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Dean Baker, The Center for Economic and Policy Research: 'The budget plan produced by the Senate's 'Gang of Six' offers the promise of huge tax breaks for some of the wealthiest people in the country, while lowering Social Security benefits for retirees and the disabled. Despite claiming that they will 'reform' Social Security on a 'separate track, isolated from deficit reduction,' the plan includes cuts to Social Security that would be felt in less than six months, as the plan calls for a new inflation formula that will reduce benefits by 0.3 percentage points a year compared with currently scheduled benefits. The plan also calls for a process that is likely to reduce benefits further for future retirees.'

http://www.truth-out.org/gang-six-plan-gives-tax-breaks-wealthy-social-security-cuts-ordinary-workers/1311112585

How the DoD Allows Contractors to Grade Themselves and Write Their Own Contract Terms

Dina Rasor, Truthout: 'The Department of Defense (DoD) Inspector Generals (IG) office recently found that the Marine Corps allowed their contractors for a vital troop protection system to act as government employees, including directing and evaluating government employees' work, grading their own work and writing up requirements for the follow-on contract. The contractors then bid on those requirements and won multimillion-dollar contracts.'

http://www.truth-out.org/dangerously-blurring-line/1311105728

Ed Schultz and Bernie Sanders: The Gang of Six Plan Will Devastate the Middle Class

Video

Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vermont) speaks with Ed Schultz of MSNBCs 'The Ed Show.'

http://www.truth-out.org/ed-schultz-and-bernie-sanders-gang-six-plan-will-devastate-middle-class/1311172212

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How War Is Used To Redistribute Wealth

By Dennis Kucinich

'War Takes Money From The American People & Gives It To War Profiteers!'
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28644.htm

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Department+of+Defense
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bernie+Sanders
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=budget
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=tax+break
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=war+profiteer
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=middle+class
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=social+security
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=retiree
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Dean+Baker
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Dina+Rasor
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Starmail - 21. Jul, 10:16

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The Fallout: US Drones in Pakistan Reep Only Hate, War

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/07/20-12

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Pakistan: US drone attack kills four

CRI English [Chinese state media]

07/21/11

At least four people were killed Wednesday when a U.S. drone targeted the North Waziristan tribal area in northwest Pakistan, local sources said. The pilotless aircraft fired two missiles at a house in Mir Ali area of North Waziristan which borders Afghanistan, they said...

http://english.cri.cn/6966/2011/07/21/197s649600.htm

They also hate us for our hypocrisy

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

07/20/11

The front page of today s New York Times details another instance of the rank hypocrisy that underlies U.S. foreign policy. According to the article, U.S. officials are hopping mad at their partner and ally, the Pakistani government, for trying to tilt U.S. foreign policy in favor of Pakistan s position in its longtime dispute with India over Kashmir. The feds have indicted two U.S. citizens over the matter...

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2011-07-20.asp

Hillary cracks the whip

Antiwar.com
by Philip Giraldi

07/21/11

Who is Hillary Clinton to pronounce on the legitimacy of any foreign government? Victoria Nuland s condemnation of Syria cites 'beating, imprisoning, torturing, and slaughtering,' but doesn t Washington do all of that and more? Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, CIA secret prisons, and Predator drone strikes surely tell the tale. No other government claims that it has the right to kill its own citizens anywhere in the world based on secret evidence...

http://tinyurl.com/4475spg

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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US claims on drone strikes 'untrue'

Claims by a senior Obama administration official that there hasn t been a single collateral (civilian) death in drone strikes in Pakistan since August 2010 were found to be untrue following a detailed investigation by the London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism (BIJ).

http://www.omantribune.com/index.php?page=news&id=96949&heading=Pakistan

London exhibition shows horrors of US drone attacks on Pakistan

Pakistani human rights lawyer Mirza Shahzad Akbar condemned the unmanned aircraft firing missiles in the North Waziristan region, which have resulted in more than 2,200 deaths, mostly innocent civilians.

http://www.irna.ir/ENNewsShow.aspx?NID=30487378

From Information Clearing House

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=Waziristan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=tribal+area
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Mirza+Shahzad+Akbar
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Syria
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=hypocrisy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Central+Intelligence+Agency
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=assassin
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jacob+G.+Hornberger
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Philip+Giraldi
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Starmail - 21. Jul, 07:49

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The 'Cut, Cap, and Balance' Fraud

Starmail - 21. Jul, 07:17

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The Myth That Democracy = Freedom

http://lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo210.html

Escape From America
http://lewrockwell.com/orig12/berwick4.1.1.html

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The Fed and America s Financial Reckoning Day

by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

Today, our nation is sinking into bankruptcy, insolvency, and a serious financial reckoning day because our political class in Washington DC continues to load our posterity with perpetual debt and servitude. Most Americans are distressed, perplexed, and confused because of their 'downright ignorance' of sound money principles enshrined in our US Constitution and the evils of central banking. In 1910, a secretive cabal of Wall Street and international bankers conspired to create the Federal Reserve System, which became our nation s central bank in 1913.........

http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin658.htm

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Wall Street Said No

Robert Scheer, Truthdig: 'So much for the meritocracy. Despite an elite education, effusive charm and brilliant wit, Barack Obama, like Bill Clinton before him, has ended up betraying his humble origins by abjectly serving the most rapacious variant of Wall Street greed. They both talk a good progressive game, but when push comes to shove - meaning when the banking lobby weighs in - big money talks and the best and the brightest fold. For Obama, it is his decision not to nominate Elizabeth Warren to run the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which she fought so hard to create.'

http://www.truth-out.org/sorry-elizabeth-wall-street-said-no/1311182879

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Stopping the Train: Stopping the System

By Ron Jacobs

There is no alternative to certain destruction unless every U.S American confronts their role in maintaining the machinery of death and greed we call America.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28650.htm

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Elizabeth+Warren
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Constitution
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ron+Jacobs
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Starmail - 21. Jul, 07:11

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Mittwoch, 20. Juli 2011

The Great Global Debt Depression

It s All Greek To Me

By Andrew Gavin Marshall

Is Greece simply a case of a country full of lazy people who spent beyond their means and are now paying for their own decadence? Or, is there something much larger at stake?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28637.htm

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Greek
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Greece
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=debt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Andrew+Gavin+Marshall

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Starmail - 20. Jul, 22:26

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The Arts of Life They Changed Into The Arts Of Death

Bachmann, Palin, Robertson and the limits of logic

By Phil Rockstroh

Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Pat Robertson et al., these late empire zealots of shopping mall, militarism, and heterosexual hegemony, harbor a comic, yet mortifying vision of the conditions they believe would bring rebirth and renewal to the nation.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28635.htm

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Michele+Bachmann
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Palin
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Phil+Rockstroh

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Starmail - 20. Jul, 22:16

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The new America

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

07/19/11

Periodically it s important to sit back, reflect, and contemplate what kind of country America has become under the warfare state under which we have born and raised. It is really quite astonishing. When I was growing up, the last thing I would have ever imagined was that my government, through its military and paramilitary forces, would be engaged in torture...

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2011-07-19.asp

Creating a military state

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Andy Worthington

07/19/11

'Some issues,' the New York Times declared in an editorial on June 25, 'require an unwavering stand. Preserving the role of law enforcement agencies in stopping and punishing terrorists is one of them. This country is not and should never be a place where the military dispenses justice, other than to its own.' Fine words, indeed, although the Times itself has ... failed to thoroughly and repeatedly condemn efforts, first by George W. Bush, and then by the Obama administration, to hold military trials for the mixed bag of soldiers and terrorist suspects held at Guantanamo...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1107n.asp

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Sorry, Soldiers, I Don t Thank You For Your Service

By Laurence M. Vance

It is without question that Americans are in love with the military. Even worse, though, is that their love is unqualified, unconditional, unrelenting, and unending.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28627.htm

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The Torturer vs. Joan of Arc
http://lewrockwell.com/akers/akers159.html

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bush+legacy
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Andy+Worthington
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/akers
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Starmail - 20. Jul, 09:29

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