DdC

Check the wiring, maybe just a loose connection. Defective battery?
I'm sure your technician will have ya up and walking fast in no time sparky.

So now Kucinich ain't taking no prisoners with AIG,
In spite of Obama or GOP squabble and drug worrier hissing.

AIG Faces Hearing on Denial of Medical Claims
by Contractors Injured in Iraq and Afghanistan

Under a federal law known as the Defense Base Act, contractor companies are required to purchase workers’ compensation insurance for employees deployed to a war zone. AIG dominates the market for such insurance, handling nearly 90 percent of all claims in Iraq. Government audits and inquiries have questioned whether AIG and other carriers charged "excessive" premiums for the insurance. Taxpayers ultimately pay for such insurance as part of the contract price.

Kucinich Asks AIG
Why It’s Denying Claims From Injured Contractors in Iraq

AIG Faces Hearing on Denial of Medical Claims
by Contractors Injured in Iraq and Afghanistan June 8, 2009

AIG Retreat After Bailout: Are you outraged?

After the big Bailout that occurred to save financial institutions like AIG, certain companies just named decided to celebrate. AIG sent their staff on an executive retreat, totaling in costs over $443,000. So after Congress passed the bill to spend $700 billion on the economic crisis, AIG went ahead and spent more money, that the tax payers (like you and me) will now have to pay for. $85 billion of the bailout's $700 billion, went to rescuing AIG alone!

On the AIG executive retreat, they spent $200,000 on hotel rooms, $150,000 on catered banquets, $23,000 on the hotel spa, and another $1,400 at the salon! Of course, that's not counting the left over $10,000 AIG spent of other leisure activities.

Makes you wonder why AIG went bankrupt in the first place...

American International Group Video:
AIG's $85B Bailout: A Success? CNBC - Sep 15

Congress to probe compensation at AIG, others
Reuters - Oct 14

The Center for Public Integrity is dedicated to producing original investigative journalism about significant public issues to make institutional power more transparent and accountable.

You Broke It, You Fix It?
Firms that fed off the subprime lending frenzy that devastated the banking system are lining up to collect more than $21 billion in taxpayer funds.

Broken Government
As the Bush administration came to an end, the federal government was not functioning as it should. Just how bad was this government dysfunction? In an effort to answer that question, the Center for Public Integrity embarked on Broken Government, an examination of the worst systematic failures of the executive branch over the past eight years.



AIG (American International Group)'s Friends

In 2004, the SEC sued AIG for fraud for an Enron-style "structured finance product" it sold to PNC Financial Services, a Pennsylvania bank holding company. The scheme shifted $762 million.

"Barack Obama, the top recipient in the 2008 election cycle, collected more than $100,000 from AIG. Six other presidential candidates are among the top ten for the 2008 cycle: Chris Dodd, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Joseph Biden, and Rudy Giuliani."

Mena, Arkansas 1980's Narcotics Ring
Allegations of money laundering by AIG with and through the Arkansas Development Financial Authority in 1987 indicate ties to Mena.

Clinton Gov. - Asa Hutchinson DA
Boosh

Kill the Messenger

In 1987, Henry Kissinger appointed as chairman of AIG's International Advisory Board. "Feb. 16, 2000 - American International Group, Inc. (AIG), The Blackstone Group L. P. and Kissinger Associates, Inc. announced today the establishment of a new venture to provide financial advisory...


The top subprime lenders whose loans are largely blamed for triggering the global economic meltdown were owned or backed by giant banks now collecting billions of dollars in bailout money — including several that have paid huge fines to settle predatory lending charges. The banks that funded the subprime industry were not victims of an unforeseen financial collapse, as they have sometimes portrayed themselves, but enablers that bankrolled the type of lending threatening the financial system.

Lawmakers Critique Treasury Department’s Handling of Bailout
Nov. 14, 2008

Lehman CEO: Why Weren’t We Bailed Out? 10/6/08

The House oversight committee has spent the day unloading on Lehman Bros. CEO Richard Fuld — his $480 million in compensation over the past eight years, his investment bank’s unprecedented leveraging of mortgage assets, his misleading of Lehman shareholders up to the day the company declared bankruptcy and the fate of 25,000 Lehman employees.

Perils of the New Pesticides
A groundbreaking review of 10 years’ worth of adverse-reaction reports filed with the Environmental Protection Agency by pesticide manufacturers, which found that pyrethrins and pyrethroids — used in thousands of supposedly “safer” pesticides — accounted for more than 26 percent of all fatal, “major,” and “moderate” human incidents reported to the EPA in 2007. Based on information from the previously unreleased EPA pesticide incident-reporting system, this investigation spurred the director of the EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs to announce the agency would begin a broad study of the human health effects of pyrethrins and pyrethroids.



Licensed to Kill By Scott Horton

The revolving door employment service Blackwater offers to senior G.O.P. functionaries chased from their perches in the Administration by looming scandals.

The People, the Press, and the Case for Impeachment



Kucinich: This is NOT acceptable, Mr. Liddy.
I'm not going to let you get away with it!



PATRIOT Ax Targeted Drug Offenders

Bivings Group
Bivings work, premised on the power of the Internet, engages in covert online attacks and web based front groups.

Osborn & Barr Communications
Osborn & Barr was formed in 1988 with Monsanto as its founding client. The company's slogan is, "We create belief." - Friday, January 15, 1999 Osborne & Barr to harvest Monsanto's ag marketing.

HEALTH CARE: The Abstinence Lobby’s Lone Wolf
By Joe Eaton | October 14, 2009
Barbour Griffith & Rogers, now known as BGR Group, to push federal abstinence-only sex education funding, according to Senate public records. Since 2002 the conservative Catholic multimillionaire has spent more than $1.5 million on lobby fees, records show. Most of the money went to BGR, which bills itself as a bipartisan firm that “has the skills to achieve results under the most difficult circumstances.” Haley Barbour, the former head of the Republican National Committee and current governor of Mississippi, was among the firm’s founders.

Big Lies by Joe Conason
The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth

Iraq: The War Card
In a widely reported study of orchestrated deception, the Center found that President Bush and seven top officials made 935 false statements leading-up to the Iraq war — and offer them in a database for all to see.

All Eyes on the Bailout $Trillion Defense Bill Passes

Windfalls of War II
The Center reveals that military contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan grew from $11 billion in 2004 to more than $25 billion in 2006 — and that billions have gone to unidentified foreign companies.