Big Dan's Big News April 3, 2009

AIG - $165 Million bonuses - weeks of 24x7 media coverage, pitchforks, mobs, congressional hearings, legislation, etc...

Merrill Lynch - $3,600 Million ($3.6 Billion) bonuses - NO MEDIA COVERAGE!!! NO MERRILL LYNCH MOB!!!

WHY IS THIS???

Kucinich on Fox: Merrill Lynch Bonuses



Dems Investigating Bush Administration Role In AIG Collapse

The Bush admin - it seems to me - was running a protection racket. No matter what industry we look at, we see regulators not regulating, investigators not investigating, and so forth. In other words, we will pay into your election coffer or what-not, and in exchange you call off the dogs.

It is the flip side of the US Attorney Scandal as well. On one side you have pressure to prosecute political enemies, but I think likely corporate enemies could be added to this listl. So, for example, you are big tobacco and you have a problem with massive class action cases. Your problem is taken care of via the DOJ just as AIG is taken care of by having regulators look the other way.

In all of this, money needs to change hands. That money would have had to be laundered. Enter Jack Abramoff and others like him, and there are several like him who are still in play.

Bush admin role in AIG? Don't say I did not tell you so...

Welcome to the final stages of the coup...

Government, controlled from behind the scenes by JP Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs, wants to seize anything it wants, hence Treasury’s new demand for new regulatory powers. It is a race against time before the derivative monster collapses and takes everything else with it, except gold and silver. Doesn’t anyone realize all this government, corporate and individual debt can never be repaid? It is a giant scam.

The following are some snippets from the most recent issue of the International Forecaster.

Ron Paul: "What if..."



Rush Limbaugh Leaves New York

For years New Yorkers have done everything in their power to get Rush Limbaugh to leave town. New Yorkers had their own "Truman Show" charade going on for years, trying to get rid of Limbaugh.

Jon Stewart's message to Limbaugh: Here's my EZ Pass and..."GET THE FUCK OUT!!!"

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Big Dan's Big News April 2, 2009

REAL Pennsylvania plumbers tell the GOP's infomercial star "Joe (who's name isn't Joe) the Plumber (who isn't a plumber)" to...

GET FUCKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Above: The GOP SHAM "Joe the Plumber"...who's name isn't Joe...and who isn't a plumber... Doesn't the GOP get it? Let me spell it out for you: THE "JOE THE PLUMBER" THING ISN'T WORKING! CUT THE SHIT OUT! The party for the rich, the GOP, was drummed out of office so they invented a FAKE Joe 6-pack and are parading him around infomercial style. That's how they get the few idiots of the middle class and poor (if there's any left) to vote for them. Let's call a spade a spade: the GOP has turned into a bizarre CULT! Their tricks aren't working anymore. Here is your proof:

Somebody in the Republican Party thought it would be a great idea to send Joe the Plumber to Pennsylvania to rally against the Employee Free Choice Act. The pretend plumber faced audiences so hostile in Pittsburgh and Harrisburg that he skipped a rally in Philadelphia. This perfectly sums of the state of both Joe the Plumber’s 15 minutes of fame, and the GOP.

Joe the Plumber stumped on Employee Free Choice Act: ‘I don’t know everything about everything.’

Joe the "plumber" shills against Employee Free Choice, but admits he doesn't understand it. March 31, 2009, Harrisburg, PA. Just before this video starts, out of microphone range, Joe admits that he has not read the Employee Free Choice Act legislation. Still, he came to Pennsylvania to tell workers that they do not need the protections of the bill.



Filibusters skyrocket under Republican minority in 110th Congress. Yesterday, Sen. John Kyl (R-AZ) slammed the idea of passing health care reform and other Obama priorities

Jindal Doubles Down On Neo-Hooverism, Will Reject Low-Income Health Coverage In Stimulus Package

Sens. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) have offered a $250 billion proposal to cut estate taxes for the children of multi-millionaires. The proposal is attracting a disturbing amount of support.

In midst of recession, Sens. Kyl and Lincoln think ‘the most pressing issue’ is ‘America’s wealthiest families.’

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A protester has died during G20 protests in London, according to the police.

G20 Pictures





The 10/31 Project

Stephen wants you to ring doorbells and demand that your neighbors make a tangible commitment to America in the form of a sugary treat.

(bd: this is what rightwingers call "news" - FOX "news")

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Special commentary by Big Dan: "Isn't it odd that a politician from one of the countries pushing the 'War on Terror' was never killed by a terrorist? You'd think with all these terrorists supposedly walking around everywhere, it would be rather easy for them to kill a politician. It reinforces my belief that this 'War on Terror' is fabricated...by politicians from the countries pushing the FAKE 'War on Terror'."

Big Dan's Big News April 1, 2009

"[T]he Merrill Lynch Compensation Committee awarded these payments on December 8, 2008, before the end of the fourth quarter, in which Merrill lost more than $15 billion, and after Merrill was informed that it would be allocated $10 billion in TARP funds," the congressman's office said in an advisory.

"These payments raise significant questions about what information Merrill Lynch and Bank of America executives shared with federal officials that oversaw the Merrill acquisition by Bank of America. Ordinary shareholders were unaware of the details of the bonus payments, but the U.S. government held 800,000 shares in preferred stock and warrants at the time and federal officials regularly met with both Bank of America and Merrill Lynch executives," the release read.

Kucinich to probe $3.6 Billion in Merrill Lynch bonuses (bd: that's B-B-Billion, not M-M-Million, as in AIG's 165 M-M-Million bonuses that everyone was in an uproar about!)

Max Keiser:

So let me get this straight. Banking elite, and other government insiders, defrauded savings accounts, pension funds, charitable funds and municipal funds here and around the globe by trading in worthless financial instruments; they manipulated markets and destroyed legitimate businesses along the way; and THEN, when that wasn't enough, they plundered the public purse in the chaos and panic surrounding the crash that they themselves caused.

And the President asks them to kindly refrain from buying new carpet?

These people are not titans. These people are racketeers. And should be treated accordingly. Or at the very least, not be invited to sit in on privileged government meetings determining bailout policy that they then profit from!

"Let Them Have Stained Carpets" - Obama's Marie Antoinette Moment



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Sy Hersh/New Yorker Magazine - Cheney assassination ring



So, who did Dick Cheney have assassinated over the years using his lovely assassination squad?

Benazir Bhutto Assassination: behind the "Terrorists" stands the Cheney/Wolfowitz PNAC again ?

U.S. intelligence agencies tapped Benazir Bhutto’s phone.

In a November 2007 interview with David Frost, only a few weeks before she was assassinated, Benazir Bhutto made a very disturbing remark, she referred to Omar Sheik, as “the man who murdered Bin Laden.”

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Syria Calling - The Obama Administration’s chance to engage in a Middle East peace. by Seymour M. Hersh/New Yorker Magazine

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