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How the rich strip wealth of the 99% through debt
Coming up on July 4 — a day in which we patriots honor patriotism — I offer this on modern “debt peonage” from Virtually Speaking and David Cay Johnston. It’s a terrific interview; Johnston is just so...
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Legal bribery: Tim Geithner earns $400,000 for 3 speeches on Thank You Street
Ex–Obama Treasury Secretary and former official with the New York Fed, Tim Geithner, has arrived on Thank You Street. Geithner’s share of the legal DC bribery — $400,000 for just three speeches, with...
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IRS is using NSA data now too. Who in town isn’t?
This is no longer an NSA data, or DEA data story. It’s a federal, state and local government data-trafficking story. Your Google-collected, Verizon-collected data seems to very broadly available. How...
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NSA has bugged UN, EU, 80 embassies
According to Der Spiegel, one of Germany’s pre-eminent weekly magazines, the NSA (the Pentagon) has an extensive spy apparatus inside United Nations headquarters in New York, as well as in 80 embassies...
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Is privatization driven by corruption? The Chicago parking meter debacle
Update: I spoke at length with Angie Coiro and Blaine Rummel, from In The Public Interest, about this topic. The show was In Deep with Angie Coiro, and the audio is available here. Scroll down and...
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What if Chris Christie’s Bridgegate wasn’t about revenge, but rather money?
The committee looking into Chris Christie’s George Washington Bridge scandal just released thousands of pages of documents received under subpoena. I’ve read a good number of them, and the documents...
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From 2011: “Numerous Chris Christie corruption scandals would re-emerge if he...
I wrote recently about embattled governor and presidential hopeful Chris Christie, about how he is Wall Street’s top choice in 2016, and also the top choice of our ironically named national security...
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Russians built “Love Toilets” at Sochi Olympics
The BBC’s Steve Rosenberg is already in Sochi, Russia for the 2014 Winter Olympics, beginning in just a few weeks, and he stumbled upon something rather odd in the new construction for the Olympics. A...
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Coke Web site: “Not very classy” to ask questions about gay rights
You can contact Coca-Cola via its US Web site about a number of topics. But don’t dare ask it anything “gay,” or Coke will give you a virtual slap on the wrist. That’s what happened to me moments ago...
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Sochi may be “the most corrupt Olympics in history”
John Aravosis and others have pushed hard and appropriately at the anti-gay aspects of the Russian-hosted Sochi Winter Olympics. That story is garnering more and more mainstream notice, which is why...
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Lewis Black on the disaster that is the Sochi Olympics (video)
Lewis Black weighs in on the disaster that is the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. “The only thing in Russia that’s more exposed than their corruption is their president’s nippples.” Follow...
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How Vladimir Putin sent “Brand Russia” into the toilet
Russian President Vladimir Putin has done more to harm the image of Russia internationally than anyone in a generation. Putin’s baby, the 2014 Winter Olympics being held in Sochi, Russia in just under...
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Another blow against methane: LNG is worse for climate than coal at...
Out of the Dept. of Energy’s own mouth — well, its accidentally honest press department — comes this stunner. Liquefied natural gas (LNG, or methane compressed into a liquid for long-distance...
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If there’s a War on Coal, Obama’s helping coal
We’ve been looking at methane lately, and at how Obama’s new rules (the “Clean Power Plan”) will attempt to take us from coal (a cheap, sulfurous, inefficient fossil fuel) to methane (a...
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Thank You Street: Ex-Obama energy aide named to Board of methane giant Cheniere
One more connection between the methane industry and the Obama administration. Heather Zichal, the former “Obama energy aide” in question, was in fact deputy to Carol Browner, Obama’s energy “czar,” as...
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Obama TPP trade officials got hefty bonuses from Big Banks as “reward” for...
I’m convinced the best investigative reporter in the country is Lee Fang. Witness the following. TPP, the Trans Pacific Partnership trade agreement still in negotiation, is a NAFTA-like treaty — it...
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GOP House member says colleague was paid $1200 for vote
A Republican member of the US House recently claimed that a colleague was paid $1,200 by a lobbyist in exchange for his vote on an issue regarding the Bureau of Land Management. The congressman, Rep....
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President Obama calls out Kenya on LGBT rights, corruption
No one tells the President of the United States what to do. Visiting Kenya over the weekend, President Obama — over warnings and objections and a naked protest — called out the country’s government for...
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Former VA governor McDonnell to argue before SCOTUS that we have the right to...
Early last year, former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell was sentenced to two years in prison and two years on supervised release for, among other things, “obtaining property under color of official...
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Trump isn’t a republican, he’s an oligarch
The Republican party has a problem that goes far beyond Donald Trump’s lack of intellectual curiosity. The GOP thought they elected a Republican president. In fact they elected an oligarch whose only...
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