Corruption

Mysterious company dissolves after giving $1 million to pro-Romney PAC

08-04-2011 • The Upshot

Did someone [named Mitt] create a company for the sole purpose of giving to a political action committee trying to boost Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign? That's what it looks like. 3 firms gave $1 million apiece to Restore Our Future, a cons

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France investigating head of IMF in multimillion-dollar payout case

08-04-2011 • Washington Post

A French court launched a criminal investigation into allegations that Lagarde abused her power when she served as France’s finance minister and oversaw a dispute involving multimillion-dollar payouts to a business tycoon.

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Maggie Daley charity got $6.5-mil. city contract 4 days before Mayor Daley left office

08-04-2011 • .

There's nothing like a good ol' Chicago coincidence. I mean, those marvelous situations in which connected people and groups always seem to have a lucky shamrock in their pocket at just the right time are a distinctive part of what makes Chicago, wel

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BofA on Foreclosure-Gate: Liabilities Are For The "Little People"

08-03-2011 • NakedCapitalism.com/

Clearly, in the World According to Banks, the only parties who engage in bad conduct are little people.

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Bulldoze: The New Way To Foreclose

08-01-2011 • news.yahoo.com

Increasingly, it appears banks are turning to demolition teams instead of realtors to rid them of their least valuable repossessed homes.

Corruption

It’s Another Assault On Retirement Accounts

07-29-2011 • ZeroHedge.com

Retirement funds have become the ultimate fudge making tool of corrupt fiscal policy around the world. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has been robbing federal pensions for the last several months in the absence of a debt deal...

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Democratic Party Supports Institutionalized Looting by Banks

07-29-2011 • NakedCapitalism.com/

The Democratic party has made clear that it supports institutionalized looting by banks, via the innocuous-seemeing device of rejecting the idea of writedowns on bonds they hold.

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Quartzite council, knowing they have pissed off the citizens, now seek to disarm them

07-28-2011 • www.wnd.com

Councilman has judge order activist to surrender his guns for calling him a "turd".

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A victory in the war against profiteering: but US taxpayers are out $5tn for Bush's wars

07-27-2011 • Amy Goodman, Guardian, UK

One courageous civil servant just won a battle to hold war profiteers accountable. Her name is Bunnatine "Bunny" Greenhouse. She blew the whistle when her employer, the US Army, gave a no-bid $7bn contract to the Halliburton subsidiary KBR.

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Court Filing Reveals How 2004 Ohio Presidential Election was Hacked

07-27-2011 • http://www.prisonplanet.com/

A new filing in the King Lincoln Bronzeville v. Blackwell case includes a copy of the Ohio Secretary of State election production system configuration that was in use in Ohio’s 2004 presidential election ...

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Congressional members net worth up incredible percentages

07-27-2011 • youtube

Many have the sneaking suspicion our elected “leaders” in Congress are not going to Washington D.C. to represent us but for their own personal gain. Using the net worth data by the Center for Responsive Politics we found a disturbing trend.

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The US military turns out to fund Taliban

07-26-2011 • Gladkov Vladimir

The real “bad guys” turn out to have nothing to do with Julian Assange, Bradley Manning. Corruption put US taxpayers’ money into the hands of Taliban. And their actions could be incomparably more devastating and embarrassing for America than the comb

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Foreclosure-Gate: Massachusetts AG Nixing “50 State” Mortgage Settlement?

07-26-2011 • NakedCapitalism.com/

I’m told that the Department of Justice is putting the thumbscrews on state attorneys general to sign a mortgage settlement deal this week (how exactly the DoJ can pressure state officials is beyond me, since the Feds typically ignore state...

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U.S. trucking funds reach Taliban, military-led investigation concludes

07-24-2011 • Washington Post

A year-long military-led investigation has concluded that U.S. taxpayer money has been indirectly funneled to the Taliban under a $2.16 billion transportation contract that the United States has funded in part to promote Afghan businesses.

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Carbon cowboys

07-23-2011 • Patrick Bodenham and Ben Cubby

A new kind of businessman has now arrived in the jungle. The Australian property developer David Nilsson is not seeking rubber or gold, but the carbon dioxide locked up in millions of hectares of lush Amazon rainforest east of Iquitos in Peru.

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Watchdog groups call for cuts to Defense health benefits, contract spending

07-23-2011 • Emily Long

Government watchdogs are calling for an overhaul of the Defense Department's health care program for military retirees and cuts to contract spending in an effort to reduce the federal deficit. [No cuts to high-tech weapons systems, of course.]

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The "High End" Bubble

07-22-2011 • ZeroHedge.com

“The swings in purchases of fuel and food have been “dramatic,” Tavares said. The volume of gasoline purchases placed on credit cards jumped 39 percent last month from a year earlier, compared with a 21 percent increase in June 2010...

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Foreclosure-Gate: States Negotiating Immunity for Banks Over Perjury

07-21-2011 • Reuters.com & Market-Ticker.org

You cannot allow banks - or anyone else - to make a mockery of the justice system. This pattern of behavior is extremely dangerous, for it risks the people deciding that the law no longer has meaning at once that happens all pretense of civil order

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D.C. Mayor's campaign accepted cash donations above legal limit

07-18-2011 • Washington Post

D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray’s campaign accepted cash contributions above the city’s legal limit and in some cases recorded donations from people who say they didn’t contribute to his mayoral bid, according to a Washington Post review of District recor

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Head of Scotland Yard resigns amid hacking scandal; Rebekah Brooks is arrested

07-17-2011 • Washington Post

Britain’s roiling phone-hacking scandal reverberated deep inside this nation’s power structure, with the head of Scotland Yard resigning hours after Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of Rupert Murdoch’s British operations, was arrested.

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Mortgage System Is Such A Disaster "Everybody Is Going To Sue Everybody Else"

07-15-2011 • Businessinsider.com

Jamie Dimon said yesterday that "there have been so many flaws in mortgages that it’s been an unmitigated disaster" and the system is in serious need of an overhaul.

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Foreclosure-Gate: Fraud Investigators Forced Out at Pam Bondi's Office

07-13-2011 • ZeroHedge.com

This is how scary it is in Florida. The only investigators in the entire state that were actually doing something to protect Florida homeowners are now gone…

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Will the State Attorneys General Turn the US into a Banktocracy?

07-12-2011 • Ritholtz.com

Its a sad situation, and it appears that whatever hopes we may have had that the Attorneys General were not like the whores in Congress appear to be starting to fade.

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Foreclosure-Gate: BofA Deal Means More Will Lose Their Homes

07-12-2011 • CNBC.com

Tens of thousands of Bank of America’s most distressed borrowers could be evicted and lose their homes more quickly as a result of a proposed settlement between the bank, which is the country’s largest mortgage servicer, and investors in...

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So How Many More Lies Will It Be?

07-12-2011 • Market-ticker.org

This campaign of lies is now running out of gas. The market is calling "Bull!" on everything that is being emitted from the so-called "authorities"...