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Slap on the wrist for White Collar Criminals

While there are people doing life sentences (three strikes and you’re out) for stealing hubcaps in California, one of the five core figures in business crimes which shook the American economy gets six years of minimum security…. ABC News Online: Ex-Enron exec sentenced to six years’ jailAndrew Fastow, who helped engineer the financial trickery that sank Enron Corp and then helped convict his former bosses in the scandal, had four years knocked off the plea deal he made, receiving a six-year sentence instead.US District Judge Ken Hoyt said the 44-year-old former Enron chief financial officer had given “exceptional” assistance to prosecutors, had pledged to help victims and had shown remorse, and his wife had gone to prison for a year.Fastow, who oversaw Enron’s finances during the giant energy trader’s spectacular rise and fall, pleaded guilty to fraud and conspiracy in 2004, agreeing to a 10-year sentence and pledging to help prosecutors.His testimony helped convict former chairman Kenneth Lay and former CEO Jeffrey Skilling.His voice breaking in an anguished statement before hearing his sentence, he expressed his shame, pledged to work for redemption and apologised to the victims of the Enron fraud and to his friends and family.”I failed them,” he said.The judge rejected a request from lawyers for Enron victims that Fastow be allowed to delay his surrender until October 23, which they said would make it easier for him to give a deposition that could facilitate billions more in recoveries from Enron’s banks.The judge ordered him into custody immediately.Judge Hoyt imposed no fine and recommended a minimum-security prison for Fastow.Enron’s crash caused investors to lose billions and cost thousands of employees their jobs and retirement savings.

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Sore Losers

At this point (I don’t write this war off yet), the Israelis are big losers in Lebanon. Hezbollah is still armed, the Israelis are on their way out of Lebanon and the entire IDF and political leadership of Israel comes off as bullies, murderers and war criminals.

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Goebbels file: Anglos voice Israel’s case to foreign media

Anglos voice Israel’s case to foreign media | Jerusalem Post: Anglo-Israelis know how to better shape a message because they know how its received, Spigelman argued. “We can understand how things sound to an international audience because we were once part of the international audience.”That knowledge is what leads the IDF Spokesman’s Office to release different tapes of army operations to local and foreign journalists.

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Why Israel stopped the war

The West DOES see mike – USA 08/15/2006 22:45 The West, like the rest of the goy world, wants to destroy Israel and exterminate the Jewish people…. Israel had the means, the will, and the force to win, but because of our inexperienced and fearful political and military leaders, that is Olmert, Peretz, Livni, and Halultz, we not only gave Hizbulla a victory over us, we gave them a victory over Lebanon.

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Israel Supporters

Firat Carpet Bomb The Terrorist Areas Robbie 08/10/2006 05:55 Carpet bomb the areas with Hezbollah bums first, then have the IDF go in massively to wipe out the rest of them…. Maybe next we should both get together and force the pigs in the West Bank and Gaza into Syria and Jordan where they belong!

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Goebbels Files

And what is tragic about this is, as a Boston Herald photo editor noted, editors everywhere can no longer trust the pictures from Lebanon…. They cannot know the true scope of the devastation that Hezbollah’s aggression against Israel and its cynical tactics have brought on the Lebanese people.

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World Domination & Nuclear Primacy

If you want to feel your blood run chill, read through Keir Lieber’s and Darryl Press’s essay on the nuclear state of the world…. Press: The current and future U.S. nuclear force, in other words, seems designed to carry out a preemptive disarming strike against Russia or China.

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