It should come as no surprise the CIA engages in extreme rendition..
Eric Holder revealed that he had approved of rendition — essentially, legalized kidnapping — apparently more than once during his tenure as President Bill Clinton’s deputy attorney general.
Of course this been done by both “republicans” and “democrats” for quite a long time.. Most people don’t realize the CIA kidnaps people from others countries, transfers them through CIA black sites to other countries such as Syria to be tortured. While the democrats might get on their high horse that they would never sanction torture, they do participate in torture through rendition. Both parties torture.
Seems about right
Oddly I don’t see Mccain even though he belongs in here. Of course, so do many others, I guess you can only make a picture so big.
Bank of America’s 45 billion dollar “bailout”
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Source: http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2009/01/12/daily47.html
40 billion on top of the 100 billion in loan guarantees. On top of this, Ken Lewis (BoA’s CEO), claimed in Oct 2008 they didn’t even need any bailout money, but it was their patriotic duty to accept it.
So did they know in Oct 08 that Merrill Lynch was a bad deal, that they couldn’t afford but claimed they were in good shape to mislead investors? Or are they so incompetent they couldn’t tell? Either way, BoA didn’t buy Merrill Lynch, the US taxpayers did.
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California suspends welfare, student grants & tax refunds
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-budget17-2009jan17,0,4472460.story
Chiang said he had no choice but to stop making some $3.7 billion in payments in the absence of action by the governor and lawmakers to close the state’s nearly $42-billion budget deficit. More than half of those payments are tax refunds.
Whistle-Blowers in Chinese City Sent to Mental Hospital
BEIJING — Local officials in Shandong Province have apparently found a cost-effective way to deal with gadflies, whistle-blowers and all manner of muckraking citizens who dare to challenge the authorities: dispatch them to the local psychiatric hospital.
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Neo Corporatism
"Corporatism or neo-corporatism is often used popularly as a pejorative term in reference to perceived tendencies in politics for legislators and administrations to be influenced or dominated by the interests of business enterprises, employers' organizations, and industry trade groups. The influence of other types of corporations, such as labor unions, is perceived to be relatively minor. In this view, government decisions are seen as being influenced strongly by which sorts of policies will lead to greater profits for favored companies."
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