By ERIKA LOVLEY | 11/6/09 12:14 PM EST
politico.comTalk about bad timing.
As Washington reels from the news of 10.2 percent unemployment, the Center for Responsive Politics is out with a new report describing the wealth of members of Congress.
Among the highlights: Two-hundred-and-thirty-seven [...]
Source: Raw Story
NEW YORK — US authorities Friday charged a billionaire hedge fund manager and five others with insider trading that netted 20 million dollars on trades in Google, Hilton Hotels Corp. and other companies.
The Justice Department filed the charges which named Raj Rajaratnam, head of the Galleon Management hedge fund and listed on the [...]
A Secret Deal Between Wall Street and Washington Shines a Harsh Light on Federal Housing Agency
By PAM MARTENS CounterPunch
While the Federal Trade Commission was receiving gut-wrenching documentation of predatory lending abuses at a unit of Citigroup, the Federal agency mandated to level the playing field for low income homeowners, the U.S. Department of Housing [...]
War Criminals Are Becoming The Arbiters Of Law
By Paul Craig Roberts
October 12, 2009 “Information Clearing House” — The double standard under which the Israeli government operates is too much for everyone except the brainwashed Americans. Even the very Israeli Jerusalem Post can see the double standard displayed by “all of Israel now speaking in one [...]
Bought and Paid For
Washington’s Blog
Saturday, Oct 10th, 2009
Lobbyists from the financial industry have paid hundreds of millions to Congress and the Obama administration. They have bought virtually all of the key congress members and senators on committees overseeing finances and banking.
This is easy to confirm in black-and-white. See for yourself: here, here, here, [...]
Lew Rockwell
Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein of California silently resigned from her post on the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee (MILCON) [...]
Source: Miami Herald
The former chief of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Miami office who led the agency’s cases against infamous Panama strongman Manuel Noriega and Medellin cartel kingpin Fabio Ocho, was indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday for ordering the shredding of records once belonging to disgraced banker Allen Stanford.
Tom Raffanello, who emerged as [...]
Source: RawStory
Diebold, maker of touch-screen voting systems that have brought controversy after controversy upon the company, said Thursday that it will sell off most of it’s elections-related business, calling it a losing investment and a persistent “distraction.”
The Ohio-based company said it told Texas-based Premiere Election Solutions to former rival vote machine manufacturer Election Systems & [...]
42% Say People Randomly Selected from Phone Book Better Than Current Congress
September 2nd, 2009
Forty-two percent (42%) of U.S. voters say a group of people randomly selected from the phone book would do a better job than the current Congress. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds that an identical number (42%) disagree, but 16% are [...]
Thugs of Fortune
Jeff Huber
August 31, 2009
A singular absurdity of the 21st century is that the nation that spends more on defense than the rest of the world combined needs to hire mercenaries to fight wars against enemies who have [...]
Blackwater: CIA Assassins?
The Nation
by Jeremy Scahill
In April 2002, the CIA paid Blackwater more than $5 million to deploy a small team of men inside Afghanistan during the early stages of US operations in the country. A month later, Erik Prince, the company’s owner and a former Navy SEAL, flew to Afghanistan as part [...]
Source: Washington Post
L.A. Police Chief to Lead Unit Seeking Big U.S. Contracts
William Bratton, best known for his crime-reduction efforts in New York City in the 1990s, is stepping down as Los Angeles police chief to join Altegrity.
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A memo obtained by the Huffington Post confirms that the White House and the pharmaceutical lobby secretly agreed to precisely the sort of wide-ranging deal that both parties have been denying over the past week.
The memo, which according to a knowledgeable health care lobbyist was prepared by a person directly involved in the negotiations, lists [...]
United State Senate Declares: Chris Dodd May Accept Bribes from Subprime Lenders
Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd received a better mortgage deal from subprime lender Countrywide, simply because Dodd was a United States Senator. Today, the United States Senate cleared Dodd of wrongdoing. According to CNBC:
In the end, it takes a lot for the country’s most elite [...]
By Christopher Stern
July 30 (Bloomberg) — A Senate panel seeking evidence of fraud tied to last year’s mortgage crisis has issued subpoenas to financial companies including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co., said U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, a Republican from Oklahoma.
Coburn declined to say whether subpoenas were issued to other institutions. Frankfurt-based [...]
White supremacist radio host Hal Turner was an FBI informant, as hackers claimed a year ago
Nation (below): Turner was Sean Hannity’s ’soul mate of hate’
White supremacist radio host Hal Turner was an FBI informant, his lawyer revealed in court today. The announcement is a confirmation of what hackers claimed nearly a year ago after allegedly [...]
July 27, 2009
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A U.S. professor reportedly alerted the FBI to kidney trafficking years before a sting operation in New Jersey.
Nancy Scheper-Hughes, a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, tipped off authorities seven years ago after learning of Levy-Izhak Rosenbaum’s alleged crimes through her research, Ha’aretz wrote.
Rosenbaum was among 44 people [...]
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama says he has lost confidence in the inspector general who investigates AmeriCorps and other national service programs and has told Congress he is removing him from the position.
Obama’s move follows an investigation by IG Gerald Walpin of Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, who is an Obama supporter and former NBA basketball [...]
Last week, President Obama delivered a sorrow-filled and remorseful address in Poland, at one of those supposed World War II “death camps” the Nazis ran. Zionist-written history aside, Obama stressed at one point in the speech that there was an epidemic of “holocaust deniers” in the U.S. and on the internet. CNN then spent the next ten minutes talking to Jewish “experts” on “holocaust denial,” of course without having ONE dissenting opinion. That’s what I call open debate!
Source: Bloomberg
KBR Inc. wasted billions of dollars through inefficiencies, lax oversight and poor management of its contract to support U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to an independent, bipartisan panel.
The contract — to provide housing, food, laundry, mail delivery and fuel for U.S. troops — was ultimately worth $31.7 billion, with most of the [...]
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