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by David Swanson
The official story is that Spain has decided not to prosecute Bush’s torture lawyers. Yet the known facts suggest something else entirely...
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/n...

A ’Copper Standard’ for the world’s currency system?
Hard money enthusiasts have long watched for signs that China is switching its foreign reserves from US Treasury bonds into gold bullion. They may have been eyeing the wrong metal. By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Last Updated: 2:41PM BST 16 Apr 2009
China’s State Reserves Bureau (SRB) has instead been buying copper and other industrial metals over recent months on a scale that appears to go beyond the usual rebuilding of stocks for (…)

by Chris Floyd
I have little to say at the moment on details of the Bush torture memos released by the Obama Administration, beyond what I have been saying for many years now about these sickening practices, and what they say about America’s bipartisan, imperial elite, which countenanced them, and often openly championed them...
http://www.uruknet.info?p=53484

6002 04/13/2009 America Has Lost Its Moral Compass, Again: An Open to My Fellow Citizens Sam Hamod, Ph.D. I write this open letter with sadness at how far our country has fallen from what it claims to be. This is not to say that we have ever or always truly lived up to our stated ideals as a nation, but things are worse than ever at this time. To be frank, our national and international priorities are wrong, they are upside down. We have lost our moral compass, again...
We have so many (…)

Goldman Sachs hires law firm to shut blogger’s site
Goldman Sachs is attempting to shut down a dissident blogger who is extremely critical of the investment bank, its board members and its practices.
Continue to read:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/5137489/Goldman-Sachs-hires-law-firm-to-shut-bloggers-site.html

Bombing for Peace is Like Fucking for Virginity
All is good :)

Somalia: You Are Being Lied to About Pirates
by Johann Hari
Global Research, April 15, 2009 The Independent
Who imagined that in 2009, the world’s governments would be declaring a new War on Pirates? As you read this, the British Royal Navy - backed by the ships of more than two dozen nations, from the US to China - is sailing into Somalian waters to take on men we still picture as parrot-on-the-shoulder pantomime villains. They will soon be fighting Somalian ships and even chasing the (…)

History ignored yields history repeated and the continuing horrendous carnage of 16 million global avoidable deaths annually from deprivation (3.7 million in India, 5.3 million in South Asia, 6.4 million in non-Arab Africa) is simply due to an Apocalyptic quartet of violence, deprivation, disease and LYING.
Western Mainstream media, politician and academic lying about the First World-complicit Global Avoidable Mortality Holocaust and current Western atrocities in the Occupied Palestinian, (…)

ONE WORLD, ONE MONEY?
Creation of the euro, among other developments, has increasingly focused attention on the question of fixed exchange rates versus flexible exchange rates. Even in Canada, seminars and conferences have been held exploring the subject. Would a global move toward fixed exchange rates, including currency blocs, be a good idea or not?
Milton Friedman: Discussion of this issue requires replacing the dichotomy fixed or flexible by a trichotomy:
1. hard fixed (e.g., (…)

FOOD MATTERS: Prevent Illness, Reverse Disease & Maintain Optimal Health... Naturally.
BY HUW GRIFFITHS
Medical and health care systems have always been among the great bastions of Western civilisation, something that, if all else failed, we look to as proof that we, the people of the West, are the most cared for and technologically protected people that science and money can buy. This was my general understanding for a period of my life that lasted until I was more or less in my (…)