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Carey L. Biron, Inter Press Service: ''The United States is set to far surpass previous records for defense sales this year, according to U.S. officials. 'Despite the global economic strain, demand for U.S. defense products and services is stronger than ever,' Andrew J. Shapiro, an assistant secretary in the U.S. State Department, said on Thursday. He confirmed that the U.S., long the world s largest weapons exporter, has already seen more than 50 billion dollars in government-to-government military sales this fiscal year.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9834-us-sets-another-record-on-defence-sales-already



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Der ehemalige Gouverneur von Massachusetts hat seinen Bundesstaat bereits vor der Abstimmung im November als verloren abgeschrieben.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/37/37106/1.html



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What Happens If GOP s Voter Suppression Works?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/25



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Lee Fang, Republic Report: ''Chris Frates of National Journal broke the story that health insurance companies secretly funneled over $100 million into the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for advertising. The Chamber, during the period in which the money was accepted, orchestrated one of the largest electioneering outside money efforts in American history to help weaken health reform and elect lawmakers, mostly Republican, running on platform to repeal health reform.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9804-health-insurance-companies-plowed-over-$107-million-into-electing-speaker-boehners-anti-health-reform-congress



Campaign Cash: The Gift That Keeps on Giving

Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, Moyers & Co.: ''If you are visiting a candidate this summer and looking for a thoughtful house gift, might we suggest a nice super PAC? Thanks to the Supreme Court and Citizens United, they are all the rage among the mega-wealthy. All it takes is a little paperwork and a wad of cash and presto, you can have, as The Washington Post describes it, a 'highly customized, highly personalized political action committee.'''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9818-campaign-cash-the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving



The Corruption of Politics by Checkbooks

Gerald E Scorse, Baltimore Chronicle: ''Dollars deliver messages in a new book by 'Dollar Bill' Bradley, and the former Rhodes scholar, NBA star, U.S. Senator and presidential candidate has no doubt where the dollars should and shouldn t be going. They should be pouring FDR-style into job creation, and they shouldn t be donated to politicians, especially dollars from corporations. Bradley s book, We Can All Do Better, has an early chapter, ''Uprooting the Root of All Evil,'' that examines the corruption of politics by checkbooks.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9824-the-corruption-of-politics-by-checkbooks



On Money in Politics

Bill Moyers, Moyers & Co.: ''When it comes to the vast, corrupting influence of money in politics, historian Thomas Frank has sounded the alarm loudly and often. In 'It s a Rich Man s World,' one of his recent essays for Harper s Magazine, Frank writes, 'Over the course of the past few decades, the power of concentrated money has subverted professions, destroyed small investors, wrecked the regulatory state, corrupted legislators en masse, and repeatedly put the economy through the wringer. Now it has come for our democracy itself.'''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9847-thomas-frank-on-money-in-politics



How to Own an Election

Bill Moyers, Moyers & Co.: ''In this Bill Moyers Essay, Bill calls out some of the biggest political and super PAC donors, revealing how easy it is for the wealthy one percent to sway an election.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/9866-how-to-own-an-election

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Leaked Document Reveals New Corporate Powers And Broken Campaign Promises

By Zach Carter

The administration intends to bestow radical new political powers upon multinational corporations, contradicting prior promises.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31610.htm



Senators Grovel, Embarrass Themselves at Dimon Hearing

By Matt Taibbi

The senators not only supplicated before the blowdried banker like love-struck schoolgirls or hotel bellhops, they also almost all revealed themselves to be total ignoramuses with no grasp of the material they were supposed to be investigating.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31605.htm



Writing Off The Elderly

By Paul Craig Roberts

What we have witnessed in the 21st century is a clear decision by political elites and the private interests that control them that gratuitous wars are more important than the elderly.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31608.htm



Poverty In The USA: Disposable Families in Ohio

By Greg Kaufmann

Ohio has thrown nearly 70,000 people-including 40,000 children-off of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) cash assistance program. That s nearly 25 percent of the state s TANF caseload. The reason?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31604.htm



Is the Threat of a ''Mafia State'' Real?

By Michael Busch

The intersection between state power and illicit actors is as old as the modern nation-state itself.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31692.htm

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Super PACs must face accountability

San Francisco Chronicle
by Robert Reich

06/17/12

JPMorgan, BP, Walmart and the multibillionaire Koch brothers have just launched a TV advertisement blasting President Obama for the national debt. Actually, I don t know who s behind the ad because there s no way to know. And that s a big problem. The front group for the ad is Crossroads GPS, the sister organization to the super PAC American Crossroads run by Republican political operative Karl Rove. But because Crossroads GPS is a nonprofit, tax-exempt 'social welfare organization,' it can spend unlimited money and doesn t have to reveal its sources. In reality, it s a political front group, and the ad is blatantly partisan...

http://tinyurl.com/7sn6wjr



JPMorgan probed over possible power market manipulation

Reuters

07/03/12

Energy regulators have subpoenaed JPMorgan Chase & Co twice in the past three months as part of an investigation into whether the bank manipulated power markets in California and the Midwest. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on Monday filed a petition in U.S. federal court to require JPMorgan to produce emails from 2010 and 2011 as part of a formal probe into JPMorgan power market bidding practices in those areas...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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For Billionaires Only: Uncle Sam s Real Estate Fire Sale
http://lewrockwell.com/spl4/real-estate-fire-sale.html

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The US Chamber of Commerce s Multimillion-Dollar Attack Plan
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/09/05-1



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Cora Currier, ProPublica: ''Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JP Morgan Chase, faced a Senate hearing over more than $2 billion in bank losses caused by risky hedges that blew up.... Many lawmakers are holding up the losses as evidence of the need for stronger financial regulation. The chairman of the Senate banking committee, Tim Johnson, D-S.D., in his opening remarks, asked for 'a full accounting' of JP Morgan s losses. But through campaign contributions and well-connected staff, JP Morgan appears to have already taken its own accounting of the Banking committee.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9789-charting-the-cozy-connections-between-jp-morgan-and-the-senate-banking-committee



Why the Senate Won t Touch Jamie Dimon: How JPMorgan Props Up US Debt

Ellen Brown, Truthout: ''When Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase Bank, appeared before the Senate Banking Committee on June 13, he was wearing cufflinks bearing the presidential seal. 'Was Dimon trying to send any particular message by wearing the presidential cufflinks?' asked CNBC editor John Carney. 'Was he ... subtly hinting that he s really the guy in charge?'''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9876-the-jpmorgan-derivatives-propping-up-us-debt-why-the-senate-wont-touch-jamie-dimon

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20 Reasons Why America s Next Bank Holiday Will Be a Nightmare
http://lewrockwell.com/spl4/bank-holiday-nightmare.html



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http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/06/14-13



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Drones over America. Are they spying on you?

By some government estimates, as many as 30,000 drones could be part of intelligence gathering and law enforcement here in the United States within the next ten years.

http://is.gd/7dLfo2



US Marine Corps Creates ''Law Enforcement'' Battalions

By Julie Watson

The Marine Corps has created its first law enforcement battalions, a lean, specialized force of military police officers that it hopes can quickly deploy worldwide to help investigate crimes from terrorism to drug trafficking and train fledgling security forces in allied nations.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32026.htm


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''When a U.S. drone missile kills a child in Yemen, the father will go to war with you, guaranteed. Nothing to do with Al Qaeda,'' a Yemeni lawyer warned on Twitter last month. President Obama should keep this message in mind before ordering more drone strikes like Wednesday s, which local officials say killed 27 people, or the May 15 strike that killed at least eight Yemeni civilians.

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Lawmakers want legal justification for drone strikes

A group of more than two dozen anti-war lawmakers wants the White House to explain the legal justification for ''signature'' drone strikes, in which drone attacks can be launched when the identity of those killed is not known.

http://is.gd/vIEPyA



Do Americans Approve Mass Murder?

By Michael Hampton

A majority of Americans, it seems, approve of drone strikes against ''terrorists'', even if they kill innocent bystanders.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31589.htm


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