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andie531 -- Tuesday, 27-April-2010 00:26:57

'In a desperate attempt to force people to take the H1N1 shot, they're now going to combine the regular flu shot with the H1N1 shot. After having to discard over 72 million doses of H1N1, they've come up with this new scheme to push this vaccine."

And a new concentrated shot to protect the elderly ...

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Informant: Dorothee Krien



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Das "Levin-Komitee" des Senats beschuldigte und verhört mehr als zehn Stunden lang von Chairman Loyd Blankfein führende Manager und schwingt sich zum wichtigsten Kritiker der Finanzmärkte auf.

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Bill Moyers Journal: "In this special 90-minute finale to Bill Moyers Journal: With distrust of the federal government at a historic high and Americans disillusioned with a government run by and for the powerful, Bill Moyers sits down with populist Jim Hightower to look at the history and legacy of people's movements and discuss how ordinary people can reclaim political power. The Journal also travels to Iowa where one group has been helping ordinary citizens fight for change for more than three decades."

http://www.truthout.org/bill-moyers-journal-21st-century-populism58942



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Marjorie Cohn, Jurist: "The conservative 'states' rights' mantra sweeping our country has led to one of the most egregious wrongs in recent U.S. history. New legislation in Arizona requires law enforcement officers to stop everyone whom they have 'reasonable suspicion' to believe is an undocumented immigrant and arrest them if they fail to produce their papers. What constitutes "reasonable suspicion"? When asked what an undocumented person looks like, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, who signed SB 1070 into law last week, said, 'I don't know what an undocumented person looks like.'"

http://www.truthout.org/arizona-legalizes-racial-profiling58928



Arizona: This Is What Apartheid Looks Like

Roberto Cintli Rodriguez, Truthout: "Those who think there's an immigration crisis in Arizona are correct. However, this is but part of the story. The truth is, a civilizational clash is being played out in the same state in which the state legislature questions the birthplace and legitimacy of President Barack Obama and where Sen. John McCain competes with Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth to see who is the most anti-immigrant."

http://www.truthout.org/roberto-cintli-rodriguez-arizona-this-is-what-apartheid-looks-like58955



By the Time I Get to Arizona

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "Rap and hip-hop have never been my cup of tea, for the most part. But ever since the governor of Arizona put pen to paper and officially designated every brown-skinned person in the state to be criminally suspicious the moment they walk out their door, an old Public Enemy song has been running through my head."

http://www.truthout.org/william-rivers-pitt-by-time-i-get-arizona58992



New Arizona Immigration Law Wrong

Michael Gass, Truthout: "Immigration is a sensitive issue, but the immigration bill that passed the Arizona Legislature is the wrong way to try to solve it. The new law gives Arizona law enforcement broad new authority to enforce federal immigration laws. It is so broad, not to mention vague, that abuse of this new authority by law enforcement is assured."

http://www.truthout.org/new-arizona-immigration-law-wrong58969



State of Disgrace: The Right Fiddles While Arizona Burns

Randall Amster, J.D., Ph.D., Truthout: "It's getting hot here in Arizona these days, and summer isn't even upon us yet. As you've most likely heard, the Republican-controlled State Legislature passed - and the Republican governor signed - the nation's most draconian anti-immigrant law, essentially creating a class of new 'status crimes' and opening a Pandora's box of racial profiling implications. While to many of us who live here such sentiments among state officials aren't exactly novel, the shocking 'where are your papers?' aspects of the law (SB 1070) have raised a much-deserved national furor."

http://messenger.truthout.org/ss/link.php?M=218701&N=640&C=89f7caada66e1246c446c82a45236d36&L=5211



May Day Rallies Take Immigration Fight to the Streets

Brad Knickerbocker, The Christian Science Monitor: "From Los Angeles to New York, Chicago to Houston, hundreds of thousands of protesters in dozens of cities are marching, chanting, and in some cases engaging in civil disobedience - mostly in opposition to Arizona's tough new law aimed at stopping illegal immigration."

http://www.truthout.org/may-day-rallies-take-immigration-fight-streets59074

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US would-be lawmaker wants illegal immigrants micro-chipped

Inquirer [Philippines]

04/28/10

A doctor from Iowa who is hoping to be selected as a Republican Party candidate for congressional elections in November has called for illegal immigrants to be implanted with micro chips so their movements can be monitored, press reports said. … ‘I can micro-chip my dog so I can find it. Why can’t I micro-chip an illegal?’ [Patrick Bertroche] wondered...

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Criminalizing the undocumented

CounterPunch
by Tanya Golash-Boza

04/28/10

There are many ways to become undocumented in the United States. Two of the most common ways are crossing the border undetected and overstaying a temporary visa. These are not criminal actions. The penalty for either of these is deportation — a civil procedure. The bill recently signed into law by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer — SB 1070 — criminalizes this civil offense. … The bill recently signed into law in Arizona criminalizes undocumented migrants by making undocumented migration a crime of trespassing. … The State of Arizona does not have to power to deport anyone — only the Department of Homeland Security can do that. Once the person is charged and convicted in Arizona, they can be turned over to immigration authorities to be deported — as criminal aliens — people convicted of crimes prior to being deported...

http://counterpunch.org/golash04282010.html



Immigration, the Tea Parties, and big government

Foundation for Economic Education
by Steven Horwitz

04/29/10

The Arizona law enabling police to ask for immigration papers or proof of citizenship of anyone they suspect of being in the country illegally has fanned the flames of an already hot debate over immigration. How these issues play out in the Tea Party movement will be interesting. Polling data indicate that Tea Partiers have a significant anti-immigration element to them. So, will people who claim to dislike big government be consistent and oppose this new law?

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Don’t blame immigrants

Libertarian Party
by Wes Benedict

04/26/10

From an economic point of view, immigrants are an asset, not a liability. Business owners usually understand that, but politicians often either don’t understand or don’t care. In an environment of fear, which is where many politicians seem to want to keep us, they use immigrants (both legal and illegal) as scapegoats so they can duck blame for problems caused by too much government. Republican George W. Bush gave us the enormously expensive Medicare prescription entitlement. Republican Senator John McCain famously put his 2008 presidential campaign on hold to rush back to Washington to bail out failed banks and businesses. When times are tough, focusing on immigrants helps distract from these homegrown threats to our economy...

http://www.lp.org/blogs/staff/lp-monday-message-dont-blame-immigrants



Arizona immigration law conjures ghosts of southern neo-slavery

Huffington Post
by Bob Cesca

04/28/10

The violation was known as ‘vagrancy.’ If you were a black man in the South following Reconstruction, and you were unable to show proof of employment on-demand to the police, you could be arrested and delivered into what Douglas Blackmon, author of Slavery by Another Name, calls ‘Neo-Slavery.’ ‘Show me your papers’ in the vernacular of the late 19th Century through World War II involved furnishing pay stubs or, if you were lucky, the word of your employer — some kind of evidence proving to a police officer that you were employed. But what if you forgot to carry your employment records with you when you left the house that morning?

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American citizenship, Arizona & SB 1070

Liberty For All
by Sheila Dean

05/02/10

Arizona now becomes the U.S. cultural experiment for police state practices. While due process attempts to self-manage are scorned by the Obama Administration, it does not mean Washington will deliver a better standard by moral comparison. In a cruel twist of irony, Arizona opted out of all national ID by way of SB 1070...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=4217


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The Law that Turned Arizona into a Pariah State
http://act.commondreams.org/go/409?akid=45.124981.UwcP67&t=9

Boycotting Arizona’s Racism
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Human Rights Watch: US: Arizona Violating Human Rights Treaty
http://act.commondreams.org/go/440?akid=46.124981.v9Gc_3&t=38

National NAACP Joins Its Arizona State Conference In Outrage Over Racial Profiling Impact On Arizona’s New So Called Immigration Law
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Past Statement Tells Truth About Immigration Law's Goals

By David Sirota

"Insurance companies profile for risk. That is what I am asking that we continue to do - we need to profile for risk," he thundered, adding that using ethnicity as a risk factor "is very legitimate - I think it is smart."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25352.htm



Not Just Arizona: Immigration Enforcement Out of Control on Federal Level

By Bill Quigley

While people protest the terrible Arizona state law that uses local law enforcement to target immigrants, the federal government is expanding its efforts to use local law enforcement in immigration enforcement and has launched a major PR campaign to defend it.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25353.htm



Warning Shots: How Many Do You Need?

By Guy McPherson

Better days lie ahead for those of us who desire to see the living planet make a comeback. But if you believe life is not worth living in the absence of empire - in the absence of our unrelenting intent and ability to destroy every non-industrial culture and non-human species - why wait? Why not take the Hemingway out now, while you still can get a decent imperial funeral?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25359.htm



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Jim Hightower, Truthout: "Performing a public service was undoubtedly the last thing on the minds of the geniuses who created Abacus 2007-ACI - but I, for one, am grateful to them. Abacus is an infamous investment package created by the financial alchemists at Goldman Sachs. It fell into infamy because it is the convoluted scheme that has recently caused mighty Goldman to get its tail caught in a crack."

http://www.truthout.org/jim-hightower-wall-street-grins-washington-fiddles58929



A Black Panther and a Goldman Sachs Banker Walk Into a Bakery ...

Andrew Birnbaum, Truthout: "Black Panther George Jackson wrote about black men imprisoned for 'some form of food getting.' If these men were seeking a necessity, what were the Goldman Sachs bankers seeking when they contributed to the economy's collapse?"

http://www.truthout.org/a-black-panther-and-a-goldman-sachs-banker-walk-into-a-bakery58958



Goldman Sachs May Have Lied Under Oath

Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: "Reuters reported the unveiling of a new immigration bill by Senate Democratic leaders yesterday, with an emphasis on bolstered border security. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and fellow Democrats moved to overhaul the nation's 'broken' immigration system in the wake of Arizona's crackdown on undocumented immigrants. "

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Goldman Didn't Tell SEC About Mortgage Moves for Months

Greg Gordon and Chris Adams, McClatchy Newspapers: "In December 2006, Goldman Sachs embarked on a frantic effort to shed billions of dollars in risky mortgage securities and purchase exotic insurance to protect itself against what it had concluded could be the collapse of America's housing market."

http://www.truthout.org/goldman-didnt-tell-sec-about-mortgage-moves-months59062



Worse Than 1789?

James Howard Kunstler, Truthout: "Sen. Carl Levin pretty much had Goldman Sachs's (GS) Lloyd Blankfein dead in a casket with that now-notorious email from GS's head of sales and trading, Tom Montag, describing one of their billion-dollar investment 'products' as 'one shitty deal.' Levin seemed to delight in crossing the boundary into the realm of the unspeakable, knowing that even the so-called 'family' newspapers and cable TV networks would have to report it."

http://www.truthout.org/worse-than-178959114



In Flight From Reality

Cary Fraser, Truthout: "On November 8, 2009, the Sunday Times of London ran a story on the Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs, which was headlined: 'I'm doing "God's work." Meet Mr. Goldman Sachs.' The idea of the investment firm doing God's work was attributed to the Chairman and CEO Lloyd Blankfein. The rich irony that underpinned this image of Blankfein was indicative of the rhetoric that has emerged in the defense of the workings of Wall Street amid growing evidence of both incompetence and chicanery on the part of major investment houses and assorted banks."

http://www.truthout.org/in-flight-reality59838

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Goldman Sachs spins
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Goldman on the stand: “God, what a piece of c...”

The Nation
by Robert Scheer

04/28/10

It was the Perry Mason moment in the unraveling of what was left of Goldman Sachs’s reputation. Only in this case, it involved a grizzled former prosecutor, Senator Carl Levin, rather than a genial defense attorney. The case was broken and the truth about the depth of Goldman’s corruption revealed in his startling cross-examination of Goldman Chief Financial Officer David Viniar. The Michigan Democrat, citing the language of the internal e-mails of Goldman traders concerning the deceptive products they were selling, asked: ‘And when you heard that your own employees in these e-mails are looking at these deals said ‘God what a s... deal. God, what a piece of c...,’ when you hear your own employees and read about those e-mails, do you feel anything?’ Viniar’s answer told us all we need to know about the banal but profound immorality of Goldman’s business culture: ‘I think that’s very unfortunate to have on e-mail’...

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100510/scheer


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Justice Department Opens Goldman Sachs Criminal Investigation

By Zachary A. Goldfarb and Jerry Markon

It is rare for the government to indict a company, and even the threat of criminal prosecution can doom a business. A criminal investigation destroyed the Wall Street firm Drexel Burnham Lambert in the 1980s even though the firm settled with authorities.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25355.htm



Goldman fraud case goes to the next level

The noose is tightening around the neck of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Will clients continue to hold the firm up?

http://snipurl.com/vwj2j


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New York Marchers Protest Wall Street, Big Banks
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