Marklar's Blog – April 2009 Archive (10)

The Last Great Swine Flu Epidemic

"This virus will kill 1 million Americans," declared the U.S. in 1976. The panic then has a lot to teach us today.

By Patrick Di Justo

Apr. 28, 2009 "Salon" ---

There is evidence there will be a major flu epidemic this coming fall. The indication is that we will see a return of the 1918 flu virus that is the most virulent form of the flu. In 1918 a half million Americans died. The projections are that this… Continue

Added by Marklar on April 29, 2009 at 11:00pm — No Comments

What They Craved - Torture Used to Try to Link Saddam with 9/11

By MARJORIE COHN

When I testified last year before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties about Bush interrogation policies, Congressman Trent Franks (R-Ariz) stated that former CIA Director Michael Hayden had confirmed that the Bush administration only waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Abu Zabaydah, and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashirit for… Continue

Added by Marklar on April 25, 2009 at 5:26am — No Comments

Guilty of Being Poor - the illegal return of the debtors prison.

by Eric Ruder / April 23rd, 2009

The jailers of the 19th century — even in the pre-Civil War South — largely abandoned the practice of imprisoning people for falling into debt as counterproductive and ultimately barbaric. In the 1970s and ’80s, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed that incarcerating people who can’t pay fines because of poverty violates the U.S. Constitution.

Apparently, though, some states and county jails never… Continue

Added by Marklar on April 23, 2009 at 9:38pm — 3 Comments

Jane Harman: Angry, Partisan, Civil Liberties Extremist

Published on Wednesday, April 22, 2009 by Salon.com

by Glenn Greenwald

Blue Dog Rep. Jane Harman -- once the most vigorous Democratic cheerleader of Bush's NSA warrantless eavesdropping program -- is rip-roarin' angry today. Apparently, her private conversations were eavesdropped on by the U.S. Government! This is a grave outrage that, as she told Andrea Mitchell just moments ago, demands a… Continue

Added by Marklar on April 22, 2009 at 9:19pm — 1 Comment

Bombshell: Rep. Jane Harman Caught on Tape Agreeing to Lobby for Alleged AIPAC/Israel Spies?

Alternet

Posted by Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports at 8:50 AM on April 20, 2009.

Harman was allegedly heard saying she'd 'waddle into' the AIPAC case in return for support for her bid to become chair of the Intelligence Committee.

This is a huge story:… Continue

Added by Marklar on April 20, 2009 at 10:12pm — 2 Comments

Standing up to Starbucks

Dissident Voice

by Adam Turl / April 18th, 2009

When Bank of America hosted a conference call to discuss how to defeat the Employee Free Choice Act, one executive used a new formulation: “the Starbucks problem.”

His worry: workers might follow the example of Starbucks baristas and form their own unions without waiting for bigger “traditional” unions to organize them.

In the past five… Continue

Added by Marklar on April 19, 2009 at 7:30pm — 1 Comment

The Financial War Against Iceland

Marklar >>> Why should we care about Iceland? No particular reason accept that it helps to see examples of how the bankers deal with other impoverished nations both historically and currently in order to see how they will be dealing with us now and in the near future. If you are already familiar with the operations of the World Bank and the IMF none of this will be a big surprise to you as it pretty much follows bankster SOP. If… Continue

Added by Marklar on April 13, 2009 at 9:09am — No Comments

Murder Trumps Torture Says Bugliosi

An Interview with Vincent Bugliosi

Dissident Voice

by Michael Collins / April 8th, 2009

April 7, WASHINGTON, DC — The legendary Los Angeles County prosecutor and top selling true crime author, Vincent Bugliosi, continues to make the case that he argued in detail in his New York Times bestseller, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder.… Continue

Added by Marklar on April 11, 2009 at 10:30pm — No Comments

The Crash of '09, The Collapse of '10

By Humayun Gauhar

April 07, 2009 "The Nation" --- Many American analysts are saying that America's real economic collapse could come by the end of this year. "It will come to be known as 'The Crash of 09', they say. Others, especially a… Continue

Added by Marklar on April 8, 2009 at 8:00pm — No Comments

The Smooth Criminal Transition from Bush/Cheney to Obama

Corrupt new administration deepens and expands systemic criminalization and war agenda

globalreasearch.ca

by Larry Chin

Marklar's Note: This article has many supportive links. Click Here to read the original article with… Continue

Added by Marklar on April 8, 2009 at 1:00am — No Comments