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Read MoreSaudis to US: “Stay in Iraq or Lose Our Oil”
Greg Palast is reporting on his website that a primary reason for Bush’s blind insistence on more troops for Iraq is the pressure he’s getting from the Saudis.
Here’s my question: Who asked the waiter to deliver this dish? Who asked for the 21,000 soldiers?
We know the US military didn’t ask for the 21,000 troops. (Outgoing commander General George Casey called for a troop reduction.)
Equity Firms: Taking the Country Private
Although that dread word “anti-trust” has not yet been spoken aloud, in public, the feeding frenzy of mergers and acquisitions since 2001 that has resulted in fewer and fewer corporations owning more and more of the economy, along with the recent return to power of Democrats and the rage building up around CEO salaries, has made it all but inevitable that at some point it will raise its insidious little head. This will not, of course, come from the Bush Administration, where their attitude is and has been right along: “Go to it, boys. Our heads are turned.” (Will Rogers on the Hoover Administration)
Read MoreGenarlow Wilson 4: Bond Hearing Canceled
Apparently Georgia wants to be Texas when it grows up. The sequence of events in the Genarlow Wilson travesty gets more nonsensical by the day.
A Douglas County Superior Court judge throws out Wilson’s sentence and orders him released.
The State AG, falsely claiming that he has no choice, holds up the release and files an appeal.
Fat Cats Make Sure They’ll Get Fatter
The corporatocracy continues to marshall its forces in the attempt to gut any restraint that might be put on its greed now that the Democrats are in power. As we have been documenting, ever since the November elections corporations have been hiring scads of new lawyers and pushing the Bush Admin hard for regulation relief as well as doing everything in their power – which is considerable in a Pub govt – to kill the provisions of Sarbanes-Oxley once and for all. They continue to succeed. Equity firms have just joined the assault, banding together to lobby as a group. First, an explanation of just what equity firms do:
Read MoreResurrection? Or Regurgitation?
Those of you not getting Witness via RSS will have noticed a few changes to the sidebar, viz.: a whole new collection of links to “Serial Fiction” blogs. Well, three links, actually. Not so many as to justify the word “collection”, but I digress. Oh, and a new link to an old blog.
Briefly, I discovered, much to my surprise and amazement, that Squarespace Hosting did not after all delete the old Resistance blog. It did delete everything I uploaded – photos and resource materials, most of them in pdf. format – but the blog itself remained intact.
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Genarlow Wilson Ordered Freed
Back in January, I wrote a post called “Southern Justice: Travesty Squared in Georgia” about a black teenager named Genarlow Wilson who was given an incredibly harsh sentence for a technical infraction of the law because a prosecutor got pissy when Wilson wouldn’t accept a plea bargain arrangement and forced him to go to trial. Voices were raised in Genarlow’s defense, including ESPN’s (Wilson was a well-known high school athlete). One commenter wrote:
It’s disgusting. I can not see any way, shape or form that the interests of the state of Georgia are served by throwing away Genarlow’s youth and opportunity to become a vibrant contributor to the state. All his situation does is reinforce some unfortunate stereotypes that the state is backward and misgoverned. No one with a conscience can look at this case and conclude that justice has been served.
Read MoreQuote for the Week:
We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics.
~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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