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By Cindy Sheehan

The reason my nation is such a dysfunctional system now is not because of a Supreme Court decision, nor a law passed by Congress, nor by a referendum of the people: it's because of a single statement, one sentence, spoken by a Supreme Court Chief Justice before the hearing even began.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24604.htm



How Corporations Secretly Move Millions to Fund Political Ads

By Brad Jacobson

"It's unclear whether the Court was being naive or disingenuous" when it touted disclosure provisions during its decision.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24603.htm



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By William Blum

"If anyone from either party has a better approach that will bring down premiums, bring down the deficit, cover the uninsured, strengthen Medicare for seniors, and stop insurance company abuses, let me know." Well, ending America's many wars would free up enough money to do anything a rational, humane society would want to do."

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24609.htm



Markets Fail When Humans Are Unregulated

By Paul Craig Roberts

The failure to regulate financial markets has produced enormous losses to all Americans except the super-rich. But the U.S. government is guilty of an even greater failure.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24600.htm



Deepening Debt Crisis

The Bernanke Reappointment: Be Afraid, Very Afraid

By Prof Michael Hudson

When banks "provide credit" by writing loans, what they are selling is debt.
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24608.htm



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Global Depression
https://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/evans-pritchard21.html

U.S. Would Be Rated Junk if It Were a Company
https://www.lewrockwell.com/faber/faber46.1.html

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Faber: Sovereign Debt Crisis Will Spread World-Wide, U.S. Debt Is Unsafe

Video

Marc Faber says that the US, Europe and the entire developed world will default on their debt.

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Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "Senator Chris Dodd, the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, scolded Wall Street representatives at a hearing Thursday for sending 'an army of lobbyists whose only mission is to kill the common-sense financial reforms' needed by the public. 'The fact is,' Dodd said, 'I am frustrated, and so are the American people.' He charged that Wall Street's intransigence was the reason for Congress's failure to pass any bill to regulate the Street. 'The refusal of large financial firms to work constructively with Congress on this effort borders on insulting to the American people who have lost so much in this crisis.'"

https://www.truthout.org/robert-reich-whos-killing-financial-reform56665



Lobbyists Retreat but Never Surrender

Michael Winship, Truthout: "George Washington's birthday is approaching and with it will come the attendant mythology: hatchet and cherry tree, wooden teeth, throwing a silver dollar across the Potomac River - or the Rappahannock. Of course, as the old joke goes, a dollar went a lot farther then. Today, if you tried to hurl a silver dollar across the Potomac, chances are some member of Congress would snatch it in flight like one of those nature film grizzly bears grabbing a salmon in mid-leap."

https://www.truthout.org/lobbyists-retreat-never-surrender56707

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Fighting Off Looters in the Ruins
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/02/09-9



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William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "With each passing day, it becomes more and more astonishing to encompass the fact that George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and their henchmen from the prior administration have managed thus far to escape any accounting whatsoever for the massive battery of criminal activity committed during their time in office."

https://www.truthout.org/the-great-escape56669



John Yoo Renews Claim That President's Authority to Torture Depends on What Is "Necessary"

Stephen Rohde, Truthout: "Challenged for his 2005 statement that whether the president could lawfully torture a person's child depends on 'why the President thinks he needs to do that,' undaunted, John Yoo repeated his claim that it would depend on whether the president finds it 'necessary.'"

https://www.truthout.org/john-yoo-renews-claim-that-presidents-authority-torture-depends-what-is-necessary56674

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Top DOJer Overruled Finding Of Misconduct For Torture Memo Authors
https://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/02/justice_department_releases_internal_report_on_bus.php?ref=mp

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Conyers Slams Authors Of Torture Memos, Announces Hearings

"For years, those who approved torture and abuse of detainees have hidden behind legal memos issued by the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel," Conyers said. "

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In a sobering 224-page report this week, the federal watchdog responsible for overseeing the $700-billion (U.S.) Troubled Asset Relief Program argued that failed reform could put the United States on course for another bubble - and crash.

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By Carl Herman

When independent journalists challenge US wars, government propagandists attack in the comments.

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Emerging from The Media Fog

Stephen Crockett, Truthout: "When we make an investment by buying shares in a corporation, are we endorsing the political goals of corporate CEOs or other corporate executives? For most American citizens, the answer is clearly 'NO!' The recent Supreme Court ruling stating that corporations have the right to spend the shareholders' money to influence federal elections seems designed to trample on the property rights of individual shareholders, empower the international corporate executive class and distort the electoral process in favor of the pro-corporate Republican Party."

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Dangerous and invasive radiation x-ray devices labeled stupid and pointless by experts

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Friday, February 5, 2010

More prominent public figures have slammed the slap-dash introduction of invasive naked body scanners at airports, with Congressmen and security experts labeling them a stupid and pointless measure that does nothing but harass innocent travelers.

https://www.prisonplanet.com/congressman-naked-body-scanners-are-just-about-harassing-passengers.html



Radiation Safety Group Says Naked Body Scanners Increase Risk Of Cancer

Children and pregnant women should not be subject to scan says influential body, urging governments to ditch backscatter x-ray devices

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Friday, February 5, 2010

An influential international radiation safety organization has warned that the naked body scanners currently being rolled out in airports across the world increase the risk of cancer and birth defects and should not be used on pregnant women or children.

https://www.prisonplanet.com/radiation-safety-group-says-naked-body-scanners-increase-risk-of-cancer.html

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Airport Body Scanning Raises Radiation Exposure, Committee Says
https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601209&sid=aoG.YbbvnkzU


Informant: Mark G.

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US Airports Expand Passenger Full-Body Screening
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/03/05-7

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Pakistanis who refused airport screening in D.C. are hailed at home

A tour of the United States arranged by the State Department to improve ties to Pakistani legislators ended in a public relations fiasco when the members of the group refused to submit to extra airport screening in Washington, and they are now being hailed as heroes on their return home.

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