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• • 06 Jul 09
  • 2:11 am

  whattheheck, my friend, i agree it's 'totally stupid', but not as an occasion to cast right wing dispersions on al gore. no, obama's goldman sachs economic team is behind this ... as matt taibbi points out in his piece in the rolling stone, "how goldman saches seized washington" : "The new carbon-credit market is a virtual repeat of the commodities-market casino that's been kind to Goldman, except it has one delicious new wrinkle: If the plan goes forward as expected, the rise in prices will be government-mandated. Goldman won't even have to rig the game. It will be rigged in advance. …

  Posted to The House on Friday passed an energy bill that includes a carbon cap and trade system and incentives

• • 18 Apr 09
  • 6:06 pm

  "I was just following orders," wasn't an acceptable defense for convicted Class A, Class B, or Class C criminals during the Nuremberg trials, the Tokyo trials or even during the Khabarovsk trials. What has changed but the name, face, culture or religion of the enemy? Morally unsustainable is just morally unsustainable. Yet to give you the illusion of closure for what every American knows in his heart of hearts is a desperate and cowardly aberration, we now have a very few weekend warrior (National Guard) privates and sergeants imprisoned as the "bad apples" whose souvenir photos exposed to the world America's …

  Posted to President Obama said his administration will not prosecute Bush-era CIA agents who used interrogatio

• • 12 Mar 09
  • 7:31 pm

  glad you guys are o.k., so far ... me too, over here, so far. have you noticed all the network generated public anger focused on Madoff? he was just a simple scammer crook with more zeros, not the cause of all the fake money appearing and then disappearing with true value, not the fake-made-of-nothing-money, floating ever higher up the pay-scale. like you said, whattheheck, congressmen and senators, like fla's graham, the sec, rating houses, and all of wall street are pulling off the greatest asset heist of all time. them and all their enablers. and of course it all started with …

  Posted to The U.S. unemployment rate is now 8.1% – 3.2% higher than when the recession began in Dec. 200

• • 16 Feb 09
  • 4:57 am

  most americans don't realize that this bush administration initiated wall street bailout (and greatest heist in the history of money) under then treasury sec. paulson is not the stimulus bill. the problem is most americans get their information from the teevee and tawk radio. when republicans ruled, the rationale was that since they controlled both houses, it was only logical to put 2 repugs on the air for every 1 dem (be they blue dog dinos or not). now, i'm not sure what their rationale can be - but know that their boards of directors are supporters of this destruction of …

  Posted to 67% of Americans trust themselves more than Congress on economic issues, according to a

• • 27 Jan 09
  • 6:52 pm

  a simple yes, as should americans, chinese, pakistanis, burmese, or anyone else who commits crimes against humanity ... but i would distinguish between those giving the orders and not those driven to deeds by fear, circumstance and the horror and chaos of combat. the latter category need intensive psychological care.

  Posted to Israel will protect its soldiers against any Gaza war crime accusations, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert