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Soros fails to quash insider trading conviction – FT.com.
No luck with the European Court of Human Rights for George Soros, the World’s Biggest Tick.
They still think he’s a Tick – a parasite, an inside trader. The original case deals with his hedge fund trade in the stock of Societe Generale, 14 years ago.
There is one last recourse for Soros to dodge the fine for breaking French trading law, and that is an appeal to the grand chamber of the same court. It’s viewed as an unlikely possibility.
State Gets $5 Mil Bonus For Food Stamp Sign Up | Judicial Watch.
Oregon is sooooo efficient at recruiting food stamp recipients that they have merited a 5 million dollar bonus for good performance from the USDA. The government has been awarding the state for five years in a row for gettimg more people on it’s welfare rolls. There’s also a two year grant from the Obama administration which rewards Oregon for granting food stamps without interviewing the prospective recipient.
Your tax dollars at work!
This is one of many Pelosi connections with crony capitalism of the Democrat kind.
Her brother in law, Ronald Pelosi is the number 2 at an “investment partner” of SolarReserve LLC, a renewable energy developer.
Another “investment partner” is Argonaut Private Equity, whose board member, Steve Mitchell, also served on the Solyndra board of directors, and who might regain some of his losses.
The Blaze also notes that Wind Capital’s Tom Carnahan is Obama’s number one Missouri fundfaiser. Wind capital got a 107 milion tax credit from the Treasury department.
It’s good to be an Obama capitalist
Obama Jobs Bill Might Not Help Touted Bridge – Investors.com.
Obama is grandstanding on the Brent Spence bridge, not very far from Pharmer’s rural dwelling. In fact, that’s the bridge Pharmer used to cross on the way to her undergraduate educational institution. The Brent Spence is in reasonable shape, does not need reconstruction, but does need another bridge next to it, because it’s a traffic bottleneck over the Ohio River. Obama’s second try at selling the “shovel” ready jobs is meant to supply immediate gratification. This won’t be applicable to the Cincinnati area, where Obama is appearing.
So, it’s all symbolism and no substance. Cincinnati will not be seeing bridgework from this funding package of Obama. It’s more likely that the EPA will forbid building of further bridges between Cincinnat and Northern Kentucky, out of intense concern for the catfish (big as sharks), sauger and longnose gar of the Ohio river. 😉
Pharmer was also amused to see mention, in the LA Times, that Reid had no time for Obama’s jobs bill, and that it would not get attention until later in the fall at the earliest. Read fast, this article is going to disappear:
News flash…… it’s a tax and spend bill that has to start out in the Congress, according to the Constitution, and Obama’s “bill” has NOT BEEN INTRODUCED THERE yet.
The Los Angeles Times is Shovel Ready. :))
Obama Executive Orders Impose New Gun Rules | Breaking news and opinion on The Blaze.
In the wake of the Fast and Furious scandal, in which the Obama Justice Dept and ATF ordered the sale of firearms and diversion to Mexican criminals, Obama is issuing executive orders to restrict the sale of firearms in border states.
More restrictive executive orders are to follow.
Immelt to jobs summit: Businesses need to do more – Jul. 11, 2011.
What this disgusting creature, Jeffrey Immelt, head of GE, and of Obama’s council on jobs and competitiveness, fails to realize is that his situation is not like that of other companies.
Because of GE’s most favored position with the US government, and with China, it has a huge advantage over all other businesses.
GE does not have to pay taxes on its U.S. profits. It has always been able to avoid most taxes paid by other businesses.
For Immelt to demand the tax paying businesses hire more workers while facing economic and health care uncertainty is an extreme joke.
Vince Cefalu is the ATF agent who has revealed and criticized his employer for the fast and furious operation which now has the whole agency in hot water, as well as director Ken Melson, and US Atty. General, Eric Holder.
Supposedly the corruption prevention measures in the federal government confer protection upon whistleblowers……… except at the ATF, where firing them is OK
It appears that Cefalu has been in hot water since 2005, when he exposed an illegal wiretapping done by the ATF.
Including his attempt to sell Obama’s senate seat.
Blagojevich on guilty verdict: ‘I frankly am stunned’ – chicagotribune.com.
This is the result of a retrial following a deadlocked jury at the first trial.
Naturally, the clueless, former Gov. Rod Blagojevich is having a hard time accepting that selling a senate seat, and his other forms of fraud and extortion are criminal acts, and that he’s going to get jailtime for them.
Maine gets break in federal health care overhaul – CNBC.
Another Obamacare waiver for the whole state of Maine! This will be a three year reprieve from the requirement that insurers spend “80 to 85 cents of every premium dollar on medical care and quality improvement”. It includes a review in two years.
This was provided in the face of the threat that MEGA Life and Health Insurance, which provides 37 percent of the states insurance for individuals would withdraw entirely from the market.
The plan for Obamacare had been that insurance companies could survive until the the government had organized sufficiently to take on the single payer system. This is obviously not working.
On Oct 21, 2010, the Chicago Carbon Exchange, powered by Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management, and Goldman Sachs EXPIRED. The bogus commodity of Carbon Credits dropped to near zero value, and in the shadow of the Tea Party Tsunami-style election sweep, the Carbon exchange went belly up. Cap and Trade legislation (which would have made carbon trading mandatory) is off the table, and without this fuel the Exchange could not survive.
The Chicago Carbon exchange was started up with grants from the Joyce Foundation, whose board has included such luminaries as Valery Jarrett and Barack Hussein Obama (’94-’02). Yes, Barack was on the board when the grants were issued.
In a nutshell, a government means to feed all its rich buddies, using money stolen from the little people who consume energy, has curled up and Died. (All costs to corporations are passed on to the consumer. This is the nuts and bolts economics knowledge which should cause any normal person to understand that “sticking it to the big companies” is eventually harmful to themselves).
Perhaps someone can illuminate the current position of Al Gore and Goldman Sachs, who have been primary participants in the Carbon Exchange Scam.
Knowing that the Obama Administration is filled with former Goldman Sachs people, one wonders what will become of that company, which has accepted public flagellation for private rewards.
In May, 2010, a Atlanta based company called Intercontinental Exchange had bought the Chicago Carbon Exchange, (by buying its parent company, Climate Exchange PLc). The latter company has since been chopped up into component parts.
Here’s the Greenhouse Gas Management Institute trying to see the crashing of the Chicago Carbon Exchange in a positive light for the purchaser.