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Also from the article: NO CIVCAS.
Maybe in six months or a year we'll get another set of before and afters.
Afghanistan Encounters American Urban Planning
by Jacob Davies From an FP post discussing village destruction in Afghanistan: Well, it's a good thing we decided to take our campaign against the Taliban to the village of Tarok Kolache. I mean, if we hadn't gone there and fought off the Taliban - and improved the design of their village with...
Well, Jacob Davies, that's why some critics of the US' ABM effort (I guess the new acronym is BMD) describe it as de-stabilizing or not purely defensive. The system is not much good against a bunch of incoming ballistic missiles; it's easily overwhelmed. But if it's only tasked with stopping one or two or three missiles...
Improves the odds. It would still be a hell of a gamble.
All I Want For Christmas Is World Peace ... But I'll Settle For The New START Treaty
by Jacob Davies And for once, it looks like I might get what I want: The Senate voted 66 to 32 to bring the treaty to the floor in a procedural vote that fell one short of the 67 required under the Constitution for approval once it comes to a final vote. Since one Democrat supporting the treaty ...
With the quotes all bundled together, what it looks like now is Greenwald getting cute with the qualifiers depending on his rhetorical needs.
I don't think that kind of expediency is new territory for him.
The Reign of Witches Has Not Passed
by Eric Martin “The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky Glenn Greenwald has unearthed some disturbing accounts of the five month (and counting) detention of Army Private Bradley Manning, the suspect accused of leaking classified materi...
Why would it be odd for a PR-type person not to have first hand knowledge of the detainee's condition?
The Reign of Witches Has Not Passed
by Eric Martin “The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky Glenn Greenwald has unearthed some disturbing accounts of the five month (and counting) detention of Army Private Bradley Manning, the suspect accused of leaking classified materi...
The Cossacks work for the Tsar.
Or in this case, Democratic Party Ineptitude works for ... somebody.
Your Democratic Party
by Jacob Davies Today we have an announcement of a pay freeze for Federal employees: “The hard truth is that getting this deficit under control is going to require some broad sacrifice and that sacrifice must be shared by employees of the federal government,” Mr. Obama said at a White House news...
That explains it for the servicers, Jacob Davies. But not so much for the Banks and the MBS investors.
Ugh's excerpt way above (@November 15, 2010 at 04:27 PM):
This explains alot:
If you pay less than the whole amount, JP Morgan is now obligated to pay the trust the remainder out of its own pocket. When you fall behind, your bank falls behind, too. The only way it gets off the hook is if the house is foreclosed on and sold.
Under normal circumstances, banks aren't willing to let lawyers go into court and file false and fraudulent documents willy-nilly on the banks' behalf. However, if the alternative is the complete decimation of the bank itself they may be willing to hold their nose and look the other way while the lawyers do so, and then act surprised when the news comes to light.
Also explains why Fannie and Freddie were using robo-signers, they made the same guarantee to their mortgage trusts.
reminds us that the foreclosure risk is borne by the investors (that was the whole point of the exercise -- move risk out of the banks and spread it around). So that would put Banks + Servicers on one side and Investors + Mortagees on the other.
Somehow Congress will find a way to bring the three entities that matter into agreement on an equitable solution.
A Futuristic Nightmare Ideology of Computerized Greed and Unchecked Financial Violence
by Jacob Davies The story you must read today is Matt Taibbi on the massive fraud by banks and loan servicers in the ongoing foreclosure crisis. I had a few things to say about this over the last month or two, but I think people had a hard time believing that fraud and perjury on this scale was ...
Anyhow. If I were choosing, I'd choose the one in which the President falls of his Segway.
Can't get more everyman than that.
Oh hey! Is that the couch he fell off when he choked on a pretzel?
Portrait of the Emperor's clothes
by Doctor Science Andrew Sullivan linked to Morgan Meis' review of George W. Bush's official portrait:That can't be serious, I thought to myself when I turned a corner at the Gallery and saw the portrait. The mundane kitsch of the thing was shocking. There are standards. By God there are standard...
Not sure what's up with the wikipedia image. The one at the National Gallery is the one referenced above.
Portrait of the Emperor's clothes
by Doctor Science Andrew Sullivan linked to Morgan Meis' review of George W. Bush's official portrait:That can't be serious, I thought to myself when I turned a corner at the Gallery and saw the portrait. The mundane kitsch of the thing was shocking. There are standards. By God there are standard...
Thanks, Ugh. I've been wondering where the incentives were, here (beyond the servicers' desire to process as many foreclosures as they can, as cheaply as they can).
A Futuristic Nightmare Ideology of Computerized Greed and Unchecked Financial Violence
by Jacob Davies The story you must read today is Matt Taibbi on the massive fraud by banks and loan servicers in the ongoing foreclosure crisis. I had a few things to say about this over the last month or two, but I think people had a hard time believing that fraud and perjury on this scale was ...
The majority of the cuts come from spending because it's the spending that is the problem...
Well that's why you're not seeing as much denunciation from the right. The report agrees with the right's (and apparently your) definition of the problem.
cutting to the chase
by russell OK, so the President's bi-partisan Fiscal Commission has released a initial draft report on how to reduce the national debt. Or, not really the whole commission, just the two co-chairs, Bowles and Simpson. The document contains a number of bold proposals. By "bold" I mean, guarantee...
If someotherdude had meant to say that Republicans are "racist fascists" he would have said so, Slartibartfast.
Surprised to see a stickler for the difference between what's been said and what's been inferred, such as yourself, take that line.
I agree, however, that "ethno-nationalist reactionaries" could use some unpacking.
The Only Election Analysis You Need
by Jacob Davies Well, I'm sure we're about to be subjected to endless nonsense about how America is really a conservative nation and Obama overreached and blah blah blah. I say "nonsense" because this is how Americans actually vote: That's it. The failure to understand this - and the failure to ...
Arnie's a special case, wj.
If the CA GOP could put up non-nut cases in general elections, it wouldn't be the CA GOP.
The Attorney General race is still undecided (with the Democrat, Kamala Harris, currently leading).
The Only Election Analysis You Need
by Jacob Davies Well, I'm sure we're about to be subjected to endless nonsense about how America is really a conservative nation and Obama overreached and blah blah blah. I say "nonsense" because this is how Americans actually vote: That's it. The failure to understand this - and the failure to ...
We'll know if the Democrats learned their lesson if Tim Kaine -- the Blue Doggish Southern Governor who replaced Howard Dean as Democratic Party National Chairman -- loses his job as a result of yesterday's debacle.
The Only Election Analysis You Need
by Jacob Davies Well, I'm sure we're about to be subjected to endless nonsense about how America is really a conservative nation and Obama overreached and blah blah blah. I say "nonsense" because this is how Americans actually vote: That's it. The failure to understand this - and the failure to ...
I am definitely not convinced such planning is taking place.
I'm not sure Mrs Clinton really cares about withdrawal planning one way or another since I'm pretty sure that if she's elected, she won't be ordering any such thing. Redeployment away from the FOBs, maybe. Troop reductions down to logistical support for ourselves and the Iraqis, some training types, some force protection, and a few combat/special forces types to go after the higher value targets. But other than that, Bush & Co have gotten us good and stuck in Iraq, and for a good long time.
We Must Not Add Moral Shame To Humiliation
by hilzoy This is just a followup to Sebastian's post below. I'd like to thank Sebastian for writing it: I have been mulling a post on this issue, but he really prompted me to write. At this point, it seems very likely that we will pull a lot of our troops out of Iraq starting after the next elec...
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