matt taibbi on goldman sachs:
"The bank's unprecedented reach and power have enabled it to turn all of America into a giant pumpanddump scam, manipulating whole economic sectors for years at a time, moving the dice game as this or that market collapses, and all the time gorging itself on the unseen costs that are breaking families everywhere — high gas prices, rising consumercredit rates, halfeaten pension funds, mass layoffs, future taxes to pay off bailouts. All that money that you're losing, it's going somewhere, and in both a literal and a figurative sense, Goldman Sachs is where it's going: The bank is a huge, highly sophisticated engine for converting the useful, deployed wealth of society into the least useful, most wasteful and insoluble substance on Earth — pure profit for rich individuals."
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i'm sure many have already read this piece but it's a nice bit of journalism..
Showing posts with label fucked up. Show all posts
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Friday, July 31, 2009
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
what the fuck?
one to three years for selling wal-mart bought, shiitake mushrooms???
union leader:
BRENTWOOD – A Kingston teen is headed to prison after pleading guilty to doctoring up store-bought shiitake mushrooms with blue food coloring and trying to sell them as a drug for $900.
Tucker Cockerline, 18, of 44 Marshall Road, was sentenced to one to three years in state prison Friday for his role in the fake hallucinogenic mushroom scheme that crumbled when he sold them in an undercover police sting and was caught with the food coloring on his fingertips.
At a hearing in Rockingham County Superior Court, Cockerline pleaded guilty to charges of selling a substance reported to be a controlled drug and conspiracy to commit the sale of a drug.
Cockerline was given another two- to four-year sentence that will be suspended for five years on good behavior after his release from prison. He was also fined a total of $750.
According to Assistant Rockingham County Attorney Charlene Dulac, the mushroom deal occurred Nov. 10, 2008, when a "cooperating individual" acting as a buyer met with a Kingston police officer and explained that plans were made to purchase a quarter pound of hallucinogenic mushrooms for $900 at a buy on Tucker Road in Kingston.
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union leader:
BRENTWOOD – A Kingston teen is headed to prison after pleading guilty to doctoring up store-bought shiitake mushrooms with blue food coloring and trying to sell them as a drug for $900.
Tucker Cockerline, 18, of 44 Marshall Road, was sentenced to one to three years in state prison Friday for his role in the fake hallucinogenic mushroom scheme that crumbled when he sold them in an undercover police sting and was caught with the food coloring on his fingertips.
At a hearing in Rockingham County Superior Court, Cockerline pleaded guilty to charges of selling a substance reported to be a controlled drug and conspiracy to commit the sale of a drug.
Cockerline was given another two- to four-year sentence that will be suspended for five years on good behavior after his release from prison. He was also fined a total of $750.
According to Assistant Rockingham County Attorney Charlene Dulac, the mushroom deal occurred Nov. 10, 2008, when a "cooperating individual" acting as a buyer met with a Kingston police officer and explained that plans were made to purchase a quarter pound of hallucinogenic mushrooms for $900 at a buy on Tucker Road in Kingston.
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