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Financial gains over the last decade in the United States have been mostly made at the 'tippy-top' of the economic food chain as more people fall out of the middle class. The top 20 percent of Americans now holds 84 percent of U.S. wealth, as Paul Solman found out as part of a Making Sen$e series on economic inequality.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/july-dec11/makingsense_08-16.html

Do You Realize That The Government Is Still Paying Banks Not To Lend?

And it s doing that while screwing average Americans who have been responsible and lived within their means.

http://www.businessinsider.com/government-paying-banks-not-to-lend-2011-8

US moral authority undercut by war on terror

With indefinite detentions, military trials and targeted killings of terror suspects, the Obama team has 'actually entrenched the global war framework,' Shamsi said.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/08/17/us-moral-authority-undercut-by-war-on-terror/

From Information Clearing House

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Looting frenzy

CounterPunch
by Linh Dinh

08/17/11

Our banking system makes money out of nothing, lends us cash that it doesn t even have, and with Washington as its protector and enforcer, ensures that what we own is worth less and less, while we must work more and more to make payment after unending payment, with compounding interest, penalties, fees and whatever else it feels like tagging on at the end. The Federal Reserve, then, is not an institution with 'public purposes and private aspects,' but exactly the opposite. Like our federal government itself, it is a cartel with ruthless, private objectives hidden behind a public facade...

http://counterpunch.org/dinh08172011.html

Planet of the taxpayers

Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Jeffrey A. Tucker

08/17/11

The whole system in a free market operates not on a master/slave relationship but on an exchange nexus. All parties have to agree. If anyone is enslaved in this system, it is the corporation, which must slavishly try to extract money from us by giving us goods and services that we want. If they fail, they die. If they live, it is we who give them life...

http://mises.org/daily/5555/Planet-of-the-Taxpayers

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=global+war+on+terror
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=military+trial
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=target+killing
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Linh+Dinh
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jeffrey+A.+Tucker
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Starmail - 18. Aug, 09:42

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Pretending Ron Paul Does Not Exist

By Jon Stewart

Outstanding video clip that tells the truth about Paul's massive success in Iowa and beyond, and skewers the corporate media for ignoring the truth.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28857.htm

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The impossible is possible

The American Conservative
by John Payne

08/16/11

When Ron Paul announced his 2012 campaign for president, I joked that his odds had improved from nil to slim since 2008. The odds are still stacked heavily against him, but there seems to be a path that could lead him to the Republican nomination and possible victory...

http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2011/08/16/the-impossible-is-possible/

Statist fear over Ron Paul

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

08/17/11

What s amazing is that the mainstream media doesn t even appear embarrassed at the way they have been treating Ron Paul. I suppose they think that since they have treated libertarians with such disdain for so long, no one will notice that they are doing it some more to Ron Paul. Not this time, MSM! As you no doubt know, people are noticing, especially on the Internet!

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2011-08-17.asp

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ron+Paul
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jon+Stewart
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jacob+G.+Hornberger
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Starmail - 18. Aug, 09:22

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Is The SEC Covering Up Wall Street Crimes?

By Matt Taibbi

A whistleblower claims that over the past two decades, the agency has destroyed records of thousands of investigations, whitewashing the files of some of the nation s worst financial criminals.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28869.htm

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Securities+and+Exchange+Commission
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Wall+Street
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Matt+Taibbi
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Starmail - 18. Aug, 09:15

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How America Supports Our So-called Enemies

By Madison Ruppert

To some people, the concept of 'full spectrum dominance' is completely foreign. To the upper echelons of the government of the United States, it is a tactic utilized on a regular basis.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28861.htm

Obama Looking Like Mussolini

By Sherwood Ross

Obama s plan is not a peace plan. It is a war plan. Ditto for his attacks on Libya, Pakistan and Yemen.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28859.htm

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Madison+Ruppert
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Sherwood+Ross
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Starmail - 18. Aug, 09:09

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Mass Killings Mean 'Progress,' Military Says

By Kevin Baron

Pentagon officials often spin mass casualty terrorist bombing attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan into signs of progress. After multiple bombings killed more than 80 people across the warzones Sunday and Monday, here s an example of how the war is spun.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28864.htm

We Will Lose in Iraq and Afghanistan

By Stephen M. Walt

One of the things that gets in the way of conducting good national security policy is a reluctance to call things by their right names and state plainly what is really happening.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28862.htm

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Iraq
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Stephen+M.+Walt
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Starmail - 18. Aug, 09:03

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Kriegskosten und Haushaltsloch

USA: monatliche Kosten von durchschnittlich 9,7 Milliarden Dollar für das Militär in Afghanistan und Irak.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/35/35320/1.html

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Iraq

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Starmail - 18. Aug, 08:44

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Mittwoch, 17. August 2011

GM Corn Being Developed for Fuel Instead of Food

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/08/16-1

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=GM+corn
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Suzanne+Goldenberg
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Starmail - 17. Aug, 10:55

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US army suicide rate hits new high

Last month s total - averaging more than one suicide a day - included 22 active-duty troops and 10 reservists. It eclipsed the prior record of 31 set in June 2010.

http://bit.ly/pO7HGt

From Information Clearing House

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=army+suicide

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Starmail - 17. Aug, 09:36

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