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POPS Is She Watching You . . . . .
" he consequences of a prolonged economic downturn – including real estate foreclosures, unemployment and an inability to obtain credit – could create a fertile recruiting environment for right-wing extremists and even result in confrontations between such groups and government authorities similar to those in the past," the report says. Most notable is the report's focus on the impact of returning war veterans. "Returning veterans possess combat skills and experience that are attractive to right-wing extremists," it says. "DHS/I&A is concerned that right-wing extremists will attempt to recruit and radicalize veterans in order to boost their violent capacities." aw enforcement agencies to watch for suspicious individuals who may have bumper stickers for third-party bumper stickers. It further warned law enforcement to watch out for individuals with "radical" ideologies based on Christian views, such as opposing illegal immigration, abortion and federal taxes.
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POPSNevada, Arizona & California Top Country's Foreclosure Filings Once it starts to go over the cliff, it's gone." In other parts of the country, the foreclosure wave was barely a ripple — at least until it started swamping major banks that had invested heavily in mortgages. Banking giant Wachovia Corp., for example, was hammered after California and Florida customers of one mortgage firm it bought began defaulting at high rates. The risks of such lending were spread so broadly among financial institutions that, when the loans went bad, it drove the national credit crisis, says Christopher Mayer, who studies real estate at Columbia Business School. The Obama administration on Wednesday detailed a $75 billion plan to keep more homeowners from slipping into foreclosure by helping them refinance loans or reduce their monthly payments. But that effort could face political challenges because most of the foreclosure problem has been so concentrated in a few areas, says Brookings Institution researcher Alan Mallach.
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POPSSenate Calculator Fabulous Electoral Map showing possible outcomes in all 50 states for senate, house races.
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POPSAustin Realtor blog Brooking Insitute Survey puts Austin on top. Brookings Institute in Washington, DC conducts their ‘MetroMonitor’ survey every quarter. They released their comparison research for the last quarter of 2008 to the first quarter of 2009.
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POPSFeinstein Steers $25Billion Federal Dollars To Husband's Company Spokesmen for the FDIC, Mrs. Feinstein and Mr. Blum's firm told The Times that there was no connection between the legislation and the contract signed Nov. 13, and that the couple didn't even know about CBRE's business with FDIC until after it was awarded. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs with jurisdiction over FDIC; and the agency is supposed to operate from money it raises from bank-paid insurance payments - not direct federal dollars. About the same time of the contract award, Mr. Blum's private investment firm reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission that it and related affiliates had purchased more than 10 million new shares in CBRE. The shares were purchased for the going price of $3.77; CBRE's stock closed Monday at $5.14.
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POPSSound Bites And Sloganeering Just Won’t Cut It Anymore even including such environmentally sensitive countries as the United Kingdom, Norway and France—to limit oil and gas exploration to this extent. Gulf of Mexico that hold billions of barrels of oil and gas are inaccessible for purely political reasons. Appeasing Florida’s real-estate and tourism industries has been more important than U.S. energy security. In addition, politicians throw red meat to the crowd by promising to punish the oil industry for its huge profits, overlooking the small problem that much of this profit is not even made in the United States. In fact, it is not the oil companies, but producing countries like Venezuela, Mexico, Iran and Russia that are provoking the pending production crunch through lack of investment. National oil companies now control nearly 80 percent of worldwide reserves, leaving major Western multinationals with full access to only 6 percent.
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POPSTight Credit Hurts only Housing says FED The Federal Reserve Board maintains that the current status of the US credit crunch is only impacting the housing market. Others argue (see earlier post) that the impact is only on the more affluent home buyer at the moment. In other news, however, Countrywide, a major player in the sub-prime mortgage market just announced that it is laying off some 900 people all related to their mortgage business. The writing is on the wall. The credit crunch is here and denial won't make it better.
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POPSHell Hath no Fury Like a pissed off queen. Really, I'm not sure why it's news that a gay man finds his representative supports amending the constitution to prohibit same-sex marriage, and decides to do everything he can to help defeat her. Or maybe it's just that the 527s aren't supposed to work for progressives the way they work for the other side.
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