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News & ArtsTuesday, May 15, 2012
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Posted by Jen Graves on Tue, May 15, 2012 at 8:59 AM
BREAKING NEWS EVERYONE: Banks May Need to Be Regulated: JP Morgan Chase's losing $2 billion is the first time that a bank has proved itself to be untrustworthy, and President Obama is on the case. The president is here to remind us that JP Morgan Chase is one of the good guys, though. And just as in children's stories, even the good guys make mistakes, y'all.
Hollande Is Sworn in in France, in Special Socialist Ceremony Involving Socialism: Angela Merkel has to take a seat and a glass of water in Berlin. Eurozonity.
Today Is the Day the Palestinians Were Removed, in 1948: They call the day "Nakba," or day of catastrophe, and they're protesting. The history/numbers from Al Jazeera: "More than 760,000 Palestinians, estimated today to number 4.7 million with their descendants, fled or were driven out of their homes."
The EU Has Hit Somali Pirate Ships Before: But now it has started raids on a Somali mainland base to get the pirates. According to the BBC report, "The attack was carried out overnight and, according to the European forces, no Somalis were hurt during the action. The multinational forces used helicopters in conjunction with two warships to leave five of the pirates' fast attack craft 'inoperable.'"
Why Pay More For Gas?: Because you live in Washington state! "The West Coast is zigging while the rest of the country is zagging," Tom Kloza, publisher and chief oil analyst at the Oil Price Information Service, tells the Seattle Times. We never get to zag.
The Beaches in Hawaii: Eroding.
In Case You Missed Dom's Report Last Night: We are going to have to pay eight times what the mayor thought we were going to have to pay because our police need to be federally managed, because the situation has been deemed to be eight times more fucked up.
Seattle Police Officers May Argue to the Supreme Court That They Should Be Allowed to Taser a Pregnant Woman Three Times for a Speeding Ticket: Because they're eight times more fucked up than you thought! From the New York Times report: "The three men [officers] assessed the situation and conferred. 'Well, don’t do it in her stomach,' one said."
Don't Sleep on Streisand, Popdust Says: That's what they always say! Don't sleep on Streisand! Because she's making an album of collabs with the kids, from Rihanna to Adele.
In Puyallup, They Are "Preppers": In Seattle, we are "slickers." From the Seattle Times report, "Plus, right now as he's being interviewed, he's packing a compact .45 in a holster under his T-shirt."
It Can't Be That Easy, Can It?: A woman is awakened from a coma after getting injections of her own immune cells.
Wildfires in Arizona: Firefighters are trying, at extra risk due to snakes and hidden shafts, to keep the fires from destroying the historic mining town of Crown King.
Oldest Cave Paintings Are 'Precursor to Playboy,' New York Times?: I'm not buying it. "The drawings include what appear to be images of the female vulva, illustrated by circles with small slits on one side." This is an image of the female vulva? There are no pictures with the story, by the way, just an offensive and stupid graphic (by the "artist" "Chris Gash": OY) of a truck-flap woman with some cave-painted animals.
Oh, and Ben Brantley, You're An Idiot (And Where Were Your Editors on This Lame, Sexist Joke?): "Does gold digging qualify as an official Olympic sport this year? (Hey, since synchronized swimming, you never know.)" Get your Speedo, Brantley. We're doing this.
Speaking of the ladies, I'm pretty sure I see some vulvas (not to mention a Dick) on this early TV set.
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the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has been investigating a number of willful violations committed by Chase Bank going back to 2005. The list of laws violated by Chase Bank include
The list of laws violated by Chase Bank include:
Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferators Sanctions Regulations
Global Terrorism Sanctions Regulations
Iranian Transactions Regulations
Cuban Assets Control Regulations
Sudanese Sanctions Regulations
Former Liberian Regime of Charles Taylor Sanctions Regulations
These are all a-ok when you are vouched for by the US President.
Some stuff the US Military sued Chase Bank for:
They had to be sued by members of our US Military before Chase Bank agreed to give back some of what they stole. In total, Chase agreed to pay a little over $60 million dollars to settle the lawsuit.
Here are some of the things that Chase Bank has already admitted to:
Violating the Federal Service Members Civil Relief Act. That law was enacted in 1942 to shield deployed military personnel from financial stress.
Overcharging roughly 6,000 active-duty military personnel on their mortgages.
Foreclosing on military personnel illegally and forcing them out on to the streets.
But Chase is "one of the good guys," which must be code for "they paid back their TARP loans."
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Why pack heat around the house?
"I mean, in an emergency, I'm not gonna tell somebody, 'Wait a minute, I'm going to get my gun.' You want to be as prepared as you can be," says Sarnes.
That demonstrates how insane the guy is. Even if there's a huge earthquake (something that would happen unexpectedly, as opposed to a breakdown in government, which would happen over time), the need to defend one's hoard from needy and desperate neighbors won't arise instantly. You WILL have time to get one of your 17 guns (most of which I bet he hasn't fired enough to be able to shoot accurately in case of legitimate emergency anyway).
Yeah, it's crazy to be this kind of guy anyway, but that detail really reveals how far gone he is.
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As for the officers, he said: “They deserve our praise, not the opprobrium of being declared constitutional violators. The City of Seattle should award them commendations for grace under fire.” Another dissenter, Judge Barry G. Silverman, said “tasing was a humane way to force Brooks out of her car.”
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Yes, let’s praise clueless brutes.
All for refusing to sign a ticket because she thought it was an admission of guilt. So instead of clear minds to explain the law, we prefer brutes to rule our streets? Would they shoot someone to get them out of a car? Then it’s not okay to taze someone to get them out of a car. Also, why did she have to get out of the car anyway?
They chose to escalate the situation. As representatives of the law, it was their duty to explain how the system worked; there was no reason for force.
I hope those police officers are assigned desk work for the rest of their careers.
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A faithful line drawing would be nice, though.
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After the briefing, Councilmember Tim Burgess cautioned that the $41 million estimate had not been vetted by the council or the city budget office.http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/lo…
"Some of these numbers are scare numbers," said Burgess, the former chairman of the council's public-safety committee.
He said the immediate focus should not be on the cost but on the question, "What should we do to have sustainable and meaningful reform of policing in Seattle?
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In a statement, Thomas Bates, executive assistant U.S. attorney in Seattle, said, "The budget numbers being projected by the City are simply wrong. The cost of any agreement will not be remotely close to the figure cited today. We are confident that once the City understands our proposed agreement, it will conclude that what we cannot afford is further delay."
I can't see any rational interpretation of Obama's words that translates to "JP Morgan Chase is one of the good guys". What he was saying is that Chase is one of the most competent, and even they screwed the pooch.
Whether a regulator would have actually reigned them in had the Volcker Rule been in effect, is another question. As I understand it, the bank regulators are not known for being anywhere near the most competent.
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Pshaw. 37,000 years? Oldest imagery in Europe, maybe. One thing we know for certain: to most white museum people, Europe is the only place that exists.
The Bradshaw Paintings in the Kimberley in Australia date from possibly as long ago as 70,000 years, based on extinct plant material there.This is a contentious figure, of course; most people would put the arrival of the Australian aboriginal people at ~60,000 years. But the dates keep getting pushed back and back with new discoveries.
The paintings at Carpenter's Gap, also in the Kimberley, is reliably dated to 40,000 years, though. There are many sites in Australia -- home to the world's oldest continually-operating culture -- that are in this age range.
Then there is the art at Auditorium cave, and the other sites at Bhimbetka in India, the earliest of which could be a mind-boggling 120,000 years old. There are ancient sites in South Africa too, I think, but I'm too lazy to look them up right now.
...renamed "Sheeple" for the Obama-Romney pseudo-election?
IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE ? ? ? ?
Vote Dr. Jill Stein in 2012.
Vote America ---- vote Green !
The other week he made the specious claim that the banksters had actually "paid back their TARP bailout" monies --- Negative, according to a recent GAO study, they most definitely did not.
The banksters simply accessed other government funds to pay off other gov't bailout monies.
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Think about who most of these people are - people who need ED drugs, therefore have CVD impacts, therefore more likely to be at risk for dementia, psychosis and paranoia.
Kind of like the GOP national convention, really.
And they're packing heat.
Look, ma, there's a space alien from the black helicopters of the guvmint out there!
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Riz, I have some powerful interests, it's true, and perhaps the most powerful of all is my interest in the spectacular, mind-blowing, soul-grasping art of the aboriginal peoples of Australia, not just the ancient rock art, bark art, land art, and body art that maintained the cultural tradition for tens of thousands of years but in particular the incredible explosion of modern expressions that have been pouring out since 1971. I absolutely believe that this is the most interesting painting in the world today, and by a wide margin. I encourage you and everyone here to go to SAM next month and see what I mean: the "Ancestral Modern" exhibition is being mounted at SAM, from the Margaret Levi and Robert Kaplan collection here in Seattle, and it is going to be the best thing that has ever happened in this godforsaken burg. Go! I guarantee it.
Ancestral Modern: Australian Aboriginal Art from the Kaplan & Levi Collection
May 31–September 2, 2012
http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/exhibit/…
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There's also the mysterious question of how Jewish refugees from all over the world become citizens in Israel, while Palestinian refugees are still stateless refugees living in camps more than sixty years later in Jordan, Syria, Egypt, etc. The Palestinians are beloved as symbols by their Arab brothers, but not as people.
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Here's the original article:
http://www.jmedicalcasereports.com/conte…
Also, Babs hums more beautifully than most singers sing.
Upon Israel declaring itself a state (which would have been possible for the Palestinians--who still called themselves Arabs--if they'd accepted the much larger territory given them by the UN), not only did five Arab nations attack, but they tossed out of their nations their Jewish families, many of whom had been living on those countries for many hundreds of years. 40,000 Jews were expelled by Iraq alone; many more Jews had to find refuge in Israel than the Arabs who left Israel.
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