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Adam Smith Institute
by Sam Bowman

05/12/11

Like most other bubbles, it is a product of sustained government policies designed to privilege a special interest group - in this case, homeowners. Government after government has tried to keep the bubble inflated to avoid their wrath. The more people throw their life?s savings into housing, the more the pressure on government grows to protect these investments. The consequences for the rest of the country have been ruinous: increased cost of rents, urban sprawl, inflation and a shortage of affordable homes...

http://tinyurl.com/5rja8ej


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/galland28.1.html

The Blowhards of War
http://www.lewrockwell.com/raimondo/raimondo109.html



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Study

Specifically, a burdensome US visa system drives millions of potential travelers to other countries at an enormous cost to our economy,' the report says.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110512/pl_afp/ustourismeconomychinabrazil_20110512150902


From Information Clearing House
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http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/05/12



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http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/05/12-5

Feds Plan to Strip Endangered Species Act Protection From Gray Wolves Across United States
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/03/01-4



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/12-10



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/05/12-6

To End All Wars
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/05/11-0



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The Assassination of Osama bin Laden: Glaring Anomalies in the Official Narrative
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig12/arbuthnot1.1.1.html



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By Pepe Escobar

The 'new' sociopolitical Darwinism entails humanitarian neo-colonialism, targeted assassinations - extrajudicial executions - and drone wars, all carried out in the name of a revamped white man s burden.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28088.htm



'Osama bin Laden: Dead or Alive?'

With David Ray Griffin

We examine all the evidence, both that indicating bin Laden died, and that suggesting he was still alive in 2009; the important bin Laden videos and audio recordings, the significance, if any, in the timing of their release; and statements by significant political and intelligence figures.

http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/69693



How To Cover Up Killing Civilians

Video

Soldiers in Iraq describe how they can kill civilians.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28086.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Humanitarian intervention

Rad Geek People s Daily
by Rad Geek

05/11/11

Lieutenant General Charles Bouchard, Commander of NATO s Military Operations in Libya, would like you to know that 'NATO is fulfilling its U.N. mandate to stop and prevent attacks against civilians with precision and care.' Protecting Libyan civilians apparently includes taking the time to fire two missile into a family home and executing babies for having the wrong grandfather. But not taking the time to stop and rescue 72 Libyan refugees ? people fleeing the war that NATO is practicing with so much 'precision and care' - from dying of hunger and thirst while adrift at sea...

http://radgeek.com/gt/2011/05/11/humanitarian-intervention/



Why the nature of bin Laden s death matters

Libertarian Alliance
by Robert Henderson

05/11/11

The preservation of the integrity of national sovereignty is reason enough to be disturbed the nature of bin Laden s death, but there also the fact that action such as this transgresses precisely the values which countries such as Britain and the USA purport to embody; the rule of law, no sentence without trial, the presumption of innocence, freedom from arbitrary state action...

http://tinyurl.com/4xnnkck


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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