Presidential Elections, Wall Street already won

Naomi Prins is a whose who in the world of Wonks. Meaning she is smart. Before becoming a journalist, Naomi worked on Wall Street as a managing director at Goldman Sachs, and ran the international analytics group at Bear Stearns in London. Which means she has been there and done that! In our previous post, Bank of America accused of BRAZEN Fraud, and so?, we talk about the Bull illusion the the government tries to create that they are actually going to hold anyone accountable for the travesty called "economic downturn" created by our banks. Here Ms. Prinz reveals that the games are still in full swing, emphasis ours:

Tuesday, October 23, 2012 at 7:00AM

Before the campaign contributors lavished billions of dollars on their favorite candidate; and long after they toast their winner or drink to forget their loser, Wall Street was already primed to continue its reign over the economy.

For, after three debates (well, four), when it comes to banking, finance, and the ongoing subsidization of Wall Street, both presidential candidates and their parties’ attitudes toward the banking sector is similar  – i.e. it must be preserved – as is – at all costs, rhetoric to the contrary, aside.

Obama hasn’t brought ‘sweeping reform’ upon the Establishment Banks, nor does Romney need to exude deregulatory babble, because nothing structurally substantive has been done to harness the biggest banks of the financial sector, enabled, as they are, by entities from the SEC to the Fed to the Treasury Department to the White House.

In addition, though much is made of each candidates' tax plans, and the related math that doesn’t add up (for both presidential candidates), the bottom line is, Obama hasn’t explained exactly WHY there’s $5 trillion more in debt during his presidency, nor has Romney explained HOW to get a $5 trillion savings. 

How a truth becomes a lie-snopes misused

In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.
Emile M. Cioran 

People who have a particular agenda know how to manipulate you.  There have been many books and classes offered on manipulation and many salesmen and politicians and their supporters use these techniques.  Although allowed in politics and product sales, the results of some of these techniques are not allowed in court as the result of the number of therapists who abused their positions and manipulated their clients to believe what was not true, thus a ruling by the court in  1995 that stated:

In 1995, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, ruled in Franklin v. Duncan and Franklin v. Fox, Murray et al., (312 F3d. 423, see also 884 FSupp 1435, N.D. Calif.)^[66] that repressed memory is not admissible as evidence in a legal action because of its unreliability, inconsistency, unscientific nature, tendency to be therapeutically induced evidence, and subject to influence by hearsay and suggestibility. The court overturned the conviction of a man accused of murdering a nine-year-old girl purely based upon the evidence of a 21-year-old repressed memory by a lone witness, who also held a complex personal grudge against the defendant.^[15][67][68]

For our purposes, we focus on the highlighted portion of the above quote. Despite what we may wish to believe about ourselves, we are all subject to hearsay, suggestibility and  manipulation. Many scientific studies have proved our suggestibility, but the most obvious proof of the fact is the existence of commercials.  Were we not easily manipulated there would be no commercials and car salesmen, stock brokers, madison avenue, wall street and most politicians would be out of business.  Sales of most products and ideas are dependent on what we may wish to believe. Whether it be true or not.  Who today will cop to the, "I bought a pet rock?"

Don't buy the Energy Independence lie-from any candidate

The "drill baby drill" mantra sounds like a rallying cry to cure a panacea of societal ill's produced by poor economic/energy policies and Corporate greed.  And we when say say corporate greed we are not referring to a fair return on investment in a free market.  However "free markets" are like all and any freedoms. They are not free! All freedoms come with responsibility and accountability.

Example: There are two Nuclear Power plants in California, the San Onofre Nuclear Generating station and the Diablo Canyon Power plant.  Both are built on/or near Earthquake fault zones. Both are near the Ocean. Both have design flaws. Yet at least one, the The Diablo Canyon plant, due to a Supreme Court decision was not even required to submit an Earthquake response plan.  Since the Diablo plant was built, a new fault line has been discovered less than a mile from the plant.  The original plans accounted for a fault that was 3 miles from the plant?

We should probably state here that we are a proponent of the use of Nuclear power. However a read of the stories of these two plants can be construed as an exercise in Government/Corporate arrogance, incompetence, short sightedness with a dash of stupid.  Absolutely no thought given to the blowback on the citizenry as a result of unintended consequences.  What impact would a major incident at either plant have on the rights of area individuals to be involved in their own pursuits of free market capitalism?  Lives, businesses and economies would be ruined.  But then they assure us that won't happen.  Tell that to the Japanesse please.

So what does the above pertaining to Nuclear Power have to do with Oil?

Think Fracking!  The argument is still ongoing regarding frackings impact on drinking water and earthquakes. We suggest that readers go to this site for many links leading to many discussions on fracking and make up their own minds. We only ask that readers read a lot of both sides of the argument so that whatever conclusion they may come to will be at least informed. 

Earthquake Hazard Map From the US Geological survey:

We would suggest anyone living in the hazard area take an interest.

Both parties lying about energy independence-video

Recently we saw Republican Candidate Romney promising energy Independence within so many years. But then how many presidential candidates in the recent past have promised Energy independence? Ummmm, all of them maybe!  But it's a sham, a lie and nothing more than a sound byte to get your vote. The question becomes, are you stupid enough to believe them.

T. Boone Pickens is arguably the most knowledgeable energy guy in the United States today. He puts his money where his mouth is and has made a fortune doing so. He has talked to both the Obama Camp and the Romney camp. To quote Mr. Pickens: "They don't know anything about energy in Washington. They don't understand it,"  Here he is on CBS:
So could we become energy independent. Yes! In a very short time putting millions of people back to work, reducing the cost of transportation, and improving the economy. All we need is a comprehensive plan to change from an oil based economy to a natural gas based economy. But then that would also require that we do not sell as much gas overseas as we do. Whoops, go figure............

Proof, wrong side will win the November elections

As we have noted in this post. Romney and Obama are in fact twins.  Which gives more credence to the prophetic post below published by the Richmond-times Dispatch, proving with out a doubt that the wrong side will win the presidential election.

The past several weeks have made one thing crystal-clear: Our country faces unmitigated disaster if the Other Side wins.

No reasonably intelligent person can deny this. All you have to do is look at the way the Other Side has been running its campaign. Instead of focusing on the big issues that are important to the American People, it has fired a relentlessly negative barrage of distortions, misrepresentations and flat-out lies.

Just look at the Other Side's latest commercial, which take a perfectly reasonable statement by the candidate for My Side completely out of context to make it seem as if he is saying something nefarious. This just shows you how desperate the Other Side is and how willing it is to mislead the American People.

Obama, Romney, OMG their twins

So you think you have a choice? YOU THINK YOU HAVE A DAMN CHOICE??? Watch this vid and if you still think you have a choice, be advised, the only choice you have is K-Y or no K-y! Any Question?Add to Technorati Favorites

BUSH IS BACK, ACKKKKKKK..........

Yeee, hawwww as a friend is fond of hollerin when he ain't hollerin "Crank it up!"  And apparently Bush is "cranking it up" via new book and southern drawl to offer his expertise on economics and Peace on Earth???

Now we know that upon awareness of this new development many Obama haters will be retiring to their closets to pray to Reagan, thank God and sniff a pair of shoes.  But lookee here ya'll the only difference between Obama and Bush is.....well besides the obvious......is there ain't none!  Paint Bush Black or Obama White. Either way you still have a wall street puppet beholdin to the Bank/puppet/corpo-fascist-kleptocrats.

From Zero Hedge by way of Azizonomics (we will do the work of adding emphasis and colors):

George W. Bush’s “Growth” Strategy

George W. Bush is back. And he’s got a plan!

Debate proves Republicans in trouble-watch Santorum

Obama is not going to have to worry much once the Republican candidates get finished tearing each other apart. Most stories we see being posted today are shouting about Gingrich taking the lead as a result of  his confrontation of John King and resultant tirade against mainstream media. As much as we enjoyed it as entertaining T.V., for the life of us we can not understand how that rant and his resulting performance can be perceived as anything else but the calculated actions of a giant ego.

The mass media is an easy target for anybody. We know very few, including ourselves who put much stock in them. However Gingrich, being the person who led the attack on Clinton for for screwing around while Newt himself was also screwing around, we can understand why he refocused the attention onto the press.  What we do not understand is how the obvious reference to his hypocrisy and the rest of his, bogus "I", "I", "I", posturing he could possibly gain traction from any reasonably intelligent electorate.  Normally we would say, as long as a persons sex life doesn't involve children then keep it out of the press.  But then Gingrich opened the door with his own Hypocrisy.  And Newt's all to numerous hypocrisy's will enable Obama to take him apart.  Despite the press meme regarding Gingrich's intelligence, we suspect if he gets his wish for Lincoln/Douglas style debates Obama will  crush him.  As much as much as we consider Obama a traitor we do not underestimate him. Republicans would would do well not to overestimate Gingrich.

And now the Governor Christie pump has begun in earnest

After the last debates the republicans, Tea Party and now even CNN have gone apocalyptic over the poor showing of Romney and Perry.  Of course we only spent, oh we do not know how many posts describing how Perry is to stupid to be anything but Governor of Texas. No dis of Texas here. Texas was a state smart enough to give their governors limited powers.  We just new that once he had to actually open his mouth and "debate" he would fall from the ascendancy of heights he did not climb but was given by the mainstream media while the other candidates had to actually work.  But now the Mainstream media is bemoaning the fact that the republican party has no credible candidates.

Lets just discount for a moment that Ron Paul one the Fox News debates that bothered them so badly they yanked his win off their website almost as quickly as they posted it.  ANDDDDDD......... while were add it, lets go ahead and discount Herman Kane who one the Florida straw poll and actually makes some sense were it not for his unworkable 999 plan.  But come on people, at least he has a plan.

But apparently actually winning the debates is an excise in futility since it is the party big wigs and the mainstream media that determines whether or not a candidate is viable.  Hell, why even bother with the debates.

rc takes on the Christian, Tea Party, Republicans-who has the lions

Excuse Mr. Lion, Have you seen Governor Perry

 I know it's old news, but I'm still pissed.  After the cheers the death penalty got in the first debates, and the cheers the Ron Paul remark re: the dude with out insurance will just have to die, got.  Whoops excuse us, after he heard the boo's he did try to clarify by referring to the old days when family, churches and neighbors would have rushed together throwing all their assets into the pot to help their afflicted brethren. Oh Please, Big Gag! One major illness can put most churches out of the business of doing Gods work.
No were pissed because we were thinking that any minute they were going to bring out the lions using Governor Perry for bait after they discovered that in fact, he's a liberal!  O.K. hang on o.k. because we have to finish laughing here a bit as we picture Perry pulling out his concealed .380 to fend off a pride of lions and foaming at the mouth Bachman clones.  But the prospect of seeing another self-righteous, christian, liar being torn limb from limb, getting the stage all bloody in front of CNN's Wolf Blitzer.  I mean really, our brain is fucked because then, we just kind of imagine Anderson Cooper with his wet dream, Kathy Griffin, running out to get comedic commentary from the Lions.

oh Anderson, lets play you be the lion

"Tell us Mr. Lion in Chief", asks Cooper, "was it the forcibly injecting 10 and 11 year old girls with cancer protection that drove you and your liberation army to rip Mr. Perry all to shreds."

"Well no Mr. Cooper," answers Mr. Chief Lion, "it was the thought of you showing up with Kathy Griffin that that did it. Shredding Mr. Perry was just a ruse.  It's Kathy we want to eat."  

"Oh Mr. Lion," Kathy squeeks, "your so funny, and handsome too."

I mean after all is the above scenario any more bizarre'O than the fact that the idiots on stage got to a stage in the first freaking place?  We think it a much more pleasant scenario ourselves. After all, after CNN spent the next couple of days, "fact checking" aka, counting lies we can only ask,  "WTF".  Like how come ol WOLFie, who knows this stuff, just didn't say on stage, "Hey, thats a freaking lie, ya wanna try again."  Come on, my ol lady doesn't follow politics and even she had to put her Ipad down long enough to ask, "who are these people anyway?"

Where the Hell is Ron Paul???????

August 17 after Ron Paul ran a close second to Bachmann in her home sate during the Iowa straw poll we posted, Ron Who? Ron Paul? Who is that? (with video) asking why he is being ignored by the media?

We find the question even more valid today. Romney and Perry did not run in Iowa. Yet they are listed as front runners.  All Perry had to do to get listed as a front runner was say he was going to run?????

How does that work???  The most intelligent voice on the conservative/libertarian side is, without question Ron Paul.  Yet Let a Yippie ki yay gun totin yay hoo come out of Texas and say, "Ya'll I think I'm gonna run for that there Presidents job."  And Bingo he shoots to the top. Romney is factored in somewhere, we think it's on a boat somewhere so he can flip and flop like his friends the fish and his other friends the "corporations are people."

Does this not call into question the real bias of the mass media???   We know that many consider the Mass news media other than Fox (whoops were sorry, that's a faux news station) Liberal leaning.  However judging by their predisposition to focus on "stupid" we have to conclude they have no left or conservative bias.  They have a stupid bias.  After all, did they not devote much air time to Joke Trump?

We find this to be the strangest set of events we could imagine.  The most intelligent candidate with the  most integrity (wish he would clarify that race thing a bit) is ignored and "Stupid" becomes the new normal.

You will have to excuse me now. Perry is talkin.  I swear to god it's better than Americas got talent!

P.S. re: Fox: Since the Rupert Mess in England we must admit, Fox does appear to be making some changes.  I do not believe that just came out of my out loud key board.Add to Technorati Favorites

Obama, congress, the jobs scam and the perpetuation of slavery

If you wanted to create a class defined banana republic consisting of the haves and the have not's that serve the haves, then America is certainly building the blue print for it.  Well not building, but refining it.  And the seriousness with which our "trusted leaders" (you trust them I don't) give to making "jobs" a priority is evidenced by how they are all currently out on the campaign trail.  Coincidental don't you think that Obama happens to attend a Rural economic forum in Iowa around the same time as Republicans had been stomping around the state? It's all gamesmanship and it would appear that both sides of the aisle must believe, that you believe, their line of garbage.  Otherwise they would all be in Washington fighting the "unemployment issue" tooth and nail until it was solved.  But who and what really are the priorities? In their minds obviously, they are!

THE BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT HOAX it's BULL!

The damn near impossible time frame within which a balance budget amendment would take to be constitutionally valid renders this posturing by various politicians as just that, posturing. It sounds good and looks good to those who for some reason want to lower their standard of living. So we have to imagine that most are o.k. with it as we do not hear a rising roar from the proletariat! We just have to imagine it turning into a cluster ,with the government assuming role of parent wagging a finger at us while lecturing, "Do as I say and not as I do."

First of all the United States of America consists of a very large number of people spread out over a vast land area subject to numerous Black swan events that can not be foreseen and there for not planned for. Examples would be the Oklahoma Building bombing, 9/11 twin towers bombing, a dirty bomb smuggled across the Mexican border for instance. A very good example would be the Japan invasion of World War II that caught us off guard and unprepared.

Or consider the vagaries of nature. a Mont St. Helens blow off, two or three Hurricane Andrews or Katrinas in a single season that take out oil refineries and close ports as well as leave whole populations in need of rescue. We know there will be more earthquakes and wonder if there are any contingency plans for the when the caldera at Yellowstone National Park blows with the potential to wipe out all of mankind. It is overdue you know?Are these events allotted for in a "Balanced Budget?"

If items such as these are not allotted for in the budget do we just say to taxpayers in need who through no fault of their own are in need of survival assistance, "oh well, your not in the budget?"

Every war we have thrown has lasted longer than planned and gone over budget. Now more wars? We didn't/don't have the money to fight the ones we are in now. And we would bet that not enough is allotted to take care of those who have become damaged as a result of our throwing them into wars we have not yet figured what they are about.

BUT WHAT ABOUT YOU????