World-News

Who will stand up to the GOP?s war on Islam?
Salon
by Gene Lyons

08/19/10

Even granting that more people are nuts on the subject of religion than all other topics combined, this entire ginned-up controversy about the planned construction of an Islamic cultural center in the vicinity of ground zero in Lower Manhattan illustrates the Founding Fathers? wisdom like no other. No establishing, no prohibiting, period. Also, alas, it highlights the sheer cynicism of the GOP politicians pressing it as an election-year ?wedge? issue. Regardless of how hard they try to disguise it, if only from themselves, those who would forbid the project express an essentially tribal view of Americanism specifically repudiated by the U.S. Constitution...

http://tinyurl.com/2gx2xwz


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Demagoguing the Mosque
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul690.html

Why Has the ?World Trade Center Mosque? Become a Major Issue?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/franke/franke13.1.html

Is the Muslim My Neighbor?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w165.html

Lest We Forget
http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer222.html

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Welcome To America

Man Mistaken for Muslim Harassed at NY Anti-Mosque Rally

Video

An African-American man who was mistakenly thought to be Muslim was harassed at an anti-mosque rally yesterday in New York City.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26235.htm



Anti-Mosque Coalition's Website Owned By Neo-Conservative Islamophobe Frank Gaffney

By Alex Seitz-Wald

The Coalition to Honor Ground Zero, appears to be funded by a major neo-conservative advocacy group, with deep-pocketed donors, and extensive connections to the conservative establishment.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26243.htm



9/11 families, others rally in favor of NYC mosque

The planned mosque and Islamic center blocks from ground zero got a new boost Wednesday from a coalition of supporters that includes families of Sept. 11 victims.

http://bit.ly/bqe0Lu


From Information Clearing House

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US: All Officials Should Uphold Freedom of Religion
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/08/31-3



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None Dare Call It Tyranny
Racketeers for Capitalism

By Cindy Sheehan

The Empire preys on our kids using all the tools at its disposal: Economic panic, high college tuition, high unemployment and a mythology that the U.S. has some existential right to steal the resources of other nations.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26178.htm



A Mutant Form of Capitalism

Video

An animated interview of John Perkins, author of 'HoodWinked' and 'Confessions Of An Economic Hitman'

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26184.htm



America's Biggest Jobs Program - the U.S. Military

By Robert Reich

America's biggest - and only major - jobs program is the U.S. military. Over 1,400,000 Americans are now on active duty; another 833,000 are in the reserves, many full time. Another 1,600,000 Americans work in companies that supply the military with everything from weapons to utensils. (I'm not even including all the foreign contractors employing non-US citizens.)

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26175.htm



None Dare Call It Tyranny

By Sheldon Richman

The national government - specifically the executive branch - can do pretty much what it wants. It could bomb Iran tomorrow without a declaration of war from Congress. It can - and does - conduct secret wars and covert operations against countries that have done nothing to us.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26180.htm



Dismantling America

By Thomas Sowell

The Constitution was not only a challenge to the despotic governments of its time, but has been a continuing challenge - to this day - to all those who think that ordinary people should be ruled by their betters, whether an elite of blood, or of books, or of whatever else gives people a puffed-up sense of importance.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26179.htm



Understanding America's Class System

Honk If You Love Caviar

By Joe Bageant

America has always had a ruling class, and it has always bullshitted the world that it doesn't. But at least the ruling class of the past was interesting and varied, because diverse sorts of Americans were getting rich.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26177.htm



Deceptive Economic Statistics

While the economists lied the US economy died

By Paul Craig Roberts

Right now, if measured according to the methodology of 1980, the US unemployment rate is about 22%. Thus, the reported rate of unemployment hides more than half of the unemployed.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26182.htm

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Overthrowing the Liars
http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis200.html

Lies and Unction
http://www.lewrockwell.com/snyder/snyder21.1.html

Confessions of an Economic Hitman
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/07/no_author/confessions-of-an-economic-hitman-2/

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Death and Joblessness: How Suicide Dogs the Long-Term Unemployed
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/08/17-2

America's Propensity for Paranoia
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/08/17-0

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America has fallen ? and can?t get up!

Freedom's Phoenix
by David McElroy

08/14/10

America has fallen ? and can?t get up. The wolves of Wall Street are picking her bones. Many wait, with baited breath, for the fat lady to sing. Face it folks, America is no longer the sweet land of liberty. It has become the land of the fee and home of the slave. How the mighty have fallen! How?

http://tinyurl.com/29x3nlw


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Why Is The US Fighting a War In Afghanistan?
Why Petraeus Can't Make The Sale

By Dan Froomkin

As Gen. David Petraeus kicks off an extended media blitz intended to make Americans feel better about the war in Afghanistan -- or at least give him some more time to fight it -- he faces a foe more implacable than al Qaeda, or even the Taliban: Reality.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26162.htm



Why Is The US Fighting a War In Afghanistan?

Video Interview

Zbigniew Brzezinski on Afghanistan and the American strategy for Eurasia and the world.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26163.htm



Zbigniew Brzezinski says AIPAC is bad for USA/Israel

Video

While Israeli settlers relax in their swimming pool below are Palestinians with no running water and their olive groves have been cut.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc7BFkgmOYE&feature=player_embedded



AIPAC Pays For 81 US Lawmakers Vacation In Israel

By RT

While the US continues to struggle with its economic issues Congress is on vacation. Many are upset at the news reports that 81 members of Congress have chosen to spend a week relaxing in Israel.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28887.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Gen. Petraeus Goes to Media War
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/08/16

Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA): Petraeus Media Blitz
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/08/16-6

Gen. Petreaus' Nation Building Media Tour
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/08/17-9

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Petraeus Indicates He'll Delay Afghanistan Drawdown Deadline

Ben Arnoldy, The Christian Science Monitor: "With the number of foreign soldiers killed in Afghanistan surpassing 2,000 this weekend, what does the road ahead in Afghanistan look like? The tally - now at 2,002 - comes from the independent iCasualties.org website. It includes 1,227 Americans, 331 Britons, 151 Canadians, and 45 French."

http://www.truth-out.org/petraeus-indicates-hell-delay-afghanistan-drawdown-deadline62352

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How the US created al Qaeda
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/915.html



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/why-hollywood-ignores-hiroshima.html

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Hollywood and the War Machine
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/12/26

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Forgetting the Past, One Military Movie at a Time

David Sirota, Truthout: ''Since 1986 s 'Top Gun' rekindled the Pentagon-Hollywood relationship from its post-Vietnam doldrums, the collusion between the military and the entertainment industry has become a blockbuster con, generating huge benefits for both participants and swindling the American public in the process. The scheme is simple: The Pentagon allows studios to use military hardware and bases at a discounted, taxpayer-subsidized rate. In exchange, filmmakers must submit their scripts to the Pentagon for line edits.''

http://www.truth-out.org/forgetting-past-one-military-movie-time/1330094665



Anti-War Critics Forgotten on Oscar Night

Adam Hochschild, Tom Dispatch: ''Yet curiously, for all the spectacle of boy and horse, thundering cavalry charges, muddy trenches, and wartime love and loss, the makers of War Horse, Downtown Abbey and, I have no doubt, the similar productions we ll soon be watching largely skip over the greatest moral drama of those years of conflict, one that continues to echo in our own time of costly and needless wars....The First World War was not just a battle between rival armies, but also ... between those who assumed the war was a noble crusade and those who thought it absolute madness.''

http://www.truth-out.org/antiwar-critics-forgotten-oscar-night/1330280524



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By Michael Isikoff National investigative correspondent

Top U.N. official calls defendant a 'child soldier,' says proceedings violate international legal norms.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26124.htm



Political Prisoners in America

By Stephen Lendman

How do you go into Iraq (and) Afghanistan telling people about their democracy when (you've got innocent people) locked down in prison for 30 - 40 years as political prisoners....(activists) against social injustice, colonialism, and/or imperialism, (incarcerated for) their political commitments."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26120.htm



Caught in America's legal black hole

Guantanamo still holds 176 detainees, and one of them is about to stand trial - in a test of Barack Obama's resolve to embrace the rule of law.

http://bit.ly/d4pWhw



Video: 'Child soldier' Gitmo trial draws criticism
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38634007/ns/us_news-security/#slice-2



The Omar Khadr case makes a mockery of US justice

Omar Khadr was a badly wounded boy of 15 when, in 2002, US forces captured him in Afghanistan. As the dust settled on a suspected al-Qaeda compound after a firefight that July, troops discovered him slumped in the rubble among the dead, leaning against a wall.

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2010/08/omar-khadr-case-obama-trial



Amnesty International says Omar Khadr trial should not go ahead

Amnesty said the USA had not listened to repeated appeals from the international community, including senior UN officials, about what it has called the "unfair trial of an individual accused of alleged war crimes committed when he was a child."

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=671610


From Information Clearing House

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Officer off Gitmo “jury” for agreeing with Obama

MSNBC

08/11/10

A veteran U.S. Army officer who agreed with President Barack Obama that the Guantanamo Bay prison should be closed was excluded from the jury in a U.S. military commission trial Wednesday after prosecutors objected that he had ‘pre-conceived’ views that might jeopardize their case. The move came as prosecutors and jurors selected a seven-person jury of military officers to hear the case of Omar Khadr, the so-called ‘child soldier’ accused of hurling a hand grenade that killed an American soldier in a firefight in Afghanistan eight years ago...

http://tinyurl.com/265oaml


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Campaign to Get the Facts out on Guantánamo
http://actions.humanrightsfirst.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2275

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Human rights for Guantánamo's Omar Khadr
http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?a=lhKRJUOwEbLQIbI&s=4dLFINOjH6IDJRNqFjF&m=7fKGISNzFjKML2I

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Guantánamo: A Prison That Stains US Moral Authority
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/08/13-5



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Foundation for Economic Education
by Sheldon Richman

07/16/10

Last week?s TGIF asked if the American people can afford a world-girdling foreign policy more befitting an empire than a republic. Look at it this way: War hawks make poor deficit hawks. Facing a $13 trillion national debt and trillion-dollar-plus annual budget deficits, we can?t afford to be complacent about foreign interventions costing $12 billion a month. It?s not just that the budget numbers are daunting: The very institutions of small-government republicanism are suffocated by the quest for global hegemony...

http://tinyurl.com/2vnz9on



Deficits of mass destruction

The Nation
by Christopher Hayes

07/15/10

If you?ve been paying attention this past decade, it won?t surprise you to learn that the country?s policy elites are in the midst of a destructive, well-nigh unhinged discussion about the future of the nation. But even by the degraded standards of the Washington establishment, the growing panic over government debt is shocking. First, the facts. Nearly the entire deficit for this year and those projected into the near and medium terms are the result of three things: the ongoing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Bush tax cuts and the recession. The solution to our fiscal situation is: end the wars, allow the tax cuts to expire and restore robust growth. Our long-term structural deficits will require us to control healthcare inflation the way countries with single-payer systems do...

http://www.thenation.com/article/37534/deficits-mass-destruction


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Deficit Doves
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/21-7

Democrats May Stop Bush-Era Tax Cuts for Wealthy From Expiring
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/22-1

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We're in a One-and-a-Half Dip Recession

Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "We're not in a double-dip recession yet. We're in a one and a half dip recession. Consumer confidence is down. Retail sales are down. Home sales are down. Permits for single-family starts are down. The average work week is down. The only things not down are inventories - unsold stuff is piling up in warehouses and inventories of unsold homes are rising - and defaults on loans."

http://www.truth-out.org/robert-reich-we%E2%80%99re-in-a-one-and-a-half-dip-recession61614



Professors as Welfare Queens?

Jesse Lemisch, Truthout: "From Obama on down, the political atmosphere is deeply polluted by the use of 'centrism' as a self-description of what are essentially retrograde right-wing views. Under Obama, the US wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq continue, as do the lies put out about them. Guantanamo goes on. Obama's 'Deficit Commission' warms us up for cuts in Medicare and Social Security. 'The perfect is the enemy of the good,' and, thus, we have health care 'reform' by and for the insurers, with higher premiums and profits, and more evasions of coverage by merchants of death like UnitedHealthCare."

http://www.truth-out.org/professors-welfare-queens61981



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/15-5

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The New Finance Bill: A Mountain of Legislative Paper, a Molehill of Reform

Robert Reich: "Thursday, the President pronounced that 'because of this [financial reform] bill the American people will never again be asked to foot the bill for Wall Street's mistakes.' As if to prove him wrong, Goldman Sachs simultaneously announced it had struck a deal with federal prosecutors to pay $550 million to settle federal claims it misled investors, a sum representing a mere 15 days profit for the firm based on its 2009 earnings."

http://www.truth-out.org/robert-reich-the-new-finance-bill-a-mountain-legislative-paper-a-molehill-reform61431



Taking Financial Reform into Our Own Hands

Stacy Mitchell, Yes! Magazine: "With the passage of the financial reform bill, giant banks see a golden opportunity to finally put the financial crisis, along with their culpability for wrecking our economy, in the rearview mirror."

http://www.truth-out.org/taking-financial-reform-our-own-hands61448

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The Workable Solution to the Financial Crisis
http://www.call4reform.org/
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/44200


From Mast Sanity/Mast Network

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Obama’s latest monstrosity

Competitive Enterprise Institute
by John Berlau

07/21/10

The 2,315 page Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill that President Obama will sign today should not be called ‘financial reform.’ Instead the bill, which passed the Senate 60-39 last week when Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown joined Maine Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins to grant cloture, should be called what for what it is: pages and pages of massively costly, counterproductive and possibly unconstitutional mandates on nearly every type of business except for those government-sponsored enterprises at the root of the crisis. And while the bill claims to crack down on excesses on Wall Street, its harshest impact will likely be on Main Street businesses that had nothing to do with the meltdown...

http://tinyurl.com/25jc5bs


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Why Financial Reform Will Fail
http://www.lewrockwell.com/schiff/schiff103.html



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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says the current tension between Israel and Turkey has increased the possibility of war in the region.

Prospects for war have grown: Assad
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=133569&sectionid=351020206



Turkey summons US diplomat

Turkey has summoned a top US diplomat to protest against Washington's interference in a UN mandate probing Israel's deadly attack on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=137452&sectionid=351020204



Turkey sets up own Gaza flotilla inquiry

On Tuesday Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Tuesday that Israel should admit sole responsibility for the deaths aboard the Mavi Marmara. "No one else can take the blame for killing civilians in international waters," Davutoglu told journalists.

http://bit.ly/aAapRZ



Gaza flotilla raid violated law, UN probe finds in scathing report

A UN probe said Wednesday there was clear evidence to back prosecutions against Israel for killing and torture when its troops stormed a Gaza-bound aid flotilla in May.

http://bit.ly/96Dvbm



?Why Is the U.S. Government Deaf to What Has Been Done to My Son?? Asks Father of an American Murdered on the Gaza Flotilla

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/10/12-10



Families of Gaza flotilla victims accuse Israel of war crimes in The Hague

Turkish lawyers representing pro-Palestinian activists filed a complaint Thursday with the International Criminal Court in The Hague, accusing Israel of committing war crimes in May when its troops raided a boat trying to break Israel's blockade of Gaza.

http://bit.ly/cBb5H0



Turks accuse Israel of war crimes at int'l court

Turkish lawyers representing pro-Palestinian activists filed a complaint Thursday with the International Criminal Court accusing Israel of committing war crimes in May when its troops raided a boat trying to break Israel's blockade of Gaza.

http://bit.ly/c0Pehx



US supports terrorism: Turkish PM

Erdogan touched on Israeli attack on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla that killed nine Turkish human rights activists on May 31 and condemned the US "double standards," noting that Washington openly "supported the Israeli state terrorism"...

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/146903.html



Turkish PM describes Israel flotilla raid "state terrorism," demands apology

Turkey's prime minister has again accused Israel of "state terrorism" and called on the Jewish state to apologize and compensate victims of a raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.

http://bit.ly/aST0XQ



Turkey PM: Israel to blame for deadlock in Mideast peace talks

Turkey's prime minister on Tuesday blamed Israeli "intransigence" for the deadlock in Mideast peace talks and called on the international community to work toward breaking the impasse.

http://bit.ly/i6zMog



Turkey Gaza flotilla probe: Five shot dead at close range

Report says Israel blatantly violated international laws.
http://bit.ly/fgzgak



Turkey threatens diplomatic action pending Israel apology for Gaza flotilla attack

Prime Minister Erdogan says 'plan B' includes reducing diplomatic representation in Tel Aviv and visiting the Gaza Strip, Turkish daily Hurriyet reports.

http://bit.ly/odtt3k


From Information Clearing House

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Will Turkey Sever Ties With Israel?

Nichole Sobecki, GlobalPost: "After the Israeli attack on a Gaza-bound aid ship in May, the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, 'nothing would ever be the same again.'"

http://www.truth-out.org/will-turkey-sever-ties-with-israel61454



Clinton Refuses to Answer My Questions About Gaza Flotilla

Ann Wright, Truthout: "Dear Secretary of State Clinton, I am a retired US Army reserve colonel with 29 years in the US Army and Army Reserves, and a former US diplomat who resigned after 16 years in the US State Department in opposition to the war on Iraq. I was one of fourteen American citizens on the Gaza flotilla."

http://www.truth-out.org/clinton-refuses-answer-my-questions-about-gaza-flotilla62064



A Break in Israeli-Turkish Relations

Avni Dogru, Foreign Policy in Focus: "UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon recently announced that, after two months of negotiations, Israel has agreed to an international inquiry on the May 31 deadly flotilla assault. International pressure and Ban Ki-moon's personal efforts played an important role in the Netanyahu government's unprecedented decision. Israel's concession meets one of the demands made by Turkey, which lost nine citizens in the assault and which has threatened to break off relations with what had once been a key military ally."

http://www.truth-out.org/a-break-israeliturkish-relations62126



Israel Raid on Gaza Flotilla: US Failure to Condemn Despite UN Findings

Marjorie Cohn, JURIST: "On May 31, the Israeli military attacked a flotilla of ships in International waters. The vessels were carrying humanitarian supplies to the people in the Gaza Strip, who suffer under a punishing blockade by Israel. The stated aims of the flotilla were to draw international attention to the situation in Gaza and the effect of the blockade; to break the blockade; and to deliver humanitarian assistance and supplies to Gaza. During the attack, Israeli soldiers killed 9 people, seriously wounded more than 50, and detained 750. They also confiscated or destroyed equipment worth hundreds of thousands of dollars."

http://www.truth-out.org/israel-raid-gaza-flotilla-us-failure-condemn-despite-un-findings64186



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The Nation
by Robert Reich

06/30/10

Consider: in 1928 the richest 1 percent of Americans received 23.9 percent of the nation’s total income. After that, the share going to the richest 1 percent steadily declined. New Deal reforms, followed by World War II, the GI Bill and the Great Society expanded the circle of prosperity. By the late 1970s the top 1 percent raked in only 8 to 9 percent of America’s total annual income. But after that, inequality began to widen again, and income reconcentrated at the top. By 2007 the richest 1 percent were back to where they were in 1928 — with 23.5 percent of the total. Each of America’s two biggest economic crashes occurred in the year immediately following these twin peaks — in 1929 and 2008. This is no mere coincidence. When most of the gains from economic growth go to a small sliver of Americans at the top, the rest don’t have enough purchasing power to buy what the economy is capable of producing...

http://www.thenation.com/article/36893/unjust-spoils



The war for financial independence: Calls to surrender

Our Future Blog
by Richard (RJ) Eskow

07/05/10

There’s a new conventional wisdom forming in Washington, DC this July 4th, one that transcends party lines and the usual classifications of “left” and “right” as they’re understood in that city. It’s only being recognized now, because it deals with a number of different economic issues, but the underlying theme is the same: The American dream of financial independence and security is gone. The sooner you accept that and raise the white flag the easier it will be, so stop struggling. They’re saying the ideal of ‘”life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness’ is dead. Deal with it. Why, there hasn’t been this much unanimity among Washington elites since — well, since they ‘knew’ there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq...

http://tinyurl.com/2a7ceuh


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Labor Losing to DC Elites Over Job Creation, Unemployment?
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/08-4



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis194.html

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What Eisenhower Could Teach Obama

Part I

Melvin A. Goodman, Consortium News: "Fifty years ago, President Dwight D. Eisenhower told his senior advisers in the Oval Office of the White House, 'God help this country when someone sits in this chair who doesn't know the military as well as I do.' Several months later, he issued his famous warning about the military-industrial complex."

http://www.truth-out.org/what-eisenhower-could-teach-obama-part-i61130



The Military-Industrial Complex's Win

Part II

Melvin A. Goodman, Consortium News: "Barack Obama's crippling inheritance as President of the United States is the near-five-decade failure of the nation's political leadership to heed President Dwight D. Eisenhower's warning that 'in the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.'"

http://www.truth-out.org/the-military-industrial-complexs-win-part-ii61187

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The rout of Obamanomics

The American Spectator
by Peter Ferrara

07/07/10

In February 2009, I published a commentary in the Wall Street Journal entitled ‘Reaganomics v. Obamanomics,’ which pointed out that President Obama’s economic policies were exactly the opposite of President Reagan’s. I predicted that as a result they would produce exactly the opposite results. Art Laffer has produced a far more sophisticated argument advancing a similar analysis. But the June unemployment report released last Friday shows an economy doing much worse at this point than even I expected...

http://spectator.org/archives/2010/07/07/the-rout-of-obamanomics


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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America is in a Societal Meltdown

by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

In other words, a united constitutional republic can only exist within the framework of certain rather narrow and finite conditions. Remove those conditions and the framework for liberty and limited government falls apart. And the above statements by Adams and Jay succinctly summarize the conditions necessary for freedom's framework.........

http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin600.htm



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