The Kevin Trudeau Show: 6-2-12

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Jason Russell Co-Founder Of Invisible Children, ‘Kony 2012′ Reportedly Detained In San Diego For Lewd Acts

March 16, 2012

Huffington Post

By HP

“These are the kinds of people behind Invisible Children. The statement from the group is ludicrous.  The real question is why aren’t officers going to press charges?” –KTRN

Jason Russell Arrested

NBC San Diego is reporting that Jason Russell, the co-founder of Invisible Children, the advocacy group behind the “Kony 2012″ viral video, was detained at 11:30 am on Thursday morning for allegedly masturbating in public.

TMZ reported Friday afternoon that law enforcement officials don’t plan to bring charges against Russell.

According to TMZ, Russell was allegedly under the influence of alcohol. Police also told TMZ that he was vandalizing cars.

Scroll down for video of alleged incident. WARNING: Video provided by TMZ contains nudity.

In a statement posted online, Ben Keesey, the CEO of Invisible Children, said: “The past two weeks have taken a severe emotional toll on all of us, Jason especially, and that toll manifested itself in an unfortunate incident yesterday. Jason’s passion and his work have done so much to help so many, and we are devastated to see him dealing with this personal health issue.”

Scroll down for Keesey’s full statement.

Russell created the 30-minute film featuring himself, his son, Gavin, and a former child soldier from Uganda named Jacob. Last week, the film received millions of views and rocketed Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army, to fame. However, many were quick to respond with criticisms of the film and the organization’s spending practices.

Jason Russell is described on the organization’s website as a “grand storyteller and dreamer” who dreams of “redefining the concept of humanitarian work” and having “nine more children” with his wife.

A phone call to the San Diego Police Department department had not been returned at the time of publication, and the phone line at Invisible Children was not operating.

“Kony 2012″ has received nearly 100 million views on Vimeo and YouTube.

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JP Morgan Chase Continues PR Blitz

January 27, 2012

USA Watchdog

By Greg Walker

I was watching the FOX Business channel, and who did I see again–Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO of JP Morgan Chase. Charlie Gasparino had what he called a “no holds barred” interview with Dimon. I watched two long segments of the interview, and once again, it appeared like a PR story for the bank. In one of the segments, Gasparino said that Dimon, “. . . took every question I threw at him . . . I think he sees himself as a spokesman for the industry.” It was too bad Gasparino was throwing softballs.

Gasparino asked about the company’s sagging stock price, and what was wrong with the (so-called) recovery. These are hardly hard ball questions in light of the many lawsuits facing JP Morgan that allege some sort of fraud. I wrote about some of the lawsuits in a post I did last week titled “USA Today Gives JP Morgan Free Pass.” I guess Charlie didn’t read it. If he had, he could have asked about the lawsuits alleging mortgage and foreclosure fraud. I would also love to have heard what Dimon would have said about some of the missing client assets that were reportedly transferred to JP Morgan just before MF Global went under. I think it could have done JP Morgan some good to have heard what the CEO of the bank had to say about these important and thorny issues, but what do I know.

Gasparino asked about the President characterizing the big banks as “fat cats.” Dimon responded, “I’ve disagreed from the beginning of this blanket blame of all banks are all bad guys. I think that’s just a form of discrimination and it should be stopped. It doesn’t lead to productive conversation.” (Click here to see much more on Gasparino’s interview with Dimon.) No, Mr. Dimon, it should not be stopped. There are many out here in a financially ruined America that would like real investigations and indictments of the very bankers who caused the financial meltdown of 2008. I think that would be a “productive conversation.” Unfortunately, it does not look like that will happen. Instead of indictments, the five biggest banks are in the final stages of a deal with state AG’s and the federal government to settle the mortgage mess that caused housing to collapse. MSNBC reported recently, “A proposed $25 billion settlement between five big banks, state attorneys general and the Obama administration may help resolve some of the thornier legal issues surrounding the mortgage mess that caused the housing market to collapse. It will do relatively little to stop the ongoing wave of home foreclosures or revive the deeply depressed housing market, however. Talks got underway more than a year ago after a series of private lawsuits focused national attention on an outbreak of “robo-signing” and other shoddy and fraudulent document processing practices by mortgage servicers foreclosing on homes. Most of the key issues that have sidelined past tentative agreements have been addressed, according to a source close to the talks who was not authorized to discuss the proposal.” (Click here to read the complete MSNBC story.)

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The Kevin Trudeau Show: 1-21-12

Did you know that the government arranges to kill people all over the world? KT reveals the shocking details! Plus, find out why the White House is putting the pressure on news organizations, and why news organizations are putting the pressure on the White House!

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Farmers Sue MF Global CEO Over Lost Billions

January 11, 2012

ABC News

By Cindy Galli

Montana farmers have filed a class action suit against former New Jersey governor Jon Corzine, charging that the failed financial firm run by Corzine stole millions from their accounts to pay off its spiraling debts, and that Corzine’s “single-minded obsession” with making MF Global a big player on Wall Street led to the firm’s collapse.

MF Global’s clients included 38,000 wheat farmers, cattle ranchers and others who “hedged” their crop prices by placing millions in MF Global accounts. Those accounts were supposed to be “segregated and secure,” according to the federal suit, meaning MF Global could not draw on those funds.

The lawsuit, filed on behalf of all 38,000 customers, alleges that when MF Global made a series of bad investments — notably in European debt — it began “siphoning funds withdrawn from segregated client accounts” to cover its debts.

“This is a suit by the real victims of MF Global,” said plaintiff’s attorney Mark Baker of the law firm Anderson, Baker & Swanson. “The missing funds were not investments in MF Global, or loans to MF Global, but rather the customer’s own money as collateral to guaranty their contracts. They were not to be used by others – let alone their own broker – to speculate on risky and exotic securities.”

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The Kevin Trudeau Show: 11-5-11

Did you know that the government arranges to kill people all over the world? KT reveals the shocking details! Plus, find out why the White House is putting the pressure on news organizations, and why news organizations are putting the pressure on the White House!

Self Help:
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White House Emails Show Staffer Calling Fox News’ Bret Baier A ‘Lunatic’
Wastebook 2010: A Guide To Wasteful Government Spending
Congressional Trading on Advance Info Not Illegal: SEC
Congress Mulls Trading Curbs for Its Own
Abnormal Returns From Common Stock Investments From The U.S. Senate

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Ousted First Solar CEO Made $30M in 15 Months Amid 60% Stock Value Plunder

October 27, 2011

Bloomberg

By Christopher Martin

Rob Gillette, who stepped down as chief executive officer of First Solar Inc. (FSLR) this week after boosting panel manufacturing capacity during a slump, may be eligible for an $8.9 million severance package and collected $29.9 million for his initial 15 months on the job.

The world’s biggest maker of thin-film solar panels rewarded Gillette while its shares fell 60 percent from the day he started in October 2009 through Oct. 24, the day before he resigned. Compensation for Gillette, 50, is at least 19 percent more than Chevron Corp. CEO John Watson earned over the same period, when the U.S. energy company’s shares gained 54 percent.

Gillette’s pay, described in regulatory filings for 2009 and 2010, also show a $5 million signing bonus to lure him from Honeywell International Inc. (HON) First Solar received $3.07 billion in loan guarantees from the U.S. government to support projects using its technology, which is a rival to silicon-based cells made by Chinese companies led by Suntech Power Holdings Co.

“Gillette’s compensation was unusually front-loaded, so when it came time to throw him out he had them on the hook for a lot of money,” Graef Crystal, a compensation expert and Bloomberg News consultant based in Las Vegas, said in an interview. “This wasn’t pay for performance, it was pay for future performance.”
More Than Chevron

Chevron’s Watson was paid a total of $8.8 million in 2009 and $16.3 million last year, according to Chevron filings.

Gillette earned a total of $8.07 million in salary and other compensation in 2008, his last full year leading Honeywell’s aerospace division, according to company filings. His compensation was $4.14 million in 2009, before he left to run First Solar.

First Solar almost doubled production capacity as the market became oversupplied and prices for solar panels plunged, contributing to the bankruptcies of three U.S. manufacturers including Solyndra LLC, the recipient of a $535 million U.S. loan guarantee.

Ted Meyer, First Solar spokesman, wouldn’t discuss Gillette’s compensation. Gillette couldn’t be reached through his corporate e-mail account, which was closed, and his home phone number is unlisted.

First Solar Chairman Michael Ahearn, 54, was named interim CEO on Oct. 25 and the next day slashed the Tempe, Arizona-based company’s sales and profit forecasts for 2011. He plans to reduce capital spending to survive a global decline in demand and prices for solar products while shifting resources to expand sales in new regions.

Gillette’s severance package, according to First Solar’s proxy statement filed April 13, includes $2.55 million in cash and $19,111 in medical benefits.
Compensation in Shares

It also includes as much as $6.33 million in stock compensation, based on the company’s $130.14 share price at the end of last year.

First Solar rose 15 percent to $52.90 a share in New York today, the biggest gain since April 29, 2010. It plunged 25 percent, the most ever, on Oct. 25 after the company announced Gillette’s departure.

Crystal said the stock-based portion of the package is probably worth less now, depending on the date the company uses to calculate his severance, and it will be difficult to calculate its exact value.

First Solar’s expects its production capacity to reach 2,236 megawatts by the end of this year, up from 1,228 megawatts at the end of 2009, mostly from new factories in Germany and Malaysia, according to a second-quarter company overview.

Click here for the full report from Bloomberg.

Even The CEOs On Obama’s Job Creation Panel Are Shipping Jobs Out Of The United States

October 11, 2011

The American Dream

There are 27 members on Barack Obama’s job creation panel, and most of them are corporate executives. The formal name of the panel is the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, which is kind of ironic considering the fact that many of the CEOs on the panel have been rapidly shipping jobs out of the United States.

So what hope is there that things are going to turn around if many of the folks that are supposed to be helping Barack Obama create U.S. jobs are actively destroying them instead? And how is the American middle class ever supposed to recover if corporate executives keep taking their jobs away and sending them to the other side of the world where it is legal to pay slave labor wages? These issues go to the very heart of America’s economic problems, and yet very few of our leaders are talking about them. But they should be talking about these things, because the economy is the number one issue for most American voters right now.

During most of the decades since World War II, the U.S. economy was a job creation machine.

But this past decade was different.

So how many total jobs do you think were created during the decade that just ended?

Would you believe zero?

Yes, it is true. A total of zero jobs were created last decade. The following is a quote from a recent article in Washington Monthly….

“If any single number captures the state of the American economy over the last decade, it is zero. That was the net gain in jobs between 1999 and 2009—nada, nil, zip. By painful contrast, from the 1940s through the 1990s, recessions came and went, but no decade ended without at least a 20 percent increase in the number of jobs.”

But aren’t we the greatest economy on earth?

Don’t we have great success stories such as Apple and Microsoft and Google and Facebook?

How could we have created zero jobs over an entire decade?

Well, the truth is that globalism has fundamentally altered the relationship between the big corporations and the American people.

You see, they don’t actually need most of us anymore. They can just set up facilities on the other side of the world and hire workers for 10 to 20 times less money.

Over the last couple of decades, tens of thousands of manufacturing facilities and millions of jobs have been shipped out of the United States.

Even many of the corporate executives on Obama’s job creation panel are guilty of doing this.

The following facts were taken from a recent article in the Los Angeles Times….

*Ursula Burns, the CEO of Xerox, eliminated 4,500 U.S. jobs during the first six months of 2011.

*Kenneth I. Chenault, the CEO of American Express, got rid of 550 U.S. jobs earlier this year. But it wasn’t because American Express was not making enough money. According to the Los Angeles Times, “American Express announced it had made $1.1 billion in the fourth quarter of 2010, up 48% from the same period the previous year.”

*Antonio M. Perez, the CEO of Eastman Kodak, got rid of 9,200 U.S. employees between 2004 and 2011.

*Jim McNerney, the CEO of Boeing, announced in January that 1,100 U.S. jobs would be eliminated. Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Times reports that “Boeing reported that profits rose 20%, to $941 billion in the second quarter of 2011.”

*Jeffrey Immelt, the CEO of GE, has eliminated 22,000 U.S. jobs over the last four years.

And as I noted in a recent article on The Economic Collapse Blog, if you go back even farther the job losses at GE get even larger. The truth is that it is standard operating procedure at GE to look for ways to aggressively cut jobs in the United States and GE has been adding thousands upon thousands of new jobs overseas.

In fact, just check out the following quote from a recent article posted on the Huffington Post….

As the administration struggles to prod businesses to create jobs at home, GE has been busy sending them abroad. Since Immelt took over in 2001, GE has shed 34,000 jobs in the U.S., according to its most recent annual filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. But it’s added 25,000 jobs overseas.

At the end of 2009, GE employed 36,000 more people abroad than it did in the U.S. In 2000, it was nearly the opposite.

So should we be disgusted by this?

Of course we should be.

About the only thing that the “experts” on Obama’s jobs panel will be able to teach him is about how to ship U.S. jobs out of the country.

So it should be no great mystery as to why we have so many unemployed workers in the United States today.

And since we are now competing for jobs with workers on the other side of the globe, there is also substantial downward pressure on our wages and on the standard of living that we all enjoy.

The statistics tell us that incomes for middle class Americans just keep declining and declining and declining.

For example, the following comes from a recent article in the New York Times….

Between June 2009, when the recession officially ended, and June 2011, inflation-adjusted median household income fell 6.7 percent, to $49,909, according to a study by two former Census Bureau officials. During the recession — from December 2007 to June 2009 — household income fell 3.2 percent.

So are you alarmed that the number of unemployed Americans continues to go up and our incomes continue to go down?

You should be.

Rampant unemployment and declining incomes are also two of the biggest reasons for the current housing crisis. Without good jobs that pay well, Americans simply cannot afford to buy homes.
During the recent economic downturn, the homeownership rate in the United States experienced the largest drop that we have seen since the Great Depression.

Click here for the full report from The American Dream

Steve Jobs’ Legacy Honored On Apple Site With Obituary, Photo

October 6th, 2011

The Huffington Post

By: Dean Praetorius

In the wake of the death of visionary Apple co-founder Steven P. Jobs the company has posted a tribute to him directly on its site.

As news broke of his death, Apple.com’s homepage was changed to feature a black-and-white photo of Steve Jobs and a link to a short obituary posted by the company.

“Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being,” Apple wrote. “Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor. Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple.”

As you can see in the screenshots below, Apple is also encouraging people to pay their respects and share their condolences by emailing rememberingsteve@apple.com.

The 56-year-old received a liver transplant in 2009, and had been battling cancer since 2004 according to the Associated Press. Six weeks ago he resigned as CEO, leaving then COO Tim Cook to run the company.

Jobs’ family has also released a statement, which you can read here along with other updates.

Apple’s board issued the following statement about Jobs’ death:

We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today.

Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve.

His greatest love was for his wife, Laurene, and his family. Our hearts go out to them and to all who were touched by his extraordinary gifts.

Click here for the full report from The Huffington Post

Rupert Murdoch Might Step Down As News Corp CEO

July 19th, 2011

Raw Story

By: Eric W. Dolan

News Corporation owner Rupert Murdoch might be replaced by Chief Operating Officer Chase Carey as CEO of the company, but still remain chairman, according to Bloomberg.

People with knowledge of the situation said that whether or not the 80-year-old Australian media mogul steps down as CEO depends in part on his performance before U.K.’s parliament.

Murdoch became embroiled in the phone hacking scandal thanks to his U.K. newspaper News of the World.

The tabloid closed down after an investigation revealed it had participated in the phone hacking of celebrities, British politicians, the families of terrorist attack victims, dead soldiers and others.

Rupert, his son James and former CEO of News International Rebekah Brooks are scheduled to give testimony before the House of Commons Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport on Tuesday.

News Corp. executives who watched Murdoch rehearse for his Parliament appearance were reportedly concerned with how he answered questions.

So far, 10 people have been arrested in connection to the News International phone hacking scandals.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice have launched their own investigations into whether News Corp. participated in the hacking of 9/11 victims or U.S. officials.

Michael Wolff, author of the Rupert Murdoch biography “The Man Who Owns the News,” has predicted that the phone hacking scandals that have shaken News Corp. in recent weeks will ultimately lead to the resignation of Murdoch and his son.

Afshin Rattansi, a Middle Eastern affairs journalist even suggested that “Fox News is finished” if U.S. authorities can prove that News Corp. employees attempted to hack into the voicemails of terror attack victims killed on Sept. 11, 2001.

Click here for the full report from Raw Story

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