World-News

By Dana Priest and William M. Arkin

The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist within it or exactly how many agencies do the same work.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25960.htm
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/19-3



Corporate Media Discover Private Spies

In Other News, No WMD in Iraq

By Jeremy Scahill

Stop the presses and call the government spokespeople back from Martha's Vineyard. The corporate media have discovered that the United States is radically outsourcing national security and sensitive intelligence operations. Cable news channels breathlessly report on the "groundbreaking," "exclusive" Washington Post series.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25985.htm



National Security Inc.: Washington Post Investigation

The Post investigation uncovered what amounts to an alternative geography of the United States, a Top Secret America created since 9/11 that is hidden from public view, lacking in thorough oversight and so unwieldy that its effectiveness is impossible to determine.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25981.htm

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THE SECRETS NEXT DOOR
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9831/

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The Secrecy State
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/22-4

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The geek labyrinth

Slate
by Fred Kaplan

07/22/10

The report’s numbers are fairly staggering: 854,000 people have clearances of Top Secret or higher; 1,271 government agencies and 1,931 private companies do superclassified work related to counterterrorism, homeland security, and intelligence in about 10,000 locations nationwide; 33 building complexes for Top Secret intelligence work have been built, or are under construction, since 2001. But the numbers are the least of it, and the critics who focus on them — scoffing that big isn’t always bad and, after all, we might need all those companies and complexes in this dangerous world — miss the point...

http://www.slate.com/id/2261462/



Our big-government war on terror

Cato Institute
by Gene Healy

07/27/10

Guess what happens when you combine a crisis atmosphere with a gusher of federal funds? You get a dangerous, wealth-gobbling bureaucracy that fails to achieve its ostensible goal, whether that’s better health care, ending drug abuse — or uncovering terrorist threats. That’s the lesson of ‘Top Secret America,’ last week’s high-profile Washington Post series on the post-9/11 ‘Intelligence-Industrial Complex.’ You’d think a classic story of government overreach and incompetence would resonate with conservatives, but their reaction was mostly muted and dismissive.

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=12005



The never-ending drug war

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

08/02/10

The Mexican government has just killed a man named Ignacio Coronel Villarreal, who was purported to be the leader of a powerful Mexican drug cartel. According to the New York Times, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency congratulated the Mexican government on a ‘victory in their sustained efforts to dismantle the drug cartels by targeting the highest levels of cartel leadership.’ It would be difficult to imagine a bigger inanity than that particular statement from the DEA...

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2010-08-02.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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"Top Secret America:" The Rest Of The Story

by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

The Washington Post report (for all its failures) should serve to remind the American people of just how vulnerable we are (and have always been) to totalitarian government, how fragile liberty and freedom are, and how necessary it is that we remain eternally vigilant to resist the machinations of power-mad Machiavellians in Washington, D.C.......

http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin603.htm

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Giving Up On Victory, Not War
http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt400.html

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The fourth branch of government
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/927.html



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AlterNet
by Clancy Sigal
07/15/10

Why is nobody talking about the Afghanistan adventure as a cause of our plunging recession? Or at least citing the 30-year-old endless war as a major contributory factor in wasting our money to ‘nation-build’ in the Hindu Kush while our own country falls to pieces on food stamps, foreclosures and child poverty — one in five kids — that would put the world’s poorest nations to shame? Iraq was George Bush’s war. But, as Republican party chairman Michael Steele correctly says, ‘Afghanistan is Obama’s war of choice,’ and a losing proposition. Historically, Bush and Dick Cheney merely toyed with Afghanistan while visiting shock and awe on Iraq. But President Obama is really, really serious about it...

http://bit.ly/d7f77p



How psychologists profit on unending war

CounterPunch
by Bruce Levine

07/22/10

While U.S. military psychiatrists are prescribing increasing amounts of chill pills, America’s psychologists are teaching soldiers how to think more positively about their tours in Afghanistan, Iraq, and wherever else they are next ordered to kill the bad guys and win the hearts and minds of everyone else. The U.S. Army is planning to require that all 1.1 million of its soldiers take intensive training in positive psychology and emotional resiliency...

http://counterpunch.org/levine07222010.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Trading in death

Rapacious bankers are making fortunes by forcing up the price of food and leaving millions to starve.

http://bit.ly/b9YvZl


From Information Clearing House

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Race Card Fraud
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/sowell11.1.html

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Grinning Bankers
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/21-3

Corporate Campaign Cash Floods US Elections
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/08/02-0

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Washington Elites Prefer Shills for Banks and Big Business

David Sirota, AlterNet: "The message to both today's generation and the future generation of citizens who may aspire to work in government is pretty clear: If you are personally/financially connected to private for-profit corporations - even those that helped destroy the economy - that underwrite political campaigns, Washington has no problem with your appointment to a position overseeing those same private corporations."

http://www.truth-out.org/unless-youre-a-shill-banks-and-big-business-the-washington-elites-will-call-you-controversial61573



The Great Decoupling of Corporate Profits From Jobs

Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "Second-quarter earnings reports are coming in, and they're making Wall Street smile. Corporate profits are up. And big American companies are sitting on a gigantic pile of money. The 500 largest non-financial firms held almost a trillion dollars in the second quarter, and that money pile is growing larger this quarter. Profits that plummeted in the recession have bounced back. Big businesses have recovered almost 90 percent of what they lost."

http://www.truth-out.org/robert-reich-the-great-decoupling-corporate-profits-jobs61755



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Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

07/14/10

They used to say the truth shall set you free. These days it might get you fired. Apparently, stumbling onto the truth is a grave offense in the Republican Party. Ask Michael Steele, its chairman. Steele provoked the wrath of Republican neoconservatives William Kristol, Liz Cheney (the former vice president’s daughter), and Sen. John McCain by saying that ‘the one thing you don’t do, is engage in a land war in Afghanistan … because everyone who has tried over a thousand years of history has failed, and there are reasons for that’...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1007e.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Another official report says "things just getting worse" in Afghanistan

The ANSO report also reveals that June saw a record number of Taliban attacks - up 51 per cent on the previous year to 1,319 operations.

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/mehdi-hasan/2010/07/afghanistan-worse-coin-report


From Information Clearing House



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Foundation for Economic Education
by Sheldon Richman

07/16/10

Last week’s TGIF asked if the American people can afford a world-girdling foreign policy more befitting an empire than a republic. Look at it this way: War hawks make poor deficit hawks. Facing a $13 trillion national debt and trillion-dollar-plus annual budget deficits, we can’t afford to be complacent about foreign interventions costing $12 billion a month. It’s not just that the budget numbers are daunting: The very institutions of small-government republicanism are suffocated by the quest for global hegemony...

http://tinyurl.com/2vnz9on



Deficits of mass destruction

The Nation
by Christopher Hayes

07/15/10

If you’ve been paying attention this past decade, it won’t surprise you to learn that the country’s policy elites are in the midst of a destructive, well-nigh unhinged discussion about the future of the nation. But even by the degraded standards of the Washington establishment, the growing panic over government debt is shocking. First, the facts. Nearly the entire deficit for this year and those projected into the near and medium terms are the result of three things: the ongoing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Bush tax cuts and the recession. The solution to our fiscal situation is: end the wars, allow the tax cuts to expire and restore robust growth. Our long-term structural deficits will require us to control healthcare inflation the way countries with single-payer systems do...

http://www.thenation.com/article/37534/deficits-mass-destruction


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Deficit Doves
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/21-7

Democrats May Stop Bush-Era Tax Cuts for Wealthy From Expiring
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/22-1

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We're in a One-and-a-Half Dip Recession

Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "We're not in a double-dip recession yet. We're in a one and a half dip recession. Consumer confidence is down. Retail sales are down. Home sales are down. Permits for single-family starts are down. The average work week is down. The only things not down are inventories - unsold stuff is piling up in warehouses and inventories of unsold homes are rising - and defaults on loans."

http://www.truth-out.org/robert-reich-we%E2%80%99re-in-a-one-and-a-half-dip-recession61614



Professors as Welfare Queens?

Jesse Lemisch, Truthout: "From Obama on down, the political atmosphere is deeply polluted by the use of 'centrism' as a self-description of what are essentially retrograde right-wing views. Under Obama, the US wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq continue, as do the lies put out about them. Guantanamo goes on. Obama's 'Deficit Commission' warms us up for cuts in Medicare and Social Security. 'The perfect is the enemy of the good,' and, thus, we have health care 'reform' by and for the insurers, with higher premiums and profits, and more evasions of coverage by merchants of death like UnitedHealthCare."

http://www.truth-out.org/professors-welfare-queens61981



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Ellen Cantarow, TomDispatch: "If you live on the Gulf Coast, welcome to the real world of oil - and just know that you're not alone. In the Niger Delta and the Ecuadorian Amazon, among other places, your emerging hell has been the living hell of local populations for decades."

http://www.truth-out.org/big-oil-makes-war-earth-the-gulf-coast-joins-oil-soiled-planet61457



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Schleifung der Überkapazitäten

Interview mit Robert Kurz über die globale Wirtschaftskrise, die Krise der Staatsfinanzen und Gefahren von Deflation und Inflation - Teil 1.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/32/32931/1.html



Zweite Welle der globalen Wirtschaftskrise innerhalb der nächsten Jahre

Interview mit Robert Kurz über die Finanzkrise der EU, wirtschaftspolitische Differenzen und den Defizitkreislauf zwischen China und den USA - Teil 2.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/32/32932/1.html



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Wirtschaftskrise

Die Vereinten Nationen und die EU haben harte Sanktionen gegen Iran verhängt, die vor allem die iranische Bevölkerung treffen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/32/32978/1.html



http://sharenews.twoday.net/topics/Iran/

Americans are finally waking up.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/pr/rasmussen-23-percent-govt-has-consent.html

by Jim Kouri

During an interview on ABC television's Sunday news show "This Week," Director of Central Intelligence Leon Panetta explained a $100-million contract with the controversial firm formerly named Blackwater Worldwide to provide security services in Afghanistan. When the contract was first announced, several lawmakers voiced outrage by the Obama government's dealings with.....

http://www.newswithviews.com/Kouri/jim119.htm

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Why this gigantic “intelligence” apparatus? Follow the money

Independent Institute
by Robert Higgs

07/20/10

According to retired admiral Dennis C. Blair, formerly the director of national intelligence, after 9/11 ‘the attitude was, if it’s worth doing, it’s probably worth overdoing.’ I submit that this explanation does not cut to the heart of the matter. As it stands, it suggests a sort of mindless desire to pile mountains of money, technology, and personnel on top of an already enormous mountain of money, technology, and personnel for no reason other than the vague notion that more must be better. In my view, national politics does not work in that way...

http://www.independent.org/blog/?p=7089


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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CIA admits faking Osama bin Laden 9/11 confession video
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/869.html



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by Rosalind Peterson

Genetically Modified foods and toxic chemicals are finding their way into the food you eat and other products at an alarming rate. The United States Department of Agriculture (U.S.D.A.), the Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.), and the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (U.S. D.H.H.S.), are allowing genetically modified food and other products to be approved without considering or even knowing their negative........

http://www.newswithviews.com/Peterson/rosalind126.htm

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The Story of Cosmetics: The Ugly Truth of "Toxics In, Toxics Out"

Video

The Story of Stuff Project: "The Story of Cosmetics examines the pervasive use of toxic chemicals in our everyday personal care products, from lipstick to baby shampoo. Produced by Free Range Studios and hosted by Annie Leonard, the seven-minute film reveals the implications for consumer and worker health and the environment, and outlines ways we can move the industry away from hazardous chemicals and towards safer alternatives."

http://www.truth-out.org/the-story-cosmetics-video61568



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Auch der US-Senat billigte die abgespeckte Finanzmarktreform, die angeblich strengere Regeln und mehr Aufsicht bringen soll.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/148032



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Finanzmarkt

Ozeane werden aufgrund steigender CO2-Emissionen immer saurer. http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689289ms216


China trocknet aus

Grundwasserkrise bedroht Bevölkerung.
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689288ms216



Sommerliche Hitze Belastung für Millionen Menschen

Mehr Grün für ein gesundes Klima zwischen Beton und Asphalt. http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689309ms216



Großkraftwerke verantwortlich: Fische in Rhein und Neckar unter bedrohlichem Hitzestress

Das durch die anhaltende Hitzewelle bereits erwärmte Wasser wird durch die Abwärme aus den Großkraftwerken zusätzlich belastet.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689292ms216



Wirtschaftliche Unternehmen als Naturschützer in der Pflicht

NABU: Wer die Natur schädigt, zerstört die Märkte der Zukunft. http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689304ms216



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Mitgliedsstaaten sollen Gen-Pflanzen national verbieten können, wenn sie auf EU-Ebene ihren Widerstand gegen die Zulassung gentechnisch veränderter Organismen aufgeben.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689287ms216



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Entwurf des CCS-Gesetzes ist ein Schnellschuss.
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689286ms216



CCS-Gesetz soll Kohlestrom sauberes Image verschaffen

Fragwürdiges CCS-Gesetz soll schmutzigem Kohlestrom sauberes Image verschaffen. Verpressung von CO2 birgt enorme Risiken.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689621ms222



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Der Euro wankt. Internationale Spekulanten feuern mit „finanziellen Massenvernichtungs waffen“ in die offenen Flanken, die der Euro seit Gründung hat.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689282ms216



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Griechenland

US banking giant JPMorgan Chase on Thursday announced a net profit of 4.8 billion dollars in the second quarter, up nearly 80 percent from the same period last year.

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0715/jpmorgan-profit-leaps-80/



Economic "Recovery" Showing New Signs of Losing Steam

Investors got a strong dose of sobering economic news Thursday as several key manufacturing indexes show that the recovery is losing steam.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/38258512



The U.S. Economy Is A Dead Horse And The American People Are Starting To Get Really Pissed Off And Frustrated

All our lives we have been taught that America is the richest and most prosperous nation on the planet, and that while there will always be times of "recession", things will always bounce back and be better than ever before. But this time things aren't bouncing back.

http://bit.ly/cDeydt



Banks repossess homes at record pace: RealtyTrac

Banks took control of 269,962 properties in the second quarter, up 5 percent from the prior quarter and a 38 percent spike from the second quarter of last year.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100715/us_nm/us_usa_housing_foreclosures



Six bank failures bring 2010 tally to 96

Five more bank failures brought the total tally for the year to 96, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. on Friday.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/five-more-bank-failures-bring-2010-tally-to-96-2010-07-16-1835260



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Claims that British soldiers used water torture on a badly beaten Iraqi man before unlawfully handing him over to US interrogators are being investigated by the Ministry of Defence.

http://bit.ly/dkUxmt



Torture and the UK: 2002-10

As evidence emerges that MI5 was complicit in the torture of some Britons overseas, see their cases and what is known of UK government or intelligence activities at the time.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/interactive/2009/jun/18/torture-uk-interactive



Tony Blair knew of secret policy on terror interrogations

Letter reveals former PM was aware of guidance to UK agents which effectively led to torture.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jun/18/tony-blair-secret-torture-policy



UK: The torture files: key passages

We highlight the key passages from the classified documents disclosed in high court proceedings - and what they show.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/interactive/2010/jul/14/toture-files-key-passages



Paper trail points to Blair: Former PM 'sanctioned the abuse of UK citizens'
http://bit.ly/cL0Xai



Blair's fight to keep his oil cash secret

Former PM's deals are revealed as his earnings since 2007 reach £20million.
http://bit.ly/awP0By


From Information Clearing House



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Democracy Now!

In 2008, there were food riots in more than thirty countries. The global price of food rose over 80 percent. This had an effect not only on wheat, but on corn, on soy, on cooking oil, on rice.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25955.htm



The U.S. Middle Class Is Being Wiped Out: Here's the Stats to Prove It

By Michael Snyder

83 percent of all U.S. stocks are in the hands of 1 percent of the people.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25953.htm



Calling All Future-Eaters

By Chris Hedges

Modern industrial warfare in the 20th century took at least 100 million lives, most of them civilians. And now we sit passive and dumb as corporations and the leaders of industrialized nations ensure that climate change will accelerate to levels that could mean the extinction of our species.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25962.htm



Misguided U.S. Economic Policies Drive Many Mexicans to Come Here

By Manuel Pérez-Rocha

Most immigrants would prefer to stay at home with their families and live their own culture, eat their own food, and listen to their own music.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25965.htm

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Inside the 'Class War'
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/19-0

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The Food Crisis Is Looming
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rogers-j/rogers-j111.html

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Wheat Crisis Threatens Inflationary Timebomb, Food Riots

Global food prices skyrocketing as a result of devastating weather conditions, hedge fund speculation

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Monday, August 9, 2010

Russia’s ban on wheat exports following widespread fires in the country sent food prices skyrocketing by 19 per cent in just a single week as fears grow that global volatility in foodstuffs and commodities could lead to a worldwide inflationary timebomb accompanied by widespread food riots.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/wheat-crisis-threatens-inflationary-timebomb-food-riots.html



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http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=com/rogers-j

Der Vorsitzende des Deutschen Gewerkschaftsbundes (DGB), Michael Sommer, ruft zum energischen Protest gegen das geplante Sparpaket und die angekündigte Gesundheitsreform auf. Wenn der Sommer vorbei ist, wollen die Gewerkschaften offensiv mobilisieren, die schwarz-gelbe Bundesregierung, "soll den Druck der Menschen spüren", so der DGB-Chef. Von den Kürzungen im Sparpaket sind vor allem Geringverdiener und Hartz IV Bezieher betroffen. Lesen Sie weiter:

http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/dgb-chef-sommer-widerstand-gegen-schwarz-gelb-10296.php



Der Deutsche Mieterbund kritisiert die Wohngeldkürzung der Bundesregierung. Viele müssen dann zusätzliche Hartz IV Leistungen beantragen.

Der Deutsche Mieterbund hat die bevorstehenden Wohngeld-Kürzungen scharf kritisiert. Es sei zu befürchten, dass viele Hartz-IV Leistungen beantragen müssen. Der Vorsitzende des Mieterbundes bezeichnete die Wohngeldkürzung als "sozialpolitischen Kahlschlag". Lesen Sie weiter:

http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/durch-wohngeldkuerzungen-in-die-hartz-iv-falle-2011.php



Eskalation in der Hartz-IV Behörde. Erwerbsloser von Sachbearbeiter verletzt?

Zu einer handfesten Auseinandersetzung zwischen einem Hartz IV Betroffenen und einem Sachbearbeiter ist es in der Arge Schwalm-Eder in Homberg gekommen. Dabei wurde der Sachbearbeiter und Hilfeersuchende verletzt. Der Fall wurde bekannt, nachdem der Erwerbslosenverein "Oase" diesen Fall öffentlich gemacht hatte. Lesen Sie den ganzen Artikel:

http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/eskalation-in-der-hartz-iv-behoerde-0192.php

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Banken, Unternehmen und Reiche sollen zahlen
http://groups.google.com/group/omeganews/t/607acef40ecbc6a3?hl=de



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Hartz+IV
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Erwerbslos
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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/16-7



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Thalif+Deen

Raw Story

The truth about Watergate and Iran/Contra have been supressed by elements of government mind control operations rooted in Operation Paperclip that allowed ...

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0716/dcs-spooks-panic-mode-post-expose/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iran-Contra
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Watergate
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=spying

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/galland11.1.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=/galland

http://www.lewrockwell.com/holland/holland21.1.html

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'Israel convinces US with Credible military plan on Iran'

Have Israel's efforts to convince the US to threaten Iran with a credible military option paid off? According to recent media reports, the answer might be yes.

http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/News/Article.aspx?id=181854



Congress Green-Lighting Israeli Strikes on Iran

By Jamal Abdi

Republicans in the House of Representatives have introduced a measure that would green-light an Israeli bombing campaign against Iran. The resolution, H.Res. 1553 (in full below), provides explicit support for military strikes against Iran, stating that Congress supports Israel's use of "all means necessary" against Iran "including the use of military force".

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26007.htm



Repubs Plot Israel-Iran Apocalypse and the Collapse of the US Economy

By Juan Cole

It is not impossible that the people behind this resolution are fervently hoping for the Judgment Day to come more quickly and look forward to a Middle East apocalypse as a step toward the Return of Christ and the end of that pesky but temporarily necessary Judaism.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26009.htm



House OK's possible Israeli raid on Iran

Neoconservatives who were instrumental in orchestrating the Iraq War, such as Bill Kristol and Reuel Marc Gerecht, have led the stepped up calls for military action.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=136016&sectionid=351020101



Queen Nancy of the Robber Class: "Metrics"?

By Cindy Sheehan

You, Nancy-you don't even know the kind of pain you are causing all of the "Metrics" in the world, do you? The mothers in all the parts of the world that we are bombing, or helping other people to bomb don't even enter into your rarefied society. We wouldn't want to spoil your dinner parties/DNC fundraisers at your estate in Sonoma County, now, would we?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26082.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Iranian Scientist Amiri Told CIA Iran Has No Nuclear Bomb Programme
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/19-5

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Iranian scientist would not play curveball

Information Clearinghouse
by Ray McGovern

07/19/10

Useful insights often must be seen through a glass darkly. But some can be pulled through the smoke and mirrors shrouding the wanderings of Iranian scientist Shahram Amiri, who is now back home in Iran after 14 months in the U.S. as guest of the CIA...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25958.htm



The national security product

AntiWar.Com
by Philip Giraldi

07/22/10

Those who are agonizing over whether Iranian nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri was a double agent or just an agent or whether he was kidnapped or a defector are really missing the point. Amiri was just a small cog in the Greatest Show on Earth, the $100 billion a year US intelligence community. United States intelligence is a huge and expensive bureaucracy and the information it produces must be consumed even when it does not necessarily make Americans safer. More important than that, it is a product that must have enough bells and whistles to impress Congress, the media, and the White House to keep the money flowing...

http://tinyurl.com/29g2ank


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Assassin of Democracy
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/44.html

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Obama Preparing to Attack Iran

The Market Oracle

A few days before the B-52 escaped control of legally constituted US authorities, a group of antiwar activists issued The Kennebunkport Warning of August ...

http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article21380.html

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Zombie Neocon Strategy Behind Israel's "Bomb Iran" Campaign

Gareth Porter, Truthout: "Reuel Marc Gerecht's screed justifying an Israeli bombing attack on Iran coincides with the opening the new Israel lobby campaign marked by the introduction of House resolution 1553 expressing full support for such an Israeli attack. What is important to understand about this campaign is that the aim of Gerecht and of the right-wing government of Benjamin Netanyahu is to support an attack by Israel so that the United States can be drawn into direct, full-scale war with Iran."

http://www.truth-out.org/the-real-aim-israels-bomb-iran-campaign61866



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pelosi
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Juan+Cole
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan

http://www.lewrockwell.com/woods/woods148.html

The Money Supply Conspiracy
http://www.lewrockwell.com/daughty/mogambo56.1.html

Massive Money Printing by October?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/faber/faber71.1.html

Just Say No
http://www.lewrockwell.com/woods/woods149.html

Secession, Nullification, and Passive Non-Cooperation
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/lazarowitz9.1.1.html

Nullification and Subsidiarity
http://www.lewrockwell.com/woods/woods150.html

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Missouri vote puts health care back in crosshairs

Las Vegas Review-Journal

08/04/10

Missouri voters’ overwhelming opposition to requiring nearly all Americans to buy health insurance puts one of the least popular parts of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul law back in the political crosshairs. Even if the vote sets no legally binding precedent, it will help mobilize foes of Obama’s agenda in the fall midterm elections, and that could make a difference in some states with close congressional races that could decide the balance of power in Washington...

http://tinyurl.com/26on8nk


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=nullification
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http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=lazarowitz
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=com/woods

George Lakoff, Truthout: "Saving nature is the central issue. Carbon fuels destroy nature. The Gulf Death Gusher is the most visible sign. But signs are everywhere. Overall global warming increases hurricanes and floods; destroys habitats for plants, fish, birds and ground animals; spreads deserts; causes deadly waves; and destroys glaciers and our polar ice caps. The use of carbon fuels has been destroying nature. Our job now is to save it."

http://www.truth-out.org/double-dividend-make-money-saving-nature61379

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Conservatism’s Death Gusher
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/16-5

Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA): BP and Dispersants: The "Regulated" Regulating the "Regulators"?

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/07/16-8

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Expert suspects BP has ulterior motive behind oil well cap:

Cavnar believes that BP's true goal is to make it harder to measure the flow of oil from the damaged well, because under the Clean Water Act, it will be liable for civil penalties of up to $4300 for every barrel spilled.

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0715/leak-tests-halted-cover-flow-rates/



We're Hot as Hell and We're Not Going to Take It Any More

Three Steps to Establish a Politics of Global Warming

By Bill McKibben

Fossil fuel is wrecking the one earth we've got. It's not going to go away because we ask politely. If we want a world that works, we're going to have to raise our voices.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26076.htm


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=carbon+fuel
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=fossil+fuel
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=oil+spill
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=British+Petroleum
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=conservatism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=George+Lakoff
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Institute+for+Public+Accuracy
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Bill+McKibben

David Lightman, McClatchy Newspapers: "Republicans almost unanimously oppose spending $33.9 billion for extended unemployment benefits for some 2.5 million people who've lost them, because they say it would increase federal budget deficits. At the same time, they're pushing a permanent extension of Bush administration tax cuts, especially for the wealthy, which could increase federal budget deficits by trillions of dollars over the next 10 years."

http://www.truth-out.org/gop-no-more-help-jobless-rich-must-keep-tax-cuts61394



Bring It On

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "It is tempting to begin a sentence about today's Republican Party with the words, 'Just when you thought they couldn't get any dumber,' but then you realize you're talking about a group that actively thwarts benefits for the unemployed while pimping tax cuts for rich people, a group that champions a political base which by and large doesn't believe dinosaurs existed because they're not in the Bible but can't stand the thought of stem cell research making people whole again, who attack the ideas and policies of the majority with vehemence but absolutely refuse to offer any of their own, and you come to the realization that you can't begin a sentence with those words, because there really is no bottom to this particular barrel."

http://www.truth-out.org/bring-it-on61535

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Washington elites face reality gap on economy

FreedomWorks
by Julie Borowski

07/19/10

While private sector workers across the country are struggling with abnormally high unemployment rates, federal government employees in Washington are likely to be bewildered by the current economic downturn. In fact, a Politico article released today confirmed that about half of ‘Washington elites’ who live in the D.C. metro area and work in politics or policy fields claim that the country and the economy are headed in the right direction — compared to less than 25 percent of the general population...

http://tinyurl.com/2enl47r



Tactical radicalism and the end of the GOP establishment

The New Republic
by Jonathan Chait

07/19/10

Obviously the conservative movement is intoxicated with hubris right now. Part of this hubris is their belief that the American people are truly and deeply on their side and that the last two elections were either a fluke or the product of a GOP that was too centrist. It’s a tactical radicalism, a belief that ideological purity carries no electoral cost whatsoever. Right-wing tactical radicalism has an old pedigree, and of course there is an equivalent (though less influential) tactical radicalism on the left-wing of the Democratic Party. Tactical radicalism is not the same thing as ideological radicalism. Tactical radicals are a subset of ideological radicals; some ideological radicals have clear-eyed of the pragmatic steps needed to advance their goals incrementally...

http://tinyurl.com/29utsbl



Unemployed and unfunded

San Francisco Chronicle
by Debra J. Saunders

07/22/10

President Obama hailed the 60 U.S. senators who voted to extend federal unemployment benefits Tuesday — without paying for the $34 billion tab — for standing on the side of ‘working families.’ The measure, which had been blocked by Republicans, would distribute unemployment benefits to some 2.5 million recipients who have been out of work for 26 to 99 weeks. GOP Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine voted in favor of the measure. Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., joined the GOP filibuster. The House is expected to pass the measure so that Obama can sign it. No doubt Americans who have seen their benefits run out are relieved that their unemployment checks will resume — and be paid retroactively...

http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/saunders/#ixzz0uReniCbI


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Time runs out for 1.2 million on unemployment
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/06/29/unemployment.irpt/index.html


Informant: Margaret McCarron

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The Jobless Effect: Is the Real Unemployment Rate 16.5%, 22%, or. . .?

By Pallavi Gogoi

Ginsburg says the biggest source of undercounting comes from people who can't find a full-time job that they're qualified to do, for instance recent college graduates who take part-time jobs at fast-food joints or retail stores. Today, the Labor Department estimates that 8.6 million people are in this category.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25978.htm



Jobless Claims in U.S. Increase

The figures underscore projections that a lack of jobs will restrain consumer spending, the biggest part of the economy, and lead to slower growth in the second half of the year.

http://bit.ly/bcStEw


From Information Clearing House

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Obstinate GOP Removes 'Jobs' from 'Job Bill'
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/07/21-0



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Debra+J.+Saunders

Max Ajl, Truthout: "The unceasing dribble of bad news from the Gulf of Mexico has been running before our eyes for weeks now: dead plankton; hypoxic zones looming and worsening, the product of massive methane releases into the Gulf waters; withered marsh grass; dolphin carcasses. This ruin is plenty bad on its own terms. No one wants to live in a filthy post-industrial wasteland. But a healthy ecology does a lot more than make the world aesthetically enchanting."

http://www.truth-out.org/bp-obama-and-economics-disaster61406



The Source of Our Despair in the Gulf

Dahr Jamail and Erika Blumenfeld, Truthout: "For the first time in 87 days, little or no oil could be escaping into the Gulf of Mexico from BP's Macondo well. The new capping stack was deployed on July 11 from onboard the Transocean Discoverer Inspiration. With a new containment cap atop the damaged well, many are hopeful. But all is not well, after all."

http://www.truth-out.org/the-source-our-despair-gulf61459



What Happens Next?

Dahr Jamail and Erika Blumenfeld, Dahr Jamail's Dispatches: "The Gulf Islands are considered a Gulf Coast treasure. These sparkling blue waters, white sand beaches, and fertile coastal marshes were designated a National Seashore in 1971 to protect the wildlife, barrier islands, and archeological sites along the Gulf of Mexico. They are home to fiddler crab, shrimp, flounder, oysters, blue crab, brown pelicans, osprey, great blue heron, raccoon, loggerhead sea turtle, Florida Pompano, shark, and hundreds of species of birds and fish. And now they are being oiled. All this life, along with the humans like Captain Louis who love this area and are deeply rooted to it, are in jeopardy."

http://www.truth-out.org/what-happens-next61633

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Censored Gulf report: Surf hissing, sizzling, still they stay

Video

Examiner.com

Is mind control part of this massive non-consensual human experimentation to ascertain how much death and destruction people can tolerate? ...

http://www.examiner.com/x-10438-Human-Rights-Examiner~y2010m7d16-Censored-Gulf-report-Surf-hissing-sizzling-Still-they-stay-video

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Safe, effective solutions ignored
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/896.html



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=British+Petroleum
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=oil+spill
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Max+Ajl
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Dahr+Jamail
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Erika+Blumenfeld

Première mondiale scientifique avec les EHS de la forêt de Saoû en France:
La preuve des encéphaloscans comparatifs.

http://www.next-up.org/France/Refere_Une_terre_pour_les_EHS.php#1

http://www.ausgestrahlt.de/mitmachen/schwarz-gelb/mappus.html

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Die Lügen der Atomlobby
http://umweltinstitut.org/download/flyer/Atomluegen_Flyer_2010.pdf

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Solarenergie soll billiger als Atomenergie geworden sein

Ein Bericht von US-Ökonomen kommt zum Schluss, dass der Bau neuer AKWs immer teurer wird, während seit 2010 die Solarenergie billiger geworden sei.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/148087

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Schlechte Vorzeichen für mehr Klimaschutz in Deutschland?

Setzt sich die Atomlobby durch?
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689376ms218



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Klimaschutz
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=AKW
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Campaign For Liberty
by Doug Bandow

07/15/10

In one of the most celebrated debate exchanges of the 2008 presidential campaign, GOP contender Rep. Ron Paul pointed out that Americans were hated because they were ‘over there’ in Islamic lands. In fact, there is virtually no country on earth where American forces are not located. Luckily, most people in most of those nations are not trying to kill Americans. In fact, many foreigners enjoy being protected at U. S. expense...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=1016


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Washington Is Paid Off, Only Ron Paul Has Credibility
http://www.lewrockwell.com/celente/celente41.1.html



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Ron+Paul
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=GOP
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Doug+Bandow
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=/celente

CounterPunch
by Firmin DeBrabander

07/15/10

For years critics ominously warned that, as is the nature of ‘nature,’ weeds would eventually evolve to withstand Roundup. Monsanto brushed aside such concerns, saying it would be ages before anyone had to worry about something like that. The glory days lasted about a decade. The superweeds evolved faster than anyone imagined — and with a vengeance. Farmers accustomed to drenching their fields with Roundup are now battling a monster breed of pigweed that, the New York Times reports, ‘can grow three inches a day and reach seven feet or more … so sturdy that it can damage harvesting equipment. Nature has issued quite a challenge to our ‘weed solution.’ The chemical industry has decided to respond in turn with Agent Orange. To be precise, Dow Chemical is working on seeds that are resistant to 24-D, a component of Agent Orange … presumably because it intends on spraying farmland with wartime defoliant. This is alarming on a number of fronts. But let’s be clear on one thing at the outset: we don’t necessarily need Agent Orange to deal with weeds. The Amish don’t. Never have. Superweeds — like superbugs (or superbacteria) emerging in concentrated chicken farms — are the product of industrial agriculture, which aims to squeeze as much as possible from the land, and has selected monoculture as the optimal means of doing so...

http://counterpunch.org/debrabander07132010.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Monsanto
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=industrial+agriculture
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CNN

07/15/10

More U.S. soldiers killed themselves last month than in recent Army history, according to Army statistics released Thursday, confounding officials trying to reverse the grim trend. The statistics show that 32 soldiers killed themselves in June, the highest number in a single month since the Vietnam era. Twenty-one of them were on active duty, while 11 were in the National Guard or Army Reserve in an inactive status...

http://tinyurl.com/2adl3gy


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Record numbers of soldiers committing suicide
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9834/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Army+suicides
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Vietnam

http://groups.google.com/group/omeganews/t/6ee754998bf9b78b?hl=de



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=swine+flu
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=H1N1
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul684.html

Historian Warns of Sudden Collapse of American 'Empire'
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/ferguson-warns-of-empire-collapse.html

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A little less hubris and a little more humility

Liberty & Power
by CJ Maloney

07/15/10

The US Chamber of Commerce recently issued an open letter to President Obama and Pals taking them to task because, ‘Through their legislative and regulatory proposals the congressional majority and the administration have injected tremendous uncertainty into economic decision making and business planning.’ It’s a crying shame eighty years after the carnage of the Great Depression that we learned absolutely nothing from it — we still hold fast to the idea that political intervention into economic matters is proper, rational, and just...

http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/129150.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Tell Obama to Keep His Promise to Cut World Poverty in Half! - The Petition Site: http://bit.ly/cPnMcb



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Personalwechsel bringt Hardliner James Mattis an die Spitze des "Zentralkommandos".
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/148016



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Auf Häuslebauer kommen nun gefährliche variable Zinsen zu und immer mehr Beschäftigte leiden unter befristeten Arbeitsverhältnissen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/32/32957/1.html



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Die US-Regierung will das Atomwaffenarsenal einerseits reduzieren, aber andererseits auch mit vielen zusätzlichen Milliarden modernisieren und erneuern.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/32/32964/1.html



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/15-2



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The New Finance Bill: A Mountain of Legislative Paper, a Molehill of Reform

Robert Reich: "Thursday, the President pronounced that 'because of this [financial reform] bill the American people will never again be asked to foot the bill for Wall Street's mistakes.' As if to prove him wrong, Goldman Sachs simultaneously announced it had struck a deal with federal prosecutors to pay $550 million to settle federal claims it misled investors, a sum representing a mere 15 days profit for the firm based on its 2009 earnings."

http://www.truth-out.org/robert-reich-the-new-finance-bill-a-mountain-legislative-paper-a-molehill-reform61431



Taking Financial Reform into Our Own Hands

Stacy Mitchell, Yes! Magazine: "With the passage of the financial reform bill, giant banks see a golden opportunity to finally put the financial crisis, along with their culpability for wrecking our economy, in the rearview mirror."

http://www.truth-out.org/taking-financial-reform-our-own-hands61448

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The Workable Solution to the Financial Crisis
http://www.call4reform.org/
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/44200


From Mast Sanity/Mast Network

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Obama’s latest monstrosity

Competitive Enterprise Institute
by John Berlau

07/21/10

The 2,315 page Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill that President Obama will sign today should not be called ‘financial reform.’ Instead the bill, which passed the Senate 60-39 last week when Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown joined Maine Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins to grant cloture, should be called what for what it is: pages and pages of massively costly, counterproductive and possibly unconstitutional mandates on nearly every type of business except for those government-sponsored enterprises at the root of the crisis. And while the bill claims to crack down on excesses on Wall Street, its harshest impact will likely be on Main Street businesses that had nothing to do with the meltdown...

http://tinyurl.com/25jc5bs


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Why Financial Reform Will Fail
http://www.lewrockwell.com/schiff/schiff103.html



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Deb Weinstein, Truthout: "Two days after regulations went into effect making it easier for veterans to seek treatment for PTSD, members of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs met Wednesday with veterans, the mother of an Iraq war veteran who committed suicide, and members of the Veterans Health Administration to discuss other ways to help veterans get the help they need."

http://www.truth-out.org/veteran-care-more-questions-than-solutions61397



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Jason Leopold, Truthout: "Jay Bybee, the former head of the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) who signed two infamous August 2002 legal memos which authorized CIA interrogators to torture 'war on terror' prisoners, told a congressional committee that more than a half-dozen of the tactics detainees were subjected to were not 'authorized' by the DOJ."

http://www.truth-out.org/author-torture-memos-admits-some-techniques-were-not-approved-by-doj61392

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ACLU: House Committee Releases Deposition of OLC Torture Memo Author Jay Bybee
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/07/15-14

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Former DoJ official: CIA exceeded interrogation limits

San Jose Mercury News

07/15/10

The former Justice Department official who cowrote the so-called torture memos testified that the department did not sanction some of the harsh methods the CIA used against detainees during the George W. Bush administration, including the repeated waterboarding of two suspected terrorists. Jay Bybee, former head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, said in testimony released Thursday by the House Judiciary Committee that the CIA went further in its tough tactics than he had outlined as permissible in a widely criticized legal memoranda. Bybee appeared before the committee May 26...

http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_15527755?source=rss


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Tortured by Self-Pity: The Sociopathic Judge Jay Bybee
http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w159.html



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22 Statistics That Prove That The Middle Class Is Being Systematically Wiped Out Of Existence In America

Once upon a time, the United States had the largest and most prosperous middle class in the history of the world, but now that is changing at a blinding pace.

http://bit.ly/c5VFbI


From Information Clearing House



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By Steven Brill

Along a marble corridor in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, I watched about 40 well-dressed men (and two women) delivering huge value for their employers. Except that we, the taxpayers, weren't employing them. The nation's banks, mortgage lenders, stockbrokers, private-equity funds and derivatives traders were.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25948.htm



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By Ian Cobain and Owen Bowcott

The true extent of the Labour government's involvement in the illegal abduction and torture of its own citizens after the al-Qaida attacks of September 2001 has been spelled out in stark detail with the disclosure during high court proceedings of a mass of highly classified documents.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25946.htm



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By Stanley Kutler

The American Empire is alive and well-and as expansive as ever. We have established more than 700 military bases across the world, largely encircling the peripheries of Russia and China, which are now central to the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25950.htm



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Study

By Daniel Tencer

Furthermore, the report suggested that any Israeli strike on Iran would cause a large number of civilian casualties because the Israeli strike would likely not be limited to the nuclear facilities themselves.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25940.htm



An Attack on Iran: Back on the Table

"There really wasn't a military option a year ago," an Israeli military source told me. "But they've gotten serious about the planning, and the option is real now." Israel has been brought into the planning process, I'm told, because U.S. officials are frightened by the possibility that the right-wing Netanyahu government might go rogue and try to whack the Iranians on its own.

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From Information Clearing House



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- Référé du 21 juillet 2010 TGI de Valence à la requête du Conseil Général de la Drôme, poursuites et diligences de son résident, M. Didier Guillaume contre les Membres du Collectif "Une terre pour les EHS" et l'Association Robin des toits. Prochaine News : EHS, la preuve scientifique de l'action de salubrité publique et de survie en cours à la forêt de Saoû : Les encéphaloscans comparatifs (Première mondiale). Prochaine News : Ce qu'a dit (les engagements) de Patrick Royannez (vice-président du Conseil Général de la Drôme chargé de l'environnement) face aux médias lors de la conférence de presse du 25 juin 2010 à la forêt de Saoû (vidéo HD).

- Les premiers messages de soutien aux EHS en forêt de Saoû.
- Les messages à Didier Guillaume sénateur et président du CG de la Drôme.
- La première pièce du dossier en réponse : l'article 223-6 du Code Pénal.

BRD gewohnt repressiv

EU-Kommission will gemeinsamen Flüchtlingsschutz auf höherem Niveau schaffen. Die Bundesregierung nicht. Boulevardblatt hetzt gegen Asylbewerber. Artikel von und bei Ulla Jelpke, erschienen in junge Welt am 10. Juli 2010 http://www.ulla-jelpke.de/news_detail.php?newsid=1656


Streit um EU-Asylrecht "Deutschland schürt Ressentiments"

Die EU plant ein einheitliches Asylrecht, in Deutschland gibt es dagegen Widerstand. Karl Kopp, Europaexperte der Flüchtlingsorganisation Pro Asyl, über den Populismus der CSU und das Argumentieren ohne Fakten. Interview von Thorsten Denkler in Süddeutsche Zeitung vom 09.07.2010 http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/streit-um-eu-asylrecht-deutschland-schuert-ressentiments-1.972729


Aus: LabourNet, 15. Juli 2010



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Endgültiges Ende einer sehr erfolgreichen Gewerkschafts-Ära in Deutschland - jetzt nur gerichtlich "beglaubigt". Gibt es weitere Perspektiven - oder nur "gefangen" in der Abwärtsspirale der Löhne ?

Kommentierte Presse- und Literaturschau von Volker Bahl vom 12.7.2010 http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/gewerkschaft/tarifpolitik/tarifeinh_bahl.html


Wider die Tarifeinheitsfront. Vom Versuch, Tarifautonomie und Streikfreiheit zu halbieren

Kommentar von Detlef Hensche in NRhZ-Online - Neue Rheinische Zeitung - Online-Flyer Nr. 258 vom 14.07.2010 http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=15388

Aus dem Text: „…Die Legitimation des Tarifvertrages wurzelt in der frei gewählten Mitgliedschaft und der durch den Mitgliederwillen bestimmten Gewerkschaft. Die gesetzlich dekretierte Tarifeinheit beschneidet dagegen diese Freiheit der kollektiven Selbstbestimmung über die eigene Arbeit. Vollends zeigt sich der Eingriffscharakter im geplanten Streikverbot. Was verharmlosend als Ausdehnung der Friedenspflicht etikettiert wird, erweist sich für die nachrangige Gewerkschaft als Streikverbot. Doch auch die Streikfreiheit ist Bestandteil des Koalitionsgrundrechts. Ohne die Chance, die individuelle Unterlegenheit durch gemeinsam ausgeübten wirtschaftlichen Druck mittels Arbeitseinstellung zu kompensieren, wäre der Einsatz zur Förderung der Arbeits- und Wirtschaftsbedingungen nichts anderes als „kollektives Betteln“, wie das BAG treffend formuliert hat. Die Friedenspflicht ist legitim, soweit sie sich auf den von der Gewerkschaft selbst abgeschlossenen Tarifvertrag und dessen Laufzeit bezieht. Gewerkschaften und ihre Mitglieder dagegen (gleich einem Vertrag zu Lasten Dritter) unter das Joch fremdgesetzter Friedenspflicht zu stellen, nimmt ihnen die Chance, gegen die Arbeitgeber eigene Gegenmacht zu entwickeln…“


50 Jahre EU-Gleichstellungspolitik: Europa ein "Herrenhaus"

„Die letzten 50 Jahre Europäischer Gleichstellungspolitik als Erfolgsgeschichte zu erzählen, wäre unangemessen. Die Römischen Verträge, die am 1. Januar 1958 in Kraft getreten sind, markieren den Ausgangspunkt der Europäischen Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft (EWG), die dann zur Europäischen Union mit inzwischen 27 Mitgliedsstaaten erweitert wurde. Obwohl die Europäische Gemeinschaft nur „Gründungsväter“ hat, wird auch die Europäische Gleichstellungspolitik 52 Jahre alt. Denn der Art. 119 in den Römischen Verträgen, zur Lohngleichheit zwischen allen Geschlechtern, bildet hierfür den Ausgangspunkt. Dieser Artikel fand seinen Weg in das Vertragswerk aus wettbewerbspolitischen Überlegungen und weniger aus feministischer Gesinnung…“ Artikel von Gisela Notz aus Lunapark21 – Zeitschrift zur Kritik der globalen Ökonomie - Heft 10 - Sommer 2010, exklusiv im LabourNet Germany! (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/eu/sopo/notz_lp10.pdf

Zu Lunapark21 – Zeitschrift zur Kritik der globalen Ökonomie – und zum Inhaltsverzeichnis von Heft 10 vom Sommer 2010 sowie Bestell- und Abobedingungen siehe die Homepage der Zeitschrift http://www.lunapark21.net


Aus: LabourNet, 15. Juli 2010



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Our Future Blog
by Robert Borosage

07/14/10

Voters are in a surly temper. The economy stinks. Jobs are scarce. Wages are under pressure. One in 4 homes with mortgages is underwater. Retirement savings have been butchered; pensions are at risk. Bailed out bankers are paying themselves record bonuses; the oil keeps fouling the Gulf; the jobs aren’t coming back. It is ugly out here. Not surprisingly, faith in Obama is starting to flag. According to a recent Washington Post poll, a startling 58% have only some or no faith that he will make the right decisions about the country’s future. Congressional Democrats fare worse. Republicans would be salivating, only folks overwhelmingly don’t want to rehire them either. A staggering 72% have little or no trust in congressional Republicans on the country’s future. And now the election season starts...

http://tinyurl.com/2dd4zqm



Signs of the times

FreedomPolitics
by Thomas Sowell

07/13/10

If you could spend vast amounts of other people’s money just by saying a few magic words, wouldn’t you be tempted to do it? Barack Obama has spent hundreds of billions of dollars of the taxpayers’ money just by using the magic words ’stimulus’ and ‘jobs.’ It doesn’t matter politically that the stimulus is not actually stimulating and that the unemployment rate remains up near double-digit levels, despite all the spending and all the rhetoric about jobs...

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A moral abomination

Cato Institute
by Daniel J. Mitchell

07/14/10

Sen. Bob Bennett of Utah and Rep. Bob Inglis of South Carolina were bounced in their Republican primaries in large part because they voted for the Wall Street bailout. It is expected that the list of ‘TARP martyrs’ will become much larger this November as voters have additional opportunities to express their unhappiness about the massive transfer of wealth from taxpayers to poorly run but politically connected financial institutions. Beltway insiders and members of the political establishment are mourning these developments, asserting that the TARP martyrs are noble and courageous officials who did the right thing despite the risk to their careers. The obvious implication is that ordinary voters are a bunch of yokels who did not understand the steps that were needed to rescue the financial system and the economy from collapse...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11983



Obama told lies about bailouts

Nolan Chart
by Walt Thiessen

07/24/10

President Obama on Wednesday signed into law what most major media outlets called the most sweeping financial industry reform legislation since the Great Depression, hailing the reforms as establishing ‘the strongest consumer financial protections in history.’ In actual fact, they failed to report that President Obama, Chris Dodd of Connecticut, who sponsored the bill in the Senate, Barney Frank of Massachusetts, who sponsored the bill in the House of Representatives, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, and all the top talking heads of the Obama administration, Wall Street, the major parties, and the media, have all been telling some of the most brazen, most blatant, most bold-faced lies ever told in human history in defense of their new law. Let’s take a moment to examine some of these lies...

http://www.nolanchart.com/article7871.html



Deflation: The blood on Bernanke’s hands

Freedom's Phoenix
by Bill Bonner

08/04/10

As near as we can tell, the Japanese-style correction is still underway. Consumers are careful about spending because they fear they might not have jobs. Employers are careful about hiring because they fear they might not have revenue. And banks are careful about lending because 1) few people want to borrow, and 2) the banks figure they may need the money themselves. Meanwhile, Ben Bernanke has staked his entire reputation on being able to avoid a Japanese-style slump...

http://tinyurl.com/2b9wjp8


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Making Americans Sick
http://www.lewrockwell.com/williams-w/w-williams43.html

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TARP watchdogs reiterate criticisms of mortgage modification efforts

The government's three TARP watchdogs testified before the Senate Finance Committee Wednesday and continued to criticize the government's much-maligned mortgage modification program.

http://bit.ly/behVEV


From Information Clearing House



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Spiked
by Tim Black

07/14//10

‘A man’s home is his castle.’ Rarely has this 400-year-old quipped defence against the arbitrary exercise of state power seemed quite as quaint as it does today. Because whatever else a man’s home is, whatever else he feels his private sphere to be, it is certainly not impermeable. In fact, due to a whole raft of legislation over the past 10 years, our private existence has never been quite so transparent. The state, should it so wish, can read our emails, can check which websites we visit, can watch us take our dogs for walks, can follow us on our way to work … in fact, the possibilities for state surveillance are endless. And the chief reason for this is a spectacularly snide piece of legislation called the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA)...

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/9199/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Los Angeles Times

07/15/10

The number of U.S. homes taken back by banks through foreclosure hit a record high in the second quarter, even as lenders delayed more homes from entering the process through short sales and loan modification efforts, according to data to be released Thursday. This growing supply of lender-owned properties could set back the nation’s housing recovery but probably won’t sink it completely if the nation’s employment situation doesn’t deteriorate further and the economy begins to pick up steam, experts said. Sales of homes have faltered nationally in recent months with the expiration of government tax incentives for buyers...

http://tinyurl.com/247gf2k



Watchdogs slam Obama housing programs

MSNBC

07/21/10

Obama administration housing rescue programs have been ineffective at preventing a rise in home foreclosures even as the government’s support for the mortgage market grew by nearly $700 billion in the past year, bailout watchdogs said on Wednesday. Neil Barofsky, Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, heaped more criticism on Treasury for its failure to adopt more realistic goals for the number of people who can benefit from its program to modify mortgages to slash monthly payments...

http://tinyurl.com/2dkd7o3


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Shocking Surprises Yet Ahead for the U.S. Housing Market

Home sales have dropped to all-time record lows. Is there an end in sight? New home sales in the US dropped a record 33 percent in May.

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1 Million American Households Likely to Lose Homes to Foreclosure This Year

By Associated Press

Nearly 528,000 homes were taken over by lenders in the first six months of the year. By comparison, lenders have historically taken over about 100,000 homes a year.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25952.htm



Seven More U.S. Banks Shut by Regulators, Pushing Year's Failures Past 100

Banks with total deposits of about $2 billion were shut down yesterday, according to statements on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. website. The failures cost the FDIC's deposit- insurance fund $431 million. The U.S. bank-failure count this year rose to 103.

http://bit.ly/dfyDbL



Bankruptcy filings up 25% over last year

Many consumers struggling with job loss.
http://bit.ly/aF9QYt



FDIC flashes SOS - 1,000 bank failures before recession is over

By the end of the recession, there will be approximately 1,000 bank failures. Does this sound extreme? It should but the numbers don't cover the entire story. Since 2008 the number of bank failures has reached 269 and this doesn't include consolidations done through the FDIC where bigger banks ate up smaller banks before they officially failed.

http://bit.ly/aJk5vj



Bank-Bankruptcy: Five More Banks Bankrupt, Insurance Funds Siphoned

For a normal business to fail during the time of economic downturn is nothing out of the ordinary. However, when banks start to fail, then the public might have more to get concerned about. The total number of failed banks this year in the US has reached a number of 108, as another five banks failed.

http://clicknews.org/five-more-banks-fail-to-bankruptcy-insurance-funds-siphoned/101160/



Bankrupt Banks List

The FDIC is often appointed as receiver for failed banks. This page contains useful information for the customers and vendors of these banks. This includes information on the acquiring bank (if applicable), how your accounts and loans are affected, and how vendors can file claims against the receivership.

http://www.fdic.gov/bank/individual/failed/banklist.html


From Information Clearing House

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No Letup in Foreclosures
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/16



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Is the Gates Foundation involved in bribery?
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9835/



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo189.html

A Failed Obama Hero
http://www.lewrockwell.com/williams-w/w-williams42.html



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Öl, Geld und Propaganda
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/32/32949/1.html



BP-Boykott?

Im Gegensatz zur Brent-Spar-Boykottkampagne vor 15 Jahren gegen Shell, gibt es gegen BP in Deutschland kaum Protestaktionen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/148015



BP-Motto: "Macht das Loch endlich fertig!"

Die Katastrophe auf der Bohrinsel Deepwater Horizon hätte verhindert werden können, so der Explorationsgeologe Wilhelm Dominik.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/32/32973/1.html



Ölpest: Die Angst vor weiteren Lecks

Mittlerweile ist man gegenüber Erfolgsmeldungen im Golf von Mexiko skeptisch - und gegenüber künstlichen Rettungsinseln.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/148043



BP erkauft sich Schweigen

Ölkonzern sucht in den USA Wissenschaftler, die das Unglück im Golf von Mexiko untersuchen, aber ihre Erkenntnisse zunächst nicht veröffentlichen dürfen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/148075

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Erdöl: "Die Tränen des Teufels"

Bei Risiken und Nebenwirkungen fragen Sie Ihren Arzt oder Apotheker. Wen soll man denn bei BP fragen, nachdem der Ölmulti alle Risiken ignoriert und alle Nebenwirkungen verdrängt hat? Deshalb ist das weltweite Erstaunen und Entsetzen so groß, dass es BP einfach nicht gelingen will, das Ungeheuer am Meeresgrund zu bändigen.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689279ms216



Greenpeace-Schiff soll Auswirkungen der Ölkatastrophe im Golf von Mexiko dokumentieren

Ziel der Reise ist es, Daten und Informationen über die Auswirkungen einer der größten Ölkatastrophen zu sammeln. Greenpeace erweitert damit seine Anstrengungen, unabhängige Informationen zur Verfügung zu stellen.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689342ms217



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=British+Petroleum
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Ölpest
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=oil+spill

Environmental Working Group
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/07/14-4

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/14-4



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=recovery
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=jobless
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Jim+Hightower

http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/07/14-0

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Republicans Don't Give a Damn about the Deficit

By Sahil Kapur

The GOP's blocking of jobless benefits in the US Senate, while supporting huge tax cuts for the rich, shows its stance is political.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25947.htm



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Save, Baby, Save

George Lakoff, Truthout: "The Death Gusher in the Gulf should tell us to end offshore drilling forever. The reason is simple: Systemic risk! Better regulations won't end what went wrong: Corporate greed, cutting corners to save money, lack of coordination among subcontractors, unforeseen factors, and just plain incompetence in private industry."

http://www.truth-out.org/george-lakoff-save-baby-save-a-barrel-saved-is-a-barrel-not-needed-ever61340



Gulf Spill Raises Questions About Role of Oil Consultants

Shashank Bengali, McClatchy Newspapers: "The names, locations and geographical coordinates are different. Otherwise the drilling plans for three oil companies in the Gulf of Mexico contain identical fonts, footnotes, overly optimistic projections and even typographical errors."

http://www.truth-out.org/gulf-spill-raises-questions-about-role-oil-consultants61384

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Scientists Say Gulf Oil Disaster Altering Food Web
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/14-1

There’s Just No Pleasing Some Robber Barons
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/14-2

Oceanographer and Documentary Filmmaker Jean-Michel Cousteau Returns to Gulf to Survey Oil Damage
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/07/15-0



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By Brent Gardner-Smith

"I think this is a problem that is going to go live really soon," Ferguson said. "In that sense, I mean within the next two years. Because the whole thing, fiscally and other ways, is very near the edge of chaos. And we've seen already in Greece what happens when the bond market loses faith in your fiscal policy."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25938.htm



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By Nick Turse

If Americans care only sparingly for their paid, professional soldiers -- the ones A.O. Scott says deserve 90 minutes of our time -- they care even less about Afghan civilians. That's why they don't understand war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25935.htm



U.S. Contractor Deaths Soaring in Afghanistan

U.S. contractors deaths are soaring, from 189 last June 30th since the war began in 2001, to 521 this June 30th - an increase of 175% in just one year.

http://bit.ly/dc6t92


From Information Clearing House



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=civilian+deaths
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http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Nick+Turse

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

07/13/10

I have a modest ten-part proposal for the federal government, although some people undoubtedly will consider it radical. 1. Immediately vacate Afghanistan and Iraq. The U.S. government has had 8-9 years to do as much killing, injuring, maiming, and destroying as it wants in those two countries. Time’s up. Enough is enough...

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2010-07-13.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://sharenews.twoday.net/topics/Afghanistan/
http://sharenews.twoday.net/topics/Iraq+-+Irak+/
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Jacob+G.+Hornberger

Cato Institute
by Gene Healy

07/13/10

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele caught grief recently for suggesting the war was doomed to fail. Steele, who has offended everyone from pro-lifers to Rush Limbaugh fans, truly has the gift of gaffe. But he wasn’t wrong to call Afghanistan a ‘war of Obama’s choosing.’ A recent National Journal graphic shows that under the president’s Afghan ’surge,’ OEF deployments passed Iraq troop levels in ‘a strategic pivot point’ earlier this year. Obama, Steele suggested, had bought into the Democratic ’script’ that has prevailed since the 2004 Kerry campaign: Iraq’s a distraction — ‘the battle should really be in Afghanistan.’ Obama’s escalation of that battle raises young John Kerry’s question about Vietnam: How do you ask someone ‘to be the last man to die for a mistake?’

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11975


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Afghanistan Violence Soars
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/07/16-1

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"What Was My Father's Crime?"

Video

Afghan Man Tells Story of His 92-year-old Father's Killing by U.S. Special Forces.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25989.htm



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ACTION ALERT

PLEASE SHARE WIDELY!

By Forests.org Forest Protection Portal http://forests.org/ a project of Ecological Internet July 13, 2010

Vedanta Resources, a British mining company, is set to destroy the forests, wildlife and way of life of the Dongria Kondh people. The Dongria Kondh have been struggling with all their might to protect their mountain but are being overpowered by the financial and political might of this multi-billion dollar company. They have been protesting locally for years, and have appealed for international support for their campaign to keep their sacred Niyamgiri Mountain ecologically and culturally intact.

TAKE ACTION HERE NOW: http://forests.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=india_mine

The Dongria Kondh are an indigenous tribe who have lived since time immemorial around the mountain Niyamgiri in the Indian state of Orissa. Because they revere this mountain as their god, it has not thus far suffered the deforestation and degradation experienced by similar areas in that part of the world but contains an elephant reserve with Sambar, Leopard, Tiger, Barking Deer, various species of birds and other endangered species of wildlife. However now Vedanta Resources, a British mining company, is set to destroy the forests, wildlife and way of life of the Dongria Kondh people. These local peoples have been vociferously and bravely protesting for years.

Many groups from around the world have been campaigning to persuade Vedanta's shareholders and financiers to distance themselves from the company. A group of international NGO's wrote to Vedanta's bankers in April this year asking them to dissociate themselves from the company. None of the banks have done so, so now it’s time to name and shame them, time for people from all around the world to send emails expressing our disgust that they continue bankroll this disgraceful project. With a few clicks of the mouse, you can send emails to people who could, if they wished, prevent this ecological destruction and injustice from taking place. Please share this action alert with your friends and ask them to do the same.

MORE INFORMATION AND TAKE ACTION NOW: http://forests.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=india_mine

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/sowell10.1.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=economic+disaster
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=/sowell

Why is the Pentagon killing people in Afghanistan?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis195.html



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Pentagon
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http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=margolis

Neues Fotomaterial zeigt bislang wenig bekannte Folgen der Ölpest im Golf. Zugleich wird deutlich, wie wenig sich das Management großer Konzerne, nicht nur bei BP, um das Risiko von Umweltschäden kümmert.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/32/32952/1.html



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Ölpest
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=oil+spill
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=British+Petroleum

Ellen Brown, Truthout: "Ever since December 2008, the Federal Reserve has held short-term interest rates near zero. This was not only to try to stimulate the housing and credit markets, but also to allow the federal government to increase its debt levels without increasing the interest tab picked up by the taxpayers. The total public US debt increased by nearly 50 percent from 2006 to the end of 2009 (from about $8.5 trillion to $12.3 trillion), but the interest bill on the debt actually dropped (from $406 billion to $383 billion), because of this reduction in interest rates."

http://www.truth-out.org/how-brokers-became-bookies-the-insidious-transformation-markets-into-casinos61322



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Common Cause: New Report on Energy Industry Details Contributions and Lobbying Figures, Shows Industry Spent Nearly $3 Billion This Decade

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/07/13-1



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=lobbyists

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/13-1

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“They just don’t know who they’re messing with”

Mother Jones
by Kate Sheppard

07/14/10

If you’ve been reading Mother Jones lately, you’ve heard about BP’s stranglehold on media access in the Gulf, which has included preventing reporters from visting oil-soaked public beaches and barring its spill cleanup workers from talking to the press. Now, one of BP’s ex-media enforcers is speaking out. Former BP contractor Adam Dillon went public last Friday, telling a local news station in New Orleans that he was fed up with BP’s handling of the spill response, not least of all its information clampdown. In an interview with Mother Jones this week, Dillon, who claims he was fired for raising concerns about the cleanup with his bosses, elaborated on his experiences in the Gulf and vented his frustrations with BP...

http://tinyurl.com/2wdzc9c


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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BP's Oil Drilling Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico
http://action.healthygulf.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4314



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/13

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Haitian Farmers Reject Monsanto Earthquake Relief Donation and Burn GMO Seeds

In an attempt to backdoor GMO seeds into a new market, Monsanto has taken the opportunity to donate hundreds of tons of GMO seeds to Haiti and is calling it an effort to help the people in Haiti with earthquake relief. However, Monsanto's "generosity" is being met with skepticism and outright rejection.

http://www.naturalnews.com/029222_GMOs_Haiti.html


From Information Clearing House



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New revelation emphasizes fact that Obama is nothing more than a sock puppet for the global elite

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Tuesday, July 13, 2010

The fact that Barack Obama is nothing more than a corporate sock puppet, a completely hollow vassal being used and manipulated by his globalist controllers to carry out their agenda, has once again been emphasized with the revelation that corporate media mogul and Bilderberg luminary Mortimer Zuckerman wrote one of Obama’s political speeches.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/bilderberg-corporate-media-mogul-wrote-obama-speech.html



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The New Republic
by David Rieff

07/12/10

How can anti-interventionists pay so little heed to the views of the victims? It is a fair question. I would respond first as an American: I do not want my country to be the world’s policeman, even in the most humane sense of that word. It seems to me that assuming this role has been a disaster for the United States. As W. H. Seward said in his eulogy to John Quincy Adams, ‘democracies are prone to war, and war consumes them.’ For make no mistake, these military interventions on humanitarian or human rights grounds are wars, not armed philanthropy. Sorry, the military-industrial complex is no myth...

http://www.tnr.com/blog/foreign-policy/76197/first-do-no-harm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Police Brutality in America

By Stephen Lendman

Across America, daily incidents occur, one of many the cold-blooded January 1, 2009 murder of Oscar Grant - unarmed, offering no resistance, thrust face-down on the ground, shot in the back, and killed, videotaped on at least four cameras for irrefutable proof. USA Today said five bystanders taped it.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25929.htm



A Police State You'd Better Believe In

By Jack Kenny

When our nation is waging "war on" so many things (drugs, crime, poverty, terrorism), it's hard to know where to enlist and when to defect. Or put another way, when should a patriot oppose his government?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26059.htm



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The American Conservative
by Thomas DiLorenzo

Government can finance war (and everything else) by only three methods: taxes, debt, and the printing of money. Taxes are the most visible and painful, followed by debt finance, which crowds out private borrowing, drives up interest rates, and imposes the double burden of principal and interest. Money creation, on the other hand, makes war seem costless to the average citizen. But of course there is no such thing as a free lunch. As a general rule, the longer a war lasts, the more centrally planned and government-controlled the entire economy becomes. And it remains so to some degree after the war has ended. War is the health of the state, as Randolph Bourne famously declared, and the growth of the state means a decline in liberty and prosperity... (for publication 08/01/10)

http://amconmag.com/article/2010/aug/01/00016/

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Raw Story

07/12/10

Fox News’ senior judicial analyst made some surprising remarks Saturday that may go against the grain at his conservative network. In a interview with Ralph Nader on C-SPAN’s ‘Book TV’ to promote his book Lies the Government Told You, Judge Andrew Napolitano said that President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney should have been indicted for ‘torturing, for spying, for arresting without warrant.’ The judge believes that it is a fallacy to say that the US treats suspects as innocent until proven guilty. ‘The government acts as if a defendant is guilty merely on the basis of an accusation,’ said Napolitano...

http://tinyurl.com/2fa9vp6


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Bush Should Have Been Indicted

Video Interview

In a interview with Ralph Nader, Judge Andrew Napolitano said that President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney should have been indicted for "torturing, for spying, for arresting without warrant."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25949.htm



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=warrantless

...Hausbesetzer also, gibt es heute in den USA: Die meisten, und dies ist der Unterschied zu vielen anderen Ländern, sind Menschen, die einfach in ihren Häusern geblieben sind, obwohl sie nach bürgerlichem Gesetz diese zugunsten von Kreditgebern aufgeben müssten. Aber: Warum sollten sie auch? Sie nehmen nur wörtlich, was viele sagen: Sie zahlen nicht für die kapitalistische Krise.


Dass dieser massive, oft individuelle, immer öfter aber auch organisierte Widerstand "schlecht fürs Geschäft" ist, wurde bereits in dem Artikel "America Is Now Filled With At Least 4.4 Million Squatters" von Vincent Fernando beim Business Insider vom 26. April 2010 festgehalten: http://www.businessinsider.com/44-million-americans-are-now-squatters-2010-4


Die von Zynikern sozial genannte Marktwirtschaft hat in den USA zwischen 2007 und Ende 2009 zu knapp 92,5 Millionen "foreclosures" - zu deutsch: Vertreibung - geführt, wobei der Prozentsatz von (noch) Minderheiten jeweils deutlich über ihrem Anteil an der Gesellschaft liegen. So muss in "Race and Recession: Foreclosure Losses Still Mounting" von Seth Freed Wessler bei Colorlines am 08. Juli 2010 nicht nur von der überdurchschnittlichen Betroffenheit von AfroamerikanerInnen berichtet werden - sondern auch davon, dass die Zahl der Vertreibungen seit Jahresbeginn 2010 weiter anwächst: http://colorlines.com/archives/2010/07/foreclosure_losses_still_mounting.html


"Wir helfen armen Familien, leere Häuser zu besetzen. Der Name ist Programm: Nehmt das Land zurück! Die Regierung hat mit unseren Steuergeldern die Banken gerettet. Banken, die gleichzeitig massenhaft mit Zwangsvollstreckungen Menschen aus ihren Häusern und Wohnungen vertrieben haben. Wir sagen: »Wie könnt ihr uns enteignen, wenn unsere Steuergelder euch gerettet haben?« Die Banken gehören uns, den Steuerzahlern. Wir haben ein Recht auf unsere Häuser und Wohnungen, und werden sie uns nehmen. Die »Take Back the Land«-Bewegung versucht landesweit, Gruppen zusammenzuführen, die mit zivilem Ungehorsam die Eigentumsverhältnisse für Grundbesitz ändern wollen. Wir wollen das Wohneigentum aus der Marktlogik herauslösen. Ich glaube, daß wir dafür in den USA momentan eine Situation haben, die es so noch nie gegeben hat und die eine einmalige Gelegenheit bietet" - das sagt Rob Robinson von "Take back the land" im Interview "Wir helfen Armen, Häuser zu besetzen" mit Christina Kaindl am 08. Juli 2010 in der jungen welt: http://www.jungewelt.de/2010/07-08/054.php


Aus: LabourNet, 13. Juli 2010



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=foreclosure

- Création de la première EHS Zone Refuge en Italie dans le parc du Carnè intégré au Parc Naturel Régional de la Vena del Gesso

- Creación de la Primera EHS Zona Refugio en Italia en el parque del Carnè integrado al Parque Natural Regional de la Vena del Gesso

http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/EHS_Zone_Refuge.php#1

Studie des Umweltbundesamtes zeigt, dass Deutschland in 40 Jahren vollständig ohne Kohle, Erdags, Uran und Erdöl auskommen könnte.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/147989

Dem Saatgutriesen wird vorgeworfen, dass er unerlaubt gentechnisch veränderten Baumwollsamen verkauft hat.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/32/32944/1.html



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Monsanto

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/marshall8.1.1.html

Preparing for Social Unrest
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/preparing-for-social-unrest.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=social+unrest
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=/marshall

http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer220.html



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=debt
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=com/shaffer

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/12-2

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Funding corruption and waste in Afghanistan

Freedom's Phoenix
by US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)

07/12/10

Last week, GOP chairman Michael Steele came under fire for daring to say what a lot of Americans already know — that our involvement in Afghanistan is an ill-advised quagmire with no end in sight. After nearly 10 years and approaching $1 trillion spent, the conflict is going nowhere because there is nowhere for it to go. After all, if victory is never really defined, defeat is inevitable. With our economy at home in serious trouble, this wasteful occupation is something we clearly cannot afford. Each soldier costs us $1 million per year, and yet most in Washington are only considering how many more soldiers to send...

http://tinyurl.com/36td9cq



Who owns General Petraeus?

AntiWar.Com
by Philip Giraldi

07/29/10

Petraeus’ apparent close relationship with the neoconservatives and the Israel Lobby is a matter of concern, particularly if he does aspire to be president. Some have plausibly identified him as the neocon candidate for 2012 though others note appreciatively that he initiated a long overdue national debate with his Senate testimony in March 2010, observing as he did that the failure to achieve peace in Israel-Palestine has endangered United States soldiers in the region. To be sure, Petraeus quickly did damage control for the statement in the Senate, helping in the orchestration of an article that described him as a friend to Israel who did not view the conflict with the Palestinians as a matter of great concern. In May 2010 Petraeus received the Irving Kristol award from the American Enterprise Institute, indicating clearly that the Israel Lobby and the neocon establishment regard him as a favorite son...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Despite 54 Percent for Afghan Exit, Petraeus Move Could Nix Peace Talks

Robert Naiman, Truthout: "The majority of Americans want the Obama administration to establish a timetable for the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, CBS News reports. Fifty-Four percent think the US should set a timetable for the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, with 41% opposed. Among Democrats, 73% think the US should set a timetable, with 21% opposed; among independents, 54% support a withdrawal timetable, with 40% opposed; among Republicans, 32% support a withdrawal timetable, with 66% opposed."

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Coast Guard Photos Show Spill Workers Without Protective Gear
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Finding Louisiana’s Methadone
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Oil Disaster Victims Wait for Payment
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The Gulf 20 years from now
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Toxic Dispersants Near Gulf Harm Humans and Wildlife

Dahr Jamail and Erika Blumenfeld, Truthout: "My eyes are burning as I type this. We've just returned from spending the day down in Barataria, located about an hour's drive south of New Orleans. The community of fishermen is swimming in oil. Within minutes of arriving, our eyes begin to burn and we begin to feel dizzy from airborne chemicals from the oil and dispersant."

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Stop spraying the Gulf with Corexit now
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By Simon Jenkins

Our leaders would rather avoid embarrassment than be honest about the horrific futility of the wars we are fighting.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25919.htm



In an Afghan Hole? Dig Deeper

By Joel Bleifuss

Americans deserve to know how fighting a futile war makes their country safer.
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Nachricht von Dr. Joachim Mutter



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EU und die Finanzkrise

"Deutschland hat die Euro-Krise mitverursacht". UN-Wirtschaftsexperte Heiner Flassbeck im heute.de-Interview

Nach Ansicht von Heiner Flassbeck, Chefökonom der UN-Organisation für Welthandel und Entwicklung, liegen die Ursachen für die Euro-Krise vor allem in Deutschland. Durch Rotstift und niedriges Lohnniveau drohe die Euro-Zone auseinanderzubrechen. Interview von Ulrich Reitz vom 06.07.2010 http://www.heute.de/ZDFheute/inhalt/3/0,3672,8087395,00.html


Außer Kontrolle

„Das künftige "EU-Außenministerium" könnte ein schwer beeinflussbares und gefährliches Eigenleben entwickeln. Trotzdem gab das Europäische Parlament grünes Licht für die Megabehörde..“ Artikel von Uwe H. Sattler in telepolis vom 09.07.2010 http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/32/32929/1.html


Barroso: Umstürze im Süden Europas möglich

„Der EU-Kommissionspräsident warnt vor weitreichenden Folgen sozialer Proteste in Griechenland, Spanien und Portugal. Die Führung der Europäischen Union schließt vor dem Hintergrund der Eurokrise offenbar ein Ende der parlamentarischen Demokratien in mehreren südeuropäischen Staaten nicht aus. Von der deutschen Presse unbeachtet berichteten englisch- und spanischsprachige Medien unlängst über ein Treffen des Präsidenten der EU-Kommission, José Manuel Barroso, mit Gewerkschaftsführern. Bei der Zusammenkunft am 11. Juni habe der ehemalige portugiesische Ministerpräsident die Gewerkschaftsvertreter davor gewarnt, "dass diese Länder in ihrer demokratischen Gestaltung, wie wir sie derzeit kennen, verschwinden könnten". Die Gewerkschaftsvertreter seien von den drastischen Formulierungen des Präsidenten der EU-Kommission schockiert gewesen, schrieb der britische Journalist Jason Groves wenige Tage später in der Tageszeitung Daily Mail. Laut Groves seien von Barroso mehrere Möglichkeiten genannt worden, darunter Militärputsche und Umstürze…“ Artikel von Harald Neuber in telepolis vom 10.07.2010 http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/147988


Aus: LabourNet, 12. Juli 2010



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The Libertarian Standard
by Ryan McMaken

(07/09/10

The new competition over reserve currency is interesting for more than its economics since it is an important political issue. The nation that can build up its own currency as a reserve currency will expand its ability to inflate and incur debt with less fear of inflation. The US has benefited from this situation for decades. As the Fed inflates to finance deficit spending and to “stimulate” consumer spending, dollars are eventually absorbed by foreign central banks, put in reserves and out of circulation. The United States has managed to stave off the effects of reckless money printing for decades thanks to the willingness of foreign investors and central banks to sit on dollars as a store of value. Now the demand for the dollar is fading away slowly...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Campaign for Liberty
by US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)

07/09/10

Any legitimate objections to the audit proposal were addressed in the language of the motion to recommit. Thus, it is clear that the real reasons for opposing it are unstated and indefensible. The real reasons are that politicians like to spend money far exceeding income and it is convenient to have an enabler of this in the Federal Reserve. The easier it is for the Fed to create money, hidden from public view and accountability, the easier it is for politicians to spend that money and make sure their friends and interests are taken care of through shady political processes. The broader reasons for supporting this entire financial regulatory reform bill are just as sinister...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=1001


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Foundation for Economic Education
by Sheldon Richman

07/09/10

[I]f the deficit is to be eliminated it will have to be through dramatic budget cutting. In the current fiscal year the federal government is planning to spend $3.55 trillion. Among the largest categories of spending are Social Security (19.63 percent); unemployment/welfare/other ‘mandatory’ spending (16.13 percent); Medicare (12.79 percent); Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (8.19 percent); and interest on the national debt (4.63 percent). Of course I’ve left out a category, but it’s one often ignored by deficit hawks: the Department of Defense...

http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/tgif/afford-empire/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Fix the Economy?

By Mike Whitney

Fearmongering about the deficits is a political calculation to win elections and strangle popular social programs. It has no economic value.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25927.htm



US Deficit Reduction Painful, Commission Chiefs Warn

Eliminating mortgage interest deduction being considered

By Donna Smith

Restoring U.S. fiscal balance is going to be a painful process that mostly requires spending cuts, but also some tax increases, the leaders of President Barack Obama's deficit commission said on Wednesday.

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Yahoo! News

07/11/10

The heads of President Barack Obama’s national debt commission painted a gloomy picture Sunday as the United States struggles to get its spending under control. Republican Alan Simpson and Democrat Erskine Bowles told a meeting of the National Governors Association that everything needs to be considered — including curtailing popular tax breaks, such as the home mortgage deduction, and instituting a financial trigger mechanism for gaining Medicare coverage. The nation’s total federal debt next year is expected to exceed $14 trillion — about $47,000 for every U.S. resident...

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The worst of times, the best of times

CounterPunch
by Alexander Cockburn

07/11/10

It’s the worst of times. America is plunging back into Depression. Only one out of every two Americans of working age has a job. Forty years ago that would have been okay. Dad went to the factory. Mom stayed at home to mind the kids. These days, just to keep the show on the road, mom and pop both work and the kids get daycare. … And yet … if not the best of times, you can hardly say that America is broke. It’s not. As Carl Ginsburg remarked on this site last week, ‘America is awash in cash. This is a very, very rich country with piles and piles of cash. Private US accounts today contain approximately $10 trillion in cash and liquid assets.’ … The problem is that the banks don’t want to put money out, because they think ordinary Americans are too broke to pay it back. Ordinary Americans agree. They’ve carried America forward through the past decade on the backs of their credit cards and they can’t totter another step. They’re out of juice...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Welfare & warfare

Nolan Chart
by Jim Quinn

07/19/10

The real tragedy is that because of the fiscal irresponsibility of politicians and the Boomer generation, future generations of Americans will for the first time in U.S. history have a lower standard of living than their parents. The wealth of the nation has been frittered away by statists and war mongers. The current fiscal path of the country is unsustainable...

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