Judge Posner thinks that it would be a great idea to make it illegal to link to other people on the internet. Talk about insane! The Washington Post, premier warmongering news service on earth, apologized for trying to run a secret salon where the reporters could conspire with lobbyists. Only, the WP doesn’t apologize. The mainstream media is slowly going insane as it inevitably goes bankrupt. They blame us bloggers for this. Well, tough titties..
I often link to stories in order to tear them apart or to add important information. To do this, I link to other stories that gives a much wider view of information. If we had to get permission every time we link to anything online, this would slow down commentary and digesting of the news and this might please creeps who run propaganda machines. But it is against the First Amendment.
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First, I want to post just a small selection of Google links that shows clearly, since the Great Depression II began (we are supposed to be moving out of it, hahaha) the news media moguls have been going bankrupt one by one and I say, good riddance to a bunch of lousy creeps:
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- Bloomberg.com: News
Jun 17, 2008 … Senior creditors of Philadelphia Media, which paid $515 million for the Inquirer and Daily News in 2006, blocked the media company’s June …
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=email_en&refer=home… – Similar
Sun-Times Media Group files for bankruptcy :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES …
www.suntimes.com/…/1503942,sun-times-media-group-bankruptcy-033109. article – Similar
Ireland’s state broadcaster RTE on brink of bankruptcy – TV …
www.independent.co.uk/news/media/…/irelands-state-broadcaster-rte-on- brink-of-bankruptcy-1694114.html – Cached - Similar
Ion Media Gets Bankruptcy Court Funding Approval – ABC News
abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=7650524 – Similar
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This is but a very small sampling! If I had all day, I could dredge up all sorts of examples of media going bankrupt. In depressions, many businesses and even countries, go bankrupt. This is a salient feature of depressions. Anyone who imagines they have a right to exist despite a depression, is nuts. Depressions are Libra’s way of fixing credit bubbles.
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Newspapers are supposed to examine and explain important events. One very important event to report is the growth of credit bubbles. All depressions follow credit bubbles. Many credit bubbles were created to pay for imperialist wars. Ergo: newspapers should inform us about the dangers of military imperialist spending on wars which create credit bubbles. And if we have a credit bubble created by trade deficits causing trade rivals to extend tremendous amounts of credit so we can buy imported goods and if this is attached to war spending bubbles, we get mega-bubbles which destroy our economy and in turn, our personal lives.
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Unfortunately, our media neglects to inform us about all of this. This is because the media is a propaganda transmission system. It is set up by its owners so they can manipulate us. Often, the owners make money off of war spending or credit bubbles. Selling real estate ads, for example, means they want hot, hot, hot real estate markets fueled by easy credit. There are many examples as to how the media owners need to lie to us because they have conflicts of interest. This means, they need to lie to us so they can make money.
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This week, another newspaper got ahold of a leaflet published by the publisher of the Washington Post which was sent to corrupt lobbyists. It said, if they pay the publisher and editors of the Washington Post $25,000, the lobbyists would get off the record meetings with reporters and politicians where they could chat about how to manipulate the laws of the land so the lobbyists could get their own way, at the expense of the general public. These meetings were to be secret so that no reporter could tell us what they conspired about.
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The WP editors and owners conspire regularly with the Bilderberg gang, for example. So they thought, why not expand on this? Have our own private enclave meetings to do the same wretched thing? Thanks to the internet, we were all able to link to the story and talk about the WP’s despicable attempt at milking lobbyists for loot while running a salon set up to conspire to corrupt politicians even further. The uproar this caused forced the creeps running the WP to back down. Here is the official ‘apology’:
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A Letter to Our Readers – washingtonpost.com
The flier was not approved by me or newsroom editors, and it did not accurately reflect what we had in mind.
HAHAHAHA. I bet it was the mailroom staff that created, published and distributed it! HAHAHA. Or maybe someone snuck into the WP at night and did this nefarious deed! HAHAHA. This is so infantile. And we are supposed to respect the WP editor and owners? HAHAHA.
Frankly, I thought the leaflet was crystal clear! And indeed, this is the whole problem. The sales staff that put it out explained the plot perfectly. To the great discomfort of the creeps who came up with this evil concept.
But let me be clear: The flier was not the only problem. Our mistake was to suggest that we would hold and participate in an off-the-record dinner with journalists and power brokers paid for by a sponsor. We will not organize such events. As publisher it is my job to ensure that we adhere to standards that are consistent with our integrity as a news organization…
The WP has long lost any ‘integrity’ it once may have had. They hide the news. They refuse to report the news. They distort the news. They distract readers with trivia while ignoring vital life and death news. I am happy the editor realized the off-the-record chit chat with the people striving to bribe Congress was a ‘mistake’ but the editor has to realize, this was a crime.
From the outset, we laid down firm parameters to ensure that these events would be consistent with The Post’s values. If the events were to be sponsored by other companies, everything would be at arm’s length — sponsors would have no control over the content of the discussions, and no special access to our journalists.
The editor is so accustomed to lying, she cannot see how this is one immense lie! First, the entire point of the deal was so lobbyists seeking to corrupt Congress, would have special access to the WP journalists. And this idiot didn’t mention, with Congress critters, too. How on earth could private meetings bringing together journalists and politicians under the umbrella of lobbyists paying the WP, not be a conspiracy? By definition, if the lobbyists were paying everyone to show up, didn’t they control the event? Those who pay, run the show!
If our reporters were to participate, there would be no limits on what they could ask. They would have full access to participants and be able to use any information or ideas to further their knowledge and understanding of any issues under discussion. They would not be asked to invite other participants and would serve only as moderators.
See how insane the WP editor has become? If a conversation is ‘off-the-record’ this means it can’t be used! Duh! And how could reporters be ‘moderators’? They are adversaries, not advisories. They should be cross-examining, not bringing Congress critters and corrupt creeps together, in harmony. And why would lobbyists pay $25,000 for reporters to figure out the corruption game that is going on? Obviously, the plan was to corrupt the reporters who would work on behalf of the lobbyists to cover the tracks of this corruption.
Personally, I think the WP editor should resign. She is the idiot who OKed this concept which was planned to be run out of her mansion, and since it was to be held in her private home, it couldn’t have been cooked up by some underling. Obviously. She is very clever, trying to pretend someone else came up with this concept. She should resign because she is a juvenile delinquent. No functional adult could come up with such a stupid ‘apology’ as this.
When the flier promoting our first planned event to potential sponsors was released, it overstepped all these lines. Neither I nor anyone in our news department would have approved any event such as the flier described….
HAHAHAHA. See? She waxes hot in denial. So, who is the genius who volunteered to use her private residence to host secret get togethers with lobbyists and politicians and her own staff? Was it her secretary? The mail room staff? The sports reporters? HAHAHA.
We have canceled the planned dinner. While I do believe there is a legitimate way to hold such events, to the extent that we hold events in the future, large or small, we will review the guidelines for them with The Post’s top editors and make sure those guidelines are strictly followed. Further, any conferences or similar events The Post sponsors will be on the record.
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Wow! So, the conferences between lobbyists and politicians will now be on the record? HAHAHA. I don’t see lobbyists wanting any of their nefarious activities in the media at all. AIPAC operates so totally in the dark, WP editors and commentators will attend and not one news item will show up in the WP covering all this! The list of non-events is very long. The WP conspires to keep these under wraps which is why the paper is a fish wrap, not a newspaper. I only read it for amusement or if I want my blood pressure to rise.
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Both the WP and the NYT are going bankrupt. Well deserved bankruptcies, I may add. If they both refuse to cover any AIPAC conventions, they are corrupt and should be terminated. Instead, the media moguls and the power brokers are trying to break the internet. They fear and hate it because it gives us a voice. Here is the latest frontal attack on the internet, from an important and influential judge:
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The Becker-Posner Blog: The Future of Newspapers–Posner
News, as well the other information found in newspapers, is available online for nothing, including at the websites of the newspapers themselves, who thus are giving away content. The fact that online viewing is rising as print circulation is falling indicates a shift of consumers from the paid to the free medium. The economic downturn has doubtless accelerated the trend, but economic recovery is unlikely to reverse it. To repeat my earlier point, many of the people who have switched under economic pressure to the free medium may find themselves as happy or happier and hence will not switch back when their financial condition improves.
From day one, the internet has shoved the old dinosaurs off the cliff. When the main media ran forums which allowed us to start our own threads, we romped around like maniacs, arguing about everything on earth and above all, mocking the hosts. The hosts hated this so they began to ban intelligent posters and then, finally killed their own forums. Virtually all were gone by 2002.
So we all began our own blogs which have proliferated. These are now pushing around the mainstream media. The editorial by the corrupt bitch running the WP is now held up for deserved contempt by us bloggers and this pisses off the WP tremendously. They want a one way conversation where they lecture us and we have to listen to them. This idea of an exchange is alien to the owners of the old media. But it is what is saving us. We, not they, represent the concept of ‘free speech’.
Indeed, they hate free speech with a passion. They want to be the paid gate-keepers for public commentary.
Moreover, while in many industries a reduction in output need not entail any reduction in the quality of the product, in newspaper it does entail a reduction in quality. Most of the costs of a newspaper are fixed costs, that is, costs invariant to output–for they are journalists’ salaries. A newspaper with shrinking revenues can shrink its costs only by reducing the number of reporters, columnists, and editors, and when it does that quality falls, and therefore demand, and falling demand means falling revenues and therefore increased pressure to economize–by cutting the journalist staff some more. This vicious cycle, amplified by the economic downturn, may continue until very little of the newspaper industry is left.
Reporters are about 17% of the overhead costs. And if the editors want to save money, they can fire themselves and just let the reporters blog the news! HAHAHA. Much of their efforts are to stop their own reporters from reporting the news. Imagine if a WP or NYT reporter decided to investigate AIPAC lobbying efforts? They would be fired in a second. And then run over by Mossad or forced to commit suicide.
So what will happen to news and information? Online news is free for two reasons. First, in the case of a newspaper, the marginal cost of providing content online is virtually zero, since it is the same content (or a selection of the content) in a different medium. Second, online providers of news who are not affiliated with a newspaper can provide links to newspaper websites and paraphrase articles in newspapers, in neither case being required to compensate the newspaper.
Obviously, this idiot doesn’t understand that reading and then typing and adding information is hard work. I work very hard for very little pay. I do this because I am arguing about facts of life and writing analysis and making predictions. Ie: I am like anyone that appears on the NYT or WP editorial pages. They are free to quote me and I am free to quote them. If they block me out because they don’t like arguing and losing, this doesn’t mean they get to control who talks on the internet via censorship.
The minute they enter the fray, they have to allow us to talk about them, the news and everything on earth. This is our civil right in the Constitution. The websites that link to stories with a ‘look at this!’ (Calculated Risk does this a tremendous amount, for example) they are lazy but that is their problem. If the mainstream media hates this, they can censor Calculate Risk, for example. Instead, THEY BLOGROLL HIM! They give him encouragement! Gah!
Calculated Risk never, ever talks about AIPAC. So the NYT editors approve of him and link to him. The editors know me personally and they refuse to link to me or talk to me because I talk about AIPAC, for example. This is a no-no, big time. So, they whine about me linking to them but not them, linking to Calculated Risk who is mostly just direct quotes and links.
As newspaper revenues decline, newspaper content becomes thinner and thinner–but by the same token so does the linked or paraphrased newspaper content found in web sites that have no affiliation with a newspaper. If eventually newspapers vanish, online providers will have higher advertising revenues (because newspaper advertising will have disappeared) and may decide to charge for access to their online news, and so the critical question is whether online advertising revenues will defray the costly news-gathering expenses incurred at this time by newspapers. Imagine if the New York Times migrated entirely to the World Wide Web. Could it support, out of advertising and subscriber revenues, as large a news-gathering apparatus as it does today? This seems unlikely, because it is much easier to create a web site and free ride on other sites than to create a print newspaper and free ride on other print newspapers, in part because of the lag in print publication; what is staler than last week’s news. Expanding copyright law to bar online access to copyrighted materials without the copyright holder’s consent, or to bar linking to or paraphrasing copyrighted materials without the copyright holder’s consent, might be necessary to keep free riding on content financed by online newspapers from so impairing the incentive to create costly news-gathering operations that news services like Reuters and the Associated Press would become the only professional, nongovernmental sources of news and opinion.
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All the ‘costly’ news gathering has vanished over the course of the last 50 years. Basically, they simply buy each other’s information. And leave out tons of important news via a conspiracy. Yes, they conspire. The secret enclaves that meet all over the place feature these very same owners and editors who whine about us sponging off of them.
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We are NOT sponging. We are ATTACKING. HAHAHA. And they know this. Which is why they and their judge buddies are conspiring to attack us. And Congress wants to shut us down, too. This is why Kerry was wailing about how print media is dying. He really is wailing about us watching him via many sources of information so we can track what lobbyists he meets with and who knows who and what the hell is going on at secret meetings.
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As for print media: I use it to start my fires in the morning, during winter. If it vanishes, I will have to use other means. I will miss it. And what will line cat boxes? Or wrap fish? Oh, the agony.
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31 Comments
July 5, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Didn’t Twitter tweating give us all the propaganda we needed about the recent election in Iran. And the local blogs in Honduras appear to be covering the news there just fine.
Craig’slist does a bang up job of telling me where there are free things to snarf.
And if I need a few minutes divertisment I can always read the Kos Editorial Pages or the LewRockwell Editorial pages.
Even that leader of men Dilbert is on line.
July 5, 2009 at 4:21 pm
The media reports the news for $LoTz and the blogs vet it for $notsodamnmuch…. maybe they could save money by firing their editors and just let the bloggers dig through raw information… infact it could be in their best interest to produce the best data sets and transparency… or just suck and go out of business reprinting bad opinions on the AP…
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And whats with linking if not giving the news outlet as a source of real information ‘as opposed to make believe’… i think thats awsome i bookmark radical links and can revisit innumerable times
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-53565441845289277&q=nuclear+fision&total=185&start=10&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
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pick up the chains someone else brought it this far
July 5, 2009 at 4:28 pm
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE5632LE20090705
Former NFL star McNair found dead in Nashville
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McNair, who was 36, suffered several gunshot wounds, the Nashville Tennessean newspaper reported, citing police. A 20-year-old woman was found alongside him with a single gunshot wound to her head and a pistol near her body, it reported.
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More Money More Problems
July 5, 2009 at 4:46 pm
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE5641A920090705
Time to review policy on gays in U.S. military: Powell
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American attitudes have changed and the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy toward gays serving in the U.S. military should be reviewed, former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Colin Powell said on Sunday.
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Wow… they are serious about changing the attitude and make up of the military in a very real way… must be worth it or something facinating
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how come gays can get in the military but health care is a jumble of private plans and massive government subsidies… it is easier for a homosexual to work for the government than to have corporations get off the government doll and seek a broad based customer driven market… this MUST be capitalism…. or a culture of government or whatever
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gays serve in the military and just want to be aware of their sexuality around everyone ‘The new normal’ being aware that everyone else is protected and special ‘and being A MAN ABOUT IT’… closet whoda’thunk ‘retard’
July 5, 2009 at 4:50 pm
i had gay neighbors once… we were normal… but EVERYTHING HAD TO BE GAY about them… cars, karioke ‘at 10am’, designer EVERYTHING ‘its out there’, o’ and like panic attacks, and lesbian man bashing ‘when they hang out’, free to just open your door when company is over… good times.
July 5, 2009 at 4:55 pm
At the end of the day, Posner cannot stop the inevitable. If newspapers/mags are not able to be linked to on the internet, they won’t be read at all and this is accelerate their demise. Just ask the record industry how well it worked out for them when they sought to stiffle the internets.
Internet continues to tear up old way of making money for music, movies/TV, telephone, news, etc.
July 5, 2009 at 5:01 pm
Seems so to me.
The internet is all about connection.
There will be focussed attacks, but they are all destined to fail in my humble opinion.
We WANT to talk to each other and now there is no way for U to stop us. It is a waste of effort.
Good-bye ole-time media….and you media pushers. Your day is over.
Just a FREE and humble internet opinon.
There are many ways to communicate seems to be. Not maybe. Many.
Capice?
Or should I say peace?
Or how about please.
How hard does this need to be?
Happy Independence Day with a “e”.
(Please note the above is a poem and it remains a poem for all time – plus, I kept it multi-line even though it could have been a bunch of one-liners)
skip it if you will…….
your loss!
“Everybody knows you got to breath”
July 5, 2009 at 6:54 pm
Elaine,
I take issue with your scolding Calculated Risk re AIPAC. Name an instance in which it should have referenced AIPAC but didn’t? I don’t mind that Calculated Risk doesn’t pursue AIPAC. I consider it to be forward leaning on monetary issues and agnostic on political or cultural issues. It was hammering away lax lending, leveraged financial plays, destructiveness of deriatives, insane prognostications of FED, ZIRP rates, etc. and have done much to assist launching of Mish’s Global Economic Analysis, linking to great sites (Zerohedge and Big Picture,) and general education of many J6Pers on monetary/financial machinations.
All in all, Calculated Risk should be lauded. They are good citizens of the Internet.
July 5, 2009 at 7:50 pm
No, Elaine did not ‘scold Calculated Risk re: AIPAC’, (although if I understand correctly she may be calling them lazy).
She is asserting that their content is not marginalized by corporate media because they do not talk about AIPAC.
So the inference from her example is that this ‘no linking’ nonsense endorsed by Posner could be construed as being primarily concerned with stifling criticism of AIPAC.
July 5, 2009 at 8:12 pm
Sensation Gorger (MT)
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Oracle Text:
Kinship – At the beginning of your upkeep, you may look at the top card of your library. If it shares a creature type with Sensation Gorger, you may reveal it. If you do, each player discards his or her hand and draws four cards.
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WOW THATS AWSOME
July 5, 2009 at 8:47 pm
The NYT cites Calculated Risk all the time. Praise him, too. The WP does this with other pundits who mostly do ‘links’ and not so much commentary beyond a sentence or two. They get PRAISE and the big media doesn’t plan to sue them.
They want to cut ME off.
July 5, 2009 at 10:00 pm
Jeff Macke
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f3AiOXp6FY
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theres nothing on the internet about this guy, no opinions nothing… just ONE wierd video… AND he was on CNBC… i for one have no idea what hes saying or what it means… but that there is NO commentary is pretty wierd… it is probably one of the first times someone who is ‘newsworthy’ has NO content anywhere on the web except for some clown show 4min video… wonder if CNBC has contract law preventing a blog or something… doesnt change my mind that ‘Banks B retardeD’ national power brokers… but if your going to ’say what you think’ why act like your a complete genius or a complete idiot… maybe he was just fulfilling a threat to ‘give me a raise or i quit and ruin you’ it happens
July 5, 2009 at 10:48 pm
Most commentators on TV make little to no sense. They are there to yap.
July 5, 2009 at 11:09 pm
If your sense of self importance is augmented by hallucinations about a foreign intelligence plot on your life, or a newspaper putting a wall of silence around you, then no reason to interfere with your dreamworld. Are you sure it’s not you though? For instance, Zero Hedge google stats are generating about five logs of traffic more than you. I will ascribe it to a plot to keep you quiet, and not the comparative quality of material.
July 6, 2009 at 12:07 am
@Elaine:
These pro-AIPAC publications don’t only want you to be silenced. They are also Peak Oil Deniers and they want Matt Savinar shut up as well because he always talks about peak oil (with a “we’re doomed!” slant I’m afraid) and the ongoing financial collapse that he thinks will be exacerbated by the soon-to-come inevutable decline in oil supplies. His website: —> http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/ The AP recently forbade him or any of his discussion board participants to include more than FOUR WORDS from any of their articles that he or they linked to — or the AP would sic their corporate lawyers on him. This ultimatum was much discussed at his discussion board which is linked from his website.
July 6, 2009 at 1:05 am
Some interesting news from ZeroHedge:
Major developing story: Matt Goldstein over at Reuters may have just broken a story that could spell doom for if not the entire Goldman Sachs program trading group, then at least those who deal with “low latency (microseconds) event-driven market data processing, strategy, and order submissions.” Visions of swirling, gray storm clouds over Goldman’s SLP and hi-fi traders begin to form.
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If the allegations are true, it looks like Goldman’s hi-fi quant trading desk was thoroughly penetrated by a “spy”, and as readers will recall, Serge(y)’s description of his job duties mirrors what Mr. Ed Canaday conveniently provided to Zero Hedge as a description of Goldman’s SLP program. (Sources connected with the office of the United States Attorney have confirmed to Zero Hedge that Aleynikov was at one time or another a Goldman employee.”).
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What is probably most notable, in less than a month since Sergey’s departure from [Goldman?], the FBI was summoned to task and the alleged saboteur was arrested and promptly gagged: if anyone is amazed by the unprecedented speed of this investigative process, you are not alone. If only the FBI were to tackle cases of national security and loss of life with the same speed and precision as they confront presumed high-frequency program trading industrial espionage cases… especially those that allegedly involve Goldman Sachs.
Now the real question here is, does [GS?] feel lucky? Because the code has supposedly been in the hands of an outsider for over a month, one might suspect that anyone who wanted to has had ample opportunity – if the holder(s) wished to sell… Would that have anything to do with the even weirder than usual market action over the past 2-3 weeks: after all it is the very Goldman Sachs (which may or may not be the target of this program trading industrial espionage) which is the primary SLP on the world’s biggest stock exchange.
Another major question: do Goldman and the NYSE not have a fiduciary responsibility to announce to both shareholders and any interested parties if there has been a major security breach in their trading operations? Certainly this seems like a material piece of information: given that program trading accounted for 49% of all NYSE trading last week, and Goldman as recently as one week ago represented about 60% of all principal program trading, will this be called an issue threatening the National Security of the United States.
Shouldn’t all market participants be aware that there is some rogue code in cyberspace that can be abused by the highest bidder, who very likely will not be interested in proving the efficient market hypothesis? What will happened when said bidder goes about trying to front run none other than the “Financial Institution” [GS]?
Check it out on zerohedge.com. Monday markets will be interesting.
July 6, 2009 at 1:38 am
Goldman Sachs runs almost all systems that intersect with their ‘business’. They are very involved in how our government operates.
About my readership: I talk about all sorts of GOOFY THINGS many people avoid. Why on earth do I do this stupid thing?
HAHAHA. Well, Zero Hedge worries about the Stock Markets. I worry about the Cave of Wealth and Death: things people prefer to ignore. On the other hand, I can’t ignore it so I talk about it.
Nasty business. No wonder no one likes me.
Not to mention, my cartoons are too annoying for words…. 
July 6, 2009 at 1:45 am
Guys….. rollingstone.com has an article about
Gold-Sax that confirms a lot of what Elaine has
been raising hell about.
July 6, 2009 at 2:30 am
Yes, Gary, Matt Taibi, who is a very good journalist. Zero Hedge had the article Adobed the day it came out. He also did an interview on the Canadian BNN(business news network). Amazingly, they let him speak for ten minutes without interruption. Ziff House, you will be very proud that Canada has real business coverage while our own financial pornotainment ignored him. The bad news, is that after Goldman bankrupts the USA, they will be forced to move up North. So sorry. See, Dear Great Author, it’s is not only your boundless talents that are dismissed. Bill Alpert, who writes second lead for Barron’s did mention Taibi as enertaining, though dismissively. Interestingly, he was dismissed without stated reason, in other words, no one was able to refute him.
July 6, 2009 at 2:44 am
Elaine, I can only stand so much of teh stoopid anymore, hence could only read half this post. But of all the takedowns of the latest WhorePost pole dance, yours is as always the best. Farkin love you.
July 6, 2009 at 4:14 am
It’s fun to watch the Big Media self-destruct. What I find so much fun about the whole thing is there is absolutely NOTHING the MSM can do to stop their demise. What can Big Media do? Admit that for all these years they have been carrying the water for our corrupt elected representatives. big business and others to whom the media curries favor? HAHA Big Media is stuck between a rock and a hard place. Certainly the thought of transforming themselves into ACTUAL journalists never, ever appears on their collective radar. My impression is the folks running the NYT and WP and News Corporation and the other media outlets haven’t a clue as to why they are going down the tubes. It will be interesting to watch how the media covers the latest Sarah Palin scandal. It seems part of the ‘Bridge to Nowhere’ funding went into Sarah Palin’s grubby little pockets. (Actually it is money supposedly embezzled from funding for a sports complex in Wasilla.)
July 6, 2009 at 4:32 am
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE5624MB20090706
McCain had plucked Palin from obscurity to make her his vice presidential running mate in last year’s presidential campaign, won by Democrat Barack Obama.
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Im not saying she isnt hella’ smart or nothing… just that she is proof that politics are just about smear, judgemental do nothings, and a contrived future policy regime that just tunes people out to maximize a view of elite power with no struggle
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at least thats what i get from the blameless centralization of power provided by a seemingly ignorant conduit of over politicized arguments constantly end running a fairly responsible electorate who deep down love the constitution of the USA
July 6, 2009 at 4:38 am
Palin is a pain in the ass.
July 6, 2009 at 4:39 am
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE56507F20090706
“We cannot dictate to another sovereign nation what they can and cannot do when they make a determination, if they make a determination, that they’re existentially threatened,” Biden said.
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in 2003-4 i was asking people if in 5 years we would be at war with iran… everyone said yes
July 6, 2009 at 4:39 am
if not sooner
July 6, 2009 at 11:58 am
Now we get a kinder, humbler foreign policy articulated by the ex senator from the credit card industry.
July 6, 2009 at 12:40 pm
“Judge Posner thinks that it would be a great idea to make it illegal to link to other people on the internet. ”
Actually… Posner thinks it would be nice if users paid copyright holders for the use of cited materials.
“But it is what is saving us. We, not they, represent the concept of ‘free speech’.”
The “free: in “free speech” doesn’t mean “free of charge”. Or it didn’t until a decade or so ago.
“We are NOT sponging. We are ATTACKING. HAHAHA.”
For FREE. Double HAHAHA.
July 6, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Elaine — I like Calculated Risk blog for providing raw, unbiased information, but I LOVE your site but you endeavor to connect ALL the dots in trying to “make sense of it all.” This is extremely tough because it involves stepping on many sacred toes. And while that does call for speculation (given how poorly the media puts any news in context), I feel you are more right than wrong, hence I keep coming back here.
Thanks for sharing your insights!
July 6, 2009 at 2:16 pm
I wasn’t attacking Calculated Risk. I was pointing out that he is beloved of the NYT because he does NOT connect many dots at all and thus, is like them. So they think he is real neat.
The split second he connects AIPAC with any corruption or theft of US taxpayer dollars, he will be dropped like a rock. And will be put on the enemies list of the NYT (the editors of the Times know me personally, I am NOT a nobody to them!).
And this is a shame. We can’t fix anything unless we look at all the things needing fixing and note where they intersect. And lobbying for money or goodies or lack of supervision is very much one of the main points we must look at.
Calculated Risk looks only at the results, not the causes.
July 6, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Smith: in my article on healthcare lobbying, I note that the WP sucks up a story that a smaller, online organization broke, and the WP didn’t even have the courtesy of giving a link or paying them or anything!
The mass media owners steal stuff ALL THE DAMN TIME and I would love to put them in prison for theft but they think they are the ones being ripped off, of course. This is why they should shut the hell up with their bellyaching.
July 6, 2009 at 3:24 pm
I still don’t like WP…