Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Janet Tavakoli: Did Goldman Sachs Commit Fraud?
April 20th, 2010Via: Jesse’s Café Américain: Yes. The only thing that was surprising how long the SEC took to do it. The complaint does not go quite far enough. It was a blatant fraud, more than just a failure to disclose information. And this may be the beginning of a lot of questions about a lot of […]
Elliot Spitzer: “There are no coincidences in this world. None.”
April 20th, 2010Update: AIG-Goldman Sachs Trades Should Be Probed by SEC, Cummings Says Via: Business Week: The regulator suing Goldman Sachs Group Inc. for fraud should widen its probe to determine whether securities backed by bailed-out insurer American International Group Inc. were improperly created, said two lawmakers. It is “not beyond the realm of comprehension” that Goldman […]
Poll: Four Out of Five Americans Don’t Trust Washington; One Third View Government as Major Threat
April 19th, 2010Via: AFP: Nearly one out of three Americans view the US government as a “major threat” to their freedoms, and four out of five say they don’t trust Washington to solve their problems, according to a new poll out Monday. Just 19 percent say they are “basically content” with the federal government, against 56 percent […]
Goldman Lawyers Advised Lehman
April 19th, 2010Via: Telegraph: The US law firm supporting Goldman Sachs against fraud allegations was Lehman Brothers’ legal adviser as it crashed into bankruptcy two years ago. Rodgin Cohen, the senior chairman at Sullivan & Cromwell, was the man who made the fateful call on Sunday September 14, 2008 to Dick Fuld, the boss of Lehman, to […]
100 Years of U.S. Medical Fascism
April 19th, 2010Via: Ludwig Von Mises Institute: As far as other conservative Republicans go, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee has repeatedly stated that he sees “some good things” in Obamacare, especially the expanded use of Medicaid. Voters naïve enough to think they will get a complete repeal from the Republican Party appear to be in for a […]
Crime Prediction Software Is Here and It’s a Very Bad Idea
April 18th, 2010Via: Gizmodo: There are no naked pre-cogs inside glowing jacuzzis yet, but the Florida State Department of Juvenile Justice will use analysis software to predict crime by young delinquents, putting potential offenders under specific prevention and education programs. Goodbye, human rights! They will use this software on juvenile delinquents, using a series of variables to […]
The Game That Goes On and On: a Swiss Bank, a President, and the Permanent Government
April 18th, 2010Flashback: Backbone of Complex Networks of Corporations: The Flow of Control Via: Smirking Chimp: Last August, the presidential press corps followed Barack Obama and his family to Martha’s Vineyard for their brief vacation. The coverage focused on summery fare–a visit to an ice cream parlor, the books the president had brought along. Nearly everyone mentioned […]
Apple App Store Bans Pulitzer-Winning Satirist for Satire
April 16th, 2010Via: Wired: Editorial cartoonist Mark Fiore may be good enough to win this year’s Pulitzer Prize, but he’s evidently too biting to get past the auditors who run Apple’s iPhone app store, who ruled that lampooning public figures violated its terms of service. Fiore irked Apple’s censorious staffers with his cartoons making fun of the […]
Ex-NSA Worker Charged in Classified Leak Case
April 16th, 2010Hmm. I’m throwing a tick in COINTELPRO because it strikes me as bizarre that someone at such a high level in the NSA allowed himself to get burned like this. Via: AP: A former senior executive at the National Security Agency was charged Thursday with lying and obstruction of justice in an investigation of leaks […]
Afghanistan: U.S. Death Squad Executed Students While They Slept
April 15th, 2010U.S. taxpayers pay $2000 per executed child to grieving Afghan parents. Happy April 15th. Via: Times Online: A night-time raid in eastern Afghanistan in which eight schoolboys from one family were killed was carried out on the basis of faulty intelligence and should never have been authorised, a Times investigation has found. Ten children and […]
