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Breaking news: Dick Cheney indicted

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Mark
1 week, 5 days ago
in Crime, Politics and USA
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From Crooks & Liars:

Not much info in the piece because the information is not public yet, but a DA has indicted Cheney and Alberto Gonzalez and a few others on charges that are related to corruption in the private prison system following an inmate’s death. And not surprisingly, there’s some profiteering involved.

While there’s a lot of sentiment around regarding war crimes prosecutions for the Bushies, that’s always been completely outside the bounds of possibility. But the extent of dodginess of some of their dealings domestically does make it probable that facts will be uncovered, allegations made and indictments issued. However, it’s also highly likely that George W. Bush will use his power of presidential pardon on leaving office to spare his apparatchiks. Nevertheless, it may well be that much of the routine criminality that appears to be part of the modus operandi of the Republican military-industrial complex will be exposed and on the public record.

Update: More on the indictment from Discourse.net here and here.

G8 commits to numerical targets, even if inadequate

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Robert Merkel
4 months, 3 weeks ago
in Climate change, Foreign policy, International and USA
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While here in Australia, the debate about climate change grinds through the technicalities (which I am still trying to chew my way through), things are happening overseas. At the G8 summit, the commnique on the environment and climate change contained far stronger language than the last one.

The key bit of the communique, which can be read in its entirety at the Japanese Foreign Ministry’s website, is as follows:

We seek to share with all Parties to the UNFCCC the vision of, and together with them to consider and adopt in the UNFCCC negotiations, the goal of achieving at least 50% reduction of global emissions by 2050, recognizing that this global challenge can only be met by a global response, in particular, by the contributions from all major economies, consistent with the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities.

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