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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



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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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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



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...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



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



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