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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



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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



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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...

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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/



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

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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
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