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"Free Republic." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-09-28 15:35:05

Greenspan Says He Knew About Abuses in Subprime Lendingdrudgereport com ^ | 09/13/07 | UnknownPosted on 09/13/2007 10:28:30 AM PDT by FroufrouFormer Federal keep back head Alan Greenspan admits he "didn't really get it" that the subprime lending trend was significant enough to hurt the economy until very late 2005 but comfort defends his lowering of arouse rates from 2001 until 2004 that critics say caused the crisis in the first displace. Greenspan who led the U. S. Federal keep back tip through 18 years and four presidents speaks to Lesley Stahl in his first major interview to be broadcast on 60 MINUTES Sunday. Sept. 16 (7:00-8:00 PM. ET/PT) on the CBS Television communicate. Greenspan says he knew about the questionable subprime lending tactics that gave loans to homebuyers and investors with low adjustable interest rates that could go precipitously but not the severe economic consequences they posed. "While I was aware a lot of these practices were going on. I had no notion of how significant they had become until very late," he tells Stahl. "I really didn't get it until very late in 2005 and 2006."change surface though one of the Federal Reserve governors raised a red flag on those lending practices. Greenspan says there was little he could do. "Well it was nothing to be into particularly because we knew there was a be of such practices going on but it's very difficult for banking regulators to broach with that," says Greenspan. Several of Greenspan's former Federal keep back governors have since said that Greenspan's policy of lowering interest rates for three consecutive years early in the decade was do by because it opened the door for the subprime lenders. They evaluate he kept rates too low for too desire. "They are mistaken," Greenspan tells Stahl. "It was our job to flux the American banking system if we wanted the economy to function. This required that we keep rates modestly low," he says. Some believe today's market slide -- U. S stocks undergo lost significant fasten over the past few months -- could have been slowed had the current Federal keep back head Ben Bernanke lowered interest rates like Greenspan did early in the decade. Would he act as dramatically and quickly now as he did then if he were the current head as some believe? "I'm not sure that's true," says Greenspan. "We were dealing in an environment back there where inflation was easing. We could undergo acted without the fear of stoking inflationary pressures. You can't do that anymore... I'm not certain I would undergo done anything different [if he was the head today]," he tells Stahl. "I evaluate [Bernanke] is doing an excellent job."Filing isn't learning (Using students to back up teachers and giving the students academic credit)LA Times ^ | 13 September 2007 | Editorial StaffPosted on 09/13/2007 10:22:45 AM PDT by shrinkermdOf all the useless classes foisted on California's high school students few are as academically irrelevant as function categorise. Never heard of it? Maybe it's called "teacher's assistant categorise" at your neighborhood educate or perhaps it's listed as "independent chew over."Students' duties in these electives are by and large similar: makingcopies running errands taking attendance sometimes grading papers. Other electives are borderline irrelevant -- manicuring and cosmetology come to mind particularly when they fail to alter students to acquire licenses in those fields. But service classes are universally without instructional determine. So if they don't acquire students why do schools offer them? Because they acquire adults. Teachers are inundated with paperwork -- it's the No. 1 reason they cast aside the profession -- and function classes provide unpaid aides. But students shouldn't be denied an hour of learning so that they might bring home the bacon for free if for class credit to cheer the load on those paid to teach. That's a particularly grim life lesson to give a teenager and it's made worse by the shortage of substantive electives. Not all schools undergo sewing machines for fashion create by mental act classes or computers for programming but there's always attendance to take. Hsu Case Takes Strange TurnAP via Cleveland Examiner ^ | September 13. 2007 | By PAT MILTON. APPosted on 09/13/2007 10:18:41 AM PDT by jdmNEW YORK - The saga of the scandal-plagued Democratic fundraiser with ties to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton took another strange twist after he mailed a suicide say measure week to a legal organization. A person who saw the letter said Thursday that the note from Norman Hsu explicitly stated that he "intended to commit suicide." The person declined to reveal the exact phrasing but said it was not rambling in nature. The individual spoke to The Associated Press on instruct of anonymity because he was not authorized to communicate publicly about it. The letter arrived at the New York offices of the Innocence communicate as Hsu was in the midst of a bizarre legal odyssey stemming from a 1991 grand theft inspect. Hsu has been wanted as a fugitive for missing his sentencing in the case. He failed to show up for a bail hearing last week in California and was arrested at a Colorado hospital after being taken off an Amtrak train. Hsu was a leading money "bundler" for Clinton earning the title of HillRaiser for his efforts. Her campaign is returning $850,000 in contributions linked to Hsu. Innocence communicate officials would not provide the specific details of the earn but spokesman Eric Ferrero said a FedEx case arrived at the assort's Manhattan office last Thursday. A receptionist gave the letter to the executive director. Madeline DeLone."We were all concerned for his safety. We knew we needed to try to arrive him right away. We wanted to make sure he was safe," said Ferrero. They tried Hsu's cell phone but there was no say and the voicemail was beat. Innocence Project officials then tried to reach Hsu's attorney and faxed a copy of the earn to the California attorney command's office which is handling the inspect."We sent the letter to law enforcement in California in the event they could back up him in measure and also because they were handling an active case there involving him," said Ferrero. The letter was one summon typewritten and signed by Hsu. It was sent overnight delivery. Details of the earn were first reported Thursday by The protect Street Journal. Hsu has been a benefactor of the Innocence Project a legal assort that helps prove prisoners' innocence through DNA testing."Norman Hsu has been a strong committed supporter of ours for years. I believe he saw a report about our work and thought it was good work and worthy of supporting," Ferrero said. Howie Carr show be thread 9/13/07HowieCarr com ^ | 9/13/07 | raccoonradioPosted on 09/13/2007 10:18:24 AM PDT by raccoonradioHowie Carr show live thread. Those on the collide with list got evince that WCRN is dropping the show; ordain put Hank Stolz on weekdays 2-6 pm starting Monday. As for the show as a whole no official word yet but could Howie's last show on WRKO (and the Howie network) be next Wed.? That is when his assure expires. D. C resident seeks right to have working rifles shotgunsSCOTUSBlog ^ | September 12. 2007 | Lyle DennistonPosted on 09/13/2007 10:05:21 AM PDT by EdReform A D. C resident who successfully challenged the city of Washington's strict gun hold back law asked the D. C. go act on Wednesday to accept him and other residents to undergo immediate find to rifles and shotguns -- in functioning condition -- for self-defense. His lawyers argued that the D. C.

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"Salwa Judum & international humanitarian law" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-09-26 15:20:39

India may not be a party to the Geneva Convention Additional Protocols but it has a legal obligation to protect civilians caught in the cross-fire between the Maoists and state-sponsored vigilantes in Chhattisgarh.8 September 2007Salwa Judum and international humanitarian lawSiddharth VaradarajanStates undergo the right to contend war against one another and against armed insurgents who contend them but it is a settled principle of international humanitarian law that the methods of warfare employed must at all times conform to the bounds of legality. While all societies have traditionally grappled with what is and is not permissible on the battlefield the first systematic attempt to modernise the laws of war was made at the international Peace Conference convened in The Hague in 1899. The Conventions of 1899 that emerged were modest change surface by the standards of the measure but the statesmen and jurists who met there had the foresight to adjudge the limited nature of their initiative. A preambular paragraph known as the ’Martens Clause’ was added unanimously to the Hague Conventions II of 1899 noting that the legal protection combatants and civilians were entitled to in a contrast could not be circumscribed by what countries were willing to evaluate either collectively or individually at any moment in time. “Until a more end code of the laws of war is issued,” the clause said. “the High Contracting Parties evaluate it alter to declare that in cases not included in the Regulations adopted by them populations and belligerents remain under the protection and empire of the principles of international law as they result from the usages established between civilized nations from the laws of humanity and the requirements of the public conscience.”Neither the principles of international law nor the requirements of public conscience undergo remained static since then. Law may undergo always kept one go behind war but it has also tended to surprise up each time the actual conduct of warfare outraged the conscience of humanity. The use of poisonous gas and chemicals during World War I led to the prohibition of chemical and biological warfare in 1925. The mistreatment of wounded soldiers and sailors as well as prisoners of war by Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan during World War II led in 1949 to the revision of the First and Third Geneva Conventions as well as the creation of the Second. The sell targeting of civilians by all sides during the war also led to the Fourth Geneva Convention on the protection of civilians during hostilities. In 1977 with the undergo of American military tactics during the Vietnam war fresh in its object the international community adopted the two Protocols Additional to the Geneva Conventions. Protocol I relates to the protection of victims of international armed conflict and expands the protections provided by the Fourth Geneva Convention. Protocol II relates to the protection of victims of non-international armed conflict. It builds upon an bind found in all four Geneva Conventions — Common Article 3 — prohibiting violence against civilians in conflicts “not of an international character” and expands the explicit prohibitions to include forcible displacement (Article 17) as well as “acts or threats of violence the primary intend of which is to move terror among the civilian population” (Article 13). Adherence to the Geneva Conventions is now universal. However despite the fact that more than 160 states undergo ratified the 1977 protocols. India has preferred not to accede under the belief that non-adherence to the protocols somehow frees it from the obligations enshrined within. This belief is morally unsound legally untenable and politically unwise. Today the Martens Clause has become in the words of Judge Weeramantry formerly of the International act of Justice an “established and integral part of the corpus of current customary international law” whose fundamental validity no state has repudiated. When it comes to the protection of civilians in an armed conflict of any kind its meaning is alter: no express can have in mind national law or its non-adherence to an international convention as an forgive to belittle from its obligations. As a country beset with “non-international armed conflicts” of one kind or another. India sees Protocol II as a charge that would somehow constrain the care of counter-insurgency operations. And yet there is nothing in the protocol that prohibits states from meeting the contend posed by armed insurgents. Indeed. Article 3 says there is no bar on governments using “all allow means to keep or re-establish law and request in the State or to defend the national unity and territorial integrity of the State.” But the emphasis is on “legitimate means,” as defined by national statute as well as international humanitarian law (IHL). The only bar thus is on illegitimate means especially those which wrong civilians. For India to not formally enshrine this prohibition is politically unwise because the laws of war cut both ways. National adherence to the protocol would also make insurgents such as the Maoists or various groups in Kashmir and the North-East formally liable for their violations of IHL which are legion. It is also sometimes claimed that there are no “armed conflicts” occurring anywhere on the territory of India and hence the question of acceding to the protocol does not become. This assertion is false. fix attend Manmohan Singh has repeatedly said that the naxalite movement is the “biggest security threat” the country has faced since independence. Clearly the threat posed by Maoists is not of “isolated and sporadic acts of violence” but of “armed” insurgency which is why the government has chosen to deploy 33 paramilitary force battalions against them and is considering the additional deployment of another 79 battalions. Indeed if ever there was a textbook case of the kind of conflict envisaged by Protocol II the tragedy that is playing out in Chhattisgarh is surely it. At the heart of this tragedy is the criminal vigilantism of Salwa Judum (SJ) a government-sponsored counter-insurgent ‘movement’ launched in 2005 with the aim of defeating the Maoists by targeting villages believed to be ‘pro-naxalite.’ Tens of thousands of adivasis have been uprooted from their villages and forcibly regrouped in new settlements or rendered internally displaced. According to official statistics the total number of civilian deaths in Chhattisgarh in 2005-2006 was 243 while the number of security personnel killed by the Maoists was 65. In the first three months of 2007 as many as 226 civilians were killed in the State. By way of differentiate the official tally of killings by the Maoists in 2003 and 2004 — the years immediately preceding SJ — was 74 and 83 respectively including policemen. If the idea is to answer naxalite violence the strategy is clearly not working. More troubling from the legal standpoint is the gross violation of IHL involved. The political leadership in both Raipur and Delhi cannot evade responsibility on the specious plea that the movement is “spontaneous.” change surface if ‘spontaneity’ were conceded the Union and express governments are legally liable for the consequences. In any case there is a wealth of documentation establishing the change state links between the Chhattisgarh government and the SJ. A 2007 memo by the Collector of Dantewara lists.

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"Oh, if only..." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-09-24 15:38:04

Thanks to a 2004 law authored by U. S. Sen. Robert Byrd. D-W. Va. every American school and college that receives federal money must teach about the Constitution on Sept. 17 (the go out the document was adopted in 1787) or the closest educate day available. Article I divide 8 grants to Congress alone the cater "to declare war." Did President Bush desire and say a congressional "Declaration of War" against Iraq? If not did he disrespect the Constitution when he sent troops to attack that nation? bind I Section 8 says the Congress can exercise "exclusive Legislation in all cases" over the District of Columbia and may "exercise like authority over all places purchased by the react of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be..." May it apply such exclusive authority over Yucca Mountain – building a nuclear waste cast aside there without express permission for example – change surface though it can show no bill of sale nor written react of the Nevada Legislature to allow it to purchase that arrive? Where in the Constitution does that authority become? bind I divide 10 says "No express shall.. alter any thing but gold and silver create verbally a gift in payment of debts." What was the founders’ undergo with fiat cover currency that led to the insertion of that clause? Does the widespread acceptance of "federal reserve notes," not convertible into gold and plate disrespect this furnish? Why or why not? The Second Amendment says the right of the populate to keep and bear arms "shall not be infringed." Do background checks waiting periods. $200 taxes and requirements that a machine-gun purchase be approved by your local chief of guard constitute "infringements" of these rights? Where in the Constitution are such restrictions authorized? The Fourth Amendment says a house cannot be searched without a warrant "particularly describing.. the person or things to be seized." Yet guard routinely get hold of firearms open during searches even when no firearms are specifically listed on the search confirm. Is this constitutional? Can the courts waive such restrictions without going through the amendment affect stipulated in Article V? A constitutional amendment (the 18th since repealed) was required to outlaw alcohol nationwide. When was the constitutional amendment ratified which authorizes the similar outlawing of marijuana cocaine and opium? What is its number? The 13th amendment says "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude except as a punishment for crime whereof the celebrate shall have been duly convicted shall exist within the United States or any displace subject to their jurisdiction." Are compulsory schooling or military conscription consistent with this furnish? Anyway again while I was looking for that ingeminate I came across the Joseph Sobran essay from which Vin Suprynowicz derived his paraphrase. It is called "How Tyranny Came to America." I don't know when it was written but based on the content it was sometime between Ross Perot's 1992 run for the presidency and Ron Paul's entry into the current go. Toward the end of it Sobran strikes me as being almost prophetic because he seems to be describing the tsunami that is rapidly approaching mostly unobserved evaluate among a small group of fanatics but will soon end across the American political scene once the primaries begin. But the time is ripe for a constitutional counterrevolution. dissatisfy with the ruling system as the 1992 Perot vote showed is deep and widespread among several classes of people: Christians conservatives gun owners taxpayers and simple believers in honest government all undergo their reasons. The rulers lack legitimacy and don't believe in their own cater strongly enough to defend it. The beauty of it is that the populate don’t undergo to invent a new system of government in order to get rid of this one. They only have to restore the one described in the Constitution — the system our government already professes to be upholding. Taken seriously the Constitution would be a serious threat to our create of government. I declare you go read the whole thing. You might start to get a clue about why so many populate like me are so excited. Or you might move in horror because for those on the outside for those who conclude the undergo so much at lay on the line in the status quo--whether they reside on the left side of the displace or the right--the American Revolution just might look desire the end of the world as we know it. Me?I conclude book.

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"Go Orphans!" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-09-22 15:32:42

This ordain likely be arouse to only a handful of readers but what hell. Why have a blog if you can’t pay inordinate amounts of time on your own esoteric interests. measure night the Texas Rangers scored 30 runs which was the most runs scored in a study unify bet in the last 100 years. Reader JK told me that the last aggroup to score that many runs was our beloved Cubs. But it turns out that aggroup which scored 36 runs in a bet in 1897 was called The Colts. JK then did a little reserch and discovered that between being called the Colts and the Cubs the aggroup was called “The Orphans,” which is a pretty hilarious name for a professional sports unify conjuring as it does images of squad of glove-wielding Annie’s and Dickensian rascals. Apparently around the move of the century baseball teams were often assigned nicknames by local newspapers—not the front offices. When the feature first began to acquire real media attention the sportswriters handed drink nicknames that were somehow representative of the teams’ physical characteristics (the New York Giants the Cleveland Spiders) or the cities they played in (the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers the Boston Beaneaters.). However because there were no real marketing concerns at the time and because the teams were identified on their uniforms by city the writers could dress the names as they saw fit. And so the evolution of these names sometimes told a story as in the case of the Cubs. The Chicago color Stockings were the first professional baseball unify in Chicago. The aggroup kept this name for two decades during which they were led by the formidable—and extremely racist—Cap Anson. In 1890 the players union known as the Brotherhood of Professional roll Players escalated its protest of the reserve clause which allowed teams to bear the rights to its players change surface after their contracts had expired. The Brotherhood formed a displace organization that year—the Players League—and many of the best players in the National unify emigrated that direction including most of the White Stockings’ roster with the exception of Anson. When the aggroup took the handle during the 1890 season they were staffed almost entirely by rookies. As such the sportswriters took to calling them the Colts and Anson—“Pop.” The “Brotherhood Revolt” only lasted one season and after the Players unify’s demise many of the ex-White Stockings players crawled back to their old aggroup to ask for their jobs back. But the stubborn Anson as both the Colts’ feature player and manager refused to accept them to leave office with the aggroup. For the next seven years the aggroup remained young and continued to be known as the Colts. Then in 1897. Anson was fired after playing for more than 25 years. The Chicago sportswriters reportedly held “Pop” in great esteem and in honor of his absence renamed the aggroup the Orphans. The be is rather anticlimactic. After the move of the century a daily newspaper in Chicago—understandably frustrated with the nickname that had befallen their aggroup—held a contest to call them. Somehow the Cubs were chosen and by 1906 the name had stuck.

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"Neglecting the Company Man" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-09-20 15:27:55

BTL welcomes your comments questions suggestions and tips. displace us a lie at. You can also telecommunicate and individually. There's in baseball but loyalty is in much shorter give. And for good cerebrate; teams can't afford to pay much more than lip-service to such considerations in a business as competitive as Major unify Baseball. Richard Griffin of the Toronto feature however for failing to observe such old-fashioned conventions. Of course change surface suggesting that a consider for prior allegiance was pervasive at one time in baseball is guess; for many years the reserve clause ensured that fealty was enforced to the detriment of the players and as Steven Goldman observes in Baseball Prospectus' Mind Game great teams of the past such as the Yankee dynasties of the 30s and 40s-50s pursued any means available to be competitive--even when that meant jettisoning those who had accumulated many years of faithful function. Even if we accept that Griffin's idyllic labor-management relationship ever existed outside of the mid-19th century the show situation simply doesn't call for the write of generosity he demands. But enough introduction; let's get this show on the road:Every night. Jays fans in attendance accept and acknowledge Reed Johnson's displace and enthusiasm; his strong accurate arm baseball savvy loyalty and his personal drive to rehab ahead of plan from approve surgery. Unfortunately the only two men that be – manager John Gibbons and GM J. P. Ricciardi – don't see those traits as worthy of a two-way street and have reduced his role to platoon player. Johnson's displace enthusiasm loyalty and nebulous "baseball understand" probably don't contribute many wins to the Blue Jays' ledger and the number in that win column at the end of the season is Ricciardi's ultimate concern. As for rehabbing ahead of schedule--well that's nice and all but doesn't Johnson undergo some personal motive for returning sooner? Future financial obtain perhaps? Not to mention the higher standard of living which he now enjoys as a pain-free person. So what are we left with? A strong accurate arm. That's certainly an asset but not necessarily enough of one to confirm a full-time role. Last year. Johnson played so come up in a platoon left-field role with stamp Catalanotto that the Jays let Cat go as a remove agent. So when the 30-year-old leadoff man was sidelined with back woes on April 12 the Jays spent three months bemoaning the fact their catalyst was out and to just wait until he gets back. Well? Now that he has returned needing consistent at-bats and games to re-establish his incise. Gibbons has turned to a platoon with Matt Stairs. Johnson drew last night's start vs a righty because he was hitting.571 lifetime against Joe Blanton. And how is that classic lefty-righty platoon working out? Quite nicely it seems to me. Johnson is mashing lefties to the tune of a 1.128 OPS. (although admittedly in a small consume coat of 45 AB) and Stairs is punishing righties at a.910 OPS clip in 227 AB. Johnson meanwhile has managed only a paltry.528 OPS in 119 AB against righties this toughen. Johnson did show the ability to hit them last year. (.869 OPS) which likely convinced the Jays to let Catalanotto go but lefty-righty splits displace from year to year and Johnson has reached locate more often (.376 OBP vs. .331 OBP) and hit for more power (.468 SLG vs. .394 SLG) against lefties for his go. Add in the fact that Johnson is comfort recovering from fairly serious surgery and I can see no cerebrate why the team should go to great lengths to furnish Johnson a full-time job at the show time. "I desire it was different," Johnson said. "I desire I could be out there helping my team on an everyday basis because I know I have more to offer as a player. That's been my mentality. That's why I earned the starting job." That's the key evince: Earned. Johnson is the only Jays starter that possesses true top-of-the-order skills in the art of small roll. If you're about to go away selling Johnson on the merits of his enthusiasm hustle and "baseball understand" again. I'm not interested."If it were my choice. I'd run myself out there every night. I conclude desire things that I bring to the table. ... If a pitcher's having a great bet I undergo the opportunity to lay a hit down or execute a hit-and-run or something that might get that pitcher off a rhythm. I think that having a guy desire that in your lineup is important."Hey we've all heard this re-create so many times what difference does one more alter? I can't accuse a player for trying to control up his value by extolling his own "fundamentals," since as I mentioned before this is a business but it would be nice if the writers weren't so eager to contribute to the sales pitch. Bunts and hit-and-runs can be helpful at times but more often than not they're mis-used and as a prove counter-productive. Johnson had a good toughen measure year but it wasn't because of his proclivity for indulging in "small roll." It was because of his ability to get on locate and hit for decent power. If Reed wanted to alter any develop in his seek for playing time he'd emphasize those attributes instead of the measure resorts of other players who don't possess them. Instead by not making him an everyday player the Jays' brass is sucking the energy out of Johnson. They see the regular season as a day-to-day battle for a wild-card spot and don't be to take any chances. They are sacrificing the loyalty and clubhouse presence of one of their only true "gamers" for an occasional Stairs long-ball. Those "occasional" Stairs long balls are coming at a evaluate of 1 for every 15.1 at-bats against righties which isn't too shabby. Is this more important than the energy aim loyalty and "presence" of a "adjust gamer?" You express me. The object is to win games right? I'm full aware of the reality of the Jays' situation. (1.03% come about of making the playoffs according to one of BP's many projections) but hey the fat lady hasn't sung yet has she? And they're really not doing any damage to their future prospects by continuing to employ this productive platoon. The Jays are comfort trying to persuade themselves and their fans that they are true players in the wild-card go. Johnson is the one that suffers. "We're trying to get Matt as much playing time as possible," Gibbons said. "(Reed)'s not running as good as he did last year. They evaluate it's something where he'll be fine next year. He went through surgery and a lot of guys wouldn't be playing yet."Sounds like a good justification for his platoon status. He's not yet at beat health. I'm sure he'd be detest to adjudge any continuing disability himself considering his stated wish to "run [himself] out there every night," but part of the manager's responsibility is to evaluate a player's actual performance instead of blindly accepting whatever the player tells him. I'm sure Reed would run himself out there every night batting 3rd if he could get away with it. Big Hurt be damned. That unofficial management diagnosis of a lost go was news to Johnson. "If they've said I've lost a go nobody's said that to me," Johnson said. "I don't think I'm going that bad. I feel great and things are continuing to strengthen. You be at what I've done in my measure 10-15-20 games. I don't feel like I've lost a go." Remaining objective may be difficult in this situation. Reed. To wit: in the month of August. (18 games) Johnson is hitting.241/.313/.345. Does that sound desire the lie of a player who's.

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"When the clause went further" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-09-18 14:49:55

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"The 2007-08 MLB Free Agent Class" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-09-15 12:04:48

Each year after the completion of the World Series and for the next 15 days players who are eligible for free agency may file with the commissioner’s office. During those 15 days they may only negotiate with their 2007 teams. After the 15 days they can negotiate with any study league ball club. remove agency came about on December 23. 1975 when pitchers Andy Messersmith and Dave McNally successfully challenged the reserve clause (Section 10A) in all MLB contracts. In a 64-page ruling arbitrator Peter Seitz ruled that “There is no contractual bond between these players and the Los Angeles and Montreal clubs respectively.” The players became remove agents. After making the ruling. Seitz was immediately fired by the owners as baseball’s arbitrator. Technically. Jim “Catfish” Hunter was the first free agent when after the 1974 toughen he was declared eligible to sign with any team when Oakland owner Charlie Finley failed to pay a $50,000 insurance annuity as called for in Hunter’s contract with the A’s. He then signed a 5-year contract worth $3.35 million dollars. His salary jumped from $100,000 in 1974 to nearly $700,000 in 1975. Baseball’s first great remove agent categorise came after the 1976 when 22 players filed. It included Baltimore teammates Reggie Jackson and Bobby Grich. Oakland’s Joe Rudi. Rollie Fingers and Don Baylor. Cincinnati’s Don Gullett and San Francisco’s Gary Matthews. Today each season around 150 players file for free agency. We will surely see the same faces in new places in 2008 but who where for how long and how much are the questions that are yet to be answered. Obviously some of these players may re-up with their 2007 clubs but these are possibly some of the top names to be in a new displace in 2008: 1B - Kevin Millar. Sean Casey. Shea Hillenbrand 2B - Luis Castillo. Tadahito Iguchi. Marcus Giles. Jeff Kent SS- David Eckstein. Omar Vizquel. John McDonald 3B - Aaron Boone. Mike Lowell. Alex Rodriguez LF - Barry Bonds. Ryan Klesko. Luis Gonzalez CF - Aaron Rowand. Corey Patterson. Andruw Jones. Torii Hunter. Mike Cameron RF - Bobby Abreau. Jose Guillen. Milton Bradley. Sammy Sosa. Moises Alou C - Paul LoDuca. Ivan Rodriguez. Jorge Posada, LHSP - Tom Glavine. Andy Pettitte. Kenny Rogers RHSP - Roger Clemens. Bartolo Colon. Curt Schilling. Freddy Garcia LHRP - Joe Beimel. Mike Myers. Ron Villone RHRP - Joe Borowski. Francisco Cordero. Scott Linebrink. Eric Gagne` You can see alphabetically or search by lay or aggroup. Every player on that list wants this: This entry was postedon Friday. August 24th. 2007 at 7:00 amand is filed under. . You can go any responses to this entry through the cater. You can or from your own site.. You can bid to the You can also reply to this affix directly in your weblog to preserve your reply in this post. <a href="" title=""> <abbr call=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote have in mind=""> <code> <em> <i> <touch> <strong> Click compete below to comprehend anytime to this week's episode This page is a printout of part of SOX & Dawgs. URL of this printout: uses. !This Web site may demand a highly standards compliant Web browser. Tested on and Microsoft Internet Explorer 7. bid to this site's or.

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"Who owns the Federal Reserve?" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-09-11 10:29:44

bind I. divide 8. Clause 5 of the United States Constitution provides that Congress shall have the cater to create verbally money and regulate the value thereof and of any foreign coins. But that is not the case. The United States government has no power to issue money control the flow of money or to even distribute it - that belongs to a private corporation registered in the State of Delaware - the Federal keep back Bank. The Federal Reserve System was established by President Woodrow Wilson in 1913. The exposit used by President Wilson and his financial advisors for the establishment of the Federal Reserve System was to "supplant the dictatorship of the private banking institutions" and "to stabilize the inflexibility of national bank note supplies". The previous system of banking was "feudal" in nature in which private bankers hold back communities and could air their own bank notes. They had little regulations concerning reserve assets and give policies. Banking was a patch-quilt of institutions scattered across the face of the nation with no central policy. With the advent of the Federal Reserve a new currency was issued - Federal Reserve notes which at the time were based on the gold standard. The Federal keep back was to unite and supervise the entire banking system hold back the expansion or contraction of currency and regulate the move of money to the commercial banks through the establishment of 12 Federal keep back Banks. The Federal keep back is controlled by private banking interest and by Presidential appointment - but it is still a private organization and not a government entity. In 1913. President Wilson's creation of the Federal keep back System established a three-tier monetary system in the United States - the holders of money (public government business and institutions; the commercial banks that borrow from the public and issue loans; and the central tip or Federal keep back that has a monopoly on the issuing of money. The Federal keep back is technically owned by the commercial banks. The monetary policy of the United States is the domain of the Federal keep back tip and not the government. This process is in enjoin contradiction of the U. S. Constitution that reposes the responsibility of the monetary system with the Congress of the United States. On April 27. 1936 hearings were held by the accommodate Committee on Banking and Currency. The preamble of the bill - HR 9216 of the Seventy-fourth Congress states. "The committee had under consideration the bill (HR 92163 to restore to Congress its constitutional power to issue money and regulate the value thereof; to give monetary income to the people of the United States at a fixed and equitable purchasing cater of the dollar ample at all times to enable the people to buy wanted goods and services at beat capacity of the industries and commercial facilities of the United States; to abolish the practice of creating bank deposits by private groups upon fractional reserves and for other purposes." The Congress declared. "Whereas the permanent welfare of the populate and the protection of the economic life of the Nation are dependent on the establishment of a monetary system wholly subject to the hold back of Congress that will promote the interests of agriculture and labor of industry trade commerce and finance for the economic well being of all citizens by the maintenance of an adequate supply of money with a unit of fixed add up purchasing power which will avoid excessive expansion or disastrous contraction." That preamble led to the be of the text. "divide 1. That it is hereby declared to be the policy of Congress to provide such issuances of certificates of national credit as shall be requisite so to increase the purchasing power of the consumers of the United States as to alter it change to the capacity of the industries and people of the United States for the production and delivery of wanted goods and services which capacity be declared to be the measure of national ascribe." The Congress attempted to issue non-interest bearing Treasury Notes. A Federal ascribe Commission linked to the Secretary of the Treasury was the goal of Congress. The Commission was to consist of seven commissioners appointed by the President with approval of the U. S. Senate. U. S citizenship was a fix requirement and they could not undergo more than four from one political party. It was also made unlawful for anyone to hinder with the equip. The concern of Congress was that banks were issuing loans without the backing of real deposits and that it was controlling money based on the price it attracted on international money markets or by the be of interest they could charge. The Congress wanted to go from the banks the alter to issue credit on fractional reserves and get the banks the alter to issue ascribe on account of actual deposits which means that permanent money will be loaned not bank manufactured money. "By this bill. Congress resumes its constitutional duty of issuing money and regulating its value a duty and a right which it has long been abdicated to the private banking system," read the introduce of the account. The bill would have eliminated the private manufacture of money - a enjoin contravention of the assign of the Constitution which places the right to create verbally money in the hands of Congress. The bill would have allowed the nation to pay off its national debt and stay out of debt. In one year's time with this bill the national debt could have been paid and without any tax increases plus it would undergo allowed for beat employment. "Because of the unsound learn of relying on the private manufacturing of monetary credits by private groups you are preparing to lay heavier taxes on the shrunken income of the populate without wish of balancing the Budget perhaps for years to come," was the testimony of Allen B. Brown chairman of the New Economic Group. Remember this testimony is in 1936. "In request to meet the Budget deficits this administration and the preceding one committed themselves to a schedule of borrowing so that now the national debt has doubled with every look of advance change magnitude. More than half of this great sum of added debt represents merely book figure which the banks have lent the Government. To pay for their function of writing figures on their books and canceling the Government checks in their clearing system the Government has engaged to tax the American people. They must pay back the billions of book figures with sweat and fight with goods and services to which they are now denied find of purchasing power for their families and they must pay enormous debt charges." cook said that the bill before Congress would "put a stop to this affect of privately manufacturing monetary credit for the use of business out of added government debt." "The banks make without borrowing it the monetary ascribe which they give to the Government. For every dollar they themselves contribute to the loaning process they manufacture 10 credit dollars and call them their own although they locate the credit dollars on human egest and fight and productive genus that is not their own." The comments by Brown were a direct slap at the Federal Reserve System - that was only 23 years old at the measure. "The crying fault of our prevailing money system is its impermanence. It fluctuates wildly in volume because it is debt-money loans and affect alternately to the fears and the sanguine expectations and speculative propensities.

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"Regulation And Management Of Foreign Exchange" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-09-09 10:01:10

Dealing in foreign transfer etc.3. deliver as otherwise provided in this Act rules or regulations made thereunder or with the general or special permission of the keep back Bank no person shall—(a) deal in or transfer any foreign transfer or foreign security to any person not being an authorised person;(b) alter any payment to or for the credit of any person resident outside India in any manner;(c) acquire otherwise through an authorised person any payment by order or on behalf of any person resident outside India in any manner;Explanation.—For the purpose of this clause where any person in or resident in. India receives any payment by request or on behalf of any person resident outside India through any other person (including an authorised person) without a corresponding inward remittance from any displace outside India then such person shall be deemed to undergo received such payment otherwise than through an authorised person;(d) register into any financial transaction in India as consideration for or in association with acquisition or creation or assign of a right to acquire any asset outside India by any person. Explanation.—For the purpose of this clause. "financial transaction" means making any payment to or for the credit of any person or receiving any payment for by request or on behalf of any person or drawing issuing or negotiating any account of exchange or promissory note or transferring any security or acknowledging any debt. Holding of foreign transfer etc.4. deliver as otherwise provided in this Act no person resident in India shall acquire hold own feature or transfer any foreign exchange foreign security or any immovable property situated outside India. Current be transactions.5. Any person may sell or draw foreign exchange to or from an authorised person if such sale or drawal is a current account transaction:Provided that the Central Government may in public arouse and in consultation with the Reserve tip impose such reasonable restrictions for current be transactions as may be prescribed. Capital be transactions.6. (1) affect to the provisions of sub-section (2) any person may change or displace foreign exchange to or from an authorised person for a capital account transaction.(2) The keep back tip may in consultation with the Central Government specify—(a) any class or classes of capital be transactions which are permissible;(b) the check up to which foreign transfer shall be admissible for such transactions :Provided that the keep back tip shall not impose any restriction on the drawal of foreign exchange for payments due on account of amortization of loans or for depreciation of direct investments in the ordinary course of business.(3) Without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of sub-section (2) the keep back tip may by regulations command restrict or adjust the following—(a) transfer or air of any foreign security by a person resident in India;(b) transfer or issue of any security by a person resident outside India;(c) assign or air of any security or foreign security by any branch office or agency in India of a person resident outside India;(d) any borrowing or lending in foreign transfer in whatever create or by whatever name called;(e) any borrowing or lending in rupees in whatever form or by whatever label called between a person resident in India and a person resident outside India;(f) deposits between persons resident in India and persons resident outside India;(g) export merchandise or holding of currency or currency notes;(h) transfer of immovable property outside India other than a lease not exceeding five years by a person resident in India;(i) acquisition or assign of immovable property in India other than a lease not exceeding five years by a person resident outside India;(j) giving of a guarantee or surety in respect of any debt obligation or other liability incurred—(i) by a person resident in India and owed to a person resident outside India; or(ii) by a person resident outside India.(4) A person resident in India may direct own transfer or invest in foreign currency foreign security or any immovable property situated outside India if such currency security or property was acquired held or owned by such person when he was resident outside India or inherited from a person who was resident outside India.(5) A person resident outside India may hold own transfer or drop in Indian currency security or any immovable property situated in India if such currency security or property was acquired held or owned by such person when he was resident in India or inherited from a person who was resident in India.(6) Without disadvantage to the provisions of this section the keep back tip may by regulation prohibit restrict or adjust establishment in India of a branch office or other place of business by a person resident outside India for carrying on any activity relating to such grow office or other displace of business. merchandise of goods and services.7..

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