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The $9 Billion Witness: Meet JPMorgan Chase's Worst Nightmare [Satire]
Rolling Stone ^ | November 6, 2014 | Matt Taibbi

Posted on 11/08/2014 6:09:57 AM PST by outinyellowdogcountry

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To: yldstrk

You didn’t suck at this time?

/S

AM’s are so random...

LOL


21 posted on 11/08/2014 7:37:47 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Gaffer
When the subject you're interviewing looks like this, you're going to want to find out a few more things about her.


22 posted on 11/08/2014 7:41:40 AM PST by Textide (Lord, grant that I may always be right, for thou knowest I am hard to turn. ~ Scotch-Irish prayer)
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To: outinyellowdogcountry

Between the Nov 4, 2014 election and the 2016 election, the GOP establishment (read: the financial elite / criminal elites that run basically the world) will be conducting a multi-pronged campaign to:

a) soften the principles of the “conservative” electorate (note the recent activity of FReeperSleeper(tm) agent trolls, e.g., I’ve been a conservative all along, I never hid my views on FR, we just disagree on this one tiny little point, don’t I have a right to be here, etc., etc.)

b) put into the public media spotlight all the misdeeds of the current administration - which up until now they wanted kept as quiet as possible to lessen the damage to Democrats in the 2014 election

Now is the time when Obama’s name, as well as those in top-level cabinet posts in his administration, can be used with more “zest” to the stories, in media which primarily targets a conservative or middle-of-the-road audience in terms of political leanings. We can start finding out about more gory details now that it’s fast becoming academic.

Even for media targeted at the left, the Obama administration can also be hung out to dry from this point on, since that can form the basis of something to absorb all the blame for all the country’s problems in the 2016 election cycle for Democrat voters. It can finally go from “Bush’s fault” to “Obama’s fault”, since Obama won’t be running in 2016. The 2016 Democrat candidates can finally completely stop keeping quiet on the Obama administration’s criminality, and publicly proclaim to their voting base, loud and proud, that they disagreed with the former administration on oh so many points, even if they want to move forward with the same shopworn plea that the gubmint must be the savior of all poor and middle class sheeple.

Note that so many gullible conservative sheeple in the past have freaked out and worried aloud that Obama would try to stay in office past 2016 and become “President for life”.

Of course, they missed the point of the (relatively simple, but tricky) strategy: have Obama and the Democrats inflict as much socialism as possible during his two terms, with the Republican party figuratively quietly whispering in their ear “no, no” as they were having their way with the American sheeple. Then, with the public hungry for change in 2016, the most important part: from right after the 2014 election up until the 2016 election - go all-out to groom the conservative electorate (sheeple) to support the most liberal Republican (read: new world order) candidate for President in 2016 as the Republican party can possibly conjure up. Basically, Liberace made up to look like Nelson Rockefeller. Not much of a stretch for the political makeup artists.

Every time you think “Obama’s fault”, or think that we can’t let morality get in the way of “winning” 2016, remember, in the 3-card monte of new world order’s political theatre, you are being primed to select the card they want you to in the 2016 Republican primaries, which will once again ensure that both choices for President in 2016 will be, as always, brought to you by our friends at GloblistElites(tm).


23 posted on 11/08/2014 7:43:24 AM PST by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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To: outinyellowdogcountry

And I still have friends who vote RAT because they are convinced that the GOP doesn’t care about the little guy.


24 posted on 11/08/2014 7:44:57 AM PST by Labyrinthos
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To: outinyellowdogcountry

There’s no tougher job than to be a whistleblower. Large institutions and their revolving-door enablers (aka “regulators”) in Washington know how to make life very difficult for anyone who wants to speak up.


25 posted on 11/08/2014 7:58:25 AM PST by AZLiberty (No tag today.)
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To: Gaffer
Matt Taibi is Rollingstone's chief attack dog on anything to do with "evil" corporations or capitalism period. He always does a huge article. Yes, crony capitalism deserves to be attacked, but if it didn't exist, he'd find some other free market venture to attack.

He and Rollingstone don't do these types of attack articles because they want to see a better free market system...they'd like to bury the free market system.

26 posted on 11/08/2014 8:06:32 AM PST by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: outinyellowdogcountry
"It used to be if you wrote a memo, they had to stop, because now there's proof that they knew what they were doing," she says. "But when the Justice Department doesn't do anything, that stops being a deterrent. I just didn't know that at the time."

That sums things up nicely, without going into root causes and consequences.

27 posted on 11/08/2014 8:08:00 AM PST by Prospero (Si Deus trucido mihi, ego etiam fides Deus.)
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To: Textide

Yep, she’s a looker, I’ll give you that. Betcha he din’t get the digits.


28 posted on 11/08/2014 8:13:02 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: outinyellowdogcountry
Oh, so "Rolling Stone" magazine is finally getting around to reporting corruption with Team Obama?

Back in August of 2012, the Christian world-view based WORLD MAGAZINE detailed Obama's corruption:Ties that Bind

and AGAIN in June of 2014:Too Big to Jail

Nice to see the liberal media doing what true journalists have already done.

Somehow, I think Rolling Stone will find a way to blame Republicans.

29 posted on 11/08/2014 8:14:04 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: jsanders2001

You mistook my critique of this article as some slight against the subject, perhaps. In fact, it was a critique against the writer - whatever his motives.

I have also regularly compiled research reports throughout my career, and frankly, this article is aimless - the credibility and forthrightness of the subject notwithstanding.


30 posted on 11/08/2014 8:18:15 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: SoFloFreeper

THANK YOU for that link. I knew I had read this and you reminded me. I love World Magazine. I will share those links with the DA.

I looked into Dimon a bit and I don’t know if World covered this but there is a Chicago connection to Dimon. Also he was considered for Secretary of Commerce before Geithner was chosen. He claims to be barely a Democrat but is a big donor nonetheless.


31 posted on 11/08/2014 8:18:22 AM PST by outinyellowdogcountry
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To: Incorrigible
" I would have liked if Taibbi had included...."

Dig up his series on the subject. Rolling Stone had several very good articles. Taibbi ain't no conservative, but 'the enemy of my enemy' and all that.

32 posted on 11/08/2014 8:32:00 AM PST by moehoward
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To: outinyellowdogcountry

There were TWO links there, fyi. :)

Glad to help.


33 posted on 11/08/2014 8:48:33 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: Sherman Logan

BTW, I see no reason whatsoever to assume a typical Republican administration would be handling this any differntly.

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Seeing how most of this financial abuse occurred with the GOP in charge, I would assume not. Big government and Big Business are a lot the same.


34 posted on 11/08/2014 8:49:15 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Moonman62

Looking back to Clinton’s defense of loosening lending practices to people who could not afford to buy homes and if I remember correctly, a certain community organizer named Barry promoted the lending to level the racial playing field. Lenders were coerced it seems and with Fanny Mae etc. It’s a roiling snake den of fault and deceit.


35 posted on 11/08/2014 8:54:55 AM PST by outinyellowdogcountry
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To: outinyellowdogcountry

As I remember, a lot of the money from these banks went directly into “community” pet projects of the administration.


36 posted on 11/08/2014 8:55:52 AM PST by binreadin
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To: Labyrinthos

As do I, mostly older yellow dog democrat types. They won’t be persuaded anything else than democrats are for the little people and republicans are the rich. They choose to be blind I guess.


37 posted on 11/08/2014 8:59:24 AM PST by outinyellowdogcountry
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To: Moonman62

Most of the abuse occurred under Bush, and for that matter Clinton. Pretty much all the coverup has taken place under Obama.


38 posted on 11/08/2014 9:17:49 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: Textide

I’d have to feel her out before Laz wakes up...


39 posted on 11/08/2014 9:58:50 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Sherman Logan

The root cause of the mortgage meltdown is “over-regulation” by way of the CRA (Community Reinvestment Act). By having government organizations (Fannie, Freddie, etc.) assume all Mortgage Risk, why not push as many mortgages through? Adam Smith said deregulation is the way to resolve market distortions.


40 posted on 11/08/2014 10:01:06 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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