Stacy Summary: BAE admits guilty to defrauding the US government, pays $400 million fine and . . . and in so doing still gets to bid for US government contracts? Where are the Tea Party members or Republicans going crazy about this? Oh that’s right, BAE was defrauding US govt by bribing rich people steal billions. God forbid you are an organization (Acorn) that is set up to serve non-royals and non-oligarchs and just two low level members of your organization ‘help’ (but not really because they never actually committed a crime that could be prosecuted) a pimp and a prostitute defraud the government of a couple hundred bucks. Then you are evil personified. If you are a giant, mega corporation that is clearly engaged in systemic fraud up to the top executive, paying bribes to officials of many, many countries, setting up false bank accounts for royalty and oligarchs around the world, and hirig prostitutes for oil rich royalty . . . then well . . . sound of pin dropping.
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Mad Max Super Rant…
As a joke prop… you ought to attach a blood pressure cuff on Max when he is doing one of his rants. If he breaks a new high blood pressure record then you know it is a big story by the Mad Max Super Rant…
Monitor Max
I feel tension building folks!
I think it is time for a really big ” MAX RANT” they’re AWESOME! I feel better afterwards….
@stacy
that was one of the best rants i’ve read in a long time. well said.
I used to think $400 million was a lot of money.
Just of foot note. Sort of cosmic justice. THe pimp that exposed ACORN was arrested for trying to bug Senator Mary Landrieu’s office:
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/01/acorn_gotcha_man_arrested_for.html
He could get 10 years!
Get off your high horse, toots.
What are you doing? Just whining because someone ELSE isn’t doing anything about the corruption.
Want to know what I’m doing? Never again paying taxes. So it is now Someone Else’s Problem. Do you pay taxes to the US government? Then you’re part of the problem.
Not only does ACORN serve non-royals, but it’s one of those poor organizations that can not pretend to be important to “national security.” War contractors, militias, and oil companies all get to claim “i’m vital to national security” status, so they can get away with murder (literally) and grand scale theft . . . and no Congressman will raise to introduce legislation to defund them by cutting off contracts.
@ gb – thanks
F/Up to my own posting-
http://www.infowars.com/sheen-blasts-cowardly-corporate-media-refusal-to-debate-911-facts/
This article states that the “transcript” was a fictionalized account of a hypothetical meeting. It did not occur.
@ GB
Is the transcript at http://www.infowars.com/twenty-minutes-with-the-president/
real?
Did that actually happen or is that a hypothetical or fictitious play?
If that’s real, it really explains alot.
Savers vs Speculators! Front page of the Boston Globe…
http://www.boston.com/business/personalfinance/articles/2010/02/06/for_savers_low_rates_are_matter_of_high_interest/
AJ is not an entertainer, he’s a journalist with a radio show. would you prefer he receive corporate funds? then he’d really be free to express his opinions.
@s.herbert
Remember when ‘AJ’ used to be funny… remember… huh, whether your promoting your latest movie, or just trying to make a quick BOOK, seems like for for certain americans selling out is all the rage these days!!!
Alex Jones – Advertising and Marketing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDW_Hj2K0wo
oh – check out how they are f-cking with charlie sheen after he came out with 20 minutes with the president? his 20 bullet points about 9/11 were pretty convincing.
http://www.infowars.com/twenty-minutes-with-the-president/
What does a polygamist’s tax return look like?
@Snoot. news.com.au secret summet of top bankers.
@Marc A I agree with you
@MEP congratulations!
movements are all infiltrated and deviated. no need to judge the tea party people so harshly.
trolls are to be ignored. guess i are one. bye y’all.
An–ark–e thats what i see. It will only get worse.
“Slealing slaves is not a crime, it’s a duty.”
Anonymos plantation owner of United Slaves of America.
of course, obama is not a lefty, but he does benefit from left cover
@Stacy
Divide and conquer has a name..it’s politics
You two seem to be enjoying your trip. I’d like to see more impressions of snowy moscow!
I must specify that he had a “leftie” flavour. The product was packaged as “change” and a more “soft” and “kind”, a more “liberal” president. The marketing was done that way.
@Amandip,..This clip rang with a tinge of truth!
(Remembering what Prince Phillip said about coming back as a virus,etc)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4iKSLLYdhQ&feature=related
Never said he was a “leftie”, But you cannot imagine the “lefties” that were thinking that he would be different. He’s leftie on one point. Taxing the middle class and killing small business.
@ Stacy
My outrage toward Acorn has to do with the lack of hesitation bordering on enthusiasm re assisting a pimp and prostitute in an endeavor to traffic Central American school age girls into the US for prostitution. The plan presented was to set up a house where the girls would be held and made to work in sex slavery.
@Mother Earth
Read your about the true story about the “state”. It was always about street gang. The state IS the enemy.
Keep the state in check. It’s no more the case in the USA and Europe.
We will eventuallyt have AGAIN fascism in Europe and the USA. USA is quite advanced with the Democrat street gang and the Republican street gang working hand in hand. The even have their colors like organized gangs. You habe the red gang and you have the biue gang. And then you have the killer enforcers the Pentagon, the CIA and the FBI and the gangs salemen the media.
No difference between Bush Obama and Gambino. No difference.
Look a what happened in Russia during the 10 year chaos in the 90′s ? Your future in the USA will be a lot like the ex USSR. A crumbling corrupt violent overmilitarized empire with less and less liberty, where banksters and arm’s dealers and the military are eating everything.
any word on the radio show?
@Stacey:
I agree that the whole Acorn ‘prostitute’ sting was a total scam.
The alternative media refuses to address the real issue of the suprasovereign alignment of international money and uber-elite behind the UN which utilizes the US military to advance corporate profit. As long as we continue with one deception, how can you feel outrage for another?
@Marc Authier – Obama is hardly a ‘lefty’
Obama is just like ALL these populist “lefties”. In reality you voted in an african dictator à la Papa Doc. Obama has more in common with Robert Mugabé than with Martin Luther King. He’s a total scumbag.
The Obama Deception by Alex Jones says it all. That bastard is a CFR nazi.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAaQNACwaLw
“What the Obama administration is doing, in tandem with the Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, is part and parcel of typical neo-liberal policy making: wielding federal stimulus funds as a financial weapon to force all states to increase the amount of charter schools they host as well as force those states that do not have them to pass legislation authorizing them. Through financial arm-twisting at a time of disastrous economic crisis, the Obama administration plans to use the power of the federal government to create a much larger national market for charter school providers, be they for profit or non-profit, virtual charters, EMOs or single operators…
In fact, rapid increases in military programs in Chicago public schools actually did occur largely under Duncan’s tenure as CEO of CPS. According to Lipman:
Chicago Public Schools has five military high schools, more than any city in the nation, and 21 “middle school cadet corps” programs. The military high schools teach military history and have military-style discipline. Students wear military uniforms, do military drills, and participate in summer boot camps. The hierarchical authority structure mirrors the Army, Navy, and Marines, with new students (“cadets”) under the command of senior students who work their way up and require obedience from those in “lower ranks.” All but one of the military high schools are in African American communities, and all the middle school cadet programs are in overwhelmingly black or Latina/o schools., and CPS plans additional ones in the future (ibid).
Before Arne Duncan was CEO of CPS, there were procedures in place whereby schools could be put on probation if they had performance problems and they could even be forced to forge alliances with external partners, like mentors, in order to improve their performance. No more; under Arne Duncan’s rule, all this was phased out and now schools that underperformed on standardized tests were to be closed, or “turned around” by private ‘providers’ and ‘turn around artists’ (many of them funded by the ubiquitous deep pockets of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation or the Wal-Mart family fortune). In the turn-around model, the new autocratic accountability regime headed by Duncan drastically increased pressure on teachers and students to perform higher on standardized tests, in accordance of course with NCLB, while at the same time they suspended or in some cases completely did away with extra-curricular activities like art, physical education and recess (Aug. 25, 2008, Chicago Sun Times cited in Brown, Gutstein and Lipman, 2009).
The Obama education policy differs little from the Bush administration’s policy of hitching student and teacher performance to what many in the educational community and beyond call inauthentic assessments that actually force teachers to teach to the test and do little to encourage critical thinking or collaborative problem solving. Nor does the Obama policy seem to differ much in setting goals for the rapid expansion of charter school networks and non-profit and for-profit ‘providers’ to run them.”
http://inthesenewtimes.com/2009/08/25/neoliberalism-charter-schools-and-the-chicago-model-obama-and-duncans-education-policy-like-bushs-only-worse/
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/site/comments/the-military-corporate-legacy-of-the-new-secretary-of-education/
“Pound is being stolen, in emergency govt issued new pound backed by queens eggs”……… LOL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32779CpfymI&feature=related
@snoot – I don’t think Presidents, Senators, Congresspeople, lobbyists or political advisers represent either the Red Team or the Blue Team, they are the Same Team. I am talking about the people, the media and bloggers who expressed outrage at the alleged defrauding of government by a Blue Team but when it is done by a military industrial complex member, the only socialism that Red Team members support, then it there is no outrage. So the outrage in the Acorn case was not actually at the ‘defrauding’ part, it must have been at something else because the outraged are clearly not against the principle of defrauding government under the right circumstances.
@Mother Earth
Read your about the true story about the “state”. It was always about street gang. The state IS the enemy.
Lots of rats are jumping ship:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=1&tbs=qdr%3Aw&q=ceo+resigns+-schwartz+-twitter&aq=f&aqi=&oq=&cad=h
Is this normal?
@Stacey:
Obama is the epitome of hypocrisy: Acorn is being used.
Obama was voted in to represent the poor, the people of color, the disadvantaged. He now supports a retooling of No Child Left Behind to turn poor high schools into war-fodder devices.
The shuffle under the train of the poor is just as oligarchal as the red team tactics.
Both red and blue are intrinsically tied to sovereign wealth funds. Look at Palin. Whom does Obama represent? The progressives would do well to research the use of the UN for sanctimony concerning global colonialism.
@Stacy. you are a curios sort. the boys and girls at MSM were told to forget about it?
@Stacey:
I’m definately not cheering for either ‘team’, red or blue.
People don’t like street pimps and whores. They admire boardroom pimps and whores. That’s the difference.
@frances – and all the major Miracle 51% Electronic Voting Machines are owned by Red Team players; I’m just curious why those, like Drudge, who were ‘outraged’ at a pimp and prostitute pretend defrauding the government aren’t ‘outraged’ at a CEO, CFO, COO, etc. at a major military contractor really defrauding the government out of hundreds of millions.
@Bugro Bugrovich
it seems to me that his apology is equivalent to someone apologizing for messing up your hat after they have blown your brains out. And How long did toyota know about these problems before doing something about them?
Nothing surprises me any more….
“God forbid you are an organization (Acorn) that is set up to serve non-royals and non-oligarchs”
Acorn has quite an unsavory association with Obama, Stacey.
And by your own response it should be obvious WHY no ceo in his right mind apologizes. The populace is spoilt silly , have completely un-realistic expectations – think its their birthright to have bug-free software( a mathematical impossibility), error free engineering and drive and fly all over the place, – in exchange for their “services” as an administrative assistant at a local insurance branch.
You apologize to folks like that – they will eat you alive. So thats why the “psychopathic” “upper classes” behave the way they do. Its quid pro quo. karma.
gotta admit it is refreshing to hear words like ” I sincerely apologize” from the head of ANY major institution in the world. Name the last time you heard words to that effect from ANY american CEO? Huh?
Toyota and Toyoda still looking like deer in the headlights.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nb20100206a1.html
“I sincerely apologize for causing concern to many of our customers over recalls for multiple models in multiple regions,” Toyoda, grandson of Toyota’s founder,”
Really, only causing concern?
“Toyoda sought to reassure customers, saying, “Believe me, Toyota cars are safe.” …..
Perhaps that why he has been seen driving around in an Audi. LOL
It’s not about the nation anymore, it’s about which streetgang you belong to..
psychopaths – as I understand it – have no “genuine” human emotions ( although they can fake it). They manipulate things and people equally indiscrimately to achieve their goals.
By that definition – hmm – I guess better avoid higher education and “civilized society” altogether.
dogs are not psychopaths – they just love you and want only affection in return. yes best to go live with them canines – up in yonder hills in a cave – in an octopuses garden even. Strawberry fields forever.
the world is soooo unfair!! Not like in the good old days – when men were men and gals were gals.
dyslexia!!
pschopaths instictictively watch out for each other?
Hell – nobody else will – right?
First!
Nothing like a good rant in the morning!