Category: 13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption

  • Bank of England Bailout Kept Secret Forever

    £50 billion later: Requests under the Freedom of Information Act are to be denied. Details will be kept secret even after 30 years – the period after which all but the most sensitive state documents are released. Any Bank of England employee leaking the names of institutions involved will face court action for breach of […]

  • Pentagon Can't Account for Trillions

    So wait a minute. Estimates are showing that by the time no-bid contracts have bled the Treasury dry and we’ve given the worst possible care to returning veterans that the Iraq occupation will cost $3 trillion (and let in a few hundred of the millions of displaced Iraqis into the country). But it turns out […]

  • Numerous Countries Drop Dollar as Reserve Currency

    From Reddit: In the past couple of years, the following countries have stopped using the dollar as their reserve currency or have dropped their currency’s peg against the dollar: China, Japan, Kuwait, Syria, Iran, Libya, Russia, Malaysia, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Switzerland, Norway and some other Scandinavian countries, Some Balkan countries, Many East European currencies.

  • Complete US Media Blackout: FBI Translator Alleges Gov't Officials Sold Nuke Secrets

    Sometimes I think I get a bit too shrill with my cries of conspiracy or corruption. Then this kinda shit happens. Sibel Edmonds was a Turkish translator for the FBI for about 6 months back in 2001 and was fired after illicit activity involving foreign nationals, alleging serious acts of security breaches, cover-ups, and intentional […]

  • Pelosi Derides the Protest

    From our spineless Speaker: “Look,” she said, the chicken breast on her plate untouched. “I had, for five months, people sitting outside my home, going into my garden in San Francisco, angering neighbors, hanging their clothes from trees, building all kinds of things — Buddhas? I don’t know what they were — couches, sofas, chairs, […]

  • Lieberman Skips Oversight Blackwater

    Not shocked at all: Joe Lieberman (I-CT), who chairs the Senate committee responsible for government oversight, says he has no plans to investigate Blackwater and other Iraq war contractors accused of potentially criminal wrongdoing.

  • Glen Greenwald on Worthless Democrats

    I love Glen. I want to be Glen. I wish I was as smart and awesome as Glen. He is close to reaching my heroes list: The right-wing Republicans in Congress have an affinity with their base and share the same basic values. By very stark contrast, most (though certainly not all) Democrats in Congress […]

  • Gonzales Resigns

    Presumably to spend more time with his family.

  • Pelosi's Blocking Impeachment in the House is Killing the Democratic Party

    From Smirking Chimp: It’s just the Constitution that’s suffering because of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s nutty and unprincipled “impeachment-off-the-table” position blocking any effort to impeach President Bush or Vice President Cheney for their many crimes and abuses of power. Her position on impeachment is killing the Democratic Party too, by driving away not just progressived […]

  • President of Young Republicans Sexually Assaults Houseguest

    Yay Clark County, Indiana: (via DKos) Murphy is accused of sexually assaulting another man on Saturday, July 28, 2007, while he lay sleeping in his bed. The alleged assault of the 22-year-old man took place in the Jeffersonville, Indiana home of his sister following a Young Republican party in which both Murphy and the 22-year-old […]