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By Mark LeVine

President Obama has essentially continued almost every major Bush security policy, either by default or design. State secrets, targeted killings, renditions and indefinite detention, opposing the right of habeas corpus, preventing victims of admitted torture from seeking judicial redress, expanding the Afghan war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26469.htm



Obama, Bush, and the Judicious Use of Hellfire Missiles

Much has changed since the Bush administration left office. Two years ago, the CIA was worrying about legal issues surrounding the killing of Americans at an alleged terrorist training camp in Pakistan. Now the Obama administration has apparently put American citizens on a "targeted killing" list.

http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/09/anwar-al-awlaki-and-dead-americans-pakistan


From Information Clearing House

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Government accusations: No evidence needed

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

11/01/10

[W]ithin a very short time of the attempted attack?s becoming public, U.S. government officials fanned out to anonymously pin the blame on Anwar Awlaki as the Mastermind, and newspapers then dutifully printed what they were told, even though nobody had any idea whether that was actually true. But when you?re trying to justify the presidential seizure of the power to assassinate your own citizens without a shred of due process, what matters is ratcheting up fear and hatred levels against your targets, not evidence or rationality. Just scream TERRORIST! enough times and maybe everyone will forget how tyrannical is your conduct...

http://tinyurl.com/34xj2er



Is your preacher next on the presidential death list?

Liberty For All
by George Phillies

01/17/11

Do you truly believe a President can stop with just one? Last year the Obama Administration took a step without historical precedent. It ordered the assassination of an American citizen. The citizen is Anwar al-Awlaki, described by the New York Times as 'an eloquent Muslim cleric'...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=5421


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Tell Larry Summers, Don't Delay!

By Mary Bottari

On Wall Street, Summers will be greeted like a conquering hero. Never have so many financiers been made so rich because of the actions of one man.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26428.htm



5 Outright Illegal Scams That Should Put Wall St. Bankers Behind Bars

From laundering drug money to gouging you on overdrafts, here are five scams where Wall Street ran afoul of the law.

http://bit.ly/bfqPme


From Information Clearing House

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Wall Street wrecked the economy, not big government

Our Future Blog
by Zach Carter

09/21/10

Over at bloggingheads, my CAF colleague Bill Scher discusses the new international banking standards with Conn Carroll, a conservative blogger for The Heritage Foundation. Carroll actually agrees with a lot of what I have to say about Basel III, but I he draws conclusions from my post that overemphasize the role of regulation and ignore the insane lobbying and outright fraud that Wall Street deployed to create a crisis. The fact that Carroll and I can agree on this stuff (to an extent) shouldn?t come as a terrible shock ? Wall Street reform is about the basic functioning of the economy ? it?s not an issue that needs to ignite ideological conflict...

http://tinyurl.com/2a6q486



So long, Summers

The Nation
by Robert Scheer

09/22/10

Finally! The announced departure of Lawrence Summers as the president?s top economic adviser is welcome news. Harvard?s loss in taking back its $586,996-a-year professor and ?president emeritus,? who is also paid millions by Wall Street on the side, is the nation?s gain. Maybe now Barack Obama, who hopefully will also push out Summers?s protege, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, will begin to provide an authentic populist alternative to those Tea Party Republicans who totally absolve Wall Street of responsibility for the economic collapse. But the early signs are not fully reassuring...

http://www.thenation.com/article/154956/so-long-summers


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The Return of Lawrence Summers, Mr. Spectacular Failure
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/16



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Last week the US-based Monsanto secured a 20 per cent minority interest in Western Australia's InterGrain and launched an advocacy and "education" campaign to promote the benefits of genetic modification to consumers.

http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s3007571.htm


From Information Clearing House



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Video

With handcuffs raised, they called for a citizen's arrest and read the charges against him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS7HiZlbBxM&feature=player_embedded#!



War crimes: Group offers $100,000 for 'information leading to the arrest and conviction of Karl Rove'

American Crossroads" groups known to many as the "shadow RNC," an activist organization declared that it would give $100,000 to any person who comes forward with "information leading to the arrest and conviction of Karl Rove."

http://bit.ly/cecpnZ


From Information Clearing House

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Blair should take a journey to jail

Information Clearinghouse
by Jodie Evans

09/14/10

I leapt up with handcuffs held high above my head. ‘You Liar. I was in Iraq and met with weapons inspectors before we invaded and they said they had found no WMDs. You are a War CRIMINAL! LIAR!’ At this moment I was surrounded by NYC cops and British Secret Service and they slammed me up against the wall and dragged me out of the room to cheers. The British guys were brutal, dragging me, yelling at me and begging the NYPD to arrest me.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26368.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Stop Karl Rove From Stealing Another Election

Today we jump back in to support the initiative launched by our activist friends at Velvet Revolution, to confront the latest corporate attempt to muscle in on our elections.

Karl Rove has joined with the corporate controlled US Chamber of Commerce, four conservative billionaires, and a host of Big Business CEOs to amass and spend more than $50 million to elect pro business, pro-deregulation candidates in November, using a corporate front organization called "American Crossroads". Please help blow the whistle on this giant leap towards unmitigated American Fascism.

Stop American Crossroads Action Page: http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1055.php

Velvet Revolution has already filed complaints with the Federal Election Commission and the Department of Justice requesting an investigation into American Crossroads because of its de facto takeover of the Republican National Committee without the concomitant regulatory controls and its laundering of secret money. And now we need your help. Just submit the form above to send an instant blast e-fax to your members of Congress and President Obama, requesting a full investigation into the activities of Rove's group.

They are also releasing ads calling on each candidate supported by American Crossroads to reject the support. The first ad focuses on Carly Fiorina, who is running for Senate in California. The tag line says, Carly, do the right thing, tell Karl Rove to keep his dirty tricks anddirty money out of California elections!

Obviously the looming threat posed by the sinister Supreme Court decision in the "Corporations Unregulated" case is already a pressing constitutional crisis. This is why we need everyone to help us distribute the "Corporations Are NOT The People" bumper stickers while there is still time to save our democracy.

Please consider picking up a bulk pack of 25 for just a modest donation, which is what makes it possible for us to send free bumper stickers to anyone who cannot make a donation right now. Be the key activist in your own neighborhood to get these in the hands of all your friends and on to their car bumpers.

Bulk Corporations Are Not The People bumper stickers: http://www.peaceteam.net/bumper_stickers_bulk.php

And you can always get one free for yourself with no donation required, if you have not requested yours already. You can also have your choice of an "Impeach The Supreme Court 5" bumper sticker.

Single bumper stickers for no charge: http://www.peaceteam.net/bumper_stickers.php

And here is the Facebook link for the Stop American Crossroads action page further above.

[Facebook] Action Page: http://apps.facebook.com/fb_voices/action.php?qnum=pnum1055

And this is the Twitter reply for this same action

@cxs #p1055

Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed to be ours, and forward this alert as widely as possible.

usalone405b:146818



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By Greg Mitchell

Alyssa Peterson was one of the first female soldiers who died in Iraq. Her death under these circumstances should have drawn wide attention. It's not exactly the Tillman case, but a cover-up, naturally, followed.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26360.htm



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory202.html

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Fascist America: Is this election the next turn?

Our Future Blog
by Sara Robinson

10/22/10

In August 2009, I wrote a piece titled ?Fascist America: Are We There Yet?? that sparked much discussion on both the left and right ends of the blogosphere. In it, I argued that ? according to the best scholarship on how fascist regimes emerge ? America was on a path that was running much too close to the fail-safe point beyond which no previous democracy has ever been able to turn back from a full-on fascist state. I also noted that the then-emerging Tea Party had a lot of proto-fascist hallmarks, and that it had the potential to become a clear and present danger to the future of our democracy if it ever got enough traction to start winning elections in a big way...

http://tinyurl.com/28blunq



The Tea Party test case

In These Times
by David Sirota

10/23/10

What is the tea party? Many have tried to answer that question ever since CNBC?s Rick Santelli first launched the backlash with his trading-floor rant against the poor. Democratic operatives, for instance, say the tea party is merely a Republican Party facade. As proof, they point to GOP-linked corporate group?s involvement in tea party events, and cite the absence of tea party deficit and bailout protests during George W. Bush?s presidency. Social scientists, meanwhile, suggest that the tea party is not the entire Republican apparatus, but specifically the extreme conservative edge of the GOP?. For their part, tea party activists brush off these pesky facts with nostalgic paeans about the Constitution and indignant bromides against partisanship...

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/6579/the_tea_party_test_case/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The Ruling Elite and the Perversion of Scholarship

Chris Hedges, Truthdig: ''Fraternities, sororities and football, along with other outsized athletic programs, have decimated most major American universities. They have inverted the traditional values of scholarship to turn four years of college into a mindless quest for collective euphoria and athletic dominance.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10590-the-ruling-elite-and-the-perversion-of-scholarship



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By Amy Goodman

The ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States should serve as a moment to reflect on tolerance. It should be a day of peace. Yet the rising anti-Muslim fervor here, together with the continuing U.S. military occupation of Iraq and the escalating war in Afghanistan (and Pakistan), all fuel the belief that the U.S. really is at war with Islam.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26326.htm



No-Drama, No Storyline Obama Tragedy

By Robert S. Becker

If this White House cannot find a gripping narrative to justify its power, then - rest assured - wingnuts in the wings will reprise their perfectly coherent storyline. Brace for new and improved wedge-driven crusades against sham enemies, domestic and foreign.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26322.htm



Lie Like a Rug

By Becky Akers

I don't know which is more offensive, these breathtaking lies or the utter insult to our intelligence.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26319.htm



Florida pastor says going ahead with Koran burning

An obscure U.S. Christian pastor whose plan to burn copies of the Koran on Sept. 11 has sparked an international outcry said on Wednesday he will still go ahead with the event despite U.S. official warnings it will endanger American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.

http://bit.ly/cYxFGv



Religious Leaders Condemn Growing Islamophobia

Leaders of some three dozen mainstream U.S. religious denominations Tuesday condemned what many commentators have called a rising tide of Islamophobia touched off by the recent controversy over the construction of a Muslim community centre in Lower Manhattan.

http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=52751



Top Stories More Important than Quran-Burning Nut Job

By Juan Cole

The horrible era of anti-Muslim bigotry in the United States yielded a one-day silly season on Thursday. - The weird cultist Terry Jones, fired from his church in Cologne, Germany last year for abusing his congregants, preaching hate-filled sermons, and demanding absolute obedience, was favored by an unprecedented telephone call from Secretary of Defense Robert Gates asking him not to burn the Quran.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26338.htm



The Lost Soul of the United States of America

By Maryam Sakeenah

The United States must stop presenting its warmongering as a result of misguided and ill-advised policies as if it were a clash between 'our' values and 'theirs.' It must get real and face the fact that it is not hated for its values, but for the lack thereof.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26343.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Gingrich the compulsive mosque baiter

The Libertarian Standard
by William N. Grigg

09/06/10

Gingrich is a statist down to his chromosomes, so it?s not surprising to see him breezily dismiss the concept of property rights. Even though those behind the proposed Park51 Muslim Community Center are peacefully and legally pursuing their designs, ?There are a number of different steps that could be taken? to nullify their property rights, Gingrich told an approving Barton...

http://tinyurl.com/2app2ug



Anti-Islamic schizophrenia

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

09/08/10

The anti-Muslim opponents of that Islamic community center/mosque in New York City are suffering a severe case of anti-Islamic schizophrenia. On the one hand, they?ve gone ballistic over the possibility that an Islamic community center/mosque might be built a couple of blocks away from the World Trade Center site...

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2010-09-08.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Dahr Jamail, Truthout: "If someone broke into your house, pinned down your loved ones and began pouring poison down their throats, would you stop that person? What if someone poured crude oil all over your crops and livestock? Wouldn't you try to stop them from doing it? Pointed questions like these come from a man named Derrick Jensen. They provide a lens through which to view the havoc that corporate capitalism is wreaking on our planet. They are meant to jolt us into the awareness that we are watching life on earth annihilated. They are also meant to challenge us into thinking about what form our resistance to this should take."

http://www.truth-out.org/life-vs-productivity-what-would-you-live-and-die-protect62946



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China on Friday offered a rare glimpse into its foreign exchange reserves, confirming that they are overwhelmingly allocated in dollars, while a central banker said the mountain of cash could face depreciation risks.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE6820FX20100903



Mortgage rates hit decades-low of 4.32 percent

Mortgage rates fell to the lowest level in decades for the tenth time in 11 weeks, as investors worried about the economy.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Mortgage-rates-hit-decadeslow-apf-2452651798.html?x=0



Jobless rate rises

For the first time this year, the manufacturing sector lost jobs - down a net total of 27,000 for the month. The auto industry accounted for 22,000 of those lost jobs, the department said. But those losses were largely due to a shift in the timing of the industry s summer shutdowns.

http://yhoo.it/cJ5IOC


From Information Clearing House



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The guards strap hunger striker detainees into the force-feeding chair at night.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/08/24/1788938/ramadan-at-guantanamo-bay-includes.html



US admits human rights shortcomings in UN report

Those areas include inhumane prison conditions, racial disparities in death penalty cases, and abuses in the immigration detention system.

http://bit.ly/96XB9k


From Information Clearing House



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