Those who know what’s best for you would ban and burn books they didn’t like. Brave New World was banned. Now our owners – Wall Street Bankers – ban websites that speak the truth. My goal will be to get TBP banned from as many places as possible. Well done Tyler and the fine folks at Zero Hedge. My articles have been banned from Seeking Alpha, Minyanville, Lew Rockwell, Naked Capitalism, Nolan Chart, and Op-Ed News.
“As Part Of Our Ongoing Effort To Protect Bank Of America, Zero Hedge Is Blocked”
Submitted by Tyler Durdenon 12/18/2012 20:03 -0500
We couldn’t have said it better: “Bank of America blocks users from accessing websites that present certain risks to the bank.”
Let’s see, maybe this will get Zero Hedge unblocked: “Just buy BAC stock. Others are doing it, so you must do it too. And if you buy in the next 5 minutes, you will get one free share for every share purchased!”
… Well, maybe not.
Does this also mean we are not in contention for the Andrew Ross Sorkin Wall Street-sponsored website of the year award either?… Perhaps we should shelve those Pulitzer dreams too.
Oh well. At least the National Financial Enquirer and other various financial tabloids are still fully accessible at the bank that is best known for the worst M&A transaction of all time – Countrywide Financial. And that whole double bailout thing of course, first of Merrill, and then of Bank of America proper.
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I WONDER WHY BANK OF AMERICA WOULD BAN ZERO HEDGE?
Six Month + Delinquent Mortgages Amount To More Than Half Of Bank of America’s Market CapSubmitted
by Tyler Durden on 12/19/2012 08:02 -0500
For those curious why many people are scratching their heads over why the market cap of Bank of America has nearly doubled in the past year, here it is: “Bank of America Corp. has amassed $64 billion of mortgages that are at least six months delinquent and have yet to enter foreclosure, more than twice the amount held by its four largest competitors combined.” $64 billion is more than half the market cap of Bank of America as of this moment.
This number in the context of the BAC market cap:
In other words, by keeping tens of billions of mortgages off the market, Bank of America is hoping to limit the supply of houses in the market, creating an artificial shortage, in the process pushing up the prices of all other house higher, and only then to start dumping its pre-foreclosure inventory to a witless housing market.
And of course, this number excludes any of the tens of billions of mortgages that are in process of discharge and full write off, as well as the tens of billions in associated Reps and Warranties legal fees, which will go from accrued to paid out status as soon as Bank of America loses the MBIA litigation.
Also, recall “Foreclosure Stuffing” aka the most obvious housing subsidy in the past 4 years? There you have it. And there are those who wonder why we are experiencing merely the fourth dead cat bounce in the housing market.
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19th December 2012 at 8:28 am
Zara says:
Okay admin, you have piqued my curiosity. How did you get banned from Lew Rockwell?
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19th December 2012 at 8:35 am
efarmer says:
Yes, as Zara says. Inquiring minds want to know.
EF
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19th December 2012 at 8:36 am
flash says:
BAC poster child for crony capitalism i.e. fascism.
BTW, TBP is the only site I’ve commented on and haven’t been banned for heresy and does not practice banning as a deterrent to unpopular ideas which makes it somewhat anomaly on the WWW.
Maybe TBPers inspire a third party based not upon any ideology , but fiscal responsibility and common sense? …stranger things have happened.
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19th December 2012 at 8:47 am
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Zara
I truly don’t understand why I’m banned from Lew Rockwell. He had me listed as a contributing author with dozens of my articles linked. One day I was gone. I’ve asked him what the problem was, because we both support Ron Paul. He told me my articles were too long. I don’t believe him.
Minyanville also said my articles are too long.
Seeking Alpha sold out to Wall Street and didn’t like my message.
Many of these sites are only about making money. My articles don’t fit into their goal of making money.
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19th December 2012 at 8:52 am
Hope@ZeroKelvin says:
Banned? HAHAHA!! Back in the day it was burning at the stake or public shaming or locking you up or casting you out.
We talk about the “DC bubble” or “happy happy joy joy” circle jerks of internet chat rooms, but the reality is that human societies since time immemorial have punished the truth tellers or the different or anybody that goes against the prevailing meme.
Try posting on a leftie web site or twitter account sometime. Either your post is “moderated” and never appears or it is scrubbed in about 10 minutes.
TBP is one of the few sites that is a real free-for-all.
It is also true that once a society successfully silences the contrarian voices, it begins an irreversible spiral into intellectual decay and moral rot – leading to collapse.
Gee, are we there yet?
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19th December 2012 at 8:55 am
Zara says:
HZK, I have been permanently banned from both the Ann Coulter forums and even ronpaulforums.com. Ironically, I lasted a lot longer at the ann coulter site. Make of that what you wish.
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19th December 2012 at 9:02 am
Zara says:
Admin, I have never met Lew in person, but we have been fellow travelers for a very long time. I will ask him.
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19th December 2012 at 9:05 am
Cynical30 says:
I suppose this is modern day book burning. Very interesting times we live in.
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19th December 2012 at 10:13 am
Wyoming Mike says:
Let’s open it up. I’ve been banned from the Arizona Republic website, some bar in Sea Isle City, Mittromney.com, facebook, and my favorite…Kentucky Fried Chicken.
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19th December 2012 at 11:01 am
DaveL says:
HZK says: “Try posting on a leftie web site or twitter account sometime. Either your post is “moderated” and never appears or it is scrubbed in about 10 minutes.”
I got banned from Mother Jones a while ago.
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19th December 2012 at 11:30 am
OF says:
Some poster at ZH said that was excellent as now all the corporate banking idiots don´t get the hot info from ZH and trading will become easier…
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19th December 2012 at 12:04 pm
Stucky says:
BOA Corp blocks zerohedge logins from THEIR website ……………. as if this can suppress the truth about their shithole enterprise??
Bwahahaha! Bwahahaha! Stop it! Bwahahaha! Bwahahaha! You’re killin’ me! Bwahahaha!
Hey! You! BOA cocksuckers!!! I just logged on to zerohedge.com. It’s still there!! hahaha, assholes!
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In other meaningless newz … I have a lifetime ban on both the Kentucky and Purdue basketball boards. Hoo, Hoo, Hoo, Hoosier!!!
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19th December 2012 at 12:16 pm
SSS says:
flash
I’ve been trying for years to find a way to ban your comments from TBP threads. Using my unparalleled computer skills, I accidentally banned myself.
So I sent an email to Quinn explaining what happened and asked him to help. He wrote back, “If you can send me proof positive that you’ve recently purchased a Green Day CD and a pair of New Balance sneakers, I’ll lend you a hand. Otherwise, blow me.”
Cost me $200 to have some computer guru fix the problem.
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19th December 2012 at 12:27 pm
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SSS
They were supposed to be Wide New Balance sneakers. I have flat feet.
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19th December 2012 at 1:05 pm
AWD says:
I’ve been trying for years to get banned by the “large and in charge” groups, which are growing faster than the national deficit. No luck, maybe you can help a fella out here…
1. large and in charge
A combination of morbid obesity and obnoxious arrogance, more often middle to lower class females, especially black or hispanic, who hold strong beliefs that their weight is acceptable, healthy and attractive to the opposite sex.
In reality, these women are specifically localised in the United States of America, are often on welfare and have a reputation of producing numerous children in an attempt to abate society and prove they can have sexual intercourse with a male of the same species.
Most ‘large and in charge’ women who are caucasian have black babies.
Yolanda: I BE LARGE AND IN CHARGE NOW WHAYAH MAH BABY DADDY? (Note lack of ability to pluralise or utilise apostrophies in speech is eubonics.)
2. large and in charge
Obnoxious, overweight, and loud women, most frequently heard screaming at their small children over trivialities in public places (the grocery store, fast food restaurants, school events, etc.).
3 year old: “mom… look… dog snack”
Large and in charge: “KEEP YOUR HAND IN THE *^# SHOPPING CART BEFORE I KNOCK YOU INTO THE %&@ MEAT SECTION YOU LITTLE ^*(@!!!!
3. B.A.R.F.(Big Aggressive Ridiculously Fat)
This is a person that you find utterly repulsive, everything about them just seems to be ridiculous. This could be a guy three cubicles down from you that refuses to put on deodorant and has a mangy, greasy ponytail. This could be a lady that thinks she is extremely attractive and wears clothes from the girls section of baby gap; except this girl looks like she ate children from the girls section of the baby gap. This could be an older women who is large and in charge, who not only refuses to not cover her 50+ year old cleavage, but will not keep her massive self out of her 15 year old granddaughters closet. Girls that dip…….thats all I have to say about that.
Fat girls that are eating ice cream and a hot dog, then talking about how they are gonna go on a diet.
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19th December 2012 at 1:24 pm
Zara says:
AWD, please move out of rural Illinois. There are states, mine is among them, that are almost as fucked up as yours, but without the fatties.
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19th December 2012 at 1:46 pm
Oscar Mannheim says:
I wrote (under another name) for Lew Rockwell and was also purged from the archives. I was purged for criticizing the lack of compassion to be found in Austrian economics, but Lew, gentleman that he is, sent me elsewhere and I have been happy there ever since. What’s more, “elsewhere” pays! It’s too bad the Rockwell site is so doctrinaire, because in my opinion that has cost them some good people, but that is one man’s opinion, nothing more. The site is still worth reading, I believe.
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19th December 2012 at 2:03 pm
ecliptix543 says:
AWD – You forgot the BFN’s. Big Fat Nasties. They can almost always be identified by the pathological obsession with wearing inappropriate spandex in public (isn’t it all inappropriate?), presenting themselves as normally sized when the rest of us are either nauseated or mortified at the thought of ‘beach spandex days’ just ahead, and have been known to complain that the back seats of a Crown Vic are ‘claustrophobic’. BFN participation in airline travel has been thankfully dropping due to the tireless dedication of airline seat designers refusing to fuck up a perfectly good airplane by fitting 2Ass and 3Ass size seats in coach.
BFN’s are notorious crop dusters too. It isn’t that they necessarily intend to shit on you when you have to walk past them, it’s just that sometimes it takes that long for a fart to navigate away from the main organism.
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19th December 2012 at 2:14 pm
Ron says:
MSN erases my stuff within ten minutes.Slate dosent like me either. I often wonder how long it well be before TBP and anything not PC wont be allowed.
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19th December 2012 at 2:36 pm
flash says:
SSS says:flash , I’ve been trying for years to find a way to ban your comments from TBP threads. Using my unparalleled computer skills, I accidentally banned myself.
Admin would ban me but I’m the only member of TBP that agrees with everything he posts.I call it playing the suck-up card and he’s the only TBPer that can out C&P me.
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19th December 2012 at 4:43 pm
flash says:
Ron says:
MSN erases my stuff within ten minutes.Slate dosent like me either
…get a dog.
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19th December 2012 at 4:44 pm
flash says:
SSS, I know you like the cite the authority of the Bitches in Black as the supreme authority on all law, especially drug related, so how do you feel about the great robed authority taking up the issue the right of people to carry handguns?
High court fight looms over right to carry a gun
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/12/16/high-court-fight-looms-over-right-to-carry-gun/
Will you honor their authority if the do declare you or any American has the right to carry?
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19th December 2012 at 4:58 pm
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flash
As usual, you need to sharpen your sense of humor. Lighten up. I not only took a playful potshot at you, but also myself.
As to your question re the Supreme Court and guns, I stated that I am 100% pro-Second Amendment just a few days ago. I cannot fathom the twisted reasoning the court would have to offer to overturn the right of citizens to carry a weapon. Illinois is the ONLY state to have such a law (for concealed weapons), but this state law was rightfully declared illegal just recently by, I believe, a Circuit Court of Appeals. I have no reason to believe the Supreme Court would overturn this decision, nor offer any other meaningful decision which would dilute the 2nd Amendment.
Hope that answers your question.
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19th December 2012 at 5:24 pm
howard in nyc says:
stuck, try running your mess on a butler hoops board.
(i’m firmly on the hoosier bandwagon. great that they are finally back at the top.)
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19th December 2012 at 6:02 pm
flash says:
Super Sleut ,my first post -I thought- was humor ..also pot shot at myself.The second, not-so-much.
We’ll see on the reasoning of the bitches in black on the right to carry..They’ve been wrong before and again, this time you may be surprised..never trust an asshole.
And that’s as light as I get.
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19th December 2012 at 6:05 pm
AWD says:
Zara
I can’t leave rural Illinois, my kids are here, and I don’t want to abandon them. I’d work at Wal Mart before I’d abandon them.
The fucking state of Illinois owes our little hospital $2 million, and hasn’t paid a dime in the last 7 months. To make matters worse, they’ve frozen hospital payment for state employees with health insurance. They keep delaying payment.
We’re looking at chapter 11 bankruptcy as a way out. At least we could keep the doors open a little longer. 1/3 the hospitals in Illinois are broke and considering bankruptcy. Mainly the hospitals that serve medicaid patients. And Obamacare is adding millions more to the medicaid roles here.
We can threaten to withhold treatment to medicaid patients, but it’s illegal and we’d be thrown in jail. They can go to our ER five times a day if they want. But It’s not illegal to never pay your bills until every hospital, pharmacy, and nursing home goes bankrupt. Fucking democrats and Obama.
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19th December 2012 at 6:27 pm
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howard
Never been to the Butler board. But they do come to the IU board. They are a weird lot. IU fans for the most part are Butler fans … except when they play IU, of course. Even after the loss the IU faithful gave BU plenty of praise. BU fans, otoh, are trash talking shit-flingers. Not likin’ da Hoosiers. I think they’re still pissed they didn’t get Cody Zeller.
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19th December 2012 at 7:31 pm
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Mike in Wyoming
Were you banned from the Springfield or the Ocean Drive?
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19th December 2012 at 8:06 pm
howard in nyc says:
there are advantages to getting that first loss out of the way early. and might as well be to butler. i’ve never encountered their fans. i’ll be prepared, and sling first.
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19th December 2012 at 9:33 pm
llpoh says:
Howard – welcome back. Really missed you around here.
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19th December 2012 at 10:12 pm
llpoh says:
Admin – you are not banned for what you have said but for what you might. They may have seen TBP comment section you know.
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19th December 2012 at 10:18 pm
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LLPOH
Those are just the sites where my articles are banned. I’m also banned from commenting on Seeking Alpha, Naked Capitalism, Marketwatch, and the NYT.
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19th December 2012 at 7:57 am
Novista says:
I find it amusing that most of my comments on EconoMonitor usually vanish into cyberlimbo, especially if they relate to the mortgage clusterfuck.
Although I haven’t been banned from progressive sites, it’s not for lack of trying. Heh. I know a ‘moderated’ comment has pissed off one person so I am satisfied.
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