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By David Glenn Cox
The river of time cuts deeply into the banks, dictating course over current. What is today fresh, muddy ground, becomes tomorrow bedrock. When Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon after the Watergate scandal he said that he did so to end our long national nightmare. The nightmare was not ours but Richard Nixon’s. We, as Americans, had just witnessed our Constitution work as its founders had intended.
So what if a sick, old, politically disgraced man was allowed to go (…)

“The IDF...acted in violation of basic human values.” - Report of Physicians for Human Rights-Israel. (1)
One must praise the ability of Israel Worshippers to change the subject! As I write, the 1.5 million people of Gaza are barely existing under the heel of a brutal Israeli occupation and its most recent terror-driven siege. From Dec. 27, 2008 to Jan. 18, 2009, in a 22 day rampage, about 1,400 innocent Gazan civilians, many of them children—Christian and Muslim alike—were slaughtered by (…)

RON PAUL IS A FREAKING GENIUS
Ron does have a sense of humor. He introduced this one page bill that if enacted would destroy all the special interest groups, all the lobbyists, and reduce the power of Washington by 99%. Read it carefully. It is truly a classic. I love this guy.
111th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3396
To amend title 5, United States Code, to prohibit agencies from enforcing rules that result in a specified economic impact until the requirements of those rules are enacted (…)

Stiglitz Sees Risk to Dollar, Need for Reserve System (Update2)
By Shiyin Chen
Aug. 21 (Bloomberg) — The dollar’s role as a good store of value is “questionable” and the currency has a high degree of risk, said Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz.
“There is a need for a global reserve system,” Stiglitz, a Columbia University economics professor, said at a conference in Bangkok today. Support from countries like China should ensure orderly discussions on a new reserve system, (…)

Saudi families square up over $20bn ’fraud’
A Saudi billionaire with stakes in some of Britain’s biggest companies is at the centre of a multi-billion-dollar fraud that threatens to send financial shock-waves around the world, a New York judge will hear this week
By Louise Armitstead Published: 9:41PM BST 22 Aug 2009
Maan Al Sanea, the boss of the Saad Group, which owns 2.9pc of HSBC and a stake in Berkeley Group, is accused of embezzling $9.2bn (£5.6bn) from one of Saudi Arabia’s most (…)

Video: Media black out on civil unrest in central California
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSagkXuRLlE

NATIONAL MARCH FOR JOBS IN PITTSBURGH SUNDAY SEPT. 20 at G-20 Summit
A Global Week of Solidarity with the Unemployed JOBS OR INCOME NOW
September 20 - 25
(During the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh)
Yes to Jobs & Human Needs; No to War & Wall Street Greed
• Sunday, September 20 - Rally & March for a Real Jobs Program • Building a Tent City in Pittsburgh for the Unemployed & Supporters the weekend before the G-20 Summit • Organizing Caravans of Unemployed People (…)

Unemployment Edges Up to Great Depression Level
Kurt Nimmo, Infowars, August 22, 2009
Here is a chart released by the government that claims to show the percentage of unemployed people in the United States as of July, 2009. It is a fictional snapshot of the actual number of unemployed and under-employed people.
continue to read:
http://www.infowars.com/unemployment-edges-up-to-great-depression-level/

Lindsey Williams: Death of the Dollar within next four months
Video 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8vIhpYMBj4
Video 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnOWKkKRxV8
Video 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeryYIhJ0tk
Video 4:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-gv2Cn0KBw
Video 5:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUUD-_P4xPY&feature=related
Video 6:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v8OMWBoOQM&feature=related

Nouriel Roubin: No V-Shaped Recovery, Says Dr. Doom
Lawrence Delevingne Aug. 17, 2009
A "V" shaped comeback? Dr. Doom ain’t buying it.
Last week, Nouriel Roubini was slightly bullish, predicting a global recovery by the end of the year — with plenty of caveats. But today, with the markets down, the recession-caller and NYU economist is back to his signature pessimism:
Roubini/RGE: Today, 20 months into the US recession—a recession that became global in the summer of 2008 with a (…)