Monopoly or Mobopoly?
Nobody’s Opinion
“It has been demonstrated again and again, from Imperial Rome to Weimar Germany, that epidemic greed is a symptom not of reveling in present triumphs but of a fear that the game is winding down.”–Laurence Shames(1951) “Wall Street Greed is Fueled by Fear” 15 June 1989
Monopoly. Remember that game? I do. I hated it when I was a kid. It was long, it was boring, and my brother always won…every single time. And here I was too many years later…losing again. 
Last Friday night it was a night of, “Let’s get away from the Television shall we?” for the family. We have been playing Monopoly on the Holidays gatherings and I always lose. I was becoming the laughing stock of the family. So…Friday night, I was determined to win. To war. To kill. I was going to be ruthless, something that is completely against my character as a human being. I watched the other player’s strategies, took the best from each player, and went for the throat.
And I was..ruthless. Not only was I the only player who had any buildings on their properties, I had all the money. ALL the $500 dollars were stacked high in my slots, after I had emptied out the bank with all my winnings. I had all the railroads, all the utilities, just the right properties, and every time any player landed on my property, it cost them over $1,000. I had hotels on every piece I owned.
As I watched the faces of my family, members that I have watched time and again…winning, I could see the surprise, the depression, the hopelessness drain from their faces. It wasn’t just a game anymore. I was winning. I was ecstatic, I wanted it all. I wanted to “do it again.”
Now, I’m no psychologist, but there is a theory that to “win” at anything, you must plan, strategize, and show no mercy. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Rockefeller…politicians… they all play that game. 
And winning is the best feeling in the world. Why had I always never tried to win? Was it because I didn’t want to hurt others feelings? That was part of it. Somehow the Christian upbringing came into it. I didn’t like to make people feel bad. I wanted them to like me.
But, I did notice, that unlike when I was a kid, now, I really didn’t care that the other players felt bad … After all…it’s a game. I told myself.
Exactly. It’s the game. And I thought…is this how it feels to grab the millions on Wall Street?
Whoa.
So, where did this game that everyone has played all over the world come from?
History reports that Charles B. Darrow of Germantown, Pennsylvania, showed the game to the executives of Parker Brothers, during the depression of 1934. It was very similar to one patented in 1904 by Lizzie J. Maggie, a Quaker woman from Virginia. The game was called, The Landlord’s Game, and was based on the philosophy that the renting of land and real estate produced an unearned increase in land values that profited a few individuals (landlords) rather than the majority of the people (tenants). It was intended to illustrate the negative aspects of concentrating land in private monopolies.
Former Wall Streeter Derk Solko explains, “Monopoly has you grinding your opponents into dust. It’s a very negative experience. It’s all about cackling when your opponent lands on your space and you get to take all their money.” 
And isn’t that what the world has witness these last few years? The bankers (with the help of our politicians) went wild, lost trillions, and the whole world collapsed. They did not go to jail, and they passed GO so many times they had to close hundreds of banks just to keep up.
Or was this a planned collapsed?
The problem is, the rich will never give it back. He’s sitting on Boardwalk with three hotels. It will be the other players on the board that will be placing the money in the pot.
Because of this tremendous greed that we have witnessed…there is a big push to get rid of capitalism, but it’s not capitalism that is bad, it’s the monopolies formed by governments with their hands in the pockets of multinational companies, some of whom have more money than most countries, that kicks us all off the board. 
Nobody Thinks that there is definelty a well planned global monopoly strategy.
The rest of us want the monopolies of global multinational companies to be broken up and allow more competition, and have us all get a piece of the pie that way. But that’s not part of the plan. Like in Monopoly, once you hold the most property, you almost always win.
Nobody Thinks that the sheer joy of winning and smashing your competition must be addicting. Heck, if I can get so ‘high’ off a simple game of Monoploy, what kind of “high” do people like George Soros get? Like synapses in your brain being formed to desire cocaine, the same desire to devour your competition to a pulp without caring a hoot about how many lives it destroys, might have started with that feeling that you got as a child winning Monopoly.
I’m not so sure it was a good thing that I never took the game seriously. If Monopoly was invented to teach children about the horrible effects of what can happen when one person has all the control to take all your money, it didn’t really do a very good job. Instead we got a lot of people addicted to winning at all costs, and then smashing everything else around them.
In the United States, men running monopolies have broken the bank of America….just like I did, and I can bet you, every man guilty of that, Corzine, Bernanke, the Goldman Sacks, Barney Franks…—they all feel like they just won a game of Monopoly. Hoo-rah. It’s not about caring about the world, it’s about winning the game.
And the game is still on: Mobopoly. Pick your pieces, hold onto your money… and roll.
Nobody Reviews: Jack Abramoff
Nobody’s Opinion
Jack Abramoff…not exactly a household name. I heard Jack on Michael Savage not too long ago. If you watch Jay Leno, you know that not many people even know who our Vice President is, let alone who Jack Abramoff was.
Jack Abramoff…was one of the best lobbyist in history…and he hasn’t been out of jail for long. (2010)
Jack told Michael that the time he spent in jail made him realize, that even though in his job as a high paid lobbyist, he committed “crimes,” he never saw it that way at the time. Giving Congressmen money and gifts was just part of every good lobbyist’s job.
“What I did not consider then, and never considered until I was sitting in prison, was tha contributions from parties with an interest in legislation are really nothing but bribes. Sure, it’s legal for the most part. Sure, everyone in Washington does it. Sure, it’s the way the system works. It’s one of Washington’s dirty little secrets but it’s bribery just the same. “
After reading Jacks’ new book, Capitol Punishment, you realize that our whole political system is run on corruption and bribes, and you start wondering how much money is being given to Presidential candidates for their campaigns, not only from US companies, but from foreign countries? 
And what do those foreign countries expect in return? Bill Clinton’s Presidential Library was practically built by donations from the Saudi Kings. What did he do for them? The same Saudi donations went to George W. Bush ‘s Presidential Library…what? Are we not drilling for oil so that President’s can have billons dollar monuments— so that they can be immortalized forever… by Saudi Kings?
Nobody Wonders about that…a lot.
Jack tells you in the book just how easy it was for a Russian leader to give a million dollars to Tom Delay by losing in a round of golf.
For those of you, who like me, had no clue what Jack Abramoff did to go to jail: He was accused of stealing money from the various Indian Casinos. Jack was hired by many of them to lobby Congress on their behalf –to help them… 1. KEEP the profits they made…and 2. make more.
For his hard work, Jack got paid around $300,000 a year….(the average for lobbyists) but in his estimation, he saved them billions.
Jack was a superman when it came to getting things done: to bribe Congressmen, he would get them the best tickets in town to any sports game going on: take them on trips around the world to play golf, and then make all his contacts (which were in the thousands) give Congressmen big fat checks..in other words…the whole culture of Washington is set up in bribes. Big businesses pay big bribes to big Congressmen, who vote this way or that on some big project. 
It also runs major league sports teams too it seems, but that’s another blog.
That’s how Washington is run: You give to me, I’ll see that the government stays off your back, or as in GE’s case…you don’t have to pay any taxes. Or you can get out of Obamacare… Or in the case of Solyndra…you give Obama campaign money, and Obama will give you billions of taxpayer dollars.
So,…the very men that Jack gave big money to put in their campaign coffers, turned around and helped put him in jail. The question is why?
In an honest world, he should have gone to jail..but then, so should every lobbyist and every Congressmen in Congress. No matter what you think of Blogo’s hair, he is telling the truth.
When it comes to selling Obama’s senate seat. They ALL do it. Just about everything in Washington has a price, and the Congressmen do not think taking money for their vote is illegal. For instance, Jack gives an example:
Congressman Bustamante once said to Jack:
“The Defense Department is planning to place a new naval base in the Gulf of Mexico, and I want it for my district. I hear they are looking at Florida instead. If I get that base, you get the votes. (for his casino) If I don’t, you don’t. The votes are from the Hispanic Caucus and they are solidly in my control. What do you say?”
I must admit: the book is not what I expected. It’s mostly a testimony for a life that wasn’t all that bad, a man justifying to the world that what he did, was mostly good stuff. He built Jewish schools. He helped organized the Republican Party in all states of the nation. He helped Ronald Reagan get in the White House. He was great friends with Grover Rehnquist, Mark Levin, and Tom Delay.
He’s not so enamored of Newt Gingrich, John McCain, or George Clooney, who once said on the Golden Globes awards, “What kind of parents would name their kid “Jack” when his name ends in ‘off?’ No wonder that guy is screwed up!”
It drove his daughter to tears.
Yes, Jack lets you know all that goes into being a lobbyist, and what the book does do, is make you think about the whole concept of “lobbying.” You come away with the impression that— “Okay, we now know they all took bribes..but what does Jack leave out?” 
Prostitutes? Drugs? What? I’m convinced that Jack Abramoff knows more than he will ever tell because he loves his family. He’s not about to risk his life, or theirs. He swam with the sharks, he was the shark, and somewhere along the line, they went after him…because he knew too much.
And he was a devote Jew. I don’t know why, but I wouldn’t rule out his devotion to his religion as being a target. Somewhere along the line, and once in a while…our most corrupt politicians throw someone to the sharks..just to keep themselves out of jail. And the ones they throw into jail: know too much, or don’t follow orders.
If you don’t have time to read the book: go to the last chapter. Jack makes excellent suggestions:
“The reason there are tens of thousands of lobbyists is because the ever expanding federal government creates ever increasing opportunities of abuse. The more the federal does, the more lobbyists there will be to protect special interest at the expense of the common interest. “
“We need to eliminate any contribution by those lobbying the government participant in a federal contract or otherwise financially benefitting from public funds. If you get money or perks from elected officials be you a company, a union, an association, a firm, or an individual, you shouldn’t be permitted to give them so as one dollar.” “Lobbyists should be banned from contribution to official organization and campaign funds. They should be banned from gift given as well.” “Post public service lobbying employment needs to be eliminated. If you choose to serve in Congress or on a congressional staff, you should be barred for life from working for any company, organization or association which lobbies the federal government. “
Nobody Says—They should throw in that Presidential Advisors can’t get cushy jobs on major televisions networks to “lobby” the American people either for their X- bosses : Dana, Rove–Mathews, Stephanopoulos…
“If you choose public serve choose it so serve the public. not your bank account. “
“Representatives should be allowed to serve for three terms of two years, senators for two terms of six year then they should get out of town.”
“Apply every federal law enacted by Congress to the Congress itself. “
Anyone can see that these are excellent…and this Nobody hopes Jack continues now to use his “gifts” for lobbying every one he knows…to keep our Constitution.
The Constitution could use a good lobbyist right now. If Jack wants redemption…Nobody suggests Jack starts with saving that, before it’s sold to Saudi’s for a future Obama Presidential Library. THAT would be an honest day’s work, and a much better legacy.
Drug Lord’s Have the Gold
Nobody Get Email
Some of my friends have a sense of humor. They like to send me pictures of how much I missed by not becoming a lucretive drug lord. Here’s the best of just one drug lord’s heaven.
The money and valuables found in this one house alone, would be enough to pay for health insurance for every man woman and child in the USA for 12 years!
It is estimated to be approximately 27 more of these houses in Mexico alone. Not to mention the ones in other countries who are enriching themselves in the drug trade. These people have so much money, they make the Arab oil sheiks look like welfare recipients. Their money can buy politicians, cops, judges, whatever they need they just throw down stacks of cash and it is theirs! (Thanks to Pattie)
Did You Hear the REAL News About the Full Body Scanners?
Nobody Knows
—-Why our government has insisted on using these TSA machines. And Nobody Knows why this information is not being broadcasted on every news station. And Nobody Wonders just how many people are going to watch this video, and be so brainwashed that their own government would never do anything so insidious as to put in worthless machines in the airports at the cost of billions of dollars… just to get us all used to being handled by government officials and used to a police state. In other words…training the masses to obey their government without question.
Follow the money given to Michael Chertoff.
Chertoff is a former homeland security secretary and the founder of the Chertoff Group, a security consulting firm whose clients include manufacturers of full-body scanners.
How long is the America public going to put up with these communists?
Nobody Knows.
The Chicago Obamacrats…
Nobody Wonders’
Michelle Obama and the Obamamites were just taking their 16th vacation in Aspen, (wonder how many people had to get OFF the hill) tired from all the sun in fun in Hawaii…but somehow made it home to hear their Daddy sing: “Sweet Home Chicago” which obviously is where Obama is going back. But not before he throws himself a few more big parties.
Nobody Thinks since Paul McCartney was such a big hit at the Grammy’s they had to give Mick Jagger some prime time of his own.
Although Obama didn’t hit those notes quite right…he sures knows how to make himself flash…notice how he left the stage like a true rock star,..just like James Brown. That was rehearsed. Trust me on that.
Tonight is another Republican debate, so Obama has come out and claimed the economic issue today by giving “corporations” a tax break. Of course, it’s not if you read the fine print.
BUT…on CNN all day was the talking point..
“All the republicans want to do is focus on religion and contraception, when we should be paying attention to the economy!”
Really? THEY introduced the subject in the first place with George Stephanopoulos bringing up the absurd notion that Republicans wanted to get rid of contraceptives while he was interviewing Mitt Romney. They must think the American people have attention spans of gerbils.
One thing for sure, we should all be singing the blues witnessing the devastation being done to our country by our Chicago thug in Chief: Barack Capone. 
Having said that…Nobody Thinks Williams Shatner, at 81, looks better than both Paul and Mick.
Nobody’s Perfect: Chris Christie VS John Burri
Nobody’s Perfect
This week, I almost started with the imperfect, miserably rich and miserable about it, Whitney Houston, who evidently was pretty stoned before she forgot to get out of the bathtub…and then came to find out, today that Whitney’s problems were NOT caused by Bobby Brown, or drugs, but because America is just so homophophic. You see, she was madly in love with a woman named Robyn, (according to THE MAIL) but had to hide her feelings, because if the American homophophic country had found out, they wouldn’t have bought her records.
After all..look what happened to Ellen DeGeneres. (Yeah, my point exactly.)
A “gay” friend had this to say about Whitney and her true love: Robyn: (See picture–Robyn is the blond.)
“When I met them, it was obvious they were madly in love. Their intimacy and affection was so sweet and romantic. They held hands in the back of the car like teenage sweethearts. Clearly more than just friends, they were a gorgeous couple and so happy together. To see their love was infectious and uplifting. I want to see a more tolerant society where people don’t feel the need to marry to deflect rumors of homosexuality, and where they are not driven to self-destruction because of their inability to accept and express their love for a person of the same sex.”
Touching. Whitney HAD to marry Bobby Brown, because of those rotten people in America.
But Whitney is not in our contest this week…the contest is between Ann Coulter’s favorite New Jersey Governor, Chris Christie, and a grieving patriotic father: John Burri. You see, Chris Christie lowered the American flag in honor of Whitney Houton.
This from AP:
John Burri lost a son in Iraq and believes lowering flags to half-staff should be done to commemorate military personnel who gave their lives in service to the United States — not celebrities like Whitney Houston. So John took New Jersey’s flag out, and burned it in his barbeque pit. Army Specialist Eric Burri was a gunner on a Humvee when he was killed in 2005 after an explosive device detonated near his vehicle in Baghdad. Then-Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm ordered flags lowered in his memory.
Nobody Says: Good for John Burri. I don’t think he went far enough. He should have thrown in Chris Christie’s picture too.
Wait…you can burn our honorable flag in this country, but– I’m pretty sure if John had burnt Chris Christie’s picture he would have been picked up by the FBI.
Okay…smart man. 
According to the Federal rules for lowing the American flags is this;(Wikipedia)
Flags should never be lowered for recognition of death to celebrities unless they are military.
The flag historically has been lowered on Memorial day, Patriot Day, Pearl Harbor day, Death of a President or former President, vice President, Supreme Court chief justice, speaker of the House of Representatives, member of the Cabinet, governors, Senators, or the resident commissioner of Puerto Rico.
Whitney was none of these.
Chris Christie needs to shore up black votes for himself and Mitt Romney so he said this:
“I am disturbed by people who believe that because her ultimate demise — and we don’t know what is the cause of her death yet — but because of her history of substance abuse that somehow she’s forfeited the good things that she did in her life,” Christie said last week. “I just reject that on a human level.”
Let’s see…that means everyone who has done good things in their life should get the American flag lowered. I can’t wait for mine. According to the governor…we all deserve one.
Because Governor Christie choose to honor an entertainer in this way, the blogs are going wild in hot debate. 
Here’s one…from some guy in New Jersey: (I’ve left out his online names, but if you want to know the name I have for him..you can’t print it.)
“He probably voted for Bush, I’m glad his son died, it serves him right. This man is a pathetic attention whore. No one in New Jersey gives a fuck about some retard in Wyoming using his dead son to get attention.”
So, who wins the Nobody’s Perfect contest?
Chris Christie. Let’s hope he’s not governor when he dies. Ann Coulter can keep him. He’s just another politician…makes up his own rules, and would YOU want him running the military..or even as Vice President?
John Burri, has more integrity in his barbeque pit.
Planned Parenthood: Teaching Your Kids to be Sluts
Nobody Reports
Glenn Beck always has some interesting video’s. I found this one to be disturbing. Planned Parenthood is using our tax dollars to do some rather insane things to our kids, all in the name of education. The video has some blatant graphics, but hey…if your kids are seeing this…so should you.
I won’t say Enjoy…because it just made me mad. But, you as a taxpayer, should see why we have so many single young mothers…
Nobody Thinks Valentine’s day is as good a day as any to post this.
Nobody’s Perfect: Daniel Hegwood VS HSBC
Nobody’s Perfect
This week, we have two bank robbers…Daniel Hegwood and HSBC.
We truly do have the rich VS the poor in this story: Let’s start with Daniel.
Daniel Hegwood, 33, entered a downtown Wells Fargo over the weekend, told a teller he had a dangerous bomb inside the fast food bag and demanded money. He then fled on foot with a “substantial” amount of cash, leaving the bag behind, police said.
Yep…he figured he’s just take a McDonalds bag, fill it with an apple pie, and point it at the teller. It worked, but they did catch him, so he will be spending some days if not spending his loot, getting apple pies in jail. By the looks of him, it could be a godsend he was caught. 
And then we have HSBC…or should I say, half the HSBC bank’s officials who have been laundering money for Mexican Drug Cartels. Their apple pie is , American Express, and thousands of stolen identities to set up fake accounts.
This report from the most impeccable Jerome Corsi of WND:
A former employee of HSBC in New York has 1,000 pages of customer account records he claims are evidence of an international money-laundering scheme involving hundreds of billions of dollars by the global banking giant, which reportedly is under investigation by a U.S. Senate committee. John Cruz has delivered to WND customer account records he says he pulled from the HSBC computer system before he was fired.
Cruz was terminated Feb. 17, 2010, after two years at HSBC for “poor performance,” but he contends he was let go because senior management didn’t want to him to pursue his personal investigation.
One of the largest banks in the world, London-based HSBC has about 7,500 offices in more than 80 countries and territories in Europe, North and South America, the Asia-Pacific region, the Middle East and Africa.
Cruz told WND he has “firsthand knowledge and proof of how HSBC transferred billions of dollars through accounts linked to companies that did not exist.” Cruz said that in the two years he worked for HSBC, he eventually discovered that money laundering was being carried out not only by branch managers but also by senior officers of the bank, both within the U.S. and internationally.
“From what I saw, I came to suspect HSBC had become the Mexican drug cartels’ bank of choice,” he said.
Well, there you go.
Who gets the award for the Nobody’s Perfect, biggest bank robbing scumbag of the week?
Do you HAVE to ask?
And to think, I have taken out many a loan from HSBC. Not only did the London Banks get trillions of our stimulus dollars, it seems they are getting a fair amount of stimulus from our drug addicts.
By the way, the people whose identities were stolen had no clue they had billion dollars in accounts.
Too bad they didn’t put Daniel Hegwood’s name on one of those accounts….He wouldn’t have had to rob a bank. 
Nobody Needs to Know
Nobody Wins
Here’s the question that I can’t find an answer to anywhere. We all know that companies pay to put product placement in our movies. Sometimes a company can pay up to a million dollars for a 4 second shot. God knows, we’ve seen just about every single movie star on the planet open up an Apple computer. Not to mention, all those big Hollywood stars who are health and fitness nuts can be found puffing away on cigarettes…and you have to wonder how much they got paid to do that. And if they even had a choice to refuse?
But.. the real question I have is: Does our government use taxpayers money to put politically correct propaganda in our movies? Or…do the producers of these movies demand the writers of the scripts represent the views they believe in? How many times have we seen movies promoting the favorite liberal cause of the day?
For example: The movie The Thaw with Val Kilmer is a Sci-fi film about a global warming professor who goes to report the ice caps melting, which was caused because the selfish “man” will not sacrifice his own life habits to save the planet….and because of THAT, a rare virus is let out, one that could destroy the world. There are so many, “Why don’t people SEE?” lines in the movie, the plot becomes almost secondary. If not for the excellent work done by the “bug” people, the movie would not be worth seeing. Val does not mention the fact that even if everyone in the United States went back to living in caves, China and India’s pollution would more than make up for our sacrifices.
Another example: The Dilemma…probably the worst movie Opie has ever made. It’s about two best buddies who come up with an electric car that SOUNDS and vibrates like an old-fashioned Ford Mustang. Now, I don’t know if Ron Howard got together with Obama and the boys from VOLT…to try and get America excited about electric cars, but the plot outside the many plugs for the electric cars is so stupid and lame, you can’t decide if the movie is supposed to be a comedy, or some kind of angst that Ron had happen in his own life and he just decided to combine the two.
The one best friend is very upset that his best friend’s wife having an affair. He confronts her and she tells him that he is going to a massage parlor every Thursday, and so she started the affair because he was not having sex with her…but with the massage therapist. Somehow, at the end of the movie, you get the feeling that she, his wife, (played Winona rider) is a slut, but the husband is not…I guess because he pays for it.
Message: If men pay for sex, they are not committing adultry….it’s permitted, which shows you just how far that women’s movement went.
So, the best buddy, Vince Vaughn, gets them both exposed, and they get divorced, and by the end of the movie they get their contract for their great electric car inventon…and you go: Okay. None of this was funny. Is this…dark humor? What am I missing here, besides the fact that they paid someone to come up with some kind of lame plot, but the real reason for the movie is to sell the concept of electic cars to the masses.
Which brings me back to my point: What came first? The chicken or the egg? Does Hollywood get PAID to put out all these crappy social engineering movies from our government? Or do they do it, because our government will make them all pay BIG taxes on their dividends?
Who is sleeping with who, and how deep is the money pit?
Nobody Wants to Know.
Ron Paul and Glenn Beck
Nobody Reports
Have you noticed? Everyone is talking about Romney and Gingrich. Nobody is even speaking about Ron Paul. Clearly, he is the closet to the Independents in this country, those that are tired of the corruption in both parties, and they want him to disappear.
In this video, dated June, 2011, Ron says one thing that we have seen time and again. You can vote in a whole new set of reputable conservatives and take over the Congress, but unless the party leaders are not corrupt, you won’t get the changes that you need.
David Icke has been talking about his for years: That those at the top know the real agendas, and as you go down the power pyramid, the different people beneath them have no clue as to what is happening. It’s one of the reasons the whole country cannot believe in the decisions that are being made by our Presidents and the top Democratic and Republican party leaders. During Obama’s first year..Nancy, Reid, and Obama did all the changes. They unconstitutionally FORCED that health care bill through Congress.
Now Obama is just going around congress, appointing more Czars. I’ve said it before…those few at the top (and they are in both parties) are following some global plan that is on a need to know basis. The office of the Presidency now has almost unlimited powers. And the next President is not likley to get very upset about that. Unless it was Ron Paul.
Here’s another example: I once read a book written by a representative of Newt’s 1994 Contract with the People Congress. Newt was House Speaker, and all the new conservatives that had been voted in to change the country (first time in 40 years if I remember correctly) and joined Newt on The Contract, were appalled at one meeting. They were ready to fulfill the whole contract, and they were gathered together to finish the changes needed. Newt gathered them all together in a room, and told them they would kill their own careers if they continued to go on with his contract. He told them it all had to stop. His own contract.
They were…powerless. Many of them gave up and went back to their lives outside of Washington.
How many times has House Speakcer John Boehner given into Obama? Remember…the HOUSE and its members were against raising the debt limit. But John…gave in. It’s as if the new republicans in the house had no voice at all.
What really happens is they have to do what the speaker tells them, or else risk not getting money to get re-elected.
In this respect, Ron Paul was right. Our top leaders are in bed with the FED, and most of Congress, espeically the new ones, are kept out of the loop.
What good is the Constitution, if our top leaders ignore it?
And if you think an amendment would be passed holding all members of Congress to term limits and abiding by the same laws as “we the people”— then you also think Dolly Parton would love to get a boob reduction.
I’m just saying.
The Golden Parachute Keeps Opening…
Nobody Knows
—That this was an email that I found very disturbing, so I’m not waiting till the weekend to post it. Besides, not too many people know exactly what happened to the men who ran Freddie and Fannie.
Where are they now? The three who bought down Wall Street– Here’s a quick look into the three former Fannie Mae executives who brought down Wall Street. 
Franklin Raines was a Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Fannie Mae. Raines was forced to retire from his position with Fannie Mae when auditing discovered severe irregularities in Fannie Mae’s accounting activities. Raines left with a “golden parachute” valued at $240 million in benefits. The Government filed suit against Raines when the depth of the accounting scandal became clear.
Tim Howardwas the Chief Financial Officer of Fannie Mae. Howard was a strong internal proponent of using accounting strategies that would ensure a “stable pattern of earnings” at Fannie. Investigations by federal regulators and the company’s board of directors since concluded that management did manipulate 1998 earnings to trigger bonuses. 
Raines and Howard resigned under pressure in late 2004. Howard’s Golden Parachute was estimated at $20 Million!
Jim Johnson, was a former executive at Lehman Brothers and who was later forced from his position as Fannie Mae CEO. Investigators found that Fannie Mae had hidden a substantial amount of Johnson’s 1998 compensation from the public, reporting that it was between $6 million and $7 million, when it fact it was $21 million.” Johnson is currently under investigation for taking illegal loans from Countrywide while serving as CEO of Fannie Mae. Johnson’s Golden Parachute was estimated at $28 Million. 
Where Are They Now?
Franklin Raines?
Raines works for the Obama Campaign as his Chief Economic Advisor.
Tim Howard?
Howard is a Chief Economic Advisor to Obama under Franklin Raines.
Jim Johnson?
Johnson was hired as a Senior Obama Finance Advisor and was selected to run Obama’s Vice Presidential Committee.
Kinda makes ou feel sick to your stomach. Our government seems to be rotten to the core: or as the great general would say: “I small a RAT!” Vote in 2012. It is the most important election of our time. 
(Thanks to Tom Beebe)
Nobody Notes: The black man’s golden parachute was a LOT bigger than the white men’s.
The Lessons From Atlantis
Nobody’s Opinion:
Here’s a video that was emailed to me that I haven’t seen, and unless you have nothing to do but sit around and watch C-Span all day, you didn’t see this either. It’s nothing new under the sun…the bankers and the top leaders of our government (let’s not forget the Brussels people) have been having secret meetings for years now. It’s chess on a global scale, and it’s not reported, but it’s a class of the .01 percent of the powerful who have gotten together to put in process certain scenarios to get the results that we have seen happen since 2008. The global crash, was caused by what Daniel Hannon would call “crony capitalism” and the rest of us call theft. They got very rich, and gave themselves huge amounts of money, while the rest of the world collapsed.
It’s the reason we see riots everywhere. The leaders of all nations: from the Wall Street Boys, to our own billionaire Congress, to the Saudi Kings of Arabia, to the Queen herself…the gold halls of Atlantis, for all it’s value, could not compete with this small group of..around 400 people.
As the people struggle, the rich have lost all morality.
As I was watching this video, I couldn’t help but think of what Plato wrote about the ‘lost’ city of Atlantis.
Whenever you hear about “Atlantis” you hear mostly about how “wise” etc. the place was. But according to Plato, Atlantis was known first and foremost for it’s spectatcular wealth. The buildings were all of gold, ivory, silver, laced with beautiful marbles beyond imagination. And every five or six years, the King and the princes of nine districts, would meet and for the most part…ruled well.
(Probably because they ONLY GOT TOGETHER EVERY SIX YEARS!)
Atlantis and its people lived in harmony. They had beautiful gardens, and mansions, and just about as much gold as you could imagine. And then it happened: at the height of its glory, the rich got…greedier.
“Then above all they appeared to be superlatively fair and blessed yet they were filled with lawless ambition and power. The portion of divinity within them was now becoming faint and weak. They were unable to bear the burden of their possessions and had lost their virtue. The wealth they possessed was so immense that the like that never been seen before in any royal house nor will ever easily be seen again.”
According to Plato, Zeus got angry…and caused earthquakes, floods, and tsunami’s’ to sink the whole island.
What would Plato say today I wonder?
If history repeats itself, then Atlantis will be destroyed. The rich will go down with the poor.
Now, you have to ask yourself: Did Plato make up this little island of wealth to teach some kind of morality lesson to the rich lords of his own age? Was this a “fable” handed down as a lesson of what happens when too many people get greedy and destroy the rest of the people?
Or was Atlantis…real? Nobody Knows.
According to THIS guy. It’s still here. And isn’t it funny, that when you hear about the lost city of Atlantis, you never hear about the “lawless ambition and power” of its rulers?
Something tells me…in the future, our own ambitoous and greedy rulers of the world, will write their own histroy (as they are doing now) and that bit of information, about how a mere handful of people who ruled the world, got very greedy and helped destory the once great wealth of many… will be lost to future generations, just as surely, as the story of the lost city of Atlantis.
In the future, it will be told to little children, that once upon a time: a great civilization lived where all the men and leaders were wise.
(Thanks to Amfortas)
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