Together, Masaakai Shirakawa of the Bank of Japan, Mario Draghi of the European Central Bank, Mervyn King of the Bank of England, and Benjamin Shalom Bernanke of US Federal Reserve control $8.85 trillion.
And they are printing even more.
Category: feudalism
Catholic Church And Hugo Chavez
Catholic Church And Hugo Chavez — Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan strongman who died yesterday after turning his oil-filled nation into a crime-ridden economic basket case, hated the Catholic Church in the same way Hollywood does.
Here’s an article by Bridget Johnson describing the relationship.
Speaking truth to power is never easy.
Catholic Church And Hugo Chavez
Referral Fees Supreme Court Corruption
Referral Fees Supreme Court Corruption — Activist Bob Guzzardi notes that the $821,000 referral fee paid to lawyer Lise Rapaport which stemmed from a multimillion-dollar medical malpractice settlement is more money than 99.99 percent of the people in Pennsylvania earn in a year.
Ms. Rapaport has received 17 other such fees for connecting law firms with clients.
Golly, what could make her so valuable?
That she is the wife and personal assistant to state Supreme Court Justice Seamus P. McCaffery is just a coincidence one is sure.
McCaffery is a Democrat, btw, just looking out for the little guy as usual.
Referral Fees Supreme Court Corruption
UN Web Resolution Is Little Reported
UN Web Resolution Is Little Reported — A draft of telecommunication regulations was passed, Dec. 11, at the International Telecommunications Union’s (ITU) World Conference held in Dubai.
The ITU is the United Nations specialized agency for information and communications technology.
Here is the draft DT/51-E rev1 as a pdf file.
Most of it seems pretty reasonable with things such as giving priority to distress communications, limiting the ability to tax international messaging to the customers in that country, requiring transparency in pricing and encouraging member states to take steps to prevent the propagation of spam bulk emails.
On the other hand, there are those concerned that it sets a precedent for UN expansion regarding internet governance.
We are inclined to share those concerns.
The resolution, by the way, was opposed by the United States but supported by Cuba, Algeria, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia reports WeeklyStandard.Com.
UN Web Resolution Is Little Reported
Corzine Scandal Now Enmeshes Holder
Corzine Scandal Now Enmeshes Holder — The disappearance of $1.6 billion (that’s billion) from prominent derivatives broker MF Global has drawn crickets chirping from federal law enforcement and Brietbart.Com has come up with a likely reason.
The law firm that represented the MFers was Coverton & Burling where Attorney General Eric Holder and Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer worked before being appointed to their law enforcement posts.
Of course, others might simply point out that prosecutorial discretion being exercised is because MF’s CEO when the money vanished was Jon Corzine, a prominent Democrat and money-raiser for Barack Obama who worked as New Jersey governor and senator before taking his derivatives post.
Oh, and the trustee overseeing MF’s bankruptcy is former FBI Director and Penn State scandal investigator Louis Freeh, who served as a character witness at Holder’s confirmation hearing.
Corzine Scandal Now Enmeshes Holder
Mike Gerber Stepping Down To Take Job At Investment Firm
State Rep. Mike Gerber, who served as the State House Democratic Campaign Committee chairman last cycle, announced Thursday that he is resigning his 148th District (Montgomery County) seat at the end of the term to become senior vice president of public affairs, strategy and product administration at Franklin Square Capital Partners.
Franklin Square, found in 2007, describes itself as enabling investors to tap into the same strategies employed successfully for years by large institutional investors — like pension funds, financial institutions, endowments and high net worth individuals
Just one more Democrat looking out for the little guy. You know, going to the link and looking at the photos of Franklin Square’s management team, well, one can’t say one sees a lot of “diversity” there.
Mike Gerber Stepping Down To Take Job At Investment Firm
Spanier Gets National Security Gig
Spanier Gets National Security Gig — Graham Spanier, the sexual adventurer who presided over Penn State for 16 years and thought it “humane” to refrain from reporting to police that one-time football assistant coach Jerry Sandusky was molesting children, appears to have been rehabilitated.
At least in the eyes of Washington.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that he was hired by the federal government in April for an “unspecified project in national security“
Spanier Gets National Security Gig
Mugabe Tourism Ambassador UNbelievable
Mugabe Tourism Ambassador UNbelievable — Zimbabwe “President” Robert Mugabe, who is apparently that nation’s president for life and a known tyrant, has been named an “international tourism ambassador” by the UN World Tourism Organization.
The useful life of the United Nations, assuming it ever had one, has ended.
Mugabe Tourism Ambassador UNbelievable
Chris Dodd Up To Now?
Chris Dodd Up To Now? — Remember Chris Dodd, the Democrat senator whose 30-year reign of “representing” Connecticut while wreaking havoc on the the American economy ended amid scandal a year ago?
He’s the caring liberal who gave us Dodd-Frank, the AIG bailout and the sub-prime mortgage crisis, all the while getting filthy richer.
So what’s he up to now? He’s heading the Motion Picture Association of America, the group that is trying to destroy the internet with SOPA and PIPA.
Chris Dodd Up To Now?
Arlen Specter Bill Clinton Joke Was On Us
On the Third Day of Christmas (Dec. 27), the former senator who resided in Pennsylvania but represented himself for 30 years took to the stage of the Helium Comedy Club in Philadelphia to really let we Keystone Staters know what kind of cue balls we have been. 
“I’ve been in comedy for 30 years,” Arlen Specter told the crowd. “The only difference is it’s not stand up, we all have comfortable chairs. It costs about $27 million to win a seat in the United States Senate, so when you win one you like to sit down. It’s sit-down comedy.”
Hey, it wasn’t your money Arlen and the people who spent it got what they paid for in most cases.
“Bill Clinton is a friend of mine because I was a friend of his,” he joshed. “I voted not to impeach him. And that’s a hell of a thing to do considering the evidence.”
So much for “Scottish law”.
Well, the joke was on us.
Let us know when you do a magic bullet act. I’ll pay to see that.