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They increasingly dot the planet. Theres' a facility outside Las Vegas where 'pilots' work in climate-controlled trailers, another at a dusty camp in Africa formerly used by the French Foreign Legion. And that leaves at least 56 more such facilities to mention in an expanding American empire of unmanned drone bases being set up worldwide.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/10/17/opinion/main20121271.shtml

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Starmail - 17. Okt, 22:43

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America: With God On Our Side

The Chosen Nation

By Andrew J. Bacevich

Despite a Constitution that mandates the separation of church and state, religion and politics have become inseparable. To lend authority to their views, presidential aspirants of both parties regularly press God into service. They know what he intends.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29430.htm

Who Are The One Percent in America?

By Press TV

The median net worth for a current member of the U.S. House of Representatives was $725,000 in 2009, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, and the media net worth of a U.S. Senator was $2.4 million.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29432.htm

A Movement Too Big to Fail

By Chris Hedges

Tinkering with the corporate state will not work. We will either be plunged into neo-feudalism and environmental catastrophe or we will wrest power from corporate hands.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29431.htm

The Rise of the Regressive Right and the Reawakening of America

By Robert Reich

Whenever privilege and power conspire to pull us backward, the nation eventually rallies and moves forward.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29427.htm

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Starmail - 17. Okt, 22:15

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Seizure, detention, torture, and assassination

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

10/14/11

In todays? blog, I thought I would share with you a deeply insightful quote by Alan Barth (1906-1979), who served on the Washington Posts? editorial board for 30 years. The quote is from his book The Rights of Free Men, which was published posthumously in 1984. As you read the quote, keep in mind that we now live in a country in which the government - specifically the president and his military - now wields the authority to barge down peoples? door to seize them, cart them away to a concentration camp or military dungeon for indefinite detention, torture them, or even execute them...

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2011-10-14.asp

Pandoras? box wide open

Authority!
by Timothy J Taylor

10/15/11

Senior U.S. government officials in the Obama administration have now candidly admitted to reporters on condition of anonymity that American citizens are added to a kill or capture list by the decision of a secretive National Security Council panel which reports its decisions to the president...

http://bit.ly/qH1fPV

Obama: A disaster for civil liberties

Los Angeles Times
by Jonathan Turley

09/29/11

With the 2012 presidential election before us, the country is again caught up in debating national security issues, our ongoing wars and the threat of terrorism. There is one related subject, however, that is rarely mentioned: civil liberties. ... One man is primarily responsible for the disappearance of civil liberties from the national debate, and he is Barack Obama...

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Justice for all

Reason
by Kmele Foster

10/14/11

The Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial will be formally dedicated this Sunday in Washington, D.C. President Barack Obama will be on hand, as will a cadre of politicos, celebrities, and luminaries of the civil rights movement. The controversy surrounding the memorial, however, may dampen the occasion...

http://reason.com/archives/2011/10/14/justice-for-all

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Obama Campaign Reports More than 350 Big Bundlers

By Peter Stone, Elizabeth Lucas

More than 350 big money bundlers have contributed at least $55 million so far this year to President Obama's re-election efforts, And more than 40 bundlers each roped in at least $500,000.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29429.htm

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Starmail - 17. Okt, 09:51

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War and the return of populism

Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

10/17/11

The American elites are on trial in the court of public opinion and the verdict is just about to come in. The world economic system based on central banking and floating fiat currencies is crumbling beneath their feet, and the return of populism on both sides of the political spectrum has them in fear of losing their grip on power for the first time since the 1930s. While American troops are occupying Afghanistan, the folks back home are occupying Wall Street...

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War breeds war. Peace breeds prosperity

Wrights 2012
by R. Lee Wrights

10/15/11

War breeds war. That is all it can do. War does nothing but devour valuable resources and destroy precious lives for the sole purpose of perpetuating itself. As Randolph Bourne wrote, 'War is the health of the State.' War is a mechanism used by the ruling elites of the State to coerce and control the people, so it becomes essential that whenever one war is complete, another is instigated elsewhere so that the mechanism keeps running...

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Barney Frank connects defense cuts to Occupy movement

Our Future Blog
by Isaiah J. Poole

10/14/11

Rep. Barney Frank is ratcheting up his longstanding push to reduce federal defense spending with a series of town hall events in his Massachusetts congressional district atarting this weekend. And he is encouraging Occupy Wall Street and its sibling movements around the country to get involved. 'Cutting military spending is really essential if we are going to accomplish some of the things the Occupy movement wants to do in terms of fairness,' Frank said in an interview Friday afternoon...

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Corporate personhood and the Occupy Wall Street movement

Nolan Chart
by Gene DeNardo

10/15/11

The corporation is an association of people organized in a manner determined by contracts and countless laws. Most of these laws have little to do protecting people from aggression or wrongdoing and a lot to do with privileging and encouraging the corporate form itself. The occupiers have hit the nail on the head when it comes to removing the corporate privilege of personhood, but it is hardly the tip of the iceberg...

http://bit.ly/nrMKoK

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Occupy World St: From NYC to Everywhere

Video

All over the globe people are rising up and demanding their rights in a worldwide rally of discontent as protests inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement spread around the world on Saturday.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29425.htm

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How to End Corporate Personhood

Thom Hartmann, Berrett-Koehler Publishers: 'Virtually every legislative session since the 1800s has seen new attempts to regulate or control corporate behavior, starting with Thomas Jefferson s unsuccessful insistence that the Bill of Rights protect humans from 'commercial monopolies.' Ultimately, most have either failed or been co-opted because they didn t address the underlying structural issue of corporate personhood. To solve this problem, then, new laws controlling corporations aren t the ultimate answer. Instead what is needed is a foundational change in the definition of the relationship between living human beings and the nonliving legal fictions we call corporations.'

http://www.truth-out.org/end-corporate-personhood/1320725933

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Starmail - 17. Okt, 09:41

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Destroying value

Foundation for Economic Education
by Sheldon Richman

10/14/11

In Cleveland and other American cities homes are being demolished because five years after the housing bust there is nothing better to do with them. Therein lies a lesson in Austrian business cycle theory. In a world of uncertainty, waste - the destruction of value - is inevitable...

http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/tgif/destroying-value/

Prison-yard America

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Wendy McElroy

10/12/11

Since September, a public-school district in Florida has been taking fingerprint scans at the entrance to schools as a way to monitor attendance. The scans are compared against a database of students to detect truants. As in most highly intrusive school policies, parents are thrown a bone of control by allowing them to request an 'opt out' for their children. An opted-out student needs to pursue a teacher and go through a special sign-in every day...

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Starmail - 17. Okt, 09:35

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Servants of the Empire

Starmail - 17. Okt, 06:00

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Obama Sends 100 Troops to Fight Ugandan Rebels

By BNO

In a letter to Congress, Obama informed that in the next months further U.S. troops will be shipped out to other African countries as well, including South Sudan, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29408.htm

Fresh Uganda Oil Find 'Africas' Biggest'

By The Times

Paul Atherton, chief financial officer, told The Times that the wider field it was developing, dubbed Buffalo-Giraffe, had several 'billions of barrels of oil in place'.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29410.htm

Ugandas' oil contracts leaked - a bad deal made worse

The repeated claims by the Ugandan government and the oil companies that Uganda has received a very good deal and the best in the region are not only a fiction, but were reliant on the real terms of the contracts being kept secret. While the contracts will deliver vast profits to Tullow Oil and Heritage Oil, the contracts will prevent the Ugandan people from receiving their due benefits.

http://www.platformlondon.org/carbonweb/showitem.asp?article=375&parent=9

Oil extraction and the potential for domestic instability in Uganda

The paper identifies and discusses in detail three sources of domestic volatility that may arise as a result of oil development.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29411.htm

Uganda: Oil could cause war

The attacks are by armed gangs suspected to be rebels of the FDLR, LRA, and the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF). In the ongoing campaign in DR Congo, President Joseph Kabila is being criticised for failing to restore peace in this vital area.

http://www.independent.co.ug/cover-story/4683-oil-could-cause-war

More US troops for Uganda?

The very presence of the American troops in particular areas provokes all kinds of extremists to attack the Americans and Americans will use it as a pretext to increase their presence.

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Uganda: Obama launches next African war with 100 troops

News Digests Wire

10/16/11

President Barack Obama announced a new US intervention in Africa on Friday, deploying around 100 troops to Uganda to assist in suppression of the Lords' Resistance Army. The LRA and its leader, Joseph Kony, have terrorized central Africa for two decades, carrying out civilian massacres and conscripting child soldiers. The area of operations for the LRA, and the US operation, encompasses parts of Uganda, Sudan, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo...

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Starmail - 16. Okt, 06:18

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