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RACISM!! BROWN SKINNED HEDGE FUND BILLIONAIRE SENTENCED TO 11 YEARS
Ya, sure, he did the crime, but why was he singled out? Obviously because he is dark skinned. This is nothing but an overt case of racism, and I fully expect the Occupy Wall Street crowd to rally to his aid and march for social justice.
Al Sharpton should be arriving soon, bullhorn in hand, and he will give this abuse of power case the usual coherence that is sorely needed.
WAPO -
Raj Rajaratnam, the hedge fund billionaire at the center of one of the largest insider trading cases in history, was sentenced Thursday to 11 years in prison, according to the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan.
It was the longest prison term in history for insider trading, the federal prosecutor’s office said, and was the culmination of a years-long federal probe of corruption in the stock market. The Rajaratnam case pulled back the curtain on a long-suspected dark side of the hedge fund business.
Rajaratnam, who headed Galleon Management, was convicted in May on 14 counts of conspiracy and securities fraud for illegally using inside information to trade in stocks such as Goldman Sachs and Intel. The trading generated profits or avoided losses of $72 million, the government estimated.
Rajaratnam’s crimes “reflect a virus in our business culture that needs to be eradicated,” federal judge Richard J. Holwell said at the sentencing in New York.
The 54-year-old was ordered to forfeit $53.4 million and pay a fine of $10 million. Currently out on a $100 million bail, he is scheduled to report for prison on Nov. 28.
FREE RAJ!
The class war has begun and the first person frog marched is not white. Social justice NOW!
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Buffett the Younger Occupies the Buffet Line
I’d tell the OWS crowd to string this guy up, but string wouldn’t do the trick.
New expression – Steel Bridge Cable Him Up
The Filth and the Fury
Maksim -
This is what Anarchy looks like.
Because the references for this piece are outside the mainstream I feel it necessary to add some context. I hate doing this, it is somewhat like telling a joke and then explaining why it was funny. Nevertheless…
The title “The Filth And the Fury” is a reference to a 1976 headline that appeared in the British tabloid newspaper The Daily Mirror after a Sex Pistols TV appearance. Years later the infamous Shepard Fairey took elements of this front page and other Sex Pistols references to create a piece of parody art criticizing Hipsters. What I have done is a parody of Shepard Fairey’s parody.
Family lost in corn maze calls 911 for help
Authorities in Massachusetts say a family that got lost in a seven-acre corn maze called 911 for help, apparently taking advantage of the police department’s motto that says “We Want To Be Bothered.”
The maze at Connors Farm in Danvers has pathways totaling seven-miles long and can take up to an hour to navigate.
A police officer and his dog entered the maze with a farm manager on Columbus Day to search for the disoriented father, mother and two children, including a three-weeks-old infant. The family didn’t realize they had almost made their way out and were just 25 feet from the street.
It took the search party about 10 minutes to find the family. They were helped by a police dispatcher who stayed on the phone with the caller and asked the couple to yell for help to enable those looking for them to identify their location.
“Never again!” the woman is heard telling the dispatcher on police tapes. “We thought this would be fun, instead it’s a nightmare.”
The family called police for help after sunset, shortly after the farm’s closing time.
“Hi I just called, I’m still stuck at Connor’s Farms, I don’t see anybody I’m really scared, it’s really dark and we’ve got a three-week-old baby with us,” the woman is heard on police tapes telling the dispatcher.
Farm Manager Rich Potter said farm workers had not even checked to see if visitors were still making their way through the maze.
Potter said he only became aware that the family was lost in the maze when a police cruiser pulled up and an officer told him that some people had called for help.
It was not clear how long the family had been wandering through the long corn stalks before they called police, farm owner Bob Connors said.
“We were out in the parking lot and we didn’t hear them, so they couldn’t have been there too long — I think they got frustrated and called (police) on their own,” Connors said. “They could see the street lights, they could hear the cars, they couldn’t find their way out.”
“We don’t want to see anybody get lost and panic and call 911,” Connors said. “We constructed the maze for people to get lost and have fun, and 99.9 percent of people do have fun getting lost — but it’s unfortunate that this party did get lost, it’s got to be a positive family experience, that’s our goal.”
The maze has several guide posts with clues and posters instructing visitors to send text messages to receive additional guidance to help them make their way out.
“There is no way anybody should be stuck on that maze for any reason,” Connors said.
Something Fishy With This Scarlett Johansson Nude Pic Case
There have been hacks and leaks of celebrity pics and videos for decades, and the actresses whine, realize there is nothing they can do, and move on. Sometimes it makes them more popular.
When the Scarlett Johansson pics hit the internet it was a matter of hours before she had powerful lawyers and was able to get most sites to scrub her T&A.
Now we learn that an arrest has been made. The hacker has been caught by the FBI. The FBI? Really? When has the FBI come to the aid of any other starlet in a similar situation? And when have they acted so quickly?
Is it possible that Johannson received help from the Obama administration? After all, just a few years ago Obama and Scarlett were embroiled in their own text messaging story.
Could it be the FBI was called in, toot sweet, because of the possible sensitive nature of what else could be found in her account?
I’m just speculating, but it seems like everyone in the universe was put on full alert when ScarJo was “violated.”
The head of the DNC, folks
The head of the DNC, who has a head covered in Wesson, is seemingly unaware that the number one issue in America today is unemployment.
No Eating and Driving
Phil Fitch, an arborist who travels throughout the Chicago area, is in his car much of the workday, which means his automobile is often his dining car.
Fitch was chagrined Wednesday to learn that Oak Park, where he had stopped at a fast-food eatery for lunch, was considering a comprehensive crackdown on distracted drivers, banning everything from using a hand-held cellphone to grooming to eating while driving.
“I put 20,000 miles on my car every year,” said Fitch, 29, of Chicago. “I don’t really get a lunch break. I have to eat in my car every day.”
Research suggests that distracted drivers are involved in 80 percent of collisions or near-crashes, and governments big and small increasingly are addressing the concern by restricting cellphone use and other negligent conduct behind the wheel.
Your Earnings Are Your Property
From American Thinker
Is a Progressive Tax Constitutional?
by Andrew Schwartz
So much has been made of wealthier citizens paying their “fair share.” Much of the argument against this sort of rhetoric has focused on why we shouldn’t raise taxes on the highest tax bracket, or why we shouldn’t create another tax bracket. But one argument that is missing is whether or not such a system of taxation is legal at all.
I don’t intend to go into a history of progressive taxation (the colonial Puritans used one, too) or of the income tax and the 16th Amendment. These are irrelevant to the question: Is it just for the government to protect a greater proportion of property of one class than that of another?
Under our current system, one man may earn $1 from manufacturing a product and be taxed 25 cents of that profit, while another man may make a similar product of better quality, earn $2 from his industry and genius, and be taxed $1 from the profit. Does the latter person receive equal protection of the laws?
The 14th Amendment states that “[n]o State shall … deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” Fair enough so far. Governments are instituted among men to secure these rights, and to maintain this government, the citizen-body consents to grant a portion of their property in return for their security. This grant, by itself, may be flat or progressive. But the clause that follows elaborates: “nor [shall any State] deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
Firstly, what is protection of the laws? All legislation must be compatible with the fundamental law of the United States, the Constitution. Therefore, all protective laws must comply with rights guaranteed in that document. There are few, with the most important among them being life, liberty, and property.
Secondly, what is property? The American idea of property, in the Constitution, is derived directly from John Locke. His definition is clear:
[E]very man has a “property” in his own “person.” This nobody has any right to but himself. The ‘labour’ of his body and the ‘work’ of his hands, we may say, are properly his. Whatsoever, then, he removes out of the state that Nature hath provided and left it in, he hath mixed his labour with it, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property. It being by him removed from the common state Nature placed it in, it hath by this labour something annexed to it that excludes the common right of other men.
Not only does property include an individual’s labor — that is, self-propriety — but it includes the fruits of that labor as well. Modernly, we associate property with real capital or estate, but this is ascertained only through a proprietary medium, called “money.” Money, then, is individual property, and it must be protected as equally as a person’s exercise of liberty and life.
What shall we say, then? Shall we continue to accept that Congress may determine that one group of individuals’ property deserves less protection than another? For if all property originally and rightly belongs to the individual, then that which is granted publicly for the preservation of existence and society is no longer under protection, but is instead used for protection. That remaining property which the individual has not granted must still be protected.
But for the government to declare that they will protect only 50% of an individual’s property within one class, but for another class declaring that 75%, 85%, 95%, or even 110% of their property will be protected, is not only unequal protection — it is logically equivalent to an economic bill of attainder. (The 110% applies to those who ultimately pay no income tax, but still receive a “refund.”)
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To deny one class equal protection of their property because of their success is logically no different from denying a different class an equal protection of liberty because of their color.
Read the article here.
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That’s why a flat tax, or even 9-9-9, is so appealing. It’s constitutional.
Warren Buffett reveals his 2010 income… a paltry $62.9million (and he paid just 10% of that in tax)
To get that rate so low Buffet needs to have a battery of tax accountants that look for every loophole and massage every cent, and frankly, cheat the system.
He’s not paying enough in taxes because he is a worm, not because his rate is too low.
Daily Mail-
Warren Buffett is trying to lead by example, holding up his own payslip as a reason why the country’s ultra rich should pay more in taxes.
Mr Buffett, 81, revealed today that he made $62,855,038 in 2010, proving that he clearly hasn’t been going to bed worried about his financial future.
Even though he received nearly $62.9million last year, Mr Buffett only paid $6.9million in federal income taxes, which is just over 10 per cent of his total income.
Leading the charge: Warren Buffett released his salary in an effort to encourage more of the super wealthy to do the same and spark debate
That tax rate is far smaller than many who make less than the man nicknamed the ‘Oracle of Omaha’.
The salary of the multi-billionaire is right at the heart of national political debate as he was the one that inspired President Obama to implement a national tax on the country’s wealthiest one per cent.
The reason for the startling percentage is that only $39.8million of his salary was taxable because much of his income is generated from investments which are taxed at a significantly lower rate than standard wages.
‘People who make money with money are getting taxed at a far lower rathe than people who make money by their own labor,’ Mr Buffett told CNNMoney.
Mr Buffett has been very vocal in recent tax debates because he has often said that he pays a lower tax rate than many of his employees, often singling out his assistant at Berkshire Hathaway.
The amount of taxes Mr Buffett paid is 17.4 per cent of his taxable income.
Christians Do This To Muslims All the Time
Daily Mail
A 12-year-old Christian girl was kidnapped and repeatedly raped for eight months in Pakistan by a man who then falsified marriage documents with her, it was claimed today.
The girl was lured on a shopping trip in Lahore by a friend, before she was driven 120 miles to Tandianwalla and raped by the friend’s uncle in January this year.
Two days later, she was forced to sign papers consenting to marriage with the man and beaten for refusing to convert from Christianity to Islam.
She was then held against her will for eight months, before managing to escape and contact her family.
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has said the rapists have not been arrested because of their affiliation with a militant Muslim organisation – the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba.
It claims the police have refused to order a medical check-up on the girl, and have warned her parents that it would be better for them to hand over the girl to her ‘legal’ husband or a criminal case would be filed against them.
An investigation into the kidnapping found the girl’s father reported her disappearance in January and made complaints against her abductors, but police took no action for eight months.
Last month, the girl – who has not been named for legal reasons – called her family from Tandianwalla and told them she had been abducted, but had escaped and was hiding at a bus stop.
HT. Norm
Harvey Wallbagger Sign Language
This is part of how they are going to take over the world. They should just speak English. It’s incomprehensible to most thinking people anyway.
ht. Spartan
Nice Job by Yid With Lid
Two weeks ago, I responded to the Mainstream Media’s labeling of the Occupy Wall Street protests the Left-Wing version of the Tea Party. Apparently the reasons given to prove that comparison false were too vague for the media to understand because they continue to make that comparison. So to be helpful to the people in the “fourth estate,” I have created sort of a “difference between the Occupy Wall Street Protests, and the Tea Party Movement’ for idiots and the Mainstream Media ( I guess that is redundant). It follows below:
VERY NICE POST HERE
ht. Tom Mannis
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