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Is White House Pressuring DOJ to Delay Torture Report Until Health Care Bill Passes?

Jason Leopold, Truthout: "Did the Obama administration pressure the Department of Justice (DOJ) to suppress a long-awaited report from one of the agency's watchdogs on issues revolving around torture until Congress passes a health care bill?"

http://www.truthout.org/is-white-house-pressuring-doj-delay-torture-report-until-health-care-bill-passes56391



When Scholars Join the Slaughter

Dahr Jamail, Truthout: "A core tenant of the Obama administration's plans for 'victory' in Iraq and Afghanistan is an increased reliance on counterinsurgency. As previously reported on this web site, the US military has sent shock troops - anthropologists, sociologists and social psychologists - with their own troops in both Iraq and Afghanistan, who also donned helmets and flak jackets. By the end of 2007, American scholars in these fields were embedding with the military in Afghanistan and Iraq as part of a Pentagon program called Human Terrain System (HTS), which evolved shortly thereafter into a $40 million program that embedded four or five person groups of scholars in the aforementioned fields in all 26 US combat brigades that were busily occupying Iraq and Afghanistan."

http://www.truthout.org/when-scholars-join-slaughter56379



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By Eileen Fleming

The militarization of Christianity and all terrorism committed in the name of God must be challenged in a world desperate for Christians who actually follow what Jesus was all about.

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Can the Human Race Outgrow War?

By James Carroll

The fantasy that Pentagon spending might be checked was obliterated by last week's other news - the Supreme Court decision to allow unlimited corporate funding of political campaign ads. Defense contractors will spend billions reinforcing the natural law of war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24493.htm

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Freedom comes by faith

by William Owens

Authentic freedom is a life of liberty from bondage to persons, things, or ideals— whether cultural, religious or political—that subscribe your dependence upon them rather than upon God alone. Freedom is not a tangible state of existence that can be merely acquired at a store counter, nor can it be purchased with silver, gold or by any form of material power. Freedom cannot be regulated by human agencies because it is not possible for men to give or take it away.......

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William Fisher, Truthout: "The Obama administration is ramping up its use of drone unmanned aircraft to execute targeted killings in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and perhaps in other locations - and, in the process, killing civilians along with insurgents, and risking the compromise of US moral imperatives and foreign policy goals."

http://www.truthout.org/obama-administrations-use-drones-responsible-increase-civilian-deaths56370



The Drone Surge: Today, Tomorrow and 2047

Nick Turse, TomDispatch.com: "One moment there was the hum of a motor in the sky above. The next, on a recent morning in Afghanistan's Helmand province, a missile blasted a home, killing 13 people. Days later, the same increasingly familiar mechanical whine preceded a two-missile salvo that slammed into a compound in Degan village in the tribal North Waziristan district of Pakistan, killing three."

http://www.truthout.org/nick-turse-the-drone-surge-today-tomorrow-and-204756350

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Pentagon Master Plan: Super-Size My Drone Fleet
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/01/pentagon-master-plan-super-size-my-drone-fleet/


Informant: Kev Hall



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Neocon Says Obama Should Save Presidency By Attacking Iran

Compares notion of Obama bombing Iran to political impact of 9/11

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Tuesday, Feb 2nd, 2010

A Neoconservative commentator and scholar has stated that Obama can save his presidency and turn around his plummeting approval ratings by bombing Iran.

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Ron Paul Warns Of Neo-Con Takeover Of Tea Party Movement

Grass roots groups founded by Congressman's supporters have been infiltrated by Republican party operatives

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Congressman Ron Paul warns that the movement his supporters founded nearly three years ago has been infiltrated and overtaken by neo-cons, following the de facto election of Sarah Palin as the leader of the nationwide tea party movement.

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US-Präsident Obama hat weiter Schwierigkeiten mit der Schließung von Guantanamo und setzt die Willkürjustiz von Bush fort.

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Regulators seized five banks in Florida, Missouri, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington, lifting the total number of failures this year to nine as financial institutions struggle with loan defaults and a weak economy.

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California Layoffs Database: See if your company is planning big layoffs in 2010

California's WARN law requires certain companies with more than 75 employees to provide 60 days advance notice of a plant closing or mass layoff involving 50 or more employees.

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By Paul A. Moore

The US government has been hollowed out during the rise to absolute power of the corporations. Elections have become an elaborate "reality show" that plays out on corporate television for viewers entertainment.

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Big banks have already begun poking the holes in Obama's new rules-holes they expect their banks to pass through basically unchanged.

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Jobless rates rose in all 50 states for 2009

All 50 states ended 2009 with higher unemployment rates than a year earlier, according to a report issued Friday morning by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Fitch: U.S. Retail Credit Card Defaults Hit Near-Record Levels with No Relief in Sight

U.S. consumers defaulted on store-branded credit cards at near-record levels during the holiday shopping season, with 2010 likely to bring more of the same trend, according to Fitch Ratings.

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Video And Transcript

They can spend all the money they want. And if they can spend all the money they want - sooner, rather than later - they will implant the legislators of their choice in every office from President to head of the Visiting Nurse Service.

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Supreme Court OKs Unlimited Corporate Spending on Elections

By David G. Savage

Overturning a century-old restriction, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that corporations could spend as much as they wanted to sway voters in federal elections.

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Conservatives On Fire?

Constitution in Flames

By Gordon Duff

Will our new debates in Congress be between members representing the opium warlords against the Columbian cartels? Their cash, which long ago has infiltrated one major corporation or bank after another is now heading for your local representative.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24473.htm



Corporate Personhood Should Be Banned, Once and For All

By Ralph Nader

This corporatist, anti-voter decision is so extreme that it should galvanize a grassroots effort to enact a Constitutional Amendment to once and for all end corporate personhood and curtail the corrosive impact of big money on politics.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24478.htm



How Wall St Destroyed Private Medicine

By Paul Craig Roberts

The U.S. is creating a "health care" system that is more costly and less efficient than single-payer national health systems. But it will enrich corporations and provide play for Wall Street.

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Obama Disconnected

A movement is a terrible thing to waste.

By Micah Sifry

Despite Obama's explicit promises, the people who voted for him weren't organized in any kind of new or powerful way, and the special interests - banks, energy companies, health interests, carmakers, the military-industrial complex - sat first at the table and wrote the menu.

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Obama at One: Little Surprising in Absence of Progressive Social Movement

By Howard Zinn

I think people are dazzled by Obama's rhetoric, and that people ought to begin to understand that Obama is going to be a mediocre president--which means, in our time, a dangerous president--unless there is some national movement to push him in a better direction.

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The Government is Desperate For Money

Doug Casey on Unemployment

Interviewed by Louis James

It's absolutely true that for an American, the safest wealth is the wealth that's outside of the U.S. Your biggest risk is a political risk, from a completely bankrupt U.S. government.

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Democracy in America Is a Useful Fiction

By Chris Hedges

Corporate forces, long before the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, carried out a coup d'état in slow motion. The coup is over. We lost.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24491.htm

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Leveling the Political and Economic Playing Field

Dean Baker, Truthout: "The Supreme Court ruled last week that corporations could spend as much money as they want in elections, thereby making most existing restrictions on corporate election spending unconstitutional. This raises the prospect of US politics becoming even more corrupt than it already is. It will now be totally legal for Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, or any other major corporation to spend endless amounts of money to elect politicians who will drain taxpayers' pockets to enhance their profits. This is not good for democracy."

http://www.truthout.org/leveling-political-and-economic-playing-field56349

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The real problem with Citizens United

The American Prospect
by Heather K. Gerken

01/22/10

Yesterday the Supreme Court struck down the federal ban on corporate independent expenditures in Citizens United v. FEC. Before [this], corporations were not allowed to spend money from their general treasuries to call for the election or defeat of federal candidates close to Election Day, even if they did so without consulting with the candidate. In striking down the federal ban, the Supreme Court overruled two of its decisions: Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce, decided in 1990, and McConnell v. FEC, decided less than 7 years ago. … The truth is that the most important line in the decision was not the one overruling Austin. It was this one: ‘ingratiation and access … are not corruption’...

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Think Government Is Corrupt? You May Face 10 Years In Jail

South Carolina forces "subversives" to register with the authorities or do hard time

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Monday, February 8, 2010

Subversives who think government is corrupt and should be controlled by the people face 10 years in prison and a $25,000 dollar fine if they fail to register with authorities in South Carolina, in another chilling example of how free speech and dissent is being criminalized in America.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/think-government-is-corrupt-you-may-face-10-years-in-jail.html

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Defeating 'Corporate Personhood' Means Defying Corporate Power - From the Ground Up

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/12-7



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