World-News

Richard D. Wolff, MR Zine: "President Obama's basic budget for fiscal 2012 is mostly a done deal supported by the entire political establishment. The hyped choreography of forthcoming battles between Democrats and Republicans is a very secondary sideshow. The battles clothe basic agreement in a disguise of fierce oppositions perhaps aimed to mollify each party's none-too-discerning militants. Both sides agree that the US private economy is in such a poor and dangerous condition that it needs massive fiscal stimulus from the federal budget: classic Keynesian policy."

http://www.truth-out.org/on-president-obamas-budget67777

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Obama's Budget and the Rot of American Capitalism

By Patrick Martin

After committing trillions in federal bailouts to the banks and billionaires, the White House is demanding cuts that will devastate the working class, and particularly its poorest and most vulnerable sections.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27481.htm

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An un-free market

ErneLewis.com
by Erne Lewis

02/12/11

Congress will continue rewarding the politically powerful banks, corporations, government unions, the federal and state bureaucracies and the teachers unions who fund their reelections ... until the imminent death of the nation leaves them no alternative. Until then, until we enter a screaming economic nosedive, they will continue to pay lip service to the voters and otherwise reward those who own them. And the economic collapse will happen because it must...

http://ernelewis.com/blog/2011/02/our-washington-aristocrats/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Richard+D.+Wolff
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Dahr Jamail and Erika Blumenfeld, Truthout: "Residents who live along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, all the way from Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, to well into western Florida, continue to tell me of acute symptoms they attribute to ongoing exposure to toxic chemicals being released from BP's crude oil and the toxic Corexit dispersants used to sink it. Shirley Tillman from Pass Christian, Mississippi, and former BP Vessels of Opportunity oil cleanup worker wrote me recently: 'You can't even go to the store without seeing sick people! You can hear them talking to people and they think they have the flu or a virus. I saw a girl that works at a local store yesterday that had to leave work because she was so sick! Others, throughout the entire store were hacking & coughing. It's crazy that this has been allowed to happen to all of us!'

http://www.truth-out.org/were-poisoned-were-sick67338"



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/15-6

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Rand Paul pleads for opposition to Patriot Act

The Raw Story

02/15/11

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) wrote to colleagues Tuesday voicing objections to the PATRIOT Act as it heads to the Senate for reauthorization, warning that it could turn America into a 'police state.' Paul, a tea party favorite who was first elected last November, expressed opposition to warrantless searches and surveillance, questioning their constitutionality and their necessity to protect the United States from terrorist acts...

http://tinyurl.com/4zvg3qm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=John+Nichols

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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/02/15-5

More Facts Emerge About the Leaked Smear Campaigns Aimed at WikiLeaks Supporters and Chamber of Commerce Critics
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/15-4

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US Targets Twitter in Bid to Trap Assange

By Paola Totaro in London

The US government's legal hunt for Julian Assange will begin in a magistrates court in Virginia today when its Attorney General seeks a disclosure order on Twitter to obtain the names, dates and locations of anyone using its services to communicate with WikiLeaks.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27477.htm



Why Our Government Would Fear Wikiarguments More than WikiLeaks

By Carmen Yarrusso

Our "free press" is clearly abdicating its responsibilities. Worse yet, mainstream media do much more to aid and abet government deception than to expose it.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27485.htm



DOJ Seeks Twitter Records in Wikileaks Probe

In an interesting juxtaposition to Secretary Clinton's internet freedom speech later today, this morning at the US District Court in Alexandria the Justice Department will be seeking to enforce a court order to direct Twitter Inc, to provide the US government records from 3 individuals including Birgitta Jonsdottir, a member of the Icelandic Parliament.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2011/02/doj-seeks-twitter-records-in-wikileaks-probe.html


From Information Clearing House



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/02/15-11



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/rep2/yellowstone-eruption.html

Yellowstone Supervolcano Alert?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/10/michael-snyder/yellowstone-supervolcano-alert%E2%80%A8/



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north946.html

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2011/02/15/187-confessions-of-an-economic-hit-man/

Totalitarian Security Agency
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/theroux-m2.1.1.html



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Video

Professor Richard D. Wolff discusses the cause of the budget-cut fever that's sweeping Washington, DC: "Austerity is the last thing that should be done in this situation. And it should be resisted by all people with even an elementary sense of fairness."

http://tinyurl.com/4m7huqe



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=austerity
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Dave Johnson, Campaign for America's Future: "Many people don't understand our country's problem of concentration of income and wealth because they don't see it. People just don't understand how much wealth there is at the top now. The wealth at the top is so extreme that it is beyond most people's ability to comprehend. If people understood just how concentrated wealth has become in our country and the effect is has on our politics, our democracy and our people, they would demand our politicians do something about it."

http://www.truth-out.org/nine-pictures-of-the-extreme-incomewealth-gap67743



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=wealthy
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Bill Moyers, Truthout: "While 'most of us like to believe that our opinions have been formed over time by careful, rational consideration of facts and ideas and that the decisions based on those opinions, therefore, have the ring of soundness and intelligence,' the research found that actually 'we often base our opinions on our beliefs ... and rather than facts driving beliefs, our beliefs can dictate the facts we chose to accept. They can cause us to twist facts so they fit better with our preconceived notions.' These studies help to explain why America seems more and more unable to deal with reality. So many people inhabit a closed belief system on whose door they have hung the 'Do Not Disturb' sign, that they pick and choose only those facts that will serve as building blocks for walling them off from uncomfortable truths."

http://www.truth-out.org/bill-moyers-facts-still-matter67571



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