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<title><![CDATA[United States Broke?]]></title>
<link>http://bunnysbuzz.wordpress.com/2009/05/10/united-states-broke/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 16:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Bunny Ramey</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Have you seen the economy lately? Banks are failing, companies are closing, people are suffering. Ge]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Have you seen the economy lately? Banks are failing, companies</p>
<p>are closing, people are suffering. Get ready for a real bumpy ride.</p>
<p>Things are going to get a lot worse before they can get</p>
<p>better.</p>
<p>As much as we would like to &#8217;sugar coat&#8217; the reality of what is</p>
<p>going on&#8230;The TRUTH of the matter is that the American Economy is in</p>
<p>it&#8217;s worst shape since the great depression.</p>
<p>The inflation level is so high in the U.S. All</p>
<p>because banks are printing money that they don&#8217;t have!</p>
<p>You say no big deal. Print away. Learn the truth, our country is up for sale.</p>
<p>We will have to pay that money back, yes you will be required to help</p>
<p>pay that money back to. Maybe that $500.00 that was promised will effecient.</p>
<p>ah, nope.</p>
<p>So you Greedy liberal leftwing extremists, That $500.00 that Obama has</p>
<p>promised you, well he has already spent it for you.</p>
<p>Get it through your thick heads.</p>
<p>Obama came from nowhere, associated with a bunch of thugs, theives and crooks.</p>
<p>My Gosh is thesis in college was on the biggest Marxist person in history of the world</p>
<p>Not only you, but your children will have to pay it back. Their kids, your great grandchildren,</p>
<p>they will have to pay those trillions of dollars back.</p>
<p>Well your greatgrandchildren may not have to.</p>
<p>In the nex 50 years, Our debt will be so high, that They may not be allowed to</p>
<p>have any children. Because we will be under China&#8217;s rule.</p>
<p>China is buying up the United States. &#8220;WE THE PEOPLE&#8221; will cease to exist.</p>
<p>Under this New World Order. That Obama is seeking to be a leader of&#8230;</p>
<p>Even after Obama exits the Presidental office. He will probably be go on tbe</p>
<p>the New World Order Leader.</p>
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<p>If you were the one that was loaning the United States the money.</p>
<p>Knowingly, that the US is broke. What would you gain?</p>
<p>More land for a over populated country, like China. hmmmm&#8230;.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[What Kind of change will obama bring]]></title>
<link>http://bunnysbuzz.wordpress.com/2009/02/13/what-kind-of-change-will-obama-bring/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Bunny Ramey</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Our Senate and Representatives are completely out of order, the government is truly broken. In a tim]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Our Senate and Representatives are completely out of order, the government is truly broken. In a time of  pressing economic chaos. The financial system of our country in turmoil. The urgency to stimulate the economy financially, seems to have ended up just another way for our senate and representatives to only think only of themselves. </p>
<p>They seem to have an overwhelming desire to spend more money than is actually needed. Holding on to stubborn opinions, creating even more chaos. The two parties showing resentment towards each other.</p>
<p>The stimulus package was suppose to create jobs, instantly solve the crashing financial crisis. Be the answer to this ungodly troubles we are in. This was not to be a budget bill. This is an emergency. spending for the good of the country. For the world.</p>
<p>As the whole world’s economy is tumbling into a state of depression.  Our stock market spiraling into devastating downward lows. Our officials are fulfilling their own wants.</p>
<p>Could this be the ‘change’ Obama will deliver.<br />
Exposing our government officials as the greedy, self pleasing people that they are. Powered hungry to be in control and rule.<br />
So much that they would risk our country’s security for control. </p>
<p>When this stimulus package comes to his desk to be passed. It will sure be interesting in the direction he goes. Will he make an executive decision, and expose our officials publicly. Humiliating and Shaming them  to leave politics, or change into a new direction. Be the guardians of our constitution as they are suppose to be. </p>
<p>Or will he just blantly go about aggressively playing the Chicago style partisan power play. Some call this gangster style, socialist, facist or Imperialism.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[High ratings come from consumer choice]]></title>
<link>http://bunnysbuzz.wordpress.com/2009/02/13/high-ratings-come-from-consumer-choice/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Bunny Ramey</dc:creator>
<guid>http://bunnysbuzz.wordpress.com/2009/02/13/high-ratings-come-from-consumer-choice/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[While watching the news, I didn’t find it very informative. The reporter was stating his opinion. No]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><div class="mceTemp mceIEcenter" style="text-align:center;">While watching the news, I didn’t find it very informative. The reporter was stating his opinion. Not reporting the facts, and only stating his own opinion. Really made me wish I could debate him. That would be real funny, I have trouble speaking a complete sentence.</div>
<p style="text-align:center;">Days like these, well it makes me glad I have the freedom to change that channel. Everyone has the right to their own opinion. and the channel changer.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Could you imagine if all you could watch is one station? Chose by the government. Or the only thing that was on and it goes against your nature. Like me being a Christian, having satanic crap on all the time. Or an atheist having to listen to one of my holy roller preachers! I really am glad for the freedom to chose my own news sources.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Freedom! sweet, sweet, Freedom!<br />
It was not always that way though, our country took over 40 years to figure out that to many rules and regulations, were not affective.<br />
Choice should be in the hands of the people.<br />
Back in 1940, congress passed the fairness doctrine.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">The Fairness doctrine was created by the FCC. The Congress created the FCC to mandate laws over the air waves.<br />
The FCC was to regulate the content and converage on controversial issues, making the media show contrasting viewpoints. Keeping these controversial issues at a minimum, politics mainly. Making stations provide (hire) equal time for the left and the right. Not different stations, different times.<br />
Wonder how they figured out who got prime time?</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Guess what, it took the FCC 40 years to figure out people like the freedom to choose what and when and even how they receive their information. The fairness doctrine, Took your choice out. It was encroaching on our civil liberties. The 1st Amendment.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Totally unconstitutional as it was and even with the reporters, journalists and all the media with strenuous actions, pleading with the courts that It was unconstitutional. It still passed as unviable in eyes of the supreme court.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">In the 1985 Congress made the FCC do a study, to see how forcing the media to report in this manner, would affect the public. The FCC handed in its “fairness report“. The results were astonishing!</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">The people spoke, they love their freedom of choice! It matters not if you’re a democrat or republican. The importance of you having your choice to your media. Media has the right to report news, politics in there own view, be it democrat or republican. You have the right to shut it off if you disagree. High ratings come from consumer choice.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">It’s the right to make a choice, it’s the right to a free market. Technology being so vast. So many choices to get your media from. Restrictions from the government would only move our country into socialist or facist. Thanks for keeping our country, a capitalist country.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">The fairness doctrine was voted unanimously to be repealed. In fairness to the repeal, Congress passed the Fairness in Broadcasting Act of 1987.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Download <a href="http://rpc.senate.gov/public/_files/072407FairnessDoctrinePL.pdf">fairness doctrine</a></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Congressional Response<br />
In response to the repeal of the fairness doctrine, Congress passed the “Fairness in<br />
Broadcasting Act of 1987” to reinstate the doctrine.8 This legislation passed the Senate on April<br />
21, 1987 by a vote of 59-31 and passed the House of Representatives by voice vote on June 3,<br />
1987. President Reagan vetoed the bill on June 22, 1987. On June 23, 1987, President<br />
Reagan’s veto message was referred to the Senate Commerce Committee by a vote of 53-45.<br />
Congress adjourned before taking any further action.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[economic crisis]]></title>
<link>http://bunnysbuzz.wordpress.com/2009/02/09/293/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Bunny Ramey</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[I wrote this the other day, thought I would go ahead and post it anyways.. The United States economy]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>I wrote this the other day, thought I would go ahead and post it anyways..</p>
<p>The United States economy and the <a href="http://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/bios/banks/pres02.htm"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">Poor handling of finances</span></span></a> are the reasons for the drop. In the Sock Market today. Apparently contradictory the economic conditions in the United States are affecting the world economy on a daily basis. News outlets are already reporting a new <a href="http://goheretoget.info/3300/"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">economic stimulus package</span></span></a>, designed in part to try to prevent this recession.</p>
<p>This isn&#8217;t the first recession news, as you recall, Back On Nov. 26, 2001, the news media announced the United States was officially in a recession and had been since March of that year. To most Americans, this wasn&#8217;t all that surprising.</p>
<p>Rising <a href="http://vurl.bz/mylinks/ptr"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">unemployment</span></span></a> and a weak <a href="http://www.nasdaq.com/"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">stock market</span></span></a> has been in the news for months now. <span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Arial;">Didn&#8217;t seem to stop all the spending </span></span>The country is in the middle of the <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Economy/story?id=6649449&#38;page=1">worst economic downturn</a>. Between the <strong>rich donors </strong>and the <a href="http://goheretoget.info/3300/"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">government</span></span></strong></a>from spending $170 million, or more, on the inauguration of Barak Obama. Who were the those Rich Donors? Thats right. It was those Bailed out Wall Street Executives.</p>
<p>Looking at Obama&#8217;s choice for Treasury Secretary of the United States, <a href="http://www.newyorkfed.org/aboutthefed/orgchart/geithner.html"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">Timothy Geithner.</span></span></a> It looks very Grim for our future economic times. President Obama Positioning Timothy Geithner, who made &#8220;careless mistakes&#8221; on his own taxes. Stated in his own words.</p>
<p>In his inaugural address, Obama</p>
<p>&#8220;The state of the economy calls for action, bold and swift, and we will act—not only to create <a href="http://vurl.bz/mylinks/ptr"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">new jobs</span></span></a>, but to lay a new foundation for growth.&#8221;</p>
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<p></span></span></span><a href="http://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/bios/banks/pres02.htm"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">Timothy Geithner</span></span></a>, currently the president of the <a href="http://goheretoget.info/3300/"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">Federal Reserve</span></span></a>Bank of New York, positioned to overlook the IRS? I feel this was a real bad choice on President Obama&#8217;s side. A man who is a part of the cause of this world economic <a href="http://followthistoget.info/3117/"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">recession</span></span></a>. To be in charge of the finances. This makes no sense.</p>
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<p>Wondering who exactly got the first bailout? Tarp Funds where they went.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Tarp Funds ]]></title>
<link>http://bunnysbuzz.wordpress.com/2009/02/09/tarp-funds/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Bunny Ramey</dc:creator>
<guid>http://bunnysbuzz.wordpress.com/2009/02/09/tarp-funds/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[President Obama must think he is the king. He has no clue what America is about. His most recent dec]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><div><span lang="EN">President Obama must think he is the king. He has no clue what America is about. His most recent decision is restricting your annual compensation to <a href="http://goheretoget.info/3300/">$500,000 </a> Who does he think he is? Telling someone how much <a href="http://goheretoget.info/3300/">money</a> you can make. What if you make <a href="http://goheretoget.info/3300/">$500,001  </a>Is he going to take your dollar away from you.</span></div>
<p><span lang="EN">Your Rights as an American, are being taken away. Are you going to sit there and not do anything. Are you that irresponsible. That you can’t in simplest form make a difference.</p>
<p>There are things you can do.</p>
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<p>You can tell others whats happening.</p>
<p>Contact your All your State Senators, State Representatives, speak out.</p>
<p>Contact your choice of media, tell them this is wrong.</p>
<p>Write them, text them, email them, call them. Make a ruccess!</p>
<p>That tarp fund, <a href="http://goheretoget.info/3300/">$700 billion dollars </a>that was suppose to go to the banks. The first ½ of that, was placed in the hands of the banks. With no strings, No tracking, No reporting. No monitoring. We were Lied to buy the dept of the Treasury. Lied to by Obama.</p>
<p>This 2<sup>nd</sup> half of the <a href="http://goheretoget.info/3300/">700 billion dollrs</a>, about to be handed out. Will there be an accountability, on this <a href="http://goheretoget.info/3300/">$350 billion</a>. Stolen was 700 million dollars for tarp! And with thought Madoff was crook. Our own government</p>
<p>Fox news asked for the copy of distribution of those tarp  funds. The actually had to file a lawsuit to get a response. Just to find out what where the money has gone. Surprising Nobody knows. No accountability.</p>
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<div><span lang="EN">Lets throw some money towards Solar And Wind Energy! Not pay our debt.</span></div>
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<title><![CDATA[Corporation Bank Clerk Jobs 2009]]></title>
<link>http://indboardexamresults.wordpress.com/2009/02/07/corporation-bank-clerk-jobs-2009/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 10:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mnikhil</dc:creator>
<guid>http://indboardexamresults.wordpress.com/2009/02/07/corporation-bank-clerk-jobs-2009/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Corporation Bank Clerk Jobs 2009 Corporation Bank Recruitment of Clerks &#8211; 2009 The recruitment]]></description>
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<p><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Corporation Bank Recruitment of Clerks &#8211; 2009</span></span></p>
<p>The recruitment notification for filling up <strong>425 clerical posts </strong>across the states of AP, Goa, Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Tamilnadu has been notified from <strong>Corporation Bank</strong>.</p>
<p>The detailed advertisement and the procedure for applying online can be downloaded from the website of Corporation Bank at<br />
<a href="http://corpbank.in/uploadedfiles/custom/12_41_310_1605493.pdf">http://corpbank.in/uploadedfiles/custom/12_41_310_1605493.pdf</a></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:bold;">Important Dates:</span></p>
<p>Opening date for On-Line Registration : 07.02.2009<br />
Closing date for On-Line Registration (For All Applicants, including those from Far Flung Areas) : 07.03.2009<br />
Last date for receipt of Print out of the Computer Generated On-Line Application : 14.03.2009<br />
Last date for Receipt of Print out of the Computer Generated On-Line Application (from Far Flung Areas) : 21.03.2009<br />
Likely date for Written Examination : 03.05.2009</p>
<p><span style="font-weight:bold;">Number of Vacancies &#8211; State Wise </span><br />
ANDHRA PRADESH  55<br />
GOA                             15<br />
GUJARAT                  55<br />
KARNATAKA         175<br />
MAHARASHTRA      65<br />
TAMIL NADU           60</p>
<p><span style="font-weight:bold;">Important information for Recruitment of Clerks-2009</span></p>
<p>1. Detailed Advertisement &#38; How to apply &#38; On-line Application</p>
<p><a href="http://app3.ibps.in/corporationclerk">http://app3.ibps.in/corporationclerk</a></p>
<p>2. Format of Pay-in-Slip for Payment of Application Fee:<br />
<a href="http://corpbank.in/uploadedfiles/custom/11_24_510_605282.pdf">http://corpbank.in/uploadedfiles/custom/11_24_510_605282.pdf</a></p>
<p>[Payment of Application Fee shall be made at Corporation Branches only through ABB facility]</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Quick stock idea]]></title>
<link>http://thebigdeal.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/quick-stock-idea/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Stefano Buliani</dc:creator>
<guid>http://thebigdeal.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/quick-stock-idea/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t updated this blog lately, and I apologize, at least to all the poor souls out there ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><iframe src='http://digg.com/api/diggthis.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdigg.com%2Fbusiness_finance%2FQuick_stock_idea_Energy_in_Spain' height='82' width='55' frameborder='0' scrolling='no' style='float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px; padding: 4px 0 2px 4px; background: #fff;'></iframe>I haven&#8217;t updated this blog lately, and I apologize, at least to all the poor souls out there who like to read my disconnected thoughts.<br />
<a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/18/social-investing-site-covestor-is-now-open-to-the-public/" target="_blank">Covestor</a> opening up to the world and a <a href="http://shutupsylvia.com/" target="_blank">friend&#8217;s blog</a> kept me busy.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m here now and ready to entertain you with some more random rumblings.</p>
<p>Last week&#8217;s Economist had <a href="http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11632852&#38;CFID=11528928&#38;CFTOKEN=26689698" target="_blank">a piece</a> about the perilous situation of energy and electricity companies in Spain.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re looking for a dog to short, this is definitely it.</p>
<p>Electricity prices in Spain have been reasonably low and their growth has been somehow independent from inflation. The reason behind this odd behaviour is that the tariffs private company can impose are regulated by the government.</p>
<p>Spain has often come under attack by the European Commission for its policies and this issue has almost always been central in all debates.</p>
<p>This is all fine and dandy so long as production costs and inflation remain within forecasted patterns. Nowadays with petrol prices rocketing ever upwards and the Euro area economy moving forward &#8211; or rather backwards &#8211; this is not proving to be efficient.</p>
<p>The difference between what costs energy companies to produce the electricity Spaniards use and what they can charge for it has now ballooned to a whopping €14 billion ($22 billion), according to the Spanish National Energy Commission (CNE).<img class="alignright" src="http://media.economist.com/images/20080628/CWB534.gif" alt="Economist chart" /></p>
<p>The Economist was kind enough to do the math for us:</p>
<blockquote><p>Just to stop the deficit from getting bigger would mean raising prices by 20%, according to Unesa, the Spanish power-industry association. To repay it will mean increasing prices still further. Paying it back over the next 15 years would require price rises of nearly 35%.</p></blockquote>
<p>Unless the government moves to deregulate this industry quickly they&#8217;ll find themselves with a ticking bomb in their hands. Considering the usual slowness of bureaucrats I&#8217;d say this is definitely something worth exploiting.</p>
<p>We can spot a definite pattern on these two charts I nicked from Yahoo! finance UK. <a href="http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=IBE.MC" target="_blank">Iberdrola</a> and <a href="http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=ELE.MC" target="_blank">Endesa</a> are Spain biggest energy companies (that I know of) and they have been going steadily down as oil prices took off.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://thebigdeal.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/endesa_chart.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-252 aligncenter" src="http://thebigdeal.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/endesa_chart.png?w=300" alt="Endesa" width="300" height="168" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://thebigdeal.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/iberdrola_chart.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-253 aligncenter" src="http://thebigdeal.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/iberdrola_chart.png?w=300" alt="Iberdrola" width="300" height="168" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align:left;"><strong>Update: </strong>Since this post was published <a href="http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=ELE.MC" target="_blank">Endesa</a> has gone own almost 2€!</p>
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