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GJDailleult
Another day and another article about violence and security, the media has been obsessed with that from the start. And there is also the strange policy change on helicopter airdrops, I guess somebody figured out that letting people starve to death because you are worried about violence and somehow making things worse doesn't make much sense. If the US military had started using helicopters last week, they might have less violence to worry about this week. Would be interesting to know who made the original decision to not use airdrops, and who made the change.
Posted in: U.S., U.N. send more troops to help in Haiti
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GJDailleult
Appears the guy I quoted, Lt. Gen Ken Keen, got edited out of the updated AP story that is now up. Also the quote from the guy who said he was drinking looted rum because getting drunk was the only way to make it through the day (or something like that) has been changed to "Police fired into the air as young men fought each other over rum and beer with broken bottles and machetes." You could suspect that one of the AP writers was not sticking to the approved narrative and script and so it was changed, but that would be getting into conspiracy land! I'm sure it was changed to make for a more effective and readable article.
Posted in: Haiti chaos hampers aid delivery; death toll estimated at 200,000
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GJDailleult
Interesting point that. I for one haven't understood the focus on violence and the assumed potential for violence and unrest, that seems pretty secondary to getting the aid out as quickly as possible. Now maybe things are being done correctly and they have to get security in place and set up distribution networks, I get all that, but it sets up a real catch-22. The longer it takes to get things set up, the more potential you will have for violence. All I know is that when the big one comes, if I am a survivor and am there with injured family, friends, and neighbors, with no food, water, or medicine, and a helicopter is flying overhead, he'd better be coming to rush emergency supplies to us, and not to "assess" the situation and assuming that he can't drop supplies because we can't be trusted to deal with the supplies without violence. That might be the "correct" way to do things, but I sure wouldn't see it that way, no doubt Haitians don't either.
Posted in: Haiti chaos hampers aid delivery; death toll estimated at 200,000
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GJDailleult
I think unfortunately you have answered your first point there. The relative lack of coverage may be due to the fact that nobody wants to be reminded about and have to think about your third point.
Posted in: Anger, frustration hindering Haiti quake relief
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GJDailleult
It seems pretty obvious that there is a government propaganda campaign here to conflate the TARP program with the bank bailout in the publics' minds. The TARP money is a very small percent of the total that banks have received, and that is a point that this article also neglects to mention. By hiding the true extent of the bailout and sending people off on blind alleys about whether or not they should have to pay the tax if they already paid back their TARP money, or never wanted it in the first place, they achieve three objectives. They take off some of the "populist" pressure ("see look, we are doing something, we are getting the TARP money back - Whoopee!!!), they protect the interests of the people who are really calling the shots (the banking oligarchy), and they hide the true level of the disaster from the public, and avoid (delay?) the panic that would come if people realized just how bad things really are and how badly they have been taken.
Posted in: Obama playing banks against taxpayers
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GJDailleult
Truer words never written on the JT website, even if it was accidentally written by someone who in their confusion thought they were being sarcastic. However Johnson does have a legit problem, if you decide to base your economy on fraud, corruption, and accounting tricks, you do have to try to keep the fraudsters happy somehow.
Posted in: London mayor warns of banker exodus
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GJDailleult
Old Rush seems to be missing an opportunity here to silence his critics. Instead of playing his usual pinhead politics, he could have used the opportunity to donate his stash of painkillers. Would show he has a little compassion in his Ritz behind after all.
Posted in: Limbaugh's Haiti comments 'really stupid,' says White House
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GJDailleult
There are only two points here that matter. One, TARP does not equal the banking bailout. It is in fact just a small percentage of the money handed out to the banking system to keep it solvent, although for PR purposes it suits the government and banks to pretend that TARP = Bailout. "We paid it back, we didn't want it" doesn't matter because they still kept all the rest. Two, and this is very simple, there are no profits behind the bonuses. The amount of money banks made from their operations is less than the amount of wealth transfered from the American people, through the government, to the financial sector. The math is simple, the bonuses and the banks themselves are frauds, but like I said before, keep handing over your money if it keeps you happy. Remember to keep your hands in the air at all times though.
Posted in: Obama tells banks: 'We want our money back'
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GJDailleult
Molenir: "Not the way it works."
Actually that is exactly how it works. The Fed lends money to Wall Street at essentially zero interest, and that money is used to buy treasury bonds at around 4%. It is banking that could be done by a monkey and is a direct gift from the American public to Wall Street, to go along with all the other gifts they have been given (ie. the AIG money, the changes in accounting rules, the dud loans and derivatives the Fed has taken off their hands at inflated prices, etc.). The TARP money is a sideshow to the total picture. But if Americans care more about political games than the fact they are getting robbed, fair enough, it's their money and they can lose it if they want to.
Posted in: Obama tells banks: 'We want our money back'
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GJDailleult
If Molenir would lend me all his money at 0% interest I would happily lend it back to him at 4%, book my profits and pay myself a nice fat bonus. And when he clues in that that is not really a very good deal for him and decides he wants some of his money back, well he can't have it because that would be class warfare and he is just a socialist Yak thug.
Posted in: Obama tells banks: 'We want our money back'
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GJDailleult
The TARP money is just the tip of the iceberg. Basically all US big bank "profits" come from government money and subsidies, and if they have to pay 90 billion back to keep the taps open, then that is a bargain and they should shut up and take it. Let the government put on a little show to calm things down and make it look like they are doing something, and then they can get on with what they do best, which is of course taking money out of Molenir's, Sarge's and every other American's pocket.
Posted in: Obama tells banks: 'We want our money back'
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GJDailleult
Save the banksters by bankrupting the country. Good plan Gordon!!!!
Posted in: UK universities warn that they face 'meltdown'
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GJDailleult
Nice timing after what Murdoch's family said about Fox News the other day. Looks like war breaking out at News Corp.
Posted in: Sarah Palin takes Fox News commentator job
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GJDailleult
I know Republicans don't care about reality, but you still have to fake caring about it a little bit. What a useless, pathetic fool.
Posted in: Giuliani: No domestic terror attacks under Bush
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GJDailleult
So global warming is not happening because it is really cold in the northern hemisphere in January and there is a really really big amount of snow. I love reading such well-reasoned, objective, and unbiased "science" in the morning. And smithinjapan reminds me a lot of the witch in The Holy Grail.
Posted in: Hundreds rescued as heavy snow slams Britain
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GJDailleult
Why is anybody surprised they screwed up? A system that spends its time and energy fingerprinting grannies and throwing out kid's medicine can't be taken seriously in the first place.
Posted in: Obama says terror attack 'dots' not connected
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GJDailleult
Bottom line is Blackwater got off on a legal technicality. Expect lots of complaints about touchy-feely liberal judges who care about criminals' rights and not victims' rights. Or maybe not...
Anyways, not saying the judge was not acting independently, but this ruling sure suits the US government. Erik Prince is a seriously loose cannon, and they want to keep him out of the public eye as much as possible.
Posted in: Iraqis outraged after Blackwater case thrown out
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GJDailleult
But you haven't. Place yer bets!
Posted in: Subfreezing weather batters Europe, causing deaths
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GJDailleult
And no conclusive data exists concerning the religion of man-made climate change denial either. It's the sun, it's the sun!!!!!! Because it must be the sun, not that I can prove it. I want my cake and I want to eat it too.
Posted in: Climate talks in serious disarray
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GJDailleult
He's feeding the feeding frenzy by hiding in his house. I find it hard to believe the people advising him are advising him to handle things this way, which means maybe they aren't and he is ignoring their advice. In the long run, his reaction to the scandal is maybe going to hurt him in the wallet much more than the scandal itself. He is starting to look like an immature guy who was just a creation of his father, and who can't think for himself without his dad around to tell him what to do. That's going to be a lot harder to recover from than just being a guy with an out-of-control sex drive caught cheating on his wife multiple times (which to be honest sounds like a lot of fun, except for the getting caught part, if not very ethical).
Posted in: Hunt is on for post-crash Tiger Woods photos