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Report: Afghan nation-building effort in peril EXCLUSIVE | Hugely expensive U.S. effort has had only limited success and may not survive an american withdrawal, according to the findings of a two-year congressional investigation to be released Wednesday. (Washington Post) [ Has everybody lost their minds? ‘(Afghanistan) may not survive an american withdrawal’? How about the reality that Afghanistan might not survive a continued american presence; and, ditto for the occupiers, viz., defacto bankrupt america hemorrhaging red ink therefrom and more. I’d call what they’re doing, ‘nation-destroying’ which reality is not lost on the people affected.… 6th soldier charged in plot to kill Afghan civilians (WP) Afghanistan’s Karzai gives U.S. final warning: stop killing civilians Afghan President Hamid Karzai called on the US military on Sunday to avoid operations that kill civilians, saying it was his “last warning” to Washington after 14 people allegedly died in an air strike. … Editorial: US in quagmire War in Afghanistan and Iraq costs America $1trillion Though having but 5% of the world’s population, u.s. has 76% of the world’s serial killers, http://www.albertpeia.com/realifeamericaserialkillers.mpg bankrupt america also spends more on military than all the nations of the world combined... fed employees / contractors, cia, all 3 branches of u.s. gov’t, etc., are included in this evolved american trait of inherent criminality http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm ]:

Focus Is on Obama as Tensions Soar Across Mideast (NYT) [ Adapt? I don’t think so! I do believe that both nations are regressively but nostalgically trying bring the world back to failed geopolitical paradigms that made the 20th century the bloodiest century, not coincidentally the american century (obviously for israel the latter half century). Yet, such a conditioned psychopathic approach to global matters has led them self-destructively, self-defeatingly, and ineluctably to decline, fall. .. Orwellian approach fostered by the purveyors of global unrest; viz., israel, america, Orwellian england, etc.;more specifically, diversion of the masses from the glaring failures of leadership, economic and otherwise.

CRIME STATISTICS >(america is No. 1)

Rank	Countries	Amount
# 1	United States:	11,877,218
# 2	United Kingdom:	6,523,706
# 3	Germany:	6,507,394

THE OBAMA DECEPTION’ http://albertpeia.com/obamadeceptionhighqualityversion.flv ]

Timothy Geithner, the persuader Many wondered if Geithner would last. Now he’s a central figure in Obama administration. (Washington Post) [ The persuader? Yeah, anything but what tiny tim’s supposed to be … because … nothing succeeds like failure in pervasively corrupt, defacto bankrupt america. After all, central figure in wobama’s administration doesn’t say much … Obama's rating on economy hits new low: poll (Reuters) Obama: No fears of double-dip recession (AP) [He’s so ‘brave’, he has no fear; and, after all, look at all his wars … yet, reality proves he’s all b***s***, that ‘wobama the b’(for b***s***). Daily economic briefings disappear from Obama’s White House schedule (I personally believe wobama doesn’t understand economics.) Madoff employee pleads guilty Documents charged Eric Lipkin, a former employee, with helping Madoff perpetrate his epic Ponzi scheme. (Washington Post) [ ‘Tiny taters’! Yet, there are loads of such fraudulent interrelationships on fraudulent wall street, part and parcel of the last and ongoing ubiquitous fraud; albeit too big to fail or jail despite intimations to the contrary. Goldman Sachs subpoenaed Report says firm’s mortgage-related investments enabled the company to profit while clients lost money. (Washington Post) [ Their stock was down. Why? No mystery there on fraudulent wall street that they’ve got plenty to hide; and, certainly far more beyond the scope of the subpoena. The frauds on wall street et als should be criminally prosecuted, jailed, fined, and disgorgement imposed… an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come! America Is a Failed State Because It Won’t Prosecute Financial Crime Washington’s Blog/ Roche 'The worst part of it ...Obama, who vowed change, has done almost nothing to fix any of it and in fact continues most of the policies that helped get us here in the first place’ ‘INSIDE JOB’ Ferguson wins Oscar for Documentary on the unprosecuted massive extant fraud in the (many) TRILLIONS by the frauds on wall street ( and declares with oscar in hand that not one high level wall street exec has been prosecuted … despite ‘earning’ billiions from the fraud ). UPDATE: MORE CLAIMS OF RACE BIAS AT JUSTICE... ‘In emotional and personal testimony, an ex-Justice official who quit over the handling of a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party accused his former employer of instructing attorneys in the civil rights division to ignore cases that involve black defendants and white victims ' Cases against Wall Street lag despite Holder’s vows to target financial fraud WP | Obama has promised to hold Wall Street accountable for the meltdown.

‘THE OBAMA DECEPTION’ http://albertpeia.com/obamadeceptionhighqualityversion.flv

Scam artists run amok Double-digit profits in one day from short-sale investing? It’s a sign of fraud, not market savviness. (Washington Post) [ Wow! Separating the wheat from the chaff in terms of fraud on wall street is, owing to pervasiveness, a job that even Mr. Phelps of ‘Mission Impossible’ fame couldn’t handle. After all, what isn’t fraudulent on wall street today? Nothing … nada … zed … zero. Report: SEC lawyer exposed FBI informant (Washington Post) [ Clearly, the sec liar (sic – lawyer) is one of those typically with a ‘pre or post’ arrangement, whether implicit or explicit; you know, that ubiquitous ‘bribe thing’ in pervasively corrupt, defacto bankrupt, fallen america. Indeed, the scenario typifies that national drain / sinkhole new york (new york / new jersey metro) where, for example, FBI informants were routinely exposed by ‘italians’ in the new york d.a.’s office over objection of the FBI, and were promptly ‘dispatched’/assassinated / hit by mafia / organized crime [ this was documented with authority in the book Goombata: The Improbable Rise and Fall of John Gotti and His Gang John Cummings (Author), Ernest Volkman (Author) Though having but 5% of the world’s population, u.s. has 76% of the world’s serial killers, http://www.albertpeia.com/realifeamericaserialkillers.mpg bankrupt america also spends more on military than all the nations of the world combined... fed employees / contractors, cia, all 3 branches of u.s. gov’t, etc., are included in this evolved american trait of inherent criminality http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm ]:

Weiner’s political survival in doubt Rebuked by fellow Democrats, the congressman faces a likely House ethics committee investigation. (Washington Post) [ But his survival as a ‘cyber hot dog’ is assured. After all, you can’t expect to have everything in this world; you know, ‘have your hot dog on display and eat it too’. Anthony’s Weiner is destined to live in infinity; or should I say infamy …Drudgereport:     REPORT: Weiner coached woman to lie...
TMZ: Offered PR help...
Dems Begin Peeling Off...
Breitbart says he has X-rated photo... WHACKED, NOT HACKED!
'Used govt. resources'...
Breitbart: 'I Want To Hear Truth'...
6 'inappropriate' relationships...
ABCNEWS: Mystery Woman Revealed...
HER STORY...
Risqué Online Chats, Photo Swaps...
SLIDESHOW...
VIDEO: 'Web of lies'...TWITTER TEARS: WEINER ADMITSREPORT: Woman claims to have 200 explicit messages from NY Dem...
IT MIGHT BE MY WEINER!       REPORT: WEINER'S TALE UNRAVELING...By Daniel Libit Sunday, June 5, 2011 ‘As the world has attempted to make sense of Rep. Anthony Weiner’s claim that his Twitter account was hacked, a key clue has been missing: exactly how the notorious groin pic was posted online. But according to data provided exclusively to The Daily from TweetCongress.org, a nonprofit website that captures each member of Congress’s Twitter feeds in real time, the shot seen round the world was transmitted using TweetDeck — a popular Adobe desktop application that links up with social networking sites. A review of Weiner’s Twitter stream from May 27, the day of the crotch pic, shows that Weiner had been posting only from TweetDeck — one of many ways to post messages to Twitter — that entire night. Chet Wisniewski, a senior security adviser at security software company SophosLabs, said the TweetDeck stamp “does make it more plausible that it did come from him.” Weiner used TweetDeck frequently, but he often also posted from the Web directly or from his BlackBerry. A widely circulated explanation for how Weiner’s Twitter account could have been hacked by email would also seem to be incompatible with the fact that the message in question originated on TweetDeck. If email had been used, the message probably would have originated via the photosharing site Yfrog, where the infamous picture was posted …’ [ Weiner admits he sent lewd picture; won't quit (AP) - After days of denials, a choked-up Rep. Anthony Weiner confessed Monday that he tweeted a photo of his bulging underpants to a young woman, and he also admitted to "inappropriate" excha...’ Tearful US congressman admits to crotch photos (AFP)   ]
'This Could Be The End For Him'... ’Pot Calls Kettle Black’:Donald Trump Unloads on Anthony Weiner: "He's a Psycho" - Donald Trump has a new target, and boy does he look pleased. "The fact is, Anthony Weiner is a bad guy," the Celebrity Apprentice honcho, who recently decided against running for...
'Have You Ever Taken A Picture Like This Of Yourself?'...WEINER CALLS COPS ON CBS WASHINGTON (CBSNewYork) — ‘Congressman Anthony Weiner said Thursday he’s finished talking about the lewd photo sent from his Twitter account.But he still wouldn’t say whether he’s the one in the picture.So CBS 2 political reporter Marcia Kramer decided to go to his office on Capitol Hill to try to get you some answers.You’ll never believe what happened.Kramer tried to get an interview with the six-term New York Democrat and as a result had the cops called on her.Kramer walked in to Weiner’s office, announced herself as being from CBS 2 in New York City and said she’d like to see the congressman. Those few words created quite the stir. Doors slammed and people pretended she wasn’t there ...’    Weiner’s efforts don’t cool furor The congressman said that he didn’t send a lewd photo on Twitter but also that he couldn’t “say with certitude” whether the image was of his own crotch. (Washington Post) [ ‘Weiner’s weiner’! ‘Not cool furor’ … how ‘bout just plain ‘not cool’. Eh … what can you expect from national drain / sinkhole new york (new york / new jersey metro). I haven’t read but probably agree with the following article: Listen up, fellas: Naked man-parts? Not so sexy. (Washington Post) / … Even Mr. Milbank weighs in: ‘The Weiner roast Congressman finds himself in a fight he does not relish.’ Report: SEC lawyer exposed FBI informant (Washington Post) [ Clearly, the sec liar (sic – lawyer) is one of those typically with a ‘pre or post’ arrangement, whether implicit or explicit; you know, that ubiquitous ‘bribe thing’ in pervasively corrupt, defacto bankrupt, fallen america. Indeed, the scenario typifies that national drain / sinkhole new york (new york / new jersey metro) where, for example, FBI informants were routinely exposed by ‘italians’ in the new york d.a.’s office over objection of the FBI, and were promptly ‘dispatched’/assassinated / hit by mafia / organized crime [ this was documented with authority in the book ‘Goombata: The Improbable Rise and Fall of John Gotti and His Gang’ John Cummings (Author), Ernest Volkman (Author) Though having but 5% of the world’s population, u.s. has 76% of the world’s serial killers,          http://www.albertpeia.com/realifeamericaserialkillers.mpg     bankrupt america also spends more on military than all the nations of the world combined... fed employees / contractors, cia, all 3 branches of u.s. gov’t, etc., are included in this evolved american trait of inherent criminality http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf       http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm     ]

Bernanke: Setbacks are temporary Fed chairman suggests economy will accelerate as year progresses despite recent signs of weakness. Poll: Obama hits new lows on economy (Washington Post) [ Oh really? Like the ‘no-recession’, helicopter ben? One thing is certain and not temporary; viz., the gains for the frauds on wall street at great expense to all from the failed policies as noted by analyst Andy Bove: ‘Bove also took a hard shot at the Fed’s Quantitative Easing program calling it “a miserable failure.” ‘ Housing prices fall 'beats Great Depression slide'... Meredith Whitney Adds 10 New States To Her Sh*t List Bess Levin Bove: Fed Is Clueless On Bank Regulations at Forbes Halah Touryalai [ ‘..QE2 was a boondoggle for investors in financial instruments but had no impact on the economy ‘ . Yeah! Boondoggle, fraud, ongoing fraud / coverup in the trillions (The Real “Margin” Threat: $600 Trillion In OTC Derivatives, A Multi-Trillion Variation Margin Call, And A Collateral Scramble That Could Send US Treasurys To All Time Records… ) … I’d say that’s putting it mildly. ] ‘A speech on Friday by Federal Reserve Governor Daniel Tarullo has bank analyst Dick Bove up in arms…

From the note:

The suggestions being made indicate that the Fed has no understanding:

Of what caused the financial collapse
The current structure of the banking industry’s balance sheet
How banks interact with the economy
Why QE2 was a boondoggle for investors in financial instruments but had no impact on the economy …’

Dave's Daily 'If you can keep interest rates this low this long, its inevitable cheap financing can allow companies to start cobbling each other up. Further Ben's policies allow companies like IBM to sell bonds at 1% and buy back shares with the proceeds (total paper bubble-scam). POMO is occurring almost daily and Primary Dealers can buy back their shares and pay dividends with what essentially is taxpayer money-- … an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come! America Is a Failed State Because It Won’t Prosecute Financial Crime Washington’s Blog / the grim economic reality [ http://albertpeia.com/grimreality.htm ]. Selling In May Is Very Good Advice This Year Harding / April Is a Good Time to Sell Adler Equity Valuations Are Forming the Second Biggest Bubble in U.S. History Kaspar ... According to Yale University’s Dr. Robert Shiller, the market is now 41% overvalued …only time the markets have been more overvalued .. 1929 & tech bubble. http://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2011/4/12/saupload_cape_thumb1.png PRECHTER: We're Still In A Massive Bear Market And Stocks Will Crash To New Lows This is an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come! Remember: ‘Sell in May and go away!

The GOP’s deficit demands Sen. Jon Kyl offers the most specific outline yet of Republicans’ conditions in the debt-ceiling talks. (Washington Post) [Moody’s: U.S. credit rating at risk Agency warns of a possible credit rating downgrade if a debt-ceiling deal cannot be reached. (Washington Post) [ I’d say, as is true of their performance in the last phase of this ongoing crisis, they are so typically late to the party. After all, pervasively corrupt america is already defacto bankrupt. House rejects debt ceiling increase The 317-to-98 vote was a bipartisan rejection of extending the nation’s current debt limit of $14.3 trillion unless major spending reductions accompany the legislation. (Washington Post) [ Well, perish the thought that increases in liabilities should be commensurate with decreases in liabilities to maintain a … balance … sheet? At this point, who’s counting? After all, are there really degrees of defacto bankruptcy? Or, an either / or absolute state; viz., you are or you’re not defacto bankrupt. Pervasively corrupt, defacto bankrupt america is in fact defacto bankrupt! … Wall Street 'Vastly Underestimating' Risk of Debt Default Forbes / Robert Lenzner StreetTalk ‘ “Meet the Press” climaxed Sunday with a startling market prognostication from David Brooks, conservative columnist for the NY Times. The risk of a debt default over the combustible issue of the Medicare deficit hangs over the course of the stock market. Buyers Beware!“I was up in Wall Street this week,” Brooks said. “They’re vastly underestimating the source of piolitical risk here. We could have a major problem, I think, either this summer or the next couple years. And I’d be worried about investing too much in the market. That’s my financial advice.”…’ Another Financial Crisis Is On The Way, Mobius Says STOCKS HAVE BIG RALLY AFTER PILES OF UGLY NEWS: Here's What You need To Know Harry Dent: “Major Crash” Coming for Stocks, Commodities Already Topping Out 24 Signs Of Economic Decline In America ‘The US is in the middle of a devastating long-term economic decline..’ ] States face shortfall for retirees (WP) Public workers’ retirement funds had a gap of $1.26 trillion at the end of fiscal 2009 Study: Affordable rentals scarce (WP) Poll: For Obama, low marks on Afghan war (WP) More Americans disapprove of President Obama’s management of the war in Afghanistan than support it Fuel prices cut into Obama popularity (WP) (The frauds on wall street et als should be criminally prosecuted, jailed, fined, and disgorgement imposed), and have used the mideast turmoil to obfuscate their failure. Davis ‘This is how we pay off our current debts and I think bondholders are simply happy to get anything out of a country that admits it owes $15Tn (1/4 of global GDP) but probably owes closer to $60Tn (entire global GDP) in the form of unfunded liabilities. The funniest thing about this (and you have to laugh) is to see Conservative pundits get on TV and talk about how we need to cut $100Bn worth of discretionary spending to "fix" this (while continuing to spend $1Tn on the military and $1Tn on tax cuts for the top 1% each year). There is no fixing this and even a Republican said you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. THIS HOUSE OF CARDS IS TEETERING FOLKS – PLEASE BE CAREFUL OUT THERE! ‘ Dave's Daily 'If you can keep interest rates this low this long, its inevitable cheap financing can allow companies to start cobbling each other up. Further Ben's policies allow companies like IBM to sell bonds at 1% and buy back shares with the proceeds (total paper bubble-scam). POMO is occurring almost daily and Primary Dealers can buy back their shares and pay dividends with what essentially is taxpayer money-- … an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come! America Is a Failed State Because It Won’t Prosecute Financial Crime Washington’s Blog / the grim economic reality [ http://albertpeia.com/grimreality.htm ]. Selling In May Is Very Good Advice This Year Harding / April Is a Good Time to Sell Adler Equity Valuations Are Forming the Second Biggest Bubble in U.S. History Kaspar ... According to Yale University’s Dr. Robert Shiller, the market is now 41% overvalued …only time the markets have been more overvalued .. 1929 & tech bubble. http://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2011/4/12/saupload_cape_thumb1.png PRECHTER: We're Still In A Massive Bear Market And Stocks Will Crash To New Lows This is an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come! Remember: ‘Sell in May and go away! ‘ … Stock Market: 4 Current Warning Signs Navin ‘…1) The 5-year high in the level of insider corporate stock sales is telling. At 565 sells for every 1 buy, it’s never been higher. Yes, it’s normal for insiders to be selling some of their stocks so they can buy new yachts and some of this is pre-planned. But that ratio — which has spiked recently — is extraordinarily high, one might even say off-the-chart.]

Minyanville's T3 Daily Recap: Bearish Close Foreshadows Deeper Correction at Minyanville The frauds on wall street et als should be criminally prosecuted, jailed, fined, and disgorgement imposed… an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come! Selling In May Is Very Good Advice This Year Harding Remember: Sell in May and Go Away and If You’ve Not Sold by June, You’re a Loon!

Bernanke: Economy slowing but faster growth ahead- AP [ Well, there you go … the new maestro, ‘no-recession-helicopter-ben b.s. bernanke’, has covered all his bases; yes, the economy’s slowing but as well, faster growth ahead. Nothing to worry about now in this ‘non-zero sum game’; after all, either / or he’s gotta’ be right … wrong! Wanted: Economic policymakers There is a void atop much of the financial arms, with about a dozen senior positions vacant. (Washington Post) [ How about just stating as appropriate, there’s a huge void, period. These people, from ‘no-recession-helicopter-ben b.s. bernanke’, to ‘tiny tim geithner’, to ‘wobama the b (for bs)’, to congress, to high,mid,lower level federal employees, to u.s. executives, etc., haven’t the slightest idea what they’re doing, or what to do. But, they do know how to throw a great fraud on wall street! `Drudgereport: TEMPLETON chairman: Financial Crisis 'Around Corner'... 'WE ARE ON THE VERGE OF A GREAT, GREAT DEPRESSION...'`ECONOMIC 'HORROR' AS DATA PLUNGES
`Dow Has Longest Weekly Slump Since '04...`
`Housing prices fall 'beats Great Depression slide'...` Meredith Whitney Adds 10 New States To Her Sht List Bess Levin* Bove: Fed Is Clueless On Bank Regulations at Forbes Halah Touryalai [ ‘..QE2 was a boondoggle for investors in financial instruments but had no impact on the economy ‘ . Yeah! Boondoggle, fraud, ongoing fraud / coverup in the trillions (The Real “Margin” Threat: $600 Trillion In OTC Derivatives, A Multi-Trillion Variation Margin Call, And A Collateral Scramble That Could Send US Treasurys To All Time Records… ) … I’d say that’s putting it mildly. ] ‘A speech on Friday by Federal Reserve Governor Daniel Tarullo has bank analyst Dick Bove up in arms.

In a 12-page note yesterday, the Rochdale Securities analyst said Tarullo’s suggestion on Friday that systemically important financial institutions (SIFI) should increase their capital ratios by 20% to 100% above current levels is “a perfect example of what is wrong” with the Fed’s approach to the banking system.

From the note:

The suggestions being made indicate that the Fed has no understanding:

Of what caused the financial collapse
The current structure of the banking industry’s balance sheet
How banks interact with the economy
Why QE2 was a boondoggle for investors in financial instruments but had no impact on the economy

When the Fed should have been tightening restrictions on the banks over the past decade, it loosened them. Now that the economy is either in a pause or slowing down and the Fed should be easing restrictions on the banks, it is tightening them. As a consequence, there is now $1.5 trillion dollars sitting in the Fed earning virtually nothing while unemployment rises and the economy falters.

It is simply incomprehensible that this nation can be so poorly served by those people who should be expected to know what they are doing. Mr. Tarullo’s remarks are so totally absurd that it is difficult to assume that they will ever be heeded.

Raising banks’ capital ratios will have a horrific impact on the economy and one similar to 1937 when the Fed increased reserve ratios twice sending the U.S. back into Depression, Bove argues.

Tarullo said in his speech that he wants the new capital to come from common equity which means banks would likely have to raise the money by issuing new common shares. Bove thinks that’s absurd because banks have already upped their tangible common equity (TCE) as a result of post-financial crisis regulatory pressure.TCE is at 8.56% of assets, the highest in 76 years, he says.

Based on the actual data, going back 76 years, the actions of the banks in the past three years have created one of the safest and soundest banking systems in American history. The Federal Reserve:

Does not believe this
It has simply not looked at the historical numbers, or
It sees a financial disaster brewing that has yet to be revealed.

The banking industry’s focus on restructuring of their balance sheets and raising capital has resulted in a lack of loans for the rest of the economy noting that loans in the banking system fell by $803 billion or 10.2% from Q3, 2008 to Q1, 2011. “What is clear is that the banking industry simply stepped out of the economy. It was not providing funds to meet economic needs. It could not do so given the requirements that were layered upon it. This also happened in the 1930s and 1940s when bank loans fell to 15.9% of bank assets and government securities rose to an estimated 61.0%.”

Nontheless, in the worst case scenario under Tarullo’s suggestion some 20 U.S. banks with more than $50 billion in assets would have to have tangible common equity ratios of 14% of assets. To get to this level, which would be $1.386 trillion in dollar terms, they’d have have to raise $755.7 billion, Bove argues.

“This would require selling 35.3 billion new shares of stock. The dilution would be 106.5%. Some companies, like Regions Financial (RF/$6.36/Sell) would be thrown out of business,” he notes.

Bove also took a hard shot at the Fed’s Quantitative Easing program calling it “a miserable failure.” More from Bove’s Fed-bashing note:

The Federal Reserve is buying $600 billion in Treasury Securities under the program’s mandate.

In six months from the end of October last year to the end of May this year, reserves at the Federal Reserve have jumped by $568 billion and there is still one month to go in QE2. Net free reserves in the system rose by $532 billion.

These numbers indicate that the banking system never put the QE2 money to work in the economy. They simply redeposited it back in the Federal Reserve itself. However, the new money did have one clear impact. It drove up asset values:

The S&P 500 has grown by 13.9% from the end of October to the present; the price of oil is up 12.6%; and gold is up 13.2%.
The annualized rate of inflation in the 4 months to October 2010 as measured by the CPI was 1.4%; the annualized rate in the first four months of this year has been 10.5% (the economy was growing in October of last year and it is slowing now).

But no need to worry because Tarullo’s suggestion is so “absurd” that it’s unlikely to even happen, Bove says.

Well, he actually put it more harshly:

No other country in the world, except perhaps Switzerland, is likely to lose all sense of reality as Mr. Tarullo has. The United States will not get unanimity for this decision anywhere but in the academic halls of the U.S. Federal Reserve.

I unfortunately believe these people may have lost their minds just as the U.S. Congress did when it passed the Dodd/Frank Act. However, the proposal may be taken seriously by investors. If so it spells danger for bank stocks. This is because it is likely that some form of this inane proposal may actually be put in place.’ ‘ ]

Stock Market Losing Streak Hits Five Days at The Wall Street Journal

RALLY FADES, DOLLAR SMASHED, NO HELP FROM BERNANKE: Here's What You Need To Know Business Insider

Top 3 Reasons Markets Crashed After Bernanke Spoke Wall St. Cheat Sheet June 7, 2011 ‘Markets closed down on Wall Street: DJI -0.16% SP500 -0.1% Nasdaq -0.04% Gold - 0.19% Oil 0.74% .

On the commodities front, Oil (NYSE:USO) put on another dollar to close at $98.74, while precious metals were mixed with Gold (NYSE:GLD) was down slightly to $1,546 and Silver (NYSE:SLV) up 1.15%.

Today’s markets were down because:

1) Bernanke admitted the economy was slowing. Well, he admitted it then said he thinks growth will be back soon. Don’t worry, soon. Although lustful traders were hoping for some huge QE3 announcement, Bernanke still gave us more QE 2.5 where the Fed will continue buying securities and accommodating the financial markets as needed. Can someone say, ZIRP?

2) E3 took the baton from Apple. Yesterday Apple held the tech spotlight, but today the exciting video game sector was front and center. Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), Sony (NYSE:SNE), Nintendo and all the big game makers started pulling back the curtain on what gamers will die for during the holiday season (Check Out: E3 Wrap Up. And the Winners are …). That’s 180 degrees away from former tech darling Research in Motion (NASDAQ:RIMM) which keeps crashing and burning.

3) Another Economic Advisor gone. Austan Goolsbee will be leaving his position as chairman of the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers. Wall St. Cheat Sheet Assistant Editor Emily Knapp explores the deeper question, “Why is Obama’s Economic Team Bailing Out?” …’

Bernanke Says Slow Recovery 'Frustrating,' Sticks To Second-Half Optimism at Forbes

The US Debt Limit is Out of Control – Exclusive with Liz Claman Wall St. Cheat Sheet ‘The US is drowning in red ink … and it keeps getting worse. I caught up with Fox Business anchor Liz Claman to get a Cheat Sheet for crazy government spending:

Damien Hoffmna: Liz, politicians seem to be treating the debt limit like a joke — we’ve been raising it for decades. How can we get drunken sailors to limit the bottles at the bar?

Liz Claman: I wouldn’t say anyone in Washington is treating it like a joke. They’re truly nervous about it because they don’t know what will happen if we don’t raise the debt ceiling. What I would say is that neither side is getting serious at ALL about cutting spending. The Republicans said, “We’ll raise it but only if you marry that with spending cuts.” They started out strong.

Rep. Paul Ryan came up with a good starting point but Democrats pounced on it saying it would cut too much from Medicare/Medicaid. His Republican brethren were fine with it until they heard from their constituents who flipped out, yelling, “Why should our Medicare get cut? Tax the wealthy.” In the end, everyone wants to get reelected instead of doing the right — and obviously painful — thing. Cut Medicare and Medicaid…’ [ How ‘bout the obvious, unpainful thing; viz., prosecute the big frauds on wall street and get disgorgement in the hundreds of billions (though the ongoing extant fraud is in the trillions. ]

How the Second-Mortgage Crisis is Gaining MomentumWall St. Cheat Sheet

Down Goes Asia? at Minyanville Lloyd Khaner Jun 07, 2011 ‘The threat of a meltdown in Asia is just one of 19 worries facing investors this week. ‘LLOYD'S WALL OF WORRY The debt crisis in Europe is causing waves in Asia, where major clothing and electronics makers, and others who rely on a strong Eurozone market, are seeing share prices drop or wobble. At home, the US debt ceiling problem is quickly becoming "a lose-lose situation," and other issues -- the housing crisis, unemployment and the fast-approaching end of QE2 -- have investors "freaked." So this week Lloyd's Wall of Worry remains high, at 19 blocks. New fears -- the risk of a catastrophic policy mistake, and the possibility of a meltdown in Asia -- have replaced last week's concerns about currencies and the IMF…:
QE II: My wife says what’s all the hub-bub about the QE II? “It’s a really lovely ship. With bingo on the Lido deck and lots of well dressed people with cool accents from all over the world.” God, I love that woman!

U.S. ECONOMY: Let’s not have everyone panic because we got one or two -- or six -- weak economic reports. Though hopefully a few key people will panic and “FIX IT!” (From the 2:18 mark.)

UNEMPLOYMENT: “The long and winding road, that leads, to your door…” from the unemployment office. Getting sad and tough and mean and nasty and real out there.

U.S. DEBT CEILING: No doubt about it, we are rapidly building another “lose-lose” situation here. We don’t raise it, we lose credibility. We do raise it, we lose credibility.

INVESTOR SENTIMENT: The professional traders are so freaked that they’re wearing straight jackets to work. Amateur traders would do the same but they lost theirs trading against the pros.

HOUSING CRISIS: I’d say let’s just hit the fast forward button to the end of this mess, but I’m afraid that at my age I would look ridiculous in the Mad Max-wear we’re all destined to be donning.

INFLATION: India, strong in many ways but not known to be #1 in any one economic sector until now. It has just landed that coveted top spot as the Asian economy with the highest inflation, fueled by an estimated average salary increase of 13% in 2011.

STOCK MARKET TECHNICALS: Went to one of those Spiritual Readers and Advisors to get the answer to this technical mayhem. I was next in to meet with “Wilomena of Wall Street” when my appointment got canceled. She picked up 1,000 LinkedIn IPO shares and flipped them, thus declaring huge profits and retirement. The market mystery continues.

FLOODS, TORNADOES, VOLCANOES: Massachusetts takes a massive tornado in the chops!?! This ain’t just weird. It’s wicked pissah weird!

OIL PRICES: Frack This! Frack That! Frack Me! Frack You! Pardon my language but I’ll say anything to get the fracking price of oil down.

ARAB SPRING: Don’t look now but spring is about to turn to summer. Summer can be warm, sunny and bright or hot and blazing with fight. As the Zen Master says, “We’ll see.”

LIBYA: Congressional patience running short, our involvement running long. Bad combo.

JAPAN: It may be an island physically but with the third largest economy in the world, it isn’t an island economically.

CHINA: Four interest rate hikes plus eight reserve increases equals twelve taps on the economic brakes. Let’s hope lucky No. 13 doesn’t slip into a stomp that gives all of us whiplash.

ASIAN ECONOMIES: Channeling the voice of the legendary sportscaster Howard Cosell, “Down goes Asia! Down goes Asia! Down goes Asia!”

MARGIN DEBT: It’s high, too high. And it’s in weak hands, too weak.

SOVEREIGN DEBT: Playing our like a Greek tragedy, with real Greeks, real tragedy and every economic player in the world as the chorus. I hereby dub thee, “The Defaultedes!”

COMMODITIES: You know the market is rough when even the most manipulated financial assets in the world can’t be artificially spiked skywards.

POLICY MISTAKE: Like walking a tight rope carrying a tray of pyramid-stacked champagne glasses during hurricane season without net. The world’s major economic powers cannot afford even a slight slip-up. I can’t watch…’

China May Dump Dollar USA Today & CNBC | The dollar fell to a one-month low against a basket of currencies on Tuesday .

Gold firms as dollar slides to one-month low Reuters | Gold firmed on Tuesday as the dollar slid to a one-month low

GM chief pushing for higher gas taxes Detroit News | Dan Akerson wants the federal gas tax boosted as much as $1 a gallon,

IMF rolls out $3 BLN bailout to push Mubarack’s men to top of pyramid International bankers are preparing to hand out a massive loan to Egypt’s temporary leaders, just months after praising the financial growth overseen by the FORMER regime.

Comex Physical Silver Drops To Fresh All Time Low Of 28.8 Million Ounces, 3% Drop Overnight, 30% Drop In Six Weeks When we first started paying attention to the physical (“Registered”) silver held in COMEX warehouses on April 20 following the explosion in the silver price, the total amounted to just over 41 million ounces.

Daily economic briefings disappear from Obama’s White House schedule At some point during the first two years of his administration, President Obama stopped receiving the daily economic briefing that he requested when he took office.

True Cost of Fannie, Freddie Bailouts: $317 Billion, CBO Says The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) says the real cost of the federal government guaranteeing the business of failed mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is $317 billion — not the $130 billion normally claimed by the Obama administration. Goldman Sachs subpoenaed Report says firm’s mortgage-related investments enabled the company to profit while clients lost money. (Washington Post) [ Their stock was down. Why? No mystery there on fraudulent wall street that they’ve got plenty to hide; and, certainly far more beyond the scope of the subpoena. The frauds on wall street et als should be criminally prosecuted, jailed, fined, and disgorgement imposed… an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come! America Is a Failed State Because It Won’t Prosecute Financial Crime Washington’s Blog/ Roche 'The worst part of it ...Obama, who vowed change, has done almost nothing to fix any of it and in fact continues most of the policies that helped get us here in the first place’ ‘INSIDE JOB’ Ferguson wins Oscar for Documentary on the unprosecuted massive extant fraud in the (many) TRILLIONS by the frauds on wall street ( and declares with oscar in hand that not one high level wall street exec has been prosecuted … despite ‘earning’ billiions from the fraud ). UPDATE: MORE CLAIMS OF RACE BIAS AT JUSTICE... `‘`In emotional and personal testimony, an ex-Justice official who quit over the handling of a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party accused his former employer of instructing attorneys in the civil rights division to ignore cases that involve black defendants and white victims 'Cases against Wall Street lag despite Holder’s vows to target financial fraud WP | Obama has promised to hold Wall Street accountable for the meltdown.

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Selling In May Is Very Good Advice This Year Harding / Equity Valuations Are Forming the Second Biggest Bubble in U.S. History Kaspar ... According to Yale University’s Dr. Robert Shiller, the market is now 41% overvalued …only time the markets have been more overvalued .. 1929 & tech bubble. http://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2011/4/12/saupload_cape_thumb1.png PRECHTER: We're Still In A Massive Bear Market And Stocks Will Crash To New Lows Stock Market: 4 Current Warning Signs Navin ‘…1) The 5-year high in the level of insider corporate stock sales is telling. At 565 sells for every 1 buy, it’s never been higher. Yes, it’s normal for insiders to be selling some of their stocks so they can buy new yachts and some of this is pre-planned. But that ratio — which has spiked recently — is extraordinarily high, one might even say off-the-chart.

ECONOMIC CRISIS ARCHIVE

(6-7-11) Dow 12,070 -19 Nasdaq 2,702 -1 S&P 500 1,285 -1 [CLOSE- OIL $99.55 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.90 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS $4.20 REG./ $4.27 MID-GRADE/$4.38 PREM./ $4.53 DIESELL) / GOLD $1,541 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $36.83 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,822 (+56% for year 2009) Metal News for the Day / DOLLAR= .68 EURO, 80 YEN, .60 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go - LOWER)/ Interest Rates: http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield 10 YR NOTE YIELD 3.01% AP Business Highlights Yahoo Market Update T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies - Domestic / International This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope The bull market that never was/were beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’ Must Read Economic / Financial Data This Depression is just beginning The coming depression… thecomingdepression.net The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think Sliding Back Into the Great Depression ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!

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Obama's rating on economy hits new low: poll (Reuters)

Obama: No fears of double-dip recession (AP) [He’s so ‘brave’, he has no fear; and, after all, look at all his wars … yet, reality reality proves he’s all bs, that ‘wobama the b’(for bs). Daily economic briefings disappear from Obama’s White House schedule (I personally believe wobama doesn’t understand economics.) Madoff employee pleads guilty Documents charged Eric Lipkin, a former employee, with helping Madoff perpetrate his epic Ponzi scheme. (Washington Post) [ ‘Tiny taters’! Yet, there are loads of such fraudulent interrelationships on fraudulent wall street, part and parcel of the last and ongoing ubiquitous fraud; albeit too big to fail or jail despite intimations to the contrary. Goldman Sachs subpoenaed Report says firm’s mortgage-related investments enabled the company to profit while clients lost money. (Washington Post) [ Their stock was down. Why? No mystery there on fraudulent wall street that they’ve got plenty to hide; and, certainly far more beyond the scope of the subpoena. The frauds on wall street et als should be criminally prosecuted, jailed, fined, and disgorgement imposed… an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come! America Is a Failed State Because It Won’t Prosecute Financial Crime Washington’s Blog/ Roche 'The worst part of it ...Obama, who vowed change, has done almost nothing to fix any of it and in fact continues most of the policies that helped get us here in the first place’ ‘INSIDE JOB’ Ferguson wins Oscar for Documentary on the unprosecuted massive extant fraud in the (many) TRILLIONS by the frauds on wall street ( and declares with oscar in hand that not one high level wall street exec has been prosecuted … despite ‘earning’ billiions from the fraud ). UPDATE: MORE CLAIMS OF RACE BIAS AT JUSTICE... `‘`In emotional and personal testimony, an ex-Justice official who quit over the handling of a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party accused his former employer of instructing attorneys in the civil rights division to ignore cases that involve black defendants and white victims 'Cases against Wall Street lag despite Holder’s vows to target financial fraud WP | Obama has promised to hold Wall Street accountable for the meltdown.

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Scam artists run amok Double-digit profits in one day from short-sale investing? It’s a sign of fraud, not market savviness. (Washington Post) [ Wow! Separating the wheat from the chaff in terms of fraud on wall street is, owing to pervasiveness, a job that even Mr. Phelps of ‘Mission Impossible’ fame couldn’t handle. After all, what isn’t fraudulent on wall street today? Nothing … nada … zed … zero. Report: SEC lawyer exposed FBI informant (Washington Post) [ Clearly, the sec liar (sic – lawyer) is one of those typically with a ‘pre or post’ arrangement, whether implicit or explicit; you know, that ubiquitous ‘bribe thing’ in pervasively corrupt, defacto bankrupt, fallen america. Indeed, the scenario typifies that national drain / sinkhole new york (new york / new jersey metro) where, for example, FBI informants were routinely exposed by ‘italians’ in the new york d.a.’s office over objection of the FBI, and were promptly ‘dispatched’/assassinated / hit by mafia / organized crime [ this was documented with authority in the book Goombata: The Improbable Rise and Fall of John Gotti and His Gang John Cummings (Author), Ernest Volkman (Author) Though having but 5% of the world’s population, u.s. has 76% of the world’s serial killers, http://www.albertpeia.com/realifeamericaserialkillers.mpg bankrupt america also spends more on military than all the nations of the world combined... fed employees / contractors, cia, all 3 branches of u.s. gov’t, etc., are included in this evolved american trait of inherent criminality http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm ]:

Major Swiss Newspaper Gives Bilderberg Front Page Coverage Steve Watson | An influential Swiss daily newspaper has today awarded front page coverage to stories on this week’s secretive elite Bilderberg meeting.

Top Bilderberger: Eurozone Collapse Threatens Global Currency Agenda Paul Joseph Watson | Harvard Professor reveals globalists are panic-stricken about Greece debt default threat to survival of single currency.

Are Ridiculous Airport Security Measures Killing Airline Profits? The American Dream | Over the past couple of years, the attitude of U.S. consumers towards flying has shifted dramatically.

Whole Foods admits its organic foods contain genetically modified ingredients Natural News | Genetically modified foods have become so ubiquitous in the US that even the grocery store ‘Whole Foods’ now admits it cannot keep biotech foods off its shelves.

10 Tipping Points Which Could Potentially Plunge The World Into A Horrific Economic Nightmare The Economic Collapse | The global economy has become so incredibly unstable at this point that it is not going to take much to plunge the world into a horrific economic nightmare.

Drone surveillance in the US? Alex Jones says ‘the whole world is in danger’ RT | As the US plans to increase drone aircraft usage abroad, now law enforcement in the States is getting ready to adopt robotic planes back home for surveillance purposes.

Proposed New Airport Checkpoints Include Iris Recognition, In Built Full body Scanners Anyone whose behaviour raised concern – such as a passenger buying a one way ticket in cash – would go through a different channel which would also feature a full body scanner.

Dollar Index at 1-Month Low as China Warns on US Assets The dollar fell to a one-month low against a basket of currencies on Tuesday and a record low against the Swiss franc after a Chinese official said the greenback would continue to weaken versus other major currencies.

Obama’s rating on economy hits new low: poll Americans’ disapproval of how President Barack Obama is handling the economy and its growing budget deficit has reached new highs amid broad frustration over the slow pace of economic recovery, according to a Washington Post-ABC New poll released on Tuesday.

Top Bilderberger: Eurozone Collapse Threatens Global Currency Agenda A top Bilderberg member has revealed that globalists are panic-stricken about a potential eurozone crisis caused by a Greek debt default that could precipitate the collapse of the Euro and also derail the wider agenda for multi-regional currency unions and eventually a global currency system.

10 Tipping Points Which Could Potentially Plunge The World Into A Horrific Economic Nightmare The global economy has become so incredibly unstable at this point that it is not going to take much to plunge the world into a horrific economic nightmare.

Drone surveillance in the US? Alex Jones says ‘the whole world is in danger’ As the US plans to increase drone aircraft usage abroad, now law enforcement in the States is getting ready to adopt robotic planes back home for surveillance purposes. While drone usage is expected to be expanded in America by 2013, Infowar’s Alex Jones says that in some states it has already been happening for years.     All misquotes are not created equal For politicians, the power of a historic quote is alluring. Whether it has to be accurate is another thing. Fact Checker: Sarah Palin’s midnight ride (Washington Post) [ Yeah! She’s all that … dumb! The joke that keeps on giving … particularly to SNL among other late-night comic fare … yet, the ‘pizza klatch’ with the other fake reality show joke that keeps on giving, t_rump, part of that new york / new jersey metro sinkhole, made for the 2 for 1 comedic concentration that was ‘free-for-all’ … to see.    Why we read Palin’s tell-all The underlying interest says something more primal than simply our fascination with Mama Grizzly. (Washington Post) [ I’d say it’s more of a curious fascination with the ‘new american dumb’. After all, who can deny the boost she got from SNL’s Tina Fey’s impresarios highlighting same. Yet, in comparison with and juxtaposed to the rest of the Washington field (mccain, bush, wobama, et als), she’s got plenty of cover / camouflage. Send to a friendSarah Palin: Don't pick on Donald Trump Politico - ‎Even though Donald Trump has wholeheartedly embraced the wall-to-wall media coverage that's come with his promotion of the widely discredited “birther” issue, Sarah Palin argued Tuesday that the press is treating him ...   Trump's business success claims questioned CBS News ‘…Trump hotels and casinos in Atlantic City have filed for bankruptcy protection three times. While Trump blamed market forces, he has long been chairman of the board for the casino businesses.In his defense, Trump said he "didn't run the company." Isikoff then asked why he was paid $2 million per year to chair the board of that business. Trump replied: "Excuse me. Because I'm a genius, okay."Trump said many different businesses license the use of his name, but he's not directly involved in their operations.Casinos have not been the only weakness in the Trump empire. There have been many high profile bankruptcy filings, bad real estate deals, and a trail of ongoing lawsuits accusing him of bad business practices.Another questionable move was "Trump University," an online, for-profit business education firm. The attorney general in Texas ordered him to stop using the word "university" in its title. Trump said his company was unaware of restrictions on the use of that word.Isikoff also said he asked Trump if he thought the state of Hawaii was lying in regards to Obama being born there, and he did not answer the question. In summation of his experiences that qualify him to be President of the United States, Trump told Isikoff: "My successes...have been vast. I don't even view myself as having failures, and I certainly learned from things that don't work out as well." ‘ As Trump rants, TV ratings slide Tampabay.com     Parker: The GOP plays a crazy Trump card   (Washington Post) [ I don't know what polls Ms. Parker's referring to; but unless she's referring to mobster trump apprentice news (trump was fired from his own casino company), that certainly doesn't comport with polls I've read. Moreover, like palin, trump's the joke that keeps on giving (for SNL, late-night talk hosts, etc.) ...’ ‘The picture was of me, and I sent it’ In an extraordinary reversal at an extraordinary news conference, N.Y. Rep. Anthony Weiner said that he had in fact sent multiple inappropriate messages to multiple women but that he had done nothing illegal and would not resign. (Washington Post) [ Yes, indeedy! It was Tony’s weeny! Anthony’s Weiner! Drudgereport: `WHACKED, NOT HACKED!`
`'Used govt. resources'...`
`Breitbart: 'I Want To Hear Truth'...`
`6 'inappropriate' relationships...`
`ABCNEWS: Mystery Woman Revealed...`
`HER STORY...`
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`VIDEO: 'Web of lies'...TWITTER TEARS: WEINER ADMITSREPORT: Woman claims to have 200 explicit messages from NY Dem...`
`IT MIGHT BE MY WEINER!       REPORT: WEINER'S TALE UNRAVELING...`By Daniel Libit Sunday, June 5, 2011 ‘As the world has attempted to make sense of Rep. Anthony Weiner’s claim that his Twitter account was hacked, a key clue has been missing: exactly how the notorious groin pic was posted online. But according to data provided exclusively to The Daily from TweetCongress.org, a nonprofit website that captures each member of Congress’s Twitter feeds in real time, the shot seen round the world was transmitted using TweetDeck — a popular Adobe desktop application that links up with social networking sites. A review of Weiner’s Twitter stream from May 27, the day of the crotch pic, shows that Weiner had been posting only from TweetDeck — one of many ways to post messages to Twitter — that entire night. Chet Wisniewski, a senior security adviser at security software company SophosLabs, said the TweetDeck stamp “does make it more plausible that it did come from him.” Weiner used TweetDeck frequently, but he often also posted from the Web directly or from his BlackBerry. A widely circulated explanation for how Weiner’s Twitter account could have been hacked by email would also seem to be incompatible with the fact that the message in question originated on TweetDeck. If email had been used, the message probably would have originated via the photosharing site Yfrog, where the infamous picture was posted …’ [ Weiner admits he sent lewd picture; won't quit (AP) - After days of denials, a choked-up Rep. Anthony Weiner confessed Monday that he tweeted a photo of his bulging underpants to a young woman, and he also admitted to "inappropriate" excha...’ Tearful US congressman admits to crotch photos (AFP)   ]
`'This Could Be The End For Him'...`
`'Have You Ever Taken A Picture Like This Of Yourself?'...WEINER CALLS COPS ON CBS` WASHINGTON (CBSNewYork) — ‘Congressman Anthony Weiner said Thursday he’s finished talking about the lewd photo sent from his Twitter account.But he still wouldn’t say whether he’s the one in the picture.So CBS 2 political reporter Marcia Kramer decided to go to his office on Capitol Hill to try to get you some answers.You’ll never believe what happened.Kramer tried to get an interview with the six-term New York Democrat and as a result had the cops called on her.Kramer walked in to Weiner’s office, announced herself as being from CBS 2 in New York City and said she’d like to see the congressman. Those few words created quite the stir. Doors slammed and people pretended she wasn’t there ...’    Weiner’s efforts don’t cool furor The congressman said that he didn’t send a lewd photo on Twitter but also that he couldn’t “say with certitude” whether the image was of his own crotch. (Washington Post) [ ‘Weiner’s weiner’! ‘Not cool furor’ … how ‘bout just plain ‘not cool’. Eh … what can you expect from national drain / sinkhole new york (new york / new jersey metro). I haven’t read but probably agree with the following article: Listen up, fellas: Naked man-parts? Not so sexy. (Washington Post) / … Even Mr. Milbank weighs in: ‘The Weiner roast Congressman finds himself in a fight he does not relish.’ Report: SEC lawyer exposed FBI informant (Washington Post) [ Clearly, the sec liar (sic – lawyer) is one of those typically with a ‘pre or post’ arrangement, whether implicit or explicit; you know, that ubiquitous ‘bribe thing’ in pervasively corrupt, defacto bankrupt, fallen america. Indeed, the scenario typifies that national drain / sinkhole new york (new york / new jersey metro) where, for example, FBI informants were routinely exposed by ‘italians’ in the new york d.a.’s office over objection of the FBI, and were promptly ‘dispatched’/assassinated / hit by mafia / organized crime [ this was documented with authority in the book Goombata: The Improbable Rise and Fall of John Gotti and His Gang John Cummings (Author), Ernest Volkman (Author) Though having but 5% of the world’s population, u.s. has 76% of the world’s serial killers,          http://www.albertpeia.com/realifeamericaserialkillers.mpg     bankrupt america also spends more on military than all the nations of the world combined... fed employees / contractors, cia, all 3 branches of u.s. gov’t, etc., are included in this evolved american trait of inherent criminality http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf       http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm ]:

Democratic change in Bahrain does not serve US interests: Kissinger Former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger emphasized that a democratic change in Bahrain did not serve the interests of his country, highlighting once again the western double standard towards the Arab revolt, the daily Die Welt reported Monday. Poll: Support for Afghan war rises Finding may give Obama breathing room as he decides how many troops to withdraw from in July. (Washington Post) [ Ah, riiiiight! Living proof that americans are not only dumb as h**l, but masochistic as well! After all, pervasively corrupt america is defacto bankrupt, with all that that portends for americans in the most negative sense. `Drudgereport: TEMPLETON chairman: Financial Crisis 'Around Corner'... 'WE ARE ON THE VERGE OF A GREAT, GREAT DEPRESSION...'` ECONOMIC 'HORROR' AS DATA PLUNGES `Dow Has Longest Weekly Slump Since '04...` `Housing prices fall 'beats Great Depression slide'...` . Davis ‘This is how we pay off our current debts and I think bondholders are simply happy to get anything out of a country that admits it owes $15Tn (1/4 of global GDP) but probably owes closer to $60Tn (entire global GDP) in the form of unfunded liabilities. The funniest thing about this (and you have to laugh) is to see Conservative pundits get on TV and talk about how we need to cut $100Bn worth of discretionary spending to "fix" this (while continuing to spend $1Tn on the military and $1Tn on tax cuts for the top 1% each year). There is no fixing this and even a Republican said you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. THIS HOUSE OF CARDS IS TEETERING FOLKS – PLEASE BE CAREFUL OUT THERE! ‘ Senate Dems find themselves in a tough spot (WP) [ Tough spot? Like Iraq and a hard place called Afghanistan; indeed they are. [Pakistani troops, NATO helicopters engage in firefight 6th soldier charged in plot to kill Afghan civilians (WaWP) [ Gen. Hamid Gul: U.S. Generals Provoking War with Pakistan FLASHBACK: Editorial: US in quagmire War in Afghanistan and Iraq costs America $1trillion Roche 'The worst part of it ...Obama, who vowed change, has done almost nothing to fix any of it and in fact continues most of the policies that helped get us here in the first place’ UPDATE: MORE CLAIMS OF RACE BIAS AT JUSTICE... ignore cases that involve black defendants and white victims Cases against Wall Street lag despite Holder’s vows to target financial fraud WP Obama has promised to hold Wall Street accountable for the meltdown.
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Are Ridiculous Airport Security Measures Killing Airline Profits? Over the past couple of years, the attitude of U.S. consumers towards flying has shifted dramatically. Once upon a time most Americans looked forward to flying, but thanks to rising airfares, horrific fees and ridiculous airport security measures that has changed.

FDA sends US marshals to seize elderberry juice concentrate, deems it ‘unapproved drug’ Wyldewood Cellars, a Kansas-based producer and distributor of elderberry juice, is the latest raid target of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which recently sent US marshals to the company’s winery in Mulvane to confiscate the “unapproved drug.”

Japan Finally Admits TOTAL Meltdown at 3 Nuclear Reactors Within Hours of Earthquake … And More Than DOUBLES Estimate of Radiation Released After Accident For months, Tepco and Japanese officials refused to admit that there had been any meltdowns at Fukushima.

Israeli forces kill 18 protesters: Syrian TV (Reuters)

Drudgereport: TEMPLETON chairman: Financial Crisis 'Around Corner'... 'WE ARE ON THE VERGE OF A GREAT, GREAT DEPRESSION...'ECONOMIC 'HORROR' AS DATA PLUNGES
Dow Has Longest Weekly Slump Since '04...
Housing prices fall 'beats Great Depression slide'... CHICAGOLAND: Flash Mobs Attack 2 Men...TAX FURY IN ATHENS AS GOV'T FACES DEBT'Bankrupt' claim heightens Spanish debt fears...
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MAY JOBS: +54,000...
MCDONALD'S hired half...
Fears stoked of a 'double-dip'... CBO: True Cost of Fannie, Freddie Bailouts $317 Billion, Not $130 Billion Obama Claims...
Taxpayers Still Bailing Out Banks...
WH: 'Bumps on the road to recovery'...
O gets booed...LET'S GOLF ABOUT ITChina Divests 97% of Holdings in US Treasury Bills... DOOM: More Americans Think Economy Will Never Recover...
GOP sees Obama as increasingly beatable...
Recovery Languishing as Americans Await Signal of Better Times... Congress Delivers Obama 'Stunning Rebuke on Libya'... Weiner withdraws from speaking engagement... Dow tumbles 280 points...
Private Sector Jobs Grew By Only 38,000 in May...
Planned Layoffs Up...
Manufacturing Slows... MOODY'S: US Rating Could Be Placed Under Review... Greece goes further into junk territory; MOODY'S downgrades...
AP: Consumer confidence falls 'unexpectedly' in May...
BARONE: Pro-Obama media always shocked by bad economic news...
Home-price index at lowest point since 2006 bust...
'Double-Dip' Even Worse Than Expected...
GOLDMAN SACHS: $5 gas this summer... Number of federal-owned limousines has soared under Obama... Obama bailout of GOV'T MOTORS to cost taxpayers at least $14 billion... Obama solicitor general: Don't like healthcare mandate, earn less money!
REPORT: Senate's 100 members spend $40M for 700 offices nationwide... 7 'NATO troops' killed Thursday were American... British Health Care Program in Grave Peril... Netanyahu: Israel cannot prevent UN recognition of Palestinian state...
First ID'ed as 'Int'l Security Assistance Force service members'...
Deadliest day this year... WARS RAGE ON...
U.S. Dead in Afghanistan Tops 1,500...
OBAMA HITS GOLF COURSE FOR ROUND NO. 70...ON THE GROUND IN LIBYAAnti-Christian Violence Continues in Pakistan... UPDATE: MIAMI 'WAR ZONE' DURING URBAN WEEKEND...
'I was scared for my life'...
Poet 'Da Real One' Gunned Down In Front Of Miami Poetry Cafe...
Violent crime explodes in Myrtle during Black Bike Week; 8-hour hell...
Rib Fest At Rochester beach turns rowdy...
Riot On Long Island...
Urban Melee In Charlotte...
Chaos causes DNC concern for convention...
Unruly urban crowd shuts down Nashville water park...
Emanuel shuts down packed Chicago beach; 'heat-related illnesses'...
REPORT: 'Dozens of gang bangers'...TEEN GANGS UNLEASHED ON BOSTON BEACH
WHO: Radiation From Cell Phones Can Cause Cancer... In same category as lead, engine exhaust, chloroform... VIDEO: Woman Screams For Help After TSA Molestation... REPORT: Weiner coached woman to lie...
TMZ: Offered PR help...
Dems Begin Peeling Off...
Breitbart says he has X-rated photo... WHACKED, NOT HACKED!
'Used govt. resources'...
Breitbart: 'I Want To Hear Truth'...
6 'inappropriate' relationships...
ABCNEWS: Mystery Woman Revealed...
HER STORY...
Risqué Online Chats, Photo Swaps...
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VIDEO: 'Web of lies'...TWITTER TEARS: WEINER ADMITSREPORT: Woman claims to have 200 explicit messages from NY Dem...
IT MIGHT BE MY WEINER! REPORT: WEINER'S TALE UNRAVELING...By Daniel Libit Sunday, June 5, 2011 ‘As the world has attempted to make sense of Rep. Anthony Weiner’s claim that his Twitter account was hacked, a key clue has been missing: exactly how the notorious groin pic was posted online. But according to data provided exclusively to The Daily from TweetCongress.org, a nonprofit website that captures each member of Congress’s Twitter feeds in real time, the shot seen round the world was transmitted using TweetDeck — a popular Adobe desktop application that links up with social networking sites. A review of Weiner’s Twitter stream from May 27, the day of the crotch pic, shows that Weiner had been posting only from TweetDeck — one of many ways to post messages to Twitter — that entire night. Chet Wisniewski, a senior security adviser at security software company SophosLabs, said the TweetDeck stamp “does make it more plausible that it did come from him.” Weiner used TweetDeck frequently, but he often also posted from the Web directly or from his BlackBerry. A widely circulated explanation for how Weiner’s Twitter account could have been hacked by email would also seem to be incompatible with the fact that the message in question originated on TweetDeck. If email had been used, the message probably would have originated via the photosharing site Yfrog, where the infamous picture was posted …’ [ Weiner admits he sent lewd picture; won't quit (AP) - After days of denials, a choked-up Rep. Anthony Weiner confessed Monday that he tweeted a photo of his bulging underpants to a young woman, and he also admitted to "inappropriate" excha...’ Tearful US congressman admits to crotch photos (AFP) ]
'This Could Be The End For Him'... ’Pot Calls Kettle Black’:Donald Trump Unloads on Anthony Weiner: "He's a Psycho" - Donald Trump has a new target, and boy does he look pleased. "The fact is, Anthony Weiner is a bad guy," the Celebrity Apprentice honcho, who recently decided against running for...
'Have You Ever Taken A Picture Like This Of Yourself?'...WEINER CALLS COPS ON CBS WASHINGTON (CBSNewYork) — ‘Congressman Anthony Weiner said Thursday he’s finished talking about the lewd photo sent from his Twitter account.But he still wouldn’t say whether he’s the one in the picture.So CBS 2 political reporter Marcia Kramer decided to go to his office on Capitol Hill to try to get you some answers.You’ll never believe what happened.Kramer tried to get an interview with the six-term New York Democrat and as a result had the cops called on her.Kramer walked in to Weiner’s office, announced herself as being from CBS 2 in New York City and said she’d like to see the congressman. Those few words created quite the stir. Doors slammed and people pretended she wasn’t there ...’ Weiner’s efforts don’t cool furor The congressman said that he didn’t send a lewd photo on Twitter but also that he couldn’t “say with certitude” whether the image was of his own crotch. (Washington Post) [ ‘Weiner’s weiner’! ‘Not cool furor’ … how ‘bout just plain ‘not cool’. Eh … what can you expect from national drain / sinkhole new york (new york / new jersey metro). I haven’t read but probably agree with the following article: Listen up, fellas: Naked man-parts? Not so sexy. (Washington Post) / … Even Mr. Milbank weighs in: ‘The Weiner roast Congressman finds himself in a fight he does not relish.’ Report: SEC lawyer exposed FBI informant (Washington Post) [ Clearly, the sec liar (sic – lawyer) is one of those typically with a ‘pre or post’ arrangement, whether implicit or explicit; you know, that ubiquitous ‘bribe thing’ in pervasively corrupt, defacto bankrupt, fallen america. Indeed, the scenario typifies that national drain / sinkhole new york (new york / new jersey metro) where, for example, FBI informants were routinely exposed by ‘italians’ in the new york d.a.’s office over objection of the FBI, and were promptly ‘dispatched’/assassinated / hit by mafia / organized crime [ this was documented with authority in the book ‘Goombata: The Improbable Rise and Fall of John Gotti and His Gang’ John Cummings (Author), Ernest Volkman (Author) Though having but 5% of the world’s population, u.s. has 76% of the world’s serial killers, http://www.albertpeia.com/realifeamericaserialkillers.mpg bankrupt america also spends more on military than all the nations of the world combined... fed employees / contractors, cia, all 3 branches of u.s. gov’t, etc., are included in this evolved american trait of inherent criminality http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm ]:

Focus Is on Obama as Tensions Soar Across Mideast (New York Times) [ Adapt? I don’t think so! I do believe that both nations are regressively but nostalgically trying bring the world back to failed geopolitical paradigms that made the 20th century the bloodiest century, not coincidentally the american century (obviously for israel the latter half century). Yet, such a conditioned psychopathic approach to global matters has led them self-destructively, self-defeatingly, and ineluctably to decline, fall, and as with dinosaurs, extinction, at least in a manner of speaking. Global information exchange at lightning speed has made such throwbacks to a lost era, propaganda, and maladaptive traits foolish at best, deadly at worst. Intelligent people worldwide aren’t buying the obsolete, Orwellian approach fostered by the purveyors of global unrest; viz., israel, america, Orwellian england, etc..; more specifically, diversion of the masses from the glaring failures of leadership, economic and otherwise.

CRIME STATISTICS >(america is No. 1)

Rank	Countries	Amount
# 1	United States:	11,877,218
# 2	United Kingdom:	6,523,706
# 3	Germany:	6,507,394

UPDATE: MORE CLAIMS OF RACE BIAS AT JUSTICE... ‘ignore cases that involve black defendants and white victims ' Cases against Wall Street lag despite Holder’s vows to target financial fraud WP | Obama has promised to hold Wall Street accountable for the meltdown.
THE OBAMA DECEPTION’ http://albertpeia.com/obamadeceptionhighqualityversion.flv

`Drudgereport: TEMPLETON chairman: Financial Crisis 'Around Corner'... 'WE ARE ON THE VERGE OF A GREAT, GREAT DEPRESSION...'`ECONOMIC 'HORROR' AS DATA PLUNGES
`Dow Has Longest Weekly Slump Since '04...`
`Housing prices fall 'beats Great Depression slide'...`

Bove: Fed Is Clueless On Bank Regulations at Forbes Halah Touryalai [ ‘..QE2 was a boondoggle for investors in financial instruments but had no impact on the economy ‘ . Yeah! Boondoggle, fraud, ongoing fraud / coverup in the trillions (The Real “Margin” Threat: $600 Trillion In OTC Derivatives, A Multi-Trillion Variation Margin Call, And A Collateral Scramble That Could Send US Treasurys To All Time Records… ) … I’d say that’s putting it mildly. ] ‘A speech on Friday by Federal Reserve Governor Daniel Tarullo has bank analyst Dick Bove up in arms.

From the note:

The suggestions being made indicate that the Fed has no understanding:

· Of what caused the financial collapse

· The current structure of the banking industry’s balance sheet

· How banks interact with the economy

· Why QE2 was a boondoggle for investors in financial instruments but had no impact on the economy

Raising banks’ capital ratios will have a horrific impact on the economy and one similar to 1937 when the Fed increased reserve ratios twice sending the U.S. back into Depression, Bove argues.

· Does not believe this

· It has simply not looked at the historical numbers, or

· It sees a financial disaster brewing that has yet to be revealed.

“This would require selling 35.3 billion new shares of stock. The dilution would be 106.5%. Some companies, like Regions Financial (RF/$6.36/Sell) would be thrown out of business,” he notes.

Bove also took a hard shot at the Fed’s Quantitative Easing program calling it “a miserable failure.” More from Bove’s Fed-bashing note:

The Federal Reserve is buying $600 billion in Treasury Securities under the program’s mandate.

· The S&P 500 has grown by 13.9% from the end of October to the present; the price of oil is up 12.6%; and gold is up 13.2%.

· The annualized rate of inflation in the 4 months to October 2010 as measured by the CPI was 1.4%; the annualized rate in the first four months of this year has been 10.5% (the economy was growing in October of last year and it is slowing now).

But no need to worry because Tarullo’s suggestion is so “absurd” that it’s unlikely to even happen, Bove says.

Well, he actually put it more harshly:

Goldman Sachs subpoenaed Report says firm’s mortgage-related investments enabled the company to profit while clients lost money. (Washington Post) [ Their stock was down. Why? No mystery there on fraudulent wall street that they’ve got plenty to hide; and, certainly far more beyond the scope of the subpoena. The frauds on wall street et als should be criminally prosecuted, jailed, fined, and disgorgement imposed… an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come! America Is a Failed State Because It Won’t Prosecute Financial Crime Washington’s Blog/ Roche 'The worst part of it ...Obama, who vowed change, has done almost nothing to fix any of it and in fact continues most of the policies that helped get us here in the first place’ ‘INSIDE JOB’ Ferguson wins Oscar for Documentary on the unprosecuted massive extant fraud in the (many) TRILLIONS by the frauds on wall street ( and declares with oscar in hand that not one high level wall street exec has been prosecuted … despite ‘earning’ billiions from the fraud ). UPDATE: MORE CLAIMS OF RACE BIAS AT JUSTICE... `‘`In emotional and personal testimony, an ex-Justice official who quit over the handling of a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party accused his former employer of instructing attorneys in the civil rights division to ignore cases that involve black defendants and white victims 'Cases against Wall Street lag despite Holder’s vows to target financial fraud WP | Obama has promised to hold Wall Street accountable for the meltdown.

‘THE OBAMA DECEPTION’ http://albertpeia.com/obamadeceptionhighqualityversion.flv

Meredith Whitney Adds 10 New States To Her Sh*t List Bess Levin ‘ The Dollar Dominatrix has issued a new state budget and debt report and Arizona, Nevada, Connecticut, Wisconsin? Might want to run. (Also, re last year’s prediction on muni bond defaults- she was just ball-parking, no one should’ve taken those numbers at face value.)

Whitney tells Fortune she never meant to make more than a general forecast. “I never intended on framing the scale of defaults as a precise estimate, but I continue to believe that degree of municipal defaults will be borne out over the cycle. I meant to point out that the state debt problem is a massive headwind for the U.S. economy, second in importance only to housing.”

[...]

Whitney’s latest report is even more thorough than last year’s analysis that started the uproar. It covers 25 of the largest states, adding ten new ones to the list, including Arizona, Nevada, Connecticut, and Wisconsin. The problem starts with spending. Since 2003, state governments have raised annual outlays from $1.5 trillion to almost $2.2 trillion, or $700 billion, yet tax receipts have risen only $400 billion or $300 billion less, to $1.4 trillion. In fact, spending kept surging all during the recession, while income from sales, income and corporate taxes went totally flat in 2007.

M-Dubs doesn’t put everyone on notice, however. Whereas Connecticut receives one whip of the cat-o-nine-nails for every dollar over budget, Indiana, which gets a pat on the head and a scratch behind the ears, is dubbed a “model citizen.”

Meredith Whitney State Finances Are Worst Than Estimated [Fortune via Katie Benner] ‘

Economic news breaks Obama’s momentum Just as things seemed to be swinging in his favor, a weak jobs report and a renewed drop in housing prices present new challenges to reelection bid. (Washington Post) [ Momentum? … What parallel universe are these people living in. Wobama’s already a failed president. Like ‘unringing a bell’, wobama’s failed presidency cannot be undone. After all, his undoing was his own doing; the minute he began reneging on campaign promises which were made because they needed doing. But, clearly, wobama’s not alone in his failure: Milbank: Congress clocks in to clock out (WP) [ ‘... In a sense, the Senate has been in a pro-forma session all year…’ Now who’s being charitable … I’d say Mr. Milbank in his euphemistic description supra as well as his unflinching defense of wobama the b (for bs) despite wobama’s reneging on virtually all his campaign promises / rhetoric to the nation’s unequivocal detriment. It is Mr. Milbank, journalistically speaking, who as well clocks in to clock out. Simply put, wobama is nothing less than the worst of the democratic platform combined with the worst of the republican platform. At near single digit approval rates for congress, I find it difficult to imagine a realistic approval rate for wobama exceeding same. Davis ‘This is how we pay off our current debts and I think bondholders are simply happy to get anything out of a country that admits it owes $15Tn (1/4 of global GDP) but probably owes closer to $60Tn (entire global GDP) in the form of unfunded liabilities. The funniest thing about this (and you have to laugh) is to see Conservative pundits get on TV and talk about how we need to cut $100Bn worth of discretionary spending to "fix" this (while continuing to spend $1Tn on the military and $1Tn on tax cuts for the top 1% each year). There is no fixing this and even a Republican said you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. THIS HOUSE OF CARDS IS TEETERING FOLKS – PLEASE BE CAREFUL OUT THERE! ‘ Senate Dems find themselves in a tough spot (WP) [ Tough spot? Like Iraq and a hard place called Afghanistan; indeed they are. [Pakistani troops, NATO helicopters engage in firefight 6th soldier charged in plot to kill Afghan civilians (WaWP) [ Gen. Hamid Gul: U.S. Generals Provoking War with Pakistan FLASHBACK: Editorial: US in quagmire War in Afghanistan and Iraq costs America $1trillion Roche 'The worst part of it ...Obama, who vowed change, has done almost nothing to fix any of it and in fact continues most of the policies that helped get us here in the first place’ UPDATE: MORE CLAIMS OF RACE BIAS AT JUSTICE... ignore cases that involve black defendants and white victims Cases against Wall Street lag despite Holder’s vows to target financial fraud WP Obama has promised to hold Wall Street accountable for the meltdown.
THE OBAMA DECEPTION’ http://albertpeia.com/obamadeceptionhighqualityversion.flv ]

Scam artists run amok Double-digit profits in one day from short-sale investing? It’s a sign of fraud, not market savviness. (Washington Post) [ Wow! Separating the wheat from the chaff in terms of fraud on wall street is, owing to pervasiveness, a job that even Mr. Phelps of ‘Mission Impossible’ fame couldn’t handle. After all, what isn’t fraudulent on wall street today? Nothing … nada … zed … zero. Report: SEC lawyer exposed FBI informant (Washington Post) [ Clearly, the sec liar (sic – lawyer) is one of those typically with a ‘pre or post’ arrangement, whether implicit or explicit; you know, that ubiquitous ‘bribe thing’ in pervasively corrupt, defacto bankrupt, fallen america. Indeed, the scenario typifies that national drain / sinkhole new york (new york / new jersey metro) where, for example, FBI informants were routinely exposed by ‘italians’ in the new york d.a.’s office over objection of the FBI, and were promptly ‘dispatched’/assassinated / hit by mafia / organized crime [ this was documented with authority in the book Goombata: The Improbable Rise and Fall of John Gotti and His Gang John Cummings (Author), Ernest Volkman (Author) Though having but 5% of the world’s population, u.s. has 76% of the world’s serial killers, http://www.albertpeia.com/realifeamericaserialkillers.mpg bankrupt america also spends more on military than all the nations of the world combined... fed employees / contractors, cia, all 3 branches of u.s. gov’t, etc., are included in this evolved american trait of inherent criminality http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm ]:

Focus Is on Obama as Tensions Soar Across Mideast (New York Times) [ Adapt? I don’t think so! I do believe that both nations are regressively but nostalgically trying bring the world back to failed geopolitical paradigms that made the 20th century the bloodiest century, not coincidentally the american century (obviously for israel the latter half century). Yet, such a conditioned psychopathic approach to global matters has led them self-destructively, self-defeatingly, and ineluctably to decline and fall. Global information exchange at lightning speed has made such throwbacks to a lost era, propaganda, and maladaptive traits foolish at best, deadly at worst. Intelligent people worldwide aren’t buying the obsolete, Orwellian approach fostered by the purveyors of global unrest; viz., israel, america, Orwellian england, etc..; more specifically, diversion of the masses from the glaring failures of leadership, economic and otherwise.

CRIME STATISTICS >(america is No. 1)

Rank	Countries	Amount
# 1	United States:	11,877,218
# 2	United Kingdom:	6,523,706
# 3	Germany:	6,507,394

UPDATE: MORE CLAIMS OF RACE BIAS AT JUSTICE... ‘ignore cases that involve black defendants and white victims ' Cases against Wall Street lag despite Holder’s vows to target financial fraud WP | Obama has promised to hold Wall Street accountable for the meltdown.
THE OBAMA DECEPTION’ http://albertpeia.com/obamadeceptionhighqualityversion.flv ]

Will the Fed do QE3? As soon as the disappointing jobs report crossed the wires, the Wall Street chatter began to speculate. (Washington Post) [ Well, we all know that nothing succeeds quite like failure in america; you know, that new normal for pervasively corrupt, defacto bankrupt america. Yes, we all know that QE has been a dismal and costly failure unless the measure of success is the increased wealth of the frauds on wall street; after all, as with this still extant financial crisis (toxic assets/paper/securities cashed out and still out there in the trillions though now marked to anything as per legislated mandate / complicity / FASB rule change) , your dollars actually and ultimately financed their ill-gotten gains which never seem to translate into the promised job, economic gains and go on despite well-founded, prominent warnings that the same will not succeed and have, as warned, exacerbated that which was meant to be cured. JOBS REPORT MUCH WORSE THAN EXPECTED! Previous day: Economic outlook hinges on jobs report Beware the next big fraud When will we see the next big fraud and a massive burst in the secondary markets bubble? Not soon enough, I fear. (Washington Post) [ Next? How ‘bout we’re still in the midst of that continuing multi-trilliion dollar fraud marked to anything … The frauds on wall street et als should be criminally prosecuted, jailed, fined, and disgorgement imposed), Billion Dollar Fund Managers Agree: The Government Never Fixed the Underlying Economic Problems, So We’ll Have Another Crash infowars.com While the snake oil salespeople at the retail investing level and the bobble heads on the kool aid selling financial channels have been saying for years that we’re in a “recovery” (albeit a slow one), billion dollar fund managers say that nothing has changed and we’ll have another crash … Roche 'The worst part of it ...Obama, who vowed change, has done almost nothing to fix any of it and in fact continues most of the policies that helped get us here in the first place’ ‘INSIDE JOB’ Ferguson wins Oscar for Documentary on the unprosecuted massive extant fraud in the (many) TRILLIONS by the frauds on wall street ( and declares with oscar in hand that not one high level wall street exec has been prosecuted … despite ‘earning’ billions from the fraud ). Dave's Daily 'If you can keep interest rates this low this long, its inevitable cheap financing can allow companies to start cobbling each other up. Further Ben's policies allow companies like IBM to sell bonds at 1% and buy back shares with the proceeds (total paper bubble-scam). POMO is occurring almost daily and Primary Dealers can buy back their shares and pay dividends with what essentially is taxpayer money-- … an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come! America Is a Failed State Because It Won’t Prosecute Financial Crime Washington’s Blog / the grim economic reality [ http://albertpeia.com/grimreality.htm ]. Selling In May Is Very Good Advice This Year Harding Equity Valuations Are Forming the Second Biggest Bubble in U.S. History Kaspar ... According to Yale University’s Dr. Robert Shiller, the market is now 41% overvalued …only time the markets have been more overvalued .. 1929 & tech bubble. http://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2011/4/12/saupload_cape_thumb1.png PRECHTER: We're Still In A Massive Bear Market And Stocks Will Crash To New Lows This is an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come! Remember: ‘Sell in May and go away! ‘ … Stock Market: 4 Current Warning Signs Navin ‘…1) The 5-year high in the level of insider corporate stock sales is telling. At 565 sells for every 1 buy, it’s never been higher. Yes, it’s normal for insiders to be selling some of their stocks so they can buy new yachts and some of this is pre-planned. But that ratio — which has spiked recently — is extraordinarily high, one might even say off-the-chart.] ]

20 Questions To Ask Anyone Foolish Enough To Believe The Economic Crisis Is Over The Economic Collapse | We are still in the middle of a full-blown economic crisis and things are about to get even worse.

Street Extends Losing Streakat Forbes

Minyanville's T3 Daily Recap: Market Slammed Again, Led Down by Chinese Stocks at Minyanville

[video]Market Slams a Lacking Jobs ReportTheStreet.com TV ‘A deeply disappointing non-farm payrolls report has put the brakes on the recovery.’

Bill Gross Holds His Ground: Treasuries Will Burn You...Slowly

Economic Risk Continues to Increase

Global Markets Staring Into the Abyss

Dollar, Safe Haven No More? at The Wall Street Journal Leivisohn ‘Is the dollar’s safe haven status a thing of the past? [Yes!] It was for at least one week, according to Nomura currency strategist Jens Nordvig. In a report this morning, Mr. Nordvig noted that the recent strong tendency of the dollar and the S&P 500 to move in opposite directions was nowhere to be seen last week, even as the S&P 500 dropped for the fifth consecutive week…’

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/This-Employment-Ratio-34-Year-wscheats-2271160620.html?x=0&.v=1 This Employment Ratio is at a 34 Year Low 1 Wall St. Cheat Sheet June 3, 2011 ‘A disappointing increase of only 54,000 jobs was accompanied by an unemployment rate for May of 9.1%, up from the previous month’s 9.0%. The briefing.com consensus was for 9.0% and their own estimate was for 9.1%. The employment-to-population ratio is hovering around levels first seen in November 1977.

Here is the lead paragraph from the Employment Situation Summary released this morning by the Bureau of Labor Statistics:

Nonfarm payroll employment changed little (+54,000) in May, and the unemployment rate was essentially unchanged at 9.1 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains continued in professional and business services, health care (NYSE:XLV), and mining (NYSE:XLB). Employment levels in other major private-sector industries were little changed, and local government employment continued to decline.

The unemployment peak for the current cycle was 10.2%, one year ago in October 2009. The chart here shows the pattern of unemployment, recessions and both the nominal and real (inflation-adjusted) price of the S&P Composite (NYSE:SPY) since 1948.

Unemployment is usually a lagging indicator that moves inversely with equity prices (See first chart below). Note the increasing peaks in unemployment in 1971, 1975 and 1982. The inverse pattern becomes clearer when viewed against real (inflation-adjusted) S&P Composite, with its successively lower bear market bottoms. The mirror relationship seems to be repeating itself with the current and previous bear markets.

Chart http://dshort.com/charts/unemployment-SP-Composite-since-1948.gif

The second chart shows the unemployment rate for the civilian population unemployed 27 weeks and over. The May number is 4% — down from December’s adjusted 4.1%. This measure gives an alternate perspective on the relative severity of economic conditions. As we readily see, this metric is significantly higher than the peak in 1983, which came six months after the broader measure topped out at 10.8%.

Chart http://dshort.com/charts/unemployed-27-weeks-SP-Composite-since-1948.gif

The inverse correlation between the two series is obvious. We can also see the accelerating growth of two-income households in the early 1980′s. The recent ratio low of 58.2% in November 2010 and December 2009 was a level not seen since August 1983. In fact, those recent lows were almost back to the 58.1% ratio of March 1953, when Eisenhower was president, the Korean War was still underway, and rumors were circulating that soft drinks would soon be sold in cans. The latest ratio, for May 2011, is 58.4%, unchanged from last month.

The employment-population ratio will be interesting to watch going forward. The first wave of Boomers will be a downward force on this ratio. The oldest of them were eligible for early retirement when the Great Recession began, and the Boomer transition to the retirement will accelerate over the next several years.

The third chart is one of my favorites from CalculatedRisk. It shows the job losses from the start of the employment recession, in percentage terms compared to all recessions since 1948. Note the addition of the dotted-line alternative for the current cycle, which shows unemployment excluding the temporary census hiring.

Chart http://cr4re.com/charts/chart-images/JobLossesRecessionMaxMay2011.jpg

The start date of 1948 was determined by the earliest monthly unemployment figures collected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The best source for the historic data is the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

Here is a link to a Google source for customizable charts on US unemployment data (not seasonally adjusted) since 1990. You can compare unemployment at the national, state, and county level.

Doug Short Ph.d is the author of dshort.com.’

9 Reasons Markets Trended Down this WeekWall St. Cheat Sheet

Peter Schiff: ‘US economy heading for disaster’ “We are heading for a huge disaster,” says Euro Pacific Capital President Peter Schiff. As the US dips from a recession to a depression, Schiff says, America needs to stop borrowing money if they want to prevent driving off the proverbial cliff.

New Decentralized Currency Stimulating Underground Barter Economy New grassroots cyber currency, the Bitcoin, may provide the perfect vehicle to operate outside the establishment economy and snub the all-powerful banking cartels — it’s decentralized, quasi-anonymous, and its supply is regulated by an algorithm to actually create deflation over time.

More Americans Think Economy Will Never Recover The mixed signals regarding the economy’s health are taking a toll.

Ron Paul: “Barack Obama and the big government crowd are destroying our economy” Today, a spokesman for Congressman Ron Paul’s 2012 Republican presidential campaign remarked on the most recent U.S. jobs report and the state of the American economy. See comments below.

Towards a Worldwide Inflationary Depression According to our calculations we have been in an inflationary depression since February of 2009. Everyone looks back on the deflationary depression of the 1930s as a benchmark or a reference.

OPEC Upstaged by Qaddafi in Most-Hostile Meeting Since Gulf War OPEC’s decision on production quotas this week may be complicated by hostilities in Libya as members meeting in Vienna find themselves supporting opposing camps of a military conflict for the first time in 21 years.

Questioned by Paul, Fed denies any interest in gold True to his word to when he met a GATA delegation in Washington a week ago, U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy, has begun asking the Federal Reserve questions about gold swaps.

China Has Divested 97 Percent of Its Holdings in U.S. Treasury Bills China has dropped 97 percent of its holdings in U.S. Treasury bills, decreasing its ownership of the short-term U.S. government securities from a peak of $210.4 billion in May 2009 to $5.69 billion in March 2011, the most recent month reported by the U.S. Treasury.

Ron Paul Interview About Debt Ceiling, Spending Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul talks with Bloomberg’s Al Hunt about the U.S. debt ceiling, U.S. troop withdrawals from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Libya, and Federal Reserve monetary policy.

Bank to suggest CO2 levy on jet, shipping fuel Reuters | The World Bank will suggest a global levy on jet and shipping fuel in recommendations to G20

Teen Unemployment 25 Percent CSM | It’s never been easy being a teenager. Now, try being a teenager looking for work.

We’ve Now Got Depression-Level Unemployment Washington’s Blog | The only jobs we’re creating are military and other public sector jobs.

True Cost of Fannie, Freddie Bailouts: $317 Billion, CBO Says The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) says the real cost of the federal government guaranteeing the business of failed mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is $317 billion — not the $130 billion normally claimed by the Obama administration.

Goldman Prepares To Fight Carl Levin Allegations Of Massive Housing Short, Will Release Trove Of “Evidence” It Is Innocent The firm is now expected to release its own trove of documents expected to “defend” the firm from the various allegations presented in the Carl Levin 639 page report.

Will The Banksters And The Corpocracy Eventually Own It All? 29 Statistics About Extreme Income Inequality In America That Will Blow Your Mind Today, average Americans have less power relative to the monolithic corporate and governmental institutions that dominate our society than at any other point in U.S. history.

The Real “Margin” Threat: $600 Trillion In OTC Derivatives, A Multi-Trillion Variation Margin Call, And A Collateral Scramble That Could Send US Treasurys To All Time Records… While the dominant topic of conversation when discussing margin hikes (or reductions) usually reverts to silver, ES (stocks) and TEN (bonds), what everyone so far is ignoring is the far more critical topic of real margin risk, in the form of roughly $600 trillion in OTC derivatives.

National / World

Japan Admits Full Meltdowns at All 3 Nuke Reactors After Quake, Tsunami CNN | The announcement will not change plans for how to stabilize the Fukushima Daiichi plant, the agency said.

The Elite’s Plan For Global Extermination Paul Joseph Watson | Webster Tarpley conducts the most detailed study to date of John P. Holdren’s Ecoscience in a bombshell new video interview.

How the empire will prevail: Will Washington Foment War Between China and India? Paul Craig Roberts | Gold and silver will become forbidden possessions, as will guns and a number of books, including the US Constitution.

U.S. Tells Golan Protesters to Show Restraint After 23 Killed Kurt Nimmo | “Provocative actions like this should be avoided,” said State Department after IDF soldiers killed 23 on Sunday.

Prominent Swiss Politician Calls For Arrest of Kissinger at Bilderberg Paul Joseph Watson | Dominique Baettig calls on federal authorities to apprehend former US Secretary of State.

British Foreign Secretary Says Bombing of Libya to Last Beyond Christmas Kurt Nimmo | Independent journalists report truth on the ground in Libya ignored by pro-war corporate media.

Forensic evidence emerges European e.coli superbug bioengineered to produce human fatalities Mike Adams | Keep people sick, deny access to healing herbs and supplements, then profit from suffering at the hands of the global drug cartels.

Five U.S. soldiers killed in attack on base; 18 Iraqis dead in other violence Five U.S. soldiers were killed Monday in a rocket attack at a joint U.S.-Iraqi base in the capital, officials said. It was the largest death toll for the American military in Iraq in a single incident in two years.

NATO jets target Libya state TV Latest reports indicate that NATO-led warplanes have dropped several bombs on the offices of the Libyan state broadcaster in the capital Tripoli.

Gates in Kabul for strategy talks High-level meetings with U.S. and Afghan officials are at a potential turning point in the war. (Washington Post) [ Strategy? Heck, there’s gotta’ be something something about ’u.s. strategy’ that they can like. After all, it’s so amorphous that it can bend to any will, constantly evolving, changing, growing, or, as they say in reality, is non-existent at all. What might they like about ‘u.s. strategy’? Well, for one thing, for america, the u.s. strategy is self-destructive, self-defeating, and contraindicated for everyone; but, pervasively corrupt, defacto bankrupt america’s just too dumb to realize it. Gerson: Gates’s war against defense cuts (Washington Post) [ Wow! Talk about being out of touch … I quess after years at the cia one starts to believe their own bs / propaganda / lies to the point that, as gates, they’ve completely lost touch with reality … Davis ‘This is how we pay off our current debts and I think bondholders are simply happy to get anything out of a country that admits it owes $15Tn (1/4 of global GDP) but probably owes closer to $60Tn (entire global GDP) in the form of unfunded liabilities. The funniest thing about this (and you have to laugh) is to see Conservative pundits get on TV and talk about how we need to cut $100Bn worth of discretionary spending to "fix" this (while continuing to spend $1Tn on the military and $1Tn on tax cuts for the top 1% each year). There is no fixing this and even a Republican said you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. THIS HOUSE OF CARDS IS TEETERING FOLKS – PLEASE BE CAREFUL OUT THERE! ‘ … Senate Dems find themselves in a tough spot (Washington Post) [ Tough spot? Like Iraq and a hard place … called Afghanistan … indeed they are … in a tough spot … of their own making … by a wobama prevaricating approach to most all things despite campaign promise that belie their actions, or lack thereof. ] [Pakistani troops, NATO helicopters engage in firefight 6th soldier charged in plot to kill Afghan civilians (Washington Post) [ Gen. Hamid Gul: U.S. Generals Provoking War with Pakistan Jones FLASHBACK: Editorial: US in quagmire War in Afghanistan and Iraq costs America $1trillion Financialization and Our Increasingly Unstable Economy Roche 'The worst part of it ...Obama, who vowed change, has done almost nothing to fix any of it and in fact continues most of the policies that helped get us here in the first place’
THE OBAMA DECEPTION’ http://albertpeia.com/obamadeceptionhighqualityversion.flv ]

{ In robert gates’ cia-alice-in-wonderland world, a failed defacto bankrupt american banana republic with gunboat diplomacy will do just fine (thank you very much for your wasted tax dollars). }

Thanks to Ron Paul, We Are All Libertarians Now Susan Westfall | “If we believe in having the liberty to exercise our free will and if we believe in smaller government, then perhaps we are all libertarians now.”

Gadahn Call for Gun Violence Merges With Obama’s “Under the Radar” Anti-gun Agenda Kurt Nimmo | Gadahn says Muslims can buy full auto weapons without providing ID at gun shows.

Israeli Soldiers Kill Dozens of Palestinians, Including Woman and Child in Occupied Golan VOANews.com | Israel occupied the Golan Heights in 1967.

British Intelligence: al-Qaeda May Contaminate Food After E.Coli Scare Kurt Nimmo | Terror fear mongers don’t let a good crisis go to waste.

We’ve Now Got Depression-Level Unemployment Washington’s Blog | The only jobs we’re creating are military and other public sector jobs.

NATO Helicopter Attacks Tantamount To Ground Operation: Russian Foreign Minister Novosti | NATO’s actions in Libya are gradually evolving into a land operation.

June 5th Ron Paul Money Bomb – The Revolution vs RomneyCare Ron Paul 2012.com | It’s no secret the Romney campaign thinks no one else can touch their fundraising tally.

Bank of America Gets Pad Locked After Homeowner Forecloses On It WFMY News 2 | Have you heard the one about a homeowner foreclosing on a bank?

World Bank To Suggest Global Carbon Tax on Airline, Shipping Fuel (Paid by You) The World Bank will suggest a global levy on jet and shipping fuel in recommendations to G20 governments later this year on raising climate finance, a senior official said on Sunday.

Riot Police, SWAT Teams Called on Dancers at Jefferson Memorial In addition to the SWAT team, the cops erected a fence around the monument.

June 5th Ron Paul Money Bomb – The Revolution vs RomneyCare The truth is, an overwhelming showing on June 5th would force the establishment pundits to realize what we already know, Congressman Paul is campaigning as a top-tier contender and is a force to be reckoned within the Republican Primaries.

NATO Helicopter Attacks Tantamount To Ground Operation: Russian Foreign Minister NATO’s actions in Libya are gradually evolving into a land operation, Russia’s foreign minister warned on Saturday.

Fukushima Reactor No. 1 more radioactive than ever At the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant, a robot sent into the building housing Reactor No. 1 on Saturday detected the highest levels of radiation measured since the crisis began on March 11.

Trouble for the Establishment in Europe, Protests Spread to France (Video) Luke Rudkowski reports from the new protests in France. He interviews a stunningly-aware crowd. They truly know the score and what the root problem of the system is: Banskter-Goverment collusion resulting in their enslavement. Great on-the-ground reporting by Rudkowski.

NATO Helicopter Attacks Tantamount To Ground Operation: Russian Foreign Minister NATO’s actions in Libya are gradually evolving into a land operation, Russia’s foreign minister warned on Saturday.

Fukushima Reactor No. 1 more radioactive than ever At the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant, a robot sent into the building housing Reactor No. 1 on Saturday detected the highest levels of radiation measured since the crisis began on March 11.

Food chain at risk of being poisoned by terrorist groups Food and drink sold in Britain is under a growing threat from terrorist groups which might try to poison supplies, the Government’s security advisers have warned.

US Government/Mossad Agent Voices Support For Obama’s Gun Control Agenda In a new video message, American-born al Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn calls on Muslims living in America to carry out deadly one-man terrorist acts using fully automatic weapons purchased at gun shows, and to target major institutions and public figures.

Libya: UK Apache attack helicopters launch first strikes British Apache attack helicopters have been used to strike targets in Libya for the first time, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed.

Gaddafi’s Stolen Billions: Max Keiser Explains ‘Financial Terrorism’ International bankers have reportedly wasted billions of dollars invested by Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi. The Financial Times says giants like Goldman Sachs were dealing with the dictator’s investments when it needed to plug a hole during the economic crisis. Most of the money has been lost, but with what’s going on in Libya any repayment seems unlikely.

Trouble for the Establishment in Europe, Protests Spread to France (Video) Luke Rudkowski reports from the new protests in France. He interviews a stunningly-aware crowd. They truly know the score and what the root problem of the system is: Banskter-Goverment collusion resulting in their enslavement. Great on-the-ground reporting by Rudkowski.

Israeli forces kill 18 protesters: Syrian TV (Reuters)

`Drudgereport: TEMPLETON chairman: Financial Crisis 'Around Corner'... 'WE ARE ON THE VERGE OF A GREAT, GREAT DEPRESSION...'`ECONOMIC 'HORROR' AS DATA PLUNGES
`Dow Has Longest Weekly Slump Since '04...`
`Housing prices fall 'beats Great Depression slide'... CHICAGOLAND: Flash Mobs Attack 2 Men...TAX FURY IN ATHENS AS GOV'T FACES DEBT'Bankrupt' claim heightens Spanish debt fears...`
`9.1%`
`MAY JOBS: +54,000...`
`MCDONALD'S hired half...`
`Fears stoked of a 'double-dip'... CBO: True Cost of Fannie, Freddie Bailouts $317 Billion, Not $130 Billion Obama Claims...`
`Taxpayers Still Bailing Out Banks...`
`WH: 'Bumps on the road to recovery'...`
`O gets booed...LET'S GOLF ABOUT ITChina Divests 97% of Holdings in US Treasury Bills... DOOM: More Americans Think Economy Will Never Recover...`
`GOP sees Obama as increasingly beatable...`
`Recovery Languishing as Americans Await Signal of Better Times... Congress Delivers Obama 'Stunning Rebuke on Libya'... Weiner withdraws from speaking engagement... Dow tumbles 280 points...`
`Private Sector Jobs Grew By Only 38,000 in May...`
`Planned Layoffs Up...`
`Manufacturing Slows... MOODY'S: US Rating Could Be Placed Under Review... Greece goes further into junk territory; MOODY'S downgrades...`
`AP: Consumer confidence falls 'unexpectedly' in May...`
`BARONE: Pro-Obama media always shocked by bad economic news...`
`Home-price index at lowest point since 2006 bust...`
`'Double-Dip' Even Worse Than Expected...`
`GOLDMAN SACHS: $5 gas this summer... Number of federal-owned limousines has soared under Obama... Obama bailout of GOV'T MOTORS to cost taxpayers at least $14 billion... Obama solicitor general: Don't like healthcare mandate, earn less money!`
`REPORT: Senate's 100 members spend $40M for 700 offices nationwide... 7 'NATO troops' killed Thursday were American... British Health Care Program in Grave Peril... Netanyahu: Israel cannot prevent UN recognition of Palestinian state...`
`First ID'ed as 'Int'l Security Assistance Force service members'...`
`Deadliest day this year... WARS RAGE ON...`
`U.S. Dead in Afghanistan Tops 1,500...`
`OBAMA HITS GOLF COURSE FOR ROUND NO. 70...ON THE GROUND IN LIBYAAnti-Christian Violence Continues in Pakistan... UPDATE: MIAMI 'WAR ZONE' DURING URBAN WEEKEND...`
`'I was scared for my life'...`
`Poet 'Da Real One' Gunned Down In Front Of Miami Poetry Cafe...`
`Violent crime explodes in Myrtle during Black Bike Week; 8-hour hell...`
`Rib Fest At Rochester beach turns rowdy...`
`Riot On Long Island...`
`Urban Melee In Charlotte...`
`Chaos causes DNC concern for convention...`
`Unruly urban crowd shuts down Nashville water park...`
`Emanuel shuts down packed Chicago beach; 'heat-related illnesses'...`
`REPORT: 'Dozens of gang bangers'...`TEEN GANGS UNLEASHED ON BOSTON BEACH
`WHO: Radiation From Cell Phones Can Cause Cancer... In same category as lead, engine exhaust, chloroform... VIDEO: Woman Screams For Help After TSA Molestation... WHACKED, NOT HACKED!`
`'Used govt. resources'...`
`Breitbart: 'I Want To Hear Truth'...`
`6 'inappropriate' relationships...`
`ABCNEWS: Mystery Woman Revealed...`
`HER STORY...`
`Risqué Online Chats, Photo Swaps...`
`SLIDESHOW...`
`VIDEO: 'Web of lies'...TWITTER TEARS: WEINER ADMITSREPORT: Woman claims to have 200 explicit messages from NY Dem...`
`IT MIGHT BE MY WEINER! REPORT: WEINER'S TALE UNRAVELING...`By Daniel Libit Sunday, June 5, 2011 ‘As the world has attempted to make sense of Rep. Anthony Weiner’s claim that his Twitter account was hacked, a key clue has been missing: exactly how the notorious groin pic was posted online. But according to data provided exclusively to The Daily from TweetCongress.org, a nonprofit website that captures each member of Congress’s Twitter feeds in real time, the shot seen round the world was transmitted using TweetDeck — a popular Adobe desktop application that links up with social networking sites. A review of Weiner’s Twitter stream from May 27, the day of the crotch pic, shows that Weiner had been posting only from TweetDeck — one of many ways to post messages to Twitter — that entire night. Chet Wisniewski, a senior security adviser at security software company SophosLabs, said the TweetDeck stamp “does make it more plausible that it did come from him.” Weiner used TweetDeck frequently, but he often also posted from the Web directly or from his BlackBerry. A widely circulated explanation for how Weiner’s Twitter account could have been hacked by email would also seem to be incompatible with the fact that the message in question originated on TweetDeck. If email had been used, the message probably would have originated via the photosharing site Yfrog, where the infamous picture was posted …’ [ Weiner admits he sent lewd picture; won't quit (AP) - After days of denials, a choked-up Rep. Anthony Weiner confessed Monday that he tweeted a photo of his bulging underpants to a young woman, and he also admitted to "inappropriate" excha...’ Tearful US congressman admits to crotch photos (AFP) ]
`'This Could Be The End For Him'...`
`'Have You Ever Taken A Picture Like This Of Yourself?'...WEINER CALLS COPS ON CBS` WASHINGTON (CBSNewYork) — ‘Congressman Anthony Weiner said Thursday he’s finished talking about the lewd photo sent from his Twitter account.But he still wouldn’t say whether he’s the one in the picture.So CBS 2 political reporter Marcia Kramer decided to go to his office on Capitol Hill to try to get you some answers.You’ll never believe what happened.Kramer tried to get an interview with the six-term New York Democrat and as a result had the cops called on her.Kramer walked in to Weiner’s office, announced herself as being from CBS 2 in New York City and said she’d like to see the congressman. Those few words created quite the stir. Doors slammed and people pretended she wasn’t there ...’ Weiner’s efforts don’t cool furor The congressman said that he didn’t send a lewd photo on Twitter but also that he couldn’t “say with certitude” whether the image was of his own crotch. (Washington Post) [ ‘Weiner’s weiner’! ‘Not cool furor’ … how ‘bout just plain ‘not cool’. Eh … what can you expect from national drain / sinkhole new york (new york / new jersey metro). I haven’t read but probably agree with the following article: Listen up, fellas: Naked man-parts? Not so sexy. (Washington Post) / … Even Mr. Milbank weighs in: ‘The Weiner roast Congressman finds himself in a fight he does not relish.’ Report: SEC lawyer exposed FBI informant (Washington Post) [ Clearly, the sec liar (sic – lawyer) is one of those typically with a ‘pre or post’ arrangement, whether implicit or explicit; you know, that ubiquitous ‘bribe thing’ in pervasively corrupt, defacto bankrupt, fallen america. Indeed, the scenario typifies that national drain / sinkhole new york (new york / new jersey metro) where, for example, FBI informants were routinely exposed by ‘italians’ in the new york d.a.’s over objection of the FBI, and were promptly ‘dispatched’/assassinated / hit by mafia / organized crime [ this was documented with authority in the book Goombata: The Improbable Rise and Fall of John Gotti and His Gang John Cummings (Author), Ernest Volkman (Author) Though having but 5% of the world’s population, u.s. has 76% of the world’s serial killers, http://www.albertpeia.com/realifeamericaserialkillers.mpg bankrupt america also spends more on military than all the nations of the world combined... fed employees / contractors, cia, all 3 branches of u.s. gov’t, etc., are included in this evolved american trait of inherent criminality http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm ]:

Focus Is on Obama as Tensions Soar Across Mideast (New York Times) [ Adapt? I don’t think so! I do believe that both nations are regressively but nostalgically trying bring the world back to failed geopolitical paradigms that made the 20th century the bloodiest century, not coincidentally the american century (obviously for israel the latter half century). Yet, such a conditioned psychopathic approach to global matters has led them self-destructively, self-defeatingly, and ineluctably to decline, fall, and as with dinosaurs, extinction, at least in a manner of speaking. Global information exchange at lightning speed has made such throwbacks to a lost era, propaganda, and maladaptive traits foolish at best, deadly at worst. Intelligent people worldwide aren’t buying the obsolete, Orwellian approach fostered by the purveyors of global unrest; viz., israel, america, Orwellian england, etc..; more specifically, diversion of the masses from the glaring failures of leadership, economic and otherwise.

CRIME STATISTICS >(america is No. 1)

Rank	Countries	Amount
# 1	United States:	11,877,218
# 2	United Kingdom:	6,523,706
# 3	Germany:	6,507,394

Minyanville's T3 Daily Recap: Stocks and Economic Data Leave Nowhere to Hide at Minyanville By T3Live.com Jun 03, 2011 ‘This week markets were presented with economic data ranging from ADP payroll, jobless claims, car sales, and crude inventory numbers, all pointing to a waning economic recovery.

US markets finished the week with a very negative tone, led lower by Nasdaq stocks via the PowerShares QQQ Trust (QQQ), which was down 1.62% on the session. Stocks sold-off into the close, dragging the SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (DIA) to its longest streak of weekly losses since 2004. The US government jobs report showed slowing growth, with only 54,000 jobs added in May, trailing estimates of 165,000 as well as an unexpected climb to 9.1 percent.

Already investors have seen disappointing reports out of the US, Europe, and China revealing slowed manufacturing growth in May. This week markets were presented with economic data ranging from ADP payroll, jobless claims, car sales, and crude inventory numbers, all pointing to a waning economic recovery. As of Thursday evening, the markets had taken the negative data in stride, but the government jobs data proved to be the last straw for many investors.

There was nowhere to hide today with the SPDR S&P 500 (SPY) down 1.15% on the session. In fact, there was nowhere to hide this week, as 94% of the S&P 500 stocks finished red on the week. Furthermore, the continuous stream negative US data against the backdrop of the EU coming to a deal to bailout Greece saw investors dumping stocks and the US dollar, while finding shelter in the euro.

The most jarring aspect of today’s sell-off was the extremely bearish action in of most leaders, with Chinese Internet stocks falling off a cliff as Sina (SINA), Youku.com (YOKU), Qihoo 360 Technology (QIHU), and China Dangdang (DANG) all down over 8%, with Sina down nearly 12% on the session. Baidu.com (BIDU) and Sohu.com (SOHU) fared better closing lower by 3.82% and 4.5% respectively.

Netflix (NFLX) was the lone standout among the leaders to finish slightly higher, yet other companies that traders routinely look to for leadership sold-off into the close with the rest of the market. Amazon (AMZN) finished down 2.38% and Apple (AAPL) was negative by just over a half percent.

With demonstrations and unrest expected over the weekend in Greece and the Middle East, there is potential for more headwinds to be digested by investors come Monday.’

Goldman Sachs subpoenaed Report says firm’s mortgage-related investments enabled the company to profit while clients lost money. (Washington Post) [ Their stock was down. Why? No mystery there on fraudulent wall street that they’ve got plenty to hide; and, certainly far more beyond the scope of the subpoena. The frauds on wall street et als should be criminally prosecuted, jailed, fined, and disgorgement imposed… an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come! America Is a Failed State Because It Won’t Prosecute Financial Crime Washington’s Blog/ Roche 'The worst part of it ...Obama, who vowed change, has done almost nothing to fix any of it and in fact continues most of the policies that helped get us here in the first place’ ‘INSIDE JOB’ Ferguson wins Oscar for Documentary on the unprosecuted massive extant fraud in the (many) TRILLIONS by the frauds on wall street ( and declares with oscar in hand that not one high level wall street exec has been prosecuted … despite ‘earning’ billiions from the fraud ). UPDATE: MORE CLAIMS OF RACE BIAS AT JUSTICE... `‘`In emotional and personal testimony, an ex-Justice official who quit over the handling of a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party accused his former employer of instructing attorneys in the civil rights division to ignore cases that involve black defendants and white victims 'Cases against Wall Street lag despite Holder’s vows to target financial fraud WP | Obama has promised to hold Wall Street accountable for the meltdown.

‘THE OBAMA DECEPTION’ http://albertpeia.com/obamadeceptionhighqualityversion.flv

U.S. Job Growth Sputters: Only 54,000 Jobs in May at TheStreet.com

By Shanthi Bharatwa [chart http://www.thestreet.com/content/image/88693.include ] ‘NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- The U.S. economy added far fewer jobs in May, suggesting that the recovery in the employment market might be stalling.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, nonfarm payrolls increased by 54,000 on a seasonally adjusted basis in May, after rising by an average of 220,000 in the prior three months. Economists were expecting the payrolls to rise by 169,000, according to Briefing.com. That is the lowest payroll growth since September 2010.

The private sector, which has been the main contributor of jobs amid layoffs at the state and local government levels, added 83,000 jobs, a marked slowdown from the 244,000 jobs averaged in the last three months. Economists predicted companies would add 180,000 jobs in May, their expectations diminished by the ADP report Wednesday which said companies added only 38,000 jobs.

The consensus estimates don't always reflect actual market expectations because analysts don't always revise their estimates based on the ADP report. The "whisper" number for the markets may have been closer to about 100,000. So even by those metrics, the jobs report is severely disappointing.

Reacting to the dismal report, Patrick O'Keefe, director of economic research at J.H. Cohn, said, "This report stands out as a recommendation to all economists to go through a course in humility. I expected, even after the ADP report, a much better report than this. But as Keynes said -'when the facts change, I change my mind.'"

According to the Labor Department's survey, the auto, retail, nondurable goods and health care sectors shed jobs in May. The government laid off another 29,000 workers in May, after shedding 19,000 in April and 25,000 in March.

But more striking than layoffs was the slowdown in hiring. After adding 38,000 jobs in April, the goods-producing sector created only 3,000 jobs in May. Manufacturing shed 5,000 jobs in May, after hiring 24,000 people in the previous month.

The private services-providing sector, the biggest contributor to employment, added only 80,000 jobs, after creating 213,000 in April. In April, the ISM Services Index showed a dramatic slowdown to 52.8% from 57.3% in March. The Institute for Supply Management said at 10:00 a.m Friday that the Nonmanufacturing Index rose to 54.6% from 52.8% in April, better than the 53.3% economists were expecting.

Temporary help, which has contributed one in six 6 jobs during the recovery, also saw a drop of 1,200 jobs.

"The flattening in temporary help, given the marginal headline employment gain signals that employers have become even more reluctant to increase payrolls in the face of sputtering expansion," O'Keefe noted.’

JOBS REPORT MUCH WORSE THAN EXPECTED! Previous day: Economic outlook hinges on jobs report One of the few bright spots in the economic picture in the past three months has been solid and steady job creation by the private sector. (Washington Post) [ And, you can bet the ranch that the report will be a complete fabrication. Indeed, the capital reeks of political desperation, domestically and globally. Fudgecake yes … they can always put the ‘report’ back in the oven so to speak for those ever more recurring revisions which still never quite bring the data back to reality. Beware the next big fraud When will we see the next big fraud and a massive burst in the secondary markets bubble? Not soon enough, I fear. (Washington Post) [ Next? How ‘bout we’re still in the midst of that continuing multi-trilliion dollar fraud marked to anything … The frauds on wall street et als should be criminally prosecuted, jailed, fined, and disgorgement imposed), Billion Dollar Fund Managers Agree: The Government Never Fixed the Underlying Economic Problems, So We’ll Have Another Crash infowars.com While the snake oil salespeople at the retail investing level and the bobble heads on the kool aid selling financial channels have been saying for years that we’re in a “recovery” (albeit a slow one), billion dollar fund managers say that nothing has changed and we’ll have another crash … Roche 'The worst part of it ...Obama, who vowed change, has done almost nothing to fix any of it and in fact continues most of the policies that helped get us here in the first place’ ‘INSIDE JOB’ Ferguson wins Oscar for Documentary on the unprosecuted massive extant fraud in the (many) TRILLIONS by the frauds on wall street ( and declares with oscar in hand that not one high level wall street exec has been prosecuted … despite ‘earning’ billions from the fraud ). Dave's Daily 'If you can keep interest rates this low this long, its inevitable cheap financing can allow companies to start cobbling each other up. Further Ben's policies allow companies like IBM to sell bonds at 1% and buy back shares with the proceeds (total paper bubble-scam). POMO is occurring almost daily and Primary Dealers can buy back their shares and pay dividends with what essentially is taxpayer money-- … an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come! America Is a Failed State Because It Won’t Prosecute Financial Crime Washington’s Blog / the grim economic reality [ http://albertpeia.com/grimreality.htm ]. Selling In May Is Very Good Advice This Year Harding / April Is a Good Time to Sell Adler Equity Valuations Are Forming the Second Biggest Bubble in U.S. History Kaspar ... According to Yale University’s Dr. Robert Shiller, the market is now 41% overvalued …only time the markets have been more overvalued .. 1929 & tech bubble. http://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2011/4/12/saupload_cape_thumb1.png PRECHTER: We're Still In A Massive Bear Market And Stocks Will Crash To New Lows This is an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come! Remember: ‘Sell in May and go away! ‘ … Stock Market: 4 Current Warning Signs Navin ‘…1) The 5-year high in the level of insider corporate stock sales is telling. At 565 sells for every 1 buy, it’s never been higher. Yes, it’s normal for insiders to be selling some of their stocks so they can buy new yachts and some of this is pre-planned. But that ratio — which has spiked recently — is extraordinarily high, one might even say off-the-chart.] ]

20 Questions To Ask Anyone Foolish Enough To Believe The Economic Crisis Is Over The Economic Collapse | We are still in the middle of a full-blown economic crisis and things are about to get even worse.

5 Cities Vulnerable to the Next Bursting Bubble WASHINGTON (TheStreet) -- Bubbles are a beautiful thing to watch while they're inflating or floating along, but they can be extremely messy when they burst. The U.S. still hasn't recovered from the real estate bubble that burst in 2007. Considering the somewhat tenuous state of the second coming of tech spending, the bubbling costs of college inflation, the seemingly limitless heights of gold prices and the ever-expanding demand for health care as baby boomers ease into retirement, there may be another bubble just around the bend.

Don't tell that to Las Vegas, which is still trying to pick up the pieces after the housing bubble's pop shattered its real estate industry. Average home prices dropped from $220,000 in 2008 to just $128,000 in the first quarter of this year. As a result, a 3.21% foreclosure rate quoted for the area by RealtyTrac is still the highest in the nation, and its 13.3% unemployment rate is outdone only by Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, Calif.'s 13.9% margin (and 2.04% foreclosure rate). The good news is that foreclosure rate is a 11.54% improvement from fall of last year. The bad news is that it's only a 7.74% upgrade from the same period last year, is still costing more homeowners their properties than anywhere in America and is having a residual effect on business, with traffic down at McCarran Airport and once-untouchable businesses such as the Sahara casino closing, with owners cited the crisis as a reason.

California, Nevada, Arizona and Florida are among the states dealing with double- or near-double-digit unemployment, high foreclosure rates and home prices that have plummeted more than 50% in some cases, but even metropolitan areas within those states were spared the same pain. Another burst bubble could make some of those places feel a lot less lucky. TheStreet took a look at five regions that lean heavily on one industry and at just how much they stand to lose should their bubble be the next to go: …’

A New Idea For Bernanke: Leave The Economy Alone at Forbes ‘Sy Harding It was another week of shockingly negative economic reports, which you might think has Wall Street economists worried that the economy is running into something more than just a brief soft patch (their popular term of recent weeks).

They mostly remain convinced that the problem is only temporary, that the economic reports are coming in worse than their forecasts only because they under-estimated the effect the surge in energy and commodity prices would have on consumer spending, and the effect the Japanese earthquake would have on auto and technology production. And they say those effects are only temporary.

Let’s hope they’re right, because the additional reports this week were awful.

They included that home prices are still declining; that Pending Home Sales fell 11.6% in April to a 7-month low; that Consumer Confidence unexpectedly fell from 66 in April to 60.8 in May; that the ISM Mfg Index plunged to 56.6 in May from 67.6 in April; that Factory Orders fell 1.2%; that auto sales fell more than forecasts.

The reports ended for the week with Friday’s report that only 54,000 jobs were created in May versus 232,000 in April, and compared to the consensus forecast that 175,000 jobs would be created. And the unemployment rate rose to 9.1% in May, from 9.0% in April, versus forecasts that it would decline to 8.9%.

This week’s reports came on top of four weeks of similarly dismal reports, including that the Conference Board’s Leading Economic Indicators dropped into negative territory for the first time in nine months, and that Durable Goods Orders experienced their largest decline since last August. New home starts and permits for futures starts plunged more than forecasts, and existing home sales unexpectedly plunged, now down 12.9% year-to-date.

However, not only is Wall Street not overly disturbed by the reports, but investors are not all that concerned either.

In spite of five straight weeks of decline, the Dow is only 4.7% below its peak at the end of April, and it’s still up 5.4% for the year so far. And, what decline there has been was on low volume, no signs of aggressive selling.

One theme I keep hearing from bullish investors is that the Federal Reserve will not allow economic growth to slow to any degree (beyond a brief soft patch), without stepping in with another round of stimulus. Nor will it allow the stock market to decline to any degree.

After all, they remind me, Fed Chairman Bernanke virtually guaranteed that in the Fed’s statement after its last FOMC meeting, in which it said, “The Committee will continue to monitor the economic outlook and financial developments, and will employ its policy tools as necessary to support the economic recovery.”

Meanwhile, as I wrote in early April, the similarities to a year ago are spooky. Among the long list of similarities I noted then, were that a year ago government stimulus programs were also coming to end, the economy was already showing serious signs of slowing, the stock market looked to be overbought, and investor sentiment was unusually confident and bullish. The next event a year ago was that the market topped out at the end of April into a correction, and that has now potentially become another similarity of this year.

So will the rest of the events of last year also repeat this year?

Last year, the economy continued to weaken, and the stock market remained in a correction until mid-July, during which the S&P 500 lost 16% of its value.

Then the Fed seemed to panic and stepped in with a promise of another round of quantitative easing, which was dubbed QE2. The economy picked up again, and the stock market halted its decline, recovered its losses, and went on to the highs reached at the end of April this year.

The big question is, if the economy continues to slow this year, and the stock market continues to decline, will the Fed push the magic button again?

Chairman Bernanke received considerable criticism at home and globally for his QE2 decision last fall. It also doesn’t seem to have worked all that well. The flood of additional dollars into the financial system pumped up the stock market and commodity prices, creating inflation, but its effect on the economy was apparently only temporary.

This year, Congress would probably object mightily to another round of stimulus, given its new determination to cut government costs in efforts to tackle the record budget deficits.

So, unless the economy really nose-dives, I suspect the Fed will allow the market system to function normally this time around, allowing economic growth to slow if that is its inclination, and the stock market to adjust to that, without government interference.

We shall see. So far the similarities to events a year ago continue to click into place.’

Moody’s: U.S. credit rating at risk Agency warns of a possible credit rating downgrade if a debt-ceiling deal cannot be reached. (Washington Post) [ I’d say, as is true of their performance in the last phase of this ongoing crisis, they are so typically late to the party. After all, pervasively corrupt america is already defacto bankrupt. House rejects debt ceiling increase The 317-to-98 vote was a bipartisan rejection of extending the nation’s current debt limit of $14.3 trillion unless major spending reductions accompany the legislation. (Washington Post) [ Well, perish the thought that increases in liabilities should be commensurate with decreases in liabilities to maintain a … balance … sheet? At this point, who’s counting? After all, are there really degrees of defacto bankruptcy? Or, an either / or absolute state; viz., you are or you’re not defacto bankrupt. Pervasively corrupt, defacto bankrupt america is in fact defacto bankrupt! … Wall Street 'Vastly Underestimating' Risk of Debt Default Forbes / Robert Lenzner StreetTalk ‘ “Meet the Press” climaxed Sunday with a startling market prognostication from David Brooks, conservative columnist for the NY Times. The risk of a debt default over the combustible issue of the Medicare deficit hangs over the course of the stock market. Buyers Beware!“I was up in Wall Street this week,” Brooks said. “They’re vastly underestimating the source of piolitical risk here. We could have a major problem, I think, either this summer or the next couple years. And I’d be worried about investing too much in the market. That’s my financial advice.”…’ Another Financial Crisis Is On The Way, Mobius Says STOCKS HAVE BIG RALLY AFTER PILES OF UGLY NEWS: Here's What You need To Know Harry Dent: “Major Crash” Coming for Stocks, Commodities Already Topping Out 24 Signs Of Economic Decline In America ‘The US is in the middle of a devastating long-term economic decline..’ ] States face shortfall for retirees (WP) Public workers’ retirement funds had a gap of $1.26 trillion at the end of fiscal 2009 Study: Affordable rentals scarce (WP) Poll: For Obama, low marks on Afghan war (WP) More Americans disapprove of President Obama’s management of the war in Afghanistan than support it Fuel prices cut into Obama popularity (WP) (The frauds on wall street et als should be criminally prosecuted, jailed, fined, and disgorgement imposed), and have used the mideast turmoil to obfuscate their failure. Davis ‘This is how we pay off our current debts and I think bondholders are simply happy to get anything out of a country that admits it owes $15Tn (1/4 of global GDP) but probably owes closer to $60Tn (entire global GDP) in the form of unfunded liabilities. The funniest thing about this (and you have to laugh) is to see Conservative pundits get on TV and talk about how we need to cut $100Bn worth of discretionary spending to "fix" this (while continuing to spend $1Tn on the military and $1Tn on tax cuts for the top 1% each year). There is no fixing this and even a Republican said you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. THIS HOUSE OF CARDS IS TEETERING FOLKS – PLEASE BE CAREFUL OUT THERE! ‘ Dave's Daily 'If you can keep interest rates this low this long, its inevitable cheap financing can allow companies to start cobbling each other up. Further Ben's policies allow companies like IBM to sell bonds at 1% and buy back shares with the proceeds (total paper bubble-scam). POMO is occurring almost daily and Primary Dealers can buy back their shares and pay dividends with what essentially is taxpayer money-- … an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come! America Is a Failed State Because It Won’t Prosecute Financial Crime Washington’s Blog / the grim economic reality [ http://albertpeia.com/grimreality.htm ]. Selling In May Is Very Good Advice This Year Harding / April Is a Good Time to Sell Adler Equity Valuations Are Forming the Second Biggest Bubble in U.S. History Kaspar ... According to Yale University’s Dr. Robert Shiller, the market is now 41% overvalued …only time the markets have been more overvalued .. 1929 & tech bubble. http://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2011/4/12/saupload_cape_thumb1.png PRECHTER: We're Still In A Massive Bear Market And Stocks Will Crash To New Lows This is an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come! Remember: ‘Sell in May and go away! ‘ … Stock Market: 4 Current Warning Signs Navin ‘…1) The 5-year high in the level of insider corporate stock sales is telling. At 565 sells for every 1 buy, it’s never been higher. Yes, it’s normal for insiders to be selling some of their stocks so they can buy new yachts and some of this is pre-planned. But that ratio — which has spiked recently — is extraordinarily high, one might even say off-the-chart.]

May Sales Show Tighter Times Ahead For Retailers at Forbes

Greenspan ‘Scared’ Over Deficit; Calls for Tax Rise The debt and deficit problem in the US is so serious that former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan finds himself in the position of recommending the highest tax rates in more than a decade.

Treasury Continues To Dip Into Retirement Accounts, Prepares To “Take Out” $66 Billion Chunk To Make Room For New Bond Issuance Today, very quietly, the Treasury released its latest refunding announcement, in which it disclosed it would issue another $66 billion in 3, 10 and 30 Year notes next week.

The Public Banking Movement Comes of Age The public banking movement is becoming mainstream thanks to great work done by thoughtful and dedicated researchers like Ellen Brown, author of “Web of Debt.”

Goldman Gets Subpoena From Manhattan DA Goldman Sachs just got a subpoena from the Manhattan DA.

National / World

Bipartisan Congress Rebuffs Obama on Libya Mission Washington Times | The House voted for resolutions telling President Obama he has broken the constitutional chain of authority via Libya.

Romney says he can heal economy He kicks off presidential bid by trumpeting his record as a turnaround specialist in business. (Washington Post) [ Well, he’s certainly not going to do that by toeing the israeli lobby line as did failed president wobama the b (for b***s***), despite his recent rhetoric (meaningless coming from wobama the b) seemingly, but not really in terms of action (he’s literally continued the perma-war policies of war criminal and moron dumbya bush; ie., Afghanistan, Libya, etc., Drudgereport: FLASHBACK: Obama: U.S. Involvement Would Last 'Days, Not Weeks'... OBAMA FIGHTS FOR HIS RIGHT TO BOMB LIBYA... Deadliest day this year... WARS RAGE ON... U.S. Dead in Afghanistan Tops 1,500... OBAMA HITS GOLF COURSE FOR ROUND NO. 70... ON THE GROUND IN LIBYA . This despite the defacto bankruptcy of the nation. It is time to tell the mentally deficient at the pentagon along with other war mongering neocons that the days of their easy money, fog of war thefts (ie., 360 tons of $100 bills flown into Iraq and ‘disappeared’, etc. ) and nebulously fat budgets are over. Stated another way, math, economics, and finance count. I’d say law should count but we all know that’s not the case in meaningfully lawless america (The frauds on wall street et als should be criminally prosecuted, jailed, fined, and disgorgement imposed). Obama is committed to Israel (Washington Post) Rahm Emanuel He’s been invested since his first days in office.{Yes! I do believe this is among the few instances when emanuel is telling the truth; and, pervasively corrupt, defacto bankrupt america has the red ink, red blood (of u.s. soldiers), and failed geopolitical strategy to prove it.}

Robert Gates: Kucinich move on Libya ‘dangerous’ Politico | Gates says move to end Libya attack would undermine alliances and military operations. House Republicans Kill Kucinich’s Libya Withdrawal Bill FoxNews.com | Yanked from schedule only after it became clear that it might succeed. { In robert gates’ cia-alice-in-wonderland world, a failed defacto bankrupt american banana republic with gunboat diplomacy will do just fine (thank you very much for your wasted tax dollars). }

Tough choices in Europe over Greece Greece will need more than $40 billion to keep itself afloat and sidestep a nightmare scenario: a default by one of the countries that use the euro. (Washington Post) [ Fait accomplis? I’d say, ‘look homeward hell’s angels’. After all, we do have near 50 such fiscal basket-cases here in the pervasively corrupt, defacto bankrupt disunited states. Meanwhile, america / nato are frittering money / resources away . http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/osama_dead.php 5-1-11, JUST MOMENTS BEFORE PRESIDENT OBAMA ANNOUNCED THAT THE US HAD KILLED OSAMA BIN LADEN, THE WHATREALLYHAPPENED WEBSITE CAME UNDER MASSIVE DISTRIBUTED DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACK. THIS PAGE, WHICH DOCUMENTS THAT OSAMA BIN LADEN ACTUALLY DIED IN DECEMBER OF 2001, APPEARS TO BE WHAT THE WHITE HOUSE DIDN'T WANT AVAILABLE WHILE THE NEW PROPAGANDA WAS "CATAPULTED FORWARD". IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THIS IS THE OPENING GAMBIT IN A PLAN TO STAGE A "REVENGE" ATTACK FROM "AL QAEDA" ON THE UNITED STATES, WITH WHICH TO JUSTIFY TOTAL WAR ON THE MIDDLE EAST… Editorial: US in quagmire War in Afghanistan and Iraq costs America $1trillion Though having but 5% of the world’s population, u.s. has 76% of the world’s serial killers, http://www.albertpeia.com/realifeamericaserialkillers.mpg bankrupt america also spends more on military than all the nations of the world combined... fed employees / contractors, cia, all 3 branches of u.s. gov’t, etc., are included in this evolved american trait of inherent criminality http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm ]:

Focus Is on Obama as Tensions Soar Across Mideast (NYT) [ Adapt? I don’t think so! I do believe that both nations are regressively but nostalgically trying bring the world back to failed geopolitical paradigms that made the 20th century the bloodiest century, not coincidentally the american century (obviously for israel the latter half century). Yet, such a conditioned psychopathic approach to global matters has led them self-destructively, self-defeatingly, and ineluctably to decline, fall. .. Orwellian approach fostered by the purveyors of global unrest; viz., israel, america, Orwellian england, etc.;more specifically, diversion of the masses from the glaring failures of leadership, economic and otherwise.

CRIME STATISTICS >(america is No. 1)

Rank	Countries	Amount
# 1	United States:	11,877,218
# 2	United Kingdom:	6,523,706
# 3	Germany:	6,507,394

THE OBAMA DECEPTION’ http://albertpeia.com/obamadeceptionhighqualityversion.flv ]

Soros-funded leftist group pushes internet control WND.com | Documents released in response to a Freedom of Information request from Judicial Watch revealed collusion between FCC and Soros group.

Following Shooting, Miami Cops Grab Cell Phones at Gunpoint, Destroy Them Carlos Miller | Miami Beach police did their best to destroy a citizen video that shows them shooting a man to death in a hail of bullets Memorial Day.

Bill of Rights: An Endangered Species Kurt Nimmo | The 1st Amendment is under attack from federal, state, local police and private security goons.

Following Pentagon’s Lead, NATO Says It Will Respond to Hacker Threats Kurt Nimmo | NATO adds weight to the concerted call to respond militarily to hyped cyber threats against the state.

Drudge Drives TSA Controversy To Viral Status Paul Joseph Watson | Much to the chagrin of the establishment media, Matt Drudge is still the King of Internet news

No “Conspiracy Theory”: Wikileaks Cable Confirms North American Union Agenda Paul Joseph Watson | Mission to merge United States, Canada and Mexico into monetary and political union labeled “conspiracy theory” by establishment media.

The Spirit of Thomas Jefferson Lives in Nullification Alexander Meyer | We have unchallenged Federal power coming face to face with the boiling passion of a grass roots revival for liberty.

GOP Establishment Attempting To Redistrict Ron Paul Out Of Office A Democratic consultant tells the Texas Tribune that it is no coincidence that a proposed congressional redistricting map would significantly alter District 14, the seat firmly held by Ron Paul for the last fourteen years.

Ron Paul: “Barack Obama and the big government crowd are destroying our economy” Today, a spokesman for Congressman Ron Paul’s 2012 Republican presidential campaign remarked on the most recent U.S. jobs report and the state of the American economy. See comments below.

Chossudovsky: US, NATO clearly going into ground war Russia’s foreign minister has criticized the way the UN resolution on Libya is being implemented, in the wake of NATO’s 90-day extension of its mission there. Sergey Lavrov says NATO’s actions go beyond the scope of the resolution and undermine international law. According to Michel Chossudovsky from the Canadian-based Center for Research on Globalization, there are clear signs that we might soon see American boots touch Libyan soil.

Japan staff exceed radiation limit The operator of Japan’s crippled nuclear power plant said two workers have exceeded a radiation exposure limit for men.

TSA On The Ropes; Budget Slashed, Texas Grope Ban Returns Days after a top TSA official conceded that the agency would be forced to reconsider its policies in the aftermath of a nationwide backlash against invasive screening procedures, the agency was dealt another two huge blows yesterday with the news that the TSA budget would be slashed by $270 million, in addition to the return of a bill in Texas that would make grope-downs a felony.

Texas Senate Under Siege EXCLUSIVE footage of Alex Jones’ powerful speech on the steps of the Texas Senate chamber, rebuking those who betrayed liberty and worked to kill the bill that would protect passengers from TSA groping.

The Sky Is Falling, It Is Time To Panic And The U.S. Economy Has Fallen And It Can’t Get Up So many economists and financial pundits seem absolutely shocked that the U.S. economy is slowing down again. It is as if this latest wave of bad economic data has caught them completely by surprise.

Investors Await Jobs Report: Dave's Daily ‘ ETF Center Thursday was a quiet day in trading but disappointing economic news still dominated. Jobless Claims came in beneath expectations despite being slightly better than the previous week; however, the four-week moving average is 30K higher. Chain Store sales were disappointing with pundits blaming the weather again. Factory Orders missed consensus forecasts at -1.2%. Lastly, not that it's much of a surprise, Moody's warned it could downgrade U.S. bond ratings should the budget deficit and debt not be resolved. So, do you think Turbo-Tim would ever stiff "the Beard"? Anyway, the big number on Friday is the employment data. Estimates have been frantically reduced over the week given other poor data. The current consensus is 170K jobs, which is quite low, so upside surprises may be built in given all the downward revisions. Also on tap is ISM Services Index which is expected to increase to 54 from 52.8. After yesterday's big down day markets achieved some hard fought stability. It's strange to think the employment report will hold surprises but it's Friday and bulls definitely want to go out feeling better. The Fed was quiet Thursday but underwriters are busy getting some new issues to market ("while the getting's good") including Groupon and Pandora. These companies saw what happened with LinkedIn and they want their piece of the action. Volume continued at a higher level as bulls and bears fought it out. Breadth per the WSJ was mixed. ‘

Beware the next big fraud When will we see the next big fraud and a massive burst in the secondary markets bubble? Not soon enough, I fear. (Washington Post) [ Next? How ‘bout we’re still in the midst of that continuing multi-trilliion dollar fraud marked to anything … The frauds on wall street et als should be criminally prosecuted, jailed, fined, and disgorgement imposed), Billion Dollar Fund Managers Agree: The Government Never Fixed the Underlying Economic Problems, So We’ll Have Another Crash infowars.com While the snake oil salespeople at the retail investing level and the bobble heads on the kool aid selling financial channels have been saying for years that we’re in a “recovery” (albeit a slow one), billion dollar fund managers say that nothing has changed and we’ll have another crash … Roche 'The worst part of it ...Obama, who vowed change, has done almost nothing to fix any of it and in fact continues most of the policies that helped get us here in the first place’ ‘INSIDE JOB’ Ferguson wins Oscar for Documentary on the unprosecuted massive extant fraud in the (many) TRILLIONS by the frauds on wall street ( and declares with oscar in hand that not one high level wall street exec has been prosecuted … despite ‘earning’ billions from the fraud ). Dave's Daily 'If you can keep interest rates this low this long, its inevitable cheap financing can allow companies to start cobbling each other up. Further Ben's policies allow companies like IBM to sell bonds at 1% and buy back shares with the proceeds (total paper bubble-scam). POMO is occurring almost daily and Primary Dealers can buy back their shares and pay dividends with what essentially is taxpayer money-- … an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come! America Is a Failed State Because It Won’t Prosecute Financial Crime Washington’s Blog / the grim economic reality [ http://albertpeia.com/grimreality.htm ]. Selling In May Is Very Good Advice This Year Harding / April Is a Good Time to Sell Adler Equity Valuations Are Forming the Second Biggest Bubble in U.S. History Kaspar ... According to Yale University’s Dr. Robert Shiller, the market is now 41% overvalued …only time the markets have been more overvalued .. 1929 & tech bubble. http://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2011/4/12/saupload_cape_thumb1.png PRECHTER: We're Still In A Massive Bear Market And Stocks Will Crash To New Lows This is an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come! Remember: ‘Sell in May and go away! ‘ … Stock Market: 4 Current Warning Signs Navin ‘…1) The 5-year high in the level of insider corporate stock sales is telling. At 565 sells for every 1 buy, it’s never been higher. Yes, it’s normal for insiders to be selling some of their stocks so they can buy new yachts and some of this is pre-planned. But that ratio — which has spiked recently — is extraordinarily high, one might even say off-the-chart.] ]

Tough choices in Europe over Greece Greece will need more than $40 billion to keep itself afloat and sidestep a nightmare scenario: a default by one of the countries that use the euro. (Washington Post) [ Fait accomplis? I’d say, ‘look homeward hell’s angels’. After all, we do have near 50 such fiscal basket-cases here in the pervasively corrupt, defacto bankrupt disunited states. Meanwhile, america / nato are frittering money / resources away . http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/osama_dead.php 5-1-11, JUST MOMENTS BEFORE PRESIDENT OBAMA ANNOUNCED THAT THE US HAD KILLED OSAMA BIN LADEN, THE WHATREALLYHAPPENED WEBSITE CAME UNDER MASSIVE DISTRIBUTED DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACK. THIS PAGE, WHICH DOCUMENTS THAT OSAMA BIN LADEN ACTUALLY DIED IN DECEMBER OF 2001, APPEARS TO BE WHAT THE WHITE HOUSE DIDN'T WANT AVAILABLE WHILE THE NEW PROPAGANDA WAS "CATAPULTED FORWARD". IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THIS IS THE OPENING GAMBIT IN A PLAN TO STAGE A "REVENGE" ATTACK FROM "AL QAEDA" ON THE UNITED STATES, WITH WHICH TO JUSTIFY TOTAL WAR ON THE MIDDLE EAST… Editorial: US in quagmire War in Afghanistan and Iraq costs America $1trillion Though having but 5% of the world’s population, u.s. has 76% of the world’s serial killers, http://www.albertpeia.com/realifeamericaserialkillers.mpg bankrupt america also spends more on military than all the nations of the world combined... fed employees / contractors, cia, all 3 branches of u.s. gov’t, etc., are included in this evolved american trait of inherent criminality http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm ]:

Focus Is on Obama as Tensions Soar Across Mideast (NYT) [ Adapt? I don’t think so! I do believe that both nations are regressively but nostalgically trying bring the world back to failed geopolitical paradigms that made the 20th century the bloodiest century, not coincidentally the american century (obviously for israel the latter half century). Yet, such a conditioned psychopathic approach to global matters has led them self-destructively, self-defeatingly, and ineluctably to decline, fall. .. Orwellian approach fostered by the purveyors of global unrest; viz., israel, america, Orwellian england, etc.;more specifically, diversion of the masses from the glaring failures, economic and otherwise.

CRIME STATISTICS >(america is No. 1)

Rank	Countries	Amount
# 1	United States:	11,877,218
# 2	United Kingdom:	6,523,706
# 3	Germany:	6,507,394

THE OBAMA DECEPTION’ http://albertpeia.com/obamadeceptionhighqualityversion.flv ]

D.C. area no longer a leader in creating jobs (Washington Post) [ I’d say that such is a distinction without a significant difference inasmuch as near all ‘new’ jobs above the ‘new’ normal are makeshift and predominantly politically (not productively) motivated in origin. Do not fall for these ‘new renaissance’ sound bites / pep talks / spin sessions. Those deals, however misguided, are done. Those real jobs are not coming back for the foreseeable future that counts. The bell can not be ‘unrung’. Moreover, the ever less productive / make shift service jobs (including governmental, federal, state, local) have hit the wall in terms of budgetary constraints.

The Market’s Wall of Worry [ http://blogs.forbes.com/robertlenzner/2011/05/29/the-markets-wall-of-worry ] Robert Lenzner Street Talk ‘

* QE2 will be over in 30 days. That removes a $600 billion injection of money in the financial system.

*The bottom line all talks of cuts is less federal, state and local spending. Removes money from income total for the nation.

*Meanwhile, cost of healthcare, food, transportation continues to rise squeezing middle class.

*The yield on 10 year Treasuries is 3.11% and trending lower in anticipation soifter economy.

*Housing market could continue weak for some years, not months, affecting millions of ordinary Americans.

* Price of crude oil makes gasoline expensive and brings demand destruction.

* Stocks rally now over 2 years old. Commodities have also run up bigtime.

* China trying to slow its economic growth and having difficulty doing so.

*Europe facing costly bailouts troubled nations and weaker financial institutions.

*Showdown over Palestinian state could lead to another outbreak hostilities in the Middle East.

*If US, Europe and China slowing what are the prospects for global economy, corporate profits, market valuations?

*Japan badly hurt by earthquake and tsumami.

*Trade volumes decline more sharply than output during downturns according to The Economist.

*But OECD predicts GDP up 4.2% and trade volumes gain 8%.

The Beginning of the End of QE2 and 18 Other Issues Making Investors NervousTue May 31st, 2011Lloyd Khaner Lloyd's Wall of Worry QE II..

U.S. ECONOMY: From hero to zero in one quick month. Hey, June, can you throw us a bone here?

UNEMPLOYMENT: Job Creation Plan: Hire people to go out and count all the houses that are for sale, are in foreclosure, are empty and are inhabited by non-human animals. Not a perfect plan I admit, but give me cred for its original, unique, and entirely hare-brained nature.

U.S. DEBT CEILING: The latest in a long list of political footballs. This time each side is just punting the ball back and forth without any real effort to score. For the first time in head-to-head competitive history, both teams may find a way to lose.

INVESTOR SENTIMENT: Call it a Dickens Market -- it was the best of times and now it’s nearly the worst of times as extreme bullish sentiment becomes extremely bearish in just a week or so.

HOUSING CRISIS: A recent government press release says it will take 9.2 months to sell all the homes on the market right now. Of course, the specific year/decade those 9.2 months will fall into the release didn’t specify.

INFLATION: India, strong in many ways but not known to be No. 1 in any one economic sector -- until now. It has just landed the coveted top spot as the Asian economy with the highest inflation, fueled by a estimated salary increase of 13% in 2011. à¤…à¤šà¥à¤›à¤¾ à¤¦à¥: à¤–! That’s “good grief!” in Hindi.

STOCK MARKET TECHNICALS: Went to one of those Spiritual Readers and Advisors to get the answer to this technical mayhem and was next in to meet with “Wilomena of Wall Street” when my appointment got canceled. She picked up 1,000 LinkedIn (LNKD) IPO shares and flipped them, thus declaring huge profits and retirement. The market mystery continues…

FLOODS, TORNADOES, VOLCANOES: Well, we made it through The Rapture and we have a good year and a half until Mayan 2012 hits, but in the meantime Mother Nature is reminding us that she is and always has been the real deal.

OIL PRICES: Coming off the boil and therefore unlikely to do the damage of a full-on “oil shock”. Kind of like setting the cattle prod on 7 rather than 10. You get the full behavioral effect plus you live to share your experience with the rest of the herd.

ARAB SPRING: Don’t look now but spring is about to turn into summer. Summer can be warm, sunny and bright, or hot and blazing with fight. As the Zen Master says, “We’ll see.”

LIBYA: More top officials leaving -- this time it's the chair of Libya's state oil company. Could be a real sign of trouble for Mo-Mo, or maybe the oil chief is taking a cue from America's CEOs and "spending more time with family."

JAPAN: Back into recession, back on the ropes. "It's about how hard you can get it and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward." For what it’s worth, my money’s on Japan moving forward again.

CHINA: Starting to limit power usage at manufacturers as the hydro and coal situation is a bit tight in the land of endless growth. Sounds a little scary for the GDP, but put a “China Going Green” spin on it and no one will notice.

RING OF FIRE + SPAIN + TURKEY: This earthquake thing is spreading in strange ways. Not the good spread like hot fudge over a sundae, more like that hiking rash you get when going off trail in your shorts.

CURRENCIES: The state of Utah officially legalizes gold and silver as currency. Likely just a ruse to get people to buy, store, and borrow against gold in the state. And likely to work very well.

SOVEREIGN DEBT: Another June, another class of American college grads moves their tassels and hit the streets. Hottest graduation gift trending now: One-Year Credit Default Swaps on U.S. Debt. Inspiring to them, I’m sure.

COMMODITIES: Modern economic employment options are varied and I ain’t complaining, but seeing the parabolic moves in all things that grow in the ground, well, "Green Acres is the place for me."

INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND: The world’s banker or a moveable feast? Or as we say here in the U.S. “Animal House, Animal House.”

Discouraging news on the economy Stocks tumble after data on manufacturing, jobs and home prices dash sunny expectations. (Washington Post) [The key here is expectations based on what. I, and others have been saying such expectations have been based upon total b***s***, manipulations, if not outright fraud. Certainly the toxic assets now marked to anything as per legislated professional criminal courtesy in the form of FASB rule change will figure prominently in the next phase of this ongoing economic / financial crisis / debacle, the worst of which is yet to come, having been exacerbated thereby. Moreover, it’s now clear that the fed’s machinations have failed, benefited fraudulent wall street and insiders only, to everybody else’s expense and detriment including a hyperinflationary environment some (including El Erian of PIMCO) euphemistically refer to as stagflation. Dow Down 280: Stocks Tumble as Bulls Throw in the Towel on Jobs The Daily Ticker (6/1/11) Top 3 Reasons Markets Got Drop Kicked After Horrible Jobs and Manufacturing Data Wall St. Cheat Sheet U.S. Markets and ETFs Stumble On Weak Economic Data ETF Trends / [ What a difference a day makes: previous (May 31,2011) Globally, and in fraudulent america particularly, the stock markets / bourses are a total joke as they try to window dress their end of month figures based on b*** s*** alone. We’ve seen this before as it played out in the prior phase of this ongoing financial crisis. Shiller Home Price Index comes in at 100% worse than expectations … and don’t forget, that includes the dollar debasing realities which makes this report even more dire. Take this ‘me too’ pop on fraudulent wall street as an especially great opportunity to sell, take profits since there is much, much worse to come. Remember: ‘sell in May and go away’ … so … don’t be a lune, loon, sell in June! Another Financial Crisis Is On The Way, Mobius Says STOCKS HAVE BIG RALLY AFTER PILES OF UGLY NEWS: Here's What You need To Know Harry Dent: “Major Crash” Coming for Stocks, Commodities Already Topping Out 24 Signs Of Economic Decline In America ‘The US is in the middle of a devastating long-term economic decline..’ ] States face shortfall for retirees (WP) Public workers’ retirement funds had a gap of $1.26 trillion at the end of fiscal 2009 Study: Affordable rentals scarce (WP) Poll: For Obama, low marks on Afghan war (WP) More Americans disapprove of President Obama’s management of the war in Afghanistan than support it Fuel prices cut into Obama popularity (WP) (The frauds on wall street et als should be criminally prosecuted, jailed, fined, and disgorgement imposed), and have used the mideast turmoil to obfuscate their failure. Dave's Daily 'If you can keep interest rates this low this long, its inevitable cheap financing can allow companies to start cobbling each other up. Further Ben's policies allow companies like IBM to sell bonds at 1% and buy back shares with the proceeds (total paper bubble-scam). POMO is occurring almost daily and Primary Dealers can buy back their shares and pay dividends with what essentially is taxpayer money-- … an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come! America Is a Failed State Because It Won’t Prosecute Financial Crime Washington’s Blog / the grim economic reality [ http://albertpeia.com/grimreality.htm ]. Selling In May Is Very Good Advice This Year Harding / April Is a Good Time to Sell Adler Equity Valuations Are Forming the Second Biggest Bubble in U.S. History Kaspar ... According to Yale University’s Dr. Robert Shiller, the market is now 41% overvalued …only time the markets have been more overvalued .. 1929 & tech bubble. http://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2011/4/12/saupload_cape_thumb1.png PRECHTER: We're Still In A Massive Bear Market And Stocks Will Crash To New Lows This is an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come! Remember: ‘Sell in May and go away! ‘ … Stock Market: 4 Current Warning Signs Navin ‘…1) The 5-year high in the level of insider corporate stock sales is telling. At 565 sells for every 1 buy, it’s never been higher. Yes, it’s normal for insiders to be selling some of their stocks so they can buy new yachts and some of this is pre-planned. But that ratio — which has spiked recently — is extraordinarily high, one might even say off-the-chart.]

[ ABC (Dizzyney) is a pathetically horrible network; unimaginative, devoid of creative programming and with the weakest broadcast signal to boot (those ‘reality’ things they do … and look at their new offering … ‘combat hospital’ … just what everyone wants to see … ‘real blood and guts?’ (oooh! So timely and ‘johnny on the spot’, like their ‘seal 6’ fiasco) … I hope so if they’re that of their management personnel … they should be barred from championship broadcasting! Terrible! Pathetic! I don’t know how they’re still in business. Oh … I almost forgot … they’re the ‘american broadcasting company’ … succeeding through failure since nothing succeeds like failure in america today. Let me add NBC (with the exception of the stellar ‘Saturday Night Live’) to the foregoing reality (apprentice, etc.? Who is tacky / dumb enough to waste time watching that s***. ]

A Close Look Under the Hood - Was QE2 a Giant Waste of Money? Simon Maierhofer, June 2, 2011 ‘Some things are obvious, some things are not. It's obvious that QE2 lifted stocks while leaving the real estate market (NYSEArca: IYR - News) to fend for itself.

This article will take a deeper look under the hood and show what QE2 could and couldn't do. More importantly, it will highlight how QE (or the lack thereof) should affect your investment decisions.

QE2 and GDP

Even though Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is an absolutely outdated and misleading measure of a country's economic health (more about that in a moment), we'll take a look at how QE2 affected GDP.

GDP for Q4 2010 increased 3.1%. GDP for Q1 2011 was expected to come in at 2.1% but was only 1.8%. This is a deceleration of growth and not what we'd like to see.

Back to why GDP is misleading. GDP is calculated by summing up consumer spending, government outlays (such as benefits and interest payments), gross investments and exports and subtracting imports. All but exports fall under government spending.

GDP however, does not distinguish how government spending is financed. All the government spending that has brought the U.S. to the brink of insolvency is reflected in the GDP. As the chart below shows, the government entitlements (such as unemployment benefits, etc.) account for over 35% of personal income.

http://www.etfguide.com//contributor/UserFiles/8/Image/Government%20entitlements.gif

Personal income accounts for about 75% of GDP. Therefore government spending - which is the polar opposite of organic economic growth - makes up over 26% of GDP growth.

QE2 and Troubled Banks

Here is one statistic that adds new meaning to why some banks are simply 'too big to fail.' Of the 7,574 federal insured banks, 11.7% are on the FDIC's 'problem list.'

From January to March 2011, the banking (NYSEArca: KBE - News) and financial (NYSEArca: XLF - News) industry reported $29 billion in earnings, the highest number since before the financial crisis.

$24.4 billion of the $29 billion were generated by the 1.4% of banks with assets exceeded $10 billion. Of course the largest banks received massive bailouts and record low-borrowing rates. While large banks have recovered, regional banks (NYSEArca: KRE - News) have been left to fight for the leftover crumbs.

QE2 has been great for Chase, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and the likes, but the neighborhood bank at the corner is likely struggling.

QE2 and Wealth

According to the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), global wealth grew by $9 trillion, or 8%, to $121.8 trillion in 2010. BCG includes cash and securities, but excludes holdings in businesses, residences and luxury goods. The world's collective investments and savings have surged $20 trillion from the 2008 lows and left the world $10 trillion richer than in 2007. A look at the iShares MSCI EAFE (NYSEArca: EFA - News) and iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (NYSEArca: EEM - News) confirms this.

QE2 is not solely responsible for this global wealth increase, but it had a lion share in the $3.6 trillion gain in North America. No doubt the government is happy to tax a good portion of that wealth. From a tax point of view, QE2 may well have been worth its $600 billion price tag.

In terms of job creation, QE2 failed miserably. A recent SmartMoney.com article points out that QE2 has created maybe 700,000 full-time jobs at a cost of around $850,000 each. The percentage of the population in work is lower today than last August (58.4% vs. 58.5%).

QE2 and Stocks

Denominated in dollars, you and I know that the S&P (SNP: ^GSPC), Dow Jones (DJI: ^DJI) and Nasdaq (Nasdaq: ^IXIC) rallied around 100% or more from the March 2009 lows. Measured in hard currency however, SmartMoney reasons that the S&P has risen by just 8.4% in Swiss francs. Measured in gold (NYSEArca: GLD - News), the S&P 500 (NYSEArca: IVV - News) is up just 4.5%.

So while QE2 has created some wealth, it appears to also have created an illusion of wealth, probably even another bubble. Not many bubbles stay afloat without continuous air inflow. The cash inflow for the QE2 bubble is about to end and the search for a pin has begun …’

First-Of-The-Month Blues at The Wall Street Journal

[ It’s quite amazing that the so-called ‘professionals’ seek solace and comfort from mechanical application of technical analysis when focus on fundamentals which are less prone to obfuscation / manipulation which ultimately has led to fraud after successful fraud, debacle after debacle. ]

[$$] Expect More 'Unexpectedly' Weak Economic Data at Barrons.com
Stocks Sink Again; Wal-Mart Slips 1.4%
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Stocks struggle amid US slowdown fears

Wall Street ends flat after volatile day; jobs ahead
US STOCKS-Wall St ends flat after volatile day; jobs ahead

Goldman Gets Subpoena From Manhattan DA Goldman Sachs just got a subpoena from the Manhattan DA.

Fears Grow Over Double-Dip Recession One fund manager calls it a horror show, others are predicting the Federal Reserve will have to extend its unconventional measures and stocks across the world are falling heavily.

Did The Fed Just Give The Green Light To Sell The Stock Market? Remember when the president uttered the magic words back in March 2009, when he said that “profit and earning ratios [whatever the hell those are] are starting to get to the point where buying stocks is a potentially good deal if you’ve got a long-term perspective on it” giving the green light for the 2 year bear market rally?

Consumer Confidence Is Now Lower Than During All Recent Financial Crises And Tragedies One chart stands out in today’s Breakfast with Rosie: the comparison of yesterday’s surprisingly weak Consumer Confidence number with comparable prints taken at financial crises and tragedies of the past such as the October 1987 markets crash, Desert Storm, LTCM, the dot com collapse, September 11, Katrina, and Lehman.

Another Financial Crisis Is On The Way, Mobius Says STOCKS HAVE BIG RALLY AFTER PILES OF UGLY NEWS: Here's What You need To Know Harry Dent: “Major Crash” Coming for Stocks, Commodities Already Topping Out 24 Signs Of Economic Decline In America ‘The US is in the middle of a devastating long-term economic decline..’ ] States face shortfall for retirees (WP) Public workers’ retirement funds had a gap of $1.26 trillion at the end of fiscal 2009 Study: Affordable rentals scarce (WP) Poll: For Obama, low marks on Afghan war (WP) More Americans disapprove of President Obama’s management of the war in Afghanistan than support it Fuel prices cut into Obama popularity (WP) (The frauds on wall street et als should be criminally prosecuted, jailed, fined, and disgorgement imposed), and have used the mideast turmoil to obfuscate their failure. Davis ‘This is how we pay off our current debts and I think bondholders are simply happy to get anything out of a country that admits it owes $15Tn (1/4 of global GDP) but probably owes closer to $60Tn (entire global GDP) in the form of unfunded liabilities. The funniest thing about this (and you have to laugh) is to see Conservative pundits get on TV and talk about how we need to cut $100Bn worth of discretionary spending to "fix" this (while continuing to spend $1Tn on the military and $1Tn on tax cuts for the top 1% each year). There is no fixing this and even a Republican said you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. THIS HOUSE OF CARDS IS TEETERING FOLKS – PLEASE BE CAREFUL OUT THERE! ‘ Dave's Daily 'If you can keep interest rates this low this long, its inevitable cheap financing can allow companies to start cobbling each other up. Further Ben's policies allow companies like IBM to sell bonds at 1% and buy back shares with the proceeds (total paper bubble-scam). POMO is occurring almost daily and Primary Dealers can buy back their shares and pay dividends with what essentially is taxpayer money-- … an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come! America Is a Failed State Because It Won’t Prosecute Financial Crime Washington’s Blog / the grim economic reality [ http://albertpeia.com/grimreality.htm ]. Selling In May Is Very Good Advice This Year Harding / April Is a Good Time to Sell Adler Equity Valuations Are Forming the Second Biggest Bubble in U.S. History Kaspar ... According to Yale University’s Dr. Robert Shiller, the market is now 41% overvalued …only time the markets have been more overvalued .. 1929 & tech bubble. http://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2011/4/12/saupload_cape_thumb1.png PRECHTER: We're Still In A Massive Bear Market And Stocks Will Crash To New Lows This is an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come! Remember: ‘Sell in May and go away! ‘ … Stock Market: 4 Current Warning Signs Navin ‘…1) The 5-year high in the level of insider corporate stock sales is telling. At 565 sells for every 1 buy, it’s never been higher. Yes, it’s normal for insiders to be selling some of their stocks so they can buy new yachts and some of this is pre-planned. But that ratio — which has spiked recently — is extraordinarily high, one might even say off-the-chart.]

Moody’s Warns of US Default

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Texas Senate Under Siege TheAlexJonesChannel | EXCLUSIVE footage of Alex Jones’ powerful speech on the steps of the Texas Senate chamber, rebuking those who stopped the bill that would protect passengers from TSA groping.

Embedding YouTube Videos May Soon Be a Felony Kurt Nimmo | If passed, the law will send the web back ten years.

Corporate Media Dwells on Mitt Romney Candidacy, Ignores Ron Paul Kurt Nimmo | Romney, who has voted like a Massachusetts liberal, wants you to think he is a libertarian Republican.

Alex Reunited with Trooper Who Arrested Him for Thumbscan Refusal TheAlexJonesChannel | Alex Jones happens upon the very state trooper who arrested him 14 years ago for refusing to thumbscan for a driver’s license at the TSA protest.

10 Reasons Why The “Economic Recovery” Is a Fraud Paul Joseph Watson | Americans have been continually deceived about the true state of the financial system.

QE3 and the Globalist Plan to Destroy the Dollar Kurt Nimmo | Even market gurus are coming around to the fact the economic crisis is not accident.

VIDEO: Woman Screams For Help After TSA Molestation Steve Watson & Paul Joseph Watson | Agents threaten to confiscate son’s bags, have him arrested as punishment for filming ordeal.

New Video is a Key Weapon Against the Banking Cartel Infowars.com | Americans strive for the American Dream — this film shows why that dream is disappearing.

Military Escalation: “Phase Two” of the War on Libya A new phase of the war is unfolding leading to a process of military escalation as well as the eventual landing of US-NATO commandos on Libya’s shores.

War Zones: As The Economy Dies, Murders, Shootings, Robberies And Looting Erupt All Over America As the U.S. economy falls apart and millions of Americans descend into despair we are seeing some really shocking things start to happen all over America.

10 Reasons Why The “Economic Recovery” Is a Fraud Yesterday’s so-called “horror” show for the US economy with the release of new data illustrating how the economic “recovery” has all but ground to a halt was met with feigned astonishment and shock by the establishment media, and yet for the past two years the public has been continually deceived about the true state of the financial system.

Moody’s Warns of US Default Moody’s Investors Service, the credit ratings agency, warned of a “very small but rising risk” that the US could default on its debt, adding pressure on Congress and the Obama administration to overcome severe political divisions and strike a deal on fiscal policy.

Pentagon Warns Of M.A.D. Should The War Powers Act Be Enacted And US Withdraw Its Troops From Libya Who says Mutual Assured Destruction is to be used only by bankers: our military leaders appear to have mastered the strategy of getting what they want to warning about all hell breaking loose, just as effectively.

Alex Reunited with Trooper Who Arrested Him for Thumbscan Refusal While routing out the globalist forces at the Texas Capitol behind killing the anti-TSA bill, Alex Jones happens upon the very state trooper who arrested him 14 years ago for refusing to thumbscan for a driver’s license.

QE3 and the Globalist Plan to Destroy the Dollar Mohamed El-Erian, chief executive officer at Pacific Investment Management Co., told Bloomberg today the Fed’s quantitative easing policy failed to meet the “ultimate objective” of boosting employment and economic growth.

VIDEO: Woman Screams For Help After TSA Molestation Video of an incident recorded over the memorial weekend at Sky Harbor International in Phoenix, AZ, documents how the TSA deal with people who are traumatized by grossly invasive enhanced pat downs.

Hail Caesar Although the financial press speculates about a downgrade of the US government’s credit rating and default if political impasse prevents the debt ceiling from being raised in time, I doubt anyone really believes that the debt ceiling will not be raised. It is just all a part of the political theater of the next couple of months.

‘Gaddafi is not bin Laden, NATO would bomb him to death if knew where he was’ NATO is extending its operation in Libya by another three months. The Alliance chief says the decision is meant to signal to Colonel Gaddafi that the coalition is determined to fulfill the UN mandate to protect Libyans.

Ron Paul on Neil Cavuto: You Can’t Get Back To Growth Unless You Have Correction The Congressman talks the ailing economy with Cavuto.

Robert Gates: Kucinich move on Libya ‘dangerous’ Politico | Gates says move to end Libya attack would undermine alliances and military operations.

House Republicans Kill Kucinich’s Libya Withdrawal Bill FoxNews.com | Yanked from schedule only after it became clear that it might succeed.

Afghan leader warns NATO not to become ‘occupying force’ | Karzai warned NATO-led forces in Afghanistan they were at risk of being seen as an occupying force. [ Duh! What a bag of hot air karzai is! ]

`Drudgereport: TEMPLETON chairman: Financial Crisis 'Around Corner'... 'WE ARE ON THE VERGE OF A GREAT, GREAT DEPRESSION...'`ECONOMIC 'HORROR' AS DATA PLUNGES`Dow tumbles 280 points...`
`Private Sector Jobs Grew By Only 38,000 in May...`
`Planned Layoffs Up...`
`Manufacturing Slows... MOODY'S: US Rating Could Be Placed Under Review... Greece goes further into junk territory; MOODY'S downgrades...`
`AP: Consumer confidence falls 'unexpectedly' in May...`
`BARONE: Pro-Obama media always shocked by bad economic news...`
`Home-price index at lowest point since 2006 bust...`
`'Double-Dip' Even Worse Than Expected...`
`GOLDMAN SACHS: $5 gas this summer... Number of federal-owned limousines has soared under Obama... Obama bailout of GOV'T MOTORS to cost taxpayers at least $14 billion... Obama solicitor general: Don't like healthcare mandate, earn less money!`
`REPORT: Senate's 100 members spend $40M for 700 offices nationwide... 7 'NATO troops' killed Thursday were American... British Health Care Program in Grave Peril... Netanyahu: Israel cannot prevent UN recognition of Palestinian state...`
`First ID'ed as 'Int'l Security Assistance Force service members'...`
`Deadliest day this year... WARS RAGE ON...`
`U.S. Dead in Afghanistan Tops 1,500...`
`OBAMA HITS GOLF COURSE FOR ROUND NO. 70...ON THE GROUND IN LIBYAAnti-Christian Violence Continues in Pakistan... UPDATE: MIAMI 'WAR ZONE' DURING URBAN WEEKEND...`
`'I was scared for my life'...`
`Poet 'Da Real One' Gunned Down In Front Of Miami Poetry Cafe...`
`Violent crime explodes in Myrtle during Black Bike Week; 8-hour hell...`
`Rib Fest At Rochester beach turns rowdy...`
`Riot On Long Island...`
`Urban Melee In Charlotte...`
`Chaos causes DNC concern for convention...`
`Unruly urban crowd shuts down Nashville water park...`
`Emanuel shuts down packed Chicago beach; 'heat-related illnesses'...`
`REPORT: 'Dozens of gang bangers'...`TEEN GANGS UNLEASHED ON BOSTON BEACH
`WHO: Radiation From Cell Phones Can Cause Cancer... In same category as lead, engine exhaust, chloroform...OBAMA FIGHTS FOR HIS RIGHT TO BOMB LIBYA...`

`VIDEO: Woman Screams For Help After TSA Molestation...`
`IT MIGHT BE MY WEINER!`
`'This Could Be The End For Him'...`
`'Have You Ever Taken A Picture Like This Of Yourself?'...WEINER CALLS COPS ON CBS` WASHINGTON (CBSNewYork) — ‘Congressman Anthony Weiner said Thursday he’s finished talking about the lewd photo sent from his Twitter account.But he still wouldn’t say whether he’s the one in the picture.So CBS 2 political reporter Marcia Kramer decided to go to his office on Capitol Hill to try to get you some answers.You’ll never believe what happened.Kramer tried to get an interview with the six-term New York Democrat and as a result had the cops called on her.Kramer walked in to Weiner’s office, announced herself as being from CBS 2 in New York City and said she’d like to see the congressman. Those few words created quite the stir. Doors slammed and people pretended she wasn’t there ...’ Weiner’s efforts don’t cool furor The congressman said that he didn’t send a lewd photo on Twitter but also that he couldn’t “say with certitude” whether the image was of his own crotch. (Washington Post) [ ‘Weiner’s weiner’! ‘Not cool furor’ … how ‘bout just plain ‘not cool’. Eh … what can you expect from national drain / sinkhole new york (new york / new jersey metro). I haven’t read but probably agree with the following article: Listen up, fellas: Naked man-parts? Not so sexy. (Washington Post) / … Even Mr. Milbank weighs in: ‘The Weiner roast Congressman finds himself in a fight he does not relish.’ Report: SEC lawyer exposed FBI informant (Washington Post) [ Clearly, the sec liar (sic – lawyer) is one of those typically with a ‘pre or post’ arrangement, whether implicit or explicit; you know, that ubiquitous ‘bribe thing’ in pervasively corrupt, defacto bankrupt, fallen america. Indeed, the scenario typifies that national drain / sinkhole new york (new york / new jersey metro) where, for example, FBI informants were routinely exposed by ‘italians’ in the new york d.a.’s over objection of the FBI, and were promptly ‘dispatched’/assassinated / hit by mafia / organized crime [ this was documented with authority in the book Goombata: The Improbable Rise and Fall of John Gotti and His Gang John Cummings (Author), Ernest Volkman (Author) Though having but 5% of the world’s population, u.s. has 76% of the world’s serial killers, http://www.albertpeia.com/realifeamericaserialkillers.mpg bankrupt america also spends more on military than all the nations of the world combined... fed employees / contractors, cia, all 3 branches of u.s. gov’t, etc., are included in this evolved american trait of inherent criminality http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm ]:

Focus Is on Obama as Tensions Soar Across Mideast (New York Times) [ Adapt? I don’t think so! I do believe that both nations are regressively but nostalgically trying bring the world back to failed geopolitical paradigms that made the 20th century the bloodiest century, not coincidentally the american century (obviously for israel the latter half century). Yet, such a conditioned psychopathic approach to global matters has led them self-destructively, self-defeatingly, and ineluctably to decline, fall, and as with dinosaurs, extinction, at least in a manner of speaking. Global information exchange at lightning speed has made such throwbacks to a lost era, propaganda, and maladaptive traits foolish at best, deadly at worst. Intelligent people worldwide aren’t buying the obsolete, Orwellian approach fostered by the purveyors of global unrest; viz., israel, america, Orwellian england, etc..; more specifically, diversion of the masses from the glaring failures of leadership, economic and otherwise.

CRIME STATISTICS >(america is No. 1)

Rank	Countries	Amount
# 1	United States:	11,877,218
# 2	United Kingdom:	6,523,706
# 3	Germany:	6,507,394

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Dow Down 280: Stocks Tumble as Bulls Throw in the Towel on Jobs By Aaron Task The Daily Ticker(6/1/11) ‘A day after rallying on hopes for a Greek bailout, the stock market tumbled Wednesday following another round of dismal economic data. The daylong sell-off accelerated into the close after Moody's downgraded Greek debt late in the trading day.The Dow shed 2.2% to 12,291 while the S&P and Nasdaq each lost 2.3%, and oil fell the most in three weeks as the "risk on" trade came unwound in a hurry. Gold rose to a four-week high while Treasury prices continued to rally; the yield on the benchmark 10-year note fell below 3% for the first time since early December.The widespread sell-off was widely attributed to weaker-than-expected reports on U.S. manufacturing, auto sales, and the ADP's report on private sector payrolls. Just 38,000 private sector jobs were created last month, the lowest level since September 2010, according to ADP.While the ADP report has a checkered history of forecasting the Labor Department's survey, the combination of ADP's report and the national ISM Manufacturing index hitting its lowest level since 2009 prompted Wall Street economists to slash their forecasts for Friday's jobs report. Deutsche Bank's Joe LaVorgna, for example, has cut his forecast for Friday's payroll number two times this week, to 150,000 currently from 300,000 last week.As my Breakout colleague Matt Nesto notes in the accompanying clip, Wednesday's weak data confirms the recent trend, which has been a pervasive slowdown across nearly every sector of the economy. Citigroup's U.S. Economic Surprise Index, which whether data is beating or missing estimates, turned negative last month and now sits at its lowest level since January 2009, Bloomberg reports. (See: What Recovery? The Economy's Weak And Getting Weaker, Mish Says) Given the declining trend has been in place for several weeks (at least), Wednesday has the look of a "capitulation day" for the remaining econo-bulls. As a result, the market may be set up for an upside surprise on Friday if the May jobs number is anything but horrific. While the official consensus estimate is for 170,000 jobs, the "whisper number" is now 100,000 according to Reuters.While Jeff Macke describes today's action as just noise within the trading range of S&P 1300 to 1340, the heavy selling seemingly confirms the trend of one-step forward, two-steps back that has been in force since early May. The question is whether the stock market is just catching on to economic reality or sniffing out something far worse in the offing, like QE3 or a political breakdown over the debt ceiling.Aaron Task is the host of The Daily Ticker. You can follow him on Twitter at @atask or email him at [email protected] ‘

Top 3 Reasons Markets Got Drop Kicked After Horrible Jobs and Manufacturing Data Wall St. Cheat Sheet On Wednesday June 1, 2011, ‘Markets closed down on Wall Street: DJI -2.22% SP500 -2.28% Nasdaq -2.33% Gold 0.16% Oil -2.87% . Markets were in a downtrend all day as trading volume remained low. On the commodities front, Oil (NYSE:USO) dropped over $3 from the high of the day to land back below $100 a barrel. Gold (NYSE:GLD) caught some love on the usual QE3 talk and another downgrade of Greece, while Silver (NYSE:SLV) got crushed nearly 5%.

Today’s markets were down because:

1) Economic data sucked . First we started with a much weaker than expected ADP Employment report. That was the shot heard ’round Wall Street. Then analysts tripped over each other to lower estimates for tomorrow’s big Non-Farm Payrolls report. After that, the pessimists were rewarded again as ISM Manufacturing missed analyst expectations by a mile. The mantra for the remainder of the day has been “slowdown”.

2) Automakers offered disappointing news. The mantra continued as Ford (NYSE:F), General Motors (NYSE:GM), and Toyota (NYSE:TM) announced poor automobile sales data. But data was brighter for retailers as we noted in our Retailer Roundup.

3) Tech had another big day. Nokia (NYSE:NOK) is getting hit like a bear raid and LinkedIn (NYSE:LNKD) broke technical support as we warned yesterday. On a positive note, Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) and Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) have a lot of positive focus on their businesses during the All Things Digital Conference and next week’s Apple Developer’s Conference. But the stocks are still down in the slaughter.

Bonus: Cisco Projects Insane Growth in Web-Users and Data Traffic

Now that you’re in the know, enjoy your evening!’

U.S. Markets and ETFs Stumble On Weak Economic Data ETF Trends [email protected] (Tom Lydon), June 1, 2011, ‘Disheartening economic data, namely from private-sector jobs and manufacturing growth, pointed to a slowing economy, sending markets and exchange traded funds (ETFs) lower.

The Institute for Supply Management index of activity in manufacturing – the purchasing managers’ index, or PMI – declined from 60.4 in April to 53.5 in May, which was well below the expected drop to 57.0, report Steven Russolillo and Brendan Conway for The Wall Street Journal . Nevertheless, readings above 50 indicate an expanding economy. [ Economic Data Tempers Gains in U.S. Markets and ETFs. ]

The lower-than-expected employment number from private-sector jobs in the U.S. only increased by 38,000 last month, whereas economists had previously anticipated an influx of 190,000. According to the ADP report, the employment gauge plummeted to 58.2, a low last seen in October 2010, from 62.7.

The ISM’s production index fell from 63.8 in April to 54.0 and new orders dropped from 61.7 to 51.0, a low last seen in June 2009, write Alex Kowalski and Shobhana Chandra for Bloomberg .

Construction spending inched up 0.4% in April, but the number was revised downward from the previous month.

SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSEArca:SPY) is down 1.3%.
PowerShares QQQ (NasdaqGM:QQQ) is down 1.17%.
SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (NYSEArca:DIA) is down 1.4%.

For more information on the U.S. markets, visit our S&P 500 category .

Max Chen contributed to this article.’

It's A Cyclical Downturn In The Global Economy: Nobody Escapes at Forbes Robert Lenzner StreetTalk [ Yes. Mr. Lenzner is quite right. And, the natural concomitant of this cyclical downturn is the secular bear market in this secular downtrend. That’s the economic and financial reality, exacerbated by fraud, corruption and what they’re doing and not doing. ]

‘The sharp fall in the industrial manufacturing index– from 60.4 to 53.5 in a single month is abundant proof that we have reached a cyclical turn in the economy says Lakshman Acouthan, CEO of ECRI, a highly respected economic consulting firm in New York.

“This is a cyclical turn,” Acouthan just told me. “It is worldwide. Nobody escapes,” the ECRI executive told me after reading today’s economic tea leaves– which were seriously negative and distinctly different than the growth predicted by most large Wall Street institutions.

By underscoring “nobody escapes,” I believe Acouthan was referring to China, where there are signs that higher interest rates and stiff restrictions on bank reserves have begun to bite into industrial growth and commodity prices.

Acouthan believes stock markets and commodity prices, especially metals and energy, will continue to be under pressure.

And Wednesday’s plummeting share prices in the US were dramatic, as investors ran for the exits and drove the indexes down a solid 2%. New jobs in the private sector were meager, and home prices weakened again to the point wherer prices in many cities have returned to pre-2002 levels. I anticipate more softness in residential homes, which wil cetainly affect consumer sentiment.

Then, too, the yield on 10 year Treasuries, the most watched interest rate in financial markets, keept falling well below the 3% mark, closing at a yield of 2.94% just as my bond guru Bob Smith of Smith Capital had been predicting. So far, PIMCO’s Bill Gross has egg on his face for selling his Treasury bonds and then going short– betting that interest rates would spike and bond prices weaken.

GM shares plummeted on the surprisingly weak sales of autos in the most recent period. By the end of the trading session shares of integrated oil companies were weaker. Only gold seemed to climb in an undramatic fashion to finish the day higher.

Sadly, the rout of the risk trade may mean that the Fed’s monthly $600 billion QE2 quantitative easing has not bolstered the economy so much as it induced speculation in stocks and commodities.’

The 10 Most Heavily Traded Stocks Selling Off Big Today Wall St. Cheat Sheet

QE2 a Failure, Forget QE3, Says UBS at The Wall Street Journal

AT&T Buys T-Mobile Merger Support With Payoffs to United Way, NAACP, Governor's Wife at Minyanville

Minyanville's T3 Daily Recap: Market Sells Off on Slowing Economy at Minyanville

Stocks Tumble As Weak Economic Data Prompt Recovery Fears Steven Russolillo | U.S. stocks plunged Wednesday after a slew of downbeat reports prompted fears that the nation’s economic recovery is running out of steam.

Market strategist: “We’re on the verge of a great, great depression” CNBC | “What we’ve got right now is almost near panic going on with money managers and people who are responsible for money.”

Fed Ready to Print More Funny Money on QE3 Rumors Kurt Nimmo | Latest effort by the Fed to finance the government’s staggering deficit will end this month.

Amazon Tax Bill Passes California State Assembly NBC LA | California could collect more than $1 billion a year by taxing Amazon and other online retailers if a bill approved by the Assembly becomes law.

House Republicans Meet With Obama After Rejecting Debt Ceiling Increase Fox | The proposal to raise the nation’s $14.3 trillion ceiling by another $2.4 trillion failed.

Why Gold Is Still a Good Long-Term Investment If all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is: relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal mine. It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.

Suddenly Everyone Is Warning About The Next Financial Collapse Are we about to see a repeat of 2008 (or something even worse)? Suddenly all kinds of people are coming out of the woodwork and warning that we could be on the verge of the next major financial collapse.

One percent holds 39 percent of global wealth Around one percent of households have 39 percent of the globe’s wealth according to a study published Tuesday, pointing to increased inequalities in the wake of the global downturn.

Billion Dollar Fund Managers Agree: The Government Never Fixed the Underlying Economic Problems, So We’ll Have Another Crash While the snake oil salespeople at the retail investing level and the bobble heads on the kool aid selling financial channels have been saying for years that we’re in a “recovery” (albeit a slow one), billion dollar fund managers say that nothing has changed and we’ll have another crash.

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Stocks Tumble As Weak Economic Data Prompt Recovery Fears Steven Russolillo | U.S. stocks plunged Wednesday after a slew of downbeat reports prompted fears that the nation’s economic recovery is running out of steam.

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Market strategist: “We’re on the verge of a great, great depression” CNBC | “What we’ve got right now is almost near panic going on with money managers and people who are responsible for money.”

Fed Ready to Print More Funny Money on QE3 Rumors Kurt Nimmo | Latest effort by the Fed to finance the government’s staggering deficit will end this month.

18 Signs Life In U.S. Public Schools Now Equivalent To Life In U.S. Prisons The American Dream | When I was young we would joke that going to school was like going to prison, but today that is actually true.

Florida governor signs welfare drug-screen measure CNN | Claims welfare payments subsidize drug addiction.

Ron Paul: We Are Enabling A Future American Dictatorship Steve Watson | 2012 candidate warns that lack of oversight is enabling the rise of a dictatorship in the US.

The Federal Reserve Cartel: The Eight Families Dean Henderson | Four Horsemen of Banking are among the top ten stock holders of virtually every Fortune 500 corporation.

Fukushima: French research institute finds high radioactivity NHK | Radiation in Fukushima Prefecture 60 times higher than the annual reference level.

NATO extends Libya air war, says Kadhafi will go AFP | NATO Wednesday extended its Libyan air war by three months. Drudgereport: FLASHBACK: Obama: U.S. Involvement Would Last 'Days, Not Weeks'...

‘Summer of War’ by NATO: 90 more days of Libya bombing NATO has declared its extending its operation in Libya by another three months. The alliance chief says this decision is meant to prove to Muammar Gaddafi that the alliance is determined to fulfil the UN mandate. Let’s cross live to James Corbett an editor of an independent news website to discuss the latest developments.

Military Escalation: “Phase Two” of the War on Libya A new phase of the war is unfolding leading to a process of military escalation as well the eventual landing of US-NATO commandos on Libya’s shores. An unprecedented deployment of naval power in the Mediterranean is occurring.

Psych drug doctors now pushing to add lithium to drinking water Chlorine, fluoride, and the various other chemical poisons already added to the nation’s drinking water supplies are apparently not enough for the self-appointed experts whose insatiable lust to force-medicate the world is never satisfied.

Tiny Payout In TSA Breast Exposure Lawsuit The U.S. government paid a paltry $2350 to settle a lawsuit brought by a Texas woman who sued the Transportation Security Administration after her breasts were exposed during a vigorous frisking at a Texas airport, records show.

Strategist: World On The Verge Of Great, Great Depression And The Fed Knows It A notable market strategist has told CNBC that the world is on the verge of the largest financial meltdown in history, warning that Wall Street is at a loss as to what to do regarding the ailing economy.

Stocks sink as banks slash jobs outlook Stocks skidded on Wednesday as more weak economic data cemented fears the U.S. recovery was running out of steam and prompted Wall Street firms to slash forecasts ahead of the closely watched payrolls report on Friday.

Obama Bailout of Gov’t Motors to Cost Taxpayers at Least $14 Billion A report today from the president’s National Economic Council says the government will lose less than $16 billion — which would amount to 20% of the $80 billion spent to bail out the U.S. auto industry.

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NATO extends Libya operations to September NATO said on Wednesday it had extended its Libyan mission for a further 90 days, after Muammar Gaddafi made it clear he would not step down, dashing hopes of a negotiated end to the uprising against his rule.

Fed Ready to Print More Funny Money on QE3 Rumors Simon Maughn, co-head of European equities at MF Global, has told CNBC that a third round of so-called quantitative easing is in the works. The private Federal Reserve will again become the marginal buyer of bonds.

Gen. Hamid Gul: US will start WW3 if war expands to Pakistan Amid the fallout between Washington and Islamabad over the killing of Osama Bin Laden, RT spoke to Hamid Gul, former chief of Pakistan’s Intelligence Agency. He calls the US a haughty empire spoiled by a sense of authority.

Rep. Paul to Fed: Tell Us Everything, or Else The chairman of the House subcommittee that oversees the Federal Reserve demanded Tuesday that the Fed fully disclose details of billions — perhaps trillions — in secret emergency loans it made to almost every major bank in the U.S. and overseas during the financial crisis or face a congressional subpoena for the information.

Housing market ‘double dips’ The prices of single-family homes dropped to their lowest level since April 2009. Consumer confidence drops to six-month low (Washington Post) [ Little more much worse than expected very bad news and we’ll see new highs on fraudulent wall street. And, no; the worse than expected news was not ‘already baked into valuations / pricing. Just manipulated fraud as before and as always on fraudulent wall street. Globally, and in fraudulent america particularly, the stock markets / bourses are a total joke as they try to window dress their end of month figures based on b* s* alone. We’ve seen this before as it played out in the prior phase of this ongoing financial crisis. Shiller Home Price Index comes in at 100% worse than expectations … and don’t forget, that includes the dollar debasing realities which makes this report even more dire. Take this ‘me too’ pop on fraudulent wall street as an especially great opportunity to sell, take profits since there is much, much worse to come. Remember: ‘sell in May and go away’ … so … don’t be a lune, loon, sell in June! Another Financial Crisis Is On The Way, Mobius Says STOCKS HAVE BIG RALLY AFTER PILES OF UGLY NEWS: Here's What You need To Know Harry Dent: “Major Crash” Coming for Stocks, Commodities Already Topping Out 24 Signs Of Economic Decline In America ‘The US is in the middle of a devastating long-term economic decline..’ ] States face shortfall for retirees (WP) Public workers’ retirement funds had a gap of $1.26 trillion at the end of fiscal 2009 (The frauds on wall street et als should be criminally prosecuted, jailed, fined, and disgorgement imposed), and have used the mideast turmoil to obfuscate their failure. Dave's Daily 'If you can keep interest rates this low this long, its inevitable cheap financing can allow companies to start cobbling each other up. Further Ben's policies allow companies like IBM to sell bonds at 1% and buy back shares with the proceeds (total paper bubble-scam). POMO is occurring almost daily and Primary Dealers can buy back their shares and pay dividends with what essentially is taxpayer money-- America Is a Failed State Because It Won’t Prosecute Financial Crime Washington’s Blog / the grim economic reality [ http://albertpeia.com/grimreality.htm ]. Selling In May Is Very Good Advice This Year Equity Valuations Are Forming the Second Biggest Bubble in U.S. History Kaspar ... According to Yale University’s Dr. Robert Shiller, the market is now 41% overvalued …only time the markets have been more overvalued .. 1929 & tech bubble. http://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2011/4/12/saupload_cape_thumb1.png PRECHTER: We're Still In A Massive Bear Market And Stocks Will Crash To New Lows This is an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come! Remember: ‘Sell in May and go away! ‘ … Stock Market: 4 Current Warning Signs Navin ‘…1) The 5-year high in the level of insider corporate stock sales is telling. At 565 sells for every 1 buy, it’s never been higher. Yes, it’s normal for insiders to be selling some of their stocks so they can buy new yachts and some of this is pre-planned. But that ratio — which has spiked recently — is extraordinarily high, one might even say off-the-chart.]

Report: SEC lawyer exposed FBI informant (Washington Post) [ Clearly, the sec liar (sic – lawyer) is one of those typically with a ‘pre or post’ arrangement, whether implicit or explicit; you know, that ubiquitous ‘bribe thing’ in pervasively corrupt, defacto bankrupt, fallen america. Indeed, the scenario typifies that national drain / sinkhole new york (new york / new jersey metro) where, for example, FBI informants were routinely exposed by ‘italians’ in the new york d.a.’s over objection of the FBI, and were promptly ‘dispatched’/assassinated / hit by mafia / organized crime [ this was documented with authority in the book Goombata: The Improbable Rise and Fall of John Gotti and His Gang John Cummings (Author), Ernest Volkman (Author) Though having but 5% of the world’s population, u.s. has 76% of the world’s serial killers, http://www.albertpeia.com/realifeamericaserialkillers.mpg bankrupt america also spends more on military than all the nations of the world combined... fed employees / contractors, cia, all 3 branches of u.s. gov’t, etc., are included in this evolved american trait of inherent criminality http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm ]:

Focus Is on Obama as Tensions Soar Across Mideast (New York Times) [ Adapt? I don’t think so! I do believe that both nations are regressively but nostalgically trying bring the world back to failed geopolitical paradigms that made the 20th century the bloodiest century, not coincidentally the american century (obviously for israel the latter half century). Yet, such a conditioned psychopathic approach to global matters has led them self-destructively, self-defeatingly, and ineluctably to decline, fall, and as with dinosaurs, extinction, at least in a manner of speaking. Global information exchange at lightning speed has made such throwbacks to a lost era, propaganda, and maladaptive traits foolish at best, deadly at worst. Intelligent people worldwide aren’t buying the obsolete, Orwellian approach fostered by the purveyors of global unrest; viz., israel, america, Orwellian england, etc..; more specifically, diversion of the masses from the glaring failures of leadership, economic and otherwise.

CRIME STATISTICS >(america is No. 1)

Rank	Countries	Amount
# 1	United States:	11,877,218
# 2	United Kingdom:	6,523,706
# 3	Germany:	6,507,394

Milbank: Congress clocks in to clock out (Washington Post) [ ‘At 10 a.m. Tuesday morning, the Senate came to order. Forty-one seconds later, it adjourned. During this legislative session, there was no bill under consideration, no debate on the floor, not even an opening prayer or a pledge of allegiance. The only senator in the chamber was Mark Warner (D-Va.), the presiding officer. ‘After completing his gavel duties, Warner looked up at the 20 tourists in the public gallery and wondered aloud to the clerk what the spectators must think of the proceedings.“They think, ‘this is our government?’ ” the clerk replied. That’s if they’re being charitable. The Senate is supposed to be in Memorial Day recess this week. But the chamber is so ungovernable that Majority Leader Harry Reid doesn’t even have the votes to declare a recess. So he decided instead to have a few “pro forma” sessions, such as Tuesday’s, allowing senators to take a vacation without voting for it. In a sense, the Senate has been in a pro-forma session all year…’ Now who’s being charitable … I’d say Mr. Milbank in his euphemistic description supra as well as his unflinching defense of wobama the b (for b***s***) despite wobama’s reneging on virtually all his campaign promises / rhetoric to the nation’s unequivocal detriment. Thus, it is indeed Mr. Milbank, journalistically speaking, who as well clocks in to clock out. Simply put, wobama is nothing less than the worst of the democratic platform combined with the worst of the republican platform. At near single digit approval rates for congress, I find it difficult to imagine a realistic approval rate for wobama exceeding same. Davis ‘This is how we pay off our current debts and I think bondholders are simply happy to get anything out of a country that admits it owes $15Tn (1/4 of global GDP) but probably owes closer to $60Tn (entire global GDP) in the form of unfunded liabilities. The funniest thing about this (and you have to laugh) is to see Conservative pundits get on TV and talk about how we need to cut $100Bn worth of discretionary spending to "fix" this (while continuing to spend $1Tn on the military and $1Tn on tax cuts for the top 1% each year). There is no fixing this and even a Republican said you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. THIS HOUSE OF CARDS IS TEETERING FOLKS – PLEASE BE CAREFUL OUT THERE! ‘ Senate Dems find themselves in a tough spot (WP) [ Tough spot? Like Iraq and a hard place called Afghanistan; indeed they are. [Pakistani troops, NATO helicopters engage in firefight 6th soldier charged in plot to kill Afghan civilians (Washington Post) [ Gen. Hamid Gul: U.S. Generals Provoking War with Pakistan Jones | U.S. intelligence is that bin Laden needs dialysis every 3 days/ http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/osama_dead.php 5-1-11, JUST MOMENTS BEFORE PRESIDENT OBAMA ANNOUNCED THAT THE US HAD KILLED OSAMA BIN LADEN, THE WHATREALLYHAPPENED WEBSITE CAME UNDER MASSIVE DISTRIBUTED DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACK. THIS PAGE, WHICH DOCUMENTS THAT OSAMA BIN LADEN ACTUALLY DIED IN DECEMBER OF 2001, APPEARS TO BE WHAT THE WHITE HOUSE DIDN'T WANT AVAILABLE WHILE THE NEW PROPAGANDA WAS "CATAPULTED FORWARD". IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THIS IS THE OPENING GAMBIT IN A PLAN TO STAGE A "REVENGE" ATTACK FROM "AL QAEDA" ON THE UNITED STATES, WITH WHICH TO JUSTIFY TOTAL WAR ON THE MIDDLE EAST… FLASHBACK: Editorial: US in quagmire War in Afghanistan and Iraq costs America $1trillion Roche 'The worst part of it ...Obama, who vowed change, has done almost nothing to fix any of it and in fact continues most of the policies that helped get us here in the first place’ UPDATE: MORE CLAIMS OF RACE BIAS AT JUSTICE... ‘In emotional and personal testimony, an ex-Justice official who quit over the handling of a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party accused his former employer of instructing attorneys in the civil rights division to ignore cases that involve black defendants and white victims ' Cases against Wall Street lag despite Holder’s vows to target financial fraud WP Obama has promised to hold Wall Street accountable for the meltdown.
THE OBAMA DECEPTION’ http://albertpeia.com/obamadeceptionhighqualityversion.flv ]

Karzai orders change in U.S. strategy Afghan president’s ultimatum could complicate U.S. drawdown. (Washington Post) [ Karzai’s always been hot-air and antithetical to the true sovereign interests of Afghanistan, acting more as a war criminal nation american shill. Davis ‘This is how we pay off our current debts and I think bondholders are simply happy to get anything out of a country that admits it owes $15Tn (1/4 of global GDP) but probably owes closer to $60Tn (entire global GDP) in the form of unfunded liabilities. The funniest thing about this (and you have to laugh) is to see Conservative pundits get on TV and talk about how we need to cut $100Bn worth of discretionary spending to "fix" this (while continuing to spend $1Tn on the military and $1Tn on tax cuts for the top 1% each year). There is no fixing this and even a Republican said you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. THIS HOUSE OF CARDS IS TEETERING FOLKS – PLEASE BE CAREFUL OUT THERE! ‘ Senate Dems find themselves in a tough spot (WP) [ Tough spot? Like Iraq and a hard place called Afghanistan; indeed they are. [Pakistani troops, NATO helicopters engage in firefight 6th soldier charged in plot to kill Afghan civilians (Washington Post) [ Gen. Hamid Gul: U.S. Generals Provoking War with Pakistan Jones | U.S. intelligence is that bin Laden needs dialysis every 3 days/ http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/osama_dead.php 5-1-11, JUST MOMENTS BEFORE PRESIDENT OBAMA ANNOUNCED THAT THE US HAD KILLED OSAMA BIN LADEN, THE WHATREALLYHAPPENED WEBSITE CAME UNDER MASSIVE DISTRIBUTED DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACK. THIS PAGE, WHICH DOCUMENTS THAT OSAMA BIN LADEN ACTUALLY DIED IN DECEMBER OF 2001, APPEARS TO BE WHAT THE WHITE HOUSE DIDN'T WANT AVAILABLE WHILE THE NEW PROPAGANDA WAS "CATAPULTED FORWARD". IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THIS IS THE OPENING GAMBIT IN A PLAN TO STAGE A "REVENGE" ATTACK FROM "AL QAEDA" ON THE UNITED STATES, WITH WHICH TO JUSTIFY TOTAL WAR ON THE MIDDLE EAST… FLASHBACK: Editorial: US in quagmire War in Afghanistan and Iraq costs America $1trillion Roche 'The worst part of it ...Obama, who vowed change, has done almost nothing to fix any of it and in fact continues most of the policies that helped get us here in the first place’ UPDATE: MORE CLAIMS OF RACE BIAS AT JUSTICE... ‘In emotional and personal testimony, an ex-Justice official who quit over the handling of a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party accused his former employer of instructing attorneys in the civil rights division to ignore cases that involve black defendants and white victims ' Cases against Wall Street lag despite Holder’s vows to target financial fraud WP Obama has promised to hold Wall Street accountable for the meltdown.
THE OBAMA DECEPTION’ http://albertpeia.com/obamadeceptionhighqualityversion.flv ]

House rejects debt ceiling increase The 317-to-98 vote was a bipartisan rejection of extending the nation’s current debt limit of $14.3 trillion unless major spending reductions accompany the legislation. (Washington Post) [ Well, perish the thought that increases in liabilities should be commensurate with decreases in liabilities to maintain a … balance … sheet? At this point, who’s counting? After all, are there really degrees of defacto bankruptcy? Or, an either / or absolute state; viz., you are or you’re not defacto bankrupt. Pervasively corrupt, defacto bankrupt america is in fact defacto bankrupt! … Wall Street 'Vastly Underestimating' Risk of Debt Default Forbes / Robert Lenzner StreetTalk ‘ “Meet the Press” climaxed Sunday with a startling market prognostication from David Brooks, conservative columnist for the NY Times. The risk of a debt default over the combustible issue of the Medicare deficit hangs over the course of the stock market. Buyers Beware!“I was up in Wall Street this week,” Brooks said. “They’re vastly underestimating the source of piolitical risk here. We could have a major problem, I think, either this summer or the next couple years. And I’d be worried about investing too much in the market. That’s my financial advice.”I have to admit Brooks woke me up. I had blithely been assuming a deal to raise the debt limit would get resolved at the last minute–the classic American way. But, the showdown between Republican cutters and Democrat defenders of Medicare may a lot more treacherous a path than I anticipated.And the potential deep cuts underscore what I mentioined in my “Market’s Wall of Worry” post yesterday about the prospects of the Income line of the GDP being reduced by necessity. Cut Medicare and lerss money will be spent on health care, less money on medical instruments, less money on drugs, on pills, on doctotrs visits.Less money on healthcare means less money circulating and so less tax revenue. It’s a future scenario few of us want to contemplate. A runup to possible default will not be positive for the stock market. Even if dfefault is avoided then, the notion that Wall Street doesn’t get the crisis measns there’s too much denial of reality in stock prices. I’m with David Brooks.’ … TEMPLETON chairman: Financial Crisis 'Around Corner'... By Kana Nishizawa / Bloomberg - May 30, 2011 ‘ Mark Mobius, executive chairman of Templeton Asset Management’s emerging markets group, said another financial crisis is inevitable because the causes of the previous one haven’t been resolved …’ STOCKS HAVE BIG RALLY AFTER PILES OF UGLY NEWS: Here's What You need To Know Business Insider Joe Weisenthal …

Globally, and in fraudulent america particularly, the stock markets / bourses are a total joke as they try to window dress their end of month figures based on b* s* alone. We’ve seen this before as it played out in the prior phase of this ongoing financial crisis. Shiller Home Price Index comes in at 100% worse than expectations … and don’t forget, that includes the dollar debasing realities which makes this report even more dire. Take this ‘me too’ pop on fraudulent wall street as an especially great opportunity to sell, take profits since there is much, much worse to come. Remember: ‘sell in May and go away’ … so … don’t be a lune, loon, sell in June! Another Financial Crisis Is On The Way, Mobius Says STOCKS HAVE BIG RALLY AFTER PILES OF UGLY NEWS: Here's What You need To Know Harry Dent: “Major Crash” Coming for Stocks, Commodities Already Topping Out 24 Signs Of Economic Decline In America ‘The US is in the middle of a devastating long-term economic decline..’ ] States face shortfall for retirees (WP) Public workers’ retirement funds had a gap of $1.26 trillion at the end of fiscal 2009 Study: Affordable rentals scarce (WP) Poll: For Obama, low marks on Afghan war (WP) More Americans disapprove of President Obama’s management of the war in Afghanistan than support it Fuel prices cut into Obama popularity (WP) (The frauds on wall street et als should be criminally prosecuted, jailed, fined, and disgorgement imposed), and have used the mideast turmoil to obfuscate their failure. Dave's Daily 'If you can keep interest rates this low this long, its inevitable cheap financing can allow companies to start cobbling each other up. Further Ben's policies allow companies like IBM to sell bonds at 1% and buy back shares with the proceeds (total paper bubble-scam). POMO is occurring almost daily and Primary Dealers can buy back their shares and pay dividends with what essentially is taxpayer money-- … an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come! America Is a Failed State Because It Won’t Prosecute Financial Crime Washington’s Blog / the grim economic reality [ http://albertpeia.com/grimreality.htm ]. Selling In May Is Very Good Advice This Year Harding / April Is a Good Time to Sell Adler Equity Valuations Are Forming the Second Biggest Bubble in U.S. History Kaspar ... According to Yale University’s Dr. Robert Shiller, the market is now 41% overvalued …only time the markets have been more overvalued .. 1929 & tech bubble. http://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2011/4/12/saupload_cape_thumb1.png PRECHTER: We're Still In A Massive Bear Market And Stocks Will Crash To New Lows This is an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come! Remember: ‘Sell in May and go away! ‘ … Stock Market: 4 Current Warning Signs Navin ‘…1) The 5-year high in the level of insider corporate stock sales is telling. At 565 sells for every 1 buy, it’s never been higher. Yes, it’s normal for insiders to be selling some of their stocks so they can buy new yachts and some of this is pre-planned. But that ratio — which has spiked recently — is extraordinarily high, one might even say off-the-chart.]

Globally, and in fraudulent america particularly, the stock markets / bourses are a total joke as they try to window dress their end of month figures based on b*** s*** alone. We’ve seen this before as it played out in the prior phase of this ongoing financial crisis. Shiller Home Price Index comes in at 100% worse than expectations … and don’t forget, that includes the dollar debasing realities which makes this report even more dire. Take this ‘me too’ pop on fraudulent wall street as an especially great opportunity to sell, take profits since there is much, much worse to come. Remember: ‘sell in May and go away’ … so … don’t be a lune, loon, sell in June! Another Financial Crisis Is On The Way, Mobius Says STOCKS HAVE BIG RALLY AFTER PILES OF UGLY NEWS: Here's What You need To Know Harry Dent: “Major Crash” Coming for Stocks, Commodities Already Topping Out 24 Signs Of Economic Decline In America ‘The US is in the middle of a devastating long-term economic decline..’ ] States face shortfall for retirees (WP) Public workers’ retirement funds had a gap of $1.26 trillion at the end of fiscal 2009 Study: Affordable rentals scarce (WP) Poll: For Obama, low marks on Afghan war (WP) More Americans disapprove of President Obama’s management of the war in Afghanistan than support it Fuel prices cut into Obama popularity (WP) (The frauds on wall street et als should be criminally prosecuted, jailed, fined, and disgorgement imposed), and have used the mideast turmoil to obfuscate their failure. Dave's Daily 'If you can keep interest rates this low this long, its inevitable cheap financing can allow companies to start cobbling each other up. Further Ben's policies allow companies like IBM to sell bonds at 1% and buy back shares with the proceeds (total paper bubble-scam). POMO is occurring almost daily and Primary Dealers can buy back their shares and pay dividends with what essentially is taxpayer money-- … an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come! America Is a Failed State Because It Won’t Prosecute Financial Crime Washington’s Blog / the grim economic reality [ http://albertpeia.com/grimreality.htm ]. Selling In May Is Very Good Advice This Year Harding / April Is a Good Time to Sell Adler Equity Valuations Are Forming the Second Biggest Bubble in U.S. History Kaspar ... According to Yale University’s Dr. Robert Shiller, the market is now 41% overvalued …only time the markets have been more overvalued .. 1929 & tech bubble. http://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2011/4/12/saupload_cape_thumb1.png PRECHTER: We're Still In A Massive Bear Market And Stocks Will Crash To New Lows This is an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come! Remember: ‘Sell in May and go away! ‘ … Stock Market: 4 Current Warning Signs Navin ‘…1) The 5-year high in the level of insider corporate stock sales is telling. At 565 sells for every 1 buy, it’s never been higher. Yes, it’s normal for insiders to be selling some of their stocks so they can buy new yachts and some of this is pre-planned. But that ratio — which has spiked recently — is extraordinarily high, one might even say off-the-chart.]