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Campaigners condemn decision not to include 'murky' issue of detainee transfers in investigation as 'only doing half the job'.

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From Information Clearing House



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Jim Rogers

Video

Rogers says the next crisis will be worse than the financial collapse of 2008. He remains bullish on the Chinese yuan and sees China continuing to open its currency down the road.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28106.htm



Noam Chomsky: What Drives US Foreign Policy

Video

'The domestic masters of mankind'
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28108.htm



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Las Vegas Review Journal
by Vin Suprynowicz
05/15/11

Why are there so many executive and judiciary branch government employees serving in the Legislature?

http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/power-play-state-s-separation-of-powers-doctrine-effectively-ignored-121851449.html



About those oil company tax breaks

Foundation for Economic Education
by Sheldon Richman

05/13/11

Whether or not one has a warm cozy feeling about big oil companies, one should be troubled by the government s power to issue selective 'tax breaks' and to rescind them whenever politicians need the money. You won t catch me saying anything nice about any tax, but I reserve a special animus for any system that gives politicians the power to treat different productive activities differently. Let s take equality before the law seriously...

http://tinyurl.com/3uymyhs



Who will restore reality to politics?

Orange County Register
by Mark Steyn

05/14/11

In the real world, debt ceilings are determined by the lenders, not the borrowers. In March, Pimco (which manages the world s largest mutual fund) calculated that 70 percent of U.S. Treasury debt is being bought by the Federal Reserve. So under the 2011 budget, every hour of every day, the United States government spends $188 million it doesn t have, $130 million of which is 'borrowed' from itself. There s nobody else out there...

http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/-300417--.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Future of Freedom Foundation
by Wendy McElroy

05/13/11

A presidential veto is a power vested in the executive branch of government by the U.S. Constitution (Article I, section 7) through which the president can prevent the enactment of congressional legislation. When a bill passes both houses of Congress, it arrives on the president s desk. He has 10 days (excluding Sundays) to accept the measure by signing it or to return it to Congress with an explanation of its rejection. Mere failure to sign is deemed to be approval and the measure becomes law...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1105j.asp



The war on freedom

MaxKeiser.com
by Michael Kreiger

What would we do without Barack Obama as President? I mean it is amazing. The guy proved he was an American citizen and got public enemy number one all in the same week! And what ladies and gentlemen do we get as a reward for this PR stunt? Well, we immediately got more terror threats and fear mongering as we were conveniently told we were back on a war footing (the never ending 'war on terror' just like Orwell wrote about in 1984)...

http://maxkeiser.com/2011/05/13/the-war-on-freedom-4/



Riders of the storm

Antiwar.com Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

05/16/11

The tides of history are moving fast, these days. It s hard for the average human being - who, after all, has a life to live, filled with troubles that are small in scale but no less earthshaking to the individuals experiencing them - to make sense of it all. Indeed, even the so-called 'experts' are baffled, at this point - with US policymakers among the most clueless, and the most resistant to the great sea change enveloping much of the world...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/05/15/riders-of-the-storm/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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United Press International

The founder of Blackwater is building a secret mercenary army in the the United Arab Emirates, former employees and U.S. officials say. Erik Prince moved to Abu Dhabi under legal pressure in the United States and was hired by the crown prince to set up an 800-member force .... to conduct missions inside and outside the UAE, protect pipelines and cities and put down revolts like those sweeping the rest of the Arab world, the documents show...

http://tinyurl.com/6cyoryv


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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State Department Investigating Legality of Erik Prince s UAE Private Army

Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater private security company, is establishing a 'counter-terrorism' force of up to 800 foreign mercenaries in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates, The New York Times reported on Sunday.

http://bit.ly/iMaQRN


From Information Clearing House

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Jeremy Scahill on Blackwater Founder Erik Prince s Private Army of 'Christian Crusaders' in the UAE

http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/05/18-0



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Robert Pollin, New Labor Forum: 'President Barack Obama signed into law the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act in July 2010. Dodd-Frank is the most ambitious measure aimed at regulating U.S. financial markets since the Glass-Steagall Act was implemented in the midst of the 1930s Depression. However, it remains an open question as to whether Dodd-Frank is capable of controlling the hyper-speculative practices that produced the near-total global financial collapse of 2008-2009, which in turn brought the global economy to its knees with the Great Recession.'

http://www.truth-out.org/field-notes-wall-street-reform-battle-continues/1305478942



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Art Levine, Truthout: 'Mayor Vincent Gray and six members of the city council were arrested in high-profile protests against a Republican-driven federal budget deal ... Yet Mayor Gray and much of the rest of the city council are moving on their own to make the city s disabled, youngest and neediest citizens the sacrificial lambs of the proposed new city budget, with two-thirds of the cuts targeting the poor.'

http://www.truthout.org/gop-style-democrats-slash-dc-budget-homeless-poor-children-risk/1305314246



Food Fears Return

Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Project Syndicate: 'Lack of food is rarely the reason that people go hungry. The world today produces enough food to feed everyone. The problem is that more and more people simply cannot afford to buy the food they need. Even before the recent food-price increases, a billion people were suffering from chronic hunger, while another two billion were experiencing malnutrition, bringing the total number of food-insecure people to around three billion, or almost half the world s population... The rapid rise in world prices for all basic food crops - corn. wheat, soybeans, and rice - along with other foods like cooking oils, has been devastating for poor households all over the world.'

http://truthout.org/food-fears-return/1305395322



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