See, there’s this breaking story I’ve been noticing bits and pieces of all over the place...

See, there’s this breaking story I’ve been noticing bits and pieces of all over the place, and I’m sure by now that one of America’s intrepid news organizations, famed worldwide for its hardhitting investigative reporting, has already pulled all the pieces together and broken the story in a single, coherent narrative so that its audience can easily comprehend it.

It has to do with the current crazy price spiral the world is going through on essential commodities like food and energy. It turns out, if you dig through enough obscure news sources like Senate subcommitte reports or evil communist trade rags, you can find bits and pieces that, if combined with some decent investigative journalism, would probably yield a story about how guys like the Enron execs who were behind the rolling blackouts in California a few years ago are now thinking bigger, and have stuck their bottom-feeding jaws into the international wealth streams that are the world’s food and oil supplies.

Man, I know the gumption and hard-nosed badass attitude of American journalism in general means that somebody has already been all over this story. I know that some modern day Woodward and Bernstein have already tracked down the small handful of futures trading interests that are adding to the world’s economic woes through some fairly heartless profiteering.

All I need now is for someone to tell me which stalwart bastion of American journalism has produced this Pullitzer-winning masterpiece, so I can go check it out for myself. After all, it’s not like corporate controlled American media interests would allow a story about corporate malfeasance fall through the cracks - would they?

http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/9448.html

Asleep and Awake. Without the internet there would be utterly no hope for the future.

And then, of course, there's Rummy's statement, which I think was the most intelligent statement to come out of the Bush administration, but not the way it was originally intended, but for summing up our problem in putting this country back together:

We don't know what we don't know.

I don't see the awakers doing much- but it's not their fault. If you get anywhere, you get smeared or dead, and either way, your contribution to the cause is thus made worthless.

This is the fault of all the people who accepted the "healing" called for after Watergate...it's even the same damn people!!!

I have a personal e-mail list of over 2,600 of them.
Of those, only a few fit the description, in my experience.

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which stalwart bastion of American journalism has produced this Pullitzer-winning masterpiece, so I can go check it out for myself? Crickets? Sorry to be the bearer of bad news - just don't shoot the messenger.

disbursed out to hedged funds after the collapse.

Most of those bad actors didn't suffer a bit. They just took their skills at gaming the system to other institutions.

Next thing you know, you'll be telling us the 2000 Election was manipulated.

All these conspiracy theories only discredit us as a reality-based party.

poor countries (like S. America) and then gouging people as they try to buy enough to live on.

It is a fact that many people are profiting mightily off of the speculation in the oil markets. Probably the same thing is happening in the markets for foods like wheat, corn, rice, etc. Whether that's the result of a conspiracy or not probably doesn't really matter.

is posing semi-nude! I can't be bothered to read or pay attention. Too much work!

people will start shrieking "grassy knoll" and "tinfoil hat," just like so many other stories that have really been told properly.

Many people -- even here on DU -- have been so conditioned to exhibit a knee-jerk response to anything that doesn't fit the "official and approved" narrative, that we may never know the truth.

Now that some people are making billions off speculation....add that to the most industry-friendly administration in history (and one that comes from oil and energy) and add the observation that oil industry profits are record-breaking and you have the recipe for abuse. I would say if you ASSUMED there was enron-ization and abuse you'd be closer to the truth than if you gave them the benefit of the doubt and assumed that no laws were being broken. With this administration, we have to assume the worst.

So...I buy it.

Never before have we noticed so many trends toward what you vividly described as sticking their jaws into "international wealth streams". Whenever there's a pool of money gathered together (medical spending, pensions, social security, gasoline spending, mortages, tax dollars, etc) there are people and organizations (and our government) mobilized to take big bloody bites for themselves and their friends...by stealth or by law . Recent history is thick with examples and the administration's current obsession with privatizing everything (no-bid contracts, no-negoatiation for pharms, is part of it).

OK so he is not EXACTLY what you ask for NOR is it Pulitzer material and NOR is this 'rag' American BUT you may find this writer and his article very much on topic: (This takes a bit to load link...possibly because it is to the Tehran Times) http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=168983