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To: bustersmith who wrote (27578)	6/30/2011 3:19:09 PM
From: Broken_Clock	5 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 119360

I'm not sure if you're aware of the salients facts here bustersmith. The US gov't is 100% owned and controlled by corporations. You really believe the Fed and US gov't are independent entities with the good of the common man being their preeminent goal? The Fed, President, Congress, USSC etc all the way down to your local city council are corrupt to the core and serve their masters at GS(et. al.) on bended knee. Here's another one you can research and put in with the "birther issue"....no one at the Fed saw a housing bubble, a bond bubble, a stock market bubble. No one in the federal gov't saw anything either. Not one witness to the biggest theft in history. Can you enlighten us as to who was charged with 'minding the store' regarding mortgage fraud during the non-housing bubble? Who was charged with lowering interest rates and decimating lending standards? This is a big task so you may want to munch on some calamari while thinking it over. Maybe a clue will come to you.

To: bustersmith who wrote (27578)	6/30/2011 3:45:22 PM
From: Broken_Clock	2 Recommendations Respond to of 119360

MONDAY, JUNE 27, 2011 distantocean.com Dead Americans could really help Obama with the Jewish vote! As I mentioned a few days ago, former CIA analyst and presidential briefer Ray McGovern reported that his administration sources have told him that "White House officials" were "perfectly willing to have the cold corpses of [Gaza flotilla] activists shown on American TV." On hearing this same report, former UK ambassador Craig Murray decided to look into it himself: ...I set my own diplomatic sources to work in Washington, without giving them any indication of Ray’s information. They came back with an independent report from a different source – close to Clinton rather than the White House – with exactly the same result of which Ray was warned. I was told that Obama will welcome an Israeli attack on the US ship, as giving him a chance to confirm his pro-Israeli credentials and improve his standing with AIPAC ahead of the Presidential election race. Fatalities would be "not a problem". There was no information that the Obama regime has quietly given Netanyahu a green light to attack the ship. But I strongly expect they will; by deniable means, of course. So there you have it: not only would Barack Obama be more than happy to let Israel kill a few US citizens, he's actually thinking it could "improve his standing with AIPAC" and help shore up his vulnerability with Jewish voters. Illustrating once again that no level of skepticism or cynicism is sufficient when it comes to this bloated bag of amoral ambition and self-regard. Regarding that last bit of speculation about a green light for Israel, by the way, Murray may have missed this quote from Hillary Clinton: There will be construction materials entering Gaza and we think that it’s not helpful for there to be flotillas that try to provoke actions by entering into Israeli waters and creating a situation in which the Israelis have the right to defend themselves. Got that? This is Obama's Secretary of State announcing, before anything has actually happened, that if Israel kills flotilla activists it will have done so in self-defense—preemptively rationalizing a foreign country's killing of American citizens. Short of a leaked memo saying "To: Israel, Re: Flotilla, Kill as many as you want. Love and kisses, Hillary", the lights don't get much greener than that. The lesser of two evils, ladies and gentlemen. ADDING: Jonathan Schwarz points out that since around 25% of the passengers on the U.S. boat will be Jewish, the title could also be "Dead Americans Jews could really help Obama with the Jewish vote!" And given that one of those Jews is Hedy Epstein I suppose it could also be "Dead Holocaust survivors could really help Obama with the Jewish vote!"—though at that point I fear we may be exceeding internationally recognized irony safety limits.

To: bustersmith who wrote (27578)	6/30/2011 4:43:59 PM
From: Broken_Clock	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 119360

Zer0 has completed another coverup. +++ Holder drops broader CIA torture probe to focus on two detainees rawstory.com By Stephen C. Webster Thursday, June 30th, 2011 -- 3:17 pm U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced Thursday that the Department of Justice was opening an investigation into the deaths of two prisoners who allegedly perished in the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) custody. The decision, however, means the end of a broader probe of the agency's use of torture during the Bush administration. Leon Panetta, the outgoing CIA director who's slated to lead the Department of Defense, praised the decision and expressed relief to reporters "that the broader inquiries are behind us." He added that "our primary responsibility is not to the past, but to the present and future threats to the nation."