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What happens when 4 right wing hacks deny reality and facts? When they're put up against Ring of Fire's own Mike Papantonio, he let's them know what really is happening in the world, and how they are the ones who kept pushing the toxic trash that helped crash our economy. As you can see in this clip, they don't always enjoy being forced to live in reality.
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Ed Suspicious
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in the role of foil), are disgusting human beings. I am so glad I don't often find myself watching this shit. 4 people talking over one another and one playing the part of partially impartial referee. It's absurd and disgusting. I seriously question the intelligence of anyone who would watch this on a regular basis for enjoyment.
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Mike Papantonio is a regular on The Ed Schultz show. (The guy in lower right quadrant.)
Papantonio also is part of the radio & online show called Ring of Fire Radio:
Ring of Fire Radio is a nationally syndicated American talk program hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio, and Sam Seder, appearing on numerous radio stations throughout the country. The trio focuses on exposing people whom they consider to be “corporate fat cats, polluters and media spinmeisters”. The show has been on the air since 2004. Additionally, the show appears on Free Speech TV throughout the week.
James Michael Papantonio, popularly known as Mike Papantonio, is an American attorney and radio talk show host. He is past president of The National Trial Lawyers, the most prestigious trial lawyer association in America; and is one of few living attorneys inducted into the Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame.
Papantonio co-hosts Ring of Fire Radio, a nationally syndicated weekly radio program, with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Sam Seder, where he is referenced as “America’s Lawyer.” He graduated from the University of Florida and received his J.D. from Cumberland School of Law. He was admitted to The Florida Bar in 1982. He is a senior partner in the Pensacola, Florida-based Levin Papantonio Law Firm, a leading national mass torts firm....
Read more:
http://www.ringoffireradio.com/about-our-hosts/
More Background on Goldman Sach's involvement with Greece's debt problems:
By Elisa Martinuzzi - February 17, 2010 13:31 EST
Feb. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc. managed $15 billion of bond sales for Greece after arranging a currency swap that allowed the government to hide the extent of its deficit.
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Legal ‘At the Time’
Goldman Sachs, Wall Street’s most profitable securities firm, is being criticized by European politicians including Germany’s ruling Christian Democrats, who have questioned whether the firm helped Greece hide its deficit to comply with the currency’s membership criteria. Greece is also being faulted by fellow euro-region countries for failing to disclose the swaps to EU regulators.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said today it’s a “scandal” if banks are found to have helped Greece conceal its budget deficit. The country “falsified statistics for years,” she said in her speech to a party rally.
The swaps used by Greece to manage debt were “at the time legal,” Greek Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou said on Feb. 15. The government doesn’t use the swaps now, he said.
Eurostat, the EU’s statistics office, this week ordered Greece to hand over information on the swaps transactions by the end of this week in an investigation that may extend to other EU countries.
Goldman Sachs earned about $24 million underwriting Greek government bonds since 2002, data compiled by Bloomberg show. Goldman Sachs underwrote 10 bond sales. Prospectuses for six of them, obtained by Bloomberg, contain no mention of the swaps. The other four couldn’t be obtained.
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Full article:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=akqC4y5U7MnU
Additional links to similar stories in regards to Goldman Sachs involvement:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/greek-debt-crisis-how-goldman-sachs-helped-greece-to-mask-its-true-debt-a-676634.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/business/global/14debt.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-17108367
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2010/feb/18/greece-goldman-sachs-debt-derivatives
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)Ed Suspicious
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rurallib
(62,491 posts)real truth tellers out there.
Ring of Fire ought to be mandatory viewing.
You can find it on Free Speech TV. You can watch it here online daily:
https://www.freespeech.org/
If you have Dish it is channel 9415. If you have Direct it is channel 348.
here is a blurb from freespeech.org:
Starting May 18th Ring of Fire will transition from a weekly program to a daily program, airing each weekday at 8:30pm ET. That means five times the heavy-hitting journalism from Mike Papantonio. The program's focus will remain on exposing corporate fat cats, polluters and media spinmeisters.
Mike Papantonio is an attorney, president of the National Trial Lawyer Association, and senior partner at the Levin, Papantonio, Thomas, Mitchell, Rafferty & Proctor law firm, a large Florida-based company that specializes in pursuing civil lawsuits against high-profile and often powerful defendants.
You can watch archived episodes of Ring of Fire here. If you find something you like, share it with your friends on Facebook and Twitter! You can also leave a comment below the video.
Still not sure what to expect from Ring of Fire? Check out this clip of Papantonio laying down the hammer about the dangers of the #TPP.
suzanner
(590 posts)(I've followed him for years now and he's been on my list of future husbands... but since I'm 65, far away, and one of many, I guess he doesn't have to worry.)
rizlaplus
(159 posts)... signifying nothing.
Dustlawyer
(10,499 posts)the other three and the host can dish out before coming back to him. He called them out with their smug attitude and bull shite!
antigop
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Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)Enthusiast
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bulloney
(4,113 posts)Wait until the Fed finally owns up and raises their artificially-low interest rates and see what happens to the U.S. economy. It will make the Great Depression of the 1930s look like a picnic in park. There's no solid foundation holding up the stock market or the economy. It's the uber-rich with the enabling Fed playing their money games and creating a house of cards with our economy. It cannot be sustained. And when the shit hits the fan, it won't be pretty.
And what's this crap with sticking up for Goldman Sachs like that bimbo was doing on that yak-fest? GS is a pariah and needs to be regarded as such.
