of rick's pics newsletter available at rick ackerman dot com rick spent twelve years as a real market maker on the floor of the pacific coast exchange before turning to journalism and news letter writing req welcome back to the kaiser report payback so you do it very good now rick you write quote goldman's death dive sounds promising tell us more but promising maybe depending where you're sitting my guys my subscribers love the idea goldman going to dizzy axis i've got a target down in the sixty's the stocks trading around a hundred bucks now but it's just bell stuff a number that tends to corroborate the zero target so i don't know i guess goldman's got some exposure and ok well everyone would love to see goldman sachs go to zero and go out of business so is this real art is there something to hope for is a sort of christmas gift or is it just another false dawn and we're going to another two years of these horrible financial terrorist destroying america and the global economy well the trends are unstoppable max and you know the saying about how there's a lot of ruin in a nation and

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link is the son of rosanna dimauro whose ex-boyfriend is kasey ackerman.re in the custody of the hillsborough county jail on various charges related to the stabbing and incineration murder of robert brewer. the crime made headlines and caught the attention of master deputy steven gray. >> what we have here the high profile board. anything that makes the paper. they will make the board. this is an interesting case. an older female is dating a younger male who is friends with her son and they are now locked up in our facility awaiting trial. >> ackerman who prosecutors say was the ring leader of the murder has been held in the men's lock down unit where he is confined 23 hours a day. >> the finger's been pointed. i've been implicated in it. this is where i got to sit. >> thoughts of dimauro occupy his time. >> that's her on the beach of the coast of california. she took that party of my heart. just something, you know what i'm saying. >> but dimauro doesn't share ackerman's passion. >> it wasn't on intended on being a relationship. it was intended on being o

global story rick ackerman what rules regulations and laws have been broken why is john cores seen yet to be arrested what's your take on that why is yet to be arrested i don't think i'd bet on that but. you know the thing about m.f. global when i saw the story additionally i thought well here's another problem that's going to a sec. the hedge funds and everybody else it's a little too deep in in leveraged derivatives and it turned out that a whole bunch of my friends were snared in m.f. global too i was talking to a rare american friend of mine who lives in france and trades and his account just like gerald solent a for one his account has been frozen and he says they know where the money is but it's odd that it's just being sort of kept in some sort of escrow there but it shows you ultimately hell fragile the network is that allows me and everybody else to trade right on up to the level of scarily large hedge funds but the m.f. is going to it looks like it's going to take a lot of retail guys with it and the problem you know looks like they'll get their money back but not everybody c

the one that has disclosed is my father peter ackerman.hey're raising money for two things. 50-state ballot access and a website where people go to compete. >> what about being completely transparent about who's supporting you financially? >> approximate if you go to our site, some people disclose in own time it's not popular with the republican and democratic parties. it's not. some of the people who are in a position to get this effort started are folks who are prominent in public life. they're prominent as the heads of, you know, companies, things of that nature, and it's very difficult for them to come out so strongly against status quo. we anticipate more will disclose and some as i mentioned to you have disclosed their support for them. we don't give any money to any candidates. every candidate files through

eileen ackerman was let go of her position last summer. now, she's filing for unemployment after the philadelphia school board paid ackerman $950,000 to buy out the remaining three years of her contract. part of the agreement did include a clause that would allow her to claim unemployment. she would be eligible for the maximum unemployment benefit of $573 a week. in 2006, ackerman was fired from her job as school superintendent of san francisco. part of her severance package there, $375,000. >>> who doesn't have an old cell phone in your drawer or a camera they don't use anymore? you probably have a couple hundred dollars worth of the stuff right now that you can trade in for cash and avoid the hassle of selling it on craigslist or ebay. we'll let you know how to get the cash you may not know about. anna garcia explains. >> reporter: giant retailers, best buy, walmart and amazon, have extended their trade-in program to include so much more than old video games. the raid-in business is no longer for kids. they take cell phones, cameras, mp3

ackerman.eph ackerman. a senior u.s. law enforcement official said the envelope contained explosives and shrapnel. door to bank is germany's largest bank. -- deutsche bank is germany's largest bank. >> is the anniversary of the attack on the u.s. pacific fleet at pearl harbor. the attack led to the u.s.'s entry into the second world war and changed america forever. here are some of the sights and sounds. ♪ can you se"] ♪ >> uss nevada. uss tennessee. [bell rings] u.s.s. arizona [bell rings -- [bell rings] ♪ ["taps"] ♪ >> you have been watching newsday from the bbc. i am in singapore. >> i am in london. back in a few minutes with the latest business news. bye bye for now. >> make sense of international news at bbc.com/news. >> funding was made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. newman's own foundation. and union bank. ♪ >> union bank has put its global strength to work for a wide range of financial companies. what can we do for you? >> "bbc world news a

ackerman is based directly in frankfurt, the headquarters of deutch bank, but, also, obviously, spends good deal of time here in new york. so we are run this down right now. deutch bank has said them call us back and the new york police department asked us to e-mail any questions we have. the information is very scarce. the basics and package intercepted in frankfurt germany and may have been on way here to new york and for that very reason the nypd is tightening security around all deutch bank offices in the city. >>trace: the definition of that, when you say "tightening security of deutch banks," around new york city area are you talking about not letting people going back-and-forth? or packages? is it more of a cautionary defense of the banks or actually a physical defense? >>jonathan: more likely cautionary progress. they will check all mail of all deutch bank offices. these are not always one office but this is one package, frequently more. that will be their main aim to check all of the pack built as, they are probably tighten willing security at the entrances to all of those of

ackerman. prior to her even arriving there. you can't say it's a proximate cause.d major overhaul in the school educational system. people who aren't putting the interests of the children first. she has been accused of unfair practices in terms of aouring contracts to other people. megyn: can anything be done to top her from applying for the unemployment? >> legally speaking she is able to. that's why it calls to a larger moral and ethical question as to whether she has received fair compensation and she has. people suffering who can't put food on the table who have lost their job and been laid off. those are the people who should be collecting unemployment benefits. not this woman. megyn: they already paid her a million dollars. should they be paying another $2,000 a month? >> did kimberly say mark was right? aren't we done? megyn: you have a good point. >> not legally. check me out on that one. megyn: but she has not been approved so it suggests there is some additional step that needs to be taken. >> she is going to get it's she is unemployed. morally everyone i

. >>> former san francisco school superintendent arlene ackerman has filed for unemployment. now, that's after getting nearly a million dollars to leave the same job in philadelphia. if her claim is approved, she will get the maximum benefit which is $573 a week. her buy-out contract allows her to file for unemployment. ackerman was fired from the san francisco school district in 2006 collecting $375,000 in severance. >>> a housing developer is bringing some new jobs to the bay area. and with them, an unusual type of home. it's putting a factory that builds collapsible homes on mare island. don ford shows us how the homes work. >> reporter: mare island naval shipyard building 680 has been empty for 15 years. nuclear attack submarines once had their periscopes repaired here. and today the empty building has come back to life. a construction company has moved in building modular homes using the most environmentally- friendly green methods available. but that's not what makes them stand out says cofounder. >> then they are fold the up like a piece of origami, shipped in a normal

spencer ackerman writes about high tech security for a magazine. >> this is a super secret stealth drone. it exists to make sure that adversaries don't know this thing is there. >> reporter: this follows a week of growing tensions between iran and the west over iran's nuclear program. just last tuesday, a group of young hard liners stormed the british embassy in tehran to protest british banking sessions. in response, britain shut down the iranian embassy in london and expelled his diplomats. seth doane, cbs news. >> wikileaks founder julian assange will be back in london this morning and wanted for questioning about alleged sex crimes. two lower courts have ruled against him. today, he'll ask britain's supreme court to hear his says. assange says the allegations against him are politically motivated. >>> washington, d.c. police are making sure dozens of occupy protesters stay out of mcpherson state park this morning. more than 30 were arrested overnight after refusing to leave. police had to use a cherry picker to grab some protesters from the top of a wooden structure they built. the s

spencer ackerman writes about high-tech security for wired magazine. >> this is a supersecret stealth drone. it exists to make sure that adversaries with advanced anti-aircraft capabilities don't know this thing's there. >> this all follows a week of growing tensions between iran and the west over iran's nuclear program. just last tuesday a group of young hard-liners stormed the british embassy in tehran to protest british banking sanctions. in response britain shut down the iranian embassy in london and expelled its diplomats. experts say that the spy plane was most likely being used to keep an eye on iran's nuclear facilities because the west believes iran is trying to develop a nuclear bomb. iran says any violation of its airspace will not be tolerated. russ? >> reporter: seth doane, thanks. exit polls in today's parliamentary elections in russia show prime minister putin's party in first place. but with just 48.5% of the vote, that's down from 64% four years ago. opposition party leaders this evening are accusing putin's ruling party of ballot box stuffing and other irregularities

we know who some of the donors are is peter ackerman a guy who apparently gave over one and a half million bucks to american elect who made a lot of his fortune working with private investment firms and holding stakes in numerous different corporations there's a guy named kirk roston a rostrum the co-founder of a private capital investment firm in washington d.c. who specializes in managing hedge funds the group also according to wikipedia has an affiliation with our no political consultants a company whose clients include special interests like the national rifle association and tobacco giant r.j. reynolds arnold political has been involved in a slew of controversies from tricking people into registering as republicans in florida paying off homeless people to sign petitions to fourteen signatures on ballot initiative petitions according to wikipedia all together are no political cording to wikipedia again has been accused of fraud by five different state attorneys general so looking at those who come forward it looks like americans elect isn't so much a grassroots organization hoping to i

here with a look at the coolest gadgets to expect in 2012 is can ackerman, senior editor of c-net.comu. >> good morning to you. >> january begins tomorrow, of course. what is the coolest thing coming out in january? >> i think android operating system ice cream sandwich. they are hoping to get them up to the same level. >> school me here. ice cream sandwich? >> they always come up with crazy names like gingerbread. it's like when you get the big iphone update this is. this is the android version of that and hopefully make the tablets more like the ipad. >> talk about february. any cool stuff coming up then? >> there is. playstation vita. we haven't seen up with of these in a while from sony from playstation and plays a lot of games and has interesting touch inputs and ways to interact with it and plays movies. the question is everyone who has iphone that does all of that stuff is there room for a standalone hand-held gaming console or are we past that point? >> does that replace the php? >> it does. >> you can use this with your playstation 3? >> can connects to some playstations but

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it comes after a letter bomb was sent to the ceo of deutsche bank, joseph ackerman.omb was detected by an x-ray machine in the mail room at the bank's offices in frankfurt, germany. while there is no immediate threat to wall street, the nypd says they are taking, quote, an abundance of caution and have stepped up security at do you have ya bank headquarters in new york. and for the first time, d.c. mayor vincent gray is weighing into investigation into harry thomas jr. his home was raided by the fbi and irs last week. up til until now, the mayor hay has said that the legal process should play out before taking any action. but the mayor talked about the toll the probe is taking on the city and thomas's family. >> assuming that it's true, of course, it's a bad situation. again, i can't get into the details of it because i don't know that many details about it. i've known him, i know his family for years, i know his father, i know his father, he's somebody i've known. i know his wife and kids. this has to be a very difficult situation for them. >> thomas is accused of u

police department putting banks on alert after part of address to deutsche bank chief executive ackerman real is this threat? do you know anything? >> i think -- i don't know how real the threat is. following 9/11, this is kind of an interesting story. following 9/11, every threat like that is taken extremely seriously. not just by the banks but the new york stock exchange. i will tell you this, the occupy wall streeters thought they'd raid the stock exchange, they would be crazy. if you are wall and broad no, way to get near there. the banks know they are terrorist targets. every single time there is a threat, and this one seems to be somewhat credible because they are talking about it. >> neil: there was a package addressed to the ceo. in this case, deutsche bank. we live in that. >> yeah. they take every one of these serious. some more others but this one is serious. >> neil: financial entities are always target, aren't they? >> evil capitalists. a lot of reasons why. i don't think it helps we have people protesting in wall street that the banks are the root cause of all evil. i'm cri

joining us now is the coo of americans elect elliott ackerman. good to see you.hat guy we saw there, chris christie, he could theoretically end up on a ballot, right? >> yes, he absolutely could, and i think what we're doing in america is opening up political process but i get on the ballot in all 50 states and i'm talking to you from california we are with are certified and over 1.6 million people in the state of california have signed petitions to get a third choice on the ballot in november 2012. >> you mentioned california and that was a big one, and you also got on the ballot in rhode island, i believe, today. so how many states are you in? >> that is right. >> and do you think it is reasonable that you would be in the ballot in all 50? >> we are going to be on the ballot in all 50, and we have been at this for over a year now, and by new year's, we will have 2.5 million of the 2.9 million signatures that we need to get on the ballot in all 50 states so we are removing that barrier to entry and now the question becomes who are the american people going to ch

joining us now is the coo of americans elect elliott ackerman. good to see you.hat guy we saw there, chris christie, he could theoretically end up on a ballot, right? >> yes, he absolutely could, and i think what we're doing in america is opening up political process but i get on the ballot in all 50 states and i'm talking to you from california we are with are certified and over 1.6 million people in the state of california have signed petitions to get a third choice on the ballot in november 2012. >> you mentioned california and that was a big one, and you also got on the ballot in rhode island, i believe, today. so how many states are you in? >> that is right. >> and do you think it is reasonable that you would be in the ballot in all 50? >> we are going to be on the ballot in all 50, and we have been at this for over a year now, and by new year's, we will have 2.5 million of the 2.9 million signatures that we need to get on the ballot in all 50 states so we are removing that barrier to entry and now the question becomes who are the american people going to ch

joining us now is spencer ackerman who writes about national security for the excellent danger room blogin. >> tagks for having me, chris. >> spencer, can you explain why we have seen such escalation in the use of drones in the first three years of the obama administration? what is the rational, the reasoning strateically behind it? >> there's a strategic argument, and then there's a political argument that's a little bit more difficult to make. the strategic argument is that this is a really advanced and developed way to apply the lethal force that usually in the past was only applicable against large groups of people. now it's very specifically targeted. every time a zone strike occurs, that's the lagging indicator of a body of intelligence works that went into targeting it. then there's a political argument, which is unique to the obama administration it's got to still prosecute or feels the need to still prosecute a global war against al qaeda, but it doesn't want to get bogged down and hung up on giant land invasions. how to still do that, the drone kind of squares that circle. >> t

i spoke with ka legal byrd and elliott ackerman from a group called americans elect about a group toevolutionize the way we nominate candidates using the power of the internet on our blog esspass.msnbc.com. that is all for today.

steve israel and gary ackerman also demanded an apology.an sent this letter to allen west. he said he was really disappointing to hear about your goebbels remark. he was a vicious, notorious anti-semite who went down in history as propaganda for hitler. i greg of you to help raise the level of congressional discourse instead of personal attacks. allen west refuses to back down, he responded to conyers with a note back saying this. the democrat party does, indeed, have a vicious propaganda machine. it espouses lies and deceit and the master of deceptive information would truly be proud. i have been personally attacked and denigrated on countless occasions. i do not appreciate your letter. really, congressman? why don't you show us the tape of when that's happened to you. i'd like to see it. not only is allen west refusing to apologize, he's playing the victim and he's even blaming reporters for twisting his words. you know, i expect this kind of thing from a certain washed up former fox news host, but it is beyond unacceptable from a sitting

german shavit, a ranking member ackerman, distinguished members of the subcommittee, i am deeply honored to have this opportunity to discuss syria with you today and i greatly appreciate the invitation to do so. you have my statement. i will dispense with reading it. i've got a few comments that i hope sincerely will help us frame the discussion we can have this morning. nine months ago the president of syria elected to respond to peaceful protests with violence and brutality. for nine months, he has stayed on course, a course featuring death, incarceration, torture and terror. is it any wonder that peaceful protests threatens to morph into violent resistance? is it any wonder that a regime in its death throes trying to save itself would rather risk civil war than implement the modest steps called for by the arab league to restore the peace? in his recent interview with barbara walters, the person who clings on to the title, president of the syrian arab republic, disclaimed any personal responsibility for the regime's war on the syrian people. they are not my forces, he protested. they a

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chairman the ranking member ackerman and distinguished members of the subcommittee i am deeply honored to have this opportunity to discuss area with you today and i appreciate the invitation to do so. you have my statement i will dispense with reading it. of a few comments that i hopes sincerely will help us frame the discussion we can have this morning. nine months ago the president of syria elected to respond to peaceful protest with the violence and brutality. for nine months he has stayed on course featuring death and -- death incarceration torture and terror. is it any wonder that peaceful protest threatens to morph into violent resistance. is it any wonder that a regime that is trying to save itself would rather risk civil war then implement the modest ups called for by the arab league to restore the piece? in a recent interview with barbara walters a person who claimed -- cleanest to the title the presence of the syrian arab republic disclaimed any personal responsibility of the war on the syrian people. they are not my forces he protested. they are military forces belonging to

i spoke with khalil byrd and elliot ackerman about their efforts to revolutionize the way we nominateates by using the power of the internet. it's a very interesting idea. that's on our blog presspass.msnbc.com. that is all for today. we'll be back next week. if it's sunday, it's "meet the press."