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AP’s Today in History for October 10th

Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns; Imperial rule ends in China; Achille Lauro hijackers forced to land; Movie legend Orson Welles dies; Opera composer Giuseppe Verdi born; Actor Christopher Reeve dies.

Breakfast Tune Verdi prelude from “Traviata”- Marco Cera and the Wychwood Banjo Orchestra

Something to think about, Breakfast News & Blogs below

• When Will the US Acknowledge its Secret Torture Site in Poland?
  RAYMOND BONNER

• While Americans Sleep, Our Corporate Overlords Make Progress Impossible
  RALPH NADER

• Megarich Democratic Donor Says ‘Tax Rich People Like Me’ or He’s Done With the Party
  ANDREA GERMANOS

• Manchin Admits Getting His Bill Passed and Then Tanking Progressive Package Was Always the Plan
  KENNY STANCIL

• How The Structure Of The World Economy Made Shortages Inevitable
  IAN WELSH

• America’s Warmongers Are Still Unrepentant
  KAREN J. GREENBERG

• AOC Offers a Hard Lesson on the Need to Dump the Duopoly
  Danny Haiphong

• Deathly Silence: Journalists Who Mocked Assange Have Nothing to Say About CIA Plans to Kill Him
  JOHN MCEVOY

• Media Praise ‘Mavericks’ for Blocking Aid to American People
  EOIN HIGGINS

• Bellingcat funded by US and UK intelligence contractors that aided extremists in Syria
  KIT KLARENBERG

• Biden Tells Supreme Court Torture Is a State Secret
  Marjorie Cohn

• Never Having to Say You’re Sorry: the past two decades have seen no accountability for the lawless U.S. policies of the war on terror.
  Karen J. Greenberg

• Report: Spike in Israeli Settler Violence Against Palestinians
  Peoples Dispatch

• Undercounting US Civilians Killed by Police
  Moshen Naghavi, Eve Wool and Fablina Sharara

• Instead of a Free Press: In the failed corporate coverage of Steven Donziger and Julian Assange there is an imposition of darkness, ignorance inflicted on Americans with intent.
  PATRICK LAWRENCE

• Solar Energy on the Frontlines and Old-Fashioned Clotheslines
  RALPH NADER

• Newsom Administration Issued 138 Offshore Well Permits in California Waters Prior to New Oil Spill
  DAN BACHER

• Drunk Man Reported Missing Joins Search Party For Himself
  AP

Something to think about over coffee prozac

Patriotic Billionaire Only Invests In American-Made Tax Havens

The Onion

NEW YORK—Shaking his head in response to the release of the Pandora Papers revealing over 100 billionaires were among those shielding their wealth in offshore financial centers, patriotic billionaire Steven Lyle reiterated to reporters Monday that he only invests in American-made tax havens. “These billionaires who hide their money in places like Switzerland and Monaco make me sick—I vow to continue only sheltering my vast fortune from taxation right here in the good old U.S. of A.,” said the agribusiness executive, adding that there was nothing some foreign tax shelter like Jersey or the Cayman Islands could offer a billionaire that he couldn’t find in American tax havens like Delaware, South Dakota, or Nevada. “When I see something like the Pandora Papers, I wonder what happened to patriotic values. Every single one of my $3.2-billion-dollar fortune is shielded from regulators and capital gains taxes in lenient jurisdictions here in America, and it’s going to stay that way. It’s hard to see good American currency go overseas to enrich some Swiss banker or British shell company when it should be enriching an American banker or American shell company.” At press time, after receiving a tip of a potential investigation into his finances, the billionaire had moved his entire fortune to the British Virgin Islands.