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Entries Tagged ‘corruption’

Wells, Wachovia and Sweet, Sweet Deals

During the early days of the financial meltdown, the news was that Wells Fargo Bank was set to acquire teetering Wachovia, but those reports were overshadowed by the news that the FDIC had brokered a deal with Citigroup for the acquisition.
If you read beyond the smear headlines that seem to dominate every major news source, [...]

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The needle and the damage done…

Evidently Floridians have been injected with the offshore drilling meth now, too.
Have we become a nation of such uneducated, black and white thinkers that no one bothers to go beyond campaign rhetoric to the facts?
Of everything McCain has said in his campaign stops, his specious and irrational touting of offshore drilling as some sort of [...]

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ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron et al Claim Victors’ Spoils

The horsemen of the apocalypse are on the hunt. Here’s the latest news on the pale horses of death: ExxonMobil, Total, Chevron, Shell, et al who have been given preferential treatment and no-bid contract opportunities to service Iraq’s oil fields. (Remember this?)
The NY Times reports:
The deals, expected to be announced on June 30, [...]

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Tom Delay Hardly “Knows” Obama

That’s probably because Barack Obama doesn’t speak the language of liars and thieves, Tom. Only out of the mouth of an accused money-launderer could an accusation like this be spoken:
“And if McCain does not define him as what he is — hey, I have said publicly, and I will again, that unless he proves [...]

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