Bob Morris @ 12:06 Category: Unfiled;
Platoon Defies Orders in Iraq.
“A 17-member Army Reserve platoon… is under arrest for refusing a ’suicide mission’ to deliver fuel,” the troops’ relatives told the Jackson Clarion Ledger.
“The platoon could be charged with the willful disobeying of orders, punishable by dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of pay and up to five years confinement.”
The AP says the Army is investigating.
Bob Morris @ 09:29 Category: Unfiled;
Email from Scarlet Pimpernel of Freeway Blogger, who organized nationwide antiwar postering on Wednesday.
Hey Bob, for a guy with a pickup truck driving around sticking up signs for two years wondering why he was alone, Wednesday was a great, great day. Hundreds of activists, 48 states, 200 cities.
Here are some pictures…
Bob Morris @ 09:08 Category: Unfiled;
The Pentagon plans to promote Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, former head of military operations in Iraq, risking a confrontation with members of Congress because of the prisoner abuses that occurred during his tenure.
Among his duties in Iraq, Sanchez oversaw all detention facilities, including Abu Ghraib prison.
They want to make him a 4-star general. The enlisted soldiers respsonsible for the tortures are getting reamed in court, yet Sanchez, who was in charge, may get promoted. Nice double standard, eh?
Bob Morris @ 09:01 Category: Unfiled;
Miss Monica says the L.A. Times Business section should be renamed “Crime Blotter.” Indeed. Here’s an illustrative selection from today’s Business section front page.
SEC chief tells business to clean up act
Insurance broker scandal alleged New York “filed a lawsuit Thursday claiming that the world’s largest insurance broker, Marsh & McLennan Cos., conspired to cheat business clients out of hundreds of millions of dollars.”
BofA must pay customers $372 million in fee case
HBO execs suspended in inquiry
Given the absence of ethical role models in the Bush Administration, such rampant corruption should hardly be a surprise. Indeed, by their actions (not their words), the Bushies give a wink and a nod to such abuses. War profiteering in Iraq would be the most egregious example of them funnelling money to friends and allies, there are many others.
And in this bit of unintentional satire: The wolf says, I was wrong to eat the chickens.
Energy deal ‘wrong,’ ex-Enron exec says “A former Enron Corp. executive told a jury Thursday that he knew the disgraced energy company had made a bogus deal with Merrill Lynch & Co. in order to post fraudulent profits.”
Bob Morris @ 08:51 Category: Unfiled;
An pill-sized brain chip has allowed a quadriplegic man to check e-mail and play computer games using his thoughts. The device can tap into a hundred neurons at a time, and is the most sophisticated such implant tested in humans so far.
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