Saturday link dump

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• Alan Johnson of Dissent writes on the dissonance between anti-immigrant proletarians and universalist Labour Party leaders. A similar effect hit the Democrats in the U.S.A. during the 1990s.
• Paul Campos of the Daily Beast notes that retiring U.S.A. Supreme Court Justice Paul Stevens is a centrist Republican, and calls on President Obama to appoint an actual liberal in his place.
• The U.S.A. is demanding that Pakistan stop throwing accused terrorists in secret prisons without trial the way the U.S.A. does, and that Iraq stop torturing such prisoners in secret prisons the way the U.S.A. did in Iraq.
• Steve Chapman of Reason Magazine discusses Arizona's anti-immigration law.
• Republican Congressman Duncan Hunter of California has called for the deportation of U.S. citizens who are children of undocumented aliens.
• The Arizona iced tea company wants customers to know that they had nothing to do with the state of Arizona's new anti-immigration law, and the iced tea company is not even from the state of Arizona.
• Marc Ambinder of the Atlantic notes that American "conservatives" are insane.
• John Mearshimer, co-author of the book The Israel Lobby which was used by anti-semites to resurrect the image of the mythical all-powerful Jew Lobby, is becoming an extreme anti-semite himself.
• British man David Bond tried to drop off the information grid but was tracked and caught by detectives in 18 days.
• Reason Magazine notes that General Motors has not paid back all $50 billion in government loans "in full and ahead of schedule" as claimed, but has paid back one $7 billion loans from the funds of another $13 billion loan.
• May 1st is International Labour Day.