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Shadow elite: How the world’s new power brokers are up-ending our democracy

AlterNet
by Janine Wedel

02/04/10

This new breed of players is the product of an unprecedented confluence of four transformational developments that arose in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries: the redesign of governing, spawned by the rising tide of government outsourcing and deregulation under a ‘neoliberal’ regime, and the rise of executive power; the end of the Cold War — of relations dominated by two competing alliances — which intensified the first development and created new, sparsely governed, arenas; the advent of evermore complex technologies, especially information and communication technologies; and the embrace of ‘truthiness,’ which allows people to play with how they present themselves to the world, regardless of fact or track record...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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A Greater Threat Than Terrorism

Outsourcing the American Economy

By Paul Craig Roberts

In effect, the US is giving away its technology, which is rapidly being captured, while US firms reduce themselves to a brand name with a sales force.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25250.htm



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Keynesian Economics: A Halfwit’s Guide to Monetary Inflation
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All Hell Could Break Loose Because of the Huge Government Debt

The ultimate insider, Robert Rubin, who is a former secretary of the Treasury (1995-99) and now serves as co-chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations and is a fellow of the Harvard Corporation, in a Newseek opinion piece had this to say: http://snipurl.com/tz44y



US Pending Home Sales Plunge the Most on Record

Looking into the initial breakdown, the regional readings all reported declines. The Northwest and Midwest paced the slump with matching 25.7 percent plunges for the month; the Southern sector of the United States saw a 15 percent drop in sales.

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US job satisfaction has hit 22-year low, survey says

An annual survey suggets that Americans who still have a job are less satisfied with their work than at any time in the last two decades.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8440630.stm


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Robert Rubin: Why Won't He Go Away?

Dean Baker, Truthout: "As Treasury secretary, Robert Rubin put in place all the pieces that set up the economy for the disaster that we are now living through. He pushed legislation that weakened regulation of the financial sector; he cheered on a stock bubble that eventually grew to $10 trillion and he established an overvalued dollar as a matter of official policy."

http://www.truthout.org/robert-rubin-why-wont-he-go-away57465



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Is the Fed Juicing the Stock Market?

By Mike Whitney

Policymakers seem to believe that blanket government guarantees and stock market manipulation are enough to forestall another disaster. But critics think that a day of reckoning is fast approaching.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24311.htm



An Introspective Look at the Future of America

By Craig Harris

Late in 2008 and throughout 2009, events have happened in the US which would have been labeled unfathomable just a few short years ago, and yet already these monumental changes are expected to be filed into the memory hole and Americans are expected to believe nothing has changed.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24316.htm



Which Way to the Bastille?

By David Glenn Cox

Who do we throw our shoes at now? Does Wal-Mart have everyday low low prices on torches and pitchforks? Made in China of course, but the question is a serious one, what are we going to do, in this country, about a government that refuses to acknowledge our distress?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24665.htm

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What next?

Foundation for Economic Education
by Sheldon Richman

01/01/10

Today there are few inhibitions on using government — yes, force — to solve economic problems. This is not something that developed over the last year. It’s been true for a long while, regardless of which political party was in power. But any remaining inhibitions weaken during perceived crises, as Robert Higgs shows in his classic, Crisis and Leviathan. When White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel said in the early days of the Obama administration that the economic crisis should not be ‘wasted,’ he was simply verbalizing what politicians and social engineers have long understood: When people are insecure, they are more willing to take orders...

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What I learned this decade

The Partial Observer
by James Leroy Wilson

12/31/09

Apathy isn’t what ruined America. The people who were into Britney Spears gossip didn’t start wars or get us into the sub-prime mortgage mess. The people who coveted LaDanian Tomlinson for their fantasy football team didn’t write memos justifying torture and warrantless surveillance. It is, rather, the opinion makers and partisan followers of both sides, who believed the President can redeem a nation, who have supported the policies that have destroyed America’s freedom, power, good will, and prosperity in the space of a decade. THEY are, and always will be, the problem...

http://partialobserver.com/article.cfm?id=3390



The degrading effects of terrorism fears

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

01/02/10

This is what inevitably happens to a citizenry that is fed a steady diet of fear and terror for years. It regresses into pure childhood. The 5-year-old laying awake in bed, frightened by monsters in the closet, who then crawls into his parents’ bed to feel Protected and Safe, is the same as a citizenry planted in front of the television, petrified by endless imagery of scary Muslim monsters, who then collectively crawl to Government and demand that they take more power and control in order to keep them Protected and Safe. A citizenry drowning in fear and fixated on Safety to the exclusion of other competing values can only be degraded and depraved...

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Free eBook: It’s The End of the World as we Know it

Survivalist Blog
by MD Creekmore

12/31/09

Yes it’s true! I’ve put together an E Book on how to survive the end of the world as we know it! And it’s available for sale today! Don’t miss this chance to grab your copy at the special price of zero dollars! That’s right! My E Book is absolutely FREE!

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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An American World of War: What to Watch for in 2010

Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse, TomDispatch.com: "According to the Chinese calendar, 2010 is the Year of the Tiger. We don't name our years, but if we did, this one might prospectively be called the Year of the Assassin ... Although our country delivers war regularly to distant lands in the name of our 'safety,' we don't really consider ourselves at war (despite the endless talk of 'supporting our troops'), and the money that has simply poured into Pentagon coffers, and then into weaponry and conflicts is, with rare exceptions, never linked to economic distress in this country."

http://www.truthout.org/topstories/10410vh4

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America's Unhappy New Year
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5 Myths about Keeping America Safe from Terrorism

By Stephen Flynn

The greatest threat isn't posed by the direct harm terrorists could inflict; it comes from what we do to ourselves when we are spooked. It is how we react -- or more precisely, how we overreact -- to the threat of terrorism that makes it an appealing tool for our adversaries.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24313.htm



US General Urges Strip Search of Muslim Men

By Press TV

A retired US general and member of Iran Policy Committee (IPC) says all 18 to 28 years old Muslim men should be strip searched at airports as "one of these bombers" will explode an airliner in the coming days.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24312.htm



Al-Qaida Uses U.S., U.S. Plays Along

By William Pfaff

It is not widely understood that the policy objective of al-Qaida is not to attack the Western countries, an objective that would accomplish nothing for the cause. - The ultimate purpose of al-Qaida is to bring about an upheaval in the Islamic world in which Islam can be rescued from corrupted governments and degenerate practices.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24337.htm

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The myth of national security

Independent Institute
by Anthony Gregory

01/04/10

With the most powerful and expensive government security apparatus in the world, the federal government can’t even protect the president’s home. This is the same security apparatus that failed to protect its military headquarters on 9/11, to say nothing of its citizens. So when Obama talks about the ’systemic failure’ of the Christmas lap bomber and his administration fastens on a new set of onerous security precautions onto airline passengers — including ones that are just inherently incoherent (would you really want passengers not to be walking around and armed with blankets if there is a threat of sitting terrorists starting fires on planes?) — we must remember that the national security state is a myth...

http://www.independent.org/blog/?p=4639



The “Long War:” Who’s winning?

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

01/06/10

It has been eight years since al-Qaeda attacked the Twin Towers and the Pentagon: eight long years in which the ‘war on terrorism’ — begun by George W. Bush in a blaze of righteousness, and since carried on by his successor, in Afghanistan and Pakistan — has been waged on several fronts. So, how are we doing? No one can honestly say we are winning, or anywhere close to it. Osama bin Laden and the top leadership of al-Qaeda are still at large, still issuing messages mocking their pursuers and vowing fresh terrorist attacks to come. One of those messages, communicated by bin Laden himself in the days before the 2004 presidential election, effectively demonstrates not only our ongoing defeat but also the reason for it …”

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Hackable Drones, Crumbling Empire
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The US and China: One Side is Losing, the Other is Winning

By James Petras

Asian capitalism, notably China and South Korea are competing with the US for global power. Asian global power is driven by dynamic economic growth, while the US pursues a strategy of military-driven empire building.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24310.htm

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Trade wars and US foreign policy

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

01/05/10

For those who think that the U.S. Empire is good, holy, sacrosanct, and above reproach when dealing with foreigners, here is a little bit of reality for you. Last September the Obama administration suddenly imposed an enormous 35 percent import fee on tires imported from China. The fee was apparently a sop that President Obama was paying to U.S. labor unions in payment for their help in the presidential election...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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VIDEO: Rep. Eric Massa Delivers Dick Cheney Smack-Down

Rep. Eric Massa on "The Ed Show": "I am sick and tired of the former vice president of the United States taking shots not only at this administration for problems that he was largely and personal responsible for, but by an extension, those of us who served in the military and bring that experience, having everyone believe that, somehow, one political party - in his case, the Republican Party - owns the high ground on national security. This man suffers from a horrible case of political Tourette's, and it's about time that we stand up and kick right back because I`m sick and tired of him kicking us in our shins."

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Creatures from the Conservative Id
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