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Let A Thousand Nations Bloom
by William Miller

06/28/10

The most amazing contrast exists between the attitudes of the citizenry in third-world and first-world countries. The concept of withdrawing from an oppressive government is accepted by the public in the less developed countries, whereas the ’sophisticated’ public here in the United States deems secession to be unconstitutional at best and even treasonous by many, demanding that the people remain shackled to their government, no matter how tyrannical it may become. Yet many Americans feel increasingly oppressed by their government, as witnessed by their ongoing gatherings of protest, waving their ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ flags...

http://athousandnations.com/2010/06/28/the-state-of-secession/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Happy Secession Day
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Homeless camps cover 50 acres, from Waipio Point, around Middle Loch to Pearl City.
http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/20100627_Huge_tent_city_takes_root.html


From Information Clearing House

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Government stopping charities from feeding the homeless

Say Anything Blog
by Rob Port

07/01/10

The National Coalition for the Homeless has issued a report detailing laws and ordinances in a couple of dozen localities across the nation that prohibit charities — churches, civic organizations, charities, etc. — from feeding the homeless. Or, at least, inhibit their ability to do so with burdensome regulation. … This seems like lunacy to me. There are people who are destitute and hungry. There are other people who are willing to give of their own time, talent and wealth to provide for those people. But the government is limiting their ability to do so, or in some instances stopping them...

http://tinyurl.com/29et6ks


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Transportation Security Administration,used to check only international passengers' names against the no-fly list, but since earlier this month has been checking domestic passengers as well.

http://tinyurl.com/233kouq



ACLU mounts first legal challenge to no-fly list

The American Civil Liberties Union plans to sue the U.S. government Wednesday on behalf of 10 citizens or legal permanent residents who have been placed on a no-fly list and, in some cases, stranded abroad.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/29/AR2010062904339_pf.html


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America's Totalitarian Democracy and the Politics of Plunder

By Joe Bageant

The uniformity on Planet Norte is striking. Each person is a unit, installed in life support boxes in the suburbs and cities; all are fed, clothed by the same closed-loop corporate industrial system. Everywhere you look, inhabitants are plugged in at the brainstem to screens downloading their state approved daily consciousness updates.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25832.htm



When Companies Place Profit Before People

Australian TV Report

60 Minutes BP Oil Spill Video.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25835.htm

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Oil Spill in Gulf Could Cause ‘Dead Zone’, Further Hitting Sea Life
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/29-5

Unheard Voices From the Gulf Coast: United Houma Nation
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/06/29-2

How an Oil Company Helped Destroy Democracy in Iran
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/29-5

'Organizing a Broad Resistance': Gulf Gusher Galvanizes Activists
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/30-10

BP's Oil Spill Fouls Water, Land and Air
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/30-2

Did BP Lie About Its Political Donations?
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/06/30-0

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BP's Ombudsman Gave Congress Wrong Information About Employee Retaliation

Jason Leopold, Truthout: "Last January, Reps. Henry Waxman (D-California) and Bart Stupak (D-Michigan) sent a letter to John Minge, BP's Alaska president, seeking information about how the company was managing its Prudhoe Bay operations on Alaska's North Slope, as well as internal reports about the circumstances behind five serious incidents dating back to September 2008."

http://www.truth-out.org/bps-ombudsman-gave-congress-wrong-information-about-employee-retaliation60912



Unexpected Environmental Alliances Amid the Oil Spill

Paul Rogat Loeb, Truthout: "In the wake of the BP disaster, we've heard powerful stories from fishermen whose livelihoods may have been destroyed for decades or longer. However long it takes for the Gulf's fish, oyster and shrimp harvests to recover, those who've made their livelihoods harvesting them will need to create a powerful common voice if they're not going to continue to be made expendable."

http://www.truth-out.org/unexpected-environmental-alliances-amidst-the-oil-spill60907



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The Republic Is in Danger
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BP must come clean, both literally and figuratively
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/28-6

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Closing BP's Escape Routes

Robert Weissman, Truthout: "BP generates enough cash to absorb its liabilities from the oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico. But that doesn't mean it will. One of the benefits of the corporate form is that it gives giant corporations the ability to escape liability. BP may or may not choose to capitalize on such escapes, but it would be foolish to presume that it won't."

http://www.truth-out.org/closing-bps-escape-routes60564

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Gulf Tides: Oil Hits Home
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Downsize DC
by Jim Babka

06/25/10

Do mere politicians really know how much credit should be given to small businesses? They sure seem to think so. The House voted to pass something called the ‘Small Business Lending Act of 2010′ on June 17th. This bill will expand the national debt by $30 billion in an effort to encourage more lending to small businesses...

http://tinyurl.com/2fc5ovj



Death of capitalism? Tragedy of the commons redux

Freedom's Phoenix
by Call Me Oyate

07/22/10

We all know we hate classism, but at this point, the economic class makes money just for being them. A working man might hope to have a small house or apartment by his wits and hard work. But everything else is owned. All of the productive resrources, the mineral rights under your feet, they even propose to own the air that you breathe at least in the inverse: BP’s mistakes are busy pumping highly toxic organic gasses into THEIR air. Know how you know they own it? The United States Military is protecting their proprietary rights. By keeping journalists and researchers away, the USA, our military and a FOREIGN CORPORATION assert that’s it’s their air, not yours. They can do what they please with it, even Ron Paul says so: do not mess with private enterprise. And you still have freedom of choice. Don’t like the air? Stop breathing it...

http://tinyurl.com/2u6vkg9


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Disaster Capitalism Hits Europe (and the US is Next)

By Mark Weisbrot

Eurozone governments and European authorities are using the economy to justify pushing through rightwing policy changes.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25912.htm



Crises of Capitalism

Video

Radical social theorist David Harvey asks if it is time to look beyond capitalism towards a new social order that would allow us to live within a system that really could be responsible, just, and humane?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25911.htm



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