Posted on July 2, 2012, 1:22 pm, by cocktailhag, under
Book Saloon.
In the opening chapter of Parmy Olson’s gripping new book, We Are Anonymous, the CEO of the now-defunct HBGary Federal assumes the role of an unwitting character in a horror movie, haunted by inchoate dread, but unable to see how awful his demise will be. Due primarily to his own stupidity and overconfidence, a group [...]
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Aaron Barr,
Anonymous,
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Bank of America,
Church of Scientology,
Corruption,
FBI,
Glenn Greenwald,
HBGary Federal,
Julian Assange,
Parmy Olson,
Police State,
Rupert Murdoch,
Topiary,
US Chamber of Commerce,
We Are Anonymous,
Westboro Baptist Church,
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UPDATED BELOW: Evidently President Obama’s position did a little “evolving” today; one day after the noxious anti-gay Amendment One passed in North Carolina, he decided to finally take a step into the 21st century by supporting same-sex marriage, but in the lamest possible way, natch. Although Bill Clinton campaigned against the God-botherers in NC, the [...]
Well, it seems that Goldman Sachs, whose stock has lost 43% of its value since 2010 and has reported its first-ever quarterly loss, still has its priorities; mainly, stealing from everybody so a few guys can stuff their pockets with millions. Granted, they did pay a $500 million fine for defrauding investors, lost money in [...]
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Alan Greenspan,
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banana republic,
Bank of America,
Ben Bernanke,
Brian Moynihan,
Brooks Brothers Riot,
Citibank,
Class Warfare,
Corruption,
FDIC,
Federal Reserve,
Goldman Sachs,
Ken Lewis,
Lloyd Blankfein,
Occupy Wall Street,
OWS,
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While it is widely understood that reality has a liberal bias, never is this simple fact so glaring as when some righty cabal gets busted cooking up an illegal dirty trick or two; the fact that they don’t accept reality, or must clumsily attempt to create it on the ground, always proves their undoing. So [...]
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Berico,
Brooks Brothers Riot,
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Corruption,
Dan Rather,
Dirty Tricks,
Dying Newspapers,
Glenn Greenwald,
HBGary,
Hunton and Williams,
Karl Rove,
LATimes,
Palantir,
Smear Campaign,
US Chamber of Commerce,
Washington Post,
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