World-News

Preston Randolph and Dan Battaglia, Truthout: 'News reports from California s Pelican Bay Prison amplified the need for change, but after the three-week inmate hunger strike ended, the torture of solitary confinement continues nationwide... In 1977, American Indian activist Leonard Peltier was convicted of murdering two FBI agents during a shootout on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Peltier has now served more than 35 years in federal prison. His trial remains one of the most controversial in the history of the American judicial system.'

http://www.truth-out.org/torture-us-prison-system-endless-punishment-leonard-peltier/1312917659



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Leonard+Peltier
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Preston+Randolph
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Dan+Battaglia

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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/12-3

ALEC: Facilitating Corporate Influence Behind Closed Doors
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/15-9

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What Can the Fed Do To Help Markets? Collectively Resign
http://lewrockwell.com/faber/faber117.html

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Preparing for the Big Crash
http://www.realecontv.com/videos/elliott-wave/preparing-for-the-big-crash.html

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Unequal Regulation (for Corporations)

Thom Hartmann, Berrett-Koehler Publishers: 'There's a side to regulation that most people don t think about, and it has far-reaching effects if representatives of corporations are writing the rules.... The regulatory rule essentially legalizes what a corporation is doing. In the best of worlds, this wouldn t be a problem. But in practice it means that business interests are often directly involved in writing the regulations that they themselves will have to obey.'

http://www.truth-out.org/unequal-regulation/1313495625



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

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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/12-1



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By Phil Rockstroh

Some will rob you with a sixgun and some with a fountain pen.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28820.htm



A Parasite On The World

By Paul Craig Roberts

The entire world suffers from the Americans' inability or unwillingness to put their house in order.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28823.htm



Austerity Is Bad for Business

By Ellen Brown

It used to be that when the Fed chairman spoke, the market listened; but the chairman has lost his mystique. Now when the market speaks, politicians listen.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28819.htm



The Hijacked Crisis

By Paul Krugman

What we're seeing now is what happens when influential people exploit a crisis rather than try to solve it.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28821.htm



The Video Congress Does NOT Want You To See!

Video

Many have had the sneaking suspicion that our elected 'leaders' in Congress are not going to Washington D.C. to represent us...but for their own personal gain.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28818.htm



'Super Congress' Designed for One Purpose

By Jane Hamsher

It is designed to protect members of Congress from the electoral repercussions of cutting Social Security and Medicare benefits.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28822.htm



Calling All Robin Hoods and Maid Marions:

By John Perkins

Like Robin Hood, we live in a time of turmoil. The feudal lords once again are exploiting We the People, and chaos has ensued. It is time for change.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28824.htm



China Central Bank Says Debt Level in U.S., Developed Nations 'Worrisome'

China s central bank said that the U.S. faces 'debt sustainability' risks in the medium- and long-term, the latest expression of concern from the nation that is America's biggest creditor.

http://bloom.bg/mQl6Um



Rightly Disgusted at the Banks

A bailout, like any other government expenditure, is a tax.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28826.htm



Consumer Sentiment Plunges to 30-Year Low

Confidence among U.S. consumers plunged in August to the lowest level since May 1980, adding to concern that weak employment gains and volatility in the stock market will prompt households to retrench.

http://bloom.bg/q5Sleo


From Information Clearing House

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Sandcastles of Capitalism Crumbling
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/12-11



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Mark Karlin, Truthout: 'Watching 'Orwell Rolls in His Grave,' it becomes increasingly clear that we can t see the forest through the trees, because with the consolidation of for-profit corporate media, the forest of information is pretty much owned by just a few companies. And those companies not only frequently create 'facts' to enhance profits, but also create the frame through which public policy is debated to meet their business goals.'

http://www.truth-out.org/can-corporate-media-turn-lies-truth/1311705270

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When You Play the Plutocrats? Game, They Win
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/11-4

Mitt Romney, Presidential Candidate, Says Corporations 'Are People, My Friend'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/08/11-9

Public Citizen: Today, Organizations Band Together Online to Protest Citizens United Ruling, Corporate Influence in Elections.
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/08/11-8

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The media is the enemy

Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

08/17/11

The media is a reliable instrument of government just as surely as if it were an official agency, like the Voice of America: it is owned by corporate entities entirely dependent on the good graces of government officials, and whose natural inclinations are to cozy up to Power rather than challenge it. That s why the new internet-based media is so disturbing to these mandarins, whose opinions are no longer automatically elevated to holy writ...

http://bit.ly/oTzl78


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=raimondo
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The most important voice in the debate about the credit worthiness of America s debt, is not the twisted opinions of the US-credit rating agencies, but rather, that of China s credit rating agency.

http://www.sirchartsalot.com/article.php?id=155



Jim Rogers: US Will Default

Video

Geithner Is Incompetent.
http://bit.ly/peL396



Debt Panel Co-Chairman Murray Counts U.S. Defense Industry as a Top Donor

As the newly appointed co-chairwoman of the 12-member, bipartisan committee charged with finding $1.5 trillion in budget savings, Murray s campaign supporters now are sure to come calling for her help.

http://bloom.bg/n9M9Cd



Bank Of America s Backdoor Bailout - Dumping Mortgage Trash Onto Taxpayers Via Fannie Mae

The official bailout of the financial system may be over, but the government is apparently far from finished propping up big banks, as evidenced by the news that Bank of America has struck a deal to dump a bunch of near-worthless home loans on U.S. taxpayers.

http://bit.ly/osGQgv


From Information Clearing House

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Predictable disaster in the mortgage market
http://www.realecontv.com/page/5083.html



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Geithner
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jim+Rogers
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http://lewrockwell.com/orig12/shield2.1.1.html

The Fabric Of American Society Is Coming Apart
http://lewrockwell.com/rep2/fabric-of-us-society-coming-apart.html

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The fallout from a frozen Fed

Euro Pacific Capital
by Michael Pento

08/10/11

Years more of free money will result in tremendous economic imbalances, a crumbling currency, rising commodity prices and a ridiculously out of control bond market bubble. And that cannot at all end well...

http://www.europac.net/pentonomics/fallout_frozen_fed


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://lewrockwell.com/polner/polner29.1.html

The State Itself
http://lewrockwell.com/shaffer-br/shaffer-br9.1.1.html



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Hiroshima
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By Philip Shenon

Ex-national security aide Richard Clarke suggests the CIA tried to recruit 9/11 hijackers-then covered it up.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28814.htm



Did Tenet Hide Key 9/11 Info?

By Ray McGovern

Lying by senior officials is bad enough, and there is now plenty of evidence that former CIA Director George Tenet and his closest agency associates are serial offenders.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28866.htm

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Former Counterterrorism Czar Accuses Tenet, Other CIA Officials of Cover-Up

Jason Leopold, Truthout: 'In a stunning new interview set to air on a local PBS affiliate in Colorado tonight, former counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke, for the first time, levels explosive allegations against three former top CIA officials - George Tenet, Cofer Black and Richard Blee - accusing them of knowingly withholding intelligence from the Bush and Clinton White House, the FBI, Immigration and the State and Defense Departments about two of the 9/11 hijackers who had entered the United States more than a year before the attacks.'

http://www.truth-out.org/former-counterterrorism-czar-accuses-tenet-other-cia-officials-cover/1313071564

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9/11 chain of command breakdown
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/the-911-files/911-chain-of-command-breakdown.html



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By Philip Greenspun

The U.S. almost surely will default on some of its currently acknowledged obligations. The only question is whether it will be public employee pensions, Social Security, Medicare, or bonds.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28815.htm

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A Free-Market Sovereign Debt Manifesto
http://lewrockwell.com/holland/holland51.1.html

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S&P Downgrade Brought on by Republican Obstructionism

Jeff Madrick, New Deal 2.0: 'Does anyone really think that Standard & Poor's downgrade of US debt would have occurred unless there had been the Congressional stand-off on raising the debt ceiling? For all of S&P's handwringing about the nation's debt problems, Congressional recalcitrance was the driving issue. So when the press says neither the Democrats nor the Republicans can escape blame, it is in truth nonsense.'

http://www.truth-out.org/sp-downgrade-brought-republican-obstructionism/1313171551



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