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Deceptive Big Bank Ads Will be Key to Election 2010 by Mary Bottari, OurFuture.org | February 22, 2010
Even before a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision blew the lid off corporate campaign spending, it was clear that the big banks would be key players in the 2010 election cycle. read more »Open Season On The Working Poor, as Tax Day Nears by Stephen Franklin, inthesetimes.com | February 19, 2010
It’s time to fleece the working poor again. That’s what happens to numbers of working poor who eagerly look forward this time of the year to getting money back from Washington because they earned so little the year before, and as preparers, payday loan businesses, check-cashing operations, banks and others take advantage of the Earned Income Tax Credit. read more »How Progressives Can Win On The Politics Of Financial Reform by Isaiah J. Poole, OurFuture.org | February 19, 2010
On Bearing Grudges by Terrance Heath, OurFuture.org | February 18, 2010
President Barack Obama doesn't begrudge Wall Street's banksters their bonuses. read more »Wall Street and GOP Senators: 8-Ball in the Side Pocket by Richard (RJ) Eskow, OurFuture.org | February 16, 2010
Mattel makes a toy called the "Magic 8-Ball." It looks like a pool ball with a little window in it. You ask it a question, then shake it and an answer pops up in the glass. They were a craze in the corporate world a few years back, and you still see lots of them holding down papers on desks across America. read more »Wall Street and GOP Senators: 8-Ball in the Side Pocket by Richard (RJ) Eskow, OurFuture.org | February 16, 2010
Mattel makes a toy called the "Magic 8-Ball." It looks like a pool ball with a little window in it. You ask it a question, then shake it and an answer pops up in the glass. They were a craze in the corporate world a few years back, and you still see lots of them holding down papers on desks across America. read more »Wall Street and GOP Senators: 8-Ball in the Side Pocket by Richard (RJ) Eskow, OurFuture.org | February 16, 2010
Mattel makes a toy called the "Magic 8-Ball." It looks like a pool ball with a little window in it. You ask it a question, then shake it and an answer pops up in the glass. They were a craze in the corporate world a few years back, and you still see lots of them holding down papers on desks across America. read more »The Senate’s Reconcilable Differences by Sen. Bernie Sanders, inthesetimes.com | February 16, 2010
Enough is enough. It's time for Democrats to rebuild the middle class using the same rules Republicans exploited to benefit the wealthy. read more »Obama and the "Savvy" Bankers by Dean Baker, The Guardian | February 16, 2010
Last week, when President Obama was asked about the $9 million dollar bonus for Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, he described Blankfein as a savvy businessman, adding that Americans don't begrudge people being rewarded for success. While the White House later qualified Obama's comment about Blankfein and his fellow bank executives, it's worth examining more closely some of the ways in which Blankfein and the Goldman gang were "savvy". read more »Greeks, Beware of Goldman Bearing Gifts by Richard (RJ) Eskow, OurFuture.org | February 15, 2010
Like an cat burglar, Goldman Sachs leaves its fingerprints in the most unusual places. The news of Goldman's role in the Greek financial crisis isn't just a black eye for Wall Street. It's also a diplomatic disaster for the United States, whose government has become so intertwined with Goldman that this incident could endanger our relationship with the European Union. read more »
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A culture of bullying and greed: Wanted - interns for Goldman Sachs... , independent.co.uk | October 17, 2012
WikiLeaks Is Down After Denial of Service Attacks, mashable.com | August 9, 2012
After five days of denial of service attacks, the WikiLeaks website has been knocked out. more »The Spreading Scourge of Corporate Corruption, The New York Times | July 11, 2012
Perhaps the most surprising aspect of the Libor scandal is how familiar it seems. Sure, for some of the world’s leading banks to try to manipulate one of the most important interest rates in contemporary finance is clearly egregious. more »Needy States Use Housing Aid Cash to Plug Budgets, The New York Times | May 16, 2012
Vermont Legislature Passes Resolution Challenging Citizens United, commondreams.org | April 21, 2012
Goldman Sachs: Lloyd Blankfein 'disappointed' by claims of 'toxic' greed, telegraph.co.uk | March 14, 2012
Legal Fees Mount at Fannie and Freddie, The New York Times | February 22, 2012
Taxpayers have advanced almost $50 million in legal payments to defend former executives of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the three years since the government rescued the giant mortgage companies, a regulatory analysis has found.
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Subject: Accountability more »Apple investigates 'sweat shop' factories following suicide threat, telegraph.co.uk | February 13, 2012
The technology giant, which has faced criticism over working conditions at some of its suppliers’ plants in China, said today that it had asked the Fair Labor Association (FLA) to conduct “special voluntary audits” of several facilities, including factories owned b more »On the Trail of Mortgage Fraud, The New York Times | January 17, 2012
When is a crime not a crime?
When criminality subverts the system, challenges the system, becomes the system. From the Kleptocrats' point of view it is the systematic breakdown of each and every law which gets in their way; preventing the ascent to power of their enhanced moral values.
The Kleptocrats are really America's third political party.
Help Stop SOPA/PIPA Breaking The Internet, wordpress.org | January 14, 2012
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