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		<title>By: KYJurisDoctor</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/07/deal-or-no-deal-2/#comment-677089</link>
		<dc:creator>KYJurisDoctor</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2007 01:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Is it REALLY that BAD?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://OsiSpeaks.com&quot;&gt;http://OsiSpeaks.com&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://OsiSpeaks.org&quot;&gt;http://OsiSpeaks.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is it REALLY that BAD?</p>
<p><a href="http://OsiSpeaks.com">http://OsiSpeaks.com</a> or <a href="http://OsiSpeaks.org">http://OsiSpeaks.org</a></p>
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		<title>By: jon</title>
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		<dc:creator>jon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2007 23:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Wolfowitz is screwed:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ft.com/cms/s/23b067b2-fcc9-11db-9971-000b5df10621.html&quot;&gt;http://www.ft.com/cms/s/23b067.....10621.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;From the looks of it, he faked out the WB ethics committee about what was done about setting Shaha up real pretty.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Wolfowitz relied on his bamboozling the committee as its endorsement of the employment benefits package.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The he told the WB Board that the ethics committee was all over this and gave him the green light.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;His personal aide who he brought with him perpetrated this not-so-slight of hand.  No, not the one who just resigned, the other one…&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is so almost-slick that I wonder if Wolfie didn’t have the least little bit to do with the Niger forgeries.  When they were disparaging Plame and Wilson, they were only channeling and projecting their own deep knowlege of their own actions and behaviors.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;At least this is proving to be  a wonderful ‘teachable moment’ for all those third world debtor countries about the evils of corruption.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wolfowitz is screwed:<br />
<a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/23b067b2-fcc9-11db-9971-000b5df10621.html">http://www.ft.com/cms/s/23b067&#8230;..10621.html</a></p>
<p>From the looks of it, he faked out the WB ethics committee about what was done about setting Shaha up real pretty.</p>
<p>Wolfowitz relied on his bamboozling the committee as its endorsement of the employment benefits package.</p>
<p>The he told the WB Board that the ethics committee was all over this and gave him the green light.</p>
<p>His personal aide who he brought with him perpetrated this not-so-slight of hand.  No, not the one who just resigned, the other one…</p>
<p>This is so almost-slick that I wonder if Wolfie didn’t have the least little bit to do with the Niger forgeries.  When they were disparaging Plame and Wilson, they were only channeling and projecting their own deep knowlege of their own actions and behaviors.</p>
<p>At least this is proving to be  a wonderful ‘teachable moment’ for all those third world debtor countries about the evils of corruption.</p>
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		<title>By: Circe</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/07/deal-or-no-deal-2/#comment-675992</link>
		<dc:creator>Circe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2007 17:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;The real scandal at the World Bank&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Demanding that poor countries cut basic service subsidies in exchange for loans.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Demanding that poor countries drop all restrictions on imports.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ignoring and going against its own reports on energy policies that fuel global warming.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;and the list goes on for Wolfowitz, ex Deputy Secretary of Defense under Rumslfeld&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The real scandal at the World Bank</p>
<p>Demanding that poor countries cut basic service subsidies in exchange for loans.</p>
<p>Demanding that poor countries drop all restrictions on imports.</p>
<p>Ignoring and going against its own reports on energy policies that fuel global warming.</p>
<p>and the list goes on for Wolfowitz, ex Deputy Secretary of Defense under Rumslfeld</p>
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		<title>By: Again</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/07/deal-or-no-deal-2/#comment-675961</link>
		<dc:creator>Again</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2007 17:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Excellent post, indeed!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Excellent post, indeed!</p>
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		<title>By: Loo Hoo</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/07/deal-or-no-deal-2/#comment-675847</link>
		<dc:creator>Loo Hoo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2007 15:58:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-675778&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Elliott @ 70&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-675772&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Biodun @ 65&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;OT–&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/r_m/index.html&quot;&gt;Some dirt from Marcus Marbry’s book on Condi&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“‘While Rice has succeeded in increasing her own personal power, she has failed to enhance America’s internationally.’”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[snip]&lt;br /&gt;
“Bean also thinks Rice will next run a multinational corporation, unless President Bush - to whom she ‘can’t say no’ - asks her to do something else.”
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I’m afraid to ask, but what &lt;em&gt;is &lt;/em&gt;Bush going to do in 2009?  Can’t he just retire and cut brush or something?  Why push Bush to keep on trying to succeed somewhere?  Hasn’t he done enough all ready?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In 2009 he should be standing trial at The Hague.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="#comment-675778"><em>Elliott @ 70</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p><a href="#comment-675772"><em>Biodun @ 65</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p>OT–</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/r_m/index.html">Some dirt from Marcus Marbry’s book on Condi</a>:</p>
<p>“‘While Rice has succeeded in increasing her own personal power, she has failed to enhance America’s internationally.’”</p>
<p>[snip]<br />
“Bean also thinks Rice will next run a multinational corporation, unless President Bush &#8211; to whom she ‘can’t say no’ &#8211; asks her to do something else.”
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<p>I’m afraid to ask, but what <em>is </em>Bush going to do in 2009?  Can’t he just retire and cut brush or something?  Why push Bush to keep on trying to succeed somewhere?  Hasn’t he done enough all ready?</p>
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<p>In 2009 he should be standing trial at The Hague.</p>
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		<title>By: Milan River</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/07/deal-or-no-deal-2/#comment-675831</link>
		<dc:creator>Milan River</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2007 15:52:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Bris at 89–I think the nation might be suffering from ‘add-a-d-itis’. Chimpy and wife often put a ‘d’ in the words business and important when I have to hear them speak.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bris at 89–I think the nation might be suffering from ‘add-a-d-itis’. Chimpy and wife often put a ‘d’ in the words business and important when I have to hear them speak.</p>
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		<title>By: Brisingamen</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/07/deal-or-no-deal-2/#comment-675818</link>
		<dc:creator>Brisingamen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2007 15:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-675736&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;ruffian @ 31&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;re rules &amp; applying them to themselves:&lt;br /&gt;
never occurs to them. Even when its obvious and pointed out time &amp; time again. That the blindness of &lt;b&gt;priviledge&lt;/b&gt;. They truly don’t see reality.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Nitpick alert: Privilege - it does not have a “d” in it. (I suspect a “priviledge” is a portajohn on the ledge of a building…*g*)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="#comment-675736"><em>ruffian @ 31</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p>re rules &amp; applying them to themselves:<br />
never occurs to them. Even when its obvious and pointed out time &amp; time again. That the blindness of <b>priviledge</b>. They truly don’t see reality.</p>
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<p>Nitpick alert: Privilege &#8211; it does not have a “d” in it. (I suspect a “priviledge” is a portajohn on the ledge of a building…*g*)</p>
<p>We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread!</p>
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		<title>By: nellieh</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/07/deal-or-no-deal-2/#comment-675808</link>
		<dc:creator>nellieh</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2007 15:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;The man is a cretin. A lowlife. I couldn’t care less if he was doing this on his dime, owned the company. He doesn’t. It is thievery. He got his squeeze a job with the US Government at the Pentagon, an agency he just left as a ranking official and as a foreign national, she had a security clearance.For tax free money working in the US. How do you get tax free income working for the Government? Supposedly the ONLY subordinate of Liz Cheney.  What did Cheney do to deserve her position except call the VP “daddy?” There is so much bogus bullshit about this there aren’t enough investigators in the country let alone Congress or the World Bank. The Board of the Bank will carry the same stench as Wolfowicz and his trollop if they don’t cast this asshole adrift with NO SEVERENCE PAY!! If she was Isaac Newton she wouldn’t be worth what she is being paid with the exception of screwing Wolfowicz. Or who was doing who?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The man is a cretin. A lowlife. I couldn’t care less if he was doing this on his dime, owned the company. He doesn’t. It is thievery. He got his squeeze a job with the US Government at the Pentagon, an agency he just left as a ranking official and as a foreign national, she had a security clearance.For tax free money working in the US. How do you get tax free income working for the Government? Supposedly the ONLY subordinate of Liz Cheney.  What did Cheney do to deserve her position except call the VP “daddy?” There is so much bogus bullshit about this there aren’t enough investigators in the country let alone Congress or the World Bank. The Board of the Bank will carry the same stench as Wolfowicz and his trollop if they don’t cast this asshole adrift with NO SEVERENCE PAY!! If she was Isaac Newton she wouldn’t be worth what she is being paid with the exception of screwing Wolfowicz. Or who was doing who?</p>
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		<title>By: Blank Kludge</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/07/deal-or-no-deal-2/#comment-675806</link>
		<dc:creator>Blank Kludge</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2007 15:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-675791&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Peterr @ 80&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Blank Kludge&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That MO Senate race — and lots of others lower down on the ticket — was a real slimy affair. I’m not at all surprised by the ties to the USA hiring/firing scandal.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And while we’re chatting, let me note for the record that after losing his Senate race, Jim Talent has become the Domestic Policy Task Force Chairman for Mitt Romney’s campaign.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Small world, aint’ it?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And for the record, I’d call it ‘possible ties’ to Schlozman. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Heck, CumminsIII from AR had to moonlight in MO because of MO/USA’s recusals. Then, Griffin gets the midntight creeper appt.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And let’s not forget that the last time a MO incumbent lost a Sen race, it was to a cadaver. That loser was Gonzo’s predecessor. Who then openned DoJ’s arms to Regent alums.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mitt is Mormon. Utah/Morman mafia?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Too tangled a web…&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="#comment-675791"><em>Peterr @ 80</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p>Blank Kludge</p>
<p>That MO Senate race — and lots of others lower down on the ticket — was a real slimy affair. I’m not at all surprised by the ties to the USA hiring/firing scandal.</p>
<p>And while we’re chatting, let me note for the record that after losing his Senate race, Jim Talent has become the Domestic Policy Task Force Chairman for Mitt Romney’s campaign.</p>
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<p>Small world, aint’ it?</p>
<p>And for the record, I’d call it ‘possible ties’ to Schlozman. </p>
<p>Heck, CumminsIII from AR had to moonlight in MO because of MO/USA’s recusals. Then, Griffin gets the midntight creeper appt.</p>
<p>And let’s not forget that the last time a MO incumbent lost a Sen race, it was to a cadaver. That loser was Gonzo’s predecessor. Who then openned DoJ’s arms to Regent alums.</p>
<p>Mitt is Mormon. Utah/Morman mafia?</p>
<p>Too tangled a web…</p>
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		<title>By: P J Evans</title>
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		<dc:creator>P J Evans</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2007 15:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;I remember reading that years ago the Queen was guest of honor at a barbecue-type dinner at the WH. This was in the 60s, if not earlier. What may put her off this time is Shrub, not the food. (ISTR that this was in &lt;em&gt;Willie’s Time&lt;/em&gt;, by the late Charles Einstein. It’s about the US and baseball and integration and social changes. Worth reading, if you find a copy.)&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I remember reading that years ago the Queen was guest of honor at a barbecue-type dinner at the WH. This was in the 60s, if not earlier. What may put her off this time is Shrub, not the food. (ISTR that this was in <em>Willie’s Time</em>, by the late Charles Einstein. It’s about the US and baseball and integration and social changes. Worth reading, if you find a copy.)</p>
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