farm foreclosure sale during the Great Depression
My obsession* with this story welcomes further ratiocination: Greg Palast makes some connections which Wall Street, the White House and their joint instrument, a discretionary Justice Department, would prefer to to keep hidden from the rest of us. See the argument in his piece titled "EliotÂ’s Mess: The $200 billion bail-out for predator banks and Spitzer charges are intimately linked"
* [uncredited {Walker Evans or Dorothea Lange?} image from annette on picasaweb]
broadcast in two earlier posts, beginning about one week ago, here and here