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Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: 1021, 5th Amendment, black sites, government, indefinite detention, NDAA, politics, power grab, traitorous, traitors, unconstitutional, United States Constitution, vile
The indefinite detention provision of the NDAA was struck down by a judge recently for being “facially unconstitutional,” after Administration lawyers could not assure the judge that the U.S. government would not indefinitely detain peaceful dissidents. Judge Forrest noted: “At the hearing on this motion, the government was unwilling or unable to state that these plaintiffs would not be subject to indefinite detention under [section] 1021. Plaintiffs are therefore at risk of detention, of losing their liberty, potentially for many years.” Who voted for this steaming sack of authoritarian anti-Constitutional garbage in the first place?
In Congress:
http://votesmart.org/bill/votes/37467
In the Senate:
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: After Austerity, austerity, euro, Europe, eurozone, fiscal prudence, fraud, fraudtastic, fraudtastic financial crisis, government, Greece, Ireland, joe stiglitz, migration area, Nobel Prize, optimal currency area, politics, Spain, Stiglitz, the austerity fairy, the confidence fairy
Pretty good little essay here from Joe Stiglitz.
[…]
Europe’s single-minded focus on austerity is a result of a misdiagnosis of its problems. Greece overspent, but Spain and Ireland had fiscal surpluses and low debt-to-GDP ratios before the crisis. Giving lectures about fiscal prudence is beside the point. Taking the lectures seriously – even adopting tight budget frameworks – can be counterproductive. Regardless of whether Europe’s problems are temporary or fundamental – the eurozone, for example, is far from an “optimal” currency area, and tax competition in a free-trade and free-migration area can erode a viable state – austerity will make matters worse.
[…]
http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/after-austerity
Just listening to the news you’d think Spain and Ireland were deeply in debt prior to the fraudtastic financial crisis, but no.
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