towwwdothello asked:


What particular political policies were altered that contributed to the loss of citizen’s right to own their own homes?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100417/bs_afp/usbankingpropertygoldmancompanyfraud

VALENTINE

charlotte q asked:


what do they know that we do not!!???
did they recieve news that a major financial institution is about to fail?

CYRIL

Redd Green asked:


http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a_n1VywyK6EY&refer=home

Is anyone stupid enough to believe this? OK that’s a leading question. Does anyone actually believe that “concern over financial crisis” is actually easing? The blogs I look at from time to time spell panic. Please, no one line answers, explain your reason.
I hear you loud and clear mammanuke, same here, hang in there.

HARRISON

theskyisfalling asked:


Is it in good shape? I have no idea how to check on the banks I use, or may want to use, except to watch the news and hope they don’t appear as “troubled.” Scary.

VALERIA

jdeekdee asked:


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100417/ap_on_bi_ge/us_obama_financial_reform_16

WASHINGTON – The U.S. is destined to endure a new economic crisis that sticks taxpayers with the bill unless Congress tightens oversight of the financial industry, President Barack Obama said Saturday.

Why? I thought everything Obama was doing is making the economy better? I would like to hear comments from both sides, Repubs and Dems??

MAI

i’llplaythebluesforyou asked:


I feel like celebrities lose all personal privacy. I just saw a taped conversation of mel gibson and his wife over financial issues on the news. Seems like a private issue that should be kept out of the public eye. Then again we’re at war and the media is worried about mel gibsons financial problems with his wife and Lindsay lohans jail sentance. ugh

CANDIDA

Cracker asked:


Last June, as Newsbusters readers will remember, ABC allowed President Obama to pitch his health care proposal in a special edition of ABC’s Primetime hosted by retiring World News anchor Charlie Gibson and (now incoming anchor) Diane Sawyer. Obama was given additional airtime to pitch his health care agenda that evening on Nightline.

Conservatives didn’t get equal time.

Worse, ABC News even refused to allow the conservative group Conservatives for Patients Rights to purchase paid advertising to put out an alternative perspective.

Immediately afterward, the National Center for Public Policy Research (full disclosure: which I work for) began a multi-month review of the commercials run on World News. We found something interesting.

In the 98 broadcast days of ABC World News advertising logged by National Center Executive Director David Almasi and analyzed by Policy Analyst Matt Patterson, ABC’s World News broadcast featured 1,102 commercials, 597 of which were placed by member companies of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) trade association, representing 54.17 percent of total commercials aired.

PhRMA very aggressively supports President Obama’s health care agenda.

David Almasi doesn’t think it’s a coincidence.

“It’s clear that World News relies on the members of PhRMA to sponsor it,” Almasi says. “Ford and Proctor and Gamble are reliable sponsors, but the overwhelming amount of paid ads were for drugs pushed by the members of this very powerful and very political trade association. Ad after ad on World News comes from members of the drug lobby group PhRMA. It’s almost laughable how many ads they run each day. If they were to stop, it would seem doubtful the broadcasts could continue.”

Says Matt Patterson, who analyzed and wrote a report on the findings, “ABC News seems to have a significant financial stake in the success of ObamaCare. Should we be surprised that they hand over an hour to Obama to promote his plan, while shutting out opposing views?”

“There was not one day in which the members of PhRMA were not major advertisers on World News,” Almasi adds. “It’s hard to believe that the producers of the program don’t have this on their minds when they are selecting the issues they cover. CBS burned off the series Swingtown two summers ago because the network found advertisers weren’t interested… NBC cancelled Southland before the second season even aired because of concerns the show… would be unacceptable to advertisers. The concerns of advertisers do drive content. With so many PhRMA members sponsoring World News, it would be hard not to think that people at the network are always mindful of who is paying their bills. PhRMA makes no bones about its support for ObamaCare, and PhRMA’s member companies appear to be the lifeblood of ABC’s flagship World News program.”

Patterson recalls something Newsbusters readers won’t have forgotten: White House Communications Director Anita Dunn attacked the legitimacy of Fox News in October and White House Senior Advisor David Axelrod said of Fox’s news programming, “it’s really not news.” Patterson notes that the White House has shown no similar concern for objectivity at ABC: “ABC appears willing to turn over large chunks of its news programming to a politician, if that politician is backed by companies representing more than half of their advertisements. And for the President, it seems it’s OK for a news organization to support a point of view - so long as it’s his.”

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/amy-ridenour/2009/12/18/abc-news-advertising-review-may-explain-why-conservatives-were-locked-

DARREN

diamondlady asked:


the current worldwide financial crisis is very confusing to me. i know that in the states the housing market problems and banking problems started a worldwide problem. banks going bust, uk and and us governments panicking etc. but i barely understand it because all the news reports dont really get to the nitty gritty. CAN YOU EXPLAIN TO ME IN SIMPLE TERMS WHAT THE FINANCIAL CRISIS MEANS TO US ALL. AND WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF IT GETS WORSE ETC. many thanks xx

CHLOE

Obamatopia Idiocracy! asked:


He was saying this poor guy lost his home and had financial problems. He never reported that this idiot made 13 trips to Pakistan. All these trips learning how to kill Americans cost money don’t they? Why would anyone sympathize with this terrorist?
We don’t all love Canada….

PHILLIP

trevathantim asked:


http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/nationalsecurity/
President Bush Addresses CENTCOM Coalition Conference
“Our main enemy is al Qaeda and its affiliates. Their allies choose their victims indiscriminately. They murder the innocent to advance a focused and clear ideology. They seek to establish a radical Islamic caliphate, so they can impose a brutal new order on unwilling people, much as ***** and communists sought to do in the last century. This enemy will accept no compromise with the civilized world. Here is what the al Qaeda charter says about those who oppose their plans: ‘We will not meet them halfway, and there will be no room for dialogue with them.’ These enemies have embraced a cult of death. They are determined to bring days of even greater destruction on our people. They seek the world’s most dangerous weapons. Against this kind of enemy, there is only one effective response: We must go on the offense, stay on the offense, and take the fight to them.”
President George W. Bush
May 1, 2007
America and Our Allies Are Working Together to Keep Our Nations Safe
On Tuesday, May 1, 2007, President Bush Addressed The CENTCOM Coalition Conference At MacDill Air Force Base In Tampa, Florida. America is joined in the fight against terrorists by more than 90 nations, including every country represented in the CENTCOM Coalition. The work of these countries has helped liberate millions of people, has kept brutal enemies on the defensive, and has helped keep millions of our citizens safe.
•Currently, 64 Nations Have Military Representatives Assigned To The CENTCOM Headquarters. CENTCOM is one of nine Defense Department Unified Combatant Commands assigned operational control of U.S. combat forces. Its area of responsibility includes Iraq and Afghanistan as well as: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iran, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the Seychelles, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Yemen, and the northwestern Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea, and Arabian Gulf.
America And Our Allies Are Working Together To Address The Dangers Of Our Time
An Era Of New Threats Requires New Forms Of Engagement, So We Have Reinvigorated Historic Alliances, Such As NATO, And Formed New And Dynamic Coalitions To Address The Dangers Of Our Time. Our broad Coalition has protected millions of people. We have worked to stop the spread of dangerous weapons, and we have taken the fight to the enemy where they live, so we do not have to face them where we live.
•Working Together, America And Our Allies Have Shared Intelligence That Has Helped Thwart Many Terrorist Plots.
oWe uncovered and stopped terrorist conspiracies targeting embassies in Yemen and Singapore and ships in the Straits of Hormuz and Gibraltar.
oWe stopped a Southeast Asian terror cell grooming operatives for terrorist attacks and an al-Qaeda cell seeking to develop anthrax.
oBritish authorities disrupted a plot to blow up aircraft flying over the Atlantic toward the United States.
•Coalition Forces Have Captured Or Killed Key Leaders Of Terrorist Networks.
oPhilippine forces killed top leaders of an al-Qaeda affiliate.
oSpanish police captured fugitives wanted in connection with the Madrid train bombings.
oTerrorist cells have been broken up by countries including Britain, Canada, Denmark, Italy, France, Indonesia, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and Turkey.
•America And Our Allies Have Shut Down Funding Channels And Frozen Terrorist Assets, Making It Harder For Our Enemies To Finance Attacks, Purchase Weapons, And Train Recruits. The international community through the United Nations has imposed measures to identify terrorist financiers and prevent them from using international financial systems to fund acts of terror.
•America And Our Allies Are Training Local Forces To Conduct Counterterrorism Activities In Their Own Regions.
oWe are helping key nations – including Indonesia, the Philippines, and Yemen – stop terrorists from establishing safe havens inside their borders.
oThe Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership provides counterterrorism and military assistance to Chad, Mali, Niger, Mauritania, Algeria, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal, and Tunisia.
oThe East Africa Counterterrorism Initiative provides border security and police training to Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Tanzania, and Uganda.
•Our Coalition Is Taking Steps To Stop Terrorists From Obtaining The World’s Most Dangerous Weapons. More than 80 nations have joined the Proliferation Security Initiative and are working to stop shipments of materials related to weapons of mass destruction on land, at sea, and in the air.
•America And Other Nations Have Acted Boldly To Confront Adversaries Who Threatened International Security. In Afghanistan, Coalition forces drove the Taliban from power, removed al-Qaeda training camps, and helped bring freedom to 25 million people.
Our Coalition Is Going On The Offense Against The Taliban And Its Al-Qaeda Allies In Afghanistan
Since Their Liberation, The Afghan People Have Made Enormous Strides. Afghans chose the first democratically-elected President in their history and held free elections for a National Assembly. The Afghan economy has doubled in size, and more than 4.6 million Afghan refugees have come home in one of the largest return movements in history.
The Taliban And Its Al-Qaeda Allies Are Actively Working To Undermine This Progress And Reclaim Power, And Our Coalition – Led By NATO – Is Going On The Offense Against Them. Coalition and Afghan forces have conducted dozens of operations over the past few months to go after the enemy in their strongholds, including an operation launched this week targeting the Taliban in Helmand Province in the South. We have seized dozens of caches of weapons, ammunition, and improvised explosive devices, and we are making progress in training the growing Afghan National Army.
•At Least 20 Other Nations Are Supporting Efforts To Rebuild Afghanistan. The United States appreciates these contributions, and we will stand with our partners and the Afghan people until our work is done.
We Are Also Committed To Winning The Fight In Iraq
After An Extensive Review, President Bush Ordered A New Strategy In Iraq And Appointed General David Petraeus To Carry That Strategy Out. This new strategy recognizes that our top priority must be to help the Iraqi government secure its capital so they can make political and economic progress. The Iraqis cannot yet do this on their own, so the President ordered reinforcements to help Iraqis secure their population, go after those inciting sectarian violence, and get their capital under control.
•This Strategy Is Still In Its Early Stages, Yet At This Early Hour, We Are Seeing Some Signs That Give Us Hope. Some of the reinforcements General Petraeus requested have not yet arrived in Baghdad, and he believes it will take months before we can accurately gauge the strategy’s potential for success. Yet at this early hour:
oCoalition forces have captured a number of key terrorist leaders who are providing information about how al-Qaeda operates in Iraq.
oCoalition forces have stopped a car bomb network, which had killed many citizens of Baghdad, and they have destroyed major car bomb factories.
oThere has been a decline in sectarian violence.
oIn some areas of the capital, Iraqis are returning to their neighborhoods with an increased feeling of security.
•Success In Iraq Is Critical To The Security Of Free People Everywhere. Terrorists continue to unleash horrific acts of violence in Iraq, and al-Qaeda is playing a major role. Last week, General Petraeus called al-Qaeda “probably public enemy number one” in Iraq and said that al-Qaeda has made Iraq “the central front of their global campaign.”
America Is Deeply Grateful For The Contributions Of Nations Supporting Operations In Iraq. Today, more than 30 nations are supporting operations in Iraq. Seventeen NATO nations have contributed forces or been part of the NATO Training Mission to help train Iraqis, and Georgia also recently decided to contribute 2,000 troops. America joins in honoring the Coalition troops who have been killed in Iraq and the others who have been wounded in combat.
America Is Also Grateful For The Increasing Contributions International Organizations Are Making To Iraq’s Stability.
•On May 3, the United Nations will host a conference in Egypt to sign an International Compact for Iraq. This agreement will bring new economic assistance in exchange for greater economic reform in Iraq.
On May 4, Iraq’s neighbors will meet to discuss ways to promote political reconciliation in Iraq. These meetings will be attended by Secretary Rice and senior officials from the G-8 nations. Iran and Syria have been invited to attend.

SHERYL