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Liberty For All
by Mark Hinkle

04/05/12

Last month, the joint war on liberty by Republicans and Democrats continued, when Attorney General Eric Holder informed surprised students and faculty at Northwestern University Law School that President Obama can kill anyone in the world without charge or trial. This, of course, is just acceptance of the Unitary Executive Theory which President George W. Bush utilized to ignore the courts during his administration. Needless to say, both Presidents, Bush and Obama, assured us that they would be careful to only use their unlimited powers for the benefit of their subjects...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=7467


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_cispa/?cl=1703452828&v=13514

The end of Internet privacy
http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_cispa_corporate_global/?cl=1735478510&v=13705

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CISPA (aka SOPA 2.0) Pushed Forward by For-Profit Spying Lobby

Lee Fang, Republic Report: ''A cyber security bill moving swiftly through Congress would give government intelligence agencies broad powers to work with private companies to share information about Internet users. While some critics are beginning to organize online against the legislation, defense contractors, many already working with the National Security Agency on related data-mining projects, are lobbying to press forward.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8538-cispa-aka-sopa-20-pushed-forward-by-for-profit-spying-lobby

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SOPA Redux: Groups Push Back Against Cyber Spying Act
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/04/18-4



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A painful part two of the slump looks set to unfold: Many more U.S. homeowners face the prospect of losing their homes this year as banks pick up the pace of foreclosures.

http://reut.rs/I2WrjH



New attacks on unemployment benefits in the US:

While the Obama administration trumpets the allegedly good news that the official US jobless rate has fallen to 8.3 percent, millions of unemployed workers are facing new attacks on their unemployment benefits, in the form of tightened eligibility standards and cuts in the duration of benefits.

http://wsws.org/articles/2012/apr2012/unem-a05.shtml



Report estimates 8 million children hurt by foreclosures

One in 10 U.S. children has been or will be affected by the nation s surge in foreclosures, a new report says.

http://usat.ly/ImDbNv



Wells Fargo Insiders Detail Foreclosure Fraud Practices

'It s Exactly Like An Assembly Line': The nation s largest mortgage servicer often improperly foreclosed on homeowners who weren t past due or owed little interest while pushing the files out the door as fast as possible.

http://bit.ly/I1Vdmk


From Information Clearing House

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Austerity USA Decimating Health, Safety, and Education
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/04/05-0

Where Are Our Jobs Going to Come From?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/04/06-4

Wells Fargo Profiting From For-Profit Prisons
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/04/21

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88 Million (That s One in Three Americans) Are Invisible to Government Employment Statistics
http://lewrockwell.com/slavo/slavo104.html



Mortgage and Securitization Fraud: Where Is the Task Force?

Dean Baker, Truthout: ''A serious investigation would start at the bottom and work up. It would find offices where many of the especially bad mortgages were issued. The investigators would question the mortgage agents about how so much false information ended up on loan forms. After scaring some number of mortgage agents into talking, they would then talk to the branch managers ... This practice could lead to the top levels of the bank.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9277-mortgage-and-securitization-fraud-where-is-the-task-force



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2012/04/05/268-ron-paul-has-won-the-future/



An Open Letter to Ron Paul
http://lewrockwell.com/raimondo/raimondo167.html



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When Western forces helped topple Libya s Moamer Kadhafi they forced hundreds of well-armed Tuareg fighters to flee home to Mali, tipping another fragile African state into chaos, experts say.

http://bit.ly/HNsHX7



Bosnia to Libya: 20 years of NATO 'peacemaking'

The war eventually saw NATO s first-ever peace mission in its history, setting a template for incursions into foreign troublespots. Anti-NATO activist Rick Rozoff believes the Alliance s current interventions make it hard for nations to resolve their conflict themselves.

http://bit.ly/I7dDky



U.S. Hands Off Mali!

Recent developments in the West African Republic of Mali are raising serious concerns about the possibility of yet another U.S. intervention.

http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2012/mali050412.html


From Information Clearing House



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By Jeff Nielson

These swindles involved nothing less than the destruction of entire European economies, solely so that the banksters could profit on approximately $100 trillion in bets they had placed on the debts of these economies.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30991.htm

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In Barcelona, Austerity With an Iron Fist

Peter Gelderloos, Truthout: ''Criminalizing public meetings, expanding police powers and weaponry, and applying anti-terrorist measures to street protests: it sounds like Spain in the Franco years, but all of these measures have been proposed in Spain in just the last couple of weeks. Far from being a throwback to the years of dictatorship, these repressive developments go hand in hand with the current economic crisis. Considering the connection between the 15M plaza occupation movement and the subsequent Occupy movement that spread to several countries around the globe, between the March 29th general strike in Spain and the upcoming May 1st general strike called in the United States, between the brutal austerity measures implemented already a year or two ago by the government in Madrid and the increasing signs of shakiness from more stable EU countries such as France, Spain is, if anything, ahead of the curve.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8516-in-barcelona-austerity-with-an-iron-fist

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Bankster Power
http://lewrockwell.com/paul/paul804.html



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By Robert W. Merry

Does the United States interfere in the internal affairs of nations to subvert regimes by using NGOs to funnel cash to the opposition to foment uprisings or affect elections?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30989.htm



The United States as Number Two

By Dean Baker

Political leaders in the U.S. will no doubt catch up with the reality of the new U.S. position in the world, probably about the time that they accept global warming and evolution.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30993.htm



Standing Up to the Dream Killers

By Van Jones

The mortgage crisis and the growing numbers of indentured students undermine what s left of the American dream. In the spirit of Dr. King, we cannot allow this to stand.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31000.htm



American Homicide Abroad

Petition to All Pastors

In the name of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., we ask that you forthrightly and unequivocally condemn this blowing apart of our brothers and sisters and their children all around the world just as King condemned it.

http://kingcondemneduswars.blogspot.mx/


From Information Clearing House



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By Cynthia L. Cooper

Lying to the U.S. Congress is a federal crime under Section 1001 of the federal code, and working in concert with others to lie to Congress is prohibited by conspiracy laws under Section 371.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30996.htm



Newly Declassified 2006 State Dept Memo Says Bush Interrogation Program Violated Convention Against Torture

Yesterday the National Security Archive released a newly declassified February, 2006 memo from then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice s top aide, Philip D. Zelikow. ''All copies of the memo...were thought to have been destroyed,'' the Archive writes.

http://bit.ly/HkEFsx



''Merchant of Death'' Sentenced to 25 Years; Trial Ignored His Ties to U.S., Dick Cheney

By Democracy Now!

Former United Nations arms trafficking investigator Kathi Lynn Austin, says the case allowed American companies to avoid exposure of their collusion with with the U.S. government and private companies linked to Dick Cheney during the Iraq war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31031.htm



The Unclassified Zelikow Torture Memo as Evidence of Crimes

By Michael Collins

Zelikow s charge that the Bush administration hid and tried to destroy his memo shows a conspiracy to withhold evidence.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31054.htm



Declassified document contradicts Cheney s claim of Iraqi connection to 9/11

A document declassified this week by the National Security Archive reveals that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) delivered a briefing to the Bush administration which directly contradicts former Vice President Dick Cheney s claim that 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta visited an Iraqi intelligence official in Prague.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31655.htm


From Information Clearing House

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The lawless roads: America s ever-expanding torture matrix

Empire Burlesque
by Chris Floyd

04/07/12

''Obama has adamantly refused to prosecute clear, credible and copious allegations of war crimes by his predecessor. He is now applying acknowledged torture techniques to the general American population ... Obama is still carrying out torture on a massive, systematic scale in the gulag he commands, despite the pervasive progressive myth that he has formally ended 'torture' in the American system...

http://bit.ly/HosoRK


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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By James Petras

Washington and Tel Aviv claim and appear to believe that their planned assault on Iran will be a ''limited war'', targeting limited objectives and lasting a few days or weeks, with no serious consequences.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31001.htm



Iran War Would be Quick Victory, Long Defeat

By Charles Gray

An attack on Iran, no matter how often we are assured that it will be self-contained, will set into motion powerful forces that we can neither foresee nor control.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31002.htm



Our Men in Iran?

By Seymour M. Hersh

''The M.E.K. was a total joke,'' the senior Pentagon consultant said, ''and now it's a real network inside Iran. How did the M.E.K. get so much more efficient?'' he asked rhetorically. ''Part of it is the training in Nevada.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31013.htm



We Want War, And We Want It Now

By Pepe Escobar

Isn t democracy wonderful when US-allied Persian Gulf monarchies can buy a mercenary army for peanuts? Isn t it great to be a revolutionary with an assured paycheck?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31011.htm



U.S. Trained Terror Group

By Glenn Greenwald

If this report is true, it means the U.S. Government actively trained a group that the U.S. Government itself legally categorizes as a ''foreign terrorist organization,'' a clear felony under U.S. law.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31012.htm



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