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44%  
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  • U.S. loses AAA credit rating from S&P

    08/05/2011 5:51:21 PM PDT · by GQuagmire · 409 replies
    Yahoo.com via Reuters ^ | 8/5/11 | Walter Brandimarte
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States lost its top-notch AAA credit rating from Standard & Poor's on Friday, in a dramatic reversal of fortune for the world's largest economy. S&P cut the long-term U.S. credit rating by one notch to AA-plus on concerns about growing budget deficits. U.S. Treasuries, once undisputedly seen as the safest investment in the world, are now rated lower than bonds issued by countries such as the UK, Germany, France or Canada
  • Justice Department Misleads Grand Jury

    08/05/2011 9:21:22 AM PDT · by jazusamo · 5 replies · 1+ views
    PJ Tatler ^ | August 5, 2011 | Christian Adams
    The Justice Department has been forced to drop criminal charges during a Hawaii trial because Susan French, an attorney in the Criminal Section of the infamous Civil Rights Division, misled a grand jury about the law. The case was against two Hawaii farmers accused of human trafficking. The DOJ accused them of “economically entrapping the workers on the farm, housing them in dirty metal containers, threatening to deport them and making them work for little pay. . . . Prosecutors abandoned the case because it couldn’t meet its burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt.” In a courtroom in Hawaii,...