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Who will stand up to the GOP?s war on Islam?
Salon
by Gene Lyons

08/19/10

Even granting that more people are nuts on the subject of religion than all other topics combined, this entire ginned-up controversy about the planned construction of an Islamic cultural center in the vicinity of ground zero in Lower Manhattan illustrates the Founding Fathers? wisdom like no other. No establishing, no prohibiting, period. Also, alas, it highlights the sheer cynicism of the GOP politicians pressing it as an election-year ?wedge? issue. Regardless of how hard they try to disguise it, if only from themselves, those who would forbid the project express an essentially tribal view of Americanism specifically repudiated by the U.S. Constitution...

http://tinyurl.com/2gx2xwz


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Demagoguing the Mosque
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul690.html

Why Has the ?World Trade Center Mosque? Become a Major Issue?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/franke/franke13.1.html

Is the Muslim My Neighbor?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w165.html

Lest We Forget
http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer222.html

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Welcome To America

Man Mistaken for Muslim Harassed at NY Anti-Mosque Rally

Video

An African-American man who was mistakenly thought to be Muslim was harassed at an anti-mosque rally yesterday in New York City.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26235.htm



Anti-Mosque Coalition's Website Owned By Neo-Conservative Islamophobe Frank Gaffney

By Alex Seitz-Wald

The Coalition to Honor Ground Zero, appears to be funded by a major neo-conservative advocacy group, with deep-pocketed donors, and extensive connections to the conservative establishment.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26243.htm



9/11 families, others rally in favor of NYC mosque

The planned mosque and Islamic center blocks from ground zero got a new boost Wednesday from a coalition of supporters that includes families of Sept. 11 victims.

http://bit.ly/bqe0Lu


From Information Clearing House

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US: All Officials Should Uphold Freedom of Religion
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/08/31-3



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None Dare Call It Tyranny
Racketeers for Capitalism

By Cindy Sheehan

The Empire preys on our kids using all the tools at its disposal: Economic panic, high college tuition, high unemployment and a mythology that the U.S. has some existential right to steal the resources of other nations.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26178.htm



A Mutant Form of Capitalism

Video

An animated interview of John Perkins, author of 'HoodWinked' and 'Confessions Of An Economic Hitman'

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26184.htm



America's Biggest Jobs Program - the U.S. Military

By Robert Reich

America's biggest - and only major - jobs program is the U.S. military. Over 1,400,000 Americans are now on active duty; another 833,000 are in the reserves, many full time. Another 1,600,000 Americans work in companies that supply the military with everything from weapons to utensils. (I'm not even including all the foreign contractors employing non-US citizens.)

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26175.htm



None Dare Call It Tyranny

By Sheldon Richman

The national government - specifically the executive branch - can do pretty much what it wants. It could bomb Iran tomorrow without a declaration of war from Congress. It can - and does - conduct secret wars and covert operations against countries that have done nothing to us.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26180.htm



Dismantling America

By Thomas Sowell

The Constitution was not only a challenge to the despotic governments of its time, but has been a continuing challenge - to this day - to all those who think that ordinary people should be ruled by their betters, whether an elite of blood, or of books, or of whatever else gives people a puffed-up sense of importance.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26179.htm



Understanding America's Class System

Honk If You Love Caviar

By Joe Bageant

America has always had a ruling class, and it has always bullshitted the world that it doesn't. But at least the ruling class of the past was interesting and varied, because diverse sorts of Americans were getting rich.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26177.htm



Deceptive Economic Statistics

While the economists lied the US economy died

By Paul Craig Roberts

Right now, if measured according to the methodology of 1980, the US unemployment rate is about 22%. Thus, the reported rate of unemployment hides more than half of the unemployed.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26182.htm

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Overthrowing the Liars
http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis200.html

Lies and Unction
http://www.lewrockwell.com/snyder/snyder21.1.html

Confessions of an Economic Hitman
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/07/no_author/confessions-of-an-economic-hitman-2/

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Death and Joblessness: How Suicide Dogs the Long-Term Unemployed
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/08/17-2

America's Propensity for Paranoia
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/08/17-0

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America has fallen ? and can?t get up!

Freedom's Phoenix
by David McElroy

08/14/10

America has fallen ? and can?t get up. The wolves of Wall Street are picking her bones. Many wait, with baited breath, for the fat lady to sing. Face it folks, America is no longer the sweet land of liberty. It has become the land of the fee and home of the slave. How the mighty have fallen! How?

http://tinyurl.com/29x3nlw


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Why Is The US Fighting a War In Afghanistan?
Why Petraeus Can't Make The Sale

By Dan Froomkin

As Gen. David Petraeus kicks off an extended media blitz intended to make Americans feel better about the war in Afghanistan -- or at least give him some more time to fight it -- he faces a foe more implacable than al Qaeda, or even the Taliban: Reality.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26162.htm



Why Is The US Fighting a War In Afghanistan?

Video Interview

Zbigniew Brzezinski on Afghanistan and the American strategy for Eurasia and the world.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26163.htm



Zbigniew Brzezinski says AIPAC is bad for USA/Israel

Video

While Israeli settlers relax in their swimming pool below are Palestinians with no running water and their olive groves have been cut.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc7BFkgmOYE&feature=player_embedded



AIPAC Pays For 81 US Lawmakers Vacation In Israel

By RT

While the US continues to struggle with its economic issues Congress is on vacation. Many are upset at the news reports that 81 members of Congress have chosen to spend a week relaxing in Israel.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28887.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Gen. Petraeus Goes to Media War
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/08/16

Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA): Petraeus Media Blitz
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/08/16-6

Gen. Petreaus' Nation Building Media Tour
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/08/17-9

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Petraeus Indicates He'll Delay Afghanistan Drawdown Deadline

Ben Arnoldy, The Christian Science Monitor: "With the number of foreign soldiers killed in Afghanistan surpassing 2,000 this weekend, what does the road ahead in Afghanistan look like? The tally - now at 2,002 - comes from the independent iCasualties.org website. It includes 1,227 Americans, 331 Britons, 151 Canadians, and 45 French."

http://www.truth-out.org/petraeus-indicates-hell-delay-afghanistan-drawdown-deadline62352

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How the US created al Qaeda
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/915.html



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/why-hollywood-ignores-hiroshima.html

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Hollywood and the War Machine
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/12/26

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Forgetting the Past, One Military Movie at a Time

David Sirota, Truthout: ''Since 1986 s 'Top Gun' rekindled the Pentagon-Hollywood relationship from its post-Vietnam doldrums, the collusion between the military and the entertainment industry has become a blockbuster con, generating huge benefits for both participants and swindling the American public in the process. The scheme is simple: The Pentagon allows studios to use military hardware and bases at a discounted, taxpayer-subsidized rate. In exchange, filmmakers must submit their scripts to the Pentagon for line edits.''

http://www.truth-out.org/forgetting-past-one-military-movie-time/1330094665



Anti-War Critics Forgotten on Oscar Night

Adam Hochschild, Tom Dispatch: ''Yet curiously, for all the spectacle of boy and horse, thundering cavalry charges, muddy trenches, and wartime love and loss, the makers of War Horse, Downtown Abbey and, I have no doubt, the similar productions we ll soon be watching largely skip over the greatest moral drama of those years of conflict, one that continues to echo in our own time of costly and needless wars....The First World War was not just a battle between rival armies, but also ... between those who assumed the war was a noble crusade and those who thought it absolute madness.''

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Alle Ausreden helfen nicht mehr: Die Klimakatastrophe ist da. Feuer in Russland und die Gefahr einer nuklearen Wolke. Die Flut in Pakistan und sechs Millionen Menschen auf der Flucht. Erdrutsche in China und ganze Dörfer, die verschwinden. Nicht enden wollende Regenfälle in Sachsen, Brandenburg, Polen und Tschechien.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689458ms220



Klimakollaps: Nehmen Wetterextreme zu?

Vor Grönland bricht ein riesiger Eisberg vom Petermann-Gletscher ab, in Russland toben Jahrhundertfeuer, die weltweiten Messstationen melden Hitzerekorde, und in Pakistan versinken die Menschen in Regenfluten. Lesen Sie zu den Wetterextremen ein Interview mit unserem Klimaexperten Karsten Smid. http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689460ms220



Blauer Planet unter Hochdruck: Hausgemachte Wasserkrise ohne Ende

Eine seit mehreren Monaten anhaltende Dürre, Temperaturen von über 40 Celsius, versetzen den subtropischen Staat Honduras in den Wassernotstand. Gerade die Armenviertel der Städte leiden. Der Grundwasserspiegel ist dramatisch gesunken.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689463ms220



Extreme Weltereignisse: Zeichen des Klimawandels?

Das erste Halbjahr 2010 war die wärmste Periode seit 1880, dem Beginn der meteorologischen Aufzeichnungen. http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689487ms220



Umwelt noch wichtiger als Wirtschaft

Globale Erwärmung und Treibhauseffekt, schmelzende Polkappen und steigender Meeresspiegel, Trockenheit und Wassermangel: Kaum ein Thema beherrscht die Medien so durchgehend wie die Klimaproblematik.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689489ms220



Welche Emissionen können wir uns noch erlauben, um die globale Erwärmung auf maximal 2°C zu begrenzen?

Dieser Frage gehen Erich Roeckner und seine Koautoren am Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie (MPI-M) in einer jetzt erschienenen Veröffentlichung mit dem Titel ?Historical and future anthropogenic emission pathways derived from coupled climate-carbon cycle simulations? in der Fachzeitschrift ?Climatic Change? nach.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689461ms220

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Eisschwund im hohen Norden geht weiter

Nordwestpassage so gut wie offen.
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/148176



Natürliches Geo-Engineering zur Rettung des Weltklimas

Ständig steigende Energiepreise und ein zusehends anfälligeres Ökosystem verdeutlichen die Notwendigkeit von effizienten Alternativen zu fossilen Brennstoffen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/33/33032/1.html



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/08/12-8

Ignoring the Obvious: The Floods and Fires, the Droughts and Disasters Will Continue

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/08/12-5

Union of Concerned Scientists: Drought in Russia; Floods in Pakistan and China; High Temps in the U.S. Consistent with Climate Change Projections

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/08/12-7

Scientists: Disasters 'Fit Perfectly' with Climate Change Predictions
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/08/13-2

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How Climate Change Affects You

By Amy Goodman

"We will start seeing more and more years like this year when you get these amazing events that caused tremendous death and destruction".

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26144.htm



Ignoring the Obvious

The Floods and Fires, the Droughts and Disasters Will Continue: I've just returned from Niger. There, tens of thousands of people are facing extreme hunger because of the droughts of the last two years.

http://blogs.aljazeera.net/europe/2010/08/12/ignoring-obvious



In Weather Chaos, a Case for Global Warming

The climate is changing," said Jay Lawrimore, chief of climate analysis at the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. "Extreme events are occurring with greater frequency, and in many cases with greater intensity."

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/science/earth/15climate.html?


From Information Clearing House

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Time to Declare Global War on Flooding

Video

Laura Flanders, GRITtv: "The flooding in Pakistan has displaced 2 million people, killed at least 1600 and affected 14 million. It should be affecting all of us. A disaster of global proportions, requiring a global response, as Gwynne Dyer noted on our show not long ago, it offers a hint of what we can expect if climate change continues on apace. While it's not a cause and effect equation, if we want to know what rising waters look like? Look at Pakistan."

http://www.truth-out.org/time-declare-global-war-flooding62299



Record Summer Heat Wave a "Sample of What's to Come"

Elizabeth McGowan, SolveClimate: "Oppressive temperatures gripping Southern and Eastern US states this summer will only worsen if little is done to curb greenhouse gases, according to an August report update from the National Wildlife Federation (NWF), a conservation group.... This hot summer is a continuation of what the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says is already the hottest January through June on record."

http://www.truth-out.org/eastern-us-headed-many-more-extreme-heat-waves-with-warming-study-finds62325

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Why no rush to aid Pakistan?
http://sharenews.twoday.net/stories/6467230/



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Wann werden Manager einer Bank untreu?

In Zukunft werden Manager noch schwieriger belangt werden können.
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/148171



Die US-Notenbank wirft die Druckmaschinen wieder an

Um die schwache Wirtschaft zu stützen, kauft die FED wieder Staatsanleihen in großem Stil auf .

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/148169



Banken nicht "länger wie heilige Kühe" verehren

Ungarn setzt nun vor allem auf eine Abgabe für Finanzkonzerne, um das Haushaltsdefizit zu senken.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/148164



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