Whistleblower Protections Gutted by Congress, Again – 123 Real Change

National Security victim / whistleblower Sibel Edmonds notes that Congress has screwed our most patriotic and honest National Security workers again, denying legal protections.

Edmonds has written an appeal to President Obama, asking for him to keep his promises. 123 Real Change

Here is Obama’s promise.

Well, Mr. President?

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Amazing Keith Olbermann: Health reform now, or else – RawStory 1/2

You sure do nail’em down so they don’t float away, Keith.

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Raw Story » Helen Thomas hits White House for lack of transparency

Sometimes I think Helen Thomas is the ONLY real Reporter in the room…  and then someone like Reid shows up and reaffirms a bit of my faith. -dcm

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Clues to What’s Next for the Economy – List of Troubled US Banks

All US Banks and their Texas Ratio

Chris Brunner at the Lew Rockwell Blog posted this interesting article about how to get a clue as to what banks might be the shakiest at the moment, and more likely to fail.

Brunner:

A few days ago, a friend of mine called me to ask if I had any idea how to figure out which banks would be the next to fail. Some extensive googling revealed that while lists of troubled banks obviously exist, none of them seem to be readily available to the public. Why? Because the bankers do not want you to have this. Just watch the president of the American Bankers Association in this interview talk about how important it is to keep this private.

This is a list of all of the banks in the United States and the corresponding Texas Ratio for each one. Developed by Gerard Cassidy, the Texas ratio is a measure of a bank’s credit troubles. Basically, the higher the ratio, the worse the situation is for that particular bank. Banks with a ratio of 100 and higher are in very serious danger of collapse, and banks with a ratio of 50 or higher are vulnerable.

This is the formula I used:

100 * ((Non-performing Assets – U.S guaranteed loans) + Other REO) / (Equity + Loss Reserves)

… I recommend Chris’s post – read it!

I have put the list together as a word .doc file and as an excel spreadsheet sorted (ascending) by state and city and then (descending – worst to best) by Texas Ratio.

View:            doc spreadsheet

-dcm

Ohio TV station: Was Connell crash an accident or murder?

Brad Blog: First on the scene Live video

Here’s the only wider coverage I have been able to find so far in the actual broadcast media, other than a Velvet Revolution / PR Newswire piece ran in the NY Times.  I did see it on slashdot, though, so maybe eventually it will make it’s way into the legacy / “mainstream” media.

CBS is mirroring KDKA’s story online.  Here’s slashot’s item about the missing presidential / staff emails, with a link to an item on DominoPower, and a Wired piece from April 2007 about the Ohio Election data running through Republican servers.  Democracy Now offers this initial entry.

Via Rawstory:

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Bradblog has this first on the scene live video apparently taken by someone who lived nearby, and and a couple of interviews from lat night’s PBS …

-dcm