Guest Post: Is the NDAA Lawsuit Headed to the Supreme Court?
By Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg
The NDAA lawsuit is one of the key topics I have written about over the past year or so. For those of you that aren’t up to speed, one of the most popular posts I ever wrote was NDAA: The Most Important Lawsuit in American History that No One is Talking About. Basically, Section 1021 of the NDAA allows for the indefinite detention of American citizens without charges or a trial. Journalist Chris Hedges and several others sued Obama on the grounds of it being unconstitutional. Judge Katherine Forrest agreed and issued an injunction on it. This was immediately appealed by the Obama Administration to a higher court, which promptly issued a temporary stay on the injunction.
Yesterday, oral arguments began in front of this aforementioned higher court; the 2nd Circuit. As Chris Hedges states in the interview below, if they win the case then it will likely be brought in front of the Supreme Court within weeks. On the other hand, if the Obama Administration wins and the Supreme Court refuses to hear the appeal, Hedges states: “at that point we’ve just become a military dictatorship.”
To get a full update on the progress of the NDAA lawsuit make sure to watch this video.
Mike’s site can be found here.
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Neil Barofsky Tells Jon Stewart How the Ego and Narcissism of Washington Preserve a Broken Status Quo
Hope you enjoy this chat. I did, despite its predictably depressing conclusion. Stewart and Barofsky do a good job of conveying how DC works and why that guaranteed “a thoroughly broken financial system” would stay intact.
Read more at
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/02/neil-barofsky-tells-jon-stewart-how-the-ego-and-narcissism-of-washington-preserve-a-broken-status-quo.html#t5jBscF1rZpbDHXx.99
The “Savage Capitalism*” of Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs’s morality is based on the value of money:
“If you make money the center of your value system, then finally you have no value system because money is not a value.” (quotation from Georg Simmel mentioned in The Moral Order article by Morris Berman in Counterpunch)
The Federal Reserve is complicit in this savage capitalism because it, too, has a value system based solely on money. The Fed has supported the insolvent banks and rigged the financial system to profit the banks and corporations as the expense of the population.
The Federal Reserve policy is “the massive effort to save the financial system [for the] benefit of bankers and plutocrats while ‘adequate’ fiscal stimulus to solve the economic pain of the populace is nowhere to be found.” (from End the Fed by Rob Urie in Counterpunch)
“However, [t]here is ample evidence of rampant lending fraud to feed the securitization pipelines of the Wall Street banks. (Rob Urie in End the Fed)
*Savage capitalism is a phrase used by Rob Urie in End the Fed
http://www.goldmansachs666.com/2013/02/the-savage-capitalism-of-goldman-sachs.html
David Graeber, author of Debt: The First 5000 Years,
In the second half of the show, Max Keiser talks to anthropologist, David Graeber, author of Debt: The First 5000 Years, about the dollar, a war backed currency, being displaced by gold and about who killed Aaron Swartz and why.
http://youtu.be/SxZtfi2pYNo?t=11m50s