January 2010 Archives - 8/8

Bono hails China as an example of how to police the internet

Posted on January 4, 2010 by stacyherbert| 110 Comments

Stacy Summary: Um, your thoughts . .

Bono suggests China’s policing of internet is model Hollywood should adopt

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Tagged bono, internet

The Impeach Obama Campaign

Posted on January 4, 2010 by stacyherbert| 92 Comments

Stacy Summary: Americans love their impeachment campaigns! What are your thoughts on this one?

Does the left want to impeach Obama too?

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Tagged impeach obama

Another Big Bill for Taxpayers Jibber Jabber

Posted on January 4, 2010 by stacyherbert| 38 Comments

Stacy Summary: Quelle surprise, banks don’t want to help out with Gordon Brown’s small business fund. Thankfully, there is the helpless and plundered taxpayer to plunder again.

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Tagged Jibber Jabber

Gordon Brown’s ‘Debt Fantasy’

Posted on January 3, 2010 by stacyherbert| 170 Comments

Stacy Summary: What say you to Gordo’s ‘debt fantasy?’ Sounds like the average Brit to me . . . Come to think of it, he sounds like the average American, Australian, Kiwi or Canadian as well . . . @Mike/Liverpool’s thing of beauty will happen one day. Will it come soon enough for him is the question, though.

Gordon Brown accused of ‘fantasy’ over public debt

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Tagged gordon brown, public debt

National Character Jibber Jabber

Posted on January 3, 2010 by stacyherbert| 167 Comments

Stacy Summary: Fear mongering is reducing the citizenry to a frightened puddle of passivity.

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Tagged fear, glenn greenwald, Jibber Jabber, passivity, terror, torture, water boarding

Sunday Video Club – Joe Saluzzi on High Frequency Trading & 1987

Posted on January 3, 2010 by stacyherbert| 39 Comments

Stacy Summary: Good morning! Joe Saluzzi on the high frequency trading going on in the markets.

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Tagged 1987, hft, joe saluzzi

The American Hamburger: Slaughterhouse trimmings with a bit of ammonia

Posted on January 2, 2010 by stacyherbert| 163 Comments

Stacy Summary: Yum. They hate us for our freedom. Yep, cuz they are so just so envious of how we live. (I love how they describe the company that injects ammonia into burgers as ‘entrepreneurial’ rather than ‘poisoners.’)

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Tagged american hamburger

Pirate ransoms trickle down like Goldman bonuses

Posted on January 2, 2010 by stacyherbert| 25 Comments

Stacy Summary: So why exactly are we spending money murdering the ‘pirates’ of Somalia when clearly their wealth is trickling down, just like Goldman’s massive wealth got through holding taxpayer to ransom with threats of economic vioence . . . any difference between the two?

Pirates being blamed for property boom in Kenya

Caymans help Goldman to one percent tax rate

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Tagged goldman, kenya, one percent tax, property boom, somalia

[OTE34] On the Edge with Max Keiser . . . and Bruce E. Levine

Posted on January 1, 2010 by stacyherbert| 253 Comments

Stacy Summary:

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Tagged On the Edge

[Audio] The Keiser’s Business Guide to 2010

Posted on January 1, 2010 by stacyherbert| 49 Comments

Stacy Summary: In case you missed it last night or can’t get iPlayer to work . . .

The Keiser’s Business Guide to 2010

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Tagged The Keiser's Business Guide

Bailout capitalism and an irresponsible lending bazooka

Posted on January 1, 2010 by stacyherbert| 24 Comments

Stacy Summary: Good morning, afternoon or evening wherever you are. And Happy New Year. Here are a mishmash of politics, technology and economy stories I am reading today . . .