World-News

US states are implementing drastic cuts to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, creating further hardships for 700,000 families that include 1.3 million children.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/may2011/tanf-m30.shtml



Coming this summer: $5 gas

Goldman Sachs' crystal ball is proclaiming that oil will soon soar to $135 a barrel, and likely have service stations jacking up fuel prices to $5 a gallon in New York just like the summer of 2008 that preceded the recession.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/the_living_easy_the_driving_is_hard_9mzb1aAfj4bpC8X63YYKhI


From Information Clearing House



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Offshoring Has Destroyed the Economy

By Paul Craig Roberts

The IMF report said that the US economy has been seriously eroded and that the age of America is over.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28212.htm



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Legal Team for Abu Ghraib Victims
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/05/31-3

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CIA prisons in Poland 'illegal'

Secret prisons operated by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on Polish territory violated international law and the Polish constitution according to legal experts, reported the daily Gazeta Wyborcza on Monday, citing sources close to an investigation.

http://www.news24.com/World/News/CIA-prisons-in-Poland-illegal-20110530


From Information Clearing House

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SCOTUS: Regime officials can do anything they want

Los Angeles Times

05/31/11

The Supreme Court, unanimously throwing out a suit against former Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft from someone arrested but never used as a material witness in a terrorism case, has now erected a broad shield protecting the government and Bush administration officials for their conduct in the war on terrorism. ... Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, in a key concurring opinion joined by three liberal justices, said judges should be wary of allowing suits targeting 'national officeholders' working 'in the area of national security.' ... Justice Antonin Scalia, writing the lead opinion, said it did not matter whether Ashcroft was falsely claiming that Kidd and others like him were valuable witnesses...

http://tinyurl.com/3jrgzed



Lawless government

Foundation for Economic Education
by Sheldon Richman

05/27/11

Everyone pays lip service to the rule of law. Indeed I?ve never heard of anyone rejecting it as undesirable. (It has been called impossible under prevailing circumstances but that is a different point.) So why is the principle so flagrantly violated with almost no public outrage...

http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/tgif/lawless-government/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Sheldon+Richman
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/williams-w/w-williams84.1.html

Repealing Big Government Before the Coming Fiscal Collapse
http://lewrockwell.com/orig11/duncan-a3.1.1.html

You are Not Defending Our Freedoms
http://www.lewrockwell.com/hornberger/hornberger187.html

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Welcome to Post-Legal America
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/31

For Sale: The Desperate States of America
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/31-1

The Truth about the US Economy
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/31-6

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What Must America Defend?

Patrick J. Buchanan

'The tough choices ahead,' said Gates, are 'about the kind of role the American people - accustomed to unquestioned military dominance for the past two decades - want their country to play in the world.'

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28220.htm



Look Out Below

By Mike Whitney

The slowdown has begun. The economy has started to sputter and unemployment claims have tipped 400,000 for the last seven weeks.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28217.htm



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2011/06/01/204-police-epidemic/
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Dave Lindorff, This Can't Be Happening: 'Unemployment in Egypt among young men and women is about 30%. In Tunisia, it is over 40%. The White House claims that with figures like that, the future for democracy in those countries is tenuous. But wait a minute. What about the US? Unemployment and underemployment here is still up around 20% overall, and it is much higher among young people. Black youth unemployment fell so far in 2011 to an official rate of 44% from 50% last year (because so many young workers just gave up trying to find work!). Among Latino youth, the official unemployment rate is stuck at around 30%. Overall, youth unemployment, according to the official Labor Department figures, is 20%, but remember, the official rate does not count those who are working part time who want full-time work, and does not count those who have given up looking for work.'

http://www.truthout.org/jarring-disconnect-if-joblessness-and-hopelessness-undermine-democracy-middle-east-what-about-here-h



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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Dave+Lindorff
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Noam Chomsky, Truthout: 'The May 1 U.S. attack on Osama bin Laden s compound violated multiple elementary norms of international law, beginning with the invasion of Pakistani territory. There appears to have been no attempt to apprehend the unarmed victim, as presumably could have been done by the 79 commandos facing almost no opposition. President Obama announced that 'justice has been done.' Many did not agree - even close allies. British barrister Geoffrey Robertson, who generally supported the operation, nevertheless described Obama s claim as an 'absurdity' that should have been obvious to a former professor of constitutional law.'

http://www.truth-out.org/revenge-killing-osama-bin-laden/1306865820



Dumb Question of the 21st Century: Is It Legal?

Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch: 'Is the Libyan war legal? Was Bin Laden s killing legal? Is it legal for the president of the United States to target an American citizen for assassination? Were those 'enhanced interrogation techniques' legal? These are all questions raised in recent weeks. Each seems to call out for debate, for answers. Or does it? Now, you couldn t call me a legal scholar. I have never set foot inside a law school, and in 66 years only made it onto a single jury (dismissed before trial when the civil suit was settled out of court). Still, I feel at least as capable as any constitutional law professor of answering such questions. My answer is this: they are irrelevant.'

http://www.truth-out.org/dumb-question-twenty-first-century-it-legal/1306847372

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Creating Evidence Where There Is None
http://lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts319.html



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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/roberts
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Freedom's Phoenix Freedom's Phoenix
by US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)

05/30/11

Our Presidents can now, on their own: order assassinations, including American citizens; operate secret military tribunals; engage in torture; enforce indefinite imprisonment without due process; order searches and seizures without proper warrants, gutting the 4th Amendment; ignore the 60 day rule for reporting to the Congress the nature of any military operations as required by the War Power Resolution; continue the Patriot Act abuses without oversight; wage war at will; and treat all Americans as suspected terrorists at airports with TSA groping and nude x-rays. Americans who are not alarmed by all of this are either not paying close attention, or are too trusting of current government officials to be concerned...

http://tinyurl.com/44w89xl



The Patriot Act is not conservative

The American Conservative
by Jack Hunter

05/31/11

If Americans needed another reminder of why the Democratic Party is absolutely worthless, they got it during last week s Patriot Act extension debate when Senate Majority leader Harry Reid again behaved exactly like the Bush-era Republicans he once vigorously opposed. In 2005, Reid bragged to fellow Democrats, 'We killed the Patriot Act.' Today, Reid says that anyone who opposes the Patriot Act might be responsible for the killing of Americans. Dick Cheney now hears an echo and Americans deserve congressional hearings - as to whether Harry Reid is a sociopath, mere liar, or both...

http://tinyurl.com/3bmaoqe



Patriot Act renewal gives terrorists another victory

Wrights 2012 Liberty For All
by R. Lee Wrights

06/01/11

Using the same tactics of secrecy, deceit, outright lies and fear that they have been using for ten years, Democrats and Republicans steamrolled over the opposition and stampeded Congress into renewing several provisions of the Patriotic Act last week. Once again, both Democrats and Republicans dishonored their oath of office and voted for a bill that will continue to erode the freedom and liberty of all Americans. Thanks to Congress, score another victory for every terrorist in the world who seeks to destroy the land of the free and home of the brave...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=5999


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The Pathology of Power
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/1120.html

PATRIOT Act super-charged
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/4035.html



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/30-4

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Hidden inflation and debilitating deficits

Campaign For Liberty Campaign For Liberty
by Anthony Gregory

05/30/11

Two years ago, we needed a recession, including falling prices and wages, to reallocate wasted resources to more productive uses. But that would be cruel, we were told. Without 'rescue' and stimulus packages, we d have high unemployment for a year. But more than two years later, we still have high employment, and the Fed s attempts to reinflate the bubble have ensured that the economy is as fundamentally unsound now as back then. Meanwhile, price inflation has begun...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=1451


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=deficit
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http://lewrockwell.com/paul/paul743.html

Dismantle the Empire
http://lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan166.html

Welcome to Post-Legal America
http://lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt423.html

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Dispatches from the End of Empire
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/30-1



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