Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
“Lehman Was the Leading Purveyor of Liar’s Loans in the World” — Incidents of Fraud at 90% — “Lehman Sold This to the World”
April 23rd, 2010I also handled issues for the used-car-salesman-type ‘account executives’. Just before I left, the company switched loan origination systems. The people writing these loans were pissed because they were no longer able to get loans approved for people with fraudulent social security numbers. They would actually complain because the system was telling them that the […]
IRS Agent Didn’t Report $41,842 in EBay Sales
April 23rd, 2010I need a Comedy category. Via: Bloomberg: An Internal Revenue Service agent was found liable for back taxes and penalties for not reporting income on nearly 2,000 transactions on EBay Inc., the online auction site, according to the U.S. Tax Court. Andrea Fabiana Orellana failed to report $41,842 in income in 2004 and 2005 from […]
Goldman’s Chief Executive Visited the White House at Least Four Times
April 22nd, 2010Lots of Change to discuss? Via: McClatchy: While Goldman Sachs’ lawyers negotiated with the Securities and Exchange Commission over potentially explosive civil fraud charges, Goldman’s chief executive visited the White House at least four times. White House logs show that Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein traveled to Washington for at least two events with President Barack […]
China Holds Relatives of One Child Rule Breakers Hostage
April 22nd, 2010Via: Times Online: Doctors in southern China are working around the clock to fulfil a government goal to sterilise — by force if necessary — almost 10,000 men and women who have violated birth control policies. Family planning authorities are so determined to stop couples from producing more children than the regulations allow that they […]
National Guard Recruiters Forged Re-Enlistment Papers
April 22nd, 2010Via: RawStory: Washington State National Guard recruiters repeatedly forged re-enlistment papers in a desperate attempt to hold on to soldiers in the run-up to the Iraq war surge, a local news channel’s investigation has found. In one case, a soldier found himself fighting against deployment to Iraq after re-enlistment papers with his signature on it […]
Goldman Sachs Hires, Gregory Craig, Barack Obama’s Former White House Counsel
April 22nd, 2010Via: Politico: Goldman Sachs is launching an aggressive response to its political and legal challenges with an unlikely ally at its side — President Barack Obama’s former White House counsel, Gregory Craig. The beleaguered Wall Street bank hired Craig — now in private practice at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom — in recent weeks […]
IEEE: Build Backup Routes for Undersea Communications Infrastructure “Before we have to learn the hard way”
April 21st, 2010Cryptogon Flashback to 2002: Cyberwar: How Terrorists Could Defeat the U.S., and Why They Won’t In the years since I wrote that, I started to think that a massive attack on the physical network infrastructure would make increasing sense to the elite if the financial scams became totally untenable, and the perpetrators needed a distraction […]
U.S. Soldier Who Felt Bad About Slaughter of Civilians in Iraq: “I was told that I needed to get the sand out of my vagina”
April 21st, 2010Via: Wired: Wired.com: At the time you arrived on the scene, you didn’t know what had happened, is that right? Ethan McCord: Right. We were engaged in our own conflict roughly about three or four blocks away. We heard the gunships open up. [Then] we were just told … to move to this [other] location. […]
The Psychiatric Drugging of Children
April 21st, 2010Via: Counterpunch: Of all the harmful actions of modern psychiatry, “the mass diagnosing and drugging of children is the most appalling with the most serious consequences for the future of individual lives and for society,” warns the world-renowned expert, Dr Peter Breggin, often referred to as the “Conscience of Psychiatry.” “We’re bringing up a generation […]
Top Contributors: Presidential Candidate Barack Obama
April 20th, 2010Via: OpenSecrets: This table lists the top donors to this candidate in the 2008 election cycle. The organizations themselves did not donate , rather the money came from the organization’s PAC, its individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals’ immediate families. Organization totals include subsidiaries and affiliates. Because of contribution limits, organizations that […]
