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Freedom's Phoenix
by US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)

01/19/10

The Pecora Commission was stacked with big government sympathizers who blamed the free market and the gold standard without question, and without any consideration of government interference in the economy. This panel is no different. Never will they contemplate how government steered us into this crisis, and what perverse incentives can be removed or repealed so that the market will function more smoothly. Never will they discuss how investment should come from savings, not debt. Never will it occur to them that fiat money, artificially low interest rates and the whole Federal Reserve System might be unwise and unstable, not to mention unconstitutional. The answer will always be more government regulation and oversight. It is predictable that this government panel will eventually come to the firm conclusion that government needs to be bigger, and that the market is just too free...

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After Downing Street

01/19/10

Text of a press release concerning the complaint filed with the International Criminal Court by Professor Francis A. Boyle of the University of Illinois College of Law versus George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet, Condoleezza Rice, and Alberto Gonzales. The complaint specifies alleged crimes against humanity and claims that the although the US is not party to the treaty empowering the ICC, the ICC has jurisdiction since the alleged crimes involved member states...

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Andy Worthington, Truthout: "On Friday, the ACLU secured a significant victory in its campaign to gain information about the prisoners held in the US prison at Bagram airbase, Afghanistan (known as the Bagram Theater Internment Facility), when the Pentagon released a list of the names of the 645 prisoners who were held on September 22, 2009."

http://www.truthout.org/dark-revelations-bagram-prisoner-list56189

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Bagram: The Annotated Prisoner List (A Cooperative Project)
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/26-5



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We Should Fix It

Dean Baker, Truthout: "The unemployment rate is 10 percent and almost certain to rise further in the months ahead. This is truly a disaster. If anyone questions whether 10 percent unemployment is a big deal, consider that the first stimulus to boost the economy was passed in February of 2008 when the unemployment rate was 4.8 percent."

http://www.truthout.org/the-economy-is-a-disaster-we-should-fix-it56176

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Why did the “stimulus” fail to help the economy?

Foundation for Economic Education
by William L. Anderson

01/20/10

When Congress was debating President Obama’s proposed ’stimulus’ last year, two of the watchwords for the near-trillion-dollar boondoggle were ‘jobs’ and ’shovel-ready.’ Now, given what comes out of Washington, one needs a shovel to clean up the muck, and I appreciate the politicians and the media telling us we needed to have our shovels ready...

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Forgive us our deficits

Acton Institute
by Samuel Gregg

01/19/10

As 2010 unfolds, many countries are confronting a public deficit crisis of disturbing proportions. Since 2008, countless politicians have underscored that a cavalier attitude to debt on the part of Main St. and Wall St. contributed significantly to the recent financial crisis. It’s therefore ironic to observe these contemporary preachers of thrift plunging developed economies into an abyss of public liabilities. In 2009, for example, the Obama Administration spent more money on new programs in nine months than the Clinton Administration did in eight years, thereby increasing America’s annual deficit to $1.4 trillion...

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By Peter G Cohen

The House and the Senate, with the help of thousands of lobbyists, have become the servants of the corporations and we, the people, are left without effective representation in the Congress.

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US Security Company Offers to Perform "High Threat Terminations"

Confront "Worker Unrest" in Haiti

By Jeremy Scahill

We saw this type of Iraq-style disaster profiteering in New Orleans and you can expect to see a lot more of this in Haiti over the coming days, weeks and months.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24435.htm



The Disaster Within The Disaster

Its Time To Investigate the Aid Fiasco

By Danny Schechter

It is time to speak up and speak out about a charade that promised so much and delivered so little, at all the preventable deaths and suffering caused by a massive screw-up. Our good intentions are now being buried in a mass grave in Haiti.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24438.htm



US accused of 'occupying' Haiti as troops flood in

France accused the US of "occupying" Haiti on Monday as thousands of American troops flooded into the country to take charge of aid efforts and security.

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US troops take over palace as Haiti

Paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne division arrived in at least four Black Hawk helicopters to secure the executive mansion, a once elegant white building that collapsed in last week's quake and is now surrounded by a vast refugee camp.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6994013.ece



Officials try to prevent Haitian earthquake refugees from coming to U.S.

As a massive international relief effort lurches into gear, U.S. officials are stepping up measures to prevent last week's earthquake in Haiti from triggering a Caribbean migration not seen in two nearly two decades.

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Pennies for Haiti, Billions for Israel, Egypt

Consider this: in fiscal 1998 Haiti received $106 million from the U.S, the No. 9 nation among foreign aid recipients. - Compare that to the more than $5 billion paid out to Israel and Egypt.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2010/01/16/blogs/coopscorner/entry6102995.shtml



A Haiti Disaster Relief Scenario Was Envisaged by the US Military One Day Before the Earthquake

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), which is under the jurisdiction of the Department of Defense (DoD), was involved in organizing these scenarios on behalf of US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM).

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17122


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Profiting From Haiti's Crisis

Benjamin Dangl, Toward Freedom: "US corporations, private mercenaries, Washington and the International Monetary Fund are using the crisis in Haiti to make a profit, promote unpopular neoliberal policies, and extend military and economic control over the Haitian people."

http://www.truthout.org/profiting-from-haiti%E2%80%99s-crisis56190

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Battle Begins Over Who'll Get Lucrative Haiti Cleanup Contracts
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/02/09-5



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Center for Biological Diversity Report Card Gives Obama Administration a "C" on Endangered Species, Climate, Energy, Public Lands and Oceans During First Year in Office
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ACLU Issues Report On Obama Administration's Civil Liberties Record
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Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation: Obama at One Year: "A" for Transforming Nuclear Policy, "Incomplete" For Execution
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Nolan Chart
by Jim Quinn

Americans have a choice. They can allow their government to bully and threaten them into conforming to their view of reality like Winston Smith or they can go down swinging like Cool Hand Luke and Randall McMurphy...

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Fox News

01/19/10

The FBI violated the law in collecting thousands of U.S. telephone records during the Bush administration, The Washington Post reported Monday. Citing internal memos and interviews, the Post said the FBI invoked nonexistent terrorism emergencies or persuaded phone companies to provide information as it illegally gathered more than 2,000 records between 2002 and 2006.

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US cloaks civil rights case files

Boston Globe

01/18/10

Nearly half a century after the height of the civil rights movement, hundreds of thousands of pages of government files about the volatile era remain shielded from the American public, buried in FBI field office cabinets, blocked by resistant bureaucracies, or available only with large sections blacked out, according to US officials and researchers. The situation has prompted a new push in Congress, led by Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts, to require that all records relating to the life and death of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. be located, reviewed, and released by a review board at the National Archives similar to those established for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and for Nazi war criminals...

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