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Paul Allen Sentenced To 40 Months Outrageous! Homeless Guy? Not So Much

Oli Garch outraged by a heavy 4 year sentence for 3 billion dollar mortgage fraudster... more

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Steve Rattner, MSNBC Analyst, got to pay a $10M fine for pension kickback scheme, others? JAIL!

Steve Rattner, former White house Car Czar and current MSNBC Economic Analyst only had... more

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Richard Davis, US Bank CEO & Golden Boy of Banking: Everyone is Breaking the Rules -- Get Over It!

Oli Garch applauds Richard Davis: CEO of US Bancorp, former Chairman of the Financial... more

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Occupy the court system! Legal inequality is our illness. Be the cure.

Too Big To Fail, white collar crime, sovereign immunity, bailouts, paid off... more

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Happy Halloween: The Vampires at Rio Tinto/Kennecott Minerals say Suck the Anishinaabe and the Environment

A "Suck You" Halloween Message from the Vampires at Rio Tinto/Kennecott... more

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Shades of Blue Glass Orb | Art BySilent Studio Blog

"Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows... more

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Ratio Em Cor de rosa Flumen | Art BySilent Studio Blog

"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in... more

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Clarence Thomas; Corporate owned, corrupt, sleazy, tax dodging sexual predator. His Lover Reflects On DC Life, Love, Law

The featured guest today, Sept. 22, on my MTL Washington Update radio show will be... more

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Runic | Art BySilent Studio Blog

"Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the... more

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Seed of Corruption | Art BySilent Studio Blog

"The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions,... more

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Insolitus per Res | Art BySilent Studio Blog

"Any ad consciously attended to is comical. Ads are not meant for conscious... more

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This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories - Issue 648

too much cash can corrupt cops Why do I feel like I just keep writing the same... more

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Blago Implies Obama is Corrupt; Wants Rahm to Testify at Next Trial

In a recent interview, Rod Blagojevich disclosed some interesting information...... more

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Give prosecution & suo motu powers to Lokayukta - Petition

Please give powers to the Karnataka lokayukta or kla to prosecute the corrupt... more

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Barack Obama’s Imperial Presidency « SpeakEasy

If there’s any one axiom that Barack Obama has epitomized, it’s that nobody, it seems, willingly cedes back power to its rightful source — even when that power was acquired illegally.

When the Democrats won the Congress in 2006, progressives demanded that Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid hold the Bush administration for its many sins, not least of them the seizure of power from both the legislative and judicial branches, with its use of illegal surveillance, its radical redefinition of the term “enemy combatant,” and its denial of civil liberties to whomever its leaders felt unworthy of such liberties — Constitution be damned.

I sat in a meeting the new speaker convened with a group of bloggers in 2007, listening to Nancy Pelosi make her case for why the Congress’s energies would be better spent working on bread-and-butter issues, including health-care reform. The thinking seemed to be that once the Congress got some good stuff done, the problems of the Bush imperial presidency would disappear with the subsequent election of a Democrat.

Would that it were so. It seemed a dubious proposition to me. If the Congress was unwilling to impeach Bush or hold war-crimes hearings, the very least it could do was to pass laws that would return power to the branches from which it originated. But that was not to be. And with that decision of inaction the Constitution was broken rather bad, in a way that Barack Obama, the constitutional law professor, seems quite content with.

While in a great many respects, Barack Obama is a far more reasonable and small-D democratic president than was George W. Bush, there’s not a lot of daylight between the two on the matter of executive power. As the nation’s chief executive, Barack Obama likes executive power very much, thank you.

Just look at his administration’s position on the holding of detainees at the American-run Bagram Prison in Afghanistan. The administration contends that habeas corpus extends to none of the detainees at Bagram — even those picked up outside of Afghanistan and shipped there deliberately to avoid allowing non-Afghan detainees rights they would otherwise be entitled to. Bagram, as a war-zone facility, is not required to accord such rights to its denizens; the American obligation to the Bagram detainees begins and ends with the Geneva Conventions, and there are serious doubt as to whether the treatment of the Bagram prisoners meets the basic international standard for the treatment of prisoners of war.

Last month, a federal appeals court upheld the administration’s position, overturning an earlier decision by a lower court. As described by the New York Times editorial board:

What makes the ruling especially distressing is that the extravagant claim of executive power upheld by the court — to create a law-free zone at the Bagram lockup — was dreamed up by Mr. Bush and subsequently embraced by President Obama. The appellate court ruled that there was no right to federal court review for the detainees, who say they were captured outside of Afghanistan, far from any battlefield, and then shipped to Bagram to be held indefinitely in harsh conditions.

As the world continues to become unglued by crisis upon crisis, progressives would do well to step back momentarily and come up with a plan for restoring the Constitution. Without that, any and all national progress will rest on the whim of the chief executive, whomever he or she shall be.If there’s any one axiom that Barack Obama has epitomized, it’s that... more

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RAW FOOTAGE: US SLAUGHTER IRAQI CIVILIANS

Collateral Murder WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting... more

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Very Simple, President Barack Obama is a Liar

Obama is at it again, well he never actually stopped lying.

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Time magazine has acknowledged...

Although the 9/11 truth movement was long ignored by the U.S. government and the... more

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Little Dictator

In countries with a civil and democratic government a leader would not dare to use... more

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” King of Pork” Rep. John Murtha, Iraq War Critic, Dead at 77…amid Ethics Probes..VIDEO

HARRISBURG, Pa. – U.S. Rep. John Murtha, an influential critic of the Iraq War... more

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