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Robert Reich, Robert Reich s Blog: ''Wall Street has become the center of riskless free enterprise. Bankers risk other people s money. If deals turn bad, they collect their fees in any event. The entire hedge-fund industry is designed to hedge bets so big investors can make money whether the price of assets they bet on rises or falls. And if the worst happens, the biggest bankers and investors now know they ll be bailed out by taxpayers because they are too big to fail.''

http://www.truth-out.org/free-enterprise-trial/1326822523

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=too+big+to+fail
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Reich+Blog
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Starmail - 17. Jan, 23:01

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Occupy the Congress: Do You Smell a Rat?

J.A. Myerson, Truthout: ''Occupy DC is planning its Occupy the Congress event on January 17 (#J17). With the participation of activists from all 50 states, according to organizers, it will orchestrate a massive day of action designed to send the message that participatory democracy is what has been done in America s plazas and parks over the last four months, not what happens on Capitol Hill, where democracy has been corrupted by the influence of wealth.''

http://www.truth-out.org/occupy-dc-not-just-whites/1326815572

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America Occupies the Capital

At 9 am on the opening day of Congress, Occupy Congress will convene for a day of action against a corrupt political institution.

http://www.nationofchange.org/america-occupies-capital-1326819181

Occupy Congress: Police arrest OWS protesters

Video

On Tuesday the Occupy Wall Street movement took their protest to Congress. This marks the movement s four month anniversary and hundreds gathered outside the Capitol where protesters held signs and chanted slogans.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhWqXjf1bnU

From Information Clearing House

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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=J.A.+Myerson
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Starmail - 17. Jan, 22:50

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Revealed: The FBI Secretive Practice of ''Blackballing'' Files

Jason Leopold, Truthout: ''Have you ever filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the FBI and received a written response from the agency stating that it could not locate records responsive to your request? If so, there s a chance the FBI may have found some documents, but for unknown reasons, the agency s FOIA analysts determined it was not responsive and 'blackballed' the file, crucial information the agency withholds from a requester when it issues a 'no records' response.''

http://www.truth-out.org/revealed-fbis-secretive-practice-blackballing-files/1326811421

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=FOIA
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jason+Leopold
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Starmail - 17. Jan, 22:38

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People who make wars

Liberty For All
by Aldous Huxley

01/16/12

The people who make wars, the people who reduce their fellows to slavery, the people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, the really evil people in a word, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they are the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=7089

Defense policy out of the Stone Age

Orange County Register
by Gwynne Dyer

01/16/12

If you are not allowed to enslave people any more, or even loot their resources, then what is the point of being a traditional great power? The United States kept an army of over 100,000 soldiers in Iraq for eight years, at a cost that will probably end up around a trillion dollars. Yet it didn t enslave a single Iraqi (though it killed quite a lot), and throughout the occupation it paid full market price for Iraqi oil. So what American purpose did the entire enterprise serve? Oh, silly me. I forgot. It was about 'security.' And here it comes again, on an even bigger scale...

http://tinyurl.com/6wwexe2

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Torture charges dropped against UK intelligence officers

Pressure from the intelligence establishment in the UK and the United States is now mounting on the British government to pass further legislation to suppress intelligence information in court and prevent officers from ever being brought before them in future.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/jan2012/tort-j17.shtml

From Information Clearing House

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Starmail - 17. Jan, 09:38

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Occupy campaign finance reform

by Ayn R. Key
01/13/12

The way to eliminate the Super PACs and to reduce the influence of money in politics is to eliminate the cause. That means removing all the campaign finance laws that led up to the point where the only way outside of the tightly controlled system is by people pooling their money in PACs. People forget that a campaign donation is indeed a form of political speech, and it was political speech in particular that was supposed to be protected by the freedom of speech clause of the first amendment (the freedom of religion clause covered religious speech)...

http://bit.ly/ylKGsD

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Starmail - 17. Jan, 09:30

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Santorum charity for the poor spent most of its money on management, political friends

Homeless families and troubled children were not the biggest beneficiaries of Operation Good Neighbor. Instead, the foundation spent most of its money to run itself, including hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees for fundraising, administration and office rental paid to Santorum s political allies.

http://wapo.st/xvgUtS

How Rick Santorum Ripped Off American Veterans

A controversial land deal by the presidential candidate robbed a vets' home of tens of millions of dollars.

http://bit.ly/zjFeSD

From Information Clearing House

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Santorum: The Right s man

The American Prospect
by Patrick Caldwell

01/16/12

Around 150 bigwigs from the social-conservative movement gathered in Texas Friday night to endorse a candidate. Organizers didn't come out and say it, but the implicit goal of the gathering was to rally around a single alternative to Mitt Romney before he rolls past the competition in South Carolina and Florida. Surrogates for each candidate addressed the crowd Saturday morning before the voting took place...

http://prospect.org/article/rights-man

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Santorum
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Starmail - 17. Jan, 09:22

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Wall Street, Washington and Gingrich

Newt Gingrich and his consulting companies helped financial-services giant Credit Suisse Group gather exclusive Washington information and analysis, showing that the Republican presidential candidate benefited from a practice that has come under fire from lawmakers.

http://on.wsj.com/zxERAe

From Information Clearing House

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The Gingrich Doctrine: ''Kill them!''

Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

01/18/12

His hands on his ample hips, Newt Gingrich looked like Mussolini up there on the stage at the GOP presidential debate as he bellowed 'everybody knows' the Pakistanis were hiding Osama bin Laden in plain sight, 'a mile from a Pakistani military academy.' Ron Paul, who knows more about monetary policy than the intricacies of the US-Pakistani relationship, stood there looking appalled as Gingrich let loose with his war cry: 'Kill them!' The yahoos went wild with joy...

http://bit.ly/w6qIUr

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Gingrich
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Starmail - 17. Jan, 09:18

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