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Late Breaking News - Arrest Made in Times Square Bomb Case
Federal agents and police detectives arrested a Connecticut man, a naturalized United States citizen from Pakistan, early Tuesday in connection with the failed Times Square car bombing, according to people briefed on the investigation.
The New York Times - By William K. Rashbaum, Mark Mazzetti and Peter Baker - May 4, 2010
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NEW - Video | Bill Mayer Slams Companies After Gulf Coast Oil Spill - May 1, 2010
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US | Murphy's Law and the Stupidity of Obama's Drill, Drill, Drill Offshore Oil Policy
Truthout - By Dave Lindorf - Thursday 29 April 2010
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British Petroleum had a fail-safe system for it's Deepwater Horizon floating deep-water drilling rig. You know, the one that blew up and sank in the Gulf of Mexico, leaving a tangled spaghetti pile of 22-inch steel pipe one mile long, all balled up on the sea floor a mile below the surface, and that is leaking oil at 42,000 gallons per day ... so far.

The thing is, the fail-safe system, about the size of a McMansion sitting at the wellhead on the ocean floor, um, failed. It didn't collapse and shut off the flow of oil as intended, and it could take months now to shut the well down - during which time the leak rate is likely to increase to up to 300,000 gallons per day, or over two million gallons a week.

President Obama claimed last month that off-shore drilling technology had become so advanced that oil spills and blowouts were a thing of the past. Of course, as he said this, Australia and Indonesia were still assessing the damage from a similar offshore oil platform, the Montana, in the Timor Sea, which blew out and poured millions of gallons of oil into the ocean off Western Australia for over three months before it could be sealed off.

Murphy's Law: Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.

Gulf oil spill at Deepwater Horizon threatens $8bn clean-up and an ecological oil slick disaster for the US
This was the catastrophe that BP insisted could never happen. Now they call it 'unprecedented'
The Observer - By Robert McKie - May 2, 2010
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Twelve months ago BP dismissed the possibility that a catastrophic accident could happen at its offshore rig Deepwater Horizon, it emerged yesterday. An exploration plan and environmental impact analysis for the well, produced by the company in 2009, concluded that it was virtually impossible for there to be a giant crude oil spill from it.

Gulf oil spill swiftly balloons
Toronto Sun _ By Allen G. Breed and Seth Borenstein / AP - May 1, 2010
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VENICE, La. — A sense of doom settled over the American coastline from Louisiana to Florida on Saturday as a massive oil slick spewing from a ruptured well kept growing, and experts warned that an uncontrolled gusher could create a nightmare scenario if the Gulf Stream carries it toward the Atlantic. President Barack Obama planned to visit the region Sunday to assess the situation amid growing criticism that the government and oil company BP PLC should have done more to stave off the disaster. Meanwhile, efforts to stem the flow and remove oil from the surface by skimming it, burning it or spiking it with chemicals to disperse it continued with little success.

Whistleblower: BP Risks More Massive Catastrophes in Gulf
Truthout - By Jason Leopold - April30, 2010
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A former contractor who worked for British Petroleum (BP) claims the oil conglomerate broke federal laws and violated its own internal procedures by failing to maintain crucial safety and engineering documents related to one of the firms other deepwater production projects in the Gulf of Mexico, according to internal emails and other documents obtained by Truthout.

Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Impact: Get Involved
The Huffington Post - May 1, 2010
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Now that the oil spill in the gulf coast has reached land, the effects are being felt in towns and cities across the area -- this is in addition the local wildlife in both the land and sea that are dying by the thousands. HuffPost Impact has compiled a list of ways you can help contribute to the cleanup and save local wildlife. Thanks to CrisisWiki for compiling this information.
See above link for volunnteer organizations involved.

Breaking News

Video | Copy Machines, a Security Risk?
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US |Goldman Sachs 'facing criminal inquiry'
Goldman Sachs has been accused of defrauding investors. Goldman Sachs shares fell almost 10% amid reports it was under criminal investigation for the way it sold complex mortgage-backed products to clients.
BBC News - April 30, 2010
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Racism Spills Out of the Southwest Desert and Pollutes the American Environment

Arizona: This Is What Apartheid Looks Like
Truthout - By Roberto Cintli Rodriguez - Wednesday 28 April 2010
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Those who think there's an immigration crisis in Arizona are correct. However, this is but part of the story. The truth is, a civilizational clash is being played out in the same state in which the state legislature questions the birthplace and legitimacy of President Barack Obama and where Sen. John McCain competes with Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth to see who is the most anti-immigrant.

It is also the same state that several years ago denied a holiday for Martin Luther King Jr., and that today permits virtually anyone - on the basis of trumped-up fear - to carry concealed weapons anywhere.

Welcome to Apartheid Arizona.

Calls to boycott Arizona grow over new immigration law
Los Angeles Times - By Anna Gorman and Nicholas Riccardi - April 28, 2010
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White House considers a legal challenge, and some political leaders call for an economic boycott to protest the law that makes it a crime to be in Arizona illegally.

Op-Ed | By the Time I Get to Arizona
Truthout - By William Rivers Pitt - Thursday 29 April 2010
An Illuminating Read for Every American / Or, alternatively, listen to author William Rivers Pitt read his column on quasi-'American Nazism'
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Rap and hip-hop have never been my cup of tea, for the most part. But ever since the governor of Arizona put pen to paper and officially designated every brown-skinned person in the state to be criminally suspicious the moment they walk out their door, an old Public Enemy song has been running through my head.

I'm countin' down to the day deservin'
Fittin' for a king
I'm waitin' for the time when I can
Get to Arizona ...

Pima County Sheriff Calls Arizona LawStupid - Will Not Enforce It
The Huffington Post - By Jason Linkins - April 28, 2010
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Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, who I am assuming is something of a master of the "complex and demanding craft of policing" seeing as how he's been a policeman for over five decades, . . . called the law "racist" and "disgusting" and "stupid" and, in his "nuanced judgment" could not be enforced without mandatory racial profiling. Dupnik's reckoning of the legal issue is that he's just as likely to be sued for racial profiling as he is for not doing enough racial profiling, so he's standing pat, and will not enforce the new law.

Arizona Ethnic Studies Classes Banned, Teachers With Accents Can No Longer Teach English
The Huffington Post - April 30, 2010
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Arizona's new immigration law is just about crime, its supporters say, but given that the state's new education policy equates ethnic studies programs with high treason, they may not be using the commonly accepted definition of "crime."

Under the ban, sent to Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer by the state legislature Thursday, schools will lose state funding if they offer any courses that "promote the overthrow of the U.S. government, promote resentment of a particular race or class of people, are designed primarily for students of a particular ethnic group or advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the treatment of pupils as individuals."

As Think Progress notes, the Tucson Unified School District's popular Mexican-American studies department is the target here. The state superintendent charges that the program exhibits "ethnic chauvinism."

Meanwhile, in a move that was more covert until the Wall Street Journal uncovered it, the Arizona Department of Education has told schools that teachers with "heavy" or "ungrammatical" accents are no longer allowed to teach English classes.

Editor - Would this disqualify individuals with a strong Brooklynese accents? Would this exclude a Scotsman/woman with a heavy brogue - [ a marked accent, esp. Irish or Scottish, when speaking English? ] Probably. Just what is a "heavy" or "ungrammatical" accent? ( A beautiful contradiction there.) What the hell is an "ungrammatical" accent anyway? Brookllynites, don't expect an English teaching job in Arizona. Only that heavily accented southwestern 'twang' will do if some certification board will actually accept it as an 'official English sound. Lesson: Get the bureacrats and politicians out of the business of establishing rules regarding English usage. And why not go all the way and forbid the use of Spanish words now universally employed in English? -- and, for example rename Santa Fe what? -- Holy Faith? -- or Los Angeles 'The Angels". Or Las Vegas 'The Plains".

The Roman Catholic Church

Op-Ed | For Those With Ears to Hear
Truthout - By: Davidson Loehr - Friday, April 30, 2010
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I want to offer another perspective on the escalating scandal within the Catholic Church, and to alert readers to a good recent essay on these sordid topics. In "The Pattern of Priestly Sex Abuse," Harriet Fraad offers some important data many of us didn't know.

Figures from the John Jay School of Criminal Justice, for example, estimate that since 1950, about 280,000 children have been sexually abused by Catholic clergy and deacons. With the shame and denial that accompany sexual abuse, the real number must be much higher. Worse, this is not just a recent phenomenon. Father Thomas Doyle, a priest, and Richard Sipes and Patrick Wall, former monks, have written that the Catholic Church has recognized the problem of abuse by priests for 2,000 years. Their book, "Sex, Priests and Secret Codes: The Catholic Church's 2000 Year Paper Trail of Sexual Abuse" (Volt Press, 2006) was based on the church's own documents.

The Vatican | Pope may face charges at US court
Press TV - April 26, 2010
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The US Supreme Court may take legal action against the Pope over allegations that he conspired to conceal sex abuse charges brought against a Wisconsin priest. A case lodged by an alleged sex abuse victim has brought certain documents to prosecutors' attention that suggest the current Pope, who was then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, and two other officials, conspired to keep the case secret because the accused was a major church fundraiser.

The documents emerged when the claimant, identified as "John Doe 16" of Illinois, sued the Pope and the Vatican for taking no action against a priest who faced accusations of molesting 200 deaf boys at a Wisconsin school.

Pope Accused Of Protecting Paedophile Priest
The Pope has been accused of refusing to throw out a paedophile priest so he could protect the reputation of the Catholic church.
Sky News - By Carole Erskine - April 10, 2010
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Opinion | Commentary | Editorials | Op-Eds | Polls

Commentary | Beginning of the end for Afghan war?
The war has dragged on long after the public turned against it – but a rebellion in the US Congress could speed our exit.
The Guardian - By Mark Weisbrot - Friday 23 April 2010
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Op-Ed | How Wall Street Creates Socialists
Truthout - By E.J. Dionne Jr. - Thursday 29 April 2010
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Washington - Goldman may face SEC charges, but it's the entirety of our deregulated financial system that's on trial. In this new order, the inventiveness of our entrepreneurs goes not only into creating products that actually enhance our lives (from refrigerators to laptops to iPods) but also into fashioning "absolutely conceptual and highly theoretical" financial products whose main function is to enrich a very small number of well-placed people.

Does it make sense to have investment houses playing the role of "market makers" peddling financial junk with one hand that they then bet against with the other? Let's assume for the sake of argument that this is perfectly legal. The real question is: Why should it be?

Editor - What is so sacrosanct about laws anyway? They get put on the public record and taken off the public record as circumstances and shifts in societal thinking dictate. If they no longer serve the judgment of society, kaboom, they become historical artefacts and relics. Regarding existing financial sector regulation issues, we're now at the 'ka'stage as current ones are no longer relevant. Result: the 'boom'stage is just over the horizon, 'boys'.

Wisdom of the Common Man | A Black Panther and a Goldman Sachs Banker Walk Into a Bakery ...
Truthout - By Andrew Birnbaum - Wednesday 28 April 2010
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Black Panther George Jackson wrote about black men imprisoned for "some form of food getting." If these men were seeking a necessity, what were the Goldman Sachs bankers seeking when they contributed to the economy's collapse?

The Securities and Exchange Commission (where I once worked) is prosecuting some form of civil charges against Goldman Sachs. But will any bankers face criminal charges? There is an old saying to the effect that a single murder is awful, but a thousand murders is completely acceptable (if you call it "war"). Similarly, stealing a loaf of bread from a bakery will get you thrown in jail, but bankrupting a thousand bakers will not.

Poll - US | Blacks Show New Trust In U.S. Government
NPR - By Cheryl Corley - April 29, 2010
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The number of African-Americans who say they trust the U.S. government is nearly twice the number of whites who say that. The finding, from a recent poll on trust in America, is a sharp turnaround from previous years.

US | Opinion | State of Disgrace: The Right Fiddles While Arizona Burns
Truthout - By Randall Amster J.D., Ph.D. - Friday 30 April 2010
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It's getting hot here in Arizona these days, and summer isn't even upon us yet. As you've most likely heard, the Republican-controlled State Legislature passed - and the Republican governor signed - the nation's most draconian anti-immigrant law, essentially creating a class of new "status crimes" and opening a Pandora's box of racial profiling implications. While to many of us who live here such sentiments among state officials aren't exactly novel, the shocking "where are your papers?" aspects of the law (SB 1070) have raised a much-deserved national furor.

As is almost always the case, there's more to this than meets the eye. Yes, this is part of an ideologically-motivated and racially-tinged platform embraced by many in power here. In addition to perpetual anti-immigrant bills being proposed and sometimes passed, this cadre has been targeting education through severe budget cuts and a form of pedagogical purification in which it will quite likely soon be illegal to teach anything that is deemed "anti-American" (HB 2281). Apparently, the irony of passing these two bills in near succession must be lost on those who would contravene constitutional law and moral sensibility in the name of American purity.

Op-Ed | Ending the Slavery Blame-Game
The New York Times - By Henry Louis Gates - April 22, 2010
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"The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan affect every living American well beyond the impact of the flesh-and-blood conflicts we occasionally see on TV. The issue of who is still getting rich off those wars, how our society has been wired to blindly support a permanent state of war, and why we hear so little about these all-consuming matters, remain deeply pressing and of deadly importance.
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"Bill Moyers, Jim Hightower, Molly Ivins, Ann Richards are/were National Treasures! Interestingly enough, they all came from Texas, which is about as counter-intuitive as it gets. [ Correction - Moyers was from Oklahoma.]
Nevertheless, there it is."

"Corporate power . . . refers to the enormous amount of money and other resources those few thousand people have at their disposal, and which they wield with regard only for increasing/extending/expanding their control over governments and populations. They are essentially psychopaths, and their goals and operational strategies are anti-democratic, anti-American, anti-working people, and are essentially the embodiment of Thanatos -- the evil death-wish. Left to their own devices, they will, in their blind greed and avarice, destroy the entire planet, including themselves."
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United States Government

"In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress." -- John Adams

"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself." -- Mark Twain
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog." -- Mark Twain

US | Court Video Game Case: Supreme Court To Decide If California Can Regulate Games
The Huffington Post - By Jesse J. Holland - April 26, 2010
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will decide whether free speech rights are more important than helping parents keep violent material away from children. However, the judge who wrote the decision overturning the law said at the time that there was no research showing a connection between violent video games and psychological harm to young people.

Editor - Really? How many laws already on the books were passed without research proof and have not been found unconstitutional / illegal? A good many no doubt. How about common sense as justification?

Congressmen Demand an Afghanistan Exit Strategy
The Nation - Posted by Katrina vanden Heuvel - April 26, 2010
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Democratic Congressman Jim McGovern, Republican Congressman Walter Jones, and Democratic Senator Russ Feingold have introduced legislation demanding an exit strategy and timetable for withdrawal from Afghanistan. The bill reads, "Military operations in Afghanistan have cost American taxpayers more than $200,000,000,000 in deficit spending since 2001." Over 1000 American soldiers have been killed and more than 5,600 wounded. In 2009 alone, 2400 Afghan civilians were killed according to the UN, and tens of thousands have lost their lives since the war began.

"Basically, what the bill is is a rejection of an open-ended military commitment in Afghanistan," said Rep. McGovern, on a conference call with NGOs, activists, and media organized by Peace Action last week. "This bill is a signal to the President that we want him to come up with an exit strategy, and we want the details."

US | Opinion - Beginning of the end for Afghan war?
The war has dragged on long after the public turned against it – but a rebellion in the US Congress could speed our exit.
The Guardian - By Mark Weiisbrot - April 23, 2010
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Congress Is Abdicating Its Authority on Wars
Roll Call - By Stephen R. Weissman -April 26, 2010
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One reason for the current confusion over U.S. policy toward the Karzai government in Afghanistan is that U.S. decision-making has not been the result of a meaningful democratic process. This silence is amazing because it is widely accepted that past administrations, acting without Congressional input, made huge mistakes in America’s last two major wars. And these eventually proved devastating to the parties in power.

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News

US | An Homage to A Life: The Invaluable Legacy of Willard Wirtz
Truthout - Op-Ed - By: Dick Meister - Sunday, May 2, 2010
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Never has there been a greater champion of US workers than former Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, who died on April 24 at 98. Certainly, in more than a half-century of covering labor, I've never met anyone more dedicated - or more effective - in winning and preserving vital protections for working people.

Lebanese Rally Calls for Secularism
Al jazeera - April 25, 2010
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Thousands of protestors have gathered in Beirut to demand a separation of politics and religion in Lebanon. The demonstrators marched on parliament on Sunday chanting "secularism" and waving placards calling for the recognition of civil marriage in the Mediterranean country.

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Action

US | Urge Your Senators to Support Strong Climate and Energy Bill Now
Environmental Defense Fund -Current
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US - Stop Racial Profiling - Tell Arizona's Governor that SB 1070 is wrong
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A new Arizona law makes racial profiling legal and means that police will stop and question people for no other reason than that they are brown-skinned or speak Spanish. It's wrong. Our community knows all too well what it's like when police treat an entire community as potential criminals based on skin color and prejudiced assumptions. Please join Color of Change in telling Gov. Brewer of Arizona, President Obama and Secretary of Homeland Security Napolitano that racial profiling is wrong, no matter who it targets.

US | Urge Your Reps to Support a Timetable for Withdrawal from Afghanistan
Just Foreign Policy - Current
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US | Say No to Mandate for GE Crop Research
Contact your Senators and tell them to oppose the Global Food Security Act until the clause mandating support for GE crop research is removed.
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Arts & Culture

Musicians mix Coldplay and Taylor Swift together - Enjoy
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Dance Video | MICA | "Blame It On The Girls"
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Musical Video | Neville Brothers - Yellow Moon
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Out of the Hills | Jesus Is Coming Soon -The Oak Ridge Boys
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Music Video | "Democracy Is Coming to the USA" - Leonard Cohen
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Opinion | NYC | Mayor Bloomberg vs Artists: The Battle for the Soul of New York City
Truthout - By Brendan Smith - Friday, April 30, 2010
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Last week a bubbly woman from Ohio stopped by our table in Union Square. "This is why I love coming to New York!" she explained as she flipped through our silkscreens. "Everywhere else I go, it's the same imported crap in the stores. But out here, I can meet local artists making art with their own hands."

Well, not for long...

Mayor Bloomberg's legal henchmen have unilaterally issued an administrative ruling effectively barring most art from New York's City's parks. Under the false guise of "public safety" and "congestion" they've crafted a complex set of rules banning 80-90% of artists from even displaying their work in Columbus Circle, Union Square Park and any other public park in Manhattan. The rules range from permitting only four artists to set up in Columbus Circle to barring artists from coming within fifty feet of a monument or five feet from a garbage can.

The effect of the de-facto art ban, according to the Associated Press, is to "dramatically alter a colorful part of the cityscape that has for decades served as an outdoor gallery popular among tourists in a city known worldwide for its arts.

Communities and Species

Fears for crops as shock figures from America show scale of bee catastrophe
The world may be on the brink of biological disaster after news that a third of US bee colonies did not survive the winter.
The Guardian / The Observer - By Alison Benjamin - Sunday 2 May 2010
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Constitutional snd Legal Issues

US | Supreme Court Accepts Free Speech Challenge to Ban on Violent Video Games
ABA Journal - By Debra Cassens Weiss - April 26, 2010
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The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether California’s ban on the sale and rental of violent video games to minors violates the First Amendment. The court granted cert today, according to stories in Reuters, Bloomberg and the Associated Press. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had overturned the law, saying the state did not produce enough evidence showing the harmful effects of the games.

Corruption, Criminality and Questional Practices in the Corpocracy

The Toxic Relationship Between Government and Corporate America . . . and Beyond

What Is "White Collar Crime"?
Expert Law - Current
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Controlling Corporate Criminality: Penal Sanctions and Beyond
First Published in Web Journal of Current Legal Issues in association with Blackstone Press Ltd. - By James Gobert, Professor of Law, University of Essex
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Economy and Finance

"I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle." -- Winston Churchill

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." -- Ronald Reagan (1986)

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US States Consider Starting Their Own Banks
Truthout / Inter Press Service - By Matthew Cardinale - Friday 30 April 2010
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Atlanta, Georgia - At least eight U.S. states are considering proposals to start state-run banks in the wake of an economic crisis where many private banks ceased or greatly decreased their lending, literally shrinking the money pool available in state economies.

Economist Ellen Brown, author of "Web of Debt", has been writing commentaries on various websites and runs a Google Group that has been pushing the idea of state-run banks for a couple of years, efforts which she says have made a lot of state legislators aware that a state-run bank was even a possibility.

North Dakota is the only one out of the 50 U.S. states that is still operating with a fiscal surplus, and some economists argue it is in part due to the state-owned Bank of North Dakota - the only bank of its kind in the U.S. - which has been able to pump money into its own economy by making loans to farmers, small businesses and families.

Numerous states are beginning to consider the idea of starting their own bank, since the issuance of credit is one of the main ways that money enters the economy.

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