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The American Conservative
by David R. Henderson

06/23/10

Many people who aren’t comfortable with the U.S. invading other countries reassure themselves with the belief that at least war creates jobs for Americans. But is military conflict really good for the economy of the country that engages in it? Basic economics answers a resounding ‘no’...

http://www.amconmag.com/blog/war-makes-us-poor/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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America Detached From War

Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch: "Admittedly, before George W. Bush had his fever dream, the U.S. had already put its first unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drone surveillance planes in the skies over Kosovo in the late 1990s. By November 2001, it had armed them with missiles and was flying them over Afghanistan."

http://www.truth-out.org/america-detached-war60741

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Drone Attacks to Stimulate Economy?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/24-1

Voodoo Economics Back From the Dead
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/07/20-0



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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Homeland Security to use drones along border

The department said Wednesday it has obtained Federal Aviation Administration permission to operate unmanned planes along the Texas border and throughout the Gulf Coast region.

http://tinyurl.com/2bxcdlh


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The Myth of Political Consent
http://www.lewrockwell.com/ostrowski/ostrowski98.1.html

Too Small To Matter
http://www.lewrockwell.com/quinn/quinn31.1.html



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Kerry on Climate Bill: 'We're Prepared to Compromise Further
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/29-11

Friends of The Earth: Senator Kerry Pledges to Follow Capitulation with Compromise
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/06/29-15

Senate Dems Give Up On Climate Bill, What Does the Future Hold For U.S. Energy Policy?
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/07/23-2



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Boston Globe

06/21/10

It wasn’t until seven weeks after the BP oil well began gushing that the company acknowledged oil remained hidden under the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, and it continues to dispute the extent of miles-long submerged plumes. But an unusual experiment conducted in 2000 off the coast of Norway, a trial run of a deep-water oil and gas spill that BP helped pay for, showed that oil could remain underwater for some time. The North Atlantic exercise was designed to understand how a spill would behave as the drilling industry plumbed new depths to extract oil and gas. The federal Minerals Management Service and 22 companies took part in the test, at about half the depth of the gulf disaster...

http://tinyurl.com/39xtnum



BP and the unmitigated disaster

Intellectual Conservative
by Alan Caruba

06/21/10

The Gulf of Mexico could turn into a giant dead zone if some means cannot be found to staunch the flow of oil and toxic gases emerging from the damaged well beneath the Deepwater Horizon. Industry insiders who understand the engineering of wells are beginning to speak openly among themselves of an unmitigated disaster. … The event and previous explosions at its refineries were the result of years of an internal BP philosophy that focused on profits before safety. Whether it was accident-prone refineries or corrosion in the Alaska pipeline, BP cut corners...

http://tinyurl.com/242p577



Defending aggressors is not a market virtue

Center for a Stateless Society
by Ross Kenyon

06/23/10

The left-wing blogosphere is alight with anti-corporate sentiment, and rightfully so, at Congressman Joe Barton’ s (R-TX) apology to British Petroleum. He recently called the $20 billion restitution fund a ’shakedown.’ Although the congressman has rescinded his comments, I also share his strong dislike of this scheme, but not because this is any more of a shakedown than anything else the state does. The American government has a magnificently horrible record of managing any quantity of money both practically and morally, and I don’t see how they would be any better at distributing funds to innocent victims of environmental disasters. The state has also made it standard operating procedure to protect aggressive firms from being brought to complete justice through limited liability laws in an anti-market and fascistic way...

http://c4ss.org/content/2932



Barack Obama, dictator

Campaign For Liberty
by Jacob G. Hornberger

06/23/10

What better example of dictatorship than President Obama’s dictate to BP to deliver $20 billion to a special fund that will be distributed by some political appointee to victims of the BP oil disaster? Either a nation is ruled by a dictator or it’s governed by the rule of law...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=959



Sympathy for the devil?

Libertarian Minds
by James Padilioni, Jr.

06/23/10

So let me get this straight. We have a court system designed to allow citizens to petition the government for a redress of grievances. However, instead of using the Constitutionally-established judicial system, the president decides that he will tell-not ask, but tell BP that they must put money aside to compensate those who have been harmed as a result of BP’s actions, as well as suspend the payments of dividends to their investors. This fund will also be managed by an unelected, unaccountable third party. And also, don’t forget that for the last 3 weeks the Justice Department has been in the Gulf region looking into what criminal charges they can bring against BP. Here we have the POTUS using his authority, and presumably the threat of his DOJ, to strong arm a private business to do his bidding, without any due process. If this were done to a private citizen, we’d all cry tyranny. But when it happens to a large corporation, the cries are few and far between. There are many reasons why establishing a fund may be a good thing, but there are no legal ones...

http://www.libertarianminds.com/sympathy-for-the-devil



Oil gushes and power rushes

Reason
by Jacob Sullum

06/23/10

Last week, after President Obama pressured BP to create a compensation fund for victims of its oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico, Rep. Joe Barton denounced the arrangement as ‘a $20 billion shakedown.’ The Texas Republican said the fund has ‘no legal standing’ and circumvents the ‘due process system’ for assigning blame and ordering compensation. Although Barton was widely mocked for appearing to defend a huge corporation that is responsible for the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history, he had a point. Obama’s grandstanding money grab exemplifies the lawless unilateralism that he condemned as a candidate yet embraced as a president...

http://reason.com/archives/2010/06/23/oil-gushes-and-power-rushes


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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BP's Other Gifts to America-and to the World

By Lawrence S. Wittner

Given the sordid record of BP and other giant oil companies, we might wonder why we tolerate them at all.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25793.htm



The Real Shakedown to Apologize For

By Marty Kaplan

If Barack Obama's extraction of $20 billion from BP was-as Texas Republican Joe Barton called it - a "shakedown," then what would Barton call the $14.4 million he has extracted during his career from oil and gas interests, electric utilities, the health sector, chemical manufacturers, finance and all the other industries forking over cash to him?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25791.htm

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Judge Who Ruled Against Offshore Drilling Moratorium Invests in Oil Industry
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/22-16

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Obama gives BP a get out of jail free card
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/873.html

It's raining oil in Metro New Orleans
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/874.html

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BP Mistake Allows Oil to Flow Unhindered Into Gulf

McClatchy Newspapers: "Workers pulled the 'top hat' device collecting crude oil from BP's gushing Deepwater Horizon well Wednesday morning in a major setback to efforts to contain the leak."

http://www.truth-out.org/bp-oil-leak-setback-top-hat-removed-oil-flow-continues60705



BP-Style Extreme Energy Nightmares to Come

Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch.com: "On June 15th, in their testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, the chief executives of America's leading oil companies argued that BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico was an aberration - something that would not have occurred with proper corporate oversight and will not happen again once proper safeguards are put in place. This is fallacious, if not an outright lie."

http://www.truth-out.org/bp-style-extreme-energy-nightmares-come60684

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Why Is Obama Aggravating the Oil Spill Tragedy?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/williams-w/w-williams39.html

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A French environmental reporter's take on the Gulf Disaster
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9757/

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Offshore Drilling Opponents to Stage Global Beach Protests
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/24-8

Center for Biological Diversity: Petition Filed to Increase Protection of Gulf of Mexico Fisheries Devastated by Rushed Oil-Drilling Permits
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/06/24-4



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Den einzigen Stecker ziehen
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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/21

Is There an End in Sight in Afghanistan?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/21-6

What’s Wrong with Being the World’s Most Peaceful Country?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/21-1

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Obama is no Superman

AntiWar.Com
by Kelley B. Vlahos

06/22/10

As the ecology in the Gulf circles the sticky tar drain of evolution, and countless livelihoods spanning at least four states going down with it, Americans are wondering where their Superman is. The disappointment that President Barack Obama seems stuck in the phone booth, still deciding whether to get his suit on, is nothing new. Those of us hoping for similar action in Afghanistan have been waiting for more than a year. Turns out that Obama doesn’t really do bold and heroic — it’s not his style — and he certainly doesn’t come off as decisive, unless he’s pushed. Where George Bush was ‘the decider,’ Obama seems to lead by committee, and not the kind of committee that gets things done...

http://original.antiwar.com/vlahos/2010/06/21/obama-is-no-superman/



The Obama administration and its pundit-defenders

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

06/21/10

It really is hard to imagine many things worse, more criminal, than imprisoning people for years whom you know are innocent, while fighting in court to keep them imprisoned. But that’s exactly what the Obama administration is doing. … Of course, none of this is new for the Obama administration; it’s consistent with their course of conduct from the start. I highlight this today only because there is an obvious, concerted effort by a slew of Democratic Beltway pundits over the last month or so to attack the so-called ‘Left’ for daring to express displeasure with the Obama administration, and to demonize those objections as unserious, shrill, irrational, purist and all the other cliches long used by this same cadre of party apparatchiks for the same purpose...

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How the state causes collapse

New Kind of Mind
by Chris George

06/30/10

The State finances itself initially through the rent (taxes) it demands on its expansive land claim. But the State attracts those who would want to be part of it — who want to live off the production of others — and, despite its barriers to entry, it grows. If it were to not expand its scope while its size grew, people would likely become angry and revolt as a result of its increased tax burden. Therefore, to accommodate its growing size, it must expand its scope of control into other realms of the economy, perhaps by ‘nationalizing’ education or welfare services. In other words, the State removes control of the public goods from the public...

http://tinyurl.com/2flgbay


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Americans Are Barely Hanging on
http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north858.html



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BP 'Downplayed' Oil Concerns
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/06/21-0

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Just a Few Things BP Does NOT Want You to Know…

Video

Every freedom-loving American should be incensed. US citizens cannot even get to the coastline in Louisiana, complements of BP's "martial law" – on U.S. soil. It begs the question, "How much worse is this disaster than they'll say?"...

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Take Action for Sea Turtles, Pelicans and Other Coastal Wildlife
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The GOP's Genetic Link to Big Oil

By Jim Hightower

If scientists were to compare the DNA of Republican congress-critters and of oil corporations, I'll bet they'd find that they match perfectly. After all, the two species have identical political instincts and seem to have a natural affinity for each other - so I'm pretty sure they sprang from the same genetic pool.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25848.htm



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By David Swanson
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