Monday, September 29, 2014

Barker's Newsbites: Monday, September 29, 2014


So far, so good... hit the gym... now blogging... later on a bit of food shopping...


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William R. Barker said...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/28/elizabeth-warren-new-york-fed_n_5896778.html

Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) are both calling for Congress to investigate the New York Federal Reserve Bank after recently released secret recordings show the central bank allegedly going light on firms it was supposed to regulate.

* TWO WORDS: RON PAUL.

* THREE WORDS: END THE FED.

* TWO MORE WORDS: TEA PARTY.

* FOLKS... NOW THE DEMS ARE ON BOARD? NOW...???

* HEY... I'M NOT GONNA LOOK A GIFT HORSE IN THE MOUTH... BUT...

(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)

Warren and Brown, both members of the Senate Banking Committee, called for an investigation of the New York Fed after Carmen Segarra, a former examiner at the bank, released secretly recorded tapes that she claims show her superiors telling her to go easy on private banks. Segarra says that she was fired from her job in 2012 for refusing to overlook Goldman’s lack of a conflict of interest policy and other questionable practices that should have brought tougher regulatory scrutiny.

* GOLDMAN. (ALWAYS GOLDMAN...)

After Segarra made the tapes public in a joint report with ProPublica and This American Life on Friday, Warren was quick to call on Congress to take action.

* LET'S SEE WHAT REID DOES... WHAT BOEHNER DOES... WHAT MCCONNELL AND PELOSI DO...

In an interview with This American Life and ProPublica, Segarra described numerous instances in which she said she alerted her bosses to questionable practices at Goldman. In one instance, she said she alerted a colleague that a senior compliance officer at Goldman had said that the bank's view was that “once clients became wealthy enough, certain consumer laws didn’t apply to them.” Segarra claims that her New York Fed colleagues asked her to ignore the remark and change meeting minutes she had taken, which contained evidence of what the Goldman executive said.

* NAMES? WHICH "COLLEAGUES?"

September 29, 2014 at 12:34 PM
William R. Barker said...

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/09/rick-perry-oklahoma-beheading-111419.html

Rick Perry said on Monday that the Obama administration will have to address the beheading of an Oklahoma woman in what the Texas governor noted closely resembles an act of terrorism.

* AND PERRY IS RIGHT. (IF ONLY BOEHNER AND MCCONNELL HAD THE BALLS TO USE THEIR POSITIONS TO PRESS THE QUESTION!)

“At some point in time the administration does have to address this as what is appears to many people that it is — and that is an act of violence that is associated with terrorism,” Perry said on Fox News’ “Fox and Friends.”

* YEP. THIS AIN'T O.J. SIMPSON! THIS AIN'T A SERIAL KILLER!

On Thursday, Alton Nolen, 30, attacked two women at a Vaughan Foods plant in Moore, Okla. During the attack, one woman was beheaded. Investigations have uncovered that Nolen had recently converted to Islam and had made radical Islamic comments on social media.

(*PURSED LIPS*)

* AND YET...

According to two FBI officials who spoke to the Washington Post said that the incident is being treated as an act of “workplace violence.”

* LIKE THE FT. HOOD MASSACRES UNDER OBAMA...

September 29, 2014 at 1:22 PM

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