Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Fed stay in bailout disclosure case.....

WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday granted the Federal Reserve's request for a stay of a ruling that would have forced the U.S. central bank to release the names of banks that participated in its emergency lending programs. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit granted the stay of a lower court ruling in August that ordered the release of the data sought by Bloomberg News under a Freedom of Information Act request, according to Justice Department spokesman Charles Miller...Link

Capitalism: A Love Story.....a review.

It is ironic that Michael Moore’s latest movie, Capitalism: A Love Story features two appearances by writer and comedic actor Wallace Shawn. There is even a clip of Shawn exclaiming “Inconceivable!” in his hilarious turn as Vezzini in The Princess Bride. However, the most appropriate clip from that movie would have been Inigo Montoya uttering the words quoted in the prologue of this article. Using one of Moore’s staple filmmaking techniques, he could have cut to the clip immediately after one of his own pronouncements about capitalism. For although Moore says the word over and over throughout the movie, it is apparent that it “doesn’t mean what he thinks it means.”..Link

Remember November the 5th.........

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