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“For a complete story of Capitalism run amoke, read Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine". Rubin is a follower of Milton Friedman's Chicago School of Economics, which has destroyed South and Central America and Russia, for the benefit of a few. Rubin has personally profited handsomely from these collapses, including our recent domestic collapse. An excellent short presentation of the direct effect of these policies was the recent FRONTLINE program pitting Brookley Born against Robert Rubin, Alan Greenspan, Larry Summers and Timothy Geithner. Brookley and our country lost, the others won and two of them are still in charge of our broken system. They are robbing the middle, poor and elderly class blind. Its what they do, everywhere they go. Free Market Theory is nonsense. No other country in the world practices it. Our use of these policies has led directly to the dismantling of our manufacturing base. Finance, Insurance and Real Estate (FIRE) have commandeered our economy, displacing production and full employment with paper shuffling and other worldly profits for a few. Goldman-Sachs lies when he says his people are the most productive in the world. They are creative repetative violators of law who pay fines, never admit to any guilt and do it again. They control our Government through bribery.”

“We are governed by Corporate America. Politicians posing as our Representatives kowtow to their International Ponzi Scheme, based on labor arbitrage, sending the country into collapse so that a few hundred could pocket trillions. It worked exactly as planned, lost jobs, bailouts, deficits and everything.”

“quite possibly our countries greatest senator. definately the most controversial.”

“Goldman-Sachs and others knew they were selling junk securities. That is why they bought SWAPS from AIG, whose commisioned salemen didn't know, or didn't tell their top management they knew. When the securities tanked Bernanke and Geithner deliberately stuck it to taxpayers, just as Brookley Born predicted. Geithner, Greenspan, Rubin, and Summers all conspired to get rid of Born so they could move forward with risky dergulation, which permitted them reap enormous personal profits.

People should be camped at their homes 24/7 in protest of their horrific behavior.”

“At least a few people understand what's going on

Thank you Mr. Learsy”

“Finance, Insurance & Real Estate (FIRE) 2% of all US Corporate profits in the fifties, and 40% today. They have shanghied our economy without ever making anything people need. All they do is run high speed trading programs and shuffle paper. Not just Lehman Bros, but the big four Wall Street Investment Banks would have bankrupted in their own greed but for the US worker, long abandoned by the Government.”

“Capitalism brought 80 hour work weeks in unsafe working conditions, including child labor to this country. It was only after a long hard fought struggle including police shooting union organizers in the streets that fair wages led to our sustained growth.”

“Beck hits on important concepts and problems yet never ties anything together in a logical understandable manner. The result is an hour of gobbledegook. For example he mis-spells "Oligarchy" then ties it to another letter in the tirade he previously wrote on his blackboard, yet he never explains what and Oligarchy is, let alone who actually plays that role in our society or what it is that they have done that is so terrible.

There is plenty of material worthy of critical review and change or prosecution but don't expect Beck to make sense of any of it.”

“Good idea Larry,

But the stike shoudl have a goal. May I suggest getting rid of all the Wall Street Staffers running our Treasury and Federal Reserve. Bernanke, Geithner, Summers must go as well as the myriad of staff Goldman-Sachs, Merrill-Lynch, Morgan-Stanley, & Smith-Barney have planted within our Government.

We have brilliant independent economists that can be trusted to consider this nations welfare. Paul Craig Roberts, Michael Hudson, and James Galbraithe come to mind and there are others. All we have now is business and luncheon friends bailing eachother out.”

“On his first day of vacation, Obama played golf for five hours with a UBS Executive. This is the same UBS that wrote the "Securities Modernization Act", for which Phil Gramm was awarded a UBS Board Seat for ramming it Congress while chairman of the Sneta eFInace Committee. This is also the same UBS which has paid $775 million in fines to the Federal Government for refusing to divulge account information of 12,000 US Tax dodgers. This is the same UBS which received billions in TARP funds the same week they paid their fine.

Last week Central bankers met in Jackson Hole to celebrate Greenspan, the man more responsible for the current economic meltdown than even Bernanke, Geithner or Paulson, three major players.

If you think our Government let alone the 80% privatized Federal Reserve, is any longer of, by or for the people you are an ignorant fool. Human beings are merely fodder for Corporations. Unless you happen to have been born a Rockerfeller, Rothchild, et al. Our Founding Fathers are rolling in their graves.”

“Its not that foreclosure is worth more to Banks, its about maintaining control of the system by keeping little people in their place.

The fraudsters are not being held accountable, but the little people always will be held accountable. This is what our alleged Democracy has been reduced to.”

“Welfare 3%, Defense at least 40%, if you can believe what the Gvoernment tells you. Clearly the path to a more reasonable budget is to cut defense. We don't need 716 foriegn military bases. Those are not really "defense" installations. They are for offensive purposes. We can't afford them.”

“The US Treasury and everyone's 401Ks have been looted. Forget average comparisons. The only valid comparison is 1929. From this an entirely different set of conclusions would be drawn. Most notably, don't go near the market until the laws which prevented fraud and market manipulations are restored. But, at least he used a 5 year window.”

“The criminal justice system does not respect the equal protection clause of our constitution. The rich and politically enfranchised enjoy less punishment than the poor dienfranchised. WIlly Nelson pays a $100 fine for possession of a pound of pot, whereas a poor black man is presumed to be a dealer and sentenced to 10-15 years. Outrageous.”

“1500?

try 200,000

Globalization is not for little people.”

“The issue of environmental contaminants aside, its good for your digestive system to take a break once in a while. Caloric deprevation is proven to extend life on all species.”

“Arianna is spot on as usual. This site is informative because it provides insight, humor and language exceeding mass media outlets. But it is also annoying because it does not permit its bloggers to share their honest opinions, like their regular staff.

Rubin and Summers savaged the Russian economy and are in the process of doing the same thing to ours. It must make Kissinger and Bremer proud.”

“Feinstein's husband Richard Blum has racked in millions of dollars from Perini, a civil infrastructure construction company, of which the billionaire investor wields a 75 percent voting share.

In April 2003, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers gave $500 million to Perini to provide services for Iraq's Central Command. A month earlier in March 2003, Perini was awarded $25 million to design and construct a facility to support the Afghan National Army near Kabul. And in March 2004, Perini was awarded a hefty contract worth up to $500 million for "electrical power distribution and transmission" in southern Iraq.

Feinstein, who sits on the Senate Appropriations Committee as well as the Select Committee on Intelligence, is reaping the benefits of her husband's investments. The Democratic royal family recently purchased a $16.5 million mansion in the flush Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco. It's a disgusting display of war profiteering, and just like Cheney, the leading Democrat should be called out for her offense.”

“It is inconceivable that life could have evolved for as long as it has without negative feedback systems which keep temperatures within a comparatively narrow range.

This sets our planet apart from the others and has done so for billions of years.”

“I'm keen on Dean.”

“Apparently Mr. Hari hasn't read Mr. Obama's donor list. The Oligarchy bets on both sides. Wall Street was his first backer.”

“If he weren't so tall, BIll would strike an uncanny resemblance to WC FIelds.”

“The News Hour is doing a special on Las Vegas with no mention whatsoever of its ties to organized crime. Clinton, Bush, the CIA rely on orgainzed crime for funding and dirty work. Most people recognize corruption in Mexico and Russia but can't see it in their own backyard.”