World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/09-3

Occupy Our Homes Action in New York City Enters Second Month
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/09-2

Poor US Citizens Barter Their Way to Health
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/01/09

How the 1 Percent Could Do Its Share to Rebuild America
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/09-2

Corporations Hate Taxes, So They Let the Children Pay
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/09-3

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Occupy New Hampshire counters the Republican narrative

The Nation
by Ben Adler

01/09/12

New Hampshire is a small state, so its primary does not allocate many delegates to the Republican National Convention. The reason New Hampshire s primary is so important is the momentum it creates for the winning candidate. And the reason it creates momentum is because the national media obsessively cover it in great detail. So, in some sense, the media coverage is itself the primary. Ground zero for the media in New Hampshire right now is the Radisson hotel in downtown Manchester...

http://bit.ly/A0Qa4R



Oakland s dirty war

CounterPunch
by George Ciccariello-Maher

01/09/12

As winter sets in, the Occupy Movement nationwide confronts a new series of challenges. Conspiring with the weather, however, is the threat of a shifting policing model currently being tested out in Oakland...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/01/09/oakland%E2%80%99s-dirty-war/



Arrests in Oakland protests rise to more than 400

Reuters

01/29/12

Crews cleaned up Oakland's historic City Hall on Sunday from damage inflicted overnight during violent anti-Wall Street protests that resulted in about 400 arrests, marking one of the largest mass arrests since nationwide protests began last year...

http://reut.rs/y9iQOD


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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In New Hampshire, Occupiers Live Free or ''Die-In''

J.A. Myerson, Truthout: ''Live free or die,' the man instructed, and they all promptly died. This was Monday s 'Die-in,' an Occupy New Hampshire event in the parking lot of the campaign headquarters of President Barack Obama. The death certificate lists the name of deceased as 'democracy, freedom, liberty and the 99%.' Cause: 'The influence of Wall Street money.''

http://www.truth-out.org/live-free-or-die/1326205560



Emanuel s Protest-Squashing ''Sit Down and Shut Up'' Ordinance Passes in Chicago

Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: ''The 'sit down and shut up' ordinance, as it has been called, seeks to chill protest in Chicago through measures including mandatory $1 million liability insurance for protests, a heightened police presence and more difficulty getting a permit.... When the ordinance was first introduced, it was said to be only a measure for the NATO/G8 conference to be held in Chicago in May, but it was later revealed that the ordinance change is expected to be permanent.''

http://www.truth-out.org/emanuels-sit-down-and-shut-ordinance-aims-chill-protest-chicago/1326902816



Occupy Oakland: An Illustrated History

Susie Cagle, Truthout: ''From the beginning, the Oakland Commune set Oaklands' occupation apart in its acceptance of the local homeless population. The camp was consistently referred to as not only a political meeting ground and organizing space, but also a replacement for the citys' failures in its everyday existence. Some people were living there to make a point, but others were living there because they needed to, and all were welcomed until the camp was cleared in the early morning of October 25.''

http://www.truth-out.org/occupy-oakland-illustrated-history/1327687114



Occupy Protesters and Police Clash in Oakland

Sarah Maslin Nir, The New York Times News Service: ''A march to take over a vacant building by members of the Occupy movement in Oakland, Calif., turned into a violent confrontation with the police on Saturday, leaving three officers injured and about 200 people arrested.... Most of the arrests occurred in the evening, when large groups of people were corralled in front of the Downtown Oakland Y.M.C.A. on Broadway. At one point, one group of protesters broke into the City Hall building...

http://www.truth-out.org/occupy-protesters-and-police-clash-oakland/1327850727



Occupy Oakland: Over 400 Arrested as Police Fire Tear Gas, Flash Grenades at Protesters

Video

Amy Goodman, Democracy NOW!: ''Police have arrested more than 400 Occupy Oakland protesters, as well as a number of journalists, in one of the largest mass arrests since the nationwide Occupy protests began last year. When protesters attempted to convert a vacant building into a community center on Saturday, witnesses say police used tear gas, bean bag projectiles and flash grenades. Several hours later, police said some of the protesters broke into City Hall. However, demonstrators claim they found the door to City Hall already ajar.''

http://www.truth-out.org/occupy-oakland-over-400-arrested-police-fire-tear-gas-flash-grenades-protesters/1327950850

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America s Dangerously Removed Elite

By David Sirota

It s easy to cut public education funding when your kids go to private school. Just ask Christie and Emanuel.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30233.htm



300 arrested as police use flashbangs and tear-gas against protesters

Video

A 2,000-strong Occupy Oakland march turned violent, with some protesters claiming that rubber bullets were also fired into the crowd.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WEK6HgXBsQ


From Information Clearing House



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http://lewrockwell.com/spl4/2012-year-of-living-dangerously.html

Hopes, Fears and Preparations for 2012
http://lewrockwell.com/bonner/bonner532.html

34 Shocking Facts About U.S. Debt
http://lewrockwell.com/rep3/34-shocking-facts-about-us-debt.html



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Punishing Jesse Thorsen
http://lewrockwell.com/spl4/soldier-who-spoke-out-for-rp.html

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Defend Corporal Jesse Thorsen

Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

01/11/12

The elites don t like us peons speaking out on issues they consider their personal domain, and foreign policy certainly falls into this category. When military figures, big shots like Petraeus, get up there in full uniform, pushing a pro-war agenda, well, that s just fine and dandy. But let a mere corporal try to get a word in edgewise in the national debate over war and peace, and suddenly the Paul Rieckhoffs of this world are demanding a court martial!

http://bit.ly/AhEu2P


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The Pentagon Does not Want You To Read This
http://lewrockwell.com/orig11/mason-a5.1.1.html



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Obama s New Military Strategy Doesn t Add Up

By Miriam Pemberton

The job description for our self-appointed role as world policeman will be trimmed a bit. We won t be patrolling everywhere all the time, but we ll be doing something more like check-ins in places like Latin America and Africa.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30194.htm



Stone Age Logic: Preserving US Global Leadership

By Gwynne Dyer

If you're not allowed to enslave people any more, or even loot their resources, then what is the point of being a traditional great power?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30193.htm



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By Judge Napolitano

What If elections are simply means of social control and what ''public opinion'' actually tells us about what free people think.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30184.htm



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And now the Republicans want to attack Iran.
http://lewrockwell.com/reed/reed224.html

A Year To Wake Up
http://lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski282.html



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Lagos Dissents Under IMF Hegemony

By Nile Bowie

Vice Admiral Robert T. Moeller openly declared the guiding principle of AFRICOM is to protect ''the free flow of natural resources from Africa to the global market'', before citing China s increasing presence in the region as challenging to American interests.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30182.htm



Recognizing the ''Unpeople''

By Noam Chomsky

Africans are ''unpeople,'' to adapt George Orwell s term for those unfit to enter history.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30180.htm



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Joseph Varga, Labor Notes: ''An unexpected alliance is blooming seven weeks into a hard winter strike by 50 Millworkers at the Indiana Limestone Company: The participants of Occupy Bloomington in that nearby college town are rallying to their cause. The millworkers, members of Local 8093 of the Carpenters Industrial Council in Oolitic, Indiana, rejected a concessionary contract and by unanimous vote went on strike November 15.''

http://www.truth-out.org/right-work-law-looms-indiana-occupiers-join-limestone-strikers/1326032629



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Robert Reich, Robert Reich s Blog: ''In the last weeks before the just-completed Iowa caucuses, Romney spent over $3 million relentlessly torpedoing Newt Gingrich with negative ads, cutting Gingrich s support by half and hurtling him from first place to fourth. But Romney kept his fingerprints off the torpedo. Technically the money didn t even come from his campaign. It came from a Super PAC called 'Restore Our Future,' which can sop up unlimited amounts from a few hugely wealthy donors without even disclosing their names.''

http://www.truth-out.org/mitt-son-citizens-united/1326031467



Why the Tea Party Need Mitt

Thomas Frank, Tom Dispatch: ''Dear Tea Party Movement, for the last few months, the world has been fascinated by your frenzied search for a presidential candidate who is not Mitt Romney.... It was quite a spectacle, your quest for the non-Romney - and I think we all know why you undertook it. In ways that matter, Romney is clearly a problem for you.... [He s] said that he approved of the TARP bank bailout, the abomination that ignited the Tea Party uprising in the first place.''

http://www.truth-out.org/why-tea-party-need-mitt/1326045170



Hawk in a Clown-Car Field

Eugene Robinson, Washington Post Writers Group: ''It s quite difficult for a president to change the nation s culture. It s quite easy for a president to start a war. Yes, the GOP s clown-car nomination battle is a source of amusement. The prospect of a Santorum presidency, though, is a source of alarm.''

http://www.truth-out.org/hawk-clown-car-field/1326035437



Will Romney Lie His Way to the White House?

Dean Baker, Truthout: ''Mitt Romney seems ready to wield his version of birthirism as a major weapon in the fall campaign against President Obama. In his standard stump speech, he tells audiences that President Obama wants, 'to replace our merit-based society with an entitlement society.''

http://www.truth-out.org/will-romney-lie-his-way-white-house/1326122881

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Will New Hampshire Pick the Orwellian ?Conservative,? Willard Mitt Romney?
http://lewrockwell.com/lazarowitz/lazarowitz37.1.html

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Mitt Romney embraces the Neocons

Mitt Romney s newfound relations with the neocons could spell disaster for the United States, as the war drums begin.

http://bit.ly/wPfBgt


From Information Clearing House

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Mitt Romney, vulture capitalist

Our Future
by Terrance Heath

01/09/12

One of the benefits of the seemingly endless Republican primaries, aside from the entertainment value, is the opportunity to discover how right the candidates are ... about each other. ... What s more striking than the intensity of the candidates' obligatory attacks, however, is the accuracy of their worst accusations against one another. The most recent, and perhaps most striking example, is Newt Gingrich s latest attack on Mitt Romney...

http://bit.ly/A6smNh



Mitt Romney: Extremist in pinstripes

The Nation
by Katrina vanden Heuvel

01/10/12

Mitt Romney s dead heat with Rick Santorum in the Iowa caucuses bolstered the media narrative that Mitt Romney may not be conservative enough for Republican primary voters. This characterization serves Romney well. His rivals carve up each other, hoping to emerge as the conservative 'alternative' to Romney. And vast swaths of the media discount his reactionary views, anticipating his 'pivot' to more moderate positions once the nomination is secured. In reality, Romney is a remarkably reactionary candidate, camouflaged in corporate pinstripes...

http://tinyurl.com/6mojnx6


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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