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"Neither is it that US foreign policy is cruel because American leaders are cruel. It's that our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy establishment; it might as well be written into the job description. People capable of expressing a full human measure of compassion and empathy toward faraway powerless strangers - (let alone American soldiers - do not become president of the United States, or vice president, or secretary of state, or national security adviser or secretary of the treasury. Nor do they want to." From 'Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower' by William Blum

From "9-11, Six Years Later": "If one looks at the credentials of skeptics compared to the credentials of defenders of the official line, it is impossible to dismiss skeptics as kooks. There are many people with strong imaginations on the Internet, but serious skeptics stick to known facts, known violations of standard procedures and the laws of physics. The vast majority of the people who call skeptics "kooks" are themselves ignorant of physics and have little comprehension of the improbability that such an attack could succeed without either the complicity or complete failure of government agencies. " Paul Craig Roberts

"Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular? But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right." Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Kenneth Clarke: Put rogue bankers on trial - Telegraph

The justice secretary said that the UK’s track record on prosecuting financial crime was poor and that the work of the Serious Fraud Office should be reviewed.

Mr Clarke was commenting on the two scandals to rock the City this week. The rate-rigging scandal at Barclays has led to calls for a criminal investigation and the resignation of the bank’s chief executive Bob Diamond.

Taxpayer-backed Royal Bank of Scotland has also confirmed it was being investigated for manipulating the rates at which banks lend to each other, known as Libor.

Days later, an inquiry by the Financial Services Authority uncovered “serious failings” in the sale of complex financial products to small businesses.

The justice secretary said that if bankers were found to have breached the law, they should be brought to trial.

Kenneth Clarke: Put rogue bankers on trial - Telegraph.

June 30th, 2012 | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment |

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