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Arianna Huffington

Posted: April 25, 2010 11:55 PM

Sunday Roundup

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In case you missed it, this week saw the launch of HuffPost Hill, our afternoon email newsletter covering the Washington political scene -- from what's happening on the Hill and who's in and who's out at the White House to the latest DC news and buzz. It's a new media spin on the old afternoon newspaper -- both a breezy and useful daily recap and a timely look at what's ahead -- made to be read on your handheld. You can sign up here. And if you, like the rest of the world, are getting lost in the complexity and opacity of the financial reform debate, let our new video editor Ben Craw be your guide through the myriad metaphors the media have used to explain things -- starting with the Goldman Sachs fraud case. And here's a link to his earlier video mashups.

 
 
 

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HST
Conservatism = selfishness
02:17 AM on 04/26/2010
What we have here is the fallout from conservative pie-in-the-sky deregulation dreams. Remember the S&L collaspe and Enron? Republicans don't or they wouldn't have pushed for bank deregulation.

We repealed all the reforms passed after the great depression and our economy crashed, but Republicans are slow to see the need for regulation.

Ronald Reagan once said "Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem".
Ronnie and the Republicans are wrong.
06:06 PM on 04/25/2010
lets hope financial reform is not a get out of jail free card for the fraudsters -------

their collaboration in off-centering the wheel is just as heinous as the madoff ponzi scheme and way more serious than martha telling a fib for which she did time
06:01 PM on 04/25/2010
This country needs everything to be regulated since it appears that it's citizens have no idea what is good for them. The government is the best source of filing the needs of what every family needs for basis sustinance. I am in total favor of more laws and government control especially those that distribute the wealth from the educated and hard working citizens to those who simply don't have that "luck" or "fortune". The Consitution is outdated and must be modified to satiate its citizens needs and desires. Thank you Obama for stiring this country in a direction long over due. Equitable distribution and social justice for everyone especially the unfortunate is where we are finally heading. Health care is a good start .... free education, unfetered citizenship for all illegal immigrants, subsidized housing, subsidized energy, subsidized food and full employment in nice paying jobs not requiriing a stringent education must be next on the list. I assume this will be completed by the end of Obama's term. The Democrats will continue and prevail.
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kells1001
03:52 PM on 04/25/2010
The financial reform debate is more like a Matrix of social concepts of a globalization world order. With each step in solutions a new form of control or enslavement is created. The most dominate player is the corporate military industrial complex, our banking institutions and the reliance on government social institutions. Ultimately the media exists at the mercy of all three while freedom exists only in the context of compliance to the these institutional hierarchies. If there are winners to this concept it is only to those who understand breaking rules in the form of financial creed is to break no rules at all. We have created a machine that writes its own rules that protect not individuals but the Matrix itself.
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FredBrighton
up the establishment!
06:12 AM on 04/26/2010
Which "media" are you referring to? Don't forget the "New media" where you are right now. The so-called Blogosphere is not controlled at all, and if you find voices you feel you can trust you can have access to even more news and information than with the print media and television. I suppose you could add radio. I know a few people who wake early and listen to AM radio.

This machine to which you refer is precisely the same as described by Benito Mussolini. It's called "Fascism" and is a rich mix of government, religion and corporations, The government and the corporations combine to form a soulless monster which hooks up with Big Religion to supply it with some Holy cover story. Hitler himself was a fan of the Vatican, and of course Mussolini was Catholic. Corporations, like governments, exist in a near living state. They feed on people, grow bigger while eating smaller corporations and eventually die and decompose. The thing I believe is most important about this is that when things closely mimic life they tend to act like life and yes, even to the point of self protection. This is why dismantling our Fascist society will be a delicate operation. Fox will scream like a wounded rabbit if we require them to be accurate in their news.
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JohnBryansFontaine
Liberal Democrat
12:07 PM on 04/25/2010
How The Huffington Post's Traffic Is Killing Rival News Sites
Gillian Reagan
Businessinsider
Apr. 22, 2010


Huffington Post recently landed in the top 10 news sites.


http://www.businessinsider.com/how-the-huffington-posts-traffic-is-killing-rival-news-sites-2010-4
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Jim281
Just slightly to the left of John Lennon
02:21 PM on 04/25/2010
No surprise here!

In my world, Huffington Post is #1!
03:19 PM on 04/25/2010
HuffPost does a great job of aggregating various sources of information/news.

In your posted article they didn't report about how many people are getting to various sites through places like HuffPost. The title of the business insider article was fairly provocative (a technique they borrowed from HuffPost?) suggesting that this site is sucking the oxygen from other sites. (The killing in this case is how it is beating them in traffic coming from unique visitors but the sub-message was that it was destroying them somehow. One needed to read the article to get their intended meaning in the headline.)

Thanks for the link. I'm keeping an eye on the editorial decisions this site makes as it becomes more of a money maker. No doubt HuffPost has it all.
11:46 AM on 04/25/2010
Meanwhile an article in my local Sunday paper written by a staff reporter says their research shows that newspapers still have a future.

Although for what, I don't know.

This one is 87% advertising.

And all the news in it I read online days ago.
11:39 AM on 04/25/2010
Possibly the highest priority would be to unmask and combat the rise of fascism in America. Or pardon me - socially acceptable and "polite" expression is the extreme right.
06:12 PM on 04/25/2010
fascism and right wing extremism will be reinforced when the elections come -----

upset with their only hope the voters will punish them by siding with their own enemies ---

how they figure that will put them in a winning position is beyond me.
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John M Richards
Submariner with MBA
09:28 AM on 04/25/2010
Considering the near-death catasrophe is stil in our collective rear view mirros, I fail to understand the uproar over the need for change. Did we need a full blow depression in order to get some people's attention? Let's take a good hard look at what went wrong and take measure to prevent it from happening again.
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dianhow
former Repub till W
11:17 AM on 04/25/2010
John U R 100 % correct But these days Its all about money and power .
Back in In 1981 Reagan & pal Don Regan- passed deregulation that planted seeds to global meltdown - took away safe guards we had in place to prevent this massive ABUSE OF POWER .- They allowed Banks Wall St - much more to become more & more unethical.
Fraud was made legal by deregulation- that's a fact .
Bush Cheney Greenspan Sommers- Rubin all kept it the party going and then some
W 's 2 long wars- 2 huge tax cuts- lied into Iraq- killing- maiming 1000's-
massive war profiteering by Bush OIL pals & Cheney- Halliburton prolonged both wars.
NOTHING WAS PAID FOR Just dumped into Obama's lap How clever and how cowardly of the GOP ' leaders' Now we have right wing courts trying to finish us off with laws that give even more power to the power brokers who run the US -even our lives.
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09:10 AM on 04/25/2010
Dear Arianna

Thanks you for providing a decoding point for the planned obfuscation presented as "News and Information" by MSM.

Very helpful.
08:58 AM on 04/25/2010
The similarities between the "gilded age" of the late 20's and the rich getting richer of the late 2000's is astonishing. Franklin Roosevelt took on the banks and Wall Street in defense of the common man. I have no doubt that President Obama would like to be remembered as another FDR, unfortunately it is more likely, given his actions, and those of congressional "reformers" he will be remembered by history as more analogous to Hoover. Read the following lines in a speech by Roosevelt in 1936. See if it is not analogous to what is happening today.

"We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace...................business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.

They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob."
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dianhow
former Repub till W
11:25 AM on 04/25/2010
ipo Obama is not Hoover In 15 months he has done much good but he is too easy on the crooks
FDR was 1 tough guy he relished a good fight If Mc Cain / Palen had won -
just imagine where we'd be now !!!!! Horrible thought
Obama 15 months VS Reagan deregulation 1981 Bush 1 & 2 2008 global meltdown
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03:11 AM on 04/25/2010
Check out what Senator Dodd has done to the House "Audit the Fed" bill as part of his Wall Street bought and paid for "finance reform" legislative joke.

Passge of the proposed Senate bill will be an unmitigated disaster for democracy, the economy, and the very future of the US:

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/alan-grayson-discloses-dodd-bill-covertly-eliminates-already-passed-legislation-requiring-fu
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dianhow
former Repub till W
11:18 AM on 04/25/2010
Dodd www.senate.gov

give em hell We want tough regulation- no weak bill
get some guts Dodd