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Thirty-two soldiers, including 11 in the Guard and Reserve, killed themselves last month, a rate of suicide not seen since the Vietnam War. Seven of the suicides took place in Iraq or Afghanistan.

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By Jeremy Binckes

Former Speaker of the House twice called on the United States to attack North Korea and Iran because the United States has only attacked "one out of three" of so-called Axis of Evil" members by invading Iraq. He also claimed that Muslims are trying to install Sharia law on America and said that the "War on Terror" should have been a war on "radical Islamists" instead.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26048.htm



Exporting Death And Destruction

Obama Seeks to Expand Arms Exports

By Maggie Bridgeman

The United States is currently the world biggest weapons supplier - holding 30 per cent of the market - but the Obama administration has begun modifying export control regulations in hopes of enlarging the U.S. market share, according to U.S. officials.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26049.htm



Trends to Barbarism and Prospects for Socialism

By James Petras

Western societies and states are moving inexorably toward conditions resembling barbarism; structural changes are reversing decades of social welfare and subjecting labor, natural resources and the wealth of nations to raw exploitation, pillage and plunder, driving living standards downward and provoking unprecedented levels of discontent.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26052.htm

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Newt Gingrich: A menace to society?

AntiWar.Com
by Kelley B. Vlahos

08/03/10

While it sounds farcical, Gingrich’s usual demagoguery and naked opportunism has taken on an even more cynical and pernicious tone this time around. While it’s obvious it’s All About Newt and his lusting after the kind of pied piper eminence he enjoyed and squandered 20 years ago, his latest machinations — predicting an Islamist invasion and tyranny on par with 18th-century colonial oppression under King George III — plays on the darkest impulses coursing through the country today: fear, prejudice, xenophobia, and rage. As selfish as it is reckless, he had better be careful what he wishes for...

http://original.antiwar.com/vlahos/2010/08/02/newt-gingrich/



I guess it’s the singer, not the song

The Libertarian Standard
by William N. Grigg

08/19/10

[Newt] Gingrich may be history’s purest specimen of cynical political opportunism. As a recent Esquire profile makes clear, he doesn’t really believe in anything, other than his qualifications to tutor the rest of us. Like Lenin, Gingrich is adept at identifying and exploiting grievances — or creating them ex nihilo. He is many loathsome things, but ’stupid’ isn’t in that inventory. Gingrich knows that he’s spewing unfiltered nonsense about the ‘mosque at Ground Zero,’ and that he’s engendering hatred toward a moderate, establishment-centered Muslim cleric whose ‘radical’ views aren’t that different from his own...

http://tinyurl.com/38jsomu


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The Grinch Who Stole Conservatism

by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

Here's what Gingrich is looking at: he wants to see if the GOP makes significant gains in both houses of Congress in the November elections. If the GOP wins one house (especially if enough real conservatives win), I predict Gingrich will enter the race. So he can ride a conservative wave into the White House in 2012? No! So he can derail any potential conservative momentum that the Tea Parties might be able to create in this year's November elections. You see, Newt Gingrich is the Grinch Who Stole Conservatism from the GOP.........

http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin606.htm



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Die Gefahr eines "Double-Dip" wächst
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/33/33052/1.html



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http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9850/

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The Missing Piece Meets the Big O

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "I've been trying to wrap my mind around the dispiriting sense of failure that seems to have enveloped the Obama administration on the eve of the November midterms. The right hates him because he won, because he's Black, and because he won.... The left is up in arms because he hasn't met the lofty goals set after his election, and because he's allowed himself to get rolled by the right and their corporate paymasters."

http://www.truth-out.org/the-missing-piece-meets-big-o61887

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If President Obama carries on like this, he will be a lame duck

FreedomWorks
by Ted Abram

08/02/10

The president hasn’t grown into the job — all that’s needed to beat him is a serious Republican, says Simon Heffer in New York. Simon Heffer of the Daily Telegraph of England finds President Obama and his administration interested in their philosophical agenda at the expense of good governance. He writes: ‘This immediate proof of mismanagement adds to the cumulative feeling on so many other fronts that Mr. Obama and his team simply don’t understand governance’...

http://tinyurl.com/2ey7o9h


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/30-7

Oil Industry Safety Record Blown Open
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/30-3

New Protest Song About BP Oil Spill in Gulf Coast
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/07/30-2

'Why Can't We Say No?' City Councilman Pushes Back Against Marcellus Drilling
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/08/17-6

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Devastation: You Can Smell the Oil From a Helicopter and Birds are Frying!

Video

The environmental devastation is now becoming more apparent, as is the human health hazard, courtesy of BP’s reckless use of toxic dispersants. Don’t go near the Gulf of Mexico without reading this first!

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Despite Anger Over BP Spill, Washington Might Not Act on It

Shashank Bengali and William Douglas, McClatchy Newspapers: "Congress is considering stricter regulation of oil exploration, and the Obama administration has pledged to overhaul the disgraced federal agency that oversees oil drilling. Already, however, some of the toughest proposals are facing stiff opposition from Republicans and some Gulf Coast Democrats whose constituents rely on the oil industry for jobs."

http://www.truth-out.org/despite-anger-over-bp-spill-washington-might-not-act-it61893

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Mainstream Media Helps BP Pretend There's No Oil

It's BP's job to whitewash this story and make it easier to indulge the desire to forget about the scope of the devastation, guys. Not the media's.

http://bit.ly/9ARVCJ


From Information Clearing House



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The American Conservative
by Kelley B. Vlahos

07/29/10

Obama seems driven to break every campaign promise he ever made and become the biggest Big Brother of them all. After flipping the script on Patriot Act reformists last year when he supported the extension of unconstitutional law enforcement provisions he once criticized, now he wants to broaden the amount of information the FBI can access without warrant for so-called counter-terror investigations …

http://tinyurl.com/2cmbr62



National insecurity

Foundation for Economic Education
by Sheldon Richman

07/30/10

There’s a country that earlier generations might not recognize in which the national government’s criminal investigative agency can execute its own warrants without court approval; present them to private companies and demand information about people who are not necessarily suspected of criminal wrongdoing; and — if that were not enough — forbid those companies from telling anyone — not even the target of the investigation. The country I have in mind is not a Latin American banana republic or a Middle Eastern dictatorship. It’s the United States of America...

http://tinyurl.com/237z59u


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The American Prospect
by Julian Sanchez

07/29/10

They’re calling it a tweak — a ‘technical clarification’ — but make no mistake: The Obama administration and the FBI’s demand that Congress approve a huge expansion of their authority to obtain the sensitive Internet records of American citizens without a judge’s approval is a brazen attack on civil liberties. At issue is the scope of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s power to obtain information from ‘electronic communications service providers’ using National Security Letters (NLS), which compel private companies to allow government access to communication records without a court order. The administration wants to add four words — ‘electronic communication transactional records’ — to Section 2709 of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, which spells out the types of communications data that can be obtained with an NSL...

http://tinyurl.com/3yrhf9a



Google, CIA invest in “Future” of web monitoring

Wired
by Noah Shachtman

07/29/10

The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future. The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents — both present and still-to-come. In a white paper, the company says its temporal analytics engine ‘goes beyond search’ by ‘looking at the ‘invisible links’ between documents that talk about the same, or related, entities and events’...

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/07/exclusive-google-cia/



Your innocence is no protection

Liberty For All
by Harry Browne

When the politicians violate the Bill of Rights with the Patriot Act or some other guaranteed-to-bring-peace-and-security-to-the-world scheme, they always reassure us by saying: ‘If you aren’t guilty, you have nothing to fear.’ If only that were so. The truth is that innocence is no protection at all against government agencies with the power to do what they think best — or against a government agent hoping for promotion and willing to do whatever he can get away with... (written 12/03; posted 07/29/10)

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=4610


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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