Barack Hussein Obama and his MF Global web

[wd9]

Couldn't get your link pars to work but
did find the article. There's too much
there to just glaze over. Kinda like
watching Inside Job.

[cottonpicken]

The problem with a socialist is he is stupid with his
wallet,great with his heart.

The problem with a conservative is he is smart with
his wallet and dumb with his heart.

The problem with a libertarian(NOT A LIBERAL)is
everyone hates hims,because he won't choose a left
or a right or a middle of the road.

There is a political choice most have not seen.

[parsley]

Those wondering why the Department of Justice
has refused to go after Jon Corzine for the
vaporization of $1.6 billion in MF Global client
funds need look no further than the documents
uncovered by the Government

Accountability Institute that reveal that the now-
defunct MF Global was a client of Attorney
General Eric Holder and Assistant Attorney
General Lanny Breuer’s former law firm,
Covington & Burling.
There’s more.

Records also reveal that MF Global’s trustee for
the Chapter 11 bankruptcy retained as its general
bankruptcy counsel Morrison & Foerester--the
very law firm from which Associate Attorney
General Tony West came to DOJ.

And more.

As Government Accountability Institute President
Peter Schweizer explains in the Washington
Times Thursday, the trustee overseeing MF
Global’s bankruptcy is former FBI Director Louis
Freeh.

At Holder’s Senate confirmation hearing Freeh
served as a character witness for Holder and
revealed that Holder had previously worked for
Freeh. “As general counsel,” Freeh said, “I could
have engaged any lawyer in America to represent
our bank. I chose Eric.”

Until now, the conventional wisdom for why
Holder wouldn’t throw the book at Corzine was
that Corzine is an Obama campaign bundler.
Indeed, as Breitbart News reported, four of the top
officials at the Department of Justice--Eric Holder,
Thomas Perrelli, Karol Mason, and Tony West--
were also big money bundlers for Obama.

But the newly understood crony connections
reveal conflicts of interest that extend well beyond
mere political support for a common candidate--
they go to a tangle of prior business dealings that
further underscore the need for a special
prosecutor in the Corzine case.

At least 65 members of Congress have already
signed a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder
requesting that he appoint a special prosecutor to
investigate MF Global’s collapse and the loss of
$1.6 billion in customer money.

What’s more, even progressives have begun to
wonder whether Holder’s Covington & Burling
connection explains why the Department of
Justice has not charged, prosecuted, or jailed a
single Wall Street executive after the biggest
financial collapse in American history.

As Richard Eskow of the Huffington Post recently
wrote:
More and more Washington insiders are asking a
question that was considered off-limits in the
nation's capital just a few months ago: Who,
exactly, is Attorney General Eric Holder
representing? As scandal after scandal erupts on
Wall Street, involving everything from global
lending manipulation to cocaine and prostitution,
more and more people are worrying about
Holder's seeming inaction -- or worse -- in the
face of mounting evidence.
This isn’t going away. 
Both the left and the right are onto Holder’s Wall
Street head fake. With the revelation of the new
crony connections, the time for Eric Holder to
appoint a special prosecutor in the Corzine/MF
Global case is now.

[rockpile]

Cottenpicken, you are wise beyond your years. Keep
it coming because not only do you entertain, but
you educate and think beyond the borders of the
conventional universe.
Parsley, Parsley, Parsley! Who will you hate and
focus destruction on now that the CWB is gone? Or
has your life suddenly become empty and vacated
and now you just hate people who don't agree with
your godly opinions? I know. They got rid of the
gun registry. They got rid of the wheat board. Now
if they would just get rid of dog licences, all would
be grand. What I sense is that you achieved a great
victory but it is a hollow one at best. Two points: 1:
Charlie made a post asking for wheat price country
data and didn't get one informative answer. Some
marketers you are! 2. There is a post on what is
involved in exporting your grain ( wheat or canola,
etc)) to the U.S. and no, you can't just drive across
the border. Never could. Never will. So tell me as
your little cold heart goes thumpity thump, in a
tangible, quantifiable way, are you really much
better off? Or do you just feel good? Who's next?

[parsley]

The difference, notaredneck, is this:

PMHarper told us before the election, what he
would do,. and he did it.

Obama, otoh, stands by and watches as client
money is stolen by MF Global, out of sacred client
accounts, and Eric Holder, in charge of Justice
does nothing, even though MF Global's Corzine
declared bankruptcy, and then donated a Super
Pak for Obama's re-election

The Canadian PM laid out his platform, and
followed it. The left cannot accept it .

Pres Obama never gave a heads-up saying he
would allow sacred client money to be wiped out
by Corzine, or that he'd be happy to accept
bankrupt MF Global money or that he would not
order an investigation.

Surely farmers can recognize a sonofabitch when
he has gone to such pains to define himself. Pars

[parsley]

Well, Rockpile, I didn't feel qualified to comment
on pricing regular wheat. If it was einkorn, yes If it
was dehulled, yes If it was made into flour yes.
So, I'll leave the farm pricing of regular wheat to
you.

But commodity futures have a profound impact
upon farmers' bottom lines and particularly for
those folks laying money on the table to dabble in
the futures market.

Under Obama, that money is no longer
sacrosinct. No longer held in trust as has been n
the past, wth recourse to the courts.

Obama will not instruct Eric Holder to prosecute,
even though Holder has been called before
Congress and claimed he didnt know where the
missing money was. He did. and all knew he
does.

It's a shame. It affects the capitalist system, and
moreso, becaue the USA has been a pillar of
futures marketing.

I cannot condone what has been done . Nor
should any capitalist. Nor should we be quiet
about it. Pars

[parsley]

Rockpile,

We have directly exported a specialty barley for
the past dozen years, to a manufacturing plant in
mid-central USA , according to the buyer's
scheduled need. The export paperwork is fairly
mundane. The organic paperwork has become
arduous and time consuming, I might add, but that
is of no relevance to the question. .

I did check out the new website as soon as it was
listed on twitter, including their invitation for
farmers to comment or make suggestions.

Do you want me to dance the waltz with you,
whilst you polka? Pars

[cottonpicken]

Thank you for the compliment but,

The Pars's of the world always need to be
here/there,the ideas and values that make the worlds
social fabric must always be attacked,ridiculed and
dissected to insure a better tomorrow.

I've lost a few specific arguments here and won a
couple also,along with everyone else,i hope,...dont be
afraid to change your mind or your premise.

[parsley]

That should read:

...even though Corzine has been called before  
Congress and claimed he didnt know where the
....
Je regret, Pars  

[bduke]

Parsley... I agree with you. The shameless disregard for regulations and justice in a capitalist society could be the undoing of this system.

Perhaps just the end desired by the socialists who confuse equitability with
equality.

IMHO we can only all be equal when we all have very, very little.

POTUS Obama is worrisome.

If the US re-elects this ideologue, who seems to believe one can spend a
country into prosperity, a most likely resulting depression will have world wide
reverberations.

Scary person indeed.

Cheers... Bill

[rockpile]

No Pars, no polka, just a slow two step with the
option to step backwards at will. And I always claim
the right to change my mind. Bduke makes an
interesting observation about the capitalist system
having received irreparable harm, but I hope he is
wrong. It's just a dialectic progression and hopefully
something with ethics built into it emerges. It's hard
to accept the world's largest super power has
collapsed to this level. No matter who wins
November, things won't improve soon. But on the
inside, corporate America is quite stable and
balanced with lots of coin in the hip pocket. I'm
talking about the nuts and bolts guys. Cheers.

[hobbyfrmr]

Rockpile, never say never! Its really not that difficult to export grains into the USA. I have been selling into Pensylvania, Vermont,Minnesota, Massachusettes, Wisconsin, Nebraska,Colorado, Oregon, and California.
Guaranteed there will be one less document to fill out. The application for export licence to the Canadian Wheat Board,with your personal visa number on it, so they can collect their blackmail...ooops buyback fees. Read the new website, it describes the documentation needed.
Get your wheat lab tested for protein,and falling number. Then you know what you have. Call up a US grain buyer, talk with them about your grains. Fax over your lab results, then if they are interested send a phsyical sample. If they are genuinely interested in your product,usually they have most of the documents ready, you need to fill out a NAFTA certificate that lasts a year. If they are not interested, they usually say so, or they disengage rather quickly. My experience is, that, US grain buyers dont spend a lot of time playing games, its yes or no. Give them your contact information because they may be looking for your product later down the road. I have completed sales for at least 30 "clean" transactions. Meaning, forward samples,agree to terms, sign contracts, deliver, get paid. DO A CREDIT CHECK ON ANY NEW BUYERS TO INTEND TO SELL TO. US buyers tend to negotiate payment 30 days after delivery. It takes about 18 days for rail cars to reach destination. I would invoice them for 60 days from releasing rail cars.
It is only scary if you want it to be. It has just been business for me. My farm is so small and horribly inefficient, I had to go looking for better value markets. It just happened to be in the US first, then Canada. I like working in BC, and Alta. Quebec and Ontario are far to smart for me, and they always have faaaar superior product. So be it. Now, with price transparency, you wont have to look to deliver into the US, the price in the old designated area is very much the same, sometimes higher.