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will brady's ruminations
will brady's ruminations
2006-09-04
iraq quagmire + oil profits
• Neville Chamberlain Redux?. It matters little that The Donald lies so glibly about others [claiming those who criticize the Bush Regime are "appeasers"] they fact of the matter is that Rumsfield was hob-nobbing with tyrants long before the generation now dying in Iraq on his behalf were born. History shall take note, no matter how much the Bushies try to re-write it.
• And why go to Iraq anyway? Why, for the oil. German/American vehicles need it. Andrew Uroskie reprints a piece by Ezra Dyer on the new Dodge Ram, a gas guzzler and proud of it!. Quote: "I know that thrifty fuel economy isn’t a priority here. I also know that your garden-variety 4x4 pickup will probably never see 20 m.p.g. But the Ram SRT10 rivals a torched oil well for sheer profligacy — and, oh yes, it demands premium."
• Even Keith Olbermann, still some-time apologist for corporate excess, evoked Edward R Murrow when blasting Rumsfield on his speech before veterans. All we need now is a courageous senator in Congress to ask the Bush Administration if they have no sense of decency.
• As if decency were not an issue at all, [and,
apparently, it isn't], more reports surface emphasizing the gaps between the Average Joe and Oil Company CEOS. QUOTE: "As gas prices soared, the salaries of the nation's largest oil company CEOs doubled. At least that's what two organizations, the Institute for Policy Studies and United for a Fair Economy, stated in the recently released report, "Executive Excess 2006." The annual salary of executives working for the top 15 American oil companies now average $32.7 million per year, compared to $11.6 million for the CEOs of other large, international companies." Get the 60 page non-nonsense pdf report before it becomes a classified document. At the Top Again: William Greehey, Valero Energy ~ 2005 Compensation: $95,157,943
• Neville Chamberlain Redux?. It matters little that The Donald lies so glibly about others [claiming those who criticize the Bush Regime are "appeasers"] they fact of the matter is that Rumsfield was hob-nobbing with tyrants long before the generation now dying in Iraq on his behalf were born. History shall take note, no matter how much the Bushies try to re-write it.• And why go to Iraq anyway? Why, for the oil. German/American vehicles need it. Andrew Uroskie reprints a piece by Ezra Dyer on the new Dodge Ram, a gas guzzler and proud of it!. Quote: "I know that thrifty fuel economy isn’t a priority here. I also know that your garden-variety 4x4 pickup will probably never see 20 m.p.g. But the Ram SRT10 rivals a torched oil well for sheer profligacy — and, oh yes, it demands premium."
• Even Keith Olbermann, still some-time apologist for corporate excess, evoked Edward R Murrow when blasting Rumsfield on his speech before veterans. All we need now is a courageous senator in Congress to ask the Bush Administration if they have no sense of decency.
• As if decency were not an issue at all, [and,
apparently, it isn't], more reports surface emphasizing the gaps between the Average Joe and Oil Company CEOS. QUOTE: "As gas prices soared, the salaries of the nation's largest oil company CEOs doubled. At least that's what two organizations, the Institute for Policy Studies and United for a Fair Economy, stated in the recently released report, "Executive Excess 2006." The annual salary of executives working for the top 15 American oil companies now average $32.7 million per year, compared to $11.6 million for the CEOs of other large, international companies." Get the 60 page non-nonsense pdf report before it becomes a classified document. At the Top Again: William Greehey, Valero Energy ~ 2005 Compensation: $95,157,943Labels: corporate CEOs, greed, iraq, war profiteers
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2006-05-26
corporate corruption | economic treason
Dubya's former friends Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling were found guilty of fraud and consipracy to commit fraud.
Can't say I'm surprised. My first question is what is it that made the prosecutors think this would be too difficult to figure out? Okay... it's a rhetorical question. My second question, when do we start going after Dubya, Dick and the whole rest of the gang for their part in taking part in acts of economic treason?
Labels: corporate CEOs, economic treason
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