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http://lewrockwell.com/rep2/how-to-steal-gop-nomination.html



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ron+Paul
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Occupy vs. Nihilism: All or Nothing at All

By Michael Meade

The hidden meaning of Occupy may involve an instinctive response to the threat of nihilism and the rise of emptiness; it may be a collective attempt to find the heart and soul of America again.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30074.htm



A Doomsday View of 2012

By James Petras

All indications point to 2012 being a turning point year of unrelenting economic crisis spreading outward from Europe and the US to Asia and its dependencies in Africa and Latin America.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30076.htm

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Whose Country Is It, Anyway?
http://lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan203.html



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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Michael+Meade
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=James+Petras
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/buchanan
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By Naomi Spencer


The United States government is seeking to use its prosecution of Manning, to lay the basis for extraditing Assange to the US and either prosecuting him as a terrorist or locking him away indefinitely in a military prison without any recourse to the courts or due process.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30075.htm



WikiLeaks' Assange may face espionage charge in US

JULIAN Assange may face espionage charges in the US after prosecutors in the case of Private Bradley Manning revealed evidence of the WikiLeaks boss' alleged role in stealing secret military documents.

http://bit.ly/rIGS56


From Information Clearing House

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Release Bradley Manning
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/war-crimes/release-bradley-manning.html



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Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland

12/21/11

The one prominent issue that both American political parties can seemingly agree on is that the U.S. should be less dependent on foreign oil. And Santa Claus has apparently listened and granted their wish. The United States is in the midst of a mini-oil boom, which has reversed, at least temporarily, the country s increasing dependence on foreign sources of oil...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=3211


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Are We Gods?

By Nicholas Kramer

New Year s is a traditionally a time for reflection; I hope that each of us will consider these questions and ask ourselves what kind of people we want to be.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30072.htm



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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Nicholas+Kramer
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Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

12/26/11

This may well be our last Christmas in the old America, an America untouched by serious civil turmoil since the era of Lincoln, unbowed by the business cycle since the days of FDR. We are living out the very last hours of the American Century, and all of Mitt Romney s appeals to nostalgia and belligerent nationalism cannot reconstruct what has been lost.'

http://bit.ly/u6w8yh


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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'Every Man for Himself': A Destructive Oversimplification in a Complex World

Peter Gumpert, Truthout: 'The complexity of living in a large, diverse nation requires that interdependence among people be recognized, understood, and used effectively. We depend on each other in a variety of direct and indirect ways, for our safety, wellbeing, and longevity, and for the preservation of our communities and our nation.'

http://www.truth-out.org/every-man-himself-destructive-oversimplification-complex-world/1323724741



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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Peter+Gumpert
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Goodbye 'Shop Til You Drop' Mentality

Christine MacDonald, AlterNet: 'What if all roads to prosperity don't lead to the shopping mall, as most economists would have us believe? What if, in fact, all that shopping ... was actually the root of many of the problems we face today? That s the view of a renegade but increasingly influential band of economists, who say the myth of perpetual economic growth and 'the iron cage of consumerism' are the chief causes of world economic dysfunction and environmental crisis.'

http://www.truth-out.org/goodbye-shop-til-you-drop-mentality-renegade-band-economists-call-degrowth-economy/1324836174



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=economic+growth
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William Fisher, Truthout: 'Since 9/11, there has been another kind of misconduct growing. It usually takes place outside the courtroom and is a favorite of politicians of both parties, especially if they are running for re-election. This is the phenomenon of politicians and others with private agendas calling press conferences to launch inflammatory, and usually false or grossly exaggerated, claims about the importance of a given case to the national security of the United States.'

http://www.truth-out.org/trial-media-justice-system-no-one-wants-you-know-about/1323816777



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=justice+system
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Jonathan Hafetz, Truthout: 'The United States' systematic use of torture has been extensively documented ? Ironically, these interrogation methods grew out of a program originally designed to help American soldiers resist torture at the hands of enemy forces. That program - known as SERE - was developed in response to the brutal interrogation methods used by the Chinese Communists against American soldiers during the Korean War to extract false confessions?. The Bush administration reverse-engineered the SERE program.'

http://www.truth-out.org/legacy-torture/1323714492



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bush+legacy
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Anthony DiMaggio and Paul Street, Truthout: 'Regular reporting of public anger at business elites has led some to compare OWS to the Tea Party with regard to both forces' 'insurgent,' 'revolutionary' themes and their support for 'rebellion' against the status quo. Beneath and beyond these easily noticeable similarities, however, deep and fundamental differences significantly undermine the core equivalence and parallels that are commonly posited between the Tea Party and the Occupy movement.'

http://www.truth-out.org/occupy-wall-street-mass-media-and-progressive-change-tea-party-era-our-window-opportunity/1323381449



Miracles for Christmas

Jeff Madrick, TripleCrisis: 'It s the Christmas season, so why not indulge ourselves? Let s ask for a few miracles. In fact, we in America have had a miracle and everyone has noticed it, Occupy Wall Street. There was another even bigger one in the Mideast. Not only an Arab spring in Egypt and Libya, but peaceful voting in Tunisa. There may even be a Slovak spring. So here is my wish list for miracles - ASAP. More or less in order of importance.'

http://www.truth-out.org/miracles-christmas/1324822891



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Some 25 million workers are either unemployed or underemployed, 50 million live without health insurance, one out of every seven Americans receives food stamps. The number of self-employed Americans has fallen by two million over the past five years. Nearly six million of the jobless have been out of work for more than six months.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/dec2011/pers-d23.shtml


From Information Clearing House

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Stiglitz: Wall Street System Destroying Not Serving Society
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/12/23-7

US Health System Working Great... For Private Industry Execs
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/12/23-10

OWS: A Protest Against a Broken Economic Compact
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/12/23-7



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