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Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

01/12/11

I?ve spent more than a few columns predicting that the so-called tea partiers -- the grassroots populist movement that has our liberal elites in a frothy-mouthed lather -- will be logically led to call for major cuts in military spending -- and, by the sheer logic of their anti-spending, 'anti-government' position, eventually come to challenge our foreign policy of global intervention. The other day, as I listened to a fascinating panel discussion on Warren Olney?s KCRW radio show To the Point on defense spending and deficit reduction, I had the distinct pleasure of hearing my prediction come true -- a lot sooner, I have to admit, than I ever imagined...

http://tinyurl.com/4k2eyz5


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Boston Globe

01/11/11

Jennifer and Brian Law are caught up in a new wave of suburban and rural home foreclosures, far from the low-income city neighborhoods where the crisis began. ... Today, the Laws face foreclosure, part of a swelling group of rural and suburban homeowners who are tipping the scales in Massachusetts. ... The shift of foreclosures from cities to outlying areas indicates that the sluggish economy and a lingering high unemployment rate, not subprime loans and predatory lending, have become the main reasons people lose their homes...

http://tinyurl.com/4to59qv


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Wikileaks MSNBC

01/11/11

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange vowed to increase the release of revelations related to secret U.S. diplomatic cables after he appeared in British court Tuesday as part of his fight to avoid extradition to Sweden. Assange said the website is 'stepping up our publishing for matters related to Cablegate and other materials'...

http://tinyurl.com/4ndjx9s


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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WikiLeaks Has ?Insurance Files? on News Corp. Chief Rupert Murdoch, Assange Claims
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/01/12-5



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The U.S. Federal Reserve's journey to the outer limits of monetary policy is raising concerns about how hard it will be to withdraw trillions of dollars in stimulus from the banking system when the time is right.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE7096FE20110111



Deepening crisis traps America's have-nots

The US is drifting from a financial crisis to a deeper and more insidious social crisis. Self-congratulation by the US authorities that they have this time avoided a repeat of the 1930s is premature.

http://bit.ly/f9yMGY



Job Openings in U.S. Decrease for Third Time in Four Months

The number of positions waiting to be filled decreased by 80,000 to 3.25 million, the Labor Department said today in Washington. The number of people hired dropped from the prior month and separations climbed.

http://bit.ly/hJbQzS


From Information Clearing House

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Managing the unmanageable

C4SS Center for a Stateless Society
by David D'Amato

01/10/11

Like the money it prints, the profits reported by the Federal Reserve aren?t what they seem, representing returns on precarious investments that no sane actor would undertake. Those putrid investments include not only the storied mortgage-backed securities that became the focus of the financial debacle, but Treasury bonds that sponsor the federal government?s debt. Even while these holdings generate income now, their purchase with imaginary money that was 'printed' electronically means that financially-accountable, free people never got the chance to discover their clearing price...

http://c4ss.org/content/5773



The six most dangerous government-sponsored enterprises

Our Future
by Robert Borosage

01/11/11

Simon Johnson, the former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is a principled conservative who understands how financial oligopolies can loot a nation. .... he summarizes the stark and terrifying reality of where we are .... Today?s most dangerous government sponsored enterprises are the largest six bank holding companies: JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley. They are undoubtedly too big to fail .... The market knows this and, as a result, these large institutions can borrow more cheaply than their smaller competitors. This lets them stay big and -- amazingly -- get bigger...

http://tinyurl.com/66uk27p



Toward sensible monetary policy

US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) Campaign For Liberty
by US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)

01/11/11

I am pleased that I will be chairing the Monetary Policy Subcommittee of the Financial Services Committee, which has oversight of the Federal Reserve. Obviously, this position will facilitate my efforts to ensure the Fed provides the American people with more information about what they have been doing with and to our money. Not surprisingly, since my chairmanship was announced, apologists for the Fed have been recycling the old canard about how increased transparency threatens the Fed's so-called political independence...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=1283


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Tom DeLay, former U.S. House leader, sentenced to 3 years in prison

Tom DeLay, the brash Texan who helped build and tightly control a Republican majority in his chamber until resigning in 2005, was sentenced by a state judge on Monday to three years in prison for illegally plotting to funnel corporate contributions to Texas legislative candidates.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/10/AR2011011000557.html



Will Tom DeLay go to prison? Don't count on it

A defiant DeLay vowed to beat sentence on appeal
http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2011/01/will-tom-delay-go-to-prison-do.html


From Information Clearing House



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By Nathan Diebenow

"There are no real seriously armed enemies left in the world that can possibly justify an $800 billion national defense and security establishment, including Homeland Security."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27237.htm



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By William Alden

Wages for American workers have fallen dramatically since the financial crisis, in what will likely turn out to be the worst such plunge since the Great Depression, the Wall Street Journal reports.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27241.htm



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By Press TV

Sarkozy considered the current model which uses the US dollar as the primary reserve currency as "unstable" and stressed that it "makes part of the world dependent on American monetary policy."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27239.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/11-11



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/01/11-2

Obama to Sanction Indefinite Gitmo Detention
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/01/11-1

Close Guantánamo
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/11-9

Justice Department Blockaded, No Arrests Made, in Shut Down Guantanamo Action Today
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/01/11-16

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What U.S. "Justice" Signifies Around The World

By Glenn Greenwald

We have the spectacle of Julian Assange's lawyers citing the Obama administration's policies of rendition and indefinite detention at Guantanamo as a reason why human rights treaties bar his extradition to any country (such as Sweden) which might transfer him to American custody.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27245.htm



WikiLeaks Founder Said to Fear 'Illegal Rendition' to U.S.

Lawyers acting for Julian Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks antisecrecy group, said on Tuesday they would argue against a demand for his extradition to Sweden on the grounds that he might subsequently face "illegal rendition" to the United States, risking imprisonment at Guantánamo Bay, or even the death penalty.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/12/world/europe/12assange.html?_r=1



Soldier's inhumane imprisonment

Pfc. Bradley Manning, can't reasonably complain that the military has him in custody. But the conditions under which he is being held at the Marine detention center at Quantico, Va., are so harsh as to suggest he is being punished for conduct of which he hasn't been convicted.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-manning-20110110,0,3558552.story


From Information Clearing House

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Nine Years Later: The Political Prisoners of Guantanamo

Andy Worthington, Truthout: "Political prisoners? Surely, that can't be right, can it? Surely, it's only dictatorships in far-flung corners of the world who hold political prisoners, and not the United States of America? Sadly, no. As the 'War on Terror' prison established by President Bush begins its tenth year of operations, and as it begins to be forgotten that President Obama swept into office issuing an executive order promising to close the prison within a year, but failed spectacularly to do so, the bleak truth is that, for a majority of the 173 men held at Guantanamo, their chances of being released, or of receiving anything resembling justice, have receded to such an extent in the last two years that most face indefinite detention without charge or trial and may still be in Guantanamo a year from now, two years from now, or even five, ten or twenty years from now."

http://www.truth-out.org/the-political-prisoners-guantanamo66746



The Philosophies That Put People Behind Bars

Mike Konczal, new deal 2.0: "Following Lynn Parramore's piece on solitary confinement, it's important to note that criminal sentencing reform will be on the table in 2011. Collapsing state budgets and ever-increasing prison populations (and the costs associated with them) will force the issue. Republican Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels has recently endorsed a plan to help reduce the prison population. As this issue unfolds, it is important to understand how we got here in the first place. First, having so much of our population behind bars is a new phenomenon, going back to 1980."

http://www.truth-out.org/the-philosophies-that-put-people-behind-bars66732



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