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Salon
by Alex Pareene

06/16/11

The conservative movement is primarily a means by which the wealth of rabid right-wingers is redistributed to celebrities. Sometimes the money comes from billionaires, who know exactly what they are buying when they fund advocacy groups and think tanks, but the whole scheme is basically powered by regular right-wing folks who are kept riled up and angry enough to keep sending checks to frauds and buying books full of alarming lies...

http://salon.com/a/sYTofAA


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Independent Institute
by Anthony Gregory

As Congress and the American people are finally waking up to Mr. Nobel Peace Prize s illegal presidential war in Libya, a nation that never posed a threat to the United States - and as the Bush-Obama wars in Afghanistan and Iraq continue to fatigue the nation and, in many cases, bore a complacent media - we find ourselves witnessing yet another war that seems to have just crept up out of the blue...

http://tinyurl.com/6hjsmt5



Imperial inanity

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

06/16/11

The New York Times yesterday carried an interesting article about U.S. military attacks in Yemen, one of five countries (that we know of) in which the U.S. Empire is killing people. The article indicated that the CIA is building a secret base outside of Yemen in order to carry out attacks inside the country in the future. Why is the base being built outside Yemen and why is its location secret?

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2011-06-16.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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By A. Barton Hinkle

When Bush won the White House, Democrats rediscovered their constitutional scruples; with Obama in office, Republicans have rediscovered theirs. A pity that so many care about the rules only when they are in no position to enforce them.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28346.htm



Obama Financial Suporters Get Top Jobs

By Fred Schulte, John Aloysius Farrell and Jeremy Borden

More than two years after President Obama took office vowing to banish 'special interests' from his administration, nearly 200 of his biggest donors have landed plum government jobs and advisory posts, won federal contracts worth millions of dollars for their business interests.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28348.htm



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http://lewrockwell.com/bonner/bonner478.html

The Door Is About to Shut for Americans
http://lewrockwell.com/rep2/door-to-shut-for-americans.html

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The Revolution Will Not Be Deactualized

Oct. 6th: Will Tahrir Square Come to Washington?

By Ted Rall

Here in the United States, corrupt politicians and their corporate overlords have raped the wealthiest nation in the history of civilization, reducing one out of five Americans to unemployment as the income of the rich skyrockets.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28347.htm



Bankers + politicians = 'unholy alliance' vs people

Video

Renowned Eurosceptic and British Euro MP Nigel Farage says saving the banks is why politicians are so determined to bail out Greece and keep it in the Eurozone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTBbcaNLccM&feature=player_embedded#at=33



U.S. Economic Confidence Plunges in Early June

A sharp deterioration in the jobs outlook and six straight weeks of Wall Street declines sent Americans' confidence in the U.S. economy plunging to an average of -35 during the week ending June 12 -- a decline of nine percentage points from two weeks ago, and six points worse than it was in the same week a year ago.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/148028/Economic-Confidence-Plunges-Early-June.aspx


From Information Clearing House

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Bailouts beget more bailouts

Cato Institute
by Daniel J. Ikenson

06/16/11

The objection to the auto bailout was not that the federal government wouldn t be able to marshal adequate resources to help GM and Chrysler. The most serious concerns were about the consequences of that intervention - the undermining of the rule of law, the property confiscations, the politically driven decisions and the distortion of market signals...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13203


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/06/16-0



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Yes, it is a police state

Foundation for Economic Education
by Steven Horwitz

06/16/11

As regular readers know, I am not one for hyperbole, so perhaps some are thinking that my title is ironic. Nope, I mean it. An accumulation of events in recent months leads me to no other conclusion than that we are in fact living in a police state in the good old US of A. The list of reasons is fairly long, but we can certainly start with our favorite gropers at the TSA...

http://tinyurl.com/3kjblf5


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/06/16-3

Extreme Weather Events Unprecedented, Scientists Say
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/06/16-2



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Truthout s Progressive Pick of the Week: 'Merchants of Doubt,' by authors Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, exposes how radical think tanks have created a cadre of scientists - motivated by money and ideology - to debunk established scientific facts on threats such as DDT, tobacco, nuclear weapons and global warming.'

http://www.truth-out.org/merchants-doubt-how-handful-scientists-obscured-truth-issues-tobacco-smoke-global-warming/1308235932



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James Risen, The New York Times News Service: 'A former senior C.I.A. official says that officials in the Bush White House sought damaging personal information on a prominent American critic of the Iraq war in order to discredit him. Glenn L. Carle, a former Central Intelligence Agency officer who was a top counterterrorism official during the administration of President George W. Bush, said the White House at least twice asked intelligence officials to gather sensitive information on Juan Cole, a University of Michigan professor who writes an influential blog that criticized the war.'

http://www.truth-out.org/ex-spy-alleges-bush-white-house-sought-discredit-juan-cole/1308234734

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The Bush Administration s CIA Smear Campaign

By Juan Cole

It is shocking to discover that the Bush White House would stoop to suborning the CIA to try to discredit a critical blogger like me.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28357.htm

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The Persecution of Juan Cole
http://lewrockwell.com/raimondo/raimondo117.html



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Our Future Blog
by Richard (RJ) Eskow

06/15/11

Monday s Republican presidential debate was the opening salvo in a tawdry little war on truth that s likely to last until next November. The party s official haters, Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain, targeted a helpless religious minority. And Mitt Romney, who was praised for being 'the adult in the room' because he wouldn t join in, spent his time using fear tactics to mislead the audience about Medicare. But he won t get much criticism for that. On a stage that s enshrouded in moral blindness, the one-eyed man is presidential...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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