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Day 19 November, 2008

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Dick Cheney indicted by Texas Grand Jury

Nov 19, ’08 1:56 PM

U.S. Vice Pres­id­ent Dick Cheney and former Attor­ney Gen­eral Alberto Gonzales, among oth­ers, have been indicted (form­ally accused) by a Texa Grand Jury for “organ­ised crim­inal activ­ity” related to alleged abuse of private prison inmates.

The 3-page long indict­ment involves Cheney’s USD 85 M invest­ment in the Van­guard Group — an invest­ment man­age­ment com­pany that reportedly has interests in the prison com­pan­ies in charge of the deten­tion cen­ters. (via novinite.com)

Let’s hope this is just the start of a chain of indict­ments against these crim­in­als. I don’t believe in the death pen­alty but if the let­ter of law were fol­lowed in the U.S. that’s what some of these guys would get in the end for their war crimes.

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George Monbiot on the financial reform that should be taking place

Nov 19, ’08 12:28 AM

Keynes is inno­cent: the toxic spawn of Bretton Woods was no plan of his:

Poor old Lord Keynes. The world’s press has spent the past week black­en­ing his name. Not inten­tion­ally: most of the dun­der­heads report­ing the G20 sum­mit that took place over the week­end really do believe that he pro­posed and foun­ded the Inter­na­tional Mon­et­ary Fund. It’s one of those stor­ies that passes unchecked from one journ­al­ist to another.

The truth is more interesting …

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