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- we destroyed a culture to create a better one to protect it from happening again. progress is a cruel mistress********
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- but then again, you nor I, asked to be born here. Am I wrong?********
- America: Destroying villages to save them for 250 years™TheBlueOne
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Republican budget could include Medicare privatization, major cuts for Seniors
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2…
House Republicans are debating whether to relaunch their quest to privatize Medicare, months after they hammered Democrats for cutting the program.
- it's all relative dude, something has got to break at some point. don't give a flying fuck who in charge, yo********
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- read a bit.... Ryan's numbers are hocus-pocus if you research it...vaxorcist
- it's all relative dude, something has got to break at some point. don't give a flying fuck who in charge, yo
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commen…
The article discusses the dangers of environmentalism and climate alarmism sliding into ecofascism.
In a few words, it is too early to declare full genocide of the human race as predicted by Pentti Linkola
All one needs to do is to ban all advertising, and 90% of environmental problems will disappear.And very rightly so, as I was always saying, advertising is a crime, designers are made out of dung -- literally, and all people working in advertising are practically walking sewage pumps. That is, all advertisers should be aware that they work as executioners.
I sincerely hope to live to see the day when marketing and advertising will be punished with instant death.The multi-million city of São Paulo has banned all advertising, people are ecstatic:
http://www.businessweek.com/inno…
http://www.creativereview.co.uk/…
Instead they have an impossible amount of graffiti, the whole city is covered in it, unbelievably beautiful.
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"His [Linkola's] bold political programme includes ending the freedom to procreate, abolishing fossil fuels, revoking all international trade agreements, banning air traffic, demolishing the suburbs, and reforesting parking lots. As for those "most responsible for the present economic growth and competition", Linkola explains that they will be sent to the mountains for "re-education" in eco-gulags."
Better else, and much faster: burn the whole american continent with napalm, and sow it with one meter thick layer of salt, so that no life ever grows out again.
"Extinguish America, Save the World"
- not sure if anyone has asked, but what is your ideal type of gov/state/place?********
- Something stikes me about your views against america as frustration that theyre blowing their chance, i think its the disgust********
- disgust in your words. Doesnt seem to have much called for animosity jsut a certain disgust********
- He is like every other european. Brainwashed. Zero critical thinking.********
- not sure if anyone has asked, but what is your ideal type of gov/state/place?
- Miesfan0
- is that a scene out War of the Worlds? http://www.war-ofthe…********
- nice find chilamont.********
- is that a scene out War of the Worlds? http://www.war-ofthe…
- organicgrid0
Money for nothing at Goldman
America's favorite bankers have outdone themselves yet again.
How might you compensate management for a year in which profits plunged, you spent $550 million of shareholder money to settle a fraud investigation and your stock ended up more or less exactly where it started (see chart, right)?
Pay? Sure. Performance? Not so much
You might be tempted to nix raises or withhold bonuses to send a responsible message about linking pay to performance. But if so, you wouldn't be Goldman Sachs (GS).
It just had the year described above – and responded by tripling everyone's base salary while boosting bonuses by 40%. Is this a great country or what?
Goldman said in a filing Friday afternoon that CEO Lloyd Blankfein will make $2 million this year, and his top lieutenants will each make $1.85 million. Top Goldman brass had been making $600,000 annually in salary since the firm's 1999 initial public offering.
All 470 of Goldman's partners will get higher salaries. The top five officers will also get $12.6 million each in bonuses, paid in restricted shares that can't be sold for five years. That's up from $9 million each last year.
That may seem like a high price to pay for a pretty lousy year – and one that ended with a Fed-inspired reminder that Goldman, just in case anyone forgot, took billions upon billions of dollars in bailout loans in 2008 and 2009.
But conveniently for the bankers at Goldman and many other firms, Wall Street's compensation goalposts have been moved in just as they were getting harder to reach.
Goldman and many of its rivals were hit in the second half of last year by weak trading numbers and rising costs, as they hired more people to gear up for tougher markets in 2011. Those trends naturally penalized profits. At Goldman, profit tumbled 38% from a year ago in 2010, on a 13% revenue decline.
But lucky for hot shot banking types, the big issue with banker pay nowadays is not linking pay with performance. It's keeping the bankers from blowing the economy up again.
Regulators led by the Federal Reserve are now pushing for higher salaries and lower, stretched-out bonuses in a bid to discourage the banks from gambling for huge short-term rewards, as they did so disastrously during the housing bubble that ended with the meltdown of 2008.
The idea is to limit the payment of giant, one-time bonuses that later turn out to have been based on fictitious profits, as was seen at places like Merrill Lynch during the bubble. Federal regulators issued 47 pages of guidance last June laying out the rules banks must follow in setting bonuses. They didn't issue any guidance on salaries.
"Banking organizations are responsible for ensuring that their incentive compensation arrangements do not encourage imprudent risk-taking behavior and are consistent with the safety and soundness of the organization," the document said.
After the bailouts of 2008, the focus on holding down risk-taking is understandable. But the history of executive pay is that every supposed reform leads to a new, unexpected abuse.
It is early yet to say that will be the case here. Even with the raises, Goldman's 2011 payouts stand to be just a fraction of the go-go days, when Blankfein, president Gary Cohn and finance chief David Viniar each regularly racked up $40 million or more in bonuses and stock awards in a given year.
But even if the top bankers' pay is down, their sense of entitlement is back at bubbly levels. Cohn launched into a diatribe last week about the dangers of, get this, bailing out institutions less worthy than the banks.
"What I most worry about," said Cohn, "is that in the next cycle, as the regulatory pendulum swings, we are going to have to use taxpayer money to bail out unregulated businesses that, unlike the banks in the last crisis, may not be able to repay them."
Yes, the banks have repaid us. It can't be long till they find a way to, ahem, repay themselves too.
- yes.... I know an ex-wife of a hedge fund dude, he's a TOTAL SCAMMER...vaxorcist
- To bad the govt bailed them out then appointed all goldman sachs administration members.********
- "all goldman sachs administration members" Like who? I only know of one********
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Americans who keep droning on about the Founding Fathers and what is or isn't in the Constitution should keep this quote in mind
"Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors."
It's by Thomas Jefferson, inscribed at the Jefferson Memorial in Washington
- What is your point? Yes laws change with change. Now how to value good vs bad? capt wow?********
- Same way we always did, by consensus opinion********
- of course u dont mean consensus makes all right?********
- Point is, the Constitution wasn't perfect when written and the Founders understood this********
- but what do u have beef with. Im just trying to find a value system to agree on. democracy vs republic stuff********
- u dont really believe in mob rule as value or philosophy right? so what stands as a barometer for right vs wrong********
- of course jefferson understood this, Was th context in case of slavery that couldnt be popularly abolished at the time********
- popular vote would declare slavery was right until majority decided against it********
- and of course what is your motive for such a post again. obvipus as it is u might as well state it********
- What is your motive for replying?
How come everyone has a motive except you******** - my motif is to find out your motive of course. Just trying to understand ya. But hey way to ask even if it was obvious********
- but still the main thing is u dont really beleive consensus dictates right or wrong.. right?********
- Go kill yourself.DrBombay
- What is your point? Yes laws change with change. Now how to value good vs bad? capt wow?
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Wow. I knew the American right was a little crazy, but this takes the cake.
"The American Left’s Role in Leading Mid-East Regime Change"
http://www.redstate.com/laboruni…
The piece accuses some combination of the State Dept, Twitter, international labor and George Soros as being behind the Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings.
The stupidity and ignorance of these people is mind-boggling.
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Say what?!?!?!?!?
Judge uses Obama’s words against him
http://www.washingtontimes.com/n…
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Egypt's upheaval takes dangerous new turn
Violence erupts in the streets of Cairo as thousands of Mubarak supporters attack protesters.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110…
FUCKING MAKE UP YOUR MINDS!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_th…
FUCKING YO! That's Gay bashing you gypos!- Mr. Cooper, Mr. Cooper, wrong place; wrong time!********
- Those are most likely paid supporters or out of uniform police officers.IRNlun6
- They're organized and making demands against the protesers. Quarantining them into the square and trying to break them up.IRNlun6
- ..up. I not sure what your gay insecurities have to do with an American journalist being attacked by a dictators mob.IRNlun6
- gypo? Do you know what that means? Because it doesn't mean someone from Egypt.********
- you really shouldn't talk to people in the general public.********
- Mr. Cooper, Mr. Cooper, wrong place; wrong time!
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http://www.deadline.com/2011/02/…
He has had one of the most meteoric rises in cable news. But controversial Fox News firebrand Glenn Beck may be losing some of his appeal. In January, Beck's eponymous talk show posted the steepest ratings declines for any cable news program. Glenn Beck averaged 1.8 million viewers, down 39% vs. January 2010. In 25-54, the drop was even bigger, 48%...
- Ramanisky20
chilamont ... an annoying Hemorrhoid on the ass of humanity since 1785
- Ramanisky20
chilamont .. You're a giant wart on a wart of a giant cock
- He really is a giant hemorrhoid on the asshole of this threadRamanisky2
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Egypt doesn't have a democratic culture
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB…
