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Tell Congress to safeguard its role in warmaking decisions
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The American Conservative The American Conservative
by Jack Hunter

05/23/11

American moral decline has been discussed for as long as there has been an America. Conservatives have long noted how certain cultural shifts throughout our nation s history have redefined social norms, transforming or even damaging traditional American values. They are often right, as concepts like the sanctity of life, the institution of marriage and the importance of faith have all been under assault for decades. But have we been too narrow in defining our traditional values? What, exactly, are American values? How are they unique to this country?

http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2011/05/23/americas-moral-decline/


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CCFC: Parents, Teachers to Scholastic
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Big Oil Pushes Tar Sands as Job Creator Ahead of Hearing
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/05/23-6

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Are oil futures markets being manipulated?

Cato Institute Cato Institute
by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren

05/18/11

If large changes in futures prices arise from a large collective imbalance of participant beliefs, what is the origin of the imbalance in beliefs? There are two possibilities. In the first, the participants determine their beliefs independently and seek to act on them independently. The result sometimes just happens to be a collective imbalance necessitating a price change to equate the number of longs and shorts. In the second, participants collude to create the imbalance...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The Constitution Project Urges Congress to Fully Examine Whether New Legislation Authorizing Use of Force for Counterterrorism Should Be Enacted

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/05/23-4

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US Senate votes to extend Police State Enabling Act

Los Angeles Times

05/23/11

The Senate voted overwhelmingly Monday to extend expiring provisions of the Patriot Act for four years despite objections of a coalition of conservatives and liberals. Because of the Obama administration s strong support for the anti-terrorism [sic] law, a bipartisan majority in both the House and Senate is expected to finish the legislation this week, keeping the provisions in force. They are scheduled to expire Friday...

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Courts overturn the 4th Amendment

Strike the Root
by Michael Kleen

05/23/10

If there was any lingering doubt as to whether federal or state governments would act against constitutional or common law when it served their interests, that ambiguity has been dispelled. Just days apart, two Supreme Court decisions, one state and one federal, directly attacked the individual right against unreasonable searches and seizures as spelled out by the 4th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution...

http://www.strike-the-root.com/courts-overturn-4th-amendment


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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How Much Government Spending Is Costing You Per Day
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By Bruce E. Levine

Many Americans know that the United States is not a democracy but a 'corporatocracy,' in which we are ruled by a partnership of giant corporations, the extremely wealthy elite and corporate-collaborator government officials.

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By Dennis Kucinich

Congress must protect the American people from the over-reach of any Chief Executive who is enamored with unilateralism, pre-emption, first strike and the power to prosecute war without Constitutional or statutory proscriptions.

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Obama s Private Killing Machine

By Frontline - PBS

They are known as 'JSOC' - Joint Special Operations Command. They report directly to the president and, 'operate worldwide based on the legal (or extra-legal) premises of classified presidential directive.' John Nagl, a former counterinsurgency adviser to Gen. Petraeus, described JSOC s kill/capture campaign to FRONTLINE as 'an almost industrial-scale counterterrorism killing machine.'

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28166.htm



Obama agrees to form joint national security body with UK

Barack Obama will announce during his first state visit to Britain this week that the White House is to open up its highly secretive national security council to Downing Street in a move that appears to show the US still values the transatlantic 'special relationship*.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/23/barack-obama-security-board-with-uk


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There Is Much More to Say

Noam Chomsky, ZNet: 'On May 1, 2011, Osama bin Laden was killed in his virtually unprotected compound by a raiding mission of 79 Navy Seals, who entered Pakistan by helicopter. After many lurid stories were provided by the government and withdrawn, official reports made it increasingly clear that the operation was a planned assassination, multiply violating elementary norms of international law, beginning with the invasion itself. There appears to have been no attempt to apprehend the unarmed victim, as presumably could have been done by 79 commandos facing no opposition - except, they report, from his wife, also unarmed, who they shot in self-defense when she 'lunged' at them (according to the White House).'

http://www.truthout.org/there-much-more-say/1306160179



Pakistan Fighting Off US Aid

Zofeen Ebrahim, Inter Press Service: 'The killing of Osama Bin Laden on May 2 in a covert operation by the United States has prompted strident calls by many in Pakistan to see it as a lesson for the country to stand on its feet, say no to foreign aid and shrug off the title 'hired gun of the U.S.' One of those voices belongs to the chief minister of Punjab province, Shahbaz Sharif, who said his government would stop accepting U.S. aid, and proceeded to cancel six agreements with the U.S. in the fields of health, education and solid waste management.'

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Our Future Blog
by Terrance Heath

05/20/11

When white America catches a cold, the saying goes, black America gets pneumonia. Or in this case, when white America has a recession, black America gets a depression. It was true in the Great Depression, and it s no less true in the 'Great Recession'...

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Stimulus wiped out a million private sector jobs

OpenMarket.org
by Hans Bader

05/21/11

The economy may be slowly recovering, but that s in spite of - not because of - the recent orgy of federal spending. Two economics professors, Tim Conley and Bill Dupor, concluded this month that the $800 billion stimulus package wiped out a million private-sector jobs, destroying a net 550,000 jobs...

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