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Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: 'Of all the nonsense Texas Governor Rick Perry spews about states' rights and the tenth amendment, his dumbest is the notion that states should go it alone. 'We have got a great Union,' he said at a Tea Party rally in Austin in April 2009. 'There's absolutely no reason to dissolve it. But if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who knows what might come out of that.'

http://www.truth-out.org/rick-perrys-secret-plan-save-blue-states-red-states/1314815153

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Yes, it is a Ponzi scheme

Cato Institute
by Michael D. Tanner

08/31/11

Texas governor Rick Perry is being criticized for calling Social Security a 'Ponzi scheme.' Even Mitt Romney is reportedly preparing to attack him for holding such a radical view. But if anything, Perry was being too kind...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13625


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Meet the Shady Dallas Mega-Billionaire Industrialist Pouring Money into Rick Perry s Coffers

http://www.alternet.org/story/152216/meet_the_shady_dallas_mega-billionaire_industrialist_pouring_money_into_rick_perry%27s_coffers/


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Matthew Schofield, McClatchy Newspapers: 'A US diplomatic cable made public by WikiLeaks provides evidence that U.S. troops executed at least 10 Iraqi civilians, including a woman in her 70s and a 5-month-old infant, then called in an airstrike to destroy the evidence, during a controversial 2006 incident in the central Iraqi town of Ishaqi. The unclassified cable, which was posted on WikiLeaks' website last week, contained questions from a United Nations investigator about the incident, which had angered local Iraqi officials, who demanded some kind of action from their government. U.S. officials denied at the time that anything inappropriate had occurred.'

http://www.truth-out.org/iraqi-children-us-raid-shot-head-un-says/1314883725

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Facts and Myths in the WikiLeaks/Guardian saga

By Glenn Greenwald

Many of those condemning WikiLeaks for the potential, prospective, unintentional harm to innocents caused by this leak will have nothing to say about these actual, deliberate acts of wanton slaughter by the U.S.

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The American Spectator
by Doug Bandow

08/30/11

Two years ago, Pew reported that 70 percent of humanity suffered from either government persecution of or social hostility to religion. Add more moderate restrictions of the sort which Americans would still reject and an incredible 86 percent of the world s peoples did not enjoy genuine religious liberty. That trend is growing...

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Slate
by Dahlia Lithwick

08/30/11

Implicit in Greenwald s commentary is that the Obama administration is responsible for Cheney s continued legitimacy in the debate about torture, as well as the legitimacy of the debate itself. By deciding to repudiate torture while doing everything in its power to protect the torturers, the Obama administration has succeeded in elevating not only Cheney but the idea that, in America, some torturers are too important to be punished...

http://www.slate.com/id/2302751/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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In America The Rule Of Law Is Vacated

By Paul Craig Roberts
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29005.htm



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Christian Science Monitor

08/31/11

A continued decline in union membership in the US has led to an erosion of the American middle class, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis said Wednesday. As the portion of the population that belongs to a union has declined, 'there has been an erosion of people that have been able to stay in the middle class. The way I see, it is that unions have helped to keep people in the middle class,' Secretary Solis said...

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Washington Post

08/31/11

On Aug. 12, 2003, a Gulfstream IV aircraft carrying six passengers took off from Dulles International Airport .... The Gulfstream IV s itinerary, as well as the $339,228.05 price tag for the journey, are among the details of shadowy CIA flights that have emerged in a small Upstate New York courthouse in a billing dispute between contractors...

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Panel tallies massive waste and fraud in wartime US contracts

CNN

08/31/11

A nonpartisan panel reporting to Congress says the United States is wasting $12 million a day among contracts issued in support of American efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Commission on Wartime Contracting spent the past three years documenting whether American funding went where it was supposed to. The findings show misdirected money has totaled between $31 billion and $60 billion, and that both the government and the contractors are to blame for fraud and waste...

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8 Signs That the US Government is Making It Harder for You
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The monetary tsunami is coming

Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Frank Shostak

08/31/11

In his speech at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on August 26, 2011, the Fed chairman disappointed most pundits. He did not promise another massive infusion of fake money, i.e., QE3. I suspect that a strengthening in bank lending is an important factor behind the Fed s decision to postpone the pushing of more money into the economy...

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The 2012 Election and Sound Money
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Depreciation is nothing new

LewRockwell.com
by US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)

In Marco Polo s great book of travels, he talks about a coin called the bezant circulating in Kublai Khan s Mongol Chinese empire. The emperor, like the vast majority of politicians, found the lure of paper money irresistible. In his case, however, it was money printed on pieces of mulberry tree bark. The same disastrous effects, seen everywhere else in history, followed...

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Daniel Marans, Campaign for America s Future: 'The media have portrayed Governor Rick Perry s description of Social Security as a 'Ponzi scheme' at a recent Iowa campaign event as the latest extreme statement of an unconventionally candid, conservative presidential candidate. But Perry's full remarks reveal just as much about the Republican Party s strategy for cutting Social Security as they do about Perry himself.'

http://www.truth-out.org/perrys-iowa-remarks-reveal-republican-strategy-social-security/1314814133



Perry Donor Enabled to Leach Radioactive Waste Into 1.9 Million People s Water

Joe Conason, Truthout: 'Like so many Republican officials of the tea party persuasion, Rick Perry despises the Environmental Protection Agency - a feeling he has expressed repeatedly in speeches, lawsuits, legislation and even a book titled 'Fed Up!' Perhaps that is only natural for the governor of Texas, a 'dirty energy' state where the protection of air, water and human health rank well below the defense of oil company profits for most politicians.'

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Dr. Brian Moench, Truthout: 'For Tea Party zealots it is impossible to utter, hear, read or write the words 'freedom' and 'liberty' too many times. And, of course, to them, the antithesis of freedom and liberty is the federal government, which they swear they will 'take back.' For them, taking back the government means restoring the freedom to not be able to afford health care, restoring the freedom to be unemployed without any unemployment insurance, restoring the freedom to lose your home to mortgage fraud and your pension to criminal Wall Street bankers. That doesn't sound much like a 'Party' to me; that sounds more like a nightmare.'

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