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Whats the Difference?

By James Rothenberg

The political parties serve their own interests, just as regular people do. And just as regular people are selfish (self-ish), so are the parties. They represent the will of the people to the extent that it can be useful to them.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28648.htm



Creating a Military State

By Andy Worthington

If lawmakers are successful, anyone regarded as a terrorist must be held in military detention, where, it is planned, they may be subjected to abuse with impunity, and, if required, held forever without a trial and without any rights.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28643.htm



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States Negotiating Immunity for Banks over Foreclosures

By Scot J. Paltrow

50 State attorneys general are negotiating to give major banks wide immunity over irregularities in handling foreclosures, even as evidence has emerged that banks are continuing to file questionable documents.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28642.htm



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Dean Baker, The Center for Economic and Policy Research: 'The budget plan produced by the Senate's 'Gang of Six' offers the promise of huge tax breaks for some of the wealthiest people in the country, while lowering Social Security benefits for retirees and the disabled. Despite claiming that they will 'reform' Social Security on a 'separate track, isolated from deficit reduction,' the plan includes cuts to Social Security that would be felt in less than six months, as the plan calls for a new inflation formula that will reduce benefits by 0.3 percentage points a year compared with currently scheduled benefits. The plan also calls for a process that is likely to reduce benefits further for future retirees.'

http://www.truth-out.org/gang-six-plan-gives-tax-breaks-wealthy-social-security-cuts-ordinary-workers/1311112585



How the DoD Allows Contractors to Grade Themselves and Write Their Own Contract Terms

Dina Rasor, Truthout: 'The Department of Defense (DoD) Inspector Generals (IG) office recently found that the Marine Corps allowed their contractors for a vital troop protection system to act as government employees, including directing and evaluating government employees' work, grading their own work and writing up requirements for the follow-on contract. The contractors then bid on those requirements and won multimillion-dollar contracts.'

http://www.truth-out.org/dangerously-blurring-line/1311105728



Ed Schultz and Bernie Sanders: The Gang of Six Plan Will Devastate the Middle Class

Video

Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vermont) speaks with Ed Schultz of MSNBCs 'The Ed Show.'

http://www.truth-out.org/ed-schultz-and-bernie-sanders-gang-six-plan-will-devastate-middle-class/1311172212

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How War Is Used To Redistribute Wealth

By Dennis Kucinich

'War Takes Money From The American People & Gives It To War Profiteers!'
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28644.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/07/20-12

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Pakistan: US drone attack kills four

CRI English [Chinese state media]

07/21/11

At least four people were killed Wednesday when a U.S. drone targeted the North Waziristan tribal area in northwest Pakistan, local sources said. The pilotless aircraft fired two missiles at a house in Mir Ali area of North Waziristan which borders Afghanistan, they said...

http://english.cri.cn/6966/2011/07/21/197s649600.htm



They also hate us for our hypocrisy

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

07/20/11

The front page of today s New York Times details another instance of the rank hypocrisy that underlies U.S. foreign policy. According to the article, U.S. officials are hopping mad at their partner and ally, the Pakistani government, for trying to tilt U.S. foreign policy in favor of Pakistan s position in its longtime dispute with India over Kashmir. The feds have indicted two U.S. citizens over the matter...

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2011-07-20.asp



Hillary cracks the whip

Antiwar.com
by Philip Giraldi

07/21/11

Who is Hillary Clinton to pronounce on the legitimacy of any foreign government? Victoria Nuland s condemnation of Syria cites 'beating, imprisoning, torturing, and slaughtering,' but doesn t Washington do all of that and more? Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, CIA secret prisons, and Predator drone strikes surely tell the tale. No other government claims that it has the right to kill its own citizens anywhere in the world based on secret evidence...

http://tinyurl.com/4475spg


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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US claims on drone strikes 'untrue'

Claims by a senior Obama administration official that there hasn t been a single collateral (civilian) death in drone strikes in Pakistan since August 2010 were found to be untrue following a detailed investigation by the London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism (BIJ).

http://www.omantribune.com/index.php?page=news&id=96949&heading=Pakistan



London exhibition shows horrors of US drone attacks on Pakistan

Pakistani human rights lawyer Mirza Shahzad Akbar condemned the unmanned aircraft firing missiles in the North Waziristan region, which have resulted in more than 2,200 deaths, mostly innocent civilians.

http://www.irna.ir/ENNewsShow.aspx?NID=30487378


From Information Clearing House



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/07/20-13



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GOP Strategy Wrecks Economy and Obama in One Fell Swoop
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/07/20-16

Role Reversal: Latin America Taunts US on Debt Woes
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/07/20-7

Public on Budget: Tax the Rich, Cut Military Spending
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/07/20-12



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Escape From America
http://lewrockwell.com/orig12/berwick4.1.1.html

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The Fed and America s Financial Reckoning Day

by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

Today, our nation is sinking into bankruptcy, insolvency, and a serious financial reckoning day because our political class in Washington DC continues to load our posterity with perpetual debt and servitude. Most Americans are distressed, perplexed, and confused because of their 'downright ignorance' of sound money principles enshrined in our US Constitution and the evils of central banking. In 1910, a secretive cabal of Wall Street and international bankers conspired to create the Federal Reserve System, which became our nation s central bank in 1913.........

http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin658.htm

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Wall Street Said No

Robert Scheer, Truthdig: 'So much for the meritocracy. Despite an elite education, effusive charm and brilliant wit, Barack Obama, like Bill Clinton before him, has ended up betraying his humble origins by abjectly serving the most rapacious variant of Wall Street greed. They both talk a good progressive game, but when push comes to shove - meaning when the banking lobby weighs in - big money talks and the best and the brightest fold. For Obama, it is his decision not to nominate Elizabeth Warren to run the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which she fought so hard to create.'

http://www.truth-out.org/sorry-elizabeth-wall-street-said-no/1311182879

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Stopping the Train: Stopping the System

By Ron Jacobs

There is no alternative to certain destruction unless every U.S American confronts their role in maintaining the machinery of death and greed we call America.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28650.htm



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- Dossier d'Alerte (Alert Cruas-Meysse Nuclear Power Plant)
- Sûreté nucléaire avec preuves, Centrale Nucléaire EDF de Cruas-Meysse: Fissurations enceinte confinement du réacteur n°1.

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Neben dem eigentlich Gesetz sorgen gerade auch die internen Verwaltungsanweisungen immer wieder für Konfusion und den Vorwurf der Willkür. Doch die Versuche, Transparenz in das Handeln zu bringen, scheitern oft an den Ämtern.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/5/150177



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Eisschwund im Rekordtempo
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/150173



Claims unterm Eis

Viele Klimawissenschaftler hatten den Eisschwund auf dem Polarmeer unterschätzt, doch nun hat der Run auf die Rohstoffe begonnen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/150226

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Klimawandel bedroht den Weltfrieden

Erstmals hat der Sicherheitsrat der UNO den Zusammenhang des Klimawandels und des Weltfriedens diskutiert und bestätigt. Ab sofort muss der UN-Generalsekretär den Rat regelmäßig über die Folgen des Klimawandels informieren.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416812613ms271



Meeresspiegel steigt heute schneller als je zuvor in den letzten 2000 Jahren

'Der Anstieg des Meeresspiegels ist eine potenziell desaströse Folge des Klimawandels, weil steigende Temperaturen das Eis an Land schmelzen lassen und das Wasser der Ozeane erwärmen'.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416812615ms271



Klimakassandras: Versagt die Klimawissenschaft?

Das katastrophale Versagen einer überlebensbedeutsamen Wissenschaftsdisziplin und die letztmögliche Chance zur Verwirklichung ihres eindeutigen Auftrags. Zehn Thesen zur Klimaforschung von Lutz Wicke

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