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Zionist Organization of America president Morton Klein is urging Bernie Sanders to personally apologize because one of his economic advisers said on Wednesday blacks and Latinos suffered a “financial Holocaust” under Barack Obama. Klein said Sanders has a “unique obligation” to not let surrogates “trivialize” the Shoah because the secular Jewish socialist lost many family members to Nazi persecution. Klein contended that law professor William Black, who dropped the H-bomb during a campaign conference call with reporters, should have just called Obama’s economic policies “disastrous.”

Here is a video well worth watching. It's William Black, former lead prosecutor in the savings and loan crisis during the Reagan/Bush years, describing the background of the current financial crisis and the need for prosecution of those responsible in our banking and financial fields. Strangely enough, he's speaking at the Occupy LA site. In case the video is not viewable in this post, click the link below--well worth spending 15 minutes to watch it: LINKAfter watching this video, I think there is little that any of us here would disagree with. So my questions to all of us on...

As bad a year as the stock market is having, Treasury Secretary Paulson is having an even worse one, according to William Black, Associate Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Missouri. The professor, who was counsel to the Federal Home Loan Bank Board during the S&L Crisis and blew the whistle on the "Keating Five" in 1989, says Paulson deserves an "F-minus" for his role in the financial crisis. "All of his policies made [the crisis] worse," says Black, citing Paulson's: * Pushing for more deregulation of the securities and mortgage businesses. * Failure to recognize the...

Sen. Hillary Clinton is "abusing the system" -- using New York State voters as a springboard to the presidency, according to a 38-year-old Republican who would like to stop Mrs. Clinton in 2006, well before the 2008 Democratic race for president. "[Clinton] is not even running for U.S. Senate, she is running for president and she clearly has no intention of fulfilling a six-year Senate term if she is re-elected," said likely GOP Senate candidate Adam Brecht in an interview with Cybercast News Service. "Unfortunately, she's abusing the system," Brecht said. "I think putting everyone through the charade of a...