Banks - Get Out of Jail Free Card

Banks - Get Out of Jail Free Card

Image by DonkeyHotey
While the government is coordinating a militarized response to put down Occupy Wall Street your state Attorney General may be conspiring to let the banks of the hook for breaking the law and stealing the pension funds of the 99%. The 7.7 trillion dollar Bank Bailouts of TARP and the FED in 2008 were the first two legs of the bailout stool. This awful Obama/State AG's get-out-of-jail-free-card is the third leg of the bailout stool. The banks are rewarded for breaking the law and wrecking the economy while the little guy is being sent to privatised prisons for minor offenses.

Here are some articles that explain what is happening:The Next Big Bank Bailout by Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone
Foreclosure Settlement: States, Banks Near Deal On Major Sticking Point from Reuters on The Huffington Post
A Deal That Wouldn’t Sting by Gretchen Morgenson in The New Your Times

Call your Attorney General today and tell them to drop out of this bad Bank Settlement. The Consumerist has the number.

The source image for this caricature of Brian Moynihan is a Creative Commons Licensed photo from the World Economic Forum's Flickr photostream.

Acqba Jaba Camp, West Bank

Image by United Nations Photo
Two young residents from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)'s Acqba Jaber camp for Palestinian refugees in the West Bank pose next to a graffiti wall. The camp is located just outside of Jericho.
01/06/2003. West Bank. UN Photo/Stephenie Hollyman.
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みずほ銀行 Mizuho Bank and 松坂屋 Matsuzakaya Department Store

Image by Canadian Pacific
The address is supposed to be around 5-8-16 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061, but Japan's address system is unbelievable complex for people from the West.

My friends Don and Rupert visited Japan again recently. In lieu of a souvenir, I asked them to take a few bank photos for me.

Special thanks to them!

Mizuho Financial is one of Japan's largest financial services groups.

Matsuzakaya is a high-end daprtment store chain in Japan, it can trace its history to a retail shop all the way back to 1611.

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東京都中央区銀座5-8-16

Bank of America security during Iraq war protest

Image by Steve Rhodes
I started to take a photo of the Bank of America which had been closed because of the protest and they told me I wasn't allowed to.

I explained I was on a public sidewalk. One of them gestured to an imaginary
line which they said was the Bank of America's property. Even if that was the case, I was a few feet beyond it.

I started taking some photos and they certainly didn't represent the Bank of America in a very favorable way.

I then noticed that red paint had been thrown high up on the window. Still, pretty mild compared to some of the Vietnam era protests against B of A.

River Bank

Image by johnwilliamsphd
South bank of the Susquehanna River, Binghamton, NY.

Taken during Scott Kelby's Second Annual Worldwide Photo Walk, July 18, 2009.