Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) | A Conversation with India's Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh (Video)

Speaker:	Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister, Republic of India
Presider:	Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations

November 23, 2009

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, speaking at the Washington office of the Council on Foreign Relations on November 23, discussed U.S.-India cooperation, Pakistan's terrorism threat, India's role in Afghanistan, India's economic growth and development, and global challenges to confronting climate change.

Singh, on a four-day trip to the United States as President Obama's first state visitor, listed agriculture, trade, education, defense, and energy as some of the areas for increased bilateral cooperation between Washington and New Delhi. On climate change, though, he reiterated India's long-held stance that it would only support a solution that does not hurt its economic growth.

Singh urged the international community to make long-term commitments to Afghanistan's development. Addressing growing concerns -- especially in Pakistan -- on India's involvement in Afghanistan, Singh said: "We do not see Afghanistan as a theater of influence. Our interest is in building a region of peace and stability."

The prime minister expressed concern regarding the spread of militancy inside Pakistan and its effects on regional security. He said that Pakistan had failed to sever links with militant groups targeting India, and he set Islamabad's break with these groups as a precondition for peace talks, including on issues relating to the disputed region of Kashmir. "Pakistan must make a break with the past, abjure terrorism, and come to the table with good faith and sincerity," he said.

This meeting was co-sponsored with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

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http://www.cfr.org/publication/20829/usindia_strategic_partnership.html?breadcrumb=%2Fabout%2Fnewsletters%2Feditorial_detail%3Fid%3D1734

President Barack Obama entertains India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh

400 guests including Hollywood moguls and pillars of the Indian business community attended the lavish banquet Photo: EPA

U.S. President Barack Obama (R) and Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh arrive for the start of joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, November 24, 2009

At a lavish banquet to mark the first state visit of the Obama presidency, 400 guests including Hollywood moguls and pillars of the Indian business community feasted on a menu prepared by Marcus Samuelsson, a Swedish chef from New York chosen by Michelle Obama.

The five-course menu served in a tent on the the South Lawn of the White House was flavoured by herbs from the White House garden planted by the first lady. There were also Indian inflections, including a main course of green curry prawns, believed to be the first tiem curry has been served at a state dinner, with coconut-aged basmati rice, accompanied by collard greens, a favourite in the American south.

At a preview of the event for Washington children, Mrs Obama said: "The president and I are going to host this really neat dinner in the tent outside."

Fittingly for a meeting of nations with the two most robust entertainment industries in the world, music was provided by two Oscar winners, the American singer and actress Jennifer Hudson and A.R. Rahman, the composer of the music in Slumdog Millionaire.

Recipients of the hottest tickets in Washington included the film director and producer Steven Spielberg, the music mogul David Geffen and film director M Night Shyamalan.

With Mr Obama and India's Manmohan Singh touting advances in co-operation on trade, investment and technology reached during meetings earlier in the day, the Indian businessman Ratan Tata of Tata Motors led numerous captains on Indian industry at the event.... Full Article
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/6646990/President-Barack-Obama-entertains-Indias-PM-Manmohan-Singh.html

China State Construction nets $100m US subway deal - The company has signed more than $2 billion worth of contracts in the US this year.

Updated: 2009-11-24 08:11

China State Construction Engineering Corp, the largest contractor in China, has bagged a subway ventilation project worth about $100 million in New York's Manhattan area, marking the construction giant's third order in the United States' infrastructure space this year.

The contract was given to China Construction American Co, a subsidiary, the Wall Street Journal quoted a source as saying.

"The new project, along with the $410-million Hamilton Bridge project and a $1.7-billion entertainment project it won earlier this year, signals China State Construction's ambition to tap the American construction market," said Li Zhirui, an industry analyst at First Capital Securities.

Li, however, said the order came as no surprise as the US government is spending massively on infrastructure projects.

The three orders only account for about 4 percent of the value of its total orders this year, Li added.

In the first three quarters of this year, the Chinese construction giant signed more than $2 billion worth of contracts in the US market. China State Construction was also the contractor for a high school, a railway station and the Chinese embassy in the US.

Despite the progress made in the US market, the Middle East, Asia and Africa remain the State builder's key markets. The value of its contracts in Algeria this year increased 32 percent year-on-year, exceeding $800 million, and the value of its contracts in the Middle East surged 62 percent year on year, also exceeding $800 million.

The domestic market is still the largest contributor to China State Construction's revenue, mainly due to strong property sales and infrastructure sector projects.

China State Construction said it reaped 41 billion yuan in revenue from the property sector in the first 10 months of this year, up 83.2 percent over the same period last year. Orders from the infrastructure construction business were boosted by 90 percent largely due to the fiscal stimulus allocated to China's infrastructure sector.

Citing the company's recent performance, Shenyin & Wanguo Securities has given China State Construction a "buy" rating for the first time.

According to statistics provided by the Ministry of Commerce, China's overseas project contracts have increased 22.7 percent to $100.15 billion in the first 10 months of this year.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2009-11/24/content_9028469.htm

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Reuters | Washington Post closing remaining U.S. bureaus

Tue Nov 24, 2009 6:47pm EST

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Washington Post is closing its last U.S. bureaus outside the nation's capital as the money-losing newspaper retrenches to focus on politics and local news.

"At a time of limited resources and increased competitive pressure, it's necessary to concentrate our journalistic firepower on our central mission of covering Washington and the news, trends and ideas that shape both the region and the country's politics, policies and government," the newspaper's top editor, Marcus Brauchli, wrote in a memo to employees that was obtained by Reuters.

The Post will close its bureaus in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York, effective December 31.

The news comes after the Post told several employees at its website that they would be laid off, and follows several rounds of buyouts in recent years.

The Post, like nearly every other U.S. newspaper, has been battered by falling advertising revenue and circulation as readers get more news online for free.

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AP Lincoln, NE | Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning and 37 other states are supporting a challenge to Chicago's ban on handguns

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) ―Nebraska and 37 other states are supporting a challenge to Chicago's ban on handguns.

The U.S. Supreme Court said earlier this fall that it would hear the lawsuit four people filed challenging the city ban.

One of the plaintiffs, Otis McDonald of Chicago, said he wants to own a firearm within city limits so he can protect himself in his home.

Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning says he and his fellow attorneys general want the high court to protect the constitutional right to bear arms and make it clear that cities and states have to follow the court's earlier rulings.

The goal of the Illinois lawsuit is to require state and local officials to follow the Supreme Court's 2008 ruling that eliminated Washington, D.C.'s handgun ban.

http://cbs2chicago.com/local/states.gun.ban.2.1331754.html

Climategate: why it matters

November 24th, 2009 

Climategate: still an astonishing lack of coverage in the MSM, the only major UK exception being the Mail which, after years of agnosticism now seems to have decided to come down firmly in the climate sceptics’ camp – here, here and in this article today by the mighty Booker. (Nigel Lawson is able to slip in a mention, too, in today’s Times).

But is that because – as some of the commenters below my post are so eager to tell me – it’s a complete non-story which deserves to get me the sack for being such a rubbish journalist (with innumerable websites dedicated to telling the world just how crap I am, apparently)?

Or does it have legs? (Hat tip: Watts Up With That)

This interview with retired climatalogist Dr Tim Ball offers quite a useful perspective.

There’s no point in anyone from the AGW camp watching it: they’ve made up their minds and no quantity of contrary evidence, however devastating, is going to shake their considered position of “Nyah nyah nyah. Got my fingers in my ears. Not listening. The world IS warming and it’s man’s fault. Must tax carbon now….”

But the type of people I would dearly love to watch it are those like my friends Dan Hannan, Danny Finkelstein, Ed West and Michael Gove. This particular rogues’ gallery has long been a source of frustration and disappointment to me. They are intelligent and wise, eloquent and funny. They are on the side of wisdom and commonsense. They correctly anatomise so many of the ills of the modern world, from the perils of rampant Islamism to the evils of the EU. I like and admire them all hugely. Yet on perhaps the biggest and most important issue of our age – because it’s going to cost so much money and do so much harm to our landscape – they all have a curious blind spot.

What seems to have lulled these four – and many other clever people like them, I fear – into their dangerous complacency is the belief that given the majority of world scientific opinion is backing AGW theory, it would be irresponsible for us non-scientists to disagree.

What the Climategate scandal does is prove just how murky and unreliable this supposed scientific “consensus” really is..... (Full Article)

http://jamesdelingpole.com/2009/11/24/climategate-why-it-matters/

Montana grain growers seek to mediate with Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) over proposed grain shipping rate hike

BILLINGS, Mont. November 24, 2009 (AP) - Montana farm groups are seeking to mediate with Burlington Northern Santa Fe railway over a proposed grain shipping rate hike slated to go into effect with the New Year.

Grain growers in central Montana have long complained of being subject to unfair price increases. The request for mediation is the first since the railway signed a January dispute resolution agreement with the Montana Grain Growers Association and the Montana Farm Bureau.

It follows a complaint lodged by a Shelby wheat producer over shipping rates between Shelby and Portland, Ore..

Lola Raska with the Montana Grain Growers Association says the 3-cent increase, to 76-cents per bushel, would apply to 5 to 7 million bushels of grain annually. It could cost farmers up to $210,000 a year.

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=9165449

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SteveQuayle.com | Hot Headlines - November 24, 2009

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Federation of American Scientists (FAS) | Chinese Submarines NOISIER than Russian's

Military-Today.com: The Type 094 or Jin class is the second-generation SSBN of the Chinese navy

 

China’s new Jin-class ballistic missile submarine is noisier than the Russian Delta III-class submarines built more than 30 years ago, according to a report produced by the U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) (pdf).

The report The People’s Liberation Army Navy: A Modern Navy With Chinese Characteristics (pdf), which was first posted on the FAS Secrecy News Blog and has since been removed from the ONI web site, is to my knowledge the first official description made public of Chinese and Russian modern nuclear submarine noise levels.

http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/11/subnoise.php

Large 6.8 Magnitude Earthquake hit TONGA REGION - 135 km (85 miles) ENE of NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga - Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at 02:47:14 AM at epicenter

Update time = Tue Nov 24 14:38:39 UTC 2009

	MAG	UTC DATE-TIME y/m/d h:m:s	LAT deg	LON deg	DEPTH km	Region
MAP	5.1	2009/11/24 13:32:09	-20.325	-173.956	10.0	TONGA
MAP	5.6	2009/11/24 13:04:24	-20.629	-174.097	10.0	TONGA
MAP	6.8	2009/11/24 12:47:15	-20.641	-174.068	10.0	TONGA

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/read/index.php?pageid=seism_read&rid=162238

Nuclear facilities:	There are no nuclear facilities nearby the epicenter.
Airport(s):	Location Airport ICAO Type Distance Tonga Haapai Airport NFTL 87.36 km

Location	20.641°S, 174.068°W
Depth	10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program
Region	TONGA
Distances	135 km (85 miles) ENE of NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga 220 km (135 miles) S of Neiafu, Tonga 480 km (300 miles) E of Ndoi Island, Fiji 2100 km (1300 miles) NE of Auckland, New Zealand

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NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga — A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the Pacific island nation of Tonga, sending panicked residents into the streets at night, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center reported shortly after the quake struck at 3:32 a.m. (1332 GMT, 8:32 a.m. EST) that there was no threat of a destructive widespread tsunami, although waves were possible within 100 kilometers (60 miles) of the epicenter.

"There's no indication of damage right now in this area," said Faleo Vico, the duty Weather Office staffer in the capital, Nuku'alofa, 120 miles (195 kilometers) southwest of the epicenter.

Residents in the capital said their homes rattled, and the tremors set off frantic barking of dogs.

In the town of Ha'apai, on an island 185 miles (300 kilometers) northeast of the capital, resident Lano Fonua said the quake was strong and lasted about 45 seconds.

"Many people went out into the streets as the quake was shaking the area quite a bit. It was really going," he said. "We don't have any reports of major damage here in the center of town."

The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was 6.8-magnitude and was generated from a depth of 38 miles (62 kilometers) in the ocean.

On Sept. 29, a tsunami spawned by a magnitude-8.3 earthquake killed 34 people in American Samoa, 183 in Samoa and nine in Tonga.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/6736717.html

One of Tonga's nearby 36 undersea volcanoes erupting March, 2009

Undersea volcano erupts off the coast of Tonga
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Joyce Riley's THE POWER HOUR NEWS | November 24, 2009

Troubling reports out of Iowa & N. Carolina raise fears that deadly H1N1 swine flu mutations have hit the US -- New reports from Iowa and North Carolina are raising concerns that the deadly H1N1 swine flu mutations that have been confirmed by the WHO in Ukraine, Norway and elsewhere have already reached the United States.

70 stories from people who have had reactions to the H1N1 vaccine -- The truth is that reports of serious adverse reactions to the H1N1 swine flu vaccine are constantly pouring in. Read a few of them...

My son is paralyzed from the swine flu shot -- Arlene Connin's stepson Jordan McFarland developed Guillain-Barre syndrome after getting the swine flu vaccine. He's now in a wheelchair.

Death toll in Europe on rise from H1N1 -- The number of confirmed deaths reported by EU & EFTA countries as due to the pandemic rose by two thirds in one week to 169.

Study: Vioxx risks could have been detected earlier -- Heart risks from taking Merck & Co Inc's painkiller Vioxx could have been detected more than three years before the company withdrew the drug from the market in September 2004, had the data been openly available, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

Rape in the ranks; the enemy within- US Army covers up rape -- War correspondents were stunned to hear from military women in Iraq that they should be very careful working in military units due to sexual assault and rape. A documentary, “Rape in the Ranks: The Enemy Within” was made and shown for the first time in the United States on October 26 at the New York Independent Film Festival.

Report: Obama using Blackwater for assassinations in Pakistan -- The Obama administration is using mercenaries with the firm formerly known as Blackwater to kidnap and assassinate high value targets in Pakistan, according to a published report.

Health Benefits of Pumpkin -- Nutrient-Rich Fruit with Anti-Aging and Disease-Fighting Properties!

The 'Real' Jobless Rate: 17.5% Of Workers Are Unemployed -- According to the government's broadest measure of unemployment, some 17.5 percent are either without a job entirely or underemployed. The so-called U-6 number is at the highest rate since becoming an official labor statistic in 1994.

China executes two over tainted milk powder scandal -- China has executed two people for their role in a scandal involving tainted milk powder that resulted in six children dying, officials have said.

The threat of MRSA, a drug-resistant bacterium commonly picked up in gyms and schools, grows dramatically -- The germ called community-acquired MRSA is resistant to many common antibiotics and kills an estimated 20,000 U.S. residents each year, scientists write in the current issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases. Many doctors and hospitals say they increasingly see patients with this staph infection seeking care.

Agencies find some flaws in Recovery.gov stimulus data -- More than $80 million in federal stimulus projects have been reported on the Recovery.gov Web site, and while the majority of those reports appear to have accurate information, a review by the Argus shows some flaws in the site’s data.

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Uranium from mines in Nevada wells -- A new wave of testing by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has found that 79 percent of the wells tested north of the World War II-era copper mine have dangerous levels of uranium or arsenic or both that make the water unsafe to drink.

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Indian Health care's broken promises -- After you read this one you won't want health care reform - On some reservations, the oft-quoted refrain is "don't get sick after June," when the federal dollars run out. It's A sick joke, and a sad one, because it's sometimes true, especially on the poorest reservations where residents cannot afford health insurance.

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TheHouseIsSmall.org | Photo Stories: African Women and Kids Affected by AIDS Share their Lives

http://allafrica.com/

These photos are from The House is Small But the Welcome is Big - a project which explores the impact of HIV/AIDS as experienced through the eyes of women and children living in South Africa and Mozambique.

 Kitchen table

A typical kitchen space is located outdoors, since homes in the neighborhood generally lack indoor running water, electrical power, or ventilation for fire-based stoves. The weathered kitchen table at Jeremiah's home is more than half disintegrated from age. But the parts of the tabletop that remain are still put to use.

 The littlest one

The youngest member of Saquina's family, an infant baby, lays on the bed in a room where Saquina and her sisters live. Their home is a windowless cinder block shack next to a dump. Her brothers live in a separate shack on the same lot.

Girl with a Baby, Maputo, 2007

Peeking Out, Cape Town, 2006

http://www.thehouseissmall.org/

Fear sets up camp on a stretch of the L.A. River

Along the Los Angeles River are invisible cities whose population centers do not figure on official maps.

Jolene Musgrove, 51, cooks breakfast among tossed garbage under the 7th Street Bridge next to the Los Angeles River in Long Beach. She has lived off and on at the river for about 30 years, and for the last few months between two bridge pillars under the 7th Street Bridge. Audio slide show (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

The river's littered banks have become a no-man's land for the homeless--the hard-core junkies, the mentally ill and those just trying to disappear. A dozen or so people live in tents and lean-tos under the 7th Street bridge in Long Beach, just one of the many invisible villages along the river.    Full Article >>>>

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-river-killings24-2009nov24,0,6475619,full.story

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Tent City underway in Escanaba, Michigan   

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ESCANABA -- The TV6 and WYKX-WDBC Tent City event kicked off Monday morning, and will take place over the next three days. The event helps to raise money ...

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Number of Newborns Declines in South Korea for 19th Straight Month

Despite the government's efforts to raise birthrates, the number of newborns has continued to show a downward curve for nearly the past two years, with more young men and women delaying marriage in the face of increasing financial difficulties and the tight job market.  Full Article >>>>

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2009/11/123_56052.html

USGS Webcam Catches Minor Eruption of Kilauea Volcano at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park

November 24, 2009 - This USGS Quicktime movie shows a small explosive event at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park in the Halema`uma`u vent at 9:20 a.m Saturday. The explosion was immediately preceded by a portion of the vent rim collapsing into the vent cavity.

Click to view video on USGS website:

The brown plume rises rapidly from the vent, and in the full resolution video large particles can be seen ejected in front of the plume. In the video shown here, it is possible to see some of these particles impact the crater wall—look for several small white puffs to appear on the crater wall just ahead of the rising brown plume (about 7-9 seconds into the video clip). No ejecta was found at the Halema`uma`u Overlook, indicating that few, if any particles, reached the crater rim.  http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/podcast/2009/usgs-webcam-catches-minor-eruption-kilauea-volcano-hawaii-volcanoes-national-park4985

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Basketball-sized chunk of rim ice crashed through the roof of a family's Colorado home

BRUSH, Colo. -A basketball-sized chunk of ice crashed through the roof of a family's Colorado home after apparently falling from an airplane passing overhead. 

Danelle Hagan and her 9-year-old daughter were at home in Brush on Saturday when they heard the kitchen ceiling come crashing down. They were not injured.

"I hear a huge, what sounded like an explosion. And I look over and my kitchen is basically in shambles," Hagan told KMGH-TV in Denver. "It was very terrifying."

The Federal Aviation Administration was sending investigators to the home to investigate whether the ice came from an airplane. The Hagans put some of the ice in their freezer. 

FAA spokesman Mike Fergus said Wednesday the ice chunk appears to be "Rime ice," which can build up on the outside of a plane's fuselage when it flies through cold and wet air.

Fergus says that it doesn't appear the ice was "blue ice," which comes from an airplane's toilet. 

After investigators determine whether the ice came from a plane, Fergus said they'll look at which planes are in the area at the time to see if it's possible to tell which craft dropped the ice. 

Fergus said that in cases of falling blue ice, FAA investigators would inspect any plane that was in the area to make sure it doesn't have a dangerous pressure leak. He said that ice falls from airplanes are alarming, but extremely rare.

He said the chances of getting hit by ice from a plane is "on the magnitude of a lightning strike."

Hagan's family is staying out of the house until it's repaired because the crash loosened some asbestos. She says people were in the kitchen just before the ice fell, so they're just glad to be OK.

"If we had been in that kitchen, it would have been devastating," Hagan said.
  http://news.aol.com/article/chunk-of-ice-crashes-through-roof-of/773372


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Rick Rozoff - Global Research | Ex-Soviet States - Battleground For Global Domination

 

November 23, 2009 - A Europe united under the EU and especially NATO is to be strong enough to contain, isolate and increasingly confront Russia as the central component of U.S. plans for control of Eurasia and the world, but cannot be allowed to conduct an independent foreign policy, particularly in regard to Russia and the Middle East. European NATO allies are to assist Washington in preventing the emergence of "the most dangerous scenario...a grand coalition of China, Russia, and perhaps Iran" such as has been adumbrated since in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

 

Four years after the publication of The Grand Chessboard, Brzezinski's recommended chess move was made: The U.S. and NATO invaded Afghanistan and expanded into Central Asia where Russian, Chinese and Iranian interests converge and where the basis for their regional cooperation existed, and Western military bases were established in the former Soviet republics of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, where they remain for the indefinite future.

 

As the United States escalates its joint war with NATO in Afghanistan and across the Pakistani border, expands military deployments and exercises throughout Africa under the new AFRICOM, and prepares to dispatch troops to newly acquired bases in Colombia as the spearhead for further penetration of that continent, it is simultaneously targeting Eurasia and the heart of that vast land mass, the countries of the former Soviet Union.

 

Within months of the formal breakup of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in December of 2001, leading American policy advisers and government officials went to work devising a strategy to insure that the fragmentation was final and irreversible. And to guarantee that the fifteen new nations emerging from the ruins of the Soviet Union would not be allied in even a loose association such as the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) founded in the month of the Soviet Union's dissolution.

Real-time Magnetosphere Simulation | Our Planet's Magnetosphere Update at 7:45 PM CDT November 23, 2009

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JPMorgan Chase Bankster Dimon Mentioned for Treasury Post

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars
November 23, 2009

 Swapping out Timothy Geithner for Jamie Dimon? More lipstick on a pig. 

Speculation has it a game of musical chairs is underway at the Treasury and the Fed. Geithner and Bernanke may be offered up as scapegoats as the economy continues its perilous (and planned) descent. Congress is worried about rising federal deficits and unemployment as the mid-term elections approach, so Geithner and Bernanke may be required to fall on their swords.

“The theory is that the President will fire Geithner and pull he support for reappointing Bernanke to show that he is concerned with the problem and is willing to bring in new blood,” opines 24/7, an investment website. “The latest in speculation is the Geithner will be gone soon and JPMorgan Chase & Co. CEO Jamie Dimon will become the next Secretary of the Treasury.”

Jamie Dimon is the preferred choice, according to the New York Post, because JPMorgan came out at the top of the big bank pile-up during the so-called credit crisis. Dimon’s JPMorgan was “reasonable about the pay packages it has given to its management and top financiers, unlike Goldman Sachs, which will distribute record bonuses this year,” writes Douglas A McIntyre.  FULL ARTICLE>>>>

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