The Ministry of Truth is in San Antonio and will cost us $4.7 billion this year

by Scott Creighton “And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’” – George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 3 Since [...]

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by Mr. Fish at TruthOut

Madoff tipster says SEC ‘afraid’ to bring big cases

“The SEC is … captive to the industry it regulates and is afraid” to bring big cases against prominent individuals, Markopolos asserted. The agency “roars like a lion and bites like a flea” and “is busy protecting the big financial predators from investors,” he said. He spoke as several top-level SEC officials, including the agency’s [...]

The “Impeach Blago” Clause of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

by Scott Creighton (Thanks Jan) Ever wonder why the Illinois state House and Senate moved so quickly to impeach Rod Blagojevich even though Fitzgerald wouldn’t let them use the evidence in his case against Rod and after Rahm said Blago didn’t try to “sell the Senate seat”? Especially after Bush and Cheney got away Scott-free [...]