention what the USA Today notes: that today marks the start of the SEVENTH YEAR of the US invasion in Iraq, today the six-year anniversary of George W. Bush repeating the "trick" of his father bombing Panama, Bush Jr. unleashing the United States military on a nation that was entirely powerless to stop an international WAR of AGRESSION that had been laid out and planned by the Jewish-dominated "PNAC" think tank, "Project for a New American Century" (or NewAmericanCentury.org) which Dick Cheney, Jeb Bush, Don Rusmfeld, Steve Forbes, and a few other gentiles signed in mid-1997 and early 1998 along with the 50% AIPAC (Jewish) PNAC neo-cons, including PNAC founding co-chairman BILL KRISTOL and ROBERT KAGAN. http://newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm http://newamericancentury.org/lettersstatements.htm The JEWISH NEO-CON DOMINATED war-lusting WASHINGTON IMPERIAL POST has a similar "we didn't know!" attitude towards today's anniversary of PAUL WOLFOWITZ's "the ARCHITECT of the IRAQ WAR" murderous brainstorm, either....
The Comedy Channel's JON STEWART - host of the comedy talk-show "The Daily Show" which usually mimicks "real" news broadcasts - in yet another example of how throughly corrupted America has become, is, yet again, MORE INFORMATIVE, in a "comedy" format, THAN network and "Major Media" "NEWS" shows are!
