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“For all the fear-mongering we hear out of our politicians on the right about how heaven forbid we’re going to turn into Greece, the one country you never hear them talk about any more is Iceland. The reason they don’t is, as Cenk Uygur explained on his show this Tuesday, they took a different path than the United States after their financial crisis and nationalized the banks, threw some the people responsible for the crash in jail and bailed out the homeowners instead of worrying about only bailing out the banks. And now they’re coming back and their economy is growing again…”.*

*Read more here from Heather at CrooksAndLiars.com: http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/cenk-uygur-asks-if-united-states-…

This sure seems like irony to me, this “super christian” moving away to surround himself with mostly islamic faith folks?…I guess for him it beats going to a Federal prison. Or maybe he fell in love with UAE after seeing Sex In The City 2.(OP)
By Susie Madrak via http://crooksandliars.com
Scott Horton (and The Nation) report that Prince is planning to blow this popstand and move to the United Arab Emirates, where we don’t have an extradition treaty. Of course!

Jeremy Scahill reports that the reclusive Blackwater owner, Erik Prince, has travel plans on his horizon.

Sources close to Blackwater and its secretive owner Erik Prince claim that the embattled head of the world’s most infamous mercenary firm is planning to move to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). (more…)