Readers' Comments

  • Congress Needs to Clip Goldman's Wings   14 years 1 day ago

    Funny how they treat such important deals as a game, naming them after all sort of mythological figures. It all sounds so simple although it's really not!

  • CMD Releases Bailout Tally, $4.6 Trillion in Federal Funds Disbursed   14 years 1 day ago

    True cost? Does anybody really how this can be paid back? The facts are when the Fed lends money they are actually creating money (see Money Mechanics by The Federal Reserve) . They only create the principal amount, they do not create any moneys to pay the interest or service this principal amount, There is no possible way to ever totally pay this debt back there is not enough money to do so. The only way to pay all of this money back is to borrow a larger sum of money equal to the principal and interest due on the previous loan, again this money will be created by the Fed as a loan accept now we had to borrow more then we did on the previous loan. Again the Fed will only create the principal amount not enough to pay the interest. on the new loan. So has we borrow ever increasing amounts to service and payback the previous debt the amounts of monies we need to borrow are perpetually multiplying. Eventually just to service this multiplying debt we will be unable to pay off any of the principa/ We eventually only will be able to pay the interest and we will have to start borrowing to do that, because the interest will eventually be more than than a 100% of total income. Wow sounds like loan sharking isnt that illegal?

  • A Firing Squad Execution, and Utah Worries About Tourism?   14 years 2 days ago

    ...and make sure all your ID says "Anonymous." Public hangings were a favorite place for pickpockets to work, and often when pickpockets were being hanged.

  • Gaga for Product Placement   14 years 2 days ago

    Paid placement loses the authenticity of third-party credibility. Even though a product is coupled with a celebrity endorsement, that endorsement may not be as valuable to an informed consumer. For example, Lady Gaga’s endorsement of Wonderbread or Diet Coke has a greater potential for influence than paid placement. While the Miracle Whip placement is advertising as it is paid, the Wonderbread appearance would be considered a result of public relations as the coverage was earned. Wonderbread earned the placement, because Lady Gaga liked the product and already had a connection with it. Based on the ethical value of transparency, product placements should be revealed, resulting in the decrease of effectiveness of an inauthentic third-party endorser.

  • Citibank Sticks It to Customers -- and Congress   14 years 2 days ago

    All this is just an exploitation of customers. According to new law the credit card companies cant raise the interest rates whenever they like or on short notice or no notice or without any reason. But City Bank is doing the same in the name of “program”. Its really shameful for the bank like this to adapt such practices and make the concept of credit card a tool to make enormous money. I also canceled my card due to these reasons. Even after canceling the card and telling the reason for the same, I used to get the calls from City Bank again for the same credit card for a long time. Its just one type of mental harassment for a person like me.

  • A Firing Squad Execution, and Utah Worries About Tourism?   14 years 2 days ago

    i think public hangings mandatory for all people to see should be law.

  • Gaga for Product Placement   14 years 3 days ago

    If your video has 4 million views, ofcourse all markets wants to put advertisement on your video.

  • Lessons from the Health Care Meltdown   14 years 3 days ago

    This bill has been rumored to be created with effect of destroying health insurance companies with the final goal being a single payer plan. Not as a wild a rumor as the Obama not being a citized conspiracy theories, in actuality the health care reform rumor is founded in quite a bit of truth.
    In the long run I have no problem with single payer actually, but I am scared of this current bill becoming the vehicle that we use to get there because it is just so expensive. It is in fact much more expensive then a single payer plan. With the economy teetering globally, it won't take much more than a ridiculous bill like ours to push it over the edge.

  • LIVE! From the Big Showdown in Chicago   14 years 3 days ago

    Thanks for this news!

  • Tea Party Convention Squeezes Fans   14 years 3 days ago
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    It is a very good offer but $349 is still exspensive for student like me anyway thank for the post. Keep it up =)

  • The SEC vs. Goldman: The Kitty has Claws   14 years 3 days ago

    SEC vs. Goldman- 21st Century age of Enlightenment or Tyranny?
    Will bankers and big oil lead humanity into an enlightened 21st. Century of green energy and humanitarianism or will this be the century of World Totalitarianism of the New World Order? We know that “morality” is a “no” word for bankers, big oil and investors alike; yet they are leading us into the New World Order with their heartless and coldblooded culture of greed by the few. World conquest by tyranny is not new and it certainly is not orderly; it is chaos. Hitler already tried World domination by tyranny in the last century. The nations of Greece, Latvia, and Iceland have already fallen into “order” and Spain, France, Germany, Portugal, Ireland, Italy, United Kingdom and the United States of America are scheduled to fall into “order”. The American people do not want to lose our Democracy, Independence and Freedom; yet this World totalitarian agenda emanates from the United States of America and is lead by the Bush/Obama Administration in our name. The World is looking at the American people as their last resort for salvation and praying that the American people will stand up to this evil force and do the right thing. By saving ourselves, we will also save them. We are the only ones who can change the direction of our own country with what freedoms we have left.
    The SEC vs. Goldman is a test of strength between the American people and the World bankers, indeed, the New World Order. If the American people do not bring the bankers to Justice in our court system; the bankers will be free to dominate the World.
    The injunctions will lead to the White House and the Bush/Obama Administration which is dominated by Trilateral World bankers. Zbigniew Brzezinski is the designer and architect of the bankers Trilateral Commission and the New World Order; he is also Obama’s top advisor. Geithner, Volker, Greenspan, Summers, Corrigan and Peterson are all of the same banking family of World bankers (America is their host) Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo Federal Reserve, IMF, World Bank etc; their tentacles reach into every economy in the World. The World total economic output in 2009 was 58.07 Trillion and the total World bond market was 82.2 Trillion. The largest market in the World is the Derivatives market at 600 Trillion and is used primarily by the bankers as a weapon of mass destruction of economies to bring them in line with the New World Order. Their modus operande is the same for American citizens as it is for Nations.
    The banker and oil dominated Trilateral Bush/Obama Administration has purposely driven the United States of America into debt under their expert banking management by the systematic pillaging of our Treasury. Our National debt interest is at 15% about the same as the United Kingdom according to Moody’s bond rating March 15. “the U.S. will be paying about 15 percent of revenue in interest payments, more than the 14 percent limit that would lead to a downgrade to AA, Moody’s said.”
    http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601068&sid=a0a8xAghPS8I
    In the financial world, loosing your AAA bond rating changes the banking agreement substantially (as every home owner knows) that is when the fine print kicks in and the spiral to the bottom begins. Look at Greece, Latvia, Iceland and now the UK. Germany, France and Spain AAA credit ratings are in danger as reported in the U.K Telegraph on March 15 (referring to Moody’s) “The US rating agency said the US, the UK, Germany, France, and Spain are walking a tightrope-“
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/7450468/Moodys-fears-social-unrest-as-AAA-states-implement-austerity-plans.html
    To control and accelerate that rush to the bottom of Nations, major banks are frontloading the odds of default of a Nation down on Wall Street in a computer so they can control and manipulate trades with high-frequency trading in derivatives. High-frequency trading is how Goldman Sacks (U.S.A) makes at least 200 million a day in derivatives on Wall Street and accounts for most of the 3.3 billion made in profit last quarter. This one example of Goldman Sachs (U.S.A) operations is but the tip of the arrow head and the shaft is sure to follow. By flying the United States of America economy and government into the ground the New World Order of Trilateral Traitor bankers become winners. Now, who is the terrorist?
    I hope Americans have empathy for the people of Greece and all the other people of Nations who face “Austerity measures” because their destiny will soon be our own fate. The bankers are brutal; the National financial burden is on the people with forced tax followed with the gutting of social services and privatization of National infrastructure and National Natural Resource for pennies on the dollar.
    If you can empathize with these people I suggest that you take action and button-hole your representatives in Congress today and tell them to make a stand for the American People against this takeover of our government by Trilateral bankers and the New World Order. Demand that they insist that ALL of the subversive Trilateral members in government to STAND DOWN. Insist that Treason charges be served on all who conspired to overthrow our American Independence, Democracy and Freedom (there are only about 1,500 Traitors). Insist that Free Press, the watch-dog of Democracy, be restored by breaking up the monopolies in the Media.
    Main Street Capitalism, Competitive Market, and Free Enterprise are America’s tried and true standard and our economy and government can recover from this treachery if we act now by getting back to our roots of industry, manufacturing and technology instead of being smothered by the Multinational Corporate Empire, by proxy, by our government. Our economy needs Fair Trade not (Free (sic) Trade and Free Enterprise and Competitive Market not controlled markets by the multinational corporate monopolies.

  • Congress Needs to Clip Goldman's Wings   14 years 4 days ago

    It sounds like Goldman Sachs was chasing that proverbial Golden Fleece again. I have to agree with Mhunter on this, it seems that Goldman Sachs "what's good for the geese is good for the gander" attitude will eventually bite them on the backside.

    If the levels of transparency needed for investor confidence were recognized it may have had resonating consequence's on all financial levels in the Greek economy so it's only natural that it got covered up.

    The irony in this is that these financiers seem to enjoy investing in 'impending doom' equity options, and if the trend continued long enough the shot term gains would be marred in the long term although that long term will never come!

    With oxymoron investment strategies and attitudes like these there's definitely going to be another financial earthquake on the not to distant future.

  • A Firing Squad Execution, and Utah Worries About Tourism?   14 years 4 days ago

    While I share your distaste for the death penalty and agree that many are unjustly convicted (as shown by the successes of the Innocence Project), I don't understand your objection to a firing squad as a method of execution. It certainly seems preferable to the electric chair or lethal injections or hanging in that it provides an extremely quick death with little pain (since the shock of the shot seems to provide a brief time before pain is felt---and by then the victim is dead). On the whole, It's the method I would prefer.

    But, as you say, better to do away with the death penalty altogether. And ESPECIALLY do away with the death penalty without any trial or due process (the brand new Presidential power that Obama discovered: that the President can simply order the death of an American citizen, who will then be assassinated). THAT is truly over the line.

  • Can Eating Junk Food Cure Breast Cancer?   14 years 4 days ago

    If it tastes good, it can't be good for you. Nice PR for KFC but not quite the same as donating directly.

  • Will WaPo Outsource Health Reform Analysis to Fiscal Times?   14 years 4 days ago

    I have signed the petition. Health care reform is creating some interesting partnerships. Thanks for bringing one of those to our attention.

  • Cap-and-Trade Gag   14 years 5 days ago

    What we can say for sure is that “cap & trade” is not just a simple combination of words, but a whole concept we should first understand before jumping to judge if it is indeed there to serve the environment, or would be achieving exactly the opposite. As unfortunatelly, it can be just the next "big bubble" following the subprime morgage crisis ...

  • Congress Needs to Clip Goldman's Wings   14 years 5 days ago

    Engineered by the same Goldman Sachs involved in provoking the US supprime mortgage crisis, chances now stand that the Greek debt crisis has a big potential to destabilize the EU but also to kick back to the US economy as well ... The world economies and finances are so interconnected within the global economy, that it became literally impossible for a financial shock like the one in Greece to remain without consequences for the other (remote) countries as well ... Stay tuned for what will happen next, and how EU will decide to go about it - the issue might reveal some interesting aspects and connections

  • Why Facts No Longer Matter   14 years 5 days ago

    However much anyone dislikes it, there will always be manipulation for the simple reason that some individuals like to have control and others prefer to be led. It was and always will be thus. Their influencing 'tool' is emotion. To use it you need only to determine what people care strongly about and make that the lever in your message. Increased awareness and education does not override the paradigms which are handed to us by family, society and the media. For an example, look at the vast differences in outlook which exist between different ethnic groups who live side by side in a given country.

  • H&K's Baby Incubator Story Still Debated   14 years 5 days ago

    did nayeerah lie??? if she did lie who told her too???

    did tax dollars go to support such a lie put before members of congress???

    i remember bush on tv repeating the babies torn from incubators info....did a republican firm (whith members that the bush knew) actually instruct this girl to lie in congress caucus???

    is there really any debate about that???

  • Send out the Clown   14 years 5 days ago

    ...just retire him.

    After all, he IS getting pretty old.

    Anne Landman

  • Send out the Clown   14 years 6 days ago

    OK, so I haven't been eight years old in decades, but Ronald is a cultural icon. Forty years ago I picked McDonalds over the poshest restaurant in San Diego - and it was totally Ronald. Today, I say, get over it. Killing Ronald will not solve issues surrounding childhood obesity - getting parents to step up to the plate, setting an example of sensible eating habits, and just plain saying No to junk, that is the ticket.

  • "Cloaked" Web Sites Disguise Hidden Propaganda   14 years 6 days ago

    I looked at this site...I wish there had been something like that to help me with tough decisions when I was a teen. Instead I made horrible choices, one of them being an abortion. I am now 53, and believe me those 'choices' never leave you. This site offers hope. They also talked about adoption, and lifestyle, peer pressure, sexual abuse, and cutting! Real issues that these youngsters are dealing with. What is wrong with that? What would you want them to call themselves to attract teens then? How about :WWW.StupidThingsTeensDoToGetThemselvesInTrouble.com? I think you are wrong in your assessment and just maybe you should take aim at a website called "planned parenthood'. Does that not disguise what they are about ... abortions? I actually think your picking on this site shows your bias, and it is stupid. That is my opinion.

  • Why Facts No Longer Matter   14 years 1 week ago

    I just want to know when you are going to expose 'global warming' for the hoax it is!

  • PBS Edits Out Single Payer Proposal   14 years 1 week ago

    It makes me sick and sad that Frontline "missed the opportunity" to include Dr. Flowers. Whoops. Now I have to watch with more skepticism, or better yet, why bother. I don't need a slick rehash of the news spin. I'm glad I got to watch Bill Moyers interview of Dr. Flowers last February. Thank you CMD.

  • "Cloaked" Web Sites Disguise Hidden Propaganda   14 years 1 week ago

    I like how they say "Abortion is Serious and Permanent". Well, I think having a child is a little more serious and permanent. :-) Honestly though I don't have a problem with the site, better than having a "cloaked" web site encouraging pregnent teens to abort.