World-News

Richard D. Wolff, The Guardian UK: 'Consider the irony: governments today impose austerity on the rest of us because 'the markets' demand no less to keep credit flowing to those governments. Behind this dubious abstraction - 'the markets' - hide the chief lenders to governments. Those are the same global banks that received the government bailouts paid for by massive government borrowing since 2007. 'Thieves,' mutter the Occupy Wall Street folk - and who can blame them?'

http://www.truth-out.org/lehman-brothers-financially-and-morally-bankrupt/1323887770



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Newt Gingrich: Selling Access
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/campaign-2012/newt-gingrich-selling-access-.html

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Gingrich s Tax Plan Would Cause Perpetual Trillion Dollar Deficits, Triple the Debt by 2024

Seth Hanlon, ThinkProgress: 'Gingrich's plan would violate basic notions of fairness by requiring middle-class families to pay higher tax rates than millionaires. But that s not all that s wrong with it. Gingrichs plan is by far the most fiscally reckless plan to be released by a major 2012 contender. The magnitude of the tax cuts he is proposing to the wealthy and corporations would drive the debt to unprecedented and dangerous levels even if federal spending is cut drastically.'

http://www.truth-out.org/gingrichs-tax-plan-would-cause-perpetual-trillion-dollar-deficits-triple-debt-2024/1323875848



Newt s Tax Plan, and Why His Polls Rise the More Outrageous He Becomes

Robert Reich, Robert Reich s Blog: 'Newt Gingrich has done it again. With his new tax plan he has raised the bar from irresponsibility to recklessness ... First off, Newt s plan increases the federal budget deficit by about $850 billion - in a single year! ... Most of this explosion of debt in Newt s plan occurs because he slashes taxes. But not just anyone s taxes. The lion s share of Newt s tax cuts benefit the very, very rich.'

http://www.truth-out.org/robert-reich-newts-tax-plan-and-why-his-polls-rise-more-outrageous-he-becomes/1323874711



Surviving the Second Gilded Age

Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: 'It has become difficult to not recognize that we are firmly in the grip of a second Gilded Age. Not only is this return obvious in the homage - if not hysteria - that marks a return to the dream worlds of consumption, commodification and a survival-of-the-fittest ethic, but also in the actions of right-wing politicians who want to initiate policies that take the country back to the late 19th century.'

http://www.truth-out.org/surviving-second-gilded-age/1323871214



How the Federal Reserve Fights

Matt Stoller, Naked Capitalism: 'Bloomberg released a story on the actions of the Federal Reserve as the lender of last resort during the crisis and the extent of that lending. It revealed lending and guarantees of roughly $8 trillion, and estimated government-granted profit garnered by the big banks of $13 billion. More disturbing were inconsistent statements by Bernanke publicly claiming he was lending only to sound institutions when the Fed s internal assessments of those same banks showed otherwise.'

http://www.truth-out.org/matt-stoller-how-federal-reserve-fights/1323874226

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Newt Gingrich s Literal Embrace Of Yasser Arafat

By Sam Stein

After Gingrich says Palestinians 'invented,' picture emerges of U.S. Presidential hopeful with Yasser Arafat.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29985.htm



President Arafat Murdered

Swiss study: 18 Times Normal Levels Of Polonium Found in Arafat s Bones

By David Poort and Ken Silverstein

"Yasser Arafat died of polonium poisoning," he said. "We found the smoking gun that caused his death. What we don t know is who s holding the gun at the time."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36767.htm



Palestinian leader Arafat was murdered with polonium: widow

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was poisoned to death in 2004 with radioactive polonium, his widow Suha said on Wednesday after receiving the results of Swiss forensic tests on her husband s corpse. "We are revealing a real crime, a political assassination," she told Reuters in Paris.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/06/us-palestinians-arafat-idUSBRE9A50S520131106


From Information Clearing House



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/12/13-7

Politics, Religion and the Tea Party
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/12/13

Tea Party to America: Merry Christmas, Screw You
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/12/20-3

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Two Ex-Scott Walker Staffers Arrested in Ongoing Investigation

Alex Seitz-Wald, ThinkProgress: ''An expansive 'John Doe' corruption investigation targeting employees and former employees of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) has led to its first arrests today, nabbing three people, including two former aides to Walker. The investigation centers around Milwaukee County workers during Walker s tenure there as executive, and has previously involved an FBI raid on the home of a fourth person, one of Walker s top aides.''

http://www.truth-out.org/two-ex-scott-walker-staffers-arrested-ongoing-investigation/1325861277



Wisconsin Judge Halts ''Extremely Broad and Largely Needless'' Voter ID Law

Brendan Fischer, PRWatch: ''A Wisconsin judge has issued a temporary injunction against Wisconsin s new voter ID law, calling it 'the single most restrictive voter eligibility law in the United States.' Wisconsin s voter ID law, like many others introduced in 2011 and 2012, is based on an American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) model bill.''

http://www.truth-out.org/wisconsin-judge-halts-extremely-broad-and-largely-needless-voter-id-law/1331220711



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David Kristjanson-Gural, Truthout: 'Excluding people from having a say over what happens to the wealth we create is the first and the most fundamental way that any capitalist system undermines democracy. We are fundamentally disenfranchised in the places we work.'

http://www.truth-out.org/capitalism-enemy-democracy/1323789051



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'Despair Is Not an Option'

By Senator Bernie Sanders

Today in America, the great middle class of our country, the middle class that has been the envy of the entire world, is collapsing, poverty is increasing, while the wealthiest people in this country have never had it so good.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29976.htm

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The Making of the American 99 Percent and the Collapse of the Middle Class

Barbara Ehrenreich and John Ehrenreich, TomDispatch/The Nation: 'Despite all the official warnings about health and safety threats [in Occupy encampments], there was no 'Altamont moment': no major fires and hardly any violence. In fact, the encampments engendered almost unthinkable convergences: people from comfortable backgrounds learning about street survival from the homeless, a distinguished professor of political science discussing horizontal versus vertical decision-making with a postal worker, military men in dress uniforms showing up to defend the occupiers from the police.*

http://www.truth-out.org/making-american-99-and-collapse-middle-class/1323968181



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By Ron Paul

It is absolutely astounding that nearly 40% of kids in foster care are on psychotropic drugs, some of them taking up to 5 different pills at a time.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29974.htm



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By Kevin Zeese

A radical change in law to allow the use of the military inside the United States, against U.S. citizens and residents, and to allow their indefinite military detention based merely on suspicion of being engaged in hostilities against the U.S is being rushed through congress.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29975.htm



Police go military

Video

An onslaught of attacks with pepper-spray, tear gas guns and batons are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the arsenal of arms that the police are pulverizing peaceful protesters with.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpiRFkHVLy8



Who Are the World s Biggest Employers?

By The Economist

America s defence department had 3.2m people on its payroll last year, equivalent to 1% of the country s population.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29966.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Can Broadened 'Counterterrorism' Rules Open Door to Indefinitely Detaining Peaceful Protesters?

J.A. Myerson, Truthout: 'In passing the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), Congress, in the words of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), has just voted to, 'authorize the military to go literally anywhere in the world to imprison civilians - even American citizens in the United States itself - without charge or trial./ The ACLU calls it what it is: 'Prison based on suspicion alone.'

http://www.truth-out.org/can-broadened-counterterrorism-rules-open-door-indefinitely-detaining-peaceful-protesters/1323806026



Congress vs. the Constitution

Shahid Buttar, Truthout: 'The NDAA s military detention provisions thus represent a frontal attack on the Fifth Amendment (which once guaranteed due process) and the Sixth Amendment (which once ensured the rights to trial, access to counsel and an opportunity to confront accusers). They also deeply erode the First Amendment - but in a less obvious way, and a way in which any activist would do well to consider.'

http://www.truth-out.org/congress-vs-constitution/1323799353



Did the Pentagon Help Strangle the Arab Spring?

Nick Turse, TomDispatch: 'These training missions are only a fraction of the dozens carried out each year in secret, far from the prying eyes of the press or local populations. They are a key component of an outsized Pentagon support system that also shuttles aid and weaponry to a set of allied Middle Eastern kingdoms and autocracies.'

http://www.truth-out.org/nick-turse-did-pentagon-help-strangle-arab-spring/1323796589



Occupy Your Education: A Note to Students About Changing the World

Jason Del Gandio, Truthout: 'This scenario is upsetting, but not hopeless. You, the students, can reclaim your educational experience as an opportunity to change not just the problems of education, but the problems of society. Education should not be a privilege, or even a right. It should be a way of life, and that life should be a political force for the common good.'

http://www.truth-out.org/occupy-your-education-note-students-about-changing-world/1323279149

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OWS, Banksters, and Bombs
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/12/13-5

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What s Next for the Occupy Movement?

In These Times
by Marilyn Katz

12/12/11

The tents in Oakland are collapsed, the libraries and food kitchens of New York dismantled. And while Occupiers hold ground in some cities, in many others the Occupation has become a state of being rather than a place. But ... the Occupiers have already won the more important battles of the times...

http://tinyurl.com/6skf8r8


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The US Becomes Just Another Military Dictatorship
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