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post #1 of 11
11/17/11 at 8:43am
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Biden's meeting on government transparency closed to the press

Is the government more transparent under the Obama Administration than it was before?

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post #2 of 11
11/17/11 at 9:00am
Biden looks like a total deutsch' in those aviator sunglasses.
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post #3 of 11
11/17/11 at 10:40am
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Biden looks like a total deutsch' in those aviator sunglasses.



I need a laugh today, and that did it. He ALWAYS looks like a "d"
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post #4 of 11
11/17/11 at 11:08am
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And this is why it is important to take a video recording device with you wherever you go. Lucky this man was in an area with surveillance.

Two cops fired over horrific video which shows them beating up suspect - then CELEBRATING

How does this relate to the topic?

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In an apparent attempt to cover his tracks, Doyle later wrote in his notebook that he was afraid Blume had a gun on him and needed to be restrained.

The footage was only released after a Freedom of Information request by the Albuquerque Journal - but the first version did not include the chest bump.

Instead it finished after the kicking and did not show the end, where the cops congratulate each other.

The government is blatantly lying to the public, not completely and truthfully complying with Freedom of Information requests. How much more of this sort of thing has happened and is happening right now that the public will never know about?

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(I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude.)

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post #5 of 11
11/28/11 at 12:10pm
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Secret Fed Loans Helped Banks Net $13B

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The Federal Reserve and the big banks fought for more than two years to keep details of the largest bailout in U.S. history a secret. Now, the rest of the world can see what it was missing.

The Fed didn’t tell anyone which banks were in trouble so deep they required a combined $1.2 trillion on Dec. 5, 2008, their single neediest day. Bankers didn’t mention that they took tens of billions of dollars in emergency loans at the same time they were assuring investors their firms were healthy. And no one calculated until now that banks reaped an estimated $13 billion of income by taking advantage of the Fed’s below-market rates, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its January issue.

Saved by the bailout, bankers lobbied against government regulations, a job made easier by the Fed, which never disclosed the details of the rescue to lawmakers even as Congress doled out more money and debated new rules aimed at preventing the next collapse.

A fresh narrative of the financial crisis of 2007 to 2009 emerges from 29,000 pages of Fed documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act and central bank records of more than 21,000 transactions. While Fed officials say that almost all of the loans were repaid and there have been no losses, details suggest taxpayers paid a price beyond dollars as the secret funding helped preserve a broken status quo and enabled the biggest banks to grow even bigger.

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post #6 of 11
11/29/11 at 9:26am
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Biden's meeting on government transparency closed to the press

Is the government more transparent under the Obama Administration than it was before?



Transparent government?

The Obama "Administration" slams the door on democracy, and turns the key.
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post #7 of 11
12/1/11 at 3:50am
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Secret Fed Loans Helped Banks Net $13B



Click on the link for the full article.

I see people pushing that around as if it's new. IT'S NOT NEW! The fed has always kept their loan secret. You just weren't paying attention before. FAIL on you.
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post #8 of 11
12/1/11 at 7:02am
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I see people pushing that around as if it's new. IT'S NOT NEW! The fed has always kept their loan secret. You just weren't paying attention before. FAIL on you.

+1

Obama did not change a freaking thing. This is why we have OWS on his watch. It's his baby.
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post #9 of 11
12/1/11 at 7:12am
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I see people pushing that around as if it's new. IT'S NOT NEW! The fed has always kept their loan secret. You just weren't paying attention before. FAIL on you.

I've been paying attention the whole time. Others haven't, which is why I continue to share this information.

No need to make it personal.

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post #10 of 11
12/1/11 at 12:36pm
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Is the government more transparent under the Obama Administration than it was before?

It is just as opaque as it's always been.
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post #11 of 11
12/1/11 at 2:07pm
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And this is why it is important to take a video recording device with you wherever you go. Lucky this man was in an area with surveillance.

Two cops fired over horrific video which shows them beating up suspect - then CELEBRATING

How does this relate to the topic?



The government is blatantly lying to the public, not completely and truthfully complying with Freedom of Information requests. How much more of this sort of thing has happened and is happening right now that the public will never know about?

Curious, were you up in arms about the police brutality exhibited against OWS protesters? I honestly don't remember.

 

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