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BearCountry commented on the blog post The Roundup for May 16, 2013
You sure pack a lot in to that number of words.
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BearCountry commented on the blog post CFTC Caves To Wall Street, Will Continue To Allow Cartel To Control Derivatives Market
What you said.
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BearCountry commented on the blog post CFTC Caves To Wall Street, Will Continue To Allow Cartel To Control Derivatives Market
I really hate to be defeatist, but look at what the govt (this goes all the way to the top) did to OWS and they didn’t do anything but stand where they could be seen. The govt, apparently local and fed, collaborated with the financial houses to destroy the OWS because the 1% can’t have any one get away with pointing out their perfidiousness; it may cause others to rebel also. If you think that marching in the street will lead to a rollback of the control wall street has on the financial and monetary strings of the govt, I don’t agree. Had we done so, we would have been slapped down hard, maybe even some drones called in. After, peace groups that meet, not even out protesting, are considered “terrorist” groups to be monitored now.
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BearCountry commented on the blog post The Roundup for May 16, 2013
fatster, if you’re not ready to give it up, I’m not ready to stop looking at your link collections. The only thing that I think is that you are a good worker. It’s not up to us to tell you to stop. I am just in awe at the amount of links that you provide.
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BearCountry commented on the blog post The Roundup for May 16, 2013
Not that I am cynical, but I really don’t hold out much hope for fighting against those school closures. BTW, I saw the invisible snark font @12; anything that obvious had to be snark.
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BearCountry commented on the blog post The Roundup for May 16, 2013
Hi, fatster and all. I finally managed to get back to the Roundup to do more than a quick glance. There is even more today than usual. Thanks for the work of finding these links.
There are many laws against nepotism in many professions. These laws, I think, are usually tied to public trust. Of course, the congress is free from any constraints on who and why they hire or fire.
The blather about leaks of security concerns only applies to leaks that do not help the govt to further its desire to control more and more of our lives. Denying that brennan said what he obviously meant is silly, but par for the course.
The congress will dither over many things of no consequence as the country slides down the water chute into deep water, and, then, oblivion. I’ve seen some articles about how the economy is creating jobs, but the jobs opening up are low paying and very insecure.
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BearCountry commented on the diary post No Koch News: A Movement to Unsubscribe by David Swanson.
Are there really any billionaires that we like? Are there any that have any real interest in the fortunes of the country beyond their own fortunes?
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BearCountry commented on the blog post CFTC Caves To Wall Street, Will Continue To Allow Cartel To Control Derivatives Market
I didn’t even realize that there was a possible question that the banksters would really be regulated in any way. After all, you don’t keep “savvy businessmen” from doing what they do best: crash the economy as they take out huge salaries and bonuses, and then get bailed out by the rest of us. What’s not to love about this scenario?
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BearCountry commented on the diary post Latest Leak: Tsarnaev Supposedly Confessed Before Arrest by E. F. Beall.
It’s amazing that now this is being shown. I can’t help but be a little skeptical.
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BearCountry commented on the blog post Homeland Security Shuts Down Bitcoin Use By Startup Company
Thanks. I tried to understand, but I’ll have to come back to it later. Right now I’m trying to figure out the federal tax code.
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BearCountry commented on the diary post Come Forth and Speak To Me by Isaiah 88.
Now that FDL is back on the air, you have to start all over.
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BearCountry commented on the diary post In El Salvador, a Country Awaits the Supreme Court Decision on Beatriz’s Life by RH Reality Check.
If she dies, the response from all of the anti-abortion people will be that “it was God’s will” and they will have no remorse.
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BearCountry commented on the diary post ‘Govts taking our rights away, not Al-Qaeda’ by CTuttle.
Don’t you understand that since “they hate us for our freedoms,” the easiest way to get “them” to love us is to take away our freedoms. Many years ago a friend of mine from Russia told me at the height of the Cold War that we needed to give up our freedoms to the govt [...]
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BearCountry commented on the diary post Come Forth and Speak To Me by Isaiah 88.
Why don’t you realize that those at Gitmo are the “worst of the worst?” You can’t release them to their home country because they might decide that they want to gain revenge against us. Of course, no one uses that argument in releasing the prisoners who were sent away in fake trials and have since [...]
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BearCountry commented on the blog post Homeland Security Shuts Down Bitcoin Use By Startup Company
Since I am totally incompetent in economics, will someone please explain in plain English what Bitcoins are, and how they can be used as real currency. Can I use them to go to the store and buy groceries? Since some people are accepting them as a currency, I can see why the govt would get all tangled up in this. Can’t collect taxes on the things.
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BearCountry commented on the diary post Another Leak Props Up Government’s Boston Bombing Narrative II by E. F. Beall.
EF, the whole reason unca’ ruslan took control of the body was to prevent any further investigation. I mentioned that in the last big thread. Any idea that he is not tied to the cia or some other govt agency engaged in spying is simply wishful thinking.
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BearCountry commented on the diary post Assata Shakur Put on the FBI’s ‘Most Wanted Terrorist’ List for Political Purposes by wendydavis.
Look at it this way: by a woman escaping to safety and staying out of their clutches for all this time, it has made tptb look foolish in their own eyes. She has been a burr under their saddle for all of this time and they hope that this reward will cause someone in Cuba [...]
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BearCountry commented on the diary post Flamenco Barcelona Presents: 50 años sin Carmen Amaya dentro de la Semana de Poesia de Barcelona by GREYDOG.
Just a couple of notes in case anyone comes back. Jose Greco was Italian and grew up in Brooklyn. Andres Segovia hated Flamenco guitar music.
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BearCountry commented on the diary post Flamenco Barcelona Presents: 50 años sin Carmen Amaya dentro de la Semana de Poesia de Barcelona by GREYDOG.
I love Flamenco: the dancing, the singing, the guitar playing is all good. I saw one performance where one of the dances was done to the beat of a man pounding rhythmically on an anvil and no other instruments.
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BearCountry commented on the diary post Yemenis Have Moms Too by codepink.
I’m sure that all of the lote voters are perfectly happy with o’s refusal to release even those who have been pronounced innocent. After all, we can’t have innocent people running around after being incarcerated. I wonder how those helped by Project Innocence were allowed to run free after 20 years or so.
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