British investigation and apology, possible here?

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Tuesday June 15, 2010 · 10:05 PM PDT

2010/06/15 · 22:05

Do you think that the US will ever reach to point where we can do what the British government did today in issuing an apology for the wrongful deaths of innocent citizens including political activists who were killed by out of control police or military acting as police?

This is what the new Prime Minister did today

LONDON — Prime Minister David Cameron offered an extraordinary apology on Tuesday for the 1972 killings of 14 unarmed demonstrators by British soldiers in Northern Ireland, saying that a long-awaited judicial inquiry had left no doubt that the "Bloody Sunday" shootings were "both unjustified and unjustifiable."

http://www.nytimes.com/...

see a sample of the British newspaper coverage:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/...

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Tuesday June 08, 2010 · 6:57 PM PDT

2010/06/08 · 18:57

CNBC has a show called "Fast Money" where every afternoon a group of traders and insiders chat about how to make money in each day's market and they have the usual corporate representatives, CEO's, investment company hotshots, etc. It is a total promotion of why every day is another opportunity to buy and make your broker rich, that is expected on this business channel, CNBC. Today, however, they got a shock when one of the wise gray hair types dropped a genuine news item about BP. Actually watching the reaction of the talkiing heads was more interesting than the prediction of the demise of BP---former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich put that out already, but follow me--please-for some funny stuff--ok for a business network--funny stuff-

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Sunday June 06, 2010 · 4:43 PM PDT

2010/06/06 · 16:43

Where are the meetings of the whizzbangs of the US and the world who have the brains, resources and even the eccentricity to take on the fixing of the mess in the Gulf that the US Government and the Oil and Gas industry seem to have left to the incompetents to correct?

Continuing to rely on BP really is like hiring "Atta boy Brownie" and his buddies to clean up the Gulf Mess because they have experience in such Gulf region disasters!

Where is the Howard Hughes of 2010? Bear with me, especially you younger folks--

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The President should convene a teleconference of the following:

17 votes Vote Now!

The President should convene a teleconference of the following:

BP, Transocian and Halliburton

0 votes

Bill Gates, Steven Jobs, Larry Ellison, and George Soros

3 votes

Rupert Murdoch, his favorite talking heads of FOX and their invited guests

0 votes

Rupert Murdoch and the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board and Karl Rove

1 vote

Talking heads of CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN

1 vote

Rachel Maddow and whoever she invites

2 votes

All the major oil and drilling companies that do deep water drilling, except BP

5 votes

Dick Cheney and the secret list of his oil policy invitees who set Bush's policies

3 votes

Oil officials of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, UK, Norway, and Brazil

2 votes

Is Rand Paul, M.D.'s income from "Socialized medicine"?

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Saturday May 22, 2010 · 1:44 PM PDT

2010/05/22 · 13:44

I have an elderly friend who recently had a wonderful expensive new type of eye surgery performed called DSEK which has cleared her vision so she can read again and at 94 it is wonderful. Her surgery was paid by Medicare.

In looking at Dr. Rand Paul's official Senate 2010 website and links, I see that he performs this DSEK procedure, so I thought I would see what he says about government involvement, review of new procedures, payment arrangements, etc. and it is set out, below:

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Thursday May 13, 2010 · 12:37 PM PDT

2010/05/13 · 12:37

Is there some reason the main stream media, in this case, today, the New York Times, has, for not saying the alleged Times Square Bomber has an MBA from a Unification Church supported university?

I know times are tough for MBA's with the Wall Street mess and the job market and all the many corporate failures that can be blamed on the failures of MBA's and the whole training of them, but is that the only reason the MBA credential and its source are not listed for this alleged bomber?

see below from NYT web May 13, 2010 about the raids and arrests:

Mr. Shahzad, 30, a former financial analyst from Bridgeport, Conn., who attended the University of Bridgeport, has yet to appear in federal court, and law enforcement officials have said he is cooperating.

http://www.nytimes.com/...

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Thursday February 25, 2010 · 11:23 AM PST

2010/02/25 · 11:23

Sometimes the Opinion Page of the Wall Street Journal is so fun to read. Yes it normally makes me mad, except for the weekly "Tilting Yard" by Thomas Frank, but then there are the admissions that the corporate apologists selected by Rupert Murdoch-Paul Gigot and the rest of the WSJ actually make that they don't even realize they are making. They make it worth reading if you can stand it.

We have all seen the news accounts of the statements by the US management of Toyota and its CEO Akio Toyoda have made so I will not do the links.

What I want to call attention to, below the jump, is from the WSJ February 24, 2010 and the 1980's history of Audi's sudden acceleration issue.

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Saturday January 23, 2010 · 10:26 PM PST

2010/01/23 · 22:26

I certainly agree with maxnyc in http://www.dailykos.com/... And his link to the article in the Nation is appreciated, but the view of the President is so very different from the perspective of a little distance as reflected in the Financial Times last week.

We need to appreciate the wisdom of Senator Sanders and others with a "to do" list, but we need a few kind words first, just maybe.

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Thursday January 21, 2010 · 8:02 PM PST

2010/01/21 · 20:02

I am reading many posts and MSM articles, letters, etc., of people throwing in the towel, promising not to work for the 2010 and 2012 elections, re election, etc. of Democrats, incumbents, the President. They do not need listing as we all see them.

Maybe I am getting old, and maybe I am too much of a history buff, as my wife and children would agree, but I urge a bit of perspective to the writers and readers of these folks who are giving up and urging the rest of us to give up on the promises of a year ago when many of us were lucky enough to be on the Mall in DC.

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Monday January 18, 2010 · 11:28 PM PST

2010/01/18 · 23:28

It is just a suggestion, but while the attention of the world and particularly that of the US and the UN are focused on Haiti, a long term project involving the construction of a new capital city and training a new generation of Haitians is something that should be done.

We can engage in huge construction projects in Iraq and we claim to be able to do the same in New Orleans. The US rebuilt the Tennessee Valley with the TVA and the world rebuilt cities in Germany and Japan after WWII.

How about doing it now, in Haiti?

We have thousands of unemployed and underemployed construction workers and supervisors in the US and plenty of skilled architects and engineers.

The training programs for the thousands of Haitians hired for the project could provide a huge economic engine to help address the systemic poverty there. A truly safe, sanitary and functional capital city could do for Haiti what similar projects have done around the world.

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Should the US help build a new capital city for Haiti?

41 votes Vote Now!

Should the US help build a new capital city for Haiti?

No, it is not a good idea.

6 votes

No, it is not a project the US should recommend or lead.

2 votes

No, food, water and medicine and then it is back to forgetting Haiti.

3 votes

We are not our brother's keeper.

0 votes

No, they do not have oil.

1 vote

Yes.

4 votes

Yes, but only as part of a UN project.

8 votes

Yes, but only as part of a project run by central and south american countries.

4 votes

No, rebuild New Orleans, Baltimore, Detroit and other US cities first.

9 votes

Yes, to show we could rebuild New Orleans, Baltimore and Detroit if we wanted to.

1 vote

It is a great idea and Obama can suggest it and progressives can criticize him for not doing it fast enough.

2 votes

Yes, it would drive the Republicans crazy trying to figure out how to stop it.

1 vote

Is Sen. Jim DeMint a racist? Is it wrong to ask?

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Monday January 04, 2010 · 11:07 PM PST

2010/01/04 · 23:07

Senator DeMint of South Carolina continues to get lots of press as he rants and raves to prove he is the most right wing or "Conservative" Senator and this includes his "hold" on the nominee for the head of the TSA, Erroll Southers, supposedly because he might allow or even encourage TSA employees to join a union.

Having lived in South Carolina and having listened all too much to the attitudes that have motivated the long line of Dixicrats and Republicans from Strom Thurmond, and Lee Atwater, to Rep. Joe "You Lie" Wilson, I just have to wonder if it is not just flat racist campaigning like so long has been the basic play book for the Republicans since Kevin Phillips and the Nixon "Southern Strategy"?

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Senator DeMint is opposing Errol Souther for TSA nominee bercause

157 votes Vote Now!

Senator DeMint is opposing Errol Souther for TSA nominee bercause

Sen. DeMint is looking ouit for the best interest of people of South Carolina?

13 votes

Sen. DeMint is just carrying out what Sen. Mitch McConnell says to do?

10 votes

Sen. DeMint is doing what R. Chairman Steele says to do?

1 vote

Sen. DeMint wants to ouitdo the young Strom Thurmond?

10 votes

Sen. DeMint is folllowing old Lee Atwater guidlines for successful elections in the Souith?

28 votes

Sen DeMInt got upstaged by Gov Sanford and hiking?

4 votes

Sen. DeMint got upstaged by Rep. Joe"You Lie" Wilson?

4 votes

Sen. DeMint really is a racist?

75 votes

Sen. DeMint knows McCain did well after endorsing the Confederate Flag?

3 votes

Sen. DeMint is misunderstood and I am picking on him ?

9 votes

Please love Wall Street, we promise to be good!

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Friday January 01, 2010 · 9:34 PM PST

2010/01/01 · 21:34

It is both funny and sad, watching the shills for the Wall Street brokers and all those dependent on them for money, like the major papers.

This New Years article in the New York Times, relying almost completely on information from Vanguard and typical mutual fund promoters, is but one of the flood of propaganda pieces we see, not only in the print and on line editions of the main stream papers, but for those of us retiring or once planning to retire, boomers, in our mailboxes at home and the office.

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I will invest with?

30 votes Vote Now!

I will invest with?

My long time broker?

1 vote

2 votes

My local bank?

4 votes

My local credit union?

6 votes

Government securities?

0 votes

Gold?

1 vote

Guns and ammunition?

4 votes

Payment of college and graduate school for my children?

1 vote

Charities and hope for a better life in the beyond?

0 votes

Wal Mart and China and collect stuff I don't need and then have tax free yard sales?

3 votes

My local real estate agent in recommended commercial property?

1 vote

My local real estate agent in rental housing?

0 votes

My local real estate agent in bare land for development later?

0 votes

Act Blue to elect better people?

2 votes

I don't have anything anymore and if I did it would go to credit card debt.

5 votes

Were you there last January ?

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Friday December 18, 2009 · 5:18 PM PST

2009/12/18 · 17:18

Pardon this short rant, but after seeing weeks of daily stories all starting with some expression of failure on the part of the Obama Administration, I have had it.

No wonder the polls show the President down in 50 % range with headlines and statements like this from the web New York Times!

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British investigation and apology, possible here?

BP wont last as a company CNBC

Howard Hughes where are you when we need you?

Is Rand Paul, M.D.'s income from "Socialized medicine"?

What about Times Square an MBA and Unification Church?

Toyota and the Wall Street Journal "admission"

Obama Hammers the Banks and Makes a Killing on AIG

Healthcare, Bay of Pigs and Court Packing

Build Haiti a new capital city and train Haitians for good jobs

Is Sen. Jim DeMint a racist? Is it wrong to ask?

Please love Wall Street, we promise to be good!

Were you there last January ?