THE GROUP OF TWENTY & THE EVOLUTION OF GLOBAL GOVERNANCE

By Joan Veon September 28, 2009 NewsWithViews.com In 1994 when I covered my first global meeting, there was a press briefing by the Commission on Global Governance on their forthcoming report, Our Global Neighborhood. The man giving the briefing was one of the co-chairs, Sir Shridath Ramphal who was not only president of Guyana but also president of the (British) Commonwealth Association. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-28 11:59:38

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Deal Journal] Bottom Feeding: Banco Santander of Spain is in advanced talks to take full control of Sovereign Bancorp, ... the credit crisis? Look to a measure called Value at Risk, or VaR, explains Gordon Crovitz. WSJ ... a program to buy mortgage-backed securities. The United Arab Emirates will guarantee domestic bank [more...]

Date: 2008-10-10 14:10:24

The Danger Of Jindal-- Guest Post By Stacey Tallitsch

Bobby Jindal-- he does a mean exorcismHere at DWT we first came across Stacey Tallitsch when he was running for Congress in Louisiana's first ... report:It is really gratifying seeing the GOP in such disarray, and I too want that feeling to last a very long time. But, at the risk of being a buzz-kill, the one we really need to pay attention [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 20:00:00

Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/8/2009

The latest word is that an agreement with Russia has been reached, and the flow through the gas pipeline will resume.Also, look for the storming of the Israeli consulate in Montreal, as well as other Gaza-inspired violence around the world.Thanks to AA, Abu Elvis, Insubria, JD, Tuan Jim, Vlad Tepes, and all the other tipsters who sent these in [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 04:49:00

Hamilton’s Counterfeit Capitalism

Daily Article by George F. Smith | As we await Bush’s replacement to straighten our wayward lives, it’s crucial to understand how we got here and why policy makers are so determined to do the wrong thing. Austrian economics explains why their policies are flawed, but no one with a voice seems to care [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 21:36:00

Fannie and Freddie to Announce Mass Loan Modification Program

re-default. This may also further erode investor confidence in residential mortgage backed securities, ... monies to put towards housing payments. Step 3) Start Improving Your Credit Rating This can take a long ... you pay your bills on time, that you have good credit.  Paying your bills on time only accounts for 30 [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 19:02:07

In Depth: McCain's environmental record (By Ben Whitford)

In January 2006, Brad Miller, a Democratic congressman from North Carolina, joined Sen. John McCain on a legislative fact-finding delegation to the South Pole. Miller recalls the lawmakers, still bundled in their emergency cold-weather gear, huddling into a tiny conference room a stone’s throw from the pole itself, [more...]

Date: 2008-10-22 16:15:52

Hillary Clinton Re-Imagined

Hillary Clinton Re-ImaginedHillary Rodham Clinton will serve in a non-partisan role as secretary of state, which may provide her an opportunity to recast her legacy.Hillary Rodham Clinton's confirmation hearing today in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee marks a turn in the legacy of a family that has dominated Democratic politics for [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 20:05:21

Key Bank's "One-Two Punch"

Last week, we described how Key Bank has partnered with dozens of unlicensed and unaccredited trade schools to help thousands of students take on ... Preservation of Claims and Defense Rule. Otherwise known as the FTC Holder Rule, this regulation requires ... argues that it is not subject to the rule because it is not regulated by the FTC but by the [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 20:20:04

Posts about Home Sales as of January 13, 2009

Want to Make Money Selling Info? 5 Basic Skills You Must Have! - stefsertich.blogspot.com 01/13/2009 Newcomers to Internet Selling are looking for ways to gain money. Many of them like what the “newbie cozenage artists” state them is an easy way … merchandising or gross sales in general is this…provide value!That’s always been the idea [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 14:21:30

Friday wrap

Dem Congress to pump raw sewage into nation's workplaces ... The AFL-CIO advanced an argument detailing why a "majority sign-up" is the best option for preserving "the freedom of working people." Below is a syllogism that encapsulates an argument found on the AFL-CIO website.1. The workplace environment has been poisoned by browbeating employers.2 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 11:30:00

Preliminary version of official minutes from controversial September LNC meeting released

LNC Secretary Bob Sullentrup’s minutes from its controversial September meeting have released. A final version is still pending ... ://www.lncregion7.blogspot.com/. On a more personal note, there is an error of fact in Sean Haugh’s report: “LP member George ... the credit for it, thanks! Also, my research as it was ongoing was published at IPR, LP [more...]

Date: 2008-11-03 21:51:36

UPDATED..WaPo: Obama Taking Illegal Donations UPDATE: Will Media Report Palestinian Campaigning for Obama from Gaza?

How is he doing it? Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign is allowing donors to use largely untraceable prepaid credit cards that could ... to the candidate. “That’s an error,” she said. Moreover, she added, her credit card was never billed ... card to “fool” Obama’s insecurity system. Team Obama deliberately avoided credit-card security [more...]

Date: 2008-10-29 12:32:34

First Draft Of Stimulus Package

SUMMARY: AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT Action and Action Now! The economy is in a crisis not seen since the Great Depression. Credit is frozen, consumer purchasing power is in decline, in the last four months the country has lost 2 million jobs and we are expected to lose another 3 to 5 million in the next year [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 23:03:30

11 Ways to Save on Car Insurance

As you work to build your net worth, protecting your nest egg is a critical part of your total financial picture. While we often view car insurance as being able to fix or replace our own damaged vehicle, even more important is protecting your other assets in the event of a large liability lawsuit. Of course [more...]

Date: 2008-10-06 13:29:17

Unsurprisingly, Illegal Deported for Armed Robbery Finds NYT in His Corner

-By Warner Todd Huston A criminal without legal status deported by US immigration officials is the subject of the latest pity party thrown by The New York Times. The Times seems to find it lamentable that this gang member and armed robber was deported from “his homeland” — that would be the USA — to Cambodia, the land of his birth ( [more...]

Date: 2008-12-05 14:37:04

Grand Jury Cites Information Allegedly Passed Illegally To Dean Andal (CA-11)

The activities of Dean Andal, the Republican nominee running against Jerry McNerney for Congress in CA-11, have come up in a grand jury investigation. This week, the San Joaquin County Civil Grand Jury released its report investigating ... millions of dollars in taxpayer money and breached open government laws by sharing closed-session [more...]

Date: 2008-06-23 01:27:34

Three Legislative Proposals That Could Have Major Consequences for Your Finances

J.D. is on vacation. This guest post comes from DR of The Dough Roller, a money management blog ... in a consumer report or any change in a consumer’s credit score, as the basis for increasing any annual ... on Wall Street and in the credit markets lately, one could easily forget about money-related legislation [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 13:00:42

Rick Davis: The last 8 years encapsulated

(updated below - Update II - Update III) It's simply not possible to lie more deliberately or flagrantly than this: ... to dispute the Report's findings; that's within their prerogative.  But outright lying ... about the Troopergate report issued on Friday: The reality is there was absolutely no wrongdoing found [more...]

Date: 2008-10-12 21:07:35

Links and Quick Takes 6/11/08

Rescue dogs train for Olympics BBC Racing principles' role in cutting emissions BBC " ... to retain their triple A credit ratings.A buddy sent me the report on which this story was based ... Who Wins) Business Week. On how biased credit card arbitration procedures are. Was Malthus Right [more...]

Date: 2008-06-11 03:11:41

Legislative panel finds Palin abused authority, ethics laws

An investigator for an Alaskan legislative panel issued a report Friday night saying that as governor, Sarah Palin, ... the influence of alcohol and Tasering his young son. The report is not a legal indictment; the panel has no power to prosecute. Members said they'd await a state Personnel Board report before considering [more...]

Date: 2008-10-11 02:52:53

Bailout Or Rearranging Deckchairs? (Updated)

By Cernig They say the latest deal is a $700 billion bailout, which brings the total bill so far pretty darn close to a round trillion - but the guy who used to be the chief economist at the World Bank has said the total might be 2 trillion once everything is said and done. How honest is the administration being with voters, even now? [more...]

Date: 2008-09-21 00:03:55

Has UBS Ruined Switzerland's Standing as a Financial Haven?

Personally, I would lay more blame for any damage to the Swiss banking brand to the fear of the possible compromise of Switzerland's standing as a ... fighting Switzerland's banking secrecy laws for decades, European finance ministers ... are alleged to have forged special forms that Swiss banks use to report their US customers' capital [more...]

Date: 2008-11-07 07:38:57

Courting Hispanic Voters

The presidential candidates both addressed National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) late last month, and they're talking today to League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) in Washington. A critical swing constituency that helped carry George W [more...]

Date: 2008-07-08 17:26:34

Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/1/2008

USACalif. Lawmakers Get Free GasolineIMF Adds to Pressure on Congress to Approve Bail-OutNorth Carolina Man Pleads Guilty and is Sentenced for Federal Hate CrimesObama’s Assault on the First AmendmentObama and SlaverySchwarzenegger: Communism Still Bad IdeaThe Greenlining Institute: Does the Financial Crisis Have Its Origins in Berkeley [more...]

Date: 2008-10-02 00:29:00

Pertinent Obituary, Dimon Says Worst Not Over, Oil Producers Struggle, The Next Bubble and More!

One company to summarize all of the last 10 years… now on its deathbed Credit crisis survivor predicts “worst… not yet behind us” Oil ... and now the epitome of the credit crisis: Nortel had $2.4 billion of cash in hand yesterday ... for most of 2009. In terms of our sector, we expect consumer loans and credit cards to continue [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 19:40:53

James Warren: The Week in Magazines: Obama the "Self-Entangling Giant" and How to Have Sex During Dinner at a Restaurant

No matter how much he might disdain the George W. Bush presidency, especially when it comes to misuse of executive branch power, Barack Obama may be a "self-entangling giant" who is going down the same perilous path argues no less an initial Obama sympathizer than journalist-historian Garry Wills in the Oct. 8 New York Review of Books . [more...]

Date: 2009-09-28 01:38:20

James Warren: The Week in Magazines: Obama the "Self-Entangling Giant" and How to Have Sex During Dinner at a Restaurant

No matter how much he might disdain the George W. Bush presidency, especially when it comes to misuse of executive branch power, Barack Obama may be a "self-entangling giant" who is going down the same perilous path argues no less an initial Obama sympathizer than journalist-historian Garry Wills in the Oct. 8 New York Review of Books . [more...]

Date: 2009-09-28 05:48:16

The Subprime Crisis Hits Home Hard in California—Package of Bills Heading to the Governor

By Mark Ridley-Thomas California State Senate Chair, Legislative Black Caucus It comes as no surprise, ... and harnessed with unsustainable high interest subprime loans, whether they had good credit ... loans compared to any other group, according to a report by the Consumer Federation of America [more...]

Date: 2008-09-09 22:52:06

OFFICIAL POST: Letter from Lawrence H. Summers to congressional leaders

The attached letter was sent by Lawrence H. Summers to the bipartisan leaders of the United States Senate and House of Representatives detailing President-elect Obama’s commitment to implement the Emergency Economic Stabilization in a way that will promote the stability of the financial system and increase lending, preserve home ownership, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 13:00:00

Media Freak Out Over Palin and Giuliani's ‘Community Organizer’ Jabs

Apoplectic journalists have spent more than a week now howling with indignation at GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's belittling of Barack Obama's so-called community organizing. To recap, she accepted the veep nod quipping, "I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a ‘community organizer, [more...]

Date: 2008-09-12 19:46:43

Maddow on ACORN Again: Details Actual Fraud, Child Prostitution, Murder by Federally-Funded Organizations NOT Defunded by Congress

Following on Rachel Maddow's tremendous coverage last Thursday of the GOP's years-long witch-hunt of ACORN, and the media's abysmal job at telling the truth about the lies used to smear the community organization, the MSNBC journalist calls it an "outrage" and kept her promise of following up with another episode on Friday. The video is below. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-28 21:04:08

FISA: Why we continue to fight

Back in March, I wrote a story laying out the rationale for drawing out a FISA fight that everyone expected us eventually to lose. ("We don't have the votes!") The basic premise: Every time Congressional Dems actually slow down and take stock of the situation -- from Senator Chris Dodd's brave (and lonely and seemingly futile) [more...]

Date: 2008-07-03 17:13:04

Scroll For Updates: New McCain Ad: “Ayers”

Barack Obama and domestic terrorist Bill Ayers. Friends. They’ve worked together for years. But Obama tries to hide it. Why? Obama launched his political career in Ayers’ living room. Ayers and Obama ran a radical “education” foundation, together. They wrote the foundation’s by-laws, together. Obama was the foundation’s first chairman [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 12:58:31

Are Blacks More Homophobic

Ed. Note: I plan on writing something about black voters, the passage of proposition 8 in California, and the discussion that has ensued about whether the former failed in part because of the latter. In the meantime, I thought I'd republish some old content that might be relevant to the discussion. (Originally posted on March 19, 2007.) [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 04:17:51

Friday Fraudster Mail

I am having difficulty locating local Ministers to work with in the Lord direction. Missionary Program, I have prayed that God will aid me in my search for people to spread his word but now is time to ask your help in this area. Please advise me on what to do [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 08:26:44

Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/14/2008

The news stories to pay attention to tonight concern immigration. In Italy, a “Record Number of Would-Be Immigrants Arrive”. But the President of Italy says, “Immigrants are a resource — no more prejudice!” And in the UK, a report in the House of Lords: “Economic Benefits of Mass Immigration Are Close to Zero”.We report [more...]

Date: 2008-11-15 04:48:00

Obama’s Speech On The Economic Crisis

I’ll post McCain’s when he makes one available at his website. Transcript after the jump… Remarks of Senator Barack Obama Confronting an Economic Crisis As Prepared For Delivery Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 Golden, Colorado Over the last few days, we have seen clearly what’s at stake in this election [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 22:00:42

'A Destroying Wind'

-- by Dave Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will raise up against Babylon and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind.. [more...]

Date: 2008-06-01 16:01:07

Rosa Luxemburg - In her own words

Ninety years ago, on January 15 1919, one of the greatest revolutionaries of the 20th century, Rosa Luxemburg, was killed by the Freikorps - a freelance paramilitary outfit formed by rightwing officers after the defeat of Germany in World War I. They acted with the full encouragement of the coalition government headed by Fredrich Ebert and Gustav [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 20:35:00

Rut-roh Scooby! It would appear that Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) has found his spine! ... report detailing the abuses and excesses of the Bush administration and recommending steps to address ... to override laws and silencing whistle-blowers to name just a few. (Whew! That’s a lot of bitching [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 21:29:51

California Unveils Ambitious Emissions Plan - 30% Cut By 2020

Dell Power Supply First To Receive ‘80 Plus Gold’ Certification Dell says it's the first server provider to achieve 80 Plus Gold-certification for ... , Patrick Moore, a co-founder of Greenpeace who is now ... continue » Credit Suisse Adopts The Carbon Principles Credit Suisse announced that it has adopted The Carbon Principles -- climate change [more...]

Date: 2008-06-27 06:06:03

Told Ya

Oh, go on, we earned it! David Sirota: Please forgive me for saying it ... passed a bill written by the credit card industry to gut bankruptcy laws, progressives were right ... and boost the economy. They told us that a trillion-dollar Wall Street bailout would solve a credit crisis [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 12:22:16

Defense of Marriage Act author urges repeal

by Jay McDonough Bob Barr, ex congressman from Georgia and author of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act recommended the laws repeal today in a Los ... grounds legally, conflicting with the Constitutions Full Faith and Credit clause, but the U.S. Supreme ... (Civil unions and gay marriage) last week: According to a 1997 Government Accounting Office repo [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 00:23:38

Tom Davis on Gun Bill: Huh?

One of the bigger surprises on the gun bill vote today is that Tom Davis, the Republican representing parts of suburban Virginia, voted for it ... said. “There is an important place for debate on D.C. gun laws — that is in the chambers ... us to the committee report. Some explanation: H.R. 6842 is the “National Capital Security and Safety Act [more...]

Date: 2008-09-17 17:27:39

NIC “Global Trends 2025″ Report: World to See Economic Growth At the Cost of Environment and Human Life

Read more of this story » Campaign politics dominated the headlines in 2008, making it a banner year for the armchair pundit and the politically uninitiated alike. 2008 was also a year that issues like energy use, climate change and carbon footprints came to the forefront of popular culture and political reality. And that’s where we came in [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 15:16:34

ACORN voter fraud, Obama, US House of Representatives report, Voter Registration Fraud, Widespread deceit and corruption, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Is ACORN Intentionally Structured As a Criminal Enterprise?     A report was prepared for the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, dated July 23, 2009, on ACORN fraud, widespread deceit and corruption. Because the emphasis in recent months has been on the moral degradation and monetary corruption, this article will present exerpts that relate to voter fraud. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-28 14:21:35

DrumBeat: September 18, 2008

Refilling fuel tanks after Ike to take weeks HOUSTON (Reuters) - Oil refiners and producers on Thursday rushed to restore Gulf of Mexico production following Hurricane Ike, but energy traders and analysts warned it will take several more weeks to refill U.S. fuel inventories, increasing the risk of shortages [more...]

Date: 2008-09-18 13:19:59

“The Law is an Ass!”

“We have a Constitutional Crisis, like it or not, potentially as great as that which arose because of the Election of 1860…We the People need to get out there and tell others what is going on.” ####### By Judah Benjamin, Guest Author Charles Dickens once said, famously, that “The Law is an ass! [more...]

Date: 2008-10-25 22:16:08

Oversight Panel Report Grim, Tough, Inviting

Americans are being formally invited to participate in discussingthe ongoing federal program to stabilize the ... the program’s implementation. The panel also issued its first report yesterday, signed by the panel’s Chair ... , voted against issuing the report and the fifth panel seat is vacant.) The report contemplates [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 22:13:12

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