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Started by jedifunk, August 19, 2011, 10:53:31 AM

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Buffalo Budd

So... Kashkari is not just a clever name.

Everything is connected, because it's all being created by this one consciousness. And we are tiny reflections of the mind that is creating the universe.

runawayjimbo

Absolutely savage Taibbi on Eric Holder's last (latest?) SUCK IT to the American people. Teaser below but the whole thing is great if you're looking to get yourself all kinds of heated on a Friday

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/eric-holder-wall-street-double-agent-comes-in-from-the-cold-20150708

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Eric Holder, Wall Street Double Agent, Comes in From the Cold
Barack Obama's former top cop cashes in after six years of letting banks run wild

Eric Holder has gone back to work for his old firm, the white-collar defense heavyweight Covington & Burling. The former attorney general decided against going for a judgeship, saying he's not ready for the ivory tower yet. "I want to be a player," he told the National Law Journal, one would have to say ominously.

Holder will reassume his lucrative partnership (he made $2.5 million the last year he worked there) and take his seat in an office that reportedly – this is no joke – was kept empty for him in his absence.

The office thing might have been improper, but at this point, who cares? More at issue is the extraordinary run Holder just completed as one of history's great double agents. For six years, while brilliantly disguised as the attorney general of the United States, he was actually working deep undercover, DiCaprio in The Departed-style, as the best defense lawyer Wall Street ever had.

Holder denied there was anything weird about returning to one of Wall Street's favorite defense firms after six years of letting one banker after another skate on monstrous cases of fraud, tax evasion, market manipulation, money laundering, bribery and other offenses.

"Just because I'm at Covington doesn't mean I will abandon the public interest work," he told CNN. He added to the National Law Journal that a big part of the reason he was going back to private practice was because he wanted to give back to the community.

"The firm's emphasis on pro bono work and being engaged in the civic life of this country is consistent with my worldview that lawyers need to be socially active," he said.

Right. He's going back to Covington & Burling because of the firm's emphasis on pro bono work.

Here's a man who just spent six years handing out soft-touch settlements to practically every Too Big to Fail bank in the world. Now he returns to a firm that represents many of those same companies: Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, Chase, Bank of America and Citigroup, to name a few.
Collectively, the decisions he made while in office saved those firms a sum that is impossible to calculate with exactitude. But even going by the massive rises in share price observed after he handed out these deals, his service was certainly worth many billions of dollars to Wall Street.
Now he will presumably collect assloads of money from those very same bankers. It's one of the biggest quid pro quo deals in the history of government service. Congressman Billy Tauzin once took a $2 million-a-year job lobbying for the pharmaceutical industry just a few weeks after helping to pass the revolting Prescription Drug Benefit Bill, but what Holder just did makes Tauzin look like a guy who once took a couple of Redskins tickets.

In this light, telling reporters that you're going back to Covington & Burling to be "engaged in the civic life of this country" seems like a joke for us all to suck on, like announcing that he's going back to get a doctorate at the University of Blow Me.

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I'm drunk but that was epuc

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The Line still sucks. Hard.

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well boys, we fucked up by not being there.

Buffalo Budd

I know this may be common knowledge to most, I still think it bares repeating. If for no other reason than to give us a dose of reality with Christmas on the horizon.

http://www.monbiot.com/2012/12/10/the-gift-of-death/#.WePZA64vkwI.facebook

QuoteThey seem amusing on the first day of Christmas, daft on the second, embarrassing on the third. By the twelfth they're in landfill. For thirty seconds of dubious entertainment, or a hedonic stimulus that lasts no longer than a nicotine hit, we commission the use of materials whose impacts will ramify for generations.
Everything is connected, because it's all being created by this one consciousness. And we are tiny reflections of the mind that is creating the universe.

gah

Quote from: Buffalo Budd on October 18, 2017, 02:01:06 PM
I know this may be common knowledge to most, I still think it bares repeating. If for no other reason than to give us a dose of reality with Christmas on the horizon.

http://www.monbiot.com/2012/12/10/the-gift-of-death/#.WePZA64vkwI.facebook

QuoteThey seem amusing on the first day of Christmas, daft on the second, embarrassing on the third. By the twelfth they're in landfill. For thirty seconds of dubious entertainment, or a hedonic stimulus that lasts no longer than a nicotine hit, we commission the use of materials whose impacts will ramify for generations.

minimalism is where it's at.
Sometimes we live no particular way but our own.

mattstick

Quote from: gah on October 18, 2017, 02:32:19 PM
minimalism is where it's at.

Except for record collections.

rowjimmy


Buffalo Budd

Quote from: rowjimmy on October 18, 2017, 02:57:21 PM
Quote from: mattstick on October 18, 2017, 02:38:22 PM
Quote from: gah on October 18, 2017, 02:32:19 PM
minimalism is where it's at.

Except for record collections.

Precisely.

I feel justified in that hobby as they stand the test of time and are not discarded like most of the gadgets today.
Everything is connected, because it's all being created by this one consciousness. And we are tiny reflections of the mind that is creating the universe.

Hicks

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But, I don't think our fans do happily lap it up, I think they go online and talk about how it was a bad show.