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CounterPunch
by Linda Green

06/30/11

President Barack Obama, who as an Illinois senator was instrumental in passing legislation to protect government whistleblowers, has effectively criminalized public servants who risk their jobs to speak out and expose waste, corruption and unethical behavior among their colleagues.'

http://counterpunch.org/greene06302011.html

Stimulus to nowhere

Reason
by Steve Chapman

06/30/11

The failure of Obama s economic agenda...
http://reason.com/archives/2011/06/30/stimulus-to-nowhere

We see through you, Mr. President

Liberty Unbound
by Gary Jason

06/29/11

Reverend Obama, when he was running for the office he now decorates, preached the need for transparency and honesty in government. In particular, he derided 'the cynics, the lobbyists, the special interests' who held sway in the District of Columbia. He promised to stop the practice of rewarding donors with political favors. Well, scratch another promise...

http://libertyunbound.com/node/593

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
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Starmail - 1. Jul, 13:22

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Ohioans Unite Against Union-Stripping Bill

Starmail - 1. Jul, 11:13

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Prison Industrial Complex

http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/06/30-0

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The Corrupt Corporate Incarceration Complex

William Fisher, Truthout: 'In Scranton, Pennsylvania, two judges pleaded guilty to operating a kickback scheme involving juvenile offenders. The judges, Mark Ciavarella Jr. and Michael Conahan, took more than $2.6 million in kickbacks from a private prison company to send teenagers to two privately run youth detention centers. Since 2003, Ciaverella had sentenced an estimated 5,000 juveniles. Conahan was accused of setting up the contracts. Many of the youngsters shipped off to the detention centers were first-time offenders.'

http://www.truth-out.org/public-private-incarceration-complex/1309275395

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Kidnapping and Ransom Rampant in the US
http://lewrockwell.com/berwick/berwick19.1.html

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Addicted to incarceration

C4SS Center for a Stateless Society
by David D'Amato

11/15/11

Whatever its outward objectives, the War on Drugs is in fact primarily an economic distortion, formulated - deliberately or not - to accomplish specific goals. Among these goals is to provide life support for an unparalleled and well-documented mass incarceration society...

http://c4ss.org/content/8935

The shocking ways the corporate prison industry games the system

AlterNet
by Rania Khalek

11/29/11

Just a decade ago, private prisons were a dying industry awash in corruption and mired in lawsuits, particularly Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation s largest private prison operator. Today, these companies are booming once again, yet the lawsuits and scandals continue to pile up. Meanwhile, more and more evidence shows that compared to publicly run prisons, private jails are filthier, more violent, less accountable, and contrary to what privatization advocates peddle as truth, do not save money...

http://bit.ly/w1WClQ

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Suit Claims Prisoners Are Mistreated

Norman Shelton, claims prison officials twice forced him to share cells with inmates they knew would beat him because he is a Muslim. When he had objected to other dangerous cell assignments, he alleges, guards put him in restraints so restrictive he now has scars and nerve damage.

http://on.wsj.com/ukh2sW

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Starmail - 1. Jul, 11:11

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War Number Five: US extends drone strikes to Somalia

First drone strike in Somalia reported to have wounded senior al-Shabab militants.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/30/us-drone-strikes-somalia

The new African land grab

Foreign investors, with the World Bank, are acquiring vast tracks of land in Africa - at the expense of local farmers.

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/06/201162884240129515.html

US attack kills dozens in Somalia

Dozens of al-Shabab fighter have reportedly been killed after the US military used remote-controlled unmanned aerial vehicles to target their bases in southern Somalia.

http://www.presstv.com/detail/187978.html

Yemen facing humanitarian crisis and needs urgent international aid says UN

10,000 Yemeni families are not getting enough to eat because the political turmoil has driven up prices of food and fuel, cost people their jobs and crippled the country s oil industry.

http://bit.ly/niPP0J

Russia slams NATO war on Libya

Russia s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has slammed NATOs war on Libya, saying it has reached a 'stalemate' and caused a large number of civilian deaths in the North African country.

http://www.presstv.com/detail/188038.html

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US Expands Its Drone War
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/07/01

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Starmail - 1. Jul, 09:43

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The Militarized Surrealism of Barack Obama

Starmail - 1. Jul, 09:16

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Cost Of Wars In Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan To Reach $3.7 Trillion

Starmail - 1. Jul, 06:22

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U.S. Counter-terrorism Strategy to Rely on 'Surgical Strikes', Unmanned Drones

Starmail - 1. Jul, 05:56

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Ein nicht krankenversicherter Amerikaner überfiel pro forma eine Bank, weil er sich im Gefängnis eine Schmerzbehandlung erhofft

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/35/35022/1.html
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Starmail - 1. Jul, 05:44

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Donnerstag, 30. Juni 2011

Wall Street, BP, bio-ethanol and the death of millions

Getting used to life without food

F. William Engdahl

The record rise in grain and food prices in recent years is not a mere Wall Street profit gimmick, although obscene profits are being made. Rather, it is apparently an integral part of a long-term strategy whose roots go back to the years just after World War Two when Nelson Rockefeller and his brothers tried to organize the global food chain along the same monopoly model they had used for world oil. Food would henceforth become just another commodity like oil or tin or silver whose scarcity and price could ultimately be controlled by a small group of powerful trading insiders. In short, the use of farmland worldwide for bio-ethanol and other biofuels - burning the food product rather than using it for human or animal feed - is being treated in Washington, the EU, Brazil and other major centers as a major new growth industry. The impact on human beings, however, is quite the opposite. It is rapidly becoming a death industry, death of million s of innocent human beings unable to afford adequate nourishment for themselves or their families.

http://www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk/news.php?id=6402#newspost

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Starmail - 30. Jun, 22:11

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Greenpeace: Sickened by Slack Lawmakers? Nauseated by Nonsense Laws? Disgusted by Lobbyists Making Policy?

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/06/29-8

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Obamanomics: It s worse than you think

Heartland Institute
by Joseph L. Bast

06/11

The official unemployment rate is back up to more than 9 percent, and the percent of workers who are unemployed or have given up trying to find jobs is higher than it was during the Great Depression. George W. Bush may have owned the Great Recession of 2008?2009, but Barack Obama owns the Second Great Depression of 2011. His policies - call them Obamanomics - are to blame...

http://tinyurl.com/3ks3bjd

Big Business 101: How not to compete

C4SS Center for a Stateless Society
by David D'Amato

06/28/11

Big Business has a tin ear for customer feedback, a result of lifeless, bureaucratic hierarchies that make effective communication impossible - or nearly so. But if Big Business is so completely obtuse next to its smarter and more dexterous competitors, why are the big guys continuing to grow at the expense of the 'mom and pop' store of our Norman Rockwell dreams? That s easy enough: The state shelters Big Business from competition at every opportunity, lavishing it with special advantages that the little guy can t reach...

http://c4ss.org/content/7606

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
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Starmail - 30. Jun, 09:05

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Freitag, 1. Juli 2011

Obamas war on whistleblowers

Ohioans Unite Against Union-Stripping Bill

Prison Industrial Complex

War Number Five: US extends drone strikes to Somalia

The Militarized Surrealism of Barack Obama

Cost Of Wars In Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan To Reach $3.7 Trillion

U.S. Counter-terrorism Strategy to Rely on 'Surgical Strikes', Unmanned Drones

Ein nicht krankenversicherter Amerikaner überfiel pro forma eine Bank, weil er sich im Gefängnis eine Schmerzbehandlung erhofft

Donnerstag, 30. Juni 2011

Wall Street, BP, bio-ethanol and the death of millions

Greenpeace: Sickened by Slack Lawmakers? Nauseated by Nonsense Laws? Disgusted by Lobbyists Making Policy?

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