JP
Morgan
Chase Gets
Asked of
Predatory
Lending &
Even Tony
Blair,
Cancels
Q&A
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
November 13,
updated -- It
was back on
November 6
that JP Morgan
Chase started
teasing a
November 14
Twitter
Q&A by an
unnamed
executive,
urging that
questions be
posed using
the hashtag
#AskJPM.
The
foreseeable
push-back
didn't begin
then. But the
day before
answers
were promised,
the hubris of
bailed-out
predatory
lender JPM
Chase
believing it
could launder
itself through
social media
was brought to
light.
And
so the
questioning
began, ranging
from "Can I
have my home
back?" through
"Do you own
anything you
didn't steal?"
Inner City
Press' UN-focused
following up,
"Does Tony
Blair
still work
for, or get
paid by,
JPMorgan
Chase? For
what,
exactly?"
(Blair,
alongside
being the UN
Quartet's
representative
on Palestine
and
Israel, took a
job with
JPMorgan Chase
among others,
and refused in
the UN to
answer Inner
City Press'
questions
about the
conflict of
interest.)
After
much mocking,
@JPMorgan
called it off:
"Tomorrow's
Q&A is
canceled. Bad
Idea. Back to
the drawing
board."
Such
is the level
of righteous
anger, after
the predatory
lending, after
the bail-outs.
But that's
among people
-- in
Congress, the
wheels
being greased,
JPMorgan and
Citigroup have
already
rehabilitated
their image.
That's what
made them
blind. Watch
this site.
Footnote:
Returning
to a UN
perspective,
what would
happen if the
UN in Haiti
asked people
what they
thought, after
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon
deemed all
cholera claims
"not
receivable"?
This is why
large parts of
the UN system
not only never
promise to
answer
questions --
they never do.
They
communicate
one-way. But
social
media
questions
should be
answered...
Update:
it's reported
that
two-thirds of
the 80,000
#AskJPM tweets
were
negatives. So
who WERE those
other
one-third?
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