David Rockeffeller persona non grata in Chille

Well, I guess when you are a self serving type, conniving, lying, cheating and have an mo of fuck everybody, and a moral compass so fucked up its a wonder he can find his way to the bathroom in the morning... I suppose it is no wonder that at some point people begin to wake up to who you are and what you stand for and it comes back to bite you in the ass.

Alan Greenspan on the Fed Reserve and Going Back to Gold Standard 1/20/11

Boehner, McConnell skipping state dinner with Chinese leader

By Alexander Bolton and Ian Swanson - 01/19/11 01:57 PM ET

Three top congressional leaders are skipping a state dinner for Chinese President Hu Jintao in what may be perceived by China as a snub.

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) all said "thanks, but no thanks" to White House invitations for the dinner.

Former Rep. Grayson blames Palin for Arizona shooting

Former Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) blamed Sarah Palin for the Arizona shooting that severely injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) in an email Wednesday.

Rep. Grayson, who was one of the more fiery House Democrats until he lost reelection in 2010, said in an email to supporters today that former Governor Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) had provoked the shooting that resulted in six deaths and thirteen wounded including Rep. Giffords who suffered a gunshot to the head, the Orlando Sentinel reported.

"As I observed on MSNBC last week, there has been a stream of violence and threats of violence by the right wing against Democrats," Grayson wrote in the email. "Gabby warned against it, and then became a terrible victim of it. Palin has instigated it, and then tried to pretend that it doesn’t exist,” he wrote."

Since the shooting earlier this month, Palin has received criticism for a map posted on her political action committee's website that placed crosshairs over roughly twenty congressional districts that Republicans should try and defeat in the 2010 election. Giffords's was one of the districts.

Grayson is no stranger to provocative statements. Last summer during the healthcare reform debates Grayson said that the alternative to the Obama administration's healthcare plan was to die quickly if you get sick.
"If you get sick, America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly."

House repeals healthcare law

By Russell Berman - 01/19/11 05:54 PM ET

 

The House voted on Wednesday to repeal the sweeping healthcare law enacted last year, as Republicans made good on a central campaign pledge and laid down the first major policy marker of their new majority.

The party-line vote was 245-189, as three Democrats joined all 242 Republicans in supporting repeal.

Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said the healthcare law on the books would increase spending, raise taxes and eliminate jobs.

 

“Repeal means paving the way for better solutions that will lower the costs without destroying jobs or bankrupting our government,” Boehner said in remarks on the floor before the vote.

“Let’s stop payment on this check before it can destroy more jobs or put us into a deeper hole.”

The vote to roll back the president’s signature domestic achievement of the 111th Congress just 10 months after its passage underscores the deep divisions that still surround the new law. But whether House action will signal the beginning of a rapid dismantling of the healthcare overhaul or serve merely as a historical footnote remains to be seen.

Democratic leaders in the Senate have vowed to shelve the repeal bill, and President Obama has said he would veto repeal if it ever reached his desk.

With those threats in mind, GOP leaders dared the Senate to take up the measure, and they promised to fight the healthcare law in other ways if repeal failed.

“The American people deserve to see a vote in the Senate, and it ought not to be a place where legislation goes into a dead end,” House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said.

Julius Baer Whistleblower Who Was Supposed To Hand Over To Wikileaks List Of 2,000 Tax Evaders, Arrested In Switzerland

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/19/2011 15:35 -0500

Headlines from Sky News for now. Swiss police arrest ex-banker Rudolf Elmer on new charges relating to handover of bank client data to WikiLeaks. Just justice being served.
From Reuters:

Swiss police on Wednesday arrested former banker Rudolf Elmer on fresh charges of breaching Swiss bank secrecy law for giving data to WikiLeaks, hours after he was found guilty of another secrecy offense.

"The state prosecutor's office is checking to see whether Rudolf Elmer has violated Swiss banking law by handing the CD over to WikiLeaks," the Zurich cantonal (state) police and state prosecutor said in a joint statement.

Earlier on Wednesday, a court found Elmer guilty of breaching banking secrecy for publicising private client data. He was also found guilty of threatening an employee at his former firm Julius Baer.

Elmer, who helped bring WikiLeaks to prominence three years ago when he used it to publish secret client details, on Monday handed over new data to the website, which has outraged U.S. authorities by releasing thousands of confidential State Department cables.