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http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/07/28-5

The Question Nobody in the Debt Debate Can Answer
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/07/28

Cheap Grace and American Patriotism
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/07/28-1

Making Us Clamor for Our Own Demise
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/07/28-2

The Tax-Free American Aristocracy
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/07/28

Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA): Debt Ceiling 'Theatre' not a 'Balanced Approach'
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/07/28-6

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The collateral is us

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Richard Schwartzman

07/28/11

The witching hour is nigh and the threat of the U.S. defaulting on the federal debt is being bandied about as if it were the boogeyman. Fear mongers from the left and right both say the country will go belly up unless the debt ceiling is raised by the Aug. 2 deadline, that it will no longer be able to pay on its $14.3 trillion debt or honor other financial obligations unless it goes further into debt by borrowing more money...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1107v.asp



Is the president in recovery?

Orange County Register
by Victor Davis Hanson

07/28/11

President Obama does not care much about deficits - other than worrying that big debt might matter in his re-election campaign. In his first three budgets, Obama borrowed nearly $5 trillion. ... This spring he proposed the largest annual deficit in U.S. peacetime history, which is why his $3.7 trillion budget for 2012 was rejected in the Senate by a 97-0 vote. In other words, under Obama, the government during the last three years has borrowed on average about $4 billion each day...

http://tinyurl.com/3m5vmpp



Debt debate: A pox on both parties

Cato Institute
by Jeffrey A. Miron

07/28/11

As the August 2 deadline looms for Congress to extend the debt ceiling, Democrats and Republicans are both fiddling while Rome burns. Each party has valid concerns about the other s approach to avoiding default, yet each is relying on counterproductive articles of faith. To address the debt crisis, both sides must give up their cherished, but misguided, ideas...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13489



It?s not 'default'
Slate
by Annie Lowrey

07/27/11

Yes, something awful and weird will happen in early August, but it isn t going to be default. The Treasury will need to issue more bonds to make promised payments to the country s creditors, senior citizens, federal employees, and so on. Without that extra cash, the federal government will need to miss 40 to 45 percent of its payments, according to calculations by the Bipartisan Policy Center. But that is not default. Default is too tidy a term for it. The chaos that might hit after Aug. 2 has no precedent, and therefore no name...

http://www.slate.com/id/2300207/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Godly South Carolina Tea Party congressmen bring US closer to default
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/10464/



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Stephen Rohde, Truthout: 'In a new comprehensive 107-page report entitled 'Getting Away with Torture: The Bush Administration and Mistreatment of Detainees,' Human Rights Watch (HRW) concludes that 'there is sufficient basis for the U.S. government to order a broad criminal investigation into alleged crimes committed in connection with the torture and ill-treatment of detainees, the CIA secret detention program, and the rendition of detainees to torture' focusing on alleged criminal conduct by 'former President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and CIA Director George Tenet.'

http://www.truth-out.org/getting-away-torture-ill-treatment-detainees/1311880172



Allegations FBI and British Intelligence Tortured Kenyan Rendition Victim

Jeffrey Kaye, Truthout: 'According to an August 17 article in The Guardian UK, lawyers representing Omar Awadh Omar, a Kenyan used car salesman who was kidnapped off the streets of Nairobi last September and rendered to Uganda, have accused the FBI and British intelligence agency MI5 and Ugandan agents of 'cruel and unlawful treatment' in custody. A claim in Awadh s behalf has been filed in a British court. Despite the claims of FBI abuse, the case has not been covered in the United States.'

http://www.truth-out.org/allegations-fbi-and-british-intelligence-tortured-kenyan-rendition-victim/1314109644



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Michele Swenson, Truthout: 'Washington rhetoric waxes Orwellian in proportion to inside-the-Beltway disconnect around cause and effect of the US economic crisis. Ranging from the Ryan Budget - 'kill Medicare to save it' - and some Democrats - 'cut Medicare and Social Security to save them' - to claims that deficit reduction (not jobs) is 'what the people want,' to the 'greed is good' creed that assigns entitlements in the form of taxpayer bailouts to wealthy financial institutions that take for granted the ability to shift risk for their liar's loans and speculative transactions.'

http://www.truth-out.org/america-held-hostage-two-party-failure-government-and-corporations/1311345019



Why the GOP Aims to Sink the Economy

Terrance Heath, Campaign for America's Future: 'If our economy was the RMS Titanic, Republicans would be like an ambitious first mate, so eager to seize power from the captain that he steers the ship of state into an iceberg, thinking he will take over when the captain goes down with the ship. Republicans have forgotten - or no longer care - they are on the boat too, and they are working very hard to ensure that the country will be nearly ungovernable should they succeed in seizing the reins of government.

http://www.truth-out.org/why-gop-aims-sink-economy/1311875512



War and the True Tragedy of the Commons

H. Patricia Hynes, Truthout: 'The 'Tragedy of the Commons,' Garrett Hardin s 1968 controversial essay published in Science, essentially targeted overpopulation (read: poor women) as the prime threat to sustainable life on our finite earth. Hardin, and many who consumed this thesis, failed to single out the very small, but politically powerful, population responsible for a mammoth environmental impact - the military. Per capita, the military complex (read: powerful men) is the most polluting human population.'

http://www.truth-out.org/war-and-true-tragedy-commons/1311181265



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/07/27-2

Earthjustice: New Poll Finds Powerful Opposition to Mountaintop Removal Mining in the Heart of Coal Country
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/08/16-8



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Debt Madness Was Always About Killing Social Security
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/07/27-5



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Vom Platzen der Immobilienblase und von der Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise waren vor allem die Schwarzen und die Latinos betroffen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/150204



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http://lewrockwell.com/rockwell/when-govt-shuts-down186.html

The Fed s Funny Money
http://lewrockwell.com/paul/paul755.html

Obama s 'Balanced' Approach
http://www.lewrockwell.com/sowell/sowell52.1.html



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Jim Hightower, Truthout: 'OK, Barack Obama has not exactly turned out to be Mount Rushmore material, but - good God! - the petulant pettiness of right-wing Republican congressional leaders has turned them into a national embarrassment. America has big needs right now. But those needs are not even being addressed, because little whiney ideologues like Eric Cantor, the GOPs House majority leader, keep throwing hissy fits, demanding that they get their way, or there will be no way. Of course, their way - on everything from tax policy to Wall Street regulation - is always the corporate way.'

http://www.truth-out.org/americas-shameful-leadership/1311772316



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Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: 'Today, much more so, I believe we are witnessing an unprecedented shift in American popular culture toward an utterly depraved form of aesthetics. Images that shocked one generation of viewers and then produced alienation and indifference in the next, have become even more sensationalized, as people eagerly and brazenly consume displays of aggression, brutality and death. In what follows, I suggest that this culture of cruelty is part and parcel of the growing influence of neoliberal policies across all sectors.'

http://www.truth-out.org/benetton-murdoch-culture-money-shock-and-schlock/1311626660



The Republican Party No Longer Has Its Country s Best Interests at Heart

Cliff Schecter, Truthout: 'Once upon a time, in a land that now seems to have been populated by tooth fairies and unicorns, there was a political party that had a set of core beliefs to which they actually adhered. Today, this once respectable organization has turned into nothing so much as a collective id the size of a David Vitter Pampers shopping spree. When facing changes to this nation that make them uncomfortable, they choose national hate. When facing ideological worship versus the greatness of the US, the former always wins the day. When facing a choice of what is good for the US or their personal bank accounts, they inevitably go with the latter.'

http://www.truth-out.org/republican-party-no-longer-has-its-countrys-best-interests-heart/1311701057



Six Extreme Right-Wing Attacks by ALEC in State Governments

Lisa Graves and Brendan Fischer, PRWatch: 'Model' bills voted on by corporations through the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) touch almost every aspect of American life. The Center for Media and Democracy has analyzed and made available over 800 ALEC model bills to allow other reporters and the public to track corporate influence in state legislatures across the country (and in Congress)....'

http://www.truth-out.org/6-extreme-right-wing-attacks-alec-state-governments/1311782359



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