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This Is A Must Listen The Financial Barbarians at the Gate Guns & Butter Interviews financial economist and historian, Dr. Michael Hudson. The history of banking and the criminalization of the banking system; tax policy; real estate asset inflation; US imperialism via the monetary system; - similarities with the Roman Republic; what measures labor should take. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22490.htm === ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Information Clearing House Newsletter News You Won't Find On CNN April 25, 2009 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "One thing is for certain: There won't be any more mass graves and torture rooms and rape rooms." - George W. Bush [press availability in Monterrey, Mexico, Jan. 12, 2004] = "Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management." - - Edward Kennedy = "We don't torture people in America and people who say we do simply know nothing about our country." - George W. Bush [Interview with Australian TV - October 18, 2003] = "The bill Congress sent me would take away one of the most valuable tools in the war on terror - the CIA program to detain and question key terrorist leaders and operatives." George W. Bush on his veto of a bill that would have outlawed waterboarding in March 2008 = "This fight has nothing to do with soldierly gallantry or principles of the Geneva Convention. If the fight against the partisans is not waged with the most brutal means, we will shortly reach the point where the available forces are insufficient to control the area. It is therefore not only justified, but it is the duty of the troops to use all means without restriction, even against women and children, so long as it ensures success". - - Wilhelm Keitel, chief of staff of the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces of Germany [Dec. 16, 1942] = "The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons". - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881), Russian novelist = = No Light In The Tunnel A Housing Crash Update By Mike Whitney Why is the press misleading the public about housing? The housing market is crashing. There are no "green shoots" or "glimmers of hope"; the market is worn to a stump, it's kaput. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22493.htm === Where's My Change? By Ralph Nader The corporate chieftains have easy access to the White House and the new President, whether these bosses come on missions demanding power or missions of beggary for bailouts. When will he meet with the leading heads of consumer protection groups with millions of dues-paying members who could give him the base to hold accountable and regulate the democracy-denying, economy-wrecking corporate supremacists? http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22496.htm === This Is A Must Listen The Financial Barbarians at the Gate Guns & Butter Interviews financial economist and historian, Dr. Michael Hudson. The history of banking and the criminalization of the banking system; tax policy; real estate asset inflation; US imperialism via the monetary system; - similarities with the Roman Republic; what measures labor should take. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22490.htm === Straight to the Top The torture trail starts and ends in the White House. By Scott Horton The big open question is whether we have an attorney general who enforces the law, or a Democratic version of Alberto Gonzales. That will become apparent soon enough. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22491.htm === Torture? It Probably Killed More Americans Than 9/11 By Patrick Cockburn A US major reveals the inside story of military interrogation in Iraq. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22497.htm === Of Tea Parties and Teleprompters by David Michael Green What we're seeing, is a political movement that is utterly bankrupt, literally and figuratively, and is desperately searching for any sort of remotely plausible line of attack, but only managing to make itself look absurd in the process, at least outside of Appalachia. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22492.htm === What is the Difference Between Zionism and Racism? Video BBC reporter for Newsnight, Jeremy Paxman grills the UK Ambassador. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22495.htm === Past is Present in Latin America Video Report At Summit Obama interested in looking forward, while many live the past every day. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22494.htm === Manufacturing Consent For The Continued Occupation Of Iraq? Clinton pledges to keep troops in Iraq if violence escalates: The US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, made a surprise visit to Baghdad yesterday to reassure Iraqi leaders that the Obama White House would refrain from withdrawing its troops from urban areas if renewed violence continued to worsen. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/26/clinton-iraq-us-army-withdrawal === Torture Tape Implicates UAE Royal Sheikh: A video tape smuggled out of the United Arab Emirates shows a member of the country's royal family mercilessly torturing a man with whips, electric cattle prods and wooden planks with protruding nails. http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Story?id=7402099 === Bolivia: Unraveling the Conspiracy: The dismantling of a commando made up mainly of men described by the Bolivian government as foreign mercenaries could lead authorities to the people who organised around a dozen different attacks carried out since 2006 in the city of Santa Cruz. http://ipsnews.net/text/news.asp?idnews=46627 === The Irishman and the 'plot' to kill the Bolivian President: Michael Dwyer was found dead in a Santa Cruz hotel room, wearing nothing but his underwear. How did he end up there? http://snipurl.com/gq90e === Amnesty: NATO bombing of Serbian TV 'war crime': An international human rights group demanded Thursday that NATO be held accountable for civilian casualties in the bombing of Serbia's state television headquarters a decade ago, calling the attack a "war crime." http://snipurl.com/gq91z === Dozens of CIA "Ghost Prisoners" Missing: : At least three dozen detainees who were held in the CIA's secret prisons overseas appear to be missing - and efforts by human rights organisations to track their whereabouts have been unsuccessful. http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=46629 === UK High Court demands U.S. torture documents: The chief justice of the British High Court on Wednesday gave the British government one week to obtain the U.S. release of classified information about the alleged torture of a British resident who'd been detained at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba . http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090422/wl_mcclatchy/3218126 === US Must Prosecute Bush Torture Memo Lawyers: UN Envoy: The U.S. is obligated by a United Nations convention to prosecute Bush administration lawyers who allegedly drafted policies that approved the use of harsh interrogation tactics against terrorism suspects, the U.N.'s top anti-torture envoy said Friday. http://snipurl.com/gq95w === US lawmakers vow public probe into torture: Representative Jan Schakowsky, Democrat of Illinois on Friday announced a decision to lobby for an open inquiry by the House Intelligence Committee. http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=92501§ionid=3510203 === Attorney General Holder Says He Will "Follow The Law" And Investigate Torture: Attorney General Eric Holder said today that the Justice Department will "follow the law wherever it takes us" in investigating the U.S. officials behind the CIA torture policies under the Bush administration http://www.aclu.org/safefree/torture/39439prs20090422.html?s_src=RSS === Court Of Appeals Rules Detainees Are Not "Persons" : Court Agrees with Obama Administration that Detainees Still Have No Constitutional Right Not to Be Tortured http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Appeals_court_rules_Gitmo_detainees_are_0424.html === Sweden spied on CIA 'terror flights': report: "The assignment to carry out this operation came from the defence ministry to the defence forces," according to an Expressen source who confirmed that the Swedish government harboured suspicions that the CIA was using so-called rendition flights to force people out of the USA against their will. http://www.thelocal.se/19050/20090424/ === U.S. Soldier Who Killed Herself--After Refusing to Take Part in Torture: With each new revelation on U.S. torture in Iraq, Afghanistan and Gitmo, I am reminded of the chilling story of Alyssa Peterson. http://snipurl.com/gq9dx === 4 more banks fail, lifting this year's tally to 29: Regulators shut banks in Georgia, Michigan, Idaho, California; 29 so far tops 2008 total http://finance.yahoo.com/news/4-more-banks-fail-lifting-apf-15031592.html?.v=10 === missing / additional articles here: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ShadowGovernment" group. 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