Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Shocked to Read that Sonoma Valley Bank Failed!
Not sure why I got the letter as I no longer have any funds there but am wondering, did folks loose money in this deal or does the FDIC cover that?
Here's an August 23, 2010 article and comments from the Wall Street Journal:
August 23, 2010, 11:13 AM ET.
Fifth TARP Bank Fails, Likely Wiping Out Taxpayer Stake
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2010/08/23/fifth-tarp-bank-fails-likely-wiping-out-taxpayer-stake/
By Damian Paletta
Sonoma Valley Bank in northern California failed on Friday, the fifth financial institution that failed despite having received federal bailout funds. The failure likely wipes out the $8.7 million taxpayer investment that was made in the bank in early 2009 as part of the controversial Troubled Asset Relief Program.
Several hundred banks that received funding under TARP, a program approved by Congress in 2008 to help financial institutions and other companies in the wake of the global financial crisis, have either paid back the money or are expected to within several years. But there is a growing group of banks that continued to struggle after getting bailouts, or have already been seized by regulators.
Officials who designed the program had said the money was intended to go to companies that weren’t at risk of toppling, and regulators have sought to downplay the failures of TARP-connected banks.
Sonoma Valley Bank joins CIT Group Inc., Pacific Coast National Bank, United Commercial Bank, and Midwest Bank and Trust Co., which all failed shortly after receiving the federal bailout funds. Three of the five banks were headquartered in California. Combined, the losses to taxpayers from these failures are expected to total slightly less than $3 billion.
It is unclear how many TARP banks might ultimately fail. Banks that received TARP funds are supposed to periodically pay dividends or interest payments to the Treasury Department, but about 100 have skipped at least some of these payments. These missed payments total $146 million, the Treasury Department estimated, compared with the $9.5 billion in dividends it has collected.
The eight bank failures this week brought the 2010 total to 118, nearing the 140 that failed in 2009. Only a handful of these banks had received TARP funds, though many had requested the money from regulators and were rejected.
COMMENTS
3:24 pm August 23, 2010
Linus Wilson wrote:
Sonoma Valley Bancorp was one of the “TARP’s Deadbeat Banks”. See page 39 of my paper at
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1527270
4:31 pm August 23, 2010
LC wrote:
Good to see this is working so well. Better jack our taxes some more to pay for another go round. Geniuses just pure genius. Dont put in price control, dont hammer product coming in the country,dont reel in the drug companies the hospitals and any other crook stealing from the public. Just throw more money you dont have at the problem that will fix it. What the hell are you people thinking or our your buddies getting filthy rich on this game your playing? I put my vote on the game they are playing. Boy is the general public blind or what?
8:29 am August 24, 2010
Bones wrote:
Was wondering if this was one of Rep. Maxine Waters’ banks? Hope she got her or her family’s money out before it failed, she’ll need that money to defend herself eventually.
9:21 am August 24, 2010
Beeker wrote:
@Bones
Even if the bank failed, there is a deposit insurance that protects depositors from losses due to bank failure. Typical lack of knowledge how insurance works.
I’m not surprised that the bank failed. It is most likely through loan losses as with other banks that are facing the same issue.
11:22 am August 24, 2010
Dick wrote:
The loss to the taxpayers in the Sonoma Valley Bank failure is restricted to the TARP loss. This bank was sold to Westamerica under what is known as a negative bid. The FDIC paid $10,000,000 to Westamerica and it was merged out. The FDIC fund gets it’s money from the banks not the government. The banks pay an insurance premium each quarter to cover the costs of insurance and failed banks. The government provides an overall guarantee and a line of credit but that has not been drawn on.
12:26 pm August 24, 2010
bankalchemist wrote:
Ca has several more Dead Beat Tarp Banks on the list…not if just when, bankalchemistl
5:36 pm August 24, 2010
get real wrote:
A combined loss of $3 Billion on the banks that have thus far failed is a much smaller amout than I would have expected, especially when the gov’t is running the thing. The entire TARP was about 700 Billion so the 3 Billion loss is only a loss of less than .4%!
Also, the missed dividend and interest payments by banks was less than .2% (146 million missed vs. 9.5 Billion paid).
The TARP program which was designed under the Bush admin has worked well, unlike the Billions of dollars of stimulus money thrown out the window by the Obama admin. How much of that will tax payers recoup?
Yeah, I know. Not a dime.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Are They Spraying Us With Chemical Weapons for Mass Destruction?
Human Rights Examiner
by Deborah Dupre'

Chemical warfare white cloud of death
Chemtrailing humans with Corexit based poison is burning people with a 'nepalm-like substance.' Reports abound of the poison attack burning plant life, therefore poisoning the food supply as the new Youtube video below documents.
Filmmaker and Renewable Energy UN Ambassador of Goodwill, Josh Tickell, who is director of FUEL, writes from South Louisiana that the Gulf situation is deteriorating for humans.
"The use of the deadly and toxic chemical Corexit continues at an undisclosed rate per day. With our group of eight people standing on the beach, 100 feet from the surf of the Gulf, our eyes were burning and as we approached the water our skin was affected," reports Tickell.
"Most people walked off the beach with rashes. This is not from the oil, it is from the napalm-like substance that is being manufactured in conjunction with BP and put into the Gulf of Mexico with enough quantity to effect the air. (Emphasis added)
"Tests reveal that this chemical compound is becoming an aerosol and traveling, as a cloud, across the beach communities," stated Tickell.
As highlighted in Part I of this series, chemical warfare (CW) involves toxic properties of chemical substances as weapons. In chemical warfare terms, "dispersion" is placing the chemical agent upon or adjacent to a target immediately before dissemination, so that the material is most efficiently used. Dispersion is the simplest technique of delivering an agent to its target. (See Censored Gulf dispersant news: Aerial spraying act of war Part I, Examiner, Dupre, June 2010)
In attempt to prevent such atrocities and hold perpetrators responsible, on April 29 1997, the Chemical Weapons Convention - CWC) entered into force. It is the Convention on prohibition of the development, production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons and on their destruction, of 13 January 1993 and reinforcing the 1925 Geneva Protocol prohibiting chemical and biological weapons by banning development, production and stockpiling of chemical weapons.
Under the banner of "pesticide research," the US Do, EPA and petrochemical-military-industrial complex continued its research and development chemical weapons of mass destruction, testing them on plant and animal life, including humans. (See Part II of this series)
Chemical weapons of mas destruction (WMDs) are what President Bush accused Iraq of having, lying to justify murdering millions of people there for its resources, while developing and stockpiling such WMDs on American soil, now using them on Americans. At least one known foreign country, Britain, is an enemy in this war.
Tickell advises that this "aerosol spraying is illegal and could be fatal for multiple life forms," a statement to be welcomed by many leaders, such as AC Griffith (heard in the chemtrail video below), thousands of citizens and organizations across the US, such as Geo-engineering Watch, plus organizations overseas - all battling for years to raise awareness about the act of war on the people and genuine national security issue of chemtrails.
Only a year ago, Tickell was skeptical about chemtrails and decades of research and development to apply them to the human population by the petrochemical-military-industrial complex that includes private companies, such as airlines, spraying them. Like most people, he found this human rights violation too difficult to face or believe: that geophysical weapons, under the sophisticated science of geoengineering, includes spraying the human population with deadly chemcals, authorized by the US government.
Geoengineering, the artificial modification of the earth's climate systems, is an environment modification (ENMOD) science for the "deliberate manipulation of natural processes - the dynamics, composition or structure of the Earth, including its biota, lithosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere, or of outer space that can be applied as a weapon of mass destruction."
Geoengineering projects range from declassified experimentation, such as dumping particles into the oceans to attract algae that sequesters carbon and theoretically slows "global warming," to highly classified experimentation such as aerosol spraying. (See:Geoengineers at annual conference to face human rights defenders, Dupre, Examiner, 2009)
Denial by intelligent people of integrity of all walks of life has been a major frustration for those exposing new, high-tech weapons, including chemical weapons. DoD obcene funding plus black budgets helped open the gate wide open for even heavier aerial poisoning of humans and all other life forms, as experienced and witnessed along the Gulf coast today.
Aside from the odorless poison destined to be the cause of human injury and deaths from breathing it, in a new video (below), a Floridian showing his burned yard plants says, "If its killing our plants, its killing our food. If we can’t have food we die.
"Don’t you see that?"
He urges the public to read the Constitution and Bill of Rights, but the backbone of both were shredded with enactment of the USA PATRIOT ACT during the Bush administration. That set the stage for events unfolding today.
The Floridian now questions, "We let a foreign company come in and tell us what we can and can't do?"
Controversial post-9/11 expansions of executive branch powers prompted the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, BORDC to urge local showings of a video about dangers threatening Americans. It hoped for subsequent nationwide dialogue about whether the power needs to be curbed to protect U.S. residents' constitutional rights.
Instead, the citizenry was succesfully pacified with TV and mainstream newspapers, and Congress maintained the USA PATRIOT ACT instead of restoring Constitutional rights through the JUSTICE ACT.
ACLU called the USA PATRIOT ACT a "minefield for American rights."
The same corpocracy that designed and supported the USA PATRIOT ACT dictating the nation's people has now ruthlessly stepped on a deep water minefield.
It is using its decades of sinister, secret and torturous research and development paid by the taxpayers to kill them in an act of war using a chemical weapon of mass destruction while its Attorney General, Eric Holden ponders: Is this a civil or a criminal case?
Copyright July 13, 2010 Deborah Dupre. All rights reserved.
Contact the author at mailto:%20info@DeborahDupre.com
source: http://www.examiner.com/x-10438-Human-Rights-Examiner~y2010m7d14-Gulf-spraying-act-of-war-Pt-III-Chemical-warfare-white-cloud-of-deathTuesday, July 6, 2010
Is the Gulf Oil Spill a Staged Event?
They lied to us about JFK
They lied to us about going to the moon
They lied to us about Pearl Harbor
They lied to us about so many things over the years, why believe what they are saying now? Is the Gulf Oil Spill a staged event:?
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
HoopDance by Sonoma's Bene Rather-Taylor
"Never without a hoop in hand, Bene has been passionately sharing her love of hoopdance since the beginning of the year. She hand-makes all her hoops and has hosted weekly playshops in the Sonoma Plaza throughout the summer. She has travelled internationally to study flow arts and performs with her fire hoop and fire poi at restaurants and private events both locally and regionally." source
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Gulf Oil Spill or Gulf Mud Volcano?
June 22, 2010 COMMENT
"That is why I sent you Alex Jones audio, there were idiots on there claiming it was a big earthquake and volcanic blow of oil, they all got it from Sarcha Faal, that witch of which nothing she ever says comes true, we have oil in orange beach, and gulf shores. definitely the hand of the illuminati. k"
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Dr. Judy Wood: Another Great Interview
Interview is back up on youtube, not sure for how long:
http://forums.ukcolumn.org/showthread.php?tid=1993&pid=8784#pid8784
DR. WOOD'S WEBSITE: http://drjudywood.com/
INTERVIEW: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=436BDD0158F50954
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