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Germany slams 'stupid' US plans to boost EU rescue fund
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finan…Germany and America were on a collision course on Tuesday night over the handling of Europe's debt crisis after Berlin savaged plans to boost the EU rescue fund as a "stupid idea" and told the White House to sort out its own mess before giving gratuitous advice to others.
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Ouch Barry... how's that for telling you to fuck off!?
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GOP: No 'Joke' for North Carolina Governor to Suggest Suspending Elections
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/…Republicans rebuked North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue after she suggested Congress suspend elections for two years so lawmakers can get to work stimulating the economy unencumbered by anxiety about what voters think.
The governor's office has since claimed the remark was "hyperbole." But the North Carolina GOP isn't buying it.
"She wasn't joking at all. The congressional Democrats are wildly unpopular in North Carolina, so she may have been trying to invent a solution to save their jobs from public accountability," spokesman Rob Lockwood said. "If it was a joke, what was the set-up? What was the punch-line? Where was the pause for laughter?"
----What a fucking moron!
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Investment in failed solar firm Solyndra raises questions about nonprofit’s purpose
http://www.washingtonpost.com/po…Six years ago, Senate Finance Committee investigators mounted an inquiry into an exotic variety of nonprofit organization that they feared affluent families were using to warehouse wealth while simultaneously earning themselves lucrative tax breaks.
One nonprofit group singled out for scrutiny was a low-profile organization based in Tulsa. That group, the George Kaiser Family Foundation, later became the biggest investor in Solyndra, the solar company that collapsed last month after burning through a half-billion dollars in taxpayer money.
Georgie Boy himelf: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geo…
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Something stinks like a
- 1/2 BILLION of tax payers $.
1/2 BILLION!******** - yup, another half a billion lost in the private sector. How do you like those private placements now?zarkonite
- 4 trillion dollars of taxpayers money lost on 2 unwinnable wars so far!utopian
- And funding started under Bush + private sector investments. You don;t really understand economics do you?TheBlueOne
- hey fucktard, I stated that below.********
- better than 1/2 billion on a fucked up war or teh faith based initiative74LEO
- 1/2 BILLION of tax payers $.
- ukit0
"McCain would have done better."
"Uhmmm... he actually probably would have at this point. You're discriminating against his age and ideals?"
After the financial crisis, Japan nuclear meltdown and Arab revolutions, McCain would have keeled over from a stroke by now, leaving Sarah Palin as President.
- he also said Obama was "naive" for thinking you could go into a foreign country and assassinate Osama without prior diplomatic consent.zarkonite
- without prior diplomatic consent.zarkonite
- i thought it was weird we gave pakistan 85 drones a week before we hit osama********
- but than again we have been financing pakistan for a wild so probably just a coincidence
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- Doubt it, but you keep going with your assumptions and silly Obamasaviour thinking********
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Greece and the euro zone’s worst-case scenario
A German ‘yes’ vote may still not avert the worst
http://www.marketwatch.com/story…Germans know a thing or too about kicking, whether it’s the seven times they’ve been to the World Cup soccer finals or the umpteen times they’ve kicked the can down the road on resolving the Greek debt crisis.
So on Thursday, the German parliament may again take cleats to the Greek problem by voting in favor of changes to the European Financial Stability Facility rescue fund. “In fact,” said Jennifer McKeown, senior European economist at Capital Economics, “it almost certainly will.”
But what if the German parliament didn’t? After all, this is the country where the Pirate Party recently scored well in an election. It’s where aid to Greece makes the front pages of the tabloids in a why-don’t-we-seize-some-islands kind of way. It’s where Greeks, not to mention the populaces of other Mediterranean nations, are characterized in the crudest stereotypes.
So, if Germany says nein ?
“It would be a bit of a disaster,” McKeown said.- ha ha ha, the fucking "Pirate Party"... FFS! What a disaster... Feel sorry for Deutschland.********
- not to mention DE is telling the BO lead White House to "Fick dich!"********
- http://en.wikipedia.…********
- great writing: "a thing or too"bulletfactory
- ha ha ha, the fucking "Pirate Party"... FFS! What a disaster... Feel sorry for Deutschland.
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- ukit0
According to The Guardian, it's a sure thing.
"The only question is the scale of the majority Chancellor Angela Merkel will win for expanding the financial guarantees available to temporary precursor of an EMF, the European financial stability facility (EFSF), with markets hoping for a reassuringly large margin of victory."
- without Germany, they are fucking DOOMED! Get real...********
- without Germany, they are fucking DOOMED! Get real...
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How Did Nancy Pelosi’s Brother-in-Law Become No. 2 at PCG?
http://www.privcap.com/snowsnote…The La Jolla, California-based gatekeeper has embraced yet another leadership structure following its purge by CalPERS. The latest line-up includes FINRA mediation expert and San Francisco political insider Ron Pelosi, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron….
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Enron vet turns up in $737m solar loan guarantee
http://campaign2012.washingtonex…President Obama's Solyndra scandal drew comparisons to the Enron scandal of the Bush era, but the Department of Energy's latest $737 million loan guarantee for the solar energy company Tonopah Solar involves a veteran of Enron Corp.
Tom Georgis serves as Senior Vice President of Development for Solar Reserve, the parent company of Tonopah Solar (the Tonopah Solar email address even routes to a Solar Reserve account). According to the Solar Reserve biography for Georgis, he has worked in the energy sector for 20 years, including a stint as "a manager at Enron Corp. where he was responsible for developing and structuring energy asset projects internationally; negotiating and closing over 500 MW of power generation agreements."
- man, is it getting stinkier by the minute with this fucking ass clown or what!?********
- man, is it getting stinkier by the minute with this fucking ass clown or what!?
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Solyndra Said to Have Violated Terms of Its U.S. Loan
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB…
Document: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB…
Solyndra LLC had such steep financial problems in late 2010 that the company violated terms of its loan-guarantee agreement with the Department of Energy and technically defaulted on its $535 million loan, according to people familiar with the matter.
The company was the first to receive a loan guarantee under a program begun by President George W. Bush and expanded as part of President Barack Obama's 2009 economic stimulus package. Republicans have accused the Obama administration of rushing the guarantee for political reasons, and emails have surfaced showing administration officials ignored warning signs about the company's health.
- In other words you're a joke.TheBlueOne
- a stupid partisan joke who has no interest in solving problems, just decorating the place with your bullshitTheBlueOne
- no, the joke is on YOUUUU!********
- obama has no ties tho that guy only tot eh company and what it proposed it would do wit the loan.74LEO
- TheBlueOne0
Dude, stop it with the Solyndra nonsense. It's bullshit. It was a private company that private sector investors took huge hits on. The government money came in only if free market thought it was a good idea, and they thought it was.
If you don't like government funding the energy sector ..I mean..fuck..what the hell do you think trillions of dollars for wars since 1991 have been the fuck about. What the hell do you think the government sibsidizing gas prices for decades has been about?
I bet you get all riled up with "WHat? Government better not raise the tax on my gallon of gas!" right?
How about "Gee, I giess government should get out of subsidising the petroleum industry and then the gas I pay will reflect real world free market values" huh? No? You like your government in your gas tank but a few $ outlay to maybe change the infrastructure and you get your little rightwing ignorant hardon huh?
Stop it with this bullshit political theater. Grow up.
- BS, if it were a conservative in power, you'd be crying. How are your investments doing, dickweed? I bet NOT good!********
- Popfodders invests with his unemployment check.DrBombay
- BS, if it were a conservative in power, you'd be crying. How are your investments doing, dickweed? I bet NOT good!
- TheBlueOne0
Interesting read: http://www.newdeal20.org/2011/02…
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LightSquared doubles size of its lobbying team in 2011
http://thehill.com/business-a-lo…LightSquared, the wireless telecom firm facing Republican complaints that it has benefited from political ties to the White House, has significantly boosted its lobbying this year.
The company has more than doubled the number of lobbying firms on its payroll, from four to nine K Street shops, in the first half of 2011.
LightSquared has already spent $830,000 on lobbying in the first six months of year, and is on pace to more than double its K Street expenditures of $695,000 in 2010, according to lobbying disclosure records.
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Interesting read:
The Professional Poor
http://www.americanthinker.com/2…
With class warfare on the march, it's important to understand the difference between the "genuine poor" in America and the "professional poor."The genuine poor are people who, through debilitating circumstances great or small, have become incapable of sustaining a work life, and sometimes even a home life. Because of mental illness, physical disability, and other unfortunate and unfair acts of man and nature, there are people in our country who genuinely need the help, to varying degrees, of others. These folks are truly helpless and need assistance from the government and/or through involvement by charitable organizations.
Most everyone I know is concerned about the genuine poor. These people help with money, when appropriate, and in the form of one-on-one volunteer hours at effective charities. As Dennis Miller has said, "I'm willing to help the helpless, not the clueless."
Then there are the professional poor: people paid to remain in the situation they're in. Some are in this category because they want to be and like it there, others because they were either born into it (children of generational welfare) or the gravy train is just too sweet and too "entwining" to overcome.
- are you professionally stupid?scruffics
- didn't we throw your kind out a few centuries ago?********
- I stopped reading after the first three words. "With class warfare..."DrBombay
- your right there are professional poor. s long as the systme seeks to suppress us separate us and enslave us ...why not try to fuck teh system that in teh end fucks us.74LEO
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Alabama cheers ruling on immigration law
Judge upholds most of statute
http://www.washingtontimes.com/n…
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So funny you assholes are in a twist about the solyndra failure but none of you said shit about haliburton's 1.7 billion no-bid contract a few years ago. Those mismanaged funds will never be recovered.
go suck a dick
- zarkonite0
from above article:
"But the judge did block four parts of Alabama’s law that she said go beyond what federal law allows: One provision created a civil action against employers who hired illegal immigrants over legal workers; another banned illegal immigrants from applying for a job; one made it a crime to harbor an illegal immigrant; and the other prohibited businesses from claiming tax deductions on wages paid to illegal immigrants."
Oh ya, let's keep the cheap labour but kick those fuckers out when they're not needed. Essentially, you can treat them like disposable goods and that's ok with you? wtf is wrong with you? your country was not founded on those principles at all, this shit is un-american.
Hire the poor mexican refugee for peanuts, treat him like shit and when he complains call immigration on his ass. This law will now protect the employer, the one housing him (and collecting rent) and the IRS.
- and the republicans say they want to keep the "upward mobility" american society was founded on. pffffzarkonite
- But think of the poor poor corporations who need dirt-cheap labor. What about them, zark?!?! //locustsloth
- you're right, I've always wanted to hunt HUMAN GAME. YEEHHAAWWzarkonite
- TheBlueOne0
And now, Not Hippies:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/…
Looks like this occupy wall street thing might have some legs.
An actual populist movement in the face of the financial crisis will be interesting to watch versus the corporate manufactured "teabagger movement" of yesterday.
- the tea party is looking dumber at every Repube debate.zarkonite
- Umm hey fucking bright eyes, Obama is in charge, he's accountable and at fault in the voter's eyes, hence his shit %********
- keep singing to the chorus of the ignorant circle jerkers popfodder. You're about to be surprisedTheBlueOne
- yeah yeah... by fucking what? Romney, Perry and Obama, like there's a big difference...********
- Romey might do better, he looks like he can actually make a decision. even bad ones would be better at this point.zarkonite
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A 'Furious' revelation
Feds sold guns to drug gangs
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opi…This just might be the smoking gun we’ve been waiting for to break the festering “Fast and Furious” gun-running scandal wide open: the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives apparently ordered one of its own agents to purchase firearms with taxpayer money, and sell them directly to a Mexican drug cartel.
Let that sink in: After months of pretending that “Fast and Furious” was a botched surveillance operation of illegal gun-running spearheaded by the ATF and the US attorney’s office in Phoenix, it turns out that the government itself was selling guns to the bad guys.
- again?********
- so fucking busted, if it were Ollie North, you'd be trying to piss down his throat********
- You are an unpleasant person - "piss down his throat"DrBombay
- unpleasant, no, you'd be pissing down a conservative's throat if the shoe were on the other foot. Get real********
- uh, reagan anyone? selling heavy arms to terrorists?zarkonite
- I would never use the phrase "piss down someone's throat". That is what is unpleasant you creepy bastard.DrBombay
- again?
