Archive for the ‘Goldman Sachs’ tag
Happy Thanksgiving! Let’s talk about old ladies, Jiu-Jitsu, and war crimes
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Citizen Radio talks old ladies, Jiu-Jitsu, war crimes, Goldman Sachs’ asshole CEO, and the awesome decision by students at Harvard.
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Paul Ryan overkill, class war, DOJ refuses to prosecute Goldman Sachs, more from Glenn Beck rally
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Paul Ryan overkill: the media talks about Romney’s VP pick in the dumbest possible way, class war, DOJ refuses to prosecute Goldman Sachs, and Molly Knefel (@mollyknefel) talks about visiting her home town.
Also, Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagira) returns for part 2 of her visiting to Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Love” rally
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Bank of America: the evil empire, the time Stanley McChrystal almost heard Citizen Radio
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Allison and Jamie discuss Occupy’s Bank of America protest, a Goldman Sachs executive’s departure letter, the #ididnotreport campaign, the time Stanley McChrystal almost heard Citizen Radio, and why eating meat is for suckers.
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Occupy D12 port actions, journalist John Knefel arrested, glorious return of Jan Brewer
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Allison reports on the Occupy D12 actions, including the arrest of independent journalist and friend of the show John Knefel (@johnknefel). Allison speaks with John’s sister, Molly (@mollyknefel) about his arrest. Also, SCOTUS plans to consider the racist Arizona “show me your papers” law, sound cannon sales are booming, and the Miami Herald reports the charter school experiment has become a corrupt system funded by big business.
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Oakland protesters shut down port, clash with police, OWS marches to Goldman Sachs
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Oakland protesters shut down port, clash with police, while Occupy Wall Street demonstrators march to Goldman Sachs in order to confront former President George W. Bush. Also, Jamie discusses a story about two black men who were asked at a bar to give up their seats for white women.
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Goldman Sachs pulls out of fundraiser honoring OWS, interviews with Occupy Chicago
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Investigative journalist Greg Palast (@Greg_Palast) joins the show to discuss how Goldman Sachs pulled out of a fundraiser after Occupy Wall Street got a place at the table. Check out Greg’s new book “Vulture’s Picinic,” which can be pre-ordered here: http://www.gregpalast.com/vulturespicnic/?page=ORDER.
Also, interviews with Micah Uetricht (@micahuetricht) and Megan Groves from Occupy Chicago.
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Goldman Sachs invades Oversight Committee, 322 arrested outside White House, 9/11 coloring book
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Goldman Sachs lawyers-up for impending lawsuits, former Goldman VP Peter Haller invades House Oversight Committee with a clever name change, and then works to discredit Elizabeth Warren, 322 people have been arrested outside the White House while protesting the Keystone XL pipeline and the mainstream media ignores the mass arrests. Leaked cables courtesy of Wikileaks show John McCain promised Gaddafi weapons, and the ousted Libyan dictator apparently has a thing for Condoleezza Rice. Also, there is a 9/11 coloring book coming out. For realsies.
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Activists arrested for feeding homeless, Facebook for Ayn Rand fans, thank you notes from tiny Rebels
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Food Not Bombs activists arrested in Orlando for feeding the homeless, Facebook for Ayn Rand fans, Sarah Palin’s fans try to edit Wikipedia to match her wrong history lesson, Florida Senator claims politicians shouldn’t go to jail because it might cause overcrowding, thank you notes from new tiny Rebels, and how Goldman Sachs lost Gaddafi’s money.
Jamie will be in Pittsburgh at 222 Ornsby July 1st! Come out and say hello!
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(Updated) Goldman Sachs, Social Security privatization hawk profit from Gulf disaster
Pete Peterson Image via Wikipedia
Update: Nalco’s website and every other official record of ownership I came across weren’t entirely updated. In 2007, Blackstone, Goldman, and Apollo sold their remaining direct and indirect interests in the Company. Obviously, the problems of deregulation and privatization didn’t happen overnight, so I think the connections are still an important reality, and should be highlighted here.
Interestingly, the 2010 board nominees for Nalco include former BP, and current Tesco board member, Rodney F. Chase, Monsanto’s Carl M. Casale, and Lockheed Martin and J.P. Morgan’s Mary M. VanDeWeghe. It’s like Nalco finds its board by playing Evil Corporation Roulette.
Rep. John Hall (D-NY) pointed out here the obvious conflict of interest of having a former BP board member, Chase, serve at Nalco at a time BP is buying a toxic, inferior dispersant from the company.
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After flipping the bird to the EPA, BP has continued pouring around 655,000 gallons of a chemical, which has been banned in the UK, into the ocean to break up oil patches. And not only is the chemical toxic, it’s also inefficient:
Of 18 dispersants whose use EPA has approved, 12 were found to be more effective on southern Louisiana crude than Corexit, EPA data show. Two of the 12 were found to be 100 percent effective on Gulf of Mexico crude, while the two Corexit products rated 56 percent and 63 percent effective, respectively. The toxicity of the 12 was shown to be either comparable to the Corexit line or, in some cases, 10 or 20 times less, according to EPA.
So why the big rush to use a toxic, inefficient dispersant? That brings us to the really fun part. The chemical, Corexit, is manufactured by Nalco Holding Company, whose current leadership includes executives from BP and Exxon, even though the Exxon-Nalco venture “dissolved” back in 2001.
Nalco, a global company that provides water processing solutions, first had access to Corexit in the 1990s, when it had a joint venture with its energy solutions business with Exxon Mobil.
The partnership was really a brilliant move on Exxon’s part. They got to profit from oil drilling and from the oil spills. It was a real win-win situation, even though everyone at Exxon and Nalco were already aware of the health problems associated with Corexit.
Anti-immigrant border watch group to form ‘private military company’
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Bill Davis, the founder of an Arizona border vigilante group called the Cochise County Militia [motto: “Doing the job our Government refuses to do!”] has taken pride in recent years over what he says is the group’s responsible and safe surveillance of Mexicans coming illegally into the United States. “To this day, it is the most effective, safest and active of the border watch groups,” the group’s website claimed last year. “We have a perfect safety record since 2001 with nobody hurt while attending a Border Event!”
Now Davis is aiming to take a harder line at the border. On Monday, he told supporters via email that his Tombstone-based militia will be forming a PMC — a private military company, which is “completely legal!!!”
Really, no surprise here. Combining elements like tough economic times with widening wealth disparity, and hysterical, fear-mongering demagogues, who go unchecked by a negligent political party, can really only end one way — violence. I’m just amazed Davis’s crew hasn’t shot a Mexican in the face already.
Not that the option is off the table, mind you. In bragging about his group’s members, Davis remarked, “They all have confirmed kills, from Vietnam or later on.” Apparently, Davis sees the ability to kill as a desirable trait in what I’m sure will be a totally peaceful movement for border security.
