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Turley: Spanish courts may be building case against Cheney
Raw Story- David Edwards and Stephen C. Webster
Published: Tuesday March 31, 2009
According to constitutional law expert Jonathan Turley, the prosecution of Bush’s so-called “torture lawyers” might just give Spanish prosecutors the “low lying fruit” needed to bring a case against Vice President Cheney.
Appearing on Monday night’s edition [...]

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Your Tax Money & Their Bail-Out Plan$
by Geezer Power

The media in those days was AM radio and the news papers, but there was considerable propaganda at the movie theatres. The News and a cartoon were always shown before the previews and the main feature. In those times the focus was on [...]

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‘Get a good lawyer,’ lawyer tells former Bush official
Raw Story- John Byrne
Published: Monday March 30, 2009
After a former Bush official responded to a lawyer who’s suing him for alleged torture at Guantanamo Bay, the lawyer has fired back in kind.
Douglas Feith, former undersecretary of defense under President George W. Bush, is accused by Spanish [...]

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Shakira- Whenever Wherever (Live- Moscow)

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Rick Wagoner, GM CEO, Will Step Down At Obama’s Behest
Huffington Post/NYT/CNBC |   March 29, 2009 05:04 PM
UPDATE:
The Obama administration asked GM [...]

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Pinochet judge weighs criminal probe of Bush ‘torture lawyers’
Raw Story- Stephen C. Webster
Published: Saturday March 28, 2009
Spanish official says arrest warrants ‘highly probable’
Six Bush-era officials responsible for crafting the legal justifications permitting the military prison at Guantanamo Bay are the subject of a potential Spanish criminal probe which could place the men under serious [...]

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After 8 years of Republicans trashing the Constitution and illegally spying on Americans, now the GOP is suddenly worried about “rights”
AmericaBlog- by John Aravosis (DC) on 3/27/2009 09:00:00 AM
Gingrich and Hannity think America is hurtling towards socialism, or worse, dictatorship.
Funny that Gingrich and Hannity sure didn’t care when their Republican buddies [...]

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Afternoon Jukebox- Ironic

Alanis Morissette – Ironic

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Sudhan @17:30 CET

Erik Wallenberg wonders about the mix-up in Canada where the government allowed in a known war criminal, but kept out a leading opponent of war.
Socialist Worker, March 27, 2009

George Galloway speaking at a 2008 protest of George W. Bush’s visit to London (Davide Simonetti)
IT SEEMS that the Canadian government, and the immigration ministry [...]

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Hmm, interesting concept* wonder if there is anyone out there who will notice. I will be participating, always the optimist when it comes to group think, and I hope that the participation is 100%. If our troubled old planet is being observed from other lifeforms in our galaxy an event like this might get their [...]

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Art Imitates Life

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We can make over 25,000 things with it. Farmers love it. Environmentalists love it. You can’t get high from it. So why is it still illegal?

By Dara Colwell, AlterNet. Posted March 26, 2009.
While Uncle Sam’s scramble for new revenue sources has recently kicked up the marijuana debate — to legalize and tax, or not? — [...]

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This Crisis Is Way Bigger Than Dead Banks and Wall Street Bailouts

By James Galbraith, Washington Monthly. Posted March 23, 2009.
Why the economic crisis, and its solution, are bigger than anyone has so far admitted.

Barack Obama’s presidency began in hope and goodwill, but its test will be its success or [...]

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By Matthew Rothschild | The Progressive,  March 25, 2009

President Obama needs to tell Attorney General Eric Holder to indict Dick Cheney, right now, for war crimes.
Just look at the statute, Title 18 of the U.S. Criminal Code, Section 2441. It says that someone is guilty of a war crime if he or she commits [...]

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Cities Deal With Surge In Shantytowns
HuffPo/New York Times |  JESSE McKINLEY   |   [...]

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