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t r u t h o u t | 08.07
Interview With the Green Party's Jill Stein, Candidate for Organizer in Chief
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10685-interview-with-jill-stein-candidate-for-organizer-in-chief
Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: "Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein spent Wednesday night in a Philadelphia jail after being arrested at an Occupy protest against Fannie Mae, something not entirely surprising for a politician that throws around words like 'imperialism' and 'economic violence' while celebrating 'the battle that has already come to our streets.'"
New House Bill Tries to Save Medical Marijuana Dispensaries From Justice Department Crackdown
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10735-new-house-bill-tries-to-save-medical-marijuana-dispensaries-from-justice-department-crackdown
Aviva Shen, ThinkProgress: "Recently, DOJ set its sights on California's Harborside Health Center, the largest medical marijuana dispensary in the world, suing to shut down Harborside's two branches in Oakland and San Jose. Yet it is not at all clear how these suits can be squared with the Department's 2009 memorandum."
Mr. President, the Elephant in the Room Is Not a Republican
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10732-mr-president-the-elephant-in-the-room-is-not-a-republican
Salvatore Babones, Truthout: "The White Recession was sharp and painful, but soon over. White America is slowly returning to normal. It's a shade poorer normal to be sure, but normal all the same.... The Black Economy, on the other hand, is still in full-blown recession. The Black Recession has now dragged on for four years, if not forty."
The Toxic Effects of Agent Orange Persist 51 Years After the Vietnam War
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10729-the-toxic-effects-of-agent-orange-persist-51-years-after-the-vietnam-war
Jeanne Mirer and Marjorie Cohn, Truthout: "The Vietnamese exposed to the chemical suffer from cancer, liver damage, pulmonary and heart diseases, defects to reproductive capacity and skin and nervous disorders. Their children and grandchildren have severe physical deformities, mental and physical disabilities, diseases and shortened life spans."
Prime Minister's Defection in the Dark Jolts Syrians
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10743-prime-ministers-defection-in-the-dark-jolts-syrians
Dalal Mawad and Damien Cave, The New York Times News Service: "The Assad government - nearly a year and a half into the conflict - remains surprisingly strong where it counts. Its powerful military pounded rebels again on Monday in Aleppo, Damascus and other cities, and many analysts question whether the defection of another Sunni leader, no matter his place in the hierarchy, is enough to swing the conflict to a conclusion."
The Hunger Wars in Our Future: Heat, Drought, Rising Food Costs and Global Unrest
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10738-the-hunger-wars-in-our-future-heat-drought-rising-food-costs-and-global-unrest
Michael Klare, TomDispatch: "The Great Drought of 2012 has yet to come to an end, but we already know that its consequences will be severe. With more than one-half of America's counties designated as drought disaster areas, the 2012 harvest of corn, soybeans, and other food staples is guaranteed to fall far short of predictions."
How Back-to-the-Landers in California Inspired a Japanese Farmer to Fight Desertification
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10536-how-back-to-the-landers-in-california-inspired-a-japanese-farmer-to-fight-desertification
Masanobu Fukuoka, Chelsea Green Publishing: "Although the surface of the ground in Europe and the United States appears to be covered with a lovely green, it is only the imitation green of a managed landscape. Beneath the surface, the soil is becoming depleted due to the mistaken agricultural practices of the last two thousand years."
US Conservatives Pile on the Excuses
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10755-us-conservatives-pile-on-the-excuses
Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: "I understand; going on about the dishonesty can get boring. But we should step back often to look at this remarkable spectacle. I really don't think there's been anything like this in American political history: a presidential campaign with a pretty good chance of winning that is based entirely on cynical lies about what the sitting president has said."
On the News With Thom Hartmann: New Legislation Would Place a Tax on Carbon Emissions, and More
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10762-on-the-news-with-thom-hartmann-new-legislation-would-place-a-tax-on-carbon-emissions-and-more
In today's On the News segment: The world is on the brink of a major food crisis, Democratic Congressman Jim McDermott introduced legislation last week to place a tax on carbon emissions, tensions are flaring up in debt-crisis plagued Europe, and more.
Emails Give Glimpse Into Deals That Fueled Financial Meltdown
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10751-emails-give-glimpse-into-deals-that-fueled-financial-meltdown
Jake Bernstein and Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica: "As ProPublica has been detailing for two years, Wall Street banks and the hedge fund Magnetar worked together to build mortgage-backed deals that the hedge fund also bet against. The more than $40 billion of deals helped fuel the crash of 2008. Now, recently collected emails from bankers and a Magnetar executive involved in some of the deals appear to shed new light on how they did it."
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
When the Financially Corrupt Were Tortured, Hanged and Beheaded
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/11646-when-the-financially-corrupt-were-tortured-hanged-and-beheaded
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: "According to Jason Zweig, writing in The Wall Street Journal, 'In Florence during the Renaissance, the Arte del Cambio [financiers association] ... made the cheating of clients punishable by torture. Rule 70 of the guild's statutes stipulated that any member caught in unethical conduct could be disciplined on the rack "or other corrective instruments" at the headquarters of the guild.'"
From Anaheim to Oakland, Police Brutality Still Plagues California
Read the Article at Colorlines.com
http://colorlines.com/archives/2012/08/from_anaheim_to_oakland_police_brutality_still_plagues_california.html
US Soybean, Corn Conditions Worsen as Drought Burns Crops
Read the Article at Bloomberg
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-06/u-s-soybean-corn-conditions-worsening-as-drought-damages-crops.html
Republicans Blasted Obama Administration for Warning About Right-Wing Domestic Terrorism
Read the Article at ThinkProgress
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/08/07/645421/right-wing-extremism/
Tea Party Movement Planning for the Long Haul
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/11643-tea-party-movement-planning-for-the-long-haul
Romney Camp Still Won't Say if Vets, Firefighters, Cops Deserve Early Voting Rights
Read the Article at Talking Points Memo
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/mitt_romney_military_voting_ohio_lawsuit.php?ref=fpa
Journalist Ends Up in Handcuffs After Photographing Arrest in New York
Read the Article at the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas
http://knightcenter.utexas.edu/en/node/10982
Charles P. Pierce | Things in Politico That Make Me Want to Guzzle Antifreeze
Read the Article at Esquire
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/elizabeth-warren-dnc-politico-11416289
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: normal;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.2"><strong>Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: </strong>"According to Jason Zweig, writing in The Wall Street Journal, 'In Florence during the Renaissance, the Arte del Cambio [financiers association] ... made the cheating of clients punishable by torture. Rule 70 of the guild's statutes stipulated that any member caught in unethical conduct could be disciplined on the rack "or other corrective instruments" at the headquarters of the guild.'"</p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=7X0sZJfoZQrEKL7mgmZ1xiw0l1S5O6zH"><strong>Read the BuzzFlash Commentary</strong></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>From Anaheim to Oakland, Police Brutality Still Plagues California</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=hcqSuV2MUm4dvdlbHWJhXiw0l1S5O6zH"><strong>Read the Article at Colorlines.com</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>US Soybean, Corn Conditions Worsen as Drought Burns Crops</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=zyps5JbuqZajtDuvGKaNfyw0l1S5O6zH"><strong>Read the Article at Bloomberg</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Republicans Blasted Obama Administration for Warning About Right-Wing Domestic Terrorism</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=OD3FCLZzc2jhfV00lwMZASw0l1S5O6zH"><strong>Read the Article at ThinkProgress</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Tea Party Movement Planning for the Long Haul</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Romney Camp Still Won't Say if Vets, Firefighters, Cops Deserve Early Voting Rights</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2FLRDpDWwYe%2BrIi3GSmfecCw0l1S5O6zH"><strong>Read the Article at Talking Points Memo</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Journalist Ends Up in Handcuffs After Photographing Arrest in New York</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=LqJQTh3ak7AF7dzYZlBFoiw0l1S5O6zH"><strong>Read the Article at the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Charles P. Pierce | Things in Politico That Make Me Want to Guzzle Antifreeze</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=tZGe0NQq0HPPEOXSBtdbqyw0l1S5O6zH"><strong>Read the Article at Esquire</strong></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=gqRuchvkrCfIc1%2FV53YfQiw0l1S5O6zH"><strong>Interview With the Green Party's Jill Stein, Candidate for Organizer in Chief</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Yana Kunichoff, Truthout:</strong> "Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein spent Wednesday night in a Philadelphia jail after being arrested at an Occupy protest against Fannie Mae, something not entirely surprising for a politician that throws around words like 'imperialism' and 'economic violence' while celebrating 'the battle that has already come to our streets.'"</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=saAswIZUet3m8RzaBBu4tyw0l1S5O6zH"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=jhbS5J9mOD%2BKw2st3qlfY8aBRfhqrKmP"><strong>New House Bill Tries to Save Medical Marijuana Dispensaries From Justice Department Crackdown</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Aviva Shen, ThinkProgress:</strong> "Recently, DOJ set its sights on California's Harborside Health Center, the largest medical marijuana dispensary in the world, suing to shut down Harborside's two branches in Oakland and San Jose. Yet it is not at all clear how these suits can be squared with the Department's 2009 memorandum."</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=7XxHIRFsZN5NrnhHOsaguiw0l1S5O6zH"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=BYCa%2Bqca98zv%2BCEcMJ702Cw0l1S5O6zH"><strong>Mr. President, the Elephant in the Room Is Not a Republican</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Salvatore Babones, Truthout:</strong> "The White Recession was sharp and painful, but soon over. White America is slowly returning to normal. It's a shade poorer normal to be sure, but normal all the same.... The Black Economy, on the other hand, is still in full-blown recession. The Black Recession has now dragged on for four years, if not forty."</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=rj%2BCxTyeS2sAgR5x1RSo4yw0l1S5O6zH"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=rQO3E6arse%2Fp32Esx2uBrSw0l1S5O6zH"><strong>The Toxic Effects of Agent Orange Persist 51 Years After the Vietnam War</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Jeanne Mirer and Marjorie Cohn, Truthout:</strong> "The Vietnamese exposed to the chemical suffer from cancer, liver damage, pulmonary and heart diseases, defects to reproductive capacity and skin and nervous disorders. Their children and grandchildren have severe physical deformities, mental and physical disabilities, diseases and shortened life spans."</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=wCpWMAEydC9ePLQvp%2FkdkSw0l1S5O6zH"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=OWwCNm%2FbllLgj9Ize6Ko7Cw0l1S5O6zH"><strong>Prime Minister's Defection in the Dark Jolts Syrians</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Dalal Mawad and Damien Cave, The New York Times News Service:</strong> "The Assad government - nearly a year and a half into the conflict - remains surprisingly strong where it counts. Its powerful military pounded rebels again on Monday in Aleppo, Damascus and other cities, and many analysts question whether the defection of another Sunni leader, no matter his place in the hierarchy, is enough to swing the conflict to a conclusion."</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=NNHwF1XFzWvdP6LA9NrRVyw0l1S5O6zH"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=L0A1oYFdW6c9XBtCVCVnfiw0l1S5O6zH"><strong>The Hunger Wars in Our Future: Heat, Drought, Rising Food Costs and Global Unrest</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Michael Klare, TomDispatch:</strong> "The Great Drought of 2012 has yet to come to an end, but we already know that its consequences will be severe. With more than one-half of America's counties designated as drought disaster areas, the 2012 harvest of corn, soybeans, and other food staples is guaranteed to fall far short of predictions."</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=9OKEpMMTmxKfAvz6K%2FmEHCw0l1S5O6zH"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=N5A2iAmBmiAE4vQ2iVqvpSw0l1S5O6zH"><strong>How Back-to-the-Landers in California Inspired a Japanese Farmer to Fight Desertification</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Masanobu Fukuoka, Chelsea Green Publishing:</strong> "Although the surface of the ground in Europe and the United States appears to be covered with a lovely green, it is only the imitation green of a managed landscape. Beneath the surface, the soil is becoming depleted due to the mistaken agricultural practices of the last two thousand years."</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=wMlj1IfSsfRs%2Bk%2FnEhErLCw0l1S5O6zH"><strong>Read the Excerpt</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=X7m0K%2FGXrcy6Hjbr0c8Myyw0l1S5O6zH"><strong>US Conservatives Pile on the Excuses</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.:</strong> "I understand; going on about the dishonesty can get boring. But we should step back often to look at this remarkable spectacle. I really don't think there's been anything like this in American political history: a presidential campaign with a pretty good chance of winning that is based entirely on cynical lies about what the sitting president has said."</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=WVcRhezvJbooaVhEQ0A0ryw0l1S5O6zH"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=j1%2B5BHSKJBkFrEfCPk9tiiw0l1S5O6zH"><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: New Legislation Would Place a Tax on Carbon Emissions, and More</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>In today's On the News segment:</strong> The world is on the brink of a major food crisis, Democratic Congressman Jim McDermott introduced legislation last week to place a tax on carbon emissions, tensions are flaring up in debt-crisis plagued Europe, and more.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=LykgHMp2ydUlPVwBfpJO7iw0l1S5O6zH"><strong>Watch the Video and Read the Transcript</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=3a6uA%2Bhq9rKoap6NEGU1pSw0l1S5O6zH"><strong>Emails Give Glimpse Into Deals That Fueled Financial Meltdown</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Jake Bernstein and Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica:</strong> "As ProPublica has been detailing for two years, Wall Street banks and the hedge fund Magnetar worked together to build mortgage-backed deals that the hedge fund also bet against. The more than $40 billion of deals helped fuel the crash of 2008. Now, recently collected emails from bankers and a Magnetar executive involved in some of the deals appear to shed new light on how they did it."</p>
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