Lee Camp: U.S. Prepares to Attack Iran to Assure Dominance of the U.S. Dollar

There are many illegitimate reasons for the U.S. to have begun killing people in the Middle East.  They include bigotry, control of oil and a Middle East country's resistance to U.S. imperialism.   Lee Camp offers another reason, the dominance of the U.S. dollar.  He argues that this factor has been behind the U.S. attacks of Libya and Iraq, and it is the reason the U.S. is now posturing to attack Iran.  See the first 11 minutes of a recent episode of Lee Camp's Redacted Tonight. One might wonder how difficult it would be to drum up a fake excuse to start a war in the U.S. It's not difficult, once the President decides to go to war behind closed doors.  This is a time-tested prescription, addressed in the video "War Made Easy." Chris Hedges discusses the intoxicating attraction of war:

The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we long for in life. It can give us purpose, meaning, a reason for living. Only when we are in the midst of conflict does the shallowness and vapidness of much of our lives become apparent. Trivia dominates our conversations and increasingly our airwaves. And war is an enticing elixir. It gives us resolve, a cause. It allows us to be noble.

Therefore, it's not going to be difficult for the U.S. to publicly justify a war with Iran, especially given the detached electorate, given the U.S. public's distaste for all things Muslim and the warmongers President Trump has gathered as his primary advisors.

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God gives up on Human Project

“I feel like I’ve kind of hit a wall with humanity and this is probably as far as it can go, but I have some exciting new ideas for rocks and birds that I’m really looking forward to exploring,” said The Creator of All Things, adding that He felt human beings had “pretty much run their course” at this point before explaining His intention to give promising rocks such as sandstone and gneiss the consideration they deserve and finally furnish birds with the longer beaks He previously did not have the opportunity to bring into being.

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Conflicting copyright instructions from legal research company

Thomson Reuters (formerly West Publishing) sent me a DVD with Missouri Jury Instructions today. The DVD comes with a document called "Forms on Disc Guide." That document gives me the following advice:

Although you may access the forms directly from the disc, we recommend you create a directory on your hard drive and copy the contents of the disc into that directory. The forms can then be accessed from your hard drive and the disc can be kept with the book for safe keeping.
Sounds like good advice. But wait! The Copyright Notice, another document on the same DVD, contains this warning:
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Therefore, Thomson is 1) telling me to copy its jury instruction forms onto my hard drive AND 2) telling me that if I have "copied" or "downloaded" this information on my "retrieval system" I would be in violation of copyright laws, unless I have first obtained "prior written permission" from Thomson Reuters. This second warning is especially silly in that the whole purpose of having jury instruction "Forms" is to copy them as part of the process of using those forms to prepare jury instructions, and then "transmitting" those instructions to a court and other attorneys for use at trial. All of this not carefully thought out by one of the world premier providers of legal products to lawyers.

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