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Unqualified Offerings
by Thoreau

07/13/09

John Yoo wrote memos justifying anything and everything that the President wanted to do. He knew, or should have known, that most of what he was attempting to justify was a crime. Most of the things that he was writing about were very, very obviously illegal. In writing memos on these things he was not engaging in mere academic exercises. He was providing the misinformation needed to persuade people in the field to commit crimes. And if one wants to argue (rightly or wrongly) that some of the things Yoo addressed were genuinely gray, that is all the more reason to expect more of him, given his responsibility to provide accurate information for people who are not lawyers. The harder the question, the more important it is to get it right. If anybody gets off on the grounds of ‘just following memos’ then that is all the more reason to prosecute the memo writer...

https://highclearing.com/index.php/archives/2009/07/13/9483


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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By Ron Paul

Video

The dollar now is worth 4 cents in comparison to what it was worth in 1913 when the FED was established.

https://informationclearinghouse.info/article23035.htm



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Crystal Ball Gazing

By Mike Whitney

The US consumer, long considered an inexhaustible resource, is tapped out. Without job security and access to easy credit consumer spending will slow, prices will fall, demand will flag and the economy will tank. There won't be a recovery.

https://informationclearinghouse.info/article23039.htm



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By David Swanson

Prisoner with an ID (153399) is shown missing a good portion of his head. This is one of a number of dead bodies shown in the photographs. SBS (the Australian news outlet) found an Army report on his death and concluded that these dead prisoners had likely been shot by guards during a riot or murdered by guards in other circumstances. Others have claimed mortar attacks from outside the prison are to blame.

https://informationclearinghouse.info/article23046.htm



British soldiers 'made Iraqis dance like Michael Jackson'

British soldiers manipulated the cries of pain of Iraqi prisoners to sound like an "orchestrated choir" and made them dance like Michael Jackson, an inquiry into the death of Baha Mousa has heard.

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By Cindy Sheehan

It's time to break the sick relationship that we have with the Robber Class and do something about it! They can only rob us, if we allow them to.

https://informationclearinghouse.info/article23034.htm



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FOXNews - USA

And big programs -- keep in mind, things like unemployment benefits, over 6.8 million people are filing for claims right now. Well, that's cost us thus far ...

https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,532420,00.html



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Fed Independence or Fed Secrecy?
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REP. DENNIS KUCINICH

progressive.org - Congress was taken for a ride, and the American people's wealth went with it.

https://www.progressive.org/kucinich071109.html



The Right-Wing Prescription for Economic Recovery: Lionize the Rich and Demonize the Poor

alternet.org - Wing-nut commentary about the crisis blames the victims. As if things weren't already bad enough.

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