Fatboy sez: What. Me Worry?
2014-01-24
2014-01-22
2014-01-21
2014-01-18
Все тихо на Западном фронте
"Russian intelligence has now reportedly obtained solid proof that Saudi Arabia was directly involved in the twin terror attacks on the city of Volgograd.
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This will come as no surprise to Putin. The Russian leader was warned by the Saudi intelligence chief Prince Bandar Bin Sultan during a heated four-hour private meeting back in July that Wahhabi-sponsored terrorists based in the North Caucasus region of Russia would be targeting the Sochi Winter Olympics.
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There are unconfirmed reports that Putin and his senior intelligence officers have already drawn up plans to “destroy Saudi Arabia” over its systematic sponsoring of terrorism on Russian territory.
http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/24509/53/
Dumb Fat Bastard
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| Evangelos Venizelos The leader of socialist party Pasok |
PASOK is now dead last among the seven parties in the Parliament. The Communist party (KKE) is fourth with 4.9 percent, followed by the Independent Greeks at 4 percent, the Democratic Left (DIMAR) – a former partner in the coalition – at 3.1 percent and also in danger of disappearing as a party next, just ahead of PASOK.
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2014/01/16/syriza-killing-new-democracy-pasok-in-attica/
2014-01-17
2014-01-16
NSA Collects Two Hundred Million Text Messages Daily
Obama's speech on the rampant NSA surveillance activities will be delivered fifty years to the day after Eisenhower made his prescient warnings.
“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.”
Later Eisenhower told his aides:
“I know those boys down at the Pentagon and worry that one day there’s going to be a president that knows less about the military than I do."
NSA Collects 200,000,000 Text Messages Daily
2014-01-15
US Recovery: Part V
WASHINGTON, D.C. - More Americans, 42%, say they are financially worse off now than they were a year ago, reversing the lower levels found over the past two years. Just more than a third of Americans say their financial situation has improved from a year ago.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/166850/americans-worse-off-financially-year-ago.aspx
2014-01-11
MacCenture
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Accenture has been chosen to replace CGI Federal as the lead contractor for the Obamacare enrollment website, which failed to work when it launched in October for millions of Americans shopping for health insurance, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said on Saturday.
Accenture announced on May 26, 2009 that its Board of Directors unanimously approved changing
the company’s place of incorporation to Ireland from Bermuda and would become Accenture plc.
"Quiz Question: What is the name of the corporation which is teaching all the other corporations to evade paying their fair share of State and federal taxes? The answer is Accenture... a corporation most Americans have never heard of. This corporation used to be part of Arthur Anderson, the corrupt accounting firm which gave us the Enron scandal. In 2002, they spent a record $2 billion rebranding themselves as Accenture. But while their name changed, their business practices remain as corrupt as ever.
Because this is the corporation responsible for all the other corporate tax dodgers, and because corporate tax evasion is their primary business, Accenture may well be the most corrupt corporation in America. "
2014-01-09
2014-01-08
Obama Says Work to End Poverty Far From Over
Note the poverty created during the Obama presidency. Hopefully he won't continue his hard work attempting to eradicate it.
2014-01-04
WTF?
2014-01-03
Mission Accomplished
Al-Qaeda now has a stronghold in Iraq:
BAGHDAD — Black-clad Sunni militants of Al Qaeda destroyed the Falluja police headquarters and mayor’s office, planted their flag atop other government buildings and decreed the western Iraqi city to be their new independent state on Friday in an escalating threat to Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, whose forces were struggling to retake control late into the night.
Qaeda-Aligned Militants in Iraq Claim Falluja as Independent State
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/04/world/middleeast/fighting-in-falluja-and-ramadi.html?ref=world&_r=0
2014-01-02
George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Condoleeza Rica and Other Assorted War Criminals Who Cost US Taxpayers $6 Trillion and Much More
President Bush's national security adviser said al Qaeda operatives have found refuge in Baghdad, and accused Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's regime of helping Osama bin Laden's followers develop chemical weapons.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bush-administration-links-iraq-al-qaeda/
The Sept. 11 commission reported yesterday that it has found no "collaborative relationship" between Iraq and al Qaeda, challenging one of the Bush administration's main justifications for the war in Iraq.
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2014-01-01
US Economic Recovery Part III
2013 saw the pace of income growth fall to the lowest of the recovery.
The US labor force is actively shrinking:
Mortgage rates rise. Home refinancing collapses as do mortgage applications:
Housing Starts already at a lower non-population adjusted level from 1959 collapse further:
Non-defense ex-aircraft durable flatline:
The wealth effect will save us:
H/T: http://www.alhambrapartners.com/2013/12/27/facing-the-headwinds-of-2014/
The US labor force is actively shrinking:
Mortgage rates rise. Home refinancing collapses as do mortgage applications:
Housing Starts already at a lower non-population adjusted level from 1959 collapse further:
Non-defense ex-aircraft durable flatline:
The wealth effect will save us:
H/T: http://www.alhambrapartners.com/2013/12/27/facing-the-headwinds-of-2014/
2013-12-28
Criminogenic-Producing or Intended to Produce Crime and Criminality
Bernard Madoff’s principal bank, JPMorgan Chase, has for years obstructed federal bank examiners trying to ascertain what it knew about his gigantic Ponzi scheme, an official document obtained by Newsweek shows.
The Justice Department refused in September to back up Treasury inspector general staff who wanted a court order to enforce a subpoena, in effect shielding JPMorgan from law enforcement, the October 8 document shows.
The Justice Department told the Treasury Inspector General “that they were denying the request for enforcement of the subpoena,” which means officials “could not undertake further actions regarding this matter,” wrote Jason J. Metrick, the inspector general special-agent-in-charge.