The Wave (1981) - Based on the real experience of a high school class in Palo Alto, CA in April 1967, whose teacher wanted to explain the rise of the Nazi party to his students.
How does a holding company/investment bank turn billion dollar profits during a recession ?
First - get the US government filled with former(vested)employees
Next - Create and take short positions on a 3rd party deriviative market insured by AIG
Then - Use your government influence to deny your competition, Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearn, any bail out money assistance after the AIG credit swaps are delisted by Moodys causing a market plunge
Next - Use your influence to change the SEC accounting rules for reporting profits
Next - Use your influence to purloin a 20 billion dollar no payback backdoor loan through AIG which you forward to your international banker friends (Credit Swisse)
Then - Use a $10 billion bailout to foment market activity, there by creating a futures environmemt which creates profits from transaction fees and margins gained by your position(High Frequency Trading) as the market maker and fleece all those who trade behind you
Finally - payback your $10 billion bailout loan without any interest.
Ps.- if congress questions your transparancy have Paulson & Bernake threaten total market collapse if any accountability occurs !
Well, time to drop out of school and skip Grad school if you are thinking about it.
Now that they are looking to go after anyone making over 120K or 150K - there is no motivation to go into 6 figure debt only to get screwed for actually paying attention in class and over-achieving. I think i will go play guitar hero and get high like everyone else in college.
Why the two candidates pretend to argue about moot points like taxes,education & health care,while they project the same agenda on the war on (psuedo)terror & homeland(fatherland?) security
VP guarantees a generated crisis after the election - WTF!
"And here's the point I want to make. Mark my words. Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy. And he's gonna have to make some really tough - I don't know what the decision's gonna be, but I promise you it will occur. As a student of history and having served with seven presidents, I guarantee you it's gonna happen. I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate. And he's gonna need help. And the kind of help he's gonna need is, he's gonna need you, not financially to help him, we're gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it's not gonna be apparent initially, it's not gonna be apparent that we're right. Because all these decisions, all these decisions, once they're made if they work, then they weren't viewed as a crisis. If they don't work, it's viewed as you didn't make the right decision, a little bit like how we hesitated so long dealing with Bosnia and dealing with Kosovo, and consequently 200,000 people lost their lives that maybe didn't have to lose lives. It's how we made a mistake in Iraq. We made a mistake in Somalia. So there's gonna be some tough decisions. They may emanate from the Middle East. They may emanate from the sub-continent. They may emanate from Russia's newly-emboldened position because they're floating in a sea of oil."
The Al Smith Memorial Dinner in NYC reveals the US Election Program. These guys just play two different parts from the same script. The Al Smith Memorial Dinner is two weeks before the US Presidential Election in NYC. It features both candidates making light of each other. However under closer scrutiny it is an aggressive disinformation operation which weakens any serious challenges to the character or qualification of either candidate.This event distracts attention from the policies or agendas that the next president may implement. It also brings into question the influence of the Vatican on official US policy.
...of course on the brighter side these guy got off some great jokes !
John McCain - The Al Smith Memorial Dinner Speech
Barack Obama - The Al Smith Memorial Dinner Speech
The Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner is an annual charity fund raiser for Catholic Charities. It is organized by the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation in honor of former New York Governor Al Smith, the first Catholic presidential candidate. The first dinner was in 1945, the year after Al Smith's death. The 2008 dinner raised $3.9 million.[1]In recent years the candidates have traditionally given humorous speeches.
Special bonus - Sarah Palin on SNLThe practice of the candidates appearing on a comedy skit show like SNl helps blur the line between what are the policies of the campaigns and what is a twisted joke !
Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence. - Frank Zappa
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*Who runs the World ?*
Mienfoking Films - The Niles Lesh Projects First Watch 3PLT Saturday
Morning Alive at 11 am(watching the re run immediately after...