World-News: 06 Juli 2011

Robert Scheer, Truthdig: 'This week, the Los Angeles Times reported on Goldman s renewed lobbying efforts in Washington aimed at watering down what remains of the promise of Dodd-Frank. True to Washington tradition, Goldman has hired Michael Paese, a former top staffer for the 'liberal' Rep. Barney Frank to head its Washington operation, which last year spent $4.6 million lobbying Congress to soften the bill, a task now made far easier with Goldman s tea party allies in the new Republican-dominated House.'

http://www.truth-out.org/tea-party-and-goldman-sachs-love-story/1309960390

Goldman Sachs Vice President Changed Name; Now a Top Congressional Staffer

Lee Fang, ThinkProgress: 'Has Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) turned the House Oversight Committee into a bank lobbying firm with the power to subpoena and pressure government regulators? ThinkProgress has found that a Goldman Sachs vice president changed his name, then quietly went to work for Issa to coordinate his effort to thwart regulations that affect Goldman Sachs' bottom line.'

http://www.truth-out.org/goldman-sachs-vp-changed-his-name-now-advances-goldman-lobbying-interests-top-staffer-darrell-issa/1

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Goldman Sachs: Too big to prosecute?
http://www.realecontv.com/videos/banking-malfeasance/goldman-sachs---too-big-to-prosecute.html

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Darrell+Issa
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Republican
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Tea+Party
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Goldman+Sachs
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=lobbyists
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Scheer
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Lee+Fang

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Starmail - 6. Jul, 22:49

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Closing the Hedge Fund Manager Tax Loophole Would Raise Four Billion Annually From the 25 Richest Managers

Starmail - 6. Jul, 22:42

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Take a stand on Guantanamo before its too late

http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?a=njKSJ1PPLrI1LjK&s=6fJJLTOrG8IHKXPyHlE&m=efILLQOxEeJJI2K

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Guantanamo
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Amnesty+International
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Starmail - 6. Jul, 22:32

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Stop the Tar Sands Pipeline! Save our Songbirds!

http://www.nrdconline.org/site/R?i=AWx7Aa5uCiOxD3p_13H0Vg..

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=tar+sands+oil
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Starmail - 6. Jul, 22:08

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War, the sickness of empire, and economic genocide

Fr33 Agents
by Szandor Blestman

07/04/11

I have made the claim for some time now that the economy is people. It s you and me trading goods and services on a voluntary basis. It s me providing you with my labor or something I have created, then you providing him with your labor or something you have created, then him providing her with his labor or something he s created and so on and so forth. This is what makes economy, so it would make sense that the economy would grow as the population grows. It would make sense that the economy would shrink as the population shrinks. It would make sense that the economy would stabilize when the population stabilizes. But this is not what has happened. I believe this is at least partially because some people have been able to manipulate the mechanisms of economy in unnatural ways for their own benefit, and therefore to the detriment of most others...

http://tinyurl.com/63v5zzx

Stealing from future to continue borrowing

Cato Institute
by Jagadeesh Gokhale

07/05/11

The talks on a deal to resolve the federal debt limit problem recently ground to a halt, with neither side budging from its position. The negotiations must now be completed by those in the highest pay grades, including President Obama. But he has pledged not to increase taxes on 95 percent of Americans. That makes the withdrawal by Republican lawmakers from Vice President Biden s group a master stroke: Will the president now follow rank-and-file Democrats by insisting on tax increases? Or will he lead them to a different destination by caving to Republican demands?

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13260

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Sticking With the Golden Formula As Empires Crumble
http://lewrockwell.com/bonner/bonner488.html

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=empire
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=debt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Joe+Biden
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Republican
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Szandor+Blestman
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jagadeesh+Gokhale
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/bonner
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Starmail - 6. Jul, 10:18

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