Archive for July 26th, 2009

Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi: The Great American Bubble Machine Interview

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About the Video series: Matt Taibbi on how Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression. Link to Matt Taibbi’s “The Great American Bubble Machine” in Rolling Stone Issue 1082-83
Matt Taibbi takes on “the Wall Street Bubble Mafia” — investment bank Goldman Sachs. The piece has generated controversy, with [...]

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Forget Posse Comitatus:Cheney wanted to use the military on US soil

The insanity we call Cheney gets more and more bizarre with each passing revelation.
According to a story in Friday’s New York Times,Vice-President Cheney advocated in 2002 for the Bush administration to send military troops to Buffalo to arrest the so-called Lackawanna Six as enemy combatants.
This would have violated both Fourth Amendment guarantees against search and [...]

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Do we have no shame?

This is a truly unbelievable story.
Rosenbaum was arrested in a sweeping federal case that began as an investigation into money laundering and trafficking in kidneys and fake designer bags. It mushroomed into a political corruption probe, culminating in the arrests this week of 44 people, including three New Jersey mayors, various other officials, and five [...]

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