Eliot Spitzer wonders, Why did $12.9 billion of taxpayer money go from AIG to Goldman Sachs? Spitzer's reputation and career were ruined by his curiously-timed sex scandal, but the guy still has a lot on the ball. He'd be a good investigator for digging into the bailout/bank heist, if anyone is ever allowed to investigate the crime of the century.
And of course, by "the crime of the century" I don't mean any piddly millions in executive bonuses, or any amount of money sent to Goldman Sachs from AIG. No sir and sorry ma'am, that's just a bunch of small-timers divvying up the loot. The real crime was thirty years of deregulation -- the Republicans' ongoing scheme to strip safeguards from all areas of corporate capitalism -- and then, when the feces finally hit the fan, a Bush-Cheney-Obama-
McCain-backed "bail-out" scheme that spends endless trillions in tax dollars to make sure the billionaires remain billionaires, and scuttles the world economy in the process.
[ Slate ]
"There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle."
Robert Alden
Michael Ratner is a lawyer, a human rights activist, and a frequent guest on left-leaning radio talk shows, where he's many times expressed the proper fury over the crimes of the Bush-Cheney administration and the subsequent endorsement of those crimes by the Obama administration. And John Yoo is a lawyer too, but he's the opposite of Ratner -- Yoo is an activist against human rights, and when he worked in the Bush-Cheney administration he wrote a series of Kafkaesque legal opinions that effectively abrogated the US Constitution and handed George W Bush the powers of absolute tyranny. Yoo's name remains unfamiliar to most Americans, so perhaps you need a further introduction? As legal adviser to the White House, Yoo wrote specifically that in war-time -- meaning, the so-called "war on terror" -- "the Fourth Amendment's ban on unreasonable searches are swept away" and "First Amendment speech and press rights may also be subordinated to the overriding need to wage war successfully." Yoo's memos provided that illegal legal framework for the Bush-Cheney administration's policies of spying, torture, and war beyond the Geneva Conventions. It amounts to treason, of course, but his staggering crimes against America and against humanity, Yoo has been given a
Corporations own the news
Virtually all American media is controlled by corporations and operated solely for profit, so news that's controversial or expensive to cover often gets minimal coverage that's shallow, inaccurate, or slanted to favor big business.
America's political discourse and mainstream media are dominated by lies, insults, and general nuttiness from right-wing commentators and politicians. And there's really no left-wing equivalent, since anyone who offers blunt criticism of the right-wing -- even when it's warranted and true -- is "outside the mainstream", by definition.
professorship at the University of California. Anyway, I haven't seen a better, easier to understand overview of Yoo's amazing memos than this analysis, offered by Michael Ratner: "What those memos lay out means the end of the system of checks and balances in this country. It means the end of the system in which the courts, legislature and executive each had a function and they could check each other. "What the memos set out is a system in which the president's word is law, and Yoo is very clear about that: the president's word is not only law according to these memos, but no law or constitutional right or treaty can restrict the president's authority. "What Yoo says is that the president's authority as commander in chief in the so-called war on terror is not bound by any law passed by Congress, any treaty, or the protections of free speech, due process and the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures. The First, Fourth and Fifth amendments -- gone. "What this actually means is that the president can order the military to operate in the US and to operate without constitutional restrictions. They -- the military -- can pick you or me up in the US for any reason and without any legal process. They would not have any restrictions on entering your house to search it, or to seize you. They can put you into a brig without any due process or going to court. (That's the Fourth and Fifth amendments.) "The military can disregard the Posse Comitatus law, which restricts the military from acting as police in the United States. And the president can, in the name of wartime restrictions, limit free speech. There it is in black and white: we are looking at one-person rule without any checks and balances -- a lawless state. Law by fiat. "Who has suspended the law this way in the past? It is like a Caesar's law in Rome; a Mussolini's law in Italy; a Fuhrer's law in Germany; a Stalin's law in the Soviet Union. It is right down the line. It is enforcing the will of the dictator through the military."
[ AlterNet ]
A British court ruled yesterday that US authorities asked a Guantanamo Bay detainee to drop allegations of torture in exchange for his freedom. The US offered Binyam Mohamed a plea bargain deal in October, but he refused the deal and the US dropped all charges against him later last year.
[ The Public Record ]
A federal judge has ordered the Food & Drug Administration to make emergency contraceptives legally available to 17-year-old girls, and to reconsider its 2006 Bush-Cheney era decision to require a prescription for minors to receive the "Plan B" drugs.
[ Washington Post ]
Bruce Schneier has a good round-up of what's known so far about the use of voting machines for election fraud in Kentucky.
[ Schneier on Security ]
Here's the Central Intelligence Agency, explaining how the "computerized" in "computerized voting" means "can be hacked", same as it means in "computerized commerce" or "computerized communications", etc.
And since it's the CIA, this is used as a platform to smear Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who, we're told, used computerized voting to change the outcome of a 2004 election recount. I have no knowledge whatsoever to suggest whether this is true or false, but I'm skeptical, of course, due to the CIA's long track record of lies and un-American activity and the US government and media's long pattern of demonizing Chavez.
[ McClatchy Newspapers ]
British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is training 60,000 people to keep an eye out for terrorists. Surely you don't need me to point out how ludicrous this is.
[ London Daily Mail ]
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) is blocking the nomination of Gary Gensler to head the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Gensler is a long-time cheerleader for pretty much everything that's gone wrong with Big Finance, and he's one of President Obama's most dramatically awful appointments. As usual, Sanders shows himself to be one of the best we've got in the Senate, and one of the few that we the people have in DC.
[ Crooks & Liars ]
It made me stop and think
"Republicans are jumping up and down with fake populist outrage about who knew what about bonuses. Even Liberals are letting the right define their outrage. Haven't we learned anything. Republicans won't ever admit the truth. Anything Republicans are outraged about is just a lie to hide their own responsibility."
[ Prairie2 ]
" But most of the anger we see and hear comes from people who are paid to be angry, on cue, on cable television--as opposed to people with actual grievances. Suddenly, the White House press corps goes barking mad over the AIG Bonuses. It is said that the bonuses are an aspect of the bust that the "public" can understand; in truth, the bonuses are an aspect of the bust that reporters can understand. Suddenly, the Obama Administration has a 'crisis'. The President has to go on television and act as if he's angry, even though he knows these bonuses are the tiniest outcropping of outrageousness. ... "If you want to be angry about something, get pissed at a media culture that goes berserk about bonuses one week and forgets all about them the next. And be worried, quite worried, about a society for whom anger is a form of entertainment."
[ Joe Klein ]
The Obama administration has reversed another horrible Bush-Cheney administration policy, and will halt mountaintop-removal mining. The decision is only temporary as the effects are reviewed, but still, can you hear me clapping? I've got a lot of problems with the Obama administration we've seen so far, especially what seems to be an open endorsement of Bush-Cheney era criminality, torture, war crimes, and eavesdropping, and economic policies that look to me like a middle-of-the-road compromise between common sense and suicide. But dang me, it's a pleasant change of pace to have a President who's content to make the worst possible decisions only some of the time.
[ MSNBC News ]
The Republican Party and an arch-conservative group called the American Issues Project are launching separate projects trying to link the Obama administration to the AIG bonuses. There is a link, of course -- Obama's hopelessly incompetent Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner pressured Senator Chris Dodd (D-Connecticut) to remove a legislative provision that would've blocked the bonuses -- but we'll say it again (and again and again), the bonuses (and the corporate jets and weekends in Vegas and all the rest from AIG and the other Big Finance entities) don't amount to a pimple on your hindside, compared to the billions and billions of taxpayer dollars that have been flushed down the toilet in all the bailout mania of the past several months.
[ Washington Post ]
Big Business is lobbying Google to get the search giant to alter its algorithms to give professional content a leg up on amateur sites. "You should not have a system," one content executive said, "where those who are essentially parasites off the true producers of content benefit disproportionately." I'm pleased with the results Google gives, but there's some validity in the corporate complaints.
[ Advertising Age ]
The Bush administration has filed a brief supporting the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which represents Big Music, in a wildly punitive lawsuit demanding that a young man pay damages of from 2,100 to 425,000 the actual value of the music he's accused of downloading.
[ Slashdot ]
With its reputation deservedly in the crapper, American International Group (AIG) has rebranded its core business as "American International Underwriters". Yeah, if you were AIG you'd want to wear a disguise in public, too.
[ NBC News ]
If the government of Sudan stands by its decision to refuse aid from the UN, a million or so people will be starving by June. This is insanity. I can't even wrap my head around a long term solution to this aside from armed removal of the President so he can stand trial for war crimes and allowing the aid groups to return en masse to provide support. Ugh. --Sherri B.
[ Associated Press ]
South Africa has denied the Dalai Lama a visa, basically barring him from attending a peace conference there. Archbishop Desmond Tutu and former president F.W. De Klerk have said they that to protest the Dalai Lama's exclusion, they won't attend. Apparently, the South African government is worried that allowing the Dalai Lama to attend the conference would offend China. Of course, China controls the world's economy, so a little worry is never unfounded, but still, this is craziness.
[ SOURCE ]
China has apparently blocked its people from access to YouTube.
[ Reuters News Agency ]
A child psychologist who does lots of research for pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson will testify in a huge lawsuit over the damages done by anti-psychotic drugs, but he wants his testimony and subpoenaed documents kept secret, because they "could be immensely damaging to him, both personally and professionally," according to court papers. I don't think I've ever heard of this doctor, Harvard hot shot Joseph Biederman, before, but I already want to see his career ruined and his sorry ass in prison.
[ Why Not Resist? ]
"All substances are poisons; there is none which is not a poison. The right dose differentiates a poison and a remedy." Poison is in the dose. Toxicology and pharmacology are intertwined, inseparable, a Jekyll-Hyde duality. A serpent coiled around a staff symbolizes Asclepius, the Greek god of medicine. I wonder how many different substances like these are flowing out of labs and factories into our food and water at this very moment, due to Republican deregulation of past decades? --JR Mooneyham
[ National Geographic ]
Last week I saw a startling editorial in the Washington Times, slamming the Obama administration for ending the Bush-era policy that allows commercial airline pilots to carry arms for self-defense. I'd seen nothing about this in the news, and in searching I couldn't find any reports about it in the news, but the arch-right Washington Times was complaining about it. Imagine my lack of surprise to find that, to the opposite, the program is actually being expanded, and the Moonie paper's editorial had been based on whispered scuttlebutt from anonymous pilots. The Washington Times, meanwhile, has thoughtfully deleted the editorial from its website, without running any correction that I could find.
[ factcheck.org ]
America's Political Class gives Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner rave reviews: 76% have a favorable opinion of him. Two-thirds (66%) of the Political Class say Geithner's doing a good or excellent job handling the credit crisis and federal bailouts. ... Overall, among all adults, 24% have a favorable opinion of Geithner, 44% have an unfavorable opinion, and 33% are not sure. Twenty-one percent (21%) of adults say Geithner is doing a good or an excellent job while 40% say he is doing a poor job. Hilarious and infuriating. When all the dust settles, Geithner will be as well respected as Alberto Gonzales or Michael Brown.
[ Rasmussen Reports ]
It isn't official yet, but Stephen Colbert is the top vote-getter, so NASA might name the space station's toilet after the late-night comedian. They've picked the wrong guy to name the toilet after. It should be named after Rush Limbaugh. How can anything compete with the Rush Flush and the Limbaugh Loo? He's the obvious choice! --SirJ
[ MSNBC News ]
Good news: Chris Matthews definitely isn't running for office. Bad news: He'll be talking tediously on MSNBC for at least four more years.
[ New York Times, distilled by McCall's ]
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There's still time for the radioactive poison Pooty-Poot placed in Double's Ought to take the punk out.
As for revenge: a dish best served cold.
And you gotta admit, if ever there was a time to be optimistic about America's acting president and the power at large for das peeples to be swarmed into das populistas, it be now. Historically, he's the FDR cigarette filter, the Lincoln po'boy become president and damn him talk purty.
He is like... uber cool. We actually have a COOL president in the White House! Clinton hates it, I bet that Obama's ten times cooler than he ever was.
The Blue Rajah
Gotta admit, even when he does something dumb or downright evil and I want to hate the guy, it's difficult.
Excerpt: Underlying the impending class action is the question of whether Global Linguist Solutions (GLS) broke the law by unilaterally modifying the terms of its linguists' employment agreements midcontract, before they came up for renegotiation. According to GLS spokesman Doug Ebner, the firm was merely reacting to changes in its own contract with the US Army, which had demanded more linguists for the same price, thereby lowering the firm's margins.
Contracts today aren't as the saying goes "worth the paper they're written on". Bankruptcy judges can break them at will. Unions can join employers and "modify" contracts. Companies can just shut their doors, move to China and leave contracts void in the dust.
Excerpt: Chris Mooney has written an excellent Washington Post column calling on journalists to agree to follow a more empirical process, one which is "constrained by standards of evidence, rigor and reproducibility that are similar to the canons of modern science itself." He makes his case by calling out George Will, who is all too happy to continue misleading his global-warming-denying audience.
Way back when I took a journalism class in high school the rules in reporting were WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, WHY, and sometimes HOW. But now we don't have journalistic reporting. What we now enjoy is By-line pundits who consider recording their personal views and opinions as reporting.
I should have died 30 years ago if all the studies are valid. I've eaten too much that's been declared detrimental to health. I've consumed (although I quit the hard stuff some time ago) enough booze to float a battleship. And even having quit smoking in 1981. I probably am responsible for the air pollution in Ohio.
I don't know the credentials of Michael Ratner but I do know the credentials of Mr. Yoo and one of these days someone will wake up and vindicate the Constitution. The final chapter has yet to be written.
The headline asks, Do the secret Bush memos amount to treason? Might as well ask, Is the Pope Catholic? Does a bear sh*t in the woods? Is up above us and down below? The answer is fairly obvious. H&HH
This story leaves me quite conflicted. I can in no way condone or acquit her of the crimes she participated in. However, the excessive variations in penalties given for all criminal acts people are convicted of troubles me. The deals made for criminals to snitch on their cohorts leaves a sour taste in my mouth.
Wig
I don't have any problem with stern penalties for arson, but yeah, giving Marie Mason 22 years in prison looks like two years for arson and twenty years as punishment for her politics. Big picture, it's obvious that a system of justice that's built on constantly "making deals" --- plea bargains and jailhouse snitches, etc. -- and with sentences utterly out of balance to the crimes and to other sentences, isn't really a system of justice. It's a system of injustice, and it works very efficiently.
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