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Re: Bob Woodward: Obama Administration Didn’t Tell Truth on Benghazi (Video)

bruiserND — Sun, 19 May 2013 16:46:57 -0000

The White House was posed the question by Chris Wallace this morning. The Commander in Chiefs where abouts was described as “irrelevant” and the question was attacked by the WH spokesman as “offensive”. The WH wants to deal in their emotions and “move on” America wants facts; quantitative and objective facts.
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We know that Obama had a one hour call with Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu that got the Israeli out of bed at 3am.
We know that the Israeli defense minister flew to see Putin last week.
We know that,in response to the Putin conference, CIA Chief Brennan, a Muslim convert{ as per Admiral Lyon }, jumped on an airplane on Friday and flew to see Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu .
Where is , Petraeus, Gen Ham, Admiral Gaouette , Lt. Col. Gibson & the 30 State Dept. Libya evacuees ?
Is Lt Col Gibson being held against his will ?
Has he been murdered?
Drugged and in a Psych ward??
In a Saudi prison ?
Being tortured?Lt Col Gibson…knows who have that Cross Border Authority / Stand-down order…And the people have a right to know too.
Where the hell is Sufyan Ben Qumu a.k.a. Abu Sufian bin Qumu?
http://www.theblaze.com/sto...
If I have this many questions , what does a Special Prosecutor want to know?
That’s the real story about Gun Runner Obama and his quest for a Muslim Brotherhood Wahabbi / Neo-Stalinist Ottoman Empire

Re: How IRS Review of U.S. Nonprofits Erupted Into Scandal

bruiserND — Mon, 13 May 2013 23:46:26 -0000

Start with the Watermellons at the "environmental orgs." and their deluge of frivolous lawsuits that give them a double wammy, 501 (c) tax exempt status and a rape of taxpayer billions in attorney fees through the Equal Access to Justice Act.

Re: Obama: Change Coming to NFL to Reduce 'Violence'

bruiserND — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 19:33:52 -0000

If he had a son that would mean that he was a heterosexual.
http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/...

Re: Fish and Game: Wolf photo a hoax

bruiserND — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:02:49 -0000

Bangs , not Mech said "a wolf is a wolf"

Re: Fish and Game: Wolf photo a hoax

bruiserND — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:01:57 -0000

Wolf introduction into YNP ...accelerated... the naturally occuring migration from Alberta into NW Montana

Ken Cole twists the facts to suit his agenda and pay check.

In exchange for this ACKNOWLEDGED violation of the ESA there were TERMS , STANDARDS and CONDITIONS known as "The Wolf Implimentation Rules of Nov 18 , 1994". These LAWS that governed the USFWS conduct was not only broken but SHATTERED thus making every wolf in Mt., Id., and Wy here illegally and fair game to be shot on site 24/ 7/ 365....or by any other means necessary like agressive trapping , etc.

BTW Ken ; Bangs was the author of these rules of conduct that bound the USFWS to very specific lethal control actions once six packs of wolves in YNP took hold. "Wolf "re" introduction is a criminal enterprize based on scientific fraud in search of NGO cash , EAJA fees and a Marxist Progressive "hate America " agenda. Wolves are a bio weapon to achieve Agenda 21. Cole, Stone, Ralph , Marvel et. al. are no diffrent than Dr Mengele or Pol Pot other than they let wolves do the dirty work.

Re: The saga of CDS-bond bais trade

bruiserND — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:50:47 -0000

http://www.thedeal.com/deal...

$65 billion rolled right into "Mark to Fantasy".

If you can't respect your elders then you will respect your betters.

Re: The saga of CDS-bond bais trade

bruiserND — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:09:51 -0000

So Walter how 'bout a follow up piec about Goldman Sachs getting TARP moneys to prop up their LBO losses before they paid themselves bonuses with taxpayer money after those taxpayers refunded the losses on GS LBO's?

Re: Who is Tyler Durden? Who cares.

bruiserND — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:16:42 -0000

Wel, well Mr. Kurtz, sour grapes , jealousy or just looking out for the Banksters you are a paid advocate for because Zero Hedge is getting exponentionally more hits and attention than Sober Look ?

Zero Hedge is controlling the conversation....period.

Seems you went after Glenn Beck last week just before he got {Anthony} Van Jones run out of the White House.

Why hasn't Congress held formal investigations and open hearings on CDS, CDO's & fraudently securitized toxic mortgage backed securities ?

When Sober Look answers the aforementioned they might dispell the assumption that they are shills for Banksters.

Re: Glenn Beck sees red - everywhere.

bruiserND — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:47:24 -0000

Yep, Mr Kurtz you seek to ridicule , marginalize and dismiss Beck when many millions of Americans have followed his in depth investigative reporting on a daily basis and have deep respect and trust for him as a person and a journalist.

Denigrating the messenger instead of debating the facts he is delivering just doesnt work in a country with 36 new Czars.

Glenn Beck is a patriot cut of the same cloth as Washington & Jefferson.

Stick to advocating financial issues for Banksters "Mr. Kurtz".

Re: Market Rips, Short Interest Plunges

bruiserND — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 10:56:47 -0000

http://seekingalpha.com/art...

There is a reason the stock market is going up

Re: Market Rips, Short Interest Plunges

bruiserND — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:53:15 -0000

Reparations don't have to come with 40 acres and a mule.
21st Century reparations can just keep giving and giving via nationalized health care.

When he takes all your Boomer health care benefits and gives them to his supporters it will not only be "eugenics" it will be good strategic politics. He doesn't want the Boomer vote , he wants the Boomers dead and off Social Security and health care.

There is a reason the stock market is going up.
When those corporations don't have to pay for health care because it was nationalized , all the money goes straight to the bottom line as pure {& completely unforeseen}profit .

Re: The Other Plunge Protection Team: 122,017 December SPY $95 Puts

bruiserND — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:13:43 -0000

The trend is your friend, dont fight the tape.

Reparations don't have to come with 40 acres and a mule.
21st Century reparations can just keep giving and giving via nationalized health care.

When Obama takes all the Boomer health care benefits and gives them to his supporters it will not only be "eugenics" it will be good strategic politics. He doesn't want the Boomer vote , he wants the Boomers dead and off Social Security and health care.

Re:

bruiserND — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:10:44 -0000

Tyler,
You rember what Hillary said to Bill when they found semen stains on Monicas' blue Gap dress?

"Oh well , bad publicity is better than no publicity at all"

Keep up your excellent work .
MSNBC only exists because the TARP bailed GE out of the credit default swaps that Immelt forced GE Credit to sell.

Re: Morgan Stanley's Stephen Roach: "A Rude Awakening"

bruiserND — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:58:39 -0000

http://www.cbot.com/cbot/pu...

The trend is SOMEBODY'S friend.

Re: Grayson Grilling Bernanke On Half A Trillion In Foreign Liquidity Swaps And The Constitutional Basis For Such

bruiserND — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:55:08 -0000

look for a 1 to 3.9 reverse "split" on the dollar.
Stocks and real estate are the safe haven.
Tell the transfer agent/ registrar you want physical possession of the stock certificate

Re: The Authority On Bonds Is Reason Why Treasuries Did Not Crumble As Equities Popped

bruiserND — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:51:03 -0000

Your frame of refrence that imparts wisdom about me son?

Re: The Authority On Bonds Is Reason Why Treasuries Did Not Crumble As Equities Popped

bruiserND — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:20:59 -0000

Tyler, re ;"Presumably someone is wrong"

nice picture of the black box.

In the trading pits of Chicago we learned that ..."the trend is your friend" and all the smartest guys in the room usually drove old cars and borrowed money from the people who had the sand to step up and stick it in .

Re: Goldman, bubbles, and hype

bruiserND — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:46:32 -0000

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POL...

Tavakoli "wrote the book(s)"

Max Keiser: "Goldman Sachs Are Scum
http://zerohedge.blogspot.c..."
Posted by Tyler Durden at 3:41 PM
"They are literally stealing a hundred million dollars a day. Goldman Sachs is stealing every day on the floor of the exchange. They should be in the Hague, they should be taken on financial terrorism charges. They should all be thrown in jail"

2 million people didn't die for my freedom and my absolute right to representative government with their expectations that I would be silent in the face of tyranny , how 'bout you?
http://www.ronpaul.com/on-t...

Re: Max Keiser: "Goldman Sachs Are Scum"

bruiserND — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:15:29 -0000

2 million people didn't die for my freedom and my absolute right to representative government with their expectations that I would be silent in the face of tyranny , how 'bout you?

http://www.ronpaul.com/on-t...

Re: Max Keiser: "Goldman Sachs Are Scum"

bruiserND — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:47:39 -0000

The "trade " was set up and is known as the "Greenspan Put".

Rubin set up Citi bank by ordering Thomas G. Maheres to write credit default swaps untill the pens went dry.
Ever hear Maheres name again? He was at one time slated to be Chairman of Citi ?
Cassano at AIG and Neal at MLPF&S jumped on the Rubin band wagon only to find out at the end of their careers that they to had been set up by the GSA Banksters.

Greenspan went to John Paulson & Co to cash in his chips.
Rubin got pad through GSA
The politicians who empowered the CDS raid on the system have numbered foreign bank accounts that were paid with the $780 billion TARP that made good on the GE,AIG, Citi, Bear, Lehman etc CDS that they bought.

http://www.prnewswire.co.uk...

In "their" world there are only the takers and the taken.
It is indefensible when the "taken" fall back on ideology to excuse the crime that Max Keiser so succinctly and articulately described.

Re: Why Does Goldman Need A Fed Exemption For VaR Calculations?

bruiserND — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:11:14 -0000

What Wall Street Owes You (Commentary)

CNN – July 15, 2009

By Janet Tavakoli

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. announced record earnings Tuesday of $3.44 billion for the second quarter of 2009.

Goldman's stock price leapt 77 percent for the first half of 2009, and closed Tuesday at $149.66 a share.

Without an ongoing series of front- and backdoor bailouts financed by U.S. taxpayers, most of Goldman's record profits would not have been possible.

In April 2009, Goldman Sachs' CEO, Lloyd Blankfein, who received record salary and bonus compensation of $68.5 million in 2007, said that bonus decisions made before the credit crisis looked "self-serving and greedy in hindsight." Now, they look self-serving and greedy with foresight.

Goldman set aside $11.4 billion for employee compensation and benefits, up 33 percent from last year. That's enough to pay each employee more than $390,000, just for the first six months of this year.

In June, Goldman bought back its preferred shares, repaying $10 billion it received from the government's Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, and setting it free of limits on executive compensation and dividends.

But pay is not the key issue. U.S. taxpayers deserve a large cut of the profits, not the chump change -- less than a half-billion dollars -- they got from preferred shares in the company and the relatively small amount they could get from warrants in its stock.

U.S. taxpayers should insist that a large part of Goldman's revenues and profits belong to the American public. TARP money was just part of a series of bailouts and concessions that allowed Goldman to prosper at the expense of a flawed regulatory system.

In March 2008, Goldman, a primary dealer in Treasury securities, was among the beneficiaries of a massive backdoor bailout by the Federal Reserve Bank. At the time, Henry Paulson, former CEO of Goldman Sachs, was treasury secretary.

In an unprecedented move, the Fed created a Term Securities Lending Facility, or TSLF, that allowed primary dealers like Goldman to give non-government-guaranteed "triple-A" rated assets to the Fed in exchange for loans. The trouble was that everyone knew the triple-A assets were not the safe securities they were advertised to be. Many were backed by mortgage loans that were failing at super speed.

The bailout of American International Group, or AIG, ballooned from $85 billion in September 2008 to $182.5 billion. Of that money, $90 billion was funneled as collateral payments to banks that traded with AIG. American taxpayers may never see a dime of their bailout money again, but Goldman saw plenty.

Goldman may be the largest indirect beneficiary of AIG's bailout, receiving $12.9 billion in collateral, including securities lending transactions, from AIG after the government bailed out the insurance company.

The key question is whether Goldman asked AIG to insure products that were as dodgy as the doomed deal from Goldman Sachs Alternative Mortgage Products exposed by Fortune's Allan Sloan in his October 16, 2007, Loeb Award-winning article: "Junk Mortgages Under the Microscope."

If the federal government had not intervened and if AIG had gone into bankruptcy, Goldman probably would not have received its $12.9 billion from AIG. U.S. taxpayers and the American economy are owed some of the bailout money passed directly through AIG to Goldman.

Wall Street firms also reaped trading windfalls when AIG needed to close out its derivative transactions. This was the most lucrative windfall business in the history of the derivatives markets. When AIG left money on the table, it was U.S. taxpayer money.

Goldman Sachs was granted bank holding company status in the fall of 2008. It already had the temporary ability to borrow from the Fed through the TSLF, which would have expired in January 2009. Now it has permanent access to lending from the Fed.

Goldman can now compete with the largest U.S. banks and borrow money at interest rates pushed as close to zero as possible by the Fed. Goldman gets a further benefit: favorable accounting rule changes. In addition, Goldman issued $30 billion of debt with a valuable government guarantee that remains outstanding.

Meanwhile, the American public faces a rising unemployment rate, falling housing prices, rising unemployment, higher local taxes and a dismal economic outlook.

Interested men with reputations and fortunes at stake rode roughshod over public interest. The American public is owed part of the profits Goldman was able to make because of the largesse of our Congress.

Wall Street's "financial meth labs," including Goldman's, massively pumped out bad bonds and credit derivatives that have melted down savings accounts, pension funds, the municipal bond market and the American economy. Risky assets, leverage and fraud led to acute distress in the global financial markets.

The biggest crime on the American economy may go unpunished with no consequences to the perpetrators. The biggest crime was not predatory lending, but predatory securitizations, packages of loans that did not deserve the ratings or prices at the time they were sold. They ballooned what should have been a relatively small problem into a global crisis.

Wall Street owes the American public for its key role in bringing the global economy -- and in particular, the U.S. economy -- to its knees. Goldman is not alone in owing the American public. It is not the worst of all of the Wall Street firms. But among all of Wall Street's offenders, it is the most well-connected, and Goldman was the firm that cleaned up the most as the result of government bailouts.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Janet Tavakoli.

Janet Tavakoli is the president of Tavakoli Structured Finance, a Chicago-based firm that provides consulting to financial institutions and institutional investors. Ms. Tavakoli has more than 20 years of experience in senior investment banking positions, trading, structuring and marketing structured financial products. She is a former adjunct associate professor of derivatives at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business. Author of: Credit Derivatives & Synthetic Structures (1998, 2001), Collateralized Debt Obligations & Structured Finance (2003), Structured Finance & Collateralized Debt Obligations (John Wiley & Sons, September 2008), and

Dear Mr. Buffett: What An Investor Learns 1,269 Miles From Wall Street (Wiley, 2009).

Janet Tavakoli

President

Tavakoli Structured Finance, Inc.

360 E. Randolph St., Suite 3007

Chicago, Illinois 60601 USA

(312) 540-0243

e-mail: jt@tavakolistructuredfinance.com

web site: www.tavakolistructuredfinan...

Re: The Predictability Of Irrationality

bruiserND — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:03:52 -0000

It's a timing issue Diddlybot..

"ON A LONG ENOUGH TIMELINE, THE SURVIVAL RATE FOR EVERYONE DROPS TO ZERO"

You assume Goldman is immortal

Re: The Predictability Of Irrationality

bruiserND — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:02:20 -0000

Theyre not "purchasing stocks".

They're reconfiguring assets away from Bankster oligarchy bubble debt and into equities of companies that will survive things like civil war , regieme change and urban Americans canibalizing each other in the wake of a " bank holiday ".

Regardless of the color of the new money you still have the same fractional ownersip of the company.

Take delivery of the physical stock certificates.

If the Dow Jones closes above 8,750 it will fill the break away gap between 10,000 and 10,500 so fast it will make your head swim.

It ain't about "investing" its about who survives; capitalism or the state.

Re: Bloomberg's Jonathan Weil On GoldmanGate

bruiserND — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:42:59 -0000

Is Bloomberg's Jonathan Weil committing a hate crime here?

If Goldman Sachs suspends Posse Committatus and declares martial law will our military obey them ?

Re: Live Webcast On Fed Independence

bruiserND — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:11:01 -0000

The ADL wants to have a chat with you MobBarley

http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=rnziaXfYhc4&eurl=http%253A%252F%252Fwww%252Eprisonplanet%252Ecom%252Fholder%252Dhate%252Dspeech%252Dvideo%252Dfloods%252Dsenate%252Ehtml&feature=player_embedded