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The End of the Rule of Law in America
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2008/10/14/p29419


From APFN daily update



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FreedomWorks
by Matthew Clemente

12/28/09

In 2008 and 2009, the Bush White House, the Obama White House and the Federal Reserve doled out over $2 trillion in taxpayer money in an effort to save failed businesses and to stimulate the economy. In 2010 — the Wall Street Journal predicts — the public will begin to understand how dramatically such efforts have changed the US economy. ‘Only as the recession recedes will it become fully evident how permanently the state’s role has expanded and whether, as a consequence, a new, hybrid strain of American capitalism is emerging.’ This ‘hybrid strain’ of capitalism is nothing more than the overreaching hand of government intruding into the private sector...

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Hope is not change

In These Times
by David Sirota

12/28/09

When you look honestly at what’s going on in our government right now, it’s not clear that ‘change’ was anything more than a cynical campaign slogan on a colorful t-shirt. People are right to be angry. While we have certainly seen some encouraging progressive policy successes, the average person is nonetheless looking at an economy with a real unemployment rate of 17 percent — the highest since the Great Depression. And if they hear news of politicians at all, they either see them taking 15 different positions on the most simple issues, or raising boatloads of cash from the same corporate fat cats who got the country into this mess. We must realize that politics is serious, and at this time it behooves us to change our attitude and adjust our perspective...

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/5318/hope_is_not_change


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The Cash Committee: How Wall Street Wins On The Hill
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/29-8



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Informant: Dorothee Krien



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Stephen Rohde, LA Daily Journal: "'If you had told me ten years ago that our government would be deliberately holding people in captivity on a naval base outside the US mainland so that we could do whatever we wanted to them without the intervention of US courts, I would have told you that you had been watching too many miniseries on TV.' These outraged words from Julia Tarver Mason, a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York City, are typical of the over 100 personal narratives written by lawyers, translators and others who have represented and assisted the detainees at the US prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, which have been collected in the new book 'THE GUANTANAMO LAWYERS: Inside a Prison Outside the Law.'"

http://www.truthout.org/topstories/122709vh1



Hoping for a New Ethic in 2010

Jim Hightower, Truthout: "This special season got me to thinking about America's spirit of giving, and I don't mean this overdone business of Christmas gifts. I mean our true spirit of giving - giving of ourselves. Yes, we are a country of rugged individualists, yet there's also a deep, community-minded streak in each of us."

http://www.truthout.org/topstories/122709vh3

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Court: Government can do whatever it wants, we have no right to know

CBS News

12/31/09

A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that law professors and attorneys who represent Guantanamo Bay detainees cannot force the government to reveal whether an anti-terrorism program eavesdropped on their conversations. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling supported the findings of a lower court judge in Manhattan who also rejected the attempt to uncloak the warrantless electronic surveillance system’s targets. The National Security Agency and the Department of Justice had refused to comply with a 2006 Freedom of Information Act request by the lawsuit’s plaintiffs...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Christmas Presents for Bankers
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/12/28-8

Bankers Take the Stand, But Who Will Stand Up to Them?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/13-7

Moral Bankruptcy: Why Are We Letting Wall Street Off So Easy?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/13-5

Who Will Pay for Health Care?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/13-2

Public Citizen: While Officials Examine Causes of Financial Crisis, Bank Chiefs Still Engaging in Reckless Practices
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/01/13-8

Institute for Policy Studies: In Wake of Latest Banker Bonus Outrage, Nation Needs an Immediate Federal Policy About-Face, Says IPS
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/01/13-2

Stop the Abuse: It's Time to Break Up With Your Big Bank
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/14-8

Homeowners Say Banks Not Following Rules for Loan Modifications
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/01/15-1

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Lining Up for the Wall Street Gravy Train

By Mike Whitney

The banks are not only taking depositors money and using it in high-risk derivatives transactions and currency "carry trades", they're also propping up the long daisy-chain of insolvent creditors whose default could domino Lehman-like through the entire financial system. Funny how the media skips little tidbits like this when they give their rosy evening roundup.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24295.htm



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Secession and the 2nd Amendment
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Center for a Stateless Society
by Dave Chappell

03/19/10

The man at the end of the street doesn’t talk to his neighbours much because he likes to keep himself to himself. He pays with cash because he doesn’t have a bank card, and he keeps his curtains closed because he lives on a bus route. The man who sits two desks down from you at work looks at on-line aerial photos because he’s thinking of moving house. He rents three lock-ups full of his mothers things he just can’t throw out. He paid for a flight with cash — but that’s because he’s a spontaneous kind of guy. This may all mean nothing — but together it could all add up to you having suspicions. We all have a role together in combating terrorism. If you see anything suspicious then call the confidential anti-terrorist hotline on 0800 789 321. If you suspect it, report it!...

http://c4ss.org/content/2051



Three-year-old arrested as “suspected terrorist”

Daily Mail [UK]

04/29/10

A three-year-old was arrested as a suspected terrorist and held at a French police station for more than two hours, it emerged today. The child — identified only as Daniel — is the son of an illegal immigrant from the Paris suburb of Juvisy. Last Thursday the pair were arrested as they returned to their car after visiting a leisure centre. Police officer claimed they were carrying out routine vehicle checks before arrested both father and son. They were taken to Juvisy Police Station where, after 20 minutes, they were split up...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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One Day We'll All Be Terrorists
By Chris Hedges

This corruption of our legal system, if history is any guide, will not be reserved by the state for suspected terrorists, or even Muslim Americans. In the coming turmoil and economic collapse, it will be used to silence all who are branded as disruptive or subversive.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24273.htm



Fighting for the Family of Man

By Peter Chamberlin

American foreign policy is a pathological assault upon the rest of the human race. Anyone with an unsuppressed conscience, a true love of his or her country, or an ounce of human decency has to be disturbed to the point of exploding over what is being done by American hands.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24272.htm



The Economic Crisis Ends; the Political Crisis Begins

By Shamus Cooke

First Iceland, then Ireland, now Greece. Much of Europe is mired in inescapable debt and bankrupt nations, the result of crashing banks, bank bailouts, and soaring unemployment. The U.S. and U.K. watch from a distance, knowing their turn is next.

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