This is just one snapshot of our nation on authoritarinism.

If Obama were seen –and believed– to be doing something to help the little people against the Big Banksters, then perhaps the slow job growth could be accepted. But he not seen that way, and it’s becoming ever more obvious that he’s essentially doing zero, zip, nada to help anyone except banksters.

He was brought into the presidency to protect Wall Street and Big Money; he has done that. Now Wall Street can afford to have one of their own, a President Gecko, and not pretend they support even a conservative ostensible Democrat. They’re goin’ home, and gladly.

Maybe –surely?– the actual Western/US agenda is not the nuclear issue at all…so why say yes to something which might impede their aims of “regime change”?

Well, Durbin is the Dem senator who let the cat out of the bag when he said, “…they frankly own the place.”

Of course that was back in ’09 and he’s had a couple more years to get trained in how today’s modern corporate suckup Dems speak about their owners.

“And the banks — hard to believe in a time when we’re facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created — are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place,” he said on WJJG 1530 AM’s “Mornings with Ray Hanania.” Progress Illinois picked up the quote.

Presumably this will get to the Roberts supreme Court — and how will it react to having rights withheld? To be determined….

Typo — “among” should be “amount”

And the Yahoo CEO’s lie was SOOOOOOO huge: On his resume, it stated he had a degree in accounting and computer science. He is 54 years old, 12 years younger than I am. I wasn’t in engineering or anything like that, but I don’t recall actual degrees in computer anything back then. Does anyone know of schools which did have computer science degrees back when this guy was in college?

It was a serious, monster lie –probably someone told him to add the “computer” thing because he had experience in the field and it was a way of giving it some buzz.

But, the hedge fund guy who brought this up, was using it as a tactic to achieve his goal of breaking up Yahoo and selling off its parts. And the now ex-CEO stood in his way. So, it’s hedge fundie 1; CEO 0.

Not making excuses, but, seriously, it was not a major lie as resumes go.

This is not a new graphic, but it is a representation of the amoung of money in derivatives held by the largest banks. All derivatives come to about $3 Trillion dollars, or about 3 times the global economy (at the time of the posting of these graphics).

Always entertaining in a horror movie kind of way (a horror movie which is so realistic, so actually possible, it really does scare the viewer)– JP Morgan Chase is the big cahuna in terms of holding derivatives: just over $1 TRILLION.

Scroll down to the bottom for Morgan Chase, but don’t miss any of the comparisons.

Anyone see “Margin Call,” the recent movie?

I saw it about 10 days ago, and, wowser, does this real life Whale implosion seem to be following the script. Right down to a female high official being offered as the sacrifice to the Street to show Dimon is “doing something” to control the damage.

Jeremy Irons played the head honcho of the movie’s financial firm with withering coldness and abuse of power. The woman head of risk analysis in the movie had given him several warnings about the trading program which blew up on them — and she got the axe.

Deja vue all over again.

The boy is father to the man: These sad and cruel actions prefigure and are extended by how he treated his dog when he put him on the roof of the car for a long trip at expressway speeds.

Bullying.

He wants to bully US, all of us peons who will never be in his social and economic class.

It’s also harder to attain tenure track, much less become a full tenured professor. Some college, even university teachers are working several part time jobs, with no or few benefits, trying to stitch together a livable income. And to pay for the gas or other transporations costs driving between the different jobs.

Precarious existence for those near the bottom rungs of academe.

I keep looking for the MCM (Mainstream Corporate Media) tipping its hand as to which candidate it’s really working to get elected. I’m getting the feeling a tipping point may have been reached — and I think the MCM, alons with Wall St., will be going for the Son of Wall Street, not Obama.

But I’m going on gut reaction, not real analysis.

SocSec still good through 2033, right?

But that the report writers just discovered that long term high unemployment affects the revenue stream to the SocSec trust fund? Well, that deserves a big “d’oh.”

I know I figured that out and I can’t even play an economist on the internet.

Oh, why did we get ourselves lumbered with Obama???

We coulda had a centrist Dem who at least would have been held to her promises by the press and other Dems…. Coulda, shoulda, woulda. Yeah, I know. If only….

And the actual fix is so damn easy, so damn obvious, and so fitting. If the Powers That Be want to keep shoveling all the wealth to the Tippy Top, why shouldn’t the cap on SocSec FICA taxes be raised? Take it to where the money is….

But Obama does not want to do that. He wants to do what Reagan could not/would not do: Transform SocSec into something else. Maybe vouchers, maybe a big fat wet kiss to Wall Street, who know? He does not want it to be improved and extended for people who need it and those pushed out of the employment system too early to get on it.

Oh, damn, this is so depressing. This president and then either his second term or Romney’s first. Flying Spaghetti Monster help us!