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New documents reveal plans to more than quadruple Reaper missions by 2016
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From Information Clearing House



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Mark Karlin, Truthout: ''There is no end game here. The United States is using all its vast powers to do what urban police do in American cities: chase the corner drug dealers out of one area and into another, through the use of temporary intensive 'enforcement'and then chase them back again at a later date.... Meanwhile, in the United States, controlling the demand side appears to be interpreted as throwing people, particularly minority men, in jail for drug offenses, leading to the highest incarceration rate in the world.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8371-the-us-war-on-drug-cartels-in-mexico-is-a-deadly-failure



Numbers Tell of Failure in Drug War

Eduardo Porter, The New York Times News Service: ''If there is one number that embodies the seemingly intractable challenge imposed by the illegal drug trade.... That is the retail price .... of one gram of pure cocaine.... This number contains pretty much all you need to evaluate the Mexican and American governments' 'war' to eradicate illegal drugs from the streets of the United States. What it says is that the struggle on which they have spent billions of dollars and lost tens of thousands of lives over the last four decades has failed.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10216-numbers-tell-of-failure-in-drug-war

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How the 'Drug War' creates collateral damage
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/the-bogus-drug-war/how-the-drug-war-creates-collateral-damage.html

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The Drug War, And The Isolation Of The U.S.

By Noam Chomsky

Latin Americans may yet again inspire progress in human rights in the United States.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31302.htm



US officials at Mexican border accused of widespread human rights abuses

Civil rights body accuses Customs and Border Protection agents of using excessive force against US citizens and immigrants.

http://bit.ly/Kq2XSN


From Information Clearing House



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Heise Newsticker

Bürgerrechtler der American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) haben im vergangenen Jahr von über 200 US-Polizeibehörden Informationen zum Beschatten von Handy-Nutzern auf Basis des ''Freedom of Information Act'' abgefragt. Die Resultate in Form von über 5500...

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Zunehmende-Mobilfunkueberwachung-in-den-USA-in-der-Kritik-1517279.html



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Maria Armoudian, Truthout: ''What would happen, for example, if the so-called 99 percent ignored the 1 percent and began to build a new economic model from the ground floor up? What if masses of people stopped trying to reform an increasingly unworkable system and instead focused on constructing an economy of shared institutions that were fundamentally fair, just, respectful and sustainable? Perhaps, as important as the questions, the fact that the answer is beginning to peak out from underneath the veneer is even more inspiring. This is one of the gifts in 'America Beyond Capitalism'.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/8344-the-seeds-of-a-quiet-economic-revolution-a-review-of-gar-alperovitzs-america-beyond-capitalism-reclaiming-our-wealth-our-liberty-and-our-democracy



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http://lewrockwell.com/rep3/america-elite-rest-of-us-poor.html



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By Jeff Nielson

Western wages have plummeted so low that a two-income family is now (on average) 15% poorer than a one-income family of 40 years ago.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31010.htm



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By Robert Reich

Imagine that the richest people in this country use some of their vast wealth to routinely bribe politicians.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31003.htm



Payola for the Most Profitable Corporations in History And Why Taxpayers Shouldn t Stand for It Any More

By Bill McKibben

Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31006.htm



''Too big to fail'' banks even bigger now

According to Bloomberg, the five banks that held assets equal to 43% of the US economy in 2007 before the financial crisis and the bank bailout now control assets that equal 56% of the US economy.

http://bit.ly/IREFOI



America Is A Seething Cesspool Of Filth And Corruption

Do you believe that America is a seething cesspool of filth and corruption? If not, you might change your mind after reading this article.

http://bit.ly/HMdMuH


From Information Clearing House

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The Best Congress the Banks Can Buy
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/04/06

Scott Walker Is Dismantling Women s Rights
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/04/22-1

There Is a Plague Loose Upon the Land
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/04-1

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Meet the ALEC Staffers Who Help Corporations Write Our Laws

Zaid Jilani, Republic Report: ''ALEC is accustomed to hiding its agenda and its legislation behind closed doors. At secretive conferences and over e-mail chains the public never sees, the organization allows its corporate donors to manufacture bills and then send them to be passed in state legislatures without the public ever knowing about their origin. But these ALEC staffers can t hide who they are, and what they do for an organization that harms almost every area of American life.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8390-meet-the-alec-staffers-who-help-corporations-write-our-laws



To Whom Much Is Given: Why We Need to Tax Inheritance

Jeffrey Mikkelson, Truthout: ''Roughly half of the wealthiest Americans inherited all or much of their wealth, and the United States ranks near the bottom of rich countries in terms of intergenerational mobility. What s more, the vast majority of inherited wealth goes entirely untaxed. Under current law, heirs can inherit an estate of up to $5 million without paying a cent in federal taxes. In fact, it s likely that a sizable portion of that income was never taxed in the first place.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/8316-to-whom-much-is-given-why-we-need-to-tax-inheritance



Arizona Is the ''Petri Dish'' for ALEC s Corporate-Influenced Legislature

Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: ''Arizona, with 49 out of 90 legislators with membership in the American Legislative Exchange Council, is a darling of the bill drafting body and home to several bills modeled on the council s legislation targeting workers compensation, unions and public education.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8555-arizona-is-the-petri-dish-for-corporate-influenced-legislature



ALEC ''Sharpens Focus on Jobs''

Mary Bottari, PR Watch: ''ALEC has a sweeping anti-union agenda that would cripple labor s ability to serve as an effective counterweight to corporate CEOs.... On collective bargaining, ALEC s 'Public Employee Freedom Act' declares that 'an employee should be able to contract on their own terms' and 'mandatory collective bargaining laws violate this freedom.' This ALEC bill and the 'Public Employer Payroll Deduction Policy Act' prohibit automatic payroll deductions for union dues, a key aspect of Walker s collective bargaining bill struck down by a federal court judge.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8625-hang-onto-that-paycheck-alec-sharpens-focus-on-jobs



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By John Pilger

One independent little country astride lucrative natural resources and strategic sea lanes is of serious concern to the United States and its ''deputy sheriff'' in Canberra.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31007.htm



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Liberty For All
by Mark Hinkle

04/05/12

Last month, the joint war on liberty by Republicans and Democrats continued, when Attorney General Eric Holder informed surprised students and faculty at Northwestern University Law School that President Obama can kill anyone in the world without charge or trial. This, of course, is just acceptance of the Unitary Executive Theory which President George W. Bush utilized to ignore the courts during his administration. Needless to say, both Presidents, Bush and Obama, assured us that they would be careful to only use their unlimited powers for the benefit of their subjects...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=7467


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_cispa/?cl=1703452828&v=13514

The end of Internet privacy
http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_cispa_corporate_global/?cl=1735478510&v=13705

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CISPA (aka SOPA 2.0) Pushed Forward by For-Profit Spying Lobby

Lee Fang, Republic Report: ''A cyber security bill moving swiftly through Congress would give government intelligence agencies broad powers to work with private companies to share information about Internet users. While some critics are beginning to organize online against the legislation, defense contractors, many already working with the National Security Agency on related data-mining projects, are lobbying to press forward.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8538-cispa-aka-sopa-20-pushed-forward-by-for-profit-spying-lobby

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SOPA Redux: Groups Push Back Against Cyber Spying Act
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/04/18-4



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