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Fed Beaten: Bill To Audit Federal Reserve Passes Key HurdleRyan Grim Fed Beaten: Bill To Audit Federal Reserve Passes Key Hurdle What's Your Reaction? In an unprecedented defeat for the Federal Reserve, an amendment to audit the multi-trillion dollar institution was approved by the House Finance Committee with an overwhelming and bipartisan ...
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Emptywheel » David Frakt on Material Support Charges and Military CommissionsFrakt added one more set of thoughts which are–by far–the most interesting to this discussion. I had another couple of thoughts about why the 9/11 case was transferred to federal court, aside from purely political considerations. The Judge in the case, Colonel Stephen Henley, had made a ...
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Dana Milbank - Washington Sketch: Republican senators do an about-face on judicial filibusters - washingtonpost.comFor much of this decade, Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, now the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, led the fight against Democratic filibusters of George W. Bush's judicial nominees. He decried Democrats' "unprecedented, obstructive tactics." To have Bush nominees "opposed on a partisan ...
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Goldman Sachs CEO polishes firm's image - USATODAY.comGoldman Sachs should be celebrating. The company has posted outstanding results the first nine months of the year, and it's on track to be a top adviser in the lucrative mergers-and-acquisitions business in the fourth quarter. Yet, the mood at the investment bank seems to be one of crisis as it ...
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AP NewsBreak: China holds, mistreats US geologist - Yahoo! NewsSometime into his long detention by China's feared state security agents, American geologist Xue Feng had something to show U.S. consular officials on their monthly visit. He rolled up his sleeve, revealing the burns where his interrogators pressed lit cigarettes into his arm. Xue also had ...
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1Dana Milbank - Washington Sketch: Republican senators do an about-face on judicial filibusters - washingtonpost.com"Lying, flip-flopping hypocrites." A charge Republican's love to level against anyone perceived as their opponents. Only this time it sticks to those very same Republicans. Ethics? Principles? Can be trusted to stick to and follow their word? Not for these Republican Senators.JDP added 24 hours ago
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1Goldman Sachs CEO polishes firm's image - USATODAY.comHow sweet and magnanimous - 2% of the amount of this year's bonuses to try and cover up that enormous theft from the economy in general and shareholders in particular. PLUS, with legions out of work on Wall Street, the LIE that such lavish bonuses are required to "keep the best and brightest ...JDP added 25 hours ago
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1Purdue Newsroom — New theory on fairness in economics targets CEO payFat chance on any "rational" theory guiding - or rather restraining - the sociopathic personal and corporate greed that has developed. That would take something like real application of anti-trust and anti-corruption laws, to the tune of breaking up many of the Fortune 500 and sending most of ...JDP added 45 hours ago
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1Morgan Stanley CEO loves regulators - seriously -- DailyFinanceWell sure he does! That's 11 or 12 FREE employees helping get back his company's tarnished reputation. Maybe employees that can give one some "culpable deniablility" - "Look they were here and all over us; we thought we were doing the right thing!" Of course, it could also be an admission ...JDP added 46 hours ago
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1Katrina negligence ruling could cost feds - Crime & courts- msnbc.comOf course, "on appeal" may shunt the case up to the more "conservative" courts (including the "supreme" one), where there is a history of overturning any "niggling" judgments for reimbursing "we the people" for BOTH corporate and governmental negligence.JDP added 47 hours ago
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