Making sure Goldman-Sachs gets taken care of...not the rest of us.NYTimes: For Goldman, a Swift Return to Lofty Profits
Remember all of this -- the $700 billion bank bailout, the AIG scandal, dark and scary threats of imminent global meltdown if there wasn't full-scale capitulation by the citizenry to the immense transfer of public wealth to the private investment banking sector? Such distant, hazy memories: so many exciting celebrity deaths and riveting celebrity resignations ago. If sequences of events like these don't cause mass citizen outrage, then it's hard to imagine what will:
Glenn Greenwald: The events preceding Goldman Sachs' new "blowout profits"
Matt Taibbi: Goldman-Sachs behind every major market manipulation since the Great Depression
Quick Interview: Matt Taibbi Breaks Down Goldman Sachs’ Big Scam
Going on longer than WWII...going on forever...costing taxpayers $410 MILLION a day...
Four U.S. Marines killed by bomb blasts in Afghanistan. The five deaths bring to 106 the number of U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan this year - a 40% jump from last year.A secret Central Intelligence Agency initiative terminated by Director Leon Panetta was an attempt to carry out a 2001 presidential authorization to capture or kill al Qaeda operatives, according to former intelligence officials familiar with the matter.
A group of doctors in the UK are mounting a legal and political campaign to overturn the suicide verdict in the death of a British doctor who was found dead shortly after exposing falsehoods about the justification for the Iraq war.
9/12/2001: CIA Veteran Doubts Bin Laden Capable Of 9/11 Attacks ...
Al Qaeda Doesn't Exist
Justice after Bush: Prosecuting an outlaw administration
Pew Research: 6% of scientists are Republican
American education has deteriorated inversely with the rise of right wing politics! An example is 'Texas' and every child that Bush left behind. Texas beats out Mississippi for DEAD LAST in high school graduations at the same time that it LEADS the nation in executions due to the state's extremely high crime rate!
Bachmann/Boehner Overdrive
