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Center for a Stateless Society
by Darian Worden

09/07/10

The ‘papers, please’ checkpoint image is frequently invoked to convey the idea of a police state or totalitarian regime. It’s a visible reminder of how far government will go to keep things under control, and that government considers all the people within its grasp to be its things. The lasting effects of producing documents at any time to prove to state agents that you are worthy to draw breath on their turf are real...

http://c4ss.org/content/3925


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Ellen Brown, Truthout: "The Federal Reserve is proposing another round of 'quantitative easing,' although the first round failed to reverse deflation. It failed because the money went to banks, which failed to lend it on. The Fed needs to funnel the money directly to state and local economies. It may not be authorized to 'monetize' state bonds, but it COULD buy bonds issued by state-owned banks."

http://www.truth-out.org/time-helicopter-ben-drop-some-money-main-street63075



It's the Mortgages, Stupid

Robert Scheer, Truthdig: "This week's proposals by the Obama administration to deal with the persistent economic crisis will be, as with previous plans that involved trillions of taxpayer dollars, little more than salt in the wounds. Once again the strategy is to stimulate the economy by funding projects and tax cuts while ignoring the root cause of the problem: a housing foreclosure meltdown that has chilled the spending of a majority of American consumers."

http://www.truth-out.org/robert-scheer-its-mortgages-stupid63067



The Tortoise Economy

Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "Word from the twelve Federal Reserve Banks, summarized in the Fed's so-called 'Beige Book,' shows the economy slowing in July and August. Duh. But the Fed is quick to point out the economy overall is still growing - even though it's growing more slowly than in the spring. Can we have a moment of realism here, please? In 2008 and 2009 the economy fell into the deepest hole it's been in since the Great Depression. Since then we've been struggling to get out. We're failing big time."

http://www.truth-out.org/robert-reich-the-tortoise-economy63102

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The Wholly Fallible Ben Bernanke
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/09/09-5



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The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies strongly condemns the Yemeni army's shelling in the Lawdar district in the Abyan province, Southern Yemen, which has severely harmed the civilian population located there.

http://www.worldpress.org/Mideast/3615.cfm



US expands military training in Yemen, reflecting a broader counterterror program

The scope and amount of the military training in Yemen has grown slowly, reflecting the Pentagon's intention to tackle the terror threat while still being sensitive to fears that a larger American footprint in Yemen could help fuel the insurgency.

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Creating new Enemies: Threats from Somalia and Yemen rise - MI5

Suspected al Qaeda plots targeting Britain originate increasingly in Somalia and Yemen, partly as a result of counter-terrorism pressure on the group's leaders in Pakistan, the head of MI5 said.

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Pentagon to Funnel US Arms to Yemen to Fight al-Qaeda
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/09/17-2



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By Matthew Lynn

At a conference in Zurich last week, the head of Barclays Wealth Management's private-banking unit, Gerard Aquilina, appeared to issue a red alert about the richest of clients.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26321.htm



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By Amy Goodman

The ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States should serve as a moment to reflect on tolerance. It should be a day of peace. Yet the rising anti-Muslim fervor here, together with the continuing U.S. military occupation of Iraq and the escalating war in Afghanistan (and Pakistan), all fuel the belief that the U.S. really is at war with Islam.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26326.htm



No-Drama, No Storyline Obama Tragedy

By Robert S. Becker

If this White House cannot find a gripping narrative to justify its power, then - rest assured - wingnuts in the wings will reprise their perfectly coherent storyline. Brace for new and improved wedge-driven crusades against sham enemies, domestic and foreign.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26322.htm



Lie Like a Rug

By Becky Akers

I don't know which is more offensive, these breathtaking lies or the utter insult to our intelligence.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26319.htm



Florida pastor says going ahead with Koran burning

An obscure U.S. Christian pastor whose plan to burn copies of the Koran on Sept. 11 has sparked an international outcry said on Wednesday he will still go ahead with the event despite U.S. official warnings it will endanger American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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Religious Leaders Condemn Growing Islamophobia

Leaders of some three dozen mainstream U.S. religious denominations Tuesday condemned what many commentators have called a rising tide of Islamophobia touched off by the recent controversy over the construction of a Muslim community centre in Lower Manhattan.

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Top Stories More Important than Quran-Burning Nut Job

By Juan Cole

The horrible era of anti-Muslim bigotry in the United States yielded a one-day silly season on Thursday. - The weird cultist Terry Jones, fired from his church in Cologne, Germany last year for abusing his congregants, preaching hate-filled sermons, and demanding absolute obedience, was favored by an unprecedented telephone call from Secretary of Defense Robert Gates asking him not to burn the Quran.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26338.htm



The Lost Soul of the United States of America

By Maryam Sakeenah

The United States must stop presenting its warmongering as a result of misguided and ill-advised policies as if it were a clash between 'our' values and 'theirs.' It must get real and face the fact that it is not hated for its values, but for the lack thereof.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26343.htm


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Gingrich the compulsive mosque baiter

The Libertarian Standard
by William N. Grigg

09/06/10

Gingrich is a statist down to his chromosomes, so it’s not surprising to see him breezily dismiss the concept of property rights. Even though those behind the proposed Park51 Muslim Community Center are peacefully and legally pursuing their designs, ‘There are a number of different steps that could be taken’ to nullify their property rights, Gingrich told an approving Barton...

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Anti-Islamic schizophrenia

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

09/08/10

The anti-Muslim opponents of that Islamic community center/mosque in New York City are suffering a severe case of anti-Islamic schizophrenia. On the one hand, they’ve gone ballistic over the possibility that an Islamic community center/mosque might be built a couple of blocks away from the World Trade Center site...

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2010-09-08.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Dean Baker, Truthout: "In an interview last week, Rep. Chris Van Hoellen, the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, persistently refused to take cuts to Social Security off the table. He said that President Obama's deficit commission would make its report after the election and that the Democratic leadership could not say before seeing it that a plan that includes cuts to Social Security was unacceptable. If there is some principle at stake here, it is not one that the vast majority of the America people share. Social Security is a hugely popular and successful program. The vast majority of retirees depend on Social Security for the bulk of their income."

http://www.truth-out.org/is-defaulting-national-debt-table63023

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Worse than Europe

John Stossel's Take
by John Stossel

09/07/10

Union protesters, angry over government spending cuts, shut down transportation in France and England today. … Non-socialist parties now control both the French and the UK governments, and they seem to be getting serious about budget deficits. … The ironic thing is that the US government is in a worse financial situation than those countries, but it spends more than ever...

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Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: "Echoes of racism now present themselves in multiple forms and are spreading across the country like a highly contagious virus. This is obvious in terms of a racist cultural pedagogy spread largely through a right-wing cultural apparatus. But its traces and effects can also be found in acts of real violence that now run like a highly charged electric current through the mainstream media, which both reproduces representations of racist violence while failing to comment on it critically."

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US Government Report Argues for Police Force for American Interventions Overseas

Matthew Harwood, Truthout: "President Barack Obama's declaration Tuesday that the US combat mission in Iraq is officially over may give some Americans hope that US foreign policy may become less invasive and adventurous, especially if American troops begin to return home from Afghanistan by the end of 2011. Yet, inside the defense establishment, some intellectuals continue to examine the need for the United States to build a paramilitary police force to deploy to fragile or failing states to restore security and order."

http://www.truth-out.org/us-government-report-argues-police-force-american-interventions-overseas63019



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Here is the list of the ten jobs categories that will not recover based on 24/7 Wall St. research.

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By Michael Hudson

Why bail out Wall Street - and not the quarter of U.S. homeowners unfortunate enough also to suffer "negative equity" but not qualify for the help that the officials they elect gave to Wall Street's winners by enabling Bear Stearns, A.I.G., Countrywide Financial and other gamblers to pay their bad debts?

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