by Greg Palast
John Thain is the guy that looks like a Clark Kent doll you saw grinning from page one of your paper Friday morning. Thain was just fired by Bank of America because the square-jawed executive demanded a $30 million bonus after losing $5 billion in just three months at the bank's Merrill Lynch unit. In addition, Thain spent over a million dollars redecorating his office while, at the same time, the U.S. Treasury was bailing out his company with billions in aid. Thain's office re-do included the installation of a $35,000 toilet bowl.
Thain was robbed. He shouldn't have been fired; he should have gotten a $60 million bonus -- and Obama should immediately hire him as Secretary of the Treasury in place of that tax-dodging lightweight that's been nominated, Timothy Geithner.
Here's the facts, ma'am. ...
For the remainder of the story on Thain's toilet and the economic crisis, go to www.SuicideGirls.com. Palast's investigative reports for BBC TV, Rolling Stone and others can be seen at www.GregPalast.com (Show me more...)
Cynthia Black - The Palast Report - 1-23-09 [15:20m]:
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Listen to Palast explain the oil game in Iraq, the deal behind the U.S. attorney scandal, Hillary Clinton’s shameful corruption and her husband’s pardon of arch-criminal Mark Rich, and the deal struck by Republicans to impeach Bill only for the silly sex scandal instead of his felonious relationship with the Indonesian Riady family billionaires as long as the Democrats promised not to expose the Republican’s felonious connections to the American Koch family billionaires.
Greg Palast and Randi Rhodes discuss Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' testimony in today's Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings.
Topics include former prosecutor and boy scout Iglesias, why Karl Rove gets no love and obstructions in Bush's White House.
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by Greg Palast
"Can't he make a living in a more reputable, less disgusting way, say, in child pornography?"
Randi Rhodes is asking you, Mr. Singer. And we're still waiting for the answer. [To hear the Palast/Rhodes report, click here.] (Show me more...)
Palast discusses stealing the election '08 and the Virginia Tech Shooting.
...Bobby Kennedy Jr. and Palast on why Saddam had to go.
"This war in Iraq has been the best thing in the world for Big Oil and OPEC. They've made the largest profits in the history of the world. The interesting thing about your book is you show how it was all planned from the beginning. The story is like a spy thriller." -- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Listen to RFK and Greg Palast on Iraq, a 20-minute conversation about blood and oil for 'Ring of Fire' from Air America. (Show me more...)
Greg Palast on Ring of Fire, Air America Radio with Bobby Kennedy [16:34m]:
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