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High-Stakes Blackmail

Jeff Klein, CounterPunch: 'Why can t a Democratic President talk about the 'Malefactors of Great Wealth' who are responsible for the economic catastrophe we face today? Could it have something to do with the fact that wealthy individuals and corporations fund the expensive electoral campaigns of both political parties, and so ensure that the solutions supported by the majority of people - raising taxes on the wealthy and the corporations, putting people to work, ending the wars, protecting Social Security and Medicare - are simply off the agenda?'

http://www.truth-out.org/high-stakes-blackmail-malefactors-great-wealth/1313935819

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Starmail - 21. Aug, 22:26

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Ron Paul: Limit military to national defense

History is an excellent teacher, and though her lessons can be painful, Americans had better start listening up, says Texas Rep. Ron Paul.

http://bit.ly/mZ1438

From Information Clearing House

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Starmail - 21. Aug, 06:12

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We have Been Warned: The System is Ready to Blow

By Larry Elliott

Only a new way of managing the global economy can prevent more mayhem in the markets and on the streets.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28893.htm

Guard-Dogs for the Banks: The Case Against Rating Agencies

By Michael Hudson

Masquerading as objective think tanks and research organizations, the ratings agencies act as lobbyists for banks and underwriters by endorsing a race to the bottom.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28892.htm

One in Four California Families Can t Afford Food for Their Kids

By Raul Rodriguez

California had the second highest number of metropolitan areas with rates of food hardship in households with children in 2009-2010, according to the report.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28898.htm

Nancy Pelosi Reported Net Worth Triples in Last Two Years

By Bluegrass Pundit

It s nice to know someone is prospering during the 'Obama years'. The rest of us are watching our home values and retirement investments plummet.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28896.htm

The American Dream?

Woman s Yard Sale to Pay Medical Bills Gets Shut Down

By KATU

A woman fighting a terminal form of bone cancer is trying to raise money to help pay bills with a few weekend garage sales, but the city of Salem says she s breaking the law and is shutting her down.

http://salem.katu.com/news/news/442449-womans-yard-sale-pay-medical-bills-gets-shut-down

Stock Tip: Be Worried. Workers Are Consumers

We are slouching toward a double dip, and Wall Street is imploding, because consumers - whose spending is 70 percent of the economy - have reached their limit.

http://www.businessinsider.com/stock-tip-be-worried-workers-are-consumers-2011-8

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Starmail - 21. Aug, 05:50

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Obama Bans War Criminals, Except Our Own

By Nat Hentoff

You, President Obama, are obligated to bring the foregoing list of war criminals during the Bush presidency into our courts or, before that, be subject to an independent criminal investigation.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28897.htm

Lemmingly, We Roll Along

By Ray McGovern

When soldiers are killed, the politicians who sent them to their deaths typically use euphemisms, words like 'fallen' or 'ultimate sacrifice.' On one level, the avoidance of blunt language may be seen as a sign of respect, but on another, it is just one more evasion of responsibility.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28895.htm

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Starmail - 21. Aug, 05:43

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Samstag, 20. August 2011

Rick Perry Gardasil Problem

http://lewrockwell.com/orig12/bevan1.1.1.html

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The Unacceptables

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: 'And so begins again the Herculean task of wrapping my poor, abused mind around yet another crop of Faustian caricatures lined up to scrap and scrape for the Republican presidential nomination. They seem to get worse every year, but this time around, there are definitely a lot more bananas in the bunch.'

http://www.truth-out.org/unacceptables/1313703982

Bush III Takes His Stand in South Carolina

Tolu Olorunda, CounterPunch: 'When Perry speaks, a notion is nudged - that a joke far too turbulent is traveling within him, and only the truly perverted hold antennas strong enough to detect the signals. He smiles using up as little fraction of chin space possible, speaking of his Horatio Alger parents, sinking his right and left pupil deep down, casting a gaze far off beyond the camera s lenses. And those bullet eyes seem to hold his darkest secrets, flashing every now and then, as the cadences pick up and arms rise and drop like hammers, rhythmically knocking every word into place: the governor has just resurrected Reagan and Lincoln to remind supporters what presidents once used to be: White.'

http://www.truth-out.org/president-perry/1313771216

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Starmail - 20. Aug, 09:21

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Wall Street firms donated $11.2 million to members of debt 'super committee'

The bipartisan 'super committee' created by the debt ceiling deal is comprised of lawmakers who have received big bucks from special interest groups, according to a report by MapLight.

http://bit.ly/nv8XMw

How to Make the Super Congress Open and Accountable

The last thing we need is an all-powerful congressional committee allowed to make crucial spending decisions without the scrutiny of an engaged citizenry and press.

http://www.otherwords.org/articles/how_to_make_the_super_congress_open_and_accountable

From Information Clearing House

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The Super Committee s Super-Close Ties to Banking and Finance

Lynn Parramore, New Deal 2.0: 'The folks at Maplight have released some disturbing numbers on who has been the most generous to the 12 members of the newly-formed Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, fondly known as the 'Super Committee.' Maplight reports that the 10 biggest organization contributors (this includes PACs and Employees) to Super Committee Members are: Club for Growth, $990,066; Microsoft Corp., $810,100; University of California, $629,495; Goldman Sachs, $592,684; EMILY's List, $586,835; Citigroup Inc., $561,081; JPMorgan Chase & Co., $494,316; Bank of America, $349,566; Skadden, Arps, et al., $347,356; General Electric, $340,935 ... Guess how these folks feel about paying their fair share in taxes?'

http://www.truth-out.org/getting-what-you-pay-super-committees-super-close-ties-banking-finance/1313761155

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Starmail - 20. Aug, 07:24

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