That's where I live! WHOOPS! That ain't good! This should be made into a movie...you got: mobsters, kids-for-cash judges, real estate developers, attorneys, wives, yachts, private jets, townhouses, airports, stadiums.....HOLY CRIKIES! This is worse than "The Sopranos"!!!!!!!!Developer Robert Mericle has agreed to plead guilty in the kids-for-cash scandal, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced today.
Thousands of juveniles sentenced by disgraced former Luzerne County Judge Mark A. Ciavarella Jr. should have their records cleared and prosecutors should be barred from retrying the vast majority of them, a judge appointed to review Ciavarella's cases recommended Wednesday.
Former defendants find vindication in recommendation
Judge Grim's grim report (pdf)
The ENTIRE corruption probe page stories.
Above: It all started with the "Kids for Cash" judges!Incredible, gross profits by the present health insurance industry:
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.
Internal Memo Confirms Big Giveaways In White House Deal With Big Pharma
Washington Post: GUILTY!!!There goes the "liberal media" again! You know, the one that's owned by corporations that aren't liberal. My daily proof that the mainstream media isn't liberal. Apparently, evidence and proof are meaningless nowadays.
When a scandal involving the Bush administration’s firing of US Attorneys broke in early 2007, initial coverage by the Washington Post supported the idea that the firings had been politically motivated. That approach, however, quickly changed to one that was far more friendly to the White House.
Emails show Washington Post reporter coordinated attorney firing story with White House
Pentagon Pundits - Blinded By The Right
The Daily Show hires "LARRY" for a new, much-needed business school MBA ethics course to prevent future Bernie Madoff's:
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Fat, Dumb, & Stupid is no way to go through life!
AMERICAN IDIOTS: A deep look at American education...with great quotes from our founding fathers.
Jessen-Mitchell: two war profiteers.Remember when war profiteering was unAmerican and treasonous? Well, a lot of people made a lot of money, and continue to do so, off the "War on Terror"...how convenient for them, that the "War on Terror" came along...meet the two UNQUALIFIED guys who came up with the torture program, and made a lot of money off it. Continuous war for contiuous profits for the military industrial complex. Shhhhh....don't look into it! It'll ruin our economy, if we don't have war!
NYTimes: Jim Mitchell and Bruce Jessen were military retirees and psychologists, on the lookout for business opportunities.
Amnesty International: Independent investigation into alleged UK involvement in torture long overdue
Target Of Obama-Era Rendition Alleges Torture
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together." Dwight David Eisenhower, "Military-Industrial Complex Speech," 1961
The Real Grand Chessboard and the Profiteers of War
(all very short videos)
Video 1 - President Eisenhower's "Military Industrial Complex" speech:
Video 2 - Meet the two war profiteers who came up with the torture program
Video 3 - Tortured Logic
Video 4-10 - Excerpts from the movie "Torturing Democracy"
Video 1a - Student confronts Condi Rice about torture
Irony: Republican Michele "that's ONE 'L' and TWO 'N's "Bachmann's son joins "Obama Re-Education Camp"
Despite the concerns expressed last year by Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., that Americorps would evolve into re-education camps for young Americans and that inner city education charities are part of a secret plan to trick Americans into living in urban tenements, her son, Harrison, has signed on with Americorps' Teach for America.Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
