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Re:Germany’s top financial supervisor dismissed a decade of ... by ihm on Friday July 17, 2020 @06:55PM (#23876982)
It's been this way for a while (forever?) in the US... Dick Cheney helped start a war (that killed something like 500,000 people) on knowingly false pretenses partly so that he could give his company Halliburton a $7 billion dollar no-bid contract.
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Re:Germany’s top financial supervisor dismissed a decade of ... by papito on Friday July 17, 2020 @07:06PM (#23877077)
That's pretty standard corruption. But the Bush administration, as rotten as it was, would at least provide schools with resources to open.

Right now that's not happening. Why? Because there is no money in it. You can't get a kickback from a school, you can't get a lobbying gig, you can't get a board seat. There is nothing to gain.

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Re:Germany’s top financial supervisor dismissed a decade of ... by tripzilch on Monday July 20, 2020 @04:42AM (#23895940)
> > in the US... Dick Cheney helped start a war (that killed something like 500,000 people) on knowingly false pretenses

> That's pretty standard corruption. But the Bush administration, as rotten as it was, would at least provide schools with resources to open.

By what measure is killing half a million people, standard corruption?

(and you didn't really mean to say that's okay when they would at least provide schools with resources to open ... did you?)

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Re:Germany’s top financial supervisor dismissed a decade of ... by valuearb on Sunday July 19, 2020 @06:14PM (#23892891)
He could get Halliburton billion dollar contracts without a war. Claiming that was a reason for the war trivializes the actual thought process that led to it.
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