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The Christian Science Monitor
by Christopher D. Cook

02/23/11

Question: Would you want a small handful of government officials controlling America?s entire food supply, all its seeds and harvests? I suspect most would scream, 'No way!' Yet, while America seems allergic to public servants -? with no profit motive in mind ?- controlling anything these days, a knee-jerk faith in the 'free market' has led to overwhelming centralized control of nearly all our food stuffs, from farm to fork...

http://tinyurl.com/6a67ccf

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Monsanto
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=GMOs
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=food+supply
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Christopher+D.+Cook
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Starmail - 24. Feb, 09:22

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The curse of negative home equity

Distressed Homes Accounted for Nearly Half of January Sales

Already, in the key state of California, the survey found distressed property transactions account for 66 percent of the market.

http://bit.ly/hcTJ6U

The curse of negative home equity: Florida

43% Of Mortgages Underwater, 11% Of Homes In Foreclosure.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/02/19/2076031/the-curse-of-negative-home-equity.html

From Information Clearing House

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=home+equity
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=mortgage
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=foreclosure
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Starmail - 24. Feb, 08:37

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Lawsuit alleges FBI violated Muslims freedom of religion

An FBI informant who infiltrated a California mosque violated the constitutional rights of hundreds of Muslims by targeting them for surveillance because of their religion, the ACLU and a Muslim group said in a lawsuit Tuesday.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/22/AR2011022206975.html

From Information Clearing House

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Federal+Bureau+of+Investigation
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=ACLU
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=constitutional+right
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=freedom+of+religion
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=mosque
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=surveillance
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Starmail - 24. Feb, 08:29

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Scott Walker Runs on Koch Money

Starmail - 24. Feb, 08:05

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More Evidence Wall Street Pay at Near Record Levels

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/02/23-4

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=bonus
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Wall+Street
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Shira+Ovide

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Starmail - 24. Feb, 07:31

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The Middle-Class Money-Extraction Mechanism

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rep2/baby-boomer-nest-eggs.html

Who's Behind the World's Current Revolutions?

It's Ben Bernanke's counterfeiting, which causes food prices to soar.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/bonner/bonner455.html

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Middle+Class
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bernanke
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Federal+Reserve
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=stock+market
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=food+prices
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bill+Bonner
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/bonner
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Starmail - 24. Feb, 06:01

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Mittwoch, 23. Februar 2011

The power of the rich

Freedom Politics
by Thomas Sowell

Reckless spending

Nothing more clearly illustrates the utter irresponsibility of Barack Obama than his advocacy of 'high-speed rail.' The man is not stupid. He knows how to use words that will sound wonderful to people who do not bother to stop and think. High-speed rail may be feasible in parts of Europe or Japan, where the population density is much higher than in the United States...

http://tinyurl.com/4j5gwox

The power of the rich

Cafe Hayek
by Russ Roberts

02/22/11

I think fixing the relationship between the financial sector and the power of government, particularly the Fed, is the single biggest problem we face as a democracy and as an economy. The exploitive nature of this relationship, what is often called crony capitalism, has led to terrible misallocations of capital and to resentment from the body politic about the fairness of the political process...

http://cafehayek.com/2011/02/the-power-of-the-rich.html

It?s freedom we need, not the nanny state

Adam Smith Institute
by Tom Papworth

02/22/11

Paternalism, or (as it is now called, in a strange shift of gender and status) 'the nanny state,' has always had its defenders amongst the elite. After all, it is the elite who define what is good; what is virtuous. It is little surprise that they would seek to defend their mores, even to the point of crushing the individual freedoms of others. Over time, this has taken many forms...

http://tinyurl.com/67s6s2n

The system makes no sense

The Partial Observer
by James Leroy Wilson

02/22/11

There are people, Democrat and Republican alike, who believe 'the system' does make sense, and is fundamentally good. They also believe it is sustainable; the only problem is sin. Democrats and Republicans differ only on what the sins happen to be...

http://partialobserver.com/article.cfm?id=3582

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Republican
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=bipartisan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=ruling+elite
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=spending
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=oligarch
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=crony+capitalism
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=nanny+state
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=wealthy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Thomas+Sowell
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Russ+Roberts
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tom+Papworth
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=James+Leroy+Wilson

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Starmail - 23. Feb, 10:55

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Russ Feingolds PAC, Progressives United, Working for Campaign Reform

Starmail - 23. Feb, 10:29

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Mexico Cable Shows US Resentment Toward Unions

If one looks at the following cable, one can infer that the US government views workers that try to wield political power and unions which wage battles against governments as players that could threaten a country's economic stability.

http://wlcentral.org/node/1351

Wisconsin: Walker threatens layoffs

Walker said Tuesday in a statement to The Associated Press that the layoffs wouldn't take effect immediately. He didn't say which workers would be targeted.

http://bit.ly/fyekxu

Fox News Airs Chants Of "Fox Lies" From Protesters In Wisconsin

From the February 18 edition of Fox News' Your World With Neil Cavuto.
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201102180032

Wisconsin protesters shout down Fox News

Protesters in Wisconsin shout "Tell the truth" while Fox News tries to interview Brett Healy of the MacIver Institute, a free market think tank.

http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/02/wisc-protesters-shout-down-fox-news/

Thousands of US veterans homeless'

Nearly 76,000 US military veterans were homeless on a given night in 2009, and close to 136,000 veterans resided in shelters that same year, a study has shown.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/166561.html

It's the Inequality, Stupid

Eight charts that explain everything that's wrong with America.
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequality-in-america-chart-graph

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Getting the raw end in Wisconsin

C4SS Center for a Stateless Society
by David D'Amato

02/21/11

In the political phraseology of the United States, bogged down in the vacuous false choice of Republican versus Democrat, proponents of the 'free market' are allegedly not supposed to concern themselves with scoundrels like government workers? unions. They are rather to be regarded as the enemy, as conducting an incessant attack on taxpayers in order that they might get something for nothing. But the anti-union turgidity of the Republican variant of the 'free market' obscures what are the actual ? as against the imagined ? effects of the state?s pervasive interventions in the economy...

http://c4ss.org/content/6222

Why Wisconsin matters to you

Our Future Blog
by Bill Scher

02/22/11

Why are so many who are not part of a union so committed to protecting the role of organized workers in our government and our economy? 1. Weak Economies Need More Demand: Our economy is struggling and our state budgets are distressed because increased unemployment and falling home prices have reduced economic demand. Weakening the ability of any workers to negotiate fair pay and secure retirements will only weaken demand further, hurting the overall economy...

http://tinyurl.com/4se75gq

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Scott+Walker
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Wisconsin
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Republican
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=bipartisan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=unions
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=workers
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=inequality
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=retirement
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=layoff
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=unemploy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=home+prices
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=veterans
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=homeless
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=shelter
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=taxpayer
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=David+D'Amato

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Starmail - 23. Feb, 10:12

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