bostonangler

You are correct part timers get screwed... That is the new America. Look at the countries largest employer. Walmart. They offer a crappy wage and expensive benefits. But people keep on supporting them. Personally I refuse to shop there. They are a great example of what is wrong with the people in this country. People accept it. Pretty sad when you think about it. I'd rather pay 10 or 15 percent more and shop at a local business then support that sad company. I'm sure Sam Walton is rolling over in his grave, to see his ideals thrown out the window. B/A

You got a job grandma or are you living off the dole?

Sorry to hear that. I have many clients who are trying to hire. Their biggest complaint? No one wants to work. They say millennials are the worst. Here's a link... http://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-jobs-report-december-2016-130636452.html

Okay, it's time for happy hour... B/A

I do think it would be nice to add some commentary/opinion. Lord knows everyone else here does! LOL B/A

And 75 months of employment growth. B/A

This now famous (thanks to the media) ******* isn't going to like it when he meets his new room mates. B/A

Come on sarge he's just posting news stories. It's not like he is writing them, then sticking toothpicks in your eyes to force them open so you have to read it. Only evil doers would use torture. Right? B/A

This should be interesting. B/A

I didn't vote for Rubio. Did you? B/A

I guess time will tell. I do hope he is a good person. B/A

With a little help from his friends... You know Congress and Senate B/A

Wait I said it's not my problem. I was only using your terminology from our last discussion on crack babies. Remember? I asked if you were ready to save a soul and your reply was, and I quote "not my problem". So we are in agreement. B/A

I get that. But you would not condone murder to profit. That is what happens when you sell technology and equipment to terror states. Ask the 400,00 people in Syria how they feel. Oh wait, they are dead at the hands of the dictator. B/A

I think you may have had too many cocktails since the election. You seem to think I voted for Clinton. I have posted many times I couldn't vote for her or the other criminal. So whatever happens from January 20th and on ain't my problem. I'm just going to sit back and watch the show. This spectacle called an election has really been quite the spectator sport. B/A

That's rich. B/A

The Mob just called. They want you to kill your mother, her business is hurting their business. Money is no object. How much would it take? $10,000? $100,000? $1,000,000? What's a life compared to riches? Can't stop the wheels of commerce. Of course this post is in jest. B/A

Huh???? Anyone who is found to work with terror nations should be held accountable. But starting off a new administration with that kind of baggage, just doesn't seem like a good idea. B/A

Nah, they are now the good guys. Haven't you heard? B/A

Our country had these terror states under sanction. Exxon skirted the laws to do their business. So they booked their profits, while the dictators killed men, women and children. It may not be illegal, but it sure isn't pretty. It would be like making money off Hamas while they kill Jews. It may be legal, but would your conscience let you sleep at night? Bottom line, these people who head up the multi-nationals are sociopaths. JMHO B/A

I personally think profits over people is his mantra. B/A

Terrorism, I guess it's okay if you can profit from it. Not my opinion mind you, but that of Rex Tillerson, you know the nominee for secretary of State. ExxonMobil did business with Iran, Syria and Sudan through a European subsidiary while President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of State was a top executive of the oil giant and those countries were under U.S. sanctions as state sponsors of terrorism, Securities and Exchange Commission filings show. That business connection is likely to surface Wednesday at a confirmation hearing for ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The sales were conducted in 2003, 2004 and 2005 by Infineum, in which ExxonMobil owned a 50% share, according to SEC documents unearthed by American Bridge, a Democratic research group. ExxonMobil told USA TODAY the transactions were legal because Infineum, a joint venture with Shell Corporation, was based in Europe and the transactions did not involve any U.S. employees. The filings, from 2006, show that the company had $53.2 million in sales to Iran, $600,000 in sales to Sudan and $1.1 million in sales to Syria during those three years. He became a senior vice president at ExxonMobil in August 2001, president and director in March 2004 and chairman and chief executive on Jan. 1, 2006. The SEC letter questioned ExxonMobil’s failure to disclose to shareholders that it had transactions with three state sponsors of terrorism. Decisions to make such disclosures should be based on “the potential impact of corporate activities upon a company`s reputation and share value,” and not simply the monetary value of the transactions, the SEC said. Compared to Exxon’s overall annual revenue of $371 billion, “these transactions are not material by any reasonable measure,” Richard Gutman, ExxonMobil’s assistant general counsel at the time, wrote in response to an SEC inquiry regarding the transactions. He did not address the SEC's concerns about the impact on the oil company's reputation Infineum’s European affiliates manage business transactions in those three countries “under a policy and procedure consistent with U.S. legal requirements and no United States person is involved in those business transactions,” Gutman wrote. The subsidiary has offices in the United States, United Kingdom and Singapore. “These are all legal activities complying with the sanctions at the time," Alan Jeffers, media manager at ExxonMobil, told USA TODAY. "We didn’t feel they were material because of the size of the transactions.” “They (Infineum) have an independent management that operates the entity. And it’s not a U.S. entity,” Jeffers said. At the time of the SEC inquiry, such indirect transactions between Iran and American companies were not unusual, said Mark Dubowitz, an expert on Iran sanctions at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Washington think tank. “It’s the reason Congress eventually shut down U.S. companies from doing business (with Iran) through foreign subsidiaries,” Dubowitz said. Congress also required such transactions to be disclosed. The Iran nuclear deal that went into effect in early 2016 reopened the loophole under certain conditions, Dubowitz said. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey, the ranking Democrat on the Foreign Relations panel, said he was “deeply skeptical about Mr. Tillerson’s actions as CEO of Exxon that were in direct contravention to express United States policies put in place to secure Americans and our country." "Finding loopholes to make lucrative business deals with geo-political adversaries, while showing no clear regard for U.S. national interests, is not a resume builder for a prospective diplomat-in-chief," Menendez said in a statement to USA TODAY. "This is one of the many issues I look forward to hearing more about during the upcoming confirmation hearings.” http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/01/09/exxonmobil-and-iran-did-business-under-secretary-state-nominee-tillerson/96359776/ B/A

You shouldn't be a merchant of their evil by spreading it. Now everyone will go looking for this stupid video. It is like the Orlando airport shooter, or any terrorist. Their names and faces should never be shown on the news. That simply makes them famous and more jerks follow suite for fame. Look at the Charleston shooter. I wonder how many idiots out there are thinking "Wow I could be on TV"? B/A

Three FX Traders Criminally Charged With Currency Rigging Jan 10, 2017 4:46 PM Moments ago, U.S. prosecutors charged three traders who made up the infamous “Cartel” currency rigging chat room, and who were at the heart of a criminal investigation that has ensnared the world’s biggest banks over the rigging of currency rates. Richard Usher, formerly head of G10 spot trading at JPMorgan, Rohan Ramchandani, formerly of Citigroup and Chris Ashton, formerly of Barclays, were indicted Tuesday for conspiring to fix prices. They’re all outside the U.S. and will have to be extradited unless they surrender voluntarily. Richard Usher As first reported back in 2013 when the FX rigging scandal broke out, the three used an online chatroom they dubbed ‘The Cartel’ to coordinate the rigging of foreign-exchange benchmarks by sharing confidential customer information, according to the U.S. charge. Another member, Matt Gardiner, formerly of UBS Group AG, has been helping prosecutors build cases against the traders, Bloomberg reported earlier. Citigroup, Barclays, JPMorgan and Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc pleaded guilty in May 2015 to conspiring to rig currency rates. UBS Group AG received immunity from prosecution, but its conduct breached an earlier agreement over its role in manipulating benchmark interest rates. The Cartel chatroom ran from at least December 2007 until January 2013, prosecutors have said in court papers. It was limited to specific euro/dollar traders, they said. Many conversations took place just before daily fixes, the brief windows of time when data providers take a snapshot of trading so they can set daily rates. As Bloomberg noted previously, the charges make good on the government’s long-running promise it would hold individuals to account in the case. As far back as September 2014, then-Attorney General Eric Holder said charges against traders were imminent. Those efforts were hampered by issues of evidence and lack of cooperators, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg last year. Bloomberg published a series of articles in 2013 exposing how the world’s biggest banks were colluding to rig foreign exchange rates. Some prosecutions are moving forward. Over the past six months, two currency traders were charged and a third pleaded guilty to rigging allegations. This summer, Gardiner and Ashton were banned from the U.S. banking industry for life by the Federal Reserve, which also imposed a $1.2 million fine on Ashton. Unlike the US, the U.K. Serious Fraud Office dropped its investigation into currency rigging last year citing insufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction. The agency interviewed 19 individuals as part of its probe, according to a freedom-of-information request by Bloomberg in August, including four under caution. Interviews under caution generally mean the person is being treated as a suspect. Some more details from Bloomberg for those unfamiliar with the story: Citigroup, Barclays, JPMorgan and Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc pleaded guilty in the U.S. in May 2015 to conspiring to rig currency rates. UBS received immunity from prosecution in the currency case, but its conduct breached an earlier agreement over its role in manipulating benchmark interest rates. During the banks’ Jan. 5 sentencing, a federal judge in Connecticut urged the Justice Department to pursue individuals in the cases. “Mischief will be best deterred if the people responsible are not only fired but that any compensation made to them that was triggered by the wrongful conduct, for example bonuses, are clawed back or disgorged,” U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill said. “Frankly I would encourage the government to consider prosecution of individuals.” http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-10/three-cartel-fx-traders-criminally-charged-currency-rigging

RV. I am truly sorry to hear about your daughter. That is a disgrace. I wish I could answer that response outside of it being political. Sadly I cannot. There hundreds if not thousands of examples of our government showing disregard for it's citizenry. It seems our government has been the puppet on a string for as many years as I can remember. One of my earliest memories of understanding the corruption came in the 70's. I was watching 60 minutes during the oil embargo and there was a sheik being interviewed explaining how our government, and I quote "was bought and paid for". I'll never forget that moment. It was like dumping an ice bucket over my head. I was shocked, bewildered and pissed-off all at the same time. As far as government hacking, foreign or our own government. When we were caught hacking Germany a year or two ago, no one, especially the American public paid any attention. You reap what you sow. They have opened Pandora's Box. B/A