Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: February 27, 2010
AIG posted a quarterly loss of nearly nine billion. AIG also said it continues to shrink the number of trades and outstanding exposures at its Financial Products unit, where troubled credit derivatives contracts brought the insurance giant to the brink of collapse in 2008 and prompted a massive federal bailout, which eventually grew to a [...]
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: February 21, 2010
The feeling of being overloaded with information will become as familiar to human awareness as feeling rushed or confused.
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: February 21, 2010
Try after the two minute mark. Glenn Beck talks about alcoholism and not getting caught-how he would be drunk right now if it wasn’t causing him problems. By the way, I will admit that he made me cry once when he talked about how his mother committed suicide. It might seem contrived when he does [...]
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: February 21, 2010
Just like congress, sexist, the general direction of the Alaska aerial wolf hunting team, an accurate portrayal of the fallout from the sub-prime mortgage crisis, or just plain funny?
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: February 8, 2010
When I was growing up we basically had three network television stations, which were all free after you purchased your television set. All you needed was rabbit ear antennas. Everybody knows what happens after that, but you don’t hear too much about how it’s going with those who chose not to pay for cable or [...]
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: September 29, 2009
Hamas fired rockets into Israel for eight years according to Benjamin Netanyahu. That was his justification for the Gaza War. But notice the timing of the war. It was during the lame duck presidency of George Bush, in the middle of the worst recession in decades, Christmas and the holidays for many Americans, and it [...]
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: August 7, 2009
Economists love to look at inflation in abstract terms, but individual consumers can easily notice when prices are rising if only they payed attention. I have noticed that my groceries have gone up at least 25 % in the last two years. Many of the portions have become smaller. The box has shrunk which contain [...]
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: August 2, 2009
Normally, after a ten hour work day, I fall asleep for a nap during the time the Glenn Beck show is on, but the other day I happened to catch it for awhile and he was providing some interesting insight on Goldman Sachs. In what seemed like only a fifteen minute period he was interrupted [...]
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: July 8, 2009
The Chinese government has apparently found a new way to confront the dissemination of information when there are protests. Instead of suppressing it completely they are working on a preemptive method where they seize control before other media outlets have a chance to dig for the truth. This new strategy has a fancy new name [...]
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: July 6, 2009
I found it quite ironic after the last entry that as I was finishing up the book- Secrets Of The Temple I came upon the following quote: If consumers were eventually forced to pull back, if enough families reached the point where they could borrow no more chips, then the poker game must stop. Recession [...]
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: June 17, 2009
Ex Guantanamo Uighur detainees swimming in Bermuda? They want to open up a restaurant? I wonder if they would want it to be called a Chinese restaurant. Then someone came on Fox News today and claimed that the Uighurs were well fed at Guantanamo. These are challenging times for anyone wanting to try their hand [...]
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: June 11, 2009
Sounds like China is moving further in the direction of hearing and seeing only what their government wants them to hear and see. Since much of the news has violent content, would this mean that Chinese people can no longer access world news? This is not to mention the fact that there is a very [...]
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: June 5, 2009
Even after twenty years it is still shocking to hear how the Chinese government shot and killed their own people who were protesting in Tiananmen Square. The Chinese firewall is the ultimate in suppression, yet the U.S has a symbiotic relationship with the country that goes much deeper than just treasuries. It is in the [...]
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: June 2, 2009
The concept of a “red herring” came up while reading about the federal reserve . It basically means diverting attention from another item of significance or the truth. It is closely associated with suppression. Perhaps this author was being forced to remember the concept, because recently some smoked herring was purchased and food poisoning was [...]
