Posted by: Water Modem ||
05/18/2011 09:45 ||
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In the absence of such action, holders of the debt would be able to realise their capital without loss on maturity, leaving the costs of eventual restructuring to fall heavily on the IMF and the European Financial Stability Mechanism. It's all getting too intractable for words. There appears to be no workable solution that holds the whole thing together.
As the German Chancellor has said, the European view is that the IMF needs a European at the helm to look after Europe's interests and help the euro navigate its way through the storm. Mr Strauss-Kahn filled that role. He was a sort of cuckoo in the nest, crowding out all other concerns for the IMF.
Posted by: Water Modem ||
05/18/2011 10:26 Comments ||
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NEWS KERALA > IMF CHIEF'S SEX ATTACK MAID LIVES IN NEW YORK APARTMENT [exclusively rented] FOR HIV/AIDS VICTIMS, along wid her daughter. Its not clear at this point iff she andor her daughter have the condition, albeit it may be safe to speculate that at least one of them does.
The White House Press Office has refused to give the Boston Herald full access to President Obama's Boston fund-raiser today, in e-mails objecting to the newspaper's front page placement of a Mitt Romney op-ed, saying pool reporters are chosen based on whether they cover the news "fairly." So I guess the press room is pretty empty nowdays right? They're bending over and grabbing their ankles right now...
"I tend to consider the degree to which papers have demonstrated to covering the White House regularly and fairly in determining local pool reporters," White House media enforcement commissar spokesman Matt Lehrich wrote in response to a Herald request for full access to the presidential visit.
"My point about the op-ed was not that you ran it but that it was the full front page, which excluded any coverage of the visit of a sitting US President to Boston. I think that raises a fair question about whether the paper is unbiased in its coverage of the President's visits," Lehrich wrote. Translation: Lerich want's to dictate what appears on the front page. "Youse boys strayed from the approved message." [WHACK]
"Oooooo. Very sorry boss. Can we get in now boss?"
But Lehrich said the Herald wasn't purposefully barred from the press pool, saying local pool duty by the Boston Globe was arranged earlier with the White House Correspondents Association. And Lehrich insisted the Herald may yet be allowed into Obama events. If you are good little boys and girls.
"As we have in the past -- including the multiple occasions on which the Herald has supplied local pool reporters -- we will continue to consider the Herald for local pool duty for future visits," Lehrich wrote.
"Newspapers don't have to be unbiased to get access. You can't just let only the newspapers you want in," said Boston University journalism professor Fred Bayles. The obligatory 'media ethics' quote so that you know the Herald has ethics, even as they capitulate... And so it begins.... (actually it's been going on for some time).
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It's not the first time. The Obama admin tried to ban FOX News from the White House press pool. Obama is just now used to anything less than Stalinesque devotion.
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Really, is there any need in these times for a 'White House' reporters or sitting around a press room on Pennsylvania avenue? This tool provides the means to reach unfiltered far more than the over 50 crowd that bitterly clings to their dead tree and evening news feeds. By reducing the very limited integrity of the old institution, they'll make its demise that much simpler for the next administration.
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I don't have much of a problem with this, actually. The whole issue is very subjective of course, but if GWB had thrown out the slandering jerks from the NY Times I would have given him a high five.
I do think it is bad form for Obama in particular to do this sort of thing. The press has given him a nearly free ride over the last 3 years (counting the election campaign) and he has no business complaining.
Posted by: Chris W. ||
05/18/2011 13:10 Comments ||
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"President" O'Bumble and the parasitic leaches that work for him are so thin-skinned anything not glorifying the "Won" is "hate speech". The sooner the entire lot are flushed from Washington, the better. Personally, I'd like the whole lot to be exiled to Johnson Island and supplied once a month with MREs and bottled water.
Posted by: Old Patriot ||
05/18/2011 15:01 Comments ||
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I hear Rikers in NYC is becoming real popular with the socialist elite crowd these days Old Patriot. Just ask the head of the IMF.....
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What is so wonderful about all of this is that the junior senator from Illinois has banned reporters from two of the most liberal areas in the US, San Francisco and now Boston. Areas that considered him the new messiah 2 years ago.
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Honest journalism in the MSM has been dead for quite a awhile. BHO saying who can report and who can't is along the lines of Joseph Goebbel's propaganda machine. Add into the mix that George Soros is spending somewhere around $48 million in trying to control the message, you have a real assault on freedom of the press. Thank goodness for the internet, blogging, a few newspapers, and Fox. The rest is crap.
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