Songs of The Whistler

Insurance Bad Faith and Disability Lawyer: Judge, in bad faith case quotes from the movie "A Few Good Men"

2011-11-15T21:20:00.000-08:00

Insurance Bad Faith and Disability Lawyer: Judge, in bad faith case quotes from the movie "A Few Good Men"

kenny's sideshow: Zionist Kenneth Feinberg, 9/11 Cover Up Agent, to Administer BP's $20 Billion Claim Fund

2010-06-17T04:49:00.000-07:00

kenny's sideshow: Zionist Kenneth Feinberg, 9/11 Cover Up Agent, to Administer BP's $20 Billion Claim Fund

Excellent article.

Check out this link for more information on Mr. Feinberg and his cozy relationships:

http://sites.google.com/site/cv0500030justicevsharmon/home/cvo5-00030---witness-index/witness-kenneth-feinberg

Leigh Blackall: MacArthur foundation: The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age

2010-01-09T08:21:00.000-08:00

Leigh Blackall: MacArthur foundation: The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age

Excellent insight and analysis! For more about the MacArthur Foundation and other non-profit plundering, please visit ...

http://sites.google.com/site/howtopluckanonprofit/

COLLATERAL DAMAGE: THE SUB-PRIME MARKET AND THE TERRORIST ATTACKS ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2001

2009-05-09T03:06:00.000-07:00

CV05-00030 - U.S. Dept of Justice, David C. Farmer, Trustee vs. Bobby N. Harmon - Exhibit: "COLLATERAL DAMAGE: THE SUB-PRIME MARKET AND THE TERRORIST ATTACKS ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, by E.P. Heidner"

Friday, May 8, 2009 11:30 PM

From: Bobby N. Harmon

To:
"President Barack Obama" , "U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder" , "David Farmer" , "Steven Guttman" , "Carol K. Muranaka" , "Judge David A. Ezra" , "Judge Kevin S.C. Chang" , "Judge Barry M. Kurren" , "Securities & Exchange Commission Enforcement Division" , "U.S. Treasury Dept. Office of Inspector General" , "Office of Inspector General US Dept of Justice" , "Executive Office for U.S. Trustees" , "Judge Robert Faris" , "SEC Office of The Inspector General" , "Hawaii State Bar Association" , "Charles Goodwin" , "Hugh Jones" , "Insurance Division Fraud Branch" , "Lawrence Reifurth" , "Linda Lingle" , "Jo Ann Uchida" , "Office of Inspector General Civil Rights Complaints" , "Mark Bennett" hawaiiag@hawaii.gov

Cc:
"ACLU Hawaii" , "All Representatives" , "All Senators" , "Andrew Walden" , "Aon Insurance Managers" , "Arthur Rath" , "Benjamin Kudo" , "Bradley Tamm" , "Carl Morton" , "Charles Hurd" , "David Shapiro" , "Dee Jay Mailer" , "J C Shannon" , "James B Nicholson" , "James B. Farris" , "James Cribley" , "James Wriston" , "Jeffrey Watanabe" , "Jim Dooley" , "Joe Moore" , "John D. Finnegan" , "John Goemans" , "Judson Witham" , "Ken Conklin" , "Lyn Flanigan Anzai" , "Margery Bronster" , "Marsh Affinity Group" , "Michael N. Tanoue" , "Michelle Tucker" , "Nathan Aipa" , "Paul Alston" , "Randall Roth" , "Rick Daysog" , "Robert Bruce Graham" , "Robin Campaniano" , "Samuel P. King" , "William K Slate" , "Jim Terrack" , "Don Michak" , "Rocco Sansone" , "Ted Pettit" , "Laura Thielen" , "Vaughn & Lynda Robinson" , "Rebecca Christie" , "Catbird" , "James Duca" , "Ian Lind" , "Roy F. Hughes" , "Malia Zimmerman" , "Jack Cashill" , "Marshall Chriswell" , "Laser Haas" , "Lucy Komisar" , "Democrats.com" , "Debra Sweet" , "Jane Kirtley" , "V K Durham" , "John Jubinsky" , "Yamil Berard" , "Global Exchange" , "William K. Black" , "Carole Williams" , "Susan Tius" , "Human Rights in China" , "Michelle Malkin" , "Heather Vsn Doren" , "Phil J. Berg" , "Amnesty International U.S.A." , "Michael Moore" , "California Anti-SLAPP Project" , "Thomas Fitton" , "Ron Branson" VictoryUSA@jail4judges.org

Title: "Collateral Damage (Part 2): The Subprime Crisis and the Terrorist Attacks on September 11 2001

Abstract: The U.S. Subprime and global financial crises of 2008 was the direct result of a covert monetary policy implemented by the U.S. financial institutional caretakers of the World War II Black Eagle Gold Fund. Major growth in this fund occurred in 1986 when the Reagan/Bush administration ousted Ferdinand Marcos and confiscated the Philippines holdings of Japanese pre-WWII treasury, buried in the Philippines due to the US Naval blockade of Japanese ports.

Not being able to publicly acknowledge the illegal confiscation of multiple national treasuries, US officials and their banker-agents have released major portions of this fund to the money market in excess of monetary demand, expanding the money supply by $3.5 to $7 trillion.

The individuals responsible for releasing this gold were also responsible for deliberately opening the subprime mortgage market to national banks, thus creating inflationary demand in the high risk, subprime housing market. In addition to the 'coincidence' that virtually all of the troubled mortgages which are at the source of the 2008 Economic Crisis seem to come from a timeframe and monetary growth spurt linked to the '9/11 bond dump' this report will document that the primary source of funds for the liar's loans and troubled subprime loans comes from banks that are in lock-step with the covert funding operations.

Given that these same individuals covertly financed the collapse of the Soviet Ruble in 1991 using these same funds,and then orchestrated the buy-out of key Russian industries for pennies on the USDollar, this analysis provides evidence that a similar gambit is being made for the takeover of key US Industries....

http://www.scribd.com/doc/9421535/Collateral

# # #

May 8, 2009

Dear President Obama, Attorney General Holder, Trustee Farmer, and All Concerned:

Due to the discovery of NEW FACTS, I am adding the subject Exhibit as it relates to this lawsuit which violates my Constitutional Rights of Free Speech and a Fair Trial, and to Federal and Hawaii Anti-SLAPP statutes. You will find related information on-line at:

http://www.kycbs.net/911-COVERUP.htm
http://www.kycbs.net/AIPAC.htm
http://www.kycbs.net/Allied-World-Assurance.htm
http://www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Bush-George.htm
http://www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Farmer-David.htm
http://www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Gotbaum-Joshua.htm

In view of all the facts that I have presented in this and hundreds of other Exhibits and witness descriptions, it is beyond comprehension that former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales; Assistant U.S. Trustees Curtis Ching, Gayle Lau and Carol Muranaka; Judges Eden Hifo (fka Bambi Weil), Kevin Chang, David Ezra, Barry Kurren, Lloyd King and Robert Faris; Trustees Mary Lou Woo, James Nicholson and David C. Farmer; American Arbitration Association arbitrator Judith Neustadter Fuqua, attorney Steven Guttman, and others, can still claim that they were non-conflicted, fair, impartial, and unbiased in this case.

In spite of all this factual evidence (not just "political opinions" or "conspiracy theories" as you have previously alleged), I am again asking that we attempt to reach a global settlement of this matter through confidential negotiation or mediation rather than continuing these costly and seemingly-endless court proceedings.

If you, and your insurance carriers, are still NOT willing to attempt to negotiate or mediate a settlement, then I ask that you perform your mandated review of this new Exhibit in accordance with Judge Ezra's Order, and advise me if you find it contains any so-called "protected subject matter", and whether or not you intend to OBJECT to my filing a Motion to reopen this case.

Mr. Farmer, I respectfully request your immediate reply. If I do not receive a response from you or your insurance carrier within 15 days, I will assume that you have found no "PSM" in these updated pages, and that you will NOT file any objections to my Motion.

Very truly yours,

Bobby N. Harmon, CPCU, ARM

Additional References:
http://www.kycbs.net/
http://voy.com/129276/
http://whistlersongs.blogspot.com

http://www.theantechamber.net

YOU CAN HELP FREE LT. EHREN WATADA!

2009-05-09T02:35:00.000-07:00

Subject: CV05-00030 - U.S. Dept of Justice, David C. Farmer, Trustee vs Harmon - Exhibit: "YOU CAN HELP FREE LT. EHREN WATADA"

From:
Bobby N. Harmon

To:
"President Barack Obama" <president@whitehouse.gov>, "U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder" <AskDOJ@usdoj.gov>, "David Farmer" <farmerd001@hawaii.rr.com>, "Steven Guttman" <sguttman@kdubm.com>, "Carol K. Muranaka" <ustp.region15@usdoj.gov>, "Judge David A. Ezra" <theresa_lam@hid.uscourts.gov>, "Judith Neustadter" <Judy@tiki.net>, "Judge Kevin S.C. Chang" <shari_afuso@hid.uscourts.gov>, "Judge Barry M. Kurren" <tammy_kimura@hid.uscourts.gov>, "Securities & Exchange Commission Enforcement Division" <enforcement@sec.gov>, "U.S. Treasury Dept. Office of Inspector General" <hotline@oig.treas.gov>, "Office of Inspector General US Dept of Justice" <oig.hotline@usdoj.gov>, "Executive Office for U.S. Trustees" <ustrustee.program@usdoj.gov>, "Judge Robert Faris" <hib@hib.uscourts.gov>, "SEC Office of The Inspector General" <oig@sec.gov>, "Hawaii State Bar Association" <info@hsba.org>, "Charles Goodwin" <HONOLULU@FBI.GOV>, "Hugh Jones" <hugh.r.jones@hawaii.gov>, "Insurance Division Fraud Branch" <insfraud@dcca.hawaii.gov>, "Lawrence Reifurth" <dcca@dcca.hawaii.gov>, "Linda Lingle" <governor.lingle@hawaii.gov>, "Jo Ann Uchida" <rico@dcca.hawaii.gov>, "Office of Inspector General Civil Rights Complaints" <inspector.general@usdoj.gov>, "Mark Bennett" <hawaiiag@hawaii.gov>

Cc: "ACLU Hawaii" <office@acluhawaii.org>, "All Representatives" <reps@Capitol.hawaii.gov>, "All Senators" <sens@Capitol.hawaii.gov>, "Andrew Walden" <hfpeditor@email.com>, "Aon Insurance Managers" <mike_coulter@agl.aon.com>, "Arthur Rath" <imua@spamarrest.com>, "Benjamin Kudo" <bkudo@imanakakudo.com>, "Bradley Tamm" <btamm@hawaii.rr.com>, "Carl Morton" <ethics@hawaiiethics.org>, "Charles Hurd" <mcp@mediatehawaii.org>, "David Shapiro" <volcanicash@gmail.com>, "Dee Jay Mailer" <ksinfo@ksbe.edu>, "J C Shannon" <Hapa1234@aol.com>, "James B Nicholson" <jamesbnicholson@aol.com>, "James B. Farris" <Farrisj@adr.org>, "James Cribley" <jcribley@caselombardi.com>, "James Wriston" <jwriston@awlaw.com>, "Jeffrey Watanabe" <jwatanabe@wik.com>, "Jim Dooley" <jdooley@honoluluadvertiser.com>, "Joe Moore" <news@khon2.com>, "John D. Finnegan" <info@chubb.com>, "John Goemans" <wip@kamuela.com>, "Judson Witham" <jurisnot2@yahoo.com>, "Ken Conklin" <ken_conklin@yahoo.com>, "Lyn Flanigan Anzai" <lflanigan@hsba.org>, "Margery Bronster" <info@bchlaw.net>, "Marsh Affinity Group" <prosecure@marshpm.com>, "Michael N. Tanoue" <mtanoue@paclawgroup.com>, "Michelle Tucker" <michelle@sterlingandtucker.com>, "Nathan Aipa" <nathan@pitluck.com>, "Paul Alston" <palston@ahfi.com>, "Randall Roth" <rroth@hawaii.edu>, "Rick Daysog" <rdaysog@honoluluadvertiser.com>, "Robert Bruce Graham" <bgraham@awlaw.com>, "Robin Campaniano" <aigh001@aighawaii.com>, "Samuel P. King" <leslie_sai@hid.uscourts.gov>, "William K Slate" <Websitemail@adr.org>, "Jim Terrack" <tnthawaii@aol.com>, "Don Michak" <dmichak@journalinquirer.com>, "Rocco Sansone" <rocco.c.sansone@marsh.com>, "Ted Pettit" <tpettit@caselombardi.com>, "Laura Thielen" <dlnr@hawaii.gov>, "Vaughn & Lynda Robinson" <ronpaulslcutah@yahoo.com>, "Rebecca Christie" <rchristie4@bloomberg.net>, "Catbird" <the-catbird@hotmail.com>, "James Duca" <jduca@kdubm.com>, "Ian Lind" <diary@ilind.net>, "Roy F. Hughes" <hthughes@hawaii.rr.com>, "Malia Zimmerman" <Malia@hawaiireporter.com>, "Jack Cashill" <JCashill@aol.com>, "Marshall Chriswell" <mc@whistleblowers.org>, "Tom Flocco" <tom2@tomflocco.com>, "Eric Shine" <civilrights911@socal.rr.com>, "Laser Haas" <laserhaas@msn.com>, "Lucy Komisar" <lkomisar@msn.com>, "Democrats.com" <activist@democrats.com>, "Debra Sweet" <debrasweet@worldcantwait.org>, "Jane Kirtley" <kirt001@umn.edu>, "V K Durham" <vkdtdht@pionet.net>, "John Jubinsky" <Jube@tghawaii.com>, "Yamil Berard" <yberard@star-telegram.com>, "Global Exchange" <communications@globalexchange.org>, "William K. Black" <blackw@umkc.edu>, "Carole Williams" <cjwms@up.net>, "Susan Tius" <STius@rmhawaii.com>, "Alex Jones" <alex@infowars.com>, "Human Rights in China" <hrichina@hrichina.org>, "Michelle Malkin" <writemalkin@gmail.com>, "Heather Vsn Doren" <heather.vandoran@yahoo.com>, "Phil J. Berg" <philjberg@obamacrimes.com>, "Amnesty International U.S.A." <aimember@aiusa.org>, "Michael Moore" <bailout@michaelmoore.com>, "California Anti-SLAPP Project" <info@casp.net>, "Thomas Fitton" <info@judicialwatch.org>

Date: Thursday, April 30, 2009, 1:15 AM

YOU CAN HELP FREE LT. EHREN WATADA

The Justice Department Can Say No to Army's Legal AppealIn June 2006, U.S. Army 1st Lt. Ehren Watada refused orders to Iraq on the grounds that the war was illegal and immoral. His court martial in February 2007 ended in an Army-contrived mistrial.

In October 2007, the Army attempt to have a second court martial was stopped by a Federal judge who ruled that a second court martial would be double jeopardy. But the Army has not allowed Lt. Watada to leave military service. Instead, they have notified the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit of their plans to appeal the double jeopardy ruling. The Army has also threatened to revive old charges stemming from Lt. Watada's speech in Seattle to the 2006 convention of Veterans For Peace.

Justice Department to Decide If Army Will Appeal Double Jeopardy RulingThe U.S. Solicitor General's office in the Department of Justice will soon decide whether the Army can go ahead with its plans to appeal Federal Court rulings in Lt. Watada's favor.

A campaign of public pressure is being called by Lt. Watada's supporters in the peace movement. The ad hoc campaign is being spearheaded by two Vietnam War resisters, Mike Wong and Gerry Condon, who are active members of Veterans for Peace in San Francisco and Seattle. The Call to Action is being issued in the name of Asian Americans for Peace and Justice, formerly the Watada Support Committee, in the San Francisco Bay Area, and Project Safe Haven, a war resister support group.

We are sending out this email alert to all our contacts and organizations - including Veterans for Peace, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out, United For Peace and Justice, ANSWER, Code Pink, American Friends Service Committee and others. We ask you all to phone, write, and email Solicitor General Elena Kagan and Deputy Attorney General Neal Katyal immediately....

> read more

References:
http://www.kycbs.net
http://www.kycbs.net/911-COVERUP.htm
http://www.kycbs.net/911-COVERUP-2.htm
http://www.kycbs.net/911-COVERUP-3.htm
http://www.kycbs.net/AIPAC.htm
http://www.kycbs.net/Allied-World-Assurance.htm
http://www.kycbs.net/ChickenHawks.htm
http://www.kycbs.net/Confessions.htm
http://www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-OUST-vs-Harmon.htm
http://www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Watada-Bob.htm
http://www.kycbs.net/Freedom-To-Sing.htm
http://www.kycbs.net/JUSTICE.htm
http://www.kycbs.net/Peacemakers.htm
http://www.kycbs.net/Pentagon.htm
http://www.kycbs.net/SLAPP.htm
http://www.kycbs.net/Torture.htm

April 30, 2009

Dear President Obama, Attorney General Holder, Mr. Farmer; Mr. Guttman; Ms. Muranaka; Judge Ezra, Judge Chang, Judge Kurren, and All Concerned:

Due to the discovery of NEW FACTS in this case, I am adding the subject Exhibit as it relates to your lawsuit which violates my Constitutional Rights of Free Speech and a Fair Trial by a jury of my peers, and to Federal and Hawaii Anti-SLAPP statutes.

In view of all the facts that I have presented in this and hundreds of other Exhibits and witness descriptions, it is beyond comprehension that former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales; Assistant U.S. Trustees Curtis Ching, Gayle Lau and Carol Muranaka; Judges Eden Hifo (fka Bambi Weil), Kevin Chang, David Ezra, Barry Kurren, Lloyd King and Robert Faris, and Trustees Mary Lou Woo, James Nicholson and David C. Farmer; the American Arbitration Association arbitrator Judith Neustadter Fuqua, and attorney Steven Guttman can still claim that they were non-conflicted, fair, impartial, and unbiased in this case.

In spite of all this factual evidence (not just "political opinions" or "conspiracy theories" as you have alleged before), I am again asking that we attempt to reach a global settlement of this matter through confidential negotiation or mediation rather than continuing these costly and seemingly-endless court proceedings.

If you, and your insurance carriers, are still NOT willing to attempt to negotiate or mediate a settlement, then I ask that you perform your mandated review of this new Exhibit in accordance with Judge Ezra's Order, and advise me if you find it contains any so-called "protected subject matter", and whether or not you intend to OBJECT to my filing a Motion to reopen this case.

Mr. Farmer, I respectfully request your immediate reply. If I do not receive a response from you or your insurance carrier within 15 days, I will assume that you have found no "PSM" in these updated pages, and that you will NOT file any objections to my Motion.

Very truly yours,

Bobby N. Harmon, CPCU, ARM

OBAMA SELECTS LEON PANETTA AS CIA DIRECTOR...the coverups continue

2009-01-07T00:29:00.000-08:00

RICO IN PARADISE

presents...

LEON PANETTA

Sightings from The Catbird Seat
~ o ~

January 5, 2009

Obama picks Leon Panetta to head CIA

By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer Nedra Pickler

Featured Topics:
Barack Obama
Presidential Transition

WASHINGTON – Two Democratic officials say President-elect Barack Obama has chosen former Clinton White House chief of staff Leon Panetta to run the CIA.

Panetta was a surprise pick for the post, with no experience in the intelligence world. An Obama transition official and another Democrat disclosed his nomination on a condition of anonymity since it was not yet public.

Panetta was director of the Office of Management and Budget and a longtime congressman from California.

He served on the Iraq Study Group, a bipartisan panel that released a report at the end of 2006 with dozens of recommendations for the reversing course in the Iraq war.

Panetta currently directs with his wife Sylvia the Leon & Sylvia Panetta Institute for Public Policy, based at California State University, Monterey Bay a university he helped establish on the site of the former U.S. Army base, Fort Ord.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090105/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cia_director

November 19, 1999

Estate lobbied White House

Ex-Gov. John Waihee urged officials to kill legislation that wouldpenalize charities' trusteesfor excessive pay

By Rick Daysog, Star-Bulletin

Ousted trustees of the Bishop Estate paid former Gov. John Waihee to lobby top White House officials in an effort to protect their hefty paychecks, according to internal trust documents obtained by the Star-Bulletin.

Waihee met with President Bill Clinton's then-deputy chief of staff, Erskine Bowles, at the White House in late 1995 to discuss the so-called intermediate sanctions law, which penalizes trustees of charitable trusts who receive excessive pay.

Waihee, a longtime Clinton supporter, also contacted then-Treasury Department Deputy Lawrence Summers on the trustees' behalf while his law partner, former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, approached Clinton's then-chief of staff, Leon Panetta.

The trustees' congressional lobbying had been controversial for several years. But until now their efforts to influence the intermediate sanctions legislation at the White House level, along with Waihee's role in the campaign, have been largely unknown.

And while the trustees' lobbying eventually fizzled, critics said it demonstrates the lengths to which the ousted trustees went to protect their compensation, and lays bare the 115-year-old charitable trust's political connections in the nation's capitol.

"It's almost unbelievable that they would spend this much money and go through these efforts to serve their personal interests at the expense of the interests of the trust's beneficiaries," said Randall Roth, University of Hawaii law professor and co-author of the 1997 "Broken Trust" article which prompted Gov. Ben Cayetano to order a state investigation of the estate.

"It seems like 'arrogant' isn't a strong enough word for them."

The estate previously disclosed that it paid Waihee's firm -- Washington, D.C.-based Verner Liipfert Bernhard McPherson and Hand -- more than $900,000 between 1995 and 1998 to lobby Congress on the intermediate sanctions measure.

The ousted trustees defended the effort as being conducted for the benefit of the trust. The former trustees said they supported the general idea of the intermediate sanctions law but opposed specific provisions that were onerous to the estate and the trust-run Kamehameha Schools.

"It's the old story of a good idea that got messed up in the details," said Glenn Sato, attorney for ousted Bishop Estate trustee Richard "Dickie" Wong. Wong previously headed the estate's lobbying efforts.

The estate's court-appointed master and interim trustees disagree. Colbert Matsumoto, the estate's master for the 1994-1996 period, concluded that the lobbying was largely self-serving, and asked the state Probate Court to surcharge trustees for the costs.

The interim board has cited the ousted trustees' lobbying as one of several alleged breaches of trust in its suit to permanently remove Wong and Henry Peters from the multibillion-dollar estate.

The temporary trustees have charged that Peters and Wong jeopardized the estate's tax-exempt status by taking excessive pay and by neglecting the trust's core educational mission.

The interim trustees are retired Adm. Robert Kihune, American Savings Bank executive Constance Lau, former Iolani School headmaster David Coon, retired Honolulu police Chief Francis Kealoa and local attorney Ronald Libkuman.

Probate Judge Kevin Chang removed Wong and Peters on an interim basis May 7 after the Internal Revenue Service threatened to revoke the estate's nonprofit status.

According to internal documents obtained by the Star-Bulletin, the former trustees' lobbying was more extensive than previously disclosed.

The documents also show that ousted trustees sought to eliminate the intermediate sanctions law, contradicting their public statements that they supported the legislation.

'Everyone but the pope'

A Sept. 22, 1995, memo from Waihee and Verner Liipfert staffer Denis Dwyer indicated that the estate initially sought to "kill" the bill but was unable to do so due to a barrage of negative stories about nonprofits in the national media. That year, longtime United Way President William Aramonywas convicted of defrauding the charity. Waihee and Dwyer later developed a backup position to "minimize the adverse impacts" on the estate.

The trustees successfully lobbied for the elimination of the so-called exit tax, which gave the IRS the power to charge hefty fines to charities that convert to a for-profit corporation.

The trustees also pushed unsuccessfully for a provision that would have set their compensation according to state law. Under that rule the trustees' salaries would have been protected from the overview of the IRS or other federal agencies.

According to the estate's documents, Verner Liipfert's lobbying team consisted of 15 lawyers and consultants, including Waihee and former state official Norma Wong.

The campaign included dozens of telephone calls, letters and meetings with Sens. Robert Dole, William Roth and David Pryor and House Ways and Means chairman Bill Archer.

The Verner Liipfert team also enlisted the assistance of Goldman Sachs Group to lobby former New York Sen. Alfonse D'Amato. Bishop Estate is a large shareholder in the Goldman Sachs investment banking firm.

"It appears that the former trustees lobbied everyone but the pope himself on this issue," said Deputy Attorney General Hugh Jones.

A Verner Liipfert spokeswoman had no immediate response. Waihee was out of town and could not be reached for comment.

Legislation's sole opponent

At times the Bishop Estate's hard-sell approach appeared to backfire. After Waihee placed a telephone call to former Treasury Deputy Secretary Summers, staff attorney Kathy Livingston abruptly told the lobbyists that the department would not support the estate's position on the intermediate sanctions bill, according to a February 1996 memo by Dwyer.

Summers' boss at the Treasury Department was former Goldman Sachs manager Robert Rubin, whose stock in Goldman Sachs was insured by Bishop Estate. Summers succeeded Rubin as head of the Treasury Department in July.

The estate failed to halt the legislation because it was the only charity that opposed the measure. Stung by the United Way controversy, the mainland philanthropic community banded together and urged passage of the intermediate sanctions legislation because such a law would help restore public confidence.

The bill was signed by Clinton in July 1996.

Paul Streckfus, a former IRS attorney and editor of EO Tax Journal, a monthly newsletter covering the nonprofit sector, said the estate's lobbying on the intermediate sanctions law adds fuel to the IRS' recent threat to revoke the estate's tax-exempt status.

Although former trustees have received outside legal opinions approving their lobbying, the IRS could conclude the lobbying constitutes an instance of private benefit, and could yank the estate's nonprofit status.

"If you are making $800,000 a year, you're probably going to do anything you can to ward off the people who are trying to take it away from you," Streckfus said.

"But the issue here is whether they were spending estate money for a proper purpose."

Bishop Estate Archive
http://archives.starbulletin.com/1999/11/19/news/story1.html
The Catbird Seat Archives - December 6, 2006

# # #

A Chronology: Key Moments In The Clinton-Lewinsky Saga

1995
June 1995: Monica Lewinsky, 21, comes to the White House as an unpaid intern in the office of Chief of Staff Leon Panetta.
November 1995: Lewinsky and President Bill Clinton begin a sexual relationship, according to audiotapes secretly recorded later by Linda Tripp.
December 1995: Lewinsky moves into a paid position in the Office of Legislative Affairs, handling letters from members of Congress. She frequently ferries mail to the Oval Office....

1997
August 1997: Tripp encountered Kathleen Willey coming out of Oval Office "disheveled. Her face red and her lipstick was off." Willey later alleged that Clinton groped her. Clinton's lawyer, Bill Bennett said in the article that Linda Tripp is not to be believed....
October 1997: Lewinsky interviews with U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Bill Richardson for a low level public affairs position.
December 1997: Lewinsky leaves the Pentagon.
Dec. 8: Betty Currie, Clinton's personal secretary, asks presidential pal Vernon Jordan to help Lewinsky find a job in New York....

January 1998
Jan. 7, 1998: Lewinsky files an affidavit in the Jones case in which she denies ever having a sexual relationship with President Clinton.
Jan. 9: Tripp delivers the tapes to her lawyer, Jim Moody.
Jan. 12: Linda Tripp contacts the office of Whitewater Independent Counsel Ken Starr to talk about Lewinsky and the tapes she made of their conversations. The tapes allegedly have Lewinsky detailing an affair with Clinton and indicate that Clinton and Clinton friend Vernon Jordan told Lewinsky to lie about the alleged affair under oath.
Jan. 13, 1998: Tripp, wired by FBI agents working with Starr, meets with Lewinsky at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel bar in Pentagon City, Va., and records their conversation....
Jan. 16, 1998: Starr contacts Attorney General Janet Reno to get permission to expand his probe. Reno agrees and submits the request to a panel of three federal judges. The judges agree to allow Starr to formally investigate the possibility of subornation of perjury and obstruction of justice in the Jones case. Tripp and Lewinsky meet again at the Ritz-Carlton. FBI agents and U.S. attorneys intercede and take Lewinsky to a hotel room, where they question her and offer her immunity. Lewinsky contacts her mother, Marcia Lewis, who travels down from New York City by train. Lewis contacts her ex-husband, who calls attorney William Ginsburg, a family friend. Ginsburg advises her not to accept the immunity deal until he learns more....
Jan. 19, 1998: Lewinsky's name surfaces in an Internet gossip column, the Drudge Report, which mentions rumors that Newsweek had decided to delay publishing a piece on Lewinsky and the alleged affair.

Jan. 21, 1998: Several news organizations report the alleged sexual relationship between Lewinsky and Clinton. Clinton denies the allegations as the scandal erupts....

Continues at...
www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/resources/lewinsky/timeline/

From...

http://www.kycbs.net/RIP-Leon-Panetta.htm

Obama Born in Kenya? His Grandmother Says Yes.

2009-01-01T04:01:00.000-08:00

10/12/2008

Obama Born In Kenya? His Grandmother Says Yes.

by Tishrei 13

Someone is lying.

According to Obama's Kenyan (paternal) grandmother, as well as his half-brother and half-sister, Barack Hussein Obama was born in Kenya, not in Hawaii as the Democratic candidate for president claims. His grandmother bragged that her grandson is about to be President of the United States and is so proud because she was present DURING HIS BIRTH IN KENYA, in the delivery room. -This, according to several news sites and Pennsylvania attorney Philip J. Berg (see video below) who is, surprisingly, a life long democrat himself. Berg is the former Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania, and he has an impressive background in his activities as a democrat, but his support for the party seemingly stops when it comes to his trust in Barack Hussein Obama.

Many U.S. voters are suspicious of the Democratic candidate's past, and Berg filed a lawsuit to force Barack Hussein Obama to produce a certified copy of his original birth certificate to prove that he can run for the office of President of the United States. However, he is being fought. The DNC On Sept. 24 filed a motion to dismiss the Berg action. Why? What is there to hide? Why not produce the original birth certificate and be done with all the suspicions against Barack Hussein Obama?

A few months back, a birth certificate WAS posted on the internet which shows that Obama was born in Hawaii. Yet some say this birth certificate is a forgery and again, his grandmother states that she was present at the birth, in Kenya. So what is the truth?

One explanation is that Obama's mother Ann Dunham, flew to Kenya in 1961 with Obama's father to meet his family. According to some news reports, Ann Dunham, was not accepted well by her husband's family because she was white:

"Obama's family did not take to Stanley Ann Dunham Obama very well, because she was white, according to Sarah Obama. Shortly after she arrived in Kenya Stanley Ann decided to return to Hawaii because she later said, she did not like how Muslim men treated their wives in Kenya.

However, because she was near term the airline would not let her fly until after the birth of her baby. Obama's grandmother said the baby—Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.—was born in Kenya and that shortly after he was born, Stanley Ann returned to Hawaii."

However, by the time she wanted to leave Kenya, it was during the late stages of her pregnancy. She was not able to board a plane because the airlines wouldn't allow women so close to birth to fly. It is instead believed, that Barack Hussein Obama was born in Kenya as his grandmother apparently stated. Then, after he was born, his mother returned with him to Hawaii where his birth was REGISTERED on or about August 8th, 1961, in the public records office in Hawaii.

There is also a discrepancy in what hospital Barack Hussein Obama was born in, even if he was born in Hawaii. Reports by his own sister in two separate interviews state that he was born at two different hospitals -- Kapiolani Hospital and Queens Hospital--in Honolulu.

The Times Herald even reports: "the senator's grandmother, brother and sister, who live in Kenya, believe they were present during Obama's birth in the African country." Here, the Times Herald uses the word that his family 'believe' he was born in Kenya (perhaps to avoid possible law suits by Obama's Truth Squad?).

Watch this interesting and important video clip.

I myself, not wanting to believe what I see, did some searching around, and this is what I came up with:

Obama was born on August 4, 1961, at the Kapiolani Medical Center.
and here it says:

Barack Obama was born at the Queen's Medical Center on 4 August 1961.

So which hospital was it, or was he really born in Kenya? And why is this simple matter so confusing and disturbing? Do the search your self and plug in these key words:

Obama born Queen's Medical Center and then Obama born Kapiolani Medical Center in a Google search. You will see he is reported to be born in two diferent hospitals. A miracle! Maybe he IS the Messiah (grin).

What's so hard about knowing something so simple as which hospital or country someone was born in? And if it is simple, then why doesn't Barack Hussein Obama just present the court with his original birth certificate to be analysed and proven? The onus of proof is on him, not the American public of which he wants their trust in him to be their leader.

So, who is lying? Barack? His grandmother? His sister?

Someone is.

p.s. Dr. Jerome Corsi will be on my show today (Sunday) where I will be interviewing him about his recent trip to Kenya to promote his new book, The Obama Nation...
* Dr. Corsi was not on my show Sunday, his publicist asked to re-schedule.

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THE GREAT BAILOUT BOONDOGGLES

2008-12-31T07:59:00.000-08:00

GMAC Adds Loans as U.S. Injects $6 Billion to Aid GM

By Rebecca Christie and David Mildenberg

Dec. 30 (Bloomberg) -- GMAC LLC, bolstered by a $6 billion federal bailout, resumed lending to General Motors Corp. customers with lower credit scores as the U.S. stepped up efforts to keep the automaker in business.

The Treasury said yesterday it will take a $5 billion stake in Detroit-based GMAC, the financing arm of GM, and lend $1 billion to the automaker that will be invested in GMAC to boost its capital. Within hours, GM was offering five-year, no- interest loans to halt this year’s 22 percent slide in sales, which dealers have blamed on a lack of financing for customers.

Reviving GM’s sales has become a priority for U.S. policy makers including the Federal Reserve because of concern that the automaker and its suppliers might go bankrupt and deepen the year-old recession by firing millions of workers. The funds for GMAC are on top of $13.4 billion the Treasury agreed earlier this month to lend to GM and Chrysler LLC.

“The economy has stopped on a dime, and the Fed is looking anywhere there are large markets they can affect in big ways,” said Greg Prost, chief investment officer at Ambassador Capital Management in Detroit, which manages about $800 million. “If they are going to save the car companies, there is going to have to be financing.”

GMAC will now lend to vehicle buyers with credit scores of 621 or higher, compared with a previous standard of at least 700, according to a company statement. The higher threshold had excluded about 42 percent of U.S. consumers.

Helping GM

The company said it won’t finance “higher-risk transactions,” instead concentrating on prime customers who are more likely to repay using “responsible credit standards.” The relaxed policy “will allow us to return to more normal levels of financing volume, and should help in efforts to stabilize the U.S. auto industry,” GMAC President Bill Muir said in today’s statement.

The lender financed about 35 percent of GM’s retail customers and about three-quarters of dealer inventory last year. GM, which sold 51 percent of GMAC in 2006 to a group led by private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management LP, is seeking a permanent federal bailout to avert bankruptcy. Cerberus also owns Chrysler.

Markets React

GMAC ran short of cash this year after $7.9 billion of losses over five quarters, mostly from record defaults on subprime mortgages, which are made to homebuyers with the worst records. The lender was shut out of credit markets and had to limit lending only to people with the top repayment histories, a policy that GM dealers said had cut deeply into sales.

“Bringing back loans is going to help tremendously, certainly with the perception of GM’s stability,” Mike Deichmann, owner of Trent Cadillac-Buick-Pontiac-GMC in New Bern, North Carolina, said in an interview. “These are all positive steps to get people to buy again, to visit the showroom.”

GMAC’s 8 percent bonds due in 2031 jumped 6.75 cents to 54.75 cents on the dollar to yield 15.1 percent at 1:09 p.m. in New York, according to Trace, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s debt-pricing service. The bonds, which traded at a low of 25 cents on Nov. 24, have jumped 21.75 cents since the Fed on Dec. 24 said it had approved GMAC’s bank holding company application. GM’s stock rose 5.6 percent in New York Stock Exchange composite trading.

Rescue Program

GM’s $1 billion loan from the Treasury would be used to support a GMAC rights offering, which is designed to help the lender bolster its balance sheet. The loan may be completed by about Jan. 16, the Treasury said.

The agreement opens a new rescue program for the car industry as part of the Treasury’s $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program. The bailout, originally designed to buy soured loans and securities from banks, has since become a tool for Treasury to prop up lenders, insurers, carmakers and now auto-finance companies.

The investment in GMAC is “part of a broader program to assist the domestic automotive industry in becoming financially viable,” the Treasury said in a statement yesterday.

GMAC will pay an 8 percent dividend on the Treasury’s $5 billion of senior preferred equity. The company will also issue warrants in the form of additional preferred equity that will equal 5 percent of the preferred-stock purchase and pay a 9 percent dividend if exercised.

No Deadline

The Bush administration has already agreed to loan GM $4 billion this month and $5.4 billion next month. If Congress agrees to approve funding of a second $350 billion for TARP, GM may get another $4 billion in February.

A Treasury official said there is no cap or deadline for aid for the auto industry under TARP. Congress “will need to release” the second half of the $700 billion under the Treasury’s rescue plan, the official said on condition of anonymity during a conference call with reporters.

The announcement left unresolved the status of GMAC’s $38 billion debt swap, another change designed to reduce the lender’s obligations and help it qualify to convert to a bank. GMAC didn’t say yesterday whether it had reached the goal of 75 percent participation, only that it has accepted all bonds tendered in the swap and that results were still being tallied.

“Once the offers are settled, which we expect to do promptly, results will be disclosed,” GMAC spokeswoman Gina Proia said in an e-mail.

Consequences

GMAC originally said it couldn’t become a bank without a successful debt swap. The Federal Reserve subsequently approved GMAC’s application to become a bank holding company last week, and GMAC said yesterday that the Fed’s approval didn’t hinge on completing the debt swap.

GMAC will “continue to pursue” other ways to boost liquidity, including applying for a Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. guaranty program and attracting retail deposits from consumers, said Toni Simonetti, a spokeswoman for GMAC.

The collapse of GMAC would leave GM at risk of losing as many as 40 percent of its 6,500 U.S. dealerships, Martin NeSmith, a liaison to the lender as a member of GM’s National Dealer Council, said Dec. 10. The dealerships rely on GMAC to finance cars and trucks on their lots while they wait for consumers to buy them.

With GM selling cars at the slowest pace in 26 years and the country in its worst housing crisis since the Great Depression, GMAC and its Residential Capital LLC mortgage unit have had no way to revive their own revenue. ResCap has faced speculation about bankruptcy after $9.1 billion of losses in two years.

Slow Sales

ResCap will continue to make new mortgages “that can be sold or funded in the secondary market,” Proia said today. The company isn’t making new subprime loans, she said.

“Also, a more stable operating environment will be a positive for our servicing operations.”

The company’s loan-servicing unit handled billing and record-keeping for about $410 billion of loans last year, making it the seventh-largest U.S. mortgage servicer.

“The relationship with GM is probably a key reason it’s being bailed out,” said Thomas Atteberry, who helps manage $3.5 billion in fixed-income assets at First Pacific Advisors in Los Angeles. “I’m not very happy about the fact that the government has to save an auto-finance company because management ran it into the ground.”

GMAC shook up management in April, naming Al de Molina, a former finance chief at Bank of America Corp. , as chief executive officer of GMAC Financial Services. Thomas Marano, who led mortgage trading and originations at Bear Stearns Cos., was named non-executive chairman of the Residential Capital mortgage unit and later promoted to CEO.

New Managers

“GMAC’s new management team has a strong background in banking,” said GMAC’s Proia. “They have had the vision and been able to execute these initiatives that will position the company for longer-term health.”

Management of Cerberus includes former Treasury Secretary John Snow, who is chairman of the New York-based private-equity firm. That poses a potential conflict of interest in a Treasury Department rescue of GMAC, said Josh Lerner, a Harvard Business School investment banking professor. It’s countered by the need to help GM, Lerner said.

“You can criticize the whole bailout process for a lack of transparency and this is no exception,” Lerner said. “On the other hand, it’s widely accepted that saving GM is an important public policy goal, at least in the short run.”

Cerberus spokesman Jim Olecki didn’t immediately return calls for comment.

To contact the reporters on this story: Rebecca Christie in Washington at http://us.mc01g.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=rchristie4@bloomberg.net; David Mildenberg in Charlotte at http://us.mc01g.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=dmildenberg@bloomberg.net

Last Updated: December 30, 2008 18:30 EST

(Whistler Questions: Whatever happened to our "fair trade", "unfair competition", and "insider trading", principles, laws and agreements? And, when did we become a socialist nation???)

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