You Think What

Of all the negative reports about Walmart, we are not surprised by this recent report from the web site 24/7 Wall St.

Seems the retailer, considered to be the largest retailer in the US, is number one in providing bad customer service.
We’re thinking this may be the level of service being exported around the world by this large retail corporation. It’s the standard by which all other big stores offering discounts is measured.

The American Consumer Satisfaction Index, (ACSI), is an economic indicator measuring the satisfaction of consumers across the U.S. economy.

In the results of its most recent survey…ta-da! Walmart beat the competition. No other retailer received a lower rating.

“Among all retailers rated by the ACSI for customer satisfaction, none received a worse score than the 71 for Walmart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT), which it received from the ACSI when it was graded as a department and discount store.” ~ excerpted from ACSI survey results for Walmart customer satisfaction (more…)

Opening day of the 2013 season of Major League Baseball, (MLB), as the entry of the first Negro player, (read that African American or black), Jackie Robinson, into the sport is celebrated, we find there are fewer black minorities, to be precise American blacks of African heritage, than ever before.

Corporations in the Untied States when asked to tabulate minority numbers, especially when it comes to black  people of African descent, tend to wash over and count everyone, even Latin Americans of dark complexion as blacks. That’s why there are disputed figures on the number/percentage of black African Americans, not of Hispanic heritage, when it comes to who plays professional baseball.

Most inner city black kids today seek scholarships and professional contracts from what they consider to be more exciting sports, like football and basketball. There aren’t many black youths playing baseball in the public schools or on the streets, nor are there nearly as many scholarships for college being awarded to blacks for baseball as there are big dollars for football and basketball at the major colleges and universities. (more…)

“I want to show that my community has many beautiful qualities that aren’t always represented in the media.”
~Yityish Titi Aynaw, Miss Israel 2014

“It’s important that a member of the Ethiopian community win the competition for the first time. There are many different communities of many different colours in Israel, and it’s important to show that to the world.”

So said the first black Israeli beauty queen who after her winning the title met the first black elected President of the United States…This is big news…a showcase of diversity for both nations.

The newly crowned Miss Israel 2013 is Yityish Titi Aynaw, an Ethiopian Immigrant, admits  President Barack Obama of the United States has been a “notable influence” in her life,  after meeting the American chief executive, said,

“He’s an exciting man, a world-class hunk, charming and an extraordinary gentleman.”

This according to reports in the Israeli publication Yediot Aharonot. (more…)

The people in the following video are addressing their remarks to United States Senator Harry Reid, a Democrat,  elected to be representing the people of Nevada. *The way he talks we believe he’s an agent for we say the gun lobby, firearm manufacturers in general,  and the National Rifle Association specifically.*

Harry Reid is the Majority Leader of the the U.S. Senate. He’s the chief spokesman for the party holding the majority of seats in the body. At this time in history it’s  the Democrats…the same party as the President of the United States, Barack Obama, now in his second term as president.

“Is (a ban on assault weapons) something that can pass the Senate? Maybe. “Is it something that can pass the House? I doubt it.”
~ Senator Harry Reid in an interview with a PBS television affiliate in Las Vegas earlier this year. (more…)

This will make you laugh…it made us laugh when we looked at this page of alleged security for one of the major US banks…oh what the heck…it’s Wells Fargo that is perpetrating a fraud.

Banksters continue to provide the “illusion of security” to their internal customers as well as their external customers. Like most everything being done by 21st Century financial institutions, the ones considered by federal regulators Too Big To Fail, Too Big to Sue, Too Big To Charge with Malfeasance or even cause any one individual to be accountable by limiting, even curtailing the criminal activities of the so-called experts in the industry, this page and others like it are a sham fake not real. (more…)

You may be familiar with the name John McAfee. You may recall him as the guy who developed the anti-virus program for computers before any digital viruses had been created to cause  digital infection. That was  in 1987. Twenty-six years ago John McAfee founded McAfee Associates, a computer anti-virus company. He is said to be the first to distribute anti-virus software using what has come to be known as the ” shareware”  business model. Today McAfee Associates, acquired by Intel in 2010 for $7.68 billion is a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel. (more…)

During the most recent session of the United States Senate Committee on Banking Hearing, Elizabeth Warren, the Democrat senator from Massachusetts, reported on the illegal activities of HSBC; formerly The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation one of the largest banking and financial services institutions in the world. It serves around 60 million customers through four Global Businesses.

According to its web site, HSBC, the British financial company describes itself as:

“An unrivalled international network with a presence in all of the world’s major developed and faster-growing markets…”

Last December, 2012, HSBC  admitted to laundering nearly one billion US dollars for Colombian and Mexican drug cartels; additionally the company was found to have repeatedly violated US economic sanctions against Iran, Cuba, Libya, the Sudan as well as Burma, known as Myanmar. The US Treasury Department imposed a fine, recorded as the the largest fine ever imposed by the department for HSBC’s illicit actions. (more…)

On Sunday evening, February 25th 2013 in Hollywood, California at the annual American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the 85th time they are convening, actors, movie stars, technicians of very craft will be present to see who receives the coveted Oscar for outstanding achievement in various categories of the motion picture industry.

The following video created by Nelson Carvajal shows 84 Best Picture winners… (more…)

US Senator from Massachusetts Elizabeth Warren is the junior most senior member of the  Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. *When John Kerry gave up his seat as Massachusetts’ senior senator to become Secretary of State, newly elected Warren became the senior senator from Massachusetts; this is her first term in the Senate and in that regard she is junior.*
At her very first hearing sponsored by he  Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, the senator posed the following question to the regulators present to provide testimony about how they regulate banking companies in the US:

“When was the last time you took a Wall Street bank to trial? ”

None of the persons called to testify were able to provide an answer to the question.

“We do not have to bring people to trial,” Thomas Curry, head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, assured Warren, declaring that his agency had secured a large number of “consent orders,” or settlements.

“I appreciate that you say you don’t have to bring them to trial. My question is, when did you bring them to trial?” she responded.

“We have not had to do it as a practical matter to achieve our supervisory goals,” Curry offered.

Warren turned to Elisse Walter, chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, who said the agency weighs how much it can extract from a bank without taking it to court against the cost of going to trial.

“I appreciate that. That’s what everybody does,” said Warren, a former Harvard law professor. “Can you identify the last time when you took the Wall Street banks to trial?”

“I will have to get back to you with specific information,” Walter said as the audience tittered.

(more…)

We have received news of at least one judge in Florida who is handling the adjudication of cases involving banks and home owners with the use of common sense  as well as the law.

In the matter of Dimitri Jansen, a local schoolteacher whose former home in North Port is in foreclosure a circuit court judge found one of the largest banks in the country in contempt of court on Friday over a foreclosure case that has dragged through the system for several years.

Attorneys who represent the Sarasota educator say the contempt order against Minneapolis-based U.S. Bank, is “unprecedented.”

Jansen says his mother’s name was mistakenly added to the mortgage he obtained in 2006, that the bank has ignored requests to remove her name from the foreclosure documents and thus wrecked her credit history, and that the bank held up a pending short sale.

Another Sarasota judge, apparently frustrated with U.S. Bank, had ordered the bank’s president to be present in court on Friday. The bank instead sent a senior representative. (more…)