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The Last Airbender
- Studio: Paramount Pictures
- Release Date: Jul 1, 2010
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He hasn't mastered the craft yet, but M. Night Shyamalan may be on to something with this action-movie thing.
Completely harmless and inoffensive, and at the very least, Shyamalan appears to be having a little fun here.
The movie is "Star Wars" with martial arts, plus a touch of "The Last Emperor." Technically, it's not badly done; I enjoyed the physical clash of elements, the water balls rising like sculpture in the air.
Unfortunately, this all proceeds at a supersonic tempo, with Shyamalan's directorial finger stuck on the fast-forward button. Significant plot points whiz by in this movie equivalent of speed-dating.
The story is a much more serious problem, a run-on, overstuffed narrative that feels like a very long prologue for a climax that never comes.
The problems begin with Shyamalan's script, which is an orgy of exposition. The characters explain and explain and explain some more, points driven home with the subtlety of a jackhammer.
Airbender, whether intentionally or not, is pegged almost exclusively to a small-fry state of mind.
With a surprising lack of verve, humor, and narrative tension, Shyamalan's live-action foundation film is unlikely to woo new fans to the tale.
Only "Slumdog Millionaire's" Dev Patel, as the bastard prince of the villainous Fire nation, truly gets jiggy with the fantasy. Everyone else stares off into green-screen space and waits for lunch to be called.
Far from the catastrophe the US bewailed, but still disappointingly clunky. Notch it between Eragon (below) and Dragonslayer (above) on a sliding scale of fantasy filmmaking.
The Last Airbender (they couldn't use the series' "Avatar" title because another film got there first, without all the bending) is more about marshaling extras and interpolating tons of computer-generated effects and keeping the factions straight. It's a tough sit.
A toxic potion that will put children to sleep and kill his (M. Night Shyamalan) career.
It's a little bit Tolkien, a little bit Lucas, a little bit "Matrix," a little bit "Dune" and rather too much Philip Pullman, all stuck together with some powerfully expensive effects and lots of cute kids doing tai chi.
While the special effects are impressive enough, M. Night Shyamalan's film doesn't make a lick of sense.
Even during the climax, the film still is struggling to introduce the world of the film and its strange rules.
Shyamalan takes the beloved Nickelodeon anime series -- the full title was Avatar: The Last Airbender -- and turns it into 103 minutes of overproduced, stilted nonsense.
The Last Airbender is an insult to anyone with a triple-digit I.Q. and a willingness to use it inside the confines of a movie theater. This is bad filmmaking and bad storytelling. It also sounds what should be the death knell to M. Night Shyamalan's career.
Playing a hero who's meant to be something akin to the young Dalai Lama, Ringer brings less than zero gravitas to the role. He makes the kid who plays Gibby on "iCarly" look like Sir Laurence Olivier.
The Last Airbender is like a Care Bears movie that got waylaid in the fourth dimension. It's insufferably silly.
The Last Airbender' is dreadful, an incomprehensible fantasy-action epic that makes the 2007 film "The Golden Compass,'' a similarly botched adaptation of a beloved property from another medium, look like a four-star classic.
This colossal folly, the fiasco of the summer of 2010 - gives us all a ringside seat at the sight of Mr. "I See Dead People's" career gurgling down the drain.
This is all enormously disappointing, of course, since the best we could hope for from a live-action "Avatar" adaptation is the mind-blowing equivalent of our first encounters with wire-fu, rather than this cartoony nonsense.
The problem -- the catastrophe -- of The Last Airbender is not in the conception but the execution. The long-winded explanations and clumsy performances are made worse by graceless effects and a last-minute 3-D conversion that wrecks whatever visual grace or beauty might have been there.
The current national priorities should be as follows: reduce carbon emissions and stop funding the films of M. Night Shyamalan.
Unfortunately, its positive attributes are thrown out of balance by its abundant negatives - including chintzy effects, lumbering storytelling and an overstylized, earnest incompetence that evokes "Speed Racer."
The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented.
This is one muddled attempt at franchise making: confusing, drab, sluggish. (Ugly, too, if you're forced to see it in 3-D.)
The Last Airbender makes the cartoon version with its ratchet-jawed characters and clunky animation seem like a Pixar classic.
The filmmaker has delivered yet another iteration of what has become a classic M. Night Shyamalan film, only much bigger than before, and, as a consequence, mind-bendingly turgid.
A dull, boring, poorly acted, limply written and thoroughly unappealing fantasy, featuring bland characters locked in a struggle of no interest.
If M. Night Shyamalan sold his soul to the devil for the success of "The Sixth Sense," I think His Satanic Majesty has finally collected in full with The Last Airbender.
The Last Airbender isn't that much different from the rest of this summer's generally dire multiplex fare-from "The A-Team" to "Jonah Hex"... But it is remarkable in one respect: It's the worst of them.
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Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 727 Ratings
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Positive: 65 out of 328
Mixed: 28 out of 328
Negative: 235 out of 328
Oct 16, 2011"The Last Airbender", a movie based on the famous TV series for kids, is just simply terrible. The story doesn't make any sense and is chopped"The Last Airbender", a movie based on the famous TV series for kids, is just simply terrible. The story doesn't make any sense and is chopped into crude pieces. The acting and special effects are terribly illustrated like coloring black ink over a well-done portrait of someone. Man, all I can conclude is RAZZIE BUZZ!!… Full Review »
Oct 9, 2010"Last Airbender was such a rushed messed , it goes to quickly tho the action scenes were pretty neat , it could not save , these terrible"Last Airbender was such a rushed messed , it goes to quickly tho the action scenes were pretty neat , it could not save , these terrible performances , Awful script , and Laughable Dialogue ,One of the worst films released this year" .. F… Full Review »
Aug 21, 2010as a fan of the series i can say that i enjoyed it and even if i didnt i still wouldnt say it was the worst movie ever because there are wayas a fan of the series i can say that i enjoyed it and even if i didnt i still wouldnt say it was the worst movie ever because there are way worse movies out there… Full Review »


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It took just 16 carries for El Paso native Aaron Jones to earn 177 yards, becoming the first Miners RB to break 1,000 yards in a season since Donald Buckram in 2009.
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jérémy roy or....as an opportunity to let other teams do the pacemaking...sky let slip a dog of war-ebh.
just heard phil say that the peloton was going 45 miles per hour. not a good year for the old fella. might need to be put out to pasture.
the guy can't go twenty minutes without making a mistake. seems to have gotten worse each year.
He might be doing it intentionally. They've got to do something to make this year's edition exciting. When you hear 45mph don't you want to take a look?
Now if we could just hear "Wiggens is on the side of the road yacking up his breakfast! The rest of the Sky team is stopped with him! Nibali and Evans are getting away! Froome now takes off in hot pursuit!"
That would be worth watching.
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Cavendish. Still a phenomenon. Nobody else in the picture.
Wow! That's your Olympic champion right there! That gave me goosebumps
Outstanding leadout started by wiggo. I tell you, I've been pulling for the "underdogs" all tour hoping someone dethrones the Sky Train, but I absolutely loved that finish by them.
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he tied the record. is anyone surprised he won?
Wow, what a finish!
For a moment, Sanches fancied himself a sprinter and thought he had the stage win locked-up, but he simply gave up when he saw how fast Cav passed him by. Cav took the heart right out of him! Geez, Cav started that sprint from 600 mtrs. out!
Outstanding ride for Cav and the whole field today...
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Cav was amazing. He flew past the leaders. Wiggo may have just redefined what it means to be the race champion and how he pays back his sprinter for sacrificing his goals for the team. Amazing race today.
The stage was surprisingly animated, and I was hoping for one more ex(?)-doper Vino to win the stage.
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Did anyone see Greipel go after the family whose dog got loose?
There was a little girl standing in front of the dog and she looked terrified by his actions.
Way to make fans for the sport.
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It's pretty dumb for him to say "I wanted to hit them", but I have no problem with his anger. You come to the freakin race with this massive dog, and can't control it when a living mass of humanity rushes by at 30 MPH, causing riders to wreck? You deserve all you get coming to you. If you actually ride a bike, what do you do when some idiot driver cuts you off, or worse, causes you to crash? "Oh, sorry sir, I'm sorry if I inconvenienced you by me getting hit by your car." That being said, that photo as a stand-alone item is not good pub. And, as usual, this photo will more than likely be seen out of context.
I don't know why it has to be said so many times....KEEP YOUR F---KING DOGS AWAY FROM A BIKE RACE!!!!!! There are enough dangers in the sport without dogs running loose, it drives me nuts!!!
Otherwise: Cav was amazing today, and bravo to Wiggins for an excellent pull during the final stretch. Sky has put together an fantastic team.
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DPR and Ken Rockwell are pleased to announce that they will be merging their sites now that actually holding and testing a camera are no longer necessary before writing about them. Gotta drive people to the site somehow. Why else would they leave this article on the front page if they weren't trying to stir the pot. Really inexcusable. Every camera and system has flaws or deficiencies in some way. So why do they choose to single this one out. The new site will be called the "DPR Enquirer". Before you start with the replies, please be advised that I'm ok with them stating this opinion. I'm having more issues with their journalistic approach vs the comments. I can't help but feel that they are leaving this article up just to get hits on the site.
Why have you got to test one before you can form an opinion of it? And they chose this camera because 1) it's a Nikon and a lot people get emotional and have interest in Nikon solutions and 2) very few people understand the Nikon strategy based on what they are seeing, not just the V3 either. The whole Nikon 1/CX platform.
So here's my opinion, because I have one (not a Nikon 1, but an opinion that is)
If the V3 was half the price (ie $500/600), I'd get it because it would make sense as an ocassional walk around/travel/second camera system. If the sensor was a DX and we could use existing Nikon lenses at their current lengths and it supported CLS, then I'd buy it at it's current price.
I just don't get who this camera is aimed for. It seems to me that unless you are a birder there are plenty of other systems out there that are better or less money or both.
I guess people are fustrated that Nikon don't give them what they want.
capanikon: I like it. I like the V1-style body. I like how a grip is option (ala Nikon FM2n or F3). I think Nikon is trying hard to satisfy too many people ... as an enthusiasts, this camera still has a ton of "noob" features such as tilt screen and touch screen and photo effects modes. I don't consider lack of EC dial to be a drawback but is instead a very positive thing!
Do you like the $1,200 price? And have you considered how many better camera systems you can get for much less money?
Welcome to the Nikon 1 V3 - Fast Everything, except fast moving off the shelves!
I'm stuck (happily!) with big investment in Nikon glass and system. If I'm going to buy a Fuji it's because I want a second, small, cheaper system with just a couple of lenses. As facinating as the X-T1 is, it doesn't fit my requirements at that cost. May be I'll buy one used in a couple of years when it'll be down at £500.
Scottelly: $650. That's $150 less than the D5300, and the D3300 comes with a lens. Nice work Nikon. Still . . . I wish you could make a camera that can compete on price against the Sony A65! The A65 is only $500 without a lens, and only $600 with a lens (cheaper than this slow camera). And the Sony A65 has built-in GPS and a fold-out screen, like the Nikon D5300. One more very important feature most of the Sony cameras have is built-in image stabilization (in the camera body), something that should be a serious consideration for people trying to choose what entry-level camera to buy. Frankly I'd say Sony wins for the entry level photographer who doesn't expect to spend a lot of money on lenses in the future. Sony offers a few good upgrade options too.
But if you want a Nikon, this is a really good starter camera that can be used to capture very sharp, high quality photos, I'm sure.
Sony has always brought out cheaper innovative bodies, so they can snare you with their overpriced, average lenses. It's a cheap trick and Sony is a wizard at it.
AdamT: Stunning camera and a fabulous move by nikon but the second tier AF doesn`t cut it for the money IMO ... I`d rather have seen the 24Mp sensortoo as its good enough at high ISOs and treads a good compromise between rez and high ISOs on FF .. a cam of this price really ought to have the proper AF system (which even the £800 D7100 has)
They should have brought out 2 cameras, let's call them Df a & b
Dfa - 16Mp FX sensor, 51 point autofocus, 2 SD card slot, 1/8000's and 1/250 sync $3,000
Dfb - 24Mp FX sensor, 39 point autofocus, 1 SD card slot, 1/4000's and 1/200 flash sync $1,800
Oh wait, they already have the Dfb is called a Nikon D610! Silly me.
So I guess the Df is just a D610 with the D4's sensor in a retro body with a load of feature stripped out.
If they had made the Dfa, I would have paid $3,000 for it for sure. Wouldn't have cost them much more either. In fact, I susptec they'd ahve increased their sales by about 25/30% based on those simple changes judging by comments all over the forums. Real shame. Sticking with my D700 for now then.
PeakAction: First I saw the price, and thought, "Hm. Well, maybe if it has the right features..." Then I saw that it had the D4 sensor, and that was good. Then, I read this part: "...the Df is a 16MP, full-frame DSLR with the sensor and processing guts of the company's flagship D4"
That's what I was waiting to hear. If this camera has the sensor AND the processing of the D4, then I'm happy to spend the money on it. As a professional photojournalist and commercial shooter, I currently have in my bag: Two D3's, a D800, and a D600. For all their more modern features, the D800 & D600 still can't match the high ISO perf (RAW or JPG) and general smoothness of my old D3's (when in JPG mode). If the Df has the brains of a D4, then I feel it's worth the money because no other body, save the D4 itself, can boast that. Naming convention aside, this is essentially the "new" D700 (which the D800 is not, having jumped several hurdles and gone chasing after the MF market), which shared its guts with the D3.
Get real, just cos you shoot a DSLR doesn't mean you have to shoot RAW
I was reading this in an article defending the camera "This isn't a camera to grow your business. This isn't your second or third wedding body. This isn't your do-it-all camera. This is the "grow yourself" camera. This is a gift to yourself for a job well done. This is a camera to remind you why you are a photographer"
Say, I'd love a camera for the sake of it, a nice little toy to play with, but I don't have $3k to grow myself. Neither has 99% of people who buy Nikon.
If I want to grow myself I'll stand in a bag of fertiliser, much cheaper.
I applaud Canon for having the guts to use an APS-C sensor in their mirrorless. I've been using Nikon for years and was appaled at their overpriced lump of sub micro 4/3's uselessness that they spewed onto the market with the launch of the Nikon 1. I still have yet to find a decent review of their product and even with the prices coming down have found no reason to purchase one. I'm not a 'pro' shooter, but I want a decent sensor, manual controls etc. I will NEVER invest in their CX format, but will remain loyal to Nikon for the DSLR's. Canon may have made a mistake by dumbing down their initial offering (it's hardly inspiring), but at least they have a good sensor and the right size to attract a decent audience. In my mind this is a great solution for those potential canon shooters who don't like the bulk of a DSLR but want optical performance and a system they can grow into. Nikon 1 users have no migration path at all. Stoopid.
Sdaniella: Looks like Sony has set the dinner buffet of sensor densities and Nikon has made its selections. Whilst Sony is chancing higher Mp for its higher APS-C model line and lower Mp for lower APS-C model line, Nikon has inverted it instead so lower models have higher Mp for lower APS-C model and maybe keep the lower Mp for its higher APS-C/FF models.
Sony Sensor Densities:
SLT-A57 = ~212.7 pixels/mm (lower APS-C model) = ~16.7Mp
NEX-5N = ~213.1 pixels/mm (lower APS-C model) = ~16.5Mp
NEX-7/SLT-A77 = ~259.7 pixels/mm (higher APS-C model) = ~24.7Mp
Nikon Sensor Densities (Inverted):
D3200 = ~262.8 pixels/mm (lower APS-C model) = ~24.7Mp
D7100* = ~206.7 pixels/mm (higher APS-C model) = ~15.7*Mp
D800 = ~206.7 pixels/mm (lower FF model) = ~36.8Mp
D4 = ~138.9 pixels/mm (higher FF model) = ~16.6Mp
*Based on the above Nikon sensor density inversions:
I would predict they will select for their upcoming D7100 (updated D7000) to be ~15.7Mp APS-C sensored and 15.4Mp effective (4800 x 3200 Image).
So you think the D7100 will have less pixels than D7000 and the D400 no increase at all? Ummmmm. I would hazard a guess that both D7100 and D400 (if indeed these models are produced, this year or at all) will have a minimum of 18mp and probably the same 24mp sensor with improved image processing pipeline offering higher ISO capability.
Lisa O: All DSLRs should have built in WiFi (especially the $3000 ones) at least the add on is only $60. But it looks weird sticking out the back. I like the Red one!
Wifi has different standards in different countreis, having it build it would increase production costs and create potential inventory/production issues.
magneto shot: well a sensor of 1" might be smaller than 4/3 but bear in mind that means the Image quality is better than any enthusiast compact u have seen including S95 and lx5.
1" is bigger than 1/1.8
When you start comparing the Nikon 1 to an S95 or LX5, Nikon has failed. no?
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Blackburn May Sign Henrik Larsson as New Manager: Soccer Roundup
The following is a roundup of soccer stories from U.K. newspapers, with clickable Internet links.
Larsson Coming?
Former Sweden international Henrik Larsson may take Steve Kean's place at Blackburn Rovers, the Daily Mail reported.
Kean resigned as Blackburn manager last month. The club has had its approach for Tim Sherwood, technical coordinator at Tottenham Hotspur, blocked by his present employer. Although the team also has Indian coach Judan Ali on its list, the owners would prefer a high-profile name to appease fans, the paper said.
Larsson's stint at Landskrona in Sweden - where he kept the second division club out of relegation on a tight budget - has impressed Blackburn's Indian owner Venky's.
Larsson, who won the Champions League with Barcelona in 2006, has told Landskrona he won't be staying on when the Swedish season ends next month.
Chasing Tavares?
Fulham manager Martin Jol is keen to sign Senegal midfielder and free agent Mickael Tavares, 29, after losing some of his key midfield players this season, the Sun reported.
Sunderland Target?
James McFadden, who was released by Everton this summer, may be signed by Sunderland after training with the squad, the Daily Mirror reported.
"We'll see how it goes, but he has done well and we'll talk," the paper quoted Sunderland manager Martin O'Neill as saying.
McFadden, 29, has played more than 150 Premier League matches and has represented Scotland 48 times.
Rio Out?
Rio Ferdinand may be left out of the England team for next week's World Cup qualifying matches against San Marino and Poland, the Daily Mail reported.
The paper cited Gary Neville, a coach with the England national team, as saying on U.K. television that the 33-year-old Manchester United player "has lost a yard of pace," but was "still quicker than Steve Bruce, Tony Adams and John Terry."


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Chart Of The Day: The Fed Now Owns One Third Of The Entire US Bond Market
The most important chart that nobody at the Fed seems to pay any attention to, and certainly none of the economists who urge the Fed to accelerate its monetization of Treasury paper, is shown below: it shows the Fed's total holdings of the entire bond market expressed in 10 Year equivalents (because as a reminder to the Krugmans and Bullards of the world a 3 Year is not the same as a 30 Year). As we, and the TBAC, have been pounding the table over the past year (here, here and here as a sample), the amount of securities that the Fed can absorb without crushing the liquidity in the "deepest" bond market in the world is rapidly declining, and specifically now that the Fed has refused to taper, it is absorbing over 0.3% of all Ten Year Equivalents, also known as "High Quality Collateral", from the private sector every week. The total number as per the most recent weekly update is now a whopping 33.18%, up from 32.85% the week before. Or, said otherwise, the Fed now owns a third of the entire US bond market.
At this pace, assuming Janet Yellen keeps delaying the taper again and again over fears of how "tighter" financial conditions would get, even as gross US bond issuance declines in line with the decline in deficit funding needs, the Fed will own just shy of half the entire bond market on December 31, 2014... and all of it some time in 2018.
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But the dummies on this site still like that bank's paper.
Soooooo, how do you exit a market when you are the market?
Ask Jamie Dimon. It's a bit expensive. Good thing the Fed can self-recapitalize or they might have a tough time of it.
That chart looks like China's gold holdings.
Yeah, but China can't print more gold. We can always print more Treasury debt.
The headline on the inter-office emails among the FOMC members reads a bit different. Goes something like this: "Fed still doesn't own 67% of all outstanding bonds."
Ones perception is ones reality.
This won't end well.
Anyone else think Bruno Iksil's IG9 episode was a kind of Gemini Project for the taper?
The deficit is expected to contract significantly over the next 18 months.
The further the Fed goes into USG the more everyone will prepare to short.
This simply means that the US Gov has not issued enough debt. This is an easily solvable problem.
Not to worry, the PBOC has a plan to change that shortage of US govt. debt.
Plenty of demand caused by not rolling debt over as it falls due.
How long until the 'market' catches on ?
In Rome, the Pope takes a swipe at trickle down economics...
"...In this context, some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naïve trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system. Meanwhile, the excluded are still waiting..."
Frankie, they are waiting in line at WallyWorld..
Trickle down economics does not work because by the time the money reaches the poor it has changed hands several times and the ensuing inflation neutralises the new purchasing power before it gets very far down the chain.
We need a red graph or i'm gonna declaire war.
Well, I just got a couple of gold fillings (really).
One of these days I will be worth more than a third of the bond market.
My rich fantasy life:
Selectively default on the third that is owned by da goberment. Justice sues Treasury. Then Treasury turns the IRS on each Justice appointee and employee. Invite Hulk Hogan to host the event. Buy popcorn and sit back and enjoy. Theater for everyone - drama, comedy, tragedy.
Exactly! +1
The first spend of newly created money is always the sweetest. Hence the popularity of the scam.
I can't believe MDB posted that comment. I'm completely flabberghasted! Did you just just get out of the Kool-Aid rehab. for Krugmanomic addiction?
Look more closely at the name: "MillionDollarBogus", NOT "MillionDollarBonus".
Take a closer look at that nick.
Thanks fellas. I was caught up in the "rational exuberance" of a down day in the markets.
I think everyone reading the comment did a double-take.
This Pope is a certifiable retard statist who wouldn't know a free market economy from a virgin, runs a empire worth billions of looted nazi gold and probably only job he ever had was trading Father Goodknob blow jobs for hersey bars.
But he does not read the Koran so he has got that going for him.
Indeed. Even though the deficit is decreasing, the liabilities and interest must still be funded and serviced. Good luck to a disfunctional CONgress in that effort when rates return to their historical averages. Will not happen, the Fed will buy 100%, then 150%, then 300% etc. etc.
Nothing changes until the supply line break in earnest. My guess is that by that time a family of four with a annual income of $500,000 will be eligible for SNAP. Go find a survivor of the great depression and let them know that a family of four with a $50,000 income is now eligible for SNAP. Math is a bitch, "this will not end well" is an understatement.
The cost of servicing the debt is the same as it was in 2006/2007 even though the national debt has ballooned from $8trillion to $17trillion.
When rates tick up, the deficit will gape forcing the Fed to continue QE.
The snake will eat its tail. And when people realise that the Fed has lost control it will all collapse.
Steady as she goes....
(productive physical assets, cash/coin, and a dependable tribe...)
WWIII is already underway, the shooting simply has not started yet.
Productive physical assets?
Times are tough.
They lost control years ago. Or rather, they passed the point of no return.
"no good deed goes unpunished." the Government must first blame itself for what happened in 2008 (monetize the debt, pray the dollar doesn't collapse, double top the commodity bubble and rake in the dough on the MBS's through Fannie and Fred...check) then raise taxes (check) then deny the benefit (check..so to speak.) As Clint Eastwood famously said "NOW we dance." yes...the spread is widening...close to the widest in US financial history actually...but the point of "effecting" that is for the spread to start paying for the Government...in my view. there's suppose to be a ton of inflation by my calculation(s) now...or at least a mild inflation that is containable at a certain level...yet interest rates never responded "rationally" to my thesis...while every other asset class sure did. So i took a flier after compounding 30% for four years..."in wonderment" i guess (or just plain curiosity.) Did the Fed disabuse me of my notion that "they really want that gap to be the widest ever"? Nope. In feel like the financial equivalent of "Worf" on Star Trek..."the Next Generation" this year. Just..."out of place" on the Bridge...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edflm7Hh3hs but still on the Bridge for some reason.
Show me one place where the deficit is decreasing? Just one.
The O'bummer's are taking fewer trips overseas
Forget the Fed buying for a minute. Who's selling and why?
They're selling because the Fed is clearly paying above (otherwise) market rates. That makes sense. So, the sellers aren't putting their money back into Treasuries. It's going into other asset classes. So, the Fed's action is really pumping the stock market. They way I see it, the Fed won't stop buying Treasuries until the insiders are well prepared to profit from their short positions in the secondary asset classes.
But the insiders will know exactly when that will happen or won't happen...so they get it going both ways. All the chatter from the Fed about considering to taper is just window dressing to keep the 99.9% thinking they're actually considering it, while the .01% continue to profit off their treasury liquidation and secondary asset class appreciations.
Who's selling and why?
United States Treasury Secretary, Jacob Joseph "Jack" Lew, the middle guy in this photo, is the one selling all those treasuries to The Fed, mostly because of deficit spending.
A Jew borrowing all of that money, from a bank controlled by other jews. I wonder what Jehovah thinks of this.
You shall not charge interest on loans to your brother, interest on money, interest on food, interest on anything that is lent for interest. You may charge a foreigner interest, but you may not charge your brother interest, that the Lord your God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes it's laws"
— Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild
Look out before they Francis Sawyer your ass - although they did give you the ability to post pictures, so maybe you are juiced in.
h_h, the entire argument between you and VD has been deleted apparently. Along with other choice comments from Bay of Pigs and others. Just a heads up.
That's easy! You clone your self, sell to the other you, repeat ad infinitum and ad nauseam
"At this pace, assuming Janet Yellen keeps delaying the taper"....
...forget the taper, what happens when she DOUBLES QE? FED owns ALL treasury market by 2015?
Actually, they only need to own 51% to effectively control the bond market. Their end game is much closer than most people realize.
If the fed increases qe...the up 15% open will be the top...it will be an epic reversal
which would essentially mean it no longer exists
"Soooooo, how do you exit a market when you are the market?"
It's like a financial version of "the stranger". Sit on your left hand until it goes numb, then have your right hand sell while your left hand buys.
It's just like you're selling to someone else!
And without "allowing" the rate to rise which kills off your exit strategy? Insanity, this will take 5 years to taper to stop the growth and then what??..Does the Fed hold to maturity?? I guess so. But without them sopping up everything no one else really wants, you have to create a crisis elsewhere so that these bonds look REALLY REALLY good and creates "flight to safety" to sop up demand
Nah, I'm off paper... I take pennies now and laser print the bitcoin emblem onto them. Shit is going to da moon, brah!
not that i know of... but i heard some fools are falling for even crazier scam, invisible coins.
Pretty much everything that exists is invisible. What is your point? That human's five senses are limited and so you should limit yourself to them?
i bet bitcoin creators are laughing their asses off when they read your comments :) the grin on their faces must be priceless. I mean to run a scam and transfer wealth and at the same time having victims adore, praise and idolize you, that must be the whole new level of thievery.
Actually my OP had nothing to do with Bitcoin. I was just mentioning the general observation that most stackers continue to drive up dollars, passively transact in dollars and are very much their own worst enemy.
Difference being stackers have something physical to show for it even in if the price is suppressed. You have some digits somewhere in a "wallet"(LOL), and maybe a dick in your hand whilst doing a circle jerk with spyker and a few other trolls.
you hang out here hitting refresh to be able to say "FIRST!"? Fascinating indeed, along with your fan club of two or three up arrows, one of which probably belongs to you.
How the fuck do you get the first comment on every thread lately?
fonestar = Tyler?
At what point do we switch from "It's flow that matters" to "it's stock that matters".
My guess is sometime ago.
If the supply is limited or fixed, you look at the stock. If it's not, you look at the flow.
Is the supply of freshly minted Treasuries (debt) limited? Depends how you answer that question which one you look at.
Me? I'm in the "don't worry, they'll make more of it" camp.
I'm lookin at stock my man. They are gaining control by the day. They will own it all soon enough. The more the own the more limited any hissy fit becomes.
Funny to note that all of the Fed's % increases are coming from domestic holders of Treasury debt...while foreign % holdings continue rising. Hmmm. In other words, Fed will eventually remove all domestically held Treasury holdings and replace with "risk" assets...
Domestic total Treasury holdings still bout what they were in '00...while Fed and Foreigners exploding...any hypothesis where this is going???
The fed will have full control of the monetary spigot and will eliminate the treasury bond market. That is where it is going.
I don't remember hearing that on the BlowHorn?
Fonz - I know that makes sense but the #'s are saying something different...what is happening is the Fed exchanging dollars for Treasury's w/ pensions, insurers, and the like domestic holders of Treasury debt while the Fed and "foreign" interests can't get enough...if the data is to be believed, then none of the Fed's buying is coming from foreigners and all that is happening is the entire removal of domestic Treasury holders...why??? Under what scenario does it make sense that the Fed and Foreigners buy up all Treasury debt and jointly (not Fed alone) own it outright??
agree, it is idiotic. It is not supposed to make sense, it's just a "kill the safe haven" and go long risk idea that was probably fed to the mouth of the Fed by the primary dealers.
It may have the opposite effect. While the paper value of risk assets has risen by some $5 trillion since QEver on the heels of only $1 trillion in bond purchases, when the flow reverses and the safe haven trade is bid (at some point it will) yields may fall to "recorder" lower levels.
The 30 yr yield touched 2.5% during the 2008 crisis. It touched 2.5% again in 2012 as operation twist was doing nothing to kill the safe haven trade (as QEs do). Absent QEver, where does it go?
Down. A lot.
Hambone here is the short answer. all this is being executed according to a grand design of buying all the bonds and then creating two entirely separate streams of money velocity. One for government and one for the financial system.
Fonz - if you mean they plan to "retire" all bond debt I kind of get it but I'm just curious what the holders are going to get in return for it??? Guess the Fed and foreign CB's will get some sort of golden parachute...
Hambone here is a longer answer from someone that I speak to that used to be on here and still should be.
"really what the Fed has achieved here is like when humans first discovered they could dam up rivers. The Fed has engineered the worlds economic dam with locks and everything. We all thought you could never a tame a river like the markets but the Fed has done it- its a perfect analogy: the primary dealers are the bricks in the dam wall and the hydroelectric mechanism inside the wall is their dividend machine, that little current generated as the water sluices through them at a pace the Fed decides (the 0.25% interest on every dollar printed and not allowed to be released into the economy, in perpetuity) is their reward for holding the line. And for the rest of us, we get exactly as much water as the Fed thinks we can handle without risking flooding, which so far so good as long as commodities rigging holds up, which is fine as long as OPEC is comfortable. The trick of course is to get your water from as close to the Dam as possible before everyone has a
chance to piss in it...
just to add:
Ham-bone is correct btw about buying up the domestic market while foreigners keep buying. That is the foreginers way of buying into the first sip from the money spigot. That is their buy-in to enjoy the fruits of this game. That is why China has so many treasuries and that is what allows it to basically peg its currency to the dollar (because as an exporter it would otherwise have too much money coming home). So China being a primary dealer and all the other countries buying treasuries to a smaller degree are buying a share in the Fed's monopsony. The biggest beneficiary is of course the US gov, which will essentially be able to "borrow" at virtually no interest, followed by the PD's who get the second sip from the spigot.
Let me give you a different take. Fed has signalled the domestics to get out and suck all of the foreign money in. Then taper and let the rate hit 6 or so on the 10... The Chinks are stuck.... hold to maturity at nothing or sell at a huge loss..... The simple answer is usually the correct one.
@ Ham-bone I remember your post a few weeks back, Re; foreign buying of U.S. bonds. It was eye opening and showed the global central bank collusion in vivid detail. I don't know who's right or wrong. I've great respect for both Fonz and Yourself.
I'm still scratching my head on that short term note auction that was canceled earlier today.
@ Yen - Fonz or yourself are far more likely to understand where this is going...Fonz's explanation of the buying makes about as much sense as anything...but does lead to a small concern ultimately as the back-ups in actual liquid behind those dams becomes immense and because everybody knows that liquid will never be released (because it would cause the flood of all floods) they all build in the flood zone...ensuring far too much pressure will ultimately be put on the dam(s)...moral hazard writ large. Human nature and group think coupling to ensure an unbalanced system will ultimately (don't know when???) collapse.
Hell, the commodity space being disconnected from the liquidity house is ultimately so self defeating...lowering exploration, lowering technological drivers to use these resources more efficiently, driving prices down while available resource is likewise made more scarce. The ultimate snap back from this sort of policy is so economically and societally negative vs. a simple management of ensuring commodity prices rise but in a steady, consistent, unspectacular manner. The present course seems destined for a sudden crack...likely in conjunction w/ that break in the dam above.
Hambone some follow up for you...
" Hambone is making an incorrect conclusion about the waters backing up and threatening to overtake the dam. That is hardly happening. If anything its the reverse, .gov can barely print enough money for the Fed to absorb fast enough (see original chart on the article). If anything, the Fed needs the government to print more money at the moment, which .gov will dutifully do come election time when its time for politicians to promise moar handouts. Get to work Mr. Schumer!
And the second part about the commodity producers is negligible, because in the first place, as long as OPEC is comfortable, so is pretty much everyone, and they are very vocal about maintaining this rigged $100 range. Secondly, only the small commodity producers are totally fucked, the big producers of commodities will be just fine, they can always count on the crony capitalist system of handouts and bailouts to make sure their production isnt impacted to any serious degree, not to mention insider tips from those executing all this to help them keep profits even on their big time futures hedging operations. From now on BHP will simply have to short the shit out of the paper iron and copper market in order to stay profitable.
Even though I don't post much as of late it is the sub threads like the one above that always keep me coming back to read the comments for understanding and wisdom, thanks guys!
please post more. I've been on here so long I ran out of fart jokes 2 years ago.
Pretty much. Of course, the other question is if they own it all and are not selling, how can the price experience selling pressure?
the more they own the more irrelavant it becomes
Would be interested to know what percent of "foreign" is Japanese, bought under a quiet US/JP deal to do so.
- Marketable debt = $3.3 T (blended interest rate of 6.4%)
- Non-marketable debt = $2.3 T
- Fed 2% of Notes/Bonds/TIPS ($50 B)
- Foreigner 30% of Notes/Bonds/TIPS (890 B)
- Domestic 68%
- Marketable debt = $5.1 T (blended interest rate of 5%)
- Non-marketable debt $4.1 T
- Fed 4% of Notes/Bonds/TIPS ($200 B)
- Foreigner 42% of Notes/Bonds/TIPS ($2.2 T)
- Domestic 54%
- Marketable debt = $12.2 T (blended interest rate of 2.3%)
- Non-marketable debt = $4.9 T
- Fed 22% of Notes/Bonds/TIPS ($2.2 T)
- Foreigner 50% of Notes/Bonds/TIPS ($5 T)
- Domestic 28%
I wish I was joking fonz. Seeing this guy spam every thread has me scratching my head. His schtik is getting very old and stale.
I know, I used your post to change the subject back to the content of the article.
When in doubt, blame Mossad.
Fonestar is highly unemployed and highly living in his mom's basement......
Until he isn't.
Goooey high protein liquid swallowing I bet.
Like I said earlier, it's Satoshi his own self posting as fonestar, talking his book.
Yeah, it's only rising because it's a big conspiracy maaaan!!
You haven't denied that you are Satoshi. There's a conspiracy for ya.
I do deny it (as if I really need to but that's flattering hahaha...) and will go on to say it's people like yourself that wind up making all conspiracy theories look dumb.
You bestow too much importance on a humble ZHer having some fun at your expense. You remind me of DCFusor trying to convince everyone here to buy a Chevy Volt.
Believe me pal, I am happy you people are not buying BTC :-)
He was laid off at the donut shop and picked up this Obama spammer job.
fonestar or LTER: Hmm, curiouser and curiouser...
But the dummies on this site still like that bank's paper.
I understand that you have been called all sorts of unfair names, my friend, but please pull back from name calling.
Whether or not they "deserve it," it doesn't help. Let arrogant ignoramuses be what they are and judge themselves.
Treasury issues futurative claims upon the collective surplus of the nation's economic aggregates (very weak is the chain of authority from populace to do so). Fed prints vast sums of new money and purchases through prime dealers diluting out all other currency holders (eventually). If you were to sum the treasury holdings of the owners/subordinates of central bank what greater percentage would it really be?
This is foolhardy because all see the trick. Tax receipts may pay the interest but in open sight is viewed the never-ending and enlarging deficits which surpass revenues. All view the money creation which pretends purchase but without the filthy process of invention and creation of goods/services to back the new legal tender.
How the system doesn't immediately break down, I don't know. Some pretend that the LLR will never have to submit their portfolio to real market scrutiny but will allow them to naturally run off. Some pretend that the extreme intervention is a limited function over time which will be subjected to a "taper" at some future point and normal monetary policy will resume. Some pretend that employment will revive, that wages will resume in robustness, that the free market will at some future time, "step into the breach". Some pretend we can have unlimited QE, the state make arbitrary interventions into the free market, whimsical determinations of the price of money; indeed, everywhere dilution without penalty repercussion. But take the experience of 22+ year Japan. Every intervention precipitated another larger scale intervention. Every head-fake attempt to position back to the traditional market was met with further dimunition.
QE is the mort in international MortGage. It destroys capital. It destroys confidence. Once embarked upon it cannot be restrained.
Take it to its logical limit: What is to stop the instantaneous creation of infinite money? There is no restraint, except that those who benefit by this strange priestcraft seek to extenuate their gain through its implementation. It is a means to create wealth differentials over time to capture the beneficial activity of society and direct it to their good and the public's loss. Infinite money destroys the system. Dibs and drabs of QE bursting to the scene over time, carefully propagandized and sprinkled with admonitions of "taper" (which never come true) keep this child's playtoy of an economic system viable.
Can we afford to make the mistake of an economic system that has leapfrogged labour, machinery, factories, thrift and wise husbandry and gone straight to state-sponsored fraud of unbacked money creation? At what point does national and international repudiation take hold?
Fantastic post. Thank you.
Why all the hate brother? Did your boyfriend not show you who is the top in your realtionship this morning.
c'mon... exiting that will be a non-event!?!
Yeah just like Hiroshima and Chernobyl and Hurricane Katrina were "non events". Yeah... that's the ticket!
10 and 30 year wil continue to get rocked .. smart $ knows the taper will come.. now they searching for nominal asset value IE .. rational value seeking.. http://hedge.ly/1aWnWdO
"High Quality Paper"
The US, through the fiat dollar, has indeed turned the whole world into its own personal labor camp. People making stuff for us in exchange for nothing except fiat. Alexander the Great, ancient Rome, etc, etc, have NOTHING on the US empire.
we had libor fixings with our turkey on thursday. luv those fixings! YUM YUM!
"and all of it some time in 2018."
That's the been the plan all along.
Looking more and more like Japan all the time, wouldn't you say? I know it's not a perfect analogy, but it's still the closest one I've got to explain where we're headed.
Except that the Japanese have to weaken their currency to strengthen their export market, since they still have to at least nominally make some shit and sell it. Whereas here the USD goes up so its cheaper to buy shit from other countries with all the new debt that's being issued. So who's smarter?! Stupid Japanese...
Time will collapse somehow, on their orderly run-offs absent petrodollar singularity.
when was it China got their direct Fed window Pass.
The rationale is simple. Either this madness continues or a hundred trillion in interest rate derivatives go boom. Now pull my finger.
So the lesser of two madnesses, that will likely end in boom anyway?
Who is in charge of this shit?
Great, that makes things like our entire financial structure so much more, I dont know, robust yeah thats it..
Who needs liquidity when you have an endless printing press bid? Treasuries are worth whatever the Fed says they are worth. Stocks are worth whatever the Fed says they are worth. The only loser is the real economy. That is the same as it has been for 40 years. I am pretty sure the COMEX was unable to deliver gold this contract. But they keep selling contracts anyway. They put a number on a screen. If you can't make money selling at that number, close your business. If you bought something at that number, but it does not exist, close your business.
v. to absorb over 0.3% of all Ten Year Equivalents, also known as "High Quality Collateral", from the private sector every week
As per FDIC, banks own only $150 billion in Treasuries and almost $900 billion in agencies.
Banks hate treasuries and short the living Jesus out of them - with the blessing of the FED who lends Treasury collateral to them daily to the tune of at least $25 billion/day - $12 billion in securities lending (+$8 billion rolled over from the day before), $3-8 billion in reverse repo (today was $8billion as POMO was light!) plus POMO.
Who needs to own them when you can borrow them from the FED and pledge them as collateral (and re-pledge) on risky bets, or even short them straight!
Banks hold $270 billion in foreign debt (most likely Deutsche Bank's US subsidiary Taunus).
So Tyler.... when are you coming out with your 2yr's vs 10yr IRS steepener trade ?
Gold getting slapped around like a little b*tch again today. The miners...wow... brutal. Silver nearing its pre-QE2 level. This really is the sign. But not the sign you guys are wanting. Near term its Silver/Gold slam fest. Gold 1000 and silver 15 soon to come. That would be the ever symbolic 66.666 gold to silver ratio we were expecting. But, it's not gonna stop there. By 2015 we will see Gold 800 and Silver 11. Why? Because the markets will destroy anything in its path. No one wants to hold "flight to safety" assets when there is no risk in the market... at least not yet. It's sunshine and rainbows till 2016 people. S&P +20% per year until mid 2016. Gold/Silver will wash everyone out in the mining and metals game. Gonna be ugly. Before it gets ugly.
Wrong. Production costs are well above those levels. Miners can not, and will not, be in business at $800 and $11. That means real physical shortages.
No risk in the market? WTF? Give your head a shake. Sounds like you aren't up to speed on the fraud ridden paper market which is in the process of imploding right now.
What.The.Fuck? Mining costs have increased every year for many years. There is inflation in the pipeline.
Costs are up not down.
nope. gold is the only market of the world where supplier flow is not relevant. there can't be "shortages" as for consumabls
miners could go bust. all of them. the world would not stop. yet this isn't a reason not to stack every month, then after a year they could reopen due to immense price gains
having said that, at 1'150... things could get frantic
Huh? That's ridiculous gibberish. In 2008 we saw massive shortages and delivery delays.
His argument also ignores the case of silver, for which there is most certainly NOT a 50 years' production stockpile, not to mention platinum and palladium, which curiously tend to follow the price movements of gold despite the fact that each metal has an above-ground stockpile of less than ONE YEAR worth of annual production. Something is not right with this picture.
Different type of risk. This is not a free market anymore. If you play it like that you will get crushed. You cannot buy anything without first considering global Central Bank intervention. Everything else is a guess. This is a global crisis with everyone eating and drinking from the same trough. You have to remember, the housing bubble started back in the 90's, went 15 years. Credit bubbles have lasted for decades. The bond bull has been running for years and years... remember, if the Fed saved Lehman brothers, it may be a different story. They will not make that mistake again. They will support EVERY drop in the market. They are willing to take us to S&P 5000 before letting off the gas.
Optimist. Wake me when it's under $300 an ounce (the last time I took delivery of physical gold).
Robbing John Q to pay Sam.
Bitch'n! Good work Benji!
Hey Yellen, Fisher, Rosengren, Dudley and Evans go for 100%!!!
It'll be there soon enough. Money for nothing, checks for free.
One huge fiat, Ponzi game.
Can't wait until the rest of the world refuses the US dollar.
Keep the US sheeple dumb until they try and use it overseas and it's refused.
Since the Fed returns its profits after expenses to the treasury, doesn't this mean that this is interest free? What position does this put the Fed in for an actual loss?
Profits ONLY after the 6% statutory Preferred dividends to its shareholders, which are the member banks of the Fed system. I won't tell you which member banks are currently the major "SHAREHOLDERS". Every nationally chartered bank must be a member and State chartered banks can choose whether or not to be and receive the "BENEFITS". Every Member must place a certain percentage of its equity capital into Fed Res Bank Stock, - the statutory 6% dividend is paid on that "required" investment.
However, please differentiate in you mind what so called "ownership" means and goddamned "CONTROL". With the advent of mutual funds/401 plans/IRAs, no individual common person has any voice, if they ever did:). The money mangers/corp execs/board members - all belong to the same fucking club. Guess what - you and I ain't fucking in it, LMFAO.
What a fucking racket!!
Here's an idea. UPVOTE FONESTAR. Every time he posts, UPVOTE. Then the fuckwad won't know what to post. Hilarity ensues, eventually, FONESTAR gets bored or believes everyone agrees with him that Bitcoin is the perfect currency.
DO NOT DOWNVOTE FONESTAR. This troll needs feeding until he explodes.
The demise of the western elitist political class :
From Maggy to Blair, to Brown, to Cameron, to Boris of London : London Mayor Raises Eyebrows, and Ire - NYTimes.com
The same is true in France and in the US; the race to bottom for the politicians in power; as a whole CLASS.
That is the unsavoury cut. They are ALL CORRUPT!
Its the fall of democracy.
The choice ? POpulist statist neo fascism OR world transnational Oligarchy corporatism; aka new world order aristocracy.
I guess they will have to re-invent mathematics when they get to 100%, so they can go even higher!
RBS/NatWest Bank UK whole computer system down, cash cards don't work, online accounts have no access, and balances can't be even viewed. Total seize up!!!!!!
Can you say 'Weapon of it's own Mass Destruction' -I knew that you could?
It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood...
First rule of the Ponzi market, don't mention Ponzi.
Listen to this local station, commercial free and music from a better time.
So now the Federal Reserve owns 1/3 of the country. Just great.
Don't blame them (much) it was sold to them for a song. Now get back to that TV set!
Sorry all for this most likely very stupid set of questions. I still have a lot to learn.
But, do I understand correctly, that:
* The Fed just prints money out of nothing and then buys the US Gov debt?
* Then the US taxpayer is paying the interest (an ultimately) principle on that debt?
* At some point, for arguments sake, the Fed stopped buy, wouldn't they just have trillions of dollars as assets?
* And they are a private bank? So you have a few unknown people owning a private bank in which the US taxpayer is giving trillions of dollars to? How do the owners of the Fed ever lose? Isn't this the ulitmate get rich scheme? No risk, nearly unlimited wealth?
Yes, you are right. Now try not to go insane watching everyone walk around as if everything is normal
It's called... The Matrix. (see the movie series)
Neo wants to know, what is the Matrix? Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.
Cannon Fodder, it sounds like you are starting to step out of living in the illusion known as, The Matrix.


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Yesterday's Wall Street Protest: A Good Time Was Had by All [Daily Intel]
[A participant in yesterday's festivities, waiting downtown to give Lloyd a mustache ride. ]
Yesterday's Wall Street Protest: A Good Time Was Had by All [Daily Intel]
What a turd blossom.
Ziggy piggy.. ziggy piggy.. ziggy piggy
I baught the hat with ma welfare check! YEAAAA!
Must be French.
"Does this tie go with this jacket? Nevermind… TOOOUUUCCCHHHDOOOWWWWNNNN!!!!"
I'm not deceitful or conniving
Did you see the picture of me skydiving?
Who am I?
on his way to the next happy hour?
on his way to the next SEC happy hour
I like welfare!
All hail Jimmy Cayne. That's right you idiots, bow down to the Chronic Executive Officer.
It was this big!!
– George Michael
People who used to travel the country following The Dead now do the protest tour. WTO, G-7, now this. Stilts, drums, the whole thing.
@4 why, did he start running away shortly after the photo?
YEAH! What the picture doesn't show is that Barney Frank is right in front of the man, on all fours. Just getting some street action, doggy style.
bess, how excited are you for LHS field hockey reunion?
-only dude on the invite list
Who's got to hands and wants some bacon?
Lloyd's nose is this big. Bigger than the pig's.
Area man impaled at protest.
"This hat looks like it should come with a bowl of soup…..it looks good on you though."
Halloween already?
Demonstration participant Zachary Kouwe, 53, repeatedly tries to get fellow protesters to do the wave.
Ha so this essentially was an AFL-CIO team building trip.
a picture of Steve Black heading off into retirement
You do the hokey-pokey
And you turn yourself around.
That's what its all about!
Budakon finally reveals his identity.
is that the father of the lead singer of 4 non blondes? who knew he was so patriotic and skilled with a bedazzler
Mustache Ride? I love you Bess!
Dale Earnhardt, deceased, made a rare appearance at the NYSE protest yesterday afternoon…
I love unemployment checks! Except for I spent 2/3 of my check on this fucking hat
Cliff Claven on acid.
I am the yokel Lexington Steele. What is too big to fail?
$5 says there's a Motley Crue logo ironed onto the back of that sweeeet Jean Jacket.
Five . . .
Five Dollar . . .
Five Dollar Foot Long . . .
nice denim jacket Fred.
@ 25, I get it. What ever happened to that guy? He was fun.
Us tea baggers have had it up to here with you government banker socialist fascists.
@33: any any any
I think we found the guy that shoplifts his shit from Fashion Bug.
"ok fellow protesters, now when Wall Street Bukaki's us with semen-laden Benjamins from the windows and starts throwing haymakers because we barged into their lobbies – which by the way, was totally hardcore – just throw your hands up and take it.. that'll learn em' not to mess with the general public. Oh, be sure to voice your opinion on global finance too because these motherf*ckers need to be enlightened on THE TRUTH!!!" two seconds before Blankfein lays a John Thain sized load on his back
@36, jerkoff, these people are NOT teapartiers.
Go suck a hog
There, was it really that difficult to show me who your CEO was?
These people aren't tea party people- they're union members. You know, unions- can you remember when the US used to actually make something of value that people actually wanted to buy? Unlike the snake oil you and your ilk are peddling.
@40 – hit a nerve, dickweed?
"obviously, you're not a golfer"
Canadian Tuxedo
Canadian Bacon
you don't fool us with your Uncle Sam hat and tie, we see your true colors
You might be a redneck if you own a home that is mobile and five cars that aren't.
Mark Haines, Friday morning, 0400 hrs: "Where the fuck did I put that tie?"
@46 *five cars that ain't
get it right
Idiot probably can't even balance his own checkbook.
@40 wait – the guy is white, wearing a jean jacket, and is obviously a huge patriot based on his hat. Looks like a teabagger to me – are we going to split hairs here?
Fuck you dumb fucking lazy ass protesting cunts. Don't be fucking angry with us because we went to normal fucking non-community colleges and decided that if we have to spend the rest of our lives doing a shitty fucking job, it might as well be a shitty fucking job that pays a shit ton. You all had the same fucking opportunity that we did, except we took it, so you can take your fucking envy and fuck yourself in the ass with it. Cheerio.
-John Paulson, HF Manager
Very, Very Funny!!!!
I walk by that dude every morning……
[On Because we can-can-can (Fatboy Slim)]: Yes we can-can-can!
[On Get Low (Lil Jon & Eastside)]: Skeet, Skeet, Skeet, Skeet…
Charlie Kelly: I'm gonna rise up, I'm gonna kick a little ass, Gonna kick some ass in the USA, Gonna climb a mountain, Gonna sew a flag, Gonna fly on an Eagle, I'm gonna kick some butt, I'm gonna drive a big truck, I'm gonna rule this world, Gonna kick some ass, Gonna rise up, Kick a little ass, ROCK, FLAG AND EAGLE!
@35/25. Crap I completely forgot about budakon. He was, indeed, fun.
The kick is good! CEO's 3, Senators no score. We'll be right back after this commercial message for d-bags are us.
And so the union cat in the hat, sat and he sat.
He sat on the street did the union cat in the hat
he ate and sat and he got very very fat
as he watched all the union pilgrims march along yelling for that VAT
But in the end the union cat in the hat did what a union cat does
he yelled out in anger and started a fuss
he pushed and he pushed as the union cat in the hat does
Now the union cat has no more money no healthcare
No pension no more fuss.
My first time in New York, what's with all the buildings? Too tall, maaan, too f… tall!
"I'm the CEO bitches !!! It's all good now"
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|Robert J. Stanzione
Chairman of the Board of Directors, President and CEO
Robert J. (Bob) Stanzione is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ARRIS, a global communications technology leader, that provides broadband local access networks with innovative next generation high-speed data and telephony systems for the delivery of voice, video and data to the home and business.
In 1995, Bob was appointed President & CEO of ARRIS Interactive, LLC, a Nortel Networks/ANTEC joint venture. As ARRIS Interactive's first CEO, Stanzione grew the venture from a start-up company to the world market leader in cable telephony products. In 1998 he became President, Chief Operating Officer and a Director of ANTEC and was appointed to the CEO role on January 1, 2000. In 2001, ANTEC acquired Nortel's share of ARRIS Interactive and re-named the Company ARRIS Group, Inc. From 1969 to 1995, before joining ARRIS, Stanzione held a wide range of senior management positions with AT&T.
Bob holds a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Clemson University, a Master's degree in Industrial Engineering from North Carolina State University and has completed executive development programs at the University of Richmond, Babson College and the International Institute for Management Development in Switzerland.
He serves as a Director on the Board of Symmetricom, a San Jose, California based manufacturer of equipment for the generation, synchronization and distribution of precise time and frequency signals. He is also a Board Member of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA). In June 2012, he was named to serve on The Cable Center Board of Directors. Bob was awarded the SCTE's Chairman's Award in 2008, the Vanguard Award for Associates & Affiliates in 2009, and was inducted into the Cable TV Pioneers in 2010.
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Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
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Prior to joining ARRIS, Potts was Chief Financial Officer of ARRIS Interactive L.L.C. and held various executive management positions with Nortel Networks, including Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Bell Northern Research and Vice President of Mergers and Acquisitions. Prior to Nortel Networks, Potts was with Touche Ross in Toronto.
Potts holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Lakehead University in Canada and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Canada.
|Lawrence A. Margolis
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Lawrence A. Margolis is Executive Vice President, Corporate Strategy and Administration of the Company. In his role, Margolis has played an integral role in past joint ventures and the creation and operation of ARRIS acquisitions. Mr. Margolis has operating management responsibility for Corporate Strategy and Business Development functions of the Company.
Margolis was previously Executive Vice President, Law and Administration and Secretary of ARRIS and previous to that Chief Financial Officer of ARRIS. Prior to ARRIS, Larry held executive positions with Anixter, Inc., a global communications products distribution company, including Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary. He was previously a partner at the law firm of Schiff Hardin & Waite.
Margolis holds a Bachelor's degree in English Literature from the University of Kansas and a Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School.
|Bruce McClelland
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Most recently, McClelland was ARRIS's Group President, for Products and Services, after leading the Customer Premises Equipment Unit as Vice President and General Manager. McClelland joined the Company as Vice President of Engineering, responsible for development of a broad range of voice and data cable TV products.
Prior to ARRIS, McClelland was responsible for the development of Nortel's Signaling System #7 and Signal Transfer Point product lines as well as several development roles within Nortel's Class 4/5 DMS switching product line.
McClelland received a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan.
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Larry Robinson is President, Customer Premises Equipment at ARRIS Group, Inc., which comprises digital cable set-tops, including DVB and IP Gateway platforms, IPTV solutions and broadband devices incorporating the latest DOCSIS and DSL technologies.
Robinson assumed his current role after the ARRIS acquisition of Motorola Mobility's Home business where he was Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Home Devices business responsible for its video, voice and data product portfolio, including set-top boxes, modems and gateways. He brings more than a decade of experience in the broadband and video industry, including roles in general management, product management and business development.
While at Motorola, Robinson held a variety of senior level positions including Corporate Vice President, Product Management in the Digital Video Solutions Group. In this role, he led the definition and management of digital cable and satellite set-top box product lines for the Americas' market. Robinson also managed strategic partnerships that complemented the portfolio.
In addition to his broadband and video industry experience, Robinson brings more than a decade of experience in large scale, aerospace communications systems, in addition to management consulting experience with PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP.
Robinson holds a Master's degree in Technology Management form the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Catholic University of America.
|Ronald M. Coppock
President, Worldwide Sales and Marketing
Ronald Coppock is President, Worldwide Sales and Marketing, at ARRIS Group, Inc. and manages all worldwide sales, marketing and technical support. Coppock brings more than 30 years of cable TV industry experience to ARRIS.
Prior to joining ARRIS, Coppock held various sales and marketing positions such as Senior Vice President International, TSX Texscan; Director of Marketing for Westcott Communications – EDS Private Television Networks; Western Regional Manager, Scientific-Atlanta Network Systems and Satellite Communications Group; Director National Accounts at Pioneer; and various positions at Pioneer Communications and Oak Communications. Coppock received a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration & Marketing from Auburn University. He is an active member of the American Marketing Association, Auburn School of Business Alumni Association and serves on the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Board. Coppock is also a member of the Cable TV Pioneers.
|Jim Brennan
Senior Vice President, Supply Chain and Quality
Jim Brennan is Senior Vice President of Supply Chain and Quality at ARRIS Group, Inc. and responsible for leading the supply chain, quality and operation services and solutions that deliver financial results, customer satisfaction and industry leading practices.
Brennan held a similar role as the Corporate Vice President of Supply Chain and Quality for the Motorola Mobility's Home business. He served in various executive positions at Motorola, including Vice President Business Transformation and Chief Quality Officer and Corporate Vice President of the Home Networks Mobility supply chain, which included global operations associated with planning, purchasing, new product introduction, manufacturing, customer fulfillment and repair. Brennan also served in other senior leadership positions, including strategy, business operations, IT, and mergers and acquisitions.
Prior to joining Motorola in 2000, Brennan held leadership positions at General Instrument in Operations and Northrop Grumman/Vought Aircraft in engineering development, manufacturing, flight test operations and quality.
Brennan earned a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Old Dominion University. He also completed the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and the University of Michigan's executive programs.
|Patrick Macken
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
Patrick Macken is Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary at ARRIS. In this role, he oversees all aspects of the company's legal function.
Macken joined ARRIS from Troutman Sanders LLP, where he served as partner in the firm's Corporate Group, providing legal counsel and support to ARRIS for more than 10 years. His legal expertise spans securities law, M&A, capital markets, commercial law and corporate governance.
Macken holds a Bachelor's Degree and a Juris Doctorate from Tulane University.
|Vicki Brewster
Senior Vice President, Human Resources
Vicki Brewster is Senior Vice President of Human Resources at ARRIS Group, Inc., where she leads global people strategies that enable growth, energize the culture, and create an employee competitive advantage for ARRIS.
Vicki has held leadership HR roles at ARRIS for nearly a decade, managing global business-critical functions including talent acquisition, compensation, benefits, HR systems, talent management, and employee relations. Her work includes leading the HR integration of strategic ARRIS acquisitions including Motorola Home.
Prior to joining ARRIS, Vicki held senior leadership roles at S1 Corporation, NDCHealth, WebMD, and HBO & Company.
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Last week, however, a state body put its foot down and denied developer Worley-Brown a construction permit. Citing safety reasons, on Sept. 6 the board of trustees of the state's department of archives and history voted unanimously against the permit.
"In the final analysis, I think it came down to the uncertainty of the site and whether the load of the new construction would endanger that landmark [Natchez Bluff] property," says former Mississippi Gov. William Winter, chairman of the board.... Read More →
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